Chapter Summaries

Wang Teng explored the Ant-Man Race Nest, collecting Slaughter Stones and raising his Slaughter Profound Meaning before finding the dead Queen in the mother nest. Saiba tracked Wang Teng into the nest, while the deeper threat beneath it remained unexplained.

• Wang Teng learned from Yuan Gungun that the black stones were Slaughter Stones and collected more, raising his Slaughter Profound Meaning to twenty percent.
• Wang Teng found a passage littered with Ant-Man Race skeletons and blasted holes leading underground, then continued deeper into the nest.
• Saiba tracked Wang Teng's lingering aura to the Ant-Man Race Nest and headed toward its depths.
• Wang Teng reached the mother nest and found the enormous body of the dead Ant-Man Race Queen.
• Wang Teng noticed that the Queen seemed to have been drained dry.

Wang Teng explored the drained Ant-Man Race Queen and collected Life Essence, Soul Essence, Spirit, and a rare Divine Sound Wave skill from Attribute Bubbles inside its body. He discovered a Soul Crystal in the queen’s brain just as a gentle voice addressed him.

• Wang Teng found that his World Lord Level sword could barely scratch the Ant-Man Race Queen’s shell, then entered its body through its mouthparts.
• Wang Teng collected 1,250 points of Life Essence from Attribute Bubbles in the queen’s hollow body and another 2,300 points near its heart.
• Wang Teng squeezed through a narrow crack into the queen’s brain and found a glowing Soul Crystal.
• Wang Teng collected 1,800 points of Soul Essence, 6,200 points of Stellar Level Spirit, and the Divine Sound Wave skill.
• A gentle voice suddenly addressed Wang Teng.

Wang Teng learned from the Ant-Man Race Queen that the entity consuming the planet might be watching him and waiting to attack as he left. She asked him to take her away so she could use her remaining Soul Essence to attempt rebirth.

• The Ant-Man Race Queen told Wang Teng that her people had discovered the unhatched entity three thousand years earlier and accidentally nourished it until it devoured them.
• Wang Teng mocked the Ant-Man Race Queen’s people for failing to stop the entity, then asked what she wanted from him.
• The Ant-Man Race Queen warned Wang Teng that the entity had likely noticed him and would wait until he was leaving to strike.
• Wang Teng asked why the Ant-Man Race Queen had revealed this, and she asked him to take her off the planet.
• The Ant-Man Race Queen explained that her remaining Soul Essence gave her a chance at rebirth, and Wang Teng realized the planet was nearly drained.

Wang Teng accepted the Ant-Man Race Queen’s loyalty and learned it could lead him to an undamaged World Lord Level Spaceship. As he prepared to escape, Saiba found him and attacked.

• The Ant-Man Race Queen offered Wang Teng its loyalty in exchange for rescue, promising him the Ant-Man Race and revealing their wealth of around three hundred trillion Universe Coins.
• Wang Teng left a Soul Imprint on the Ant-Man Race Queen’s White Crystal and agreed to take it with him.
• The Ant-Man Race Queen told Wang Teng where its people had hidden a World Lord Level Spaceship, and Wang Teng stored its Soul Crystal and body before heading out.
• Saiba attacked Wang Teng with an ice-blue spear radiance, but Wang Teng countered with a flaming punch and landed at a distance.

Wang Teng fought Saiba, the Ice Spirit Race son of a World Lord Level Expert, and resisted Saiba’s Frost Domain with his own stronger domain. He launched Earth Explosion Star at Saiba, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Wang Teng learned that Saiba was an Ice Spirit Race Martial Artist and the son of the World Lord Level Expert.
• Saiba attacked Wang Teng with his spear, and the two fought evenly as Wang Teng used flames, punches, and a sword technique.
• Saiba unleashed his second-tier Frost Domain and attacked Wang Teng with Ice Demon Spear.
• Wang Teng revealed his Heaven Stone Starfall Domain and used its third-tier power to suppress Saiba’s Frost Domain.
• Wang Teng formed a giant sphere of stone and sent it crashing toward Saiba with Earth Explosion Star.

Wang Teng defeated and killed Saiba, an Ice Spirit Race genius, and gained his ice-element attributes and techniques. Saiba’s father set out to avenge him, while an unknown presence awakened deep inside the planet.

• Wang Teng overwhelmed Saiba with his Heaven Stone Starfall Domain and killed him.
• Wang Teng collected Saiba’s Attribute Bubbles, gaining ice-element power, Emperor-Level talent, Profound Meaning of Ice, Frost Domain, and two World Lord Level secret battle techniques.
• Wang Teng took Saiba’s space ring and left for another Ant-Man Race structure containing a buried World Lord Level Spaceship.
• Saiba’s father sensed his son’s death, roared in grief and fury, and sped toward the place where Wang Teng had been.
• Deep within the planet’s core, a pair of enormous purple-black eyes slowly opened.

Wang Teng sensed the underground entity move and learned from the Ant-Man Race Queen that a Darkness World Rift might repel it. He reached the hidden World Lord Level spaceship and discovered it was called Demon Slayer.

• Wang Teng saw the underground entity fluctuate violently, then stop, and suspected it had sensed his gaze.
• The Ant-Man Race Queen told Wang Teng that the entity feared a sealed Darkness World Rift to the east, and Wang Teng agreed to seek it if needed.
• Wang Teng reached the Ant-Man Race buildings and collected Slaughter Stones and Slaughter Profound Meaning while passing through their checkpoints.
• Wang Teng found a black, triangular-pyramid World Lord Level spaceship in a sealed underground chamber.
• The Ant-Man Race Queen identified the spaceship as Demon Slayer.

Wang Teng fled the Ant-Man Race Nest as a purple-black entity pursued him, using Darkness Source Power and Sloth Mist to slow it down. After the Nest sank and the entity caught up again, he spotted an approaching ice-blue streak and headed straight toward it.

• A purple-black tendril struck the Ant-Man Race building, and Wang Teng put away the Demon Slayer spaceship and fled through the collapsing passages.
• Wang Teng unleashed Darkness Source Power, making the purple-black entity recoil, but it soon resumed its pursuit.
• Wang Teng released Sloth Mist, slowing the entity long enough to escape the building as the Ant-Man Race Nest sank underground.
• The entity rose from the dust cloud and chased Wang Teng, who refused to deploy the spaceship and charged toward an approaching ice-blue streak.

Wang Teng lured Sai Lun into the path of a terrifying purple-black creature, forcing the World Lord to flee alongside him. Just as they escaped the creature behind them, more dust-shrouded threats emerged from underground and surrounded them.

• Sai Lun rushed toward Wang Teng to avenge his son, but the dust storm pursuing Wang Teng made him turn and flee.
• Wang Teng urged Sai Lun to fight, and Sai Lun's saber strike revealed a gigantic, formless creature with purple-black tendrils.
• Wang Teng used the Moon Metal Wheel and Fire Tongue skill to slow Sai Lun, then overtook him as they raced away from the creature.
• Wang Teng and Sai Lun found dust storms rising ahead and on both sides, surrounding them and leaving them with no apparent escape.

Wang Teng and Sai Lun were trapped inside a contracting cage of dust and sand, and Yuan Gungun identified the creature surrounding them as a Void Devouring Beast. After Sai Lun failed to escape, Wang Teng layered his defenses as the beast swallowed him.

• Wang Teng urged Sai Lun to cooperate, but Sai Lun refused because Wang Teng had killed his son.
• Yuan Gungun identified the creature as a Void Devouring Beast that could devour matter and especially favored Life Essence and Soul Essence.
• Sai Lun used his ice-blue Source Power to slash at the purple-black barrier, but the Void Devouring Beast swallowed his attack.
• As the cage rapidly closed, Wang Teng surrounded himself with Heaven and Earth Strange Fires, Yellow Springs Weak Water, and Darkness Source Power.
• The dust and purple-black light engulfed Wang Teng.

Wang Teng was swallowed by the Void Devouring Beast and, trapped inside its body, realized its soul was its weakest point. He moved his body and Yuan Gungun into the Space Shard as he prepared to use his last resort.

• The Void Devouring Beast dragged Wang Teng inside its true body and began consuming his Defense Barrier while he searched his skills for a way out.
• Yuan Gungun suggested the beast’s stomach might be its weakest point, prompting Wang Teng to realize that its soul was the better target.
• Wang Teng sent his body and Yuan Gungun into the Space Shard, leaving behind the faint words, “This is the last resort!”
• The Flower Spirit Race members were startled by Wang Teng’s sudden arrival, and the Ant-Man Race Queen asked Yuan Gungun why it had come in.
• Yuan Gungun explained that they had been swallowed.

Wang Teng risked his Soul Essence in a battle with the Void Devouring Beast and used Nether Burial and Soul Seizing to defeat it. He awoke in the beast’s Devouring Space, discovered that its Soul Essence had become part of his own, and summoned its form.

• Wang Teng sent his Soul Power beyond the Defense Barrier and fought the Void Devouring Beast’s devouring force with Yellow Springs Weak Water and four Heaven and Earth Strange Fires.
• Wang Teng reached the Void Devouring Beast’s Soul Essence and struck it with Nether Burial and Soul Seizing.
• More than a month passed as Yuan Gungun and the Ant-Man Race Queen waited anxiously inside Wang Teng’s Space Shard.
• Wang Teng awoke in the Void Devouring Beast’s Devouring Space and discovered that he had absorbed its Soul Essence.
• Wang Teng separated the beast’s Soul Essence from his own and saw it take the form of a purple-black Void Devouring Beast.

Wang Teng successfully seized the juvenile Void Devouring Beast, depleted all his Blank Attributes in the process, and gained access to its enormous inherited knowledge. After sealing away the memories and returning to his original body, he revealed the Soul Seizing to Yuan Gungun and the Ant-Man Race Queen, who were horrified by his transformation.

• Wang Teng used Opening Hacks and his Blank Attributes to wear down the Void Devouring Beast's Soul Essence and seize its body.
• Wang Teng formed a purple-black Void Devouring Beast clone and began sorting through the beast's inherited knowledge.
• After three days and nights, Wang Teng sealed away the vast collection of memories instead of absorbing them all.
• Wang Teng returned his Soul Essence to his original body, where Yuan Gungun and the Ant-Man Race Queen sensed his powerful soul pressure and recoiled.
• Wang Teng told Yuan Gungun that he had seized the Void Devouring Beast's body, leaving Yuan Gungun and the Ant-Man Race Queen shocked.

Wang Teng proved to Yuan Gungun and the Ant-Man Race Queen that he had Soul Seized the Void Devouring Beast by making it bark like a dog. After they acknowledged his success and discussed the beast’s potential, Wang Teng prepared to leave for the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star.

• Yuan Gungun asked Wang Teng to prove he was himself and had not been Soul Seized by the Void Devouring Beast.
• Wang Teng separated the Void Devouring Beast’s Soul Essence and made it bark, convincing Yuan Gungun and the Ant-Man Race Queen that he had Soul Seized it.
• Yuan Gungun and the Ant-Man Race Queen discussed how the Void Devouring Beast’s bloodline could let it grow to the World Lord Level or beyond.
• Wang Teng said the World Lord Level Expert swallowed by the Void Devouring Beast was still alive and that he would deal with him.
• Wang Teng soothed the Flower Spirit Race, left the Space Shard, and stored the Void Devouring Beast in his Devouring Space.

Wang Teng left the dying planet aboard the Demon Slayer and watched it break apart, while the Ant-Man Race Queen prepared for Rebirth. As they traveled through the Gray Mist region toward the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star, Wang Teng ordered the Poison Mirage Beasts wiped out and strengthened his Poison Source Power and Poison Mirage skill.

• Wang Teng, Yuan Gungun, and the Ant-Man Race Queen watched the planet collapse after the Void Devouring Beast was taken away.
• Wang Teng ordered Yuan Gungun to take the Demon Slayer toward the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star, and the Ant-Man Race Queen asked him to find a powerful Star Beast for its Rebirth.
• The Demon Slayer entered the Gray Mist region, where Wang Teng ordered Yuan Gungun to destroy the Poison Mirage Beasts with the ship's Source Power Cannons.
• Wang Teng spent more than half a day clearing the Gray Mist region of Poison Mirage Beasts and absorbed the Attribute Bubbles they left behind.
• Wang Teng raised his Poison Source Power to the ninth floor of the Planetary Level, replenished his Blank Attributes, and advanced Poison Mirage to great success.

After escaping the Gray Mist region, Wang Teng spoke with Di Qi in the Virtual Universe and confirmed they would meet at the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star. Back aboard the Demon Slayer spacecraft, Wang Teng released the captured Cao Hongtu and Cao Jiaojiao.

• The Demon Slayer spacecraft left the Gray Mist region and set course for the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star, though Yuan Gungun said the journey would take two or three more days.
• Wang Teng connected to Di Qi in the Virtual Universe and said a World Lord Level Expert had hunted him, but he had captured the pursuer.
• Wang Teng told Di Qi he suspected the Parax Family had hired the attacker, and Di Qi explained that Chongshan King's order had contained the Law of Causality.
• Wang Teng and Di Qi agreed to join forces on the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star to fight the Darkness Breeds and earn Military Exploits.
• After returning to reality, Wang Teng released the badly injured Cao Hongtu and Cao Jiaojiao from the Space Shard.

Wang Teng forced Cao Hongtu and Cao Jiaojiao to confront a choice between each other’s lives, then revealed that he wanted them to submit. Cao Hongtu agreed, and Wang Teng placed a mark in his mind before warning him that it would act if he rebelled.

• Wang Teng told Cao Hongtu and Cao Jiaojiao that only one of them could live if one killed the other.
• Cao Hongtu hesitated, then appeared ready to sacrifice Cao Jiaojiao, prompting Wang Teng to reveal that the choice had been a joke.
• Wang Teng demanded that Cao Hongtu and Cao Jiaojiao submit or die, and Cao Hongtu agreed to submit.
• Wang Teng sent Cao Jiaojiao flying when she tried to stop him, then placed a mark in Cao Hongtu’s mind.
• Wang Teng told Cao Hongtu that the mark would do nothing as long as he did not rebel.

Wang Teng forced Cao Hongtu and Cao Jiaojiao to submit by placing Soul Slave Seals on them, then continued his journey to the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star. He arrived safely and met Di Qi at the Mooring Port.

• Cao Hongtu realized Wang Teng had placed a Soul Imprint on him and accepted that he could no longer escape.
• Cao Jiaojiao chose submission, and Wang Teng placed a Soul Imprint on her as well.
• Wang Teng ordered Cao Jiaojiao to bathe and change, then arranged separate rooms for her and Cao Hongtu before returning to cultivate.
• Several days later, Wang Teng switched to an ordinary Stellar Level spaceship and approached the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star.
• Second Lieutenant Fei Hai welcomed Wang Teng, sent him the designated route, and warned him not to deviate from it.
• Yuan Gungun piloted the spaceship along the route to the Mooring Port, where Di Qi was waiting.

Wang Teng arrived at the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star and toured its heavily fortified Military Base with Di Qi and Lieutenant Fei Hai. After they witnessed the base’s weapons destroy several Demon King Level Darkness Breeds, Wang Teng was summoned to meet General Mokarun.

• Wang Teng arrived at the Twenty-Ninth Defense Star, greeted Di Qi and Lieutenant Fei Hai, and learned that Di Qi had become a colonel.
• Di Qi and Fei Hai showed Wang Teng around the enormous Military Base and explained that unstable spatial cracks allowed Darkness Breeds to appear across the planet.
• The base’s weapons blasted several Demon King Level Darkness Breeds out of the sky, while Wang Teng calmly collected the Attribute Bubbles they dropped.
• Fei Hai led Wang Teng through security checks to a building in the base’s central area.
• Deputy Officer Song told Wang Teng that General Mokarun had been waiting for him and invited him into the room.

Wang Teng met General Mokarun, passed his test, and learned that the Empire had appointed him a major. He collected his uniform and combat supplies and left for his assigned residence, while the people around him reacted with surprise at his rank.

• General Mokarun tested Wang Teng with his Slaughter Intent, praised his composure, and told him the Military Department had appointed him a major.
• Wang Teng left the office with Di Qi and Fei Hai, then revealed his rank and surprised them both.
• Fei Hai took Wang Teng to the Logistics Department, where Second Lieutenant Jeff verified his appointment and issued his uniform, battle armor, source power gun, and healing pills.
• Second Lieutenant Jeff informed Wang Teng that his residence was Yi Zone 0155, and Wang Teng stored his supplies before leaving the Logistics Department.