Chapter Summaries

Meng Xuan watched Li Yuqing’s group leave Blue Star, while Liya tracked Zhang Yun to the Ten Ruins and found that he was trapped beyond the Glazed Ring’s reach. The chapter left Liya searching for a way to use extreme speed to affect time and rescue him.

• Meng Xuan watched the Lunar Ring-Magnetic Guardian Cannon shield the Solar System and saw the spacecraft depart, then stayed behind as Blue Star’s guardian.
• Little Na found Xin Na’s trajectory, and Li Yuqing’s group began a Subspace Shuttle to search for Shi Yan.
• Half a year later, Li Yuqing’s group reached Myriad Star City and headed there to begin searching for Shi Yan.
• Liya followed the Glazed Ring’s signal to a stone on one of the Ten Ruins, where treasure hunters had gathered after seeing seven-colored light.
• Liya drove the treasure hunters away and poured her power into the Glazed Ring, but its response revealed that Zhang Yun was trapped and could not be pulled free.
• Liya concluded that she might need to reach extreme speed to affect time and find a way to rescue Zhang Yun.

Shi Yan escaped the silver fragment’s time-frozen domain by upgrading his Life Extinguishing Tribulation Fire and using his green stone, then discovered the fragment was an Immortal-grade Five Elements Ring. Outside, he found Liya burning her life and soul to help save him.

• Shi Yan spent a year trapped while the silver fragment drained his blood, and Liya’s Glazed Ring signaled that she had found him.
• Shi Yan spent 100 million Martial Virtue Points to upgrade his Life Extinguishing Tribulation Fire to Heavenly Punishment Divine Fire, loosening the frozen domain.
• Shi Yan used his Immeasurable Demon Ape Body and green stone to weaken the domain further as Liya’s power opened a crack to the outside.
• The Saint Pattern Sky Gold Grass carried Xin Na, Wu Mo, the spaceship, and the green stone through the crack, and Shi Yan escaped with the silver fragment.
• Shi Yan’s data panel identified the fragment as an Immortal-grade Five Elements Ring, and he saw that Liya was burning her life and soul.

Ma Sha, a Saint and commander of Yanguang Star, blocked Liya and Shi Yan from entering after investigating the deaths of two World Kings. Liya forced the guards to conduct a routine inspection, and Ma Sha eventually let them pass to avoid drawing other Saints' attention.

• Ma Sha arrived at Yanguang Star's gate and stopped Shi Yan's spaceship from entering, while Liya left Shi Yan hidden aboard.
• Liya challenged the guards to follow Yanguang Star's laws and agreed to their inspection of the spaceship.
• The guards found nothing unusual, and Ma Sha realized other Saints were watching and might compete for Shi Yan's treasure.
• Ma Sha claimed he had mistaken the ship for one carrying interstellar pirates and allowed it to enter Yanguang Star.
• Liya steered the spaceship through the light gate with Shi Yan and Wu Mo aboard.

Liya, Shi Yan, and Wu Mo registered on Yanguang Star and entered the Virtual God Tower to escape Ma Sha’s reach and prepare for what lay ahead. Shi Yan rented a cultivation room, advanced his Nine Ashes Return to Void Art, and reached the Mid-Stage World Master Realm.

• Liya told Shi Yan to register as a free agent so other factions might take an interest in him, while Ma Sha’s people continued watching the trio.
• Liya led Shi Yan and Wu Mo to the Virtual God Tower, where Shi Yan registered for a Virtual God Realm account.
• Shi Yan rented a first-grade World Master-level cultivation room in the tower.
• Shi Yan spent 160 million Martial Virtue Points to advance the Nine Ashes Return to Void Art from the Saint Fifth Layer to the Sixth Layer.
• Shi Yan’s four Divine Fires converged into pillars that greatly expanded his Inner World, raising him to the Mid-Stage World Master Realm.

Shi Yan greatly strengthened his speed and body refinement in the Virtual God Tower before entering the Virtual God Realm. The Tower Master and Seventh Elder took notice of him, and the Seventh Elder offered to accompany him as he sought an opponent to spar with.

• Shi Yan used Martial Virtue Points to upgrade Liya’s Wind Cicada Dance into the Saint-Class Nine-Fold Wind Discount and mastered it, gaining extreme speed.
• Shi Yan advanced his Immeasurable Demon Ape Body to its Seventh Level and entered the Early Twelfth Realm of body refinement.
• Saint Lord Chi Guang inspected Shi Yan’s cultivation-room data anomaly and told the operations worker not to report him because he was still in the Lord Realm.
• Shi Yan entered the Virtual God Realm, but his guide Xiao Yi disappeared after the Seventh Elder reassigned her.
• Demon Eagle Saint introduced himself as the Virtual God Tower’s Seventh Elder and offered to accompany Shi Yan to find a sparring opponent.

Shi Yan learned how the Virtual God Realm worked, studied Ma Sha’s combat abilities, and repeatedly fought a virtual opponent modeled on him to prepare for the Saint’s assassination attempt. He then accepted Demon Eagle Saint’s offer to represent the Yan Guang Domain in the Virtual God Tower’s Elite Selection Tournament, but only on the condition that he could set one condition of his own.

• Demon Eagle Saint showed Shi Yan the Duel Arena and advised him on buying intelligence about human opponents through unofficial organizations.
• Shi Yan topped up his Virtual God Coins, added Liya as a friend, and bought intelligence on Ma Sha’s strength and earth-attributed law domain.
• Shi Yan fought Ma Sha’s virtual template repeatedly, learning to withstand Law Origin for longer as he spent nearly eight hundred million Virtual God Coins.
• Shi Yan left his cultivation chamber and met Demon Eagle Saint, while Ma Sha’s spies watched their meeting.
• Demon Eagle Saint offered Shi Yan protection, discounts, and eighty billion Spirit Coins to represent the Yan Guang Domain in the Elite Selection Tournament.
• Shi Yan agreed to compete without joining the Virtual God Tower, but said he had one condition.

Shi Yan negotiated protection for Liya and Wu Mo from the Virtual God Tower, then registered for the competition’s Qualifying Match. He entered the Soul Tower and cleared its First Layer, while Saint Lord Chi Guang watched with interest.

• Shi Yan asked Demon Eagle Saint to transfer the Virtual God Tower’s protection to Liya and Wu Mo, and Demon Eagle Saint agreed.
• Meng Chu helped Shi Yan record promotional footage about his hardships and the Virtual God Tower’s sponsorship.
• Shi Yan registered under the Yan Guang Domain and entered the Qualifying Match, where the top thousand contestants would advance to the Elimination Match.
• Shi Yan chose the Soul Tower first and let World Kings Qiong Gang and Liu Yu enter ahead of him.
• Saint Lord Chi Guang told Demon Eagle Saint that his choice to invest in Shi Yan came from intuition and ordered him to watch over Liya and Wu Mo.
• Shi Yan destroyed the ten mid-Origin Realm robots on the Soul Tower’s First Layer and advanced to the second layer.

Shi Yan rapidly cleared the Soul Tower’s first four layers, astonishing the spectators with his combat abilities and his slaughter of the Insect Race. He reached the law-testing Fifth Layer, where ten water clones surrounded him.

• Shi Yan defeated his replicated self in the Second Layer by using Collapse to evade its attack and then destroying it with three Demon Abyss Instant Burst Fists.
• Shi Yan instantly killed the Third Layer’s thirty demonic beasts with Nether Ghost Fire, shocking spectators who watched him pass in less than a second.
• Shi Yan advanced through the Fourth Layer as the Mantis Blade Bug Legion collapsed and died from the effects of his Heavenly Punishment Divine Fire.
• Spectators praised Shi Yan and offered him rewards, while Saint Lord Chi Guang ordered the Demon Eagle Saint to ask the City Lord’s Mansion to remove parasites, putting Ma Sha’s position at risk.
• Shi Yan entered the Fifth Layer, where ten water figures resembling him appeared around him in an ocean containing the Law of Water.

Shi Yan advanced to first place in the Qualifying Match rankings, discovered that fighting in the Virtual God Realm earned him Martial Virtue Points, and arranged for Wu Mo and Liya to take over his plans on Yanguang Star. After giving Liya powerful cultivation methods and urging her to build her own strength, he learned Ma Sha Saint would be away for a month, leaving him an opportunity to depart.

• Shi Yan cleared five floors of the Soul Tower and seven rounds of the Beast Fighting Arena, earning 15,800 points and enough to advance to the Elimination Match.
• Shi Yan discovered that his battles in the Virtual God Realm had earned him millions of Martial Virtue Points, then asked Meng Chu about running a business on Yanguang Star and began setting up "King Pan" with Wu Mo.
• Shi Yan learned that Ma Sha Saint had been removed as commander and fined, reducing the number of people watching him on Yanguang Star.
• After Liya emerged from seclusion, Shi Yan spent time with her and gave her Saint-Class Nine-Fold Wind Discount and other cultivation methods so she could protect herself and Wind Cicada Star.
• Liya accepted Shi Yan's advice to cultivate rather than seek protection from the Myriad Star Alliance, and Meng Chu later told Shi Yan that Ma Sha Saint would be away for a month, prompting Shi Yan to prepare to leave.

Shi Yan transferred 800 billion to Liya and agreed to let Meng Chu leave the Virtual God Tower to work for his household, with Wu Mo as her first assignment. The Demon Eagle Saint then told him that the Tower Master wanted to take Liya as a disciple, and Shi Yan agreed to pass along the offer while leaving the choice to her.

• Meng Chu told Shi Yan that the 800 billion had been transferred to Liya, and he offered Meng Chu a storage bag for her work.
• Meng Chu asked to become Shi Yan's maid and said she would resign from the Virtual God Tower so she could improve faster.
• The Demon Eagle Saint approved Meng Chu's resignation, and Shi Yan hired her to work with Wu Mo while Liya was in seclusion.
• The Demon Eagle Saint said the Tower Master wanted to take Liya as his disciple because of her talent and asked Shi Yan to leave her a message.
• Shi Yan agreed to tell Liya about the offer, while making clear that her decision was her own.

Shi Yan escaped his pursuers and spent 200 million Martial Virtue Points upgrading two flames into the God-Class Great Yin True Fire and Great Sun True Fire. After gaining a new insight into yin and yang, he awakened to find something nearby had enraged him.

• Shi Yan and Xin Na fled the Majue Race pursuers, accelerating through subspace until they were sure no one followed.
• Shi Yan anonymously upgraded Mysterious Ice Sacred Flame into Great Yin True Fire, whose freezing manifestation encased the spacecraft and temporarily froze Xin Na.
• Shi Yan spent his remaining Martial Virtue Points to upgrade Yang Spring Sacred Flame into Great Sun True Fire, whose manifestation became a radiant sun that scattered into stars.
• Shi Yan immersed himself in Dao and principles, saw the sun and moon merge into a yin-yang diagram, and awakened in his Spiritual World.
• Shi Yan returned to awareness, saw something nearby, and erupted in fury.

Shi Yan destroyed the three Majue Race World Kings who had caught up with him and learned how they had tracked him. Saint Ma Sha arrived, and Shi Yan deliberately provoked him before Ma Sha attacked with Law Origin.

• Shi Yan withdrew the badly damaged Xin Na and Little Gold, then froze and killed two Majue Race World Kings.
• Shi Yan froze the third World King and tortured him until he revealed that the Majue Race had tracked Shi Yan from Yanguang Star toward the Mingluo Starfield.
• Shi Yan learned that Ma Sha was approaching and decided to settle their grudges.
• Saint Ma Sha arrived and recognized Shi Yan as the World Master who had passed the Fourth Layer of the Soul Tower and ruined his standing.
• Shi Yan crushed the captured World King's head in front of Ma Sha, who formed a giant hand from Law Origin and reached for him.

Shi Yan fought Ma Sha, a Saint, by combining his Saint-Class techniques, recovery, and hidden weapons. After Ma Sha transformed his body to suppress Shi Yan's attacks, Shi Yan exploited a moment of distraction and killed him with Green Stone.

• Shi Yan evaded Ma Sha's attacks and used his deep-blue lotus flames to consume half of Ma Sha's Law Origin.
• Shi Yan restored himself to peak condition with system point allocation, then used a needle formed from Nether Ghost Fire to trigger tribulations inside Ma Sha's body.
• Ma Sha swallowed a black pill and keratinized his entire body, giving up the use of Law Origin in exchange for greatly increased defense.
• Ma Sha beat Shi Yan back, but Shi Yan endured the attacks and replenished himself again with point allocation.
• Shi Yan threw Green Stone while Ma Sha was distracted, killing him and gaining five million Martial Virtue Points.

After escaping the battle with Ma Sha, Shi Yan hid on a hostile planet, recovered, and inventoried the riches and Saint-Class martial art he had seized. He then entered the Virtual God Realm in a distant starfield and registered at a Gladiator Arena under the codename Mie.

• Shi Yan traveled for three months before hiding in a stone house on a volcanic planet, where he checked his recovery and found that Little Gold had healed but Xin Na remained asleep.
• Shi Yan inspected the three Majue Race World Kings' storage rings and found about three trillion Spirit Coins in goods, then broke Ma Sha's seal and discovered valuable weapons, armor, equipment, materials, and manuals.
• Shi Yan gave wood-attribute items to Little Gold, helping it approach Level Twelve, and learned Jade Armor Art from Ma Sha's Saint-Class collection.
• Shi Yan examined his Spiritual Inner World but found nothing unusual, then entered the Virtual God Realm and teleported from Yanguang to the Mo Long starfield.
• Shi Yan bought intelligence in Mo Long and registered as a resident contestant at a Gladiator Arena under the altered appearance and codename Mie.

Shi Yan urged Lan Heng to arrange an arena challenge before his newcomer match could be scheduled. After Shi Yan defeated Lan Heng ten times despite fighting from Peak Origin Realm against a Late Stage Lord Realm opponent, Lan Heng agreed to gamble on challenging another arena.

• Lan Heng guided Shi Yan around the Heavenly Saber Gladiator Arena and explained its facilities and declining attendance.
• Shi Yan asked Lan Heng to arrange an arena challenge that day, but Lan Heng refused because the risk was too great.
• Shi Yan paid Lan Heng to bring him to the Training Building and challenged him to ten fights while using Peak Origin Realm cultivation.
• Shi Yan defeated Lan Heng in all ten fights, shocking him with his strength and flames.
• Shi Yan warned Lan Heng not to report the demonstration and asked him to take a gamble.
• Lan Heng overcame his hesitation and agreed to challenge an arena.

Shi Yan and Lan Heng’s challenge to Purgatory Gladiator Arena drew a huge crowd, while Heavenly Saber’s chief steward tried to stop them. Shi Yan entered the arena with his newly perfected saber mastery, and the challenge proceeded under the watch of two Fifth Tier Saints.

• Lan Heng revealed that he had spent seventy million Spirit Coins on promotion, joining Shi Yan’s thirty million to stir up Mo Long District.
• Shi Yan spent four million Martial Virtue Points to raise Six Harmonies Saber Domain to Saber Domain and borrowed Lan Heng’s water-attributed saber.
• Shi Yan and Lan Heng arrived at Purgatory Gladiator Arena, drawing more crowds and experts to watch the challenge.
• Chief Steward Long Lu tried to seize Shi Yan and Lan Heng, but Saint You Suo blocked him and invited him inside to watch the battle.
• Lan Heng privately asked Long Lu to give them a chance, and Long Lu entered the arena as Shi Yan and Lan Heng were invited in.

Shi Yan, fighting as Mie for Heavenly Saber, defeated six increasingly powerful Purgatory Gladiator Arena opponents with overwhelming saber skill. His victories revealed that he had reached Blade Domain, leaving Purgatory humiliated and Saint You Suo eager to learn more about him.

• Mie defeated Ku Yu, the Origin Realm fighter with one hundred consecutive wins, in three seconds.
• Mie beat Purgatory’s second fighter in ten seconds, prompting Saint You Suo to recognize the depth of his saber technique.
• Mie defeated a Mid-Stage Lord Realm spear user in fifteen seconds by turning the man’s hair into a saber and severing his head.
• Mie overcame a Late Stage Lord Realm fighter and then a Peak Lord Realm fighter, taking his tally to five consecutive wins.
• Mie crushed Purgatory’s Peak Lord Realm saber expert in under a minute, and Saint You Suo recognized that Mie had mastered Blade Domain.

Shi Yan, competing as Mie, defeated Purgatory Gladiator Arena opponents in succession, including a World King, while Purgatory tried to recruit him and stop his challenge. After Mie won the nineteenth match, You Suo halted the event until Purgatory's two heavenly talents returned.

• You Suo discovered Mie's five-year contract could be broken for six billion and began planning to recruit him, while Long Lu warned Lan Heng to keep Mie with Heavenly Saber.
• Shi Yan defeated Purgatory's seventh and eighth contestants with his flames, then won the ninth through eighteenth matches as Purgatory's recruitment attempts continued.
• Purgatory sent Sen Liu King Realm, a World King with water abilities, to face Shi Yan in the nineteenth match, drawing angry protests from spectators.
• Shi Yan froze Sen Liu and beheaded her, winning the nineteenth match and thrilling the crowd.
• You Suo announced that the matches would pause until Purgatory's two heavenly talents returned.

Shi Yan rose to fame after Purgatory abruptly ended his challenge, then joined Heavenly Saber and earned generous pay and support. Over two years, his match schedule dwindled as public interest faded, and he finally took a day off.

• You Suo ended the nineteenth match and shut down the Spectator Area, while Long Lu left to discuss how Heavenly Saber could protect Mie from powerful forces.
• Shi Yan met Lan Heng at the Mo Long Virtual God Hall, and Long Lu increased Shi Yan’s pay, appointed Lan Heng as his dedicated assistant, and promised to arrange more matches.
• Shi Yan rejected offers from rival Gladiator Arenas and fought four matches a day for Heavenly Saber, drawing huge crowds and earning Martial Virtue Points.
• Over the following months, Shi Yan’s schedule fell from four matches a day to one as hype faded and rumors circulated about the challenge’s purpose.
• After two years of steadily improving while his matches grew less frequent, Shi Yan declined a match and asked Lan Heng to arrange a day off.

Shi Yan spent 800 million Martial Virtue Points to advance Xin Na to the True Soul Stage, greatly increasing the strength of all three companions and upgrading their spaceship for the journey home. Back in the Virtual God Realm, he agreed to fight Purgatory’s two prodigies in a Heavenly Pride Battle, despite one having reached the World King Realm.

• Shi Yan advanced Xin Na to the True Soul Stage, and she returned to him with a more human appearance, a metal tail, and strength that quickly rose to peak World King.
• Xin Na unlocked her Dragon-style Imperial Set and gave Shi Yan and Little Gold Wolf-style King Realm Sets, allowing both to wield power on par with peak World Kings.
• Xin Na explained that the True Soul Stage unlocked her wider abilities and access to the Virtual God Realm, then upgraded their spaceship to make the trip to Blue Star faster and sturdier.
• While Xin Na refined weapons and Shi Yan studied saber techniques aboard the ship, he returned to the Virtual God Realm and met Lan Heng at the Heavenly Saber Gladiator Arena.
• Lan Heng told Shi Yan that Purgatory had demanded a Heavenly Pride Battle and was stirring public criticism after Heavenly Saber had not answered; Shi Yan agreed to fight despite one opponent being a World King.