Chapter Summaries

Giant Axe Creator gave Shen Ye the Shield of Space-Time and refined a Prison Race Throne for him before Shen Ye traveled to Hong Alliance City. There, Shen Ye concealed his identity and gained access to Jade Treasure Hall’s second floor by proving he held more than 100 billion Primal Chaos Units in the bank.

• Giant Axe Creator explained the Shield of Space-Time’s three forms, gave it to Shen Ye, and warned him not to rely on it too heavily.
• Giant Axe Creator began refining the Prison Race Throne for Shen Ye.
• Shen Ye left Giant Axe's Miniature Universe and received a respectful welcome from the immortals aboard the spacecraft.
• Shen Ye entered Hong Alliance City, altered his appearance to avoid attention, and headed to Jade Treasure Hall.
• Shen Ye proved his bank deposits exceeded 100 billion Primal Chaos Units, gaining access to the second floor and drawing curious looks from Sealed King Immortals.

Shen Ye bought rare metals for his Machine Race puppets, then returned to Tianlan Star to visit his teacher Cang Lei before heading to the Outer Domain Battlefield. He revealed his immense strength and offered Cang Lei treasures to help him break through to Immortal.

• Shen Ye bought all the F-grade and G-grade metals Jade Treasure Hall offered, spending around 50 billion Primal Chaos Units and arranging delivery to Base No. 001 in the Third Battlefield.
• Shen Ye returned to the Augus Universe Nation and flew to Tianlan Star in an F9-grade Machine Race Spaceship.
• Cang Lei and his guests recognized Shen Ye’s expensive spaceship, and Shen Ye greeted Cang Lei as his teacher.
• Shen Ye told Cang Lei that the Virtual Universe Company required Realm Master Level members to undergo life-and-death trials, and that Teacher Giant Axe supported his trip to the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Shen Ye offered Cang Lei rare fruits and roots to help him break through to Immortal, but Cang Lei said he would accept only a Blaze God Fruit.

Shen Ye’s return prompted Crimson Flame Realm Lord to break through to Immortality, while leaders from the Virtual Universe Company and Giant Axe Martial Arena hurried to Tianlan Star to meet him. The visitors revealed that Shen Ye was the personal disciple of the Giant Axe Martial Arena’s founder, leaving Cang Lei stunned by his teacher’s identity.

• As Shen Ye’s visitors waited outside the palace, Crimson Flame Realm Lord broke through to Immortality, and several Realm Lords resolved to establish training grounds.
• Marquis Illusionary Desire, Marquis Blazing Arrow, and Marquis Fire Spirit arrived and waited outside rather than disturb Shen Ye.
• Cang Lei emerged as Crimson Flame Immortal, and the three Virtual Universe Company department heads invited him to become a martial department special consultant.
• The department heads praised Shen Ye, then Xue Fu, Furious Tide, and Thunderquake arrived from the Giant Axe Martial Arena and argued with them over their visit.
• Xue Fu declared that Shen Ye was the personal disciple of the Giant Axe Creator, revealing his teacher’s identity to the gathered crowd.
• Cang Lei realized Shen Ye’s teacher was the founder of the Giant Axe Martial Arena and trembled at the revelation.

Shen Ye killed two enslaved Marquis Immortals who attacked him, revealing strength comparable to a Sealed King before beginning his life-and-death tempering. After reports of the attacks sparked a purge and astonished Luo Feng and Rong Jun, Shen Ye took Hua Yue to the Third Battlefield of the Outer Domain Battlefield.

• Beiqi launched a surprise attack on Shen Ye, but the six Marquis Immortals killed him and realized an alien race had enslaved him.
• Marquis Nu Tao began to self-destruct, but Shen Ye stopped him with a sword strike that killed him and destroyed one of Tianlan Star’s satellites.
• The banquet ended early, and the factions reported the alien infiltration and Shen Ye’s strength, prompting a Great Purge across the Cosmic Nations.
• True Evolution King told Luo Feng that Shen Ye could kill a Marquis Immortal at the Realm Master Level and warned that the Outer Domain Battlefield would bring greater danger.
• Yuanchen Lord of the Nation told Rong Jun that Shen Ye already had Sealed King Immortal strength.
• Shen Ye descended on Augustus Star, took Hua Yue with him, and headed for the Third Battlefield of the Outer Domain Battlefield.

Shen Ye arrived at the Third Battlefield of the Outer Domain Battlefield, where his standing and combat strength stunned the warriors who escorted him. King Tianchen welcomed him and invited him to join his powerful squad.

• Chaotic Martial Marquis personally escorted Shen Ye through Hound Star and arranged an immediate departure to the Third Battlefield.
• Chaotic Martial Marquis classified the waiting Realm Masters by military rank and privately called Shen Ye a Realm Lord King.
• At Base No. 001, King Tianchen welcomed Shen Ye and revealed that he had killed a traitorous Sealed Marquis.
• Shen Ye joined King Tianchen and four other Sealed Kings for a gathering, where King Tianchen invited him to join their squad.

Shen Ye rejected King Tianchen’s offer to join his squad and announced that he planned to assault a Machine Race Military Camp in retaliation for the attack on him. After preparing for the operation, he set out toward the Blood Feast Main Continent and began hunting enemy Immortals, leaving the chapter with him considering whether to report himself to the demon race.

• Shen Ye declined King Tianchen’s invitation, explaining that his plans made staying with the squad too dangerous.
• Shen Ye said he intended to attack a Machine Race Military Camp, and the others stopped objecting after he said he would inform Teacher Giant Axe.
• King Tianchen showed Shen Ye the route through the Blood Feast Main Continent and warned him about its many unpredictable Sealed King Immortals.
• Shen Ye retrieved his stored precious metals, spent 2.4 billion points on three advanced Fire God Source Crystals, and set out with his Realm Master aura exposed.
• Shen Ye killed an alien Immortal Military Lord with his World Projection, then killed a demon race Immortal that had reported his presence.
• Shen Ye took the demon race Immortal’s communicator and wondered whether he should report himself.

Shen Ye intercepted a demon race communicator and answered a distress call from Carona, a Golden Horn Race Immortal whose army was under attack. He arrived on the battlefield and swiftly killed the Dark Flame Race Immortal, leaving the Golden Horn warriors in awe of humanity.

• Shen Ye read a demon race message on a hacked communicator and continued tracking a human Realm Master.
• Carona sent Shen Ye a distress call, explaining that a Dark Flame Race Immortal and his army had nearly overwhelmed the Golden Horn Race forces.
• Shen Ye flew to the battlefield, where Carona tried to rally his troops by promising human reinforcements.
• Shen Ye arrived in an F-class Machine Race spaceship, and both armies were surprised to see that he was a Realm Master.
• Shen Ye struck the Dark Flame Race Immortal with East Dawn's Chariot, annihilating his divine power and killing him.
• Carona and the Golden Horn warriors praised Shen Ye and humanity as they watched him from the battlefield.

Shen Ye reassured Carona and the Golden Horn warriors after defeating the Dark Flame Race immortal, then faced the Skywolf Race immortal who came to avenge him. Shen Ye overwhelmed the Skywolf and left it alive in his Inner World before departing to investigate its communicator.

• Shen Ye thanked Carona and gave him the Dark Flame Race immortal’s Spatial Ring as compensation for the fallen warriors.
• Carona warned Shen Ye that the Dark Flame Race immortal had summoned help, and a massive Skywolf appeared and identified Shen Ye as the Giant Axe Creator’s disciple.
• The Skywolf challenged Shen Ye and tried to hold him until reinforcements arrived, but Shen Ye’s attacks repeatedly put it to sleep and severely weakened its divine body.
• Shen Ye stopped the Skywolf from self-destructing, reduced its divine body below ten percent, and placed it in his Inner World instead of killing it.
• Carona marveled at Shen Ye’s strength and considered offering him or one of his friends a chance to study the Golden Horn Race’s Sacred Stele.
• Shen Ye said farewell to Carona and left to examine the Skywolf’s communicator.

Angus ordered the Demon Race Sealed Kings to intercept Shen Ye before he reached Machine Race Military Camp 021, hoping to enslave him. The Machine Race mobilized to capture the approaching human, while Shen Ye planned to make the Skywolf Race Immortal die at their hands.

• A Tentacle Race Immortal told Angus that Valo had failed to stop Shen Ye and was tracking him by scent toward Machine Race Military Camp 021.
• Angus ordered the Demon Race Sealed Kings to intercept Shen Ye and told Valo to keep marking his route.
• Carl informed the Machine Race Sealed Kings that Shen Ye was approaching their camp, and they deployed ten billion fighter craft to search for him.
• Disguised as a Machine Race member, Shen Ye noticed the search underway and planned to make the Machine Race kill Valo.

Shen Ye appeared before more than a hundred demon and Machine Race Sealed Kings, who mistook the situation for an Insectoid scheme. He trapped them with the Black Throne, detonated three Fire God Source Crystals, and ended his traversal just before the explosion, leaving the Insectoids to take the blame.

• A demon race squad learned that Valo had been killed by a Machine Race Sealed King and blockaded the entrance to Machine Race Military Camp No. 021.
• Carl concluded that the Insectoids had enslaved someone and framed the Machine Race, and both races accepted the theory when Shen Ye appeared nearby.
• Shen Ye attacked the camp with blazing flames, then used the Shield of Space-Time to withstand the Sealed Kings’ physical attacks.
• The Sealed Kings recognized the Shield of Space-Time as a supreme treasure and launched soul attacks, making Shen Ye appear to collapse.
• Shen Ye trapped the gathered Immortals with the Black Throne’s Space-Time Prison and activated three advanced Fire God Source Crystals.
• As the crystals exploded, Shen Ye ended his traversal, and the blast consumed everything within a million kilometers.

Shen Ye left City of Flowing Moon after bringing technology there and entered a Small Thousand World to pursue its dynastic fortune system. At Primordial Sacred Capital, he witnessed the gathering of powerful rulers and experts awaiting the Great Luo Celestial Dynasty’s emperor as he prepared to open heaven.

• Shen Ye showed Cang Ming and the clansmen how technology had revived City of Flowing Moon, then discussed Tong’s insights about Destiny and Holy Spirits.
• Shen Ye concluded that the Destiny Orb might substitute for heavenly numbers and decided to become the ruler of a celestial dynasty.
• Shen Ye arrived at the Small Thousand World and learned that the Great Luo Celestial Dynasty’s emperor planned to ascend together with the world by opening heaven.
• Zhong Shan and Di Xuan Sha surveyed the gathered experts, including Ying, Nie Fanchen, Xuan Yuan, and Divine Crow Daoist Monarch.
• Zhong Shan noticed a flawless-looking man standing beside the Great Xuan King.

Gu Shentong failed to complete the Creation of Heaven and Earth after destroying the Eye of the Heavens and exhausting himself against the Chaos Barrier. Shen Ye refined the Heaven-Opening Axe and the Eye of the Heavens, then declared that he would found the Great Han Dynasty on the Great Luo Celestial Dynasty’s ruins.

• Di Xuan Sha explained that Gu Shentong’s weakened resolve made his attempt at the Creation of Heaven and Earth unlikely to succeed.
• Gu Shentong summoned the Great Luo citizens’ strength and used the Heaven-Opening Axe to destroy the Eye of the Heavens.
• Gu Shentong struck at the Chaos Barrier for three days and three nights but fell just before breaking through it.
• Shen Ye seized the fading Heaven-Opening Axe and refined it into his body, advancing his Prison-Suppressing Divine Axe Body.
• Shen Ye summoned the wounded Eye of the Heavens, refined it into his Immortal Platform’s Eye of Heavenly Punishment, and declared the founding of the Great Han Dynasty.

After Gu Shentong’s death, Shen Ye offered the Great Luo Celestial Dynasty’s princes a choice, and the dynasty split as Gu Xuan submitted while the other three princes rejected him. Nu Qinghui then attacked Gu Xuan, but Shen Ye stopped her and revealed she carried a fragment of Gu Shentong’s consciousness, not the former emperor himself.

• Shen Ye declared he would not attack the four princes, but said he had no stake in whether the Great Luo Celestial Dynasty remained united.
• Gu Xuan pledged allegiance to Shen Ye, while Gu Zhengyi refused to surrender his father’s dynasty and Taizong King and Zhantian King vowed to defend it; Shen Ye gave them thirty years before a dynasty war.
• Nu Qinghui struck at Gu Xuan with heavenly lightning, but Shen Ye dispersed it and confronted her over her attack.
• Shen Ye deduced that Nu Qinghui carried a remnant thought of Gu Shentong, then explained that it was only a fragment of consciousness and that Gu Shentong was truly dead.

Shen Ye revealed that Gu Shentong’s remnant thought had been left to comfort Nu Qinghui, not to possess anyone, then fought Divine Crow Daoist Monarch to protect her. After Divine Crow Daoist Monarch carried Nu Qinghui away, he revealed that Shen Ye had defeated him and resolved to grow stronger.

• Shen Ye pulled Gu Shentong’s remnant thought from Nu Qinghui and explained that it held incomplete memories and had never been meant to revive Gu Shentong.
• Divine Crow Daoist Monarch demanded that Shen Ye release Nu Qinghui, and Shen Ye challenged him to withstand one sword strike.
• Shen Ye’s sword created a vast world that clashed with Divine Crow Daoist Monarch’s Immortal-Slaying Flying Knife, unleashing a spatial storm that the Three Great Celestial Dynasties’ experts barely contained.
• Shen Ye returned Nu Qinghui to Divine Crow Daoist Monarch, who left without declaring a winner.
• After flying away, Divine Crow Daoist Monarch spat blood and admitted to himself that Shen Ye had soundly defeated him, then resolved to become stronger.

After Gu Xuan submitted to Shen Ye, Shen Ye summoned the Great Xuan King's strategists and officers to announce his plan to proclaim himself emperor in a year and appoint Hua Yue as Minister of Agriculture. When Tang Tong challenged her appointment, Shen Ye arranged a mathematics contest, which Hua Yue won by solving a difficult square-root problem.

• Gu Zhengyi established the Great Yong Dynasty, Gu Taizong founded the Great Tang Dynasty, and Gu Zhantian established the Spring and Autumn Dynasty across the former Great Luo Celestial Dynasty.
• Fan Yipin and the other strategists debated whether Gu Xuan had truly submitted to Shen Ye and whether they should resign or resist.
• Shen Ye summoned the strategists and military officers, announced plans to proclaim himself emperor in one year, and said he would appoint chief administrators for finance, internal affairs, and the military.
• Shen Ye appointed Hua Yue as Minister of Agriculture, prompting Tang Tong to object that a woman should not hold such an important office.
• Shen Ye challenged Tang Tong to test Hua Yue's mathematical ability, and Hua Yue posed a difficult square-root problem.
• Tang Tong calculated the correct answer, sixty-three thousand and twenty-five bu, after a cup of tea.

Hua Yue proved her extraordinary arithmetic skill, and Shen Ye appointed Gu Xuan to command the First Legion. Shen Ye brought the generals into his Inner World to reveal the thirty-thousand-strong Peerless Elite Army, leaving the chosen commanders eager to lead it.

• Hua Yue instantly answered Tang Tong’s practical arithmetic questions, leaving Tang Tong defeated and the advisers impressed.
• Shen Ye secured the court’s obedience, appointed Fan Yipin Grand Minister, and named Gu Xuan commander of the First Legion.
• Gu Xuan selected ten generals to command units in the First Legion, while the other generals hoped to avoid the assignment.
• Shen Ye brought the advisers and generals into his Inner World and revealed that the First Legion had thirty thousand soldiers.
• Shen Ye ordered Jia Yi and Jia Er to fight, demonstrating the soldiers’ deadly discipline and unquestioning obedience.
• The ten chosen generals became eager to command the Peerless Elite Army, while the remaining generals envied them.

Shen Ye prepared to found his nation while keeping his strength concealed from Shenzhou’s hidden powerhouses. After dispatching Hua Yue to handle the tiger clan, he began preparing the Fangtian Imperial Seal and the Investiture of the Gods.

• Shen Ye stopped his generals from competing to lead armies and told them to study military strategy and other celestial dynasties.
• Shen Ye considered the threats posed by Ying, Nie Fanchen, Kong Xuan, and Son of Heavenly God, and chose not to reveal his full strength.
• Gu Xuan told Shen Ye that the tiger clan was negotiating with rival kingdoms and that its resentment made an alliance difficult.
• Shen Ye gave Hua Yue the Demon-Summoning Banner and ordered her group to visit the tiger clan.
• Shen Ye decided to refine the Fangtian Imperial Seal from a Holy Spirit Arm and use Human Dao Radiance to form the Investiture of the Gods.
• Shen Ye resolved to gather more Human Dao Radiance by uniting the people’s hearts without making them dependent on the ruler.

Gu Zhengyi and Gu Xuan’s factions gathered at the Tiger Race’s assembly, where they learned the Tiger Race was using the contract negotiations to extract benefits from every side. Shen Qitian offered the Ape Race as an alternative, and the assembly began with rival factions making their bids.

• Gu Zhengyi told Huan Tulong that the Tiger Race’s contract document had likely been lost and that the Tiger Race was exploiting the competing factions for benefits.
• Shen Qitian approached Gu Xuan and offered an Ape Race contract, admitting he also needed protection from the enemies pursuing him.
• Gu Xuan said he would consider Shen Qitian’s proposal after negotiations with the Tiger Race concluded.
• At the Tiger Tomb, Huan Tulong warned Gu Zhengyi that Demon Lord Qisha had joined Taizong King’s faction, but Gu Zhengyi trusted Elder Tian to handle the threat.
• A Tiger Race elder declared that the assembly would judge each faction’s sincerity, and Taizong King offered ten Emperor Essences and one billion High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhantian King offered ten Emperor Artifacts and ten Emperor Pills.

Hua Yue used the Demon-Summoning Banner and her overwhelming strength to force the Tiger Race to submit to Great Han. The Tiger Race received one year to find its lost contract document, or face extermination.

• Gu Zhengyi offered the Tiger Race a Heaven-Ascending Pill, while Hua Yue demanded that they join Great Han without offering them any other reward.
• When the Tiger Race elders threatened resistance, Hua Yue shook the Demon-Summoning Banner and forced hundreds of thousands of tiger demons to kneel.
• Demon Lord Qisha tried to seize the banner, but Hua Yue killed him with a single blow, revealing her peak Heaven Extreme Realm strength.
• The Tiger Race elders agreed to submit, then admitted their contract document had been missing for over a thousand years.
• Hua Yue gave the Tiger Race one year to recover the contract document, and Shen Qitian considered seeking the Ape Race's submission to Great Han.

Ying, Nie Fanchen, and the Longevity Realm’s patriarch assessed the Lord of Great Han and Hua Yue’s demon banner, while the patriarch planned to provoke war between Great Qin and Great Han before attacking Great Li. Above Great Han’s borders, Gu Xuan and Shen Qitian spotted a startling change in the territory below.

• Li Si reported to Ying that Hua Yue had subdued the Tiger Race and killed Underworld Heaven Seven Kill Demon Lord with a demon banner, and Ying suspected the Lord of Great Han had descended from the Great Thousand World.
• Nie Fanchen and his old eunuch discussed Hua Yue’s strength and the possibility that she and her master had descended from the Great Thousand World, while Nie Fanchen decided he was in no hurry to leave.
• The Longevity Realm’s patriarch said a Destiny Heavy Treasure could not heal his shattered fate and ordered Divine Crow Daoist Monarch to help Lu Guitian annex a Celestial Dynasty so he could combine destiny and merit into Fortune.
• Divine Crow Daoist Monarch proposed targeting Great Li but first provoking conflict between Great Qin and Great Han, and the patriarch approved the plan.
• Shen Qitian asked Gu Xuan about the Lord of Great Han, but Gu Xuan and Shen Qitian suddenly stared at the transformed territory beneath them.