Chapter Summaries

Jin Yu abandoned illusion training to focus on developing a blade technique suited to his Warrior talent, then defeated the stronger Dicks in a Virtual Universe Arena match. Luo Feng, Hong, Thor, and Jia Yi celebrated their winnings from betting on Emperor, though the Arena’s limits kept their profits down.

• Jin Yu decided his Warrior talent made creating a personal secret technique a better path than cultivating illusion techniques.
• Emperor defeated Dicks in a Life-and-Death Battle, deflecting his psionic spear and killing him with a single strike.
• Luo Feng, Hong, Thor, and Jia Yi marveled at Emperor’s blade technique and discussed their betting profits.
• Thor complained that the Giant Axe Arena limited their bets, while Jin Yu had stopped betting after the restrictions excluded newcomers.

Jin Yu and his slaves continued profiting from Giant Axe Arena bets, while the defeated Wu Dou prepared to send a stronger fighter against Emperor. Jin Yu then explained why his Emperor avatar was heading to the Gan Wu Secret Realm, believing it could offer greater benefits than the Giant Axe Arena or Virtual Universe Company.

• The hundred slaves continued betting five hundred Hun Yuan units per match and earned 500,000 Hun Yuan units after one hundred matches.
• Wu Dou blamed Emperor for ruining his plans and arranged for a first-class elite with the Ninth Level of domain to challenge him.
• Babata celebrated the betting profits as Jin Yu enjoyed expensive liquor and teased Babata about being poor.
• Jin Yu let Babata keep the earnings from his betting qualification, and Babata looked forward to making 50,000 Hun Yuan units after a thousand matches.
• Babata questioned why Jin Yu's Emperor avatar was heading to the Gan Wu Secret Realm, and Jin Yu said its benefits would surpass those of the Giant Axe Arena or Virtual Universe Company.

Jin Yu visited the Gan Wu Tower and learned how it offered geniuses a path to join the Gan Wu Royal Family. The tower’s illusion challenged him, but he broke free and grew wary of its power.

• Jin Yu arrived at the Gan Wu Tower and asked Babata why the Gan Wu Country Lord had built a physical challenge tower.
• Babata explained that challengers could earn inheritances, join the Royal Family by clearing ten floors, or become the Country Lord’s Personal Disciples by clearing the entire tower.
• Jin Yu considered joining the Royal Family to prepare for the upcoming Genius Battle, since his clone could give up its freedom.
• The Golden Horned Beast clone sensed that the tower’s illusion had affected Jin Yu’s soul while it approached Universe level third order.
• Jin Yu broke free of the illusion and stared at the Gan Wu Tower warily.

Jin Yu entered the Gan Wu Tower and began its first Warrior trial, facing a hundred powerful Stellar level nine Tarot Beasts. The beasts charged at him as the battle began.

• Jin Yu used his Heart like a mirror state of mind to see through an illusion and entered the Gan Wu Tower.
• Jin Yu selected the Warrior challenge and was teleported to a grassland, where he learned he had to kill one hundred Tarot Beasts.
• Jin Yu chose his weapons and armor, then used his preparation time to familiarize himself with a fifth-tier Force battle blade.
• The first-level challenge began, and the hundred Tarot Beasts charged at Jin Yu using coordinated movement techniques.
• The author announced that the story would abandon the Genius Battle route in favor of taking a backdoor.

Jin Yu slaughtered one hundred Tarot Beasts in the first trial, discovering that real combat let him comprehend Laws far faster than quiet cultivation. After passing, he reached the Inheritance Wall and began considering two gold-and-space secret techniques suited to him.

• Jin Yu killed all one hundred Tarot Beasts in one minute and eighteen seconds, remaining calm as slaughter sharpened his will and Law comprehension.
• Jin Yu entered the portal and was teleported to a wilderness, where an electronic voice granted him ten days to choose an inherited secret technique.
• Jin Yu examined the Inheritance Wall and learned that it contained immortal-level secret techniques spanning the ten fundamental Laws.
• Jin Yu found two techniques matching his gold-and-space Laws: the single-target-focused "Void Severing Blade" and the versatile "Space Crush."

Jin Yu sensed that the stone tablet in Gan Wu Tower was connected to something he had lost and discovered that its three characters revealed profound essences of the Law of Space. He focused on the first stroke, which showed him the principles behind ultimate movement and blade techniques.

• Jin Yu prepared to study secret techniques and felt an inexplicable sense that he had lost something, which grew stronger as he looked at the stone tablet.
• Jin Yu realized that the tablet’s three characters, “Inheritance Wall,” might function like a Chaos Tablet and decided to investigate them.
• Jin Yu stopped his avatars’ activities and used his mental power to sense the characters, perceiving thirty-six profound essences of the Law of Space.
• Jin Yu concentrated on the first stroke and grasped how it embodied movement that followed law fluctuations and a blade strike that arrived instantly.

Jin Yu spent ten-day inheritance periods studying the essence of the Law of Space, using each brief tower trial to test his growing mastery. After nearly ninety days of this cycle, his Golden Horned Beast clone had begun to wield spatially guided attacks with astonishing speed and force.

• Jin Yu studied the Stone Tablet’s three characters and realized their strokes concealed the essence of the Law of Space.
• After ten days, Jin Yu left the Inheritance Space and easily cleared the second floor by killing one hundred Stellar level nine Flying Pigeon Beasts.
• Jin Yu continued alternating ten-day periods of comprehension with tower trials, swiftly clearing the third through ninth floors.
• For nearly ninety days, Jin Yu used each trial’s reward of comprehension time to deepen his understanding of the Law of Space.
• Within Jin Yu’s Inner World, the Golden Horned Beast practiced claws, wings, and tail attacks that followed spatial fluctuations.
• The mechanical voice ended another ten-day period and summoned Jin Yu out of the Inheritance Space.

Jin Yu finished comprehending the first essence of the Law of Space and left the Gan Wu Tower as the indebted Gan Wu Country Lord reflected on his decline and the tower’s forgotten legacy. When the Country Lord learned that Jin Yu had cleared the tower and saw his performance at the Inheritance Wall, he became intrigued.

• Jin Yu recalled completing the first essence of the Law of Space and struggled to make progress on the second before heading toward the teleportation gate.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord lamented his debts, the treasures he had lost through repeated deaths, and his lack of a path to greater strength.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord remembered how Lord Xin Hen had helped establish the Gan Wu Tower and created the Stone Tablet inscription explaining the first thirty-six essences of the Law of Space.
• The Country Lord’s Intelligent Life reported that a genius had cleared the Gan Wu Tower and showed him Jin Yu’s records.
• The Country Lord watched Jin Yu’s performance and was moved when Jin Yu cleared the first level and examined the Inheritance Wall.

Jin Yu’s talent for the Law of Space impressed the Gan Wu Country Lord, who summoned him after watching him advance through the Gan Wu Tower. Jin Yu met the powerful Country Lord and resolved to grow strong enough to stand at his level and beyond.

• The Gan Wu Country Lord watched Jin Yu recognize the stone tablet’s significance and marveled at his exceptional affinity for the Law of Space.
• Jin Yu improved his movement, saber technique, and use of space laws as he cleared the tower’s floors, earning the Country Lord’s praise.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord ordered Thirteen to bring Jin Yu to him, and Jin Yu reluctantly left the stone tablet behind.
• Jin Yu arrived in the Country Lord’s hall and struggled under the pressure of the Country Lord’s overwhelming presence.
• After the Country Lord withdrew his pressure, Jin Yu recognized him and Thirteen, knelt, and paid his respects to the Gan Wu Country Lord.

Jin Yu met the Gan Wu Country Lord, explained how he had begun comprehending the essence of the Law of Space, and was unexpectedly accepted as his Personal Disciple. The Gan Wu Country Lord said he was taking Jin Yu as a disciple on behalf of a friend, then ordered A Kun to grant him access permissions.

• The Gan Wu Country Lord summoned Jin Yu and asked about his discovery of the Stone Tablet’s Law of Space mysteries.
• Jin Yu explained that he had spent ninety days comprehending the first essence of the Law of Space and regretted running out of time before starting the second.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord asked Jin Yu whether he was willing to become his Personal Disciple, and Jin Yu knelt to accept.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord named Jin Yu his second Personal Disciple and said he was taking him on behalf of a friend.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord told A Kun to grant Jin Yu access permissions, and Jin Yu summoned Babata to handle it.

Jin Yu met Lord Xin Hen’s statue and learned that the Gan Wu Country Lord had accepted him as a disciple on behalf of his fallen friend. The Country Lord explained Jin Yu’s place in the Xin Hen lineage and left him with the burden of someday helping preserve it.

• Babata celebrated Jin Yu’s new status and questioned A Kun about powerful beings and the permissions he had gained.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord teleported Jin Yu to the Endless Sword Sea and led him into a hall of giant sword pillars.
• The Country Lord told Jin Yu to kneel before Lord Xin Hen’s statue and recounted how his old friend had risen to become a Universe Master before dying in the Universe Sea.
• Jin Yu recognized Lord Xin Hen as the creator of the Xin Hen Chaos Tablet and learned that he was the lineage’s third disciple.
• The Country Lord explained Jin Yu’s senior brothers and asked him to shoulder the Xin Hen lineage’s banner if he became powerful enough; Jin Yu promised to investigate Xin Hen’s fate someday.

The Gan Wu Country Lord explained the universe and the Virtual Universe Company to Jin Yu, who chose to join its Apocalypse Secret Realm early and pursue dangerous training. The Gan Wu Country Lord then sent Jin Yu to undergo the test prepared by Lord Xin Hen’s statue.

• The Gan Wu Country Lord taught Jin Yu about the major races, human superpowers, and the upcoming Universe Peak Genius Battle.
• Jin Yu refused to wait for the Genius Battle and asked to join the Virtual Universe Company early so he could enter secret realms for life-and-death training.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord approved Jin Yu’s decision and said Thirteen would take him to the Initial Universe after their trip.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord explained the limits on secret-realm members’ missions, and Jin Yu resolved to visit Blood Luo World to seek Blood Luo Crystals.
• The Gan Wu Country Lord sent Jin Yu away to face the test Lord Xin Hen had prepared for his disciples, then reflected on Jin Yu’s potential and the possibility he could uncover the cause of Lord Xin Hen’s fall.

Jin Yu entered a mysterious space after completing the Gan Wu Tower and spent a week consolidating his insights into the Laws of Space. He was taken to a vast primitive world, where Ancestor Xin Hen’s descendant brought him to a palace complex to meet the Great Elder.

• Jin Yu spent a week organizing his law insights and tested a spatial-law-infused slash that he judged could kill ordinary Universe level fifth- or sixth-order opponents.
• A crack opened in the void and called Jin Yu inside, and he entered despite the possibility of danger.
• Jin Yu arrived in a world with immense gravity and was approached by a powerful rider on a saber-toothed beast.
• The burly man introduced himself as Ancestor Xin Hen’s 180th-generation descendant and said the Great Elder had sent him to escort Jin Yu.
• Jin Yu observed the primitive world from the beast’s back as they flew to a vast palace complex, where the Great Elder and others were waiting.

Jin Yu met Alex, the King Immortal leader of the Xin Hen Clan, and learned that the clan hoped he could become its next inheritor. Alex brought him to Lord Xin Hen’s Inheritance Tower to undergo a test, which Jin Yu entered eagerly.

• Di Kaluo brought Jin Yu to the Inheritance Hall, where Alex waited and reflected on the Xin Hen Clan’s decline and its hopes for a new inheritor.
• Alex introduced himself to Jin Yu and presented the nine Peak Marquis elders accompanying him.
• Alex led Jin Yu to the Inheritance Tower and explained that its trials determined the treatment and privileges granted to inheritors.
• Alex opened the barrier, and Jin Yu flew into the tower to begin Lord Xin Hen’s test.

Jin Yu entered the Inheritance Tower and received Lord Xin Hen’s powerful Heart Mark Body Refining inheritance. As he began cultivating it, Alex and the Xin Hen Clan elders prepared to protect him as their potential new heir.

• Alex told the Xin Hen Clan elders that Gan Wu Country Lord had arranged for Jin Yu to enter the Apocalypse Secret Realm and warned Gulis not to cause trouble.
• The elders agreed that anyone who passed the Inheritance Tower would become the Xin Hen Clan’s Your Highness and prepared for Jin Yu’s arrival.
• Jin Yu found a vast spiral staircase inside the tower and stepped onto its first level, where a mysterious force examined him.
• The tower began transmitting Lord Xin Hen’s cultivation inheritance, and Jin Yu recognized Heart Mark Body Refining as a body-amplitude secret technique with the potential to reach a hundredfold increase.
• Jin Yu immersed himself in cultivating the inheritance.

Jin Yu cultivated the Heart Mark Body Refining Secret Technique, transforming his body and raising his force amplitude as he climbed the inheritance stairs. After three years, he reached the 2,169th stair and realized he was approaching his limit, though he had already surpassed earlier records.

• Jin Yu and his clones cultivated Heart Mark Body Refining, using secret patterns to gradually transform their bodies.
• Jin Yu's force amplitude rose from just over 50 to more than 350, giving him seven times his previous explosive force.
• Jin Yu continued climbing the inheritance stairs for three years as the secret technique changed his bodily genes.
• Jin Yu reached the 2,169th stair and estimated he could receive only another one or two hundred levels of inheritance.
• Jin Yu recognized that his progress had exceeded the previous record of the Thunder Winged Beast Lord, whose inheritance had reached just over a thousand levels.

Jin Yu reached the 2169th level of the Inheritance Tower and became Lord Xin Hen's Personal Disciple, but his body was nearing its limit before he could reach the 3000th-level reward. He broke through to Universe level to strengthen his body and continue climbing.

• After a year, the Inheritance Tower sent a pillar of light into the sky, and Alex realized Jin Yu had become Lord Xin Hen's Personal Disciple.
• Jin Yu recognized that his body was nearing its limit around levels 2300 to 2500, while the first-stage reward awaited him at level 3000.
• Jin Yu decided to break through from Stellar level to Universe level rather than leave the inheritance early.
• Jin Yu's nine miniature stars exploded and formed a whirlpool galaxy with a black hole in his dantian as his body transformed.
• Jin Yu absorbed Universe-level Gene force and prepared to cultivate the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual as he continued toward the higher levels.

Jin Yu advanced to the 2,536th inheritance stair, but the new inheritance rhythm began collapsing his cells, forcing him back to the 2,535th step. He resolved to cultivate patiently and find another way to obtain more inheritance.

• Jin Yu and his clones continued cultivating after reaching Universe level, while his companions trained for the upcoming Peak Genius Battle and kept Earth’s location less conspicuous by obtaining citizenship in different nations.
• Jin Yu reached the 2,534th inheritance stair and realized his body was nearly saturated with the inheritance it could bear.
• He stepped onto the 2,535th stair and then leapt to the 2,536th, where the new inheritance information triggered a chain reaction that began collapsing his cells.
• Jin Yu returned to the 2,535th stair, and the strange rhythm stopped as Gene force repaired the damage.
• He decided to cultivate more slowly and concluded that, with no loopholes available, he would have to use cheats to gain more inheritance.

After completing the first 3,000 steps of Lord Xin Hen’s inheritance, Jin Yu entered the hall and received the title of Preliminary Candidate and his teacher’s rewards. He discovered that the God-Piercing Armor amplified strength tenfold and could also be used by his Golden Horned Beast.

• Jin Yu cultivated the fourth tribulation of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual in a year and a half, raising his basic genetic level to twenty-four times and his strength beyond six hundred times.
• Jin Yu continued accepting the inheritance until he reached the 3,000th step on November 30, 2065.
• Jin Yu entered the hall, where a message named him a Preliminary Candidate and Lord Xin Hen’s recorded voice congratulated him and offered treasures.
• Jin Yu received the God-Piercing Armor and five golden fruits, then learned the armor amplified strength tenfold and reduced physical and soul attacks.
• Jin Yu imprinted the armor and tested it, then stored it in his Inner World so his Golden Horned Beast could wear it too.

Jin Yu learned that the five Body Cleansing Fruits could alter his body and improve its ability to receive inheritances, then consumed them and resumed the Heart Mark Body Refining Secret Technique. Two years later, he had reached the 3,265th step and continued cultivating, unconcerned that he had missed the Genius Battle.

• The stone tablet explained that the Body Cleansing Fruits altered body genes and instructed Jin Yu to eat them in red, yellow, green, blue, and purple order.
• Jin Yu ate all five fruits, and their effects relieved his pain and strain while transforming his body.
• Jin Yu resumed the Heart Mark Body Refining inheritance and continued climbing the steps in the Xin Hen Clan's Inheritance Tower.
• In March 2066, Jin Yu realized the Genius Battle had begun, sent Luo Feng and his three fellow disciples an email, and chose to keep cultivating instead.
• Jin Yu stepped onto the 3,266th inheritance step, where golden patterns continued spreading through his body and increasing his force amplitude.