Chapter Summaries

Cabensis and Munster clashed over the Universe Fruit Tree, while Munster forced the humans to gather its fruit. Denise died after attempting to pick a second fruit, and Munster ordered another human to continue.

• The Universe Fruit Tree drove Cabensis back with a storm of branches, leaving him badly wounded but alive.
• Munster arrived, mocked Cabensis, and agreed to fight the tree after Cabensis challenged him.
• Munster's infant head realized the humans were trying to manipulate them and ordered the humans to pick fruit instead.
• Denise picked one fruit safely, but the tree pierced her when she reached for a second.
• Munster ordered a young man from Denise's team to continue picking fruit.

Gu Ding rescued the remaining humans from the Two-Headed Demon Race after Cabensis took the final Cosmic Fruit and fled. He caught up with Cabensis and Munster, then killed Munster with three strikes of Finger Force.

• The first fruit pickers escaped unharmed, and Cabensis realized Munster intended for him to pick the final fruit.
• Cabensis took the last Cosmic Fruit and fled as Munster ordered the Two-Headed Demon Race to kill the remaining humans.
• Gu Ding appeared and killed more than twenty Two-Headed Demon Race members, then collected their Smart Watches and pursued Munster and Cabensis.
• Gu Ding caught up with Cabensis and blocked his path, revealing himself to Cabensis as Munster closed in.
• Gu Ding shattered Munster’s shields and pierced all three of his heads, killing him.

Gu Ding collected all nine Cosmic Fruits, raised his kill count to 3,367 in the Outer Domain, and returned to the Gate of Purgatory with a large reward of points. He entered the Cultivation Tower to absorb a Cosmic Fruit and attempt a breakthrough, then awoke from a vision of the universe’s life and death.

• Gu Ding gave Cabensis a Way of the Blade Intent Memory Crystal in exchange for the Cosmic Fruit, then waited near the Universe Fruit Tree and killed arriving Two-Headed Demon Race members.
• Gu Ding returned to the Gate of Purgatory with 3,367 kills and exchanged them for 14,367 points.
• Gu Ding accepted more than 130,000 arena challenges and ordered Sea Emperor to set future challenges to automatic acceptance.
• Gu Ding entered the Cultivation Tower, took out his Time Acceleration Cabin, and absorbed a Cosmic Fruit to attempt a breakthrough to a Two-Star Low-rank God.
• Gu Ding saw the universe’s stars, worlds, and cycles of creation and destruction before his consciousness returned to his body and Sea Emperor spoke to him.

Gu Ding awakened from a hundred-day enlightenment with greatly increased strength and rushed to the arena just before his match. He quickly defeated two challengers and received Andrew’s surrender, then called for the next opponent.

• Sea Emperor told Gu Ding that he had been unconscious for 100 days, and Gu Ding discovered that his cultivation had risen to Five-Star Low-rank God.
• A female Order Keeper rushed Gu Ding to Arena 1 just before his match began.
• Gu Ding defeated the bald middle-aged man with a move that left him unable to fight, winning his first match.
• Gu Ding rejected a young challenger’s proposed rules and pierced his chest with Black Radiance to win the second match.
• Andrew sensed the gap between them and immediately admitted defeat, and Gu Ding called for the next challenger.

Gu Ding earned thousands of points by winning matches and benefiting from challengers’ withdrawals, then visited the prison cafeteria and paid for a poisoned girl’s meal. Reint and his sister Aina joined him in a private room, where Sea Emperor warned that the Detoxification Shell might not counter the unusual poison.

• Andrew admitted he could not beat Gu Ding, and many of his followers withdrew rather than challenge him.
• Gu Ding won 323 consecutive matches in a day while 8,528 challengers withdrew, earning 9,951 points altogether.
• Sea Emperor explained the points exchange rate and the prison cafeteria’s prices as Gu Ding explored its nine floors.
• Gu Ding reserved a Seventh Layer table for Reint and his poisoned sister Aina after learning she needed a Detoxification Shell.
• Reint said Aina had been poisoned by a Two-Headed Demon Race member, and Sea Emperor cautioned that the antidote might not work against an unusual poison.

Gu Ding helped Reint save Aina from poisoning and learned that an escaped prisoner had left a treasure on the Eighth Level of the Gate of Purgatory. The rumor claimed that whoever found it could escape, giving Gu Ding a possible path to leave within three years.

• Reint explained that the Brave Family had framed him and Aina after they injured its young master, leading to their imprisonment.
• Gu Ding gave Reint two tubes of Ultimate Quality antidote, and one quickly restored Aina’s complexion.
• Aina woke up, learned she was on the seventh floor of the Prison Cafeteria, and excitedly asked Gu Ding for his autograph.
• Reint told Gu Ding that a senior prisoner had escaped and left a treasure on the Eighth Level that might allow its finder to leave the Gate of Purgatory.
• Gu Ding thanked Reint for the information and became eager to find the treasure.

Gu Ding reached 999 consecutive victories in the Gate of Purgatory and faced Angorde in his 1,000th match. Angorde’s overwhelming strength forced Gu Ding to activate his combat abilities, while the Order Keeper Leaders revealed that Angorde was a legendary powerhouse tied to the Lord of Purgatory and the man on the Eighteenth Level.

• Gu Ding won matches for two days, bringing his streak to 999 as more than one hundred thousand challengers forfeited.
• The system selected Angorde as Gu Ding’s opponent for his 1,000th match.
• Angorde recognized a resemblance between Gu Ding and a man from his memories, then urged Gu Ding to use his full strength.
• Gu Ding activated Berserk, Myriad Manifestations Emperor Body, and Asura World Extinction, but Angorde remained relaxed as their auras drove spectators from the arena.
• Belinda and the warden discovered they lacked authorization to access Angorde’s information.
• The Order Keeper Leaders revealed that Angorde had once wounded a Lord of Purgatory and pierced through all eighteen levels, then warned the warden not to investigate him or provoke him.

Gu Ding fought Angorde, who overwhelmed him despite having the same cultivation level, then revealed he was Gu Ding’s adopted older brother and shared what he knew about Gu Ding’s father. Gu Ding learned that his father had sent him several hundred epochs into the future to protect him, while his father’s identity and his mother’s remained unknown.

• Gu Ding opened his Miniature World to hide the fight, but Angorde resisted being drawn in before entering it willingly.
• Gu Ding summoned Demon Face and attacked Angorde, but Angorde effortlessly stopped its strongest blast and suppressed Gu Ding with his aura.
• Just as Gu Ding prepared one last strike, Angorde patted his head, healed him, and revealed that he was Big Brother Ango, adopted by Gu Ding’s biological father.
• Angorde said Gu Ding’s father had abandoned his family and accepted suppression for several hundred epochs after provoking a powerful force, so Gu Ding could survive.
• Angorde explained that an expert had sent Gu Ding several hundred epochs into the future to protect him, but refused to reveal his father’s name and said he knew nothing about Gu Ding’s mother.

After Angorde admitted defeat, Gu Ding learned more about the path to escaping the Gate of Purgatory and began studying Dao Patterns to forge stars for his Miniature World. The chapter left him cultivating in the Ninth Layer of the Cultivation Tower, preparing to engrave Dao Patterns onto source stones.

• Angorde conceded to Gu Ding, then left the Gate of Purgatory, while the warden halted the challenge matches to reconsider the rules after Gu Ding reached 1,000 consecutive victories.
• Sea Emperor tallied Gu Ding’s points at more than 368,000 and told him the Pirate Crew members were pursuing their separate assignments.
• Sea Emperor urged Gu Ding to focus on reaching the Eighth Layer and obtaining its treasure so he could escape within three years.
• Gu Ding asked Sea Emperor how to complete his Miniature World, and Sea Emperor explained that Dao Patterns could give rules to artificially forged stars.
• Gu Ding used automatic renewal to enter Room Three on the Cultivation Tower’s Ninth Layer and began studying the 10,800 Dao Patterns.

Gu Ding mastered 10,800 basic Dao patterns and their combinations, then used two Platinum Skeletons to forge a pair of powerful Star Embryos. He left the Cultivation Tower after spending over two days inside, unaware that new arena rules had angered the inmates.

• Gu Ding repeatedly entered enlightenment with Cosmic Fruits and mastered all 10,800 basic Dao patterns in over three hundred days.
• Sea Emperor guided Gu Ding through mastering two- to six-layer Dao pattern combinations, using all of Gu Ding's Cosmic Fruits.
• Gu Ding melted the two Platinum Skeletons in the Spirit Vein Hot Spring and inscribed Dao pattern combinations into the resulting metal.
• Gu Ding completed two thumb-sized Star Embryos, claimed them as his own, and stored them in his Miniature World.
• While Gu Ding cultivated, the warden changed the arena's streak bonuses and added interception matches, provoking boos from the inmates.
• Gu Ding left the Cultivation Tower after spending over two days inside, unaware that arena spectators had waited for him.

Gu Ding returned to the arena and defeated more than 13,000 challengers at once with the Demon Face’s terrifying attack, then learned he had already earned permission to advance to the Second Level. He left the arena before finding out how to reach the teleportation gate, and Sea Emperor again blamed him for not asking sooner.

• Gu Ding returned to the arena and invited all remaining challengers to face one attack together, with more than 13,000 stepping onto the stage.
• Gu Ding summoned the Demon Face, whose aura and Blood Sea vision overwhelmed every challenger on the arena.
• The referee declared Gu Ding the winner, and Victoria ruled that the challengers who stayed offstage had forfeited and must each give Gu Ding a point.
• Gu Ding asked Sea Emperor how to reach the Second Level and learned that he had already defeated its three gatekeepers and earned permission to advance.
• Sea Emperor explained that Gu Ding needed to ask an Order Keeper or referee for the teleportation gate, but Gu Ding had already left the arena.

Fa Te learned that Miko’s congenital blindness could not be treated, so Miko chose to stop seeing doctors and focus on training. Meanwhile, Dokter and Robert pursued a Bronze Prodigy Ranking fighter, and Scarlet threw Blue at a powerful creature in the Faku Ruins.

• A renowned doctor told Fa Te that Miko’s blindness came from an untreatable congenital genetic defect.
• Miko refused further treatment and urged Fa Te to begin training, so Fa Te agreed to take him into a Gates Family secret realm the next day.
• Dokter and Robert went to challenge Ba'er Ba Duo Luo, who fled through a hotel window when Dokter confronted him.
• Scarlet encountered a High-rank God Iron Arm Great Ape in the Faku Ruins and hurled Blue at it, jokingly calling him Pikachu before correcting himself.

Bigge, Hake, and Tagore bought fish at a marketplace, where Hake’s attempt to bargain nearly turned into a threat. Meanwhile, Liliath returned to the Harris Family base with Elsa, hypnotized its residents, and confronted Balin to learn where Medusa’s ruins were.

• Bigge bought Tagore a huge Black Scale Dragon Carp for thirty Origin Stones after bargaining with the stall owner.
• Bigge sent Hake to bargain for another fish, but Hake frightened the stall owner with his killing intent until Bigge paid thirty Origin Stones and pulled him away.
• Bigge explained to Hake that bargaining should not involve forcing or threatening a seller.
• Liliath and Elsa arrived at the Harris Family base, where Balin ordered the guards to kill the girl pretending to be Olivia.
• Liliath hypnotized everyone in the residence, confronted Balin, and asked him where Medusa’s ruins were.

Gu Ding arrived on the Second Level of the Gate of Purgatory and announced that he would accept challenges for eleven days before moving on. After learning that Barite, the level’s strongest prisoner, had agreed to spread the word, Gu Ding planned to spend ten days earning points at the Outer Domain Battlefield.

• Gu Ding descended to the Second Level after defeating three gatekeepers and qualifying to advance.
• Prisoners doubted Gu Ding’s strength, and Gu Ding welcomed the chance to earn points from challengers.
• Barite challenged Gu Ding, who asked him to announce that challengers should register within eleven days.
• Barite agreed to spread the word because Gu Ding had thanked him, then showed off his physique to his underlings.
• Sea Emperor told Gu Ding that Barite was a powerful Mei Race fighter and the strongest person on the Second Level.
• Gu Ding decided to spend ten days earning points at the Outer Domain Battlefield before facing the challenges.

Gu Ding entered the Second Level of the Gate of Purgatory and began hunting Alien Races in its Outer Domain Battlefield. Meanwhile, Barite arranged to make himself Gu Ding’s first arena challenger, leaving their eventual match looming.

• Gu Ding registered for an arena challenge eleven days later and entered the Second Level’s Outer Domain Battlefield despite the Silver Armor Order Keeper warning him about its dangers.
• Sea Emperor explained the Carter Tribe and Orc Clan’s abilities and weaknesses, then directed Gu Ding toward a squad of sixteen Carter Tribe members.
• Gu Ding raced toward the Carter Tribe squad, confident he could kill his enemies with overwhelming attacks.
• News spread that Gu Ding had entered the Second Level, and residents discussed his strength compared with Barite’s.
• Barite warned everyone not to challenge Gu Ding, ensuring he would be selected as Gu Ding’s sole challenger, while Bruce praised the plan and Kevin recognized Bruce’s role in devising it.

Gu Ding discovered that Barite had prevented other prisoners on the Second Level from registering to challenge him, ensuring Barite would fight him first. Gu Ding planned to defeat Barite and then continue to the Third Level, while hinting that he would reclaim the lost winning-streak points from Barite.

• Gu Ding returned from the Outer Domain Battlefield with 6,117 kills and found that Barite was the only registered challenger.
• Sea Emperor determined that human interference had prevented other prisoners from registering to challenge Gu Ding.
• Gu Ding learned from the prisoners' discussion that Barite had forbidden others from registering so the system would select him first.
• Gu Ding decided to defeat Barite and then go directly to the Third Level instead of waiting for more challenges.
• Gu Ding smiled and implied that he would get his lost winning-streak points back from Barite.

Gu Ding arrived at the Second Level arena and used Barite’s bravado to secure a wager battle for 470,000 of his points against Barite’s one million points and a hundred years of servitude. After Barite offered Gu Ding three free moves, Gu Ding summoned a silver crystal bead formed from a star.

• Gu Ding’s immense pressure cleared a path through the crowd as he entered the arena, impressing the spectators and catching Victoria’s attention.
• The system selected Barite as Gu Ding’s challenger, and Barite arrived just before the challenge time expired.
• Gu Ding suggested raising the stakes, and Barite wagered one million points and demanded Gu Ding serve him for a hundred years if Gu Ding lost.
• Gu Ding and Barite signed a wager battle contract before the referee, who agreed to enforce its terms.
• Barite offered Gu Ding three moves, and Gu Ding accepted before summoning a silver crystal bead from a spatial crack in his palm.

Gu Ding defeated Barite in one strike using a World Star, shocking the spectators and Order Keepers. After securing the victory, he challenged the three gatekeepers to move on from the Second Level.

• Gu Ding revealed a World Star, and Victoria and the Order Keeper Leaders wondered how he had obtained it.
• Barite abandoned his promise to let Gu Ding attack three times and brought out his Mystic Heaven Heavy Halberd.
• Gu Ding sent the World Star through Barite’s attack, then pierced his shoulder and defeated him.
• Kevin and the others treated Barite, while Gu Ding advised them that his constitution required three-star medicine.
• The referee declared Gu Ding the winner, and Gu Ding challenged the three gatekeepers.

After Gu Ding defeated Barite, he encouraged him to keep growing stronger to protect those he cared about. Barite formed the Guardian Pirate Crew with his companions, and the chapter ended with him visiting Gu Ding.

• Gu Ding defeated Barite in one move, and the other two gatekeepers forfeited their challenges.
• Gu Ding told the dejected Barite that strength mattered because it helped protect dreams, companions, and family.
• Gu Ding declined to recruit Barite because he already had companions, then went back to sleep instead of collecting his wager points.
• After hearing Gu Ding’s words, Barite gathered his twenty-eight subordinates and announced he would leave the Second Level to train on higher levels.
• Kevin suggested forming a Pirate Crew, and Barite and his companions founded the Guardian Pirate Crew.
• Gu Ding heard about the new crew after waking the next day, and Barite soon came to visit him.

Barite paid Gu Ding the million-point bet and explained how his imprisonment and revenge against Fan Paier had left him feeling hopeless. Gu Ding’s confidence in escaping the Gate of Purgatory renewed Barite’s resolve to keep growing stronger, and Gu Ding affirmed that he would escape to keep his promise to his companions.

• Barite visited Gu Ding and transferred him one million points to settle their bet.
• Barite told Gu Ding he planned to leave the Second Level for the Third Level and explained that he no longer wanted to hold back his friends’ growth.
• Barite recounted how Fan Paier had slaughtered his Mei Race branch, killed his rescuer, and eventually had him imprisoned in the Gate of Purgatory.
• Barite said Gu Ding’s words had inspired him to keep training and pursue revenge against Fan Paier, even if it took the full three million years of his sentence.
• Barite said he believed Gu Ding could escape the Gate of Purgatory, and Gu Ding vowed that he would do so for his companions.