Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xiaokai gained the [Divine Lightning] rune and began accelerating the Red-Eyed Golden Apes' development, while Zhang Yunbo prepared to lead the Skeleton Clan toward the Central Continent. The chapter left Zhang Yunbo reviewing intelligence about the other civilizations as he planned to bring the Skeleton Clan's black soil with him.

• Zhang Xiaokai tested his lightning power, impressing the Red-Eyed Golden Apes and inspiring their worship.
• Zhang Xiaokai decided to develop the Red-Eyed Golden Apes rapidly and seek Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes to test his abilities on.
• Zhang Yunbo said the Skeleton Clan had grown beyond two hundred thousand and that expanding its numbers further would be difficult to control.
• Zhang Yunbo observed that Skeleton Race members emerged from the scorched earth and planned to bring black soil to the Central Continent.
• Zhang Yunbo reviewed reports that Zhou Na's escape plan had failed, Zhang Xiaokai's apemen had reached the steam engine age, Zhu Hailong had not reached the Second Stage, and Chen Yu had concealed his ability.

Zhang Yunbo opened the bronze gate to the Central Continent and discovered that its jungle held enormous dangers, including a Starry Sky Giant Mosquito. He sent a squad to scout the area and began preparing a foothold for the Skeleton Undead Race.

• Zhang Yunbo gathered the Skeleton Undead Race and sacrificed the Spider Heavenly Emperor's incomplete remains to open an ancient bronze gate.
• Zhang Yunbo sent skeletons through the gate, where they found an emerald-green jungle and no danger nearby.
• A Starry Sky Giant Mosquito pierced a skeleton and scattered its remains, while Zhang Yunbo's clansmen failed to close the gate.
• Zhang Yunbo considered the Spider Heavenly Emperor's immense size and sent more clansmen into the Central Continent to investigate.
• Zhang Yunbo dispatched a hundred-strong squad to explore the jungle and carried black soil through the gate to prepare fertile ground for his race.

Zhang Yunbo’s Undead Skeleton Race continued preparing its territory in the Central Continent while Su Mo chose to limit his interference and introduced the Spirit Race. Convinced that killing the Spider Heavenly Emperor would let his clan advance, Zhu Hailong gathered the Spirit Race and led them out to attack.

• Zhang Yunbo watched the Undead Skeleton Race clear land and transport black soil, completing the preliminary stage of his plan.
• Su Mo decided not to intervene further in the civilizations’ development and opened a spatial rift to bring the Spirit Race into the world.
• Zhu Hailong’s Spirit Race members destroyed a Starry Sky Giant Mosquito with a fireball and had largely reached First Stage strength.
• Zhu Hailong decided to use his clan’s strength to kill the Spider Heavenly Emperor, believing this would lead them to greater power.
• Zhu Hailong rallied the gathered Spirit Race with a speech and ordered them to march against the Spider Heavenly Emperor.

Zhu Hailong and the Spirit Race attacked the Spider Heavenly Emperor with relentless spells, trapping and badly injuring him. The spider survived the assault and climbed back up, leaving both the livestream viewers and the Spirit Race despairing.

• The Spider Heavenly Emperor woke to Zhu Hailong’s challenge, but Zhu Hailong and the clanspeople immediately engulfed him in fireballs.
• Zhu Hailong combined minor spells to form meteors and bombarded the spider’s cave without approaching it.
• The Spider Heavenly Emperor emerged badly injured, with four broken legs and a wound in his abdomen.
• Zhu Hailong used the Ground Subsidence Technique to trap the spider, then ordered the clanspeople to target its wound with ice spikes.
• The Spider Heavenly Emperor survived the barrage and climbed back up, to the dismay of the livestream viewers and the Spirit Race.

Zhu Hailong led the Spirit Race into the Central Continent, where they rapidly established a foothold and he completed his transformation. Su Mo accelerated the civilizations’ preparations to fight the Spider Heavenly Emperor, while one ruthless figure continued gathering Gu worms in his own world.

• Zhu Hailong used puppetry to control the Spider Heavenly Emperor, then opened a gate to the Central Continent and led ten Spirit Race warriors inside.
• Zhu Hailong killed a concealed Starry Sky Giant Mosquito, after which the Spirit Race built settlements and military facilities across the Central Continent.
• The Spirit Race’s rapid progress spurred other civilizations to advance, while Zhou Na prepared the Red-Faced Nether Eagle Clan’s Starry Sky Slingshot to attack the Spider Heavenly Emperor.
• Several powerful men met to oppose the coming world merger, but the god of death killed everyone in the room.
• Su Mo decided to accelerate the civilizations and secretly weaken the Spider Heavenly Emperor as needed, while an excluded figure continued collecting Gu worms and increasing his primal power.

The Ant Clan advanced into a new world, rapidly growing stronger as the ant queen expanded the nest. Elsewhere, Zhou Na struggled to contain resentment among the Red-Faced Nether Eagles, while Zhang Xiaokai led the Red-Eyed Golden Apes and Zhang Shaofeng led the Asura Clan into battle against Spider Heavenly Emperor.

• The ant queen led tens of thousands of worker ants through the bronze gate, where they devoured surrounding creatures and grew stronger, while he began approaching the Third Stage.
• Zhou Na urged the Red-Faced Nether Eagles through the newly opened gate, but her wounded clansmen resented her until she distributed food to them.
• Zhu Hailong discovered that the Spirit Race's cultivation methods helped him advance, while Zhang Xiaokai resolved that the Red-Eyed Golden Apes had to kill Spider Heavenly Emperor.
• Zhang Xiaokai claimed that the Creator God had ordered the attack, and the Red-Eyed Golden Apes marched toward Spider Heavenly Emperor.
• Zhang Shaofeng led the Asura Clan's eight guardians in a fierce assault on Spider Heavenly Emperor.

Zhang Shaofeng, Li Pengfei, and Chen Yu each defeated the Spider Heavenly Emperor in their respective worlds, using brute force, a falling mass of soil, and a stacked-up punch. After Chen Yu’s victory opened a gate to a new world, he waited for the Kobolds and restarted his livestream to show off his strength.

• Zhang Shaofeng brutally beat the Spider Heavenly Emperor for a full day until it lost six legs and fell into an endless slumber, then collapsed and went to sleep.
• Li Pengfei drove the Hundred-Ton King toward the Spider Heavenly Emperor with a load of soil, then dropped the enormous mass on it and killed it.
• Chen Yu built up his Q stacks by killing creatures along the way, then punched the sleeping Spider Heavenly Emperor and split its head in two.
• A six-pointed-star pillar of light and a bronze gate appeared in the Kobold world after Chen Yu killed the Spider Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Yu waited for the Kobolds to arrive, turned on his livestream, and prepared to show viewers his strength.

Zhang Yunbo sent his growing Skeleton Race across the Central Continent and discovered the Ant Clan, whose ant queen had been driven to aggression by Su Mo’s Divine Lightning. The skeletons and ants clashed, beginning a major battle watched eagerly by the livestream audience.

• Zhang Yunbo’s Skeleton Race grew to around a hundred thousand, and he ordered it to spread across the Central Continent in search of souls and rival races.
• The ant queen developed powerful dark-golden worker ants and, under the influence of Su Mo’s Divine Lightning, became determined to attack other civilizations.
• Su Mo reflected that the ant queen’s aggression would create conflict and make the Ant Clan a formidable enemy.
• After learning the Ant Clan was nearby, Zhang Yunbo ordered his skeleton army to attack and harvest its souls.
• The Skeleton Race and Ant Clan collided, prompting viewers to notice that something seemed unusual about the ants.

The Ant Queen’s forces overwhelmed Zhang Yunbo’s Skeleton Race, prompting civilizations across the Central Continent to fear the ants and seek allies. Zhang Shaofeng failed to find partners for the Asura Clan, while Zhou Na worried that her Red-Faced Nether Eagles were dispersing and searched for nearby civilizations.

• Zhang Yunbo recognized that the golden-striped ants rivaled his strength, retreated toward the bronze gate, and the ant tide later engulfed the Skeleton Race.
• The Ant Queen celebrated destroying a transcendent civilization and resolved to attack others.
• Zhu Hailong learned about the Ant Queen and decided the Spirit Race needed allies; other civilizations also began forming alliances.
• Zhang Shaofeng publicly invited other races to ally with the Asura Clan, but viewers explained why no one wanted to join, so he returned to training by fighting his own warriors.
• Zhou Na studied her terrain map, worried that the Red-Faced Nether Eagles were scattering across the Central Continent, and set out to find a nearby civilization.

Zhang Xiaokai struggled with his Divine Lightning rune and planned a copper lightning rod, while Li Pengfei’s Earth People Clan grew stronger by devouring Central Continent soil. In the Gu World, Gao Zhuang continued searching for Gu worms as the Wisdom Gu warned that hatred was consuming him.

• Zhang Xiaokai told his livestream chat that he needed regular lightning strikes to grow stronger, and viewers suggested building a human-shaped lightning rod.
• Zhang Xiaokai ordered the Red-Eyed Golden Apes to smelt copper and make the lightning rod.
• Li Pengfei discovered that the Earth People Clan could grow stronger by eating Central Continent soil and led his people in devouring it.
• Li Pengfei ignored viewers’ suggestions to form an alliance, prioritizing the Earth People Clan’s growth.
• Gao Zhuang searched the desert for Gu worms while his killing intent grew, and the Wisdom Gu warned him to find himself or be abandoned.

Zhu Hailong found Zhang Shaofeng and proposed an alliance, but their friendly fight left Zhu Hailong badly beaten before Zhang Shaofeng surrendered to his lethal Cutting Technique. Zhu Hailong declared himself alliance leader and gave Zhang Shaofeng a jade token to contact him.

• Zhu Hailong spotted Zhang Shaofeng in a valley and dodged the objects Zhang Shaofeng threw at him.
• Zhu Hailong proved he came from Zhang Shaofeng’s home world by reading bullet comments about Zhang Shaofeng, then proposed an alliance.
• Zhang Shaofeng accepted the alliance and challenged Zhu Hailong to a fight.
• Zhang Shaofeng overwhelmed Zhu Hailong with rapid punches until Zhu Hailong used Repulsion Technique and Cutting Technique to turn the fight around.
• Zhang Shaofeng surrendered after narrowly avoiding the Cutting Technique, and Zhu Hailong gave him a jade token and claimed the alliance leadership.

Zhu Hailong agreed to teach the Asuras cultivation, while Chen Yu strengthened the Kobold Clan by hunting Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes and securing supplies. Zhang Yunbo waited for the Ant Clan and another civilization to become locked in conflict, and Zhu Hailong ended the chapter frustrated when Zhang Shaofeng fell asleep during his cultivation lesson.

• Zhang Shaofeng asked whether Asuras could cultivate, and Zhu Hailong began teaching him.
• Chen Yu dismissed rumors about the Asura Clan and ordered Snowflake to prepare the Kobolds’ tunnels, supplies, and rewards.
• Chen Yu killed dozens of Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes with rapid punches and sent Snowflake to arrange for the Kobolds to transport their eggs and stock their granaries.
• Zhang Yunbo learned that the Asura Clan was cultivating and decided to wait for the Ant Clan to clash with another civilization before acting.
• Zhu Hailong found Zhang Shaofeng asleep during the cultivation lesson and complained about the Asuras’ poor aptitude.

Zhang Shaofeng and Zhang Xiaokai advanced their cultivation in different ways, while Zhou Na failed to keep the Red-Faced Nether Eagles united. The chapter left the Red-Faced Nether Eagles scattered across the continent and Zhou Na’s [Freedom] rune fading.

• Zhu Hailong gave up waiting for Zhang Shaofeng, who continued sleeping as Spiritual Qi flowed into him and brought him close to the third stage.
• Zhang Xiaokai climbed a cliff with a lightning rod, was struck by Divine Lightning, and survived by activating a rune to absorb it.
• Zhang Xiaokai absorbed more Divine Lightning beneath the rod and realized he was close to breaking through to the second stage.
• Zhou Na’s clansmen rejected her warnings about the dangers outside and insisted on leaving the bronze gate area.
• The Red-Faced Nether Eagles split into several groups and scattered, leaving Zhou Na in doubt as her [Freedom] rune dimmed.

Li Pengfei led the Earth People Clan to migrate into Red-Eyed Golden Ape territory, where Zhang Xiaokai confronted them over the damage to the farmland. Their clash erupted into a battle between the Earth People and the Red-Eyed Golden Apes, leaving both leaders under attack.

• After consuming the nearby soil, Li Pengfei ordered the Earth People Clan to migrate again.
• Red-Eyed Golden Ape guards told Zhang Xiaokai that living sludge was ruining their farmland and had killed several apes.
• Zhang Xiaokai learned the Earth People Clan had migrated into his territory and went to the farmland to confront them.
• Li Pengfei prepared to claim the apes’ spiritually rich land, but Zhang Xiaokai struck him with Divine Lightning.
• Two Earth People retaliated by covering Zhang Xiaokai in foul-smelling soil and beating him, while armored Red-Eyed Golden Apes charged to rescue their chief.

Zhang Xiaokai and the Red-Eyed Golden Apes fought Li Pengfei and the Earth People, whose meteor attack devastated both sides before they restrained Zhang Xiaokai. As Zhang Xiaokai overwhelmed Li Pengfei with Divine Lightning, Second Great-Uncle attacked him in a vulnerable spot and drew his fury.

• Second Great-Uncle mocked the first spear, but a storm of spears and lightning struck him and the other Earth People.
• Li Pengfei unleashed [The Sky Is Falling], dropping a huge meteor on the Red-Eyed Golden Apes and leaving the battlefield cratered and strewn with casualties.
• The Earth People dragged Zhang Xiaokai into sludge and restrained him while Li Pengfei and Second Great-Uncle taunted him.
• Zhang Xiaokai summoned Divine Lightning that battered Li Pengfei and weakened his presence.
• Second Great-Uncle tried to crush Zhang Xiaokai's vulnerable spot, so Zhang Xiaokai directed half his Divine Lightning at him.

Zhu Hailong abandoned his search for allies and focused on strengthening his clan, while Gao Zhuang persevered in refining a Gu worm. The battle between the Earth People Clan and the Red-Eyed Golden Apes continued to turn against the apes, leaving both leaders close to despair.

• Zhu Hailong learned from livestream reports that Li Pengfei's Earth People Clan had attacked the Red-Eyed Golden Apes' grain-growing grounds and that Zhang Xiaokai's lightning strikes were devastating the battlefield.
• Zhang Yunbo decided to build up his race before the third stage and considered establishing a farm to harvest souls, while hoping the battle would distract the Ant Queen.
• Zhu Hailong gave up looking for allies, returned to his territory, and used a simplified Spirit Gathering Formation to gather Spiritual Qi for a breakthrough.
• Gao Zhuang continued nourishing and refining the Mountain-Subduing Peak Gu with his blood essence and moonlight, encouraged by Wisdom Gu and Hope Gu.
• Zhang Xiaokai feared his Red-Eyed Golden Apes Clan would be wiped out, while Li Pengfei privately panicked as the battle continued to go badly for the apes.

Zhang Xiaokai and Li Pengfei ended their battle by agreeing to spare their people and leave each other’s territory. Afterward, Zhang Xiaokai began developing new-energy weapons for the Red-Eyed Golden Apes, while Su Mo turned his attention to a new target.

• Li Pengfei pleaded for mercy, and Zhang Xiaokai negotiated an end to the fight in exchange for the Earth People Clan leaving Red-Eyed Golden Apes territory forever.
• Zhang Xiaokai stopped the Divine Lightning, and Li Pengfei led the surviving Earth People Clan away from the battlefield.
• Zhang Xiaokai took inspiration from the livestream comments and decided to develop batteries and electric weapons for the Red-Eyed Golden Apes.
• Zhang Xiaokai buried the dead, organized a lookout system, and established the clan’s first laboratory to screen materials for new-energy weapons.
• Su Mo lost interest in watching the remaining battles and reflected that the world’s first atomic bomb had exploded.

The Ultra Clan detonated atomic bombs to destroy the Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes and began preparing to eliminate the Spider Heavenly Emperor. After Su Mo awakened the spider, it attacked a bunker, forcing Ultraman King to order an atomic-bomb strike.

• Ultraman King announced that the Ultra Clan could use atomic bombs to defeat its enemies, and the clan launched missiles at the Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes’ habitat.
• The explosions wiped out the mosquitoes as a major threat, and the Ultra Clan celebrated its newfound freedom.
• Scientists told Ultraman King that the Spider Heavenly Emperor was still alive, and he ordered the clan to produce more atomic bombs and investigate whether the spider had offspring.
• Su Mo struck the sleeping Spider Heavenly Emperor with lightning, and the spider awoke and roared a challenge at the Ultra Clan.
• The Spider Heavenly Emperor battered a bunker, and Ultraman King ordered ten atomic bombs prepared to kill it.

The Ultra Clan built a Giant of Light named Tiga to fight the Spider Heavenly Emperor, who had terrorized them for decades. Tiga’s first attack sent the Spider Heavenly Emperor crashing into a mountain, but he emerged unharmed as Su Mo considered making the Ultra Clan develop even more powerful weapons.

• Su Mo secretly weakened the nuclear warheads used against the Spider Heavenly Emperor and watched as the Ultra Clan began developing a humanoid weapon.
• After twenty-four years passed in the Ultra Civilization, Ultraman King activated the weapon built in the Noah’s Ark Bunker and named it Tiga.
• Tiga struck the Spider Heavenly Emperor with an Ultra Flying Kick, sending him into a mountain and inspiring the Ultra Clan to celebrate.
• The Spider Heavenly Emperor emerged from the crater unharmed and charged at Tiga as the Ultra Clan warned him to watch out.
• Su Mo enjoyed the fight and considered increasing the Spider Heavenly Emperor’s power to push the Ultra Clan toward developing stronger weapons.

Zhou Na’s Red-Faced Nether Eagle clansmen rebelled and attacked her, accusing her of sacrificing their people while failing to lead them well. Wounded and pursued across the sky, Zhou Na fled as Zhang Xiaokai sensed the Spiritual Qi around him boiling abnormally.

• Four Red-Faced Nether Eagles confronted Zhou Na, declared they no longer wanted her as their king, and attacked her.
• Zhou Na dodged their first assault, but the rebels accused her of sending their clansmen to die and launched another attack that destroyed the treehouse and wounded her.
• Zhou Na used her [Freedom] rune to flee, and the four Red-Faced Nether Eagles pursued her, determined not to let her recover.
• Zhou Na continued flying despite her blood loss and insisted to herself that she had done nothing wrong by her people.
• Zhang Xiaokai, while breathing in Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, sensed that the Qi around him was boiling abnormally.