Chapter Summaries

An Eternal Ancient God accelerated the movement of the Crystal Wall World, forcing its inhabitants to flee and making the Thorn Crown’s location constantly shift. Black Star and the others debated whether to guard it, while Magina suspected the Thunder Ancient God was provoking the Above God Level beings into fighting each other.

• The Eternal Ancient God twisted the crystal-wall worlds, shifting their corridors and forcing the Martial Dao True Gods and other inhabitants to pack up and relocate.
• The Son of Heaven, Sylvie, and Sylph witnessed the cosmic upheaval and recognized it as a celestial phenomenon beyond their ability to control.
• Professor Wales and Black Star’s group prepared to move camp as the shifting world made the Thorn Crown’s route harder to track and protect.
• Black Star weighed guarding the Thorn Crown against staying hidden, fearing that Ji Cao might claim its inheritance if no one watched it.
• Black Star asked Magina whether they should guard the Thorn Crown, and Magina called him an idiot and suspected the Thunder Ancient God was using the trial to make Above God Level beings fight.

Professor Wales chose to avoid the Crown of Thorns trial and focus on strengthening himself, while Li Qing secretly revealed that the crown and its promised breakthrough method were a ploy to manipulate him. Li Qing left the story planning to keep reshaping the Crystal Wall’s geography and inventing new fields of study.

• Professor Wales refused to pursue the Crown of Thorns and urged Black Star and the others to cultivate and build up their reserves.
• Wales explained that he was adapting the Technology System and researching individual combat because he feared being outmatched in close-quarters fighting.
• Li Qing privately revealed that the Crown of Thorns contained no breakthrough method and that he had staged the trial to make Wales seek the next realm.
• Li Qing reflected that Wales had taken the bait and that his moles, including Black Star, Walton, and the Green Tea Crystal Wall, helped steer him into the scheme.
• Li Qing decided the Crystal Wall should shift slowly over time, creating changing routes and inspiring a new field of study he called tectonic movement.

Li Qing embraced his role as the ancestral Creator God and rearranged the Crystal Wall Universe into a slowly moving maze to establish a new celestial satellite system. Meanwhile, Ji Cao began mobilizing the Greater Thousand World to search for the six Thorn Crowns and complete his trial.

• Li Qing resolved to define a new branch of cosmic science and set out to create a Crystal Wall World Celestial Satellite System, beginning with a camera.
• Li Qing shifted the worlds of the Greater Thousand World, causing violent quakes and floods before setting them in slow, continuous motion.
• Aurora and Ji Cao discussed the trial, and the Thunder Ancient God warned Ji Cao that studying history might help him complete it.
• After Ji Cao left, Aurora examined the two rare gifts he had given her: combat aptitude 98 and research aptitude 99.
• Ji Cao returned to the Central Heaven Realm and ordered the local true gods of every major world to report any sign of the six Thorn Crowns.

The Demonic Dynasty established an imperial examination and inherited-official system, concentrating talent and accelerating its growth. Ji Cao’s court then recreated the Eye of God to track the Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns, and cameras began appearing throughout the Mental Hospital.

• The Demonic Dao spread across the worlds, where cultivators raised gu and some weak-born figures overthrew the True Gods who ruled them.
• Ji Cao learned that the Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns was moving north and suspected spies were misleading his search.
• Ji Cao ordered suspected collaborators executed and established civil and military offices whose aptitude positions could be inherited, with officials selected through examinations testing wisdom and loyalty.
• The imperial examinations and new official hierarchy concentrated talent in the Demonic Dynasty’s government, fueling a surge in research and development.
• Ji Cao’s ministers connected Herodotus’s historical use of the Eye of God to locating the Crown of Thorns, so Ji Cao ordered the dynasty to recreate the device.
• After more than a hundred years of research, the court completed Eyes of God made from Crystal Coins, and cameras began monitoring the Mental Hospital.

The Eye of God cameras uncovered a battle beyond the worlds, while Warton saw the flourishing imperial examinations as a chance to gain power. He launched the Sylph Dark Elf Academy on Earth, where the revelation of the supernatural universe left humanity in disbelief.

• The Eyes of God detected Ji Cao and other Demonic Dao cultivators battling the Son of Heaven, who killed two opponents and drove one away before vanishing.
• Demonic Dao cultivators began studying history and sage texts as the imperial examination system spread across their civilization.
• Warton and his Earth allies decided to exploit the examinations to gain official positions and power while Black Star, Professor Wales, and the Son of Heaven remained in seclusion.
• The Umbrella Corporation announced that the Sylph Dark Elf Academy was accepting students and would test them on the history shown in films about the Thunder Ancient God.
• People on Earth learned that the films reflected reality and that immortality, the Crystal Wall multiverse, and the Extraordinary Era were real, and they erupted in disbelief.

Li Qing returned to Earth, discovered Waldon’s plan to open a route into the Greater Thousand World, and decided to conceal Earth inside a Crystal Wall Mental Hospital before it could be discovered. He left Earth sealed within a simulated universe and returned to his courtyard in Phoenix City.

• Li Qing returned to Earth and used his Consciousness Waves to uncover Waldon’s plans to recruit people and open a route into the Greater Thousand World.
• Li Qing worried that travelers using Waldon’s route could discover Earth and expose his deception, so he decided to build a second Mental Hospital around the planet.
• Li Qing left Earth and sealed it inside a Crystal Wall cube, planning to simulate the surrounding universe with projections and mined planetary material.
• Li Qing declared that Earth was a square world contained within a single room, while camouflage-mimicking Hyper-dimensional Mining Vehicles began mining Mars and Venus.
• Li Qing returned to the Three Rooms and One Hall in Phoenix City and reflected that Earth had become another world in the Myriad Worlds.

Li Qing left Earth to develop independently after completing its containment and setting humanity on a path toward the Greater Thousand World. After centuries of accelerated development, Earth cultivators gained influence in the Demonic Dao, and the Son of Heaven challenged Ji Cao to the Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns trial.

• Li Qing moved the original Three Rooms and One Hall into subspace, replaced it with a replica, and left Earth without interfering in humanity’s preparations for the imperial examinations.
• Earth’s Heavenly Dao enclosed the planet in a room with accelerated time, allowing a century to pass in a day as civilization advanced and Earth-born officials entered Black Star’s imperial court.
• The two Waltons helped Ji Cao develop the Demonic Dao civilization and gained high positions for themselves and other Earth cultivators.
• Walton received a message from the Thorn Heavenly Dao saying Professor Wales had freed them to form their own factions, and he resolved to keep supporting the Demonic Dao while seeking Ji Cao’s trust.
• Three hundred years later, the Son of Heaven appeared outside the Central Heaven Realm and invited Ji Cao to face his test for passage to the labyrinth’s treasure.

Ji Cao passed the Son of Heaven’s dreamscape trial and learned that technique could make up for weaknesses in his foundation. He reached the Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns and met the Thunder Ancient God, who began explaining the next stage of Above God Level: Untouchable Level.

• The Son of Heaven proposed testing Ji Cao in exchange for breakthrough knowledge, then drew him into a dreamscape to fight.
• The Son of Heaven exposed Ji Cao’s weak techniques and taught him Unity with Dao, giving him ten years to master the lesson and pass the trial.
• Ji Cao passed the trial, trusted the Son of Heaven as an enemy without reason to consume him, and focused on the Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns.
• Ji Cao’s Consciousness Waves entered the next realm, where the Thunder Ancient God explained that Above God Level was the universe’s ultimate realm and that its next stage was Untouchable Level.

Li Qing explained the Untouchable Level to Ji Cao as a higher state of Unity with Dao in which attacks pass through a being that has become a higher-dimensional simulation. Ji Cao learned that the level had ten stages and left awed by the prospect of near-immortality.

• Li Qing and Black Star had reached the 0-second Unity with Dao level, while Li Qing had also learned the Unobservable and Untouchable levels from Professor Wales.
• Ji Cao received the next Son of Heaven trial in the world of the Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns, where Li Qing explained that Untouchable beings could let any attack pass through them.
• Ji Cao imagined two Untouchable beings passing through each other in the Chaos Corridor and realized how strange and vast the higher realms were.
• Li Qing warned Ji Cao that Untouchable Level had ten minor stages, with only its perfected state allowing someone to remain permanently untouchable.
• Li Qing explained that beings in the perfected state were effectively immortal unless they chose to leave Unity with Dao and make themselves vulnerable in order to attack others.

Minis, Ji Cao, and their allies prepared a new breakthrough method and opened a Gate of Truth that consumed countless lives to deduce the next realm. After thirty-three years, the Gate of Truth ended, and observers beyond the Chaotic Wall wondered whether Ji Cao would emerge and attack.

• Ji Cao and Minis entered seclusion to study a new breakthrough system while Warton rose to power during Ji Cao’s absence.
• Minis emerged and instructed Warton to prepare the world and open the Gate of Truth, promising him rule in return.
• Lord Chang Mo announced that he would open the Gate of Truth, and the Demon Path Divine Court sacrificed beings across more than ten thousand worlds to fuel the deduction.
• For thirty-three years, generations of Demon Path cultivators joined the deduction, many dying as they exhausted their strength and vitality.
• The Gate of Truth ended, its pressure shook beyond the Chaotic Wall, and outside observers speculated that Ji Cao might be about to emerge.

Ji Cao emerged from hiding and broke through to the Above God level, using decoy Immortal Grasses to confuse the gods as he tried to reach the Untouchable Level. He was spotted during a torch-lit search, just as Black Star demonstrated that he could pass unharmed through other beings.

• After Ji Cao vanished into the Gate of Truth, Wodun became the Twin Demonic Emperor and the Demonic Dao flourished for thousands of years.
• Ji Cao emerged from the Chaos and began breaking through while puppet Immortal Grasses flooded the Chaos to distract the gods.
• Wodun sent the Second Echelon and Four Great Divine Generals into the Chaos as the Demonic Dao forces joined the battle.
• Ji Cao reached the True God level, advanced to Above God, and entered Unity with Dao while invisible.
• Black Star passed through attackers without being harmed, then disappeared into the Chaos Corridor.
• An Above God Level mecha spotted Ji Cao with its torch and reached to grab him.

Ji Cao escaped through the Chaos Maze while the gods pursued him, and the Spirit Race turned the region into a maze of vines and Spirit Grasses to buy him time. Meanwhile, Li Qing explained the transformed region to Sylvie and Sylph and began imagining new kinds of Myriad Worlds secret realms.

• Ji Cao wounded an Above God Level pursuer and fled as the other beings rushed after him, hoping to devour him and gain power.
• Wotton released a second batch of Spirit Race true gods, who filled the Pure Prison Style with vines and Spirit Grasses to confuse the pursuers and delay them.
• Nokron watched the Prison Myriad Worlds region become a Spirit Grass Myriad Worlds region while Sylvie and Sylph questioned Li Qing about the vanished prison.
• Li Qing explained that the new prison was elsewhere and described how periodic Spirit Grass eruptions would draw beings from across the Myriad Worlds.
• Sylvie asked Li Qing whether there could also be Immortal Treasure and Spirit Wine regions, prompting him to consider creating more kinds of Chaos secret realms.

Ji Cao broke through while fighting his way toward the Heavenly Palace, where he faced the three Divine Generals and Immortal Emperor Black Star. After adapting to his new Untouchable ability and growing stronger, he confronted Black Star for the throne.

• Li Qing refused to intervene in Ji Cao’s struggle, while Ji Cao gathered his remaining strength and sent the surviving soldiers back to the Crystal Wall.
• Ji Cao broke through and used his Untouchable ability to evade attacks from the mechanical beings, who fled rather than face him together.
• Black Star summoned Magina and the other two Divine Generals to capture Ji Cao, then watched as they attacked him.
• Magina and the other Divine Generals discovered that Ji Cao could remain Untouchable for ten seconds before a ten-second interval, and they tried to strike during the gaps.
• Ji Cao adapted to the battle, broke through again, and increased his Untouchable time; the impact of the fight sent the Divine Generals crashing into the Crystal Wall and caused disasters in the worlds behind it.
• Ji Cao demanded Black Star’s position, and Black Star rose from his throne to fight him personally.

Black Star confronted Ji Cao and explained that his greatest regret was creating the Demon Dao through a flawed aptitude medicine. He revealed a new Life-Contending Pill that temporarily boosted his combat aptitude, then fought Ji Cao in the untouchable realm.

• Black Star ordered Magina to stand down and told Ji Cao he regretted creating him and choosing the path of permanent aptitude medicine.
• Black Star admitted that his mistake had given rise to the Demon Dao, while Ji Cao challenged him for having failed to save his own child.
• Black Star said he had researched a new Life-Contending Pill that relied on his own efforts rather than taking aptitude from others.
• Black Star swallowed the golden pill, and his combat aptitude rose from 100 to 105 as his wisdom and strategy fell from 49 to -1.
• Black Star and Ji Cao clashed in the untouchable realm, their blows tearing through the primordial chaos and battering the Crystal Wall.

Black Star overwhelmed Ji Cao, but Xian Yuan seized the strength Ji Cao had gathered through the Gate of Truth and joined the battle against him. With Ji Cao’s defeat seemingly inevitable, Minis persuaded him to sacrifice his life to awaken Atabia, whose faint will stirred at the chapter’s end.

• Black Star’s medicine drove his intelligence to zero and boosted his combat power, leaving Ji Cao at a disadvantage as Sylvie called for the backup plan.
• As Ji Cao tried to open the Gate of Truth, Xian Yuan cut in and absorbed the resentment of the fallen, gaining immense power and attacking Black Star alongside Ji Cao.
• The Son of Heaven arrived and fought Professor Wales elsewhere while the battlefield descended into chaos.
• Minis revealed he was hiding inside Ji Cao and urged him to surrender his life so Atabia could be revived.
• Ji Cao agreed to sacrifice himself, and Minis began awakening Atabia, whose will stirred and asked what era it was.

Atabia awoke near death and refused Ji Cao’s immortal herb, insisting that a lesser true-god immortal herb could keep him alive. He revealed he wanted the herb for Herodotus, whom he believed might still be saved.

• Minis told Atabia that tens of thousands of years had passed and explained the current era and his failing condition.
• Atabia ordered Minis to brief him, then refused to consume Ji Cao despite Minis’s resurrection plan.
• Atabia asked Ji Cao whether a true-god immortal herb could save him, and Ji Cao confirmed it could preserve his life without fully restoring his potential.
• Atabia told Minis to find a lesser immortal herb, saying he could heal himself after surviving.
• Atabia asked about Herodotus and insisted that the herb might be needed to save him, despite Minis saying he was dead.

Atabia refused to eat Ji Cao and chose to pursue a way to reclaim him, taking an Immortal Core and returning to the world to complete his path. While Atabia departed, the battle over Ji Cao continued, and Ji Cao and Minis tried to hold out for three days.

• Minis warned Atabia that reclaiming Ji Cao was an almost impossible gamble, but Atabia ordered him to prepare a True God immortal herb.
• Minis refined the herb into an Immortal Core, which Atabia swallowed before asking Minis to adjust time and hold Ji Cao for three days.
• Ji Cao secretly assessed Atabia's aptitudes and was shocked by his extraordinary combat, research, and strategic scores.
• Black Star fought Xian Yuan while Professor Wales faced the Son of Heaven, provoking him but avoiding a direct attack.
• Wounded and unable to escape or die, Ji Cao asked Minis what to do, and Minis urged him to hold out for three days.

Atabia began developing a race born as True Gods, using a treasury of resources and mechanical research materials. As his work produced a Tower of Babel, a golden-haired young man arrived and gave him vast mechanical blueprints to help advance the project.

• Walton and the other Walton discussed the Devil Race’s victory preparations and decided to remain inside the Crystal Wall and rule their worlds.
• Aurora brought the thumb-sized Atabia to the Waltons, and he requested a location and resources so he could work alone.
• Atabia shut himself inside a Devil Race research treasury, while the Waltons and Aurora speculated about his plans and limited time to reincultivate.
• Aurora realized Atabia intended to create a race born as True Gods, and a huge Tower of Babel began rising as the Waltons identified it as a Giant God Race on the level of the Chaos Universe.
• A golden-haired young man approached Atabia and gave him mechanical True God blueprints and advanced cosmic civilization knowledge by tapping his forehead.

Black Star won a brutal battle against Xian Yuan and the hidden Mechanical System fighters, but Atabia emerged from the Crystal Wall as a naturally born ancient god. The Heavenly Emperor looked forward to facing Atabia, while Professor Wales feared the creation's power and unpredictability.

• Black Star fought Xian Yuan until Xian Yuan died after opening the Gate of Truth and exhausting his strength.
• Black Star challenged the hidden Mechanical System fighters, then defeated them with Magina and two others after drugging them into mindless attackers.
• A giant began forming inside the Crystal Wall, and Professor Wales identified it as Atabia, a life-form created from mechanical blueprints.
• Black Star tried to seize the wounded Ji Cao, but Minis emerged from Ji Cao's body and blocked the attack to buy time.
• Professor Wales warned the Heavenly Emperor that Atabia could become a dangerous, naturally born ancient god, but the Heavenly Emperor welcomed the prospect of fighting him.
• Atabia stepped out of the Crystal Wall and said he had never cultivated even once in his life.

Atabia explained that he had never cultivated and that his body represented a third system, one created through advanced lifeform design. He condemned the cultivation path established by Herodotus and left Black Star reconsidering what a Creator God should create.

• Atabia insulted Black Star and said he had never cultivated, then showed interest in researching with Professor Wales.
• Professor Wales identified Atabia’s body as a subject from a third system beyond the Extraordinary and Technology Systems.
• Black Star examined Atabia and realized his body was an advanced lifeform created directly rather than evolved through cultivation.
• Atabia criticized Herodotus for creating only Third Awakening lifeforms and letting them evolve through cultivation.
• Atabia warned that the path Herodotus had opened was wrong and that following it would lead them farther astray.