Chapter Summaries

Lu Ming returned to his family and agreed to accompany Axue into the Amos Star World, while preparing to take up an important post in the Jinlan Universe Kingdom. The Demon Race identified him as a target and sent Venerable Lingchu to lie in wait for an assassination, though Lu Ming remained unaware of the danger.

• Lu Ming told his parents he would stay home for several decades and agreed to explore the Amos Star World with Axue.
• Lu Ming reassured his father that virtual games would not distract him from cultivation and said he had discussed the Black-eyed Clan’s development with Clan Chief Lu Sheng.
• Alice informed Lu Ming that the Jinlan Branch’s three ministers wanted to hold a welcoming banquet, and Lu Ming agreed to attend.
• Zi Qian Wan She learned that Lu Ming was likely the inspection envoy and ordered his subordinate to confirm his identity and guard strength.
• Venerable Lingchu learned that Lu Ming’s guards included a King-level Immortal God and accepted that he might have to sacrifice himself to assassinate Lu Ming.
• Venerable Lingchu lamented his Mo Chu Clan’s subordination to the Demon Race Alliance while Lu Ming remained unaware of the planned attack.

A month after arriving on Jinlan Star, Lu Ming took up his post amid an extravagant welcome banquet and left the branch ministers reassured that he would focus on cultivation. He later entered the Amos Star World with Lu Xue, where he defeated the player who had embarrassed her and showed how real combat ability could dominate the game.

• Marquis Lan Xin and the other branch ministers welcomed Lu Ming at Lu Manor before powerful Immortal Gods, and Lu Ming decided not to investigate their past minor misdeeds.
• Lu Ming officially took up his post, and the three ministers relaxed when they saw that he intended to focus on cultivation rather than interfere in routine affairs.
• Lu Xue asked Lu Ming to challenge the lower-level player who had beaten and publicly embarrassed her in Amos Star World.
• After Alice explained how real-world abilities could carry over into the game, Lu Ming accepted Lu Xue's request and challenged the werewolf-like player.
• Lu Ming overwhelmed the player with 108 Lightning Azure Dragons, while Lu Xue recorded the battle and celebrated her brother's victory.
• Lu Xue resolved to cultivate so she could become stronger in the game, and Lu Ming noted that virtual games could be useful for training.

After more than a century of peaceful cultivation, Lu Ming received a Domain Lord-level mission to eliminate the Renani Family, whose leaders had been soul-controlled by the Demon Race and whose members had aided enemy intelligence operations. He traveled to Huiyun Star with King Lianyan and took command of the Jinlan Universe Kingdom’s First Army Group, preparing to wipe out the family and its outposts.

• Lu Xue demonstrated her Wind Domain skills to Lu Ming, then left to soak in the Pool of Life and advance to Universe level ninth rank.
• Lu Ming received a mission to kill Renani, Clawell, the Renani Family’s 200 million core members, and hostile outposts established across Human Race territory.
• Lu Ming departed Jinlan Star aboard the Ming God universe ship with King Lianyan and his guard army, heading for Huiyun Star.
• In the Virtual Universe, Lu Ming met Marquis Hong Yan, Marquis Cang Wu, and the First Army Lord, who placed the First Army Group under his command.
• Lu Ming worked with the Virtual Universe Company’s intelligence system to identify the targets and plan to seal off their planets and kill them all.

Lu Ming arrived at Huiyun Star and met the Lieyang Department’s Black Armor Race team, which had prepared an operation against two Immortal targets. After approving King Qingfeng’s plan, Lu Ming set out with the team and began checking intelligence on the targets.

• Lu Ming reviewed information about the Black Armor Race and learned why the vassal race relied on humanity for protection.
• King Qingfeng and eight Black Armor Race Immortals learned that Lu Ming would lead their mission and agreed to do their best to befriend him.
• Lu Ming arrived at Huiyun Star aboard the Ming God and met King Qingfeng’s team, accompanied by King Lianyan.
• Lu Ming approved King Qingfeng’s battle plan after discussing the difficulty of killing Immortal Gods.
• Lu Ming and the team departed Huiyun Star, while Lu Ming gathered Virtual Universe intelligence on their two Immortal targets.

Lu Ming led an assault on Yinning Star to kill the traitors Renani and Clawell, but the Immortals’ battle annihilated the planet and its inhabitants. As Lu Ming watched, a burning King-level Soul Slave attacked his spacecraft, while its master, Venerable Lingchu, waited nearby.

• Lu Ming ordered thirty First Legion warships to blockade Yinning Star while Elder Qingfeng and the Black Armored Action Team descended to kill the targets.
• Marquis Bingyun killed Clawell, and a King-level attacker confronted Renani as he tried to flee.
• The Immortals’ clash destroyed the imperial palace and scorched Yinning Star, killing its countless residents along with Renani.
• A burning King-level Soul Slave appeared outside the planet and attacked Lu Ming, prompting King Lianyan to shield him with his ultimate soul-defense technique.
• Venerable Lingchu watched from the Spatial Layer of the Jinlan Universe Kingdom and prepared to intervene if his Soul Slave failed.

King Lianyan blocked Evil Eye King’s Soul Impact, but Venerable Lingchu then attacked Lu Ming directly with a burning, full-strength strike. Palace Master Tian Shi arrived in time to stop him and trapped the surrounding starfield, leaving Lingchu terrified.

• King Lianyan used his Thousand Turns defense to block Evil Eye King’s Soul Impact while the Xuan Jia Clan Immortals rushed to help.
• Venerable Lingchu decided to attack Lu Ming himself before more Human Race experts could arrive.
• Venerable Lingchu froze time across the starfield and launched Lingchu’s Hand at Lu Ming, who remained calm because his Inferno Clone had no soul.
• Palace Master Tian Shi appeared and revealed that he had been waiting for Lingchu.
• Palace Master Tian Shi threatened the Mo Chu Clan and restrained the surrounding starfield, making Lingchu fear he was facing Tian Shi’s strongest clone.

Palace Master Tian Shi stopped Venerable Lingchu’s assassination attempt against Lu Ming and killed him with the Tian Shi Fire. Afterward, Lu Ming discovered that Tian Shi had also nurtured a Blazing Void Beast clone, leaving their shared secret hidden from the other races.

• Palace Master Tian Shi used his powers over time and space to prevent Venerable Lingchu from self-destructing and engulfed him in Tian Shi Fire, annihilating his soul and Life Imprint.
• Venerable Lingchu’s clone collapsed in the Mo Chu Clan’s territory, and the clan leader reported that the assassination mission had failed.
• The Jinlan Kingdom Lord arrived after the battle, and Palace Master Tian Shi lifted his protection over Lu Ming and the others.
• Lu Ming sensed a kinship with Palace Master Tian Shi and realized that Tian Shi had also nurtured a Blazing Void Beast clone.
• Palace Master Tian Shi thanked Lu Ming for his potential and left, followed by the Jinlan Kingdom Lord.

Lu Ming released nine World Lords and killed them all in a single strike to complete his Virtual Universe Company mission. After celebrating with the Black Armor Race, he expressed interest in visiting their Sacred Mark Stone Wall, whose mysterious power only their race could reveal.

• Lu Ming released the nine captured World Lords and offered to spare them if they defeated him, then ordered them to attack together.
• The nine World Lords attacked Lu Ming with their Inner Worlds, weapons, and soul attacks, but he killed all of them instantly with a flaming spear strike.
• The Black Armor Race Immortals praised Lu Ming’s strength, and Elder Qingfeng invited him to visit their homeland.
• Lu Ming asked to see the Black Armor Race’s Sacred Mark Stone Wall, and Elder Qingfeng explained that its strange characters held power their race alone could reveal.

Lu Ming traveled to the Xuan Jia Clan’s homeland, Pagni World, and then continued to its Sacred City to see the Sacred Mark Stone Wall. After the Third Elder welcomed him and stopped local geniuses from challenging him, Lu Ming and King Lianyan reached the wall and saw how its Sacred Marks aided the clan’s cultivation.

• Lu Ming traveled with Qingfeng and the others to Pagni World, the vast, snow-covered homeland built by generations of the Xuan Jia Clan.
• Qingfeng welcomed Lu Ming to the Lieyang Tribe, where the clan held a grand banquet in his honor.
• Lu Ming left the tribe and traveled with Qingfeng and King Lianyan to the Xuan Jia Clan’s Sacred City and its Heaven-Piercing Stone Wall.
• Knockrich and other Domain Lord geniuses challenged Lu Ming, but the Third Elder intervened and teleported them away after learning of Lu Ming’s strength.
• The Third Elder escorted Lu Ming and his companions to the Sacred Mark Stone Wall, where they saw Xuan Jia Clan members cultivating with glowing Sacred Marks.

Lu Ming and King Lianyan learned how the Xuan Jia Clan’s Sacred Marks strengthened its members, then Lu Ming studied the hundred thousand words on the Heaven-Piercing Stone Wall. In Chaos City, his true body felt an intense tremor in his soul after his Inferno Clone saw the wall.

• Elder Qingfeng explained that the Xuan Jia Clan’s Life Crystal Cores received Sacred Marks from the Heaven-Piercing Stone Wall, and that the marks’ strength depended on a clansman’s level and potential.
• King Qingfeng described the marks’ five known levels and the clan’s legend of six-star marks, while Lu Ming and King Lianyan climbed to the wall’s highest step.
• Lu Ming and King Lianyan observed that the wall bore exactly one hundred thousand words and that it reacted to the Xuan Jia clansmen but not to them.
• In Chaos City, Lu Ming considered whether to advance his Beast God path before studying deeper Chaos Tablet diagrams and wondered when his second clone would be born.
• Lu Ming’s true body felt a powerful tremor in his soul after his Inferno Clone saw the hundred thousand Sacred Mark words.

Lu Ming discovered that the Sacred Mark Stone Wall stirred his true body's soul and alerted his teacher, the Lord of Dragon Passage. The Lord of Dragon Passage arranged to investigate the wall with Lu Ming, while the Chaos City Lord anticipated that its secrets might benefit the Human Race.

• Lu Ming's true body's soul trembled with a sense of attraction when his Blazing Void Beast clone observed the Sacred Mark characters, so he sought advice from the Lord of Dragon Passage.
• The Lord of Dragon Passage agreed to accompany Lu Ming to the Black Armor Race and protect him while they investigated the Sacred Mark Stone Wall.
• The Lord of Dragon Passage told Star Soul Venerable to guard his palace before leaving for Chaos City.
• The Lord of Dragon Passage met the Chaos City Lord and explained that Lu Ming might be able to uncover the Sacred Marks' secrets.
• The Chaos City Lord entrusted the investigation to the Lord of Dragon Passage and hoped that Lu Ming would reveal an inheritance capable of strengthening the Human Race.

Lu Ming resonated with the Sacred Mark Stone Wall and unlocked the Tian Qi inheritance, a cultivation path that borrowed power from heaven and earth. He learned that the inheritance recognized him through the favor of the Universe Origin Will, while the Chaos City Lord and Lord of Dragon Passage watched as it entered him.

• Lord of Dragon Passage borrowed the Heaven-Piercing Stone Wall from the Black Armor Race elders, who suspected the request was connected to Lu Ming.
• Venerable Guiyi led Lu Ming into the Chaos Ruins, where Lu Ming met the Chaos City Lord and joined Lord of Dragon Passage beside the stone wall.
• Lu Ming’s soul resonated with the Sacred Mark characters, causing them to emerge from the wall and reveal the Tian Qi cultivation school.
• The Sacred Mark characters streamed into Lu Ming, and after nearly three months he awakened with the inheritance absorbed into his consciousness.
• Lu Ming learned that Tian Qi practitioners borrowed power from heaven and earth, and that only those approved by the Universe Origin Will could cultivate its core inheritance.

After receiving the Tian Qi inheritance, Lu Ming explained its new cultivation school to Chaos City Lord and Lord of Dragon Passage and revealed a secret technique that could evolve life genes. The two learned that the Human Race’s owned universes might let its members cultivate Tian Qi, but the technique’s highest stages required a sufficiently powerful Universe Origin.

• Lu Ming told Chaos City Lord and Lord of Dragon Passage that Tian Qi Practitioners could borrow power from the Universe Origin and needed its approval to cultivate.
• Lu Ming guided the two to realize that the Human Race’s Initial Universe and Giant Axe Universe could provide the required permission through their masters.
• Chaos City Lord explained that he managed the Initial Universe for Primordial Ancestor, while Great Axe Founder controlled the fully evolved Giant Axe Universe.
• Lu Ming sent Chaos City Lord and Lord of Dragon Passage information about Tian Qi Evolution, a secret technique that could alter bodily genes and ultimately reach a 10,081-times Life gene level.
• Chaos City Lord and Lord of Dragon Passage were astonished by the technique, while Lu Ming noted that a miniature universe might not be powerful enough to support its highest stages.

Lu Ming finished translating the Tian Qi inheritance in Giant Axe Founder’s miniature universe and began studying its cultivation methods. He planned to challenge Domain Lord Tongtian Mountain before advancing to World Lord level, while his second clone neared birth.

• Lord of Dragon Passage took Lu Ming to Giant Axe Universe so he could translate the Tian Qi inheritance in a universe Great Axe Founder could control.
• Great Axe Founder returned from Universe Sea and joined Lord of Dragon Passage in watching Lu Ming translate the inheritance.
• Lu Ming completed the translation, leaving Human Race leaders to organize pioneers who would explore the new cultivation school.
• Lu Ming studied Tian Qi Evolution, which could transform a cultivator into an increasingly powerful special life form through three stages.
• Lu Ming decided to challenge Domain Lord Tongtian Mountain as his second clone’s gestation accelerated and approached completion.

Lu Ming passed the Domain Lord level Primal Tongtian Mountain with a single spear strike, then waited in seclusion for his second clone to be born. The clone emerged as a vast, soul-bearing Starry Sky with three powerful innate abilities, leaving Lu Ming eager to develop its potential.

• Lu Ming transformed into a humanoid Beast God and defeated the three summit guardians with one spear strike, passing the Domain Lord level Primal Tongtian Mountain.
• Lu Ming continued cultivating in Chaos City while his Inferno Clone stayed with his family, and nearly ten years passed before his second clone finished incubating.
• Lu Ming watched the enormous golden egg hatch into a radiant starry sky and discovered that the Starry Sky Clone had a soul and a life gene level of roughly 8,100 times that of an ordinary ninth-rank Domain Lord.
• The Starry Sky Clone discovered its Star Vortex ability, which let it devour Universe Origin energy and grow to an immense size.
• The Starry Sky Clone identified its other innate abilities, Star Gate and Star Realm, and Lu Ming realized all three matched powerful secret arts in the Tian Qi inheritance.

Lu Ming broke through to World Lord level, forming a one-trillion-kilometer Inner World and a Two Realms Abyss. He completed the world and transformed his Origin Core, leaving him confident that his future Divine Kingdom and strength would be extraordinary.

• Lu Ming used the Universe Origin Power drawn into his Inner World to nurture it, and a Two Realms Abyss formed at its core.
• Lu Ming’s psychic power and genetic energy fused to create World Power, which poured into his Inner World as it expanded to its one-trillion-kilometer limit.
• Lu Ming shaped the Inner World into continents and seas, filled it with life, and formed mountains of Cosmic Crystals from the remaining energy.
• Lu Ming’s Origin Pearl formed and transformed his Origin Core as he completed his breakthrough to World Lord level.
• Lu Ming considered the power of his vast World Projection and anticipated that his Inner World would give him an immense advantage when he formed a Divine Kingdom.

Lu Ming broke through to the World Lord level, drawing attention from both the Human Race and its enemies, and prepared to raise his clones before entering life-and-death training. After he told Lord of Dragon Passage that his Inferno Clone would secretly enter the Outer Domain Battlefield, his teacher promised to bestow two treasures on him.

• Lu Ming’s true body broke through to the World Lord level while his Starry Sky Clone began expanding toward its Domain Lord limit.
• The Virtual Universe Company promoted Lu Ming to a World Lord-level Primal Secret Realm member, and news of his breakthrough spread among human experts and Alien Races.
• Lu Ming applied to have a nutrient pod delivered to Chaos City and received 3.1 billion points for his earlier Primal Tongtian Mountain achievements.
• Lu Ming told Lord of Dragon Passage that he planned to reach the World Lord pinnacle before sending his disguised Inferno Clone to the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Lord of Dragon Passage warned Lu Ming about the danger and offered him two treasures to strengthen his defense, disguise his life aura, and increase his power.

Lord of Dragon Passage gave Lu Ming the Inferno Armor, the Burning Star Spear, and a token for emergencies, while explaining the Human Race’s reward and the Black Armor Race’s new protection. Back in Chaos City, Lu Ming bound the spear, learned its combat technique, and studied the Inferno Armor’s manual, discovering its defensive forms and its ability to boost and disguise his aura.

• Lord of Dragon Passage gave Lu Ming the Inferno Armor as a protective treasure and the Burning Star Spear as a Human Race reward for his contributions.
• Lord of Dragon Passage told Lu Ming that the Tian Qi inheritance had helped the Human Race produce a new Universe Master and that the Black Armor Race had moved into humanity’s core territory under its protection.
• Lord of Dragon Passage gave Lu Ming a token that would summon him in an emergency, and Lu Ming left Dragon Passage Divine Palace with Venerable Sui Gu.
• Lu Ming returned to Chaos City, bound the Burning Star Spear, and learned the first two levels of its combat technique.
• Aitor delivered the Inferno Armor manual, and Lu Ming learned that the armor had three defensive forms and could enhance his strength while disguising his life aura.

Lu Ming equipped the Inferno Armor and, after reaching the ninth stage of the World Lord level, traveled to Canglong Star to enter the Outer Domain Battlefield under the alias Inferno. He chose the Fourth Star Domain Battlefield and military camp base 029 for his deployment.

• Lu Ming learned that the Inferno Armor could multiply his strength tenfold and decided it would make him more powerful on the battlefield.
• Three months later, Lu Ming's original body and Inferno Clone both reached the ninth stage of the World Lord level.
• Lu Ming arrived at Canglong Star aboard his customized F9-class spaceship and applied to enter the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Immortal God Hai Wen let the lone recruits depart without waiting for a full batch of one hundred World Lords, then explained the military's authority-granting ranks.
• Lu Ming gave Hai Wen the alias Inferno and chose the Fourth Star Domain Battlefield and military camp base 029.

Lu Ming arrived at Barracks Base 029 in the Fourth Star Domain Battlefield and received Low-level Marquis authority. He joined King Cangbing’s elite squad, which planned to return to Chenling Continent in three days.

• Hai Wen assessed Lu Ming as a Low-level Marquis, and Lu Ming traveled with the recruits to Barracks Base 029.
• Lampard explained that Lu Ming could lead a force or join a squad, and Lu Ming chose to join a squad seeking frequent battles against Immortals.
• King Cangbing invited Lu Ming to join the Cangbing Squad after learning he was a newly arrived Low-level Marquis.
• Lu Ming met King Cangbing and the squad’s five other members, each of whom introduced their role and strength.
• Feishuang briefed Lu Ming on combat and survival dangers in the Outer Domain Battlefield before the squad’s planned return to Chenling Continent.