Chapter Summaries

Qin Heng and Yu Ling opened accounts at Yanwu Bank, where Manager Lu Mi explained the bank’s account tiers and privileges. Qin Heng received a premium account and card after transferring in 5.1 million Void Ash Coins, and learned how powerful the highest-tier VIP cards were.

• A guide told Qin Heng and Yu Ling that first-time Star Lord customers depositing more than 100,000 Void Ash Coins could receive a residence on Azure Chaos Mountain.
• Manager Lu Mi described Yanwu Bank’s account tiers, including the enormous asset requirements and privileges of Star-Level Users.
• Qin Heng said he could only qualify as a premium user and completed the biological and soul information checks to open an account.
• Qin Heng had Shi Duan Tian transfer 5.1 million Void Ash Coins and received a gold premium card with three sub-cards.
• Qin Heng examined the Star-Level cards and learned that a Nine-Star VIP card could destroy a star with a single strike.

Qin Heng transferred the funds from several bank cards into his account, bringing his total to eleven million Void Ash Coins, and collected the free mansion he had earned by opening an account. After touring the house and Yu Ling’s nearby residence, he left to attend to matters in the Soul Dimension.

• Qin Heng asked Lu Mi to transfer the funds from six Yanwu Bank cards, and she found that one card belonged to Hun Xian while another was a deactivated Clan Card tied to a Force Race elder.
• Lu Mi transferred nearly six million Void Ash Coins from the usable cards, bringing Qin Heng’s total funds to eleven million Void Ash Coins.
• Qin Heng asked Lu Mi to show him and Yu Ling the complimentary mansions they qualified for through their large account deposits.
• Lu Mi showed Qin Heng his eight-square-kilometer mansion on Azure Chaos Mountain, which featured a customizable interior, cultivation facilities, and an automated security guard.
• Qin Heng and Yu Ling toured her nearby mansion, thanked Lu Mi for the gift, and Qin Heng left to handle matters in the Soul Dimension.

Qin Heng prepared to spar with two of Vast Nothing Mountain’s chosen prodigies in the Life and Death Arena, drawing a large crowd of Purple Snow Star supporters. The two opponents arrived, and Qin Heng met them in the lobby before their battles began.

• Qin Heng contacted Mottled Beard Old Ghost and arranged to meet Vast Nothing Mountain’s chosen prodigies at the Life and Death Arena.
• Shi Duan Tian and more than a hundred people from Purple Snow Star gathered to accompany Qin Heng and cheer him on.
• Qin Heng changed his temporary arena account into a long-term account and learned that most supporters had bet he would lose both matches.
• Two Vast Nothing Mountain prodigies arrived, and Qin Heng sensed that they were Star Lord Second Order and Star Lord Third Order.
• The merman prodigy asked Qin Heng if he was from Purple Snow Star, and Qin Heng confirmed his identity and asked for their names.

Qin Heng welcomed the chance to fight Vast Nothing Mountain prodigies Zhao Yue and Huo Juan, then accepted Huo Juan’s challenge in a public Life and Death Arena match. As Qin Heng and Huo Juan prepared to battle, Lan Xuan Ke raised his expectations for Qin Heng, and Mo Gu Tian Chen watched with interest.

• Zhao Yue and Huo Juan introduced themselves to Qin Heng and promised to suppress their realms to fight him fairly.
• Shi Duan Tian told Qin Heng about Mo Gu Tian Chen’s deep friendship with Lan Xuan Ke and explained the dangers and opportunities of the Void Well.
• Huo Juan sent Qin Heng a challenge request, which Qin Heng accepted for a public match in Battle Plaza Number 1.
• Qin Heng entered the arena with a spear while Huo Juan wielded a massive hammer, and the two factions gathered to watch.
• Lan Xuan Ke told Mo Gu Tian Chen he expected Qin Heng to rank in the top hundred of the Juegu Dynasty and the top one hundred thousand of the Overall Competition Zone.

Qin Heng fought Huo Juan in the Life and Death Arena after Huo Juan suppressed his strength to Star Lord First Order. Qin Heng won after a fierce clash of domains and secret arts, and Huo Juan warned him that Zhao Yue was even stronger.

• Huo Juan told Qin Heng he would attack with everything from the start, then opened the battle with a powerful Water Domain strike.
• Qin Heng countered Huo Juan's attacks with his Space Domain and secret arts, but his attempt to imprison Huo Juan failed.
• Qin Heng used Myriad Mirrors to confuse Huo Juan and landed Sky Rending, while Huo Juan transformed into water to recover and evade further attacks.
• Huo Juan merged his Water Domain into his body and launched a final mist-like attack, while Qin Heng activated Heaven and Earth Coexistence to meet him head-on.
• Huo Juan conceded after Qin Heng's strike left his reconstructed body with less than twenty percent of its peak aura.
• Huo Juan acknowledged Qin Heng's strength and warned him to prepare for Zhao Yue, who was even stronger.

Qin Heng fought Zhao Yue in the Life and Death Arena, but Zhao Yue’s overwhelming physical strength broke through Qin Heng’s spatial techniques and defeated him. Qin Heng returned to reality shaken by the power of a true physical-body expert.

• Zhao Yue entered the arena wearing armor formed from his shapeshifting weapon, and Qin Heng prepared to fight him with his spear.
• Lan Xuan Ke and Mo Gu Tian Chen predicted that Qin Heng would struggle against Zhao Yue’s powerful body and superior mastery of law profundities.
• Qin Heng used his Space Domain to restrict Zhao Yue, but his Blazing Fire attack did no damage, while Zhao Yue’s charge nearly struck him.
• Qin Heng used Myriad Mirrors to create an opening and hit Zhao Yue with Sky Rending, but Zhao Yue endured the attack even while suppressed to Star Lord First Order.
• Zhao Yue struck Qin Heng, broke free of his Space Ring Prison, and killed him, forcing Qin Heng’s consciousness back to reality.

After losing to Zhao Yue, Qin Heng received encouragement from the gathered prodigies and became the talk of Eastern Ancient City. Lan Xuan Ke took him to Purple Snow Garden’s Black Tower trial ground, where Qin Heng learned how its stages measured explosive power and where he stood.

• Qin Heng returned to the Life and Death Arena after Zhao Yue defeated him, and his record changed to 34 victories and 1 defeat.
• Zhao Yue and the others encouraged Qin Heng, while the crowd spread news of his battles across Eastern Ancient City.
• Qin Heng said he would focus on Laws and secret arts, and Lan Xuan Ke invited him to learn supreme arts at Purple Snow Garden.
• Lan Xuan Ke brought Qin Heng to the Black Tower trial ground and explained its stages, origins, and rewards.
• Lan Xuan Ke estimated Qin Heng could challenge the fifth stage, compared with Huo Juan at the fifth and Zhao Yue at the sixth.

Lan Xuan Ke guided Qin Heng through the Black Tower’s levels, demonstrating how each floor tested deeper law comprehension and revealing the immense gap between Star Lord fighters. Qin Heng left with insights into improving his Sky Rending technique and a clearer sense of the power held by the Genius Competition’s strongest contestants.

• Lan Xuan Ke demonstrated the Black Tower’s first three levels, then explained that the fourth level tested entry-level law comprehension and that his attack had been modeled on Qin Heng’s Sky Rending.
• Lan Xuan Ke cleared the fifth and sixth levels with increasingly advanced uses of Space Law, and Qin Heng realized he could improve his technique by letting spatial power penetrate and dismantle an opponent.
• Lan Xuan Ke cleared the seventh through eleventh levels, while Qin Heng could no longer understand the techniques, and Lan Xuan Ke explained the Black Tower’s law categories and the requirements for its final floors.
• Lan Xuan Ke named the few Star Lords who could clear the twelfth floor and said that reaching the thirteenth floor would normally mean a Star Lord could advance to Eternal Expert.
• Qin Heng concluded that the Genius Competition’s leading contestants likely possessed twelfth-floor combat power and that the strongest competitors could soon become Eternal Grade.

Lan Xuan Ke taught Qin Heng how to strengthen his spatial laws by refining space into a Small Universe and passed on the secret art True Self Universe. He named Qin Heng his registered student, but Qin Heng’s respect led him to call Lan Xuan Ke Master as Lan Xuan Ke departed.

• Lan Xuan Ke demonstrated how spaces of different strengths collided and explained that ordinary spatial structures limited Qin Heng’s power.
• Lan Xuan Ke showed Qin Heng how his own law source could transform a battlefield into a private Small Universe, then explained that he must learn to refine space from scratch.
• Lan Xuan Ke transmitted the True Self Universe secret art to Qin Heng and told him to study it.
• Lan Xuan Ke declared Qin Heng a registered student who would be evaluated every Void Ember Year, while allowing him to call him Teacher rather than Master.
• Qin Heng insisted that Lan Xuan Ke deserved to be called Master, but Lan Xuan Ke refused and vanished from the Black Tower.

Qin Heng studied Lan Xuan Ke’s True Self Universe secret art and used Great Collapse to defeat the Black Tower’s fifth-level stone man. Wind Whisper and Lan Xuan Ke then discussed whether Purple Snow Star should support Qin Heng against the Force Race.

• Qin Heng studied True Self Universe for three Void Ember Days and learned its three methods and realms.
• Qin Heng tested his strength in the Black Tower, cleared the third level, and struggled to defeat the stone man on the fourth and fifth levels with his existing techniques.
• Qin Heng used Great Collapse to destroy the fifth-level stone man in one strike, but realized he still needed stronger Law Power to challenge the sixth level.
• Qin Heng left the Soul Dimension to cultivate, and Lan Xuan Ke told Wind Whisper that Qin Heng had learned the secret art in three days.
• Wind Whisper agreed Qin Heng was a rare genius but wondered whether supporting him against the Force Race would be worth the cost, and Lan Xuan Ke said Qin Heng would repay their kindness.

Qin Heng absorbed Space Law from the Law Sea and began painstakingly strengthening his True Self Small Universe. After leaving his estate, he found locals seeking to serve him and Yu Ling, then flew to Yu Ling’s estate.

• Qin Heng connected to the Law Sea, absorbed Space Law for several hours, and found that he could no longer enter it afterward.
• Qin Heng formed a ten-meter Small Universe and learned that strengthening it to completion required hundreds of millions of reinforcements.
• Qin Heng hid the Small Universe within his body and left his estate while continuing to refine it with Law Power.
• A crowd of locals asked Qin Heng to take them on as servants, but he declined and used Space Law to move them away.
• Qin Heng flew toward Yu Ling’s estate and saw an even larger crowd hoping to become servants of the newly arrived Star Lord Third Order expert.

After completing his cultivation, Qin Heng met Yu Ling and agreed to leave for Vermillion Cloud Star, but a Dragon Human elder invited them to investigate an ancient palace discovered beneath the Barren Zone. The palace’s Law Turbulence had not yet dispersed, and Qin Heng questioned why the Dragon Human Race wanted outsiders to join the expedition.

• Qin Heng returned from cultivating with the Second Venerable Lord, and he and Yu Ling prepared to depart for Vermillion Cloud Star.
• Manager Lu Mi invited Qin Heng and Yu Ling to meet Long Yi, a Dragon Human Race elder and Yanwu Bank branch general manager.
• Yu Ling drove away job-seeking locals with a stele reading “Idlers Keep Away,” and she told Qin Heng that her law comprehension had reached the third layer.
• Long Yi arrived, praised Qin Heng’s reputation, and invited him and Yu Ling to explore an ancient palace beneath the Barren Zone.
• Long Yi explained that the palace’s Law Turbulence was weakening and that it likely belonged to a Star Lord Eighth or Ninth Order expert; Qin Heng asked why the Dragon Human Race needed their help.

Qin Heng rejected Long Yi’s request to serve as a shield during the exploration of a palace and chose to travel with Yu Ling toward the high heavens instead. After five days of cultivation aboard the Arrow Boat, they entered River Source Floating Earth’s Second Heaven Domain.

• Long Yi asked Qin Heng and Yu Ling to deter the outside forces backing Jun Heaven Pavilion and Mo Cloud Stronghold, but Qin Heng refused to risk their lives as shields.
• Yu Ling asked whether Qin Heng wanted to explore the palace, and he explained that the many powerful Star Lords drawn there made the danger too great.
• Qin Heng and Yu Ling boarded the Arrow Boat and flew upward, while Yu Ling said she had returned home.
• Qin Heng cultivated and tempered his True Self Universe during their journey toward Vermillion Cloud Star.
• After five Earth Days, Yu Ling told Qin Heng they had entered the Second Heaven Domain, where abundant Cosmic Energy attracted Star Lord residents.

Qin Heng and Yu Ling traveled through the Second Heavenly Domain, absorbing energy from Sky Spirit Veins as they went. When a Star Lord Third Order Dark Creature emerged from a Space Fissure, Qin Heng crushed and refined it with his True Self Universe, revealing how much his strength had improved.

• Qin Heng discovered a Sky Spirit Vein and absorbed its energy with his Black Hole Core while Yu Ling meditated nearby.
• Qin Heng and Yu Ling continued through the Second Heavenly Domain, stopping at Sky Spirit Veins to replenish their energy.
• After Qin Heng drained energy from another Sky Spirit Vein, a Space Fissure opened and a worm-like Dark Creature attacked them.
• Yu Ling struck the creature with the Compassionate Heaven Palm and knocked it back into the darkness, but it charged again.
• Qin Heng trapped the Dark Creature inside his True Self Universe, annihilated it with spatial laws, and refined its energy.
• Yu Ling marveled at Qin Heng's power, and Qin Heng explained that he had only learned the surface of Teacher Lan Xuan Ke's technique.

Qin Heng compressed a Star Lord’s chaotic energy into a powerful Five-Colored Crystal and continued traveling with Yu Ling toward Vermillion Cloud Star. As they neared her homeland, Yu Ling worried about her surviving clansmen and renewed her resolve to avenge the Worship Fire Race.

• Qin Heng compressed the energy of a Third-Rank Star Lord into a basketball-sized Five-Colored Crystal and considered hunting Star Lords for more energy.
• Qin Heng and Yu Ling entered the Third Heavenly Domain, where Yu Ling wondered how she would face any surviving Worship Fire Race clansmen.
• Qin Heng urged Yu Ling not to burden herself with the past and encouraged her to cultivate and eventually kill the Returning Heaven Alliance elders.
• Qin Heng used the Heaven Severing Art to open Void Rifts and rapidly displaced himself and Yu Ling toward her homeland.
• Yu Ling admired Qin Heng and predicted he might one day surpass even True Gods.
• Qin Heng and Yu Ling reached the vicinity of Vermillion Cloud Star and resumed flying toward it in their Arrow Boats.

Yu Ling returned to Vermillion Cloud Star and learned that the Returning Heaven Alliance had destroyed the Worship Fire Race and turned the planet into a production site. After she killed the Alliance’s agent, Xuan Ya, she searched for traces of home, found none, and dressed in black to mourn her people.

• Qin Heng and Yu Ling arrived at Vermillion Cloud Star and learned that Xuan Ya managed the planet for the Returning Heaven Alliance.
• Xuan Ya revealed that the Alliance’s Third Elder had ordered the Worship Fire Race purged after its members hid an Alliance treasure.
• Yu Ling told Xuan Ya that the Worship Fire Race had been her people and that its dead included her parents.
• Yu Ling killed Xuan Ya in a burst of flames while the palace servants fled.
• Yu Ling searched the devastated planet for her former home, then wept beside Qin Heng when she found no trace of it.
• Yu Ling put on black robes to mourn the hundreds of millions of Worship Fire Race clansmen who had died.

Qin Heng persuaded Yu Ling not to abandon her pursuit of revenge and encouraged her to keep improving while they faced their enemies together. As they examined Xuan Ya’s belongings, they found Ancient Inscription Stones that might lead to more fragments of the Universe Origin Secret Canon.

• Yu Ling told Qin Heng she intended to face the Returning Heaven Alliance alone, but he insisted their friends should join forces against their enemies.
• Yu Ling accepted Xuan Ya’s Void Crystal and said she would help Chen Yao and the others develop in Garrison Province while continuing to improve herself.
• Yu Ling examined Xuan Ya’s belongings and found Ancient Inscription Stones bearing ancient writing.
• Yu Ling explained that the stones came from a wall describing relics of an Eternal Lord, and she and Qin Heng suspected it was connected to Pangu Lord and the Universe Origin Secret Canon.
• Qin Heng took the stones to have experts on Earth study and decipher them.

Yu Ling returned to Vermillion Cloud Star to mourn the Worship Fire Race and then set out with Qin Heng for Garrison Province. Shi Duan Tian told Qin Heng that a Chaos Palace had appeared in the Azure Sea Domain, drawing experts from across the Eastern Ancient Holy Land, and revealed its connection to the dangerous, fortune-filled Chaos Sea.

• Yu Ling found the barren mountain where her family had lived, built a tomb for her lost clan, and mourned there for more than ten hours.
• Qin Heng learned that small races had settled on Vermillion Cloud Star and reflected that racial safety depended on strength, not location.
• Yu Ling resolved to find and reunite her scattered clansmen after the Returning Heaven Alliance was destroyed, and she and Qin Heng left for Garrison Province.
• Shi Duan Tian contacted Qin Heng and urged him to hurry to the Chaos Palace in the southern Azure Sea Domain's Barren Zone.
• Shi Duan Tian explained that the Chaos Palace was a stroke of fortune from the Chaos Sea, where immense dangers and opportunities had shaped the rise and fall of powerful beings.

Qin Heng traveled to the Barren Zone to explore the Chaos Palace with Shi Duan Tian and Fu Xuan. After learning about the palace’s opportunities and dangers, he agreed to enter with his true body.

• Qin Heng and Yu Ling headed to the Barren Zone after Qin Heng learned that Shi Duan Tian had invited him to the Chaos Palace.
• Qin Heng asked Qing Mo about the palace and learned that it held rare opportunities, had an overall death rate of about fifteen percent, and had attracted powerful forces from across the region.
• Qin Heng considered whether the Chaos Palace’s fortune could help him catch up to the Goddess of War.
• Shi Duan Tian and Fu Xuan arrived, and Fu Xuan reassured Qin Heng that her Blood Avatar was protecting his Old Home.
• Shi Duan Tian said they needed to enter with their true bodies to claim the palace’s opportunities, and Qin Heng agreed to go in with them.

Fu Xuan, Shi Duan Tian, Qin Heng, and Yu Ling entered the Chaos Palace, where flight and divine senses were suppressed and treasures could attract deadly competition. After Qin Heng consumed a small medicinal herb, the group set out toward a mountain with a building visible on its peak to search for better treasures.

• Fu Xuan explained that the Chaos Palace had no fixed entrance and that its treasures could make their bearers targets, then led the group inside.
• The four were caught by the Palace’s Flight Restriction Field and crashed onto the ground beneath a strange night sky.
• Qin Heng and Shi Duan Tian reached a refined medicinal herb first, and Qin Heng consumed it, increasing his strength by about one percent.
• Fu Xuan said the greatest treasures would appear only after enough explorers arrived and proposed searching first for treasures to help Qin Heng and Yu Ling.
• Qin Heng spotted a building atop a nearby mountain, and the group headed toward it.