Chapter Summaries

Gu Ce fought Lord of the Chi Dragon, whose secret method and powerful treasures could not overcome Gu Ce’s ninth-rank might. As Ghost Soul Matter consumed Lord of the Chi Dragon, he revealed that he came from a hidden Holy Land Universe in Liuchong Mountain, leaving Gu Ce to plan how to confront the Third Holy Land Universe.

• Lord of the Chi Dragon used his Divine Power Burning Secret Method and Water Flame to attack Gu Ce, who answered with ninth-rank might and resisted the assault.
• Gu Ce tried to enslave Lord of the Chi Dragon with Command, but his Soul Supreme Treasure and strong will blocked the attempt.
• Ghost Soul Matter began consuming Lord of the Chi Dragon, who revealed that his father had created a hidden Holy Land Universe in Liuchong Mountain and was plotting to seize the Original Universe.
• Lord of the Chi Dragon lost consciousness and became a walking corpse, so Gu Ce killed him and took eight True God-level treasures and a Void True God-level suit of armor.
• Gu Ce considered how to deal with the Third Holy Land Universe and resolved not to let it profit without resisting the World Beast calamity.

Gu Ce examined Jade Palace and learned from its spirit that Cixin Buddha had impersonated Shanlin Buddha and tried to ensnare him. After dismissing his avatar and collecting the palace, Gu Ce left the Origin Continent threat unresolved but trusted Senior Su to handle it.

• Gu Ce returned to the Human Race with treasures from the Universe Boat, giving its Universe Masters enough Supreme Treasures to equip them.
• Luo Feng abandoned his efforts to capture Purple Moon Holy Land's Universe Masters after Purple Moon Ancestor ordered them to retreat and refused to hand over the final wing components.
• Gu Ce summoned Jade Palace's spirit and asked why it had opposed Shanlin Buddha and tried to stop him from claiming the palace.
• Jade Palace's spirit revealed that Cixin Buddha had murdered Shanlin Buddha, stolen the Proselytization Palace, and impersonated him to lure Gu Ce into a trap.
• The spirit explained that Cixin Buddha had placed a restriction on the palace that would leave Gu Ce helpless before his disciples on the Origin Continent.
• Gu Ce dismissed his Energy Avatar and collected Jade Palace, trusting Senior Su to resolve the restriction.

After nearly eight million years of exploration and cultivation, Gu Ce learned that the colossal figure approaching the Universe Sea was a God King's corpse, the arriving Jin World. The Hong Alliance gathered to witness its passage, where Gu Ce recognized Sitting Mountain Guest among the observers.

• Gu Ce left the Jade Palace and spent nearly eight million years exploring the Universe Sea, cultivating, and searching unsuccessfully for the Divine Eye Race's remaining True Lords and other enemies.
• The Human Race grew stronger as more Universe Masters emerged and the Hong Alliance became the Universe Sea's dominant faction.
• Luo Feng told Gu Ce about a colossal humanoid flying toward the Universe Boat, and Gu Ce identified it as a God King's corpse carrying the Jin World.
• Gu Ce explained that the corpse's internal universe could let True Gods unleash their full strength, then traveled with Luo Feng to meet the Hong Alliance expedition.
• The Hong Alliance forces watched the corpse streak past, and Gu Ce recognized Luo Feng's teacher, Sitting Mountain Guest, among the gathered onlookers.

Gu Ce, Luo Feng, and the Universe Sea’s experts redirected the Jin God King’s colossal corpse toward the Universe Boat, then watched as it crashed into the damaged vessel. The collision unleashed immense shockwaves and sent the experts’ Palace Supreme Treasures flying, leaving the Universe Boat’s condition uncertain.

• Gu Ce and Luo Feng joined thousands of Universe Sea experts in repeatedly attacking the corpse to change its course toward the Universe Boat.
• After more than 3,200 years, the experts confirmed that they had redirected the corpse by roughly fifteen degrees and waited near the Universe Boat.
• Gu Ce worried that the collision would damage his Universe Boat, while Luo Feng believed its still-functioning mechanisms would help it withstand the impact.
• The corpse finally struck the Universe Boat headfirst, crushing its surrounding flames, lightning, and debris as spacetime shattered around the collision.
• The resulting shockwaves spread across the Universe Sea and sent the distant experts’ Palace Supreme Treasures flying.

The Universe Boat halted the speeding humanoid corpse, allowing the Universe Sea’s forces to approach and find an entrance at its head. The Ancestral Gods revealed that the Natural Wormhole inside led to Jin World, the only place within the corpse where visitors could survive.

• The humanoid creature struck the Universe Boat twice, losing most of its speed as the vessel stabilized itself.
• Luo Feng landed the Tomb Ship on the corpse, and Gu Ce directed the Hong Alliance toward the creature’s head while ordering them to wait.
• Luo Feng’s Demon Killer Clan avatar and other scouts discovered a Natural Wormhole leading to a hidden space and a Miniature Universe whose membrane annihilated anyone who touched it.
• The Three Great Ancestral Gods gathered the Universe Sea’s forces and announced that the Miniature Universe inside the corpse was Jin World.

The Ancestral Gods explained that Jin World was a dangerous new forbidden zone that held the secret to transcending reincarnation, and the Universe Sea’s powerful beings waited for its membrane to weaken. After 2,330 years, Gu Ce and Luo Feng entered separately, and Gu Ce felt his power free of suppression as he arrived.

• The Ancestral Gods announced that Jin World would emerge, explained how to enter when its membrane turned white, and warned that it held living beings and the secret to transcending reincarnation.
• Chaos City Lord worried about Gu Ce and Luo Feng entering, but they persuaded him to let them explore Jin World.
• After 2,330 years, Jin World's membrane turned white, and more than two hundred powerful beings entered through it in their Palace Supreme Treasures.
• Gu Ce entered Jin World alone aboard the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle instead of joining Luo Feng.
• Gu Ce sensed Jin World's extraordinary aura and felt his divine power could act without suppression.

Gu Ce entered the Jin World, killed a giant serpent exotic beast, and joined Di Hu on the way to enlist in the Eastern Army. Meanwhile, Chaos City Lord warned the Human Race’s Universe Masters about the Jin World’s deadly army trials and urged them to proceed cautiously.

• Gu Ce explored the Jin World and found Di Hu battling a giant serpent exotic beast.
• Gu Ce killed the serpent with a single sword strike, then told Di Hu he planned to join the army.
• Gu Ce introduced himself as Cang Wu and agreed to travel with Di Hu to the Eastern Army.
• Chaos City Lord told the Human Race’s Universe Masters that many entrants had died in the Jin World and that army trials had an even higher death rate.
• Chaos City Lord advised the Human Race to observe the Jin World for now and allow only those with avatars to take the risk of entering.

Gu Ce and Di Hu reached the Eastern Army camp after a six-month journey, during which Di Hu reaffirmed his determination to join despite his father’s objections. After waiting in the enlistment queue, they were called with a batch of three thousand recruits to enter the brutal selection process.

• Gu Ce learned that Di Hu had secretly left his tribe against his father’s wishes to join the army and fight for the God King.
• Gu Ce and Di Hu traveled for six months toward the Eastern Army, witnessing battles between powerful warriors along the way.
• Di Hu explained the Eastern Army’s history and showed Gu Ce the camp’s enormous Jin Luo Heaven and Earth fortresses.
• Gu Ce and Di Hu arrived at the Eastern Army camp and joined the long queue for enlistment tests.
• After waiting about a month, Gu Ce and Di Hu were called with three thousand recruits to enter the selection process.

Gu Ce dominated the military selection and earned a place in the Azure Dragon Army, then arrived at its camp as a new recruit. There, Team Seven of First Battalion gathered to assess him.

• The one-horned Void True God split the candidates into two camps and ordered them to fight until he called a halt.
• Gu Ce slaughtered the opposing camp with his swordsmanship and movement technique, drawing the Void True God's attention while Di Hu survived.
• The Void True God stopped the battle and selected Gu Ce for the Azure Dragon Army, while the remaining survivors proceeded to the next selection round.
• A True God escorted Gu Ce to the military equipment station, where he received True God Grade Azure Dragon Armor and put it on over his Chaos Golden Armor.
• Gu Ce arrived at the Azure Dragon Army's basin and was assigned to Team Seven of First Battalion, whose members asked his name and skills.

Gu Ce settled into the Azure Dragon Army and learned its basic inheritances, which he found far inferior to what he already knew. The Original Universe Will warned him through the Two-Faced Ancestral God that an extraordinary calamity was coming, and Gu Ce reassured Great Axe Founder that he would handle it.

• Lin Shuang introduced Gu Ce to Team Seven and assigned Fana to show him around the Azure Dragon Army camp.
• Fana explained the army's mission schedule and helped Gu Ce claim a residence and find the inheritance tree.
• Gu Ce absorbed the Azure Dragon Army's basic inheritances, mastering several secret techniques while judging them inferior to his existing knowledge.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God told Gu Ce that the Original Universe Will considered him the most advanced among the first wave of Universe Sea arrivals and hoped he would resolve the coming calamity.
• Great Axe Founder asked Gu Ce about the warning, and Gu Ce reassured him before turning the conversation back to Jin World.

Gu Ce and Team Seven received an ordinary mission to earn military merit in Xuan Yu Mountain, a dangerous tribal stronghold. At the mountain range, they found its unguarded outskirts and discovered Xuan Yu Mountain warriors fighting exotic beasts from Nine Smoke Marsh.

• Gu Ce joined Fana and the other recruits at the Azure Dragon Army’s mission gathering, where Captain Lin Shuang warned them to stay behind the veterans.
• Team Seven received orders to earn 100 military merit in Xuan Yu Mountain, and Fana revealed that her father was one of its four Void True Gods.
• Lin Shuang led the team out of the camp, and they traveled for twelve days aboard a True God-level warship.
• Fana noticed that Xuan Yu Mountain’s perimeter had no guards, and Lin Shuang led the team toward nearby signs of trouble.
• Team Seven found Xuan Yu Mountain tribal warriors battling Law Master exotic beasts from Nine Smoke Marsh.

Team Seven took advantage of the war between Xuan Yu Mountain and Nine Smoke Marsh, disguising themselves as exotic beasts and joining the battle to kill Xuan Yu Mountain’s warriors for military merit. The Azure Dragon Army squad helped the exotic beasts win a decisive victory and slaughtered the tribal warriors.

• Lin Shuang decided Team Seven should wait for the two sides to weaken each other, then support the Nine Smoke Marsh beasts and kill Xuan Yu Mountain’s warriors.
• Team Seven disguised themselves as exotic beasts and ambushed five tribal warriors who approached a ravine.
• The tribal warriors mistook Team Seven for Nine Smoke Marsh reinforcements, and both sides intensified their fighting.
• Lin Shuang led Team Seven into battle, where the squad’s skill, weapons, and armor let them overwhelm the tribal warriors.
• The Nine Smoke Marsh beasts won a resounding victory while believing the Azure Dragon Army soldiers were unusually strong allies.

Team Seven earned military merits while fighting in Xuan Yu Mountain, and Gu Ce’s disguise helped them avoid a clash with a beast squad. Meanwhile, Xuan Yu Mountain’s leaders planned a war against Nine Smoke Marsh, and Team Seven noticed the mountain had grown strangely quiet.

• Lin Shuang told Gu Ce to claim that Team Seven came from Lu Qing Mountain, and the beast leader Shaya respectfully offered them assistance before they parted ways.
• Lin Shuang praised Gu Ce’s deadly swordsmanship, and Team Seven continued searching for skirmishes to earn military merits.
• Xuan Yu Mountain’s four Void True Gods decided to attack Nine Smoke Marsh in one year and ordered Ji Feng and Fa Shi to drive out its beasts in the meantime.
• Team Seven encountered only a few small battles and saw no Xuan Yu Mountain warriors for seven days, prompting Gu Ce and Fana to wonder what had happened.
• Gu Ce sensed movement nearby.

Gu Ce and Team Seven joined Shaya’s army of exotic beasts as it marched into Xuan Yu Mountain, unaware that the tribes were organizing a massive counterattack. In the Virtual Universe, Gu Ce advised humanity to focus on obtaining Jin World’s mechanical treasures, while the chapter left Team Seven heading toward the mountain’s inner region.

• Gu Ce stopped Shaya’s herd of more than three hundred exotic beasts and learned they planned to attack Xuan Yu Mountain’s inner region.
• After consulting Lin Shuang, Gu Ce agreed that Team Seven would join the herd, despite Fana’s concern that the tribes might be preparing a major move.
• The Extreme Wind Clan Leader announced a counterattack against Nine Smoke Marsh and selected fifty True Gods to lead forces alongside the Fa Shi Tribe.
• Gu Ce, Luo Feng, Chaos City Lord, and Great Axe Founder discussed Jin World, and Gu Ce recommended that Universe Masters with avatars join its military to acquire mechanical treasures.
• Team Seven followed Shaya’s herd toward Xuan Yu Mountain’s inner region.

Bai Ya led Extreme Wind Tribe squads to search Xuan Yu Mountain for exotic beasts, while Gu Ce and Lin Shuang’s group killed tribal warriors and planned to ambush more. The forces began closing in on one another as the conflict between Xuan Yu Mountain and Nine Smoke Marsh approached.

• Bai Ya organized the Extreme Wind Tribe Law Masters into squads and sent one squad toward Xuan Yu Mountain’s outer regions.
• Gu Ce advised Shaya to keep the exotic beasts near the inner region’s outskirts and avoid Xuan Yu Mountain’s strongest forces.
• An exotic beast roared and revealed the group, so Lin Shuang and Team Seven killed the tribal warriors who came to investigate.
• Fana identified the dead warriors as members of the Extreme Wind Tribe, and Lin Shuang and Gu Ce decided to hunt the searching squads for military merits.
• Bai Ya found blood at the valley and ordered his squad to search for the exotic beasts while warning the other squads to be careful and join forces when needed.

Gu Ce and Team Seven encountered Bai Ya, an eighth-tier True God, while operating with Shaya’s exotic beasts in Xuan Yu Mountain. They killed Bai Ya before reinforcements arrived, then prepared to flee as two more True Gods approached.

• Gu Ce’s group and Shaya’s exotic beasts wiped out twenty Extreme Wind Tribe warriors, while Lin Shuang urged them to leave Xuan Yu Mountain before its forces could respond.
• Bai Ya appeared with twenty Law Masters, and Lin Shuang led Team Seven in an attack while Gu Ce, Fana, and Feng Zhu joined the fight.
• Bai Ya realized Team Seven belonged to the army and tried to escape, but the Azure Dragon Army soldiers overwhelmed him as the exotic beasts devoured his warriors.
• Gu Ce delivered the final blow against Bai Ya and secretly collected some of his divine blood for his research into divine power.
• Lin Shuang ordered Team Seven to leave immediately when two more True God auras drew near.

After Team Seven completed its mission and returned to the military camp, Gu Ce declined Lin Shuang’s proposal to make him the next Captain and set out alone for Xuan Yu Mountain. There, he came upon tribal warriors chasing a group of Nine Smoke Marsh beasts, including a badly wounded True God.

• Tie Ci arrived with a thousand warriors, mourned Bai Ya, and led them in pursuit of the fleeing beasts.
• Lin Shuang announced he would step down as Captain and named Cha Nong, Cen Shi, and Cang Wu as candidates, but Gu Ce refused the position.
• Team Seven turned in the mission, and Gu Ce received 1,580 military merit, too little to afford the treasures he wanted.
• After resting for half a month, Gu Ce disguised himself as a tribal warrior and returned alone to Xuan Yu Mountain to hunt and seek intelligence.
• Gu Ce found two tribal True Gods and over two hundred Law Masters pursuing exotic beasts from Nine Smoke Marsh, while one tribal True God wounded their True God beast.

Gu Ce intervened in the battle at Xuan Yu Mountain, enslaved the wounded True God beast Kuno, and fought the two tribal True Gods with help from Rimuru and his mechanical puppets. He unveiled his newly completed Hunyuan Sword Qi and enslaved one tribal True God, while the other remained locked in battle with Kuno and Rimuru.

• Gu Ce used Boundless Void to suppress the fighters at Xuan Yu Mountain and enslaved the severely wounded True God beast, Kuno.
• Gu Ce ordered Kuno to attack the tribal warriors and fight one tribal True God while Rimuru summoned thousands of mechanical puppets to aid him.
• Gu Ce combined his secret methods and treasures to overwhelm the two injured tribal True Gods.
• Gu Ce revealed Hunyuan Sword Qi, a secret method he had created during eight million years in the Universe Sea, and used it to expose and seize a tribal True God's True God Heart.
• Gu Ce ignored the tribal True God's pleas and enslaved him, while Kuno and Rimuru continued fighting the remaining tribal True God.

Gu Ce enslaved True Gods in Xuan Yu Mountain and planned to exploit the coming war with Nine Smoke Marsh to gather more power. As he continued hunting, Extreme Wind and Fa Shi noticed True Gods disappearing and ordered them to travel in large teams to find the unknown enemy.

• Gu Ce enslaved the remaining tribal True God, then had the three True Gods kill the Law Masters and collected the fallen creatures’ remains.
• A True God told Gu Ce that Xuan Yu Mountain planned to attack Nine Smoke Marsh in eleven months, and Gu Ce considered using the war to capture or kill True Gods and deploy the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle.
• Gu Ce searched Xuan Yu Mountain’s outskirts for seven days and increased his Soul Slaves to eight, including seven tribal True Gods and one exotic beast True God.
• Gu Ce learned about Xuan Yu Mountain’s four tribes and their leaders, then decided that enslaving more True Gods mattered more than understanding the tribal alliance.
• Extreme Wind and Fa Shi discussed the disappearance of True Gods and Law Masters, then ordered the Law Masters to return and the True Gods to travel in teams of at least ten.

Gu Ce abandoned his plan to gather intelligence in Xuan Yu Mountain after Soul Enslavement exposed his group’s absence, and led his growing force into Nine Smoke Marsh to hunt exotic beasts. As Xuan Yu Mountain prepared for its coming war with Nine Smoke Marsh, Gu Ce’s group faced a powerful beast, and he deployed the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle for the first time.

• Gu Ce learned that Xuan Yu Mountain had recalled its True Gods after their divine power avatars disappeared, so he took his group to Nine Smoke Marsh instead of returning to the tribe.
• Gu Ce and Kuno led the group through Nine Smoke Marsh, killing or enslaving exotic beast True Gods until their force numbered thirteen.
• Cang Yan concluded that Soul Enslavement might explain the missing Xuan Yu Mountain True Gods, but told the other Void True Gods to focus on preparing for war with Nine Smoke Marsh.
• A powerful exotic beast accused Gu Ce of being from Xuan Yu Mountain and sent five True Gods to attack him.
• Gu Ce trapped the attackers within Boundless Void and had his Soul Slaves control the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle, which accelerated to the edge of his domain.