Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao infiltrated the City Lord's Mansion's treasure vault, discovered a Spirit Bead vein, and exchanged the beads he collected for enough Great Dao Crystals to create a Divine Rank black hole cultivation technique. He failed to awaken a Black Hole-Type Ability and retreated into the vault with Annihilation and the Divine Flame Lamp, then resumed collecting Spirit Beads.

• Qin Hao avoided the weak zombies and entered the vault hall, where he used the Divine Flame Lamp and Annihilation to distract the vampire bats before slipping inside.
• Qin Hao found a Corpse Puppet moving Spirit Beads and discovered that the vault contained a vast Spirit Bead vein mined by puppets.
• Qin Hao exchanged about 500 cubic meters of Spirit Beads 100 times, gaining enough Great Dao Crystals to create the Divine Rank technique Black Hole Devour.
• Qin Hao studied Black Hole Devour for an hour but understood only its first section and did not awaken a Black Hole-Type Ability.
• Qin Hao found Annihilation and the Divine Flame Lamp unconscious after the bats' sonic attacks, retrieved them, and brought them into the vault.
• Qin Hao closed the vault door and resumed collecting Spirit Beads and exchanging them for Great Dao Crystals.

After escaping the Horror Swamp, Qin Hao was thrown back by its golden barrier and spent two years immobilized while his Spiritual Power repaired his spine. Once healed, he returned to Chen Jun's secret base, where he created several powerful cultivation techniques and began cultivating them.

• More than a hundred Corpse Puppets attacked Qin Hao, but a mysterious force pulled him from Different-Dimensional Space and a beam of golden light sent him outside the Horror Swamp.
• Qin Hao tried to reenter the swamp, but its golden barrier hurled him into trees and broke every bone in his body, leaving him unable to move for two years.
• After his spine healed, Qin Hao drank Spirit Liquid, recovered completely, and extracted Monster Cores from the demonic beasts that the Divine Flame Lamp and Annihilation had killed.
• Qin Hao visited the Bronze Immortal Hall but left when he learned that the Five Great Nations Alliance controlled access.
• At Chen Jun's old secret base, Qin Hao used Great Dao Crystals to create Spatial Teleportation, Time Stop, Black Hole Annihilation, Invincible Golden Body, Life Healing, Dragon Claw Hand, and Soundwave Charm.
• Qin Hao decided not to create more techniques and began cultivating the ones he had made.

After mastering Black Hole Devour, Qin Hao gained powerful new abilities and left the other world for the academy. He arrived at Nine Palaces Academy just before the registration deadline, where Bai Bing had been anxiously waiting for him.

• Qin Hao gained a Legendary Rank Black Hole-Type Ability with time, space, destruction, and strength powers, then cultivated several techniques and acquired Legendary Rank Beastification-Type and Life-Type abilities.
• Qin Hao transformed into a juvenile Divine Dragon and tested his Life-Type Ability by healing a cut on his hand.
• Qin Hao left the other world for Nine Palaces Academy after realizing it was the final day to register.
• Bai Bing repeatedly tried to reach Qin Hao and worried that he would miss registration, while explaining why she could not enroll him outside the normal process.
• Qin Hao reached the academy just before the enrollment staff were due to leave, arriving drenched in sweat.

Qin Hao returned from another world and tried to enroll at Nine Palaces Academy, where his ragged appearance led Teacher Gao and Chen Yu to underestimate him. The Academic Affairs Office recognized his documents, revealing he had an Ice-Type Ability and SSS-rank talent.

• Bai Bing saw Qin Hao drenched in sweat and left after he returned in ragged clothes.
• Chen Yu arrived at Nine Palaces Academy to enroll, and the staff stayed late to process his registration.
• Qin Hao cut in to submit his own enrollment documents, and Chen Yu mocked his appearance and complained about his smell.
• Teacher Gao processed Qin Hao’s enrollment without examining his admission notice and falsely told Chen Yu that Bai Hao had a trash ability and S-rank talent.
• The Academic Affairs Office recognized Qin Hao’s documents, which showed he had graduated from Nanxiang Vocational and Technical College with an Ice-Type Ability and SSS-rank talent.

Qin Hao moved into room 369, unaware that it belonged to Sun Biao, a second-year student with a notorious Charm-Type Ability. Sun Biao tried to charm him, but Qin Hao resisted and beat him unconscious, then made him his underling.

• Qin Hao found the luxurious room 369 and settled in, unaware that the academy’s students had avoided it because Sun Biao lived there.
• Sun Biao returned that evening and tried to charm Qin Hao through his gaze and voice while tugging at his clothes.
• Qin Hao resisted Sun Biao’s Epic-Talent Charm-Type Ability, slapped him into a bed, and beat him unconscious.
• After waking the next day, Sun Biao told Qin Hao about his abilities but concealed his Charm-Type Ability’s true talent rank.
• Qin Hao let Sun Biao off because his behavior stemmed from his ability, but ordered him to become his underling, and Sun Biao agreed.

Qin Hao punished Sun Biao after hearing students gossip about them, then took him shopping for clothes. After a sales assistant insulted them, Qin Hao revealed his enormous wealth, let her pack the entire store, and walked away without buying anything.

• Qin Hao overheard students making insinuations about Sun Biao and beat him in front of the academy.
• Qin Hao and Sun Biao went to a clothing store, where the sales assistant insulted them because of their appearance.
• Qin Hao offered a purple bank card and astonished the sales assistant when its balance displayed ten quadrillion.
• The sales assistant packed every item in the store, but Qin Hao refused to buy the clothes because she had touched them.
• Qin Hao left with Sun Biao, and the sales assistant slapped herself after they were gone.

Qin Hao returned to Nine Palaces Academy for the freshmen assembly, where the academy announced an entrance assessment to test students and determine their assignments. He reached the teaching building in ten minutes, astonishing the teachers and leaders with his Martial General fourth rank.

• Qin Hao and Sun Biao bought more than a hundred items of clothing at an ordinary store before returning to the academy.
• When Wang Lin challenged Qin Hao, Sun Biao used a Charm Skill on him and took him away, while Qin Hao headed to the training ground.
• Liu Deguang concluded the freshman assembly by announcing an assessment in which the first hundred students to reach the teaching building could choose their teachers and classes and receive 100 points.
• Qin Hao used Ice Seal and Ice Cone to overcome students in his path and reached the teaching building in ten minutes.
• Bai Bing and the other teachers stared at Qin Hao after noticing his Martial General fourth rank, and Teacher Gao recognized him as student Bai Hao.

Qin Hao took first place in Nine Palaces Academy’s entrance test and chose his older sister, Dean Bai Bing, as his teacher. After the academy assigned teachers and classrooms, he returned to the dormitory and began messaging Liu Qianqian while waiting for Sun Biao.

• Qin Hao chose Bai Bing as his teacher, and she revealed to the other teachers that he was her younger brother.
• Chen Yu arrived second and assumed Qin Hao had used his connection to Bai Bing to get ahead.
• The entrance test ended with ninety-eight students, and Liu Deguang announced Qin Hao in first place and Chen Yu in second.
• Chen Yu chose Vice Dean Wang Lei, who praised Chen Yu’s creation-type ability and dismissed Qin Hao as ordinary before learning Qin Hao had an SSS-rank ice-type ability.
• Bai Bing took Qin Hao out for food, and Wang Lei checked Qin Hao’s records while Chen Yu remained pleased with himself.
• Qin Hao messaged Sun Biao to return to the dormitory, then opened WeChat and flirted with Liu Qianqian.

Qin Hao and Sun Biao plotted against Chen Yu, using Sun Biao’s Epic Charm-Type Ability to lure him into an embarrassing illusion and record him. The next morning, Qin Hao showed Chen Yu the footage and revealed his disguise as Faer, warning him that he was in trouble.

• Sun Biao admitted that his Charm-Type Ability was an Epic Talent after Qin Hao threatened him with Annihilation, and Qin Hao revealed that he had Spatial and Charm-Type Abilities of his own.
• Qin Hao and Sun Biao agreed to keep their abilities secret and devised a trap for Chen Yu because of his contempt for Qin Hao and his connection to Chen Jun.
• Sun Biao’s charm drew Chen Yu and his housekeeper out of Chen Yu’s room, and Qin Hao gave the illusion-bound Chen Yu a pill before recording him behaving lewdly with a tree.
• Qin Hao planted the edited recording in the classroom multimedia system, then waited for Chen Yu to arrive the next morning.
• Qin Hao, disguised as Faer, showed Chen Yu the recording in a men’s restroom and said he had come to tell him he was in trouble.

Qin Hao extorted Chen Yu by threatening to show a compromising video, then used it to frighten him during class. Chen Yu spoke about ruins in the Otherworld, while Qin Hao waited for him to gather Spirit Beads or equivalent Spirit Liquid.

• Qin Hao demanded thirty million Spirit Beads, or Spirit Liquid of equal value, from Chen Yu in exchange for keeping the video private.
• Qin Hao hid in Different-Dimensional Space until Chen Yu left, then returned to class as himself.
• Wang Lei taught the class about surviving in the Otherworld, while Qin Hao read Black Hole Devour and Chen Yu worried about the video.
• Wang Lei called on Chen Yu to describe the Otherworld's ruins as part of a plan to put Bai Hao on the spot.
• Qin Hao briefly displayed the video on the classroom screen, frightening Chen Yu, who then explained what he knew about the ruins.

During a class discussion about Otherworld ruins, Qin Hao described his visit to the Bronze Immortal Hall and the Nine-Layer Immortal Pagoda, astonishing Wang Lei and the students. Chen Yu tried to discredit Qin Hao with a story of his own, but the class doubted him, while Qin Hao returned to studying and attracted attention from several girls.

• Chen Yu shared his limited knowledge of Otherworld ruins, then Wang Lei called on Bai Hao to speak about them.
• Qin Hao explained that he had visited the Bronze Immortal Hall near Jinyang City and described challenges on the first three floors of its Nine-Layer Immortal Pagoda.
• Wang Lei was shocked by Qin Hao's detailed account, while the students applauded and Qin Hao returned to reading "Black Hole Devour."
• Chen Yu claimed that his Martial Venerable great-grandfather had taken him to a ruin and accused Qin Hao of making up his story.
• The students questioned Chen Yu's account, and Wang Lei defended him by saying it might be true because he was the young master of the Chen Family.
• After class, several girls asked Qin Hao for his WeChat, while no girls accepted Chen Yu's requests.

Qin Hao disguised himself as Faer and blackmailed Chen Yu into bringing 150 tons of Spirit Liquid to a hill south of Jinyang City. After Chen Feilong and Chen Yu arrived with the tanker trucks, Qin Hao emerged from the shadows to confront them.

• Qin Hao left Chen Yu a note demanding an exchange at the hill and threatening to post Chen Yu's video online.
• Chen Yu learned his older brother Chen Jun and Uncle Biao were missing, then asked his family for Spirit Liquid and told Chen Feilong about the blackmail.
• Chen Feilong scolded and slapped Chen Yu before arranging for five tanker trucks to deliver 150 tons of Spirit Liquid.
• Qin Hao and Sun Biao ate Heavenly Giant Python meat while waiting, and Sun Biao sensed he was close to breaking through.
• Qin Hao gave Sun Biao Chen Yu's video and instructed him to upload it if Qin Hao had not returned by 18:10.
• Qin Hao hid in the shadows, confirmed Chen Feilong and Chen Yu had arrived, then revealed himself and blocked their Mercedes-Benz G-Class.

Qin Hao forced Chen Feilong’s family to hand over Spirit Liquid, then took the tanker trailers into his expanded inner space. He and Sun Biao entered an S-rank open-type Otherworld to hunt demonic beasts, where Qin Hao killed a powerful Wind Chime Beast.

• Qin Hao threatened Chen Feilong with a video of the Chen Family’s secrets and warned that it would be uploaded if he failed to return on time.
• Chen Feilong and the truck drivers left with the video’s USB drive, and Qin Hao stored the five tanker trailers in his inner space.
• Qin Hao told Sun Biao that his space was 700 cubic meters and led him to the S-rank open-type Otherworld near Jinyang City.
• Qin Hao and Sun Biao traveled toward Horror Swamp and encountered a Beast Emperor Tenth Rank Wind Chime Beast.
• Sun Biao briefly charmed the Wind Chime Beast, but it broke free and attacked him; Qin Hao used his abilities to deflect its Wind Slash and pierce its head with Annihilation.

Qin Hao brought Sun Biao to Horror Swamp to see whether he could enter it again, but a mysterious golden barrier hurled him away and broke his bones. After healing with Spirit Liquid, Qin Hao gave Sun Biao some and left their next move unresolved.

• Qin Hao let Sun Biao claim the Wind Chime Beast's Monster Core and pelt, then stored its carcass for cooking.
• Qin Hao and Sun Biao reached Horror Swamp, where Qin Hao urged Sun Biao to enter first.
• Sun Biao entered Horror Swamp without trouble, but a golden light blasted Qin Hao away when he approached its edge.
• Qin Hao asked Sun Biao to fetch Spirit Liquid from his tanker and pour it down his throat.
• Qin Hao healed his injuries with Spirit Liquid and gave Sun Biao a bottle, promising to supply him with more.

Qin Hao discovered that the Horror Swamp rejected him but let Sun Biao enter, so he took Sun Biao to the Bronze Immortal Hall to help him clear the Nine-Layer Immortal Pagoda trials. After creating two techniques for Sun Biao, Qin Hao began a Life Simulation and headed for the fourth-floor trial.

• Qin Hao disguised himself as Sun Biao and tested the Horror Swamp, but its golden barrier broke his hand while Sun Biao passed through unharmed.
• Qin Hao led Sun Biao away from the swamp and let him fight demonic beasts along the way, building his confidence and combat experience.
• Qin Hao and Sun Biao met Dai Jun at the Bronze Immortal Hall, and Dai Jun brought them to the first floor of the Nine-Layer Immortal Pagoda.
• Qin Hao spent 200 million Great Dao Crystals to create the Charm-Type technique Nightmare and the Vinewood Monkey technique Monkey King Mind-Cleansing Mantra for Sun Biao, then helped him clear the trials.
• Qin Hao entered the Life Simulator and went straight to the fourth-floor trial.

Qin Hao entered the fourth floor of the Bronze Immortal Hall and faced its guardian in a virtual life simulation. He died in the simulation after Mang Fenghuang drained his many spiritual roots, and realized his real-world special abilities had made the challenge harder.

• Qin Hao found the fourth floor furnished like a modern home and met its guardian, who challenged him to a game.
• The guardian sent Qin Hao into a virtual world where Qin Hao lived as a prince with poor cultivation talent.
• Qin Hao married Mang Fenghuang to protect Bolan Country, but she drained his spiritual roots and killed him.
• The Life Simulation ended, and Qin Hao realized the simulation had reflected his real-world special abilities.
• Qin Hao watched Sun Biao disappear from the teleportation array and concluded that people with fewer special abilities would have an easier time clearing the floor.

Qin Hao discovered that the virtual world's Spiritual Roots were his real-world abilities bound by shackles, but repeated simulations still erased his memories and led to his death at the Reckless Phoenix's hands. He tried to preserve information for his virtual self, but could not bring anything physical into the simulation.

• Sun Biao survived his tribulation, advanced to Martial Marquis First Rank, passed the second-floor trial, and later reached Martial Marquis Third Rank after cultivating.
• Qin Hao tested cultivation in the real world and concluded that it unlocked the shackles binding abilities in the virtual world.
• Qin Hao sent Sun Biao out to hunt demonic beasts with three bottles of Spirit Liquid, then began another Life Simulation.
• In the simulation, Qin Hao again lost his memories after the middle-aged man named him and was drained to death by the Reckless Phoenix.
• Qin Hao tried to leave information for his virtual self, but discovered he could not bring physical objects into the virtual world, and his memories were erased again.

After 20 Life Simulations, Qin Hao learned that his system could enter the virtual world and discovered how to release the Spiritual Root Shackles. He returned to the fourth level, entered the simulation with the gatekeeper, and was reborn with the system and his shackles unlocked; by age four, he had begun using powerful abilities.

• In his final Life Simulation, Qin Hao used the system to become an immortal, learned how to release the Spiritual Root Shackles, and was killed by the gatekeeper, an Immortal Emperor.
• Qin Hao went straight to the fourth level and told the surprised gatekeeper he knew the challenge was a game, then entered the virtual world with him.
• After being reborn, Qin Hao used the system to unlock his Spiritual Root Shackles before Qin Chuan named him and his memories were erased.
• As Qin Hao grew up, he learned to see and understand the system, then froze five Foundation Establishment Stage guards with an ability.
• Qin Chuan arrived, learned the guards were gravely injured, and asked Qin Hao to try the move on him.

At four years old, Qin Hao revealed overwhelming powers to Qin Chuan, who killed the witnesses and ordered him to hide his talent. By sixteen, Qin Hao had secretly become a Human Immortal, and he rushed to court after learning the empress of the Heavenly Dynasty had proposed marriage to him.

• Qin Hao froze Qin Chuan with Ice Seal and demonstrated Shadow Kill, shocking everyone present.
• Qin Chuan killed the guards, palace maids, and imperial physician, then warned Qin Hao to conceal his talent until he had absolute strength.
• Qin Hao secretly cultivated while pretending to be unable to cultivate, reaching the Human Immortal realm at sixteen.
• Mang Fenghuang, the empress of the Heavenly Dynasty, sent an envoy to Bolan Country to propose marriage to Qin Hao.
• Qin Chuan tried to convince the envoy that Qin Hao was unworthy, but the envoy ordered him to send Qin Hao to the Heavenly Dynasty next month.
• Qin Hao arrived in court and declared that he wanted to meet the empress that day.

Qin Hao used his Human Immortal Realm power to force the Heavenly Dynasty to submit to Bolan Country. Three days later, Mang Fenghuang surrendered, and surrounding countries recognized Bolan Country as the Heavenly Dynasty Sacred Nation.

• Qin Hao killed the Heavenly Dynasty envoy in Bolan Country's court and revealed that he had reached the Human Immortal Realm.
• Qin Hao teleported to Mang Fenghuang's court, froze the officials and guards, shattered them, and gave the empress three days to surrender.
• Qin Hao returned to Bolan Country and exposed a minister of rites as a spy after severing his legs and finding secret letters in his storage ring.
• Qin Chuan ordered the spy's execution, and the officials praised Qin Hao after learning the minister had prompted Mang Fenghuang's marriage proposal.
• Three days later, Mang Fenghuang came to Bolan Country and surrendered, while surrounding countries recognized Bolan Country as the Heavenly Dynasty Sacred Nation.