Chapter Summaries

Shi Yan reached Peak Origin Realm, then attacked the third station in Chaotic Sea while racing to escape a powerful pursuer. Xin Na erased the planet with her Mechanical Race ultimate move, and the commotion drew other powerhouses toward the scene.

• Shi Yan spent 40 million Martial Virtue Points to raise the Nine Ashes Return to Void Art to its fourth layer, reaching Peak Origin Realm with 11,999 Chen of energy.
• Shi Yan and Xin Na attacked the third station, and Shi Yan ordered Xin Na to kill the guardians who fled into space.
• After Xin Na warned that her mark had been destroyed again, Shi Yan asked her to unleash Twin Ring Magnetic Silence, which erased the planet and its surviving inhabitants.
• Shi Yan, Xin Na, and Wu Mo boarded their shuttle and headed for Chaotic Sea as Shi Yan sought to muddy the waters and grow stronger through battle.
• The mist-shrouded pursuer found the vanished planet, recognized Xin Na's move as an imperial-clan Mechanical Race technique, and realized other powerhouses would soon arrive.

Shi Yan entered Chaotic Star City and saw how the Primitive Human Race was treated as a Lowly Race, then settled in a courtyard with Wu Mo. As they were about to enter, a mysterious little girl fled inside, and Wu Mo confronted the Ink Scale Race men pursuing her.

• Shi Yan surveyed Chaotic Star City and learned that Primitive Humans were widely despised and enslaved by other races.
• Shi Yan asked Xin Na whether she and Little Gold could remain hidden, then told Wu Mo to find lodging and gather intelligence.
• Wu Mo rented a courtyard in southern Chaotic Star City after one day of searching.
• A little girl darted into the courtyard, and Shi Yan stopped the Ink Scale Race men pursuing her from entering.
• The leading Ink Scale Race man insulted Shi Yan, and Wu Mo warned the pursuers not to trespass on his territory.

Shi Yan sheltered Yu Juexian from the Ink Scale Race and learned that she shared Huaxia origins and might be connected to the Second Sequence. While Wu Mo investigated the threats surrounding them, Shi Yan upgraded his concealment art and fused his fist techniques, but Wu Mo then rushed back with alarming news.

• Wu Mo identified himself as River Soul and forced Mo Di and the Ink Scale Race to leave Yu Juexian alone, while Mo Di’s group plotted to involve the Flowing Flame Tribe and target Shi Yan’s human slave.
• Shi Yan questioned Yu Juexian, learned she had been chased by people who wanted to send her to the fighting arena, and had Xin Na confirm that she had no cultivation, a special time-slowing energy, and Huaxia origins.
• Shi Yan took Yu Juexian into the courtyard, where she shared information about the city; he sent Wu Mo to investigate Mo Di and the Second Sequence.
• Shi Yan upgraded Blood Concealment Technique into the Saint-Class Illusory Realm Formless and raised it to perfection, gaining the ability to hide aspects of himself and conceal Xin Na and Little Gold in the Void Realm.
• Shi Yan fused his fist techniques into Flash Flame Fist, developed it into the Saint-Class Demon Abyss Instant Burst Fist, and raised it to perfection.
• Wu Mo hurried back to the courtyard in a panic and told Shi Yan that something bad had happened.

Wu Mo returned with a Flowing Flame Tribe challenge that required nine deadly battles, and Shi Yan helped him qualify by forging a slave contract. After Wu Mo accepted the challenge, Shi Yan prepared for the fight and upgraded his movement and fire-control techniques; Wu Mo then returned to say the battle was beginning.

• Wu Mo told Shi Yan that the Flowing Flame Tribe had challenged him to Nine Battles for the Crown, with one fighter from each side dying in every battle.
• Wu Mo explained that refusing would cost the Mist Soul Tribe its spirit crystal mine, while Shi Yan suspected Mo Di had encouraged the challenge.
• Yu Juexian suggested forging a slave contract so Shi Yan could fight for Wu Mo, and Xin Na produced a contract bearing the Myriad Star Alliance seal.
• Shi Yan gave Wu Mo the contract and ordered him to accept the challenge and provoke the Flowing Flame Tribe into starting the battle quickly.
• Shi Yan concealed his appearance, aura, and cultivation, then fused his movement techniques into Reverse Dragon Seven Steps and his fire-control techniques into Palm Flame Realm.
• Wu Mo returned to the courtyard and told Shi Yan that the challenge had been settled and the battle was beginning.

Shi Yan entered the Gladiator Arena in Chaotic Star City to fight a Flowing Flame Tribe cultivator while concealing Xin Na from seven attending World Kings. He killed his opponent with an A-Class saber and challenged the spectators to send someone else.

• Shi Yan noticed seven World Kings in the VIP seats and suspected his plan to reveal Xin Na’s aura had drawn them to the arena.
• The Flowing Flame Tribe fighter and spectators mocked Shi Yan for wielding the A-Class Phantom Blood Saber.
• When the referee started the match, the fighter charged Shi Yan with a blazing fist.
• Shi Yan dodged and severed the fighter’s fist with one slash, surprising the crowd.
• Shi Yan killed the fighter with successive saber strikes, mocked his weakness, and asked who else wanted to fight.

Shi Yan, fighting under the name Zhang Yun, defeated the Flowing Flame Tribe’s challengers and won the decisive fifth match against Tuoba Jin, a fellow human from the enslaved Qiu Lan Star. Impressed by Shi Yan’s fist technique, Yates invited him to become a resident champion of Chaotic Star City’s arena, giving Shi Yan a chance to fight before even larger audiences.

• An Eight-Eyed Tribesman explained that Liu Yan had died to Shi Yan’s Reverse Dragon Seven Steps, and Shi Yan then killed the Flowing Flame Tribe’s next three challengers in rapid succession.
• With the fifth match deciding the spirit crystal mine, the Flowing Flame Tribe sent Tuoba Jin, a Tenth Realm human cultivator from Qiu Lan Star, to fight Shi Yan.
• Shi Yan and Tuoba Jin exchanged blows, and Tuoba Jin revealed that his homeworld and its people had become slaves of the Flowing Flame Tribe.
• Tuoba Jin unleashed his Ice Gale Fist, but Shi Yan countered with Demon Abyss Instant Burst Fist and killed him with one punch.
• Yates praised Shi Yan’s fist technique and invited him to become a resident champion of Chaotic Star City’s arena; Wu Mo accepted on Shi Yan’s behalf.

Shi Yan and Wu Mo completed the procedures for Shi Yan to become a resident champion in Chaotic Star City’s Gladiator Arena. Supervisor Lou Wu suspected the Myriad Star Alliance was involved in a larger struggle and feared Chaotic Star City could become a battlefield.

• Wu Mo warned Shi Yan that the Mist Soul Tribe could reach Chaotic Star City in three months, but Shi Yan said that would be enough time.
• Beibei escorted Shi Yan and Wu Mo to meet Lou Wu, a powerful Lord Realm expert and Gladiator Arena supervisor.
• Lou Wu helped them verify their identities, sign the contract, and register Shi Yan’s account for match earnings.
• Lou Wu recognized the Myriad Star Alliance emblem on Shi Yan’s card and inferred that Wu Mo was only a transitional holder.
• After they left, Lou Wu worried that news of surviving members of the Mechanical Race royal family and the Alliance’s involvement could draw powerful factions to the Chaotic Sea.

Shi Yan returned safely to his courtyard, where Yu Juexian welcomed him, and spent seven days recovering and considering his next steps. After Wu Mo returned with the proceeds from their spoils and valuable intelligence, Shi Yan decided to earn more money by fighting ten matches that night.

• Yu Juexian greeted Shi Yan when he returned to the courtyard and massaged his shoulders while he rested.
• Shi Yan discussed Xin Na's hidden capabilities and concluded that he needed to strengthen her to unlock more of her secrets.
• Shi Yan spent seven days in the courtyard digesting his battle with Tuoba Jin, and Wu Mo returned with six hundred million Spirit Coins and several valuable intelligence leads.
• Shi Yan learned that the intelligence pointed to the World Masters' last known location, a planet for Little Gold, and Cloud Tungsten Ore for Xin Na, but all three leads required more strength or money to pursue.
• After learning that the Gladiator Arena would hold a ring-defense battle, Shi Yan told Wu Mo to inform Supervisor Lou that he would fight ten matches that night.

Shi Yan fought Vanessa in the first of ten scheduled arena matches and used his footwork to turn her Light Rain ability against her. He defeated her swiftly, leaving the crowd to witness the power of the technique.

• Lou Wu announced that Shi Yan would fight ten matches and personally appeared to shield the arena from outside detection.
• Vanessa of the Light Rain Race entered with ten consecutive victories, and Shi Yan introduced himself as Zhang Yun.
• Vanessa used Light Rain to break apart Shi Yan's Saber Qi and drain his Battle Qi while retreating.
• Shi Yan expanded and spun his Saber Qi, using his footwork to draw Vanessa's Light Rain into it.
• The combined energy exploded against Vanessa, and Shi Yan pinned her with his saber at her neck.

Shi Yan continued his winning streak in the Gladiator Arena while Xin Na launched the King Pan betting software across Chaotic Star City, drawing Liya and other users with its unusually low commission. In the final match, Shi Yan confronted Feng Ming, whose wind domain could not overcome his defenses, and sent him flying with the Reverse Dragon Seven Steps.

• Vanessa admitted defeat to Shi Yan, promised to challenge him again at Peak Origin Realm, and left the battleground.
• Shi Yan defeated his second opponent, a Peak Origin Realm veteran, and the arena crowd increasingly supported him as his reputation spread.
• Xin Na released the King Pan betting software, which repeatedly appeared on Chaotic Star City residents' devices, and Liya tested it before winning money by betting on Shi Yan.
• Shi Yan noticed spectators using their communicators and suspected Xin Na had begun spreading the betting software before his final match against Feng Ming.
• Feng Ming challenged Shi Yan over his resident champion contract and attacked him with wind wheels and a domain, but Shi Yan's golden defense held.
• Shi Yan summoned the Five-Colored Divine Ape and used three steps of the Reverse Dragon Seven Steps to destroy Feng Ming's wind wheels and send him flying.

Shi Yan defeated Feng Ming, won his hundredth consecutive arena match, and earned enough through fighting and the King Pan software to buy Cloud Tungsten Ore. When Wu Mo tried to complete the purchase, Golden Arrow Lord Realm doubled the price and demanded Shi Yan as part of the deal.

• Shi Yan shattered Feng Ming’s Dao heart with his movement technique and won the arena match, earning a ten-win medal.
• Shi Yan returned to Xin Na, who reported that the King Pan software was steadily gaining users and revenue.
• Over the next three months, Shi Yan won one hundred consecutive arena matches while the King Pan software earned more than twelve billion Spirit Coins.
• Lou Wu introduced Shi Yan and Wu Mo to Golden Arrow Lord Realm so they could purchase Cloud Tungsten Ore.
• Golden Arrow Lord Realm raised the ore’s listed price to twenty billion Spirit Coins and demanded an additional one billion plus Zhang Yun.

Shi Yan visited Liya World Master to seek funding for the Cloud Tungsten Ore after Wu Mo rejected Golden Arrow Lord Realm’s demand for Zhang Yun. He offered Liya a supreme-grade Cicada's Silent Art, and her shock revealed that the technique could help her escape.

• Golden Arrow Lord Realm demanded ten billion and Zhang Yun for the Cloud Tungsten Ore, but Wu Mo refused and left with Shi Yan.
• Shi Yan and Wu Mo went to Cicada Maiden Residence, where Liya welcomed Zhang Yun with a red carpet.
• Liya questioned Shi Yan about his connection to King Pan and the Myriad Star Alliance, but he denied being from the alliance and proposed a transaction worth several tens of billions.
• Shi Yan gave Liya a crystal containing Cicada's Silent Art, and she was shocked by the technique's value.
• Shi Yan recognized that Liya needed the art because she wanted to escape.

Shi Yan traded Cicada's Silent Art to Liya for one hundred billion and three favors, then left to prepare for the next day's auction. Liya gained a way to conceal herself from her pursuers, while Shi Yan returned with more money for his bids.

• Shi Yan revealed Cicada's Silent Art to Liya and showed her his Peak Origin Realm aura, convincing her that the technique and his offer were genuine.
• Liya agreed to pay one hundred billion and owe Shi Yan three favors, and the two exchanged the money, the technique, and their contact information.
• Liya served Shi Yan Hundred Enlightenment Tea, and they became more comfortable with each other as they chatted.
• Shi Yan ignored the crowd waiting to approach him, reunited with Wu Mo, and returned to sort through intelligence for the auction.
• The long-awaited auction began the next day.

Shi Yan and Wu Mo attended Chaotic Star City’s grand auction, where powerful figures gathered amid growing tensions from unfamiliar World Kings. The auction began with nine Virtual God Tower Elite Competition admission tickets, each starting at one hundred million.

• Shi Yan and Wu Mo entered the auction house’s VIP area and spotted Mo Di, whom Shi Yan wanted to confront and Wu Mo suspected might know something about the Second Sequence.
• World Master Liya arrived and took a prestigious seat, while an unfamiliar World King and many other powerful guests entered the hall.
• Yates welcomed the guests and officially opened the once-in-a-century auction.
• Chief auctioneer Buno explained the rules and presented nine admission tickets for the Virtual God Tower Elite Competition as the first items.
• Buno announced that the tickets would be auctioned individually, starting at one hundred million each.

Shi Yan attended an auction where Liya bought a Virtual God Tower admission ticket and sold her business, Cicada Maiden Residence. As the auction continued, Shi Yan had Wu Mo secretly bid up the price to help Liya, then told him to stop before the sale concluded.

• Shi Yan decided not to bid on a Virtual God Tower admission ticket, while Liya noticed Zhang Yun was absent and bought one for four hundred million Spirit Crystals.
• Shi Yan asked Wu Mo to disguise his voice when bidding on later items so buyers would not identify him before he left Chaotic Star City to collect Cloud Tungsten Ore.
• World King Buno auctioned the remaining tickets, then offered all shares of Cicada Maiden Residence at a starting price of one billion one hundred million Spirit Crystals.
• Wu Mo repeatedly raised other bidders' offers by ten million, angering a toad-headed man until Lou Wu warned him to follow the auction house's rules.
• Shi Yan told Wu Mo to stop bidding, having helped raise the price of Liya's business.

Shi Yan learned that the Mechanical Race fragment at the Chaotic Star Auction House was part of Xin Na’s body and ordered Wu Mo to secure it. As bidding began, Xin Na warned that the fragment could lead others to her main body.

• A toad World Master bought Cicada Maiden Residence for 2.1 billion, and the auction continued with expensive lots.
• World King Buno presented a dark-silver Mechanical Race body fragment, drawing intense interest from the crowd.
• Xin Na told Shi Yan the fragment was part of her body and traced its loss to the battle with an Interstellar Hunter in the Dust Thunder Region.
• Xin Na warned that someone could use the fragment to locate her main body, and Shi Yan ordered Wu Mo to buy it at any cost.
• World King Buno set the fragment’s starting price at 3 billion, and bids began rising.

Shi Yan secured Xin Na’s dark silver fragment and the Cloud Tungsten Ore contract at the auction while suspecting others were tracking him. As the sale of ten Origin Realm slaves reminded him how vulnerable Blue Star was, he resolved to spend freely on what he needed.

• Shi Yan won the dark silver fragment for six billion Spirit Coin, and Xin Na removed three hidden marks before absorbing it into her body.
• Shi Yan gave up bidding on a Spirit-Class saber that did not suit him and won ownership of the Cloud Tungsten Ore on Demon Cloud Star for thirteen billion.
• Golden Arrow Lord Realm lamented that the sale left him unable to compete with Wu Dao for the item he wanted.
• Buno presented ten Origin Realm slaves from the Black Steel Stone Race, and Shi Yan reflected on the danger Blue Star would face if discovered by powerful beings.
• Shi Yan resolved not to hold back when bidding on useful items.

Shi Yan learned that the damaged Non-Aggression could greatly enhance weapons and decided to bid for it. Golden Arrow and Wu Dao fought over the treasure until Wu Dao offered thirty-three billion, but a new bid interrupted the sale.

• Liya bought the ten Origin Realm Black Steel Stone Race slaves for nearly twenty billion.
• Xin Na explained Non-Aggression's weapon-nurturing power and urged Shi Yan to bid, saying she could repair it.
• World King Buno opened bidding for the damaged Non-Aggression at eighteen billion Spirit Coin.
• Golden Arrow and Wu Dao drove the price up against each other, and Wu Dao offered thirty-three billion as his final bid.
• Just before the auction closed, an unknown bidder offered thirty-three billion three hundred million.

Shi Yan won the damaged Non-Aggression and a failed weapon that Xin Na said he could forge into a Saint-Class saber, while a Black Jun Tribe World King bought the Wolf-style King Realm Set. After leaving the auction in disguise, Shi Yan went to the Cicada Maiden Residence to deal with his three marks, but three powerful auras approached and he realized they had found him.

• Shi Yan told Wu Mo to bid 333 billion for Non-Aggression, outbidding Wu Dao, and then handed the item to Xin Na after it arrived.
• Wu Dao and Golden Arrow suspected that Shi Yan had bought the Cloud Tungsten Ore and planned to ambush him at its deposit, while Wu Mo warned Shi Yan that they were plotting against them.
• At Xin Na's urging, Shi Yan bought a failed weapon for 40 billion, and Xin Na explained that his Divine Fire could turn it into a Saint-Class saber and that the Lava Spirit Devouring Saber could be fused into it.
• A Black Jun Tribe World King won the Wolf-style King Realm Set for 240 billion and left the auction house, which then ended.
• Shi Yan and Wu Mo changed their appearances and left by separate routes; Shi Yan went to the Cicada Maiden Residence to watch over Yu Juexian and find a way to trade away his three marks.
• Shi Yan sensed three powerful auras approaching the Cicada Maiden Residence and realized they had found him.

Shi Yan’s attempt to hide the Mechanical Race fragment brought Yan Feng King Realm to the Cicada Maiden Residence, where Yan Feng killed two rivals and pressured everyone to reveal who had taken it. Yates intervened, defeated Yan Feng, and restored order, while Shi Yan remained undiscovered.

• Shi Yan tossed the marked box into an underground passage as Yan Feng King Realm and two other pursuers arrived at the Cicada Maiden Residence.
• Yan Feng killed the two pursuers, broke through the residence’s protective formation, and returned with Shi Yan’s crushed box, demanding to know who had taken the Mechanical Race fragment.
• Shi Yan struggled to withstand Yan Feng’s escalating pressure and weighed whether to risk using Flame Explosion.
• Yates appeared, confronted Yan Feng, defeated him in a brief battle, and left him with a severed arm that could not regenerate.
• Yates increased Yan Feng’s fine to four hundred million Spirit Crystals and threatened to revoke his spaceship qualification, prompting Yan Feng to pay and leave.
• Yates apologized to the injured residents and gave each of them one million Spirit Crystals, while Shi Yan wondered how powerful the City Lord was.