Chapter Summaries

Lightline stopped the Neutral Lifeform that Claudius had provoked, and the humans turned the captive into a profitable attraction in the City of Ten Thousand Races. Later, Lightline met with Fate and the sleazy middle-aged man, and they discussed the unresponsive Neutral Faction and the gene collection after the Ranking Tournament.

• Lightline appeared above the Human Settlement and pinned down the Neutral Lifeform, while Claudius revealed that he had baited it into attacking so Lightline would intervene.
• The humans cordoned off the captive and charged visitors to see it, with an additional fee for those who wanted to vent their anger.
• Lightline disappeared and joined the sleazy middle-aged man and Fate to play Dou Dizhu beside the Orange Taxi.
• The sleazy middle-aged man wondered why the Neutral Faction had not reacted to their provocations, and Fate suggested they might have discovered something.
• Lightline asked whether they would have collected the genes of all species after the Ranking Tournament.

Fate, Lightline, Fantasy, and an indistinct figure played mahjong and caught Fantasy cheating before the Species Ranking Tournament began. A month later, the Musical Race opened the tournament ceremony with a performance above the City of Ten Thousand Races.

• Fate dealt cards while Lightline, Fantasy, and an indistinct figure gathered to play mahjong.
• Fantasy and Lightline discussed the difficult lives they had led, while Fate remarked that a certain fellow's lack of effort had left work for them.
• Fantasy altered a two of characters tile into a seven of bamboo and declared victory, prompting Lightline to accuse him and the indistinct figure of cheating.
• A month later, contestants returned to their clan bases as spatial wormholes appeared across the City of Ten Thousand Races, leading to the Preliminary Round battlefield.
• A Silicon-based Life warship arrived carrying the Musical Race, whose performance and drone-made meteor shower officially opened the ceremony.

The Ranking Tournament’s Preliminary Round began as Lu Xiao and the Doctor realized that the star-sized figure’s music could turn data into a flawless program. Lu Xiao led the Human Legion through a wormhole, and the tournament’s battlefield feeds and live rankings appeared on the Light Curtain.

• A star-sized figure absorbed golden musical notes and white lights from across the City of Ten Thousand Races as the music played.
• The Doctor told Lu Xiao that the melody had arranged binary data into a program, and they suspected the Ranking Tournament served a greater purpose than reshuffling interests.
• The Doctor warned Lu Xiao to keep himself safe, and Lu Xiao joined the Human Legion as its contestants boarded their thousand-meter Biological Armor.
• Lu Xiao led the Human Legion into a spatial wormhole, while contestants from other species entered their own wormholes.
• The Light Curtain displayed each species’ legion, points, and live rankings, which began changing within seconds.

Lu Xiao and Antie led the Human Legion into battle against the Starry Sky Sea Demons, while Gambler countered their devastating sound-based attack. The Sea Demons fled before the armies could clash, leaving spectators to jeer at the supposedly mighty clan.

• The Command Center warned the Human Legion about the Starry Sky Sea Demons' mind-affecting songs and ordered them not to ally with the race.
• Lu Xiao used Liu Guang's Human Heart authority and ordered the legion to attack the Sea Demons before other forces arrived.
• Lu Xiao's ability and the legion's laughter blunted the Sea Demons' song, while Antie directed Dart, Gambler, and the Daoist Arts Class to prepare their abilities.
• The Sea Demons unleashed their Death Chorus, but Gambler distorted sound transmission in the vacuum, making their song and its destructive beams disappear.
• The Sea Demons retreated when their attack failed, and the Human Legion pursued as spectators in the City of Ten Thousand Races booed them.

The Human Legion abandoned its pursuit of the Starry Sky Sea Demons and hurried to aid the Mother God Elves, who were fighting the Horned Lizard Race. While the Zerg hid underground and completed their first brood nest, the swarm entered its dangerous consumption phase and began spreading out to forage.

• The Human Legion received orders to stop chasing the Starry Sky Sea Demons and head to the Mother God Elves' battle coordinates.
• Weidiya led the Mother God Elves against the Horned Lizard Race and sent distress signals to their allies while trying to limit casualties.
• The Zerg concealed their hundred thousand King Worms beneath a barren planet as eggs hatched and the swarm expanded.
• Species across the battlefield searched for the Zerg and destroyed abandoned planets they suspected could shelter them.
• Lu Xiao and the Human Legion traveled toward the Mother God Elves, intending to rendezvous before seeking the Zerg.
• After three days, the Zerg completed their first brood nest and began the consumption phase, sending Worker Insects out to gather matter for the Mother Worms.

Zhang Chu arrived alone to save the Mother God Elves from the Horned Lizard Race and its allies, overwhelming their forces with lightning. His power astonished spectators, who wondered how humans had developed it, while three mysterious figures credited technology.

• The Zerg Hive propelled itself toward an abandoned planet as flying insects guarded it.
• After three days without reinforcements, Weidiya prepared the Mother God Elves Legion to fight the Horned Lizard Race and its allies.
• Zhang Chu arrived ahead of the Human Legion and unleashed a Sea of Thunder, disrupting the Horned Lizard gods’ control of lightning.
• Zhang Chu struck dozens of gods to ashes with a blow of blood-red lightning.
• Spectators questioned Zhang Chu’s power, and three blurry figures in the Human Settlement discussed how humans had developed their rules.

Zhang Chu’s lightning dragon devastated the Horned Lizard forces, while the newly revealed Peak Gods Rankings showed him leading the tournament. Antie Icarus then destroyed the surrounded Horned Lizard legion with a nuclear explosion, taking first place with nearly forty thousand kills and leaving spectators accusing humanity of cheating.

• Zhang Chu summoned a black lightning dragon that carbonized and scattered Horned Lizard gods as its kill count rapidly climbed.
• The Peak Gods Rankings named Mad Taoist - Zhang Chu first, with 1,789 kills, prompting spectators to dub one boastful onlooker Ten-Thousand-Ton Guy.
• Weidiya watched Zhang Chu overwhelm the enemy, while the Horned Lizard commander received orders to retreat and discovered its allies had already left.
• The Horned Lizards turned to flee but found the human legion behind them, where Antie unleashed a hundred-millionfold nuclear explosion.
• The rankings placed Sun Chaser - Antie Icarus first with 39,017 kills and three authorities, leading spectators to suspect humanity had cheated.

The Human Legion used Antie’s bomb, Zhang Chu’s elemental power, and Dart’s authority of fear to overwhelm the Horned Lizard Race’s legion. The humans were poised to wipe out the enemy without casualties, while rival races grew alarmed by their strength.

• Antie exhausted his energy and divinity to create a super nuclear bomb, leaving the fight to the Human Legion.
• Zhang Chu’s lightning and the flames formed a towering figure, while Dart’s authority of fear intensified the Horned Lizard Race’s terror and left many of them frozen.
• Antie ordered the hundred thousand human gods to attack, and they charged into the enemy ranks to harvest the immobilized Horned Lizard Race members.
• Weidiya was stunned by how quickly the battle turned, and the spectators realized the humans had suffered no casualties.
• Commanders from other competing races urgently studied the humans, while the Starry Sky Sea Demons’ supreme commander was relieved it had ordered a retreat.

After the Horned Lizard Race was eliminated, Lu Xiao’s human army and the Mother God Elves struggled to evade the United Army while searching for the Zerg. When the Zerg’s coordinates were exposed, Antie devised a dangerous way to propel both allied armies toward them before their enemies arrived.

• Weidiya met up with Lu Xiao and told him that Luolin’s Twisted Treant Legion had found traces of the Zerg, while the Humanoid Race had suffered heavy losses against an overlord-level species.
• The humans finished eliminating the Horned Lizard Race, which left the Preliminary Round with zero points, and the Human Legion temporarily topped the rankings.
• As contestants joined forces, the great clan armies became targets, and the humans and Mother God Elves began evading searches while looking for the Zerg.
• Over the next three days, the United Army eliminated a super great clan’s army, while several other great clan armies managed to meet up with allies.
• On the fourth day, the Zerg’s coordinates were exposed, prompting allied racial armies and great clan armies to head toward them and tacitly cooperate against the Zerg.
• Antie formed the human and Mother God Elf armies into a sphere and used nuclear explosions to propel them rapidly toward the Zerg’s location.

The Zerg Swarm expanded across the Brood Nest while the allied legions raced toward the battlefield, leaving Luolin worried that the assembled enemy forces would attack before reinforcements arrived. He went to the human Command Center, where Zhang Weidong urged him to sit and listen as Doctor presented data to the human officers.

• Antie propelled the spherical formation of legion members toward the Zerg's coordinates with controlled explosions.
• The Zerg Empress ordered the Hive to produce more lifeforms, and the Swarm intercepted a meteorite to feed the King Worms.
• Luolin saw the allied legions converging and feared the enemy would attack the Hive before most of his allies arrived.
• Luolin contacted Bai Xuedong, who calmly said he was thinking about a countermeasure.
• Luolin entered the human Command Center and, after Zhang Weidong spoke to him, sat down to listen to Doctor explain the data.

Luolin learned that the Swarm could not survive until the Human Legion arrived, even if it grew to three times its size. Bai Xuedong proposed feeding enemy corpses to the Swarm and using an early, baited attack to improve their chances against the Allied Forces.

• Zhang Weidong explained that the Doctor's mathematical model was calculating the war's variables, and the assembled commanders waited for its results.
• The Doctor calculated that Zhou's legion would reach the Zerg first but last only 16 seconds, while the Swarm could not withstand the Allied Forces until the Human Legion arrived.
• Bai Xuedong asked the Doctor to calculate how much the Swarm could grow by consuming Zhou's legion, and the Doctor estimated it could approximately double.
• Bai Xuedong asked whether Luolin's people could nourish the Swarm, but the Doctor advised against using the twisted Treant legion because it improved the Hive's reproductive environment.
• Bai Xuedong ordered Zhou to devour members of other races and teleport corpses and allied armies to the Swarm, while the Human Legion prepared to bait the Allied Forces into attacking early.

After receiving Bai Xuedong’s plan, the allied legions regrouped with the humans and prepared to join forces with the Zerg. As the Zhou teleported them toward the Zerg’s position, spectators doubted the humans could survive against hundreds of millions of enemies.

• The allied force shrank to twenty thousand Zhou and ten thousand Holy Maiden Spiders, who began teleporting toward the Human Legion.
• Lu Xiao’s legion rested under Dolores’s black veil while the Mother God Elves healed their assigned human companions, and the humans arranged themselves into combat units.
• The Zhou arrived, and the humans entered their internal spaces alongside the surviving Horned Lizard corpses before the Zhou teleported toward the Zerg.
• Antie regretted destroying tens of thousands of Horned Lizard corpses, which the Zerg could have used as nutrients.
• Spectators saw that the humans intended to join the Zerg and doubted they could withstand the overwhelming numbers of their opponents.

The human alliance used a teleportation, the Zerg, and a formation powered by the Dream Clan to spring a trap on their much larger enemy force. The battlefield remained engulfed in the Eight Formation Diagram, where gray mist confused contestants and purple mist poisoned them.

• The Zhou Clan teleported the Human Legion to the Zerg’s location, then set off to bring the Dream Clan’s legion.
• Ten thousand Holy Maiden Spiders entered the King Worm’s mouth, allowing it to breed Zerg that produced toxins capable of affecting divinity.
• The human alliance attacked the larger enemy force and initially lost more than thirty percent of its contestants, prompting the audience to accuse the humans of cheating.
• The Zerg used fewer than a hundred human fighters to clear a path, while Zhang Chu, Antie, and other top gods led the toxin-bearing Zerg into enemy ranks.
• The Daoist Arts Training Class and the Dream Clan’s hundred thousand gods maintained the Eight Formation Diagram, trapping contestants in gray and purple mist.

Lu Xiao and Gambler guarded the Life Gate while Bai Xuedong ordered the Swarm to use Life Light to multiply rapidly. The Swarm's explosive growth became visible to outside observers, who identified the Life Light as the Mother Goddess Elves' invention.

• Lu Xiao and Gambler led their Fifth Army teammates to guard the Life Gate and discussed using the Eight Formation Diagram as a trump card.
• Doctor estimated that the trapped 1.2 million Gods could let the Swarm quadruple quickly or grow ninefold after about 71 hours of normal reproduction.
• Bai Xuedong ordered the Zerg to use half their prepared Life Light and produce only ordinary units so the Swarm would grow faster and pressure the Allied Forces into a clash.
• The King Worms used the Life Light to lay eggs at an extreme rate, and the Swarm visibly doubled in size in less than an hour.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro questioned the Zerg's growth, and an audience member explained that the Life Light developed by the Mother Goddess Elves accelerated reproduction.

The races agreed to pay star source to those willing to withdraw from the Ranking Tournament and launch a suicide attack on the Zerg Hive. Meanwhile, Liu Guang and Xiao Zhe discussed how they had arranged to feed more people to the Zerg, leaving their plans poised to unfold.

• Shadow Organization members spread exaggerated claims about the Life Light, while the Zerg absorbed its energy and reproduced even more rapidly.
• The assembled racial leaders agreed to compensate withdrawing races with star source in exchange for a suicide attack on the Hive to reduce the number of King Worms.
• Xiao Zhe and Liu Guang walked through the Hidden Light Race's rear command center, where officials acted as though they could not see them.
• Liu Guang asked Xiao Zhe whether he had leaked the Zerg's coordinates, and Xiao Zhe said the battlefield made discovery inevitable and the leak forced the staff officers to act.
• Liu Guang identified the people trapped in the Eight Formation Diagram as nourishment Xiao Zhe had prepared for the Zerg, then revealed that he had prepared nourishment of his own.
• Xiao Zhe praised Liu Guang, saying that even Bai Xuedong was not as capable as him.

Liu Guang allowed the Hidden Light Race to carry out a demanded suicide charge, intending to pressure the other species while following his own plan. As the Swarm continued to replenish and refine itself through battle, Tina led the elite Heavenly Insect Clan into the tournament.

• Liu Guang told the Leader of the Hidden Light Race to proceed with the suicide charge and follow his original plan, despite the predicted loss of many King Worms.
• Liu Guang invited Xiao Zhe to leave the Command Center with him, and Xiao Zhe agreed.
• More than half of the million gods trapped in the Eight Formation Diagram were slaughtered, and their corpses became nutrients for the King Worms.
• The Swarm continued to evolve through internal competition, with powerful individuals emerging from weaker Zerg units.
• Tina led the Heavenly Insect Clan's tournament legion, whose exceptional fighters formed ten tightly organized combat formations.

Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro explained the Heavenly Insect Clan’s origins and claimed that Tina Empress had arranged the Supreme Insect Emperor’s fall as part of a deal with Him. He left the Audience with the revelation that the Preliminary Tournament broadcast had exposed how eating a Brain Worm could trigger a second evolution.

• Ten Heavenly Zerg Clan armies surrounded and attacked a formation of ten Medium-Sized Species legions.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro told the Audience that the Heavenly Insect Clan had truly won the previous Preliminary Tournament.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro claimed Tina Empress had entered the tournament to introduce the Heavenly Insect Clan and set a trap for the Supreme Insect Emperor.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro said Tina Empress had made a deal with Him: He would eliminate the Supreme Insect Emperor, and she would serve Him afterward.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro revealed that Tina Empress used the tournament broadcast to show that eating a Brain Worm could cause a second evolution.

Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro deduced how the Zerg Empresses had seized control of part of the Brain Worm Emperor’s Swarm, while the Heavenly Insect Clan fought and climbed the rankings. As a ten-million-strong allied army advanced on the Hive, the Human Legion regrouped to defend it alongside the Swarm.

• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro argued that fear of the Zerg’s potential had led the Brain Worm Emperor to let the other Empresses enter the Hive, giving them a chance to seize part of its Swarm and bring about his fall.
• The Heavenly Insect Clan preserved and ate its enemies’ corpses, then let the allied forces of the Ten Clans escape with thirty percent casualties and moved on to hunt more prey, reaching the top hundred overall.
• The Hundred-Clan Allied Forces assembled for a suicidal assault on the Hive while the humans finished clearing the enemies trapped in the Eight Formation Diagram and transported corpses to the Hive.
• Lu Xiao cursed the approaching army, and Antie ordered the units to prepare for battle and have their bonded elves restore their stamina.
• The Human Legion regrouped beside the Hive and prepared to defend it against ten million gods, hoping to join forces with the Swarm once the enemy approached.

The Hidden Light Race’s hundred thousand gods secretly advanced toward the Hive as intended sacrifices, meant to feed the King Worms and help the Zerg breed third-generation special fighters. Meanwhile, the human Daoist Arts Training Class began preparing a formation under cover of the main force.

• The gods’ advance was slowed by the Zerg swarm, while new Zerg toxins eroded the gods’ divinity and will.
• The chapter explained that the Hidden Light Race had been suppressed by the great clans and that 'Light and Shadow' had offered its leader a path to protect the race’s future.
• The Hidden Light Race’s leader prepared a hundred thousand gods as nourishment for the Zerg, and 'Light and Shadow' arranged for them to enter the battle without openly defecting.
• The Hidden Light Race assassins used their light-folding talent to approach the Hive unseen, carrying out orders to reduce the King Worms’ numbers.
• Nearly thirty thousand members of the Daoist Arts Training Class began setting up a formation with bodily remains as offerings.

The Daoist Arts Training Class activated an uncontrollable trump card, summoning Three-Headed, Six-Armed Evil Nezha over the Allied Forces’ Gods and Swarm. As Nezha prepared to attack, two Neutral Faction beings fled in terror after recognizing the forbidden entity.

• Lu Xiao and Gambler sensed terrifying malice as the Daoist Arts Training Class began chanting with talismans on their foreheads.
• Gambler told Lu Xiao that the Command Center had privately ordered the class to use its uncontrollable trump card against the enemy.
• A black cloud covered the Gods and Swarm, slowing the Gods and turning Zerg life into masses of pale arms that formed a monstrous infant.
• Lu Xiao recognized the infant as Three-Headed, Six-Armed Evil Nezha, and the class commanded him to slay the enemy.
• Nezha stepped toward the Gods as two Neutral Faction beings watching from the arena fled in fear.