Chapter Summaries

Wang Yi secured about twenty-five votes for the Sumeru World selection, then settled in Tianyu City to cultivate while keeping his search for rare treasures secret. After years of study, he created the Void Destruction technique, though his paths remained far from the Cosmic God level.

• Wang Yi and Marquis Yanyue discussed the failed vote negotiations and counted about twenty-five votes, short of Wang Yi’s goal of thirty.
• Wang Yi rented a cave residence in Tianyu City and secretly cultivated inside his God King level Palace while Shi Zhongtian endured mental trials.
• Wang Yi reflected that consuming one hundred thousand Origin World Stones had strengthened his soul but had not advanced his will.
• Wang Yi combined mysteries of the Void Path and Destruction Path to create a Twenty-First Order secret technique called Void Destruction.
• Wang Yi concluded that his Rule Systems were still far from completion and from the level required to become a Cosmic God.

During Wang Yi’s hundred-million-era retreat, the Hunyuan Holy Land Universe tightened its advancement policies to manage its population while opening new paths for powerful beings to rise. The resulting competition drove Universe Venerables to recruit talent and pursue promotions, while the Mechanical Race secretly developed a mass-training project.

• Wang Yi’s Small Universe underwent unprecedented changes during his hundred-million-era cultivation in seclusion.
• A Zerg Mother Queen Venerable named Jialan told Venerable Boyah that sixty-four World Masters from their plane had become Immortals in ten thousand eras, and she planned to take a promising seedling as her disciple.
• Venerable Boyah reflected that the Hunyuan Heavenly Palace’s new policy had made Universe Venerables compete fiercely for contributions and talent so they could advance to Universe Masters or True Gods.
• Venerable Boyah asked Venerable Xuanji about the Mechanical Race’s proposed Reincarnation Space or Main God Space, but Xuanji claimed not to know and left.
• Venerable Boyah complained that the Mechanical Race had requested extensive funding and special authorities for its project, while the Hunyuan Heavenly Palace’s supreme council struggled to accommodate its growing number of True Gods.

The Mechanical Race proposed the Main God Space, a system to cultivate promising life forms below Immortal God level across Wang Yi’s universe. With the Hunyuan Heavenly Palace’s approval, the Mechanical Race prepared to build it and take responsibility for finding candidates, running trials, and meeting quotas.

• The Mechanical Father God reported that the Mechanical Race had grown to 39 True Gods and 1,677 Universe Masters, all committed to serving Wang Yi and sharing his burdens.
• The Mechanical Father God said the Hunyuan Heavenly Palace had approved the Main God Space proposal, despite objections from the Insectoid Empress and a Monster Race elder.
• Wang Bermuda Panda explained that the plan would select life forms below World Master level from countless worlds and train them in harsh trials until they became Immortals.
• The Mechanical Father God said the Mechanical Race would find its own candidates while avoiding promising talents already claimed by other factions.
• Bermuda assigned quotas and periodic assessments, reminding the Mechanical Race leaders that completing their tasks could earn rewards from the Hunyuan Heavenly Palace.

Wang Yi’s Hunyuan Heavenly Palace convened its supreme council, bringing together the growing ranks of True Gods in his Holy Land Universe. Wang An and Wang Le observed the powerful factions gathered there as the council assembled under Hunyuan Progenitor’s order.

• Wang Yi’s one-trillion-light-year Small Universe drew in Chaos Qi Flow around its hundred thousand planes and the Hunyuan Heavenly Palace.
• True Gods gathered in the palace’s Seventh Layer for a supreme council ordered by Hunyuan Progenitor.
• Wang An and Wang Le discussed the increase in True Gods and the possibility that humanity’s numbers would one day surpass those of the Universe Sea.
• The gathered True Gods formed factions around the Wang Family, Wang Yi’s disciples, his created Life Clan, and other groups.
• Wang Yi’s Eight Innate Beast Gods, including the Candle Dragon and Wen Xuan, attended as True Gods, while old allies and other races formed additional factions.

Arut and the Immortal God couple Jia Zhe and Shalia considered how to win one of Hunyuan Heavenly Palace’s limited Divine Kingdom Training Ground slots. Jia Zhe and Shalia resolved to pursue the opportunity to help their children advance.

• Arut studied the Divine Kingdom Training Ground mission and struggled to invent a distinctive concept.
• Arut ordered Huatuohuonie to gather the divine kingdom’s wise men and search Virtual Space for information about divine kingdoms and plane worlds.
• Jia Zhe told Shalia that a creative design could earn them a training ground despite their ordinary status.
• Jia Zhe explained that the opportunity could provide resources to help their children, Klaide and Seviyala, break through from World Master.
• Shalia agreed that she and Jia Zhe had to secure the opportunity.

Bartley fled the Bradley Family by entering the Cosmic Virtual Company's Virtual Space, accepting a contract that would keep him there for most of his remaining life. As his consciousness entered the system, a mysterious message asked whether he wanted to understand the meaning of life and truly live.

• Bartley joined the queue to board a transport spacecraft, hoping to escape the Bradley Family after they killed people around him and threatened his life.
• Bartley chose to enter the Cosmic Virtual Company's cosmic virtual center, despite knowing the agreement would keep him inside until near the end of his lifespan.
• Bradley Family security officers watched Bartley board the spacecraft, but their captain ordered his team to leave rather than confront the Company's powerful mechanical guards.
• Bartley arrived at the facility and lay inside a Nutrient Pod, hoping to reach Planetary level in Virtual Space and one day take revenge.
• As Bartley's consciousness entered Virtual Space, a message appeared asking whether he wanted to understand the meaning of life and truly live.

Hunyuan Holy Land Universe officials discussed the growing importance of willpower training and the extraordinary ordinary people emerging from Virtual Space’s Mind Trial Worlds. In the Continent of Fallen Souls, Yaniro stood at the Sea of Dying Embers and wondered what lay at the world’s end and what he was searching for.

• Hunyuan Heavenly Palace staff compared reports of ordinary people whose willpower had reached extraordinary levels in the Spirit Demon World and the Continent of Fallen Souls.
• Immortal Gods discussed the rising rewards for Illusion Sea trials and rumors that an Immortal God had cleared its thirty-second level and attracted True Gods seeking to take him as a disciple.
• The chapter explained how Virtual Space’s Mind Trial Worlds let people of varied cultivation levels temper their wills, though participants faced harsh virtual lives and uncertain outcomes.
• Yaniro stood at the Sea of Dying Embers, looked toward the storm-dark sky, and wondered what lay at the end of his world and what he was searching for.

The Luo and Wang families’ long-standing rivalry shaped the life of Wang Qi, a distant Wang-surnamed descendant in Luo Feng’s universe. Driven by resentment over his mother’s death, Wang Qi passed the Illusion Sea’s twentieth stage at the Cosmic level, alarming the Luo Family’s higher-ups.

• Wang Yi and Luo Feng allowed their families’ rivalry to continue within limits, while a rumor spread among the Luo Family that Wang Yi had stolen Luo Feng’s opportunity.
• Wang Yuanyuan’s Wang-surnamed branch faced covert discrimination from some Luo Family members, and she could protect only its main line.
• Wang Qi blamed the Luo Family for taking his mother’s cultivation quota, which he believed had led to her death before reaching the Immortal level.
• Wang Qi vowed to make the Luo Family regret their actions and remembered his mother’s claim that his Wang ancestor surpassed Luo Feng.
• Wang Qi passed the Illusion Sea’s twentieth stage at the Cosmic level, shocking the Luo Family’s higher-ups.

After dying in battle, Naxitan awoke in the Main God Space and learned that she could earn Reward Points through dangerous missions, with resurrection and other wishes offered as possible rewards. Wang Yi observed the newly established system, while Naxitan explored its exchanges and resolved to survive long enough to return home.

• Naxitan woke naked on a vast platform after being torn apart by Heavy Trolls and wondered whether she had reached the afterlife.
• The Main God Space sent information into Naxitan's mind about reincarnation, missions, trials, Reward Points, wishes, resurrection, and the consequences of failure.
• Wang Yi observed the Main God Space, which had been built by Hunyuan Heavenly Palace and the Mechanical Race to cultivate powerful beings through lethal trials.
• Naxitan examined her status and discovered that she had received 1,000 newcomer Reward Points and could browse exchange items below the Cosmic level.
• Naxitan found technologies from her homeland and nearby worlds, resolved to survive and return home, and noticed that newcomers received a fifty percent discount on their first exchange.

Naxitan entered her first Main God mission, a three-day survival challenge in a Divine Kingdom forest, and immediately found herself fleeing powerful Monster Birds. Other reincarnators faced the same attack, while the Divine Kingdom’s owner watched as her creatures began their assigned roles.

• Naxitan prepared her equipment, waited for the countdown, and was transported to World No. SG106986, where she arrived atop a giant ancient tree.
• The owner of the Divine Kingdom sensed the newcomers and ordered her hidden creatures to act according to her instructions.
• A man in a dark-red combat suit scanned the forest, then fled on a spiraled shuttle as a flock of powerful Monster Birds pursued him.
• A silver-haired man fought and killed many Monster Birds, declaring that he would reclaim the Vader Empire’s throne after returning.
• A Unicorn Scaled Monster feasted on the birds’ corpses and found the world’s food delicious.
• Naxitan fled from the Monster Birds, judging the forest too dangerous because many creatures were as strong as she was.

Wang Yi arrived at the Great Yue Capital to compete for a chance to enter the Sumeru World, while Purple Moon Progenitor traveled to the imperial palace with her teacher’s party, concealing the loss of her Small Universe. Wang Yi entered the palace and joined the gathered Chaos Masters, where Princess Yelan’s formidable presence left a strong impression on him.

• Wang Yi used the World-Breaking Teleportation Technique to reach the Great Yue Capital and received the Cangyuan Diagram after checking in.
• Ancestor Zong King accompanied Huan Lian and his disciples toward the imperial palace, while Purple Moon Progenitor hid her Small Universe’s destruction from her teacher.
• Wang Yi entered the Great Yue Imperial Palace and saw Princess Yelan pass by with a procession of powerful marquises.
• An Eternal True God led Wang Yi to a hall where Chaos Masters from Great Yue Kingdom and other powers had gathered to seek Sumeru World entry slots.
• Wang Yi spotted King Monz and Princess Yelan among the gathered experts and recognized that he had little status or influence there.

Wang Yi sought a slot in the Sumeru World as God King Juyuan oversaw a vote by Great Yue Kingdom’s kings and marquises. The results left Wang Yi unmentioned until the final slot was announced as a tie between Marquis Nandou and Crimson Gourd Daoist.

• King Monz greeted Wang Yi warmly, and Princess Yelan’s subordinate reported that most kings and marquises had agreed to support her candidates.
• God King Juyuan arrived and announced that twelve of the Sumeru World’s thirty-six slots would be awarded to the twelve candidates with the most votes.
• Wang Yi received promises of support from King Monz, the Tianyu Family, and other voters, and he believed his twenty-five votes would secure a slot.
• God King Juyuan announced the first eleven selected candidates, including Marquis Thousand Cranes, Sect Master Xingtang, Priest Danmi, and Liyun, while Wang Yi’s name remained uncalled.
• God King Juyuan announced that the twelfth slot was tied between Marquis Nandou and Crimson Gourd Daoist.

Wang Yi, posing as Crimson Gourd Daoist, fought Marquis Nandou for the Great Yue Kingdom’s final Sumeru World slot. He overwhelmed Marquis Nandou with his crimson gourd and powerful body, leaving the outcome close to settled.

• God King Juyuan announced that Crimson Gourd Daoist and Marquis Nandou had tied in votes and would have to fight for the final slot.
• Crimson Gourd Daoist and Marquis Nandou entered the arena as King Monz, King Yicong, and Princess Yelan watched.
• Marquis Nandou transformed into a Blood Sea and attacked, but Crimson Gourd Daoist used his crimson gourd to suppress it.
• Marquis Nandou became a Blood Blade and tore through the gourd’s domain, but Crimson Gourd Daoist struck him back with a punch.
• Crimson Gourd Daoist used his formidable body and relentless attacks to overpower Marquis Nandou, prompting King Monz to celebrate.

After defeating Marquis Nandou and securing a slot in the Sumeru World, Wang Yi entered the realm to search for the Pishadi Realm. He began inspecting its countless trees while other entrants pursued their own opportunities.

• God King Juyuan declared Crimson Gourd Daoist the victor, and King Monz congratulated Wang Yi while King Yicong berated Marquis Nandou for losing.
• King Monz warned Wang Yi that King Yicong might seek revenge, and Princess Yelan invited Wang Yi to a banquet after the Sumeru World ended.
• God King Juyuan brought twelve selected Saint-level beings to the Sumeru World and explained its three opportunities and ten-thousand-epoch limit.
• Wang Yi entered the mountain-filled Sumeru World, where he sought the Pishadi Realm, a hidden tree he had to locate by examining the others.

Wang Yi used a bounty to locate the Pishadi Realm and entered it. Meanwhile, King Goujian traded for a Void Origin Domain, intending to use it to activate a powerful puppet in the Sumeru World.

• Wang Yi offered twenty thousand Chaos Crystals to anyone who found the Pishadi Realm, and a few hundred epochs later Crystal Cicada Cave Master brought him its location.
• Wang Yi entered the Pishadi Realm through a giant tree in a lake.
• Extreme Star God King traded the Void Origin Domain to King Goujian in exchange for the captive Star Progenitor Beast.
• King Goujian revealed that he had captured the Star Progenitor Beast after an Original Life devoured his people in Great Yue Kingdom territory.
• King Goujian went to the Sumeru World and prepared to use the Void Origin Domain as a power source to activate a sleeping Puppet Creature with God King-level combat strength.

Wang Yi explored the Sumeru World after securing his materials, collected sign-in rewards, and learned of hidden opportunities from Marquis Thousand Cranes. As he investigated a sealed mountain and prepared to leave, his panel awarded him the God King-level puppet lifeform Rain, which King Goujian had been unable to awaken.

• Wang Yi explored the Sumeru World and received several Chaos-level treasures from his sign-in panel.
• Marquis Thousand Cranes met Wang Yi, discussed her search for opportunities, and pointed him toward hidden opportunities deeper in the realm.
• Wang Yi investigated a mysterious mountain but could not find a way inside without using his World-Breaking Teleportation Technique.
• King Goujian studied the dormant puppet lifeform inside the mountain and wondered why it had not awakened despite having its core power source.
• As Wang Yi prepared to leave the mountain, his panel awarded him the God King-level special puppet lifeform Rain.

Wang Yi summoned Rain, a loyal God King-level Puppet Creature whose strength approached the Second Layer, and gave her a matching ice-attribute bow called Tranquil Moon. After Rain revealed her human form, Wang Yi decided to rename her Wang Xiaomei.

• Wang Yi summoned Rain inside his Palace Supreme Treasure and learned that she was a God King-level Puppet Creature loyal to him.
• Rain told Wang Yi that her strength approached the Second Layer among God Kings and that she fought best with a suitable long-range weapon.
• Wang Yi produced the ice-attribute God King bow Tranquil Moon, which matched Rain’s requirements.
• Rain transformed into her human form, accepted the bow gratefully, and asked Wang Yi what it was called.
• Wang Yi proposed renaming Rain Wang Xiaomei.

Wang Yi gained a God King-level puppet in the Sumeru World and continued tempering his secret techniques against powerful inheritance opponents. After returning to Great Yue Kingdom, he received Princess Yelan’s banquet invitation, but the First Prince summoned him before he could attend.

• Wang Yi equipped Rain with ordinary God King-level treasures and recognized that she could contend with Second Layer God Kings.
• Wang Yi continued challenging the Duan Donghe inheritance opponents and was still easily defeated by the third-generation patriarch, whose secret techniques far surpassed his own.
• God King Juyuan ended the hundred-million-year Sumeru World trial and took the thirty-six Saints back to Great Yue Kingdom, while King Goujian remained behind studying the Puppet Creature.
• Marquis Thousand Cranes gave Wang Yi Princess Yelan’s invitation to a banquet and spoke of the Princess’s interest in recruiting him.
• A Chaos Master told Wang Yi that the First Prince wished to see him, prompting Marquis Thousand Cranes to object.

Wang Yi rejected the First Prince's offer to become his subordinate, then attended Princess Yelan's banquet. Princess Yelan welcomed him warmly and invited the guests to watch Ningguang Pavilion's grand assembly, leaving Wang Yi at her gathering.

• Wang Yi told Marquis Thousand Cranes he would attend the First Prince's appointment and Princess Yelan's banquet.
• The First Prince, God King Lu Ying, offered Wang Yi a future marquis title if he worked under him, but Wang Yi refused.
• Wang Yi left the First Prince's estate, realizing he had offended him and that he could not use the prince to gather materials.
• During the Darkness Epoch, Wang Yi arrived at Princess Yelan's estate and was welcomed as the banquet's awaited guest.
• Princess Yelan invited the guests to drink wine before going to watch Ningguang Pavilion's grand assembly.

Wang Yi agreed to become Princess Yelan’s guest official and asked her to help find rare materials for his plans. Princess Yelan said Ningguang Pavilion’s upcoming gathering might have some of the treasures he needed.

• Marquis Thousand Cranes explained Princess Yelan’s guest-official arrangement to Wang Yi.
• Wang Yi agreed to join Princess Yelan’s Extraordinary Scholars Residence as a guest official, and she announced his appointment at the banquet.
• Wang Yi sent Princess Yelan a list of rare materials and offered to pay for the ones the Great Yue Kingdom possessed.
• Princess Yelan said several materials were unavailable in the Great Yue Kingdom and suggested they search for them at Ningguang Pavilion’s upcoming gathering.