Chapter Summaries

After Liu Ziqing killed the East Sea Azure Dragon, Hong and Thunder God warned him that extraterrestrial civilizations could enslave humanity and urged him to grow stronger. Liu Ziqing headed to Australia to train, while Li Yu secretly copied Babata’s memories from the buried Master of Meteor Star spacecraft.

• Hong and Thunder God praised Liu Ziqing for killing the East Sea Azure Dragon, then showed him extraterrestrial fighters battling on a white dwarf.
• Hong and Thunder God warned Liu Ziqing that weaker civilizations could be enslaved by powerful beings and asked him to help protect humanity.
• Liu Ziqing decided to seek out mutated beasts for combat training and flew toward Australia.
• Li Yu learned that Liu Ziqing was heading to Australia and looked beneath a misty lake to find the Master of Meteor Star’s buried spacecraft.
• Li Yu secretly copied Babata’s memories and learned about the universe’s civilizations and Master of Meteor Star’s cultivation methods.

Li Yu studied the world-opening cultivation methods and planned to use Liu Ziqing and a Golden Horned Beast to investigate Inner Worlds within his hundred-year limit. After absorbing the East Sea Azure Dragon’s refined flesh and blood, Liu Ziqing advanced to Planetary level and charged into Australia’s wilderness to strengthen himself through battle.

• Li Yu concluded that Liu Ziqing needed to reach World Lord level within a hundred years and planned to study the Golden Horned Beast egg expected to land on Earth.
• Liu Ziqing traveled to Western Australia, where he found a wilderness filled with mutated beasts, and considered searching its iron mines for rare materials.
• The Purple Gold Gourd reminded Liu Ziqing to focus on the East Sea Azure Dragon, then gave him an azure robe, a vitality pill, and over a thousand flying swords refined from the dragon.
• Liu Ziqing swallowed the Azure Dragon pill and formed a Planetary-level Crystal Core as his Golden Core and Crystal Core advanced to Planetary ninth stage.
• Liu Ziqing declared that he would improve through battle and charged into the wilderness overrun by mutated beasts.

Liu Ziqing mastered the Azure Lotus Sword Formation by using a single sword to create sword-light lotuses of any size, gaining a domain despite still considering himself a beginner Sword Cultivator. Limitless Martial Hall trainees arrived in Australia, and Liu Ziqing decided to watch Luo Feng, who expected his enemies to strike.

• Liu Ziqing repeatedly practiced controlling seventy-two swords to form the Azure Lotus Sword Formation, eventually completing it but failing to compress it below about 1.3 meters.
• After a stone thrown into a puddle gave him an insight, Liu Ziqing used a single sword and unified sword qi to create lotuses of different sizes through Sword Light Differentiation.
• Liu Ziqing realized his swordsmanship had reached mastery and gave him a thirty-meter domain, though the Purple Gold Gourd called him only an entry-level Sword Cultivator.
• Fighter jets brought Limitless Martial Hall's Elite Training Camp trainees to Australia, and Liu Ziqing resolved to keep an eye on Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng arrived in Australia knowing his enemies would seize the opportunity to kill him.

Luo Feng began his trial alone, but Li Yao arrived in Western Australia with a prohibited high-powered laser cannon to kill him. Liu Ziqing watched as Luo Feng ambushed Li Yao, whose Black God Suit and unexpectedly lengthening arm turned the fight against him.

• Luo Feng entered the mountains alone, determined to improve his Spirit Mind Master abilities.
• Li Yao landed with his subordinates and ordered them to assemble a high-powered laser cannon to hunt Luo Feng.
• Liu Ziqing spotted Li Yao's weapon and prepared to intervene, but chose to watch when Luo Feng approached the group.
• Luo Feng launched six throwing knives at Li Yao, but the Black God Suit stopped them from penetrating.
• Li Yao spotted Luo Feng and attacked; his arm extended more than ten meters, and his strike sent Luo Feng crashing into a large crater.
• Liu Ziqing decided to keep watching, believing Luo Feng would survive the blow.

Liu Ziqing followed Li Yao and Luo Feng to a mist-covered lake, secretly preventing Li Yao from using a laser cannon against Luo Feng. At Mist Island, he discovered Wood Bud Crystals and began searching for them while Li Yao battled the lake’s mutant beasts.

• Luo Feng fled into the mountains, and Li Yao ordered his men to set up a laser cannon to kill him.
• Liu Ziqing secretly took the laser cannon, leaving Li Yao furious as he continued pursuing Luo Feng.
• Li Yao crossed the mist-covered lake in his Black God Suit, fighting electric eels, a giant turtle, and crocodiles.
• Liu Ziqing flew to the lake’s central island and found nine enormous willow trees, including a golden one.
• The Purple Gold Gourd explained that the island’s Spirits of Grass and Trees were catalyzed by Wood Bud Crystals, and Liu Ziqing began searching for the crystals.

Li Yu redirected Babata’s summons from Liu Ziqing to Luo Feng, who explored Mist Island’s underground depths and discovered an alien spaceship. Babata appeared at the entrance and demanded that Luo Feng kneel and accept him as his master.

• Li Yu noticed Babata had targeted Liu Ziqing and redirected its summons to Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng absorbed a Thousand-Year Willow Heart, raising his martial cultivation to God of War level and his Spiritualist strength to peak God of War.
• Following an instinct, Luo Feng explored underground, collected many life-force crystals, and found a razor-sharp blade fragment that could potentially pierce Li Yao’s Black God Suit.
• Luo Feng discovered a huge crescent-shaped spaceship and sensed powerful, lifeless figures inside it.
• Babata appeared at the hatch, complained that Luo Feng had not been summoned, then told him to kneel and acknowledge him as his master.

Li Yu moved the Golden Willow Tree to the Shu Mountain Cave Mansion, while Li Yao and his companions harvested Spirit of Grass and Trees on Mist Island. Liu Ziqing stopped them and took their supplies, and Fire God Farr arrived furious at the loss.

• Li Yu moved the Golden Willow Tree from Mist Island to the Mount Emei cave mansion and left the rest of the island alone.
• Li Yao and three other Gods of War felled willow trees and collected their willow hearts and other Spirit of Grass and Trees.
• The group confronted a Man in Green Robes guarding Thousand-Year Black Crow Root, and Liu Ziqing knocked the three attackers away and took everyone's backpacks.
• Li Yao and the others recognized Liu Ziqing as the Shu Mountain Swordsman and begged him to spare them before fleeing.
• Fire God Farr arrived, learned Liu Ziqing had taken the group's harvest, and angrily threatened him.

Liu Ziqing warned Farr and the Underground Alliance members that Mist Island was dangerous, but Farr attacked him and awakened a colossal vine monster. Farr and his companions were badly injured, and Liu Ziqing pretended he could not save Farr as the vines killed him.

• Farr led Li Yao and the others to confront Liu Ziqing and demand the Spirits of Grass and Trees.
• Liu Ziqing warned them that the area was dangerous, but Farr accused him of seizing the valley and attacked with his fire ability.
• A gigantic purple-black vine erupted from the earth and struck at Farr as Li Yao and the others fled.
• Six enormous vines ravaged Mist Island, battered Farr until he was near death, and injured his companions.
• Liu Ziqing claimed he could not defeat the monster, then staged a futile-looking attempt to save Farr as the vines killed him.
• Liu Ziqing delivered a solemn speech at Farr's imagined memorial, saying humanity should grow stronger.

After the Mist Island battle ended, Liu Ziqing returned to Mount Emei, where the Purple Gold Gourd revealed the scale of the universe and introduced him to a virtual arena for fighting opponents from across it.

• Hong captured the Cloud-Soaring Vine, and Luo Feng emerged after obtaining the Master of Meteor Star’s inheritance.
• Liu Ziqing left Mist Island, and Babata told Luo Feng that he was suited to the Meteorite Star lineage.
• The Purple Gold Gourd brought Liu Ziqing back to Taiyuan Cave on Mount Emei and showed him the golden willow from Mist Island guarding the cave mansion.
• The Purple Gold Gourd showed Liu Ziqing how tiny Earth was within the Virtual Universe and explained that the universe was only one of the Three Thousand Mortal Worlds.
• The Purple Gold Gourd pointed Liu Ziqing toward the Great Axe Arena, where he could fight experts from across the universe.

Liu Ziqing entered the Virtual Universe and rented a duel space to train against simulated opponents. After discovering its limits in recreating techniques absent from the universe’s records, he continued fighting a variety of opponents.

• The Purple Gold Gourd registered Liu Ziqing as a citizen of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire and sent him into the Virtual Universe with a virtualized version of his Purple Green Twin Swords.
• Liu Ziqing entered the Great Axe Arena and rented a month of Virtual Duels using funds the Purple Gold Gourd had arranged.
• Liu Ziqing tried to summon a sword cultivator who had mastered the Shu Mountain Sword Control Technique, but the arena could not recreate a technique unknown in the current universe.
• Liu Ziqing set a spear-wielding opponent with a domain-level technique in the Wilderness Plain and defeated him with his Azure Lotus Sword Formation.
• Liu Ziqing learned the arena could reproduce his swordsmanship because it drew on his own consciousness, then continued fighting varied opponents and races.

Li Yu examined Mountain Guest’s incomplete Nine Tribulations Secret Codex and judged its cultivation too dangerous for anyone but Luo Feng. The Golden Horned Beast egg finally arrived on Earth, giving Li Yu a new subject for investigating how worlds formed.

• Li Yu used Chaos Immeasurable to obtain a Yan God Race man’s memories so he could read the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex.
• After studying the codex’s first level, Li Yu concluded that its law-defying method would kill anyone who cultivated it except Luo Feng, though it gave him ideas about genetic research.
• Li Yu detected the Golden Horned Beast egg as it silently fell into the Pacific Ocean near the former Hawaii Islands.
• Li Yu scanned the egg and recorded its genetic and Bloodline Inheritance information, including the natural Inner World it carried.
• Li Yu decided to study the Golden Horned Beast’s Inner World and considered investigating an Earth-based Insect Race Mother Queen and a World Lord as well.

Li Yu visited the dormant Insect Race Mother Queen in Shennongjia and scanned her body and Inner World, seeking to understand how a World Lord created one. He left intrigued by the Universe Origin and its role in forming Inner Worlds.

• Li Yu left a monitor on the Golden Horned Beast egg and traveled to Shennongjia.
• Li Yu entered the poisonous crater and found the dormant Insect Race Mother Queen, whom he considered too weak to bother capturing.
• Li Yu scanned the mother queen and learned that her genetic structure was far stronger than a human's.
• Li Yu sent a strand of his soul into her Inner World and examined its landscape and sleeping insect soldiers.
• Li Yu reviewed the mother queen's memories about forming an Inner World through the Universe Origin and became interested in learning more about it.

Li Yu transformed his Profound Yellow Energy into World Power and entered the Universe Origin to study its laws. After comprehending the world’s fundamental laws, he decided to add Shu Mountain sword cultivation to them so Liu Ziqing could follow a viable path.

• Li Yu discovered that the Mother Empress’s World Power was weakened Profound Yellow Energy that could open a connection to the Universe Origin.
• Li Yu transformed his own Profound Yellow Energy into World Power and sent fragments of his consciousness into the Universe Origin.
• Li Yu explored the Origin Land and comprehended its manifestations of matter and the universe’s fundamental laws.
• Li Yu concluded that the universe and Inner Worlds were not truly eternal, and that only achieving chaos offered genuine indestructibility.
• Li Yu absorbed the world’s laws and decided to incorporate Shu Mountain sword cultivation into the Origin Laws for Liu Ziqing.

Li Yu went to Chaos City to study the birth of the Initial Universe and comprehend Chaos, while the Golden Horned Beast was born and began devastating America. The chapter ended with humanity calling on its strongest warriors to stop the creature before it could threaten the rest of Earth.

• Li Yu traveled to the Initial Universe, copied the insights recorded on the fifty-two Chaos Tablets, and began observing the universe’s birth through Reverse Time.
• Li Yu concluded that the Golden Horned Beast’s innate space was only a storage ability, then continued using the Initial Universe to study the path from existence to nonexistence.
• The Golden Horned Beast appeared on Earth, swept across the seas, and came ashore in America with countless sea beasts.
• The Golden Horned Beast devoured metal fortresses and destroyed defenses across America.
• A Black man appealed to Hong, Thunder God, Shu Mountain Swordsman, Luo Feng, and the other powerful warriors to save America and protect humanity.

Liu Ziqing warned the world leaders that the Golden Horned Beast was a Stellar-level threat with powerful scales and rapid regeneration, and they agreed to lure it with nuclear bombs and other metal. As the Candy Plan was prepared, Liu Ziqing ruled out buying a laser cannon or entering a dangerous alien ruin, and returned to Mount Emei to await the attack.

• Liu Ziqing identified the Golden Horned Beast and explained its strength, metal appetite, and Stellar-level power to the world leaders.
• The leaders approved the Candy Plan, proposing to feed the beast nuclear bombs and autonomous fighter jets.
• Hong asked Liu Ziqing about the beast, and Luo Feng warned that its devouring could crush nuclear bombs inside its body.
• Liu Ziqing considered buying a laser cannon, but the Purple Gold Gourd warned that delivery would take years and expose Earth to cosmic civilizations.
• Liu Ziqing considered searching an underwater pyramid spaceship for weapons, but the Purple Gold Gourd warned that entering it would mean certain death.
• Liu Ziqing returned to his cave dwelling on Mount Emei to await the Candy Plan.

Humanity’s nuclear Candy Plan failed to kill the Golden Horned Beast, so Liu Ziqing joined Hong and Thunder God as they prepared to fight it. Luo Feng arrived with a B6 laser cannon, and the group sent a robot to attack the beast.

• Nineteen fighter jets detonated their nuclear bombs beside the Golden Horned Beast, but it survived and healed its wounds.
• Hong told Liu Ziqing that he and Thunder God planned to fight the Golden Horned Beast, and Liu Ziqing joined them.
• Luo Feng told Hong that he had found a laser cannon powerful enough to kill the beast.
• Luo Feng arrived with two Flowing Silver Guards and a robot carrying a B6 laser cannon.
• Luo Feng ordered the robot toward the Golden Horned Beast, while Liu Ziqing hoped the weapon would solve the crisis.

The Golden Horned Beast survived having its head destroyed by a laser cannon, regenerated, and fled toward the ocean. Hong announced that he, Thunder God, Liu Ziqing, and Luo Feng would fight it to the death, leaving humanity to pray for their survival as Xu Xin begged Luo Feng to return alive.

• A black robot fired a laser cannon that vaporized the Golden Horned Beast's head, but the beast destroyed the robot and quickly regrew its head.
• Hong, Thunder God, and Liu Ziqing prepared to pursue the injured beast, while Luo Feng led them aboard a fighter jet.
• The Golden Horned Beast, its energy depleted, changed course and fled toward the ocean as humanity's leaders feared it would recover and return stronger.
• Hong broadcast that he, Thunder God, Liu Ziqing, and Luo Feng would face the beast in a fight to the death, and people around the world prayed for them.
• Xu Xin tearfully told Luo Feng that she was going to be a father and begged him to come back alive.

Liu Ziqing, Hong, and Thunder God combined their strength to destroy the Golden Horned Beast with the Minjiang Sword Formation, but it re-formed from its Crystal Core. Luo Feng charged into the golden mist and disappeared with the beast, leaving his fate unknown.

• Liu Ziqing, Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng attacked the Golden Horned Beast near the Indian Ocean, and Liu Ziqing and Hong used a mountain of metal to interrupt its Devour Talent.
• Liu Ziqing, Hong, and Thunder God joined their power through the Three Talents Primordial Chaos Formation, and Liu Ziqing unleashed the Minjiang Sword Formation, River of Sword Qi.
• The River of Sword Qi annihilated the Golden Horned Beast, leaving only its Crystal Core, while Liu Ziqing, Hong, and Thunder God collapsed from exhaustion and Luo Feng caught them.
• The Golden Horned Beast began to reappear from its Crystal Core, so Luo Feng charged into the golden mist and caused an explosion that erased both the beast and himself.
• Xu Xin saw Luo Feng disappear and collapsed after crying out, while the world remembered Hong, Thunder God, Liu Ziqing, and Luo Feng as its heroes.

After taking over the Golden Horned Beast, Luo Feng learned that his original body had been destroyed and began nurturing a new Earthling body. Meanwhile, Liu Ziqing, Hong, and Thunder God mourned Luo Feng and arranged protection for his family as Liu Ziqing returned to cultivation.

• Luo Feng devoured the wounded Golden Horned Beast's soul, took over its body, and was knocked unconscious by the information in its soul.
• Babata told Luo Feng that his original body had been broken down, and Luo Feng began using the Golden Horned Beast's clone ability to nurture a new Earthling body.
• Liu Ziqing, Thunder God, and Hong learned that Luo Feng had sacrificed himself and resolved to grow stronger and protect his family and wealth.
• Liu Ziqing visited Luo Feng's family, apologized, and gave Xu Xin a sword as protection against anyone who might target them.

After advancing to the Stellar level, Liu Ziqing left Earth with the Purple Gold Gourd and teleported to Qiu Long Star to begin training in the wider universe. He killed five Lizardmen who tried to rob him and set off toward Qiu Long City.

• Liu Ziqing advanced to the Stellar level after three months of cultivation on Mount Emei.
• The Purple Gold Gourd revealed that it had calculated teleportation coordinates from a Virtual Universe star map and offered to take Liu Ziqing off Earth.
• The Purple Gold Gourd teleported Liu Ziqing to Qiu Long Star in the Black Dragon Mountain Star Domain.
• Five Lizardmen ambushed Liu Ziqing and demanded his belongings, but he killed them with his Dragon Tooth Sword.
• Liu Ziqing found nothing valuable among the Lizardmen and flew toward Qiu Long City.