Chapter Summaries

Han Xiao discovered that foreign professional clubs were coordinating player attacks and forum provocations to drive players away from the Black Star Army. He began drafting a faction bounty to turn the Army’s players against those clubs’ factions, while the executives remained confident their scheme would work.

• Han Xiao read reports of army players being attacked and recognized the pattern as a dirty tactic used to provoke national and regional flame wars.
• Han Xiao concluded that foreign clubs were targeting the Black Star Army to limit its growing player population and protect their own factions.
• Han Xiao decided to counter the attacks with a bounty quest rewarding army players for killing members of the rival factions, and began drafting the order.
• Executives from professional clubs in several countries discussed their coordinated attacks and planned to use Huaxia’s league success to intensify resentment toward the Black Star Army.

After Army players suffered repeated attacks from foreign Immortals, Han Xiao issued three announcements offering newcomer benefits, warning hostile factions, and authorizing retaliatory strikes with rewards. The resulting player mobilization rattled rival factions and clubs, while Hila received a communication request from the leader of the Arcane Church.

• Beneath the Flying Clouds complained about being corpse-camped and considered leaving the Army as resentment toward foreign newcomers grew.
• Han Xiao announced support benefits for veterans helping newcomers, publicly warned factions whose Immortals had attacked Army members, and authorized rewarded counterattacks and bounties.
• Army players rallied to hunt hostile faction members, with veterans teaming up with newcomers who knew their former factions.
• Most targeted factions apologized and restrained their Immortals, while some suspected spies or blamed the Infinite Financial Group; Sorokin was bewildered by the accusations.
• Foreign clubs saw their plans disrupted as their factions refused to retaliate, leaving ordinary players bewildered by the sudden hunt.
• Hila received a special communication request from the leader of the Arcane Church.

Hila and Aurora experimented with linking and fusing their powers before Hila rejected the Arcane Church leader’s offer to join. The Church then prepared a surprise attack on Hila, while Kasuyi’s avatar privately resolved to keep her alive.

• Hila and Aurora discussed their failed attempt to transmit life energy across any distance, and Hila sensed that an unknown secondary dimension was absorbing most of it.
• Hila fused a small amount of Aurora’s life energy with her death energy, producing unstable golden-orange energy with weakened healing and destructive effects.
• The Arcane Church leader personally offered Hila a place in the Church, but she firmly refused and reaffirmed her loyalty to Black Star.
• After the recruitment failed, Photon Sagman and the other Arcane Church powerhouses prepared to attack Hila and planned to lure her away from the base or destroy its stargate passage.
• Kasuyi’s avatar agreed to hold off Black Star’s Dominion avatar and privately decided that Hila would not die.

The Federation of Light prepared to capture Hila with a strategic teleporter while Sorokin recruited Traveler to keep Black Star occupied and exploit tensions among Beyond Grade As. Meanwhile, Han Xiao successfully fused Chaos Mysterious Energy with a mechanical vessel, though the vessel still needed optimization.

• The Federation of Light assembled seven Beyond Grade As and prepared to teleport into battle to capture Hila and force Black Star to unseal the Scepter of All Gods.
• Sorokin predicted that Glory and the Arcane Church would attack Hila, then asked Traveler to challenge Black Star and tie him down during the operation.
• Sorokin told Traveler that the attack could also provoke infighting among Beyond Grade As and undermine the Meeting of the Gods.
• Han Xiao completed the seventeenth test of the Chaos Mysterious Energy vessel, achieving fusion with a 72 percent synchronization rate and 75 percent compatibility.

Han Xiao completed the first Mysterious Energy Envoy prototype and learned that Silver Shadow had come to Black Star Palace seeking access to the Evolution Cube. Meanwhile, Tolain challenged Hila at an army base as part of an ambush plan, but the fleet opened fire before she appeared.

• Han Xiao tested the Mysterious Energy Envoy, named it the First Generation, and decided to improve it before turning it into an Apostle Weapon.
• Phillip told Han Xiao that Silver Shadow had brought rare blueprint data to trade for use of the Evolution Cube, and Han Xiao waited for the Throne to reach Black Star Palace so he could teleport there.
• Ames received Silver Shadow at Black Star Palace while Han Xiao was away, and Silver Shadow mistook her role as host for proof of rumors about her relationship with Black Star.
• Tolain arrived at a Black Star Army base, challenged Hila, and secretly planned to lure her toward an ambush with Kasuyi and the others.
• Hila refused to respond to Tolain’s challenge, and the Black Star Army fleet opened fire on his spaceship, surprising him.

The Arcane Church launched a coordinated assault on Hila’s base, while Han Xiao’s Dominion avatar and Kasuyi’s avatar clashed amid signs that Kasuyi was secretly helping Han Xiao. As Hila fought to hold out and reinforcements were summoned, Ames learned of the attack and went to confront a challenger at the Black Star Palace.

• Tolain escaped Hila’s fleet bombardment and told Sagman’s team to begin their assault after Hila refused his challenge.
• Sagman and Taylor attacked the stargates as Kasuyi, Motes, Mechanical Catastrophe Francisco, and Tolain’s forces struck Hila’s base and pinned down its defenses.
• Hila charged the attackers but was overwhelmed by Red Devil, Desolate Beast, and Mechanical Catastrophe until Han Xiao’s Dominion avatar and mechanical troops arrived.
• Kasuyi fought Han Xiao’s avatar while covertly weakening his blockade, allowing mechanical troops to aid Hila as Han Xiao confirmed Kasuyi was acting.
• Players at the base recorded the battle, while Aurora warned Ames that Hila was under attack by the Arcane Church.
• Ames accepted Traveler’s challenge at the Black Star Palace, suspecting it was connected to the assault on Hila.

Traveler fought Ames outside the Black Star Palace while the Dynasty mobilized to help Hila, and its leaders debated the cost of protecting her. Gorutan considered delaying the reinforcements, while Manison prepared to move and ordered his forces to watch him.

• Traveler challenged Ames at the Black Star Palace, and she fought him while Melos secretly arranged for the fleet to encircle and trap him.
• The Dynasty summoned Kant, Ravenlaude, Beoni, and Kohler to reinforce the Black Star Army, while Urranrell ordered full support for Black Star.
• Bekorodi proposed making Hila join the Dynasty in return for its help, but Urranrell postponed the discussion until after the crisis.
• Clottey told Urranrell that Hila was unlikely to survive because Glory would intervene, and Urranrell later urged him to leave his post and remind the universe of the Dark Emperor.
• Sorokin proposed that Gorutan delay the Dynasty's reinforcements by disabling nearby stargates, and Gorutan considered the plan.
• Manison ordered his forces to watch Gorutan and stop him if he acted, while Mornisa reported that the High-Dimensional Apocalypse Device was ready to depart.

Hila faced five enemies as Sagman and Taylor joined the battle and used an Arcane forbidden spell scroll to immobilize her. She survived their combined assault by linking her life force to Aurora, and the fight paused when a Federation of Light fleet arrived with six Beyond Grade As.

• Mechanical Catastrophe Francisco struggled to hold back the death energy while Tolain and Motes attacked from behind his shield, and Hila's mechanical and fleet reinforcements helped keep the battle near a stalemate.
• Sagman and Taylor destroyed the last stronghold stargate station and hurried to join Hila's battlefield, where their arrival pushed her onto the defensive.
• Kasuyi and Han Xiao discussed how to get Han Xiao's Dominion avatar to Hila, but Francisco's attack left Hila exposed and Taylor used the Forbidden Spell: Embrace of the Weeping Nun to immobilize her.
• Sagman, Tolain, Motes, and Francisco bombarded Hila, but her wounds rapidly healed after she activated a life link with Aurora, revealing a recovery ability that startled the attackers.
• Hila prepared to fight again as the combatants paused, then a Federation of Light fleet emerged from the void with six Beyond Grade As.

Traveler summoned the Fel Energy Aggregation secondary dimension around Black Star Palace and challenged Black Star after overpowering Ames. On the frontline, Hila gained Aurora’s life-energy support and faced a growing coalition of Beyond Grade As, until Kasuyi attacked Glory and exposed its plan to capture her.

• Traveler transformed and summoned the Fel Energy Aggregation secondary dimension, which battered the fleets around Black Star Palace as he fought Ames.
• Hila established a life-energy connection with Aurora, then watched six Glory Beyond Grade As arrive and join Sagman’s group against her.
• Hila charged the assembled Beyond Grade As despite believing she might die, while Han Xiao gave her a new suit of armor and promised she would survive.
• Kasuyi’s avatar attacked Glory’s group and accused them of planning to capture Hila to force Black Star to remove the Scepter of All Gods’ seal.
• Kasuyi declared that protecting Arcane’s supreme treasure took priority, while Han Xiao wondered whether Kasuyi’s convincing explanation was genuine or an act.

Glory and Arcane joined forces to capture Hila while Black Star’s Dominion avatar struggled to protect her, but the Mechanic Emperor disrupted Gorutan’s support efforts. Black Star’s original body arrived on the battlefield, badly injuring Seraon and turning the tide.

• Kasuyi fought Seraon while Glory and Arcane agreed to attack Hila, and Sagman chose to cooperate with Glory despite Kasuyi’s orders.
• Gorutan learned that the Mechanic Emperor had intercepted his troops, argued with Manison, and left to retrieve them and attack the stargate stations.
• Glory and Arcane overwhelmed Hila as Han Xiao’s Dominion avatar defended her, while their forces prevented him from summoning more troops.
• Sagman prepared Taylor to use forbidden-spell scrolls to kill Hila, but a vast mechanical army arrived at the battlefield.
• Han Xiao’s original body struck Seraon, severed one of his arms, and gave Hila a chance to escape the encirclement.
• Han Xiao faced the stunned Beyond Grade As and told them it was their turn to run.

Han Xiao arrived at the frontline base and stopped Arcane and Glory from killing Hila, then rejected their offers to settle the conflict peacefully. He activated several Character Cards and unleashed his mechanical army against the gathered Beyond Grade As.

• Han Xiao struck Seraon and severed his arm, forcing the attackers into a tense standoff while Seraon regrew it.
• Han Xiao learned that an emergency mission required Hila to survive and offered an additional reward for capturing the attackers.
• Hila joined Han Xiao and shared life energy with him to boost his combat strength.
• Seraon offered to withdraw if Han Xiao unsealed Glory's Scepter of All Gods, while Kasuyi proposed joining forces against Glory.
• Han Xiao rejected both deals and challenged the more than ten Beyond Grade As to attack him together.
• Han Xiao activated several Character Cards, amplified his power, and sent his mechanical army surging toward the enemy.

Han Xiao unleashed the Tyrant's character card and doubled Mechanical Sense, overwhelming the Glory and Arcane Beyond Grade As while letting them believe he had burned his potential. He captured Tolain in Space-Time Amber, and Kasuyi called for the others to retreat as the battle turned against them.

• Han Xiao attacked the assembled Beyond Grade As with his boosted mechanical army, and Seraon mistook his power for the Pugilist skill Cellular Super Limit Release.
• Hila learned that Han Xiao had supposedly burned his potential to protect her and attacked the Arcane fighters in anger, while Han Xiao hid that his power came from the Tyrant's character card.
• Han Xiao's Apostle Weapons isolated Tolain and battered him, while his Space-Time Amber shield blocked attacks and Sisko's character card reflected mental assaults from Crystal Soul and Hedis.
• Seraon charged Han Xiao, but the Mechanical Deity met him in a clash of strength, while Han Xiao repelled a joint virtual intrusion and destroyed Francisco's Dominion avatar.
• Hila and the mechanical forces nearly defeated Tolain, and Han Xiao stopped Hila from killing him before sealing him in Space-Time Amber as his first capture.
• Kasuyi advised the Glory and Arcane forces to retreat, warning that the operation had failed and that they could not continue fighting Han Xiao.

Han Xiao exploited the collapse of the Glory and Arcane alliance to capture three of Glory’s Beyond Grade As, while Kasuyi helped him and Arcane escaped. After revealing that the Sovereign could teleport through space-stabilization defenses, Han Xiao set off to pursue Gorutan.

• Seraon and Kasuyi led Glory and Arcane on separate retreats, and Han Xiao focused his forces on Glory while letting Arcane escape.
• Han Xiao trapped Jack Gonitz inside the Mechanical Deity, and Seraon abandoned him to continue Glory’s retreat.
• Kasuyi turned on Glory and helped Han Xiao capture Hedis and Wormur as Seraon escaped with Crystal Soul aboard Glory’s teleporter.
• Han Xiao thanked Kasuyi, recalled his mechanical forces, and sent Hila back to Black Star Palace in the Sovereign to help Ames.
• Han Xiao demonstrated that the Sovereign could teleport through space-stabilization defenses, then borrowed Silver Shadow’s body and headed to confront Gorutan.

Hila appeared at the Black Star Palace and sent Silver Shadow to Han Xiao, who awakened Silver Shadow’s hidden ability to become Universal Treasure-grade equipment. As Han Xiao set off to confront Gorutan, Gorutan remained unaware of the battle’s outcome until a silver meteor approached him.

• Hila arrived at the Black Star Palace, where Ames forced Traveler to retreat, then equipped Silver Shadow with the Sovereign and sent him to Han Xiao.
• Hila told the officers that she felt she owed Han Xiao too much, leaving them worried about his fate.
• Han Xiao revealed Silver Shadow’s hidden ability to transform into Universal Treasure-grade equipment, and Silver Shadow enveloped him, sharing his abilities.
• Sagman, Taylor, and Motes escaped, while Seraon returned to Glory furious over the losses and blamed Kasuyi.
• Manison kept Gorutan cut off from news while his Apostle Weapons held him at a stargate station.
• Han Xiao raced toward Gorutan as a silver meteor, and Gorutan sensed danger approaching.

Han Xiao confronted Gorutan after rescuing Hila and began fighting him with Silver Shadow’s power, while the Empire’s support fleet learned the rescue battle had ended. The fight between Han Xiao and Gorutan remained underway as Sorokin grew worried that Gorutan was not answering his messages.

• Han Xiao, riding Silver Shadow, struck Gorutan and revealed that Hila was safe and Gorutan’s plan had failed.
• Gorutan admitted his scheme and prepared to fight Han Xiao, while Manison’s forces withdrew rather than intervene.
• Han Xiao unleashed his mechanical army and fought Gorutan at close range, astonishing him with his greatly increased strength.
• Kant told Ravenlaude, Beoni, and Kohler that Han Xiao had resolved the rescue crisis, and the Empire’s fleet decided to go see if it could help with his fight against Gorutan.
• Sorokin paced in Gorutan’s palace and worried that Gorutan had not answered his messages.

Han Xiao fought Gorutan in a grueling duel while the Beast Ancestor’s descendants hesitated and Imperial forces arrived to prevent interference. Han Xiao defeated Gorutan and sealed him in Space-Time Amber, while the Traveler escaped into a secondary dimension to hide.

• Han Xiao used his mechanical army and repeated Endless Accumulation charges to battle Gorutan, while Gorutan’s descendants debated whether to intervene.
• Beyram led the Beast Ancestor’s fleet toward the fight, but Kant and the Imperial forces arrived and formed a perimeter at Han Xiao’s request.
• The Traveler reported his failed operation to the Super Star Cluster Alliance, then entered a secondary dimension to hide.
• After a costly battle that destroyed many mechanical troops and weapons, Han Xiao exhausted Gorutan and declared victory.
• Gorutan refused to beg for mercy, and Han Xiao sealed him in Space-Time Amber.

After defeating Glory and Arcane’s forces and capturing Gorutan, Han Xiao secured his authority and prepared to face the political fallout. Hila reaffirmed her loyalty to him, while news of his victory spread across the universe and stunned everyone.

• Han Xiao captured Gorutan in the Space-Time Amber and decided to keep him rather than hand him over.
• Han Xiao thanked his allies, credited Silver Shadow and Ravenlaude for their help, and learned that Gorutan’s fleet was retreating.
• Han Xiao completed his mission for capturing five Beyond Grade As and spoke with Urranrell, who urged him to persuade Hila to join the empire.
• Hila told Han Xiao that he would always be her army commander, and Han Xiao dismissed the Traveler’s accusations before preparing to return to headquarters.
• News that Han Xiao had driven back twelve Beyond Grade As and captured Gorutan spread across the universe, shocking the public.

Black Star’s defeat of the joint Arcane Church and Federation of Light attack transformed the Black Star Army’s standing across the universe and forced the major factions to reconsider their approach to him. The Crimson Dynasty decided to mend its relationship with Black Star by temporarily granting him the right to sell Evolution Totems.

• Black Star Army members in the Star Cluster Abyss celebrated Han Xiao’s victory, and locals treated them with newfound respect when they reached a transit planet.
• Players spread recordings of the battle across the forums, praising Han Xiao and predicting that the Black Star Army’s reputation would attract more recruits.
• Kasuyi told Arcane Church leaders that Black Star was formidable even outside his burst form, prompting them to abandon plans to target Hila.
• President Bader blamed the failed operation and ordered the Federation of Light to negotiate for the release of its three captured Beyond Grade As without provoking Black Star again.
• Urranrell and the Crimson Dynasty’s leaders agreed to support Black Star and temporarily grant him the right to sell Evolution Totems.

After Han Xiao defeated Gorutan and stopped a brewing conflict among the three Universal Civilizations, his victory became known as Black Star's Battle of Deification and boosted his standing across the universe. Han Xiao returned to the Black Star Palace, entered seclusion, and claimed his mission rewards, including four character summon cards.

• Sorokin considered how Gorutan's downfall could benefit him and decided to halt commercial pressure on the Black Star Army and get rid of Traveler.
• The Secret Master planned to claim some of the Beast Ancestor's forces and strengthen his ties with Black Star.
• Carrot's colleagues teased him for saying Black Star had tried to recruit him, while Carrot watched news of his idol without taking offense.
• Black Star's victory became known as Black Star's Battle of Deification, and Han Xiao publicly announced he would enter seclusion to recuperate.
• Han Xiao settled the Hila Rescue Battle mission and received a Legend Point, 92 billion experience, and character summon cards for Kasuyi, Seraon, Gorutan, and Hila.

Han Xiao reviewed four powerful Character Summon Cards and then drew permanent abilities from five captured Beyond Grade As. After gaining several useful talents, he faced his final draw from Gorutan and considered five Pugilist abilities.

• Han Xiao celebrated the effects of Kasuyi, Seraon, Gorutan, and Hila's Character Summon Cards, especially Hila's ability to grant another person a single revival.
• Han Xiao confirmed that his other Character Summon Cards remained available and that the new cards had more than made up for his costs.
• Han Xiao drew from Hedis and chose [Mental Barrier Enhancement] to strengthen his resistance to mental damage and abnormal states.
• Han Xiao drew from Tolain and chose [Super Load], then selected Wormur's [Cell Activity Expansion] for its growing energy bonuses.
• Han Xiao drew [Mechanical Control Master] from Jack Gonitz, boosting the damage and performance of his machinery.
• Han Xiao began the final draw from Gorutan and reviewed five Pugilist abilities, including [Extreme Path Style: Blood Energy Berserk].