Chapter Summaries

Xu Yang toured the Seven Lights Tower with Old Barto and learned how its bounty markets worked across different cultivation levels. He spotted a persistent bounty for intelligence about the Fengqiao City Lord’s third son, posted after news of the city lord’s death.

• Old Barto brought Xu Yang into the Seven Lights Tower’s treasure-bounty market and explained that it traded in items from other races, including humans and the Mechanical Race.
• Xu Yang saw that each tower floor was a small world, with bounty spheres offering missions for different cultivation levels.
• Old Barto explained the nonrefundable fees for posting and accepting bounties and the penalties for failing to pay a completed bounty.
• Xu Yang noticed a permanent bounty seeking intelligence on the Fengqiao City Lord’s third son, and Old Barto said it had appeared after Di Guang announced the city lord’s death.

Xu Yang joined the Seven Spirits Society after learning it operated as a loosely structured bounty organization, then booked a year at the Cat Beauty Hotel. The next day, he received his badge and went to the second floor of the Seven Lights Tower to browse Universe Level bounties.

• Xu Yang met Old Barto at the Baturu Lava Bar and asked about the Seven Spirits Society.
• Old Barto explained the society’s membership and mission rules, and Xu Yang joined its Star Ring group.
• Xu Yang exchanged contact information with Old Barto, who promised to bring him a badge the next day.
• Xu Yang booked a one-year stay at the Cat Beauty Hotel for 100,000 Guardian Crystals.
• Old Barto gave Xu Yang his Seven Spirits Society badge, and Xu Yang went to the second floor of the Seven Lights Tower to inspect bounties.

Xu Yang searched the black market for a bounty that offered worthwhile prey and accepted a mission to hunt two Stowaway Bugs on Star WEQ-12737. He met the Azure Fox employers in space, where their small spacecraft approached his much larger vessel.

• Xu Yang rejected city-based assassination bounties and accepted a bounty for two Universe Level Stowaway Bugs on Star WEQ-12737 after the Azure Fox employers offered him clan treasures.
• Yate and two Azure Foxes explained that the Stowaway Bugs had invaded their home star while their Universe Level clansman fought them.
• Yate and his companion set out to meet Xu Yang, while Kate remained in the black market with instructions to report the bounty hunter to the Seven Lights Society if they failed to return.
• Yate and his companion reached the agreed coordinates and saw Xu Yang's forty-nine-kilometer-long spacecraft waiting in space.

Xu Yang traveled with Yate and his companion to planet WEQ-12737 aboard the Star Hunter to hunt two Universe Level Stowaway Bugs. He destroyed both bugs and gained resources, leaving the Azure Foxes to witness his overwhelming strength.

• Yate and his companion followed Xu Yang's Star Hunter through the Dark Universe to the emerald-green destination planet.
• Xu Yang detected the Stowaway Bugs in their nests and fired the Star Hunter's laser cannons, forcing both of them out.
• The two Universe Level Five Stowaway Bugs fled toward the atmosphere, but Xu Yang pursued them with his Domain Lord Level speed.
• Xu Yang pierced the first Stowaway Bug with his venomous claw, killing it and gaining one resource.
• Xu Yang caught and swallowed the second Stowaway Bug, gaining another resource.

Yate and his companion returned to find the Azure Fox Clan destroyed, including its strongest member, Fili. As Xu Yang explored the clan’s sacrificial site and discovered clues to its powerful ancestors, the two survivors gave him their promised reward.

• Yate and his companion flew to their clan’s territory and found its buildings destroyed and its people slaughtered.
• They discovered Fili’s body among the ruins and grieved for their fallen clan.
• Xu Yang surveyed the devastation, then explored an ancient sacrificial cave and noticed a mural showing an Azure Fox collapsing a star with one paw.
• Yate and his companion presented Xu Yang with an azure gemstone and an ancient scroll as his reward.
• Xu Yang found that the gemstone was Spatial Equipment with a cubic space roughly two hundred meters on each side, strengthening his suspicion that the Azure Fox Clan had once been powerful.

Xu Yang accepted Yate and Shaluo’s request to protect the Azure Fox Clan, retrieved their scattered clansmen, and returned to Fengtan Star with the clan’s mysterious star chart. Meanwhile, Old Barto met with other wanted figures at a hidden bar in River Luo District to discuss an undisclosed matter.

• Xu Yang offered Yate and Shaluo one favor in exchange for the azure gemstone, and Yate asked him to protect the Azure Fox Clan.
• Xu Yang agreed to help but said he could not stay on their planet permanently, then took the star chart and learned the clan did not know what secret it held.
• Xu Yang traveled with Yate to retrieve the Azure Fox Clan’s branches from two other Life Stars and returned to Fengtan Star after resting.
• A spirit cat named Old Barto entered the Hidden Sand bar, where the Black Goat and Silver Scale had gathered with another figure.
• Old Barto asked the others what important matter had brought them together.

The Black Goat Demon planned with Old Barto, Silver Scale, and San Hua to ambush Deport Angel and seize his valuable ore shipment. Deport Angel traveled through the Storm Star Domain with four retainers, unaware of the plot, while carrying out a secret mission for his family.

• The Black Goat Demon told Old Barto, Silver Scale, and San Hua that Deport Angel was escorting ore worth 100 billion Guardian Crystals through the Storm Star Domain.
• The Black Goat assigned the demons targets among Deport Angel and his four Domain Lord generals, and Old Barto agreed to bring a low-ranking Seven Spirits Society recruit to distract Thunder General.
• Deport Angel traveled through the Storm Star Domain aboard a fleet of one D-Class Warship and four C-Class Warships, with Yan keeping watch.
• Deport Angel rested in his chamber and reflected on how his brothers had staged a feud after their father died, while he secretly escorted the ore using their late father's remaining military merits.
• Deport Angel and his brothers planned to pool their resources and hoped one of them would reach the World Lord Level, since they could not retain Fengqiao City without that strength.

Xu Yang met Old Barto to discuss an interception job tied to the inheritance of Fengqiao City's former City Lord. Xu Yang agreed to join, unaware that Old Barto regretted having to involve him in a scheme over immense wealth.

• Old Barto summoned Xu Yang to the Baturu Lava Bar and privately described an interception job in the Storm Star Domain.
• Old Barto revealed that the target was connected to the former City Lord of Fengqiao City's inheritance and said Xu Yang would only need to hold off a second-stage Domain Lord.
• Old Barto said he had already recruited three others, including one seventh-stage and three fourth-stage Domain Lords, and expected them to set out within a week.
• Xu Yang agreed to join after deciding he could prepare by buying Blood Food and pawn the Space Gem.
• Xu Yang left the bar, and Old Barto privately lamented that he had to involve someone he liked because the wealth at stake was too great.

Xu Yang pawned a large Spatial Treasure at Prosperous Bank for 45 billion Guardian Crystals, trusting himself to handle Old Barto’s task rather than rely on a stranger. After celebrating the deal with Adam, he headed to Thousand Flavors Pavilion in the North District.

• Xu Yang left the bar and decided to keep control of his own fate and the fortune he hoped to obtain.
• Xu Yang pawned his cyan Spatial Treasure with Adam at Prosperous Bank for 45 billion Guardian Crystals, with a ten-year redemption period.
• Xu Yang signed the pawn contract, received the document, and celebrated the transaction with Adam over expensive wine.
• Xu Yang cleared his head and made his way through the black market to Thousand Flavors Pavilion.

Xu Yang visited Thousand Flavors Pavilion and bought twenty-four live Universe Level demon beasts as blood food. While waiting for his order, he wondered how the small battlefield region could supply so many Guardian Stars, and concluded that the beasts must be brought in from beyond it.

• Xu Yang entered Thousand Flavors Pavilion and saw Domain Lord Level demons eating live prey in its dining halls.
• In a private room, Xu Yang selected twenty-four portions of Universe Level blood food, spending 12.4 billion Guardian Crystals and requesting that they be brought in alive.
• Orange Cat Demonesses delivered the demon beasts in restriction-lit cages, where the captives trembled and could not use their Origin Power.
• Xu Yang questioned how the region spanning 1.2 million light-years supplied enough blood food for 720 Guardian Stars.
• Xu Yang recalled that his Star Hunter had come from the neighboring Greedy Wind Star Sector and concluded that Universe Level blood food was transported from outside the region.

Xu Yang gathered enough resources to reach World Lord Level but delayed his breakthrough while searching for a treasure to protect him during the vulnerable process. He left Shouxin Warship Sales after befriending Axin, who asked what he had been saying earlier.

• Xu Yang left Thousand Flavors Pavilion after slaughtering the caged beasts and confirmed that he had gathered twenty-seven units of Universe Level resources.
• Xu Yang decided to postpone his breakthrough so he could obtain a valuable ore during an upcoming trip with Old Barto and avoid revealing his increased life aura.
• Xu Yang searched several shops for a treasure that could protect him during his breakthrough but found the prices beyond his budget.
• Xu Yang visited Shouxin Warship Sales and spoke with Axin while Axin repaired a spaceship engine.
• Axin finished repairing the engine, and Xu Yang praised his skills before Axin asked what Xu Yang had been saying earlier.

Xu Yang asked Axin to find an affordable defense against ninth-stage Domain Lord attacks, and Axin offered to forge one from high-grade spaceship wreckage arriving the next day. Meanwhile, Old Barto reported to Black Goat that everything was ready and agreed to set off in three days.

• Xu Yang asked Axin for a defensive item costing no more than 34 billion that could withstand a ninth-stage Domain Lord for ten minutes.
• Axin offered to select high-grade spaceship wreckage from the Warship Graveyard and smelt it with Fengtan Star's Earth Core flames.
• Xu Yang thanked Axin but resolved to test the finished defense himself before trusting it.
• Old Barto followed Xu Yang, saw no sign that he had grown suspicious, and returned to Baturu Lava Bar.
• Old Barto told Black Goat that everything had been taken care of, and they agreed to set off in three days.

Xu Yang planned to slow down and focus on comprehending laws after reaching the World Master level, then went to meet Axin at a guarded starport warehouse. Axin finished building a massive, seamless Azure Sphere designed to withstand a Domain Lord Level Ninth Order’s attacks and showed Xu Yang how to open it.

• Xu Yang finished his Training Room session and resolved to consolidate his domains before pursuing laws after reaching the World Master level.
• Axin called Xu Yang to the D1274 Area warehouse, where he was processing a pod from the Earth Core.
• Xu Yang arrived and waited while Axin worked for over an hour on a five-kilometer-wide Azure Sphere.
• Axin explained how the sphere’s crystals absorbed impact and how its size, thickness, and alloy had to withstand attacks and extreme vacuum conditions.
• Axin opened the sphere using a sequence of 256 silver crystals and told Xu Yang how to seal it from inside.

Xu Yang completed preparations by securing the metal sphere in his Star Hunter and paying Axin 30.2 billion Guardian Crystals. He met Old Barto and the three other members of their team on Fengqiao City’s surface, disguised himself with them, and set off for their mission.

• Xu Yang and Axin confirmed the metal sphere could withstand a peak Domain Lord’s attack, installed it in Xu Yang’s Star Hunter, and Xu Yang paid Axin 30.2 billion Guardian Crystals.
• Two days later, Old Barto met Xu Yang at a secluded black market exit and led him through Fengqiao City to meet their teammates.
• Old Barto introduced Xu Yang to Old Goat, a seventh-stage Domain Lord, and Silver Scale and San Hua, both fourth-stage Domain Lords.
• Old Goat, Silver Scale, San Hua, and Old Barto put on armor to disguise themselves because they had records with the Fengtan Star garrison.
• Xu Yang accepted a black cloak from Old Goat, concealed himself with Origin Power, and set off with the team.

Xu Yang and the other monsters reached the boundary of the Storm Star Domain, where the Black Goat Demon revealed its plan to ambush Deport Angel’s fleet using corrosive blood. The Black Goat Demon also aimed to claim an extra share of the spoils, while Xu Yang recognized the blood as a threat to Axin’s metal spheres.

• The Black Goat Demon guided the team through the Dark Universe toward the Thunder Spring Galaxy while secretly planning to obtain one trillion Guardian Crystal resources and escape its convict status.
• Xu Yang and the other monsters emerged near the Storm Star Domain’s immense storm wall and discussed their ambitions and their place on the team.
• The Black Goat Demon announced that Deport Angel’s fleet would arrive in a day, consisting of one D6-Class Gang Turtle mothership and four C8-Class Barracuda escort ships.
• The Black Goat Demon displayed a tank of Corrosive Cockroach blood that could corrode even a D9-Class Origin Turtle hull, and Xu Yang realized it could also corrode Axin’s metal spheres.
• The Black Goat Demon said the blood had cost it tens of billions and a major favor, then demanded an extra ten percent of the spoils.

Black Goat and the other monsters prepared an asteroid barrier to stop Deport Angel’s fleet from escaping the Storm Star Domain. The fleet crashed into the debris, leaving four warships damaged and unable to enter the Dark Universe quickly.

• Black Goat demanded a larger share of the spoils, and Old Barto, Silver Scale, San Hua, and Xu Yang agreed.
• Black Goat ordered the monsters to move asteroids and wreckage into the fleet’s route, and Xu Yang helped arrange the debris.
• Deport Angel ordered his fleet to accelerate as soon as it exited the Storm Star Domain, unaware that an insider had revealed the hidden route.
• The five warships emerged from the storm eye at high speed and collided with the asteroid barrier, halting their advance and damaging four ships.
• Deport Angel demanded a damage report as the crews began assessing the warships’ failures and repairs.

Black Goat and Xu Yang’s group ambushed Deport Angel’s fleet and fought to stop the Gang Turtle warship from escaping with its ore. Black Goat broke through the enemy’s attacks and reached the accelerating ship, while Deport Angel pursued him.

• Deport Angel learned that five Domain Lords were approaching and ordered his fleet to abandon its four C-class ships while the Gang Turtle accelerated away.
• Black Goat ordered Old Barto and the others to hold off Deport Angel’s group while he attacked the warship, and Xu Yang prepared for battle with his abilities.
• Old Barto confronted Deport Angel as the four White Scorpion generals engaged Xu Yang and the other demons.
• Black Goat used Soul Suppression to disrupt the five enemies, slipped past them, and flew toward the Gang Turtle warship.
• Deport Angel pursued Black Goat while the warship’s guards fired D1-class lasers, which scorched Black Goat’s shoulder without breaking his defenses.

The Black Goat attacked Deport Angel's Gang Turtle warship with its bloodline power and corrosive poison, while Xu Yang and the Four Demons fought Deport Angel's generals. The Black Goat faced Deport Angel in a fierce battle, and Xu Yang remained evenly matched with the General Lightning Ape.

• The Black Goat grew larger and knocked the Gang Turtle warship off course with its horns.
• The Black Goat used Soul Suppression to stop Deport Angel's white-jade scorpion, then hurled Corrosive Cockroach poisonous blood at the warship's viewport.
• The Five-colored Liquid melted through the Gang Turtle warship's armor and corroded a Universe Level demon beast in the cockpit.
• Deport Angel donned a Fourth-Order Origin Power Battle Suit as the Black Goat unleashed its bloodline power and resisted Deport Angel's mental attack.
• Old Barto suppressed General Yan, while Xu Yang, Silver Scale, and San Hua struggled against the other generals.
• Xu Yang and the General Lightning Ape struck each other and flew back without either gaining the upper hand.

Xu Yang fled toward the Star Hunter to break through to World Lord Level, while Thunder General pursued him and Black Goat's clone tried to escape aboard a Barracuda Escort Ship. After Xu Yang killed the clone and Black Tortoise, Black Goat swore revenge, and Xu Yang sensed an unseen danger closing in.

• Xu Yang decided to retreat to the Star Hunter and break through rather than kill Thunder General, whom he considered a valuable resource.
• Black Tortoise and Black Goat's clone attempted to flee the battle aboard a Barracuda Escort Ship, but Xu Yang intercepted them and tore through the ship.
• Xu Yang killed Black Tortoise and devoured Black Goat's clone before flying onward toward the Star Hunter.
• Black Goat lost focus upon the clone's death, allowing Deport Angel to strike back, then vowed to torment Xu Yang in revenge.
• Xu Yang felt a sudden sense of imminent danger but continued toward the Star Hunter as Thunder General chased and taunted him.

Xu Yang hid from General Lightning Ape inside the Star Hunter and used the system’s resources to advance from Domain Lord Level, First Rank to World Master. His new Inner World stabilized and began taking shape as he filled it with cosmic source energy.

• Xu Yang escaped General Lightning Ape’s attack by entering the Star Hunter, which the ape smashed into the planet’s surface.
• Xu Yang used the system’s energy to rise to Domain Lord Level, Ninth Rank in five minutes.
• Xu Yang spent his remaining resources to break through to World Master and formed his Inner World by resonating with the Land of Origin of the Original Universe.
• Cosmic source energy flooded Xu Yang’s Inner World, and he shaped it into an endless ocean with eight sea eyes and eight emerging continents.