Chapter Summaries

After Ice Peak Lord rescued Li Qi from Lord Banff, humanity agreed to release Banff in exchange for compensation and the Insect Race ending its role in assassination attempts. The Demon Race, Machine Race, and Insect Race then discussed hiring a Universe Strongest to kill Li Qi, but the Insect Race Empress refused.

• Ice Peak Lord arrived and forced Lord Banff to retreat, while the Insect Race Empress negotiated with Chaos City Lord and Lord Peng Gong to secure Banff's release.
• Ice Peak Lord let Lord Banff leave after humanity agreed to the trade, and he brought Li Qi to meet Chaos City Lord and Lord Peng Gong.
• Chaos City Lord explained that the Insect Race would give Li Qi a high-level flying palace treasure and stop participating in assassination attempts; Li Qi chose to convert the treasure into treasure points.
• The Demon Race and Machine Race reviewed Li Qi's battle with Lord Banff and agreed to contribute peak treasures toward hiring a Universe Strongest to kill him.
• The Insect Race Empress refused to join the plan to hire a Universe Strongest.

The Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race abandoned their plan to assassinate Li Qi, judging that he could hide safely in the Initial Universe. At the Giant Axe Conference, the human leaders rejected Li Qi’s entry into their highest-level meeting but began discussing awarding him race-funded true treasure points, while news of his battle with Lord Banff spread through Hong Alliance City.

• The Insect Race Empress refused to support an assassination plan against Li Qi, and the three races’ powerful beings withdrew from the discussion.
• At the Giant Axe Conference, Lord Peng Gong revealed that Li Qi had exceptional life genes and a divine body and had created a peak Universe Lord secret technique.
• Lord Desolate Mirror questioned how Li Qi had obtained his true treasures, and the Great Axe Founder said he had given Li Qi some of them.
• The Great Axe Founder proposed admitting Li Qi to the highest-level conference, but Lord of Void Gold and Lord Desolate Mirror opposed it while others abstained, so the proposal was rejected.
• Lord of Void Gold and Lord Desolate Mirror supported granting Li Qi true treasure points from the Human Race’s treasury.
• News that Li Qi had fought Lord Banff head-on spread through Hong Alliance City, prompting its residents to seek confirmation.

Li Qi’s battle against Lord Banff was confirmed, establishing him as a monstrous peak universe overlord who could rival an ordinary universe master. After learning that the Human Race and Great Axe Founder had awarded him 300 treasure points, Li Qi was urged by Ice Peak Lord to pursue the Beast God path, while news of his strength spread across the universe.

• Venerable Ling Tu learned from his friends that his junior brother Venerable Kong He had fought Lord Banff head-on, then asked Li Qi to confirm the report.
• Li Qi confirmed the battle to Venerable Ling Tu and met Venerable Gulen in the Virtual Universe before receiving a message from Ice Peak Lord.
• Ice Peak Lord told Li Qi that the Human Race and Great Axe Founder had granted him 300 treasure points and that the Demon Race and Machine Race had temporarily halted their assassination attempts while he stayed in Human territory.
• Ice Peak Lord told Li Qi that Great Axe Founder hoped he would become the Human Race’s first universe master to follow the Beast God path, and Li Qi said he needed that strength to move freely through the universe.
• Venerable Ling Tu shared Li Qi’s confirmation, and human universe masters publicly verified the news, leading Hong Alliance City and the wider Primordial Universe to recognize Li Qi as a monstrous peak universe overlord.
• A virtual game began development within the Human Territory and was rapidly completed, tested, and launched.

News of Li Qi’s strength spread across the universe while he cultivated in the Initial Universe, making rival powers wary and leaving Yan Emperor unable to carry out his plans against him. More than a million years later, the Royce Family had grown wealthy, and Shi Ou Eric Royce sought Locke’s help to hunt the Cloud Divine Beast in the Hunting World.

• Bauhinia Island’s Beast God inheritors discussed how Venerable Kong He had fought Lord Banff and speculated that he was close to becoming a Beast God.
• The Prison Race and Crystal Race learned of Li Qi’s strength and chose to let the Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race deal with him.
• Yan Emperor abandoned his plan to ambush Li Qi because Li Qi had grown too powerful and likely possessed a high-grade flying palace true treasure.
• During Li Qi’s million years of seclusion, the Royce Family prospered, and Ron Royce became its first immortal god.
• In the Hunting World, Shi Ou Eric Royce approached Locke in a tavern and invited him to join a campaign against the Cloud Divine Beast.
• Locke considered the invitation an opportunity to kill the Cloud Divine Beast, while Shi Ou resolved that the campaign must succeed.

Shi Ou recruited Locke and a powerful expedition to kill the Cloud Divine Beast, promising to help recover Locke’s beloved Lei Nina in return. After the force went on to slay all four Divine Beasts, Li Qi sensed something interesting in Chaos City.

• Shi Ou hired Locke as the expedition’s main attacker after Locke explained that consuming the Cloud Divine Beast’s flesh could strengthen him, and Shi Ou promised him body-enhancing treasures.
• Locke led a force of several hundred to Mist Island, where they killed the Cloud Divine Beast at the cost of nearly the entire expedition.
• Shi Ou promised Locke he would find a way to extract Lei Nina’s program if Locke helped kill the remaining Divine Beasts, and Locke agreed.
• Over the following years, Shi Ou’s strengthened expedition killed the Rain and Wind Divine Beasts, then overcame three failed attempts and killed the Thunder Divine Beast under Locke’s leadership.
• In Chaos City, Li Qi opened his eyes with a faint bestiality, recognized that it was happening again, and called it interesting.

Li Qi completed the Beast God's Heart by absorbing the Four Divine Beasts' memories and carving tens of thousands of Wood Beast God Statues, then devoted himself to the Wood-Space Fusion Law. After millions of years, he reached a bottleneck near becoming a Universe Master and asked Ice Peak Lord for help, who promised to secure something for him.

• Li Qi experienced the Four Divine Beasts' million years of memories and carved 90,729 Wood Beast God Statues, completing the Beast God's Heart.
• Li Qi examined Locke's abilities, arranged an opportunity for him, and provided resources and guidance to help his family become immortals.
• Realm Master Zhenqi learned that Li Qi had become Venerable Kong He, a top-tier Universe Overlord, but regretted that he had not accepted the Ancestral God Cult's Beast God inheritance.
• After millions of years of cultivation, Li Qi reached a bottleneck in comprehending the Wood-Space Fusion Law and sought advice from Ice Peak Lord.
• Ice Peak Lord agreed to secure something for Li Qi, leaving Li Qi puzzled about what his teacher meant.

Primal Ancestor demonstrated Wood-Space Fusion Law secret patterns to Li Qi, inspiring him to reconsider the final bottleneck on the Beast God Path. Li Qi realized he had to become a Beast God as himself, broke through to Universe Lord, and drew the Primordial Universe’s origin laws into his divine kingdom.

• Ice Peak Lord told Primal Ancestor that Li Qi might become the Human Race’s first Universe Lord through the Beast God Path, and Primal Ancestor agreed to guide him.
• Primal Ancestor showed Li Qi eight Wood-Space Fusion Law secret pattern diagrams, which helped Li Qi create the ultimate Universe Lord technique Eight Desolations Unite but did not break his bottleneck.
• Li Qi spent ten thousand years studying the bottleneck and realized that becoming a Universe Lord through the Beast God Path required transforming into a Beast God.
• Li Qi recognized that he had mistaken the goal: he needed to become a Beast God while remaining himself, so he carved a humanoid statue embodying that realization.
• Li Qi broke through to Universe Lord, and the Primordial Universe’s origin laws manifested as immense black and white vortices above his divine kingdom.

Li Qi broke through to become a Universe Lord, transformed his divine bodies, and returned to Chaos City, where the Chaos City Lord introduced him to the Virtual Universe Company’s Universe Lords. Li Qi agreed to establish a Chaos Stele to guide Beast God path cultivators, and Lord of Darkness arrived as the gathering continued.

• Li Qi absorbed the divine power flooding into his divine kingdom, transforming the Kuyu Ancient Tree avatar’s divine body by 42 percent before using its power to transform his human original body and two branch trees.
• Li Qi returned to Chaos City, where the Chaos City Lord recognized that he had become a Universe Lord and offered to announce the breakthrough to the Virtual Universe Company’s Universe Lords.
• Li Qi joined the Chaos City Lord and Ice Peak Lord at the summit of Thunder Island, where You Hou and Dragon Walker Lord also arrived.
• Dragon Walker Lord urged Li Qi to establish a Chaos Stele for Beast God path cultivators, and Li Qi agreed to begin after the meeting.
• Lord of Darkness arrived at the gathering, bringing an eerie atmosphere with him.

Kong He met the Virtual Universe Lineage’s Universe Lords, kept his title as Kong He Lord, and joined them in paying respects to Primal Ancestor. After hearing how Primal Ancestor created the Virtual Universe and was suppressed by the universe’s source, Kong He learned that the Human Race’s highest-level meeting had been called.

• Lord of Darkness praised Kong He’s willpower, and Chaos City Lord explained that his enormous Kuyu Ancient Tree clone gave him life-preservation comparable to some fifth-tier Universe Lords.
• Kong He rejected titles that might expose his inheritance and chose to remain Kong He Lord, which the other Universe Lords accepted.
• Chaos City Lord led the five others to Primal Ancestor’s statue, where the six paid their respects and honored Primal Ancestor’s guidance and service to humanity.
• As they flew back, Kong He reasoned that Primal Ancestor’s Virtual Universe functioned like a second universe, and Lord of Darkness recounted how Primal Ancestor challenged the universe’s source and was permanently suppressed.
• Chaos City Lord and Dragon Walker Lord said there was no known way to rescue Primal Ancestor, and the six Universe Lords later received Great Axe Founder’s summons to the Human Race’s highest-level meeting.

Li Qi attended the Human Race’s highest-level meeting after becoming a universe master, where he revealed that he already had an idea for a supreme secret technique. Great Axe Founder welcomed him and offered the race’s customary treasure, and Li Qi requested a high-tier domain supreme treasure suited to wood and space laws.

• The human universe masters discussed Li Qi’s admission to the meeting and the treasure the race would grant him for becoming a universe master.
• Li Qi took his place among the Virtual Universe Lineage and assessed the strength and distribution of humanity’s universe masters.
• Lord Desolate Mirror questioned Li Qi about his strength, and Li Qi revealed that he had an idea for creating a supreme secret technique.
• Lord Desolate Mirror and the other universe masters celebrated Li Qi’s potential, and Great Axe Founder arrived and welcomed him to the meeting.
• Great Axe Founder offered Li Qi a treasure worth a top-tier supreme treasure weapon, and Li Qi requested a high-tier wood-and-space-law domain supreme treasure.

Li Qi accepted Emerald Feather Mountain as the race’s reward for becoming a Universe Lord and agreed to create a Chaos Stele to guide the Human Race’s Beast God cultivators. After Ice Peak Lord explained the factional interests behind the request, Li Qi retrieved the domain treasure and spent most of his accumulated points on Boundless Battle Armor, leaving him to choose a flying palace treasure.

• Great Axe Founder offered Li Qi the high-tier domain true treasure Emerald Feather Mountain, and Li Qi accepted it and agreed to establish a Chaos Stele for future Beast God cultivators.
• Lord Peng Gong and Chaos City Lord urged Li Qi to prioritize creating an ultimate secret technique if he made progress, while Ice Peak Lord later explained the factional interests behind the Chaos Stele request and stressed that racial interests came first.
• Ice Peak Lord granted Li Qi 100 true treasure points, and Li Qi went to the Race Treasure Vault with 660 points in total.
• Li Qi retrieved Emerald Feather Mountain and exchanged 420 points for the exceptional top-tier armor Boundless Battle Armor.
• Li Qi switched the exchange list to high-tier flying palace true treasures to consider how to spend his remaining 240 points.

Li Qi exchanged treasures at the Race Treasure Vault for Sun Radiance Fortress, then returned to Kuka Planet after nearly seven million years away. There, he reunited with the past and noticed that his sister-in-law Daya had still not become immortal, just as his brother Eric and Daya arrived.

• Li Qi offered Might-Shaking Dark Silver Armor and Azure Jade Thousand Stars to the race, then spent 415 treasure points on Sun Radiance Fortress.
• Li Qi returned to Kuka Planet and used time reversal to recover his old Bone Shield, feeling his soul will loosen from its bottleneck.
• Li Qi sensed Eric and Daya approaching and realized Daya had still not become immortal despite her strong law comprehension.
• Eric told Daya he wanted to send her to Chaos City for secluded cultivation, while worrying that she might die before breaking through.
• Eric and Daya stepped out of their ship above the ancestral grounds, and Li Qi called out to them.

Li Qi returned to the family valley and used his mastery of the wood law to help Daya break through and become an immortal god. After visiting his parents and hearing about the fighter who defeated Meng Cha Luo, Li Qi suspected the young world master might be the future True Yan King, then warned his family about the danger of soul enslavement.

• Li Qi reunited with Eric and Daya, revealed he had grown powerful enough to return safely, and offered to guide Daya in the origin law of wood.
• Li Qi manifested the wood law, helping Daya fully comprehend it; Eric then took her to establish her divine kingdom.
• Li Qi visited his parents, but Winnie and Derrick sent him away so they could continue playing Blood Rain World.
• Li Qi overheard Nineteen and Eric discuss how a young world master had beaten Meng Cha Luo, then learned the fighter was an ape-man genius from the Virtual Universe Company's Primordial Secret Realm.
• Li Qi asked about the young genius, wondered if he could be the future True Yan King, and told Eric, Nineteen, and Thirteen that their armor could not replace their own strength or protect them from soul enslavement.

Li Qi told Eric, Thirteen, and Nineteen that he had become a Universe Master, warned them about soul enslavement, and announced he would create a Chaos Stele. After 2.86 million years of work, he completed the nine-illustration Sky Rift Chaos Stele, which progressed from spatial laws to the complete Wood-Space Fusion Law.

• Li Qi revealed his status as a Universe Master and warned Eric, Thirteen, and Nineteen to keep tempering their soul will and to keep his secrets.
• Li Qi said he would establish a Chaos Stele and offered Thirteen a chance to comprehend it, while explaining that Nineteen's cultivation of light and time made him unsuited to it for now.
• Li Qi planned a nine-illustration Chaos Stele that began with spatial laws and progressed to the Wood-Space Fusion Law, using his own Beast God artistic conception without making it central to the early illustrations.
• Li Qi repeatedly carved and refined claw-mark illustrations, completing the first one after several hundred attempts.
• After 2.86 million years in seclusion, Li Qi completed all nine illustrations and named the Chaos Stele Sky Rift.

Li Qi and the Chaos City Lord installed the Sky Rift Chaos Stele in Chaos City, giving the Human Race a guide to the orthodox Beast God Path. With Original Star set to open in 120,000 years, Li Qi agreed to create a cultivation secret technique for the stele’s first five diagrams; after that time passed, the Human Race convened the Supreme Council.

• The Chaos City Lord brought Li Qi to the enlightenment chambers and told Kandeli that Li Qi had established a new Chaos Stele called Sky Rift.
• Li Qi installed the Sky Rift Chaos Stele, whose nine diagrams guided cultivators from spatial laws toward the Wood-Space Beast God Path.
• The Chaos City Lord praised the stele’s guidance and encouraged Li Qi to continue developing the prototype of his ultimate secret technique.
• Li Qi said he planned to seek a pinnacle true treasure armor on Original Star, and the Chaos City Lord asked him to create a cultivation secret technique for the stele’s first five diagrams before Original Star opened.
• After 120,000 years passed, the Human Race convened the Supreme Council.

At the Human Race Supreme Council, Li Qi revealed that he had created the prototype of an ultimate secret technique, surprising the universe lords. The council announced that the Original Stars would open in ten years, and Venerable Ling Tu sought Li Qi afterward.

• As the experts gathered on the Mountain of Gods, Qian Wu Ruler agreed to lend Bei Ming Venerable his soul-protecting treasure, while Wan Sen Venerable and others discussed Li Qi’s Sky Rift Chaos Stele and possible breakthrough.
• The experts were teleported into the Hall of Gods, where Li Qi sat on a thousand-meter throne beside the Great Axe Founder’s black throne and the empty throne of the Primal Ancestor.
• Lord Desolate Mirror asked about Li Qi’s ultimate secret technique, and Li Qi said he had created its prototype and might perfect it during the Original Stars’ opening.
• Chaos City Lord announced that the Original Stars would open in ten years and urged the experts to prepare, form teams, and borrow treasures.
• After the Supreme Council ended, the experts left to prepare, while Li Qi waited and Venerable Ling Tu came to find him.

Li Qi lent Venerable Ling Tu three supreme treasure points and revealed that he had become a Universe Master, reflecting on the distance his new status had placed between them. When the Original Stars opened, Li Qi entered one and began considering how to search for treasures, then sensed a disturbance nearby.

• Venerable Ling Tu asked Li Qi to lend him one supreme treasure point to prepare for the Original Stars, and Li Qi transferred him all three points he had left.
• Li Qi told Venerable Ling Tu that he had become a Universe Master and created the Sky Rift Chaos Stele; after Venerable Ling Tu departed, Li Qi reflected on the loneliness and status that came with his breakthrough.
• Ten years later, the Original Star passages opened, and Li Qi flew through Passage No. 88 aboard Radiant Sun Fortress.
• Li Qi arrived on an Original Star, examined its crushing pressure and regenerating terrain, and considered how to search for treasures without wasting divine power.
• Li Qi decided to wait in one place while monitoring treasure disturbances and allied information through a divine power avatar, then turned toward a disturbance he sensed nearby.

Li Qi reached a newly emerged pair of top-tier axe-type set-type supreme treasures on the Original Star and waited for them to surface. When Venerable Mo Tun tried to seize them, Li Qi revealed his identity as Venerable Kong He and killed him with Emerald Feather Mountain, leaving the watching experts shaken.

• Li Qi arrived first at the emerging pair of silver axe-type set-type supreme treasures as several teams of universe venerables gathered nearby.
• Venerable Mo Tun arrived, demanded that Li Qi hand over the treasures, and charged at him after Li Qi told him to scram.
• Li Qi unleashed Emerald Feather Mountain, whose emerald domain overwhelmed Mo Tun’s top-tier domain supreme treasure.
• Li Qi used the peak universe master secret technique River in the Mist to form an Emerald Beast God that annihilated Mo Tun.
• Li Qi collected Mo Tun’s five treasures and world ring while the observers recognized him as Venerable Kong He.

Li Qi, known on the Original Stars as Venerable Kong He, collected valuable spoils after killing Venerable Mo Tun and continued searching for treasures while the Hong Alliance prepared a star map. Meanwhile, the Machine Race and Zhen Jiao agreed to send fifth-stage universe masters after him, leaving his safety in jeopardy.

• The watching teams identified Li Qi as Venerable Kong He and left the Original Star, while Li Qi refined the top-tier set heavy treasures and claimed Venerable Mo Tun's valuable supreme treasures.
• Li Qi stayed on the Original Star and spoke with Hong Alliance overlords about the coming star map, declining an offer to join forces because the Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race might target him.
• Li Qi flew toward a clash between the Northern Frontier Alliance and Nine Regions Alliance, but the teams fled when they sensed a universe overlord approaching, and he let them go because their treasure was ordinary.
• The Machine Race's black spherical phantom told Zhen Jiao that the Queen's conduct during the earlier assassination attempt seemed suspicious and proposed a new attack on Li Qi.
• Zhen Jiao agreed to send Mie Jin, a fifth-stage universe master, while the Machine Race also planned to send a fifth-stage universe master to find Li Qi and kill or suppress his human incarnation.

Venerable Ling Tu’s team witnessed a palace emerge on Original Star #1411 and alerted Li Qi, who raced there to claim its treasures. As Li Qi traveled between Original Stars, a towering figure appeared behind him and took control of the surrounding spacetime.

• Venerable Ling Tu and his four companions waited on Original Star #1411 and discussed the dangers of treasure hunting and whether Venerable Kong He would come.
• A powerful aura announced a treasure’s emergence, drawing nearly every powerful being on Original Star #1411 toward a golden object rising from the wilderness.
• Venerable Mountain Defender charged through teams of high-level Venerables and drove them away from the treasure.
• When the object revealed itself as a palace, the assembled factions contacted their allies, while Venerable Mountain Defender recognized that he could not contend for its top-tier supreme treasures.
• Venerable Ling Tu told Li Qi that the palace would fully emerge in about three minutes, and Li Qi planned a route that would take roughly two minutes and thirty-eight seconds.
• Li Qi flew toward the passage to Original Star #8890, and a towering figure emerged from a passage behind him, bringing the surrounding spacetime under its control.