Chapter Summaries

Flame Emperor Cao Benqi admitted that he had attacked a fellow Human Race member for a treasure and denounced the Human Race before declaring his defection. He fled with the Flame God Race, while the other peak races watched and he hoped Zuo Shan Ke’s name would protect him from pursuit.

• Chaos City Lord showed Flame Emperor a recording of his attack on a companion, and Flame Emperor admitted his selfish motives and resentment toward the Human Race.
• Flame Emperor claimed the Human Race’s protection had meant nothing to him, declared that neither side owed the other anything, and announced his defection before vanishing.
• Flame Emperor took the entire Flame God Race and fled at full speed, creating disturbances that alerted the Mechanical, Monster, and Insect Races.
• The Mechanical Father God predicted the Human Race would suffer a heavy loss or lose face, while the neighboring races monitored the unfolding incident.
• As he neared the edge of Human Race territory, Flame Emperor hoped that Zuo Shan Ke’s status as his teacher would deter Chaos City Lord and Founder Giant Axe from pursuing him.

Xu Yang reached the 8,245th inheritance step and used his once-in-a-thousand-years Secret Art Draw to enter Qing He's Dao Lecture. He found himself in the body of an infant among powerful young beings, where Grandpa Qing He began explaining secret techniques.

• Xu Yang defeated the final assessment puppet on the 8,244th step, then received guidance on body amplitude and improving self-created secret techniques at the next level.
• Xu Yang drew a Peak Secret Technique and chose the catalog entry Qing He's Dao Lecture after observing its unusual behavior.
• The system carried Xu Yang's consciousness into a courtyard, where he discovered he had become the infant Ku Salu among youthful figures with King-level auras.
• Ku Hei Zi demonstrated a Venerable-level Second Profound secret technique, and Grandpa Qing He pointed out its flaws and explained how to improve it.
• After finishing his guidance for Ku Hei Zi, Grandpa Qing He began instructing Ku Yuan, who displayed tens of thousands of secret technique runes.

Xu Yang possessed Ku Salu during Grandpa Qing He's teachings, where he received personal guidance on his secret technique and an Azure Pure Date. After returning to his body, Xu Yang absorbed half the date's power, raising his Gene Multiplier from 61 to 89.

• Grandpa Qing He completed Ku Yuan's secret technique, praised his talent, and told him to break through to the Venerable realm and attend Grandma Honghua's lessons.
• Xu Yang, possessing Ku Salu, displayed his secret technique runes, and Grandpa Qing He revised them into a near-Ultimate Secret Technique.
• Grandpa Qing He praised Ku Salu and bestowed an Azure Pure Date, whose energy nourished both Ku Salu's soul and Xu Yang's system-carried consciousness.
• The system altered Ku Salu's memories so he believed he had created the secret technique himself and received the date, while Xu Yang's consciousness returned to the Original Universe.
• Xu Yang released the energy absorbed from the date, improving his body and comprehension and increasing his Gene Multiplier from 61 to 89.

Flame Emperor gathered eight unaffiliated Universe Masters to propose an alliance after betraying the Human Race, and revealed that Zuo Shan Ke was his teacher. The group remained unsure whether the alliance could challenge the great powers, so Flame Emperor appealed to their past grievances to stir their anger.

• The Lord of Purple Rainbow and the Lord of Eternal Frost met Flame Emperor in a remote region and questioned how he had escaped the Human Race’s retaliation.
• Six more Universe Masters arrived, bringing the number of Flame Emperor’s guests to eight out of the twenty-nine he had invited.
• Flame Emperor thanked the eight and explained that his teacher, Zuo Shan Ke, had protected him from the Human Race.
• The Universe Masters urged Flame Emperor to invite Zuo Shan Ke to lead their proposed alliance, but Flame Emperor said he could not guarantee his teacher would agree.
• Flame Emperor promised he could ask Zuo Shan Ke to resurrect fallen Universe Overlords and reminded the guests of how the great powers had oppressed them.
• The eight Universe Masters grew angry as Flame Emperor recounted their past humiliations.

Xu Yang completed the Burning Heaven inheritance’s body-amplitude trials and returned to Burning Heaven Hall, where he reunited with Golden Wolf Venerable and met Venerable Chi Ming. Meanwhile, Flame Emperor entered the Void Land and recalled how Zuo Shan Ke’s rejection had turned his devotion into hatred.

• Xu Yang destroyed the remaining puppets with his Time-Stopping Thunder Roar, then declined the Burning Heaven Divine General’s divine position and left the inheritance cavern with his body amplitude at 9999 and other rewards.
• Xu Yang returned to Burning Heaven Hall, where Golden Wolf Venerable welcomed him and introduced him to Venerable Chi Ming, who offered him a hundred jars of wine.
• Xu Yang joined Golden Wolf Venerable and Venerable Chi Ming for a banquet and agreed to relax with them before returning to cultivation.
• Flame Emperor entered the Void Land in an incarnation and remembered how Zuo Shan Ke had taken back the North Prison Lord’s belongings and treated him with cold indifference.
• Flame Emperor recalled that he had once worshipped Zuo Shan Ke as a father, but swore to make him regret the hurt and rejection.

Flame Emperor asked Zuo Shan Ke to lead the Nine Domain Alliance, but Zuo Shan Ke refused and offered support only if Flame Emperor met a difficult condition. Flame Emperor then falsely assured Lord of Purple Rainbow and Lord of Eternal Frost that Zuo Shan Ke would protect the alliance, winning their continued cooperation.

• Flame Emperor visited Zuo Shan Ke with Pu Ti and asked him to preside over the Nine Domain Alliance.
• Zuo Shan Ke refused to lead the alliance but offered to support it if Flame Emperor killed ten Universe Masters or one hundred peak Universe Overlords.
• Flame Emperor left Zuo Shan Ke's residence and met Lord of Purple Rainbow and Lord of Eternal Frost.
• Flame Emperor claimed Zuo Shan Ke had agreed to protect the alliance from the Human Race and resurrect fallen Universe Overlords, though he had not secured those promises.
• Lord of Purple Rainbow and Lord of Eternal Frost warmed to the alliance, and Lord of Eternal Frost asked whether they could withstand pressure from rival superpowers.

Flame Emperor described how the Nine Domain Alliance had gathered thousands of weak races and tens of thousands of Universe Venerables, though it still lagged behind the Hong Alliance in peak strength. Meanwhile, Golden Wolf Venerable took Xu Yang to the Time-Space Nightmare Beast Clan’s sacred city, where they toured its immense, bustling Anluo Divine Mountain before he led Xu Yang toward a place he had enjoyed as an Immortal.

• Flame Emperor told Lord of Purple Rainbow and Lord of Eternal Frost that the Nine Domain Alliance had persuaded 22,475 weak races to join, bringing its Universe Venerables above seventy thousand and King-level Immortals above thirty million.
• Flame Emperor compared the alliance with the Hong Alliance, estimating that the Hong Alliance had around fifty-eight Universe Masters and just over ten thousand Universe Venerables, while the Nine Domain Alliance had far fewer peak fighters but many more Venerables.
• Golden Wolf Venerable left Venerable Chi Ming’s Burning Heaven Divine Hall with Xu Yang, taking several hundred bottles of Chi Ming’s wine and setting off for the Time-Space Nightmare Beast Clan’s sacred city.
• Xu Yang and Golden Wolf Venerable arrived at Time Nightmare Sacred City, a city 1.2 light-years across, and Golden Wolf explained that exclusive teleportation stars were reserved for clan members and major contributors.
• Golden Wolf Venerable took Xu Yang by carriage to Anluo Divine Mountain, where Xu Yang saw its immense, prosperous tiers and the crowds and businesses filling them.
• After showing Xu Yang the mountain’s upper levels, Golden Wolf Venerable led him toward a place he had frequented when he was an Immortal.

Xu Yang and Golden Wolf Venerable visited Myriad Beasts Pavilion, where shopkeeper Hong Xue gave Xu Yang a rare Crimson Blood Kui Dragon to strengthen her ties with Golden Wolf Venerable. Meanwhile, an intelligence chief learned of the Nine Domain Alliance’s establishment and ordered its information sold discreetly at a high price.

• Xu Yang and Golden Wolf Venerable entered Worry-Free Palace, while an eagle-headed elder recognized them as Venerables and respectfully watched them pass.
• Hong Xue welcomed Golden Wolf Venerable and met his junior brother, Black Abyss King, whom she invited to choose a gift from Myriad Beasts Pavilion.
• Xu Yang chose a Crimson Blood Kui Dragon, and Hong Xue gave it to him along with advice on feeding it Heavenly Yin Grass.
• Golden Wolf Venerable told Xu Yang the Crimson Blood Kui Dragon was exceptionally rare and explained that Hong Xue had given it to cultivate their connection.
• A purple-clad informant reported news about the Nine Domain Alliance to an intelligence chief, who ordered the information circulated on a small scale and sold at a high price.

Xu Yang and Golden Wolf Venerable learned that Flame Emperor’s Nine Domain Alliance was preparing to claim territory, prompting Golden Wolf Venerable to explain how the established superpowers would respond. The alliance’s leaders then began selecting a region, aiming to build a second Northern Frontier Alliance.

• Golden Wolf Venerable and Xu Yang visited a major intelligence organization and learned that the Nine Domain Alliance was moving toward the universe’s core regions.
• Golden Wolf Venerable explained that the superpowers would resist the alliance but avoid an all-out war, and Xu Yang recognized that the ensuing conflict could create opportunities.
• Flame Emperor announced that nearly thirty thousand weak races and 89,374 venerables had joined the Nine Domain Alliance and urged its leaders to claim territory.
• Lord of Eternal Frost presented a territorial map, and the alliance’s Universe Masters ruled out regions bordering the Human Race.
• The leaders considered territories held by the Prison Race, Crystal Clan, and Northern Frontier Alliance as they planned to build a second Northern Frontier Alliance.

The Nine Domain Alliance prepared to secure its new territory, and Xuanji Overlord committed most of his clan’s elite forces to the campaign. Back in Yi Xue City, Xu Yang planned how to send Red Shadow out and decided to join the alliance’s upheaval only if his next Secret Art Draw provided a suitable disguise.

• Flame Emperor and the Nine Domain Alliance leaders unanimously chose territory near the Demon Race Territory and assigned Lord of Eternal Frost to coordinate the forces securing it.
• Xuanji Overlord agreed to send four Universe Venerables and two hundred king-level experts, then moved most of his clan’s promising members into his divine kingdom for protection.
• Golden Wolf Venerable and Xu Yang returned to Five Domain Continent, where Heaven Devouring Overlord assigned Golden Wolf Venerable clan duties and let Xu Yang act freely while he waited for another opportunity.
• Xu Yang settled in Yi Xue City, ate Crimson Blood Kui Dragon meat, and noted that his Secret Art Draw would recharge in one year.
• Xu Yang planned to send Red Shadow out with three drops of special river water for Purple Shadow and considered using Huiyin Stone to conceal Red Shadow’s identity.
• Xu Yang resolved to take part in the Nine Domain Alliance conflict only if his next draw granted a secret art suited to creating an alternate identity.

After waiting six months, Xu Yang drew a Special Secret Technique and explored a mysterious ruin through the system. He discovered that the mountain was the exposed hull of a colossal, ruined Cosmic Boat, then vowed to become powerful enough to decide his own fate.

• Red Shadow brought Purple Shadow three drops of water from the Myriad Transformation Flame River and said he would leave after using his remaining opportunities in six months.
• Xu Yang drew a Special Secret Technique and sent his consciousness through the system to an unfamiliar ruin.
• Xu Yang recognized damaged ground markings written in the same script he had learned from Ku Salu and followed them to a vast mountain.
• Xu Yang realized the mountain was a crashed spacecraft resembling a Cosmic Boat and explored its ruined, dust-filled corridors.
• After finding the exposed portion of the Cosmic Boat completely destroyed, Xu Yang vowed to become someone who could decide the fate of others.

Xu Yang restored the Cosmic Boat cabin and chose the Spirit Stealing Heart secret art, which let him imitate other species by absorbing their life cores. He transformed into a Cilala Race member to conceal his identity, and Purple Shadow successfully copied the same disguise.

• Xu Yang reversed time around the ruined Dragon Bone and discovered a cabin containing Memory Stones and a list of secret arts.
• Xu Yang selected the Spirit Stealing Heart and watched the cabin’s former occupant, a handsome man, perish along with a black ring and a bronze-gold token.
• The Memory Stone taught Xu Yang the secret art, opening a space that could store the life cores of five species and let him perfectly imitate them.
• Xu Yang chose the widely distributed Cilala Race as his disguise and seized a Universe Level Cilala lifeform from his divine kingdom.
• Xu Yang absorbed the Cilala’s life core, transformed into a Cilala giant, and equipped the Huiyin Stone as armor.
• Purple Shadow tested the transformation and also became a Cilala Race member, leaving the two disguised figures laughing together.

Xu Yang traveled under the disguised identity of Dong Shan toward the Nine Domain Alliance, intending to gather twelve King-level Peak child demons along the way. In the Blood Moon Secret Realm, he met Bingxi Clan member Zaroe and was escorted to the clan’s core territory to meet its Venerable ancestor.

• Xu Yang disguised his aura as that of a Venerable, equipped his Cilala Race identity for the journey, and set out to gather twelve child demons without attracting attention from the Monster Race.
• Xu Yang detoured through weak races’ territories and entered the Blood Moon Secret Realm aboard an ordinary F-class spaceship.
• Zaroe and his Bingxi Clan companions spotted Xu Yang’s spacecraft in the Myriad Blades Sea and abandoned their thoughts of robbing it when they sensed his Venerable aura.
• Xu Yang introduced himself as Dong Shan and asked Zaroe to take him to the Bingxi Clan ancestor, intending to find King-level Peak members in the clan’s core territory.
• Zaroe escorted Xu Yang through the Blood Moon Secret Realm to the Bingxi Clan’s base camp, where word of the visitor reached the ancestor.

Xu Yang posed as the wandering Venerable Dong Shan and befriended Venerable Sanjue to infiltrate the Bingxi Clan and enslave its King-level Peak experts. He left the Blood Moon Secret Realm after three months, with eight subsidiary demons remaining inside the clan.

• Xu Yang secretly branded Black-robed Envoy and White-robed Envoy as Soul Servants, then learned the Bingxi Clan's strengths and the locations of its hidden treasure vaults.
• Xu Yang realized the clan had only eight available King-level Peak experts, short of the twelve he wanted for the Twelve Origin Heavenly Demon Flow.
• After Venerable Sanjue emerged from seclusion, Xu Yang met him and claimed to be Dong Shan, a Cilala Race Venerable whose clan had been destroyed in the War of Ascension.
• Xu Yang and Venerable Sanjue grew close over conversation and hospitality, and Xu Yang stayed with the Bingxi Clan for three months.
• During his stay, Xu Yang branded the clan's remaining six King-level Peak experts without alerting Venerable Sanjue.
• Xu Yang departed the Blood Moon Secret Realm alone, leaving all eight subsidiary demons inside the Bingxi Clan.

A year later, Xu Yang traveled through the Chaos Sector seeking his final sub-demon and encountered two King-level experts battling in space. After enslaving the beast-form expert and recruiting the talented Fei Xue, Xu Yang completed his collection of twelve sub-demons and prepared to unleash the Twelve Origin Heavenly Demon Flow.

• Xu Yang traveled through the Chaos Sector aboard a spacecraft pulled by two Giant Flood Dragon-like monsters, with Qi serving as his guide.
• Gray-white-armored Fei Xue fought a leopard-shaped King-level Peak expert and nearly killed him with his blade arts.
• Xu Yang arrived, immobilized both fighters with golden secret patterns, and used his final sub-seal to enslave the beast-form expert.
• After the twelve sub-demons gathered, Xu Yang recognized Fei Xue's talent and used Qi's sub-seal to bring him under his command.

Xu Yang gathered Green Mustard’s faction and set out as the Nine Domain Alliance and the Monster Race prepared for war. The two sides settled on their respective strategies, with the Monster Race planning to pressure the alliance while leaving Flame Emperor alive.

• Xu Yang ordered Green Mustard to summon its faction, then gathered Green Mustard’s thirty-seven immortal subordinates and placed them under its command.
• Xu Yang left with his servants to handle their next task as construction continued at the Nine Domain Alliance’s front-line base.
• Golden Brilliance Overlord and the other alliance leaders discussed their forces and chose to fight across many small battlefields using wolf pack tactics.
• Dream Demon Ancestor learned that the Nine Domain Alliance was preparing for war and ordered the Monster Race leaders to target its other Universe Masters while sparing Flame Emperor.
• Dream Demon Ancestor authorized Lord of Nine Meng and Time Nightmare Master to oversee the operation and mobilize the imperial clans, while warning them to limit casualties.

Xu Yang, Qi, and Fei Xue reached the Moros Sector, where the Nine Domain Alliance had gathered tens of thousands of Venerables. As the Moros Five Evil Venerables formed a plan to rise within the alliance and went to greet a newcomer, Xu Yang sensed a Venerable teleporting nearby.

• Xu Yang reassured Fei Xue that he could defeat Venerable Fusa and guided Fei Xue in cultivation during their journey.
• Xu Yang, Qi, and Fei Xue arrived at the Moros Sector, and Xu Yang recognized it as the Nine Domain Alliance’s temporary frontline base camp.
• The Gluttony Evil Venerable swallowed a maidservant after she failed to fill his cup, while his four brothers showed no objection.
• The Pride Evil Venerable told his brothers that more than twenty thousand Venerables had gathered in the sector and proposed building a small alliance within the Nine Domain Alliance.
• The five Evil Venerables received a patrol alert, set out to recruit the newcomer, and appeared near Xu Yang’s spaceship.
• Xu Yang sensed spatial fluctuations about one hundred million kilometers away and wondered whether the Nine Domain Alliance had discovered him.

Xu Yang entered the Moros Sector under the alias Dongshan and joined the Nine Domain Alliance, claiming to be a Universe Overlord to secure a prominent position. Pride Evil Venerable escorted him through the alliance’s transfer network to the Troop Command Hall, where they encountered a motionless white-haired figure at a desk.

• Xu Yang introduced himself as Dongshan and accepted Pride Evil Venerable’s offer to guide him into the Nine Domain Alliance.
• Xu Yang claimed he was a lone wanderer from the Kuize Pan-Star Zone Belt who had learned of the alliance in the Chaos Sector.
• When asked to report his strength, Xu Yang declared himself a Universe Overlord, stunning Pride Evil Venerable and his companions.
• Pride Evil Venerable brought Xu Yang through a Divine Kingdom transfer hall and helped him register a Divine Kingdom Token.
• Xu Yang and Pride Evil Venerable traveled by shuttle to the Troop Command Hall and entered its vast, ornate interior.
• Xu Yang saw a white-haired figure in gray robes lying motionless over a black-jade desk.

Xu Yang joined the Nine Domain Alliance and received command of a thousand King-level Immortals, then realized a newly recruited neighbor felt familiar. The neighbor was an undercover agent from the Time-Space Nightmare Beast Clan, and Xu Yang invited him over for a meal without either man knowing the other’s true intentions.

• Xu Yang introduced himself as Dongshan Supreme Venerable to Lan Yu Overlord, who welcomed him into the Nine Domain Alliance and issued him a communication device and command token for a guard unit of a thousand King-level Immortals.
• After recognizing a familiar soul fluctuation in the silver-robed newcomer, Xu Yang investigated him and recalled a connection to Hong Xue, the daughter of the man’s former identity.
• The silver-robed man entered his assigned residence and revealed that he was an Ice Mountain Beast undercover agent tasked by the Time-Space Nightmare Beast Clan with gathering secrets inside the alliance.
• The silver-robed agent planned to build friendships to collect information, then went outside and waited near Xu Yang’s neighboring residence.
• Xu Yang emerged and ordered his guards to prepare a feast, prompting the hungry silver-robed agent to accept Xu Yang’s invitation for a drink.

Xu Yang, calling himself Dong Shan, and Xuan Bingzi joined the other Universe Overlords at the Myriad Affairs Hall, where Venerable Ba Jian revealed plans to form a Vanguard Squad. He offered each member at least two supreme treasures, leaving the gathered Overlords weighing the dangerous assignment against the chance to keep the treasures after the war.

• Xu Yang and Xuan Bingzi met over a meal, exchanged names, and accepted golden tokens summoning them to the Myriad Affairs Hall.
• Xu Yang and Xuan Bingzi traveled to the hall, received purple maple avatars for urgent communication, and joined the other Overlords gathering there.
• Lan Yu Overlord waited until all nine Overlords had arrived, then introduced Venerable Ba Jian as the true host.
• Venerable Ba Jian served wine from his ancestor, the Purple Cloud Master, and announced that he would lead a Vanguard Squad of Universe Overlords.
• Venerable Ba Jian promised each member at least two supreme treasures that would become theirs after the war, prompting Jue Ming Overlord to ask whether the offer was genuine.
• Venerable Ba Jian reassured Jue Ming Overlord and displayed his High-grade Supreme Treasure, Azure Nether.