Chapter Summaries

Lin Shen lured Chang Hen Dong Li into an ambush and used Fei Zai to suppress him, turning the fight in his favor. Wei Wufu arrived and weakened Chang Hen Dong Li further, leaving Lin Shen and Wei Wufu poised to strike while Chang Hen Dong Li’s eyes reflected mirror light.

• Chang Hen Dong Li attacked Lin Shen with Strange Tooth, shattering his carapace and hurling him into a mountain.
• Lin Shen pretended to panic and threw his belongings at Chang Hen Dong Li, concealing Fei Zai among the flying items.
• Fei Zai appeared above Chang Hen Dong Li and suppressed him, allowing Lin Shen to counterattack with his fists and Fingertip Sand.
• Chang Hen Dong Li struggled against Lin Shen’s techniques but was forced onto the defensive as Fei Zai weakened his speed and strength.
• Wei Wufu arrived and weakened Chang Hen Dong Li further with his white robe, enabling Lin Shen to strike an acupoint and freeze him.
• Lin Shen aimed Fingertip Sand at Chang Hen Dong Li’s eyes as Wei Wufu swung Evil Ghost Blade at his neck, while mirror light appeared in Chang Hen Dong Li’s eyes.

Lin Shen and Wei Wufu killed Chang Hen Dong Li with Fei Zai’s white flames and recovered the Ashes of Reincarnation. After returning to Heavenly City, Lin Shen discovered that records of Chang Hen Dong Li and the God-Making Race dated back to the Ancient World King era, despite the Wei Family witnessing the spaceship crash only two hundred years earlier.

• Fei Zai’s spirit form illuminated and burned the strange structure where Chang Hen Dong Li was bound, then Lin Shen returned to his body as Chang Hen Dong Li’s eyes caught fire.
• Lin Shen repeatedly used Fingertip Sand to keep Chang Hen Dong Li still as the flames consumed him, and collected the Ashes of Reincarnation from his remains.
• Lin Shen and Wei Wufu reunited with Wei Changqing’s group, and Fei Zai ate the blue leaves from the surviving branch before falling asleep.
• After everyone left the Underground Space, Lin Shen planned to explore the spaceship with Wei Changqing’s group once they had recovered.
• Lin Shen searched Xiao Qi for information and found that records placed Chang Hen Dong Li and the spaceship’s destruction in the Ancient World King era, although the Wei Family had witnessed the crash just over two hundred years earlier.

Wei Changqing revealed that Wei Wufu was his daughter’s son and asked Lin Shen to secretly find out whether Wei Jiayuan was alive and who Wufu’s father was. Before Lin Shen could begin investigating, the Heavenly Emperor summoned him back to Sky Peak Star, where the hostile Heavenly Consort confronted him.

• Wei Changqing asked Lin Shen to take Wei Wufu away from the home planet when the time came and revealed that Wufu’s father was unknown.
• Wei Changqing told Lin Shen to secretly investigate Wei Jiayuan’s fate and Wufu’s father, without telling Wufu about his parentage.
• Lin Shen learned that Wei Jiayuan had visited the Celestial Race and had a close friend named Yi Fei, who might be connected to someone he knew.
• Tian Xun relayed the Heavenly Emperor’s summons, and Lin Shen returned to Sky Peak Star through Hai Mansion’s Teleportation Device.
• At the Magnificent Radiance Palace, Lin Shen found the Heavenly Consort waiting instead of the Heavenly Emperor, and she angrily addressed him as A Tian.

Heavenly Consort confronted Lin Shen over Kong Chuan’s Peacock Eye and wanted him to appoint her brother Special Task Force Minister. After Lin Shen explained Kong Chuan’s recklessness, they compromised on keeping him in his original duties, and Heavenly Consort offered more than a hundred Peacock Race ascenders to help him; she then asked whether he would enter the Race Ranking Battle.

• Heavenly Consort accused Lin Shen of forcing Kong Chuan to gouge out his Peacock Eye, but Lin Shen returned the eye and asked her to punish him if she believed the accusation.
• Lin Shen explained that Kong Chuan had left him trapped while pursuing an enemy, nearly costing him his life, and said he could no longer rely on him.
• Heavenly Consort acknowledged Lin Shen’s grievance and asked him to give Kong Chuan another chance by making him Special Task Force Minister.
• Lin Shen refused to give Kong Chuan a high-ranking post, but agreed to keep him in his original duties until he proved capable.
• Heavenly Consort offered Lin Shen the service of more than a hundred Peacock Race ascenders on Sky Peak Star as compensation.
• Heavenly Consort asked Lin Shen whether he planned to participate in the upcoming Race Ranking Battle and offered him a gift if he did.

Heavenly Consort gave Lin Shen the Seven Steps Soul Lock movement technique and asked him to help with her elder brother's matter. Back home, Lin Shen received a Race Ranking Battle invitation, learned its rules, and registered, leaving him wondering who had organized the competition.

• Heavenly Consort took Lin Shen's hand and gave him the Seven Steps Soul Lock, asking him to put more thought into her elder brother's matter.
• Lin Shen returned home and decided to hold on to the three thousand Sky Crystal Coins rather than repay his debts.
• A Race Ranking Battle invitation card appeared before Lin Shen, and its light figure explained the competition rules.
• Lin Shen learned that he had to represent humanity and participate personally, but could forfeit without penalty.
• Lin Shen registered for the Race Ranking Battle, which would begin in ten Cosmic Days, and wondered who had organized it.

Lin Shen weighed whether to join the Race Ranking Battle after learning how it worked and seeing that Lin Xiangdong had attracted the hostility of many powerful Ascension Realm Experts. The chapter ended with Tu Xiaodao inviting Lin Shen to join the battle.

• Lin Shen asked Xiao Qi to search for Race Ranking Battle news and learned that Ascension Realm battles drew the most attention.
• Lin Shen discovered that Lin Xiangdong had announced his participation and become a target of numerous powerful opponents.
• Lin Shen considered joining the battle to help Lin Xiangdong if he was besieged, but decided to wait and watch the situation.
• Ouyang Yudu told Lin Shen that he was joining the battle and asked whether Lin Shen and Old Wei would participate.
• Tu Xiaodao contacted Lin Shen and invited him to join the Race Ranking Battle.

Lin Shen decided to enter the Elimination Round despite fearing the enemies he might attract as the Invincible Heavenly King's brother. He arrived on the Ascension-level battlefield, where participants had three Cosmic Days to earn enough points to reach the top one billion and advance.

• Lin Shen told Tu Xiaodao that he had reached Seven Revolutions, and Tu Xiaodao warned him that Wan Gu Liu had advanced to Nine Revolutions and might compete.
• Lin Shen revealed that the Invincible Heavenly King might be his older brother, prompting Tu Xiaodao to urge him not to participate.
• Lin Shen decided to enter the Elimination Round so he could help Fourth Brother if he faced danger, while keeping his identity secret.
• Lin Shen registered under the name A Tian and was transported to the Ascension-level battlefield in a white Combat Suit.
• Lin Shen saw that participants had seventy-two Cosmic Hours to gain points, with the top one billion advancing to the Ranking Battle.

Lin Shen entered the competition and used persuasion to avoid fights while building a squad of Ascenders who would gather points together. After recruiting Lao Lang, Lao Ao, and another contestant, he led the group toward their next target.

• Lin Shen talked the Elephant Person into leaving him alone and attacking a nearby Ascender instead.
• Lin Shen warned a wolf-eared Ascender that fighting him could leave them vulnerable, then proposed that they team up to rob other contestants.
• Lin Shen recruited the Super Combustion Clan Ascender, whom he called Lao Ao, and convinced Lao Lang to accept him into their group.
• Lin Shen stopped Lao Lang and Lao Ao from attacking another Ascender and persuaded that contestant to transfer his point to him.
• Lin Shen claimed he would distribute the group's points later and directed the squad toward another fleeing Ascender.

Lin Xiangdong, the Invincible Heavenly King, was discovered in the Nirvana Level Planet Battlefield after viewers assumed he had withdrawn from the competition. When Wu Liang Hai attacked him, Lin Xiangdong answered with a petal that multiplied into a storm of flowers, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Zuo Qinglong discovered that Lin Xiangdong had advanced to Nirvana and was beneath a flowering tree in the Nirvana Level Planet Battlefield.
• Viewers including Catherine and Tia debated whether Lin Xiangdong could survive against stronger Nirvana Realm Experts.
• Wu Liang Hai of the Flying Demon Race recognized Lin Xiangdong and introduced himself.
• Lin Xiangdong insulted Wu Liang Hai, who attacked with a palm strike wrapped in Demonic Qi.
• Lin Xiangdong flicked a snow-white petal into the Demonic Qi, where it multiplied into a sweeping storm of flowers.

Lin Xiangdong defeated Wu Liang Hai with a torrent of petals, while Lin Shen built a team of coerced Ascenders and recruited two powerful fighters by tricking them into joining his band of point robbers. Lin Shen’s team grew stronger as the Elephant Person and the Weak Fighter each handed over a point to join.

• Lin Xiangdong blasted Wu Liang Hai into the sky with his Petal Torrent, earning a second point and impressing the spectators.
• Lin Shen led his coerced Ascender team to watch an Elephant Person and a Weak Fighter battle.
• Lin Shen weakened both fighters with his Folding Fan, then removed the effect from the Elephant Person and convinced him that the Weak Fighter was no match for him.
• Lin Shen persuaded the Elephant Person to join a team that would rob the strong and aid the weak, then pressured the weakened Weak Fighter into joining as well.
• The Weak Fighter and the Elephant Person each gave Lin Shen a point as an entry fee, increasing the size of his team.

Lin Shen’s group continued collecting Ascenders’ points until a Di Man confronted them and demanded their points. Lin Shen defeated the nine-revolution Di Man with his Folding Fan, leaving both groups stunned.

• Lin Shen’s team flew along the river, forcing Ascenders they encountered to join them or surrender their points.
• Lao Lang warned Lin Shen away from a group that included a Di Man, and Lin Shen recognized Wan Gu Liu but chose not to attack him.
• The Di Man blocked Lin Shen’s group and demanded that Lin Shen, Lao Lang, and Lao Ao stay while everyone else left.
• The Elephant Person charged the Di Man’s group, but Lin Shen’s other followers refused to help despite his offer of a share of the points.
• The Di Man demanded Lin Shen’s points, and Lin Shen weakened him with glowing runes from his Folding Fan before beating him into a crater.
• The Di Man’s allies stopped fighting the Elephant Person and withdrew, stunned by Lin Shen’s victory.

Lin Shen turned a defeated Di Man Race ascender named Land into an ally and built a growing coalition that robbed ascenders from many races. The force swelled past ten thousand, drawing attention from Catherine, Tia, and the Heavenly Emperor as it became powerful enough to threaten even Di E Si.

• Lin Shen forced the defeated Land to hand over his points, then recruited him and ordered the other ascenders to transfer their points to the Elephant Person.
• Lin Shen told Lao Lang and the others that only contributors would receive dividends, then led the enlarged group out to rob more ascenders.
• Land joined the raids as Lin Shen’s team grew, and Lin Shen organized its members with ranks such as squad leader and battalion leader.
• Catherine praised Lin Shen’s ability to unite ascenders from different races, while Tia continued to favor Lin Xiangdong.
• The Heavenly Emperor watched Lin Shen’s progress, and An Rong tried to raise concerns about his influence over other races.
• Lin Shen’s coalition grew beyond ten thousand ascenders, robbed the Phoenix Race, and alarmed observers who believed even Di E Si might have to retreat.

Lin Shen divided his growing force of ascenders into separate teams, then continued searching the battlefield for Lin Xiangdong with a small group. When they encountered the Celestial Race Imperial Son Tian Bu Luo, Tian Bu Luo greeted Lin Shen as a brother.

• Lin Shen distributed stolen points among his more than fifty thousand followers, then split them into five groups led by Land and the other chief captains.
• Lin Shen gave the teams a shared slogan and rallied them with a farewell speech before sending most of them away.
• Lin Shen kept just over a thousand ascenders and continued roaming the battlefield, but another twenty to thirty thousand gathered around him by the next day.
• Lin Shen split the growing force again and continued searching for Lin Xiangdong with his smaller group.
• Lin Shen's group encountered a Celestial Race team, and Lao Lang recognized its leader as Imperial Son Tian Bu Luo.
• Tian Bu Luo approached Lin Shen and greeted him as a brother, startling the ascenders around them.

Lin Shen recruited Tian Bu Luo and expanded his team, whose practice of splitting into smaller groups spread across the Ascension Level Planetary Battlefield. As teams multiplied and began targeting lone Ascenders, observers anticipated massive battles, and Christine found himself facing an approaching force of more than ten thousand.

• Tian Bu Luo joined Lin Shen's team without disputing the rules or point distribution, and his followers accepted Lin Shen's arrangements.
• Lin Shen's team grew beyond ten thousand, and he sent another group away under a Celestial Ascender to develop independently.
• Lin Shen's team-splitting method spread rapidly as new teams formed, copied the practice, and used a shared exchange of phrases to recognize one another.
• Catherine, Tia, the Heavenly Emperor, and An Rong watched the expanding teams and considered the danger of a vast battle between them.
• Christine, confident that his points were sufficient for the Ranking Battle, saw more than ten thousand Ascenders gathering around him.

Di E Si faced a fifty-thousand-strong team led by Lei Si, who demanded his points, but Di E Si forced the team to stand down and redistributed their points among everyone. After learning how the massive mixed-race teams formed, Di E Si began to suspect someone had deliberately set the Ascendant Battlefield into chaos.

• Tia and Catherine watched Christine and other powerful Ascendants get robbed or chased by enormous teams in the Ascendant Battlefield.
• Di E Si, who had been fishing by a river, was surrounded by more than fifty thousand Ascendants led by Lei Si, a former opponent he had defeated.
• Lei Si demanded Di E Si's points, but Di E Si declared that he would divide everyone's points equally and advanced toward him.
• The Ascendants refused to attack Di E Si, and Lei Si surrendered his points under pressure.
• Di E Si divided Lei Si's points and his own among the team, leaving each member with eleven points.
• After hearing how the mixed-race team had formed, Di E Si wondered who had used chaotic battle to plant the root of calamity.

Lin Shen used his strange sigils and Tian Bu Luo’s strength to capture Christine and absorb most of his forty-thousand-person team. The battlefield’s mass team-building left the spectators stunned, while Christine departed after surrendering his points.

• Lin Shen realized teams were multiplying across the Ascendant Battlefield and proposed striking their leaders before they grew too powerful.
• Christine surrounded Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo’s smaller team and demanded their points, assuming they belonged to Tian Bu Luo.
• Lin Shen offered Christine’s team a chance to join his, but Christine refused and attacked.
• Lin Shen’s sigils weakened Christine, and Tian Bu Luo captured him after Christine suddenly became unable to move.
• Lin Shen and Tian Bu Luo persuaded most of Christine’s Ascendants to join their team, while Christine handed over his points and left.
• The spectators watched in shock as the Elimination Round’s large teams proved more formidable than individual top Ascendants.

Lin Shen’s squad and Di E Si’s squad each absorbed Ascenders until both grew to over a billion members, transforming the battlefield. With less than an hour left in the Elimination Round, the two forces finally met, leaving their members and the watching races facing the possibility of a catastrophic battle.

• Lin Shen reabsorbed a squad that had split from his forces and continued gathering squads alongside Tian Bu Luo.
• Lin Shen’s force and Di E Si’s force grew into rival super squads, each passing a million members as spectators watched.
• Both forces swept across the battlefield, growing to over a hundred million and then over a billion members while repeatedly avoiding one another.
• Catherine hoped the two super squads would collide, and with less than an hour remaining, they finally encountered each other.
• Lin Shen’s and Di E Si’s members stared at the opposing mass of Ascenders as the watching races feared the consequences of a fight.

Wu Mian accused Lin Shen of causing the battlefield chaos to help his elder brother, the Invincible Heavenly King, escape danger. As the races turned hostile toward Lin Shen, Wu Mian declared that he would eliminate him.

• Lin Shen worried that he had failed to find Fourth Brother, unaware that Lin Xiangdong was quietly robbing weaker ascenders of points.
• Lin Shen's Elephant Person shouted the team's slogan, and billions of ascenders from both sides joined in, easing tensions and empowering Lin Shen.
• Tian Bu Luo challenged Di E Si to a one-on-one contest of technique, and the two began an evenly matched duel.
• Wu Mian left Di E Si's formation and asked Lin Shen whether the Invincible Heavenly King was his elder brother.
• Wu Mian accused Lin Shen of inciting the melee to help his brother escape and declared that he would eliminate Lin Shen, turning the watching races against him.

Lin Shen admitted that he was Invincible Heavenly King’s younger brother, then challenged Wu Mian to survive a single-finger attack. As Wu Mian prepared to face him, Lin Shen called for a War Song, ready to rely on its blessing or the power of his Sacrifice to Heaven Halo.

• Wu Mian had Wan Gu Liu expose Lin Shen’s identity and claim that Lin Shen had caused the battle between the races to help his brother.
• Lin Shen confirmed his name, his brother’s identity, and the Invincible Heavenly King nickname, but denied that his battle team had anything to do with his brother.
• Lin Shen challenged Wu Mian to withstand one finger, promising to accept the title Source of Calamity if Wu Mian survived.
• Wu Mian revealed his gray armor and Chaos Divine Bell, preparing to take Lin Shen’s attack head-on before killing him.
• Lin Shen called on his brothers to sing a War Song, intending to use its blessing or his Sacrifice to Heaven Halo against Wu Mian.

Hundreds of millions of Ascenders sang the War Song to empower Lin Shen, and he killed Wu Mian with a single finger. As the battlefield stared in shock, Wan Gu Liu began retreating in fear.

• The Elephant Person began singing the War Song, and countless Ascenders joined in, greatly amplifying Lin Shen’s power.
• Lin Shen moved toward Wu Mian, whose reactions could not keep pace with him.
• Lin Shen shattered Wu Mian’s Chaos Divine Bell and turned Wu Mian to ash with one finger.
• Tia, Catherine, the Heavenly Emperor, An Rong, Tian Bu Luo, Di E Si, and the other Ascenders stared at Lin Shen in shock.
• Wan Gu Liu trembled and retreated, convinced Lin Shen would not spare him.