Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye passed the twelfth level of the Heaven-Reaching Bridge using only the Law of Fire, stunning the venerables and his fellow geniuses. The chapter ended with Rong Jun explaining that the company’s higher-ups had not contacted Shen Ye because they could not understand his achievement.

• Shen Ye used the Origin Profundity of Fire to defeat the gatekeeper on the eleventh level and pass the twelfth, before being eliminated on the thirteenth.
• The venerables in Chaos City were baffled that Shen Ye had passed the eleventh and twelfth levels using only the pure Law of Fire.
• Boland, Rong Jun, Lanluos, Luo Feng, and the other geniuses reacted to Shen Ye’s feat and went to congratulate him.
• Shen Ye told his visitors that no venerable had sent him an invitation to become a personal disciple.
• Rong Jun explained that the higher-ups did not know how to guide Shen Ye because they could not understand his strength.

Chaos City Lord learned from Original Ancestor that Shen Ye had touched the Origin Profundity of Fire, a realm beyond laws that could give him extraordinary potential. Original Ancestor ordered Shen Ye placed under Giant Axe’s guidance so he could forge his own path, leaving Chaos City Lord to recall how Giant Axe had once done the same.

• Guīyī Venerable asked Chaos City Lord about the power Shen Ye had used, but Chaos City Lord sent him away without explaining.
• Chaos City Lord reported Shen Ye’s power to Original Ancestor, who identified it as the Origin Profundity of Fire and explained that it surpassed laws.
• Original Ancestor said Shen Ye might have a greater chance than Chaos City Lord of reaching True God and could one day traverse reincarnation.
• Chaos City Lord worried that Shen Ye’s ordinary Space-Time talent would make it difficult for him to become a Universe Master.
• Original Ancestor ordered Chaos City Lord to leave Shen Ye’s cultivation to Giant Axe and support him without planning his path.
• Chaos City Lord recalled how Giant Axe had rejected Original Ancestor’s planned path and eventually became a Cosmic Strongest, bearing humanity’s burden.

Chaos City Lord and Giant Axe Creator investigated Shen Ye’s extraordinary power and learned that his past could not be found in spacetime because he had touched the Universe Source. Giant Axe Creator invited Shen Ye to become his personal disciple, and Shen Ye accepted.

• Chaos City Lord and his teacher suspected Shen Ye’s breakthrough had caused the Cosmic Origin Consciousness disturbance, while Venerables across Chaos City struggled to explain Shen Ye’s battle recordings.
• Rong Jun gave Yuanchen Lord of the Nation recordings of his fifty one-sided defeats against Shen Ye and learned Giant Axe Creator had summoned Shen Ye.
• Chaos City Lord told Giant Axe Creator that Shen Ye was a rare Cosmic Level genius who needed a teacher who would not control his path.
• Giant Axe Creator discovered that Shen Ye left no trace in past spacetime, and Shen Ye explained that he had once merged with the Sea of Laws and touched the Universe Source.
• Giant Axe Creator praised Shen Ye for staying firm despite the Venerables’ doubts and offered to take him as his personal disciple; Shen Ye accepted.

Shen Ye revealed his two growth-type Innate Secret Techniques to Great Axe and Chaos City Lord, who helped strengthen his disguises and explored how his transformations could aid his growth and humanity. Great Axe offered him access to a Hong Alliance account, and Chaos City Lord began explaining the alliance and Shen Ye’s eligibility.

• Shen Ye explained that Myriad Transformations let him copy lifeforms below the immortal level and that Heart of the Universe drew divine energy from the Sea of Laws.
• Shen Ye demonstrated transformations into many races and lifeforms, and Great Axe planted an axe phantom in his soul to defend against attempts to enslave him.
• Chaos City Lord provided the remains of an eight-hundredfold Gene Level lifeform, and Shen Ye transformed into it and used its Innate Secret Technique.
• Great Axe and Chaos City Lord discussed using Shen Ye’s transformations to study powerful lifeforms, and Chaos City Lord offered him free access to the company’s biological remains.
• Great Axe gave Shen Ye a Hong Alliance account, and Chaos City Lord explained that the alliance admitted members with at least Sealed King Immortal combat strength, while Shen Ye could qualify through his teacher.

Giant Axe publicly made Shen Ye his direct disciple, giving him support, personal instruction, and one trillion Primal Chaos Units. As Shen Ye studied Machine Race technology and considered how to use his new wealth, he wondered whether he still needed to spend time taking missions after leaving Chaos City.

• Giant Axe told Shen Ye that other races could protest his special access to the Hong Alliance, then promised him funds, Thunder Island teleportation authority, and personal training.
• Giant Axe announced that he had taken Shen Ye as his direct disciple, stunning Venerables and fellow geniuses who had previously underestimated Shen Ye.
• Shen Ye returned to his building and researched Machine Race technology, focusing on mechanical puppets and intelligent lifeforms to support his plans and help Hua Yue.
• Shen Ye used his elevated authority to download top-secret technical information and received an account balance of one trillion Primal Chaos Units from Giant Axe.
• Shen Ye wondered whether he still needed to take missions and earn points after leaving Chaos City.

Shen Ye learned Giant Axe Creator’s Prison-Suppressing Divine Axe Body and demonstrated combat power close to the sixteenth level of the Heaven-Reaching Bridge. As his cohort left Chaos City, Nine Swords Venerable urged the other geniuses to work harder, while Shen Ye’s next training path remained undecided.

• Giant Axe Creator taught Shen Ye the three levels of the Prison-Suppressing Divine Axe Body, which could amplify bodily strength up to one hundredfold.
• Shen Ye revealed his Human Sovereign-like will to fight for humanity, satisfying Giant Axe Creator.
• After five years, Rong Jun passed the fourth Heaven-Reaching Bridge level, Luo Feng passed the fifth, and Boland passed the sixth.
• Shen Ye passed the Cosmic Level Original Sky-Reaching Mountain and nearly cleared the Domain Lord Level mountain, killing two guards at its summit.
• The other Primal Secret Realm members realized Shen Ye’s combat power was close to the sixteenth level and feared facing him in the qualification battles.
• Nine Swords Venerable addressed the 817 departing geniuses, criticizing their losses and urging them not to fall behind Shen Ye.

After Nine Swords Venerable predicted Shen Ye would become a Cosmic Venerable, Shen Ye arrived in the Primal Secret Realm and began planning his training. He purchased the Myriad Hearts Soul Control Secret Method, noticed its instructor Tipu, and entered the Illusion Sea for a trial.

• Nine Swords Venerable told the group they would be sent to four secret realms and hoped all five hundred would survive.
• Jess greeted Shen Ye in Wuchen Spacetime and escorted him to his protected territory in the Primal Secret Realm.
• Shen Ye used the Virtual Universe administrative interface to request a nutrient pod and review learning courses.
• Shen Ye bought the Myriad Hearts Soul Control Secret Method and noticed Tipu was scheduled to teach it.
• Shen Ye entered the Illusion Sea after deciding the Immortal Altar's reward was not worth pursuing.

Shen Ye cleared the Illusion Sea’s final island at the Cosmic Level, revealing willpower comparable to a Cosmic Venerable. Mountain Seated Guest learned that Shen Ye had already taken the Giant Axe Creator as his master and decided to observe him before considering what to do next.

• Shen Ye passed the first nine Illusion Sea islands and reflected on his unwavering confidence in his chosen path.
• Shen Ye cleared the eighteenth island, astonishing the administrator and the watching Venerables.
• Tipu wondered whether Shen Ye might be able to refine the Star Tower, but worried that he was already the Giant Axe Creator’s personal disciple.
• Shen Ye cleared the twenty-first island, and Undying Venerable reported that the Giant Axe Creator had replied, “I know.”
• Tipu told Mountain Seated Guest that Shen Ye had cleared the Illusion Sea, and Mountain Seated Guest recognized his potential in Origin Profundity.
• Mountain Seated Guest said humanity would not allow him to interfere with Shen Ye and instructed Tipu to observe Shen Ye’s character until he went to the Outer Domain Battlefield.

Shen Ye attended Tipu’s lecture on the Myriad Hearts Soul Control Secret Method and drew on his Buddha’s Palm conversion technique to enslave a Zerg Mother Nest. Afterward, he reached the ninth rank of the Cosmic Level and discovered that the deadly Purgatory Abyss mission was located in the Primal Secret Realm.

• Shen Ye listened as Tipu explained the five levels and three key principles of the Myriad Hearts Soul Control Secret Method, then sent the trainees into a simulated battlefield to practice enslavement.
• Shen Ye used a sword strike to knock out a Zerg Mother Nest’s Insectoid Empress and applied his insight into the conversion technique from “Only I Am Supreme” to enslave her.
• Tipu praised Shen Ye for succeeding at the Ten Heart Realm and offered to answer his questions, leaving the other Primal Secret Realm members frustrated that Shen Ye had won his attention.
• With help from the nutrient pod, Shen Ye raised his body to the ninth rank of the Cosmic Level and searched the Desperate Level Mission listings.
• Shen Ye learned that Purgatory Abyss, the deadliest Desperate Level Mission, lay in the Primal Secret Realm and originated from a human expert’s attempt to study the Prison Race.

Shen Ye accepted a Desperate Level Mission in Purgatory Abyss to earn a Three-Star Demon Medal, despite the danger of absorbing the violent Purgatory Will left by slain Prison Race members. After arriving, he disguised himself as a Darkwing and killed a stone man, discovering that the Purgatory Will resembled the Cosmic Origin Consciousness.

• Shen Ye learned that Prison Race members slaughtered one another to gain Purgatory Will, which strengthened their talents but could drive them mad.
• Shen Ye accepted the mission to obtain a Three-Star Demon Medal by winning one thousand bloody battles.
• Jess urged Shen Ye to reconsider the dangerous mission, but Shen Ye proceeded to Purgatory Abyss.
• Shen Ye arrived on the blood-red continent, took out his Machine Race Spaceship, and transformed into a Darkwing.
• A flaming stone man demanded the meteorite and threatened Shen Ye, so Shen Ye killed him with a sword strike.
• Shen Ye sensed the Purgatory Will in his soul, wondered if it was related to a former universe origin consciousness, and flew toward the main city.

Shen Ye entered the Purgatory Abyss’s main city, where he learned that Soul Stones and slaughter were tied to absorbing Purgatory Will. After surviving the Bloodbath Arena and winning ten fights in a row, he sensed the Will’s effect on his body but judged that its benefits were of limited use to him.

• Shen Ye reached the main city, escaped a deadly clash involving its guards, and learned that Soul Stones were purified souls used to strengthen the soul.
• After registering at the Bloodbath Arena, Shen Ye killed a staff member who attacked him for being an outsider from beyond the heavens.
• Shen Ye defeated a green-skinned beastman with one sword strike and went on to achieve a ten-man kill streak.
• That night, Shen Ye sensed Purgatory Will beginning to transform his cells and considered how it compared with Bloodfall Crystals.
• Shen Ye examined the Soul Stones he had collected and concluded that steadily cultivating the Eight-Nine Arcane Art made Purgatory Will’s modest Gene Level increases unnecessary for him.

At a celebration, Shen Ye warned his companions about the dangers of training missions and revealed he had entered the deadly Purgatory Abyss. In the Prison Clan world, he completed 999 arena kills before defeating a Domain Lord with his broadsword and willpower.

• Wuka hosted a feast to celebrate his apprenticeship, and Shen Ye's companions learned that the company had reported a death and that only 5% of them were expected to become immortal.
• Shen Ye urged the others not to lose confidence, explained that training missions concealed risky opportunities, and revealed that he had taken the Purgatory Abyss mission.
• After Shen Ye left the gathering, Luo Feng considered taking the same mission, but Rong Jun warned him that Shen Ye had cleared Illusion Sea.
• Following 100 days of continuous battles, Shen Ye reached 999 kills in the Prison Clan arena and drew a fanatical crowd.
• A fifth-level Domain Lord trapped Shen Ye with a strange power called prison, but Shen Ye disrupted his control with willpower and flattened him with his broadsword.

Shen Ye earned recognition as a true prison race member and learned that Abyssal City offered a chance to comprehend the power of prison. After arriving there, he chose to challenge a Demon Lord’s phantom to join the Heart of the Abyss.

• The host led Shen Ye to the City Lord, who awarded him a Demon Medal and recognized him as a true prison race member.
• The City Lord warned Shen Ye not to fly into the starry sky, claiming that the evil human race beyond the heavens killed those who ventured upward.
• The City Lord explained that the Demon Medal could teleport Shen Ye to Abyssal City, and Shen Ye used it to reach the city.
• Shen Ye registered at Abyssal City and learned from a handbook that the Heart of the Abyss let its members approach the Purgatory Origin Will and study the power of prison.
• Shen Ye learned that he could join the Heart of the Abyss through a hundred Bloodbath Arena victories or by challenging a Demon Lord’s same-level phantom, and he chose the phantom challenge.

Shen Ye passed Abel’s test and joined the Heart of the Abyss, then used a hidden incarnation to cultivate near the Purgatory Origin Will. After Jue finished his cultivation session, he heard that Ye had died and tried to claim his belongings.

• Shen Ye defeated Abel’s Divine Power Incarnation and was accepted into the Heart of the Abyss.
• Shen Ye found that cultivation sites were booked far ahead, so he spent two months fighting in the Bloodbath Arena to learn how to use Prison.
• Shen Ye arranged for Jue to take a cultivation chamber while he hid his true body as a speck of dust on Jue’s shoulder.
• Shen Ye cultivated near the Purgatory Origin Will and speculated about Prison’s origins and the Primordial Ancestor’s role in creating the Purgatory Abyss.
• Jue finished his session and was told that Ye had gone mad and burned himself to death; he asked to inherit Ye’s belongings, then dismissed him when told there were none.

After cultivating the first stage of Prison Force, Shen Ye infiltrated Cultivation Chamber No. 1 and stole the Black Throne from a minotaur demon. He escaped through the underground strata in his Machine Race Spaceship, but twenty-five Demon Lords pursued him.

• Shen Ye decided to risk entering Cultivation Chamber No. 1 after completing the first stage of Prison Force.
• Shen Ye slipped into the chamber and waited until the minotaur demon grew weary while resisting the Black Throne's will.
• Shen Ye rammed the minotaur demon with his Machine Race Spaceship, seized the Black Throne, and found he could not store it in his Spatial Ring.
• Shen Ye uprooted the throne, loaded it into the spaceship, merged with the vessel, and tore through the underground strata to escape.
• The Demon Lords discovered the theft and twenty-five of them chased Shen Ye, who worried they might use their combined divine power to trap his spaceship.

Shen Ye escaped a pursuit by Prison Race Immortals and was rescued by Star Prison Demon Lord, who revealed they were senior brothers. After learning the Black Throne’s origin from Giant Axe Creator, Shen Ye was told to keep it rather than return it.

• Prison Race Demon Lords pursued Shen Ye’s spaceship into the starry sky, where Star Prison Demon Lord appeared and destroyed them.
• Shen Ye thanked Star Prison Demon Lord, who asked him to call him Sixth Senior Brother.
• Shen Ye told Star Prison Demon Lord he had taken a Black Throne from the Prison Race, and his senior brother advised him not to tell other venerables about it.
• Shen Ye asked Giant Axe Creator about the throne, and Giant Axe Creator explained that it might be connected to the Prison King and could potentially become a Universe Master.
• Giant Axe Creator told Shen Ye to keep the throne because it had never taken form despite billions of years in human hands.

Shen Ye decided to leave cultivation missions behind and seek life-and-death tempering on the Outer Domain Battlefield, while Giant Axe Creator promised to refine the Prison Race Throne and prepare a protective treasure for him. After breaking through to the Domain Lord Level, Shen Ye bought powerful plant-life seedlings and abundant cultivation resources for City of Flowing Moon.

• Shen Ye told Giant Axe Creator he planned to break through to the Domain Lord Level and Realm Master Level before heading to the Outer Domain Battlefield, and Giant Axe Creator approved and offered to refine his throne.
• Shen Ye returned to the Primal Secret Realm and naturally broke through to the Domain Lord Level in three hours.
• Virtual Universe Company deacons verified Shen Ye’s breakthrough and offered him a post in the Augus Universe Nation, but he deferred the decision until reaching the ninth level of the Domain Lord Level.
• Shen Ye requested a nutrient pod with one hundred times the energy of a normal Domain Lord and said he would submit the application himself.
• Shen Ye purchased three Cloud-Climbing Vine seedlings and five Star-Devouring Grass seedlings, then bought Cosmic Crystals to bring to the clansmen of City of Flowing Moon.

After breaking through to the Domain Lord Level, Shen Ye cleared the Domain Lord Original Sky-Reaching Mountain trial in twenty seconds and began his breakthrough to World Lord. His Inner World rapidly expanded, and he fed it three World Stones to help it grow further.

• Wuka told Luo Feng and Rong Jun that Shen Ye had advanced because he found the cultivation missions insufficiently challenging.
• The insect race, demon race, and Machine Race mobilized spies after learning Shen Ye might be assigned to govern a region in Augus Universe Nation, but they received no confirmation of an overseas posting.
• Ten months later, Shen Ye bound and crushed all three gatekeepers on the Domain Lord Level Original Sky-Reaching Mountain, clearing the trial in twenty seconds.
• Shen Ye broke through to World Lord, and his Inner World expanded from ten million to fifty million kilometers in diameter as it absorbed Universe Source energy.
• Shen Ye added the three World Stones from the Shrouding the Heavens Universe to his Inner World to spur its growth.

Shen Ye expanded his Inner World with three World Stones, enslaved the weakened inner demon Li Ying, and broke through to World Master. His breakthrough stunned the Venerables on Thunder Island, especially Bosiwa, who had just criticized him as timid.

• Shen Ye used the three World Stones to expand his Inner World to a diameter of one hundred million kilometers and assessed his combat power as roughly Marquis-level under normal conditions.
• Shen Ye summoned Li Ying from the World Stone and enslaved him by mobilizing the power of his Inner World.
• Shen Ye ordered Li Ying to absorb Universe Source energy and recover.
• Venerables on Thunder Island praised Shen Ye for passing the Domain Lord Level Original Sky-Reaching Mountain after eight years of rapid growth.
• Bosiwa called Shen Ye timid for avoiding an external assignment, but the bald Venerable announced that Shen Ye had broken through to World Master.
• Bosiwa was mocked for his mistaken judgment and said he was going into seclusion.

After Shen Ye’s breakthrough to Realm Master thwarted the three pinnacle races’ trap, he discussed his new cultivation prospects with his friends and used his rewards to plan purchases and future forces. He remained in the Virtual Universe to cultivate, support people he cared about, and prepare to raise a Machine Race army.

• The Insectoid Empress abandoned her plan in the Augus Universe Nation and considered deploying twenty Sealed King Immortals if Shen Ye chose the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Shen Ye told Wuka, Rong Jun, Luo Feng, and Jiang Mo that he had advanced to Realm Master for more challenging trials and that his law comprehension now progressed as fast in one day as it had in a Domain Lord year.
• Shen Ye explained that further progress required travel, battles, and inspiration, and told Jiang Mo that he would not be leaving soon.
• Shen Ye received 3.1 billion Virtual Universe points for his earlier Sky-Reaching Mountain clearances and began selecting treasures to help a teacher and give Hua Yue.
• Shen Ye considered raising a Zerg army but, unable to find a dormant Realm Master Level Zerg Mother Nest, decided to cultivate Machine Race warriors in his Inner World instead.