Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen won his first high-stakes Asura Arena match, then fought relentlessly to build a record of 500 victories and no defeats. He stopped to rest after reaching the milestone, still aiming for the wins needed to become a One Crown Asura King.

• Lin Zhen bet five million Sanjiang Coins against Ophiuchus Qingye, defeated him by breaking his Forest Domain, and won ten million Sanjiang Coins in total.
• Lin Zhen continued fighting and reached 227 victories with no defeats in sixteen hours, while Chen Fenglie, Qing Xu, and An Bihuai discussed how opponents would grow stronger as his record climbed.
• Lin Zhen celebrated with Chen Fenglie, Qing Xu, and An Bihuai before returning to the Asura Arena after only three hours of rest.
• Lin Zhen fought through a second day of matches, forced himself to complete his 500th battle, and finished with 500 victories, zero defeats, and a 100% win rate.
• Lin Zhen wondered whether he could reach the more than one thousand victories needed to advance as a One Crown Asura King.

Lin Zhen lost his first Asura Arena battle to Jerry, who revealed that Lin Zhen needed a Mental Power Combat Technique to control his weapons effectively. As Lin Zhen pursued the Red Star Asura title, Diana learned of his rising record and planned to block his progress before he could become a lord.

• Lin Zhen's winning streak ended at 761 when Jerry, a Level Seven Star Stage Red Seven-Star Asura Martial Artist, defeated him with superior mental weapon control.
• Jerry told Lin Zhen that he lacked a systematic Mental Power Combat Technique and suggested seeking one through the Dimensional Auction House, whose membership required a balance of 100 million High-Level Universe Nation Currency.
• Lin Zhen resumed fighting and reached 899 wins with one loss by the fifteenth day, aiming to earn the Red Star Asura title before the Anderson Family's next assassin arrived.
• Diana directed Tianhe Empire soldiers to search Ancient God City's pyramids for the World Stone and learned that Lin Zhen had reached 915 wins and three losses.
• Diana decided to challenge Lin Zhen repeatedly in designated Asura Arena battles to keep him from gaining victories and becoming a lord.

Lin Zhen repeatedly fought Diana in the Asura Arena, but her Level Two Gravity Space defeated him before he could unleash Starburst. He left the arena to risk improving his Mental Power, while Diana planned to keep challenging him whenever he returned.

• Diana repeatedly challenged Lin Zhen and forced him to accept, threatening to keep him from advancing unless he left Earth and swore never to return to the Solar System.
• Diana used her Level Two Gravity Space to suppress Lin Zhen and defeat him before he could complete Starburst.
• Lin Zhen accepted Diana's challenges again and again, improving his Starburst technique but failing to defeat her even after forty losses.
• Lin Zhen concluded that he needed to improve his Mental Power by exposing it to the Black Hole inside his Dark Star, then left the Dimensional Universe to find a quiet place.
• Diana noticed Lin Zhen had gone offline and ordered her Intelligent Life to alert her as soon as he returned.

Jerry and Han Sha watched Lin Zhen’s departure from the Dimensional Universe, judging whether he could overcome his setback and qualify for the Star River Giant Beast Alliance. On the moon, Lin Zhen faced the miniature Black Hole inside his Dark Star and endured its torment until his Mental Power broke through to Azure Sky-level.

• Jerry and Han Sha discussed Lin Zhen’s departure and agreed to consider him for the Star River Giant Beast Alliance if he overcame his challenge.
• Lin Zhen left his clone practicing Starburst and focused his original body’s Mental Power on the Dark Star’s Black Hole.
• Lin Zhen plunged his Mental Power into the Black Hole and endured its agonizing pull as he pushed deeper.
• Lin Zhen reached the Black Hole’s Naked Singularity, where the pain vanished and his Mental Power began to grow.
• Lin Zhen’s Diamond-level Mental Power fractured and bloomed with jade-green power, breaking through to Azure Sky-level.

After absorbing the singularity’s power, Lin Zhen’s Mental Power reached middle-stage Azure Sky-color, and he perfected Starburst before returning to the Asura Arena. He accepted Diana’s challenge and overwhelmed her Gravity Space with successive Starbursts, leaving their fight unresolved as Mercury Burst struck.

• Lin Zhen’s Mental Power transformed halfway into Azure Sky-color as the Black Hole in his Dark Star died, and he discovered that three days had passed.
• Lin Zhen compressed Starburst to 0.2 seconds, or 0.14 seconds within the Star River Domain, then used five blasts to create Ring Mountains on the moon.
• Diana learned Lin Zhen had entered the Dimensional Universe and challenged him in the Icefield, warning him that he could not become an Asura within two days.
• Lin Zhen accepted Diana’s challenge and destroyed her Gravity Space with Venus Burst and Jupiter Burst.
• Lin Zhen charged Diana and unleashed Mercury Burst, sending ice spikes exploding around her.

Lin Zhen reached one thousand victories in the Asura Arena, earned the Red Star Asura title, and applied for a fief on Earth. As he waited for the territory approval and an Entrapment Net, Diana hired the Anderson Family to invade Earth and kill him.

• Lin Zhen killed Diana in the Asura Arena and steadily won matches until he reached 999 victories.
• Diana, unable to find the World Stone or stop Lin Zhen, contacted the Anderson Family and offered Slo 500 million Sanjiang Coin to conquer Earth and kill Lin Zhen.
• Lin Zhen defeated a Silver Star Asura, earned the Red Star Asura title, and borrowed one billion Sanjiang Coin from the bank.
• Lin Zhen submitted an application for a ten-million-Star-Mile fief on Emerald Star and bought an Entrapment Net to capture an Eternal Crystal Battleship.
• Slo accepted Diana's commission and said the Anderson Family would reach Earth in about seven hours.
• Diana planned to dismiss most of her troops and prepare for the Anderson Family's arrival, determined to destroy Lin Zhen and the Earthlings.

Countess Diana announced that Earthlings could leave with her departing troops, while Lin Zhen urged them to stay and warned they would not be safe in space. Millions from Tsarist Russia and India crowded into departure cities, where a bloody rush ended with spacecraft lifting off and leaving their fate uncertain.

• Diana broadcast that all Earthlings could board Tianhe Empire spacecraft within three hours and migrate to other worlds.
• Lin Zhen warned that Diana’s promise was untrustworthy and urged Earthlings to remain under his protection; most people in Huaxia and several allied countries stayed.
• The upper ranks of Tsarist Russia and India urged their citizens to leave, drawing hundreds of millions into Moscow and New Delhi Base Cities.
• An Ning asked Lin Zhen what would happen to the departing people, and he predicted Diana’s forces would kill them in space; Su Mingyue accepted his decision not to intervene.
• Crowds fought to board the spacecraft, and Tianhe soldiers and ship weapons killed many people as they forced order.
• The spacecraft departed with those who had boarded, while the passengers waved goodbye to Earth and Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen officially became lord of the Sun Territory and ordered Diana’s forces to leave Earth. Diana rejected the Empire’s authority, threatened to destroy the planet, and sent Sky City toward Huaxia.

• Diana ordered the departing commander to eject more than ten million Indian passengers into space and cut off communications.
• Lin Zhen received an Entrapment Net and prepared to intercept the Eternal Crystal spaceship at the Demon Moon Star wormhole, while suspecting Diana was planning a desperate move.
• The Empire granted Lin Zhen the Sun Territory, a one-light-year fief centered on the Sun, and he announced his lordship to Earth.
• Lin Zhen gave outsiders ten minutes to leave Earth, and the Empire’s Minister of Internal Affairs ordered Diana to withdraw her troops.
• Diana refused, threatened to raze Earth unless its people submitted, and trampled her Earl insignia as she renounced the Tianhe Empire.
• Diana cut off the Minister of Internal Affairs and sent Sky City racing across the Pacific toward Huaxia.

Lin Zhen led the Black Pearl against Diana’s Sky City, which arrived alongside a War Fortress and trapped his ship in a pincer attack. The Black Pearl dodged Sky City’s shield, while the War Fortress rammed it and destroyed the shield, leaving Diana’s vessel vulnerable.

• Lin Zhen learned Diana had openly turned against the Tianhe Empire and rallied his pirates to fight her forces.
• Lin Zhen confirmed Capital City Base City’s residents were evacuated and ordered his crew to target Sky City, but Luo Ni warned that the War Fortress was also approaching.
• The Black Pearl’s missiles failed to penetrate Sky City’s shield, and Diana and the War Fortress forced Lin Zhen toward a potential collision.
• Lin Zhen used a planet to intercept incoming missiles and ordered the Black Pearl to climb over Sky City instead of ramming it.
• The War Fortress crashed into Sky City’s shield and exploded, collapsing the shield and leaving Sky City exposed to the Black Pearl.

Lin Zhen faced Diana and Anderson’s overwhelming forces in Capital City Base City, where they planned to settle the conflict in battle. Just as his outnumbered pirates prepared to fight alone, more than a hundred Earth martial artists arrived to defend their home alongside him.

• Lin Zhen agreed with Anderson to have both sides leave their ships and settle the dispute in a battle at Capital City Base City, and Diana brought her people down from Sky City.
• The forces gathered in the square, where Anderson’s Star Level Nine strength and powerful team vastly outmatched Lin Zhen’s pirates.
• Diana and Anderson mocked Lin Zhen and declared that Earth would be destroyed, while Lin Zhen prepared to fight despite the odds.
• An Bihuai, Chen Fenglie, and more than a hundred Earth martial artists emerged from an underground fortification and pledged to fight beside Lin Zhen.
• The Huaxia martial artists shouted that they would defend Earth and refuse to surrender.

Lin Zhen's forces united with Earth's nations to face Diana's army, but Anderson threatened to slaughter them while Diana and a Star Stage expert pinned Lin Zhen down. Yan Qi Ye suddenly arrived and engaged Anderson, giving Lin Zhen a chance to attack the enemy's strongest Planet Stage experts.

• Lin Zhen's side grew to around fifteen hundred as Martial Artists from the European Union, African Union, Brazil, America, Tsarist Russia, and India joined the fight against Diana.
• Anderson arranged for Diana and a Star Stage Level Three expert to hold Lin Zhen back while he attacked the gathered Earthlings, and both armies charged.
• A bolt of lightning struck Anderson, and Yan Qi Ye descended to fight him with his Golden Long Blade.
• Yan Qi Ye urged Lin Zhen to act, so Lin Zhen charged toward Diana before teleporting among Anderson's twelve Planet Stage Level Nine experts.
• Lin Zhen unleashed his Star River Domain and Seven-Star Explosion, engulfing all twelve Planet Stage Level Nine experts in an energy storm.

Lin Zhen fought Diana and her Star Stage ally while Earth’s defenders battled the Tianhe Empire forces, and the conflict drew attention across the Empire. He killed Diana’s ally and used his clone to trap and destroy Diana, leaving Anderson still fighting Yan Qi Ye.

• Lin Zhen killed twelve Level Nine Planet Stage fighters, while Yan Qi Ye kept Anderson occupied and Lin Zhen’s allies and pirates fought the remaining invaders.
• Lin Zhen engaged Diana and a Level Three Star Stage fighter as fighters across Earth battled, and viewers on the Tianhe Empire forum learned about the Solar System and Lin Zhen.
• Han Sha and Jerry watched the battle and discussed Lin Zhen’s potential for the Star River Giant Beast Alliance.
• Lin Zhen wounded the Star Stage fighter, killed him with a spear through the throat, and blocked Diana’s escape from his Star River Domain.
• Lin Zhen’s clone joined him to overwhelm Diana, and the two destroyed her with their combined elemental attacks.

After killing Diana, Lin Zhen felt his mental block lift and his main body began breaking through while his clone joined the fight against Anderson. Lin Zhen and Yan Qi Ye gained the upper hand, but Anderson transformed through Star River Beast Beastification into a monster with power rivaling a Black Hole Stage expert, leaving Earth in grave danger.

• After killing Diana, Lin Zhen's main body began breaking through and Teleported away while his clone remained in the arena.
• Lin Zhen killed two Planet Stage fighters with Lightning Kills, freeing Chen Fenglie, then joined Yan Qi Ye against Anderson.
• Lin Zhen and Yan Qi Ye wounded Anderson and knocked away his halberd, which Lin Zhen took into his Space Ring.
• Anderson inhaled deeply, then struck Yan Qi Ye with a powerful punch that sent him crashing into a distant building.
• Anderson transformed through Star River Beast Beastification, and his roar knocked people unconscious as Lin Zhen recognized the change.
• Han Sha and Jerry identified Anderson's Beastification and feared no one on Earth could stop his Black Hole Stage-level strength.

Lin Zhen fought Anderson after Anderson’s Beastification made him overwhelmingly powerful, then fled across the world as Anderson pursued him. As Earth’s forces defeated the remaining invaders, Su Mingyue declared that Lin Zhen would return to the plaza for the final battle.

• Anderson battered Lin Zhen, who wounded him with Lightning Kill and nearly drove his spear into Anderson’s brain before being forced to flee.
• Lin Zhen lured Anderson away from the plaza, using the Antarctic ice, the Indian Ocean, and the Himalayan Mountains to evade him.
• Yan Qi Ye returned to the battle, and Earth’s Martial Artists defeated the Tianhe Empire’s remaining forces.
• Chen Fenglie led everyone to Sky City, where the Sky Eye System tracked Lin Zhen and Anderson across the world.
• Yan Qi Ye, Chen Fenglie, and An Bihuai speculated about where Lin Zhen would make his final stand, and Su Mingyue said he would return to the plaza.

Lin Zhen rose from Satellite Level Six to Satellite Level Nine and fought back against Anderson, but he could not overcome the Star River Beast’s immense strength. He bound Anderson to himself and carried him into his Star River Domain, where he unleashed Tianhe—Starburst.

• Lin Zhen returned to Capital City Base City, where Anderson confronted him and claimed he would devour everyone on Earth.
• Lin Zhen broke through three levels in a row to reach the peak of Satellite Level Nine, then reclaimed the Yajiao Spear and wounded Anderson with Space Severance.
• Lin Zhen used his spear and Unstoppable to suppress Anderson, but Anderson’s scales and regeneration prevented him from taking a fatal injury.
• As Anderson’s arm healed and he prepared to strike again, Lin Zhen bound them together with Light Fiend and flew with him into the Star River Domain.
• Lin Zhen declared Tianhe—Starburst and prepared to make the stars explode around them.

Lin Zhen defeated Anderson by unleashing a Starburst and survived with the help of his Starry Sky Crown. Earth celebrated its victory, and Martial Artists and people around the world honored Lin Zhen.

• Lin Zhen's clone restrained Anderson as exploding planets battered them, while Lin Zhen's true body unleashed the Starburst.
• Anderson realized Lin Zhen had survived and that the Lin Zhen behind him was a clone, then died in the explosions.
• Lin Zhen burned Anderson's remains to ashes, healed beneath the Starry Sky Crown, and descended to Sky City.
• Lin Zhen announced the victory, and people in Sky City and Base Cities around the world erupted in celebration.
• An Ning and Su Mingyue joined Lin Zhen, then Yan Qi Ye led the Martial Artists in honoring him as people around the world echoed their words.

Lin Zhen captured the Anderson Family’s Eternal Crystal Light-Speed Spaceship with an Entrapment Net but could not open its locked hatch, so he stored it in Dark Star Space and returned toward Earth. The furious Anderson Family began investigating everyone who knew about the ship, leaving Lin Zhen as its final suspect.

• Lin Zhen left Earth aboard the Black Pearl and raced through several wormholes to intercept the Eternal Crystal Spaceship near Demon Moon Star.
• Lin Zhen’s crew ensnared the spaceship with the Entrapment Net and stopped it from accelerating to light speed.
• Lin Zhen learned that the ship’s thirty-six-digit lock could not be cracked without a costly simulated lockpicking system, then stored the ship and net in Dark Star Space.
• Old Anderson learned that his grandson had died on Earth and the Eternal Crystal Spaceship had disappeared, and ordered an investigation of everyone who knew about its route.
• Old Anderson agreed to investigate Lin Zhen last, reasoning that someone from Earth could not have reached Demon Moon Star in time without a Light-Speed Spaceship.

Lin Zhen considered joining the Star River Giant Beast Alliance while investigating his new territory and the missing World Stone. Su Mingyue’s question about a world inside a grain of sand gave him a sudden idea for finding it.

• Han Sha and Jerry invited Lin Zhen to join the Star River Giant Beast Alliance, and he promised to answer within a year.
• Lin Zhen searched the desert in Ancient God City’s Fourth Layer, but Ya Xuan’s people had found no World Stone among the dismantled pyramids or sand.
• Lin Zhen reviewed the planets in his territory and found that the people of Blue Bay Star rejected him as their lord and doubted he could reach them.
• Lin Zhen told Su Mingyue he was searching for the World Stone, and her thought about a world inside a grain of sand gave him an idea.

Lin Zhen realized the World Stone might be disguised as a grain of sand, then spent nine days absorbing the desert on the Fourth Layer of Ancient God City to find it. He finally captured the World Stone and discovered that it contained a vast fortune in currency from high-level Cosmic Nations.

• Su Mingyue's remark inspired Lin Zhen to search for the World Stone by absorbing all the sand into his Dark Star World, and he told her he wanted to marry her and An Ning.
• Lin Zhen spent nine days drawing the desert into his Dark Star World while the Anderson Family investigated the missing Light-Speed Spaceship and ordered a check on Lin Zhen.
• Lin Zhen isolated the final grain of sand, stopped it from escaping through space, and removed the protective resistance around it.
• Lin Zhen entered the World Stone with his Mental Power and found it filled with currency from various high-level Cosmic Nations.

Lin Zhen discovered a vast hoard of advanced Cosmic Nation currencies in the World Stone and had robots sort it, revealing a fortune worth about three hundred trillion Qilin Coins. He entered the Dimensional Universe as the Red Star Asura, became the Sanjiang Star Region Federation Bank’s highest-tier Diamond member, and prepared to build up his strength and influence.

• Lin Zhen ordered a thousand robots to sort the currencies in the World Stone and kept the work secret for three days.
• Chris reported that the hoard contained 520 currencies, including sixty-three and a half billion Qilin Coins and a total value of about three hundred trillion Qilin Coins.
• Chris concluded that the former owner of Laya Star was likely a Realm King, and Lin Zhen ordered the robots destroyed to protect the secret.
• Lin Zhen placed one billion Qilin Coins in his Space Ring and traveled to Baichuan Star in the Dimensional Universe.
• Lin Zhen deposited one trillion Sanjiang Coins’ worth of Qilin Coins at Universe First Bank and became a Diamond member.