Chapter Summaries

Qin Mu led a group of human powerhouses, including Hong and Thunder God, through a gateway to the Universe Sea containing Original Universe No. 0001. After they arrived, he explained that they could not sense their other avatars directly and set out toward a nearby forbidden zone to begin exploring.

• The Void Tree absorbed numerous Primordial Seas, grew to one light-year tall, and opened a spatial gateway beneath itself.
• Qin Mu gathered the explorers, including Luo Feng, Chaos City Lord, Hong, and Thunder God, and warned them that opening a support channel would take three breaths.
• Qin Mu led the group through the gateway into another Universe Sea, where they found they could not sense their other avatars.
• Qin Mu explained that the new Universe Sea lay in a different dimensional space-time, while the Swarm Network still allowed communication with their avatars.
• Qin Mu said he had chosen a remote arrival point and planned to teleport east for roughly a hundred million light-years toward a forbidden zone where they might meet native lifeforms.

Qin Mu’s team captured and soul-controlled an azure avian Universe Lord, whose intelligence revealed that Universe 0001 had powerful factions, a beast-realm crisis, and a mysterious Wutong World. Mountain Lord recognized the Wutong Giant Tree as the corpse of Wutong Divine King, a Divine King Second Layer Realm powerhouse, and began to explain its significance.

• Qin Mu’s team traveled through the unfamiliar Universe Sea, planted a concealed Mother Nest node, and continued toward a nearby perilous land.
• The team surrounded and captured an azure avian Universe Lord, and Hong soul-controlled it before Ink Butterfly Lord could.
• Hong questioned the avian beast, which described sixteen Sacred Land Universes, the beast-realm threat, and Wutong World’s powerful factions and newly ascended True Gods.
• Qin Mu realized the Wutong Giant Tree was likely a Divine King’s corpse and sent its image through the Swarm Network to Mountain Lord and the others.
• Mountain Lord identified the tree as Wutong Divine King, a being a whole level stronger than himself, and began recalling the fallen powerhouse’s history.

Qin Mu and his companions investigated Wutong Divine King’s history and learned about a special armor grown in Wutong World that could advance the Swarm’s bio-armor research. They traveled to Flowing Light Sea, where they found the colossal remains of the Wutong Giant Tree, and prepared to enter its Inner World.

• Mountain Lord explained that Fire Phoenix Divine King had died in the Thunder Ancient Kingdom and that Wutong Divine King had fled into the Universe Sea after fighting the kingdom.
• Qin Mu chose Wutong World as their main target and told Empress, Giant Axe, and Mountain Lord to wait while he gathered more intelligence.
• Hong identified a Qingluan Celestial Demon’s bark-like armor as a treasure from Wutong World, and Qin Mu examined its potential for improving the Swarm’s bio-armor.
• Qin Mu used the Silk Thread Map and the Gate of Origin to take Chaos City Lord, Luo Feng, Dragonwalk Lord, and the others directly to Flowing Light Sea.
• The group saw the two-billion-light-year-tall, charred remains of the Wutong Giant Tree and prepared to inspect its Inner World while concealing their auras.

Qin Mu and the others entered the Wutong World after surviving a deadly Green Snake Vortex and crossing its wormhole. Separated upon arrival, Qin Mu landed in the Spirit Willow Tribe’s territory and was welcomed by Liu Yao after she sensed his World Tree aura.

• Luo Feng piloted the Star Tower through the Flowing Light Sea as the group approached the Wutong Giant Tree.
• A Green Snake Vortex suddenly trapped the Star Tower, but Luo Feng broke free before it could crush them.
• Qin Mu and the others followed a wormhole to the Wutong World’s pale-green Miniature Universe and entered separately through its membrane.
• Qin Mu arrived in a vast green land, where his divine power could absorb the surrounding energy without restraint.
• Liu Yao and the Spirit Willow Tribe confronted Qin Mu, then welcomed him after recognizing his World Tree aura.

Luo Feng landed in the Fire Phoenix Tribe, while Qin Mu joined the Spirit Willow Tribe and used his World Tree to establish himself as a Spirit Planter. After obtaining the tribe’s inheritance, Qin Mu planned to consolidate his skills, secretly spread the Swarm, and seek deeper knowledge at the Four Great Royal Courts.

• Luo Feng met a curious member of the Fire Phoenix Tribe and accepted her invitation to visit the settlement.
• Lord Huang Jian was killed by a powerful vine, and Ancestor Tree Lord perished near a nine-tailed Void True God beast as the others reported their dangerous landings through the Swarm Network.
• Liu Yao brought Qin Mu to the Spirit Willow Tribe, where he saw its warriors training and learned that Spirit Planters cultivated special plants.
• Qin Mu planted a World Tree that grew nearly ten billion kilometers tall and produced Peak Supreme Treasure armor, impressing the Ninth Elder.
• Qin Mu exchanged cultivation knowledge for the Spirit Planter inheritance and access to ordinary inheritances, then decided to prepare for a journey to the Four Great Royal Courts.

Qin Mu studied the Spirit Planter system and began secretly spreading the Swarm through Wutong World while seeking greater inheritances. He decided to travel to the Royal Court and agreed to depart with the Spirit Willow Tribe’s tribute party and recruits.

• Qin Mu compared the Willow Leaf Saber with Supreme Treasures and concluded that his law comprehension now met the requirements to forge them, leaving treasure-refining skill as the remaining challenge.
• Qin Mu planned to integrate the Spirit Planter method for cultivating Peak Supreme Treasure-level weapons into the Swarm’s bio-armor system, while the World Tree roots spread Swarm Units across Wutong World.
• Qin Mu prioritized collecting native lifeforms, completing the bio-armor system, and seeking a possible Divine King inheritance over pursuing Mechanical Flow treasures.
• Qin Mu told the Ninth Elder he intended to go to the Royal Court, join the army, and enter the Armaments Department to advance as a Spirit Planter.
• The Ninth Elder offered for Qin Mu to travel with the Spirit Willow Tribe’s spirit-weapon tribute and army recruits, and Qin Mu agreed.

Qin Mu learned the Spirit Willow Tribe’s Willow Leaf Saber inheritance and prepared to join the Eastern Royal Court as a Spirit Planter, while the Swarm planned to exploit its infiltrated beasts to obtain Military Merit. After a year, Qin Mu left with the Spirit Willow Tribe, already having cultivated the Swarm’s first Supreme Treasure-grade symbiotic armor.

• Ninth Elder gave Qin Mu the Spirit Willow Tribe’s inheritance for cultivating Supreme Treasure-grade Willow Leaf Sabers and asked him to protect his clansmen in the Royal Court.
• Chaos City Lord gathered the Swarm’s leaders to review their progress in Wutong World, where several members had joined factions and three of the nine entrants had died.
• Qin Mu proposed using Swarm-infected True God exotic beasts as targets so his allies could earn Military Merit and exchange it for resources and inheritances.
• Chaos City Lord restricted future Wutong World entrants to experts with avatars and sent a second scouting team to investigate other regions and the Realm Beast crisis.
• Qin Mu departed with the Spirit Willow Tribe for the Royal Court after cultivating the Swarm’s first Supreme Treasure-grade symbiotic armor.

Qin Mu traveled with the Spirit Willow Tribe to the Eastern Royal Court, where he saw the power of its Spirit Weapons and learned that he had to pass a Spirit Planter assessment to join. The chapter left him entering a one-era trial to cultivate a complete set of Spirit Weapon and Armor.

• Qin Mu joined Crimson Cloud True God aboard the ship, and the Spirit Willow Tribe warriors learned that he was a renowned Spirit Planter.
• Qin Mu recognized that the White Crane Beast faction attacking White Dragon Marsh belonged to the Swarm, which he had secretly spread through Wutong World.
• After six months of travel, Qin Mu and the Spirit Willow Tribe reached the Eastern Royal Court, a million-light-year Wutong Giant Tree guarded by vast numbers of warriors and powerful Large Spirit Weapons.
• Crimson Cloud True God explained the Royal Court's Wutong Nest and directed Qin Mu to the separate Spirit Planter assessment palace.
• Qin Mu showed Rhyme Flower True God a Willow Leaf Saber and began an assessment requiring him to cultivate a complete set of Spirit Weapon and Armor within one era.

Qin Mu passed the Spirit Planter assessment by cultivating exceptional spirit weapons and drew the attention of Void True God Jin Guang, who recruited him into the Armaments Division. Meanwhile, Thunder God and Chaos City Lord infiltrated the Eastern Royal Court to gather military merit and resources for the Swarm.

• Qin Mu used the Swarm to analyze and cultivate the Fire Vine Spear and Floating Flower Vine Armor while developing a living bio-armor system.
• Qin Mu arranged for Chaos City Lord to gain Plant Lifeform traits and infiltrate the Eastern Royal Court, while Thunder God joined its army and entered a special legion.
• Thunder God began hunting exotic beasts and farming Military Merit with the Swarm’s help.
• After three hundred years, Qin Mu completed the assessment with seven-secret-engraving weapons and asked to end it.
• Jin Guang recruited Qin Mu into the Armaments Division after learning he had mastered the weapons in three hundred years, and Qin Mu disclosed his seventy-thousand-times Divine Power level.

Qin Mu joined the Eastern Royal Court Armament Division as a Spirit Planter, received a private island and its basic inheritances, and used the new standard-issue equipment to upgrade the Swarm. Two hundred years later, Giant Axe and other Universe Lords entered Universe Sea No. 0001 as the Realm Beast war approached.

• Jin Guang brought Qin Mu to the Armament Division, where Cangyu registered him and explained his status, benefits, and duties as a Spirit Planter.
• Qin Mu collected Void True God-level spirit weapons and armor, then chose soldiers from the Spirit Willow Tribe for his Guard Team.
• Cangyu showed Qin Mu around the Eastern Royal Court and led him to his assigned island, where Qin Mu claimed the control crystal and examined its inheritance stones.
• Qin Mu studied the Armaments Division's standard-issue spirit weapons and combat techniques, then used the designs to improve the Swarm's equipment.
• Two hundred years later, Giant Axe and other Universe Lords entered Universe Sea No. 0001, where Qin Mu told Giant Axe that the Realm Beast conflict was nearing and the Xuanlong Clan had explored the Dim Land.

After World Beasts escaped the Dim Land and began devouring Miniature Universes, Qin Mu decided to mobilize the Swarm and capture one for study and possible enslavement. He prepared to act openly against the World Beasts while beginning the Wutong Divine King's inheritance assessment.

• World Beast Pavel and more than a dozen others left the Dim Land to hunt in the Universe Sea after tasting its inhabitants.
• Pavel devoured the origin of a Miniature Universe, and other World Beasts began attacking targets across the Universe Sea.
• True Gods across the Universe Sea learned that World Beasts had appeared and joined forces to hunt them.
• At Golden Peak Mountain, Qin Mu told Giant Axe, the Empress, and Mountain Lord that the Swarm would mobilize to capture a World Beast and obtain its biological structure.
• Qin Mu said the group could confront the Universe Sea's experts and World Beasts as needed while he began the Wutong Divine King's inheritance assessment.

Qin Mu accepted the extremely dangerous Title Mission and traveled to the Divine King Realm to attempt its nine-hall assessment. He cleared the first hall’s trial instantly with his Soul Power and entered the passage to the second hall.

• Qin Mu applied for the Title Mission after accumulating ten million Military Merit, despite being warned that fewer than one percent of candidates survived and none had ever completed it.
• Golden Light Void True God urged Qin Mu to withdraw, but Qin Mu refused and used a teleportation array to reach the Divine King Realm.
• Qin Mu followed a Fire Phoenix Tribe Void True God's directions to the first Assessment Divine Hall and entered its individual trial.
• The first hall required Qin Mu to kill ten True God beasts to open the passage to the second hall.
• Qin Mu killed all ten Eighth-Order True God beasts with a single burst of Soul Power and flew into the passage.

Qin Mu swept through the Divine Hall trials, astonishing Wutong World’s four rulers with his strength and potential. He entered the Eighth Divine Hall and discovered that its assessment was an opportunity involving a secret technique left by Yuan.

• Qin Mu destroyed the second trial’s Fire Phoenix Puppets by striking the secret-pattern nodes that allowed them to regenerate.
• The Eastern Controller recognized Qin Mu’s talent and summoned the other three rulers to watch his progress.
• Qin Mu passed the third trial by resisting the Willpower Impact and defeating four Top True God puppets.
• Qin Mu rapidly cleared the fourth through seventh trials, impressing the four rulers with his comprehension, divine body, and combat techniques.
• Qin Mu entered the Eighth Divine Hall and realized that its assessment involved a secret technique opportunity left behind by Yuan.

Qin Mu encountered Yuan’s Na Yin Secret Technique in the Eighth Divine Hall and began cultivating it with the help of his Swarm. He learned that he had to reach a 90,000-times Life Level within 10,000 years, then ordered Empress and Giant Axe to hunt Realm Beasts for their life blueprints.

• Qin Mu crossed the Space Channel into the Eighth Divine Hall and used his divine power and Swarm Willpower to study the stars’ trajectories.
• A Golden Divine Dragon revealed that it was a Secret Technique Spirit guarding Yuan’s Na Yin Secret Technique, and Qin Mu began studying its Cosmic Operation Model.
• Qin Mu’s Swarm joined his deductions, triggering transformations and disruptions across Qingfeng Realm that awakened Chaos City Lord.
• Qin Mu learned that the Na Yin Secret Technique had three stages and required him to reach a 90,000-times Life Level within 10,000 years.
• Qin Mu ordered Empress and Giant Axe to hunt Realm Beasts so he could use their life blueprints to accelerate the Swarm’s evolution.

Qin Mu advanced his Life Level while the Swarm tracked the Realm Beasts ravaging Universe Sea No. 0001. He sent a force of Tenth-Order Larva Nest Tyrants to capture Pavel, the strongest Realm Beast in the group, and the confrontation began.

• Qin Mu crossed the eighty-thousand-times Life Level threshold in three years, exciting the phantom and Golden Divine Dragon watching him.
• The Swarm gathered intelligence on Realm Beasts, and Qin Mu showed their abilities to Empress, Giant Axe, Chaos City Lord, and Mountain Lord.
• Qin Mu revealed that the Swarm could mass-produce Larva Nest Tyrants with Tenth-Order combat power and ordered the others to assist in capturing Pavel.
• Pavel enjoyed devouring Cosmic Origin and believed the Universe Sea's experts could not catch it, but it sensed its surrounding space solidify.
• Swarm forces closed in on Pavel, and the Realm Beast answered with a silent scream that resounded through the Swarm Network.

Qin Mu and the Larva Nest Tyrants trapped Realm Beast Pavel inside a Void Universe and overwhelmed it with chains and a willpower attack. Pavel burned its origin to open a World Light Passage, but Qin Mu used the Gate of Origin to strengthen the spatial seal and capture it.

• Qin Mu had more than one hundred Larva Nest Tyrants form a Void Universe with Void Chains around Pavel, sealing space and binding the realm beast.
• Pavel split into ninety-nine avatars to escape, but the Void Universe slowed them and forced them back into its true body.
• Pavel's divine-power attack failed to overcome the Larva Nest Tyrants' vast reserves, and Qin Mu struck it with the Chaos God willpower technique.
• Pavel transformed and unleashed its strongest attacks, but the chains held it as it struggled to break free.
• Pavel burned its origin to open a World Light Passage, falling from the fourth order to the second order.
• Qin Mu used the Gate of Origin to amplify the spatial seal, collapsing the passage and suppressing Pavel completely.

Qin Mu captured realm beast Pavel and brought it to the Swarm base to study its body. His analysis of Pavel’s blood revealed a remarkably complex Life Structure Diagram, which he believed would help the Swarm surpass a life level of ninety thousand times within ten thousand years.

• Qin Mu sealed the fourth-order realm beast with the Larva Nest Tyrants, Void Chain, and Gate of Origin, astonishing Giant Axe and the Empress with how easily he subdued it.
• Qin Mu returned with Giant Axe and the Empress to the Swarm base, where Pavel remained bound inside the World Hive Mother’s suppression space.
• Qin Mu tried to enslave Pavel through Zergification and a slave rune, but both attempts failed, and he used three layers of suppression to prevent Pavel from self-destructing.
• Qin Mu cut Pavel with a Supreme Treasure blade and sent its blood to a Primordial Sea for the Swarm to analyze.
• Qin Mu discovered that Pavel’s blood contained one hundred thousand miniature realm beast structures and predicted that the Swarm would exceed a ninety-thousand-times life level within ten thousand years.

Qin Mu captured World Beasts to study their bodies and powers, provoking the World Beast Lair into fury. After numerous captives warned the others through their mental network, the World Beasts united against the Swarm.

• Qin Mu ordered the Swarm to hunt more World Beasts so he could investigate their internal worlds, powers, and minds.
• Swarm forces captured several World Beasts, and Qin Mu studied their bodies and tested his Eternal True God-level Willpower Impact on them.
• Odysseus devoured a rival World Beast and heard the captives warn the World Beast Lair that strange Universe Lords had ambushed and studied them.
• Pavel, Anos, and other captured World Beasts sent warnings through the mental network, describing the Swarm's suppression and attempts to enslave them.
• Odysseus and the World Beasts across the lair roared in fury and called for the Swarm to be killed.

Qin Mu’s Swarm crushed the World Beasts while he explained his plans to enslave them and harness their Origin powers. He offered Mountain Lord the chance to enslave World Beasts and take revenge, then revealed that he might also be able to revive Mountain Lord’s loved ones.

• The Swarm overwhelmed the World Beasts, targeting the fourth-stage beasts while Giant Axe, the Empress, and Luo Feng helped slaughter and suppress them.
• Qin Mu told Mountain Lord that the Swarm’s victory would weaken the World Beasts and that he was researching how to enslave them and make the World Beast King part of the Swarm.
• Qin Mu explained that Zergifying the Jie Mu Egg had helped the Swarm comprehend the incomplete Life Origin Great Dao, and that similar methods might let it master other Origin powers.
• Qin Mu offered Mountain Lord a chance to enslave World Beasts and take revenge, despite the risks of Mountain Lord’s reincarnation and his law-path cultivation.
• Qin Mu assured Mountain Lord that he could bring him back after reincarnation, then asked whether he wanted to revive his loved ones.
• Mountain Lord reacted in disbelief as Qin Mu claimed that sufficiently powerful beings could revive the dead in the Original Universe.

Qin Mu assured Mountain Lord that he could resurrect the dead once he became powerful enough, then watched as the Swarm broke the World Beast army. The World Beasts’ retreat turned into a rout, and Qin Mu called on the Gate of Origin to stop the fleeing fourth-stage beasts.

• Qin Mu told Mountain Lord that controlling a Source World would eventually let him resurrect his family, and Mountain Lord agreed to trust him.
• Qin Mu and Mountain Lord saw the World Beasts nearing defeat as the Larva Nest Tyrants overwhelmed them.
• Ymir used the World Light Passage to flee, sacrificing his chance to become the final king and enraging the other World Beasts.
• The World Beast army’s morale collapsed, and World Beasts fled through World Light Passages while the Swarm destroyed their clones and pursued them.
• Some trapped World Beasts self-destructed rather than be captured, devastating nearby Larva Nest Tyrants.
• Qin Mu ordered the Gate of Origin to suppress the fleeing World Beasts and intercept the fourth-stage beasts.