Chapter Summaries

Li Qi publicly tried thirty-two Royce Family members for crimes and delivered punishments, including executions, prison terms, and a sentence for Linaya. As he finished judging thirty-one people, Nineteen remained to be tried.

• Vario learned that Garibuel had ordered the Kutlo Family's destruction while assuring him that Linaya and his uncle and grandfather would be safe.
• Garibuel wondered whether Li Qi's demand that the family watch the trial livestream was intended as a warning.
• Li Qi began the public trial on Ancient Jade Planet, sentencing Hailute, He Yi, Lu Heye, and most of the other accused juniors to death.
• Li Qi sentenced one junior with lesser crimes to ten thousand years on Black Prison Star and Linaya to one hundred years of imprisonment on Ancient Jade Planet.
• Li Qi sentenced nine Royce Family elders who had enabled wrongdoing to ten thousand years in prison, leaving Nineteen to be tried.

Li Qi sentenced Nineteen to Black Prison Star for his role in the slave trade, then set stricter rules for the Royce Family before returning to the Primordial Secret Realm. At a family meeting, Garibuel became the new manager, Derrick took charge of law enforcement, and Ivanko took charge of intelligence; afterward, Li Qi received an email from the Virtual Universe Company.

• Li Qi questioned Nineteen about investing in the slave trade and learned that Nineteen had wanted to become stronger and follow in his footsteps.
• Li Qi sentenced Nineteen to one hundred years in Black Prison Star, then warned the Royce Family that future crimes would be punished without exception.
• Li Qi left Ancient Jade Planet, and Nineteen learned that surviving Black Prison Star would earn him Li Qi's help in improving his talent and entering the Peak Genius Battle finals.
• At the Virtual Universe family meeting, Huo Lu stepped down and Royce appointed Garibuel as the new family manager.
• Garibuel proposed law enforcement and intelligence departments; Derrick became head of law enforcement, and Ivanko took charge of intelligence.
• After the meeting, Li Qi received an email from the Virtual Universe Company.

After completing the Highest Points Mission, Li Qi reviewed the Virtual Universe Company's criticism of his family judgments and discussed his results with Venerable Ling Tu. He learned that King Hong Zhi had died on the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, then received guidance from his senior brother on spatial origin laws before his planned cultivation in Chaos City.

• Li Qi told Derrick that he would spend thousands of years cultivating in Chaos City, then read that he had earned 8.38 million points and received criticism for favoring relatives in his judgments.
• Li Qi met Venerable Ling Tu, who said King Hong Zhi had been forced to self-destruct by invincible king-level enemies on the Extraterrestrial Battlefield after a universe overlord retaliated for the death of his son.
• Venerable Ling Tu warned Li Qi about the flaws associated with Loka Tribe blood and praised him for not staying long in his hometown after an assassination attempt.
• Li Qi told Venerable Ling Tu that he planned to cultivate in Chaos City until becoming a world master, and Venerable Ling Tu began teaching him spatial origin laws.

The Loka Tribe faced growing pressure after King Hong Zhi’s fall, while Marquis Zhu Han revealed he had reached king level and regretted losing the chance to recruit Li Qi. Li Qi returned to Uchen Space-Time, prepared to enter Chaos City for cultivation, and reunited with Fei aboard the ship to the Initial Universe.

• Marquis Zhu Han told the Loka Tribe’s undying gods to avoid major conflicts until King Hong Zhi was resurrected, then announced he had reached king level and would seek certification.
• Li Qi reflected on his law-comprehension plans and decided to cultivate in Chaos City, where he would work toward the Domain Lord-level Original Tongtian Mountain challenge.
• Li Qi returned to Uchen Space-Time, retrieved the No. 1 Branch Tree, and left for the Initial Universe after deciding to ask his teacher about the fourth level of the Origin-Weight Compliant Body.
• Aboard the ship to the Initial Universe, Li Qi drew the attention of the other passengers and met Fei again.
• Fei teased Li Qi for forming a small gathering circle with Man Le and Kedi without including her.

Li Qi arrived in Chaos City, received the fourth level of the Origin-Weight Compliant Body from Ice Peak Lord, and quickly mastered it. Testing its effects, he discovered that shrinking his body greatly increased its density and defense, leading him to suspect the Nine-Turn Origin Heavy Body Refining Method could truly refine his body.

• Fei asked to join Li Qi, Kedi, and Man Le's circle, and Li Qi said he would discuss it with them before deciding.
• Li Qi and Fei arrived in Chaos City; Fei went to study the Chaos Stele, while Li Qi visited Ice Peak Lord and received permission to learn the fourth level of the Origin-Weight Compliant Body.
• Li Qi settled into a residence, planted the No. 1 Branch Tree on its rooftop, and began cultivating the fourth level with his true body in his world ring.
• After more than three years in the Initial Universe, Li Qi completed the fourth level and shrank his body to a little over two meters tall.
• Li Qi tested his defense and found that a tier-three weapon could barely pierce his skin, then suspected the Nine-Turn Origin Heavy Body Refining Method was responsible for his extraordinary toughness.

Li Qi tested his ability to fuse Blood Luo Crystals and raised his total to twenty-two, increasing his compatibility with the universe’s origin to about 3.2 times. He then used the Kuyu Ancient Tree to grow a branch-tree avatar and examine its Kuyu Cage technique before returning to law comprehension in Chaos City.

• Li Qi fused Blood Luo Crystals until the murderous intent from the twenty-second crystal pushed him to his limit, then measured his origin compatibility at roughly 3.2 times.
• Li Qi returned to Chaos City and replaced the small No. 1 Branch Tree with a branch from the Kuyu Ancient Tree avatar, which grew into a four-kilometer-tall branch tree.
• Li Qi had No. 1 avatar use Kuyu Cage and found that the branch tree could sustain the energy-intensive technique for less than five seconds.
• The Kuyu Ancient Tree avatar sensed that Kuyu Cage contained traces of the Wood-Space Fusion Law and Space Sealing, but Li Qi postponed studying its mysteries.
• Li Qi activated Blood Luo Force on his rooftop in Chaos City and resumed comprehending the laws manifested in the Initial Universe.

After thirty years of cultivating in Chaos City, Li Qi checked that Nineteen had survived Black Prison Star and considered the Black Zhuo Clan body he had prepared to improve his brother’s talent. Seeking answers to his remaining questions about space laws, Li Qi studied the Divine Tree Chaos Stele and was forcibly awakened when the session ended.

• Li Qi confirmed through the family information network that Nineteen had safely left Black Prison Star and thought about the stellar-level Black Zhuo Clan body he had sent him.
• Li Qi received guidance from his Seventh Senior Brother about the origin law of space, then continued contemplating the Initial Universe’s law patterns.
• Li Qi went to the City Lord’s Mansion to study the Divine Tree Chaos Stele, where the black-robed reception envoy praised his achievements to a group of new geniuses.
• Li Qi spoke with Kandeli and entered the Divine Tree Chaos Stele chamber when his study session began.
• Li Qi focused on the sixth diagram, using its three main branches to clarify his understanding of the origin law of space.
• The session ended, and Kandeli’s penetrating call awakened Li Qi and the other students, who flew out of the chamber in pain.

After comprehending the Divine Tree Chaos Stele, Li Qi began a thousand years of secluded cultivation in Chaos City, studying space-law engravings suited to him. During that time, his friends advanced through the secret realms, while Kedi became the second person of their generation to pass the universe-level Original Tongtian Mountain but lost twice to Li Qi in domain lord-level Secret Realm Battles.

• Li Qi advised Nineteen to nurture a human original body, replied to Venerable Ling Tu that he would work to surpass Jiu Meng Luo, and agreed to meet Kedi and Man Le.
• Kedi told Li Qi and Man Le that he had fused five Blood Luo Crystals, and Li Qi revealed that his domain lord-level Highest Points Mission had earned him eight million points.
• Li Qi, Kedi, and Man Le agreed to invite Fei into their circle, and Li Qi told them he would enter prolonged secluded cultivation.
• Li Qi found space-law comprehension engravings on his residence rooftop and began studying them.
• Over the next thousand years, Nineteen acquired a Black Zhuo Clan body and then nurtured a human original body, Fei joined the circle after entering the Primal Secret Region, and Man Le later entered it as well.
• Kedi passed the universe-level Original Tongtian Mountain but lost to Li Qi in two consecutive domain lord-level Secret Realm Battles.

After absorbing his latest insights from the Divine Tree Chaos Stele, Li Qi challenged the Heavenly Bridge for the first time in over three thousand years as a Domain Lord. His challenge drew the attention of Immortals, Venerables, and fellow geniuses, and the chapter left him at the thirteenth level.

• Li Qi reviewed his progress in Chaos City, considered his future contest with Kedi, and decided to absorb his recent insights before challenging the Heavenly Bridge.
• Li Qi comprehended the Divine Tree Chaos Stele for seven days, resolving doubts about the Space Origin Law, then entered the Virtual Universe to challenge the bridge.
• Li Qi told guardian Bafen that he expected to pass the fifteenth level and hoped to go higher; Bafen announced the challenge to observers.
• Immortals, Venerables, and geniuses gathered or watched broadcasts, discussing Li Qi's progress and comparing him with Kedi and other talents.
• Fei used her final Dangerous-level cultivation mission opportunity to enter the Blood River World, while Li Qi reached the thirteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge.

Li Qi cleared the thirteenth through sixteenth levels of the Heavenly Bridge, defeating each gatekeeper with ease before leaving to challenge the Domain Lord-level Original Tongtian Mountain. His success stunned observers across the human race, and the chapter ended with him entering the Heaven-Piercing Mountain Plane.

• Li Qi chose a warrior opponent on the thirteenth level and killed the flame-armored gatekeeper with a single claw strike, then cleared the fourteenth level as he continued toward the stellar core.
• Li Qi defeated the fifteenth-level flame-armored gatekeeper, prompting geniuses and experts watching the broadcast to marvel at his progress.
• Li Qi fought the purple-armored gatekeeper on the sixteenth level, activated Origin-Weight Compliant Body, and killed him with Destroy Five.
• Li Qi cleared the sixteenth level, teleported away, and announced that he would challenge the Domain Lord-level Heaven-Piercing Mountain.
• Observers and Universe Venerables praised Li Qi's talent, while Man Le celebrated the news and Fei worried that the gap between herself and Li Qi was widening.
• Li Qi returned to his estate in the Original Area and immediately entered the Heaven-Piercing Mountain Plane.

Li Qi cleared the Domain Lord-level Original Tongtian Mountain and received congratulations and gifts from the Venerables and his senior brothers and sisters. He visited Ice Peak Lord, chose the Extraterrestrial Battlefield for his training, and was shown two treasures that his teacher would grant under certain conditions.

• Li Qi defeated the three gatekeepers and cleared the Domain Lord-level Original Tongtian Mountain on his first attempt.
• Venerables received notice of Li Qi’s achievement, and Venerable Ling Tu sent him 100 million chaos units.
• Li Qi received more than 300 million chaos units in congratulatory gifts and ordered a Moyun Vine sapling while planning his future training.
• Li Qi visited Ice Peak Lord, learned that his teacher had prepared the Black Zhuo Clan body-seizure resources, and chose the Extraterrestrial Battlefield for his adventure.
• Ice Peak Lord explained that Li Qi would receive one of two promised treasures before completing his military merit quota and revealed a translucent crimson crystal and ancient silver-white battle armor.

Li Qi received the Inheritance Crystal from Ice Peak Lord and refined it, gaining three Molten Fire inheritances in addition to the Nine-Turn Origin Heavy Body Refining Method. The chapter left him beginning to examine the Molten Fire Gene Diagram after discovering that the crystal’s other inheritances covered artifact refinement and secret patterns.

• Ice Peak Lord gave Li Qi a choice between the Inheritance Crystal and Frost Armor, and Li Qi chose the crystal.
• Ice Peak Lord explained that Li Qi would soon need to create his own secret techniques and would be sent to the Extraterrestrial Battlefield after one thousand years of preparation.
• The Golden Horn Race elders learned that Li Qi had passed the Domain Lord-level Original Tongtian Mountain and decided to permanently open the Beast God Statue for their clansmen.
• Back in Chaos City, Li Qi refined the Inheritance Crystal and received the Molten Fire Artifact-Refining Art, the Molten Fire Gene Spectrum, and the Molten Fire Secret-Pattern Diagram.
• Li Qi discovered that the Molten Fire Artifact-Refining Art described forging True God-level supreme treasures and that the secret-pattern inheritance explained patterns used in weapons and treasures.
• Li Qi shifted his consciousness to the final Molten Fire Gene Diagram to examine its contents.

Li Qi learned that the Molten Fire Crystal was a true god-level soul-type supreme treasure tied to the Nine-Turn Origin Heavy Body Refining Method, then left Chaos City and broke through to Sector Lord. With his enormous internal world formed and his Kuyu Ancient Tree avatar grown, he began cultivating the secret technique and planned to seek a nutrient cabin.

• Li Qi discovered that the Molten Fire Crystal contained an elite inheritance and could reach its advanced forms only after he cultivated the foundational chapter of the Nine-Turn Origin Heavy Body Refining Method.
• Li Qi stored the Molten Fire Crystal, left Chaos City, and returned to the Primordial Secret Realm to break through to Sector Lord.
• Li Qi connected his internal world to the Primordial Universe's Origin Land, formed the Two-Realm Abyss, and shaped his world into ten continents surrounded by vast oceans.
• Li Qi's origin pearl and core formed, leaving him with an immense internal world and a core he recognized would be difficult to break through from into an immortal god.
• Li Qi's Kuyu Ancient Tree avatar grew to four thousand kilometers tall after consuming cultivation resources, and Li Qi began cultivating the Nine-Turn Origin Heavy Body Refining Method.

After becoming a World Master, Li Qi cultivated his enormous Kuyu Ancient Tree clone, calculated that his foundation strength could approach that of a high king-sealing undying, and entered nutrient enhancement. While his body grew inside the nutrient chamber, his Kuyu Ancient Tree clone and its branches studied weapon forging and the Wood Origin Law.

• Li Qi's breakthrough to World Master spread through the Human Race, and the Demon Race ordered a larger bounty on Human Race World Master-level geniuses, especially NO.2.
• Li Qi's Kuyu Ancient Tree clone consumed most of its prepared resources while growing to sixteen thousand kilometers tall, so he ordered more cultivation resources and applied for nutrient chamber enhancement.
• Li Qi calculated that his peak World Master foundation strength could exceed 28,000 times World Master power and approach that of a high king-sealing undying.
• At Universal Headquarters, Li Qi chose a nutrient chamber over ten thousand kilometers tall, entered it, and revealed a body more than one hundred kilometers tall to the startled undying gods.
• Several months later, Li Qi's Kuyu Ancient Tree clone repeatedly failed to combine forged blades into a telekinetic weapon, while No. 1 Branch Tree advanced its study of Wood Origin Law secret patterns.

Li Qi reached the Sector Lord pinnacle after more than eleven years in a nutrient pod, then spent nearly a thousand years cultivating in Chaos City. He left for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield with his teacher’s blessing, aiming to grow stronger through combat.

• Li Qi gained recognition from the Wood origin Laws, stopped studying them, and shifted his focus to the Space origin Laws and forging weapons.
• After emerging from the nutrient pod at the Sector Lord pinnacle, Li Qi traveled to Chaos City, where Ice Peak Lord arranged a residence for him to prevent his unusually large body from being exposed.
• Li Qi fused thirteen more Blood Luo Crystals, bringing his total to thirty-five, but found that his will and consciousness limited how many he could endure.
• Li Qi and his three Kuyu Ancient Tree avatars spent nearly a thousand years cultivating, researching Laws, secret techniques, and artifact refining.
• Li Qi told Ice Peak Lord he was leaving for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, and Ice Peak Lord urged him to temper himself through battle.

Li Qi traveled to Yili Star to join the Extraterrestrial Battlefield, where he waited with other lone sector lords before learning how the military would assign their ranks. The authority bestowal ceremony began as the gathered warriors prepared to receive their positions in the military.

• Li Qi reached Virtual Universe Company Branch 882, traveled through its fixed space channel, and flew to Yili Star in an E9-grade ship.
• Li Qi revealed his disguised true body at the Yili Star docking platform and went to the gathering square for lone travelers bound for the Extraterrestrial Battlefield.
• Li Qi met Navia, a petite Winged Spirit Race sector lord, and gave her the alias Li while they waited for the sector lord group to assemble.
• The gathering reached 100 sector lords, and the immortal god in charge explained that the Virtual Universe network's ratings would determine their military authority.
• The immortal god invited the sector lords to step forward one by one and receive their authority bestowal.

Li Qi received World Master Warlord authority and traveled with the new recruits to No. 003 Military Camp Base on the First Battlefield. There, veteran World Masters competed to recruit him and the four Winged Spirit Race Warlords into their squads, and Li Qi began considering the offers.

• The immortal god’s bracer classified Li Qi and four Winged Spirit Race members as World Master Warlords, while Navia received Elite World Master Warrior authority.
• The immortal god told the recruits they were heading to the First Battlefield, and Li Qi recalled that the Star Tower’s appearance in the Seventh Battlefield had drawn countless powerful beings there.
• Li Qi and the other recruits traveled through spatial passages to No. 003 Military Camp Base, where a purple-haired immortal god directed the World Masters to their camp.
• The World Masters arrived at a hall filled with hundreds of thousands of veterans, who crowded around the five new World Master Warlords to offer squad positions.
• The Winged Spirit Race members declined the offers because they already belonged to an immortal god-led squad, while veterans surrounded Li Qi and invited him to join theirs.
• As Li Qi weighed the veterans’ offers, a voice entered his mind.

Li Qi joined Navia’s elite universe master squad after she found him through Life Guidance. He met the squad’s returning members and learned about the Extraterrestrial Battlefield’s dangers, allies, and the legendary treasure on the Seventh Battlefield, then revealed that he needed to earn one billion military merits.

• Navia invited Li Qi to join her squad, and he accepted after learning it had two immortal deities and seven universe master war generals.
• Navia explained that Life Guidance had led her to Li Qi, and Harvey later told him she was a princess and a direct descendant of Spiritwing King.
• Li Qi met Navia’s group and waited with them at the military camp for the rest of the squad to return.
• Fortress, Flash, and the returning squad members introduced themselves, and the group officially applied to join universe master squad 003-3290813.
• Fortress and Flash described the battlefield’s allies, high death rates, and the powerful treasure on the Seventh Battlefield.
• Li Qi told Flash that his military merit quota was one billion, astonishing the squad’s veterans.

Li Qi joined Fortress’s squad and learned that his 1 billion military merit quota marked him as a World Master capable of rivaling an ordinary undying being, though his true assignment was 30 trillion. After seven days of preparation, the squad left the No. 003 Military Camp Base, where Fortress warned them to switch spacecraft and watch for attacks from other races.

• Fortress explained that Li Qi’s 1 billion military merit quota was the upper limit for World Masters and reflected strength comparable to an ordinary undying being.
• Flash warned Li Qi that other races targeted human World Master geniuses with bounties and urged him to conceal his strength, and Li Qi agreed.
• The recruits spent seven days learning battlefield combat experience from the veterans before preparing to leave the base.
• Fortress took the squad aboard an E9-class spacecraft and showed them the enormous, fortified No. 003 Military Camp Base as they departed.
• Fortress said the squad would switch to a C-class spacecraft farther from the base and warned them to watch for sneak attacks from other races.

Captain Fortress briefed the squad on the First Battlefield before leading them into region 03258838, where they prepared to hunt foreign race forces. A foreign race Immortal god detected their approaching spaceship and ordered an attack after identifying eleven humans, including two Immortal gods.

• Fortress explained the First Battlefield’s battle zones and the dangers and rewards of fighting in the Hongwu Secret Realm, while Li Qi considered how territory affected human potential.
• Flash discussed the military merit needed to buy a starfield, and Fortress decided the squad would venture farther toward the battlefield’s center because Li Qi could match an Immortal god.
• Fortress woke the squad as their spaceship reached region 03258838 and warned everyone to prepare for combat before it left the Dark Universe.
• Flash told a Winged Spirit Race recruit that drifting wreckage could conceal enemies, and reminded the squad that they were deep inside the battlefield and should stay alert.
• A foreign race Immortal god and its World Master companions detected the human spaceship, identified its eleven-member squad and two Immortal gods, and decided to attack.