Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan defeated Bolan with the Extreme Divine Weapon’s fourth form and won first place in the Genius Battle, which then concluded with the top geniuses preparing to travel to Virtual Universe Company headquarters. Back in reality, Lin Yan broke through to the Cosmic level, leaving him ready to advance his Green Line Devouring Worm as well.

• Lin Yan unleashed the Gemstone Dragon to defeat Bolan and claim first place in the overall universe rankings.
• The purple-scaled man declared the Genius Battle concluded and said the selected geniuses would travel to the Virtual Universe Company headquarters before heading to the Initial Universe.
• Lin Yan gave Luo Feng the address for Canglan Star, and the geniuses received their transport arrangements and prize money.
• Back in reality, Lin Yan stopped suppressing his cultivation and began breaking through to the Cosmic level.
• Lin Yan’s soul and Dantian transformed, and his body evolved as he officially reached the Cosmic level.

After reaching the Cosmic level, Lin Yan gained a soul transformation and the Heavenly Demon Transformation inheritance while his Green Line Devouring Worm clone began evolving. As he prepared to leave for the Initial Universe, an enemy faction ordered an investigation into him.

• Lin Yan began his Green Line Devouring Worm clone’s evolution, which would take seven days to complete its first form.
• The system rewarded Lin Yan with Heavenly Demon Transformation, and a three-day soul transformation created a black lotus that greatly improved his psychic abilities and awareness of laws.
• Lin Yan discovered that Heavenly Demon Transformation contained a complete set of advanced Soul-type secret techniques, though he could not yet access most of them.
• Lin Yan learned that the Virtual Universe Company would collect him from Canglan Star in nine days, and he resolved to arrange matters before leaving for the Initial Universe.
• On Valuo Planet, a black-uniformed three-eyed man ordered the 13th squad near the Milky Way Galaxy to investigate Lin Yan and gather information about his origins.

Lin Yan oversaw Earth’s rapid development and saw the Virtual Universe Company approve a major investment in Jiuzhou Company and its game, “Kunlun.” Before leaving, he gave Wen Zhi'an a ring containing a clone and secured her a place in the Doomsday Secret Realm, promising they would stay close and build a family together.

• Lin Yan used Tianqi to monitor Earth and its Second World as technology and society advanced.
• A presentation showed “Kunlun’s” story of Canglan Star being drawn into the Kunlun Realm, and Virtual Universe Company executives approved buying a 51% stake in Jiuzhou Company for 3 million Hun Yuan Units.
• The executives praised Jiuzhou Company’s game, tea, and commercial ventures, and cited Lin Yan and Luo Feng’s secret-realm status as guarantees of its potential.
• On the eve of his departure, Lin Yan met Wen Zhi'an among the roses and gave her a ring set with a red Crystal Diamond.
• Lin Yan explained that the ring was a World Ring containing one of his clones and that he had arranged a Doomsday Secret Realm slot for Wen Zhi'an.
• Lin Yan and Wen Zhi'an embraced and kissed, and he promised to return and raise children with her.

Lin Yan left Earth with Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God, then revealed that Earthlings possessed extraordinary mental states and demonstrated the power of his Mental Illusion. He suggested that Earth itself was a treasure that could help its people rise, leaving the group to consider Earth’s hidden significance.

• Lin Yan said farewell to his family and Wen Zhi'an before boarding a spaceship with Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God.
• Lin Yan reassured Hong and Thunder God that Earth was protected and discussed their shared hope for Earth to develop more powerful warriors.
• The group arrived at the former Silver Blue Empire, where Lin Yan explained that Canglan Star would serve as the Canglan Empire’s capital and Jiuzhou Star as Jiuzhou Company’s commercial center.
• Lin Yan told Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God that Earthlings possessed unusually advanced mental states, and Babata confirmed that many Earthlings reached Intent at remarkably low levels.
• Lin Yan’s Mental Illusion trapped Luo Feng until his Golden Horn Beast used Talent Enhancement to break free, while Thunder God was only briefly dazed and Hong was unaffected.
• Lin Yan concluded that Earth might be a treasure beyond the universe’s expectations and that Earthlings were poised to rise.

Lin Yan explained Earth's unusual influence on its inhabitants' souls and laid out plans with Hong, Luo Feng, and Thunder God to hide Earth's secret and protect it from hostile forces. As he considered how to safeguard Earth, he wondered whether his embryonic Green Line Devouring Worm clone could also be changed by the planet.

• Lin Yan told Hong, Luo Feng, and Thunder God that Earth uniquely shaped the souls of those born there and urged them to keep their abilities to resist illusions concealed.
• Hong, Luo Feng, and Thunder God agreed that they would not let others take Earth or force its people from their home.
• Lin Yan warned that alien factions might target exceptional human geniuses and secretly investigate Earth, then revealed that he had concealed their origins behind fabricated identities and planets.
• Lin Yan explained his plans to guard Earth's wormhole with a defensive system and asked Luo Feng to tell him before using the Yun Mo Star spacecraft.
• Lin Yan considered whether Earth might influence his Green Line Devouring Worm clone while it was still an embryo.

Lin Yan cultivated his Green Line Devouring Worm while laying the industrial and resource foundations needed to develop Earth. He and Luo Feng departed for the Virtual Universe Company headquarters, while Hong and Thunder God prepared to enter the Ganwu Secret Realm.

• On Earth, Lin Yan's Green Line Devouring Worm clone studied venom from the World Lord-level Zerg Mother Nest and then used Rooting at the planet's core without absorbing its Cosmic Essence.
• Lin Yan explained to Luo Feng and Thunder God that he was building industries across Canglan Star and Jiuzhou Star so Earth could produce the resources needed to cultivate its growing population.
• Two F-class ships arrived on Canglan Star to take Lin Yan and Luo Feng to the Virtual Universe Company headquarters.
• Lin Yan told Hong and Thunder God to contact him if they needed help in the Ganwu Universe Country, and Hong and Thunder God prepared to enter the Ganwu Secret Realm.

Lin Yan reached the Original Secret Realm, where he received an estate, a Guard Army, and 200,000 Points as a new member. After learning that he could choose a special reward for passing seven Trial Towers, he selected the Nine-Colored Eye Fruit to strengthen his soul.

• Han Fu escorted Lin Yan through the Virtual Headquarters and explained Yu Xiang Mountain's five zones.
• Aitor welcomed Lin Yan to the Original Zone and brought him to estate Number 114, where Gait introduced himself as commander of Lin Yan's Guard Army and steward.
• Lin Yan received an email granting him 200,000 Points and advising him to focus on combat strength, Origin Laws, and secret methods instead of accumulating energy.
• Lin Yan received an offer to choose a special reward for passing seven Trial Towers and asked Wind Queen to assess the listed treasures.
• Lin Yan chose the Nine-Colored Eye Fruit, which could transform and strengthen his soul.

Aboard the spacecraft to the Virtual Universe Company headquarters, Lin Yan spent all 200,000 of his points on the first three volumes of Time-Space Essays and Cosmic Combination Theory, choosing separate studies of time and space to prepare for the Universe Chaos Stele. He also advised Luo Feng to buy Time-Space Essays instead of the Phantom Shadow Codex, and ended the chapter anticipating his new secret techniques and a future teacher.

• Lin Yan examined the treasure vault and decided his scarce points were best spent on secret techniques rather than ordinary items.
• Lin Yan compared the Chaos Steles and chose to study time and space separately, using Cosmic Combination Theory himself and assigning Time-Space Essays to his Green Line Devouring Worm Clone.
• Lin Yan spent all 200,000 points on the first three volumes of both secret technique sets, planning to study the Universe Chaos Stele later with their foundations as supplements.
• After seeing Luo Feng planned to buy the Phantom Shadow Codex, Lin Yan urged him to buy the first two volumes of Time-Space Essays instead.
• Gate told Lin Yan he could choose a long-term Immortal God teacher, and Lin Yan said he already had someone in mind but would have to wait before they could come.

While studying the secret techniques in Time-Space Essays and Cosmic Combination Theory, Lin Yan sensed Earth’s influence on his rooted Green Line Devouring Worm clone and glimpsed a mysterious pattern connected to the Mysterious Black Lotus. The lotus then flooded him with the Soul Amplitude Secret Method No Desire, leaving the pattern’s meaning unknown.

• Lin Yan studied Time-Space Essays, while his Green Line Devouring Worm clone practiced the sword technique encoded in its pages.
• Lin Yan read Cosmic Combination Theory and gained insights into applying the Time Origin Law and refining his combat techniques.
• After twenty-eight days in its Rooting state beneath Earth, the clone began absorbing Earth’s strange life energy, which slowly transformed its soul.
• Lin Yan followed the energy’s source and saw the Mysterious Black Lotus bloom, revealing a complex three-dimensional Secret Pattern Diagram before the vision vanished.
• Lin Yan probed the Mysterious Black Lotus and received two days’ worth of information: the Soul Amplitude Secret Method No Desire, which could increase Soul Amplitude a hundredfold.

Lin Yan cultivated the soul-amplitude secret method No Desire while studying Time-Space Essays and training with his Green Line Devouring Worm Clone. After testing his improved Dragon of Sun and Moon technique, he learned that King Tong Nan had agreed to teach him during his thirty years in Chaos City.

• Lin Yan learned that No Desire could raise soul amplitude up to the universal limit and began cultivating it to strengthen his foundation.
• Lin Yan and his Green Line Devouring Worm Clone continued studying time and space, and the clone comprehended its first Space essence after seven months.
• Lin Yan tested the Dragon of Sun and Moon in his training grounds and used the Firmament secret method to unleash a stronger attack.
• Lin Yan received an email confirming that King Tong Nan would teach him until the end of his thirty years in Chaos City.

Lin Yan secured King Tong Nan as his instructor for his study of Law essence and demonstrated his abilities to him. King Tong Nan was astonished to discover that Lin Yan had already comprehended three fundamental types of Time Law essence and had also made progress in Space Law.

• After the Qianwu Country Lord recommended Lin Yan, King Tong Nan agreed to guide him until he completed his thirty years in Chaos City.
• King Tong Nan arrived at Lin Yan's manor, warned him that analyzing essence could waste his time, and tested his resolve to continue.
• King Tong Nan brought Lin Yan to the training ground and asked him to demonstrate his Law comprehension.
• Lin Yan displayed profound Time Law comprehension through his sword technique, impressing King Tong Nan.
• Lin Yan revealed his Space Law movement, startling Gait and further surprising King Tong Nan.

Lin Yan explained his study of Time Law essence to King Tong Nan, who accepted his ambition to study both time and space and demonstrated the first diagram of the Cosmic Extreme Chaos Stele. After three years of intensive study under King Tong Nan, Lin Yan’s journey ended as the Virtual Universe Company’s Universe Headquarters came into view.

• Lin Yan told King Tong Nan that he had studied Time Law essence since joining the Virtual Universe Company and hoped to develop along the path of space-time.
• King Tong Nan agreed to guide Lin Yan in Time Law while leaving Space Law to Lin Yan, then demonstrated the first diagram of the Cosmic Extreme Chaos Stele with a sword strike that made time seem to stop.
• Lin Yan continued cultivating the No Desire secret technique and studying Laws under King Tong Nan during the three-year journey.
• King Tong Nan bought Lin Yan the Shi Yu and Blood Drift secret techniques to support his analysis of Law essence.
• The silver-gray triangular F-class ship completed its three-year journey through the Dark Universe, bringing the Virtual Universe Company’s Universe Headquarters within reach.

Lin Yan realized that fully understanding the first diagram of the Cosmic Extreme Chaos Stele required unifying its nine fundamental time essences, and King Tong Nan explained how this could let him influence time itself. Lin Yan arrived at the Virtual Universe Company’s vast headquarters, eager to enter Chaos City and determined to one day replace the universe’s great powers.

• Lin Yan recognized that the nine time essences had to form a unified whole before he could truly comprehend the first diagram, and King Tong Nan confirmed his insight.
• King Tong Nan explained that mastering the diagram would let Lin Yan use time to suppress opponents rather than merely accelerate his attacks.
• Wind Queen told Lin Yan that the spaceship was nearing the Virtual Universe Company headquarters, and Lin Yan prepared for his arrival.
• Lin Yan wondered how much Luo Feng had progressed and resolved to keep advancing despite Luo Feng’s future opportunities.
• Han Fu showed Lin Yan the immense headquarters continent and described its surrounding celestial defenses, leaving Lin Yan filled with awe and ambition.

Lin Yan and Luo Feng reunited at Universe Headquarters after three years of cultivation, where Luo Feng praised the Time-Space Essays and Lin Yan advised Bolan not to define himself by surpassing others. The thousand geniuses then traveled with the Purple-scaled Venerable in Green Robe to the Initial Universe, where they were told to cultivate in Chaos City for thirty years and that he hoped they would all survive.

• Luo Feng told Lin Yan that he had reached the Cosmic level and greatly improved by studying the Time-Space Essays.
• Lin Yan and Luo Feng joined the other geniuses at headquarters, where Lin Yan spoke with Rong Jun and advised Bolan to focus on surpassing himself.
• After all one thousand geniuses gathered, the Purple-scaled Venerable in Green Robe took them aboard a living G-class spacecraft bound for the Initial Universe.
• The spacecraft crossed the chaotic Universe Channel, and the Purple-scaled Venerable explained that the Initial Universe exposed the Universe Origin's laws for easier comprehension.
• The Purple-scaled Venerable announced that the geniuses would reside and cultivate in Chaos City for thirty years, and hoped they would all remain alive.

The geniuses arrived in Chaos City and learned about its cultivation treasures and their chance to study a Chaos Stele. Chaos City Lord inspected the newcomers, discovered Lin Yan’s Light Web Crystal and Green Line Devouring Worm avatar, and ordered that the promising batch be properly cultivated.

• The reception envoy welcomed the 1,000 geniuses to Chaos City and explained its three treasures: the manifested Laws of Cosmic Operation, the Chaos Steles, and Chaos True Spirits.
• The reception envoy led the geniuses toward the City Lord's Mansion for their seven-day opportunity to comprehend a Chaos Stele.
• Venerable Guiyi told Chaos City Lord that the new geniuses had arrived, and Chaos City Lord surveyed them for spies and unusual talents.
• Chaos City Lord recognized Luo Feng’s Golden Horn Beast body and its human and Moshazhu Race avatars.
• Chaos City Lord discovered Lin Yan’s Light Web Crystal prototype and Green Line Devouring Worm avatar, and praised his exceptional potential.
• Chaos City Lord told Venerable Guiyi that the batch was unusually outstanding and should be properly cultivated.

Lin Yan and Bolan chose the difficult Universe Chaos Stele despite Lord Kandri’s advice to focus on their strongest laws. Lin Yan entered the chamber and began studying its first diagram, becoming fully immersed in comprehension as the seven-day session ended.

• Lin Yan chose the Universe Chaos Stele, while Luo Feng chose the Nine Universes Chaos Stele and Bolan also chose the Universe Chaos Stele.
• At the cultivation chambers, Lord Kandri advised Lin Yan to focus on time and Bolan to focus on space, but both insisted on their choices.
• Lin Yan and Bolan entered the Universe Chaos Stele chamber after Kandri opened its doors.
• Lin Yan studied the stele’s first diagram, using No Desire and Divine State as he and his Green Line Devouring Worm Clone comprehended its mysteries.
• After seven days, the bronze doors opened and a voice ordered everyone to come out.

After digesting his first study of the Universe Chaos Stele and using the Nine-Colored Eye Fruit to strengthen his soul, Lin Yan prepared to challenge the Tongtian Bridge. King Tong Nan watched him depart, anticipating Zhen Yan’s reaction to Lin Yan’s abilities.

• Guardian Kandri told the geniuses to choose residences and explained that passing Tongtian Bridge levels earned seven days of Chaos Stele study.
• Lin Yan claimed a secluded residence, received the Nine-Colored Eye Fruit he had bought, and consumed it to transform his soul and advance the No Desire secret method.
• After a month of cultivation, Lin Yan comprehended the eleventh and twelfth kinds of Time essence and the tenth kind of Space essence, while his Psionic Amplitude Strength rose from 103 to 121.
• Lin Yan told King Tong Nan he had finished digesting his insights and would challenge the Tongtian Bridge; King Tong Nan noted that Bolan, Rong Jun, and Luo Feng had already passed levels.
• Wind Queen submitted Lin Yan’s application, and the Virtual Universe System granted him permanent access to the Tongtian Bridge.
• After Lin Yan vanished, King Tong Nan said he had kept Lin Yan’s abilities from Zhen Yan and left to reveal them.

Lin Yan began his Universe Tongtian Bridge challenge while True Yan King and King Tong Nan watched Luo Feng practice Blood Drift in Chaos City. After hearing that Lin Yan had started his test, the two powerful friends entered the Tongtian Bridge Plane to watch.

• Guardian Bafen explained the Tongtian Bridge floors and told Lin Yan to challenge the Universe Tongtian Bridge.
• Lin Yan flew to the Universe Tongtian Bridge as Bafen emailed others to announce his challenge.
• True Yan King and King Tong Nan discussed True Yan’s advice to Luo Feng and went to observe him practicing Blood Drift.
• True Yan King and King Tong Nan heard that Lin Yan had begun his challenge and entered the Tongtian Bridge Plane.

Lin Yan challenged the Tongtian Bridge while ninety-five Immortal Gods watched, expecting to judge his progress. He cleared the fourth level and revealed extraordinary mastery of the fundamental mysteries of both Space and Time, leaving the observers stunned as he continued toward the fifth.

• True Yan King, King Tong Nan, Longyu King, and other powerful Immortal Gods gathered to watch Lin Yan’s Tongtian Bridge challenge.
• Lin Yan swiftly defeated the opponents on the second and third levels, then chose a warrior for the fourth-level challenge.
• Lin Yan used a brilliant sword strike to kill the fourth-level warrior and advanced to the next level.
• Black Mist King recognized that Lin Yan had perfectly unified the nine basic spatial mysteries, while the other observers realized his Space Law comprehension was far beyond their expectations.
• Lin Yan displayed the nine fundamental mysteries of the Time Law on the fourth level and defeated its silver-clothed opponent.
• The Immortal Gods watched in silence as Lin Yan headed toward the fifth level, astonished by how much he had achieved in only three years.

Lin Yan defeated the fifth-level gatekeeper with his dual swords and advanced to the sixth level, astonishing the Immortal Gods watching from the central island. He chose a warrior for his next challenge and faced a spear-wielding Silver Clad Man as the fight began.

• Lin Yan used his Phantom Shadow Illusionary Body and law-infused sword techniques to defeat the fifth-level gatekeeper with his Instant Kill Secret Sword.
• Lin Yan cleared the fifth level and flew toward the sixth level of Tongtian Bridge.
• The Immortal Gods watching on the central island marveled that Lin Yan had touched the fundamental mysteries of the second diagram after only three years in the Primordial Universe.
• At the end of the sixth level, Lin Yan chose to fight a warrior, and the Silver Clad Man charged him with a silver spear.