Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan learned that the severed body belonged to a dead Supreme Expert and offered a chance to comprehend a path leading to that level. He entered a virtual world with other human geniuses, where the body's pressure began to test his mind and will.

• The Crimson Kun Star Lord explained that the Supreme Experts had made the severed body available so humans could compete with other races to master the dead expert's path.
• Lin Yuan entered Virtual World No. 124354 and met Gao Wufeng and Zuoqiu Guang among the gathered geniuses.
• A manager warned the evolutionaries that their bodies and souls were standardized, that they must not cultivate the new paths in reality, and that Supreme Experts would revive anyone who died.
• The severed body appeared, and its mental pressure descended on Lin Yuan and the other evolutionaries.
• Lin Yuan endured the pressure and considered using it to raise his Heart Spirit Will Index beyond ten thousand points.

Lin Yuan studied a Supreme Expert’s severed body part, using its pressure to temper his Heart Spirit Will while dissecting its many evolutionary paths instead of cultivating one. As Gao Wufeng began to face signs of a heart demon and the Supreme Experts watched from above, they revealed that most paths were traps, leaving Lin Yuan’s unusual approach to be examined.

• Lin Yuan discovered that the severed body part contained countless evolutionary paths and decided to study them without cultivating any, preserving the pressure that tempered his Heart Spirit Will.
• Gao Wufeng and Zuoqiu Guang told Lin Yuan that they had each found an evolutionary path suited to them, and Gao Wufeng said cultivation reduced the Heart Spirit Will pressure.
• Lin Yuan continued studying and dissecting the paths for their rule insights, while an evolver on another mountain realized his chosen path might be dangerous but kept cultivating.
• Gao Wufeng recognized signs of a heart demon after cultivating his chosen path and stopped before triggering the Heart Demon Tribulation.
• The Supreme Experts watching from above explained that most paths in the severed body were dead ends, though a few were viable, and one of them might be the Supreme Evolutionary Path.

Lin Yuan resisted the severed body's pressure while comprehending its evolutionary paths, strengthening his heart and will and advancing his models. After waiting instead of traversing, he tested his Heart Spirit Will Index and learned it had reached 9234, still below the 10,000 needed to enter the Eighth Order.

• Ninth Order evolvers watched Lin Yuan and speculated that he was refusing to cultivate because he sensed the hidden danger in the severed body's evolutionary paths.
• Lin Yuan's heart and will broke through a shackle, and he continued analyzing paths and integrating useful insights into the Martial Path of Evolution.
• Lin Yuan received the Primordial Fire, Essence of Earth, and Formless Wind, then integrated them into his Inner World to strengthen its rules and World Power.
• Over half a year, Lin Yuan comprehended his 1,325th Core Space Model and accumulated enough World Breaking Source Power for a seventh traversal, but chose to wait and temper his heart and will.
• After three further heart transformations over two years, Lin Yuan rested and asked the Goddess of Wisdom to measure his Heart Spirit Will Index.
• The Goddess of Wisdom measured Lin Yuan's Heart Spirit Will Index at 9234.

Lin Yuan reflected on his growing Heart Spirit Will Index and observed Gao Wufeng’s risky cultivation of a path that Lin Yuan suspected would harm him later. The chapter ended with Lin Yuan and the other Peak Lords congratulating Eldest Brother on reaching the Eighth Order, while Crimson Kun Star Lord silently compared Eldest Brother’s new Inner World with Lin Yuan’s.

• Lin Yuan noted that his Heart Spirit Will Index had risen above 9,200 and expected to reach 10,000 within a year or two, while his body and soul were already perfected through World Power.
• Gao Wufeng gathered Lin Yuan, Zuoqiu Guang, and other Evolutionaries to discuss their cultivation, and urged Lin Yuan to pursue the Evolutionary Path he had comprehended.
• Lin Yuan warned Gao Wufeng that his chosen path might affect his Heart Spirit Will, but Gao Wufeng appeared unconcerned.
• Back in reality, Lin Yuan sensed spatial fluctuations and realized Eldest Brother was opening an Inner World.
• Eldest Brother emerged after successfully reaching the Eighth Order with an Inner World 220 li in radius, and Crimson Kun Star Lord quietly looked from him to Lin Yuan.

After the First Peak Lord entered the Eighth Order, he declined to study the extraterrestrial being’s body while Lin Yuan continued investigating its dangerous Evolutionary Paths. Gao Wufeng was driven mad by one path and nearly died, leaving Zuoqiu Guang worried that she too could no longer safely continue cultivating.

• Crimson Kun Star Lord congratulated the First Peak Lord on entering the Eighth Order and asked which star region he would oversee; the First Peak Lord said he had not decided.
• The First Peak Lord told the other peak lords he would not comprehend the extraterrestrial being’s partial body, choosing to stabilize his new realm instead.
• Lin Yuan comprehended another sinister Evolutionary Path but stopped when it stirred an overwhelming urge to kill.
• Gao Wufeng was trapped in a seemingly endless white space in his consciousness, lost his will to live, and collapsed in the Virtual World.
• Zuoqiu Guang told Lin Yuan that Gao Wufeng had nearly attacked people in the Nine Swords Star Region before Nine Swords Star Lord rescued him.
• Zuoqiu Guang admitted that cultivating the partial body’s Evolutionary Path was drawing her into illusions, then left the Virtual World.

Lin Yuan continued observing the severed body, gaining thousands of Evolutionary Paths while avoiding the dangerous cultivation that had harmed other Evolutionaries. After comprehending 3,333 paths, he formed a Demon Jade Mark and learned that he had become an ordinary member of Demon Jade Tower.

• Zuoqiu Guang and Lin Yuan discussed how other Evolutionaries, including Gao Wufeng, had suffered after trying to cultivate the severed body's Evolutionary Paths, while Lin Yuan had only tempered his Heart and Will.
• Lin Yuan discovered that he had accumulated five strands of World Breaking Source Power and considered random transmigrations, visiting the Spirit World, developing the Azure Sky World, or saving up to customize a destination.
• Lin Yuan received news that the Progenitor Demon Tree had kept several Otherworldly Evil Gods from contacting him and continued protecting the Azure Sky World.
• Lin Yuan comprehended an Evolutionary Path related to spacetime, then chose to focus on Space Rules instead of pursuing Time Rules at his current level.
• Other talented Evolutionaries tried to comprehend the severed body but suffered memory loss, Heart Demon Tribulations, or mental collapse, while Lin Yuan continued observing it.
• After comprehending his 3,333rd Evolutionary Path, Lin Yuan's paths formed a Nine-Story Black Tower mark in his soul, and he learned that he had automatically become an ordinary member of Demon Jade Tower.

After discovering that comprehending 3,333 Evolutionary Paths had made him a member of Demon Jade Tower, Lin Yuan learned he could enter its mysterious space only after reaching the Eighth Order limit. He reunited with his family, prepared for the Seven Stars Cave trial as a Peak Lord, and joined his fellow Peak Lords to watch the new challengers.

• Lin Yuan found the Demon Jade Mark in his soul and learned that comprehending 3,333 Evolutionary Paths had made him an ordinary member of Demon Jade Tower, but he could not enter Demon Jade Space before reaching the Eighth Order limit.
• Lin Yuan visited his parents and Lin Yi in the Virtual World, where they discussed the Arena Tournament and he reflected on how much his status had changed in fifteen years.
• Lin Yuan shaped his Origin Essence Metal into a bell-like defensive weapon, and the Crimson Kun Star Lord gave him a repaired Eighth Order soul-defense treasure.
• The Crimson Kun Star Lord told Lin Yuan that Seven Stars Cave World would open and suggested he take on a few disciples, which Lin Yuan agreed to consider.
• More than a million challengers entered Seven Stars Cave World, and Lin Yuan joined the Twelve Peak Lords to observe their trials.

After the Seven Stars Cave Trial ended, Lin Yuan chose Mo Li, Feng Yu, and Wu Lan to join his command. Wu Lan and Mo Li accepted, but Feng Yu chose the First Peak Lord instead, leaving Lin Yuan’s invitation behind.

• The Peak Lords discussed the trial-takers, and Eldest Brother said he would leave to oversee a frontier Star Region after the trial.
• Lin Yuan told his senior brothers that he had chosen Mo Li, Feng Yu, and Wu Lan, and Eldest Brother agreed to let Feng Yu choose between them.
• After the trial ended, Fang Qing invited Wu Lan to join Lin Yuan’s Thirteen Peaks, and she accepted.
• Feng Yu hesitated between Lin Yuan and Eldest Brother, then chose the First Peak Lord for the higher rank and his teaching experience.
• Fang Qing invited Mo Li to join Lin Yuan’s command, and Mo Li gladly accepted.
• After the trial-takers entered their chosen gates, Mo Li saw that Feng Yu had chosen the First Peak Lord and privately judged him foolish.

Feng Yu doubted his choice of the First Peak Lord but received no special attention, while Lin Yuan gave Mo Li and Wu Lan personalized cultivation guidance. Lin Yuan then shared two ways to comprehend the secrets of the severed body with the Goddess of Wisdom, withholding information about the Demon Jade Mark and Tower.

• Feng Yu questioned whether choosing the First Peak Lord had been a mistake, but the First Peak Lord treated him like the other challengers and offered no special attention.
• Lin Yuan examined Mo Li and created a combat-focused evolutionary secret technique tailored to him, which Mo Li gratefully accepted.
• Lin Yuan gave Wu Lan a cultivation plan based on the water rule and transmitted a secret technique to guide her Martial Path.
• Lin Yuan explored the sealed space linked to his Demon Jade Mark and decided to tell the Goddess of Wisdom about two ways to comprehend the severed body's secrets.
• Lin Yuan told the Goddess of Wisdom that one could follow a single evolutionary path to its end or comprehend 3,333 paths, and she paused to verify his information.

Lin Yuan received 1.5 million Merit Points for revealing an alternative method to comprehend the mysterious section of body, then continued studying it and strengthened his heart spirit will. After his index rose to around 11,200, he decided to begin breaking through to the eighth order.

• The Goddess of Wisdom valued Lin Yuan’s intelligence at 1.5 million Merit Points and issued them to him.
• Lin Yuan studied the border star region Eldest Brother would oversee and planned how to divide his body and spirits when he reached the eighth order.
• Lin Yuan spoke with Gao Wufeng, who had recovered from nearly suffering cultivation deviation, about the newly publicized alternative method for comprehending the section of body.
• Lin Yuan continued comprehending the section of body for a year, pushed through his limits, and transformed his heart spirit will.
• The Goddess of Wisdom measured Lin Yuan’s Heart Spirit Will Index at approximately 11,200, and Lin Yuan decided to begin his eighth-order breakthrough.

Lin Yuan entered a low-martial shuttle world to face the Heart Demon Tribulation, spending twenty-five years observing its people and helping establish the Great Chu Empire. When he finally drew in the heart demons, he found himself on an ordinary planet with a mother urging him to accept a job, marry, and have children.

• Lin Yuan used one strand of World Breaking Source Power to enter a collapsing Great Yan Empire in the body of the elderly Chen Jun, intending to face the Heart Demon Tribulation away from the Main World.
• Lin Yuan overwhelmed his would-be captors with his heart spirit will and left, then spent ten years observing the chaos as Great Yan fell and Great Chu rose.
• Lin Yuan helped cultivate the founding emperor of Great Chu, who later waited outside Lin Yuan's valley and pledged the empire's worship to him.
• Lin Yuan spent another fifteen years traveling and spreading the Martial Path of Evolution, while his heart spirit will grew beyond twelve thousand points.
• Lin Yuan drew in the Heart Demon Tribulation and awoke in a room where Lu Qiong urged him to accept a government job, marry, and have a child.
• Lin Yuan rejected the prospect of an ordinary life and declared that his campaign lay among the stars.

Lin Yuan passed the Heart Demon Tribulation, advanced from the Seventh Order to the Eighth Order, and caused a stir across the Crimson Kun Main Star. As news spread, the Ten Thousand Suns Saint Child learned of Lin Yuan’s breakthrough just as he planned to accelerate his own cultivation.

• Lin Yuan saw through and shattered hundreds of Heart Demon illusions, passed the tribulation, and raised his realm to the Eighth Order.
• Lin Yuan ended his traversal and used Crimson Spirit Liquid to expand his Inner World, then completed his breakthrough on the Crimson Kun Main Star.
• The Crimson Kun Star Lord and First Peak Lord sensed Lin Yuan’s breakthrough and realized that the newly advanced Eighth Order was their Thirteenth Peak Lord.
• Evolutionaries across the Crimson Kun Main Star confirmed that Lin Yuan was the only Peak Lord there who could be breaking through and marveled at his rapid progress.
• The Ten Thousand Suns Saint Child emerged from seclusion after hearing that a Supreme Expert’s body might help him advance, but his attendant then warned him of bad news.

Lin Yuan officially stepped into the Eighth Order, revealing overwhelming World Power when he sparred with the First Peak Lord. The Crimson Kun Lineage confirmed his breakthrough, leaving Ten Thousand Suns Saint Child to accept that he could no longer catch up to him.

• Ten Thousand Suns Saint Child learned that Lin Yuan might have reached the Eighth Order and waited for the Crimson Kun Lineage to confirm the report.
• Lin Yuan sensed his new Eighth Order power, and the Crimson Kun Star Lord and First Peak Lord congratulated him.
• The First Peak Lord tested Lin Yuan's World Power, but Lin Yuan's vastly stronger power overwhelmed his own, even though Lin Yuan held back.
• The Crimson Kun Star Lord announced Lin Yuan's breakthrough, and the news spread across the Star Alliances.
• Ten Thousand Suns Saint Child accepted that catching up to Lin Yuan no longer had meaning, while Feng Yu silently read the announcement.

After entering the Eighth Order, Lin Yuan explored his transformed Inner World, resumed studying the Martial Path, and gained new insights from the severed body in the Virtual World. The chapter ended when the Goddess of Wisdom told him that a Supreme Expert wanted to meet him.

• Feng Yu regretted rejecting the Thirteenth Peak Lord after learning that Lin Yuan had entered the Eighth Order, though he reminded himself that choosing the First Peak Lord had seemed safer at the time.
• Mo Li and Wu Lan were stunned by Lin Yuan's breakthrough, and Mo Li reflected that Wu Lan had been lucky to join Lin Yuan's command.
• Lin Yuan examined his more complete Inner World, his Sun Primordial Spirit's Flame World, and the Door of Myriad Worlds, then decided to delay entering the Demon Jade Space until he had prepared further.
• Lin Yuan resumed studying the Martial Path and discovered that reaching the Eighth Order let him perceive new evolutionary paths in the severed body within the Virtual World.
• Several Ninth Order evolutionaries discussed Lin Yuan's rapid rise, while a mysterious Supreme Expert decided to meet him through the Virtual World.
• The Goddess of Wisdom told Lin Yuan that a Supreme Expert wished to meet him.

Lin Yuan met Supreme Expert Xia Qin in the Virtual World, where Xia Qin assessed his talent and warned him about the dangers of advancing through the Eighth Order. Xia Qin promised him a Soul Suppressing Pearl before he went to guard a border starfield, and hoped Lin Yuan would survive and grow stronger.

• The Goddess of Wisdom told Lin Yuan that Supreme Expert Xia Qin wanted to meet him, and Lin Yuan joined him in the Virtual World.
• Supreme Expert Xia Qin recognized Demon Jade Tower and inferred that Lin Yuan’s Heart and Will had experienced more years than his body and soul; Lin Yuan confirmed the disparity without explaining his traversals.
• Xia Qin estimated Lin Yuan’s age at around two thousand years and rated his talent among the top twenty, possibly top ten, in Human Civilization’s history.
• Xia Qin warned Lin Yuan to choose carefully which rule to fuse with a Pillar Rule as he advanced toward the Ninth Order.
• Xia Qin told Lin Yuan to prepare to guard a border starfield for five hundred years and promised him a Soul Suppressing Pearl, instructing him to self-destruct immediately if it activated.
• Xia Qin sent Lin Yuan away and privately hoped he would grow up safely.

After celebrating Lin Yuan’s rise to the Eighth Order, he resumed cultivating, received a powerful Soul Suppressing Pearl from Supreme Expert Xia Qin, and began choosing a frontier star region to command for five hundred years. The Insect Race Alliance lamented its failure to eliminate him early, while Lin Yuan settled on a region for his future post.

• Lin Yuan kept the Door of Myriad Worlds secret after reflecting on its value and on his conversation with Supreme Expert Xia Qin.
• The Crimson Kun Lineage held a grand celebration for Lin Yuan and the First Peak Lord’s advances to the Eighth Order, and Lin Yuan’s family and fellow Star Lords congratulated him.
• Lin Yuan developed the Eighth Order chapter of the Martial Path around fusing the Taiyin Sun and Space Rules, then counted congratulatory gifts worth about 150,000 cubes of Cosmic Crystal.
• Nalan Deputy Tower Master delivered Lin Yuan a Soul Suppressing Pearl from the Tower Master, and Lin Yuan refined the treasure.
• The Insect Race Alliance’s strongest will blamed missing reports for its failure to target Lin Yuan before he reached the Sixth Order.
• Lin Yuan studied the frontier map and chose a star region to command for five hundred years.

Lin Yuan chose a newly incorporated frontier star region to govern, confirmed his eighth-order strength, and named it the Galaxy Star Region. After paying for a Class B planetary defense system, he visited the Crimson Kun Star Lord, who advised him to be careful and learned that Supreme Expert Xia Qin had already met him.

• Lin Yuan applied to guard a newly incorporated star region with twelve star systems and chose the name Galaxy to commemorate Earth’s Milky Way.
• Human civilization’s officials verified Lin Yuan’s World Power, physical strength, and soul power, confirming that he had reached the eighth order.
• Lin Yuan selected a Class B transformation for the Galaxy Star Region’s main star and paid one hundred thousand cubic Cosmic Crystals.
• Lin Yuan visited the Crimson Kun Star Lord, who approved of his chosen region and warned him to be cautious on the frontier.
• Lin Yuan told the Crimson Kun Star Lord that Supreme Expert Xia Qin had met him, and his teacher described Xia Qin’s reputation for combat strength.

Crimson Kun Star Lord prepared Lin Yuan to govern the Galaxy Star Region by giving him two powerful alien subordinates, while Lin Yuan readied his ship and defenses for the journey. The chapter ended with the blood-red octopus Ao Du learning that Galaxy Star Lord Lin Yuan would soon oversee the region it had been plundering.

• Crimson Kun Star Lord assigned Red Skin and Jade Eyes, two loyal Eighth Order aliens, to serve Lin Yuan in the Galaxy Star Region.
• Lin Yuan brought Red Skin and Jade Eyes into his Inner World and received his customized A-Class Cosmic Spaceship.
• Lin Yuan left his Yang Spirit on Crimson Kun Main Star and chose the Soul Suppressing Pearl, soul defense treasure, armor, and Demon Jade Mark for his journey, leaving the Origin Essence Metal behind.
• Lin Yuan reviewed the Galaxy Star Region's nine special life races and thirteen independent alien powerhouses before departing to take charge.
• Ao Du devoured several life-bearing planets and invited a special lifeform mountain of flesh to join him, but the mountain warned him that Galaxy Star Lord Lin Yuan would soon arrive.

Lin Yuan traveled to the Galaxy Star Region to assume his post as its Star Lord, using the five-year journey to greatly improve his spatial comprehension, evolutionary research, and strength. He arrived at Galaxy Main Star, where the stationed commanders and troops welcomed him.

• Crimson Octopus Ao Du learned that the new Galaxy Star Lord was Lin Yuan, a young Eighth Order disciple of the Crimson Kun Star Lord, and decided to act cautiously around Human Civilization.
• Special lifeforms and lone aliens in the Galaxy Star Region worried about the change from Shadow Race rule and hoped Lin Yuan would leave them undisturbed.
• Lin Yuan departed Crimson Kun Main Star aboard his newly named spaceship, the Milky Way, and spent five years traveling to the Galaxy Star Region while cultivating.
• Red Skin and Jade Eyes saw the enormous Inner World Lin Yuan had developed and realized they were meant to handle duties for him, not protect him.
• During the journey, Lin Yuan advanced his comprehension of the core space models, developed the Eighth Order chapter of the Martial Path of Evolution, and accumulated fifteen strands of World Breaking Source Power.
• Lin Yuan reached Galaxy Main Star, where the purple-robed and blond-haired commanders and the Evolutionary army bowed to welcome him.

Lin Yuan took charge of the Galaxy Star Region, assigned four subordinates to help manage it, and learned that the special lifeform Ao Du had been devouring planets. He went to confront Ao Du and its ally, shrinking their planet in his hand as they stared at him in terror.

• Lin Yuan arrived at Galaxy Main Star, received Chun Bo and Jia Li’s welcome, and learned that its B-grade planetary defenses were nearly complete.
• Lin Yuan introduced his Eighth Order subordinates Red Skin and Jade Eyes, put all four subordinates in charge of the star region, and requested intelligence on special lifeforms and lone alien travelers.
• Lin Yuan learned that Ao Du had devoured dozens of living planets and continued consuming resource planets, so he decided to deal with it personally.
• Ao Du dismissed the danger posed by Lin Yuan, while its enormous mountain-of-flesh ally warned it to fear the Human Civilization Alliance.
• Lin Yuan appeared outside the pair’s planet, challenged Ao Du to finish its boast, and shrank the planet to palm size, leaving both special lifeforms terrified.