Chapter Summaries

Yuner attained Middle Ancient Godhood, proved that realms beyond the Three Realms Above God existed, and persuaded the Million Gods outside the Crystal Wall to enter and join the Zombie God System. Li Qing watched the new arrivals tour the Crystal Wall worlds, restraining himself because he needed them to become his dependents willingly.

• Yuner reached Middle Ancient God Level and broke through the Above Gods’ supposedly invincible barrier, revealing that the Ancient God realm lay beyond the Three Realms Above God.
• Yuner explained that Ancient Godhood united the Technology, Extraordinary, and Creation Systems, then invited the Million Gods to enter by following the zombie path to godhood.
• The Gods recognized that Yuner wanted them to support his god system, but they agreed to enter despite their concerns that he could suppress and imprison them.
• More than a hundred thousand Gods flooded into the Crystal Wall heavens to sightsee, while the Elf Ancient God left the prison before their arrival.
• Li Qing watched the visitors and decided not to force them into submission, since he needed them to accept becoming his dependents willingly.

Li Qing watched visitors plunder and disrupt the Crystal Wall Worlds, but the Zombie God System grew as Yun Er Ancient God resisted demands to give away resources and negotiated a fair trade with the technological gods. The Great Trade Era began, and the Son of Heaven and Black Star arrived to investigate the region and search for Professor Wales.

• Li Qing complained that visitors stole resources and littered in the Crystal Wall corridors, while he hoped they would stay and become assimilated.
• The Zombie God System expanded over the three hundred thousand Crystal Wall Worlds, established its authorities, and began cultivating new generations of extraordinary beings.
• The technological gods asked Yun Er Ancient God to send resources from the Main Universe to their Dark Matter Universe, but Yun Er refused and negotiated equivalent exchange instead.
• The Dark Matter Universe descended into observable reality as a Lower City District, opening trade with the Crystal Wall Universe and bringing the Zombie Apocalypse Era to an end.
• The Son of Heaven and Black Star arrived in the region, with the Son of Heaven investigating a nearby world and Black Star setting out to find Professor Wales.

Black Star and the Son of Heaven arrived in the Ancient Gods of Light’s prosperous city to find Professor Wales, while Li Qing worried that their reckless rescue attempt would get them killed. As Black Star and the Son of Heaven blended into the crowd, Li Qing began preparing to intervene and expand the city.

• Black Star and the Son of Heaven explored the city and marveled at its million gods, powerful Extraordinary System, and Creation System.
• The Son of Heaven proposed finding Professor Wales and fighting someone, and Black Star agreed to act as his support despite being only at the Second Untouchable Level.
• Li Qing saw them arrive and worried that Black Star would be killed if he ran wild, since he had not yet reached the Indestructible Level.
• Li Qing realized Professor Wales was trapped and out of contact, explaining why Black Star had abandoned his breakthrough plans to search for him.
• Li Qing decided to cultivate, prepare to rescue Black Star and the Son of Heaven, lure more people inside, and expand the ancient city with an auction house and great clans.

Li Qing used his two million worlds to create a vast wilderness outside Guangyin Ancient City instead of expanding the city, planning to make prisoners mine there while millions of monsters hunted them. He built the forest and its ecosystem, but concluded that the beasts still needed a leader to command them.

• Li Qing decided to use one million worlds to build a hollow plaza and the other million to create a wilderness filled with monsters.
• He planned to send only one thousand prisoners at a time into the wilderness for labor reform, where monsters could kill them and Li Qing could collect their corpses and Dark Matter materials.
• Li Qing created a vast Crystal Wall forest with resource veins, stars, and creatures including centaurs, fairies, Dragonoids, sirens, and Tree Demons.
• After watching the beasts spread across the forest, Li Qing judged their aptitude too weak and realized they needed a leader to command their army.

Li Qing struggled to control the weak wild monsters, while Yun Er expanded his power as Prison Overlord and studied the graveyard after an Evil God escaped. The warden then offered Yun Er a chance to leave prison on a dangerous mission in the Guangyin Forest.

• Li Qing decided to lead the wild monsters himself and cultivate toward the Third Indestructible Level, and another hundred years passed as his realms flourished.
• Yun Er and Yun Ping reflected on the changes around them, and Yun Er considered seeking privileges from the warden after unifying the prison.
• The guardian of the Epoch Graveyard was bewitched into releasing Evil Gods, and Yun Er captured most of them while one escaped to the Million Gods.
• Yun Er studied the graveyard's corpses and Dark Matter structure with the Ancient Gods under his command.
• The Elf Ancient God told Yun Er that prisoners were needed to confront a beastly disaster threatening caravans in the Guangyin Forest, and Yun Er saw the mission as a chance to get outside and make powerful connections.

Yun'er entered Guangyin Forest with the Elf Ancient God to investigate its mutations and learned that the forest was a special Crystal Wall World where powerful beings could fight. The three-year limit and corpse-recovery rules made exploration dangerous, while Li Qing planned to use the realm’s restrictions to help his forces overwhelm stronger enemies.

• The Elf Ancient God led Yun'er through the prison’s back gate into Guangyin Forest, after accepting a treasure box from an old man of the Li Lineage.
• Yun'er realized that the forest lay within a special Crystal Wall World and asked why Ancient Gods could enter it.
• The Elf Ancient God explained that beings would slowly disintegrate there, had to leave within three years, and could fight because their Unobservable and Untouchable characteristics were ineffective.
• Yun'er learned that fallen beings could revive only after teammates carried their corpses out of the forest, and that a wiped-out team would be lost.
• Li Qing relied on the realm’s restrictions to suppress stronger beings and give his million weaker forces a chance to surround and kill them.

Yun Ping led a team of Above God Level beings into Guangyin Forest, where they battled coordinated Ancient Beasts and lost Silver Liquid Emperor. Black Star escaped in disguise to investigate the forest’s overlord while the Son of Heaven took over the team’s gravestones.

• Yun Ping recruited Silver Liquid and other volunteers to explore Guangyin Forest, while the Son of Heaven and Black Star infiltrated the expedition under false identities.
• The Son of Heaven arranged for Black Star to pose as an Ancient Beast and investigate the forest tribes while they plotted to eliminate the team’s corpse collector.
• The expedition fought off an ambush of more than a thousand Ancient Beasts, then continued deeper into the forest.
• A force of three hundred thousand Ancient Beasts attacked the team, and Silver Liquid charged into the tide to confront its hidden leader.
• Silver Liquid disappeared after days of fighting, and the team continued onward despite seventeen deaths, carrying the fallen members’ gravestones.
• The Son of Heaven secretly took charge of the gravestones while Black Star faked his death, escaped in Ancient Beast disguise, and set out to find the forest overlord.

Hong An agreed to enter the Crystal Wall World and help the failing exploration team, while Yun Ping led the survivors into another battle against Li Qing’s Ancient Beasts. Black Star joined the beasts’ attack, and the battle left only a little over 300 explorers alive before he returned to normal and gathered corpse Dark Matter for research.

• Hong An accepted the Colored Cult’s order to enter the Crystal Wall World and retrieve Silver Liquid’s remains, despite mocking him.
• Yun Ping proposed retreating after the team completed its map and data collection, but agreed to stay behind so Ancient God Yun Er would send help for the dead.
• A new tide of Ancient Beasts attacked the team, with Black Star leading the charge in a beastlike state.
• The explorers killed more than 300,000 Ancient Beasts but lost most of their remaining members, leaving just over 300 survivors.
• Black Star returned to normal hours later, celebrated the corpses he had helped create, and collected their Dark Matter for research.

Li Qing revealed his true form as a gigantic living DNA dragon and attacked the Creator Gods in Guangyin Forest, exposing himself as the source of the Ancient Beast outbreak. As the surviving explorers fled, the Son of Heaven proposed using Life-Contending Pills to disguise themselves as Ancient Beasts.

• Black Star followed the fleeing explorers and found a colossal DNA dragon looming over hundreds of terrified Creator Gods.
• The explorers realized the DNA dragon was creating Ancient Beasts and was likely responsible for the rampages across Guangyin Forest.
• Li Qing revealed his true body and crushed the fleeing group, killing more than ten Indestructible Level mechs.
• The Son of Heaven offered Life-Contending Pills as a way for the survivors to gain an Ancient Beast aura and avoid being attacked.

The Son of Heaven tried to persuade the fleeing gods to take a Life-Contending Pill and become Ancient Beasts, while an ancient dragon attacked them. The gods discovered the pill’s effects and rejected the idea of surrendering their intelligence, leaving their survival uncertain.

• The Son of Heaven claimed the gods could escape prison and settle in the Guangyin Forest by taking a pill that would make the ancient dragon recognize them as Ancient Beasts.
• Yun Ping accepted a pill but the gods remained wary of the Son of Heaven and refused to swallow it immediately.
• The gods used Dark Matter formed from dead gods as cannonballs against the ancient dragon, but their strongest attack did not harm it.
• The ancient dragon rejected Yun Ping’s claim that they were kin and killed more than twenty gods as they fled.
• The gods analyzed the Life-Contending Pill and learned that it lowered emotional intelligence and scheming ability while improving combat and research talents, but they angrily resisted becoming beasts.

Several Above God Levels took the Life-Contending Pill to disguise themselves as beasts and escape the ancient dragon, leaving Tianzi as its sole target; ten days later, Hong An and four powerful allies investigated the vanished group and discovered them living as animals in the forest.

• Several Above God Levels ate the Life-Contending Pill, lost most of their intelligence, and imitated the forest beasts to fool the ancient dragon.
• The ancient dragon detected Tianzi, who had not taken the pill, and Tianzi fought it while the other beasts attacked him for leading them into the trap.
• Ten days later, Hong An and four allies arrived at the site where the group had disappeared, and High Star Mech Emperor reconstructed the events from collected data.
• Hong An and the others found the missing Above God Levels living happily by a river as animals, and they feared that some kind of mutation had transformed them.

Hong An and the others analyzed the terrifying DNA creature and considered retreating after realizing its threat might spread. Their theories drew the Ancient Dragon’s attention, and it appeared before them to learn more about its origin.

• Hong An urged the group to retreat because the strange changes could infect other powerful beings and leave them mentally ruined.
• The High Star Mech Emperor estimated that the enormous dragon possessed about 980,000 Rings of manifested strength, while its biological blueprint might contain tens of trillions.
• Hong An and the others speculated that the dragon’s DNA might have fallen from a Super Lifeform or that their Crystal Wall universe existed inside one.
• The Ancient Dragon emerged from the void, said the group had explained its origin, and told them to continue speaking.

Li Qing let Hong An’s team study his Ancient Dragon form while assessing its strengths, then used the Ancient Beasts to keep them from escaping. Yun Ping and hundreds of Above God Level fighters joined the beasts, leaving Hong An’s five surrounded as the Ancient Dragon watched.

• The five from Hong An analyzed the Ancient Dragon’s ten active traits, and Li Qing revealed that he could hear their encrypted communications.
• Hong An asked to leave, but the Ancient Dragon demanded that they continue studying it and summoned a tide of Ancient Beasts.
• Yun Ping led hundreds of Above God Level fighters against Hong An’s team, declaring that he preferred life among the Ancient Beasts.
• Black Star gave the fighters Second Generation pills that lowered their intelligence and boosted their Combat Aptitude, then rode Yun Ping while directing the berserk beasts.
• Hong An’s five found themselves surrounded by the united Ancient Beast horde as the Ancient Dragon watched and called them its children.

Hong An and her companions fled the Ancient Dragon through Guangyin Forest, drawing rescuers into its path. After the dragon killed them and the rescuers, it attacked Guangyin Ancient City, leaving the city walls in ruins.

• Hong An ordered her group to fight their way out as Black Star rode Yun Ping and hurled chunks of corpses at them.
• The High Star Mech Emperor fell to Black Star's attacks and the beast tide while the remaining four reached the forest's edge and sent a distress signal.
• Three powerful beings entered Guangyin Forest to rescue Hong An and her companions, but the Ancient Dragon countered their abilities and killed them all.
• The Ancient Dragon crushed the three rescuers despite their invoking Guangyin Ancient City's retaliation.
• The Ancient Dragon rammed into Guangyin Ancient City and instantly collapsed its walls.

Yun'er watched the ancient dragon rampage through Guangyin Ancient City and hoped the city’s middle-ranked Ancient Gods could stop it. Their defeat left him facing a disaster far beyond his control.

• Yun'er saw the ancient dragon break into Guangyin Ancient City and realized the disaster had spread from the forest because of him.
• Yun'er ordered an adviser to condemn the Colored Faction and demand that they resolve the crisis, threatening to cut off their access to the Crystal Wall System Universe.
• Yun'er watched Li Dao Ancient God, the Shangguan family’s female emperor, and other middle-ranked Ancient Gods arrive to defend the city.
• The ancient dragon swept its tail through the defenders, killing the middle-ranked Ancient Gods and destroying Yun'er's confidence that the city could hold.

Li Qing concealed his capture of eight geniuses by staging an ancient dragon’s destruction of Guangyin Ancient City, while considering how to profit from the aftermath. The Elf Ancient God warned Yun’er that the dragon might attack the prison, prompting Yun’er to call for reinforcements as Li Qing prepared to harvest more enemies.

• Li Qing judged that he could fight about forty level-105 elites at once, but avoided trapping the watchers inside his universe so they would not discover his secret.
• Li Qing let the ancient dragon devastate the city to hide the missing geniuses and planned to blame Yun’er and make the prisoners rebuild it.
• The Elf Ancient God scolded Yun’er for causing the city’s destruction and warned that the dragon might attack the prison and force everyone back to the Dark Matter Universe.
• Yun’er asked what they should do, and the Elf Ancient God told him to stop the ancient dragon before leaving.
• Li Qing decided to lure out stronger opponents and planned to capture more of them while concealing his involvement.

The Son of Heaven proposed using sealed reserve geniuses from the Million Gods as raw materials for Black Star to make permanent aptitude medicines. Yun Ping and Yun Er agreed to arrange secret transfers, leaving Black Star poised to improve his aptitude.

• Yun Er and the Million Gods discussed the ruined city and held off sending an army while six hundred thousand gods continued calculating the Crystal Wall System Universe with their Human-Rank Computer.
• Black Star collected the fallen Ancient Beasts while he and the Son of Heaven discussed how to grow stronger in the higher-level world.
• The Son of Heaven revealed that Black Star could make permanent-aptitude Immortal Grass from young geniuses and that Yun Ping could help obtain the sealed reserve geniuses of the Million Gods.
• The Ancient Beasts agreed to provide stored geniuses and give Black Star the highest-Research-Aptitude Immortal Grass to develop his medicine-making ability.
• Yun Ping contacted Yun Er, who agreed to gather sealed geniuses from the provided locations and requested permanent pills for himself in return.

Yun Er brought stored geniuses to Guangyin Forest and discussed the Million Gods’ reserves and the coming struggle over immortal herbs with the Son of Heaven and Black Star. They secretly allied to seize resources from the Dark Matter Universe, while the Son of Heaven asked Yun Er to help with a hidden task before Black Star finished refining the permanent attribute potion.

• Yun Er secretly delivered stored geniuses to Guangyin Forest while the Ancient Dragon continued destroying Guangyin Ancient City.
• Yun Er told the Son of Heaven that the Million Gods had around two million reserve geniuses accumulated across many eras.
• The Son of Heaven predicted that the Million Gods would consume their reserves to improve their soldiers once they learned to use immortal herbs.
• Yun Er, the Son of Heaven, and Black Star discussed the opportunity to seize attributes and secretly allied to plunder the Dark Matter Universe’s foundations.
• Yun Er said the Million Gods had withheld their plans for confronting the beast disaster, and the Son of Heaven asked him to secretly assist with a task in the Dark Matter Universe.

After refining an Immortal Medicine pill, Black Star improved his aptitudes while the Son of Heaven sought a trustworthy artifact refiner to study Dark Matter. Minis and the Sacred Dragon arrived in the Dark Matter Universe, found the Son of Heaven’s hidden pills, and set out to reunite with Black Star.

• Black Star refined and took an Immortal Medicine pill, raising his Combat Aptitude to 102 and his Research Aptitude to 105.
• The Son of Heaven decided to recruit an artifact refiner to research Dark Matter and hoped Minis would follow the clues he had left.
• With Atabia’s help, Minis reached the Indestructible Level and arrived in the Dark Matter Universe with the Sacred Dragon.
• Minis found the Son of Heaven’s encrypted message in a vine and learned that he and Black Star were doing well while Professor Wales remained under supervision.
• Minis and the Sacred Dragon retrieved four aptitude-boosting pills from a hidden meteorite stash, then planned to travel to Guangyin Forest and meet Black Star.

Minis explored the Crystal Wall Universe while Li Qing watched the prison’s battle and met with three leaders of the Million Gods. They offered him a blueprint for reaching the Upper Ancient God realm, revealing that it involved rewriting a universe’s fundamental laws.

• Minis delayed seeking Black Star and traveled through the galaxies with the Sacred Dragon to study the interstellar age and look for opportunities to seize talents.
• Li Qing watched the Ancient Beast attack the prison, examined the corpses of Silver Fluid, Hong An, and others, and warned Yun Er that the wounded beast should be manageable.
• Colored, Wandering Birds, and Despair summoned Li Qing’s Elf Ancient God avatar to propose cooperation and claimed they understood the Crystal Wall System Universe completely.
• Colored offered Li Qing their Upper Ancient God breakthrough blueprint, which their six hundred thousand troops had deduced over three hundred million years.
• Despair explained that Upper Ancient Gods rewrote a universe’s underlying code to govern a rule, and could permanently kill Indestructible Level beings.