Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei seized the southern, western, and eastern districts, forced their Upper Spirits to serve him, and abolished slavery. In the northern district, Alexis rejected surrender and rallied the God Race to resist, confronting Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu with the Void Radiance Fleet’s focusing matrix.

• Lin Fei killed the southern gate guards, revealed the Many-Eyed Heavenly King’s head, and was welcomed as the new Heavenly King.
• Lin Fei took control of the southern district, made its four Upper Spirits sign master-servant contracts, and ordered slavery abolished.
• Lin Fei seized the western and eastern districts, compelled their Upper Spirits to serve him, and freed the slaves.
• Alexis considered fleeing or fighting but chose to resist, calling on the God Race to join him.
• God Race warriors and warships gathered as Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu arrived, and the Void Radiance Fleet’s focusing matrix appeared.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu fought the God Race fleet and God King Alexis, whose desperate attack engulfed them in a catastrophic explosion. The God Race warriors believed all three had died, but a cold voice from the dust challenged their assumption.

• Xiao Shiyu discovered that the Void Radiance Fleet's concentrated beams could burn through her Prism Shield and injure her.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu used Void Banishment to remove the Storm Battleship from the battlefield, then fought Alexis and the charging God Race warriors.
• The Void Radiance Ships sacrificed themselves to break the pair's Arcana Shields, allowing Alexis to stun Xiao Shiyu and attack her.
• Alexis's strike shattered Xiao Shiyu's Telekinetic Barrier, but Lin Fei intervened and crushed Alexis's chest with a shadow-wreathed punch.
• Alexis ordered the Storm Battleship to fire and detonated his own Psionic Energy and body, destroying the palace and nearby ships in a massive blast.
• The surviving God Race warriors assumed Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu had died, but a cold voice answered them from the dust.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu survived Alexis's self-destruction by banishing themselves into the void, then defeated the God Race forces and seized the Storm Battleship. Lin Fei agreed to Quinn Robert's requests, leaving the city's God Race residents spared and its researchers promised respect and status.

• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu revealed they had survived the blast by using Void Banishment on themselves, then demanded the God Race warriors surrender.
• Xiao Shiyu immobilized the Void Radiance Ships while Lin Fei broke through the Storm Battleship's hull and killed its crew.
• Xiao Shiyu eliminated the warriors aboard the Void Radiance Ships with Mind Storm, while Lin Fei found a password-protected cube inside the battleship.
• Quinn Robert arrived and told Lin Fei that he had led the team that built the Void Radiance Ships, though he could not understand the Storm Battleship's technology.
• Quinn Robert asked Lin Fei to pardon the God Race in the city and grant scientific researchers respect and status, and Lin Fei agreed.

Lin Fei secured the City of Sin’s spoils and had Quinn unlock a luminous cube, revealing a fragment of the destroyed Eternal Night Continent and its history. He ordered Quinn to secretly manufacture Void Radiance Ships in the City of Sin and returned south with Xiao Shiyu.

• Lin Fei gave Quinn the luminous cube and ordered him to crack its password and retrieve what it contained.
• Quinn unlocked the cube, and Lin Fei touched the seven-colored crystal inside, experiencing the history of the Eternal Night Continent’s destruction and learning how the fragment reached Blood-Colored Bug Ridge.
• Lin Fei shielded the plane fragment from outside perception and put it into his spatial ring after a burst of golden light snapped him out of the vision.
• Lin Fei ordered Quinn to use the City of Sin’s resources to build Void Radiance Ships and change their authentication so the Arcane Race and humans could operate them.
• Quinn warned that shipbuilding resources were scarce, and Lin Fei told him to begin with what was available and work with researchers he would send.
• Lin Fei returned to the south of the city with Xiao Shiyu, intending to use the City of Sin as a secret base for building his strength.

Lin Fei arranged for the camp’s people to remain in the City of Sin or travel with him, then taught Gu Longhu the next step of the Human Race’s martial cultivation path. Gu Longhu realized Lin Fei had opened a possible road toward becoming a heavenly spirit, and Lin Fei gave him the essentials and five stages of cultivation.

• Lin Fei made the City of Sin his secret base, assigned A Xing’s research team to work with Quinn, and offered the humans a choice of staying or returning with him.
• Gu Longhu asked Lin Fei to take Beiluo Yaoguang with him, and Xiao Shiyu carried the child while the other humans chose to stay.
• Lin Fei transferred Gu Longhu, A Xing, and the other elites to the north of the city, leaving the remaining districts under their local upper spirits.
• Lin Fei asked Gu Longhu how he could advance beyond upper spirit perfection, then expounded the Dao of refining the void and merging with the Dao.
• Gu Longhu thanked Lin Fei for opening a new cultivation step for humanity, while acknowledging their enmity and refusing to kneel on both knees.
• Lin Fei pulled Gu Longhu up, transmitted the cultivation essentials, and named its five stages.

Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu returned to the Nanling Prince's Residence, where Xiao Nanfeng's staged injuries and memory loss were exposed. Xiao Xudong attacked his adopted son, but stopped when Xiao Nanfeng revealed that Sargeras had promised him the Third Archon's daughter in marriage.

• Lin Fei left Black Iron in seclusion in the City of Sin and told Gu Xiaoyu to have him oversee the city when he emerged.
• Xiao Xudong prepared to summon Earth Spirit experts to rescue Xiao Shiyu and Lin Fei, but brought them back through a vortex instead.
• Xiao Shiyu accused Xiao Nanfeng of fleeing from two Heavenly Kings and faking his injuries and memory loss to secure the Nine Spirits Tree and become Xiao Xudong's sole heir.
• Xiao Shiyu projected a memory showing Xiao Nanfeng fleeing, and Xiao Nanfeng admitted his wrongdoing and begged for a chance to redeem himself.
• Xiao Xudong kicked Xiao Nanfeng through a courtyard wall and moved to kill him, but stayed his hand when Xiao Nanfeng said Sargeras had promised him the Third Archon's daughter in marriage.

Xiao Nanfeng escaped execution, and Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu prepared to cultivate with the Nine Spirits Tree. In the multiverse, Ye Daoran broke free of Lin Yuan’s restraint, leaving Lin Yuan to choose between surrendering to the Heavenly Dao and continuing to hold time in place.

• The King of Southern Ridge spared Xiao Nanfeng to avoid offending the God Race, and Xiao Xudong ordered him to leave without betrothal gifts.
• Xiao Xudong gave Lin Fei the Nine Spirits Tree, and Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu divided its Dao fruits before Little Foodie and Beiluo Yaoguang arrived.
• Ye Daoran regained awareness and told Lin Yuan that the Multiversal Heavenly Dao would not let Lin Fei defeat him.
• Ye Daoran called on the Multiversal Heavenly Dao and vanished into the reverse Heavenly Dao Spacetime Axis without being punished.
• Lin Yuan considered surrendering to the Heavenly Dao but remembered Empress Yaoguang and chose to keep resisting the multiversal clock hand.

Ye Daoran was reborn as a God Race warrior, became a High-Rank Sanctuary Warrior, and defeated the incumbent to claim the title of Chief Sanctuary Warrior. Meanwhile, Lin Fei and his family grew stronger through the resources of a newly opened planar fragment.

• Ye Daoran emerged from his grave with no memories of his new body or knowledge of the world, and Sargeras explained that he was a newborn consciousness with an unusually high spirit particle level.
• Ye Daoran chose to keep his name, underwent knowledge infusion and the Sanctuary assessment, and became a High-Rank Sanctuary Warrior.
• Ye Daoran defeated the incumbent Chief Sanctuary Warrior and took his position, drawing attention from the God Race's upper echelon.
• Lin Fei refined five Dao fruits in five days, reached the mid earth spirit stage, and later advanced to the perfected late earth spirit stage using resources from Xiao Xudong's planar fragment.
• Lin Fei offered Xiao Xudong the heavenly spirit stones found in the fragment, but Xiao Xudong refused them and left them to Lin Fei.
• Little Foodie devoured the fragment's resources, grew into a young woman in human form, and rose from the strength of a fourth-level arcanist to a ninth-level arcanist while continuing to call Lin Fei Daddy and Xiao Shiyu Mommy.

Lin Fei cared for Beiluo Yaoguang during Xiao Shiyu’s long seclusion, then learned that the God Race was secretly pursuing a project called “Everyone Like a Dragon.” The revelation made him fear the scale of the God Race’s hidden military strength.

• Lin Fei helped Beiluo Yaoguang train and indulged her, and she made him pinky swear to marry her when she grew up.
• Beiluo Yaoguang asked to visit Gu Longhu and the others, so Lin Fei took her toward Blood-Colored Bug Ridge.
• Lin Fei met Zhou Ronghao and four other former subordinates, who reported that two of their comrades had been killed by the God Race.
• Zhou Ronghao told Lin Fei that the God Race was using humans in a major project codenamed “Everyone Like a Dragon.”
• Lin Fei recognized the name from the Primordial Continent’s secret scroll and worried about how much military power the God Race might have built over its long history.

Lin Fei realized the God Race’s secret Everyone Like a Dragon plan could threaten the continent and give him leverage in a future war. As he brought Zhou Ronghao and the others to the City of Sin, he reflected on how the God Emperors had built the God Race’s strength through sacrifice and by combining technology with cultivation.

• Lin Fei recognized that the God Race’s hidden forces could turn a future racial war in its favor, and considered exposing the plan to make the other races fear it.
• Lin Fei told Zhou Ronghao and the others they had rendered a great service, but did not explain why.
• Zhou Ronghao and the others learned that Lin Fei had slain the three Heavenly Kings and unified the City of Sin.
• Lin Fei led the group through the rebuilt northern part of the city, where God Race buildings blended technology with religious traditions.
• Lin Fei recalled how the first God Emperor founded the Sanctuary and rallied the weakened God Race, while the second God Emperor joined technology and cultivation and established the Academy of Sciences.

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.