Chapter Summaries

After the three enemy races abandoned their siege, Li Qi returned to the human camp and met with Venerable Jiu Feng, who thanked him and apologized over King Hong Zhi. In Chaos City, Chaos City Lord revealed he knew Li Qi was an immortal and offered him a race-sponsored treasure, leaving Li Qi to choose one from the Race Treasure Vault.

• The Insect Race, Demon Race, and Machine Race withdrew their universe overlords after deciding Li Qi was too costly to besiege, and the human experts returned to their base.
• Venerable Jiu Feng visited Li Qi, thanked him for defeating Luan Feng Venerable, apologized on King Hong Zhi’s behalf, and shared valuable fruit wine with him.
• Li Qi traveled to Chaos City to exchange for a flying palace treasure, but an immortal guard told him Chaos City Lord wanted to see him.
• Chaos City Lord revealed that he knew Li Qi was an immortal and told him to call him Martial Uncle because he was Ice Peak Lord’s senior brother.
• Chaos City Lord told Li Qi the race would gift him a high-level supreme treasure weapon or let him choose an ordinary supreme treasure, then urged him to become a Universe Venerable and return to battle.

Li Qi used his race’s free exchange quota and his own supreme treasure points to obtain the Crimson Gold Void Hall and Scarlet Li Battle Armor, then returned to the Seventh Battlefield. After studying the battlefield’s slaughter and fighting the three races’ universe overlords for over a month, he gained some insights but less than he had hoped.

• Li Qi met Kedi in Chaos City’s inner residence, and Kedi addressed him as Venerable Kong He before hurrying to see Chaos City Lord.
• Li Qi discovered that the Human Race had granted him an 80-point free quota for ordinary supreme treasures and exchanged for the Crimson Gold Void Hall after contributing several treasures.
• Li Qi chose to keep the Scarlet Li Battle Armor he had acquired, then exchanged for the Crimson Gold Void Hall and returned to the Primordial Secret Realm to replenish his divine power.
• Li Qi returned to the Seventh Battlefield, where Venerable You Hou expressed surprise at his new flight palace supreme treasure.
• Li Qi reviewed recordings of battlefield armies being destroyed and reflected on how the war tested and cultivated fighters across the races.
• The decisive battle lasted a little over a month, during which Li Qi fought universe overlords from the three races but gained fewer insights than he expected.

Li Qi’s rise to universe overlord alarmed the allied races, which planned to have Lord Banff kill him when the Original Stars opened. After Li Qi failed to break through in seclusion, Venerable Ling Tu persuaded him to host the Virtual Universe Company’s Peak Genius Battle and secured the ancient venerables’ agreement.

• Meng Cha, the Empress, and the Machine Race leader agreed to send Lord Banff after Li Qi at the Original Stars and to provide top-tier true treasure armor.
• Li Qi reviewed the rewards from the brief decisive battle, then entered seclusion to seek a breakthrough to universe venerable.
• After nearly ten thousand years of recovery, Venerable Ling Tu learned that Li Qi had become a universe overlord and considered asking him for a rescue token.
• Li Qi told Venerable Ling Tu that he remained just short of comprehending the complete space laws, and Ling Tu suggested that he host the upcoming Peak Genius Battle as a change of pace.
• Li Qi agreed, and Venerable Ling Tu persuaded the ancient universe venerables to let Li Qi host the battle.

Venerable Kong He took over hosting the Peak Genius Battle, prompting the Virtual Universe Company to offer two Primordial Secret Realm slots and stirring rulers across the human universe to prepare their candidates. As the preliminaries approached, generous rewards were announced, and Ivanko Royce urged the Molten Secret Realm’s geniuses to compete for glory.

• Venerable Ling Tu told Li Qi that the ancient venerables had agreed to let him preside over the Genius Battle and had been upset by the decision.
• Venerable Yatu learned that Venerable Kong He had taken his hosting role, and the highest level announced two Primordial Secret Realm slots for the competition.
• The rulers of the human universe countries received notice of Kong He’s appointment and began looking for ways to send and train more candidates.
• Venerable Gulen and the Qian Wu Ruler made plans to increase participation, with the Qian Wu Ruler sending candidates to newly opened universe countries and choosing Marquis Rongdian to lead his team.
• As the preliminaries neared, a Divine Lord promised ten galaxies to anyone who reached the top thousand in their universe country.
• Ivanko Royce told the Molten Secret Realm’s assembled geniuses that top-thousand finishers would receive ten galaxies and could become disciples of powerful immortal gods.

Ivanko resolved to purge the Royce Family to preserve its vitality, while Li Qi watched the Genius Battle and reflected on his parents’ fading ties to the family. At the universal finals, Zhidun Royce arrived under the weight of his ancestors’ reputations, and the competition began unusually without the overseeing venerable appearing; after the Trial Tower ended, the immortals still waited for the venerable to descend.

• Ivanko told Royce he planned periodic purges of the family, and Royce reluctantly let him proceed.
• Li Qi brought Winnie and Derrick to watch the Genius Battle preliminaries and sent an email while they talked.
• Zhidun Royce joined the Qian Wu Universe Country team at the universal finals and reflected on living in the shadows of the Eleventh and Nineteenth Ancestors.
• Marquis Rongdian heard that two Primordial Secret Realm spots had been offered and that a powerful universe venerable was overseeing the unusual competition.
• The immortals received notice that the competition would begin the next day without the usual gathering, and a wolfman immortal launched the Trial Tower assessment in the venerable’s absence.
• After more than two years, the 7,300 highest-ranked geniuses were selected, while the immortals continued waiting for the venerable.

Li Qi appeared as Venerable Kong He to preside over the Peak Genius Battle, stunning the contestants and Immortals with his power and mastery of the Wood-Space laws. Miu Li announced the arena rules for selecting the final 1,000, and the competition was set to begin the next day.

• The Trial Tower ended, and the top 7,300 geniuses advanced while the eliminated contestants gathered with their team leaders.
• Li Qi descended into the Genius Battle Space with a display of spatial power and mysterious Wood-Space laws, and Venerable You Hou gained insight that brought him close to mastering the complete Laws of Space.
• Li Qi reflected on the three Genius Battles he had participated in or watched, improving his state of mind and bringing his soul will close to that of a Universe Master.
• Li Qi introduced himself as Venerable Kong He, shocking the Immortals and revealing his identity to Zhidun, who recognized him as the Royce Family’s Eleventh Ancestor.
• Miu Li explained that the top 100 Trial Tower finishers would enter the core ranks directly, while the other 7,200 would compete for 900 places in arena battles beginning the following day.

The Peak Genius Battle ended with 1,000 contestants entering the Virtual Universe Company's core tier, and Li Qi began secluded cultivation after the event unexpectedly advanced his state of mind. A thousand years later, sensing what he lacked for a breakthrough, he left the Primordial Secret Realm and set out to travel through Human Territory.

• The geniuses learned that Venerable Kong He had placed second in the Peak Genius Battle ninety thousand years earlier, while Kedi had taken first place.
• The main competition selected 900 additional winners, bringing the core-tier roster to 1,000; Miu Li assigned them to secret realms according to their rankings and explained that the Virtual Universe system would choose 100 contestants for further matches.
• The final rankings assigned two contestants to the Primordial Secret Realm, and the Peak Genius Battle officially concluded.
• Li Qi left the Virtual Universe, delegated the arrangements for the new core-tier members, and entered secluded cultivation after his state of mind improved.
• A thousand years later, Li Qi sensed what he lacked for a breakthrough, used the Moyun Vine to leave the Primordial Secret Realm, and decided to travel through Human Territory while avoiding the danger beyond it.

After ten thousand years of travel, Li Qi remained just short of fully comprehending the Space Law, but learning that You Hou Lord had broken through after watching his techniques gave him a new approach. He visited Space Venerables under the pretext of preparing a Chaos Stele, seeking inspiration as he continued toward the final breakthrough.

• Li Qi discovered that You Hou Lord had become a Universe Lord after gaining insight from Li Qi’s use of the Space Law, and he went to ask how the breakthrough happened.
• You Hou Lord advised Li Qi about organizing a Chaos Stele and suggested the orthodox Wood-Space Beast God Path, while Li Qi said he might explore other fusion laws as well.
• Li Qi asked Venerable Ling Tu to help conceal the real purpose of his visits, then consulted more than a hundred Space Venerables about the Space Law.
• Li Qi visited Qian Wu Ruler, who demonstrated the Space Law by shaping 108 spatial fragments into a translucent three-petaled flower.

Li Qi comprehended the laws of space and broke through to become a Universe Venerable, transforming his life genes, divine kingdom, and treasures. After the Chaos City Lord recognized his breakthrough, Li Qi tested whether he could awaken the Wandering Dragon Awakening Spear’s third form.

• Li Qi grasped the integration of the three great mysteries of space after Qian Wu Ruler demonstrated how spatial fragments fit together.
• Li Qi completed the laws of space in his divine kingdom, and the cosmic origin descended in a massive five-colored vortex to transform his Kuyu Ancient Tree avatar into a Universe Venerable.
• Li Qi used the descending divine power to raise his human true body and Kuyu Ancient Tree avatar to perfect life genes, then created two new subsidiary trees with Branch Transplantation.
• Li Qi’s divine kingdom transformed and grew powerful enough to suppress Universe Overlords, while his Kuyu Ancient Tree avatar completed its divine power transformation at only eight percent.
• The Chaos City Lord sensed Li Qi’s breakthrough and judged that he could become a top-tier Universe Overlord after improving his secret techniques.
• Li Qi poured divine power into the Wandering Dragon Awakening Spear to test whether he could activate its third form.

Li Qi studied the Primordial Universe’s newly granted Time-Space Flow secret technique and spent a hundred thousand years creating powerful battle techniques. After emerging from seclusion as a peak Universe Overlord, he visited Qian Wu Ruler to thank him and asked to borrow some people.

• Li Qi reasoned that the Wandering Dragon Awakening Spear and several other treasures were connected to the Nine-Turn Origin Heavy Body Refining Method, but decided he was not strong enough to investigate their origins in the Universe Sea.
• After reaching perfect life genes, Li Qi received the strongest innate secret technique Time-Space Flow and studied how its Space Law and fusion-law patterns worked together.
• Li Qi resolved to conceal the Wandering Dragon Awakening Spear’s supreme true treasure status and focused on creating battle techniques he could use without exposing it.
• During a hundred thousand years of seclusion, Li Qi created several Universe Overlord-level techniques, while Nineteen and his elder brother became World Masters and received equipment and rescue tokens from him.
• Li Qi emerged from seclusion, learned that the Flame God Clan had joined the Extraterrestrial Battlefield as allies of the Machine Race, and contacted Qian Wu Ruler to thank him.
• Li Qi met Qian Wu Ruler on Thunder Island, confirmed he had become a peak Universe Overlord, and asked to borrow some people.

Li Qi recruited Aurora King to help capture Flame God Clan members and collect their armor for research, then received 130 supreme treasure points from Great Axe Founder and another 50 from Ice Peak Lord. He resolved to grow strong enough to prevent Great Axe Founder's future death in the Dark Land and went to the Race Treasure Vault to exchange his points.

• Li Qi asked Qian Wu Ruler to lend him Aurora King and arranged for Aurora King and King Sha Lie to capture Flame God Clan members and obtain their armor, offering a heavy treasure for a complete golden set.
• Li Qi left Qian Wu Ruler after discussing his renewed wealth and plans to return to the Original Star, then met Great Axe Founder in the Virtual Universe.
• Great Axe Founder praised Li Qi's strength, granted him 130 supreme treasure points, and urged him not to betray humanity as Yan Emperor had.
• Ice Peak Lord gave Li Qi an additional 50 treasure points and told him to use them to strengthen himself.
• Li Qi resolved to prevent Great Axe Founder's future death in the Dark Land and traveled to the Race Treasure Vault in Chaos City to exchange his treasure points.

Li Qi exchanged treasures in the Race Treasure Vault, obtaining armor for himself and a domain weapon suited to his Kuyu Ancient Tree branch body. Meanwhile, Aurora King and King Sha Lie began hunting Flame God Clan captives, while Raging Tide King brooded over losing the Sealing Star to a Demon Race king.

• Li Qi exchanged 135 treasure points for the Might-Shaking Dark Silver Armor, then donated treasures to gather enough points for Azure Jade Thousand Stars.
• Li Qi acquired Azure Jade Thousand Stars for the Kuyu Ancient Tree branch body and left the Race Treasure Vault.
• Li Qi encountered Zhidun Royce outside the City Lord's Mansion, recognized him as Miu Li's disciple, and encouraged him to become the first immortal god of his lineage.
• Aurora King and King Sha Lie agreed to capture Flame God Clan World Lords and ordinary immortals while waiting for a king-level invincible immortal to join them.
• Raging Tide King vented his anger on Star Tower puppets after losing the Sealing Star to an invincible Demon Race king, then cursed King Sha Lie and Venerable Kong He.

Aurora King, King Chi Mie, and King Sha Lie cornered Raging Tide King to take his golden armor, while his Machine Race allies refused to help. After Raging Tide King self-destructed, King Sha Lie secured the undamaged armor and contacted Li Qi as Sitting Mountain Guest watched.

• Raging Tide King mistook King Sha Lie, Aurora King, and King Chi Mie for attackers sent by Venerable Kong He, while they prepared to seize his golden armor.
• Aurora King, King Chi Mie, and King Sha Lie attacked Raging Tide King, using time manipulation and their strength to wear down his defenses.
• Raging Tide King’s Machine Race allies ignored his distress signals because human faction fighters had intercepted them.
• King Chi Mie taunted Raging Tide King about the Flame God Clan’s departure from humanity as the siege depleted more than 40% of his divine body.
• With no escape or help, Raging Tide King self-destructed, but his golden armor survived and King Sha Lie claimed it.
• King Sha Lie contacted Li Qi about the armor while Sitting Mountain Guest watched from a special space in Star Tower.

Li Qi collected and studied the Flame God Clan’s subsidiary armors, uncovering their genetic locks and completing his body-amplitude technique during ten thousand years of seclusion. He decided to forge customized supreme treasure armor for Big Brother and Nineteen, then contacted them with the idea.

• Sitting Mountain Guest suspected Li Qi was collecting Tribulation Armor subsidiary armors and believed he might uncover their secrets, but chose not to observe him in the Human Race’s protected territory.
• King Sha Lie reported that he had obtained Flame God Clan members and black, silver, and gold armors, and Li Qi rewarded Aurora King with a choice of supreme treasure.
• King Chi Mie asked to serve Li Qi, but Li Qi declined to take the alien immortal as a subordinate and offered to hire him for future tasks instead.
• Li Qi researched the Flame God Clan armors for ten thousand years, reached perfect hundredfold body amplitude, and discovered that the armors’ genetic locks restricted their use to Flame God Clan members.
• Li Qi decided he could customize supreme treasure armor using Big Brother and Nineteen’s genes, and sent them emails about it.

Li Qi invited Nineteen, his Big Brother, Second Dad, and Thirteen to cultivate in Chaos City, where he planned to house them as guards. While waiting for them, he began forging custom heavy treasure armor designed to boost the strength of talented world masters.

• Nineteen met Li Qi in his personal space, where they discussed Nineteen’s long absence from home and his years of fighting and cultivation.
• Li Qi invited Nineteen, Big Brother, Second Dad, and Thirteen to cultivate in Chaos City, and Nineteen agreed to notify the others.
• Nineteen explained Li Qi’s offer to the others, and Second Dad agreed that they would go to Chaos City.
• Li Qi exchanged heavy treasure points for materials and began forging an armor that could increase its wearer’s power in several forms.
• After several months, Nineteen and the others arrived in Chaos City.

Li Qi welcomed Ron, Thirteen, Big Brother Eric, and Nineteen to Chaos City, gave them Blood Luo Crystals, and began developing personalized armor for them. After receiving a message about his long-forgotten God General Qimu inheritance opportunity, he agreed to look into it, leaving the Hong Alliance Venerables stunned by his reply.

• Big Brother Eric brought Ron, Thirteen, and Nineteen to Li Qi’s vast Kong He Residence in Chaos City.
• Li Qi gave Ron and Thirteen Blood Luo Crystals, reminded everyone to keep them secret, and collected a piece of flesh from each of them for armor research.
• The Kuyu Ancient Tree branch trees studied their genes and completed armor that could grant up to ten thousand times peak Sector Lord power and weaken a mid-level Universe Venerable’s material attacks to one-thousandth.
• After nearly thirty thousand years, Li Qi received word that his God General Qimu inheritance application was still active and considered its possible help with his Wood-Space Fusion Law comprehension.
• Li Qi agreed to pursue the inheritance, and his reply left the Hong Alliance Venerables utterly stunned.

Li Qi secured a God General Qimu Inheritance slot and traveled to the Gulun Universe Country to claim it, unaware that Lord Banff had been sent to kill him. The chapter ended as Li Qi entered the Timi Secret Realm’s Jade Tree Mountain and Lord Banff arrived nearby.

• Hong Alliance City approved Li Qi’s application for a God General Qimu Inheritance slot, and he read the inheritance details before setting out.
• Li Qi delivered his forged armor to Big Brother and the others, then left Chaos City for the Gulun Universe Country.
• After learning that Li Qi would receive the inheritance, the Insect Race Empress and the Demon and Machine Race leaders agreed to have Lord Banff attack him.
• Li Qi arrived in the Gulun Universe Country, greeted Flash Gold King, invited Gong Xiluo to accompany them, and gave both men valuable G-grade metal materials.
• Li Qi entered Jade Tree Mountain in the Timi Secret Realm, while Lord Banff arrived in the surrounding spatial interlayer.

Li Qi entered the God General Qimu Inheritance Hall to study Wood-Space Fusion Law patterns and created his first pinnacle universe master ultimate technique, River in the Mist. After learning that Lord Banff was waiting to attack him, Li Qi left Jade Tree Mountain with the Chaos City Lord alerted, while Banff moved to intercept him.

• Lord Banff learned that Li Qi had entered the God General Qimu Inheritance Hall and waited nearby for him to emerge.
• Li Qi found the inheritance hall beneath Jade Tree Mountain and studied its Wood-Space Fusion Law patterns while climbing the staircase for three hundred years.
• Li Qi left the staircase and spent seven hundred years in seclusion creating River in the Mist, his first pinnacle universe master ultimate technique.
• After receiving his teacher’s warning about the enemy races’ active soul slaves, Li Qi deduced that Lord Banff was targeting him and contacted the Chaos City Lord for backup.
• Li Qi emerged from Jade Tree Mountain and flew toward the guarding palace, and Lord Banff spotted him and tore through space to pursue him.

Li Qi faced Lord Banff, resisting his soul illusion and surviving their first clash with little loss thanks to his strength and treasures. After Lord Banff burned divine power and forced Li Qi to lose more, Li Qi retreated into the Crimson Gold Void Hall, leading Lord Banff to suspect he carried a peak true treasure and the Chaos City Lord to wonder when the Human Race had given him one.

• The Insect Race Empress blocked the Chaos City Lord from reaching Li Qi and agreed not to attack him if Lord Banff killed him.
• Lord Banff found Li Qi outside Jade Tree Mountain, but his soul illusion failed against Li Qi's will and soul treasure.
• Li Qi and Lord Banff exchanged blows, and Li Qi's spear, armor, and enormous divine body limited his losses despite Lord Banff's greater power.
• Lord Banff burned divine power and struck again, causing Li Qi to lose over one percent of his divine power before he entered the Crimson Gold Void Hall.
• Lord Banff inferred that Li Qi possessed a peak true treasure, while the Chaos City Lord wondered when the Human Race had bestowed one on Kong He.

The Chaos City Lord realized Kong He was in danger and sent Lord Peng Gong to rescue him while Lord Banff battered Li Qi’s Crimson Gold Void Hall. After the palace broke, Li Qi fought Banff and prepared to reveal his full strength, but an incoming transmission interrupted him as white mist covered the battlefield.

• The Chaos City Lord inferred that Kong He’s life gene level exceeded Lord Banff’s and asked Lord Peng Gong to help rescue him.
• The Insect Race Empress ordered Lord Banff to destroy Li Qi’s human body after suspecting his strength came from an extraordinary opportunity.
• Lord Banff repeatedly attacked the Crimson Gold Void Hall until cracks spread across it, forcing Li Qi to emerge and put the ruined palace away.
• Li Qi and Lord Banff fought in their enlarged forms, while Li Qi’s Kuyu Ancient Tree branch body lost divine power replenishing his human body.
• As Li Qi prepared to unleash Time-Space Flow, a transmission reached him; he retreated in green light and azure stars as endless white mist enveloped the area.