Chapter Summaries

Twenty years after taking Zhou Na in, Zhang Xiaokai demanded that she marry him or repay the resources she had used, and he expelled her when she refused. He threatened to destroy the Red-Faced Nether Eagle Clan if it failed to repay him within three years.

• The Red-Faced Nether Eagles retreated after failing to kill Zhou Na and told their clan that she had died from heavenly punishment.
• The remaining civilization leaders agreed to build up their races while delaying their ascension, and Su Mo watched without intervening.
• Over twenty years, Zhang Xiaokai strengthened the Red-Eyed Golden Apes Clan, endured more than ninety thousand lightning strikes, and repeatedly tried to court Zhou Na.
• As he neared a breakthrough to the third stage, Zhang Xiaokai ordered Zhou Na to marry him or leave the clan and repay her consumed resources within three years.
• Zhou Na refused, so Zhang Xiaokai expelled her, hurled her away, and threatened to exterminate the Red-Faced Nether Eagle Clan if it failed to repay the debt.

Zhang Yunbo began absorbing his Undead Skeleton Race’s souls to pursue a breakthrough, while Chen Yu learned the Ant Clan had encircled Kobold territory and called a meeting. Li Pengfei emerged from the shale after mastering the ability to consume rock, revealing his intention to eat his own people to increase his strength.

• Zhang Yunbo crushed a finger bone and absorbed the souls of dying Undead Skeleton Race members as he set his sights on reaching Third Stage.
• Chen Yu learned that the Ant Clan had encircled his borders and trapped an estimated thirty million Kobolds, then called a meeting without revealing his trump cards.
• Li Pengfei demonstrated how his reversed [The Sky Is Falling] rune let him absorb rock and strengthen his body, delighting researchers who confirmed the Earth People Clan could eat stone.
• Li Pengfei emerged from the shale and considered eating his people to grow stronger, prompting the watching Stone Men to question what he meant.

Zhang Shaofeng continued developing the Asura Clan and investigated a new cultivation path before Zhu Hailong warned him that the Ant Clan had launched an attack. The Spirit Race mobilized to aid the Asura Clan as they flew to meet the threat.

• Zhang Shaofeng tested his strength and concluded that the red glow on his body came from spiritual power stimulating his flesh.
• Zhang Shaofeng reflected on the Asura Clan's development and resolved to investigate Big Pineapple's theory of pain and the control of mind and body.
• Zhang Shaofeng traveled to the Spirit Race, whose members had developed Spirit Stones for gathering and trading Spiritual Qi.
• Zhu Hailong asked Zhang Shaofeng to join the Spirit Race, but Zhang Shaofeng instead asked whether another substance could replace Spiritual Qi.
• Zhu Hailong learned that the Ant Clan was attacking the Asura Clan and carried Zhang Shaofeng into the air as the Spirit Race prepared for battle.

Zhang Shaofeng returned to the Asura Clan to find his people massacred, and his grief and fury transformed him into a terrifying force. He raced toward the besieged Asura warriors, leaving Zhu Hailong to wonder whether the Ant Clan had sealed its own doom.

• Hundreds of thousands of Ant Clan members attacked the Asura Clan, and a small force of Asuras fought desperately while waiting for their clan chief and the Spirit Race to come.
• Zhang Shaofeng and Zhu Hailong reached the Asura valley and found it drenched in blood, with the remains of Asura elders and children piled into a grisly monument.
• Overcome with fury, Zhang Shaofeng transformed and slaughtered every Ant Clan member in the valley within ten breaths.
• Zhang Shaofeng heard the besieged Asuras calling for help and rushed toward the battlefield as Zhu Hailong questioned whether the Ant Clan could survive his wrath.
• Zhang Shaofeng smashed through the rock beneath his feet and charged like a blood-colored meteor into the densest part of the Ant Clan ranks.

Zhang Shaofeng slaughtered the Ant Clan to protect the Asura Clan, while Zhu Hailong evacuated the surviving warriors to their devastated territory. Seeing the corpses there drove the Asuras mad, and Su Mo wondered whether Zhang Shaofeng’s fury could push him to the Fourth Stage.

• Zhang Shaofeng transformed into a killing machine and slaughtered tens of thousands of Ant Clan warriors, giving the struggling Asura Clan warriors a brief reprieve.
• Zhang Shaofeng asked Zhu Hailong to protect the surviving Asura Clan warriors, but they armed themselves and resolved to fight rather than retreat.
• Zhu Hailong used a purple jade slip to cast Calming Spells and teleport the remaining Asuras to their territory, unaware that it was already filled with corpses.
• Su Mo revealed that he had helped break the Asuras’ inner shackles and sent them home, then considered whether Zhang Shaofeng’s fury could carry him to the Fourth Stage.
• The Asura Clan warriors saw their blood-mist-shrouded territory and went completely mad.

The Asuras found their families among the Ant Clan’s corpses and, overcome with fury, transformed into third-stage warriors and charged into battle. As they cut down most of the Ant Clan, Zhang Shaofeng sensed the Ant Queen’s presence and hurled himself toward her.

• The returning Asuras recognized their dead relatives in the corpse mound and many burned away their flesh to gain third-stage power.
• Zhu Hailong tried to calm the enraged Asuras, but his words only provoked them; one struck him, and he escaped beyond the battlefield.
• Zhang Shaofeng sensed the Asuras’ fury intensify as thousands of them charged into the Ant Clan, their resentment forming phantom corpse mounds above them.
• The rampaging Asuras killed two-thirds of the Ant Clan before the Ant Queen halted their retreat and sent them charging back.
• Zhang Shaofeng ignored the renewed battle and launched himself toward the Ant Queen, swearing to kill her.

Zhang Shaofeng killed the ant queen, then learned that the entire Asura Clan had been wiped out. Consumed by grief and rage, he broke through to the late fourth stage and unleashed destructive force across the battlefield.

• Zhang Shaofeng pierced the ant queen with his bone-spurred arms and endured the queen’s corrosive acid as worker ants died in the poisonous mist.
• Zhang Shaofeng pierced both of the ant queen’s compound eyes and tore the queen’s body in half with his fury Dharma aspect.
• Zhang Shaofeng heard from the bullet comments that the Asura Clan had been killed, and he rushed to the battlefield to confirm their deaths.
• Zhang Shaofeng’s grief and fury drew in the dead Asuras’ resentment and Sha Qi, transforming his Dharma aspect as he broke through to the late fourth stage.
• Zhang Shaofeng’s uncontrolled rage destroyed everything within a thousand meters, while Zhu Hailong watched in terror.

Zhang Shaofeng’s rampage drove Zhu Hailong and Zhang Yunbo to sacrifice their own civilizations in desperate efforts to grow stronger. Watching through the livestream, Su Mo accelerated Zhang Shaofeng’s evolution by directing the Central Continent’s accumulated filthy powers toward him.

• Zhu Hailong escaped to his cultivation grounds and began consuming the Spirit Race’s Spirit Stones and Spiritual Qi to break through before Zhang Shaofeng could reach him.
• Zhang Yunbo harvested the Undead Skeleton Race’s souls, sacrificing his clan to pursue late fourth-stage cultivation.
• Zhu Hailong transferred the cost of his breakthrough onto the Spirit Race, draining its members’ Spiritual Qi and vitality as he cultivated.
• Zhang Shaofeng curled into a blood egg in the Asura territory, surrounded by layers of Sha Qi.
• Su Mo watched the livestream, urged Zhang Shaofeng to evolve faster, and drew the Central Continent’s accumulated filthy powers toward him.

Zhang Xiaokai attacked the Red-Faced Nether Eagle civilization with Heavenly Punishment, claiming the clan owed him resources because of Zhou Na. Zhou Na mistook his assault for an attempt to win her back and confronted him as he devastated the caverns.

• Zhang Xiaokai concluded the Red-Faced Nether Eagles were the nearest threat and resolved to destroy their civilization, while his Divine Lightning rune took on the aspect of Heavenly Punishment.
• Zhou Na listened to Red-Faced Nether Eagles celebrate their growing freedom and decided to make the clan recognize her as its true king.
• Thunder shook the underground caverns, and Zhou Na assumed Zhang Xiaokai had come to collect what she owed, then declared she would return with him only if he begged and helped her reach the Third Stage.
• Zhang Xiaokai unleashed Heavenly Punishment, destroying buildings and Red-Faced Nether Eagles as the lightning strengthened him and transformed his body.
• Zhou Na blocked Zhang Xiaokai as a Late Second Stage Red-Faced Nether Eagle and told him he would never have her heart, even if she returned with him.

Zhang Xiaokai destroyed the Red-Faced Nether Eagle territory, while Zhang Yunbo entered the Central Continent and harvested the Spirit Race’s dead as Zhu Hailong sacrificed his people to advance. Zhang Yunbo and Li Pengfei met as Zhu Hailong reached the middle fourth stage and attacked them with Divine Lightning.

• Zhang Xiaokai killed Zhou Na with Divine Lightning, razed the Red-Faced Nether Eagle territory, and left to attack another territory.
• Zhang Yunbo emerged at the Undead Skeleton Race’s landing site, confirmed that the ant queen had died, and entered the Central Continent.
• Zhang Yunbo reached the Spirit Race’s territory and used his Bone rune to raise the dead as members of the Undead Skeleton Race while Zhu Hailong sacrificed his clansmen.
• Li Pengfei appeared and confronted Zhang Yunbo, marking the first meeting of the two racial kings.
• Zhu Hailong reached the middle fourth stage and struck Li Pengfei and Zhang Yunbo with Divine Lightning, forcing Li Pengfei to flee and Zhang Yunbo to head toward the secret realm.

Zhang Yunbo and Zhu Hailong joined forces to stop Li Pengfei’s devastating meteor attack, but Li Pengfei revealed that his disguise as Chen Yu had a purpose. The chapter ended with the two kings realizing another powerful figure might be involved.

• Zhang Yunbo and Zhu Hailong clashed with their Fourth Stage powers near the secret realm entrance.
• Li Pengfei transformed into a meteor with [The Sky Is Falling] and targeted both kings, forcing them to stop fighting and cooperate.
• Zhang Yunbo charged the meteor while Zhu Hailong summoned a giant lightning dragon claw, halting its descent.
• Li Pengfei drew the surrounding mountains and dust into his attack, increasing the pressure on Zhang Yunbo and Zhu Hailong.
• Zhu Hailong cleared the dust with spells and prepared to strike the meteor, but Li Pengfei asked why he had taken on Chen Yu’s appearance, alarming both kings.

Chen Yu revealed overwhelming strength, seemingly through Q-stacking, and devastated the Spirit Race while believing he had killed its leaders. Zhu Hailong survived in a borrowed body, while Li Pengfei encountered the Spider Heavenly Emperor in space and began undergoing a strange transformation.

• Chen Yu struck Zhu Hailong and Zhang Yunbo, shattering Zhu Hailong’s defenses, hurling him into space with Li Pengfei, and scattering Zhang Yunbo into bone ash.
• After viewers pointed out that the kings’ livestream icons remained, Chen Yu punched the ground and wiped out the Spirit Race with a devastating shock wave.
• Zhu Hailong emerged alive from a fissure in a possessed young body, discovered he had drained his clan’s Spiritual Qi, and resolved to grow stronger while staying hidden.
• Li Pengfei reconstituted himself in space and spotted the Spider Heavenly Emperor caught in a vast web.
• Li Pengfei’s strength surged and his body began swelling as dust gathered toward him, leaving him and his livestream viewers stunned by what looked like living black holes.

The World-Destroying Evil Dragon appeared in the void, prompting Li Pengfei to flee back to the Central Continent, where Su Mo observed that the dragon had begun its rampage earlier than planned. As Zhang Xiaokai plotted to eliminate Zhang Shaofeng, his lightning strike failed to harm him, and Zhang Shaofeng awakened in a surge of filthy power.

• Li Pengfei spotted the World-Destroying Evil Dragon and transformed into a growing meteor to return to the Central Continent.
• Su Mo revealed that he had suppressed the current era’s powerhouses to test whether hardship would produce stronger prospects.
• The Spider Heavenly Emperor tore open the web and let Li Pengfei’s meteor fall toward the ground.
• Zhang Xiaokai decided to have the Asura king harvest civilization while he attacked Zhang Shaofeng.
• Zhang Xiaokai struck Zhang Shaofeng’s cocoon with Divine Lightning, then fled when the blow failed to break it.
• Zhang Shaofeng’s cocoon cracked, and he awakened amid surging filthy power, declaring, “Die!”

Zhang Shaofeng transformed into the Ten-Armed Asura and fought the Spider Heavenly Emperor after setting his sights on Zhang Xiaokai. Chen Yu ambushed the Spider Heavenly Emperor, while Zhang Shaofeng’s wrath scorched the sky and wiped out the remaining Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes.

• Zhang Shaofeng completed his transformation into the Ten-Armed Asura and charged toward Zhang Xiaokai, but the Spider Heavenly Emperor trapped him in webs.
• Zhang Shaofeng broke free, tore into the Spider Heavenly Emperor, and set his body and the surrounding void ablaze with wrath.
• Zhang Xiaokai tried to flee through the ancient bronze gate, but it would not respond, and livestream comments warned that the World-Destroying Evil Dragon had emerged.
• Chen Yu ambushed the Spider Heavenly Emperor with a strike to the abdomen, then vanished as the Emperor’s counterattack carved a massive crater in the Central Continent.
• Zhang Shaofeng’s wrath spread across tens of millions of miles and burned tens of thousands of Starry Sky Giant Mosquitoes to ash, leaving the battle ongoing.

Zhang Shaofeng’s battle with another late fourth-stage powerhouse devastated the Central Continent and wiped out nearly thirty million Kobolds, while Chen Yu mourned the loss of his clansmen and Q stacks. As the Red-Eyed Golden Apes faced the world-ending catastrophe, Zhang Xiaokai triggered a lightning tower, transformed into the Heaven-Opening Venerable, and confronted Zhang Yunbo’s challenge.

• Zhang Shaofeng’s rage-fueled spatial shock waves obliterated nearly thirty million Kobolds, including several early third-stage fighters.
• Chen Yu watched the Kobolds die and lamented the loss of his attack damage and Q stacks.
• Zhang Xiaokai’s Red-Eyed Golden Apes completed a towering lightning conductor as disasters swept across the Central Continent.
• Zhang Xiaokai activated a crimson Spirit Stone and was struck by hundreds of bolts of Divine Lightning, reaching the threshold of the fourth stage.
• Zhang Xiaokai transformed into a lightning giant, declared himself the Heaven-Opening Venerable, and tore through the Dao of Rage and spatial fragments.
• Zhang Yunbo appeared amid spreading Yin Qi and ghostly howls, refusing to bow to Zhang Xiaokai.

Su Mo accelerated the Ultra Civilization’s development while chaos spread across the Central Continent, where Zhang Yunbo fought Zhang Xiaokai and attacked the Red-Eyed Golden Apes’ souls. In the Gu World, Gao Zhuang killed Zhao Xiangdong and Liu Nana, then used the Spring Autumn Cicada to travel back through time.

• Zhang Yunbo gained control of the laws of death and souls, then attacked Zhang Xiaokai and harvested the souls of the Red-Eyed Golden Apes.
• Zhang Shaofeng fought the Spider Heavenly Emperor as Zhang Xiaokai battled Zhang Yunbo, and Su Mo intensified the chaos by accelerating the Ultra Civilization’s development.
• Gao Zhuang reached Peak Rank Four and used the Spring Autumn Cicada’s power to reach through the livestream connection and seize Zhao Xiangdong and Liu Nana.
• Gao Zhuang crushed Liu Nana and Zhao Xiangdong despite fate’s attack on his collapsing body, while black-clad people arrived at the villa.
• Gao Zhuang took hold of the Spring Autumn Cicada and reversed the Gu World’s river of time, declaring that he would journey to the past.

Gao Zhuang began consuming Hope Worms and cultivators to grow stronger, while Zhu Hailong fled the Central Continent into the Ultra Civilization and was killed by its causality weapon. The Ultra Civilization then prepared to march into the void, as Zhang Yunbo and Zhang Xiaokai watched the livestream in shock at Zhu Hailong’s death.

• Su Mo restored Gao Zhuang’s surroundings, and Gao Zhuang absorbed Hope Worms to reach the peak of the first stage.
• Gao Zhuang killed Big Pineapple, refined him into aptitude, reached early second rank, and headed for Liquor Mountain.
• Zhu Hailong escaped through a spatial rift into the Ultra Civilization, where Aote VI demanded to know his purpose.
• Zhu Hailong split apart and fled, but the Ultra Civilization’s causality weapon disintegrated him as he opened his livestream to announce its power.
• Aote VI learned that the Ultra Civilization had lost two-thirds of its energy reserves and ordered the entire race to march into the void.
• Zhang Yunbo and Zhang Xiaokai stopped fighting and stared at the livestream comments after learning that Zhu Hailong had died.

After Zhang Xiaokai and Zhang Yunbo merged to survive the epoch, they appeared as a new law-manifestation and intervened in Zhang Shaofeng’s fight with the Spider Heavenly Emperor. Their clash sent Zhang Shaofeng back to the Central Continent as the livestream warned of an unknown danger.

• Zhang Xiaokai proposed that he and Zhang Yunbo merge until the epoch ended, and they vanished as life-and-death laws began to gather in the void.
• Li Pengfei and Chen Yu agreed to cooperate, with Li Pengfei offering to find small animals for Chen Yu to kill and strengthen his [Q Stacking].
• After a month of fighting, Zhang Shaofeng and the Spider Heavenly Emperor were both gravely wounded, and Zhang Shaofeng believed he was about to die.
• A merged figure wielding Divine Lightning and Death Qi destroyed the Spider Heavenly Emperor’s venom and urged Zhang Shaofeng to keep fighting.
• The Spider Heavenly Emperor attacked the merged Zhang Xiaokai and Zhang Yunbo, and their clash sent Zhang Shaofeng back to the Central Continent.
• The livestream issued warnings about unknown powerhouses fighting and recommended using a dual-vector foil.

Aote VI ordered the Ultra Civilization fleet to attack with a Dual-Vector Foil, but Gao Zhuang seized the fleet while the Great Emperor of Life and Death survived the dimensional collapse and the Spider Heavenly Emperor was destroyed. Gao Zhuang proposed gathering the remaining fighters to learn their abilities and confront the Evil Dragon, refusing to let anyone else claim the world he had cultivated.

• Aote VI detected the battle and ordered the Ultra Civilization fleet to approach and ready its weapons.
• The Great Emperor of Life, Death, Samsara, and Reversed Causality noticed the fleet, drove back the Spider Heavenly Emperor, and told the Ultra Civilization that their enemies were the spider and the World-Destroying Black Dragon.
• Aote VI, fearing the fleet was under threat, launched a Dual-Vector Foil at the Great Emperor and the Spider Heavenly Emperor.
• The Dual-Vector Foil began two-dimensionalizing space, but the Great Emperor used his laws to resist the collapse as the Spider Heavenly Emperor was flattened and destroyed.
• Gao Zhuang appeared and seized the Ultra Civilization fleet, then said another being had pierced the barrier between worlds.
• Gao Zhuang rejected a fight or an immediate alliance, proposing that everyone gather and learn one another's powers before resisting the Evil Dragon.

Gao Zhuang gathered the surviving kings as the World-Destroying Black Dragon began erasing the stars and collapsing their worlds. The kings rose to confront it, while a bolt of Divine Lightning struck Zhang Shaofeng's cocoon as the final battle began.

• Gao Zhuang and the Great Emperor of Life and Death prepared to draw Li Pengfei and Chen Yu out of hiding, and the two emerged from underground.
• The Great Emperor of Life and Death subdued Li Pengfei and Chen Yu, and Gao Zhuang revealed that heaven's will had warned him the World-Destroying Evil Dragon would kill him.
• The kings saw the World-Destroying Black Dragon extinguishing stars and destroying their little worlds, and they set out to face it.
• Li Pengfei summoned his true body, Chen Yu found himself standing on the giant's belly, and the Great Emperor of Life and Death followed them into the universe.
• Divine Lightning struck Zhang Shaofeng's giant cocoon as the final battle began.