Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Fei descended on the Crystal Clan, the Demon race, and the Many-Eyed race to plunder their holdings and kill the Earth Spirits who had tried to murder him. He then confronted the Behemoths, where their defiance continued even as they knelt under his Heavenly Spirit pressure, and showed them how he had killed Heishan and Panshi.

• Lin Fei arrived at the Crystal Clan's imperial palace and plundered it while his Heavenly Spirit pressure forced its members to the ground.
• Lin Fei raided the homes and residences of the Crystal Clan, the Demon race, and the Many-Eyed race, killing all the Earth Spirits who had conspired to kill him.
• Lin Fei descended on the Panshi Tribe and killed several Behemoths who charged at him.
• The Behemoths recognized Lin Fei as a Heavenly Spirit but threatened him, insisting that Lords Heishan and Panshi would avenge them.
• Lin Fei conjured an image showing how he had killed Heishan and Panshi.

Lin Fei slaughtered the Behemoth Race’s Heavenly and Earth Spirits, then gave Gu Longhu treasures and promised to forge him an axe. He sought God Race researchers to build Void Radiance Ships, but Chris realized Lin Fei was also stealing the God Race’s technology and equipment.

• Lin Fei killed the Behemoth Race’s five Heavenly Spirits and seized their residences’ treasures and the Earth Spirits’ assets.
• Lin Fei gave Gu Longhu and Xiao Shiyu Earth Spirit Stones and treasures, called Gu Longhu his brother, and offered to forge him an axe.
• Lin Fei went to God Emperor Chris and demanded researchers to build Void Radiance Ships, then pocketed Chris’s Psionic Shield Generator.
• Chris clarified that he would provide researchers to study shield generators, and Lin Fei accepted his explanation while keeping the generator.
• Chris returned with three scientists and heard people at the Sanctuary begging Lin Fei to return the Radiance Armor, Unit Zero, and the Sword of Guangming and Arbitration.

Lin Fei took the God Race’s treasures and Apostle Unit Zero, then forged Gu Longhu a battle-axe from Extreme Dao materials. He revealed that Unit Zero had been altered into the seed of a collective consciousness meant to become an Artificial Heavenly Dao, leaving the God Race’s apocalyptic plan exposed.

• Lin Fei returned the Sword of Guangming and Arbitration and the Radiance Armor to Chris and the other Heavenly Spirits, but kept the Heavenly Spirit Shield Generator and Apostle Unit Zero.
• The God Race’s Heavenly Spirits argued over their losses, and Chris decided they had to rely on Lin Fei against Diana Luwei while privately hinting that Unit Zero might still serve the God Race’s will.
• Lin Fei forged Gu Longhu a battle-axe from Extreme Dao materials and offered him Earth Spirit runes or Heavenly Spirit runes that would require piloting an Apostle mech.
• Gu Longhu chose the Heavenly Spirit runes and asked why Lin Fei had taken Unit Zero; Lin Fei summoned the mech and showed him its flesh-like armor and emerging consciousness.
• Lin Fei explained that the God Race had fused corpses from the Heroic Spirits Cemetery into Unit Zero to create a collective consciousness that would consume all living beings and become an Artificial Heavenly Dao.

Lin Fei completed an axe imbued with Extreme Dao power for Gu Longhu to wield with Unit Zero, then spent the night with Xiao Shiyu. The next morning, he met the visiting delegations and was stunned by the Beast Race's tribute of muscular female beastfolk.

• Lin Fei gave Apostle Unit Zero to Gu Longhu and engraved 16,777,216 runes onto an enormous axe, imbuing it with Extreme Dao power.
• Gu Longhu piloted Unit Zero, connected his consciousness to the mecha, and tested how it wielded the newly empowered axe before Lin Fei told him not to swing it there.
• Lin Fei returned to the Listening to the Rain Courtyard, where Xiao Shiyu dressed in black stockings and invited him to spend the night with her.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu spent the night together, and the next morning they left the courtyard to meet the delegations from the various races.
• Lin Fei learned what gifts the delegations had brought and wondered if the Beast Race was serious about offering him burly female beastfolk as tribute.

Lin Fei ascended the throne as emperor of the Arcane Race, with Xiao Shiyu becoming empress. He used the ceremony to announce that four rival races would cede territory as compensation.

• Xiao Shiyu accepted foreign beauties for Lin Fei and dismissed envoys from several races whose chosen gifts displeased her.
• Xiao Xudong invited the foreign envoys to attend Lin Fei’s accession ceremony, and they agreed to come.
• Lin Fei and Xiao Shiyu ascended the palace steps in imperial robes as the crowd hailed them as emperor and empress.
• After the crowd stood, Lin Fei announced that the Crystal Race, Many-Eyed Race, Demons, and Behemoths would cede territory to compensate the Arcane Race.
• The four races’ envoys, frightened, said they had no objections.