Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen stole the Sun Ring from the Northern Territory Alliance and escaped by hiding beneath the volcanic magma with the Profound Yellow Pagoda. Over the next two months, he robbed several groups across the Pioneering Land and became known as the Strongest Lone Wolf.

• Lin Zhen, disguised as the Ghost-Masked Man, stole the Sun Ring, killed a Middle God, and escaped into the volcano as the Northern Territory Alliance attacked the area.
• Protected by the Profound Yellow Pagoda, Lin Zhen waited beneath the magma until the Alliance left, then escaped and decided to keep searching for treasure and a flying-type armament.
• On the tenth day after the Pioneering Land opened, Lin Zhen stole a low-grade shield from a Heavenly Citadel Alliance squad.
• Over the following weeks, Lin Zhen robbed the Northern Territory Alliance, the Eight Great Hammers, the Sakura Alliance, and the Dimensional Arena, killing several opponents.
• After two months of robberies around the Volcanic Zone, Lin Zhen became famous as the Strongest Lone Wolf.

The Sakura Alliance narrowed its search for the Ghost-Masked Man to fewer than thirty suspects, and Aegis privately identified Lin Zhen but kept quiet to pursue him himself. Lin Zhen raised his race points to 44 million and asked Hai Yun for information about a time-deceleration treasure, learning that she could investigate but might violate regulations by revealing it.

• Feng Xiao led the Sakura Alliance's investigation, which used Dimensional Universe records and physical data to reduce the Ghost-Masked Man's possible identities to fewer than thirty people.
• Aegis recognized Lin Zhen as the likely Ghost-Masked Man because he had used the Overlay Battle Method, but withheld his suspicion because he wanted Lin Zhen's treasures for himself.
• Lin Zhen donated stolen treasures until his race points reached 44 million and considered buying Wind Travel Wings while worrying about his limited divine power and the volcanic period's time limit.
• Lin Zhen contacted Hai Yun to ask about a treasure that could provide Time Deceleration, and she said she could find information but might break regulations by disclosing it.

Lin Zhen learned where he could obtain a time deceleration treasure and set his sights on Fengdu, but the factions’ caution kept him from acting. After Chris intercepted a signal about the Profound Yellow Inkstone, Lin Zhen abandoned his search for Fengdu and headed toward the Eight Great Hammers’ territory.

• Hai Yun told Lin Zhen that Fengdu possessed a fourfold time deceleration treasure and warned that helping him could cost her a hundred million points.
• Lin Zhen decided to target Fengdu and traveled toward the Northern Territory Alliance’s area under his Thunder Stealth Cloak.
• Feng Xiao, Jiang Chao, Osduo, and representatives of other factions agreed to lure the Ghost-Masked Man into a trap using a spatial detector.
• Lin Zhen found that Fengdu always had companions nearby, so he continued searching for a chance to act.
• Chris intercepted a signal indicating that the Eight Great Hammers planned to retrieve the Profound Yellow Inkstone.
• Lin Zhen left Fengdu’s area and headed toward the Eight Great Hammers, hoping to merge the inkstone with his Profound Yellow Pagoda.

Zhu Chuang and the other leaders used a fake Profound Yellow Inkstone rumor to lure the Ghost-Masked Man into their trap at Crimson Flame Mountain. Lin Zhen arrived despite sensing danger, and the leaders prepared to strike when he moved for the treasure.

• Zhu Chuang hoped the Ghost-Masked Man was Lin Zhen so he could avenge Wang Chong and help his father gain political leverage.
• The spatial detector tracked several intruders, and the operation’s forces eliminated them until only three targets remained.
• The detector revealed the Ghost-Masked Man as a nearly invisible shadow, and the leaders waited for him to approach the treasure before attacking.
• Lin Zhen sensed danger but followed the Treasure Hunting Vine’s signal toward Crimson Flame Mountain, trusting the Profound Yellow Pagoda to protect him.

Lin Zhen seized the Profound Yellow Inkstone but was ambushed by six faction leaders and forced to flee into the Volcano Crater. After flinging monster dung at Feng Xiao, he plunged back into the volcano with Feng Xiao in pursuit.

• Lin Zhen waited near the Volcano Crater as the Eight Great Hammers prepared for the treasure to emerge, unaware that six faction leaders were planning to ambush him.
• The Profound Yellow Inkstone emerged, and Lin Zhen grabbed it with Dark Star Gravity and stored it in his divine kingdom.
• Feini, Feng Xiao, Jiang Chao, Osduo, Zhu Chuang, and Xing Ling surrounded Lin Zhen and attacked, but his Profound Yellow Pagoda blocked their energy strikes.
• Lin Zhen used the Sun Ring to strike Zhu Chuang with Mental Impact, then escaped the four charging Peak Upper Gods by diving into the volcano.
• Lin Zhen leaped back out, threw monster dung at Feng Xiao, and plunged into the volcano again, prompting Feng Xiao to pursue him.

Lin Zhen outmaneuvered Feng Xiao in the volcano and devoured him with his Black Hole Beast transformation. After Feng Xiao recognized him, Lin Zhen left the volcano alone, with Feng Xiao’s aura gone.

• Lin Zhen fled through the magma while Feng Xiao struggled to pursue him in his Three-Colored Armor.
• Feng Xiao offered the Yin Yang Hourglass in exchange for Lin Zhen’s treasures, then attacked him with Time Deceleration.
• Lin Zhen countered with the Ephemeral Divine Bell, slowing Feng Xiao’s time twenty-fourfold and trapping him.
• Lin Zhen transformed into a Black Hole Beast and seized Feng Xiao as Feng Xiao tried to break free.
• Feng Xiao recognized Lin Zhen before Lin Zhen devoured him with the Death Ripple.

Lin Zhen concealed himself beneath the volcano and obtained Feng Xiao’s treasures, including the Yin Yang Hourglass. He began cultivating with its time-deceleration effect while sending the Treasure Hunting Vine out to gather resources.

• Lin Zhen joined the Profound Yellow Pagoda with the Profound Yellow Inkstone and used the Thunder Concealment Cloak to hide beneath the volcano.
• The people above the volcano concluded that Feng Xiao and the Ghost-Masked Man had died, while Aegis remained suspicious and wanted to investigate.
• Lin Zhen killed the unconscious Feng Xiao and took his longsword, Three-Colored Armor, Yin Yang Hourglass, and Shield God Battleship.
• Lin Zhen exchanged points for Energy Blocks and activated the Yin Yang Hourglass, realizing that sustaining it would cost more than one hundred million points over his planned cultivation period.
• Lin Zhen sent the Treasure Hunting Vine out to gather minor items and returned to cultivating with a combined 144-fold time-decelleration effect.

Lin Zhen completed his Life Gene cultivation after reaching peak Lower God and began facing a Chaos Heavenly Tribulation over the Crimson Flame Volcano. Aegis identified Lin Zhen as the cultivator and plotted to use a Nebula Bomb to trigger a volcanic eruption and kill him.

• Lin Zhen absorbed God Stones until he advanced to peak Lower God, raising his divine power to a maximum of 2.05 million with his clone and God's Domain.
• Lin Zhen sold Feng Xiao's Shield God Battleship for fifty-five million Race Points and spent the points on Energy Blocks.
• At the beginning of the ninth year, Lin Zhen completed his Life Gene cultivation, and a Chaos Heavenly Tribulation gathered above the Crimson Flame Volcano.
• Aegis learned that Lin Zhen had sold the battleship and concluded that Lin Zhen was alive and undergoing the tribulation inside the volcano.
• Aegis bought a Nebula Bomb and planned to throw it into the volcano so the tribulation would trigger an eruption and kill Lin Zhen.

Aegis sabotaged Lin Zhen’s heavenly tribulation by detonating a Starry Sky Bomb in the volcano, causing the Gold Qi to surge and intensify the strikes. Near death after enduring the boosted tribulations, Lin Zhen transformed into a Black Hole Beast and used Black Hole Devour against the final strike.

• Lin Zhen faced a Gold Qi heavenly tribulation at the Crimson Flame Volcano and calmly endured its first thirty strikes.
• Aegis arrived, revealed that he knew Lin Zhen was the Ghost-Masked Man, and threw a Starry Sky Bomb into the volcano.
• The bomb triggered an eruption and drew the volcano’s Gold Qi into the Tribulation Cloud, greatly strengthening the heavenly tribulations.
• Lin Zhen summoned the Profound Yellow Pagoda to withstand the intensified strikes, but the later tribulations left him close to death.
• Lin Zhen transformed into a Black Hole Beast and unleashed Black Hole Devour against the final heavenly tribulation.

Lin Zhen survived the heavenly tribulation by trapping its Gold Qi inside his Black Hole, leaving his trump card unusable until he could suppress or digest it. Meanwhile, Aegis revealed the Dominator Imperial Seals and Lin Zhen’s collection to Lone Star Angler’s prospective disciples, hoping to turn them against Lin Zhen.

• Lin Zhen devoured the heavenly tribulation’s Gold Qi, survived the attack, and collapsed, but the undigested energy continued to threaten him from inside his Black Hole.
• Lin Zhen decided to remain in the Volcano Crater to recover and suppress the Gold Qi before pursuing Aegis.
• Aegis fled after seeing the tribulation disperse, then created a group chat and told the prospective disciples that he had two Dominator Imperial Seals while Lin Zhen had eight.
• An Damandisi questioned Aegis about the seals and asked where Lin Zhen was, but Aegis withheld the location as leverage.
• Aegis promised not to reveal Lin Zhen’s location to anyone else and claimed Lin Zhen had no chance of obtaining another seal, after which An Da ended their communication.

Ge Lin joined the hunt for Dominator Imperial Seals, while other disciples began targeting Lin Zhen for his seals. After years of rapid cultivation, Lin Zhen swallowed hundreds of thousands of God Stones and broke through to Middle God, with his divine power still surging.

• Aegis’s revelation tempted Ge Lin and other disciples to pursue the Dominator Imperial Seals, and Ge Lin began using his father’s influence to locate the others.
• Several Upper God disciples learned that Lin Zhen was likely in the Volcanic Zone and headed toward him, hoping to kill him and claim his eight seals.
• Lin Zhen spent years cultivating Soul Guard and advancing from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-second Layer of the Heaven Reaching Platform.
• Lin Zhen gathered enough God Stones by spending points from the Treasure Hunting Vine’s finds and selling Feng Xiao’s longsword and Three-Colored Armor.
• Lin Zhen swallowed hundreds of thousands of God Stones, shattered the barrier to Middle God, and watched his divine power surge beyond its previous limit.

Lin Zhen broke through to Middle God, driven by the need to grow strong enough to face Upper Gods and meet the Lone Star Angler’s challenge. His main body set another cosmic record, leaving him with 2.45 million god power after fusion and 4.41 million with God's Domain activated.

• Lin Zhen began his breakthrough to Middle God, hoping to double his god power despite having no God Stones or nearby energy source.
• Lin Zhen's three clones also advanced to Middle God, with each clone's god power rising from 220,000 to 440,000.
• Lin Zhen's Water Clone caused a great commotion at Fallen Star Lake, reassuring his family in the Holy Land that his main body was safe.
• Lin Zhen's main body completed its breakthrough with 1.51 million god power and sensed the Cosmic Origin, indicating that he had set another cosmic record.
• Lin Zhen reached 2.45 million god power after fusion and 4.41 million after activating God's Domain.

After seventeen years of cultivation, Lin Zhen emerged from the Crimson Flame Volcano stronger and learned that Aegis had exposed his possession of the Dominator Imperial Seal. He discovered that Aegis had given his Imperial Seals to An Damandisi, leaving Lin Zhen to consider pursuing him for the Primal Chaos Armor.

• Lin Zhen left the volcano after stabilizing his cultivation and found that the Treasure Hunting Vine had advanced to Middle God, developed intelligence, and could transform into a bracelet.
• Lin Zhen named the vine Little Green and checked the Dimensional Universe, learning that Aegis had revealed his Dominator Imperial Seal and that eight of the sixteen assessment candidates had died.
• Lin Zhen realized that about twenty-five or twenty-six Imperial Seals remained in circulation and worried someone else might gather them all before him.
• Aegis contacted Lin Zhen as soon as he noticed Lin Zhen had come out of seclusion and taunted him.
• Aegis told Lin Zhen that he had handed his Imperial Seals to An Damandisi and urged Lin Zhen to seek him instead.

Lin Zhen tracked Aegis to his hiding place, where he caught him negotiating with An Da over Lin Zhen’s location. After overpowering Aegis, Lin Zhen demanded the one hundred million Alliance Points Aegis had just received.

• Aegis told Lin Zhen that An Da had seven Imperial Seals and Ge Lin had six, then warned that others could target Lin Zhen when he opened his Dimensional Universe.
• Lin Zhen asked Little Green to locate Aegis, and the Treasure Hunting Vine pointed him toward an Earth Cave near the entrance to Crimson Flame Volcano.
• Aegis offered An Da Lin Zhen’s location in exchange for one hundred million Alliance Points, and An Da agreed to pay.
• Lin Zhen burst into Aegis’s hiding place before Aegis could reveal his location and spoke with An Da through the Water Mirror about the Primal Chaos Armor and Imperial Seals.
• An Da urged Aegis to hold out for ten minutes until help arrived, but Lin Zhen vaporized Aegis’s arm with a punch and grabbed him to demand the transferred points.

Lin Zhen Soul Locked Aegis, took his points and possessions, and headed toward Mirror Lake. Meanwhile, Susanna’s team found Chaos Origin Stones and considered joining another group to enter Mirror Lake, with Susanna proposing Zhu Chuang as their leader.

• Lin Zhen used the Sun Ring to overcome Aegis’s resistance and Soul Locked him while An Da watched through the Water Mirror.
• Aegis transferred his points and belongings to Lin Zhen, then obeyed Lin Zhen’s order to kill himself and leave behind his God Crystals and God Stones.
• Lin Zhen kept the hundred million points reserved for Hai Yun and set off on Thundercloud toward the core Mirror Lake region.
• Susanna, Vieri, and Ibu collected nearly two hundred Chaos Origin Stones near Mirror Lake and discussed joining a group to search the region.
• Susanna proposed asking Zhu Chuang, the Young Master of the Eight Great Hammers, to lead their team into Mirror Lake.

Susanna, Vieri, and Ibu teamed up with Zhu Chuang to enter the Lake Area, then encountered Lin Zhen, who returned after seventeen years and demanded Susanna honor her promise to share points. Lin Zhen hid his identity from Zhu Chuang, then mocked him for being knocked down by the Ghost-Masked Man.

• Susanna persuaded Zhu Chuang to let her, Vieri, and Ibu enter the Lake Area with his group, agreeing to follow his orders.
• Lin Zhen arrived at the Eight Great Hammers' camp, and Susanna, Vieri, and Ibu recognized him.
• Lin Zhen introduced himself as Lin Zi so Zhu Chuang would not learn his real identity.
• Lin Zhen reminded Susanna of her promise to give him ten percent of their points for surviving seventeen years, but she put off paying him.
• Susanna introduced Zhu Chuang as a future God King, and Lin Zhen said he knew him as the man the Ghost-Masked Man had knocked flat.

Lin Zhen’s former teammates betrayed him to gain Zhu Chuang’s favor, and Susanna attacked him under pressure. Lin Zhen defeated her easily, leaving her gravely injured as the World Construction space shattered.

• Zhu Chuang demanded that Susanna choose between bringing Lin Zhen into Mirror Lake and following him, and Susanna tore up Lin Zhen’s contract and joined Zhu Chuang.
• Zhu Chuang warned Susanna that Lin Zhen might report their arrangement and gave her ten minutes to deal with him.
• Susanna decided to kill Lin Zhen, while Ibu and Vieri hesitated to take her side.
• Susanna attacked Lin Zhen using spatial power and Teleportation inside a World Construction space.
• Lin Zhen seized Susanna’s saber, struck her, and shattered the space, leaving her unable to rise.

Lin Zhen defeated Susanna and revealed that he was the Ghost-Masked Man, then overcame Zhu Chuang and his allies and claimed their possessions. After killing Susanna and extracting her knowledge of the Structure Realm Skill, he hid in a volcano to study it.

• Lin Zhen rejected Zhu Chuang’s threat, revealed his identity as the Ghost-Masked Man, and confronted Susanna over her betrayal.
• Ibu and Vieri apologized to Lin Zhen and gave him valuable equipment before leaving.
• Zhu Chuang and three other Upper Gods attacked, but Lin Zhen defeated them, took their points and treasures, and forced them to commit suicide.
• Lin Zhen killed Susanna with his Black Hole and used Soul Search to obtain her knowledge of the Structure Realm Skill.
• Lin Zhen entered a volcano, concealed himself, and began preparing to master the spatial technique.

After mastering Susanna’s World Construction and gaining the ability to teleport within a hundred kilometers, Lin Zhen used his points to rescue Hai Yun from a clan penalty. He learned that a high-grade pair of wings cost five hundred million points and set out to take revenge on the alliances that had attacked him at Crimson Flame Volcano.

• Lin Zhen spent a month absorbing Susanna’s memories and mastered an improved World Construction that let him teleport within a hundred-kilometer radius.
• He donated his loot and raised his available points to fifty million two hundred thousand, but found that the low-grade Wind Travel Wings had already been exchanged.
• Hai Yun told Lin Zhen that her clan was deducting a hundred million points for passing information to him, and he transferred the points to save her.
• Lin Zhen asked Hai Yun to search other clans’ listings and learned that the Northern Territory Alliance had high-grade wings for sale for five hundred million points.
• Lin Zhen vowed to seize treasures and earn points from the organizations that had attacked him, then flew off on Thundercloud, making a conspicuous display of his return.

Lin Zhen ambushed a Demon Clan squad in the buffer zone between the Volcanic Zone and the Lake Area, took their points, and bound their leader, Xiao, with Soul Lock. He sent Xiao to gather more points and investigate the people who had besieged him at Crimson Flame Volcano.

• A Hidden Demon sensed danger as Lin Zhen approached on a thundercloud, and Lin Zhen killed him from a distance with Divine Might of Heaven's Mandate.
• Lin Zhen used Teleport to defeat the other Demon Clan members, then suppressed the peak-stage leader and bound him with Soul Lock.
• Lin Zhen forced the three survivors to transfer their points, gaining thirty-eight million, and ordered the two Late Stage Upper Gods to kill themselves.
• Lin Zhen spared the leader, learned his shortened name was Xiao, and ordered him to gather points and find the people who had besieged Lin Zhen at Crimson Flame Volcano.