Chapter Summaries

After his coronation, Lin Fei banned the enslavement and exploitation of humans and granted them vast territories taken from other races. He ended court by drawing Xiao Shiyu close, then flirted with her in private.

• Lin Fei prohibited all races from enslaving or oppressing humans, and silenced objections by inviting God Emperor Chris to challenge him directly.
• Lin Fei ended the coronation ceremony and kept the Arcane Race's lords and the four races' envoys for a private discussion.
• Lin Fei refused to let Xiao Shiyu leave court, abolished the old rule barring the empress from politics, and held her on his lap as he negotiated territorial cessions.
• The Crystal Race, the Many-Eyed, the Behemoths, and the Demons ceded around eleven million square kilometers, which Lin Fei ordered cleared and given to humans, including resettled slaves.
• Lin Fei explained that he gave the land to humans because Gu Longhu was his comrade-in-arms and would pilot Apostle Unit Zero against Diana Luwei.
• After court, Lin Fei lifted the hem of Xiao Shiyu's phoenix robe, and she blushed as he teased her.

Lin Fei dismissed Ao Xuantian’s consorts and granted Fu Pearl the title King Who Pacifies the West. Three days later, he led the Eight Heavenly Spirits to confront Diana Luwei at Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, where the battle began.

• Lin Fei dismissed all of Ao Xuantian’s consorts and offered them compensation.
• Lin Fei stopped Fu Pearl and named her King Who Pacifies the West.
• Lin Fei, the King of Southern Ridge, the King of the Northern Lands, the God Race’s four Heavenly Spirits, and Gu Longhu gathered at Blood-Colored Bug Ridge in enhanced armor.
• Lin Fei commanded the Eight Heavenly Spirits to descend toward the ridge’s center, and Diana Luwei emerged from the blood-colored mucus.
• Diana Luwei demanded that they kneel to her, and the Eight Heavenly Spirits attacked, unleashing an energy surge that destroyed the surrounding landscape.

Diana Luwei unleashed an apocalypse on the Profound Heaven Continent, spreading radiation and parasitic bugs that transformed its inhabitants into Insect Race creatures. The God Race and Academy of Sciences repelled the outbreak, but the Arcane Race’s defenders were overwhelmed as Diana’s plan to devour the continent began.

• Diana Luwei detonated her infected star, spreading alien radiation and raining parasites across the Profound Heaven Continent.
• The parasites infected humans, elves, Demons, and Behemoths, transforming them into dangerous new Insect Race branches.
• Sanctuary Warriors used Psionic Interference to purify radiation and destroy the parasites, while the Academy of Sciences activated a protective countermeasure field.
• Fu Pearl, Xiao Shiyu, and the seventeen feudal lords raised holy barriers, but parasites near the Nanling Prince's Residence became confused by conflicting orders from a Starry Sky Mother Bug.
• Arcanists attacked the confused parasites, enraging them; the bugs swarmed into their heads and began infecting them.
• Diana Luwei pursued her long-held plan to devour the entire Profound Heaven Continent.

Diana Luwei used her strange abilities to overwhelm the Eight Heavenly Spirits and kill the King of the Northern Lands, but their counterattack severely wounded her. Her mirror image appeared behind them as the battle continued.

• Diana Luwei fought the Eight Heavenly Spirits, using her mirror image and Heavenly Dao Timeline to isolate the King of the Northern Lands and nearly kill him.
• Lin Fei crossed into the King of the Northern Lands’ temporal layer and rescued him from Diana Luwei’s attack.
• Diana Luwei dismissed the timeline and blasted the Heavenly Spirits with Innate Grand Void Gang Qi before striking down the King of the Northern Lands, shattering his Arcane Core.
• The seven remaining Heavenly Spirits struck Diana Luwei together, piercing her armor and trapping Lin Fei’s spear, Gu Longhu’s axe, and the Sword of Guangming and Arbitration in her body.
• Diana Luwei’s mirror image appeared behind the Heavenly Spirits while her main body remained impaled by their weapons.

Diana Luwei killed Xiao Xudong at Blood-Colored Bug Ridge but was badly wounded, while Little Foodie discovered she could control the mutant insects and asked Xiao Shiyu to help her evolve. Xiao Shiyu agreed, leaving Little Foodie poised to merge with the insects despite the danger of losing herself.

• Lin Fei and the King of Southern Ridge banished Diana Luwei's mirror image, but Diana Luwei attacked with black spikes and tore Xiao Xudong's body apart.
• Chris and the three Archons used Psionic Energy Vortex to pull Xiao Xudong away, but Diana Luwei plunged into the vortex and destroyed it; Xiao Xudong self-detonated, and Diana Luwei suffered grievous injuries.
• Diana Luwei taunted the six Heavenly Spirits as destructive energy prevented her body from recovering.
• Little Foodie told Xiao Shiyu that mutant insects across the world were being summoned to Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, and Xiao Shiyu joined their seas of consciousness to halt the insects over a vast area.
• Little Foodie asked Xiao Shiyu to give her power so she could merge with the insects and evolve, despite the risk of losing her sense of self, and Xiao Shiyu said she supported her.

Little Foodie merged with Xiao Shiyu, took control of her body, and evolved to the Early Heaven Spirit Stage. She then appeared at Blood-Colored Bug Ridge and devoured the life energy Diana Luwei had drawn from the bugs.

• Xiao Shiyu suppressed her resistance and embraced Little Foodie as the two merged, while swarms of bugs dissolved into slime and poured their energy into Xiao Shiyu.
• Little Foodie’s consciousness took control of Xiao Shiyu’s transformed body, and she reached the Early Heaven Spirit Stage.
• Little Foodie warped to Blood-Colored Bug Ridge as Diana Luwei attacked the surrounding bugs with a huge purplish-black claw and drew out their life energy.
• Little Foodie intercepted and devoured the energy torrents, prompting Diana Luwei to call her a traitor.
• Little Foodie burped, patted her belly, and asked Diana Luwei if she had never seen anyone eat before.

Little Foodie and Lin Fei fought Diana Luwei, who sacrificed herself to open a passage to the Insect Race Plane, but the God Race ambushed them and Lin Fei was hurled into the black hole. Xiao Shiyu activated the God Race’s Artificial Heavenly Dao Project, while Lin Fei reappeared inside the collapsing black hole to face Ye Daoran.

• Little Foodie joined Lin Fei in attacking Diana Luwei and rejected her demands to return to the Starry Sky Insect Race.
• Diana Luwei sacrificed herself to create a black hole passage between the Insect Race Plane and the Profound Heaven Continent.
• Ye Daoran and the God Race’s Heavenly Spirits attacked Lin Fei and Little Foodie, and Lin Fei was knocked into the black hole.
• After God Emperor Chris declared Lin Fei dead, Xiao Shiyu swallowed Unit Zero and activated the Artificial Heavenly Dao Project, drawing in living beings and raising Unit Zero’s power.
• Xiao Shiyu drove the transformed Unit Zero toward the black hole as the eight mother insects panicked, and a bloodied Lin Fei confronted Ye Daoran inside it.

Lin Fei and Ye Daoran fought as Xiao Shiyu’s uncontrolled transformation threatened to make her an embryonic Heavenly Dao capable of rewriting reality. After the two entered the Insect Race Plane and recognized her power as the source of the corruption in their era, they agreed to work together to stop her.

• Ye Daoran attacked Lin Fei with the Taiji Diagram, and their clash shattered the black hole and sent them crashing into the Insect Race Plane.
• Fragments from the black hole rained onto the Profound Heaven Continent, destroying cities and mountains and causing magma to erupt.
• The Insect Race and God Race Heavenly Spirits tried to contain Xiao Shiyu, but she absorbed their barriers as her power grew and began affecting the original rules.
• Chris asked the Insect Race to devour Xiao Shiyu, but a mother bug warned that doing so would make them part of her and revealed that the Heavenly Dao was asleep.
• Lin Fei and Ye Daoran recognized Xiao Shiyu’s transformation as the source of the invasive corruption they knew from their era, then agreed to cooperate against her.

Lin Fei and Ye Daoran realized the Multiversal Heavenly Dao had sent them into the past to counter the artificial Heavenly Dao, then joined forces to separate Xiao Shiyu from it. They forced Unit Zero out of her, and Chris ordered Ye Daoran to intercept it as it escaped.

• Lin Fei and Ye Daoran concluded that the Multiversal Heavenly Dao had engineered their arrival through its power to reverse effects into causes.
• Lin Fei ordered the Heavenly Spirits to open the restraints around Xiao Shiyu, and Chris reluctantly agreed.
• Lin Fei and Ye Daoran entered the restraints together while Xiao Shiyu apologized for Gu Longhu's fate and for endangering them.
• Lin Fei and Ye Daoran struck Xiao Shiyu from opposite sides, causing her to vomit up Unit Zero.
• Unit Zero shattered the restraints, opened a wormhole, and fled, so Chris ordered Ye Daoran to intercept it.

Ye Daoran betrayed Lin Fei and fled while Lin Fei pursued him, leaving Xiao Shiyu in the Insect Race’s grasp. Unit Zero absorbed the life light from an Insect Race gathering ground, and Lin Fei and Ye Daoran sealed it off from outside power as the Heavenly Spirits turned their attention to the remaining life light.

• Ye Daoran attacked Lin Fei with the Taiji Diagram, but Lin Fei healed his wounds and fought back.
• Ye Daoran ordered Chris to seize Xiao Shiyu, but the Eight Heavenly Spirits drove Chris and the archons back and took her first.
• Ye Daoran escaped through a spatial vortex, and Lin Fei followed after warning the Insect Race not to harm Xiao Shiyu.
• Unit Zero crashed into an Insect Race gathering ground and absorbed the life light from millions of insects, rapidly reaching the Middle Heavenly Spirit Stage.
• Unit Zero attacked Lin Fei and Ye Daoran, but they broke through its strike and sealed it off from the outside world.
• The Heavenly Spirits eyed the remaining life light greedily even as the catastrophe continued.

Lin Fei and Ye Daoran absorbed the life light as Gu Longhu broke Unit Zero’s seal and revealed a righteous aura. The memories showed Gu Longhu’s difficult infancy, ending with Gu Xiao Xue trying to strangle him after discovering he had been fed their father’s blood.

• Lin Fei threatened the Heavenly Spirits, while he and Ye Daoran absorbed the life light pouring from the sky.
• Unit Zero broke its seal, and Gu Longhu released a golden pillar of light and a vast aura of resolve.
• Lin Fei and Ye Daoran watched memories of the Starry Sky Insect Race and Gu Longhu’s birth in the Boulder Terrace Tribe.
• Gu Longhu’s unusual hunger drove Gu Zhiming to hunt nursing beasts, and Gu Zhiming died returning with beast milk for his son.
• Gu Zhiming’s remains were used as resources, and his blood was mixed into food that helped Gu Longhu grow stronger.
• Gu Xiao Xue discovered that Gu Longhu had been fed their father’s blood and tried to strangle him.

Gu Longhu learned how his sister Gu Xiao Xue had been driven to the brothel after their father’s death and had secretly endured its abuse to support him. He entered the brothel in silence, where the madam scorned his appearance and tried to throw him out.

• Gu Xiao Xue nearly strangled the infant Gu Longhu, but their mother stopped her and sent him to the tribe’s priest while Gu Xiao Xue ran away.
• Gu Xiao Xue spent three days lost in despair, then returned after witnessing a warrior risk his life to protect her from a ferocious beast.
• As Gu Longhu grew up, Gu Xiao Xue brought him valuable gifts and claimed an arcanist was supporting her, but she became angry when he asked to visit.
• Gu Longhu secretly followed Gu Xiao Xue to a town and discovered she worked in a brothel, saving money to support him.
• Gu Longhu broke down after learning the truth, entered the brothel, and was met with the madam’s contempt as she tried to throw him out.

Gu Longhu watched his second sister, Gu Xiao Xue, endure prostitution to fund his cultivation, and he could not persuade her to stop. Three years later, he found her dead at a young gentleman’s home, mauled by dogs.

• Gu Longhu found Gu Xiao Xue outside the pleasure house, begged her to quit, and ran home after she threatened to kill herself rather than leave.
• Gu Longhu lied to his mother about Gu Xiao Xue’s work, then silently wept while taking a medicinal bath funded by his sister.
• Over the years, Gu Longhu’s cultivation advanced while Gu Xiao Xue became an established prostitute and hoped to become a chaste courtesan.
• Three years later, Gu Xiao Xue said a young gentleman had chosen her and she might be elevated the next day, but she failed to return.
• Gu Longhu searched the gentleman’s home and found Gu Xiao Xue’s corpse being gnawed by two vicious dogs.

Gu Longhu lost his second sister, Gu Xiao Xue, and joined Liu Wankui’s effort to build a human force in Four Directions Town. After Liu revealed that the Stargate had helped survivors escape Ancient Desolate City, the town’s rulers began hunting for them, putting the Boulder Terrace Tribe at risk.

• Gu Longhu watched as Gu Xiao Xue’s body was left to the dogs, then tried to recover her belongings but was beaten and thrown out of the brothel.
• Liu Wankui helped Gu Longhu, retrieved Gu Xiao Xue’s belongings, and told him about the fallen human city of Ancient Desolate City.
• Liu Wankui described his plan to build a human stronghold and take control of Four Directions Town, and Gu Longhu joined his group.
• Liu Wankui’s force relied on a Stargate that had helped survivors flee Ancient Desolate City, but its remaining energy could not carry them far.
• The arcanist ordered Four Directions Town’s forces to search for Liu Wankui’s group, threatening to expose the Boulder Terrace Tribe.

Gu Longhu survived repeated battles only because comrades sacrificed themselves to protect him, earning the cruel nickname Gu Paopao as he fled to live. After Liu Wankui unified Four Directions Town, Gu Longhu took revenge on a fallen arcanist, hacking the corpse apart despite Liu Wankui's warning.

• The orcs attacked the Boulder Terrace Tribe, and three people died protecting Gu Longhu as he fled the battle; Zhang Xianzhong was among them.
• Liu Wankui berated Gu Longhu for risking his life, insisting humanity needed him to survive and become an Upper Spirit.
• After the survivors gathered resources from the fallen, Liu Wankui broke through to Lower Spirit while under attack by demon subspecies.
• Gu Longhu and his comrades lured the demon subspecies away, but after seven days and nights of flight, the village chief and others sacrificed themselves so Gu Longhu could escape.
• Liu Wankui arrived after breaking through to Lower Spirit and slaughtered the demon subspecies, while Gu Longhu became known as Gu Paopao and endured the tribe's scorn.
• After Liu Wankui unified Four Directions Town, Gu Longhu avenged himself on a fallen arcanist by repeatedly hacking the corpse apart.

Gu Longhu and Bai Yun endured years of hardship before orc raiders abducted Bai Yun and brutalized her. As Gu Longhu helped her recover, she said she was too ashamed to marry him, and he asked her to marry him.

• After Liu Wankui took charge of Four Directions Town, the settlement prospered and survived repeated threats under his leadership.
• During an orc revolt, the raiders abducted Bai Yun, and Liu Wankui restrained Gu Longhu until he could safely lead a rescue.
• Gu Longhu found Bai Yun traumatized and pregnant, then heard a captive recount the atrocities the orcs had committed against prisoners.
• After Liu Wankui arranged an abortion, Gu Longhu cared for Bai Yun and slowly helped her regain some will to live.
• Bai Yun told Gu Longhu she was ashamed to marry him and no longer wanted to live, and he held her and said, “Marry me.”

Gu Longhu lost Bai Yun when she sacrificed herself to save him and the people of Dragon and Tiger Town from an Arcane Race arcanist, then fled with his mother as the town was destroyed. Years later, during a battle for the Ascension and Immortal Flight Grass, he finally refused to run and fought back.

• Gu Longhu reassured Bai Yun, and the two married despite cruel gossip that stopped after Liu Wankui killed one of the gossips.
• Four Directions Town prospered, expanded its defenses, and grew as Gu Longhu took charge of another town and the Boulder Terrace Tribe joined them.
• An Arcane Race arcanist slaughtered the people of Dragon and Tiger Town, and Bai Yun sacrificed herself with the Seven Injuries Reverse Meridian Art so Gu Longhu could escape with his mother.
• Liu Wankui killed the arcanist, then led everyone into the Savage Jungle to evade the dead arcanist’s powerful father; a battle between demons and the Arcane Race later destroyed Four Directions Town.
• Gu Longhu reached Middle Spirit Perfection and joined Liu Wankui’s group in the dangerous jungle to seek the Ascension and Immortal Flight Grass.
• When a fierce beast and its pack attacked, Gu Longhu declared he would not run anymore and struck down the beast before him.

Gu Longhu remembered the sacrifices that had shaped his life and rejected Unit Zero’s attempt to replace them. Their shared human will empowered his Ten Thousand Daos Become One, and he emerged from the exploding Unit Zero in a blaze of golden light.

• Gu Longhu survived the battle that killed Liu Wankui and his other companions, then returned to the Boulder Terrace Tribe and endured the people’s accusations.
• After reaching the Upper Spirit Realm, Gu Longhu led survivors into Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, but returned to find the tribe massacred and his mother killed by Andis.
• Gu Longhu killed the invading Arcane Race Upper Spirit and the nonhuman traitors, then fought to get survivors through the Stargate as Feiyun Hou’s assault destabilized it.
• Gu Longhu recalled the lives and sacrifices of his compatriots and refused to let the filthy bugs replace their wills.
• Gu Longhu gathered their shared Dao, used Inch Power and Heaven Opening, and destroyed Unit Zero with a punch.

Gu Longhu broke through to the early Heaven Spirit stage and helped Lin Fei and Ye Daoran seal Unit Zero. After the Insect Race sent Xiao Shiyu back to the Profound Heaven Continent, Ye Daoran attacked Lin Fei during their passage through the black hole, and the chapter ended with their factions facing off above the Blood-Colored Bug Ridge.

• Gu Longhu seized Unit Zero’s power, broke through to the early Heaven Spirit stage, and shattered its form with a giant axe.
• Lin Fei and Ye Daoran sealed Unit Zero and threatened to release it if the Insect Race made a move.
• The Insect Race opened a passage and sent Xiao Shiyu back to the Profound Heaven Continent, while Chris and the others entered the unstable black hole.
• Ye Daoran attacked Lin Fei inside the passage, and their clash damaged the black hole and injured the Heavenly Spirits.
• After they emerged above the Blood-Colored Bug Ridge, Gu Longhu struck down Sargeras, Xiao Shiyu reached Lin Fei, and the two sides faced off.

Lin Fei and his allies fought the God Race at the Sanctuary while the God Race activated its incomplete Zeroing Matrix. The matrix sealed the battlefield and began gathering power for a lethal strike, which Lin Fei recognized as the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram.

• Chris returned to the Sanctuary with the God Race’s four Heavenly Spirits and ordered the Zeroing Matrix completed and all forces assembled.
• Lin Fei and his allies arrived at the Sanctuary and fought through the God Race’s forces as the four Heavenly Spirits attacked.
• God Race warriors sacrificed themselves to strengthen the Zeroing Matrix, while Xiao Shiyu sent mutant insects to fuse and aid Lin Fei’s breakthrough.
• Xiao Shiyu protected the insect swarm with the Heavenly Spirit Shield Generator as the God Race attacked it.
• After learning the matrix could be used only once, Chris ordered its activation, and Lin Fei recognized it as the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram.