Chapter Summaries

The Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team crossed Canglan Continent toward Chonglou Tower, unaware that an Insect Race nest had prepared an ambush. The newly bred Insect Race warriors launched themselves at the team.

• Chu Tiannan slew a giant beast and estimated that the team was still 1.5 light-years from Chonglou Tower.
• Alita warned that enemies could still appear before the team entered Chonglou Tower, and Chu Tiannan urged everyone to stay alert until they reached the Human Race rendezvous point.
• An Insect Race nest watched the team approach and called its children out to attack.
• The Insect Race Mother Empress bred Mantis Warriors and black beetles, which flew toward the Human Race team with her permission.

As Chu Tiannan and the Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team neared the Human Race's gathering point, Insect Race warriors ambushed them and surrounded the group. The team prepared to fight, while Alita searched for the Mother Empress controlling the attackers.

• Chu Tiannan told the team they were half a light-year from the Human Race's gathering point after their long journey through the Spiral Labyrinth Universe.
• Cailing asked Alita for food, and Alita gave her chocolate as the team continued flying.
• Mingdao sensed approaching enemies, and Chu Tiannan warned the team to prepare for battle.
• Cailing moved to the team's center and connected everyone with Scarlet Power threads that could pull endangered teammates to safety.
• Mantis Warriors and Beetle Warriors surrounded the team, prompting Alita to search for their nearby Mother Empress.

Chu Tiannan and the Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team fought off more than ten thousand Insect Race warriors while trying to locate their hidden Mother Empress. The Mother Empress remained concealed as the battle raged and the team began cutting down the swarm.

• Cailing failed to sense the Insect Race Mother Empress within a hundred thousand kilometers, while Chu Tiannan and Mingdao suspected she was hidden nearby.
• The Mother Empress concealed herself beneath fallen leaves and ordered her warriors to attack.
• Chu Tiannan formed a Chaos Domain and charged into the swarm, killing the Mantis Warriors that came at him.
• Alita used Angel Judgment to kill more than a hundred Beetle Warriors with one strike.
• Bo Jue and Abu Luodi led explosive attacks that cut down many Insect Race warriors, but the swarm barely faltered.

Chu Tiannan's team slaughtered most of the Insect Race warriors without suffering casualties, but the Insect Race Mother Empress recycled the dead and sent in three thousand supreme level Tiger Insect Warriors. Chu Tiannan recognized that the fight had become a battle of attrition.

• Cailing's Scarlet Power and Spirit Magic killed more Insect Race warriors than anyone else on Chu Tiannan's team.
• The Insect Race Mother Empress secretly dragged the dead warriors into its nest, devoured them, and remade them.
• The Insect Race Mother Empress sent three thousand newly gestated supreme level Tiger Insect Warriors into battle.
• Chu Tiannan saw the new warriors encircling his team alongside the surviving venerable level warriors and called it a battle of attrition.

Chu Tiannan and the Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team endured waves of Insect Race warriors until a group of ten Cosmic Overlord Nether Spider Warriors appeared. As Chu Tiannan engaged them, he called for Mingdao to act, with the Insect Race Mother Empress hidden beneath the battlefield.

• The Insect Race Mother Empress created ten Cosmic Overlord warriors and devoured corpses to recover her strength.
• Chu Tiannan sensed the Mother Empress beneath the team, and Mingdao agreed to help him reach her unnoticed after they dealt with the attackers.
• Mingdao identified the ten small, eight-legged warriors as poisonous Nether Spiders and warned the others about their lethal attacks.
• Chu Tiannan charged the Nether Spider Warriors despite Cailing's warning and severed one spider's leg behind a soul-will barrier.
• Chu Tiannan called out to Mingdao to act.

Chu Tiannan fought the regenerating Nether Spider Warriors while Mingdao slipped away unnoticed. As the battle worsened, Abu Luodi, Bo Jue, Cailing, and Wu joined him, disrupting one beast’s reassembly and shielding Cailing from venom.

• Chu Tiannan severed a Nether Spider Warrior’s leg and sent Mingdao darting away as a distraction.
• The Nether Spider Warriors surrounded Chu Tiannan, healed from his attacks, and grew stronger when two merged into one.
• Abu Luodi and Bo Jue joined the fight after the remaining Insect Race warriors were wiped out, cutting a Nether Spider Warrior into pieces.
• Cailing used Scarlet Power to pull apart the wounded warrior and disrupt its reassembly.
• The other Nether Spider Warriors targeted Cailing with venom, and Wu blocked the spray with his shield while Cailing continued her attack.

Chu Tiannan and his companions used Cailing’s Scarlet Power to stop the Nether Spider Warriors from regenerating and tried to preserve their strength for Chonglou Tower. The Insect Race Mother Empress prepared to use its trump cards, but an unexpected voice startled it.

• Cailing’s Scarlet Power tore a Nether Spider Warrior apart and prevented it from reassembling.
• Chu Tiannan and his companions blocked the remaining Nether Spider Warriors from reaching Cailing while he explained how her power could help destroy them.
• Cailing trapped five or six severed Nether Spider Warriors in Scarlet Power and interrupted their regeneration.
• The Insect Race Mother Empress, enraged by its warriors’ failure, decided to use its trump cards.
• An unexpected voice spoke as the Insect Race Mother Empress prepared, and terror flashed in its eyes.

Mingdao found the Insect Race Mother Empress beneath the ground and destroyed its nest. After eliminating the Mother Empress and its guards, he left the Insect Race without its source of new warriors.

• Mingdao appeared above the Insect Race nest and began cutting an opening into it.
• The Insect Race Mother Empress insulted the Human Race and sent two Nether Spider Warriors to ambush Mingdao.
• Mingdao used Mingdao Zangetsuha to swallow and destroy both Nether Spider Warriors.
• Mingdao annihilated the Insect Race Mother Empress with a ray of Mingdao light.

Mingdao destroyed the Insect Race nest and confronted its beautiful Mother Empress, who detonated herself after threatening him. Her death stopped the Nether Spider Warriors, and Alita and Chu Tiannan recognized that the crisis was over.

• Mingdao saw the graceful Insect Race Mother Empress rise from the ruined nest and asked her what was going on.
• The Mother Empress cursed humans and detonated herself, but Mingdao remained unharmed in his armor.
• Mingdao decided to return, disappointed that the fight had been so easy.
• The Nether Spider Warriors froze in midair as the battle continued.
• Alita asked Chu Tiannan what had happened, and he explained that the Mother Empress had been destroyed and the warriors had lost their master.

The Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team set out for Chonglou Tower after Mingdao killed an Insect Race Mother Empress. Her sisters learned that a human in purple had killed her and headed for the tower, while the team reached sight of it at dawn.

• Chu Tiannan urged the team onward to Chonglou Tower, and Cailing noted they still had 0.8 light-years to travel.
• The Insect Race Mother Empresses discovered they had lost contact with their fifth sister and learned that a human had killed her.
• The sisters saw their fifth sister's final mental image of Mingdao and sped toward Chonglou Tower, intending to seek revenge after competing for Heavenly Treasures.
• After traveling for a day and night, the Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team saw Chonglou Tower at dawn, and Chu Tiannan welcomed their arrival.

Chu Tiannan and his companions reached the Chonglou Tower and saw the many races gathered around it. At the Human Race camp, they discovered that even a lone Heavenly Ladder Team far outclassed their own.

• Chu Tiannan and his companions arrived at the Chonglou Tower and marveled at its immense size and mysterious origins.
• Chu Tiannan spotted the Human Race camp and led his group there before the tower opened.
• Chu Tiannan noticed that the smaller and solitary Heavenly Ladder Teams were far stronger than those gathered in large groups.
• Asila identified Lord Ao Duo’s seven-member team as Cosmic Lords, with Lord Ao Duo at the sixth reincarnation stage.
• Asila told Chu Tiannan that Luo Tianshen had eighth-reincarnation strength and Qingzhui had ninth-reincarnation strength, leaving Chu Tiannan feeling helpless about his team’s standing.

Chu Tiannan and the Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team arrived at Chonglou Tower and searched for a place to camp before meeting Phoenix Heaven Lord Luo Tianhuang. She invited them to join the Thunder Heavenly Ladder Team near the Five Emperors City Lord, who had also come to Chonglou Tower.

• Chu Tiannan found a designated Venerable Level spot for the team through the Asila system.
• Phoenix Heaven Lord Luo Tianhuang surprised Chu Tiannan by appearing and told him Luo'er would visit after finishing her cultivation.
• Luo Tianhuang encouraged Chu Tiannan's rookie mixed Heavenly Ladder Team to make a name for itself at Chonglou Tower.
• The Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team wondered who Luo Tianhuang was, while Alita sensed that she was a Cosmic Lord.
• Luo Tianhuang invited Chu Tiannan and his team to join the Thunder Heavenly Ladder Team near the Five Emperors City Lord, whom Chu Tiannan learned had also arrived.

The Phoenix Heaven Lord brought Chu Tiannan and the Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team to the Human Race's central camp, where she introduced Chu Tiannan as a student of the Five Emperors City Lord. Their welcome was interrupted when the ground shook and the Chonglou Tower appeared to be opening.

• Chu Tiannan reflected on the power and rarity of Spirit Treasures and Sacred Treasures as he flew with the Phoenix Heaven Lord and the team.
• The Phoenix Heaven Lord led the group through the Human Race's camp, where powerful Cosmic Overlords and Cosmic Kingdom Lords greeted her.
• Chu Tiannan recognized the Tian Dou Kingdom Lord, who had advanced to the Cosmic Celestial Venerable level, and exchanged greetings with him.
• The Phoenix Heaven Lord introduced Chu Tiannan to the Thunder Lord as a student of the Five Emperors City Lord, and the Thunder Lord welcomed the team.
• The ground began to shake, and the Thunder Lord and Phoenix Heaven Lord realized that the Chonglou Tower seemed to be opening.

The prehistoric tide surged across Canglan Domain as the races prepared for Chonglou Tower to open. Chu Tiannan learned from Phoenix Heaven Lord that his teacher, Wind Emperor Throne, had personally subdued two powerful criminals imprisoned in the human race’s Galaxy Prison.

• Chonglou Tower rumbled, unleashing the prehistoric tide and shaking Canglan Domain.
• Powerhouses from many races joined their Law Domains to build defenses against the tide.
• Wind Emperor Throne announced that he, Wind Emperor Throne, and Desolate Heaven Throne would lead the humans into Chonglou Tower after the tide passed.
• Chu Tiannan recognized the voice as his teacher, the Five Emperors City Lord, and wondered about the strength of his Wind Emperor Throne clone.
• Phoenix Heaven Lord told Chu Tiannan that Wind Emperor Throne had personally suppressed Great Demon Throne and Qiongqi Throne and imprisoned them in Galaxy Prison.

After the Prehistoric Tide ended, Chonglou Tower failed to open on schedule, leaving the gathered races puzzled. Representatives of the Machine Race and Insect Race asked the Human, Elf, and Sea races to help force the tower open.

• Chu Tiannan learned that the Wind Emperor Throne clone had suppressed the Great Demon Throne and Qiongqi Throne.
• The Prehistoric Tide dissipated, but Chonglou Tower remained silent and showed no entrance.
• The Phoenix Heaven Lord said Chonglou Tower had opened normally during her previous visit seventeen million epochs earlier.
• Abu Luodi joked that the tower might be refusing to open because of his charm, and Bo Jue rebuked him.
• A mechanical life-form and an Insect Race Mother Empress appeared and asked the Justice Alliance to send representatives to force Chonglou Tower open.

A Machine Race Cosmic Throne pressured the Human Race experts until Wind Emperor Throne intervened and confronted Fu God Throne. The appearance of Desolate Heaven Throne startled Fu God Throne and the Insect Race Mother Empress.

• The Machine Race expert's aura overwhelmed the Human Race experts, forcing Abu Luodi and others to struggle against the pressure.
• The Insect Race Mother Empress mocked the Human Race as other races watched the confrontation between the alliances.
• Wind Emperor Throne dispersed the pressure and warned Fu God Throne not to bully the Human Race's juniors.
• Fu God Throne challenged Wind Emperor Throne, who pointed out the blood-robed Desolate Heaven Throne beside him.
• Fu God Throne recognized Desolate Heaven Throne and asked why he was not in the Cosmic Divine Domain.

Desolate Heaven Throne arrived and agreed to let the Justice and Dark Alliances work together to open the Chonglou Tower. As the alliance representatives prepared to enter, Chu Tiannan learned which races belonged to each side.

• Fu God Throne and Butterfly Flower Throne were shocked when Desolate Heaven Throne appeared above them.
• Butterfly Flower Throne proposed that the Dark Alliance and Justice Alliance send people together to open the Chonglou Tower.
• Desolate Heaven Throne agreed and sent Wind Emperor Throne to represent the Justice Alliance.
• Chu Tiannan asked Phoenix Heaven Lord about the two alliances, and she explained how they had formed.
• Chu Tiannan used Asila to check the alliance memberships and clicked on the Dragon Clan.

Chu Tiannan learned that the Dragon Clan and Purple Moon God Race had been destroyed, then watched the Justice Alliance and Dark Alliance gather to open Chonglou Tower. The rival factions began forcing the tower’s doors open together, setting the stage for their entry.

• Asila told Chu Tiannan that the Dragon Clan and Purple Moon God Race had destroyed each other in the Heavenly War of Destruction.
• Chu Tiannan recognized the gathered representatives of the Justice Alliance and Dark Alliance, including Ming King Throne of the Underworld Clan, and struggled to contain his hatred.
• Phoenix Heaven Lord warned Chu Tiannan not to provoke the Underworld Clan, while Chu Tiannan said he was not afraid of its Venerable Level members.
• Ming King Throne proposed that the factions open Chonglou Tower together and let each person rely on their own strength inside.
• Tree Emperor Throne, Wind Emperor Throne, and the Sea Race expert combined their powers, while Ming King Throne, Fu God Throne, Butterfly Flower Throne, and the Demon Clan expert joined forces to push open Chonglou Tower.

Seven Cosmic Thrones slowly forced open Chonglou Tower’s doors, unleashing the Prehistoric Tide. Ming King Throne and Fu God Throne failed to contain every wisp, but Wind Emperor Throne swept the escaping tidal power away and protected everyone.

• Seven Cosmic Thrones combined their power to slowly open Chonglou Tower’s doors.
• Ming King Throne trapped the returning Prehistoric Tide in a net of nether dao power.
• Fu God Throne sent miniature robots into the tide, but wisps of tidal power escaped and threatened those below Cosmic Lord.
• Phoenix Heaven Lord pulled Chu Tiannan behind him as the Human Race experts protected their weaker members.
• Wind Emperor Throne swept the stray tidal power away from everyone and gave Fu God Throne and Ming King Throne a faintly mocking smile.

The human Heavenly Ladder Teams entered Chonglou Tower after its gates opened, with Phoenix Heaven Lord, Thunder Lord, and Wind Emperor Throne offering warnings and advice. Chu Tiannan and the Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team went inside, while Alita learned that her teacher, Eternal Throne, had returned with something for her.

• Wind Emperor Throne ordered the humans to enter Chonglou Tower, and the Heavenly Ladder Teams began going in by level.
• Phoenix Heaven Lord and Thunder Lord warned Chu Tiannan and his team to stay careful and fight together on the Alien Battlefield.
• Phoenix Heaven Lord told Chu Tiannan that Luo'er would come looking for him and urged him to stand in front of her.
• Wind Emperor Throne advised Chu Tiannan to seek supreme treasures suited to the Thousand Star River and not attempt to fuse more than five hundred.
• Chu Tiannan and the other members of the Divine Miracle Heavenly Ladder Team entered Chonglou Tower.
• Wind Emperor Throne told Alita that Eternal Throne had returned with the thing and that she should find her teacher after the visit.