Chapter Summaries

After his luck improved dramatically, Lu Xiao returned to Earth and joined the brutal Combat Power Accelerated Training Class, where he saw the vast difference between ordinary gods and top fighters. As more of humanity’s candidates joined the training, Lu Xiao sharpened his skills while the chapter left the group still preparing for the Species Ranking Tournament.

• Lu Xiao’s luck began bringing him valuable finds and effortless gains, but Novia said there was no more luck-related authority available to buy.
• After roughly three hundred years, Lu Xiao realized he was close to becoming an Old One and had Luolin take him back to Earth.
• Lu Xiao joined the Antie Organization’s Combat Power Accelerated Training Class and learned that Zhang Chu’s strength rivaled that of the Great Old Ones.
• In the five-hundredth year, Warden returned as a god, and Dolores and Ruiqi joined the training to represent humanity in the Species Ranking Tournament.
• Two years later, Nico joined the class and made its training even more brutal, while Warden relied on Li Changqing’s personality to endure the beatings.
• Lu Xiao improved his footwork and learned to evade attacks, but his trial in the Daoist Arts Training Class left him helpless against hidden practitioners and their skills.

Twenty years after the training classes began, Lu Xiao and his companions graduated and set out on a second journey, with Ivan joining to spread his faith. On Keilai Star, Lu Xiao reunited with Nuan Meng, who raised the prospect of marriage, and promised to give her an answer after the Species Ranking Tournament.

• Twenty years later, the trainees graduated after reaching the limits of their strength, and most traveled to other planets to spread their faith.
• Lu Xiao planned a second journey, while Nico and Daimon stayed behind as instructors and Liu Guang took Liu Ni away from Earth.
• Lu Xiao's group, including Ivan, set off for the Andromeda Galaxy and visited Keilai Star, where Lu Xiao remembered the dreamscape Nuan Meng had created for him.
• Lu Xiao reunited with Nuan Meng and learned that she had spent years working for the Dream Clan Group, which had become a major source of income for her people.
• Nuan Meng revealed her face and said that a custom required Lu Xiao to marry anyone who saw it; Lu Xiao promised to answer her after the Species Ranking Tournament.

Lu Xiao sought help restoring the ruined elven birthplace, hoping to ease Dolores’s sorrow. Luolin revealed that his Plant Heart could grow a Mother Tree to revive the planet, and the Humanoid Race began work on its ecosystem, though Dolores knew such efforts had failed before.

• Lu Xiao left Dolores and Ruiqi on the ruined elven birthplace and traveled with Luolin to Draco to ask Technology to restore it.
• Technology said it could not restore a planet devastated by war, but suggested that Time might move a version of it from another point in time.
• Luolin revealed that his Plant Heart could grow into a Mother Tree and restore the planet’s ecosystem, and offered it to Lu Xiao.
• Technology arranged for the Humanoid Race to create an atmosphere, and its engineering fleet arrived at the planet through a spatial passage.
• Dolores guessed why Lu Xiao had brought the fleet, but remembered that even the Universe Construction Company had failed to restore the lifeless planet.

Lu Xiao and Luolin planted a Wood Heart to restore a barren planet, then returned two years later to find the Mother Tree had sprouted and the land was green again. They also learned that the Director had reclaimed much of the territory around Mother Goddess Star and married Yiqie'er.

• Luolin buried the Wood Heart and poured star source liquid over it while the Humanoid Race's Engineering Fleet began restoring the planet's environment.
• Lu Xiao and his group traveled to another planet, where Ivan spread his rule of exchange and established statues for future requests.
• Two years later, Lu Xiao and Luolin returned to the restored planet and found the Mother Tree growing; Luolin estimated it would take about a hundred years to restore the planet's vitality fully.
• On a nearby planet, Lu Xiao learned that the Director had reclaimed control of roughly thirty percent of the territories outside Mother Goddess Star, largely through Xiao Zhe's efforts.
• Lu Xiao heard that the Director had married Yiqie'er.

Lu Xiao visited Mother Goddess Star, where the Mother Goddess Elves welcomed him as the inspiration behind their successful commercial reforms. Before leaving, he arranged for Morningstar to receive and merge with an authority, helping stabilize the planet’s political balance as Weidiya promoted Lu Xiao as the God of Wealth.

• Two years after deciding to visit, Lu Xiao arrived at Mother Goddess Star and learned from Mabel that Weidiya had spread his business methods, prompting planet-wide reforms and earning him widespread reverence.
• Weidiya welcomed Lu Xiao, while Dolores grew jealous when she saw the Imperial Princess’s emotional reaction to him.
• Before leaving Mother Goddess Star, Lu Xiao gave Li Xiyue the unfinished authority, which Lan brought to Morningstar.
• Morningstar merged with the authority and joined the Deliberative Council, where her lack of military command helped other factions accept her new power.
• Lan and Morningstar formed an alliance that balanced the Empress, the Director’s faction, and other powers, stabilizing Mother Goddess Star’s politics.
• Weidiya ordered statues of Lu Xiao to be raised across the planet, and the Mother Goddess Elves began calling him the God of Wealth.

Lu Xiao and his companions returned to the planet they had commissioned the Humanoid Race to restore, and Dolores found Elf Haven recreated as she remembered it. As she thanked Lu Xiao, she asked how he had restored the planet, and he explained the Plant Heart while concealing Technology’s involvement.

• After a hundred years of travel, Lu Xiao and his companions returned to the restored planet, and Dolores recognized it as Elf Haven.
• A Humanoid Race engineer told Lu Xiao that his people had recreated the planet in detail and found a displaced branch of the Elf Race, but left any decision about relocating them to him.
• At Earth’s Pivot Council, Xiao Zhang and his supervisor reviewed the enormous restoration bill and decided that humanity would have to pay it.
• Lu Xiao and Dolores sat beside a stream, where Dolores thanked him and asked how he had restored Elf Haven.
• Lu Xiao explained that Luolin had brought out the Plant Heart but concealed that he had sought Technology’s help because he believed Night resented Technology.

Dolores asked Lu Xiao whether he would side with her or the Mother Goddess Elves if their races went to war, and he refused to promise to choose either side. She then revealed that restoring Elf Haven had ended her conflict with the Mother Goddess Elves and explained how Lu Xiao had repeatedly undermined her plans against them.

• Dolores felt grateful to Lu Xiao for restoring Elf Haven with the Plant Heart, while Luolin and Ivan reacted to the pair's romantic moment.
• Ruiqi explained that Elf Haven was Night's birthplace, refuge, and an important Anchor Point, but she declined to discuss the war that divided the Elf Race.
• Dolores asked Lu Xiao whether he would help her or the Mother Goddess Elves if they became enemies, and Lu Xiao said he would try to resolve the conflict rather than choose a side.
• Dolores teased Lu Xiao for wanting to keep both her friendship and humanity's alliance with the Mother Goddess Elves, then revealed that restoring Elf Haven had untied her resentment toward the race.
• Dolores explained that Lu Xiao had thwarted her schemes by sparing Andrelo, suppressing conflicts on the Mother Goddess Star, and empowering someone capable of opposing her, leaving her unable to risk a war against the Mother Goddess Elves.

After returning to Earth, Lu Xiao secluded himself to prepare for the Species Ranking Tournament, but a growing number of women moved into his manor and disrupted his quiet life. With Alice’s arrival, he felt overwhelmed, yet he could not send the women away because their presence strengthened cooperation between their factions and humanity.

• Dolores agreed to bring the elves living away from their homeland to Elf Haven and asked Lu Xiao to keep searching for others.
• After more than two centuries of travel, Lu Xiao returned to Earth, built a manor, and entered seclusion while Dolores taught him advanced uses of Divinity.
• Nuan Meng and then Morningstar moved into the manor, and their rivalry eventually turned into an alliance that left Lu Xiao free to fish with the Warden.
• At the Warden’s suggestion, Nico joined the household, easing tensions, while Ruiqi stayed close to Lu Xiao and the women began accompanying him on his fishing trips.
• Liu Ni returned and moved into the manor, and Niu Bo warned Lu Xiao that his luck-related Authority Weapons might attract more trouble.
• Alice, the abdicated Elf Empress, moved into the manor after creating a new body, and Lu Xiao realized he could not evict the residents because their presence advanced cooperation with humanity.

After a century away from Earth, Lu Xiao returned and learned that the universe had been invaded by beacon-linked threats, prompting the clans around Earth to prepare for danger and the Species Ranking Tournament. He spent fifty years reclaiming Faith Power as Earth gathered resources and weapons, and the chapter ended with Calamity and Old Feis arriving.

• Lu Xiao escaped the Manor by taking a postman job on a distant planet, where he spent a hundred years reading before returning to Earth.
• Nico told Lu Xiao that a beacon had appeared near the Sun seven years after he left, and Fantasy, Fate, and Lightline had destroyed it along with the Solar System.
• Alice united the women and their clans against the invasion, while the Mother Goddess Elves and Dark Star Clan moved their forces closer to Earth and secretly acquired the Milky Way.
• Lu Xiao learned that Life had forbidden Alice from revealing the beacon threat, then focused on preparing for the Species Ranking Tournament.
• The Universe Logistics Company sent god statues to Earth, and Lu Xiao spent fifty years absorbing their Faith Power as Earth stockpiled resources and Old One-Level Authority Weapons.
• Calamity and Old Feis descended upon Earth.

As the Species Ranking Tournament approached, humanity equipped its selected gods and allies with scarce biomechanical armor while Lu Xiao prepared for the Preliminary Round. At a farewell party in his Manor, he named Bai Suoyi and Lucilla’s newborn daughter Bai Jingzhu, and reunited with Chainsaw Man, who planned to stay on Earth to watch over her.

• Old Feis reunited with Feis on Earth Satellite II, while Calamity toured Earth with Lu Xiao before going into seclusion.
• Fifty years later, Tina abdicated as Zerg Empress, and Lu Qian took control of the swarm with Nia’s help before returning to Earth.
• Lu Xiao joined the final training of the one hundred thousand gods selected for the Species Ranking Tournament, and Doctor outfitted them with customized biomechanical armor.
• Humanity gave one thousand armor suits each to the Mother Goddess Elves and Luolin, while its leadership ordered that every suit be recovered even if its pilot died.
• A hundred years later, Lu Xiao hosted a party at his Manor on the eve of the Preliminary Round and named Bai Suoyi and Lucilla’s newborn daughter Bai Jingzhu.
• Lu Xiao reunited with Chainsaw Man, who had stayed on Earth and declined to enter the tournament so he could watch over Bai Jingzhu.

At a gathering on the eve of the Species Ranking Tournament, Lu Xiao learned more about Chainsaw Man’s past and joked with friends and family as they teased him about romance and children. The evening ended with Alice joining the teasing, while Liu Ni accused Liu Guang of siding with outsiders.

• Bai Suoyi explained that Chainsaw Man had once served Bai Xuedong, and Lu Xiao recalled how Chainsaw Man’s protection had helped him survive in the Dark Prison.
• Lu Xiao congratulated Bai Suoyi and Lucilla, and Liu Guang drunkenly told Lu Xiao he was entrusting Liu Ni to him before Liu Ni kicked him.
• Dolores recognized Liu Guang as the possible seller of her Love Gu, and Lu Xiao suspected Liu Guang had used it to connect him with Night.
• The Warden asked Lu Xiao whether he wanted a child and suggested Dolores, while Liu Guang proposed Morningstar and was kicked by Liu Ni.
• Alice asked Morningstar what Liu Guang meant by knowing each other inside and out, and Antie rallied the crowd to cheer for Alice.
• Liu Ni pinched Liu Guang and accused him of siding with outsiders, leaving him bewildered.

Lu Xiao discussed the upcoming Species Ranking Tournament with Ruiqi and Alice, who proposed that humanity unite with the Zerg and locate their forces early. The Combat Command Center considered the risky plan, while the Zerg’s lack of allies and the tournament’s limits on their forces explained why they had previously struggled in the Preliminary Round.

• Ruiqi told Lu Xiao she would wait for him to return from the Species Ranking Tournament, and Lu Xiao said he wanted to take part in humanity’s important stage of civilization.
• Alice urged Lu Xiao to join the Human Legion quickly, and he agreed to pass her suggestion to the Combat Command Center.
• Alice suggested that humanity coordinate with Luolin’s Twisted Treant Clan and search for the Zerg alongside Weidiya’s forces.
• Lu Xiao considered using the Zerg Swarm to dominate the battlefield, but recognized that this could expose the Human Legion to attacks from other races.
• The Combat Command Center discussed Alice’s proposal and weighed the Zerg’s difficulty building a Swarm under the Preliminary Round’s troop limits and lack of allies.

Military Headquarters’ generals argued violently over whether the Human Legion should ally with the Zerg, with hardliners favoring the gamble and conservatives preferring guerrilla tactics. The neutral faction watched as the debate became a brawl, while Zhang Weidong reflected that either choice could bring disaster.

• Hardliners argued that allying with the Zerg could reduce the Human Legion’s later losses, while conservatives favored staying hidden and avoiding powerful enemy legions.
• Senior generals fought across the command room as neutral generals Zhang Weidong and another flask-holding general watched and joked about the chaos.
• Yang Zhan beat his opponent, then charged across the conference table to help Old Li, who had been cornered and had lost his dentures.
• Wang Guodong fought four men in his torn uniform and red underpants, drawing praise from Zhang Weidong for his body-cultivation training.
• Zhang Weidong questioned the flask-holding general’s support for fighting, and the general said he was too old to join in.
• Zhang Weidong privately weighed the risks of allying with the Zerg against the dangers of fighting without them.

Yang Zhan argued that humanity had to risk everything in the Preliminary Round to gain resources before an unknown crisis arrived, while conservatives warned that siding with the Zerg could bring an overwhelming attack. Zhang Weidong backed Yang’s call to forge a path to survival through sacrifice.

• Yang Zhan’s radicals gained the upper hand in the Conference Hall debate, and he challenged the opposing commanders to speak against his plan.
• A conservative general argued that humanity only needed to place in the top hundred and should not risk everything in the Preliminary Round.
• Yang Zhan said humanity had to seize more resources because no one knew how long it had to prepare, and he proposed allying with the Zerg to pursue a top-ten finish.
• When a neutral general warned that an alliance would invite an attack by hundreds of millions of gods against humanity’s hundred thousand people, Yang Zhan recalled the sacrifices that had kept human civilization alive.
• Zhang Weidong praised Yang Zhan and said humanity had no choice but to pave a road toward a miracle with blood and lives.

After Yang Zhan’s words convinced Zhang Weidong to commit to the coming war, Bai Xuedong arrived at the conference and announced that he would take supreme command. He approved the generals’ plan to ally with the Zerg and urged Yang Zhan to act decisively.

• Yang Zhan’s speech prompted Zhang Weidong to reconsider his caution, and the generals applauded his decision.
• The Warden and Antie escorted Bai Xuedong into the damaged conference hall, where he introduced himself to the generals.
• Bai Xuedong said he had returned at an old friend’s request to assume supreme command during the war, then asked the generals to continue their discussion.
• Yang Zhan reported that the generals had decided to join forces with the Zerg.
• Bai Xuedong approved the plan and advised Yang Zhan not to let excessive caution cost him opportunities in battle.

Bai Xuedong reunited with the Huaxia Warzone leaders and learned how the Pioneers and humanity had endured the years since his absence. As the account reached the war in Hell, he heard that humanity had gained little and failed to achieve its original objective.

• Bai Xuedong’s presence persuaded the meeting hall to support joining forces with the Zerg, and he asked the Warden and Antie to explain what had happened over the years.
• Bai Suoyi arrived, and Bai Xuedong thanked him for his hard work before learning that Jingzhu was his granddaughter.
• Bai Xuedong went to Bai Suoyi’s residence with the Warden and Antie, where he joyfully held Bai Jingzhu for the first time and Lucilla served him tea.
• The Warden and Antie recounted Lu Xiao’s memory loss, Bai Xuedong’s son going mad, and Liu Guang sacrificing himself to prepare Lu Xiao’s Ascension.
• The Warden and Antie described the Mist Calamity, the Present World and Dark Prison, the being above the Sun, and humanity’s decision to enter Hell’s game.
• Bai Xuedong learned that humanity’s war in Hell had yielded little and failed to achieve its original objective.

Bai Xuedong looked back on humanity’s rise into the Starry Sky and visited Lu Xiao, then asked him to persuade the Zerg to contribute more to the Preliminary Round. Lu Qian offered to commit fifty thousand King Worms or an all-King-Worm legion, but asked Bai Xuedong to explain why the Zerg should take part.

• Bai Xuedong recalled how humanity’s gains from the Hell Incident and its cooperation with the Mother Goddess Elves had carried Civilization into the Starry Sky.
• Bai Xuedong visited Lu Xiao’s Manor, where Lu Xiao recognized him as Bai Ning’s grandfather and introduced him to Alice, the former Empress of the Mother Goddess Elves.
• Bai Xuedong asked Lu Xiao to persuade Lu Qian to replace some of the Zerg’s one hundred thousand high-ranking Mother Worms with King Worms for the Preliminary Round.
• Lu Xiao called Lu Qian to speak with Bai Xuedong rather than deciding for her, and she offered fifty thousand King Worms or an all-King-Worm legion if he could provide a convincing reason.

Bai Xuedong offered the Zerg the method of absorbing the universe’s essence, securing Lu Qian’s promise to support humanity in the upcoming tournament. He then joined Lu Xiao’s gathering, where old acquaintances and unfamiliar faces came together for a feast.

• Bai Xuedong decided to trade the Zerg the essence-absorption method, believing it could overcome their evolutionary limits and help them protect the universe.
• Lu Qian agreed to Bai Xuedong’s conditions and promised the Zerg would follow humanity’s lead in the preliminary round and main tournament.
• Lu Xiao invited Bai Xuedong to stay for a meal and asked Ruiqi and Doctor to gather everyone, including Chef.
• Director Bai Ning, Yiqie’er, Driver, He Shang, Liu Guang, the Pope, Nono, and others arrived at Lu Xiao’s Manor for a feast of Old One flesh and blood.
• Bai Xuedong joined a circle of unfamiliar guests and chatted with Prison Doctor, who was squatting beside him.

Humanity arrived aboard the Ark at the City of Ten Thousand Races, where species gathered for the ranking tournament in the Woll Galaxy. The human participants established a fortified base and prepared for the tournament while onlookers watched in astonishment.

• Participants from the Order Faction boarded a super warship bound for the Woll Galaxy, the tournament site and a black zone at the junction of the three major factions.
• The Ark arrived at the crowded City of Ten Thousand Races, drawing attention as a vast human warship.
• The Humanoid Race guided the Ark to an abandoned planet it had reserved for humanity.
• Human participants used Inheritance Construction Modules to build a base on the planet.
• The Ark split into a full-strength fleet, which enclosed the planet in a force field and filled it with air.
• Star-level humans came ashore to handle logistics and earn star source, leaving other species unsure whether humanity had come to fight or relax.

As the Human Settlement drew crowds and made a booming business before the Ranking Tournament, a hostile Neutral Faction lifeform confronted Claudius over Cthulhu’s death. Claudius provoked the attacker until its World God aura erupted, drawing a crowd of fleeing and curious spectators.

• Lu Xiao, the Warden, and the Gambler discussed the Human Settlement’s businesses and the mysterious heavyweight guest expected at the Ranking Tournament’s opening ceremony.
• The Human Settlement opened to visitors, and alien lifeforms flocked there to buy human goods at marked-up prices.
• A concealed Neutral Faction lifeform watched Claudius, who sent away the girl beside him and challenged the watcher with a provocative look.
• The Neutral Faction lifeform appeared beside Claudius and asked whether he had killed Cthulhu.
• Claudius endured a psychic attack without showing fear and taunted his assailant, whose body grew and whose World God aura sent nearby god-level lifeforms fleeing.