Chapter Summaries

Twenty years after Earth Star entered a new era, humanity faced growing pressure from strengthening gateways to the Outer Worlds. Chu Chen prepared to take the Martial Academy exam, while Chu He reflected on the powerful foundation he had secretly built for his grandson.

• Earth Star developed a rank system, and specialists warned that humanity could lose its advantage over the foreign races after ten more Spiritual Qi Tides.
• Chu Chen returned home and asked Chu He whether he could pass the Martial Academy exam in a month.
• Chu He recalled finding Chu Chen as an abandoned infant fourteen years earlier and explained that he had suppressed the boy’s extraordinary strength.
• Chu Chen vowed to find Chu He life-extending pills and treasures that could let him cultivate again.
• Chu Chen joked that he would find himself a young, beautiful grandmother, and Chu He’s reaction sent a chill through the courtyard.

Chu He gave Chu Chen a secret manual and a black pagoda, claiming they were ancient family inheritances. Chu Chen accidentally bound both with his blood and began absorbing the secret manual’s knowledge.

• Chu He presented Chu Chen with a yellowed secret manual and a black, four-tiered pagoda, saying they had been passed down through the family for generations.
• Chu Chen dripped blood onto the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, which glowed, entered his sea of consciousness, and acknowledged him as its master.
• Chu Chen excitedly told Chu He about the pagoda, while Chu He let him believe the blood had caused it to bind with him.
• At Chu He's urging, Chu Chen dripped blood onto the secret manual, which glowed and transformed into characters that entered his ears.
• Chu Chen shut his eyes and began digesting and comprehending the knowledge entering his mind.

Over twenty years, Chu He investigated the origins of White Energy and discovered a growing point of light hidden in Earth Star’s core. As the point began drawing White Energy toward it, Chu He sensed that Earth Star concealed a danger greater than the Demon Realm or the Abyss.

• Chu He used the Chaos Bead’s origin power to create the Beginning of Origin, where Barbarian Domain experts could cultivate, and saw their strength rise.
• Over the next twenty years, Chu He improved to the fourth level of the Eighth Turn of the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique and investigated White Energy and the energy of the gigantic beasts’ world.
• Chu He concluded that White Energy came from the living beings’ sublimation and changing destinies, while he named the gigantic beasts’ destructive energy the Power of Destruction.
• On a full-moon night, Chu He visited a sealed cavern at Earth’s core and saw a point of light that had grown to the size of a firefly.
• When White Energy moved toward the light, Chu He grabbed it and struggled to suppress its unusually violent resistance.

Chu He absorbed the White Energy meant for mysterious light points, thwarting an unknown being’s plans and deciding that growing stronger was the best way to face the danger ahead. Meanwhile, Chu Chen misunderstood his grandfather’s late-night energy as loneliness and resolved to find him young companions, while unknowingly advancing rapidly in cultivation.

• Chu He absorbed the White Energy before the light points could claim it, causing one to vanish and disrupting an unknown existence’s arrangements.
• Chu He reflected on the danger hidden across the myriad realms and returned to the Chu Family courtyard to drink tea and absorb more White Energy.
• After grasping the basics of the extraordinary, Chu Chen saw Chu He awake beneath a tree and decided his grandfather needed young, beautiful companions.
• Chu Chen resumed cultivating with renewed motivation, while Chu He noticed he had reached the third level of the Acquired Realm after only a few hours.
• Chu He recognized that Chu Chen’s cultivation was far more advanced than Chu Chen realized, thanks to his strong foundation and Chu He’s specially deduced method.

Chu Chen left for Luocheng to attend the Martial Academy, while Chu He stayed behind and befriended an intelligent sparrow. Two men in black arrived to kidnap Chu He, and he suspected they had come because Chu Chen had made enemies.

• Chu Chen passed the Martial Academy assessment, but Chu He persuaded him to leave for Luocheng without his grandfather.
• Chu Chen departed, hoping to grow strong enough to obtain life-extending treasures for Chu He.
• Chu He sat alone in his courtyard and fed a clever sparrow with golden flecks in its feathers.
• Two men in black entered Chu He's courtyard and prepared to tie him up alive.
• Chu He guessed that the kidnappers had come because of a grudge against Chu Chen and reflected that his grandson had attracted trouble soon after leaving.

Chu He crippled the two Men in Black who had come to kidnap him, then sent them and their vehicle into the wilderness without asking about Chu Chen. As the men tried to leave, a tremendous roar filled the mountains and forests.

• The Men in Black explained that Chu Chen had offended their Young Master and tried to bind Chu He.
• Chu He released an overwhelming pressure that left the Men in Black unable to move, revealing that he was far stronger than they had expected.
• Chu He stripped the Men in Black of their power and destroyed their cultivation foundations without touching them.
• Chu He sent the crippled men and their vehicle into the wilderness, then returned to teasing the little bird in his hand.
• The Men in Black decided to report to the Young Master, but a tremendous roar shook the mountains and forests and filled the area with oppressive force.

After Chu He dealt with the men pursuing Chu Chen, he kept sending further troublemakers to a mining planet. Meanwhile, Chu Chen unexpectedly qualified for the Martial Academy’s Rookie King Grand Examination through his strange ability to outlast every opponent, and faced a contemptuous rival in the next round.

• A revived Jungle Fierce Tiger swallowed the two crippled Men in Black, then exploded after Chu He’s unseen power took effect.
• Chu He ignored Chu Chen’s troubles and sent the many people who came looking for him to a mining planet.
• At Luocheng’s Martial Academy, Chu Chen entered the Rookie King Grand Examination and repeatedly won matches by enduring until his opponents lost.
• Chu Chen qualified for the next stage, greeted the preselected qualifiers, and drew a rival who called him trash and accused him of relying on tricks.

Chu Chen became the Rookie King after winning every qualifier through sheer tenacity, drawing admirers and the resentment of defeated competitors, especially Jiang Zhen. As Jiang Zhen’s hatred drove him to plan Chu Chen’s death despite his growing suspicion that something was wrong, Chu He sensed an unexplained disturbance and used the Myriad Worlds Tower to search across worlds.

• Chu Chen defeated a preselected qualifier despite his injuries, and Jiang Zhen mistook his smile for mockery and began to hate him.
• Chu Chen won the following matches, attracted the affection of a young woman, and eventually became the Rookie King, provoking resentment among his defeated opponents.
• Jiang Zhen sent two groups after Chu Chen, but neither returned, leaving him with no subordinates to spare and pushing him to target Chu Chen directly.
• Jiang Zhen briefly questioned why his resentment had grown into murderous intent, but hatred soon overwhelmed him again and he vowed that Chu Chen must die.
• Chu He sensed something strange while drinking tea, searched his surroundings, and began observing the various worlds with the Myriad Worlds Tower.

Chu He returned to the Barbarian Domain after sensing an unexplained threat, but his divination and observations revealed no source. He left still uneasy as he went to sign in.

• Chu He returned to the Barbarian Domain through the Myriad Worlds Tower to feel safer while investigating the threat.
• Little Turtle greeted Chu He, and he gave it two bags of Royal Dog Food.
• Chu He used the Divination Plate to calculate the source of his unease but got no result and suspected a stronger existence had targeted him.
• Chu He considered the Demon Realm, the Abyss, the Celestial Clan, the Ancient Era World, and Earth Star as possible sources of danger.
• Chu He observed the opened world interfaces for a day but found nothing unusual, then stood up to sign in.

After failing to divine the source of his unease, Chu He used Mystic Heaven Calculation and traced it to Earth Star, where he discovered that people connected to Chu Chen were being manipulated by a mysterious force. He suspected a deeper scheme and held back from acting while he investigated.

• Chu He received the Divination Plate of Mystic Heaven Calculation, which could be used twice to calculate the secrets of heaven and earth.
• Using the feeling that had troubled him as a clue, Chu He calculated that the source of his unease was Earth Star.
• The calculation revealed a gigantic black-and-white beast, which sensed the spying and spoke before the image collapsed and the Divination Plate cracked.
• Chu He sent a wisp of consciousness to Earth Star and found that the people in the visions were connected to Chu Chen and had grudges against him.
• Chu He discovered a mysterious force had concealed abnormalities among the young men, but he delayed acting because he had not yet figured out the scheme.

Chu He confirmed that the unknown existence was targeting Chu Chen and chose to watch events unfold while he gathered strength. In the Azure Sky Mountain Range, Yu Mo Bai despaired over his clan’s fate, and Chu He sent him a Heavenly Court token before an unknown force trapped him.

• After observing the affected people for several days, Chu He determined that the unknown existence was targeting Chu Chen, then left a thread of consciousness behind to gather White Energy and resumed listening to stories.
• Yu Mo Bai searched the Azure Sky Mountain Range for a senior who could help his clan, but found no trace of him and feared the Human Clan would lose its homeland.
• Yu Mo Bai lamented that his strength could not solve his clan’s crisis, and his tears formed a lake in the yellow sands.
• Hearing Yu Mo Bai’s lament, Chu He sent him a Heavenly Court-exclusive token through space.
• As Yu Mo Bai prepared to leave, an unknown force sealed space around him, suppressed his powers, and trapped him in what felt like a cage.

Yu Mo Bai accepted the golden token and entered the Myriad Worlds Tower, where the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King offered him a shortcut to reach Origin Dao Master. As Yu Mo Bai stepped through the Gate of Light, Chu He watched and called it the beginning of the Human Clan’s rise.

• A golden token projected the Lord of the Heavenly Court, whose legacy Yu Mo Bai chose to accept before the two-hour deadline.
• The token transported Yu Mo Bai to the Myriad Worlds Tower, where he met the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King.
• The Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King offered to advance Yu Mo Bai points in exchange for double repayment and a future favor in the Heavenly Court Inheritance Grounds.
• Yu Mo Bai accepted the offer, and the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King opened a Gate of Light and sent him through.
• After Yu Mo Bai entered, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King’s aged form became younger, and Chu He watched with a black chess piece in hand.

Chu He cultivated while Yu Mo Bai used the Chaos Bead to comprehend the origin. Elsewhere, the Demon Realm sacrificed a Great World to activate a hidden Demon Well, and three Elephant Clan Origin Dao Masters realized they had walked into a trap.

• Yu Mo Bai began comprehending the origin with the Chaos Bead's assistance, while Chu He considered how it could strengthen the Human Clan.
• Chu He cultivated, collected White Energy from Earth Star, and replenished the Demon Suppressing Pagoda by attacking targets across the realms, while avoiding Nine Realms Mountain's foreign races.
• A Mosquito Clan Devil Master invaded an Elephant Clan Great World and drained its inhabitants' blood to fuel a mysterious altar.
• A concealed barrier hid the altar's aura as the Great World was destroyed and a Demon Well appeared.
• The three Elephant Clan Origin Dao Masters recognized the Demon Well and realized the Demon Realm had lured them into a trap.

The Demon Realm lured the three Elephant Clan Origin Dao Masters into a sealed Great World to use their blood sacrifice to open the Demon Well. Wenmang trapped them long enough for the Well to approach its limit, and a Mosquito Clan mouthpart drained their combined origin power, leaving them facing despair.

• The three elephants realized the Demon Realm had set a trap and decided to attack the unstable Demon Well rather than try to escape.
• Wenmang spread its Origin Great Dao around the altar and trapped all three elephants, forcing them to spend time breaking free.
• The three elephants shattered Wenmang's Origin Great Dao and struck the altar, breaking the blood river that fed the Blood Sacrifice.
• A Mosquito Clan mouthpart pierced the elephants' combined hoof and drained its origin power, weakening them as the Demon Well nearly reached its current limit.
• The mouthpart turned toward the three elephants with an expression of hunger, and they realized the Well would use them to break its seal.

The three Origin Dao Masters of the Elephant Clan fled under the demonic might of the awakened titan, leaving Wenmang Devil Master certain of their deaths. As calamity spread across the realms, Murphy recalled the Universal Alliance’s hidden foundations, and the Divine Bell rang three times to announce a great calamity.

• The three Origin Dao Masters of the Elephant Clan lost their nerve and fled toward the starry sky, while Wenmang Devil Master declared their fate sealed.
• Chu He sensed an oppressive atmosphere rising, then chose to keep developing in secret and wait for others to fight.
• Murphy sensed that calamity had risen again, considered the burden of its position in the Universal Alliance, and called for a return.
• The ancient Divine Bell rang three times, awakening powerful beings across the Divine Palace and signaling a great calamity.
• The doors of the ancient divine hall opened slightly, and a sigh smoothed the ripples from the bell and restored the Divine Palace.

The Divine Palace failed to discover why the Divine Bell had rung, while the Star Alliance’s experts recognized that a great catastrophe was beginning. Sensing the same ominous unrest, Chu He decided to avoid attracting attention as the Abyssal Demon Lord continued to suffer in his steamer.

• The azure statue in the Divine Palace searched the stars for the cause of the Divine Bell but found nothing, and the Palace prepared to gather old friends.
• Powerful representatives from the Star Alliance’s races met to discuss the coming catastrophe, and Gu Yuan worried about the Human Clan’s fate.
• Chu He sensed the unrest across the myriad worlds but could not learn its cause from the stubborn Abyssal Demon Lord.
• Chu He inspected the Abyssal Demon Lord’s abundant output, postponed capturing more powerful beings, and withheld its allowance until later.
• The Abyssal Demon Lord grew more distressed at Chu He’s encouragement and wondered why its clan had not sent anyone to rescue it.

Chu He inspected the foreign races in his torture chamber and saw that their struggles increased the World Suppressing Cauldron's power of fortune. He reassured the exhausted old hands that he would find a way to make them useful again.

• Chu He left the Abyssal Demon Lord on the fifth floor and appeared among the foreign races on the fourth floor.
• The newcomers strained against their bronze pillars, causing the iron combs to scrape them harder and the World Suppressing Cauldron's power of fortune to rise.
• Chu He noticed that the old hands had grown quiet and unproductive after years of being harvested, and he had let them rest in a corner.
• The exhausted foreign races feared being sent back to the pillars, but Chu He promised to keep their jobs for eternity and find them something to replenish their strength.

Chu He visited the beasts in the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, mistaking their fearful tears over promised supplements for gratitude and encouraging them to keep working. He then went to the third floor, where he gave the three dragons and one tiger benefits and urged them to cultivate toward the Heaven Treading Realm.

• The beasts on the shore trembled at Chu He's promise of supplements, fearing they would have to return to the bronze pillars, while Chu He took their tears as appreciation.
• Chu He encouraged the beasts in the Iron Comb Prison, whose renewed efforts made the Demon Suppressing Pagoda grow faster.
• Chu He left the fourth floor and arrived on the third, waking the resting Dao Venerable Realm beasts.
• The three dragons and one tiger were excited to see Chu He and reflected on how far they had advanced under his guidance.
• Chu He distributed benefits to the three dragons and one tiger and told them to cultivate diligently toward the Heaven Treading Realm.

Chu He found that the three dragons and one tiger refused to cultivate because they feared being struck by lightning, while Little Goldfish continued to advance through its own effort. After inspecting the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, he met Zhao Yuling, who had reached Dao Venerable Ninth Layer and was preparing to pursue a Heaven Treading breakthrough.

• The three dragons and one tiger swallowed Chu He's food but refused to digest it, hoping to avoid growing stronger and suffering more lightning strikes.
• Chu He compared their lack of progress with Little Goldfish's cultivation to Dao Venerable Fifth Layer and decided not to give the four beasts more motivation.
• Chu He left the Demon Suppressing Pagoda after inspecting its floors and found Zhao Yuling, whose cultivation had reached Dao Venerable Ninth Layer.
• Zhao Yuling told Chu He she had discovered an opportunity to break through into the Heaven Treading Realm and had come to bid him farewell before beginning her cultivation.

Chu He bid farewell to Zhao Yuling and watched the Barbarian Domain enter a turbulent period of rapid growth and spreading chaos. He prepared hidden means of survival and combat, then took up his sack and headed to the Demon Suppressing Pagoda to reap a harvest.

• Chu He shared tea, roasted sheep, conversation, and cultivation guidance with Zhao Yuling before she left to pursue a breakthrough, promising Little Turtle a companion.
• Lin Xueling and Lin Teng emerged from the Myriad Worlds Tower to bid Chu He farewell before pursuing the Heaven Treading Realm.
• Chu He sensed that vital energy and the rules of the myriad realms were growing clearer as order weakened and bloody conflicts spread.
• Chu He stored three rebirth-capable drops of essence blood in separate locations and organized his Sign-in System's offensive and defensive items.
• Chu He resolved to conceal his true strength and rely on hidden trump cards, then took his sack and went to the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.