Chapter Summaries

Fantasy warned Lightline that humanity’s creation should not exist in this universe, but accepted the risk of attracting attention. On the battlefield, the evil infant devastated the ten-million-god army, while spectators questioned whether humanity had broken the rules and the Zerg gathered the fallen gods for food.

• Fantasy told Lightline that Old Li should be able to manage the aftermath, though the creation might draw unwanted attention; Fantasy said attracting attention could advance their plan.
• The evil infant sent a divinity-devouring ring through the gods, killing nearly a thousand, then charged into their army with a spear that drained divinity.
• The flesh-and-blood lotus throne rose above the battlefield and cast golden radiance over the evil infant as it continued slaughtering gods.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro and the other spectators watched in shock, debated whether the infant’s power violated the rules, and feared their species would be eliminated before reaching the Hive.
• Nia directed the Swarm to collect the shattered gods for the King Worms, and the Zerg empresses recognized that the nutrients could greatly expand their forces.

The Demon Infant slaughtered the Gods as their legion advanced toward the Hive, while the human Contestants prepared to face the coming charge. Dolores and the others urged Lu Xiao to hide and support the battle with his luck, but he refused and chose to fight alongside his brothers.

• Lu Qian told the Swarm Empresses to continue directing the battle after they celebrated the gains from their bargain with Bai Xuedong.
• The Demon Infant killed nearly a hundred thousand Gods as their commander ordered the legion to advance toward the Hive and assigned some troops to defend against it.
• The human Contestants coordinated with the Swarm and hurried to recover before facing the approaching legion of nearly ten million Gods.
• Dolores, Morningstar, Alice, and Weidiya urged Lu Xiao to hide during the first charge because his authority could better support the troops from safety.
• Gambler tried to help Lu Xiao avoid the argument, but Lu Xiao rejected hiding and declared that he would fight while his brothers fought.

Lu Xiao and the Human Legion faced the invading gods as Nico, Antie Icarus, and Zhang Chu opened the battle with a devastating combination of fire, ice, and lightning. The first clash left both sides locked in combat, with the outnumbered 1st Army holding its ground under War Elephant’s charge.

• Alice told Weidiya to watch over Lu Xiao, and Weidiya promised to pull him from the battlefield if necessary.
• As the enemy advanced, the Evil Infant slaughtered gods and brought the Human Legion to the top of the points rankings.
• Nico created a field of ice crystals while Zhang Chu supplied lightning, and Antie Icarus triggered an immense explosion that disrupted the enemy formation.
• Nico’s fire giant, armored with electricity, charged through the enemy ranks as Antie used the divinity Lu Xiao had lent him.
• The Human Legion met the enemy’s wide-area attacks, and Weidiya healed Lu Xiao as he barely survived the first assault.
• The 1st Army engaged the enemy in close combat, and War Elephant led its fighters forward without retreating.

Humanity and its allies fought off a vastly larger army while the Swarm defended the Hive, which enemy forces were trying to reach from the flank. Outside the battlefield, Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro predicted that humanity would abandon the Zerg to protect its competition ranking, though the humans had not yet turned back to defend the Hive.

• The Daoist Arts Training Class regrouped as the Dream Clan plunged over a hundred thousand gods into a dreamscape, and Antie triggered another nuclear explosion that destroyed alien forces trapped inside it.
• Human troops continued fighting under orders to preserve their Biological Armor, while the Swarm attacked enemies and the King Worms devoured fallen gods and rapidly bred more Zerg.
• One hundred thousand twisted treants guarded the Hive as enemy gods bypassed the human line and approached from the flank, hoping to break through the Swarm and strike the King Worms.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro told spectators that humanity should retreat and abandon the Zerg to secure a high ranking, and he praised humanity's rapid development during its registration protection period.

The Heavenly Insect Clan arrived above the Hive and gave the Zerg a disciplined command structure, allowing the Swarm to counterattack and relieve pressure on the human forces. With the siege turning around, Bai Xuedong ordered the Human Legion to regroup while Luolin watched the Twisted Treant Clan’s ranking rise.

• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro argued that the Zhou had arrived to evacuate the humans, and another observer questioned why they would not take the King Worms too.
• A hundred thousand contestants from the Heavenly Zerg Clan descended on the Hive and transformed the chaotic Swarm into an organized army.
• The Heavenly Worms took command of the Swarm, counterattacked the Allied Forces, and tightened an encirclement around the forces besieging the Zerg.
• Tina Empress took charge of the Hive as the Heavenly Worms delivered more than three hundred thousand intact corpses of gods for the King Worms to devour.
• Bai Xuedong ordered the Human Legion to retreat to the Hive’s edge and establish a new defensive line, then watched the live feed with the other officers.
• Luolin watched the Twisted Treant Clan climb into the top thousand and grew excited about its prospects in the tournament.

Luolin and Zhang Weidong discussed how the Heavenly Worms’ arrival affected the war, while disagreements among the Allied Forces kept them from retreating. After receiving a call, Bai Xuedong ordered an all-out assault on the Zerg; elsewhere, Liu Guang explained to Xiao Zhe how he had cultivated informants within many factions.

• Luolin decided he would accept sacrificing some of his clansmen if Bai Xuedong asked again, then discussed the battlefield with Zhang Weidong.
• Luolin and Zhang Weidong concluded that the Heavenly Worms could ease pressure on the Zerg’s command but were unlikely to turn the battle around.
• The Allied Forces’ commanders argued over retreating, but feared the consequences of abandoning the attack and could not agree on an order.
• Bai Xuedong received a phone call and ordered the army to coordinate with the Swarm in an all-out attack to wipe out the ten million gods.
• Liu Guang told Xiao Zhe that he had gathered influence within many factions by supplying people with intelligence they could use to undermine their rivals.

Liu Guang challenged Xiao Zhe to think beyond his own interests and promised him everything he wanted if he accepted a mission. Outside the battlefield, Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro claimed several species supported humanity because they stood to profit from the human-run stock market, leaving spectators to consider whether that explained the contestants’ lack of resistance.

• Liu Guang told Xiao Zhe that he needed to give before receiving and said he would assign him a mission only he could perform.
• Xiao Zhe asked what he would gain, and Liu Guang promised him everything he wanted before leaving him to think.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro told the spectators that several species had contacted humanity before the tournament and insisted his information was firsthand.
• Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro explained that species invested in humanity-linked stocks wanted humanity to succeed in the Ranking Tournament so they could profit.
• A spectator wondered whether financial interests explained why contestants from other species had failed to challenge the humans effectively.

Xiao Zhe understood how Liu Guang’s stock-market scheme had stirred suspicion and factional infighting among the alien races without relying on the Human Heart authority. Convinced that Liu Guang was helping him become a better strategist, Xiao Zhe grew curious about the task he would be asked to lead, while Liu Guang arrived at the Command Center and Zhang Weidong hinted at a grievance.

• The Horned Lizard Race leader investigated suspected moles after hearing Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro’s remarks and discovered that more than half of the clan’s higher-ups, including himself, held human-related stocks.
• Other races launched similar investigations, and revelations about their leaders caused the audience to believe Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro and consider whether to continue cooperating.
• Xiao Zhe realized Liu Guang’s stock market had fueled suspicion and rivalries by exploiting greed and public opinion rather than making anyone directly betray their clan.
• Xiao Zhe accepted that he had not been chosen to lead the Spark Plan because he was not yet a qualified chess player, and he wondered what task Liu Guang had in mind for him.
• Liu Guang entered the Command Center and sat beside Luolin, where Zhang Weidong greeted him as his old boss and accused him of keeping secrets.

Lu Xiao’s strange Authority caused his enemies to suffer bizarre accidents, while Zhang Chu and Daimon joined forces against the Evil Infant. The chapter ended with the two Gods unleashing a combined command against their powerful foe.

• The Warden endured attacks from over a hundred Gods, with a green sprite sustaining him, while Sly’s enemies moved stiffly under his power.
• Lu Xiao’s Authority triggered mishaps among his attackers, and Hassan went berserk after hearing that his wife had remarried and spent his child’s resources as her dowry.
• Weidiya stopped healing Lu Xiao when excess life energy made grass grow on his body, and Gambler reacted to the sight with unpleasant memories.
• The Evil Infant targeted Zhang Chu, who trapped it in a Sea of Thunder, but neither could overcome the other.
• Daimon came to Zhang Chu’s aid, combining his Sea of Fire with the thunder until the flames turned purple, but the Evil Infant remained unmoved.
• Zhang Chu and Daimon shouted “Stand down!” together at the Evil Infant.

Zhang Chu explained that the Evil Infant was an aggregation of thoughts, but its growing aura remained a mystery. Outside the battlefield, rumors split the smaller clans’ alliance, and their leaders argued over whom to attack before drifting toward targeting the Great Clans instead of humanity.

• The Evil Infant turned away from Zhang Chu and attacked nearby enemies, while Zhang Chu told Daimon it would dissipate once its thoughts were exhausted.
• Rumors of turncoats weakened the smaller clans’ alliance, letting Great Clan contestants exploit their infighting to gain points.
• The smaller clans’ contestants and commanders began slowing down or withholding effort as they weighed the risks of attacking humanity.
• The Allied Forces’ leaders debated whether to target humanity, the Zerg, or the other Great Clans, and accused one another of plotting to betray the alliance.
• The leaders leaned toward attacking the Great Clans, reasoning that humanity’s rise could no longer be stopped and that showing goodwill might protect their interests.

Nearly ten thousand minor species sought refuge in the Milky Way, prompting humanity to debate whether to accept them until “Technology” urged them to do so. Meanwhile, the battlefield pressure eased, and Lu Xiao arrived at the Hive to find the King Worm devouring members of the Hidden Light Race.

• The minor species learned that “Time” had promised humanity an Observer Race speaker seat, and most turned their armies against the great clans while secretly contacting humanity about moving to the Milky Way.
• Humanity’s Combat Command Center debated the risks of accepting nearly ten thousand species until “Fantasy” and “Technology” arrived, and “Technology” told them to accept the species as part of its plan.
• The foreign affairs officials began a major diplomatic meeting with the species seeking refuge in the Milky Way.
• On the battlefield, the allied forces slackened and retreated, while Tina’s cry caused the Swarm to part and let surrounded contestants escape.
• Warden summoned Lu Xiao to the Hive, where Lu Xiao and Gambler found the King Worm devouring members of the Hidden Light Race beside Warden, Antie, Tina, Weidiya, and the Dream Clan’s leader.

As the Allied Forces withdrew and the Zerg concealed the Hive, Tina explained the history behind the Species Ranking Tournament and revealed that she was Snow White from the story. Her revelation left Lu Xiao, the Warden, and Antie stunned.

• The Dream Clan representative and Weidiya told Lu Xiao that the races were investigating their own ranks and preparing to move their home planets to the Milky Way, while the Universe Logistics Company offered to exchange their assets for Star Source.
• Antie questioned why the tournament continued during an invasion and suggested that the leaders might intend to abandon the universe.
• A battlefield report announced that the Allied Forces had withdrawn and the Swarm was escorting the Hive toward the center of the battlefield.
• The King Worm produced transparent insects that concealed the Hive and the Swarm from the audience using the Hidden Light Race's ability.
• Tina said they would disappear from the audience's sight, described how the Species Ranking Tournament had been established, and revealed that she was Snow White from the story.

Tina revealed that she was Snow White and explained how the ministers, Witch, Knight, and rebels fit into the story’s altered ending. She led Lu Xiao to realize that the Witch was tied to the Zerg’s history, then revealed that the Zerg had once been called the Heavenly Worms, naturally born of the Universe.

• Lu Xiao asked Tina about the story’s roles, and she identified Truth as the Sage and Time as the Kingdom’s strongest Knight.
• Tina explained that Technology’s group were the ministers driven from the Royal City, who fought the Witch, searched for the missing Prince, and secretly allied with her against the rebels.
• Tina said the ministers awakened Snow White while they and the Witch drove the rebel army into the Kingdom’s Far North.
• Tina prompted Lu Xiao to connect Snow White, the Witch, and the Zerg, revealing why she had intervened in the Heavenly Insect Clan’s affairs.
• Tina explained that the Zerg had originally been called the Heavenly Worms and were naturally born of the Universe before the strongest Brain Worm took control of the Swarm.

Tina explained that the Witch, the minister, and the Outsiders sought to create a Cosmos-level life-form by combining related rules, and described how Life’s plan led to Snow White’s poisoned apple. The chapter revealed that Tina had once been Procreation, but lost her Authority after eating the apple, leaving the others questioning how mastering that rule could control the universe.

• Weidiya asked whether the Zerg had been created by Mother, and Tina explained that the factions’ goal was to become a new Sage by creating Cosmos-level life.
• Antie reasoned that the factions wanted to approach or touch Truth, and Tina said Rule Controllers feared fully understanding a rule because they would become part of Truth.
• Tina recounted how transcended Rule Controllers disappeared and became Recorders, while Technology returned after sublimation and began studying the Time Rule.
• Tina explained that Life believed combining related rules could achieve true sublimation, leading him to target Procreation and begin the events of Snow White’s story.
• Antie asked whether Tina was Procreation, and Tina said she had been but lost her Authority after eating the poisoned apple, while Life took the Authority to study it.
• Antie questioned whether mastering Procreation meant controlling the universe, leaving the group uncertain about the rule’s power.

Tina explained that monopolizing reproduction could make all life worship one being, but said she wanted only a happy life with her White-Horse Prince. As contestants’ feeds vanished and alien species prepared to relocate to the Milky Way, Liu Guang suspected “Technology” had set a trap and warned Luolin that the Milky Way might be bait for something larger.

• Tina explained that a species deprived of reproduction would eventually die out, and that monopolizing procreation could make other species worship its monopolist.
• Tina said she had no desire to control the universe and revealed that her goal was to live happily with her White-Horse Prince.
• Lu Xiao asked where Tina was taking them, and Tina said they would find out when they arrived.
• Spectators noticed that the feeds for the humans, the Humanoid Race, the Starry Sky Sea Demons, and several allied clans had disappeared, while Ten-Thousand-Ton Bro waited for a message.
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs planned to calm alien species, divide them after their arrival in the Milky Way, and attract their money through the stock market; Universe Logistics Company launched an asset exchange service for those seeking refuge there.
• Liu Guang warned Luolin that the Milky Way might be a trap that would seal the arriving species inside, then compared the plan to chumming the water before fishing.

As Lu Xiao and the others followed the Hive into a region where no rules existed, Tina brought them to a vast Divine Hall suspended in the void. The hall’s carvings and eerie chorus left the group facing an unsettling mystery.

• Luolin wondered why the Universe Logistics Company was investing so many resources in the Milky Way, and Liu Guang said they might learn the reason when their viewpoint appeared again.
• Species preparing to relocate to the Milky Way exchanged their real estate for star source, and many invested it in the stock market.
• Lu Xiao and the others followed the Hive into a universe void, where Tina explained that the region was a stable black zone without rules.
• Tina announced that they had arrived, and a Warship Bug carried the group out of the Hive.
• Lu Xiao and the others saw a magnificent, roofless Divine Hall supported by twenty-four pillars carved with living beings.
• The group heard a rhythmic chorus from the carvings and felt a powerful urge to join it.

Tina led Lu Xiao and the others through the Divine Hall to meet Truth, whom she said was the source of all authority and the being the Ultimate Leap sought to touch. As Tina explained that Truth was asleep, Lu Xiao immediately raised a hand to touch him, leaving Tina and the Warden dumbfounded.

• The Dream Clan representative returned to the Hive while Lu Xiao and the others followed Tina into the Divine Hall.
• Tina revealed that the hall was where beings like her were born and said Key and Chaos had been born alongside her.
• Antie noticed the nebulae overhead resembled miniature galaxies as the group traveled deeper into the hall.
• Tina showed the group a gelatinous mass and identified it as Truth, saying he was asleep or had never awakened.
• Tina explained that the Ultimate Leap meant touching Truth, and Lu Xiao promptly raised his hand to touch him.
• Tina asked the Warden whether Lu Xiao was always like this, and the Warden said he only had episodes sometimes.

Tina explained that Truth could awaken either through Time or through the completion of the rules, and that either path would eventually destroy the universe. The group realized Tina had brought them to Truth for the purpose of awakening him.

• Lu Xiao touched Truth, and Tina said direct contact would not contaminate him or wake him.
• Tina explained that Time could awaken Truth, while completing the rules would also cause his awakening.
• Tina described how a fully programmed Truth would turn all life into data and consume the universe's usable energy, leading to heat death.
• Antie warned that Truth's primal madness could drive the universe toward maximum entropy, making both ways of awakening him lead to the same outcome.
• Antie asked Tina whether she had brought the group there to awaken Truth.

Tina revealed that Ding Dan was not the true Key and took an ancient mirror pendant from Lu Xiao as Chaos was set to appear. Outside the Divine Hall, starlight rushed into warped space, while an octopus vanished from Earth and its total mass suddenly fell by one tenth.

• Antie connected the Truth before them to the Sequence God-Making experiment and considered its result a miracle or a false Truth.
• Ding Dan and Morati appeared, and Tina identified Ding Dan as the Key in position, though she said he was not the real Key.
• Tina took an ancient mirror pendant from Lu Xiao and declared that Chaos was next to appear.
• Fantasy, Fate, and Lightline prepared to witness the coming event as starlight surged through the City of Ten Thousand Races and into distorted space below.
• An enormous octopus vanished from Earth's deep sea, and a monitoring staff member sounded an alarm after Earth's total mass dropped by one tenth.

Doctor discovered that the Gene Bank had vanished from the Mariana region as a gigantic vortex appeared, while Light and Shadow's conflict with Time over Draco triggered an alarm that drove much of the universe's life mad. The alarm spread across space and time, and the beings carved into the Divine Hall's pillars began to stir.

• Doctor traced the Pacific vortex to the missing Gene Bank, then traveled to the seabed and confirmed that both the bank and its Old One-Level guardian were gone.
• A sphere nearly half the size of a star appeared beneath the City of Ten Thousand Races, and Fantasy took Lightline and Fate away in his Taxi.
• Death departed after blessing Calamity and Old Feis, who awakened covered in black feathers and set off to work.
• Draco transformed into a steel dragon, and Time arrived as Light and Shadow confronted him.
• Time threatened to awaken Him, then the clock's alarm rang across the universe and drove beings below the Old One level into madness.
• The reliefs carved into the Divine Hall's twenty-four pillars began writhing and roaring as if trying to escape.