Chapter Summaries

Gu Ce gathered forty-seven True God Soul Slaves and spent six months raising his Life Gene Level before Xuan Yu Mountain and Nine Smoke Marsh went to war. Luo Feng arrived at Nine Smoke Marsh to meet him, but the two powers launched their decisive battle early, and Void True Gods isolated the entire marsh.

• Gu Ce enslaved the exotic beast True Gods with the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle and ordered his Soul Slaves to hunt more while he cultivated.
• After six months, Gu Ce had reached a 29,999-times Life Gene Level, and his team had grown to forty-seven True Gods.
• Luo Feng contacted Gu Ce from Nine Smoke Marsh, and Gu Ce invited him to join the hunt; Chaos City Lord and Great Axe Founder were astonished by Gu Ce's force.
• Xuan Yu Mountain's alliance leader ordered its army to punish Nine Smoke Marsh, and the vast force set out.
• Luo Feng and Wu He witnessed the armies gathering as Void True Gods enveloped and isolated all of Nine Smoke Marsh.

The battle between Xuan Yu Mountain and Nine Smoke Marsh erupted, and Gu Ce and Luo Feng made their way toward Purple Vine Marsh to join forces against the True Gods there. Gu Ce waited for Luo Feng to arrive before beginning their planned slaughter.

• Jiu Yan emerged with Nine Smoke Marsh’s forces, and negotiations with Xuan Yu Mountain broke down into battle.
• Gu Ce entered the True God battlefield while concealing his aura and headed deeper into Nine Smoke Marsh to meet Luo Feng.
• Gu Ce reached Purple Vine Marsh and waited for Luo Feng before attacking the True Gods fighting there.
• Luo Feng fought off beast Law Masters who mistook him for a tribal warrior and arrived at Purple Vine Marsh.

Gu Ce and Luo Feng launched a surprise attack on the True Gods gathered at Purple Vine Marsh using the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle, the Ancient God Eye, and the Chaos Golden Armor. The slaughter left the survivors arguing over who possessed the forbidden group mechanical-type treasure.

• Gu Ce helped an Extreme Wind Tribe True God kill an exotic beast True God and arranged to take the beast's corpse and weapon as his share.
• Gu Ce met Luo Feng outside Purple Vine Marsh, and they prepared the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle with True God slaves to attack the battlefield.
• As six Void True Gods clashed above, Luo Feng used the Ancient God Eye to suppress more than three hundred True Gods while Gu Ce used Control Chaos to restrain them.
• The Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle swept through the gathered True Gods, shattering most of their divine bodies and some True God Hearts.
• Survivors accused Xuan Yu Mountain of secretly possessing a group mechanical-type treasure, but Xuan Yu Mountain True Gods argued that their own people had been attacked too.

Gu Ce and Luo Feng used the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle to devastate a battlefield of more than three hundred True Gods, then escaped Nine Smoke Marsh with their spoils. The Captain recognized Galaxy among the attackers and decided to leave, while the six Void True Gods halted their fight and turned toward a spacecraft below.

• The Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle shattered the True Gods’ divine bodies, and Gu Ce and Luo Feng finished off the survivors and collected their corpses and equipment.
• Gu Ce and Luo Feng fled in the shuttle, racing beyond Purple Vine Marsh while space remained shrouded across Nine Smoke Marsh.
• The Captain and his eighteen soldiers witnessed the slaughter, recognized Galaxy, and discussed the danger and military value of the attack.
• The Captain abandoned his mission and chose to leave, resolving to befriend Galaxy after returning to the military.
• The six Void True Gods stopped fighting and looked toward a spacecraft on the ground.

Gu Ce and Luo Feng escaped Nine Smoke Marsh after killing hundreds of True Gods, then exchanged their spoils for military merit and returned to the army. Gu Ce examined the Mechanical Flow treasures available to him and found that the unique Wu Qi God was beyond his reach.

• The Void True Gods of Nine Smoke Marsh and Xuan Yu Mountain noticed Gu Ce and Luo Feng's attack but decided not to pursue them.
• Gu Ce and Luo Feng fled Nine Smoke Marsh aboard the Mysterious Phoenix Shuttle with 316 True God corpses and numerous weapons and armor sets.
• Gu Ce gave Luo Feng the True God blood and other materials he needed, and the two returned to the army to exchange their spoils for military merit.
• Gu Ce received 9.8 million military merit, while his and Luo Feng's combined total reached only about fourteen to fifteen million.
• Gu Ce visited the equipment depot and learned that the Wu Qi God required thirty million military merit and was unavailable to Azure Dragon Army soldiers.

Gu Ce exchanged military merits for the Withered Blue Crystal Wings and Ember Annihilation Hand, then applied for a title-bestowal mission and cultivated his Life Gene Level to 51,999 times. As the second era's mission arrived, he prepared to enter the deadly Wu Qi Tower trial at God King Valley.

• Gu Ce exchanged 8.5 million military merits for the Withered Blue Crystal Wings and another 1.2 million for the Ember Annihilation Hand, greatly boosting his speed and attack power.
• Gu Ce applied for a title-bestowal mission to reach the ninth floor of Wu Qi Tower, accepting the warning that past attempts had a death rate above ninety percent.
• Gu Ce returned to the Qing Jiao Army camp and cultivated with materials from more than three hundred True God corpses, using Six Eyes to improve his genes.
• Gu Ce broke through the 30,000-times gene threshold and reached 48,999 times, then continued cultivating in seclusion rather than testing himself against a Void True God.
• Gu Ce raised his Life Gene Level to 51,999 times and welcomed the title-bestowal mission of the second era.

Gu Ce and Luo Feng led new entrants into Jin World as the Universe Sea factions began a large-scale expedition, while Gu Ce declined a team captaincy and an ordinary mission. As Luo Feng set out separately, Purple Moon Holy Land observers spotted him among the Mang River Army and prepared to track him and Gu Ce.

• Luo Feng guided 141 Hong Alliance Universe Masters into Jin World, while Gu Ce entered separately to replenish his true body's divine power.
• More than a thousand Universe Masters from across the Universe Sea entered Jin World during the second era, including over six hundred from the First Cycle Era.
• Fana told Gu Ce that Cen Shi had become Team Seven's captain and invited him on an ordinary army mission, but Gu Ce declined and left the camp.
• Ten Universe Masters from the Purple Moon Holy Land watched the Eastern Army's wormhole exits under their Ancestor's orders to find a chance to kill Gu Ce and Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng emerged with the Mang River Army, parted from Wu He and Kufa, and said he had something important to do.

Gu Ce and Luo Feng reached God King Valley to undertake a title-conferring mission and entered Wu Qi Tower with eight other soldiers. On the tower’s first floor, they learned that advancing required killing another soldier, forcing the group to fight or face annihilation.

• Gu Ce and Luo Feng arrived at the restricted God King Realm, where guard Bei Cang explained that the continent was a Mechanical Flow Supreme Treasure and guided them to God King Valley.
• At Wu Qi Tower, a one-horned beast guard made Gu Ce and Luo Feng wait until ten soldiers had gathered, warning that more than half of the previous batches had died.
• Gu Ce and Luo Feng entered the first-floor desert with eight other soldiers, and Gu Ce warned Luo Feng that some of them might be enemies.
• An azure pillar appeared in the desert, and black characters announced that each soldier had to kill another soldier to reach the second floor or be annihilated.

Gu Ce and Luo Feng fought off soldiers on Wu Qi Tower’s first floor, killing Xu Zhong and a scaled-winged beast before moving on. On the second floor, they joined five survivors from an earlier batch and waited for the rest of their group to arrive.

• Three soldiers, including Xu Zhong, attacked Luo Feng, while Gu Ce watched until he saw two more enemies join the assault.
• Gu Ce used the Withered Blue Crystal Wings to catch Xu Zhong as he fled, then killed him with a Primal Chaos Sword Qi strike.
• Luo Feng transformed into the Golden Claw God, pursued the scaled-winged beast, and killed it after overwhelming its attacks.
• Gu Ce and Luo Feng collected their opponents’ belongings and flew through the azure pillar of light to the second floor.
• They met five survivors from an earlier batch, and the dark-red-armored youth explained that his group had been waiting for the next ten soldiers.
• After about half an hour, the remaining three soldiers arrived and warily watched Gu Ce.

Gu Ce and Luo Feng displayed exceptional movement techniques while facing the second level of Wu Qi Tower, drawing the attention of the Black Mist Commander. The other three commanders gathered to watch them, wondering whether they had found the candidates needed to fulfill the God King’s mission.

• The second-level trial sent soldiers into small worlds where ancient diagram rays and regenerating dark crimson Stone Giants attacked them.
• Gu Ce evaded his Stone Giant and the incoming rays with help from the Withered Blue Crystal Wings, conserving his divine power.
• The Black Mist Commander enlarged Gu Ce’s and Luo Feng’s scenes and praised their distinct, exceptional movement techniques.
• The Black Mist Commander summoned the three sleeping commanders, who gathered to watch Gu Ce and Luo Feng on the screen.

Gu Ce and Luo Feng survived the lethal second floor of Wu Qi Tower and arrived on the third floor with the other survivors. The tower gathered all forty soldiers and warned them that they had to survive the third floor before they could claim the inheritances and rewards above.

• The Burly Commander recognized Gu Ce’s precise, instinctive movement and Void True God-level Will Strength, and suggested he might reach the top of Wu Qi Tower.
• On the second floor, rock hands erupted from the earth and trapped soldiers while rock giants attacked them, turning the trial into a deadly trap.
• When rock hands targeted Gu Ce, he used the first level of the Divine Power Burning Secret Method and dodged with speed comparable to a Void True God.
• Gu Ce, Luo Feng, and two other soldiers survived their trial and were teleported to the third floor, where other soldiers kept arriving over the following weeks.
• After forty soldiers had gathered, the tower teleported them into a sealed area beneath a vast vortex, where an aged voice warned them to survive the third floor before pursuing higher floors’ rewards and inheritances.

On Wu Qi Tower’s third floor, the Divine Eye imposed a steadily strengthening Will Impact while only fifteen of the forty soldiers could survive. Luo Feng and Gu Ce killed weakened opponents and endured the test, then vanished with the other survivors when the trial ended.

• The Divine Eye announced that only fifteen soldiers could survive, and a plant lifeform soldier began killing the weakened competitors.
• Gu Ce and Luo Feng hunted severely injured soldiers as golden light from the Divine Eye began striking everyone’s will.
• The Will Impact grew past the Law Master limit, killing soldiers who lost consciousness while the survivors continued fighting.
• Luo Feng and Gu Ce joined forces to kill the collapsing plant lifeform soldier and claim its treasures.
• When fifteen soldiers remained, Luo Feng told Gu Ce that his will was at the Void True God level, and pillars of light carried the survivors away.

Gu Ce chose the Divine Power Path on the fourth floor of the Wu Qi Tower and advanced through its life-structure diagrams, absorbing ownerless divine power along the way. He entered a deeper section that might help him reach the second level of the Divine Power Path.

• The fifteen surviving soldiers learned that the fourth floor offered four reward passages and that killing other soldiers was forbidden.
• Gu Ce chose the Divine Power Path, while Luo Feng also entered it; the Four Commanders praised their choices and explained that the God King had personally left this path as guidance.
• Gu Ce studied the Perfect Life diagrams along the first passage and completed a diagram at the door to reach a new area.
• Gu Ce absorbed ownerless divine power from a river and studied increasingly complex life diagrams that helped improve his Life Gene level.
• Gu Ce completed a thirty-thousand-fold life diagram and entered a deeper section, where he wondered whether its diagrams could take him to the second level of the Divine Power Path.

Gu Ce advanced along the Path to True God, raising his Gene Level to 60,000-fold and reaching the second level of the Divine Power Path before entering Wu Qi Tower’s fifth floor. He defeated its white-robed sword opponent with his eighth-rank Hunyuan Sword Qi, while the commanders watched in amazement.

• Gu Ce studied life diagrams on the Path to True God and used Boundless Void to accelerate his comprehension and raise his Gene Level.
• In the 2,800th year, Gu Ce broke through to a 60,000-fold Gene Level, completed the life diagram at the passage’s end, and was teleported onward.
• A black-lit figure told Gu Ce that reaching the pinnacle of the Path to True God required seeking within himself, then vanished.
• The Four Commanders saw Gu Ce enter Wu Qi Tower’s fifth floor and hoped he would clear the fifth, sixth, and seventh floors.
• On the fifth floor, Gu Ce defeated the white-robed man with his eighth-rank Hunyuan Sword Qi, impressing the watching commanders.

Gu Ce passed the sixth level of Wu Qi Tower by outmaneuvering and defeating the Thousand-Eyed Exotic Beast. On the seventh level, he faced a powerful Will Impact and began studying the Divine Eye Secret Technique as he approached the tower’s final obstacle.

• Gu Ce used his speed and swordsmanship to withstand the Thousand-Eyed Exotic Beast’s coordinated blades and defeat it after it unleashed Thousand-Eyed Heart Light.
• The Four Commanders watched the fight and praised Gu Ce’s abilities, with the Burly Commander eager to see him reach the top of Wu Qi Tower.
• Gu Ce entered the seventh level, where a gigantic Divine Eye tested him with a Will Impact that steadily strengthened.
• As Gu Ce resisted the impact and approached an ice mountain, the Divine Eye Secret Technique, Volume One, appeared inside it.
• Gu Ce learned that the secret technique taught ways to wield will and improve it by examining and understanding oneself.

Gu Ce endured the Divine Eye’s increasingly powerful Will Impact and mastered the first seven volumes of the Divine Eye Secret Technique, advancing his will to the Void True God limit. He passed the seventh floor of Wu Qi Tower and was enveloped by a pillar of light, while the Commanders could only wait to learn whether he would succeed on the unseen floors.

• Gu Ce memorized the first four volumes of the Divine Eye Secret Technique as the Commanders watched his progress from the silver hall.
• Gu Ce endured a late-stage Void True God-level Will Impact, learned the fifth and sixth volumes, and saw the seventh volume begin to appear.
• The Commanders discussed whether Gu Ce could withstand the impact and obtain the complete seventh volume, while wondering what awaited on the eighth and ninth floors.
• Gu Ce held on through the torment, reached the Void True God limit of will, and obtained the complete seventh volume.
• A pillar of light enveloped Gu Ce, and Black Mist Commander dismissed the screen after confirming that he had passed the seventh floor.
• The Commanders said they would wait to see whether Gu Ce obtained the inheritance, then noticed that Galaxy had reached the fifth floor.

Gu Ce reached the eighth level of Wu Qi Tower and began learning the Lie Yuan Technique through its Na Yin Secret Technique, despite the danger of failure. As his will surged during cultivation, powerful Will Impacts spread from his Starflow Sea Avatar in the Yongluo Secret Realm, prompting Starflow Lord and Lord Artificer God to contact the humans.

• Gu Ce arrived at the eighth level of Wu Qi Tower, where ancient instructions told him to study the characters in the surrounding void and master a secret technique to reach the ninth level.
• The characters drew Gu Ce into a scroll world, where a Purple Horned Exotic Beast identified itself as the secret technique spirit and revealed the Na Yin Secret Technique.
• Gu Ce learned that the Na Yin Secret Technique was meant for practitioners no stronger than True Gods and that no one had yet succeeded in mastering it.
• Gu Ce resolved to continue despite the risk, began cultivating the Na Yin Secret Technique, and approached another breakthrough in will.
• Gu Ce's Starflow Sea Avatar in the Yongluo Secret Realm radiated powerful Will Impacts, and Starflow Lord and Lord Artificer God decided to notify the humans.

Gu Ce endured the Na Yin Secret Technique’s trials in Wu Qi Tower, advancing through its first two stages and entering the lethal third stage. His growing Will Impact alarmed the Human Race, while the secret technique’s keepers watched anxiously as his final test began.

• Ice Peak Master, Chaos City Lord, and Great Axe Founder investigated the Will Impact from Gu Ce’s Starflow Sea Avatar, and Ice Peak Master volunteered to guard it.
• After more than nine hundred years, Gu Ce’s Will Impact intensified as he entered the second stage of the Na Yin Secret Technique and endured severe pain.
• The Purple Horned Exotic Beast and the black-radiance figure recognized Gu Ce’s progress and warned that the third stage could end in death.
• Ice Peak Master and Lord Artificer God rescued Starflow Lord after the Will Impact knocked him unconscious, and Chaos City Lord and Yuan Zu ordered that Gu Ce’s transformation remain secret.
• Gu Ce entered the third stage, and the black-radiance figure anxiously awaited the final step while Luo Feng remained unable to enter the eighth level.

Gu Ce mastered the Na Yin Secret Technique, received Yuan’s Lie Yuan Technique, and met Yuan’s consciousness, who warned him about his mysterious eyes. He was then transported to Wu Qi Tower’s ninth floor, where Sitting Mountain Guest revealed that he was the virtual consciousness left after the God King’s death.

• After about eighty years of cultivation, Gu Ce mastered the Na Yin Secret Technique and his will reached the Eternal True God level.
• The Purple Horned Exotic Beast passed into Gu Ce’s consciousness, delivering the Lie Yuan Technique and identifying its creator as Yuan.
• Yuan appeared to Gu Ce, confirmed his past-life memories were real, commented on his eyes, and advised him to turn their powers into his own.
• Gu Ce learned that the Lie Yuan Technique required sainted will, then a pillar of light transported him from Wu Qi Tower’s eighth floor to its ninth floor.
• Sitting Mountain Guest told Gu Ce that he was the virtual consciousness left behind after the God King’s death.

Gu Ce met the Jin God King's virtual consciousness in the Wu Qi Tower and learned why it would help him. After Gu Ce presented Sitting Mountain Guest's token, the consciousness agreed to support him in the Jin World and gave him the Wu Qi God, while Gu Ce brought Luo Feng into the room.

• The Man in Magnificent Royal Robes explained that he was the Jin God King's virtual consciousness and that he had recognized Gu Ce as an outsider to the Jin World.
• The consciousness asked Gu Ce to swear that he would eventually help kill the three peak existences opposing the Jin God King, but Gu Ce showed Sitting Mountain Guest's token instead.
• Gu Ce recalled his bargain with Sitting Mountain Guest, who had named him King of Wu and asked him to help rebuild Jin Kingdom and take revenge on the Food Kingdom.
• The consciousness agreed to help Gu Ce, offered him the Wu Qi God, and accepted his request to keep his actions hidden from the military system.
• Gu Ce suggested giving the defective Wu Qi God replicas to Luo Feng, then opened the courtyard door and brought Luo Feng inside.