Chapter Summaries

As Gu Ce prepared to enter Ku Hai Divine Lord's Divine Kingdom, he mastered the second level of Myriad Incarnations and met four Universe First Bank geniuses who would explore with him. Cangyuan Hou opened the passage, and Hafa sent the group inside.

• Gu Ce dismissed Aidera's warning and decided to enter the dangerous Divine Kingdom, then trained for fifteen days to strengthen himself.
• Gu Ce mastered the second level of Myriad Incarnations, creating ten incarnations, before meeting Bai Zhou, Qian Yu, Mijiti, and Di Man.
• Bai Zhou explained that the Divine Kingdom was filled with powerful sea beasts and set a one-month limit for the expedition, assigning the teams and naming himself Captain.
• Hafa brought Gu Ce and the four geniuses to the Ku Hai Secret Realm, where Cangyuan Hou shattered the surrounding space to reveal the Divine Kingdom.
• Hafa sent Gu Ce and the four geniuses through the passage into Ku Hai Divine Lord's Divine Kingdom.

Gu Ce and the others entered the Kuhai Divine Kingdom to train and search for its lost explorers and treasures. Gu Ce explored the Middle Sea with Mijiti and Di Man, and the group ended the chapter with a sealed metal sphere in their possession.

• Cangyuan Hou sent Gu Ce and the others through a passage into the core region of the Kuhai Divine Kingdom.
• Bai Zhou split the explorers into teams, assigning himself and Qianyu to the Lower Sea while Gu Ce joined Mijiti and Di Man in the Middle Sea.
• Mijiti and Di Man killed the Sea Beasts they encountered as the three descended into the Middle Sea.
• Gu Ce spotted a spherical building made from D5-class pure metal, but Mijiti could not find a way to open it.
• Di Man stored the sealed sphere in his spatial ring so it could be opened after they left the Divine Kingdom.

Gu Ce, Mijiti, and Di Man encountered a civilization of Fishmen in the Lower Sea and were captured after the Fishmen demanded the Sea Suppressing Pearl. In the Fishmen’s prison, Gu Ce found Xie Peng and prepared to rely on Rimuru to learn more or escape.

• Bai Zhou and Qian Yu defeated a Domain Lord Octopus in the Lower Sea, then spotted a group of Divine Kingdom Humans.
• Gu Ce, Mijiti, and Di Man were surrounded by Fishmen, whose leader demanded the Sea Suppressing Pearl from Mijiti.
• Mijiti attacked, but the Domain Lord Fishman suppressed and captured her, while Gu Ce and Di Man surrendered.
• The Fishmen brought the three to their city, confiscated their Intelligent Optical Computers, and locked them in a D-Grade Metal prison.
• Gu Ce found Xie Peng in a neighboring cell and learned that other trial participants had also been imprisoned.
• Gu Ce silently called Rimuru after discovering a Domain Lord guarded the prison.

The Fishmen Clan Leader revealed that the Sea Suppressing Pearl could let his people escape their failing world and passed leadership to Kashel. Meanwhile, Gu Ce learned the Fishmen might bargain for help and considered offering them territory, though how to do so remained unresolved.

• The Fishmen Clan Leader told Kashel that the Divine Lord had died, the Sea Suppressing Pearl was weakening, and the Fishmen needed to reach the universe beyond their world.
• The Fishmen Clan Leader handed Kashel the King's Scepter and named him the next Clan Leader, tasking him with retrieving the Sea Suppressing Pearl and using the outsiders to secure human help.
• The other Domain Lord Fishmen placed Kashel on the throne, leaving him responsible for tens of billions of Fishmen.
• Gu Ce contacted Hafa and Aidera through the Virtual Universe, and Hafa explained that the Fishmen might protect the outsiders because they could help the clan reach the universe.
• Hafa told Gu Ce that Bai Zhou and his companions had also been captured, while Gu Ce considered how to obtain Fishman treasures without fighting them.
• Rimuru suggested that Gu Ce offer the Fishmen territory or protection, and Gu Ce wondered whether the Prince of the Cuimu Empire could help.

Gu Ce and Diamant escaped the Sea Abyss prison, and Gu Ce proposed recruiting the Fishmen into Diamant’s empire. Meanwhile, Kashel retrieved the Sea Suppressing Pearl and led the Fishmen toward the Mirage Sea.

• After the Domain Lord left, Diamant used a corrosive liquid to escape his cage and free Gu Ce.
• Gu Ce killed the Universe-Level Sea Beast sharks guarding the prison and led Diamant out, impressing Bai Zhou with his mastery of the Space Laws.
• Gu Ce suggested that Diamant offer the Fishmen territory in his empire, then admitted they had escaped to inspect the Fishmen’s treasures before negotiating.
• Kashel found the prison cages damaged and the Sea Beasts dead, then continued with the plan to retrieve the Sea Suppressing Pearl.
• Kashel removed the Sea Suppressing Pearl from its altar and ordered the Fishmen to investigate the Mirage Sea.

Gu Ce resisted the Mirage Sea illusion, gained the Mirage Sea Divine Lord’s inheritance, and increased his Psychic Power. As the Kuhai Divine Kingdom collapsed, Cangyuan Hou prepared to retrieve the others and leave the secret realm.

• Gu Ce entered the pink waters with Diamant, resisted the illusion with Absolute True Heart, and advanced his will to the Domain Lord Level.
• The illusion faded, Diamant awakened after breaking through to the first stage of Universe Level, and Gu Ce learned he had inherited the Mirage Sea secret method.
• Gu Ce swallowed the Mirage Sea Divine Lord’s descendant, raised his Psychic Power to the seventh stage of Stellar Level, and returned toward the Fishman city with Rimuru.
• Cangyuan Hou and Hafa observed that the Kuhai Divine Kingdom was collapsing faster, and Cangyuan Hou decided to retrieve the others before it collapsed.
• Cangyuan Hou told Hafa he planned to seek opportunities on the Outer Domain Battlefield and hoped Hafa would eventually become Immortal.

Gu Ce inherited the Mirage Sea Divine Lord’s legacy and became the Fishmen’s highest-ranking figure, then arranged for more than ten billion Fishmen to migrate to a galaxy in the Cuimu Empire. Afterward, Hafa offered a Star-Eating Grass Sapling in exchange for Gu Ce’s damaged Sea Suppressing Pearl.

• Kashel learned that Gu Ce had inherited Mirage Sea’s legacy and, along with four Domain Lords, knelt to recognize him as the Divine Lord’s disciple.
• Gu Ce examined the damaged Sea Suppressing Pearl and agreed to help the Fishmen find a new home when Kashel asked to follow him.
• Diamant offered his galaxy to the Fishmen in exchange for their support, and Gu Ce approved the plan as Cangyuan Hou’s actions threatened to shatter the Divine Kingdom.
• Gu Ce and Diamant entered Sea Abyss with Gongtel and released Bai Zhou, Xie Peng, and the other prisoners.
• Kashel selected more than ten billion elite Fishmen, who migrated to a galaxy in the Cuimu Empire with Cangyuan Hou’s help and Diamant’s ancestor’s intervention.
• Gu Ce agreed to sell the Sea Suppressing Pearl to Hafa’s teacher, who offered a Star-Eating Grass Sapling in exchange.

Gu Ce traded the weakened Sea Suppressing Pearl for a Star-Eating Grass Sapling and returned to Earth, where he encouraged Luo Feng to seize the Golden Horn Beast’s body. The chapter ended with Luo Feng preparing to proceed after learning he could cultivate a human avatar.

• Cangyuan Hou arrived on Qiongling Star and exchanged the Star-Eating Grass Sapling for Gu Ce’s weakened Sea Suppressing Pearl.
• Gu Ce stored the sapling and decided to return to Earth, leaving Gongtel behind when he reached Huangyang Star.
• During Gu Ce’s journey, Luo Feng’s twin sons, Luo Ping and Luo Hai, were born, and Luo Feng found the Golden Horn Beast egg and a Mechanical Race spacecraft on Earth.
• Gu Ce told Luo Feng that the Golden Horn Beast could cultivate an avatar, allowing him to retain a human body for the Genius Battle.
• Luo Feng thanked Gu Ce and prepared to seize the Golden Horn Beast’s body.

Gu Ce attended Universe First Bank’s high-level auction to look for resources for cultivating the Star-Eating Grass. Meanwhile, Hong and Thor passed the Cosmic Trainee Mercenary Assessment but drew the attention of Hundred Tiger Tower, and Three Axe Mountain invited them to join.

• Gu Ce entered Universe First Bank’s Qianwu Branch auction as a Four-Star Customer and waited for the auction to begin.
• Hong and Thor passed the Cosmic Trainee Mercenary Assessment after killing a Silver Blue Empire Prince who tried to rob them.
• Hong and Thor worried about retaliation from the Silver Blue Empire and Hundred Tiger Tower after killing the Prince and a Hundred Tiger Tower elite.
• Three Axe Mountain invited Hong and Thor to meet in the Virtual Universe and join the organization.

Gu Ce bought treasures at the Virtual Universe auction to cultivate the Star-Eating Grass, then fed it a Life Fruit so it could begin acknowledging him as its master. On Earth, Luo Feng's Golden Horn Beast hatched from its egg.

• Gu Ce spent over two trillion Cosmic Coins on ten Life Fruits and bought other plant-growth treasures at the auction.
• Gu Ce paid 18,220 Hunyuan Units for a Star Stone Fruit after Rimuru explained its benefits for the Star-Eating Grass.
• Gu Ce left the auction, collected his purchases on Huangyang Star, and headed back to Earth.
• Gu Ce fed a Life Fruit to the Star-Eating Grass, which wrapped around his arm and fell asleep while digesting it.
• The Golden Horn Beast hatched on Mist Island, and Luo Feng was born.

In 2059, Gu Ce urged Luo Feng, Hong, and Thor to prepare for the Universe Genius Battle while Earth prospered under human rule. By October 2061, Luo Feng and Babata detected a spaceship of universe adventurers approaching Earth, whose strongest crew member was only Stellar Level Six.

• Gu Ce told Hong and Thor that joining Three Axe Mountain would not prevent them from entering the Universe Genius Battle, and encouraged them to improve their strength.
• Luo Feng fought Thor on Mars, but Thor won by exploiting Luo Feng's unfamiliarity with the Golden Horn Beast's body and his domain advantage.
• Gu Ce celebrated the 2059 Spring Festival with Gu Hesheng and Gu Hechang before entering seclusion, telling Gu Hechang to contact Luo Feng or reach him through the virtual universe if Earth faced trouble.
• By October 2061, a captain and eight crew members aboard a hidden spaceship approached Earth and invaded its network to gather information.
• Babata alerted Luo Feng to the intruding spaceship, and Luo Feng learned that its strongest adventurer was Stellar Level Six.

Luo Feng destroyed a scouting ship from the Nuolanshan Family and learned that a larger fleet was heading for Earth. Meanwhile, Gu Ce and Gongtel attacked the family’s ancestral planet and killed Nuolanshan and his two disciples.

• Luo Feng sent Gu Ce a message, then used his Golden Horn Beast clone to drag the adventurers’ ship beneath the Atlantic Ocean and devour its crew.
• Babata discovered that a fleet with more than forty Universe Level Ninth Stage fighters would reach Earth in three months, leaving Luo Feng concerned about the seven Universe Level experts in the Nuolanshan Family.
• Gu Ce traveled with Gongtel to the Nuolanshan Family’s ancestral planet and sent Gongtel to fight Nuolanshan, while Star-Eating Grass helped restrain him.
• Yuke Nuolanshan and Dewen Nuolanshan attacked Gu Ce, but his Ice Seal and Sea Split sword strikes killed them both.
• Gu Ce and Gongtel defeated and killed Nuolanshan, and Gu Ce told Gongtel to eliminate the remaining threats and keep the family’s wealth.

Gu Ce challenged Luo Feng to defeat the approaching fleet without outside help, then rewarded him with a Demon Killer Clan skin after Luo Feng succeeded. As Luo Feng prepared for the upcoming Genius Battle through mercenary trials and new training, the Peak Genius Battle was officially announced across the Virtual Universe.

• Gu Ce tested his improved swordsmanship, physical strength, spatial-law comprehension, and Mirage Sea illusion technique while planning to keep developing before the Genius Battle.
• Luo Feng borrowed money from Hong, advanced his Golden Horn Beast to the Universe Level, and used it to destroy the cosmic fleet before it reached Earth.
• Gu Ce gave Luo Feng a complete Demon Killer Clan skin, and Babata explained that Luo Feng could use it to nurture an avatar talented in spatial laws.
• Luo Feng joined Hong and Thor on a Cosmic Trainee Mercenary assessment in Thunder World, where they entered the World within a World, gathered great wealth, and Thor obtained Master Wu as an Intelligent Life.
• Luo Feng later acquired treasures including the Yan Shen Bing and Lan Ke Fruit at the Qianwu Auction.
• A huge announcement appeared over Black Dragon Mountain Island, declaring that the Universe Humanity Peak Genius Battle was about to begin.

Gu Ce, Hong, Luo Feng, and Thor registered for the Peak Genius Battle and learned how its elimination stages would work. As the competition began, they entered separate World Zones and resolved to claim first place in each one.

• Gu Ce hosted Hong, Luo Feng, and Thor at his estate, where they discussed their preparation for the Genius Battle and Hong considered whether to accept Luo's offer to become his disciple.
• The four registered for the competition, and Luo Feng vowed to cross the threshold of the Space Origin Laws before it began.
• A month later, Gu Ce's father and uncle visited to encourage him, and Rimuru opened the Virtual Universe Company's instructions for the contest.
• Gu Ce and the others learned that participants would fight in 100 World Zones, with each zone's top scorer advancing directly to the top 1,000.
• Hong was assigned to Zone 72, Thor to Zone 88, Luo Feng to Zone 1, and Gu Ce to Zone 99, and they promised to strive for first place.

Gu Ce entered World Zone 99 and used his Mirage Sea secret method to slaughter contestants, rapidly climbing the rankings. He reached first place, drawing attention across the Qianwu Universe Country and earning praise from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire’s emperor.

• Gu Ce arrived in World Zone 99, caught an archer’s flaming arrow, and killed him after trapping him in an illusion.
• Gu Ce used the Mirage Sea to overwhelm and kill nearby contestants, then spread it across the district and massacred more opponents.
• Gu Hesheng and Gu Hechang watched Gu Ce’s ranking rise toward first place while Hong and Luo Feng’s rankings remained unchanged.
• Brolynn and other dignitaries noticed Gu Ce had taken first place in World Zone 99, and organizations across the Qianwu Universe Country took notice.
• The Black Dragon Mountain Empire’s emperor celebrated Gu Ce’s achievement and said he deserved a reward.

Gu Ce, Thor, Hong, and Luo Feng completed the preliminaries and arena battles, with Gu Ce and Luo Feng placing first and second in their world zones. Hong advanced through the Arena Finals, while Thor was eliminated; the story left the survivors preparing for the peak showdown.

• Gu Ce slaughtered most of a city’s contestants, then killed a gathering of top-ranked opponents who had come to encircle him.
• The preliminaries ended with Gu Ce first, Luo Feng second, Hong thirteenth, and Thor 880th, bringing fame and rewards to the Black Dragon Mountain Empire’s four geniuses.
• Gu Ce warned the others to prepare carefully for the arena battles, and the arena melee saw Thor barely advance, Hong fight with ease, and Luo Feng slaughter his opponents.
• Thor lost his first Arena Finals match, while Hong advanced after his domain reached the ninth level and Luo Feng defeated Jie Jun in their fourth match.
• Thor later lost to Jie Jun again in the Reincarnation Battle, received invitations from major powers, and chose to postpone his decision until after the genius battle.

Gu Ce raced through the Trial Towers, matching Bolan for first place and drawing attention from the Immortals and the people of Qianwu Universe Country. He defeated the Zerg Mother Nest on the Sixth Trial Tower’s final floor and prepared to enter the Seventh Trial Tower.

• Lord Thirteen led the Qianwu geniuses to the gathering of contestants, where Nine Swords Venerable announced the Trial Space rules and the elimination rankings.
• Gu Ce entered his Trial Space and swiftly slaughtered the beasts in the first tower, while the Immortals noticed he was competing with Bolan for the lead.
• People in Qianwu Universe Country and the Black Dragon Mountain Empire celebrated Gu Ce’s rise, while Hong reached the last floor of the Third Trial Tower but lost to its Zerg Mother Nest.
• Gu Ce used Myriad Incarnations to distract the Zerg warriors in the Sixth Trial Tower, then killed the Mother Queen with Sea Split.
• Gu Ce and Bolan tied at the top of the rankings, and Gu Ce looked ahead to the Seventh Trial Tower.

Gu Ce advanced through the Seventh Trial Tower to its sixth level, surpassing Bolan and astonishing the watching geniuses and Immortals. He was ultimately overwhelmed by the Star Beasts, Cang, while Thirteen decided to report Gu Ce’s potential to the ruler.

• Gu Ce and Bolan both cleared the Sixth Trial Tower, and Luo Feng hurried to catch up, reaching the Sixth Trial Tower after passing the fifth.
• Gu Ce used Myriad Incarnations and his sword techniques to clear the first four levels of the Seventh Trial Tower, while Bolan died on the first level after killing 6,333 Bloodmane Mammoths.
• Gu Ce activated the first layer of Cloud Sea Dragon Hunter’s secret engravings and cleared the fifth level despite nearly dying.
• Luo Feng reached the Sixth Trial Tower but fell on its second level, placing third overall.
• Gu Ce fought the Star Beasts, Cang, on the sixth level but was overwhelmed and stopped there.
• The Immortals marveled at Gu Ce’s talent, and Thirteen resolved to report him to the ruler.

Gu Ce, Luo Feng, and the other finalists competed for places in the Virtual Universe Company's secret realms, bringing the Genius Battle to a close. Gu Ce finished first, Bolan second, and Luo Feng third, and the selected geniuses prepared to travel to the Initial Universe.

• The Black Dragon Mountain Empire celebrated Gu Ce and Luo Feng, while Hong announced that he would leave Earth to explore the universe with his teacher.
• Thirteen warned Gu Ce, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun not to grow complacent, and Gu Ce met Rong Jun before the Arena Finals began.
• The Virtual Universe Company announced its rewards and secret-realm placements, and Gu Ce advanced through the elimination rounds as his opponents surrendered or lost.
• Gu Ce defeated Rong Jun in the top-five matches after Rong Jun could not distinguish his true body from his phantoms; Bolan, Luo Feng, Ai Chen, and Jiang Mo also advanced.
• Gu Ce won all four Reincarnation Battle matches, Bolan won three, and Luo Feng won two, finalizing the Genius Battle rankings.
• Nine Swords Venerable announced the completed rankings and said the selected geniuses would gather at the Virtual Universe Company's headquarters before traveling to the Initial Universe.

Gu Ce left Earth for the Virtual Universe Company’s headquarters, entrusting Gongtel with Earth’s protection and meeting his new guard commander, Ian. At his Original District estate, he began browsing the company’s treasure vault and considered which space-origin secret technique to buy, but hesitated over spending his starting points before finding a teacher.

• The Qianwu Country Lord reviewed the Genius Battle results and dismissed the Thirteen Divine Generals’ apology for failing to nurture the three successful geniuses.
• Gu Ce said farewell to Gu Hesheng and Gu Hechang, then appointed Gongtel to protect Earth with fourth-tier equipment.
• Ian, an Immortal-level guard commander, escorted Gu Ce and Luo Feng from Huangyang Star toward the Virtual Universe Company’s headquarters.
• Ian showed Gu Ce around Yuxiang Mountain, and Aitor introduced Gu Ce to his estate, Manor No. 113, in the Original District.
• Gu Ce found that the Myriad Incarnations technique was sold in the treasure vault and considered buying Chronicle of Time and Space or Prelude to Ice Peak with his starting points.