Chapter Summaries

Wang Teng accepted Adris’s challenge to gamble on ores, despite Adris bringing an Advanced Ore Seeker and Wang Teng having no money of his own. After entering Gather Wealth Gambling Mine, Wang Teng collected Ore Seeking Art attributes from the Ore Seekers and secretly advanced to Grandmaster Level, just as Adris chose a massive ore and prepared to test him.

• Wang Teng agreed to gamble with Adris and brushed off concerns about the Advanced Ore Seeker accompanying him.
• An Lan chose Gather Wealth Gambling Mine, paid the required deposits, and the group entered its rear courtyard.
• Wang Teng collected Ore Seeking Art Attribute Bubbles from the Ore Seekers in the courtyard.
• Wang Teng’s Ore Seeking Art advanced from Intermediate to Advanced and then to Grandmaster Level.
• Adris selected an ore weighing over ten thousand jin and challenged Wang Teng to choose an ore or admit defeat.

Wang Teng challenged Adris and Chen Shu’s confidence by choosing a much smaller ore for their gambling contest. Chen Shu’s billion-credit ore revealed a brilliant fire-element source stone first, but Wang Teng remained certain his own ore would pay off as the cutting continued.

• Cao Guan and Chen Shu mocked Wang Teng and urged him to concede before the ore contest began.
• Wang Teng chose a roughly thousand-jin ore, and An Lan bought it for three hundred million after Wang Teng promised it would bring a huge profit.
• Adris and Wang Teng had their ores cut in front of a growing crowd at the Gambling Mine Workshop.
• Chen Shu’s massive ore revealed a bright fire-element source stone after only a few layers were removed, prompting Adris and Cao Guan to celebrate.
• Wang Teng calmly dismissed their taunts and pointed out that the full value of either ore was still unknown.
• Someone shouted that Wang Teng’s ore had begun glowing too.

Wang Teng won a second ore-seeking wager against Adris, then discovered a rare insect sealed inside a lightning source stone. The chapter ended before anyone identified the bug or learned what it could do.

• Wang Teng’s thousand-jin ore yielded densely packed level-seven source stones, while Adris’s much larger ore contained mostly stone core; Wang Teng sold the stones to Xu Lanwan for eight billion Great Qian Coins and collected another eight billion from Adris.
• Adris ordered Chen Shu to choose another ore, and Chen Shu selected a watermelon-sized stone that contained an eighth-level Wood Element Source Stone and a thirty-thousand-year-old Dan Zhi Grass.
• Wang Teng found a goose-egg-sized scrap ore and persuaded Adris to sign a Soul Contract that awarded the losing side’s ore contents to the winner.
• Adris’s ore produced the Dan Zhi Grass, which the ape race World Lord offered to buy for fifty-two billion, but Adris refused because he intended it as a gift for his family’s ancestor.
• Wang Teng had the stone cutter remove two layers from his tiny ore, revealing a rare, high-level Lightning Element Source Stone with a bug inside.

Wang Teng extracted a Thunder Source Worm from a lightning-element Source Stone, overturning the ore gamble and astonishing everyone with the creature’s immense value. As powerful buyers made offers, the Gather Wealth Gambling Mine asked him to sell it, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Wang Teng revealed a Thunder Source Worm inside his lightning-element Source Stone, and experts explained its rarity and value in refining Supreme Divine Pills.
• Wang Teng summoned Grandmaster Hua Yuan and other grandmasters for support as An Lan worried about the World Lord experts coveting the worm.
• Chen Shu accused Wang Teng of cheating, but Adris stopped him and the Gather Wealth Gambling Mine’s representative warned him against making baseless claims.
• The white-haired World Lord offered four trillion Great Qian Coins, and the Mad Ape Domain Lord raised the bid to four trillion one hundred billion.
• The Gather Wealth Gambling Mine offered Wang Teng three trillion Great Qian Coins and a VIP Black Card for the Thunder Source Worm.

Wang Teng refused to sell the Thunder Source Worm until Grandmaster Hua Yuan and other members of the Sub-Profession Alliance intervened and secured it for the alliance. He sold the Dan Zhi Grass to Mad Ape World Lord, demanded Adris pay his gambling debt, and rejected Cao Jiaojiao’s plea to forgive it.

• Wang Teng refused the World Lords’ offers for the Thunder Source Worm, so Grandmaster Hua Yuan and more than ten grandmasters arrived with three World Lord Level allies to support him.
• Wang Teng pretended to meet the grandmasters for the first time, then sold the Thunder Source Worm to the Sub-Profession Alliance in exchange for their favors.
• Wang Teng offered the Dan Zhi Grass to the World Lords, and Mad Ape World Lord bought it for five hundred and twenty billion despite Adris’s objections.
• Wang Teng demanded the four trillion two hundred billion owed under the Soul Contract, and Cao Guan could not escape his taunt that he should repay Adris’s debt.
• Cao Jiaojiao asked Wang Teng to let the debt go, but he refused and said even Cao Hongtu would not have enough face to change his mind, leaving Cao Jiaojiao humiliated as she departed.

Wang Teng collected the 4.2 trillion owed by Adris after Cao Jiaojiao abandoned him and the Parax Family intervened. The Parax representatives left after paying, while the Sub-Profession Alliance Grandmasters invited Wang Teng to complete the Thunder Source Worm transaction and showed interest in his ore-prospecting skills.

• After Cao Jiaojiao and Cao Guan left, Wang Teng pressed Adris to pay the 4.2 trillion debt, and Adris contacted his family for the money.
• Grandmaster Hua Yuan invited Wang Teng to the Sub-Profession Alliance to complete the Thunder Source Worm transaction, while An Lan realized Wang Teng was disguising his ownership of it.
• Ao Yun World Lord asked about Wang Teng's ore-prospecting ability, and Wang Teng joked that his lifelong good luck explained his success.
• Adris's father, Walter Gu, and Sinclairmon arrived, and Walter Gu transferred 4.2 trillion to Wang Teng despite Sinclairmon's objections.
• Wang Teng called after the departing Parax Family members, inviting them to gamble with him again.

After winning a fortune from Adris and securing the Thunder Source Worm, Wang Teng refined three portions of Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills at once and distributed them among the grandmasters. He and An Lan counted their gains, then set out to visit Cao Hongtu at the former residence of Baron Nangong.

• Wang Teng thanked the grandmasters for their help against the Parax Family and refined all three portions of Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pill materials at once, succeeding despite the added risk.
• Wang Teng survived the pills' lightning tribulation by breaking the lightning with his fists, then distributed the pills to the grandmasters and kept one for himself.
• The grandmasters worried that the Parax Family would retaliate, while Alfred and Hua Yuan promised to help Wang Teng if he needed them.
• Wang Teng and An Lan tallied their gambling winnings, and Wang Teng transferred An Lan six billion as his share.
• Wang Teng told An Lan that Cao Hongtu had invited him to visit that night, and the two headed to the former residence of Baron Nangong.

Wang Teng visited Cao Hongtu’s residence, trading barbs with him and his family while hiding An Lan’s strength. Cao Hongtu finally threatened Wang Teng’s parents and home planet, revealing the pressure behind his polite welcome.

• Wang Teng ignored the guards at the Nangong Residence and forced Cao Hongtu to come out and receive him.
• Cao Hongtu welcomed Wang Teng and met An Lan, whom Wang Teng introduced as his bodyguard while keeping his strength concealed.
• Cao Hongtu introduced Wang Teng to Cao Jiaojiao, Cao Guan, Cao Wu, Cao Ling, and the other Cao Family youths, whom Wang Teng mockingly called his nephews.
• At dinner, Wang Teng dismissed Cao Hongtu’s concern about the Parax Family, saying he could live comfortably on the more than four hundred billion he had taken from them.
• Cao Hongtu warned Wang Teng to consider his parents and home planet, freezing the atmosphere at the table.

At a Cao Family dinner, Wang Teng resisted Cao Hongtu’s attempt to pressure him through threats against Earth Star and countered by threatening the family with a bounty. After Wang Teng left, Cao Hongtu planned to secure an alliance with the Parax Family by marrying Cao Jiaojiao to Adris, while Wang Teng and An Lan casually agreed that An Lan could kill Cao Hongtu for a trillion; Cao Hongtu later descended into a hidden underground chamber.

• Cao Hongtu told Wang Teng he had contacted the Orlant Alliance about Earth Star, and Wang Teng warned that his family was hard to find and asked how much it cost to put a bounty on a Domain Lord.
• Wang Teng and Cao Hongtu traded polite toasts until Wang Teng left the Cao Family, whose members were unsettled by his threat.
• Cao Hongtu told Cao Jiaojiao and Cao Guan that they would visit the Parax Family, and he intended to arrange Cao Jiaojiao’s marriage to Adris.
• Wang Teng and An Lan agreed that An Lan could take a trillion to kill Cao Hongtu if circumstances required it.
• Cao Hongtu entered a hidden underground chamber and angrily lamented that something had not been passed to him.

Wang Teng gathered forging knowledge at the Sub-Profession Alliance and began forging the Thousand Machines Box for An Lan. He advanced through the complex process with extraordinary speed and multitasking, leaving An Lan astonished as the parts took shape.

• Wang Teng agreed to forge the Thousand Machines Box immediately after An Lan delivered all the materials.
• Wang Teng collected Forging Art attributes outside the Forging Room and raised his Great Grandmaster Level attainments enough to forge the box.
• Wang Teng used his Azure Jade Glazed Flame to refine the materials while An Lan watched in surprise.
• Wang Teng fused the materials into 360 separate parts over eight hours, completing the work far faster than An Lan expected.
• Wang Teng controlled nine forging hammers with Mental Power to forge nine parts at once, leaving An Lan convinced that his methods were inhuman.

Wang Teng finished forging the Thousand Machines Box for An Lan, who endured its lightning tribulation with overwhelming power and revealed himself as a formidable Mental Power Master. After collecting the attributes from the tribulation, Wang Teng celebrated his gains as An Lan returned with the completed weapon.

• Wang Teng inscribed runes on the Thousand Machines Box’s 360 components and combined them into the finished weapon.
• An Lan flew into the sky to face the lightning tribulation while Wang Teng watched from the Forging Room.
• An Lan shattered the first three lightning strikes with a finger, then used a golden dragon formed from his Primal Force and Mental Power to destroy the final strikes and disperse the clouds.
• Onlookers and watching Domain Lord-Level powerhouses reacted to An Lan’s strength as he collected the Thousand Machines Box and returned.
• Wang Teng gathered the tribulation’s Attribute Bubbles, increasing his Thunder and Metal Source Power, Heaven and Earth Tribulation Lightning, and Stellar Level Spirit.

Wang Teng learned that the Noble Council Hall had finalized his trial to determine whether he could inherit a baron title ahead of Cao Hongtu. The trial would test his potential and send him to the Fire River World, while Cao Hongtu’s accumulated military merits already qualified him to inherit the title.

• An Lan showed Wang Teng the Thousand Machines Box and claimed it let him run rampant among Domain Lord Level experts.
• Yuan Gungun told Wang Teng that the Noble Council Hall had summoned him because the trial’s contents were finalized, and Wang Teng went there with An Lan.
• Deacon Ming Cheng escorted Wang Teng to the Council Hall, where Cao Hongtu and representatives of other families were waiting.
• An elder announced that Wang Teng’s trial would have two stages, testing his potential first and then his strength and wisdom in the Fire River World, a Small World left by a World Lord Level Peak expert.
• The elder revealed that Cao Hongtu’s years of military merits already qualified him to inherit the title, causing Wang Teng’s heart to sink.

Wang Teng learned that he would have to compete with Cao Hongtu for the Baron Title by entering Fire River World, with both sides limited to five Universe Level entrants. At the talent test, Cao Hongtu displayed a High King-level Earth Talent, and Wang Teng prepared to take his turn.

• The elder explained that Wang Teng and Cao Hongtu would compete in Fire River World, where each could bring up to four others and entrants could not exceed Universe Level.
• Wang Teng decided to bring An Lan with his strength suppressed, while Cao Hongtu warned him that their trial could involve bloodshed.
• The elder led the group to the talent testing device and had Cao Hongtu test his Earth Element Talent first.
• Cao Hongtu absorbed the Primal Force for ten minutes, and the device identified his Earth Talent as High King-level.
• The nobles reflected that Cao Hongtu's limited talent had made advancement difficult, driving him to pursue the Baron Title and its resources.

Wang Teng revealed that he possessed three nearly peak High King-level elemental talents, surpassing Cao Hongtu in the talent test. As the Fire River World trial approached, Wang Teng arranged for An Lan and three other Universe Level martial warriors to accompany him, intending to use the trial to deal with Cao Hongtu.

• Wang Teng tested his Fire talent and received a High King-level result, matching Cao Hongtu.
• Wang Teng announced that he was a three-element martial warrior and demonstrated his Earth and Metal talents, which were also High King-level.
• The elder ordered the participants to gather in two days to travel to the Fire River World, and Cao Hongtu warned Wang Teng that the trial was dangerous.
• Wang Teng met An Lan and asked him to suppress his strength and accompany him to the trial so they could target Cao Hongtu.
• An Lan offered to recruit three Universe Level martial warriors from the Mechanical Race, and Wang Teng agreed to pay nine billion.

Wang Teng and Cao Hongtu traveled to Sealed Wolf Star for the trial to inherit the noble title, where the elder announced three tasks awaiting them in Fire River World. The final task was to obtain Fire River World Lord’s last inheritance, leaving both contenders facing a challenge no one had ever completed.

• Wang Teng arrived late at the Empire Noble Council, bringing four gray-robed Universe Level Martial Artists, and the group departed for Sealed Wolf Star.
• Aboard the military World Lord Level Spaceship, the elder announced that the first task was to obtain fifty thousand jin of Fire River Crystals from Fire River World’s dangerous magma swamps.
• The elder announced that the second task was to hunt five hundred Stellar Level or higher Fire Toads, including at least fifty Universe Level Fire Toads, in the dangerous Fire Rivers.
• Yuan Gungun told Wang Teng that Fire River World’s final inheritance remained unclaimed, and the elder confirmed it was the third task.
• The elder warned that both trial participants had to complete the inheritance task or continue accumulating military merit, and Cao Hongtu learned that his existing merit only qualified him to take the trial.

Wang Teng and Cao Hongtu entered the collapsing Fire River World through the Fire Tong Tree, each leading a team that included a concealed Domain Lord Level expert. Wang Teng's group emerged inside the world by falling into a lava river, where his flames protected him and the three Mechanical Race members were scorched.

• Wang Teng and the others arrived at the Qi Family settlement on Sealed Wolf Star, where Qi Chengtian showed them the Fire Tong Tree containing Fire River World.
• Qi Chengtian warned that the world was collapsing, allowed only Universe Level strength inside, and gave Wang Teng and Cao Hongtu tokens to guide them back within fifteen days.
• Cao Hongtu entered Fire River World with his team, followed by Wang Teng, An Lan, and three gray-robed companions.
• The observers discovered that An Lan was a Domain Lord Level expert, while Qi Chengtian suspected the teams might be pursuing the final inheritance.
• Wang Teng's group appeared above a lava river, fell into the magma, and escaped to the bank with Wang Teng and An Lan unharmed but the three Mechanical Race members scorched.

Wang Teng and An Lan’s group crossed the Fire River World toward the Magma Swamp, collecting Fire Element Starry Sky Source Power along the way. They encountered a Fire Toad, and Wang Teng trapped it with his Azure Jade Glazed Flame before preparing an Ice Spear to stop its escape.

• Wang Teng checked that An Lan and the three Mechanical Race Martial Artists were safe after they escaped the lava river.
• Wang Teng used Di Qi’s map to lead the group toward the Magma Swamp and collected many Fire Element Starry Sky Source Power Attribute Bubbles as they flew.
• A Fire Toad grabbed An Feng’s leg from a lava river, but An Feng severed its tongue and the creature retreated beneath the magma.
• Wang Teng sent Azure Jade Glazed Flame chains into the lava to locate the Fire Toad, then trapped it in a flame net when it tried to flee.
• The Fire Toad broke holes in the net and struggled to escape as Wang Teng formed a pitch-black Ice Spear.

Wang Teng killed a fifth-level Stellar Level Fire Toad with Netherworld Cold Ice and led his companions to the Magma Swamp to search for Fire River Crystals. He outfitted the group with armor coated in cold ice, and they descended into the magma.

• Wang Teng froze and killed the Fire Toad with a spear of Netherworld Cold Ice, then collected its Attribute Bubbles and stored its corpse.
• Wang Teng and An Lan reached the Magma Swamp, where Wang Teng collected Fire Element Starry Sky Source Power from floating Attribute Bubbles.
• Wang Teng released the Ironclad Flame Scorpion and Little White and told them to search the swamp for Fire River Crystals with An Yuan, An Tong, and An Feng.
• Wang Teng gave An Lan and the others battle armor and coated it with Netherworld Cold Ice to help them endure the magma's heat.
• Wang Teng and the group jumped into the Magma Swamp and sank beneath its surface.

Wang Teng and An Lan searched the Magma Swamp, collected Fire Element Starry Sky Source Power, and uncovered a deposit of Fire River Crystals. As they excavated, a fast, elusive creature darted from the hole, and Yuan Gungun identified it as a possible Fire Crystal Red Phosphorus Earthworm.

• Wang Teng and An Lan split from the others to search the magma, with Wang Teng sensing a dense concentration of Fire Element Starry Sky Source Power.
• Wang Teng located Fire River Crystals beneath the rock, and An Lan used the Thousand Machines Box to break through the layer.
• Wang Teng and An Lan carefully excavated more than a thousand catties of Fire River Crystal.
• A streak of red light twice darted out to attack Wang Teng and An Lan before quickly retreating.
• Wang Teng guessed the creature resembled a fiery red earthworm, and Yuan Gungun suggested it was a Fire Crystal Red Phosphorus Earthworm.

Wang Teng and An Lan hunted for Fire River Crystals in the Magma Swamp, where Wang Teng captured Fire Crystal Red Phosphorus Earthworms and gained Fire Essence from them. After gathering more crystals and sending his spirit pets to help search, Wang Teng continued collecting Fire Essence while the group remained short of their fifty-thousand-catty goal.

• Yuan Gungun explained that Fire Crystal Red Phosphorus Earthworms harassed intruders to protect the Fire River Crystals they depended on.
• Wang Teng trapped a Fire Crystal Red Phosphorus Earthworm with the Azure Jade Glazed Flame, froze it with Netherworld Cold Ice, and absorbed Fire Essence from its Attribute Bubbles.
• Wang Teng and An Lan excavated more than two thousand catties of Fire River Crystals from the area and found additional smaller deposits.
• Little White and the Ironclad Flame Scorpion brought Wang Teng more than four thousand catties of Fire River Crystals, and Wang Teng praised them for their find.
• The group collected over eight thousand more catties, while Wang Teng and his spirit pets captured several Fire Crystal Red Phosphorus Earthworms and Wang Teng gained more Fire Essence from them.