Chapter Summaries

Emperor Lord revealed himself as a Tenth-Order Ultimate with five perfected genes, leaving the assembled experts stunned by the lifeform’s power. Di Qi challenged him and was instantly killed once, interrupting his breakthrough.

• Emperor Lord radiated a transcendent aura as five ultimate paths manifested within his body.
• The Great Octopus identified Emperor Lord as a descendant of a legendary Tenth-Order Ultimate and explained that Five Genes allowed him to freely adjust his bloodlines.
• The Great Octopus explained that Emperor Lord’s five elite genes made him an ultimate lifeform far beyond ordinary four-gene experts.
• Di Qi expressed admiration for Emperor Lord’s ability to adjust his genes, then attacked him at full strength.
• Emperor Lord struck Di Qi so hard that Di Qi’s body exploded and reassembled, interrupting his breakthrough.

Emperor Lord overwhelmed Di Qi with the power of five bloodline systems, interrupting his breakthrough and leaving him unable to fight back. Di Qi found joy in finally facing powerful opponents and began rapidly adapting his cultivation, but Emperor Lord continued to dominate as the Three Pillar Gods and Caroline watched.

• Emperor Lord interrupted Di Qi’s breakthrough and battered him with overwhelming force, stunning Caroline and the others.
• The Three Pillar Gods and Caroline analyzed Emperor Lord’s five bloodline systems and recognized him as the true hidden threat.
• Di Qi recalled his loneliness across the ages and celebrated finally finding worthy opponents, including Emperor Lord.
• Di Qi used the Alchemy Factory, Mount Akina Speed, to study Emperor Lord’s techniques and modify his Pangu True Body.
• Emperor Lord sent Di Qi flying again, while Caroline’s group observed his rapid growth and the Three Pillar Gods continued gathering energy for their Rank Nine breakthrough.

Di Qi transformed his Pangu True Body into an elemental form and broke through to a new life level, but the Reincarnation Governor still overwhelmed him. After watching Di Qi’s defeat, Caroline and the Three Pillar Gods decided to join the fight against the Emperor Lord.

• Caroline and the Three Pillar Gods chose to observe the battle and study the Emperor Lord’s techniques before acting.
• As his Pangu True Body shattered, Di Qi created an artificial elemental bloodline and formed a golden energy giant.
• Di Qi broke through to a new life form and charged the Reincarnation Governor, briefly fighting him on even terms.
• The Reincarnation Governor blasted Di Qi apart, leaving the players and the Three Pillar Gods stunned.
• Caroline and the Three Pillar Gods concluded that they could defeat the Emperor Lord by attacking together and prepared to make their move.

The Three Pillar Gods, Caroline, and Di Qi combined their powers into a single fused being, whose strength surpassed the Emperor Lord’s current aura. The Emperor Lord revealed that he had used less than one-third of his power and summoned an identical copy of himself.

• The Three Pillar Gods devised a combined technique, and Caroline called them to merge their nuclei with her Whole Clan Cells into a white porcelain body.
• Di Qi joined the fusion as its soul, with the Three Pillar Gods as its life core and Caroline as its vessel.
• The fused being’s power exceeded the Emperor Lord’s, alarming Great Octopus and the players.
• The players tried to fuse their All-Seeing Eye of Radiance with the Emperor Lord, but he casually slapped them away.
• The Emperor Lord said he had used less than one-third of his power, then brought an identical Emperor Lord out of the void.

Emperor Lord revealed that the figure who had fought the Three Pillar Gods was only one portion of his strength, then united his three bodies into his complete form. As You Mountain Governor’s hopes and old ambitions crumbled, Emperor Lord and his opponents prepared to decide the battle within ten moves.

• A second Emperor Lord appeared, and the players realized his earlier battlefield presence had been only a portion of his strength.
• You Mountain Governor recalled his ambitions to open the Immortal Gate and collapsed into despair over how futile his struggles seemed.
• Emperor Lord’s two bodies fused, prompting You Mountain Governor to plead with the Three Pillar Gods, Di Qi, and Sakura Great Emperor to defeat him.
• Emperor Lord summoned a third body and united all three, revealing that his complete form could overwhelm opponents at the same realm.
• The Three Pillar Gods, Di Qi, and Caroline prepared to fight as Emperor Lord and his fused opponents agreed to decide the battle within ten moves.

Emperor Lord defeated the Three Pillar Gods, Caroline, and Di Qi in a devastating clash, though the battle left him gravely injured. He departed for the Six Paths of Reincarnation, warning them to strengthen their foundations before advancing and revealing that his Elemental God Body’s extraordinary bloodline came from a terrifying enemy.

• Emperor Lord and the Three Pillar Gods, Caroline, and Di Qi unleashed their full powers in a universe-shattering battle.
• The Three Pillar Gods, Caroline, and Di Qi admitted defeat after Emperor Lord’s perfected physical foundation overcame them in a contest of strength.
• Caroline and Di Qi realized that their rushed Ninth-Order breakthroughs had left the cells in their World Countries poorly cultivated.
• Emperor Lord said he lacked the strength to kill them, transformed the Six Paths of Reincarnation into a wheel, and departed while warning them that breaking through in their current state would be fatal.
• Di Qi vowed to perfect his foundation and defeat Emperor Lord next time, and Emperor Lord warned that the Super Ancient Gods’ time was short and his Elemental God Body’s bloodline came from a terrifying opponent.

The players analyzed the Emperor Lord’s defeat of Di Qi, Caroline, and the Three Pillar Gods, concluding that he had deterred them from rushing into the ninth order and pushed them toward perfecting their foundations. Great Octopus listened in awe as the players speculated that the three might eventually aim for the Tenth-Order Ultimate.

• The Emperor Lord erased the spatial traces and departed, leaving Di Qi and the others unable to locate the Small Universe world.
• The players returned to the Asura Path and reasoned that the three defeated powers would avoid spending centuries pursuing revenge and instead focus on strengthening their cultivation foundations.
• Bai Xiaojun and the other players concluded that the Emperor Lord’s real aim had been to make the three delay their ninth-order breakthroughs and restrain one another.
• The players praised the Emperor Lord’s foresight and planned to document and analyze his combat methods and strategy in depth.
• The players discussed how Di Qi, Caroline, and the Three Pillar Gods might cultivate multiple systems, while Great Octopus wondered if their perfected foundations could lead them toward the Tenth-Order Ultimate.

Xu Zhi returned to the Underworld after his three avatars narrowly defeated Di Qi, Caroline, and the Three Pillar Gods, but Emperor Lord’s body and soul then perished. Xu Zhi created a new avatar and reflected on why he intervened, as the powerful beings prepared to pioneer the ninth-order realm and usher in a new age.

• Emperor Lord reassured Meng Po Shangguan Man and the others that his injuries were not serious, then sent them to maintain order on the Road to the Underworld.
• After everyone left, Emperor Lord’s exhausted body and soul vanished, leaving only his black dragon robe on the Emperor Seat.
• Xu Zhi formed a new flesh-and-blood avatar, restored himself, and considered how terrifying the three opponents’ strength had been.
• Xu Zhi explained that he intervened to prevent Di Qi from dominating the others, curb their rushed breakthroughs from damaging their foundations, and test his own power.
• Xu Zhi anticipated that Di Qi, Caroline, and the others would soon pioneer the incomplete ninth-order paths, bringing a new age of civilization.

After Xu Zhi became a High God, Di Qi, Caroline, and the Three Pillar Gods agreed to keep one another from advancing to the ninth rank and discussed how to improve their cultivation systems. Inspired by Earth Mother Azure Vine, they planned a five-person journey across their worlds to spread techniques and gene plug-ins, while Xu Zhi watched in disbelief.

• Di Qi, Caroline, and the Three Pillar Gods agreed to establish safeguards between their worlds so none of them could break through to the ninth rank alone.
• The three giants concluded that Xu Zhi’s five perfectly matched genes made him impossible to defeat within the same realm, and they discussed the flaws in their own genes and cultivation systems.
• Di Qi proposed creating cultivation techniques for their unique genes by mass-producing gene plug-ins and having living beings across their worlds develop them.
• Di Qi proposed sending five representatives from their worlds on a journey to exchange cultivation methods and spread gene plug-ins, with the Small Universe as their starting point and the Lava Land as their destination.
• The group named their plan the Journey to the Western Heavens for Scriptures, and Xu Zhi watched in disbelief as the giants began putting it together.

The forum’s livestream showed the Three Pillar Gods transforming into a colossal Buddha with the Aspect of All Living Beings and converting the Ultimate Lifeform. Viewers debated whether the Magic Core Lineage and the ancient lava era were tied to Buddhism, ending with some wondering if the Super Ancient God had been the Buddha of the Western Lava Pure Land.

• The forum viewers watched the Super Saimaren God and an Ultimate Lifeform fight the Three Pillar Gods, who appeared to be losing.
• The Three Pillar Gods unleashed Three Hundred Billion Sariras and transformed into a golden, three-headed Buddha, converting the Ultimate Lifeform.
• The livestream hosts identified the Buddha’s many living faces as the Aspect of All Living Beings and speculated that the Magic Core Lineage came from an ancient Buddhist tradition.
• Forum users argued over whether the ancient lava land had been a Buddhist Pure Land, citing the Three Pillar Gods’ conversion powers, sariras, and fatalistic worldview.
• The viewers were left wondering whether the Super Ancient God had been the Buddha of the ancient Western Lava Pure Land.

Players connected the Ancient Lava Land to the ancient Buddhist Pure Land and speculated about the Super Ancient God’s history and cultivation system. After witnessing the Emperor Lord overwhelm the Three Pillar Gods, Di Qi, and Caroline, Xu Zhi discovered that the players had planned a Journey to the Western Heavens for Scriptures based on their deductions.

• Players concluded that the Ancient Lava Land had once been the Buddhist Pure Land, and speculated that the Super Ancient God had led a radiation-based Buddhist lineage.
• Players watched the battle against the Dark Era and praised the players’ efforts to rescue lives across the universe.
• The Emperor Lord revealed his strength and defeated the Three Pillar Gods, Di Qi, and Caroline in a climactic battle.
• Players proposed sending Goku on a Journey to the Western Heavens for Scriptures, believing the Lava Great Domain was the Western Buddhist Pure Land.
• Xu Zhi read the forum posts and realized why Meng Mei had adopted the Journey to the Western Heavens for Scriptures strategy.

Xu Zhi watched the Seven Realms’ growing Alchemy Factory and the players’ plans while Caroline helped Earth Mother Azure Vine with her cultivation. Earth Mother then claimed Emperor Lord was preparing to conquer a distant world, leaving Caroline impressed and Xu Zhi silently baffled by the rumor.

• Xu Zhi reviewed the players’ mythological theories and watched Di Qi’s Alchemy Factory prepare a Mahayana Buddhism talent plugin for a Journey to the West campaign.
• Caroline showed Earth Mother Azure Vine her Ninth-Order Road cultivation technique, and Earth Mother celebrated that it might help her achieve cell fusion.
• Earth Mother assured Caroline that her opportunity was greater than Journey to the West and claimed Emperor Lord was preparing to conquer a superpowered world in the Six Paths of Reincarnation World.
• Earth Mother said the target was a massive flesh-and-blood octopus race related to Moon God Ji, and Caroline wondered whether it could help them understand their formidable elemental opponent.
• Caroline praised Emperor Lord for looking beyond their domain, while Xu Zhi realized he had never made such plans.

Meng Mei and the players planned to use their newly built spaceship to reach the Great Octopus’s kin before the Celestial Path and Human Path recovered from the war. The players began preparing their world-universe and rallied the Great Octopus to act quickly.

• Meng Mei recruited Caroline for the expedition, and Caroline said she could evade Di Qi and the Three Pillar Gods by severing her passage and leaving through a spatial tunnel.
• Meng Mei accepted the risk of Di Qi’s anger because any cultivation techniques or concepts she gained would eventually reach him.
• In the Animal Path, Bai Xiaojun and the players worked to improve the All-Seeing Eye of Radiance as their race’s future divine artifact.
• The players urged the Great Octopus to lead them to his kin in a distant star system while the other paths were still weakened by the war.

The Great Octopus and the players prepared to travel to find his kin, while Xu Zhi considered the possibility that they would encounter a true extraterrestrial civilization. Xu Zhi reclaimed a consciousness avatar, and news spread that Hermes was about to die.

• The Great Octopus welcomed the chance for his race to prosper and gave the players coordinates to find his kin.
• The players worked on their Eyeball World divine artifact and debated whether powerful beings could compress stars or galaxies.
• Xu Zhi watched their preparations and decided to observe their search for the Great Octopus’s kin.
• Xu Zhi reclaimed a consciousness avatar, and Hermes appeared in the Church of Light’s library.
• The next day, news spread through the Seven Realms Chongming Heavenly Court that Hermes was about to pass away.

Hermes, the ancient sage who guided civilization through many eras, departed as the Ninth-Order Road emerged. After the world mourned him, the Super Ancient God appeared at his grave and paid tribute to his old friend.

• Hermes told the gathered beings that the old era must end, then began to dissolve as the ancient giants of the Seven Realms Heavenly Court arrived.
• Hermes's disciples Hu Renong and Liu Wenjian remembered his guidance and knelt as he vanished; their worldly refinement of the heart carried them into the Ninth-Order Road.
• The world mourned Hermes, while powerful beings considered who would inherit the ancient authority and the new era's opportunities.
• A historian recorded Hermes's death and the world's grief during seven days of rites held by the Chongming Heavenly Court.
• The Super Ancient God appeared at Hermes's grave and said he had witnessed Hermes's final journey, astonishing Di Qi, Ermin, and the others.

At Hermes’s grave, the Super Ancient God reflected on the new era and told the assembled deities that its future rested with them. Meanwhile, Caroline and her companions prepared to explore the Great Octopus’s world as Xu Zhi planned to bring Medusa and the Crystal Wall System into the wider universe.

• Di Qi sensed that the Super Ancient God was unfathomable, paid respects at Hermes’s grave, and vowed to perfect his Four Genes before pursuing the Ninth Order.
• The Super Ancient God explained that the era’s civilization had matured beyond his guidance, praised its rapid development, and left the others contemplating the Ninth Order.
• Caroline secretly healed from her defeat and prepared to leave, while the Three Pillar Gods recognized the transition into a new era.
• Caroline led Ermin, the Alchemy Emperor, Meng Mei, and others on an expedition toward the Great Octopus’s world, which they expected to be an easy adventure.
• Xu Zhi recalled Hermes’s avatar and considered the expedition an opportunity to prepare for the Crystal Wall System and Medusa to encounter the wider universe and the Cthulhu Evil God.

Xu Zhi studied the Great Octopus coordinates and prepared to explore the nearby races, while Caroline and the players traveled to confront a weak member of the octopus race. The players began their planned attack with a sacrificial Heavenly Emperor, then sent Dyna to challenge the Rhino Horn Great Octopus.

• Xu Zhi examined the Great Octopus race’s scattered coordinates and drew a teleportation array inside the Glass Magic Bottle.
• Caroline and the players gathered at a distant coordinate, where the players planned to test their strength against a lone, weak Great Octopus.
• The Alchemy Emperor and Ermin began studying two Asura Path players while Caroline joined their research.
• A Seventh-Order Heavenly Emperor charged the Rhino Horn Great Octopus and was killed instantly.
• Dyna descended and demanded that the Rhino Horn Great Octopus pay for killing the Heavenly Emperor.

Caroline watched the cautious players repeatedly send Heavenly Emperor-level fighters to battle the Rhino Horn Great Octopus, while charging others to join the fights. After the octopus revealed himself as a hidden god and killed Ultraman Geed, another god, Ultraman Tiga, descended to confront him.

• Caroline and Meng Mei discussed how the players used staged challenges to probe the enemy without revealing their gods' strength.
• The Rhino Horn Great Octopus defeated a stream of players who descended to avenge their fallen kin, while the players queued to pay for a chance to fight.
• After killing dozens of opponents, the Rhino Horn Great Octopus pretended to be near defeat and revealed that he had been hiding inside the octopus body all along.
• The hidden god explained how he had exploited the players' sunk-cost mentality, killed Ultraman Geed, and decided to steal their genes and cultivation techniques.
• Ultraman Tiga arrived and confronted the white god over the deaths of his kin.

Caroline and the players captured Mickel, a Brainworm Race god, after thirteen Asura Path Gods of War defeated him. Mickel discovered the terrifying power within their eyeball-shaped spaceship, and the chapter ended with the Super Ancient God appearing before him.

• Caroline realized the players had concealed their strength, and thirteen Asura Path Gods of War surrounded and defeated the white creature god.
• The players asked the captured creature about the God of Creation and ancient cosmic wars, then brought him into the eyeball-shaped spaceship to study him.
• The creature identified himself as Mickel of the Brainworm Race and asked to descend into low-dimensional space-time.
• Caroline approached Mickel, whose psychic perspective revealed her to be a legendary flesh-and-blood overlord of the Myriad Realms.
• The Super Ancient God descended, and Caroline bowed as Mickel was overwhelmed by the sight.

The Super Ancient God explained that Caroline’s civilization had been accelerated through High-Dimensional Space-Time, making its inhabitants live and think far faster than ordinary beings. He gave Caroline the Blessing-Breaking Sword to regulate her speed of thought, then reminded her that the war against the enemy universe remained their priority.

• Caroline showed the Super Ancient God the brain worm’s city and observed that its inhabitants experienced time far more slowly than her civilization did.
• The Super Ancient God confirmed that Caroline’s people had gained their accelerated existence through a wish made with another Dao Attainer, leaving Caroline and the players to speculate about the mysterious being behind it.
• The Super Ancient God explained that accelerated beings had to reduce their dimension to communicate with low-dimensional civilizations.
• The Super Ancient God gave Caroline the Blessing-Breaking Sword, and she used it to lower her speed of thought to match ordinary Earth time.
• The Super Ancient God told Caroline to observe low-dimensional civilizations only casually and focus on the war against the enemy universe.