Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen endured the Fifth Level Heavenly Tribulation and used a resurrection pill to break through to Godhood, where his divine power surged toward a record. Unwilling to stop short of surpassing the Thunder Dominator, he transformed into a Black Hole Beast and tried to devour the Chaos Qi.

• Lin Zhen pressed deeper into the Chaos Qi Stream, enduring increasingly powerful heavenly tribulations until he reached the Fifth Level zone.
• Lin Zhen consumed a Nine Revolutions Heavenly Spirit Golden Pill to restore his body, then broke through the barrier to Godhood.
• Lin Zhen converted his 12 billion star force into divine power, which rose beyond 300,000 and continued climbing toward the Thunder Dominator’s record of 378,000.
• Lin Zhen transformed into a Black Hole Beast and used Devour to try to absorb the Chaos Qi.

After becoming a god, Lin Zhen endured a surge of Chaos Qi and spent ten years assimilating a wisp of it, greatly increasing his divine power. A strange light from the Cosmic Origin then struck him, while powerful figures on Witch Star sensed the event and wondered who had caused it.

• Lin Zhen fused his Lightning Clone with his main body and drew on the clones’ divine power to survive the Level Nine Chaos Qi.
• Lin Zhen’s Black Hole swallowed a wisp of Chaos Qi, which he struggled to assimilate inside his dantian.
• After ten years, Lin Zhen assimilated the Chaos Qi, raising his divine power to 460,000.
• A strange light descended on Lin Zhen as Thunder Dominator and Primordial sensed the Cosmic Origin’s power and suspected someone on Witch Star had triggered it.
• People across Witch Star felt a tremor but could not identify its cause, while the strange light began transforming Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen absorbed the Cosmic Origin’s power, perfected his Emerald Radiance Mental Power, and began condensing it toward the Condensed Crystal realm. After using five hundred thousand God Stones to reach the middle stage of Lower God, he examined the changes to his divine kingdom and prepared to leave Purgatory after fifty years of cultivation.

• The Cosmic Origin’s vision strengthened Lin Zhen’s mind and soul, perfected his Emerald Radiance, and began condensing his Mental Power toward the Condensed Crystal stage.
• Lin Zhen absorbed five hundred thousand God Stones through his Black Hole, raising his divine power from four hundred sixty thousand to five hundred fifty thousand and advancing to the middle stage of Lower God.
• Lin Zhen discovered that Chaos Qi had gathered around his God Crystal, whose elements could form a true Chaos God Crystal once he comprehended all Elemental Truths.
• Lin Zhen found that his Star Fruit Tree had grown, his divine kingdom had expanded to more than three times its former size, and the level-five Chaos Qi Stream could no longer significantly harm him.
• After spending fifty years cultivating in Purgatory, Lin Zhen decided it was time to go out and have some fun.

Lin Zhen emerged alive from the Chaos Qi Stream after Wang Chong had given up waiting for him, and returned to the Campground Safe Zone. He confronted Wang Chong, who gathered more than two hundred members of the Eight Great Hammers to meet him, leaving the two sides facing off in the street.

• Wang Chong abandoned his vigil at the Chaos Qi Stream entrance after three days, convinced Lin Zhen was dead, and stayed in Purgatory to build the Eight Great Hammers’ influence.
• Lin Zhen emerged from the ninth entrance, startling Martial Artists who had believed no one could survive the Chaos Qi Stream, and asked where Wang Chong was.
• Lin Zhen walked toward Wang Chong’s tent as a crowd gathered behind him and the Campground Safe Zone recognized him.
• Wang Chong learned Lin Zhen was alive and had reached the middle stage of the Lower God Realm, then ordered the Eight Great Hammers to assemble.
• Wang Chong and more than two hundred members of the Eight Great Hammers faced Lin Zhen, who stood alone across the street.

Lin Zhen confronted Wang Chong and killed the bounty hunters and two Upper Gods sent against him. With Wang Chong cornered, a Five-Star Purgatory Warrior named Elder Lu emerged from a Safe Zone to aid him.

• Wang Chong refused to restore Lin Zhen’s Bank Blacklist and Safe Zone status, then offered a bounty for his death.
• Lin Zhen used Mental Impact to kill nearly twenty attackers and take their God Crystals and God Stones.
• Lin Zhen defeated and killed Wang Chong’s two Upper God guards with his spear.
• Wang Chong raised the bounty, but the crowd and Eight Great Hammers members retreated as Lin Zhen advanced.
• Wang Chong summoned Elder Lu, a self-breakthrough Upper God and Five-Star Purgatory Warrior, from a Safe Zone.

Lin Zhen fought Elder Lu after Wang Chong called on his powerful bodyguard, and the two dealt each other grievous wounds. As Elder Lu believed he had killed Lin Zhen, Wang Chong spotted something alarming about Lin Zhen.

• Elder Lu arrived to escort Wang Chong home, and Wang Chong demanded that Lin Zhen be killed first.
• Lin Zhen launched a surprise attack and drove Elder Lu into a mountain wall before Elder Lu activated his God's Domain and struck back.
• Elder Lu pursued Lin Zhen with a powerful saber attack, but Lin Zhen merged with his clone and counterattacked.
• Elder Lu knocked Lin Zhen's spear aside, but Lin Zhen used Spear Retracting Stance to pierce Elder Lu's throat as Elder Lu's saber split Lin Zhen's skull.
• Elder Lu laughed as he struggled to pull out the spear, and Wang Chong shouted a warning after noticing something about Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen killed Elder Lu and Wang Chong, restored his protected status, and bought Level Four and Level Five Life Gene Serums. He postponed cultivating them to break Bai Xue’s Soul Lock and awaken her.

• Lin Zhen killed Elder Lu with his own saber and took his God Crystal and God Stone.
• Lin Zhen killed Wang Chong despite his threats that Wang Xingba and his relatives would seek revenge.
• Lin Zhen restored his Safe Zone and bank status, sold goods for fifty million Witch Coins, and bought Tyrant Ant and Light-Chasing Beast Gene Serums.
• Lin Zhen reasoned that Wang Xingba would take at least a hundred years to return and chose not to begin cultivating the serums yet.
• Lin Zhen prepared to use his advanced Mental Power to break Bai Xue’s Soul Lock and awaken her.

Lin Zhen revived Bai Xue, freed her from Jue Tian’s Soul Lock, and helped her find her family on Witch Star before she set out to return to them. After seeing her off, Lin Zhen resumed cultivation and continued pursuing his goals in Purgatory.

• Lin Zhen shattered Jue Tian’s Soul Lock on Bai Xue, revived her with a Nine Revolutions Heavenly Spirit Golden Pill, and told her what had happened since the Tian Huo War.
• Bai Xue revealed that her Qingqiu Mountain lineage and Jue Tian’s Imperial Race came from Witch Star, then registered her identity and found her family’s location.
• Lin Zhen gave Bai Xue cultivation resources and three million, and she left to return to her family while promising to contact him if she needed help.
• Lin Zhen wondered whether Bai SuSu and Jue Tian’s Imperial Race would also return to Witch Star, then took fourth-level Tyrant Ant Life Gene Serum and resumed cultivating.
• Seventy years had passed since Lin Zhen entered Purgatory.

Primordial changed the Dominator disciple selection so the ten remaining Imperial Seal holders learned one another’s identities and locations, with the final two places decided by survival or mission completion. Lin Zhen, newly strengthened but the weakest among the contenders, chose to remain in the Purgatory Safe Zone and face anyone who came for him.

• Primordial agreed to the Thunder Dominator’s proposal to let the remaining contenders compete for the final two disciple slots.
• Lin Zhen completed his fourth-level Life Gene fusion after twenty years and endured a fourth-level heavenly tribulation.
• Lin Zhen devoured five hundred thousand God Stones, raising his divine power to six hundred thousand and reaching the Middle Stage Lower God realm.
• The Dominator Imperial Seal broadcast the identities and locations of the ten remaining candidates and announced that deaths or withdrawals could secure the final slots.
• Lin Zhen saw that Black Fire in Silent Forest was likely the closest contender, but decided to stay in the Purgatory Safe Zone and continue advancing.

After the competition rules changed, several powerful contestants decided to hunt their rivals, while Lin Zhen headed to the Wind Element Zone to train. At a street stall, he discovered a bloodstained Dominator Imperial Seal and bought every item from the young vendor, sensing that the two seals had triggered a change.

• Aegis, Orpheus, and Qin Zhi each decided to eliminate weaker competitors before the final selection.
• Black Fire set out for Purgatory to kill Lin Zhen, while other contestants either stayed put or began hunting.
• Lin Zhen entered the Safe Zone and went to the Fifteenth Intersection to reach the Wind-Type Ferocious Beast Zone.
• Lin Zhen spotted a bloodstained Dominator Imperial Seal on a youth’s stall and sensed it resonating with the seal in his divine kingdom.
• Lin Zhen paid fifty thousand Witch Coins for everything on the stall, then stored it all away as the two seals seemed to cause a change.

Lin Zhen discovered that the Dominator Imperial Seals were pieces of a key to obtaining the Top-Grade Dominator Armor, the Primal Chaos Armor. After reaching the Fifth Layer of the Wind Element Entrance to hunt fierce beasts, he learned he needed seven more seals and noticed Black Fire approaching his location.

• Lin Zhen entered the Wind Element Entrance and pushed through the layers to the Fifth Layer, where he decided the fierce beasts would offer the best hunting efficiency.
• Lin Zhen traveled deep into the Fifth Layer and used his Treasure Hunting Vine to create a sheltered hut.
• Lin Zhen discovered that holding the two Dominator Imperial Seals together revealed that the first person to gather nine seals would obtain the Primal Chaos Armor.
• Lin Zhen checked the Dimensional Universe and saw that Black Fire's coordinates had drawn close, so he decided to wait for him.

Lin Zhen advanced to Four-Star Purgatory Warrior by hunting Wind Demon Scorpions and Wind Crows, then prepared for Black Fire while noticing Aladdin’s ambush plan. Meanwhile, Wang Xingba vowed to avenge his son Wang Chong after the Eight Great Hammers’ leaders advanced, and Bone encountered an irritating young man in the Safe Zone.

• Lin Zhen killed Wind Demon Scorpions and Wind Crows, using Armorization to withstand the Gale and rapidly increase his Purgatory Warrior rank.
• Lin Zhen reached Three-Star Purgatory Warrior in one day and Four-Star Purgatory Warrior ten days later, collecting valuable materials along the way.
• Lin Zhen saw that Aladdin had stopped near Silent Forest and realized he planned to ambush Lin Zhen and Black Fire after their fight.
• Lin Zhen covered himself and the ground with the Treasure Hunting Vine and waited for Black Fire to arrive.
• Wang Xingba told Bone he could not leave the Cosmic Forbidden Zone, promised to avenge Wang Chong after the Eight Great Hammers’ leaders advanced, and ordered Bone to watch Lin Zhen.
• Bone saw a swaggering young man enter the Safe Zone and went to teach him a lesson.

Black Fire killed Bone with black flames and entered the wind-element intersection to hunt Lin Zhen. He found Lin Zhen outside a vine treehouse, and their confrontation began with both aware of the other's formidable strength.

• Black Fire insulted Bone and the Eight Great Hammers, then killed Bone with flames drawn from the Nine Nether Abyss.
• Black Fire took Bone's Middle God Crystal and God Stones and declared that he would become a Dominator Disciple before entering the Fifteenth Intersection.
• Black Fire crossed the wind-element intersection's layers and followed the coordinates toward Lin Zhen.
• Black Fire reached Lin Zhen's vine treehouse, called him out, and faced him as Lin Zhen emerged with a Long Spear.
• Lin Zhen sensed that Black Fire possessed a third Dominator Imperial Seal, causing the two seals within him to stir.

Lin Zhen fought Black Fire after refusing to surrender his Dominator Imperial Seal and revealed that his power exceeded Black Fire’s even after their avatars and God's Domains were activated. The chapter ended with Lin Zhen freezing Black Fire’s flames at Absolute Zero as his Black Hole Beast moved in to attack.

• Lin Zhen rejected Black Fire’s demand for his Imperial Seal and challenged him to stay and fight.
• Lin Zhen’s spear technique overwhelmed Black Fire, piercing his shoulder despite Black Fire’s regenerative Leech Gene.
• Black Fire merged with his flame avatar and activated God's Domain, but Lin Zhen countered with greater divine power and drove him back.
• Black Fire trapped Lin Zhen in a tornado of black flames, believing his Thunder Element avatar could not withstand the attack.
• Lin Zhen froze the flames at Absolute Zero, revealing his Water Element avatar, as his Black Hole Beast opened its jaws behind the ice.

Lin Zhen killed Black Fire and took his Dominator Imperial Seal, but Chris warned that Aladdin was far stronger and approaching Purgatory. Lin Zhen hurried to earn points in the Thunder and Lightning Zone, then prepared to face Aladdin rather than hide from him.

• Lin Zhen killed Black Fire with Black Hole Devour and seized his Dominator Imperial Seal, bringing his total to three.
• Aegis, Orpheus, and Qin Zhi reacted to Black Fire's death while Aladdin traveled toward Purgatory.
• Chris warned Lin Zhen that Aladdin was a peak Middle God with about six hundred and fifty thousand divine power, a divine clone, God's Domain, and a fifth-level Life Gene.
• Lin Zhen realized he could not improve his cultivation, Life Gene, or number of clones in time, so he returned to the Thunder and Lightning Zone to earn points.
• Lin Zhen gained eight million eight hundred thousand points in a month, but Chris warned that Aladdin had arrived at Purgatory.
• Chris suggested Lin Zhen hide in the Ninth Layer, but Lin Zhen refused and said the battle would end quickly.

Lin Zhen ambushed and killed Aladdin with Destruction Divine Thunders and True Star Burst, then absorbed his memories and continued hunting beasts to approach the Five-Star Purgatory Warrior threshold. Aladdin’s death alarmed the survivors, and Qin Zhi, Aegis, and Orpheus all headed toward Purgatory to eliminate Lin Zhen and secure advancement.

• Chris warned Lin Zhen that Aladdin’s Light Element Clone, Radiance Power, and Leech Gene made him a formidable opponent.
• Lin Zhen attacked Aladdin at the entrance to the Sixth Layer with Destruction Divine Thunders, then detonated True Star Burst while Aladdin was paralyzed.
• Lin Zhen used Black Hole Devour to kill Aladdin, took his treasures and fourth Dominator Imperial Seal, and searched his soul for insights into light.
• Lin Zhen saw that only six people remained, then continued killing vicious beasts to build his points toward advancement.
• Aegis, Orpheus, and the other survivors reacted to Aladdin’s death and began treating Lin Zhen as a serious threat.
• Qin Zhi headed for Purgatory to target Lin Zhen, while Orpheus and Aegis agreed to travel there as well and eliminate both men.

Lin Zhen used Aladdin’s memories to master the true essence of light, then advanced through the Heaven Reaching Platform with the Cosmic Origin’s power. After seven years, only Aegis, Orpheus, Qin Zhi, and Lin Zhen remained among the Imperial Seal holders, and the other three were heading toward him.

• Lin Zhen stopped just short of becoming a Five-Star Purgatory Warrior, stored an unconscious Thunder Light Rat, and returned to the ninth level of the Thunder Element to cultivate.
• Using Aladdin’s memories, Lin Zhen learned the true essence of light and mastered the move Divine Radiance Heavenly Light, but he did not form a light clone because his Soul Guard was not strong enough.
• Lin Zhen challenged the Heaven Reaching Platform and cleared its ninth through fourteenth levels, raising his Super Electron element to 300.
• Seven years after killing Aladdin, Lin Zhen found that only Aegis, Orpheus, Qin Zhi, and he remained among the Imperial Seal holders.
• Lin Zhen saw that Aegis, Orpheus, and Qin Zhi were approaching Purgatory and decided to face them all at once.

Lin Zhen advanced to the Late Stage Lower God realm and completed his Radiance God Clone, raising his combined divine power enough to face the approaching Upper Gods. Meanwhile, Primordial and the Thunder Dominator watched the four remaining candidates, from whom the final two would be chosen.

• Lin Zhen used his last batch of God Stones to break through into the Late Stage Lower God realm and increased his divine power to six hundred and fifty thousand.
• Lin Zhen entered the Radiance Zone and created his third clone, a Late Stage Lower God with two hundred thousand divine power.
• Lin Zhen fused the power of his Light and Lightning Clones with his main body, reaching one million and fifty thousand divine power.
• Primordial gathered fourteen prospective disciples and told the Thunder Dominator he was about to leave after the selection round ended.
• The Thunder Dominator opened a Water Mirror showing Aegis, Orpheus, Qin Zhi, and Lin Zhen as the four remaining candidates.
• Primordial told the gathered candidates that the final two would be chosen from those four.

Qin Zhi approached Lin Zhen and proposed a truce-like duel, then used a deceptive attack to seemingly kill him. When Qin Zhi tried to claim Lin Zhen’s possessions, he found only a speck of light, leaving Lin Zhen’s fate uncertain.

• Ge Lin recognized Lin Zhen in the images and defended his friend against Doka’s mockery.
• An Damandisi silenced Doka, and he said Orpheus was his cousin and would receive his guidance if he passed.
• Qin Zhi approached Lin Zhen with his harp and suggested they fight without killing each other so their followers could not take advantage.
• Lin Zhen agreed, but Qin Zhi bowed and unleashed a sound attack that appeared to slice Lin Zhen into pieces.
• Qin Zhi reached for Lin Zhen’s God Crystal and Dominator Weapon but found only a speck of light.

Lin Zhen killed Qin Zhi after exposing his Light Clone and overwhelming Qin Zhi’s illusions and attacks. With only one advancement spot left, he entered the Eighth Layer and forced Aegis and Orpheus to confront their rivalry.

• Lin Zhen revealed his Light Clone, dispelled Qin Zhi’s Demonic Illusion Realm, and defeated Qin Zhi with his spear and Divine Infant.
• Lin Zhen took Qin Zhi’s Upper God God Crystal, leaving himself, Aegis, and Orpheus as the three remaining contenders.
• Ge Lin and An Da discussed Lin Zhen’s two divine clones while the others watched in surprise.
• Aegis and Orpheus agreed to join forces and kill Lin Zhen as they entered the Seventh Layer.
• Lin Zhen showed Aegis and Orpheus that he was less than a thousand points from advancing, then entered the Eighth Layer, leaving them to compete for the final spot.