Chapter Summaries

Ailota hoped to escape the Giant Axe Battle Arena's Lanting Branch by earning a place in the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company's core. Venerable Bei Ming announced the finals' rules, and Ailota began the first round by refining a second-tier weapon.

• The leading Immortals from the 1008 Universe Nations gathered at Restaurant No. 1 and discussed the tournament and the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company.
• Ailota resolved to use the tournament to leave the Lanting Branch, where he believed his prospects were blocked.
• Venerable Bei Ming welcomed the 201,600 contestants and explained that the first stage would eliminate anyone who failed to meet the recruitment requirements.
• The Lanting Universe Country's leading Immortal encouraged its contestants to rest before the competition, while Ailota privately reaffirmed his goal.
• The contestants teleported to Virtual Artifact Refining Rooms, where Ailota selected a second-tier weapon and began refining it.
• Ailota completed the weapon's secret patterns and began its final tempering with two-thirds of the allotted time remaining.

After the supplementary assessment selected the remaining members of the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company’s core echelon, Bei Ming announced their rewards and began a secret realm assessment that judged both artifact-refining skill and creativity. The chosen refiners were transported into Virtual Artifact Refining Rooms to compete for training resources.

• Ailota celebrated entering the company’s core echelon and hoped its treatment would be fairer than the Lanting Branch of the Giant Axe Battle Arena.
• Bei Ming announced that more than four hundred refiners would compete in a supplementary assessment, and the Virtual Universe system selected the best 54 for the remaining core-echelon places.
• The supplementary assessment results were announced, and eliminated refiners learned they could still join company branches and later qualify for the core echelon through a headquarters assessment.
• Bei Ming announced resource rewards by rank, including mixed yuan units, access to the Initial Universe, and entry to different secret realms.
• Bei Ming explained that the secret realm assessment heavily rewarded creative weapon design and began the assessment by teleporting the refiners into Virtual Artifact Refining Rooms.

The Universal Artifact Refiners Competition ended with Ailota entering the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company's core ranks, while Bei Ming Venerable and Blood Wing Venerable planned the law-genius assessment and future secret-realm rules. The Giant Axe Battle Arena's Lanting Branch refused to hand Ailota over, leaving the company's representatives facing a conflict.

• Bei Ming Venerable announced the competition results, and Ailota learned that he had earned entry into the Spirit Essence Secret Realm.
• Bei Ming Venerable and Blood Wing Venerable agreed to limit secret-realm slots for artifact refiners and medicine makers, set rules for their missions, and appoint Nightlight King to oversee the law-genius assessment.
• Marquis Chiye, Marquis Yinmo, and Chiyu Marquis argued over Ailota's recruitment, and Marquis Chiye and Marquis Yinmo insisted that the Lanting Branch should keep him.
• The Giant Axe Battle Arena's Lanting Branch told the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company that Ailota would not be handed over, and the company's World Master reported the refusal.

Locke led a Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company force to Lone Raccoon Star to demand that the Giant Axe Battle Arena release Ailota. After Marquis Chiye refused, Locke drew his sword and charged at the planet's defensive satellites.

• Bei Ming Venerable and Blood Wing Venerable concluded that the Giant Axe Battle Arena's Lanting Branch had provoked their company by detaining Ailota, and they approved a response limited to immortal-level fighters.
• Locke received the mission and traveled with Shi Ou and Cold Mountain King to Vast Sea Star, where they used divine kingdom teleportation to head toward Lone Raccoon Star.
• Locke and his companions arrived outside Lone Raccoon Star, while the branch leaders prepared to stall them and await reinforcements.
• Locke demanded that Marquis Chiye, Marquis Yinmo, and Chiyu Marquis hand over Ailota, but Marquis Chiye refused.
• Locke burned his divine power, drew his blood-colored greatsword, and charged toward the nearest defensive satellite.

Locke attacked the Giant Axe Battle Arena’s satellite defense network to retrieve a Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company genius, but reinforcements forced him to retreat. Nineteen arrived and overwhelmed the Arena’s kings with the Black Jade Throne, demanding the captive’s release, just as an even more powerful figure appeared.

• Locke attacked a satellite, weakening its shield, while Marquis Yinmo and the others waited for reinforcements from the Giant Axe Battle Arena.
• King Chen Xin, King Li Nian, King Chi Bao, and five other king-level immortals arrived, and King Chen Xin demanded that Locke leave without the captive.
• Locke crushed a divine power token, summoning Nineteen, who expanded the Black Jade Throne’s domain over the Arena’s kings.
• Nineteen demanded that the Giant Axe Battle Arena release the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company’s genius and threatened to kill the kings if they refused.
• As the black radiance intensified and the kings awaited their superiors’ reply, a figure with greater divine power appeared and told Nineteen to wait.

Nineteen accepted Lanting Universe Lord’s mediation, securing Ailota’s release and the punishment of the Lanting Branch managers while agreeing to a token repair payment. After the conflict ended, the chapter advanced through the company’s growing influence and concluded with Li Qi perfecting his ultimate secret technique, “Eight Desolations Unite.”

• Lanting Universe Lord persuaded Nineteen to accept mediation, and the Giant Axe Battle Arena agreed to release Ailota and investigate the branch managers who started the dispute.
• Nineteen agreed to pay one thousand mixed-element units, and King Chen Xin arrested Marquis Yinmo, Marquis Chiye, and Chiyu Marquis before the Giant Axe Battle Arena team departed.
• The Giant Axe Battle Arena delivered Ailota to the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company, and Nineteen arranged for him to return to headquarters.
• Twenty-five thousand years later, Blood Wing Venerable oversaw the successful Universal Alchemists Tournament, which selected 200 alchemists for the company.
• One million years later, Li Qi perfected his ultimate secret technique, “Eight Desolations Unite,” in the Jade Feather Realm.

After a million years of secluded cultivation, Li Qi strengthened the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company by rewarding its executives, recognizing a gifted artifact refiner, and recruiting his senior brother, Nether Demon Venerable. Nether Demon Venerable was tempted by Li Qi’s offer but had not yet accepted.

• Li Qi reviewed the company’s progress in the Virtual Universe and decided its leadership needed a powerful universe overlord.
• Li Qi gave Bei Ming Venerable and Blood Wing Venerable ordinary domain-type true treasures and promised better ones if they reached universe overlord strength.
• After learning that Ailota could refine eighth-rank top-grade weapons as a world master, Li Qi offered to accept him as a registered disciple if he could refine ninth-rank weapons.
• Li Qi praised the executives’ work and learned that his younger brother, Radiant King, had helped the company expand through the Royce Family’s connections.
• Li Qi invited Nether Demon Venerable to join the company and offered him a high-tier set-type supreme treasure; Nether Demon Venerable was tempted by the offer.

Li Qi secured Nether Demon Venerable’s move from the Virtual Universe Company to the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company, then took Ailota as his first disciple. After seven million years of seclusion, Li Qi completed the fused ultimate secret technique “Life and Death Two Forms” and prepared to enter the Universe Sea.

• Nether Demon Venerable accepted Li Qi’s invitation after Chaos City Lord and Dragon Walker Lord agreed to his departure in exchange for free artifact-refining slots for the Virtual Universe Company.
• Li Qi agreed to exchange a high-tier set supreme treasure for a top-tier space-law supreme treasure armor, and invited Nether Demon Venerable’s immortal subordinates to join the company.
• Several months later, Nether Demon Venerable joined the Cosmic Artifact and Medicine Company with most of his immortal subordinates, drawing attention across humanity and the Hong Alliance.
• Seven million years later, Ailota refined a ninth-rank top-grade weapon as a world master, became Li Qi’s nominal disciple, and received a test to refine a heavy treasure while immortal.
• After another ten million years, Li Qi fused “Eight Desolations Unite” with “Unending Vitality” to create “Life and Death Two Forms,” whose power reached the fourth-stage Universe Master level.
• Li Qi decided to enter the Universe Sea now that his fused ultimate secret technique was complete.

Li Qi prepared to enter the Universe Sea, and Chaos City Lord guided him through Toya Black Hole while explaining the dangers, travel routes, and maps needed to navigate it. Li Qi crossed the Primordial Universe’s membrane wall and arrived in the Universe Sea, where he began his journey.

• Li Qi arranged for his Kuyu Ancient Tree avatars and treasures, then exchanged messages with Chaos City Lord and Great Axe Founder before deciding to enter the Universe Sea.
• Chaos City Lord agreed to guide Li Qi to Tilted Peak Sector while Ice Peak Lord began long-term secluded cultivation to create a fusion ultimate technique.
• While waiting for Chaos City Lord at Toya Black Hole, Li Qi studied the limited information available about the Universe Sea and its dangers.
• Chaos City Lord met Li Qi, explained how to leave the Primordial Universe, and warned him to rely on maps and landmarks rather than teleporting through unknown regions.
• Chaos City Lord gave Li Qi a detailed map of the three great perilous lands, and they flew through Toya Black Hole’s torn opening in the universe membrane wall.
• Li Qi entered the Universe Sea and faced its immense chaotic currents.

Li Qi entered the Universe Sea with Chaos City Lord, learned about its factions and dangers, and arrived at Tilted Peak Sector. While exploring a flying boulder in the sector’s outer region, Li Qi uncovered a pair of silver metal wings.

• Chaos City Lord led Li Qi through a natural wormhole and showed him a ruined miniature universe, explaining the Universe Sea’s cycles, factions, and Sacred Lands.
• Chaos City Lord gave Li Qi classified intelligence and warned him about powerful sixth-tier universe masters and the peak races of earlier eras.
• Chaos City Lord and Li Qi traveled through Shaking Sand River and reached Tilted Peak Sector on their eighth day in the Universe Sea.
• Li Qi spotted a flash on a massive flying boulder, teleported over, and dug a pair of silver metal wings out of it.

Li Qi found a mysterious pair of silver wings in the Tilted Peak Sector and suspected they were the Shi Wu Wings, then joined Chaos City Lord at the Human Race’s gathering place in the Universe Sea. After Li Qi revealed that he could forge high-level supreme treasures, Great Axe Founder offered him a spare peak palace supreme treasure, despite the others’ concerns.

• Li Qi found silver wings with Metal and Space fusion law patterns, suspected they were the Shi Wu Wings, and kept them after Chaos City Lord declined them.
• Chaos City Lord brought Li Qi to the Human Race’s gathering place, where Great Axe Founder and other universe masters welcomed him.
• The universe masters toasted Li Qi and warned him that experts from the First and Second Universe Eras might target him.
• Great Axe Founder asked whether Li Qi could forge high-level supreme treasures, and Li Qi confirmed that he could forge every type.
• Great Axe Founder offered Li Qi his spare peak palace supreme treasure, prompting Lord Lan Cang, Lord Peng Gong, and Lord Qing Dong to urge him to reconsider.

Great Axe Founder gave Li Qi the peak flying palace treasure Dark Blaze Hall and justified it as an advance reward for exploring Flowing Heavy Mountain and mapping its unknown regions. Li Qi set out alone, followed a faint summons toward the forbidden land, and cautiously entered its sparsely mapped inner region.

• Great Axe Founder overcame the universe masters’ objections by arguing that Li Qi’s exploration of Flowing Heavy Mountain would benefit the race, then gave him Dark Blaze Hall.
• Great Axe Founder returned to the Tilted Peak Sector’s core region, while Li Qi said farewell to the universe masters and teleported toward Flowing Heavy Mountain.
• More than twenty days later, Li Qi emerged from a spatial vortex in Tuyan Hall and sensed a summons coming from Flowing Heavy Mountain.
• Li Qi approached the mountain cautiously, followed the race’s mapped route through the outer waters for more than a hundred years, and entered the poorly mapped inner region.

Li Qi explored Flowing Heavy Mountain’s dangerous core region while following the summons of a hidden treasure. At the source of an azure river, he encountered Monster Ancestor, who initially let him go before secretly pursuing him.

• Li Qi escaped a sudden torrent in the strange rock region and continued mapping Flowing Heavy Mountain’s inner region.
• After reaching the core, Li Qi navigated its hazards, bypassed a powerful whirlpool, and followed the river upstream.
• Li Qi reached the river’s source, where the Three Thousand Waterfalls’ roar began impacting his soul and will, and he spotted Monster Ancestor.
• Monster Ancestor used the Immovable Seal to endure the waterfalls and noticed Li Qi’s Dark Blaze Hall, which he mistook for the palace of another Universe Supreme Master.
• Monster Ancestor decided not to follow Li Qi at first, but soon emerged again and pursued him.

Li Qi followed a summons into a hidden residence beneath the Three Thousand Waterfalls and discovered an inheritance left for him by someone who called him Senior Brother. He acquired extensive secret techniques and learned of a mysterious weapon called Wandering Dragon, but the source of his connection to the inheritance remained unclear.

• After Li Qi vanished into the lake, the Monster Ancestor waited at its entrance, hoping to identify him when he returned.
• Li Qi sent a Kuyu Ancient Tree branch in Tuyan Hall to investigate a cave and found two black guards standing before a sealed hall door.
• When Li Qi arrived in person, the guards knelt and the hall door opened, drawing him inside to a fiery-red crystal.
• Touching the crystal revealed messages from an unknown expert who called Li Qi Senior Brother and warned him about Wandering Dragon and its imitation, the Wandering Dragon Awakening Spear.
• Li Qi received inheritances including the complete Nine-Turn Origin Heavy Body Refining Method, secret techniques, and knowledge that could help raise his life gene level.
• Li Qi refined the crystal and began examining the residence, where he saw two weapon racks.

Li Qi claimed the silver spear Cold Silence and silver armor Fated Path, then uncovered a cache of powerful supreme treasures in Flowing Heavy Mountain’s core region. He told Great Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord about the seven treasures he would give the human race and planned to study their secret patterns before leaving the mountain.

• Li Qi learned that Cold Silence and Fated Path had been forged for him and acknowledged them as his weapons, discovering that each held twenty-four layers of secret techniques.
• Li Qi found twelve more treasures, including four Void True God-level treasures and several strongest supreme treasures, and assigned them among himself, his teacher, Great Axe Founder, Chaos City Lord, and his clone.
• Li Qi contacted Great Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord through the Virtual Universe and told them he had found an inheritance in Flowing Heavy Mountain’s core region.
• Great Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord urged Li Qi to leave safely, and he reassured them that his sealing palace-type treasure could protect him.
• Li Qi departed to comprehend the treasures’ secret patterns while Great Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord agreed to await his return outside Flowing Heavy Mountain.

Li Qi spent centuries in the Azure Lake estate comprehending supreme treasure secret techniques and mastering the first volume of the Molten Fire Soul-Refining Art before leaving with the palace treasure he named Dark Blaze Hall. Sitting Mountain Guest had arrived in the Three Thousand Waterfalls Region to wait for an unknown expert, and Li Qi recognized him as he emerged from Azure Lake.

• Primal Chaos City Leader and Great Axe Founder agreed to keep Li Qi's supreme treasures secret and planned for Great Axe Founder to meet him in a hundred years.
• Li Qi comprehended the first three layers of the Cold Silence and Fated Path secret techniques, then studied the domain-type and suppressive palace-type treasures.
• Sitting Mountain Guest arrived in the Three Thousand Waterfalls Region and questioned Monster Ancestor about an unknown expert approaching the waterfalls.
• Li Qi mastered the first volume of the Molten Fire Soul-Refining Art, left the estate aboard the Dark Blaze Hall, and carefully crossed Azure Lake.
• Li Qi emerged from Azure Lake and recognized the divine power of Sitting Mountain Guest.

Li Qi met Sitting Mountain Guest in Flowing Heavy Mountain, learned that he was the heir of Origin Weight Sect, and struck a deal to help Sitting Mountain Guest seek revenge in exchange for secrecy. After leaving the danger zone with an axe-type supreme treasure for Great Axe Founder, Li Qi returned to the Primordial Universe.

• Sitting Mountain Guest recognized Li Qi and questioned how a universe lord had reached Flowing Heavy Mountain’s core region.
• Li Qi and Sitting Mountain Guest discussed his Origin Weight Sect inheritance, then agreed that Sitting Mountain Guest would keep Li Qi’s identity and the sect’s information secret in exchange for Li Qi’s help with revenge once he returned to his peak.
• Li Qi left the Three Thousand Waterfalls Region, while Sitting Mountain Guest resolved to continue nurturing disciples for Star Tower and imagined that his future youngest disciple might become Li Qi’s disciple.
• Li Qi traveled out of Flowing Heavy Mountain and gave Great Axe Founder an axe-type supreme treasure, which Great Axe Founder began studying.
• Li Qi carried Great Axe Founder through the Primordial Universe’s membrane wall, officially returning to the Primordial Universe.

Li Qi returned from the Toya Black Hole and presented six supreme true treasures to Great Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord, who arranged for the Human Race to safeguard and study them. At the highest-level meeting, Great Axe Founder revealed Li Qi’s haul from Flowing Heavy Mountain, shocking the assembled universe masters as the discussion turned to the treasures and the dangers of the mountain.

• Li Qi returned to the Primordial Universe with Great Axe Founder and traveled with him to Chaos City in the Initial Universe.
• Li Qi presented six supreme true treasures, and Great Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord agreed they would remain Li Qi’s property while Chaos City Lord safeguarded them for the race.
• Great Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord discussed rules for the race’s experts to study the treasures’ secret technique patterns.
• Great Axe Founder gave Li Qi Lord of Void Gold’s former seat at the highest-level meeting, surprising the arriving universe masters.
• Great Axe Founder announced that Li Qi had obtained six supreme true treasures in Flowing Heavy Mountain, and Li Qi added that he had acquired more than six, including treasures he had given Great Axe Founder.
• Li Qi warned the universe masters that Flowing Heavy Mountain was dangerous and said his self-earned treasures there were worth only nearly a thousand true treasure points.

Great Axe Founder established rules for comprehending the six supreme true treasures, while Li Qi briefed the Universe Masters on Flowing Heavy Mountain and its forbidden Three Thousand Waterfalls Region. After the meeting, Li Qi agreed to forge a treasure for Thunderclap Master and gave Ice Peak Lord a supreme true treasure sword; the chapter ended with Li Qi hearing surprising news after returning to the Creation Secret Realm.

• Great Axe Founder announced that the six supreme true treasures remained Li Qi’s property, set the rules and fees for comprehending them, and named the first group of Universe Masters to take part.
• Chaos City Lord set priorities for future comprehension sessions, and Li Qi marked his route through Flowing Heavy Mountain and described its dangers.
• Great Axe Founder classified the Three Thousand Waterfalls Region as a forbidden zone for anyone lacking the required will and soul protection, then adjourned the meeting.
• Thunderclap Master commissioned Li Qi to forge a top-grade high-tier flying palace-type true treasure using two sets of materials and 100 true treasure points.
• Li Qi visited Ice Peak Lord and gave him a silver supreme true treasure sword, which Ice Peak Lord accepted.
• After returning to the Creation Secret Realm, Li Qi learned surprising news.

Nether Demon Venerable broke through to become a Universe Lord and chose the title Blood Nether Lord, while Li Qi offered to refine him a flying palace true treasure. At the Primal Ancestor’s statue, the Primal Ancestor warned Li Qi that the Primordial Universe Origin Will would suppress him, leaving Li Qi to realize he was being closely watched as a rebellious existence.

• Li Qi congratulated Nether Demon Venerable on becoming a Universe Lord, and Nether Demon Venerable chose the title Blood Nether Lord.
• Li Qi offered Blood Nether Lord a top-tier set true treasure, but Blood Nether Lord refused it and accepted a flying palace true treasure as a more appropriate gift.
• Ice Peak Lord summoned Li Qi and Blood Nether Lord to meet their Grand Teacher, and the Virtual Universe Lineage welcomed Blood Nether Lord among its Universe Lords.
• Chaos City Lord, Ice Peak Lord, Lord of Darkness, Dragon Walker Lord, and You Hou Lord accompanied Li Qi and Blood Nether Lord to the Primal Ancestor’s statue.
• The Primal Ancestor privately warned Li Qi that the Primordial Universe Origin Will would suppress him, and Li Qi concluded that he was under close watch.