Chapter Summaries

During the Yin Kui Sect’s Sacrifice Ritual, Orsaga appeared in person, drawing the sect’s believers to their knees and startling its elders. He recognized Wanwan, and the two old acquaintances began catching up.

• The tree demon and other Yin Kui Sect members sensed Orsaga approaching through the Sacrifice Ritual, while flowers across Crimson Blood Mountain burst into bloom.
• A young elder asked whether Orsaga was coming in person, and the sect’s elders grew nervous about facing their deity.
• Wanwan looked forward to seeing Orsaga again, and the elders mistook her smile for confidence that the ritual was proceeding smoothly.
• Orsaga appeared at the ritual site in a blood-red radiance and muttered about Golanel and the others sending him to wander another Outer Plane after his setback against Gann.
• Orsaga recognized Wanwan, and she remarked that more than a million years had passed since their last meeting.

Orsaga explored the Heavenly Net True Realm with Wanwan and learned about her old ties to the Yin Kui Sect and the layered worlds below. He began to grasp how many ascensions separated this realm from the lower worlds, while wondering what the higher realms were like.

• Orsaga rode on the humanoid tree demon and spotted a stele bearing the name Yin Kui Sect.
• Orsaga asked Wanwan about the sect, and she recalled that she and Zhu Yuyan had not returned to their homeland for a long time.
• Wanwan told Orsaga that Zhu Yuyan was traveling elsewhere and that she knew around twenty other acquaintances in the True Martial Realm and Myriad Emperors Realm.
• Wanwan explained that those realms were lower worlds beneath the Heavenly Net True Realm, prompting Orsaga to consider the plane's many layers and ascensions.
• Orsaga compared the realm's weak energy and ordinary people with a world he had destroyed, then wondered what the higher worlds were like.

Orsaga accepted the Yin Kui Sect’s offerings and transformed Wanwan’s Primal Essence into a ritual using power drawn from the tree demon beneath him. Wanwan then organized the elders’ sacrifices, while the sect members struggled to withstand Orsaga’s presence.

• Wanwan offered Orsaga a box containing Primal Essence she had spent three hundred years extracting from the starfield.
• Orsaga used the tree demon’s power to alter the Primal Essence, making it glow like a miniature sun as complex spell formulas formed inside it.
• Orsaga promised Wanwan a reward, and she directed the others to present their sacrifices in turn.
• The Yin Kui Sect’s elders and members felt compelled to submit to Orsaga, and only around a dozen dared to meet his gaze.

Orsaga had Wanwan spin a roulette wheel to choose his starting talent, then activated the Source of Eternal Suffering in the Heavenly Net True Realm. Its influence began turning fate toward disastrous outcomes, but Orsaga quickly restrained it to avoid confronting the world’s consciousness.

• After the Sacrifice Ritual ended, the Primal Essence shone with dangerous golden light and revealed mysterious patterns to Wanwan.
• Orsaga handed Wanwan a six-section roulette wheel and asked her to spin it to choose his starting talent.
• The wheel landed on the Source of Eternal Suffering, and Orsaga declared that the game had begun.
• The Primal Essence merged into Orsaga, activating a small portion of the Source of Eternal Suffering and turning events across the Heavenly Net True Realm toward worse outcomes.
• Orsaga withdrew most of the talent’s influence to spare lives and avoid a direct clash with the Plane Consciousness or World Consciousness.

Orsaga recovered some of his power and rewarded those who had sacrificed to him, causing Wanwan to break through to a new level. He left the Yin Kui Sect to wander the Savage Domain with Wanwan accompanying him, and the chapter ended with her worrying that his aimless journey might lead to disaster.

• Orsaga sensed that the golden light had restored some of his power and declared his return a perfect start.
• Orsaga sent rewards to everyone who had offered sacrifices, and Wanwan received insights that helped her break through and grow much stronger.
• After spending several days at the Yin Kui Sect, Orsaga set out at random on a Dragon horse, and Wanwan volunteered to accompany him.
• Wanwan asked Orsaga about his destination, but he said he had no goal and only wanted to wander around.
• Wanwan followed Orsaga down the dangerous road, silently hoping he would not cause a disaster she could not clean up.

Orsaga and Wanwan traveled on their mounts when an injured white Demonic Beast raced past them, only to be burned to ash by Orsaga’s Dragon Horse. The Zhao Family of Anluo City arrived searching for the beast, learned it was dead, and withdrew without provoking the pair.

• An injured white Demonic Beast rushed past Orsaga and Wanwan, who ignored it.
• Orsaga’s Dragon Horse breathed dragon-blood flames and reduced the Demonic Beast to ash.
• The leader of the Zhao Family of Anluo City asked Orsaga and Wanwan whether they had seen the injured beast.
• Wanwan pointed out the beast’s ashes, and the Zhao Family leader stopped his subordinates from confronting them.
• The Zhao Family leader led his group away, while Orsaga and Wanwan continued to disregard them.

Orsaga and Wanwan continued their journey after a hunting party retreated in fear of Orsaga’s power. When Wanwan asked how far she was from the peak, Orsaga examined the layered worlds and began to understand the vast structure of ascension.

• The burly commander struck his vice commander for questioning their retreat and explained that the White Court Tiger Demon’s ashes proved Orsaga was too powerful to provoke.
• The hunting party left to find another White Court Tiger Demon for the Eldest Young Master, while Orsaga and Wanwan continued down the road without concern.
• Wanwan asked whether Orsaga’s world differed from theirs, and he described Crimson Heaven as more bloodthirsty despite its residents being happy.
• Wanwan clarified that she wanted to know how many ascensions remained before she could reach the highest-level world.
• Orsaga followed the Heavenly Net True Realm’s coordinates and saw countless worlds arranged in layers, with lower worlds feeding ascenders into higher ones.

Orsaga showed Wanwan how far she was from reaching the highest world, crushing her desire to keep cultivating. As the two wandered without a destination, Orsaga remained lazy while those who tried to rob or attack them met horrific fates.

• Orsaga explained that Wanwan needed to ascend thirty-seven more times and train for 155.7 billion years without sleep or rest to reach the highest world.
• Wanwan gave up on cultivation and began imagining a quiet retirement, while Orsaga declined to comfort her.
• Orsaga and Wanwan wandered aimlessly along the road, encountering Demonic Beasts, bandits, and highwaymen.
• Orsaga dealt so brutally with those who threatened them that nearby Demonic Beasts fled in terror.

After wandering for days, Orsaga and Wanwan reached a city, where Orsaga spotted the Umbrella Corporation emblem on a bicycle and began investigating its origins. The boy who stole the bicycle pointed him toward a shop in East Lin Street, and Orsaga headed into the city.

• Orsaga and Wanwan reached a bustling city after days of aimless wandering and countless Demonic Beasts had fallen to their group.
• Orsaga recognized the Umbrella Corporation emblem on a crudely made bicycle in the crowd.
• Orsaga asked the young boy riding the bicycle where he had gotten it, and the boy said he had stolen it from a small shop at the end of East Lin Street.
• Orsaga rode toward the city while Wanwan noticed the boy's exceptional martial aptitude but chose not to intervene.

Orsaga recognized the crude wares in Zhao Hua’s shop as the work of a transmigrator with no powerful cheat, while Zhao Hua was overwhelmed by fear at the sight of Orsaga and Wanwan. Zhao Hua reflected on his hard life in the Heavenly Net True Realm and his envy of a transmigrator who had a cheat.

• Orsaga examined the shop’s crude, early-twentieth-century-style objects and concluded that a transmigrator without much of a cheat likely owned it.
• Passersby watched Orsaga and Wanwan, and Zhao Hua identified the conspicuous pair from his shop.
• Zhao Hua felt intense fear when Orsaga’s gaze seemed to turn toward him and wished he had a cheat of his own.
• Zhao Hua recalled how he used his mechanical engineering knowledge to become an artisan and scrape out a living in the Heavenly Net True Realm.
• Zhao Hua remembered a transmigrator with a cheat who had been reborn into a great clan and prospered, deepening his envy.

Orsaga entered Zhao Hua’s shop and discovered that the shopkeeper was a transmigrator from Earth. He devoured Zhao Hua’s soul, leaving onlookers expecting the city’s security forces to respond while Wanwan accepted his actions.

• Orsaga’s mount crossed into Zhao Hua’s shop and blocked its entrance, terrifying Zhao Hua and the people nearby.
• Orsaga lifted Zhao Hua with an invisible force and revealed that he had recognized him as a transmigrator from Earth.
• Orsaga casually said he was a transmigrator too, then extracted and ate Zhao Hua’s soul while leaving his body behind.
• Onlookers shouted that Zhao Hua had been murdered and scattered, while a few observers stayed to watch for a confrontation.
• Wanwan showed some surprise but did not object, since she knew Orsaga was an evil being.

After absorbing Zhao Hua’s memories, Orsaga suspected that another transmigrator came from a parallel version of Earth, which caught his interest. He left with Wanwan through a Space Door, while the city’s security forces blamed Zhao Hua’s death on an alleged offense against the Yin Kui Sect and the dispute over his inheritance continued.

• Orsaga examined Zhao Hua’s memories and noticed that the other transmigrator’s references to Blue Star, Huaxia, and world events suggested a different Earth.
• The city’s security forces surrounded Orsaga and Wanwan, but Wanwan showed her Yin Kui Sect true disciple token and ordered them to leave.
• Orsaga opened a Space Door and departed with Wanwan, leaving Zhao Hua’s corpse behind.
• The Captain returned after the area was quiet and falsely announced that an esteemed Yin Kui Sect figure had executed Zhao Hua for a grave offense.
• The bystanders said nothing, life returned to normal, and Zhao Hua’s inheritance remained the subject of disputes.

Yu Zhengqing received a White Court Tiger Demon and planned to have his master refine Tiger Soul Revival Powder from it. Orsaga and Wanwan suddenly appeared in his courtyard, and Yu Zhengqing’s master recognized Wanwan as a powerful figure from more than twenty thousand years earlier.

• Yu Zhengqing graciously welcomed Captain Zhang despite the delayed delivery and promised payment to the Zhao Family.
• Yu Zhengqing confirmed with his master that the White Court Tiger Demon was suitable for refining Tiger Soul Revival Powder.
• Yu Zhengqing’s master agreed to refine the medicine, but a strange fluctuation interrupted them before the demon could be taken to the Medicine Refining room.
• Orsaga and Wanwan appeared in the courtyard, and Orsaga identified Yu Zhengqing as his target.
• Yu Zhengqing asked the newcomers who they were, while his master recognized Wanwan and was overcome with fear.

Orsaga discovered that Yu Zhengqing was a transmigrator with a powerful cheat and decided to test how nutritious he was. After Yu Zhengqing unleashed his stored power, Orsaga ignored his teacher’s plea for mercy and set out to destroy Blood Lake Valley.

• Orsaga revealed that he had eaten Zhao Hua and told Yu Zhengqing that he might be more nutritious.
• Yu Zhengqing used the Martial Arts Modifier’s stored energy to break through three major realms in an instant.
• Yu Zhengqing’s teacher begged Orsaga to spare his disciple and invoked his uncle, Blood Lake Valley’s Grand Elder Han Minghai.
• Orsaga asked Wanwan what Blood Lake Valley was, then declared that he would destroy it.
• Orsaga punched the purple-robed elder away with the power of the Source of Eternal Suffering, leaving a vast chasm and a streak across the sky.

Orsaga used the Source of Eternal Suffering and Word Spirit to erase every possible future for the purple-robed elder and destroy Blood Lake Valley. The chapter ended with the sect and its territory obliterated, its survivors hunted down, and the name Blood Lake Valley made a deadly taboo.

• Orsaga directed the purple-robed elder’s possible futures toward death amid suffering, leaving him unable to resist.
• Orsaga’s attack shattered the elder and swept his remains toward Blood Lake Valley.
• The attack destroyed Blood Lake Valley’s Sect Protection Grand Array and obliterated the valley and surrounding territory.
• The Source of Eternal Suffering pursued and killed Blood Lake Valley’s disciples, leaders, survivors, and affiliated forces wherever they fled.
• Powerful beings across the Heavenly Net True Realm witnessed Blood Lake Valley’s extinction, and attempts to claim its manuals or ruins triggered Orsaga’s power.
• Blood Lake Valley became a taboo, and anyone who tried to revive the sect under that name was doomed to die.

Orsaga destroyed Yu Zhengqing and the people in his courtyard, then intercepted a message from Blue Star that summoned its chosen candidates to face a returning threat. He decided to follow the message back to Blue Star and treat the invitation as a chance for a buffet.

• Orsaga destroyed Blood Lake Valley, leaving Yu Zhengqing and Wanwan stunned by his power.
• Orsaga killed Yu Zhengqing and the courtyard’s servants, including a burly man he had met before.
• Wanwan used the Flame of Dissolution to incinerate the bodies and their possessions.
• Orsaga retrieved Yu Zhengqing’s Martial Arts Modifier and intercepted a message meant for him.
• The message called chosen candidates back to Blue Star to fight the Lord of the Outland’s returning threat, and Orsaga decided to follow it.

Orsaga obtained a golden Summoning Order that could take him to another world and invited Wanwan to come along. When Wanwan worried about leaving the Yin Kui Sect unattended, Orsaga gave her a Time Sandglass capable of stopping or accelerating time within the Heavenly Net True Realm, and left the choice to her.

• As Orsaga decided to travel to Blue Star for its buffet, the information formed a golden Summoning Order before him and Wanwan.
• Orsaga recognized the token and understood how to use it, then asked Wanwan if she wanted to travel with him to another world.
• Wanwan wanted to go but hesitated because she was responsible for the Yin Kui Sect and feared what might happen while she was away.
• Orsaga gave Wanwan a Time Sandglass that could stop or accelerate time within the Heavenly Net True Realm.
• Wanwan learned the sandglass held an immense amount of usable time, while Orsaga told her she could keep it whether or not she joined him.

Blue Star's governments struggled to adapt to the arrival of powerful transmigrators, granting them privileges while trying to win their favor. In the Europa Continent's lavish Myriad Realms Divine Hall, national representatives gathered to compete for the next transmigrator's allegiance.

• Six enormous palaces appeared above Blue Star's continents, and the Lord of All Heavens revealed that transmigrators had entered the world.
• Governments granted transmigrators extensive privileges and avoided interfering with their power under the Lord of All Heavens' prohibition.
• Europa's politicians rapidly changed their stance and planned ways to prove loyalty to the transmigrators.
• The governments of Europa transformed the Myriad Realms Divine Hall into a lavish venue and gathered their national representatives there.
• Europa's representatives prepared to contact the next transmigrator first and recruit them, or serve them if necessary.

Riley Handel endured the tense, politically fraught work of recruiting transmigrators at the Myriad Realms Palace and regretted taking the reception officer post. He recalled how a powerful Native American chieftain had nearly destroyed Blue Star after seeing what had happened to his people.

• The reception officers maintained strict silence and guarded against one another while competing to recruit transmigrators.
• Riley Handel, on a late-night shift, suffered from the rigid work and regretted choosing the reception officer position.
• Riley reflected that powerful political families had fought to secure reception posts because they offered access to transmigrators and the possibility of immortality.
• Riley considered the difficulty of dealing with transmigrators whose beliefs, origins, or forms made communication nearly impossible.
• Riley recalled that a Native American Great Chieftain, after returning to Blue Star and finding his people diminished, had nearly smashed the planet before the Lord of All Heavens stopped him.

Riley Hendel and the other reception officers prepared to recruit a powerful transmigrator who appeared in the Teleportation Array. Orsaga and a companion then appeared behind the newcomer, their presence making everyone instinctively judge them powerful.

• Riley Hendel noticed the Teleportation Array activating and composed himself to greet its new arrival.
• A towering man in silver Metal Armor appeared, announced that he had returned after more than four hundred years, and filled the area with oppressive Supernatural Power.
• The reception officers tried to calm the man, whose suspicion and tightening grip on his sword intensified his aura until he restrained it.
• Orsaga appeared behind the newcomer with a companion and bluntly asked him to move aside.
• The reception officers realized they had failed to notice the pair and instinctively judged them powerful.