Recaps

Lin Fei inspected the God Race laboratory and supplied Quinn with enough resources to build hundreds of Void Radiance Ships. When Quinn feared the ships might be used against the God Race, Lin Fei warned him and invoked the Starry Sky Mother Bug, leaving Quinn asking for death.

• A Xing reported that the Void Radiance Ships and Storm Battleships had been modified so other races could operate them.
• Quinn told Lin Fei that limited resources would allow them to build only one Void Radiance Ship, but Lin Fei gave him a spatial ring containing enough materials for at least three hundred.
• Quinn questioned Lin Fei's intentions and refused to help build ships that might be used against the God Race.
• Lin Fei promised not to attack the God Race unless it started a war, but Quinn remained concerned that he would be branded a traitor if war came.
• Lin Fei warned Quinn that he possessed a Starry Sky Mother Bug and reminded him of his human experiments, and Quinn closed his eyes and asked Lin Fei to kill him.

Lin Fei killed God Race researchers who refused to cooperate, collected the completed Void Radiance Ships, and left the laboratory under Black Iron's watch. After seeing Gu Longhu's breakthrough, Lin Fei fed Quinn to Little Foodie and prepared to enter seclusion before launching a war.

• Quinn refused to help build weapons for Lin Fei, so Lin Fei knocked him unconscious and killed researchers who tried to sabotage the laboratory.
• A Xing said Quinn was the only person capable of making the Prismatic Core, and Lin Fei took thirty-two Void Radiance Ships, leaving one for the research team.
• Lin Fei ordered Black Iron to guard the northern district and prevent anyone from leaving Blood-Colored Bug Ridge.
• Lin Fei and Beiluo Yaoguang saw Gu Longhu undergoing Nine-Turn Spirit Transformation, with his immortal embryo manifesting visions throughout the room.
• Lin Fei gave Quinn to Little Foodie, who devoured him and absorbed his memories and knowledge.
• Lin Fei told Beiluo Yaoguang he would enter seclusion to advance toward Heavenly Spirit before launching a war.

Ye Daoran identified Lin Fei as the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages and spread a claim that he could devour and fuse other races’ Life Factors. The leaders of five powerful races arrived in Arcana Imperial City to confront the Arcane Race, leaving the Emperor of Arcana facing them in the palace.

• Ye Daoran learned from Xiao Nanfeng about Lin Fei’s sudden rise in strength and concluded that Lin Fei was the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.
• Ye Daoran told Chief Archon Guangming that Lin Fei might possess the ability to devour and fuse Life Factors, blaming it on a possible Starry Sky Mother Bug possession.
• With Guangming’s approval, Ye Daoran spread the claim, prompting alarm and speculation among the major races.
• Heavenly Spirit experts from five powerful races arrived in Arcana Imperial City, causing panic among its inhabitants.
• The Emperor of Arcana and the four kings met the Devil Emperor, Salem Sifa; God Emperor Chris; Ajia Pingtian; Xueyun; and Bingli in the palace, where the Emperor of Arcana challenged their intentions.

The five great Heavenly Spirits forced the Emperor of Arcana to agree to help capture Lin Fei, who was hiding in Blood-Colored Bug Ridge. While the Arcane leaders feared he was doomed, Lin Fei continued producing Void Radiance Ships in the City of Sin and remained below the Heavenly Spirit realm to avoid Diana Luwei.

• The five great Heavenly Spirits claimed they wanted to investigate Lin Fei’s ability to devour and fuse Life Factors, and the Emperor of Arcana agreed to their proposal.
• The King of Southern Ridge revealed that Lin Fei had already gone to Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, but God Emperor Chris and Ajia Pingtian backed the Emperor of Arcana against Xueyun’s accusations.
• Demon Emperor Salen Luxi called for the five races to muster their forces and head to Blood-Colored Bug Ridge.
• After the five Heavenly Spirits departed, the Emperor of Arcana and the three kings blamed Xiao Xudong for exposing Lin Fei and feared the five races would kill him.
• In the City of Sin, Little Foodie replaced Quinn and led the team in manufacturing Void Radiance Ships, while Lin Fei stayed at half-step Heavenly Spirit to avoid drawing Diana Luwei’s attack.

Xiao Xudong convinced Ajia Pingtian that the God Race’s Everyone Like a Dragon plan threatened every other race, prompting the four races to confront the God Race. Chris led them into a hidden laboratory, where they discovered millions of humans and were trapped as the subjects awakened.

• Xiao Xudong told Ajia Pingtian that the God Race was developing human cannon fodder through Everyone Like a Dragon and urged him to unite against the threat.
• Ajia Pingtian persuaded the Crystal, Devil, and Behemoth races to join the Many-Eyed Race in investigating the God Race’s laboratories.
• Five Heavenly Spirits confronted the God Emperor, and Chris admitted that the God Race was conducting human experiments.
• Chris led the leaders of the five races into the research base beneath the God Emperor Hall, where they saw humans sealed in enormous containers.
• The space sealed shut, Chris ordered the humans killed, and millions of them opened their eyes.

The God Race revealed its hidden military strength around the God Emperor Hall and attacked the twenty-one Heavenly Spirits gathered there. The battle left the five races fighting together against the God Race, and a Heavenly Spirit of the Crystal Clan was destroyed.

• The God Race deployed five thousand Void Radiance Ships, three hundred Storm Battleships, the Everyone a Dragon Legion, and ten Apostle Type One mecha around the God Emperor Hall.
• With the five races likely to demand that the God Race surrender its military advantage, Chris and the God Race chose to strike first.
• The God Race's warships and cannons concentrated their fire on the twenty-one Heavenly Spirits, engulfing the area around the hall in destructive energy.
• A Behemoth emerged from the void and smashed three Void Radiance Ships as the Heavenly Spirits launched a counterattack.
• The Everyone a Dragon Legion charged the Heavenly Spirits, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of humans in an attack that destroyed a Heavenly Spirit of the Crystal Clan.

Chris used his enormous clone army and fleets of ships to badly injure the five Heavenly Spirits, but each survived through a race-specific ability. He then revealed his adaptive armor, Psionic Energy blades, a mech, and Chief Archon Guangming, arguing that technology could overcome the limits of individual strength.

• Chris expended his legion of thirty-six million clones and sent warships to attack Ajia Pingtian, Bingli, Salem Sifa, Ao Xuantian, and Xueyun, grievously injuring them.
• Ajia Pingtian restored his body with his vertical eye, Ao Xuantian avoided harm with a Concept Shield, and Xueyun healed while Salem Sifa and Bingli recovered through their own powers.
• Bingli told Chris that he had lost, believing he had exhausted his forces without killing any of the five Heavenly Spirits.
• Chris covered himself in adaptive armor and formed Psionic Energy blades as a mech and Chief Archon Guangming arrived behind him.
• Chris told the five Heavenly Spirits that technology could produce destructive weapons far faster than individuals could cultivate into powerful fighters.

The God Race fought the five races for three hours, killing several leaders but suffering catastrophic losses of its own. Bingli stopped the battle, and the six races began tense negotiations while still wary of renewed fighting.

• The Arcane Race Heavenly Spirit was destroyed, and three Sanctuary Archons killed a charging Behemoth.
• Chris killed Ajia Pingtian, while the four surviving Heavenly Spirits destroyed Unit Zero and Chris and Guangming killed another Behemoth.
• After three hours of fighting, both sides had suffered devastating losses, including the deaths of Ajia Pingtian, Xueyun, and Ao Xuantian.
• Bingli cried out for the combatants to stop before none survived, and the battle ended.
• The six great races began hostile negotiations, with the five races demanding concessions and the God Race refusing to accept defeat.

The God Race accepted the other races’ demands after Chris concealed a referendum’s narrow vote for war, causing the Five-Race Alliance to form against it. In the City of Sin, Lin Fei explained how the split would reduce the threat to his group and declared they would destroy the four races’ future there.

• Xiao Xudong reflected on how Xiao Shiyu’s warnings and Lin Fei’s Heavenly Spirit Stones had helped him complete a Heavenly Spirit Death-Substitution Puppet.
• Salem Sifa and Bingli demanded that the God Race dismantle its screening fields, and Chris agreed after claiming the referendum favored their demands despite its narrow vote for war.
• The God Race removed its three Psionic Energy screening fields, and the Arcane Race, the Many-Eyed, and the God Race split as the Five-Race Alliance formed.
• Lin Fei told Black Iron and Zhou Ronghao that the other races would likely bar the God Race from Blood-Colored Bug Ridge because they feared its power and its ability to target their promising talents.
• Lin Fei said the Arcane Race would not seriously oppose him and that his group would face the Crystal Clan, the Demons, the Many-Eyed, and the Behemoths.
• Lin Fei told Zhou Ronghao that they would destroy the four races’ future in the City of Sin.

The four-race allied force invaded Blood-Colored Bug Ridge to kill Lin Fei while Xiao Shiyu and Beiluo Yaoguang joined him in the City of Sin. The crystal motherships began bombarding the city, and Lin Fei prepared to fight as the war started.

• The Many-Eyed, Crystal, Behemoth, and Demon races sent sixty-four Earth Spirit powerhouses and four crystal motherships into Blood-Colored Bug Ridge to hunt Lin Fei.
• Xiao Shiyu and Beiluo Yaoguang arrived at the City of Sin, refusing to leave Lin Fei despite the danger.
• Xiao Shiyu gave Lin Fei equipment and seventeen arcana orbs from the Nanling Prince's Residence, and he distributed them among the city's defenders.
• Lin Fei, Xiao Shiyu, and Black Iron equipped themselves with Earth Spirit armor as Lin Fei assigned the orbs to A Xing.
• The four crystal motherships attacked the western City of Sin, destroying the wall and nearby streets and forcing survivors to flee.
• Lin Fei watched the bombardment on the surveillance feed and declared that the war had begun.

Lin Fei and the Storm Battleship ambushed the Earth Spirits’ crystal motherships, destroying one and scattering their forces. As Lin Fei, Xiao Shiyu, and Black Iron attacked, Lin Fei drew the enemy’s attention and revealed a fused Life Factor amid his karmic flames.

• A Xing ordered the Storm Battleship to fire, and its first volley destroyed one crystal mothership while sending another crashing into the city.
• The Earth Spirits abandoned their ships and charged at Lin Fei, and the Storm Battleship’s second volley killed four of them before Lin Fei ordered it to withdraw.
• Lin Fei, Xiao Shiyu, and Black Iron attacked, and Lin Fei killed a demon with a single spear strike.
• The Earth Spirits surrounded Lin Fei and shattered his Arcana Shields as he deliberately drew their attacks away from Xiao Shiyu and Black Iron.
• Lin Fei erupted in blood-red karmic flames, prompting the Earth Spirits to realize he could devour and fuse Life Factors, then thrust his spear at them.

Lin Fei fought off nearly forty Earth Spirits and their allies, killing one and disabling a Behemoth while revealing powerful techniques stolen from other races. As the enemy called for reinforcements, the Earth Spirits fighting Black Iron and Xiao Shiyu mocked Lin Fei’s attackers for failing to overwhelm him.

• Lin Fei pierced a Crystal Clan Earth Spirit’s defenses and destroyed its energy core, then endured attacks from the surrounding enemies.
• Lin Fei used Void Force Dissipation to blunt the Behemoths’ punches and resisted the Many-Eyed Race’s ocular techniques with his primordial spirit and an eye technique of his own.
• Lin Fei banished nine Earth Spirits with Void Banishment and spread demonic wings amid black baleful flames, prompting a demon to accuse him of stealing the Demon Race’s secrets.
• Lin Fei confused a Behemoth with Mind Storm and pierced its eyeball, destroying most of its Spirit Particles and leaving it unable to fight.
• A demon called for reinforcements, while the Earth Spirits fighting Black Iron and Xiao Shiyu mocked Lin Fei’s attackers for being unable to kill him.

Lin Fei survived the Earth Spirits’ saturation attack with a Concept Shield, then counterattacked with devastating forbidden techniques. Although the Earth Spirits shattered his armor and wounded him, he recovered and summoned void beasts that killed or disabled several of their number, leaving the attackers shaken and disordered.

• Lin Fei cast a one-second Concept Shield just before the Earth Spirits’ combined attack could destroy him, surviving the bombardment unscathed.
• Lin Fei trapped more than a dozen Earth Spirits in Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Thunder Cage and killed three weaker cultivators with its lightning.
• Seven banished Earth Spirits returned and attacked Lin Fei, destroying his armor and spear and severely wounding him.
• Lin Fei donned a spare suit of armor and used white light to suppress his injuries and begin healing.
• Lin Fei unleashed Void Summoning, and three beasts ambushed the Earth Spirits, killing two early-stage cultivators and gravely wounding a Demon.
• The Earth Spirits recognized Void Summoning, which even Arcane Creation had been unable to master at the Earth Spirit Realm, and their ranks fell into disarray.

The battle devastated the City of Sin as the Storm Battleship and Crystal Mothership traded crippling blows, while Black Iron and Xiao Shiyu fought desperately against the Four-Race Alliance. Lin Fei restored Xiao Shiyu by sacrificing his left eye, leaving her horrified and the battle unresolved.

• The Crystal Mothership destroyed the Storm Battleship's kinetic energy system, and A Xing taunted its pilot into pursuing the damaged ship away from the prince consort.
• Black Iron detonated his Arcane Core, killing the Behemoth at the cost of his life.
• Xiao Shiyu fought six Heavenly Spirits while gravely wounded, and Lin Fei threw his spear to kill a Demon Race Earth Spirit attacking her.
• The Behemoth and other enemies dealt Xiao Shiyu further devastating injuries as she declared that she loved Lin Fei more than anyone.
• Lin Fei gouged out his left eyeball and used its vital essence to heal Xiao Shiyu, who regained her severed arm and rebuked him for saving her at the cost of himself.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu were nearly overwhelmed when Gu Longhu emerged as the first human to achieve Dao Integration on the Profound Heaven Continent, triggering a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation. Lin Fei pulled Xiao Shiyu away as the Earth Spirits attacked Gu Longhu and the golden lightning began targeting them too.

• Lin Fei unleashed his exploding right eye, killing several Earth Spirits with karmic flames before the remaining enemies struck him down, and Xiao Shiyu fought her way to his side.
• A pillar of golden light and gathering thunderclouds announced Gu Longhu's emergence as the first human to refine the void and merge with the Dao.
• Gu Longhu smashed a Behemoth's arm with one punch, astonishing the Earth Spirits, who charged at him.
• Lin Fei carried Xiao Shiyu away and warned her that anyone who approached Gu Longhu would suffer.
• The Earth Spirits attacked Gu Longhu, but golden divine lightning dissolved their attacks and summoned thunderclouds over their heads.

The heavenly tribulation ravaged the western city and killed Earth Spirits from the four races while Gu Longhu endured the lightning to temper his body and primordial spirit. As the remaining Earth Spirits fled, Lin Fei went to join Gu Longhu, saying he was only borrowing the tribulation.

• Golden lightning swallowed the western city’s outskirts and battered the Earth Spirits of the four races, killing many of them.
• Xiao Shiyu gave Lin Fei a Creation Cardinal Pill, and he began recovering from his injuries.
• Gu Longhu endured the tribulation and used its lightning to temper his body and primordial spirit, aiming to fuse them together.
• Twelve Earth Spirits survived into the tribulation’s final stages, then fled as their losses mounted.
• Lin Fei reached Gu Longhu despite Xiao Shiyu’s warning and said he was borrowing the heavenly tribulation.

Lin Fei, Gu Longhu, and Xiao Shiyu recovered after surviving their heavenly tribulations, while Gu Longhu acknowledged Lin Fei’s help in restoring the Human Race’s path to cultivation. As Lin Fei urged Gu Longhu to lead humanity himself, Little Foodie sensed a familiar call from the Starry Sky Insect Race.

• Gu Longhu survived the golden heavenly tribulation and repaired his Dao fruit, then roasted Behemoth meat to recover from his injuries.
• Lin Fei tempered his Arcane Core with lightning, survived his tribulation, and joined Gu Longhu and Xiao Shiyu in eating Behemoth meat to heal.
• A Xing returned with the Storm Battleship and reported that the twelve defeated Earth Spirits had fled, while he and the Crystal Race mothership escaped them.
• Gu Longhu thanked Lin Fei for helping him reach the Earth Spirit Realm and restoring the Human Race’s cultivation path, and pledged not to oppose him unless he became humanity’s enemy.
• Lin Fei urged Gu Longhu to lead the Human Race himself, and Little Foodie sensed a familiar call from the Starry Sky Insect Race.

Little Foodie commanded the Starry Sky Insects to mine energy ore without harming the workers, while the four races learned that Lin Fei had devastated their expedition and survived. Ye Daoran decided to break through to the Heavenly Spirit realm and personally kill Lin Fei, even if it meant confronting Diana Luwei.

• A spatial rift released more than a dozen Starry Sky Insects into the radiation mine, where they sensed Little Foodie as a mother insect.
• Little Foodie ordered the insects to gather energy ore and forbade them from harming anyone in the mine, and the insects obeyed while the workers fled.
• The four races' Heavenly Spirits discovered that only thirteen Earth Spirits and one Crystal Mothership had returned from their attack on Lin Fei.
• After examining the survivors' memories, the Heavenly Spirits learned of Lin Fei's strength and Gu Longhu's golden lightning, then resolved to watch the edge of Blood-Colored Bug Ridge.
• The Arcane Race's King of the Northern Lands praised Lin Fei, while Ye Daoran resolved to reach the Heavenly Spirit realm and kill him himself.

As spatial rifts to the Insect Race Plane slowly grew and Lin Fei approached a dangerous breakthrough, Xiao Shiyu revealed that she had once chosen the name Cai Beiyu for a next life, prompting Lin Fei to suspect a connection between their reincarnations. The respite ended when Gu Longhu arrived with the four races’ demand that he surrender or they would kill ten million humans each day, and he asked Lin Fei to preserve his Dao Integration inheritance.

• Lin Fei worried that the expanding rifts in the radiation mine might signal a growing threat from the Insect Race Plane, while his cultivation neared the Early Heaven Spirit Stage.
• Xiao Shiyu told Beiluo Yaoguang that as a child she had wanted to become a Kunpeng in her next life and had chosen the name Cai Beiyu.
• Lin Fei broke his fishing rod in shock at the name and wondered whether Xiao Shiyu had reincarnated as Cai Beiyu and whether Beiluo Yaoguang was also connected to earlier incarnations.
• Gu Longhu arrived and reported that the Heavenly Spirits of the four races had ordered him to surrender for execution or they would slaughter ten million humans for each day he resisted.
• Gu Longhu asked Lin Fei to guide Gu Xiaoyu and the others in understanding Dao Integration and preserve its inheritance after his death, then began to kneel before him.

Lin Fei went to confront the five surviving Heavenly Spirits of the four races, despite Xiao Shiyu and Gu Longhu urging him not to risk his life. He stepped beyond Blood-Colored Bug Ridge to face them and unleashed an aura that revealed he had reached the Heavenly Spirit realm.

• Lin Fei told Gu Longhu he would go with him, then refused Xiao Shiyu's plea to stay behind and set out alone with her spear.
• Xiao Shiyu and Beiluo Yaoguang called after Lin Fei with pleas and promises, leaving Gu Longhu dumbfounded.
• Salem Sifa, Heishan, Panshi, Bingli, and the two Many-Eyed Race Heavenly Spirits gathered outside Blood-Colored Bug Ridge and mocked Lin Fei and Gu Longhu.
• Lin Fei arrived at the ridge and confronted the five Heavenly Spirits, saying he did not want to kill them but that they were seeking death.
• After Heishan dared Lin Fei to leave the ridge, Lin Fei stepped outside and released an overwhelming aura that made the five recognize his Heavenly Spirit power.

Lin Fei left Blood-Colored Bug Ridge after breaking through to the Early Heaven Spirit Stage and faced five Heavenly Spirits. He killed the Many-Eyed Race Heavenly Spirit with a single spear strike, leaving the other four to confront a battle they had expected to win easily.

• Lin Fei emerged from Blood-Colored Bug Ridge as an Early Heaven Spirit, and the five Heavenly Spirits attacked him together.
• Lin Fei summoned nine savage void beasts to engage the five Heavenly Spirits and charged at the Many-Eyed Race Heavenly Spirit.
• The Many-Eyed Race Heavenly Spirit unleashed a killing formation from his eyes, but Lin Fei's Psionic Shield blocked the attacks.
• Lin Fei shattered the Heavenly Spirit's defenses with one spear strike, destroyed his body, and burned away his primordial spirit.
• Watching cultivators erupted in shock as they realized Lin Fei could stand against the remaining four Heavenly Spirits.

Lin Fei used his five-second Invincibility Shield and Psionic Interference to kill Panshi, then unleashed the forbidden art Wild Dance of a Thousand Dragons Break against the remaining Heavenly Spirits. The Ice Emperor and Devil Emperor countered with a black-hole-like attack and an exploding sun, leaving Lin Fei and the three Heavenly Spirits caught in the devastating blast.

• Lin Fei withstood the combined attacks of Devil Emperor Salem Sifa and the four Heavenly Spirits, then struck Panshi with Mind Storm and a spear thrust.
• Heishan knocked Panshi out of the spear's path, but Lin Fei used Psionic Interference to break apart the Ice Emperor and Devil Emperor's protective barrier, and karmic flames consumed Panshi's primordial spirit.
• Lin Fei attacked Heishan while the two emperors intervened, then unleashed his forbidden art, Wild Dance of a Thousand Dragons Break.
• Devil Emperor Salem Sifa formed a black-hole-like point mass, while the Ice Emperor released an exploding sun of Taiyang True Fire.
• The overlapping attacks destroyed Lin Fei's dragon assault and engulfed Lin Fei and the three remaining Heavenly Spirits in a lethal blast.

Lin Fei overwhelmed the Devil Emperor, Bingli, Heishan, and Salem Sifa after shattering the black hole, refusing Bingli’s plea to surrender. He killed Heishan and Salem Sifa, then froze Bingli as she tried to destroy them both.

• Black hole fragments ignited by Taiyang True Fire badly wounded the Devil Emperor, Bingli, and Heishan, while Lin Fei healed rapidly with life essence.
• Bingli offered to surrender, but Lin Fei refused and smashed the Devil Emperor’s head, forcing his primordial spirit to flee.
• Lin Fei drove his spear through Heishan’s head and killed him, then trapped Bingli and Salem Sifa in the Myriad Phenomena Heavenly Thunder Cage and attacked them with the Ten Courts Karmic Fire Tribulation.
• Lin Fei refined Salem Sifa’s primordial spirit into life factor and absorbed it, increasing his cultivation and life essence.
• Bingli charged Lin Fei with destructive power, but Lin Fei activated time-law runes and froze her, including her energy core.

Lin Fei defeated Bingli and shattered the allied armies of four races, then faced four God Race experts as the Arcane Race’s elders arrived. After wounding the Third Archon and matching God Emperor Chris, Lin Fei warned that Diana Luwei was about to awaken.

• Lin Fei crushed Bingli’s energy core, ending the battle and leaving the Many-Eyed, Crystal Race, Behemoths, and Demons without any Heavenly Spirit experts.
• Cultivators across the continent discussed Lin Fei’s victory as news of the battle spread throughout the land.
• Four God Race experts, including God Emperor Chris, confronted Lin Fei while he devoured the Behemoth’s Life Factor.
• The Arcane Race’s son-in-law and the King of the Northern Lands appeared to support Lin Fei against the God Race.
• Lin Fei swiftly severed the Third Archon’s arm, then told Chris that Diana Luwei was about to awaken.

With Diana Luwei nearing awakening, the seven remaining Heavenly Spirits agreed to prepare for a preemptive attack within three days. Lin Fei oversaw the evacuation of the City of Sin and then headed to the Crystal Race’s imperial palace to claim his spoils.

• Chris and Lin Fei discussed Diana Luwei’s early awakening and whether to attack her or negotiate.
• The seven remaining Heavenly Spirits agreed to prepare for three days, then attack Diana Luwei together.
• Lin Fei gave the God Race resources to make three suits of Heavenly Spirit armor and ordered the evacuation of the Blood-Colored Bug Ridge.
• Lin Fei’s messengers informed Gu Longhu, Xiao Shiyu, and the City of Sin about his victory, and the city’s residents began relocating.
• Lin Fei set out for the Crystal Race’s imperial palace to claim his spoils of war.