Chapter Summaries

The Black Nightmare Demon Lord underwent a terrifying demon transformation, but Wang Teng shattered its spiritual attack with ease. Unable to challenge him, it turned on Bi Luo, who revealed that she possessed Light Source Power.

• The Black Nightmare Demon Lord unleashed its demon transformation, alarming the surrounding Darkness Breed Demon Lords.
• The transformed Black Nightmare Demon Lord attacked Wang Teng with a chaotic spiritual fluctuation, but he destroyed it and absorbed the resulting Spirit Attribute bubbles.
• Wang Teng taunted the Black Nightmare Demon Lord and traded an awkward look with Bi Luo.
• The Black Nightmare Demon Lord charged at Bi Luo instead of Wang Teng, and Bi Luo responded by releasing Light Source Power.

Bi Luo revealed her Light Source Power and defeated the Black Nightmare Demon Lord, surviving its self-destruction with serious injuries. As a hidden attacker targeted her, Wang Teng intervened and saved her.

• Bi Luo revealed her Light Source Power and overwhelmed the Black Nightmare Demon Lord, whose body began to dissolve under her attacks.
• The Black Nightmare Demon Lord self-destructed, engulfing Bi Luo in a massive explosion.
• Bi Luo emerged alive but badly injured, while the Black Nightmare Demon Lord had disappeared.
• An unseen attacker struck at Bi Luo from behind, but Wang Teng blocked the attack and saved her.
• Wang Teng told Bi Luo he had intervened to settle his unfinished score with the Skull Head.

Wang Teng saved Bi Luo from Wu Gu Demon Lord and collected the Attribute Bubbles she and Black Nightmare Demon Lord had dropped. He gained Light Sword Slash, the Dark Demon Codex, and knowledge of Demon Transformation while the fight remained underway.

• Wang Teng appeared behind Bi Luo and blocked Wu Gu Demon Lord's skeletal palm as the other fighters watched in surprise.
• Wang Teng collected Bi Luo's dropped attributes, gaining Light Starry Sky Source Power, Light Body, Light Sword Slash, and King-level Wood Element Talent.
• Wang Teng absorbed Black Nightmare Demon Lord's attributes, including Darkness Starry Sky Source Power, King Realm Spirit, and the Dark Demon Codex.
• Wang Teng gained the Demon Transformation attribute and learned how the power worked, though he resolved to avoid using it unless necessary.

Wang Teng confronted Wu Gu Demon Lord after exposing his disguise and overpowered him with a punch infused with vibration, sword intent, and Azure Jade Glazed Flame. Wu Gu Demon Lord transformed into a towering skeletal giant and unleashed a bone-blade strike that swallowed Wang Teng in black radiance.

• Wu Gu Demon Lord escaped Wang Teng’s grasp by shrinking and sliding free, then challenged him to settle their previous unfinished match.
• Wang Teng asked Bi Luo to beg him for help, and she agreed to let him avenge her.
• Wang Teng struck Wu Gu Demon Lord with a powerful punch that cracked his fist and set Azure Flame burning in the fractures.
• Wang Teng taunted Wu Gu Demon Lord for underestimating his strength, while the other Demon Lords watched in shock.
• Wu Gu Demon Lord unleashed his Darkness Source Power, transformed into a skeletal giant, and swung a massive bone blade at Wang Teng.
• The blade’s black radiance swallowed Wang Teng.

Wang Teng survived Demon Lord Wu Gu’s devastating saber strike and used his Primordial Magnetic Heart to form a towering Rock Giant. He left Wu Gu badly injured after smashing through its Bone Shield and destroying half its skull.

• Demon Lord Wu Gu’s saber strike split the ground and cleaved a distant mountain in half, leaving observers fearing Wang Teng had been killed.
• Wang Teng reappeared beside Wu Gu and blasted apart another mountain, drawing its rocks into a massive sphere with his Primordial Magnetic Heart.
• Wang Teng formed the rocks into a Rock Giant and landed before Wu Gu, towering over the skeletal giant.
• Wang Teng attacked with a golden sword phantom that pierced Wu Gu’s Bone Shield and struck its right eye socket, destroying half its skull and extinguishing the spectral flames there.

Wang Teng overwhelmed Demon Lord Wu Gu in the Rock Giant’s body and crushed its skull after it surrendered, killing it. The other fighters witnessed Wu Gu’s defeat as the battle across the Central Ring Continent continued.

• Katu and Augustus resumed fighting their Darkness Breed opponents as the combat across the Central Ring Continent erupted again.
• Wang Teng relentlessly battered Demon Lord Wu Gu, breaking its bones and tearing its skeleton apart.
• Demon Lord Wu Gu tried to gather its scattered bones, but Wang Teng stomped on its skull and demanded that it submit.
• After Wu Gu surrendered, Wang Teng lifted his foot, then stomped again and crushed its skull, extinguishing its Ghost Fire and killing it.
• The Darkness Breed Demon Lords and alien prodigies reacted with shock, while Wang Teng complained that the bone fragments hurt his feet.

Wang Teng killed Demon Lord Wu Gu and absorbed his attributes, gaining King Level Darkness Talent and malleable, exceptionally strong black bones. As Katu fought a Goat-headed Demon Race Demon Lord, Wang Teng formed six extra rock arms and revealed his Rock Giant Eight Arms Form.

• Wang Teng stomped Demon Lord Wu Gu to death, leaving the Darkness Breeds with two fallen Demon Lords and making him a target for their remaining leaders.
• Wang Teng collected Wu Gu’s Attribute Bubbles, increasing his Darkness Starry Sky Source Power, King Realm Spirit, Darkness Talent, and Demon Transformation, while gaining the ability to reshape his newly blackened bones.
• Katu attacked the Goat-headed Demon Race Demon Lord, sending it crashing into a mountain before it transformed into a three-headed, six-armed form.
• Wang Teng used the Primordial Magnetic Heart to gather rubble and form six additional arms on his Rock Giant, unveiling his Eight Arms Form.

Wang Teng tested his Eight Arms Rock Giant form and killed the Troll Race Demon Lord after Augustus mistakenly accused him of interfering. The alien geniuses were left stunned by Wang Teng’s Five Elements Source Power and overwhelming strength.

• The Goat-headed Demon Race Demon Lord saw Wang Teng transform into an eight-armed giant and feared he planned to gang up on it, while Katu and Augustus told Wang Teng not to interfere in their fights.
• Wang Teng charged toward Augustus and the Troll Race Demon Lord after Augustus ordered him to get lost.
• Wang Teng attacked the Troll Race Demon Lord with eight arms infused with Five Elements Source Power, shocking Augustus and the other alien geniuses.
• The Troll Race Demon Lord fought back with a secret technique, but Wang Teng overpowered it, restrained its wrists, and struck it with Poison Source Power as well.
• Wang Teng battered the Troll Race Demon Lord until its body exploded, leaving Augustus and the onlookers stunned.

Wang Teng effortlessly killed a Troll Race Demon Lord, astonishing fighters across Earth Star and bolstering the Xia Kingdom’s hopes for the coming shift in world power. After collecting the Demon Lord’s Attribute Bubbles and mocking Augustus, he watched Augustus charge into battle against a Vampire Darkbreed Demon Lord.

• Wang Teng blew apart the Troll Race Demon Lord, leaving the other Alien Trial Takers and Earth Star’s fighters stunned.
• World leaders envied the Xia Kingdom’s strength, while the Martial Arts Leader, Marshal Hong, Yong Marshal, and Dragon Marshal celebrated Wang Teng’s power.
• Wang Teng rejected Katu’s challenge with an insult, then collected the Attribute Bubbles left by the dead Demon Lord.
• Wang Teng absorbed the Three Heads and Six Arms attribute and mocked Augustus for not having an intact corpse to inspect.
• Augustus challenged Wang Teng’s accomplishment, charged at a Vampire Darkbreed Demon Lord, and unleashed a powerful punch after the injured Alien Trial Taker retreated.

Wang Teng seized the chance to kill the Vampire Demon Lord Augustus had weakened, while battles between Planetary Level fighters devastated the Central Ring Continent. The continent stopped sinking as a colossal Underground Metal Ruins began emerging from beneath it.

• Augustus forced the Vampire Demon Lord to transform into a giant bat, but the ensuing sound-wave attack disrupted the fighters around them.
• As Planetary Level fighters and Darkness Breed Demon Lords fell, their battle shattered the Central Ring Continent, and Wang Teng collected Attribute Bubbles from the destruction.
• Wang Teng caught the fleeing Vampire Demon Lord, tore off its wings, and smashed it to death, angering Augustus over the stolen kill.
• The Central Ring Continent collapsed toward the ocean, alarming the leaders watching from fighter jets as they worried about a tsunami.
• The sinking continent halted, and a colossal Underground Metal Ruins began rising from beneath it.

Nations watched a vast metal ruin emerge beneath the Central Ring Continent and detected enormous energy within it, but feared the experts already there too much to approach. In the cosmic void, Ma Dayuan and Ning Honglang watched the same events and predicted that the Earth Star youth would take first place.

• Marshal Cromwell explained that the newly revealed metal ruin was likely a concealed remnant of an ultra-ancient civilization, and warned Yout against trying to enter it.
• A White-Headed Eagle Country staff member reported energy fluctuations hundreds of times stronger than the purest known Origin Stones, prompting Cromwell and the other nations to consider the ruin's riches while staying away.
• Ma Dayuan and Ning Honglang watched the Central Ring Continent through a projection and argued over whether Ma Dayuan would try to take the juniors' opportunities.
• Ma Dayuan and Ning Honglang agreed that the Earth Star youth would likely take first place, ahead of Augustus, Katu, and the others.

Wang Teng swept up most of the Star Essence in the ruins, provoking the human warriors and Darkness Breeds to chase him to the central hall. When Loggins attacked, Wang Teng defeated him with a single punch and warned the others not to provoke him.

• Human Planetary Level warriors and Demon Lord Level Darkness Breeds discovered Star Essence in the ruins and rushed to collect it.
• Wang Teng used his Mental Power to gather nearly all the Star Essence, leaving the others furious and empty-handed.
• Wang Teng fled deeper into the ruins as the crowd pursued him, and Loggins learned he had headed for the central hall.
• At the hall, Loggins demanded that Wang Teng hand over the Star Essence, while Wang Teng accused him of wanting to share it with the Darkness Breeds.
• Loggins attacked Wang Teng, but Wang Teng's punch sent him stumbling back with bloodied hands.

Wang Teng recognized the skull on the sealed hall’s door as a Crystal Skull and discovered that thirteen such skulls were needed to open it. After he supplied the final two, the door opened, revealing the hall within.

• Wang Teng challenged the others to take his prize, but they focused on the silver-white hall and its skull-marked door.
• Augustus, Katu, and the others examined the door, and touching its skull totem revealed thirteen skull-shaped indentations.
• Augustus and other Alien Trial Takers produced eight Crystal Skulls, while the Darkness Breed devil lords found three more among their loot.
• Katu blamed Earth Star people for supposedly destroying the two missing skulls, and Wang Teng revealed that he had them.
• Augustus and the others inserted all thirteen Crystal Skulls into the door, which opened to reveal the sealed hall.

Wang Teng and Bi Luo entered the great hall and discovered it was a deadly trap filled with blinding white beams. They escaped into a passage, where Wang Teng saved Bi Luo from a beam, leaving her indebted to him again.

• Bi Luo warned Wang Teng that the ruin and the Star Essence seemed suspicious, then advised him to be careful of Augustus.
• The great hall’s doors slammed shut, and white beams shot from its walls at everyone inside.
• Wang Teng used his Planetary Level Mental Power to block the beams as he raced toward a passage, while Bi Luo followed close behind.
• A beam nearly struck Bi Luo, but Wang Teng stopped it long enough for her to reach the passage safely.
• Wang Teng told Bi Luo to write down her debt to him in her little notebook.

Wang Teng and Bi Luo survived a deadly laser trap and joined the others in the passage, where Bi Luo explained the power of Starry Sky Battle Armor. Wang Teng collected the fallen fighters’ attributes and equipment, gaining new talents, combat techniques, and armor as the group reacted to his survival.

• Augustus, Katu, and the other fighters used battle armor to cross the hall’s laser beams and reach the passage, while five Planetary Level fighters died.
• Bi Luo explained that Starry Sky Battle Armor offered strong defense, could repair damage, and varied in quality and cost.
• Wang Teng joked about robbing Augustus and Katu, then warned that greater dangers might lie ahead as the group considered the opportunity inside.
• Wang Teng collected attribute bubbles from the dead, increasing his Starry Sky Source Power, Spirit, Enlightenment, and combat abilities, including King-level Fire Talent, Fire Sword Intent, Earth Saber Intent, and Star Peak Saber Art.
• Wang Teng secretly took the dead fighters’ Space Equipment and acquired five sets of Starry Sky Battle Armor; the survivors turned to see him and Bi Luo unharmed.

Wang Teng and the others entered a metal passage in the ruin and were ambushed by metal robots. Wang Teng destroyed one with his Rune Gun as the battle against the remaining robots continued.

• Wang Teng traded barbs with Huan Shen Demon Lord before the group proceeded deeper into the passage.
• Red lights and whistling projectiles signaled an ambush as the group crossed the passage, and everyone fought back in their battle armor.
• The group discovered a room full of metal robots with scarlet electronic eyes, and Bi Luo warned that their bodies were difficult to destroy.
• Wang Teng fought a robot with his Water Blue Battle Sword and tore out one of its electronic eyes.
• The robot aimed its gun barrel at Wang Teng's head, but he dodged its shot and blasted away most of its head with a Rune Gun.

Wang Teng easily defeated several advanced robots and collected them for Earth Star to study, while the other fighters learned from his tactics. He left with multiple robots stored away, though Katu kept his own.

• Wang Teng stored the robot he had defeated and watched the others struggle against the machines.
• A robot killed a Planetary Level Martial Artist with beams fired from its eyes, and Wang Teng collected the fallen fighter’s Attribute Bubbles, including 100% Water Element Sword Intent.
• Wang Teng crippled a robot by targeting its joints and eyes, then stopped its movements by twisting its head around before storing it.
• Augustus, Katu, Bi Luo, and the other fighters copied Wang Teng’s tactics and defeated their robots; Bi Luo gave Wang Teng hers.
• Wang Teng collected the robots others had abandoned, but Katu kept his and Augustus stored his away before Wang Teng could ask.

Wang Teng used his Source Essence Eye to see through the Brilliant Golden Gate, spending one hundred thousand Blank Attribute points to upgrade it to advanced. He discovered an ancient command room containing six corpses, including a towering, powerful being whose lingering presence filled him with fear.

• Wang Teng found that his intermediate Source Essence Eye could not penetrate the Brilliant Golden Gate and chose to spend one hundred thousand Blank Attribute points upgrading it to advanced.
• Wang Teng saw through the gate's Rune Power and discovered a clean, silent command room filled with inactive instruments.
• Wang Teng suspected that the ruin covering Central Ring Continent might be a massive spaceship.
• Wang Teng saw six lifeless corpses in the command room, including three humans and three strange aliens.
• Wang Teng met the gaze of the towering corpse seated at the command console and felt terrified by its lingering pressure.

Wang Teng discovered that the intact corpse’s soul had not fully dissipated, then forced open the command room’s gate. A phantom emerged, revealed that a million years had passed, and began introducing himself as a baron of the Great Qian Empire before Augustus reacted in shock.

• Wang Teng used the Source Essence Eye to discover a faint soul glow inside the corpse and warned Bi Luo to be careful.
• Wang Teng shoved open the Brilliant Golden Gate, surprising Katu and the other prodigies.
• Wang Teng and the others entered the command room and saw six corpses, whose lingering might frightened them.
• A beam of light emerged from the intact corpse’s eye, and a phantom appeared and said that a million years had passed.
• The phantom introduced himself as a baron of the Great Qian Empire, and Augustus interrupted him in shock.

A phantom revealed that he had been a baron of the Great Qian Empire, prompting Augustus to explain the immense scale of the cosmic civilization and belittle Wang Teng’s origins. Wang Teng remained unfazed, then shamelessly asked to cling to the phantom’s thigh before learning it was only an image left behind with an inheritance.

• The phantom said he had pursued a fugitive across countless star systems for three hundred years, killed it on the planet, and died there from his injuries.
• Wang Teng asked what the Great Qian Empire was, and Loggins mocked him for his ignorance.
• Augustus explained the hierarchy of cosmic civilizations and used Earth Star’s insignificance to try to shake Wang Teng’s confidence.
• Wang Teng showed no lasting distress, then asked the phantom if he could cling to his thigh.
• The phantom explained that he was only an image and had left behind an inheritance while waiting for an heir.