Chapter Summaries

Emperor Xuanzong returned to the Capital with Qin Hao after spending a month in Taoyuan County, where he ordered Qin Hao to provide an aircraft. At court, officials presented crises including a flood and renewed war with the Göktürks, and Qin Hao offered a solution before Yao Si and his faction challenged him.

• Emperor Xuanzong praised Qin Hao for solving the silver theft case and fined him by ordering him to give the emperor an aircraft.
• Qin Hao hosted Emperor Xuanzong and the others at Haidilao, while the emperor considered what official post to give him.
• Qin Hao flew Emperor Xuanzong, Princess Yuzhen, Zhang Shuo, Wang Gonggong, and Liu Shuai back to Chang'an in a helicopter.
• After a sleepless first night in the Capital, Emperor Xuanzong resolved to make Qin Hao Minister of Justice and have him improve Chang'an.
• At court, officials reported a flood in Yiyang County and renewed war with the Göktürks, and Qin Hao offered a solution.
• Yao Si questioned Qin Hao's ability, and officials from Yao Si's faction joined in accusing him.

Qin Hao promised Emperor Xuanzong of Tang that he would resolve Yiyang County’s flooding and stop the Göktürks, and began preparing equipment and a special forces unit. He left Princess Yuzhen in Taoyuan County and started training a thousand soldiers in Chang'an City.

• Qin Hao proposed sending Yiyang County’s floodwater to Taoyuan County and using Taoyuan County’s guns against the Göktürks, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang appointed him Minister of Justice if he succeeded.
• Qin Hao returned to Taoyuan County by helicopter with Princess Yuzhen and left her at his villa before heading to the factory.
• Qin Hao ordered the factory workers to mass-produce firearms and water conservancy equipment, then conjured enough raw materials to fill the warehouse.
• Qin Hao surveyed Yiyang County from the air and returned to the capital to propose a thousand-person special forces unit.
• Emperor Xuanzong of Tang approved the unit, and Qin Hao selected a thousand people and began training them in Chang'an City for a month.

After 15 days of contemplating the Origin, Qin Hao created a breathing method that let people cultivate Qi without spiritual energy. He refined the method and decided it was time to train the 1,000 soldiers.

• Qin Hao struggled to find a way to help the 1,000 soldiers transcend the ordinary in one month, then spent 15 days contemplating the Origin.
• Qin Hao comprehended Qi and created a breathing method that let living beings gather and store it through breathing.
• Qin Hao tested the method and found he could accumulate Qi in one minute as quickly as he had through 100 years of comprehending the Origin.
• The soldiers complained that Qin Hao had left them idle in the training camp for half a month and doubted his ability to lead troops.
• Qin Hao improved the breathing method over several hours and decided to begin training the soldiers.

Qin Hao revealed his cultivation method to the 1,000 protesting soldiers, whose rapid training transformed them into powerful Martial Artists in just one shichen. After they easily survived their tribulations, he gave them knowledge of firearms and ammunition, leaving them ready for further training.

• Qin Hao answered the soldiers’ protests by revealing his cultivation aura and claiming that their idle days had been meant to clear their minds.
• Qin Hao used his Mental Power to teach all 1,000 soldiers his perfected Breathing Technique, leaving them unconscious for fourteen days as they absorbed it.
• Qin Hao had the soldiers practice the Breathing Technique, and within one shichen even the weakest reached Martial General strength.
• Qin Hao stopped their cultivation when dark clouds signaled tribulations and dispersed the soldiers to separate locations.
• The soldiers successfully transcended their tribulations, with the strongest reaching Martial King strength, and Qin Hao transmitted knowledge of firearms and ammunition to them.

Qin Hao trained 1,000 soldiers in cultivation, set them to build reservoirs and a pipeline to control Yiyang County’s flooding, and claimed the disaster had been dealt with before the emperor. Yao Si challenged his claims at court as Qin Hao’s soldiers headed back to Chang’an.

• Qin Hao taught the 1,000 soldiers and the factory workers the Breathing Technique, then took the factory’s warehouse supplies into his internal space.
• Qin Hao sent the soldiers to build a reservoir in Yiyang County and connect it to Taoyuan County with a pipeline, then taught the Breathing Technique to Chu Ling'er and Chu Feng.
• After modifying the Breathing Technique, Qin Hao cultivated and felt his power surge before Wang Gonggong summoned him to court.
• Qin Hao told Wang Gonggong that the soldiers had completed the water project and would return by helicopter, though Wang Gonggong doubted him.
• Qin Hao told Emperor Xuanzong of Tang that the soldiers could each take on a hundred men and that Yiyang County’s flooding had been dealt with.
• Yao Si accused Qin Hao of boasting and failing to address the flooding, but Qin Hao insisted he had not deceived the emperor.

Qin Hao defended his claim that he had solved Yiyang County’s flooding and challenged Yao Si to a bet, with Emperor Xuanzong of Tang presiding. At the training camp, Qin Hao’s returning soldiers arrived by helicopter and military vehicles, and Little Li stunned the court by lifting a heavy truck.

• Yao Si accused Qin Hao of failing to address Yiyang County’s flooding, and Qin Hao explained that he had built a channel and reservoir to divert its water to Taoyuan County.
• Qin Hao bet Yao Si ten thousand taels of gold against Qin Hao’s life if the flooding remained unresolved and his soldiers could not each take on a hundred men.
• Emperor Xuanzong of Tang accompanied Qin Hao, Yao Si, and the officials to the training camp, where ten helicopters and forty-five military vehicles arrived.
• The returning soldiers reported that they had completely resolved the flooding in Yiyang County, then formed ranks on Qin Hao’s command.
• Qin Hao called forward Little Li, one of the unit’s weakest soldiers, and ordered him to lift a military truck; Little Li picked it up with one hand and ran toward Qin Hao.

Qin Hao demonstrated the soldiers’ strength to Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and the court, then passed on cultivation manuals before vanishing. After the Göktürks seized two cities, the special forces headed to the border, while Qin Hao returned to Taoyuan County, cleared the trial, and ended the simulation by killing himself.

• Xiao Li lifted a military truck with one hand, and the officials marveled at his strength as Yao Si broke his leg kicking the truck.
• At Qin Hao’s order, all one thousand soldiers demonstrated lifting trucks, and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang ordered Yao Si to pay ten thousand taels of gold to Taoyuan County.
• Qin Hao told Emperor Xuanzong of Tang that he was a cultivator, presented him with four grades of the Breathing Technique, and vanished.
• A messenger reported that the Göktürks had taken two cities and their defending general had fallen, so Emperor Xuanzong of Tang sent the special forces to the border.
• Qin Hao comprehended the World Origin, cleared the trial, returned to Taoyuan County, and killed himself, ending the Life Simulation.

Qin Hao cleared the sixth-level trial by using his Breathing Technique to absorb the world's remaining Spiritual Qi, then entered the seventh level. There, he learned he must create a cultivation system and help humanity survive extinction, and headed toward a city besieged by mutated creatures.

• Qin Hao entered the Sixth-Level Trial and cultivated with his Breathing Technique, drawing the world's remaining Spiritual Qi into a vortex.
• The people nearby witnessed Qin Hao's cultivation, and the colorful halo transformed their Spiritual Power as they underwent breakthroughs.
• Qin Hao cleared the sixth level, received a cultivation room access card for six shichen, and ascended through a gate of light to the seventh level.
• The trial voice told Qin Hao to create a complete cultivation system and save humanity from extinction or vanish with them.
• Qin Hao discovered that the world had no Spiritual Qi, confirmed he could cultivate with his Breathing Technique, and found a technologically advanced human city.
• Mutated insects and wild beasts rushed toward Qin Hao outside the city's protective dome.

Qin Hao entered a nearly deserted city and told its soldiers he was an immortal cultivator from another world who had come to teach them cultivation. When they suspected he was mentally ill, he demonstrated his powers and revealed a massive swarm of locusts behind them.

• Qin Hao destroyed the mutated insects and beasts with lightning, then passed through the city's protective barrier.
• Qin Hao met Thomas and four other soldiers, who tested his identity with a lie detector.
• Qin Hao told the soldiers he had ascended from another world and planned to teach them cultivation so they could fight the mutated creatures.
• Thomas asked Qin Hao if he was mentally ill, and Qin Hao answered that he was fine.
• Qin Hao teleported the soldiers beneath the central high-rise and then into the air beyond the barrier.
• Qin Hao pointed out a vast swarm of locusts behind them, leaving Thomas and the soldiers pale with fear.

Qin Hao arrived at Zhang Yi’s fortified base on an apocalyptic Blue Star and learned how the world had been devastated by cosmic radiation and mutations. Unsure why his cultivation method still failed the trial’s requirements, he began accepting disciples so he could teach the survivors to cultivate.

• Thomas and the others fled from a swarm of locusts, but Qin Hao burned it away and appeared inside their vehicle before they reached the base.
• Zhang Yi watched Qin Hao through surveillance and told Thomas to keep observing him cautiously.
• Qin Hao sensed Blue Star’s history: cosmic radiation destroyed the solar system’s celestial bodies, the moon shielded the planet before exploding, and the resulting mutations brought an apocalypse.
• Qin Hao realized the trial required him to create a complete cultivation system and teach it to humanity, though he could not identify what was incomplete about his method.
• Qin Hao announced that he would accept disciples and teach cultivation, prompting Thomas and others who knew about him to rush forward.

Qin Hao taught his Breathing Technique to survivors and traveled to another base to spread it, where he rescued three people from a pack of mutated beasts. He brought their vehicle inside the base’s protective barrier, but the startled survivors confronted him with weapons.

• Qin Hao taught the Breathing Technique to ten people over fifteen days, and Thomas sensed Qi within ten minutes.
• Qin Hao left to teach the cultivation method at survivor bases and noticed people here cultivated more slowly than in the sixth-level world.
• Qin Hao killed the monsters attacking a survival base and saw an SUV being chased by mutated beasts.
• Qin Hao appeared inside the SUV, saved it from crashing, and destroyed the pursuing beasts with lightning.
• Qin Hao transported the SUV inside the barrier, where Lin Fei and the two women aimed weapons at him as he introduced himself.

Qin Hao brought Lin Fei, Wang Siqi, and Liu Xiaofei back to the Tiger King Mercenary Group’s base, where he confronted Tiger King over his treatment of the two women. He used his cultivator’s aura to force Tiger King to his knees, and Tiger King begged for mercy once the guards had left.

• Qin Hao explained that he was a human cultivator and had saved the group from a pack of monsters, earning Wang Siqi and Liu Xiaofei’s admiration.
• Lin Fei, Wang Siqi, and Liu Xiaofei brought Qin Hao to the base, where they met Tiger King, who had sent the women out to avoid becoming his lovers.
• Tiger King dismissed Qin Hao as a pretty boy and challenged his claim to be a cultivator.
• Qin Hao released his aura and crushed Tiger King to his knees as the mercenaries rushed into the room.
• Qin Hao fooled the mercenaries into leaving, then eased the pressure and made Tiger King beg for his life.

Qin Hao taught a cultivation method to ten people at a survivor base, then discovered that the Breathing Technique built Qi faster than it provided ways to attack. He went to the Amazon Rainforest to refine the method, where his long meditation transformed the surrounding creatures and made them regard him as their master.

• Qin Hao gathered the people at the base, selected ten students, and spent fifteen days teaching them the Breathing Technique.
• Lin Fei sensed Qi in five minutes, reached the Martial Artist Realm in one day, and learned the Icebound Art from Qin Hao.
• After finding that Lin Fei's attacks remained weak, Qin Hao left the base and settled in a cabin in the Amazon Rainforest to investigate tempering the body with Qi.
• Qin Hao protected his cabin with a lightning barrier and studied how to improve the Breathing Technique as a multicolored halo spread through the forest.
• Over two years, the halo expanded to a hundred and ten li, awakening the forest's plants and creatures, which grew intelligent and recognized Qin Hao as their master.

After ten years of research, Qin Hao created the Twelve Palaces Scripture, a cultivation method that drew power from a person's own body rather than the world's Origin. He gave it to Lin Fei at the Tiger King's base and left him to teach it to the survivors.

• Qin Hao developed a way to cultivate his own universe and perfected all twelve palaces, though he could not yet connect them into one whole.
• Qin Hao visited the Tiger King's base and found Lin Fei, now a Martial King, in charge after the Tiger King and the other disciples had died defending the base.
• Qin Hao used the world's Origin Power to learn that intelligent monsters had united other monsters and destroyed many human bases.
• Qin Hao passed a new cultivation method to Lin Fei and gave him the Twelve Palaces Scripture to distribute among the base's people.
• Lin Fei told the concerned soldiers that the mysterious visitor was his master and announced that they had a new cultivation method.

Qin Hao taught Zhang Yi the Twelve Palaces Scripture and left him to cultivate it. While Qin Hao studied in the Amazon, blood-red blades began battering a golden shield over an Abyss at the South Pole, and Qi spread across Blue Star as a planet-wide aurora.

• Qin Hao arrived at Zhang Yi's expanded base, recognized him, and took him to his villa to speak privately.
• Qin Hao reassured Zhang Yi, made him his disciple, and imparted the Twelve Palaces Scripture through Mental Power.
• Qin Hao gave Zhang Yi a written copy of the scripture for Thomas and the others, then returned to the Amazon to study how to connect the twelve palaces.
• Roars sounded from the South Pole Abyss as blood-red blades struck the golden shield covering it.
• Qi spread across Blue Star and formed auroras everywhere, while the shield briefly appeared as snowy landscape before reverting to gold over the Abyss.

Qin Hao discovered that the Eight Extraordinary Meridians could connect the Twelve Palaces and returned to Zhang Yi’s base to teach him how to cultivate. He decided to gather the world’s survivors there, then began expanding the city with his control over the world’s Origin Laws.

• Qin Hao returned to Zhang Yi’s room and found that Zhang Yi had amassed qi comparable to a Martial Emperor but had not tempered his body or soul.
• Qin Hao taught Zhang Yi how to temper his body and soul, then showed him how to use the Eight Extraordinary Meridians to locate and open the Divine Palaces.
• Qin Hao told Zhang Yi he would gather the world’s survivors at the base and teach them cultivation, and Zhang Yi agreed to follow his plans.
• Qin Hao vanished and began expanding the city, creating construction materials and residential buildings out of thin air.
• Zhang Yi watched Qin Hao reshape the city on surveillance footage and wondered whether his master was a man or a god.

Qin Hao built a vast city and spent a day bringing Blue Star’s surviving humans together there, merging their scattered bases into one protected settlement. He then went to Antarctica to investigate the Abyss and the cause of the mutations.

• Qin Hao expanded Zhang Yi’s city by nearly 1,000 kilometers and told Zhang Yi to prepare for incoming survivors.
• Qin Hao brought Lin Fei’s base to the city, then arrived at Musk’s base, where Musk agreed to join after learning Qin Hao was an immortal cultivator.
• Qin Hao transported survivors from bases across Blue Star to Zhang Yi’s city, and Zhang Yi let them choose buildings outside the central structure.
• Qin Hao protected the merged settlement with a lightning barrier that even the king of monsters could not break through.
• Qin Hao went to Antarctica, where monsters emerged from an enormous Abyss, and began investigating its secrets and the mutations on Blue Star.

Qin Hao entered the Abyss and found a world whose monstrous ruler recognized him from a past battle. Though the Weiming Palace’s power let Qin Hao withstand the creature’s oppressive aura and block its first strike, he was badly injured as the monster prepared to attack again.

• Qin Hao questioned the monsters about their Holy Clan, then killed their leader and froze and shattered the horde that attacked him.
• Qin Hao jumped into the Abyss and arrived in another world, where overwhelming pressure made it difficult for him to stand.
• A bull-headed spider monster recognized Qin Hao, mocked his weakened Martial Emperor 100th Tier strength, and vowed revenge for its grandfather.
• The gallbladder spirit in Qin Hao’s Weiming Palace boosted his strength a hundredfold, allowing him to resist the monster’s pressure.
• Qin Hao used Time Stop and the Laws of Strength to punch the monster’s palm, losing his right hand and suffering severe injuries while the monster remained largely unharmed.
• The bull-headed spider monster raised its palm to strike again, and Qin Hao feared that he was about to die.

After escaping a powerful being in the Abyss, Qin Hao returned to the survival base and gathered its people to teach them his cultivation system. He explained the Body Tempering, Qi Drawing, and Palace Opening realms, laying out a path that could prepare them for the monsters emerging from the Abyss.

• Qin Hao's system spent all his Great Dao Crystals to teleport him away from the Abyss, where the golden barrier weakened under the attacks of blood-red blades and monsters began emerging.
• Qin Hao killed an attacking monster with a Spatial Blade, realized weaker monsters could escape the Abyss, and decided to teach everyone to cultivate.
• Qin Hao returned to Qinghe Temple and summoned the people in the base; Zhang Yi arrived using the Spatial Laws and told his master he had recently mastered them.
• Qin Hao taught the gathered people the Breathing Technique and explained that perfected Body Tempering granted strength comparable to a Martial Emperor First Rank expert.
• Qin Hao described Qi Drawing as tempering and opening the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, reaching power comparable to a Martial Emperor 50th Tier expert.
• Qin Hao explained that Palace Opening involved opening the Twelve Divine Palaces, which granted immense power, mastery of at least one law, and the ability to open the immortal gate.

Qin Hao explained his cultivation system and warned his disciples about enemies stronger than him, while heavenly punishments repeatedly failed to harm him. A year later, he had connected three Divine Palaces, and Zhang Yi passed his tribulation to enter the Qi Drawing Realm as Qin Hao continued refining his system.

• Qin Hao described the Dao Comprehension and Creation Realms and explained that he had opened all twelve Divine Palaces, though he still could not create a true world.
• Qin Hao taught his disciples the five cultivation realms while absorbing or destroying the heavenly punishments and dark red blades sent against him.
• Qin Hao warned the disciples that powerful enemies awaited them, recalling that a bull-headed spider monster had seriously injured him.
• Qin Hao connected the Infant-Nurturing Palace, the Soul-Quiescence Palace, and the Weiming Palace, increasing his strength more than thirty thousandfold.
• Zhang Yi passed his Heavenly Tribulation and entered the Qi Drawing Realm First Stage, while Lin Fei, Thomas, and Musk showed progress in Body Tempering.