Chapter Summaries

Li Yi and Zhang Shengfeng interrogated the surviving Fifth Civilization infiltrators, but the men killed themselves before revealing the secret of the origin of divinity or the location of their primary souls. After learning that a war was approaching the Enlightenment God Mountain, Li Yi chose to join the fighting and take responsibility for humanity.

• Zhang Shengfeng and Li Yi exposed that the infiltrators could be harmed through their avatars, then questioned He Zundao and Weng Qizuo about the origin of divinity and their hidden primary souls.
• Li Yi deduced that the primary souls were likely on Earth and possibly concealed among Supreme Experts, while He Zundao and Weng Qizuo killed themselves to avoid further interrogation.
• Li Yi explained that solving the Enlightenment God Mountain’s puzzle would require combining the infiltrators’ clues with memory scenes from the various mountains, and Zhang Shengfeng discussed Celestial traits and conceptual divinity.
• Li Yi and Zhang Shengfeng gathered the spoils, including the Divine Mech repository and bionic and neural-network technology, and Zhang Shengfeng promised to consider a reward for Li Yi.
• When Zhang Shengfeng asked whether he would remain to train or join the coming war, Li Yi chose to fight, and Zhang Shengfeng warned him to value his own life and retreat when necessary.

Li Yi uploaded his translated mech technology knowledge for review, received S-rank Divinity Cores and battle merits, and prepared to travel to the Frontier Star battlefield. He boarded a support starship with his mechs and reunited with former companions, who wondered why he was inspecting the Gaia Mech.

• Li Yi uploaded his translated bionic limb and neural network knowledge to the academic review network after Zhang Shengfeng confirmed the reviewers were trustworthy.
• Zhang Shengfeng rewarded Li Yi with four S-rank Divinity Cores and one million battle merits, then urged him to fight as a mobile soldier on the Frontier Star battlefield.
• Li Yi loaded the Gaia Mech and Uranus Mech for the journey, equipped the Gaia Mech with a Gravity Thruster, and boarded a support starship through Earth's core stargate.
• Li Yi met Liang Zhishen, Ning Feiyu, Xu Weilu, Lei Guangyao, and Jiang Chaoqun in the starship hangar.
• Liang Zhishen and Lei Guangyao mistook Li Yi's attention to the Gaia Mech as a sign that he was switching mechs again, and Liang Zhishen asked where the Uranus Mech was.

Li Yi arrived at Frontier Star with his companions and revealed that he would pilot the Gaia Mech in the coming battle, while his friends learned they would serve under Chen Qiong Zhi. After reporting to Chief Lin, Li Yi was ordered to join a last-minute sand-table simulation before the combat order was issued.

• Li Yi told his companions that the Gaia Mech was his and that he would take part in upper Heavenly Rank battles, while they would join B-class Assault Team Three under Chen Qiong Zhi.
• Li Yi clarified that he had not reached the Heavenly Rank and urged everyone to rest before their arrival at Frontier Star.
• During the stargate crossing, Li Yi studied the divine structures formed by spacetime transit and considered investigating the spacetime spires on Planet 33 after the war.
• The starship reached Frontier Star, where thousands of Divine Mechs assembled and upper Heavenly Rank experts fought Alien opponents nearby.
• Li Yi entered the command tower using his Level Eight clearance, met Chief Lin, and was told to join the planetary sand-table simulation before the combat order.

Li Yi examined the human and Slaughter Clan forces on a war simulation device and learned that the gathered experts would each carry out a decapitation operation. He was surprised to discover that Chief Lin expected him to join the mission.

• Li Yi learned that Chief Lin's Fifth Epoch relic could display forces and precisely predict enemy movements, and Chief Lin admitted he had a mind-reading trait.
• Li Yi assessed the forces near Frontier Star and found that the Slaughter Clan outnumbered humanity in mechs and high-stage Heaven Rank combatants, while their Supreme Expert numbers were closer.
• Li Yi began considering deployment tactics, and he saw He Guangzhi use the simulation device to test how enemy forces responded to different formations.
• Chief Lin explained that each person present would conduct a decapitation operation and needed to simulate enemy movements beforehand.
• Li Yi asked whether he was expected to take part in the decapitation mission.

Chief Lin planned a decapitation operation that depended on Li Yi drawing Alien forces away along a precise route, but others questioned whether the dangerous mission was appropriate for him. Li Yi considered whether he could perform it and asked Chief Lin about the risks and alternatives before agreeing.

• Chief Lin assigned Li Yi to pilot the Uranus Mech and lure high-stage Celestial Rank Starborn away so the Supreme Experts could attack the Aliens' command circle.
• Chen Yanzhang, He Guangzhi, and Old Tan questioned the plan and offered themselves for the luring mission.
• Chief Lin explained that Li Yi alone could precisely follow the simulated route, which was necessary to get the Supreme Experts in and back out safely.
• Chief Lin asked Li Yi whether he would accept the mission, and Li Yi weighed its stakes against his ability to perform it.
• Li Yi asked what strategy would follow the operation, how they would respond to a full Alien counterattack, and whether they had a steadier alternative.

Chief Lin launched a six-stage decapitation operation to break the Alien encirclement before their ancestor arrived. Li Yi drew the Aliens’ attention by attacking their formation, and the chapter ended as his cannon blast struck a powerful enemy mech.

• Chief Lin explained that humanity had to risk a decisive operation and Li Yi agreed to join.
• Chief Lin assigned six stages targeting Heng Sol and ordered the operation to finish before the Aliens’ ancestor arrived.
• The human forces deployed from Frontier Star, with teams taking positions and receiving detailed orders.
• Li Yi piloted the Uranus Mech around the flank to a position near the Alien Star Gate and prepared to draw their fire.
• Li Yi activated his combat enhancements and fired Heng Xing Quake Burst at a fifth-stage-or-higher Divine Mech, whose divinity shield appeared as the blast hit.

Li Yi piloted the Uranus Mech through the Alien formations, drawing their fire to widen the gaps while discovering a new form of bodily perception under pressure. As he completed the outbound route and continued mapping the return, a Skull Mech caught up and struck the Uranus Mech with a corrosive Divinity Energy Cannon.

• The Uranus Mech evaded the Aliens' initial volleys and fired back to provoke formations along its planned route.
• Li Yi drew increasingly heavy fire from elite Starborn and Slaughter Clan formations while enjoying the high-speed evasive control.
• Li Yi's bodily Divinity reserve broke through from 5% to 8%, and he developed a clearer understanding of millimeter-level self-perception.
• Four mid-stage A-rank Divine Mechs and one high-stage Heavenly Rank Divine Mech broke away to pursue the Uranus Mech as it continued mapping its route.
• A 234-meter Skull Mech used Trait acceleration to close within a thousand meters and fired a condensed, corrosive Divinity Energy Cannon.
• The Skull Mech's cannon pierced the Uranus Mech's Divine shield, sent it flying backward, and corroded its outer armor.

Li Yi drew more than ten A-class mechs away from the enemy formation while Lin Jianlong used the Chrono Divinity to teleport eight Divine Mechs near the Starborn leaders. The chapter ended as Lin Jianlong’s Tianzhou Mech fired at Heng Sol’s Heng Variable Mech.

• Li Yi evaded the Skull Mech’s spinal attack, used the Repulsion Trait to escape, and continued leading the pursuing mechs along the planned route.
• Lin Jianlong assembled seven other Divine Mechs, including mechs piloted by Chen Yanzhang, Tan Yaozu, Zhao He, Qin Longchuan, Duanmu Xiong, He Peng, and Fang Xu.
• Lin Jianlong activated the Chrono Divinity and transported the eight Divine Mechs from outside Frontier Star to the Starborn assembly area.
• Heng Sol warned the Golden Experts not to underestimate humanity, and Heng Tulong and the others promised to accept punishment if they made mistakes.
• A Starborn Golden Expert announced that humanity’s Golden Experts had appeared, and Lin Jianlong’s Tianzhou Mech fired its Divinity Energy Cannon at Heng Sol’s Heng Variable Mech.

The human mechs ambushed the Starborn force, captured Heng Sol, and escaped after Chen Yanzhang and Tan Yaozu covered their retreat. As the Aliens declared total war, Li Yi destroyed the pursuing Skull Mech and human reinforcements launched toward the battlefield.

• Li Yi killed a sharp-beaked Divine Mech and escaped the encirclement while the Tianzhou Mech warped the Heng Variable Mech into the human formation, where seven Divine Mechs battered it.
• Heng Tulong attacked the Tianzhou Mech with the Azure Flame Mech, but Lin Jianlong countered his strike and pierced the mech's chest before Heng Xiulong intervened with the Spai Mech.
• Chen Yanzhang shielded the human formation from eight Divinity Energy Cannons with the Frost Dragon Mech, and Tan Yaozu carried him to safety as the remaining human mechs evaded the shots.
• The Tianzhou Mech cut off the Heng Variable Mech's cockpit section and used Chrono Divinity to escape with the other human Divine Mechs; Heng Xiulong then declared total war despite objections.
• Li Yi reentered Ego Focus, destroyed the pursuing Skull Mech with the Uranus Mech, and continued fleeing as Chen Qiong Zhi led a squad to reinforce him.
• He Guangzhi ordered all fourth-phase mech pilots to deploy, and a mass of human mechs launched toward the Aliens above Frontier Star.

As the human and Alien forces mobilized for control of the Central Axis, Li Yi evaded an S-class mech’s Divinity Energy Cannons and turned to attack his pursuers. During the counterattack, a new Divinity Gene formed within the Uranus Mech: Spatial Divinity.

• The human and Alien forces advanced toward the Central Axis while He Guangzhi adjusted the human formations and ordered Lu Yunsheng’s squad to hold the enemy S-class mechs in place.
• An S-class mech fired two Divinity Energy Cannons at Li Yi’s Uranus Mech, but Li Yi dodged them despite losing speed.
• As the pursuing A-class mechs closed in, Li Yi reversed direction and cut apart the leading mech with a sword strike.
• Li Yi evaded attacks from the remaining A-class mechs and struck down more of them while Chen Qiong Zhi’s group approached.
• A new Divinity Gene formed within the Uranus Mech, and Li Yi identified it as Spatial Divinity.

Li Yi used his newly awakened Spatial Divinity to cut through mid-tier A-class mechs and persuaded Chen Qiong Zhi to help him destroy their pursuers before withdrawing. Elsewhere, Lin Jianlong’s Tianzhou Mech joined Lu Yunsheng’s fight against the Gers Mech, and the chapter ended as Lin Jianlong attacked after the Gers Mech wrested away his sword.

• Li Yi amplified his Spatial Divinity through the Uranus Mech and used it to slice through a mid-tier A-class mech with little acceleration.
• As enemy mechs coordinated their attacks, Li Yi refused to withdraw and proposed that Chen Qiong Zhi help clear their pursuers within five minutes.
• Chen Qiong Zhi agreed to help Li Yi hold back the pursuers and leave them behind.
• Lin Jianlong led the Tianzhou Mech and other mechs to confront three S-class mechs and one high-tier A-class mech at the Central Axis.
• The Gers Mech caught the Tianzhou Mech’s Soul-Cleaving Sword and twisted it out of Lin Jianlong’s hands.
• Lin Jianlong surged forward under Chrono Divinity and punched toward the Gers Mech’s head.

Heng Xiulong coordinated the Starborn’s attack on the mechs fighting at the Central Axis, using Wuzhibo’s Supreme Technique [Collapse] to trap friend and foe alike. The Tianzhou Mech broke free and freed several human mechs, but the Starborn’s mass attack had weakened them as the battle of the Supreme Experts began.

• Heng Xiulong promised Wuzhibo a Demigod-level Core in exchange for using [Collapse] against the Central Axis.
• Wuzhibo fired a Divinity Energy Cannon that engulfed the fighting mechs in a vast sphere, and four Divine Mechs struck it as it contracted.
• The contracting spheres trapped human and Starborn mechs, damaging their armor and threatening to crush their divinity shields.
• Heng Xiulong led ten Golden and twelve Silver mechs toward the Central Axis while human reinforcements rushed in to help their trapped allies.
• The Tianzhou Mech broke free, fired a Chronal Energy Cannon, and used Chronal Chain Slash to burst the spheres around several human mechs.

Li Yi recovered from the mission that had helped weaken the enemy’s A-rank pursuers and reviewed the uncertain battle situation. After the human side seized the Central Axis, He Guangzhi assigned Li Yi to lead an elite flank force against the enemy’s outer defensive formation.

• Li Yi and his allies wiped out seventy percent of the A-rank pursuers, captured prisoners, and returned to the command ship.
• Li Yi recovered in a nutrient chamber and used memory fragments to assess the damage to the Supreme Experts and the likely course of the war.
• After recovering, Li Yi chose the Uranus Mech for its mobility and its ability to amplify his Spatial Divinity.
• He Guangzhi told Li Yi that Chief Lin had driven off the Starborn and that the fighting had shifted to B- and C-rank legion combat.
• He Guangzhi assigned Li Yi an elite force to sever the enemy wings from their Central Axis, and Li Yi promised to complete the mission.

Li Yi accepted command of a flank-cutting mission with forty Celestial-level pilots in B-class mechs. As the team approached the Central Axis, he discovered He Qiongying had a top-secret mission and asked whether it was tied to the fifth-stage plan.

• He Guangzhi explained why Li Yi was best suited to lead the surprise attack and told him the enemy flanks were limited to mid Celestial-level experts, with only a few weaker high Celestial-level opponents.
• Li Yi met Lin Wendong, Mu Tianlei, Chen Qiong Zhi, Mo Chenlong, He Qiongying, and other Celestial-level pilots, then ordered them to launch in B-class mechs.
• Forty Divine Mechs flew toward the Central Axis by a flank route and saw close-quarters fighting already underway.
• Li Yi told Chen Qiong Zhi he had level-eight clearance, and Chen Qiong Zhi promised to explain her unusual strength after the battle.
• He Qiongying told Li Yi she would leave the team for a top-secret mission, and Li Yi asked if it was related to the fifth-stage plan and requested her passcode.

Li Yi led thirty elite pilots in a surprise attack on the Starborn wing formations, where their superior strength let them tear through the first enemy formation. The squad continued pushing into the wing as the battle escalated.

• He Qiongying gave Li Yi a passphrase and asked him to cover for her during the coming melee.
• Li Yi reviewed the team’s route markers and signals, then led the thirty B-class mechs toward the Starborn wing formations.
• Li Yi assessed the enemy deployment and ordered the squad to attack before the wing forces fully pressed in.
• Li Yi, Mu Tianlei, and Lin Wendong spearheaded a wedge charge, and Li Yi cut an early A-class mech in two.
• The squad routed the first hundred-mech formation and continued attacking deeper into the Alien wing.

Li Yi led his elite mech group through the Alien flank, using precise attacks and a layered shield formation to withstand powerful cannon fire. As three high-stage Celestial-ranked mechs slowed their advance, Lin Wendong began preparing a powerful attack while Li Yi moved to hold off their opponents.

• Li Yi shattered three hundred-mech formations by targeting their commanders, while He Guangzhi's flank forces advanced through the disorganized enemy troops.
• Three Silver mechs fired Divinity Energy Cannons at Li Yi's formation, and Li Yi ordered his teammates to layer their shields and absorb the barrage.
• Li Yi charged into the Alien formation, causing the Silver mechs' later shots to miss and damage their own forces.
• As the enemy formation grew stronger, Li Yi conserved strength by crippling mechs and leaving them for his teammates to finish.
• Three high-stage Celestial-ranked mechs intercepted the group and slowed its advance, so Lin Wendong asked Li Yi to buy him a minute to prepare a powerful attack.

Li Yi used the Uranus Mech to break through enemy traits while trying to keep his team moving during a difficult fight. Meanwhile, the Aliens argued over their faltering campaign and suspected that a mole was leaking their plans to humanity.

• Li Yi combined the 3.1 Burst Technique with Spatial Divinity, and his exploding blade fragments tore through an Alien silver-grade mech’s shield.
• Li Yi used the Friction Trait reinforced by the Adhere-Word Technique to expose and counter a ghostlike mech’s semi-intangibility, but the Uranus Mech remained outmatched by its heavier opponents.
• As Li Yi’s team stalled, human forces advanced along the Central Axis and the wing lines.
• Heng Tulong called for the Golden Experts to launch an enemy-breaking operation, while Wuzhibo argued that Lin Jianlong’s strength had already cost the Aliens their best chance at a quick victory.
• Heng Xiulong announced that their ancestor would arrive in fifteen minutes and reveal the mole, while Wuzhibo proposed searching every Golden Expert and silver-grade expert for human communication devices.

He Guangzhi learned that the Starborn were investigating moles and sought guidance from Lin Jianlong, who hinted at a larger plan involving Revived Ones and urged him to focus on command. Meanwhile, Li Yi and his squad used Lin Wendong’s Planet Shattering Cannon to break through several Alien formations, then began withdrawing before reinforcements arrived.

• He Guangzhi asked Lin Jianlong how to respond to the Starborn investigation, and Lin Jianlong told him to continue his duties until the fifth-phase signal.
• Lin Jianlong warned He Guangzhi not to overuse Li Yi and urged him to break through to Supreme Expert.
• Li Yi maintained a half-buffed state in the Uranus Mech while it held off two Silver Mechs for a minute.
• Lin Wendong fired the Planet Shattering Cannon, clearing a path through the Alien formations as Li Yi’s squad accelerated through.
• Li Yi’s group broke through the sixth and seventh formations, then turned to withdraw before more Alien Silver Experts could reinforce them.

He Qiongying infiltrated a Starborn command flagship and headed for its command center, while Zhang Shengfeng identified an Alien infiltrator hiding in Shanghai and ordered the city evacuated. He Qiongying still had to bypass the command center’s soul-recognition device, and Zhang prepared to confront the target at the spire.

• He Qiongying used her Dodder Mech’s disguises and a changed identification frequency to blend into the chaotic Alien formation.
• He Qiongying boarded the command flagship, changed into an Alien pilot suit, disguised her face, and convinced a medic to guide her toward the command center.
• He Qiongying dismissed the medic and began entering the command center’s password, with a soul-recognition device remaining as the next obstacle.
• Zhang Shengfeng announced that Aliens had infiltrated Shanghai and ordered citizens to evacuate with military assistance.
• Zhang Shengfeng fixed his attention on the motionless six-hundred-meter spire, confirming that the target was hiding there.

Li Yi's assault team withdrew from the Aliens' formation, then turned back to destroy three silver mechs before returning to its other missions. Meanwhile, Zhang Shengfeng evacuated the area around the Pearl Tower and attacked its shield after concluding that the Aliens inside were mannequins.

• Li Yi led his team back toward human-controlled territory while dodging Divinity Energy Cannons, and he explained that they had completed their objective and needed to prepare for a major change.
• After Chen Qiong Zhi pointed out that the three silver mechs were attacking other human formations, Li Yi ordered the team to destroy them within three minutes.
• Li Yi, Chen Qiong Zhi, and their allies combined their attacks against the strongest silver mech, interrupting its semi-phasing and allowing Li Yi to cut through it.
• Zhang Shengfeng received confirmation that the surrounding people had been evacuated and told his assistant that the Aliens in the Pearl Tower were mannequins.
• Zhang Shengfeng struck the Pearl Tower with his Soul-Cleaving Sword, but a divine shield appeared and blocked the blade.