Chapter Summaries

Qin Zhenhai reached Supreme, while Xiang Yang advanced his self-created system with the Frost Snow Sect’s Heart of Extreme Ice. You realized Tantai Yue had never been Xiang Yang’s real motivation: he cared about strengthening himself, not winning her over.

• In 3125, Qin Zhenhai gained the insight to become Supreme after witnessing humans and the Sea Race falling in love, and you later congratulated him on his distinct Sacred Body path.
• Yun Shou explained that Qin Zhenhai’s Sacred Body let him develop three systems at once and greatly accelerated his growth, though he could not combine all three systems’ combat power.
• In 3130, Xiang Yang sought Ice Element materials to resolve his Sunfire problem, and the Frost Snow Sect gave him its Heart of Extreme Ice to curry favor with Bei Chenguang.
• Xiang Yang used the Heart of Extreme Ice to advance his self-created system into the Fourth Realm, barely noticing Tantai Yue, the sect’s Saintess and Xuan Feng’s fiancée.
• You questioned Xiang Yang and concluded that Tantai Yue had only mattered to him as a potential aid to his cultivation, while the Heart of Extreme Ice was what he truly wanted.
• You inferred that Xiang Yang’s past attack on the Frost Snow Sect had begun as a search for Tantai Yue’s Sacred Body but ended with him discovering the Heart of Extreme Ice beneath Frosty Sky Snow Mountain.

You advanced to High-Level Heaven Supreme, checked on the people from your fishing-village days, and learned Bei Chenguang’s explanation of the Fifth Realm’s stages and resource demands. Xiang Yang, whose understanding of his Pure Yang System was already complete, grew bored with the Azure Region and wanted to leave.

• In 3131, you advanced to High-Level Heaven Supreme.
• You learned that Tantai Yue’s marriage was a political arrangement, but chose not to interfere, while Xiang Yang remained focused on martial arts.
• In 3141, you visited Uncle Ji, his wife, Old Man Wang, Song Xiaohu, and others, who had advanced along the Martial Path and formed lineages in Yun Yang City.
• In 3155, Bei Chenguang explained that the Fifth Realm progressed through initiation, Minor Accomplishment, Major Accomplishment, and perfection, with each stage requiring vastly more resources.
• You and Bei Chenguang realized Xiang Yang had already mastered his Pure Yang System and could progress through the Fifth Realm without comprehension obstacles once he reached Fourth Realm Peak.
• In 3160, Bei Chenguang remained in the Azure Region, but Xiang Yang wanted to leave because he found it dull.

Xiang Yang and Bei Chenguang left the Azure Domain, while humanity expanded and absorbed or defeated more races. The chapter ended with Yun Shou and Ye Ranyi’s chaotic teasing and humanity’s former neutral or demon-aligned races becoming subject races.

• In 3175, Xiang Yang left the Azure Domain, and Yun Shou told Bei Chenguang not to bring him back; in 3187, Bei Chenguang departed as well.
• In 3193, humanity’s great domain expanded to two thousand, allowing the two Human Kings to stay awake and walk the mortal world.
• In 3197, Kuangyuan told Yun Shou that Yu Wenyun and Huang Jingxue had been found, and Yun Shou visited the Wind Thunder Sword Pavilion to praise their potential.
• In 3200, Yun Shou dominated the Martial God's Fate matchmaking tournament’s age brackets, while Xu Shuanghua revealed she was in love with Yun Shou’s godson.
• In 3201, Yun Shou taught Ye Ranyi that she could touch his head to receive an Essence Blessing, then pretended her playful beating hurt until he vomited on her.
• In 3209, the Fighting Race, Tree Race, Stone Human Race, and other races submitted to humanity or were destroyed, while only longstanding allies kept the title of friendly race.

By 3215, Yun Shou had reached Peak Supreme and believed he could fight the weakest True King, but his growing strength still relied more on special abilities than raw power. He struggled to comprehend the root of a cultivation system, then used Future Prediction to accelerate his practice and resolved to preserve his true Essence.

• At age 360, Yun Shou reached Peak Supreme with 43.76 times Essence and judged that his accumulated strength, sacred body, and Future Prediction let him challenge the Thorn Demon King.
• Yun Shou worried that his Essence-based advantage was shrinking as powerful beings gained larger combat multipliers, and he decided his next priority was cultivation unless an unexpected Essence increase changed his plans.
• In 3220, Yun Shou found that his comprehension remained weak despite his Essence and struggled with the Fifth Realm requirement to understand the root of a cultivation system.
• Yun Shou decided to spend two hours a day comprehending the Great Dao and hoped that Hajikou and the others would eventually obtain treasures or methods to improve his comprehension.
• In 3221, Yun Shou used Future Prediction to stack memories of repeated one-minute comprehension sessions, gaining an effective pace around sixty times faster than his usual practice.
• By 3225, Yun Shou was glad he had not lowered his true Essence to save resources, since doing so would have weakened both his comprehension and future Essence Amplification.

The Sovereign Origin system’s progress remained slow as humanity adapted to life after the demons’ defeat. In 3255, the Ore Field reported a brilliant Wu Imperial Dynasty prince named Wu Gui Ren, and by 3257 you had become convinced he was the figure you had been watching for.

• In 3241, you estimated that you had glimpsed 0.1 meters along the Sovereign Origin path of insight.
• By 3245, Azure Domain had ended mandatory military service but raised martial arts standards and treated the Monster Lands as a place of opportunity.
• In 3255, the Ore Field reported that Wu Gui Ren, a thirty-three-year-old prince of the Wu Imperial Dynasty, had entered the Innate realm and possessed the sacred body Mastery of All Martial Arts.
• You ordered the Ore Field to monitor Wu Gui Ren through Golden Spirit palace cameras and compared his personality and habits with earlier accounts of him.
• By 3257, you concluded that Wu Gui Ren was almost certainly the person you had been searching for, despite the possibility of mistaken identity.

At the True Martial Tournament, Wu Gui Ren tried to take the champion Zhuge Kong’s prize after discovering it was a rare material he wanted. Zhuge Kong returned the prize to him under pressure, while you waited for the ceremony to end before confronting Wu Gui Ren.

• You arrived at the Wu Imperial Dynasty to deal with Wu Gui Ren and watched Zhuge Kong win the True Martial Tournament.
• Wu Gui Ren arrived to present Zhuge Kong with the championship prize, a piece of Emerald Blaze Steel.
• Wu Gui Ren recognized that the prize was actually Emerald Blaze Heart Steel, a scarce material valuable even to an Overlord, and coveted it.
• Wu Gui Ren privately pressured Zhuge Kong to surrender the material in exchange for ordinary nine-star Emerald Blaze Steel.
• Zhuge Kong forced a smile and announced that he was voluntarily giving the prize to Wu Gui Ren.

The First Supreme secretly manipulated Wu Gui Ren’s essence, bringing about his downfall and exposing him to the same cruelty he had once shown others. By the end, Wu Gui Ren had been reduced to a fraction of his former strength, though his talent still exceeded yours.

• You exposed Wu Gui Ren’s attempt to take the champion’s prize, assaulted him, and threatened anyone who retaliated against the champion.
• You returned to the Wu Imperial Dynasty and secretly reduced Wu Gui Ren’s essence by one percent each week until it returned to its original level.
• Wu Gui Ren searched for a cure as his essence continued falling, while your influence prevented his reports from reaching the Supreme Hall.
• By 3261, Wu Gui Ren’s essence had dropped to a fraction of its former level, and the imperial family and former allies turned against him.
• Wu Gui Ren lost a challenge to a weaker opponent and continued suffering as you reduced his essence to 0.1 times, leaving him weak but still more talented than you.

You avenged Yun Jiu by making Wu Gui Ren vanish, then continued raising Essence and pursuing the True King’s path. In 3327, an invincible stranger entered the Supreme Hall, mistook you for a Dao Gathering Realm peer, and spoke of the Azure Domain as your domain.

• You entered the imperial palace, confessed to Wu Gui Ren that you had caused his decline, and used Essence Punishment to make him vanish.
• You used Return to Truth to return to a minute earlier, leaving the palace as Wu Gui Ren vanished and his mother and sister cried out.
• By 3275, the human race’s great domain had reached three thousand five hundred, high-Essence people had spread through the Azure Domain, and you had comprehended 0.2 meters of the True King’s path.
• In 3305, Chu Heshang became a Supreme with seven times Essence and pressure covering 1.4 million li.
• In 3321, you became stuck at 0.299 meters of comprehension despite continuing to grow stronger.
• In 3327, an invincible stranger entered the Supreme Hall, suppressed the Supremes, and addressed you as a fellow cultivator of the Dao Gathering Realm.

You concealed your weakness while speaking with True Man Jiushan, a Sixth Realm cultivator who had come to explain the destruction of a local lineage. After he left the Azure Domain, you used what you had learned to understand how Sixth Realm cultivators re-cultivated across systems and accumulated Dao Seals.

• True Man Jiushan introduced himself and explained that he had destroyed more than ten thousand people after abandoning his fourth lifetime body.
• You claimed to have completed thirteen lifetime bodies, convincing Jiushan that you were far stronger than he was and prompting him to treat you cautiously.
• You steered Jiushan toward leaving the Azure Domain rather than letting him remain and continue cultivating there.
• After Jiushan departed through a Space Passage, you learned from a report that he had wiped out a martial artist lineage.
• You reviewed eighty thousand foreseen futures and learned that Sixth Realm cultivators re-cultivated in different systems, condensing each completed system into a Dao Seal.
• You concluded that the process resembled a roguelike, with prior lifetimes and Dao Seals strengthening each new cultivation run.

You entered the Fourth Realm of the Hundred Races Battlefield, defeated the sixteen beings who ambushed you, and obtained a pill that might improve aptitude. Years later, Xu Ling'er became a Supreme with a new Sacred Body whose power supported someone she cared for by transferring some of her attributes.

• You registered to enter the Hundred Races Battlefield, crossed the empty Fourth Realm, and drew the attention of its long-trapped inhabitants.
• Sixteen Fourth Realm beings surrounded and attacked you, and you killed them all, earning a blessing and a medicinal pill you named the Enlightenment Pill.
• In 3359, Xu Ling'er became a Supreme with elevenfold essence, and her Sacred Body evolved into the True Self-Imbued Body.
• You learned that the True Self-Imbued Body transferred between one percent and half of Xu Ling'er's attributes to someone she cared for, leaving Yun Shou to remark that it was weaker than her former Sacred Body.

Xu Ling'er’s Sacred Body enhancement briefly raised Yun Shi Yi’s comprehension above fivefold, helping him advance rapidly along the Path of Venerable Origin before the boost ended. Years later, after raising Xu Ling'er’s essence to fortyfold, he reached sixfold comprehension, though the path’s growing difficulty was beginning to outpace his gains.

• Xu Ling'er used her Sacred Body ability to enhance Yun Shi Yi’s attributes, talent, and comprehension, then awakened when he touched her head.
• Yun Shi Yi’s comprehension returned to 3.5 times ordinary after Xu Ling'er ended the enhancement, but he continued advancing faster and reached 0.5 meters on the Path of Venerable Origin in 3394.
• Yun Shi Yi raised many human Supremes’ essence, while Jiang Yi lowered her realm after gaining double essence and Xu Shuanghua refused to give up her True King realm.
• Yun Shi Yi broke through a bottleneck at 0.6 meters in 3434 and reflected that forced breakthroughs could be far faster than steady cultivation.
• By 3500, Yun Shi Yi had raised Xu Ling'er’s essence to fortyfold, increasing his own comprehension to sixfold as the later stages of the Path of Venerable Origin grew more difficult.

Yun Shou struggled through a major comprehension bottleneck on the Way of Zun Yuan, with Xu Ling'er sacrificing hours of her life to empower him. After reaching 0.7 meters, he swallowed an Enlightenment Pill and saw his comprehension surge to sixteenfold, giving him a chance to make rapid progress.

• Yun Shou worried that advancing toward the Sixth and Seventh Realms might require mastering and combining multiple extraordinary cultivation systems, while Hajikou remained missing.
• A Seventh Realm existence was born, and Yun Shou estimated that reaching Xiang Yang's level of comprehension might require a hundred million years of accumulated essence.
• Yun Shou emerged from secluded cultivation after 180 days and reached 0.7 meters, with Xu Ling'er having empowered him by surrendering hours of her life each day.
• Yun Shou reflected that Xu Ling'er had helped him escape death in earlier simulations and decided she would be difficult to let go of.
• In the year 3520, Yun Shou swallowed an Enlightenment Pill when progress slowed, and its effects raised his comprehension to sixteenfold.

After using Enlightenment Pills to greatly accelerate his comprehension, Yun Shou hunted Fourth Realm beings in the Hundred Races Battlefield for more pills. Unsatisfied with his small haul and wary of provoking True Kings, he burned his origin and smashed through the barrier into the Fourth Realm region, leaving the battlefield’s judgment system to react.

• Yun Shou used the medicine’s boosted comprehension and Future Prediction to gain insights equivalent to years of cultivation.
• Yun Shou searched the Azure Region for Fourth Realm beings and sent fifteen into the Hundred Races Battlefield, where he killed them and obtained two Enlightenment Pills.
• Yun Shou judged that hunting more powerful beings risked drawing the attention of True Kings, so he put the pills away.
• Yun Shou burned his origin and blasted through the million-mile barrier between the Third Realm and Fourth Realm regions in twenty seconds.

Yun Shou used Return to Truth to advance the surrounding world by sixty seconds, hoping to trigger the Hundred Races Battlefield’s upgrade into the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield. He waited through several years of isolation until Xu Ling’er appeared and called him Master.

• Yun Shou devastated the battlefield’s Third, Second, and First Realm Areas before reaching a bedrock-like layer that intensified the force of repulsion.
• Yun Shou used Return to Truth to apply the next sixty seconds of changes across the universe and endless multiverse while restoring living beings’ positions.
• Yun Shou found the Heaven-Connecting Ladder sealed and waited, expecting the battlefield to finish upgrading in roughly ten years.
• Yun Shou watched a distant continent grow larger over the years but could not reach it, and his Way of Zun Yuan made little progress.
• Yun Shou encountered Xu Ling’er in the Fourth Realm Area, held her as she called him Master, and realized he could not let go of his disciple.

After the Yuan Tian Domain merged into the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, Yun Shou and Xu Ling'er encountered aliens seeking to seize them and their knowledge of local resources. Yun Shou killed the attackers, then traded their corpses to the human mech pilot Will for Spirit-Awakening Fluid and a learning machine.

• The fragment carrying Yun Shou and Xu Ling'er joined the enormous continent of the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, where more than thirty Fourth Realm creatures gathered to capture them.
• A mech pilot named Will shielded the two humans from the aliens, while Yun Shou recognized from his simulations that Will hoped to recruit them and learn about the region's resources.
• Yun Shou killed the alien attackers with single strikes, earning blessings from several of their unusual abilities.
• Yun Shou asked Will about the three bottles of Spirit-Awakening Fluid, and Will explained its grades and its use for improving intelligence in the Sky Domain.
• Yun Shou sold the aliens' corpses to Will in exchange for sixty portions of Venerable-grade Spirit-Awakening Fluid and a learning machine.

You sent Xu Ling'er back to the Azure Domain and spent years hunting in the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, gathering resources while avoiding enemies whose hidden strength could be far greater than it appeared. As high-essence humans spread through the battlefield and became targets for breeding, the human race introduced strict inspections and a formation to control the movement of their seed.

• You gave Will coordinates and data coins for the region’s outposts, then sent Xu Ling'er back to the Azure Domain before beginning your hunt.
• You spent two years killing more than three thousand Fourth Realm creatures and avoided attacking a green shapeshifter after foreseeing that it was a Sixth Realm cultivator.
• You outmaneuvered a powerful opponent by using Yun Die's Punishment to reduce his essence until he fled the battlefield.
• You returned in 3533 with Martial Dao and comprehension resources, then used them to raise your comprehension to eleven times and advanced the Path of Venerable Origin to 0.8 meters by 3537.
• By 3541, high-essence Azure Domain humans had flooded the battlefield and were being captured as breeding stock, prompting the Supreme Hall to issue bans.
• The human race developed a Silver Script formation for Azure Domain humans entering the battlefield and required inspections and lie-detection tests to prevent its abuse.

After decades of preparation, the protagonist completed the Path of Venerable Origin and returned to the Qing Domain to break through to True King. At age 735, he became a Flawless True King and declared himself the Century King.

• The protagonist used Enlightenment Grass, King-grade Spirit-Awakening Fluid, and Xu Ling'er's comprehension boost to progress along the Path of Venerable Origin.
• The human race gathered vast Martial Dao Resources for his breakthrough while Xu Ling'er remained conscious but immobilized for long stretches to help him cultivate.
• After drinking True Spirit Spring, the protagonist comprehended the final stretch of the path and completed the one-meter Path of True King Beginner Stage.
• The protagonist and Xu Ling'er farmed the Four-Realm region of the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, bringing Ye Ranyi, Wuhuhu, and others along to gain resources and levels.
• The protagonist returned to the Qing Domain and absorbed the gathered resources, advancing to Flawless True King at age 735 with 47.51 times base essence.

You celebrated your new power, discovered that your evolved abilities granted a second Essence multiplier zone and a temporary combat-power boost, then resumed cultivating by blessing the Supremes. The chapter ended with Lu Ming fighting a group of Shadow Wraiths while his energy ran low.

• You and the spirit races fought a massive brawl for ten days, and Wuhuhu eventually called its descendants to help before losing to you.
• You used Essence Reward and Punishment to bless multiple participants and gained the passive Infinite Climbing Ladder True Essence, which doubled your yearly True Essence increase when you used Return to Truth.
• Your Sacred Body evolved into My Descent Body, extending Future Prediction and Return to Truth and granting Descent, which let you borrow a future state for a limited time.
• In Year 3601, you began cultivating again and used True Essence to pat and bless eight people each week, giving Xu Ling'er 3% Essence.
• Lu Ming broke free from Shadow Binding and charged into a group of enraged Shadow Wraiths despite his dwindling energy.

Yun Shou used Future Prediction and Descent to greatly accelerate his comprehension of the Way of Zun Yuan, eventually reaching Major Accomplishment and True King Minor Accomplishment. He became powerful enough to challenge Fifth Realm experts, but learned that Vitality Devouring Beasts could be invincible within the Fifth Realm, leaving him wary of their arrival.

• Yun Shou combined future insights with Descent to gain twenty-fourfold comprehension for fifteen minutes each day.
• By the year 3603, Yun Shou had reached Minor Accomplishment in the Way of Zun Yuan, though his progress in strength lagged behind his comprehension because he lacked resources.
• By the year 3622, human Supremes had grown stronger through increased Essence limits and battles in the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield, where some fell and others reached Heaven Supreme.
• In the year 3645, Yun Shou reached Major Accomplishment in the Way of Zun Yuan and raised Xu Ling'er's Essence to one hundred and forty times.
• In the year 3651, Yun Shou reached True King Minor Accomplishment and 840 Thorns of normal combat power, enough to challenge powerful Fifth Realm opponents.
• Yun Shou learned that Vitality Devouring Beasts ranged from weak at the peak of the Fifth Realm to Sixth Realm strength, and that even the weakest were invincible within the Fifth Realm.

Over the centuries, the Qing Domain grew stronger as its Human Race population and number of Supremes rose, while the narrator weighed the danger posed by the Vitality Devouring Beast. The chapter ended with the narrator attending Xu Shuanghua’s king-crowning banquet, where the assembled Supremes and Human Kings saluted them.

• The narrator considered whether they could approach the Vitality Devouring Beast safely and wondered if its aurora attack counted as contact for Essence Reward and Punishment.
• By 3712, Wuhuhu had eleven times Essence and Xi Xiqi had advanced to the Fourth Realm, while the narrator’s own combat strength continued to grow.
• By 3750, the Qing Domain had five hundred Human Race Supremes, including Bei Chenfang, Xu Shuanghua, and Jiang Yi as its three Peak Supremes.
• Jiang Yi, Bei Chenfang, and Xu Shuanghua became True Kings in 3781, 3792, and 3805, respectively.
• The narrator attended Xu Shuanghua’s king-crowning banquet, where the other Human Kings and more than two hundred Supremes rose and saluted them.