Chapter Summaries

Wang Teng extracted a massive Soul Origin Crystal, winning the ore-prospecting contest and drawing bids from Immortal Level experts and the great families. He refused to sell it, leaving the families competing with increasingly valuable offers.

• Appraiser Mesfield identified Wang Teng’s Gray Crystal as a Soul Origin Crystal, and confirmed it was worth at least eighteen thousand Chaos Coins.
• Wang Teng won the contest, while Ti Du and Ti Jing faced the cost of their lost wager and Sang Yi and Le Yan regretted changing their stakes.
• Two Enfeoffed King Immortal Level experts bid against each other, raising the offer to thirty-three thousand Chaos Coins, but Wang Teng refused to sell.
• The Tai, Le, Sang, Ti, and Yu Family patriarchs arrived and made offers for the Soul Origin Crystal.
• Sang Ji offered Wang Teng access to the Sang Family’s ore-prospecting texts, and Le Pan countered by offering access to the Le Family’s texts for three days.

Wang Teng refused to sell the Soul Origin Crystal despite lavish offers, then negotiated the mining wagers with the Le and Ti Families. When Ti Long tried to leave without paying the full amount, Wang Teng’s protector Luo Fu Te intervened and forced the Ti Family to settle the debt.

• Le Pan, Sang Ji, and Tai Huai offered access to their family collections for the Soul Origin Crystal, and Sang Ji added three days to study the Sang Family’s Mystic Light Pupil.
• Wang Teng refused to sell the Soul Origin Crystal, explaining that it was valuable to him, and put it away despite warnings about the danger of keeping it.
• Le Yan asked to replace her wager with a favor, but Wang Teng insisted on keeping the Heavenly Wind Azure Carving; Le Pan then exchanged the Le Family’s thirty-two thousand Chaos Coins for a favor.
• Ti Long tried to replace the Ti Family’s wager with a favor, but Wang Teng demanded the agreed payment and called out the family’s attempt to avoid its debt.
• Ti Long offered only three hundred Chaos Coins and tried to leave, so Luo Fu Te appeared and restrained the Ti Family until the Sub-Profession Alliance ordered Ti Long to pay the balance.
• Wang Teng verified that the full payment had arrived, and Ti Long left with the Ti Family.

After Wang Teng won the ore-betting contest and secured the Soul Origin Crystal, the Virtual Universe Company’s backing deterred the Ti Family and other rivals from challenging him. He used his newly awarded points to order materials for shadow puppets, and the chapter ended as the Exchange Meet began.

• Wang Teng kept the Wood Source Pearl and Soul Origin Crystal, while Luo Fu Te reassured him that the Virtual Universe Company would not force him to sell the crystal.
• Le Pan, Sang Ji, and the other family heads learned that Wang Teng held a genius contract with the Virtual Universe Company, and the younger generation stayed behind to get to know him.
• Wang Teng failed to find Cloud Immortal Nectar or Soul Illusion Flow Silver at the Exchange Meet hall, and Grandmaster Hua Yuan told him he might find what he needed on Medicine Garden Star.
• Wang Teng received 10,000 points for becoming Lord of Heavenly Thunder Mountain and used 4,800 points to order Soul Illusion Flow Silver, Star Beast blood, Star Cores, and other materials for shadow puppets.
• As sub-profession geniuses gathered at the headquarters, the Exchange Meet finally began.

Wang Teng prepared for the Sub-Profession Exchange Meet and arrived at its Sacred Ground, where he encountered the Parax Family and its alchemy prodigy Gabriel. As the Great Qian Empire’s rivals arrived, Peaceful Heaven King offered rewards to Wang Teng and Gabriel if they defeated the other factions’ geniuses.

• Wang Teng reviewed his Sub-Profession attributes, considered whether to absorb the Soul Origin Crystal, and left with Grandmaster Hua Yuan and the others for the Exchange Meet.
• Wang Teng entered the Sub-Profession Alliance’s Sacred Ground and learned that the Great Qian Empire’s seats ranked beyond a thousandth place.
• Wang Teng recognized the Parax Family’s Enfeoffed King Immortal Level ancestor, Raging Flame World Lord, and Fire Finch World Lord, then greeted Ji Xing, Ji Xia, and representatives of the other royal families.
• Raging Flame World Lord introduced Gabriel as a seventh-rank Great Grandmaster Level alchemist, and Gabriel challenged Wang Teng to an alchemy competition.
• Wang Teng and Gabriel traded insults before Grandmaster Hua Yuan redirected attention to the arriving Namos Empire and Qidala Free Federation.
• Peaceful Heaven King promised Wang Teng and Gabriel rewards if they defeated the rival factions’ Sub-Profession geniuses.

Wang Teng announced that he would enter seven Sub-Profession competitions and secured a reward from Peaceful Heaven King for every competition he won. After the core families and the Sub-Profession Alliance elders arrived, Dan Chen opened the Exchange Meet and revealed the champions’ rewards, leaving the competitors eager to begin.

• Peaceful Heaven King offered rewards for victories, and Wang Teng clarified that he planned to enter seven Sub-Profession competitions; the king promised him one reward for each competition he won.
• Gabriel privately claimed that his public seventh-rank Grandmaster grade concealed his true ninth-rank level, while Wang Teng said he knew Gabriel might be stronger than he appeared.
• Wang Teng learned that the Sub-Profession Alliance Headquarters had thirty-five core families, and he exchanged looks with Gu Luo as the families’ geniuses arrived.
• Several dozen Saint-level elders appeared, and Wang Teng injured his eyes after glimpsing the three God-level beings at the center of the platform.
• Grandmaster Alfred explained that the Sacred Tower housed the Soul Suppressing Bell, which could destroy the souls of God-level beings if fully activated.
• Dan Chen opened the Exchange Meet, announced that champions would gain core member status and a God-level Spirit Power cultivation method, and said the top ten could choose a method leading to the Saint level.

The Sub-Profession Alliance announced a God-level Spirit Cultivation Method as the Exchange Meet’s top reward, and Wang Teng registered for all seven Sub-Professions. During the first trial, he entered the Illusion Heart Tower and discovered that its apparent attribute bubbles were part of an illusion, but he remained trapped on the first floor as others advanced.

• Dan Chen announced that the Exchange Meet’s champion would receive a God-level Spirit Cultivation Method, and Wang Teng decided to compete in all seven Sub-Professions.
• Dan Chen, Tan Beili, and Bai Ersi noticed Wang Teng’s registration and discussed his potential as the holder of a True God Level Genius Contract.
• Dan Chen opened the Exchange Meet with the Illusion Heart Tower trial, explaining that competitors had to clear three floors and that their progress would affect the final rankings.
• Wang Teng entered the tower after the other competitors and collected apparent Space, Time, and Universe Level Spirit attribute bubbles, then realized they were illusions and stood motionless for half an hour.
• Le Yan and other core-family geniuses advanced to the fourth floor while Wang Teng remained on the first, alarming Grandmaster Hua Yuan and prompting Raging Flame World Lord to mock him.

Wang Teng endured a powerful illusion on the second level of the Illusion Heart Tower, where seductive figures overwhelmed his senses and left him unable to break free for a long time. When they finally vanished, he wondered whether he had passed the trial and prepared to continue.

• Wang Teng completed the first level, gained the Immortal Level Illusion Heart Art, and collected Spirit Attributes as his spirit barrier began to loosen.
• Wang Teng entered the second level, where the mist produced seductive illusions of women he had met, including Black Nightmare Demon Lord, Blood Succubus Yuffilia, and Lin Chuhan.
• Wang Teng tried to dispel the illusion and calm his mind, but the figures trapped him in repeated sensations of being drained and exhausted.
• Outside the tower, Grandmaster Hua Yuan and the others worried about Wang Teng's progress, while Elder Bai Ersi suggested his unusually powerful Spirit Power might make the illusions harder to overcome.
• The women suddenly disappeared, and Wang Teng opened his eyes, unsure whether he had resisted temptation and passed the second-level trial.

Wang Teng endured the second through fifth floors of the Illusion Heart Tower, where illusions of torment strengthened his Illusion Heart Art and loosened his Domain Lord Level spirit barrier. He entered the fifth floor and faced increasingly powerful lightning, leaving the barrier close to breaking as the chapter ended.

• Wang Teng cleared the second-floor illusion, absorbed Attribute Bubbles that raised his Illusion Heart Art to proficient level, and advanced after spending three days there.
• Wang Teng endured the third floor's illusory flames, gathered more Attribute Bubbles, and advanced after his spirit barrier began to crack.
• The observers saw Wang Teng move from the second floor to the fourth, surprising those who had doubted he would pass the third.
• Wang Teng endured the fourth floor's freezing illusion for three days and advanced to the fifth floor.
• Wang Teng faced the fifth floor's lightning, and a powerful bolt struck him as his Domain Lord Level spiritual barrier cracked further.

Wang Teng endured the sixth floor’s repeated self-destruction illusion until his Spirit Power broke through to the Domain Lord Level, then advanced to the seventh floor. His breakthrough left his body unable to safely withstand his new power, while the spectators were stunned to see him reach a floor no one else had cleared.

• Wang Teng used a Soul Origin Crystal to ease his soul fatigue before entering the sixth floor, where a darkness illusion repeatedly caused him to explode and recover.
• Wang Teng endured the torment until the barrier in his mind shattered, triggering a Spirit Power breakthrough and absorbing the Soul Essence in the crystal.
• The spectators reacted to Wang Teng’s sixth-floor progress as Ti Long revealed that he had arranged for the Ma Family to eliminate Wang Teng on Medicine Garden Star.
• Wang Teng awoke with Domain Lord Level Spirit Power, learned that his Universe Level body could not safely handle its full strength, and decided to challenge the seventh floor.
• Wang Teng entered the seventh floor, and the crowd erupted when his name appeared there on the light screen.

Wang Teng stunned the Exchange Meet by passing the Illusion Heart Tower’s seventh floor, taking the lead in the first round. The next round began with contestants sent to three planets for dangerous Sub-Profession competitions, and Wang Teng set his sights on winning all seven disciplines.

• Wang Teng passed the seventh floor of the Illusion Heart Tower, shocking the Elders, the competing geniuses, and the core families.
• Le Pan urged Le Yan to get close to Wang Teng, while Sang Ji bet Sang Yi a skull Star Bone that Wang Teng would enter the top ten; Sang Yi raised the wager to top ten in three disciplines.
• Ti Long vowed to work with the Ma Family to kill Wang Teng, while the Great Qian Empire’s Grandmasters celebrated his achievement.
• Elder Dan Chen declared Wang Teng the first-round leader and explained that the remaining competitions would take place across Medicine Garden Star, Spirit Beast Star, and Mine Star.
• Elder Dan Chen gave each advancing contestant a Space Teleportation Token and warned that fighting on the three planets could be fatal, then the contestants entered their assigned portals.

Wang Teng used clones to enter all three competition planets at once, surprising the contestants, families, and grandmasters. On Medicine Garden Star, he rejected Le Yan’s offer to cooperate and began searching for spirit herbs, only to learn that the competition was being broadcast and his gathering was visible to everyone.

• Wang Teng created two clones and sent the three versions of himself toward the Mine Star, Medicine Garden Star, and Spirit Beast Star, prompting rival families and other contestants to react and follow.
• The grandmasters worried that one month would not be enough for Wang Teng to compete across multiple Sub-Professions, but he assured them he had a plan and entered the three planets.
• The public learned that Wang Teng had mastered at least five Sub-Professions, while Gabriel ignored warnings and entered Medicine Garden Star.
• After arriving on Medicine Garden Star, Wang Teng refused Le Yan’s request to share his location and cooperate, then began searching for spirit herbs with his True Sight Eye.
• Wang Teng found a three-thousand-year-old Rock Yellow Ganoderma, but Yuan Gungun reminded him that the broadcast showed everyone what he collected.

Wang Teng harvested a Rock Yellow Ganoderma on Medicine Garden Star, killed its guarding Star Beast, and used Yuan Gungun’s scan to search for more herbs. His avatars also began exploring Mine Star and Spirit Beast Star, where his displays of strength alarmed the core families and left Ti Long and Ma Lou worried about their young geniuses.

• Wang Teng unearthed a Rock Yellow Ganoderma, then killed the earthworm Star Beast guarding it with one punch and stored its body to try later as food.
• Wang Teng used Yuan Gungun’s planetary scan to plan his search for herbs, while Ma Yan prioritized gathering poisons and Le Yan gathered her family members at a meeting point.
• Wang Teng’s avatar arrived on Mine Star, connected with Sang Yi, and agreed to a wager in which the loser would owe the winner one condition.
• The heads of the Sang, Feng, Yan, and Rodelick families discussed their ore-seeking geniuses and Wang Teng’s growing threat, while Ti Long and Ma Lou worried about their family members facing him.
• Wang Teng’s avatar on Spirit Beast Star killed a herd of pig-type Star Beasts with Mental Power, then subdued and struck their lead pig with a brick.

Wang Teng collected Milky Aroma Pigs on Spirit Beast Star, while Zhu Liersi killed a contestant and alarmed the Exchange Meet’s elders. On Mine Star, Wang Teng defeated an Ore Seeker, gathered his attributes, and used his magnetic talents to pull an enormous mineral vein from underground.

• Wang Teng subdued the lead Milky Aroma Pig, collected several living and dead pigs, and shared locations with Yu Xiangxiang.
• Dan Yuan found more than seventy kinds of spiritual herbs on Medicine Garden Star in three days, while the black-robed Zhu Liersi beheaded an apothecary; Elder Dan Chen and the other elders ordered him watched.
• Le Yan agreed to cooperate with Lan Yu after Le Ping described his strength, while spectators noticed Wang Teng had found more than a hundred spiritual herbs and eighteen types of minerals.
• Wang Teng recognized a giant-python-shaped mineral vein on Mine Star and pretended to be a forger when an Ore Seeker arrived.
• The Ore Seeker attacked Wang Teng, who caught his axe light, beat him unconscious with the Thunderclap Brick, and collected his attributes.
• Wang Teng activated his Primordial Magnetic Heart and Primordial Magnetic Domain, tearing the mountain range apart and drawing its enormous mineral vein from the ground.

Wang Teng used the Dragon Seeking Vein Method to pull a Yellow Cloud Stone Mine from Mine Star, then collected domain insights and continued raising his sub-profession skills while searching Medicine Garden Star. After ambushing several competitors for their attribute bubbles, he found a glowing Light Source spiritual item in a cavern, with a Star Beast nearby.

• Wang Teng extracted and compressed an entire Yellow Cloud Stone Mine, impressing the spectators with the Dragon Seeking Vein Method.
• Wang Teng collected Earth Domain and Primordial Magnetic Domain attribute bubbles from the ruined mountain range, advancing his Primordial Magnetic Domain to the fifth level.
• Over several days, Wang Teng and his two clones searched the three planets and raised his blacksmithing, ore-seeking, poison-master, and physician attainments.
• Wang Teng traveled to Medicine Garden Star to search for Cloud Immortal Nectar and ambushed several Sub-Profession geniuses to collect Poison Art, Medical Art, and Alchemy insights.
• Wang Teng used Shadow Force to enter a deep cavern, where he spotted a Light Source spiritual item guarded by a Star Beast.

Wang Teng found the Cloud Immortal Nectar guarded by a Dawnlight Slug, a powerful Starry Sky Beast, and used his Azure Jade Glazed Flame to drive it away long enough to take the treasure. As the slug pursued him, Wang Teng trapped it with the Illusion Heart Art and struck it with the Void Extinction Divine Sword Art, Second Form, Shattering Void, leaving its body exploded.

• Wang Teng identified the guardian as a Dawnlight Slug and realized its water talent made it vulnerable to scorching flames.
• Wang Teng heated the cave with the Azure Jade Glazed Flame, forcing the Dawnlight Slug out of its nest, then removed the Cloud Immortal Nectar and its stone platform.
• The Dawnlight Slug discovered the theft, chased Wang Teng, and attacked him with volleys of light while he fled using the Holy Light Wings and Space Blink.
• Wang Teng activated several physiques and used the Illusion Heart Art to immobilize the Dawnlight Slug.
• Wang Teng unleashed the Void Extinction Divine Sword Art, Second Form, Shattering Void, and his sword strike caused the Dawnlight Slug's body to explode.

Wang Teng collected the Dawnlight Slug’s attribute bubbles and learned its Split talent and battle techniques, but the Starry Sky Beast trapped him inside its body. He used Holy Light Fire to force it to negotiate, agreed to lend it the flame in exchange for spiritual herbs, and was left facing an approaching figure as the slug shrank onto his shoulder.

• Wang Teng gathered the Dawnlight Slug’s attribute bubbles while fleeing, gaining Light attributes, the Split talent, Fleeing Light, and Dawnlight Stream Arrow.
• The Dawnlight Slug regenerated, split into three bodies, pursued Wang Teng, and trapped him inside a vast enclosure.
• Wang Teng burned the slug’s viscous secretions with Holy Light Fire, prompting the Dawnlight Slug to speak and demand its Cloud Immortal Nectar back.
• Wang Teng learned the slug was a split body and agreed to lend it Holy Light Fire in exchange for its stored spiritual herbs, with both accepting a Soul Contract.
• The Dawnlight Slug sensed someone approaching, shrank onto Wang Teng’s shoulder, and told him to deal with the figure emerging from space.

Wang Teng reconciled with the Dawnlight Slug, avoided a confrontation with three Immortals, and gained several attributes from their encounter. After signing a Soul Contract, he followed the slug toward its hidden collection, where they discovered acquaintances ahead.

• Three Immortals from the Sub-Profession Alliance arrived, learned from Wang Teng that he and the Dawnlight Slug had reconciled, and departed without attacking it.
• Elder Dan Chen and the other Elders decided to let the Dawnlight Slug’s split body go, while observers across Medicine Garden Star reacted with surprise at Wang Teng’s survival.
• Wang Teng reviewed the attributes he had gained from the Dawnlight Slug, including improved light domains, Split, Fleeing Light, and Dawnlight Stream Arrow.
• Wang Teng and the Dawnlight Slug signed a Soul Contract, and the slug led him toward its hidden collection in the northeast.
• After flying into a chilly mountain range, Wang Teng sensed people ahead and realized they were acquaintances.

Wang Teng watched Le Yan and the Le Family fight a powerful black-robed swordsman, then intervened only after the attacker discovered his hiding place. The black-robed figure's robe resisted Wang Teng's True Sight Eye, and Wang Teng ended the chapter pretending he had no intention of helping Le Yan.

• Wang Teng and the Dawnlight Slug came upon the black-robed swordsman slaughtering Le Yan and the others, while the families watching outside feared for the Le and Lan geniuses.
• Le Yan organized the Le Family members into a formation, but the swordsman shattered it; Lan Yu then poisoned the area and fled, leaving the others behind.
• The black-robed swordsman remained unaffected by the poison and moved to kill Le Yan, who refused to forfeit despite her desperate situation.
• The swordsman sensed Wang Teng hiding nearby and cut down his hiding place, revealing him to Le Yan and the watching families.
• Wang Teng used the True Sight Eye but could not see through the black robe, then dodged the swordsman's attack and claimed he was only passing by.

Wang Teng collected attributes from Le Yan and the others, learned the Great Yan Python Array Disk and Lan Qiu Gu Poison, and defeated the Black Robe figure in battle. The opponent revealed himself as a Darkness Breed, and Wang Teng faced him as Le Yan withdrew.

• Wang Teng collected dropped Attribute Bubbles and mastered the Great Yan Python Array Disk and Lan Qiu Gu Poison.
• Wang Teng activated several physiques and overwhelmed the Black Robe figure with punches and a saber strike.
• The Black Robe figure unleashed Darkness Source Power, revealing himself as a Darkness Breed and alarming the Sub-Profession Alliance elders.
• Wang Teng explained that the figure had discovered him through the Dawnlight Slug's light aura, while Le Yan flew up to offer help and then retreated.
• The Black Robe figure transformed with strange black patterns and declared that he had sought powerful strength, while Wang Teng openly questioned his power.

Wang Teng fought Zhu Liersi after the Heavenly Wind Empire martial warrior was corrupted by Darkness Source Power and transformed into a monstrous creature. Wang Teng overpowered him with Light Source techniques and his own domain, leaving Zhu Liersi engulfed in a massive fireball.

• Zhu Liersi transformed under Darkness Corruption, revealing his resentment toward other geniuses and charging at Wang Teng.
• Wang Teng exchanged attacks with Zhu Liersi, then used the Holy Light Wings, his battle sword, and Light Fist to suppress him.
• Zhu Liersi unleashed a Darkness Domain, but Wang Teng detected his hidden attacks and expanded his own scarlet domain.
• Wang Teng formed a massive flaming sphere and drove it through Zhu Liersi's dark cyan tornado, collapsing the Darkness Domain.
• Wang Teng's fireball engulfed Zhu Liersi and crashed into the ground, blasting apart the surrounding mountains and forests.