Chapter Summaries

Cang overwhelmed Luo Yan by drawing on the Abyss’s endlessly circulating power, shattering Luo Yan’s belief that he could win a war of attrition. When Luo Yan’s desperate attack cracked the Abyss’s protective membrane and risked drawing outside powers to them, Yang Yu unleashed the Abyss’s full authority and manifested a colossal sword behind Cang.

• Luo Yan endured Cang’s relentless sword strikes, betting that Cang’s borrowed power would run out before his own Sixth Step strength failed.
• Little White explained that Luo Yan was misjudging the Abyss’s shared, self-sustaining supply of power, while Yang Yu and the others watched Cang continue fighting.
• Cang told Luo Yan that the Abyss’s Mana Bar could not be exhausted, and Luo Yan realized he could not outlast the World Cluster supporting Cang.
• Luo Yan burned the Withered Heart and his newly acquired Sixth Step Origin, cracking the Abyss’s protective membrane and threatening to attract powerful outsiders.
• Yang Yu took control of the Abyss’s highest authority, removed Cang’s vessel restrictions, and summoned a giant Gray Gold sword that silenced Luo Yan’s attack.

Yang Yu and the Abyss defeated Luo Yan, whose memories revealed that Ancestor Qiong’s three thousand vessels were meant to devour one another until a perfect shell emerged. The group suspected Qiong had reached the Seventh Step, Ancient Illuminating, and set out to hunt another vessel, Number Forty-Two.

• Cang hesitated after Luo Yan transmitted a vision of vessels devouring one another, while Yang Yu warned Huang Yan to sever Luo Yan’s Causality.
• Yang Yu crushed Luo Yan with the Gray Gold Giant Sword, and Cang consumed Luo Yan’s Origin and Memory Light Orb, advancing to the Fifth Step: Path Severing.
• Yang Yu projected Luo Yan’s records, which identified him as vessel Number One Hundred Seventy-Nine and ranked him 972nd overall.
• Zhi Xing, Xuan Jiu, and Huang Yan analyzed the vessel system and concluded that Qiong might be a Seventh-Step Ancient Illuminating being seeking a shell to return from the past.
• Cang asked to hunt another vessel, and Yang Yu ordered Huang Yan to take the Abyss to Number Forty-Two.

Yang Yu devised a plan to use Jin’s Trial-takers as resurrecting fighters against Qiong’s three Peak Sixth Step groups, while Huang Yan recruited the first participant. Li Cangxu signed the costly lifetime agreement, binding himself to the Abyss’s Trial Grounds.

• God of All Machines detected that more than 2,900 of Qiong’s containers had gathered into three Peak Sixth Step groups, and Zhi Xing warned that attacking them directly could trigger a wider conflict.
• Yang Yu decided to lure Jin’s Trial-takers into the Abyss, bind them as players with resurrection authority, and send them to fight Qiong’s containers; he also saw the plan as a way to test Qiong’s defenses.
• Yang Yu sent Huang Yan to recruit the nearest name on Jin’s Reception Register, and Huang Yan found Li Cangxu meditating among abandoned universe remains.
• Huang Yan told Li Cangxu that Jin’s Trial offered infinite resurrection, then presented him with a lifetime agreement requiring 100,000 Great Universe Origins and ownership of his insights and battle data.
• Li Cangxu accepted the cost and pressed his soul blood onto the agreement to sign it.

Li Cangxu signed Huang Yan’s contract and learned he had joined the Abyss workforce, while Yang Yu recruited hundreds of powerful cultivators and used their data to advance to the Fifth Step Path Severing Realm. After thirty years of waiting, the assembled recruits heard that the first stage of the True God Trial was beginning.

• Li Cangxu signed the Parchment, entered the Abyss, and received a Resurrection Voucher and work instructions from its employees.
• Huang Yan recruited cultivators for the Abyss, while Yang Yu let those who refused the agreement leave.
• Over thirty years, Huang Yan gathered 312 powerful recruits, who waited on the Trial Continent and studied the Resurrection Code.
• Yang Yu emerged from seclusion after reaching the Fifth Step Path Severing Realm and demonstrated that he could erase space and its rules.
• Huang Yan addressed the gathered Old Freaks at the Trial Plaza and announced that the first stage of the True God Trial had begun.

Yang Yu silenced the Old Monsters’ protests against fighting Qiong’s Peak Sixth Step vessels by demonstrating his overwhelming power and proving the Abyss could resurrect someone erased through Causality. He secured their agreement with guaranteed resurrection, a Legacy reward, and Swords of Judgment, then ordered them to draw their weapons.

• Huang Yan announced that the Trial required the Fifth Step Old Monsters to kill Qiong’s three Peak Sixth Step vessels, prompting Li Cangxu and others to protest that the challenge was impossible.
• Yang Yu appeared and crushed more than three hundred Old Monsters with his aura, showing them that a Fifth Step fighter could surpass their expectations.
• Yang Yu promised to cover resurrection costs, and Li Cangxu asked whether the Abyss could restore someone whose existence had been erased by Sixth Step Causality.
• Huang Yan erased the Blood-Robed Old Woman with Blackwater, and Yang Yu used the Abyss System to restore her from Non-Existence, convincing the Old Monsters that their lives were protected.
• Huang Yan offered a Legacy to the Old Monster who contributed most to the expedition, and Yang Yu summoned 312 Swords of Judgment for them.
• Cang asked Yang Yu for a sword, but Yang Yu told him to work; Yang Yu then ordered the Old Monsters to draw their swords.

Li Cangxu and more than three hundred Abyss old monsters used the Swords of Judgment to confront Qiong’s three Peak Sixth Step containers. Backed by the Abyss’s protection and resurrection, they overwhelmed the containers, who realized they could not win by attrition.

• Li Cangxu drew three hundred Swords of Judgment as Yang Yu sent the old monsters and Cang to fight the three containers.
• The containers unleashed an Erasure Field, but the swords and the Abyss’s Absolute Domain shattered it without harming the old monsters.
• Li Cangxu charged the containers, survived a fatal attack through Abyss rollback restoration, and cut through one container’s Gray-White Law shield.
• The old monsters fought recklessly, repeatedly resurrecting and detonating themselves to batter the containers’ defenses.
• The containers lost High-Dimensional Origin and suffered heavy injuries, while the central container admitted they could not kill the attackers or keep fighting.

The three vessels fused into Qiong, who reached Half-Step Ancient Illuminating and slaughtered the Old Freaks before reaching for Cang. Yang Yu rescued Cang and trapped Qiong in the Chaos High-Pressure Cooker, then decided to turn the dangerous waste gas into a new Version for the Players.

• The three vessels fused into a Deformed Giant, allowing Qiong to cross into Half-Step Ancient Illuminating.
• Qiong erased more than three hundred Old Freaks and reached for Cang, intending to merge with his final piece.
• Yang Yu used the Abyss to swallow Cang and the surrounding locked space, then sealed Qiong inside the Chaos High-Pressure Cooker.
• Qiong's power cracked the cooker, but Yang Yu drew on the Abyss's accumulated Origins to hold it shut and refine him.
• Yang Yu learned that Abyss Mid-layer Players were demanding a new Version and decided to use Qiong's waste gas for it.

Yang Yu turned Qiong’s endless Dead Ash Energy into monsters for players to farm, draining the Ancient Illuminating being’s reserves. Qiong then used Yang Yu’s Causal Thread to reach into the past and threatened to kill him before he gained Fifth Step power.

• The God of All Machines turned the Dead Ash Energy leaking from the cooker into monsters, and players across the Abyss charged in for rewards.
• Yang Yu held down the shaking cooker while Qiong revealed that he replenished his power from the River of Time and the past.
• Yang Yu ordered Wanji to release all the Dead Gray exhaust as monsters and boost player rewards, allowing the players to grind down Qiong’s energy.
• Qiong realized the players were consuming his power and grew furious as the Abyss recycled the exhaust faster than he could pour it out.
• Zhi Xing warned Yang Yu that Qiong was following his Causal Thread into the past, and Qiong threatened to kill him before he reached Transcendence.

Qiong traveled a million Eras into the past to find Yang Yu’s origins, but discovered no trace of him and became afraid. Yang Yu then ordered the Abyss to feed cosmic ruins into the Chaos Fire and began refining Qiong alive, while Qiong’s threats went unanswered.

• Zhi Xing warned Yang Yu that Qiong had severed his Causal Thread and was traveling backward through the River of Time to kill him in the past.
• Yang Yu asked Wanji to draw out the Abyss River of Time and wrap him in its timeline, preparing to attack Qiong if he appeared.
• Qiong revealed that he had searched a million Eras upstream without finding any trace of Yang Yu, and Yang Yu pretended his origins were beyond Qiong’s reach.
• Yang Yu ordered Wanji to raise the fire by using Great Universe Remains as fuel, then commanded Li Cangxu and the other old monsters to break apart the cosmic ruins and send them into the Abyss.
• The Chaos Fire engulfed the High-Pressure Cooker and began burning Qiong’s power and connection to the River of Time as Yang Yu pressed down on the lid.
• Qiong threatened that his death would draw the attention of true old monsters in the Depth of Hongmeng, but Yang Yu dismissed him and ordered the Abyss to close the net.

Yang Yu refined Qiong in the Chaos High-Pressure Cooker, ending the Dead Gray invasion and earning the awe of the Abyss’s defenders. After Li Cangxu rejected a chance to leave with Jin’s name and received a Permanent Sword of Judgment instead, Yang Yu uncovered an unclassifiable Super Magical Treasure in Qiong’s remains.

• Yang Yu sealed Qiong’s Causality and refined him into ash, causing the Dead Gray Monsters across the Abyss Mid-layer to disappear.
• Yang Yu gave Cang Qiong’s core Origin to digest and ordered him to reach Peak Sixth Step within three months.
• Yang Yu offered Li Cangxu the chance to claim Jin’s name and become Sixth Step, but required him to surrender his Abyss Employee Mark and leave.
• Li Cangxu refused the offer, so Yang Yu rewarded him with a Permanent Sword of Judgment and promised the Abyss would eventually create its own Sixth Step path.
• Yang Yu scanned Qiong’s charred fragment, then cracked its shell with Chaos Fire and released the aura of an unrankable Super Magical Treasure.

Yang Yu cracked open Qiong’s Charred Fragment and discovered it contained an expired Hongmeng Supreme membership for the Myriad Worlds Merchant House. He paid the enormous overdue balance, inherited Qiong’s account, and found a marketplace of high-dimensional goods along with an option to apply as an agent.

• Yang Yu used Chaos Fire to break the Charred Fragment’s shell, revealing a virtual screen that demanded 120 billion units of Origin to renew an expired subscription.
• Yang Yu paid the balance from the Abyss Core Account, and the Myriad Worlds Merchant House transferred Qiong’s account to him after confirming Qiong was dead.
• The screen transformed into a marketplace listing goods such as a True God Inheritance Fragment, Name-Holding Permission, and Ancient Illuminating Realm Law Crystal.
• Yang Yu recognized the merchant house as a powerful fellow business and examined the benefits of his Hongmeng Supreme membership, including the option to apply as an Outer Perimeter Agent.

Yang Yu bought a Temporary Name-Holding Permission Card from the Myriad Worlds Merchant House, and Zhi Xing used it to reach the Sixth Step Name-Holding Realm. When the card assigned her the name Qiong, Yang Yu realized the old monster he had killed may have acquired his name from the same merchant and decided the Abyss would apply to become a peripheral agent.

• Yang Yu bought a Temporary Name-Holding Permission Card for two hundred billion Origin, and it arrived in the great hall without triggering the Abyss's defenses.
• Gu Shan, Xuan Jiu, and Huang Yan refused to test the card, but Zhi Xing volunteered and absorbed it.
• Zhi Xing gained Sixth Step Name-Holding Realm power and described her new ability to sever the Causal Sources of Fourth Step and Fifth Step beings.
• Zhi Xing revealed that the Merchant Guild had assigned her the name Qiong, the same name carried by the Half-Step Ancient Illuminating Realm monster Yang Yu had recently killed.
• Yang Yu realized the old monster may have bought his name from the Merchant Guild and ordered Wanji to apply for the Abyss to become a peripheral agent.

Yang Yu paid one trillion units of High-Dimensional Origin to become an Outer Perimeter Agent of the Myriad Worlds Merchant House and opened a portal to Starlight Market. After gathering his allies and explaining his plans, he entered the market alone to scout it.

• Yang Yu argued that the Myriad Worlds Merchant House had already drawn the Abyss into its plans, then applied to become an Outer Perimeter Agent.
• Yang Yu ordered Wanji to pay the one-trillion-unit review fee, draining the Abyss’s Origin before his application was approved.
• The Merchant House opened a Bronze Giant Gate that led to Starlight Market, and Yang Yu learned that his Supreme VIP membership let him remain there indefinitely.
• Yang Yu summoned Little White, Yang Yan, Li Cangxu, and others, explained that he intended to establish a stall, and reassured them that only he could enter the portal first.
• Yang Yu opened the Bronze Giant Gate and stepped alone into the portal to Starlight Market.

Yang Yu brought his companions to Starlight Market, where he challenged Mad Bone Old Demon's monopoly on treating Dao injuries by offering a Fifth Step cultivator an Abyss Experience Coin. The injured man crushed it and vanished in golden light, then reappeared fully healed, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Yang Yu and his companions arrived at Starlight Market, the outer market of the Myriad Worlds Merchant House, and marveled at its extraordinary stalls and powerful vendors.
• Yang Yu led the group through the market to find a place for their own stall, while Little White nearly bought a Protagonist Halo Trial Version.
• Yang Yu and his companions watched Mad Bone Old Demon demand fifty billion Origin for a Dao Continuation Pill from a badly injured Fifth Step cultivator.
• Yang Yu offered the cultivator an Abyss Experience Coin for ten billion Origin and promised to pay for Mad Bone Old Demon's pill if it failed.
• The cultivator crushed the coin and vanished in Grey-gold Light, prompting Mad Bone Old Demon and the onlookers to assume Yang Yu had killed him.
• Yang Yu counted down, and the cultivator reappeared with his body restored, his contamination and Dao injury gone, and his cultivation beginning to advance.

Yang Yu demonstrated that his Gold Coins could restore a cultivator’s body and True Spirit, then used his Hongmeng Supreme Member privileges to defeat Mad Bone Old Demon and claim his market spot. He opened an Abyss Refresh Service Center and began selling the coins to eager customers.

• The burly man recovered completely after using a Gold Coin and paid Yang Yu ten billion Origin for his life.
• Mad Bone Old Demon accused Yang Yu of using an illusion, but the burly man proved his restored strength as the surrounding cultivators rushed to buy Gold Coins.
• Yang Yu sold his ten Experience Coins for ten billion Origin each, while Mad Bone Old Demon threatened him for taking over his business.
• Yang Yu used the Silver-Blue Metal Flake to summon the Market Enforcement Team, which crushed Mad Bone Old Demon and asked whether to erase or exile him.
• Yang Yu spared Mad Bone Old Demon, ordered the Enforcement Team to remove him and his stall, and planted an Abyss Refresh Service Center sign in the cleared spot.

Yang Yu turned the Abyss into a thriving all-purpose service center in Starlight Market, drawing in vast resources and recognition. As the Abyss’s wealth and influence surged, he forged a new name for himself and reached the Sixth Step: Name Holding.

• Yang Yu opened the Abyss Refresh Service Center, where he cleansed an Old Hag’s poison and upgraded a Sword Cultivator’s broken weapon.
• Li Cangxu offered a paid trial ground where cultivators could fight powerful enemies, die, and be resurrected, and a red-haired Cultivator entered to train.
• Customers flocked to buy pills, trial passes, resurrection coins, and equipment services, rapidly filling the Abyss’s core account with Origin.
• Wanji reported that the Abyss had amassed more than one thousand quadrillion in spendable High-Dimensional Origin, strengthening the Abyss and Yang Yu.
• The recognition and Causality of the Abyss’s customers formed a new name for Yang Yu, who attained the Sixth Step as a Name Holder.

Yang Yu broke through to the Sixth Step by creating the name Abyss, then discovered he could grant others branch titles that let them enter the same realm. He elevated Li Cangxu and ordered him to establish an Abyss branch of his own.

• Yang Yu established Abyss as a new Sixth Step name, and Starlight Market's cultivators rushed to buy memberships after the Myriad Worlds Merchant House did not intervene.
• Abyss received a System update that increased its employees' attributes and law recovery speed and reset their death revival cooldowns.
• Yang Yu realized he could split off branch permissions, granting others Sixth Step power while taxing their use of Abyss to strengthen himself.
• Yang Yu bestowed a branch title on Li Cangxu, breaking his seventy-three-thousand-Era stalemate and raising him to the Sixth Step.
• Yang Yu told Li Cangxu to leave Starlight Market and establish an Abyss branch, where he would lead as its Boss.

Yang Yu discovered that Abyss Branch Titles let him build an influence network that claimed most of its holders’ earnings, then used them to free his allies from Old God control and grant them Sixth Step power. He sent his new agents to open branch stores and sold permanent Titles to a crowd of Old Monsters, rapidly growing his fortune.

• Li Cangxu pledged to spread the Abyss’s sign across the Hongmeng Ruins, and Yang Yu learned that Abyss Branch Titles cost one trillion Origin to issue while sending nine-tenths of holders’ earnings to his account.
• Yang Yu tore the Old God Causal Chain from Huang Yan, then issued Huang Yan an Abyss Branch Title that restored his Sixth Step power without the Old God’s control.
• Yang Yu issued Abyss Branch Titles to Zhi Xing, Gu Shan, Xuan Jiu, Yang Yan, and Little White, raising them to the Sixth Step and ordering them to open branch stores.
• Yang Yu advertised permanent Sixth Step Titles for ten trillion Origin, and a goateed old man bought one with his life savings and became a Sixth Step powerhouse.
• The Old Monsters rushed to buy Titles, and Yang Yu collected their payments and issued Branch Titles as his Origin account rapidly swelled.

Yang Yu’s Abyss titles let thousands of cultivators Devour Hongmeng while sending ninety percent of their gains to him, swelling his Origin reserves beyond measure. When the Seventh Step Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable tried to seize his wealth, Yang Yu defeated him with a massive expenditure of Origin and captured him for later use.

• Tens of thousands of title holders Devoured Chaos Placentas and other targets, unknowingly sending most of their Origin and Laws to Yang Yu.
• As Old Monsters crowded his stall, Yang Yu’s Origin reserves grew so vast that he felt ordinary realms had become meaningless.
• The Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable arrived at Starlight Market, demanded Yang Yu’s Origin, and followed him into the Merchant House’s Chaos Deathmatch Zone.
• The Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable attacked Yang Yu by reversing time, but Yang Yu used ten quadrillion Origin to smash through the attack and severely injure him.
• Yang Yu bound the unconscious Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable with Origin Chains and sent him into his Abyss System space as a future sparring partner.

Yang Yu defeated Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable, then used a fifty million trillion Origin top-up to make the Myriad Worlds Merchant House revoke its enforcement and protection. After the Regional Manager treated Yang Yu as a supreme customer, Yang Yu turned Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable into a public punching-bag attraction at his stall.

• Yang Yu emerged from the Golden Gate dragging the badly injured Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable behind him, shocking the Old Monsters at Starlight Market.
• The Merchant House marked Yang Yu for illegally detaining a Silver rank member and sent a giant hand of rules to punish him.
• Yang Yu had Wanji top up his card with fifty million trillion High-Dimensional Origin, raising his membership to Hongmeng Supreme Diamond Black Gold VIP and ending the enforcement procedure.
• The Regional Manager apologized to Yang Yu and declared that Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable had no protection from him.
• Yang Yu sealed Nine Tribulations Dao Venerable to a pillar and opened a paid punching-bag service for the Old Monsters.