Chapter Summaries

Over three thousand years, the Dark Realm Universe absorbed the Primal Land, the races developed new paths to preserve their bloodlines, and the Three Thousand Worlds continued to produce ascenders. Zhang Qing completed nine laws and told Yun Xiaoxi he would delay his final leap until after they pushed open the door.

• The Dark Realm Universe expanded to absorb the Primal Land, including the Bronze Gate, while Great Xia and the other major races grew and developed new paths.
• Ghoul Mother's laws broke reproductive isolation, causing bloodline conflicts that lasted nearly two hundred years until the Venerable Lords and Progenitors established the Life Leap martial path.
• The younger generation rose under the Dark Realm's established order, while ascenders and Specters continued to shape events across the Three Thousand Worlds and Myriad Worlds.
• Zhang Qing completed nine laws over three thousand years, growing powerful enough that the Dark Realm Universe feared the consequences if he lost control.
• Yun Xiaoxi asked Zhang Qing whether he was ready to make the leap, and he said they should wait until after they pushed open the door.

Zhang Qing visited Kid Brother, now a Universe Demon God fighting Chaos Life forms in Illusory Extinction Space, to settle their old ties. After revealing his ambition to become the one in power and bringing peace for countless generations, Zhang Qing left Kid Brother to pursue its own rise.

• Zhang Qing and the other supreme beings froze Illusory Extinction Space and confronted Kid Brother after it devoured several Chaos Life forms.
• Zhang Qing invited Kid Brother to talk, and Kid Brother emerged from the Universe Demon God's brows in a defenseless childlike form.
• Zhang Qing told Kid Brother he intended to become the one in power and secure peace for countless generations.
• Kid Brother praised Zhang Qing's ambition and said it planned to strengthen itself, establish itself in the Three Thousand Worlds, and reach the Primal Land.
• Zhang Qing left, telling Kid Brother that the youngsters of the new era would decide whether it could rise.

Zhang Qing reassured Yun Xiaoxi that his growing independence would serve his plan to lead all beings toward ascension, rather than severing himself from them. As he and Yun Xiaoxi traveled through Great Xia, he cut a giant kite’s string, shared an ordinary dinner with her, and filled the Primal Land’s night sky with stars by accelerating time.

• Yun Xiaoxi feared Zhang Qing would sever his causal connections and searched for her own special laws, but Zhang Qing showed her that he intended to lead all beings toward ascension.
• Zhang Qing cut the string of Weifang City’s enormous Blood Dragon kite, watched it lose its form and fall, and fled with Yun Xiaoxi when its owners demanded to know who had done it.
• Zhang Qing explained that he would pioneer the path to ascension so others could follow, while the Venerables and Progenitors safeguarded him.
• Zhang Qing and Yun Xiaoxi visited his home in Suzhou, found it maintained and stocked with food, and made dinner together without using extraordinary power.
• Zhang Qing used the law of time to accelerate the evolution of nebulae and fill the Primal Land’s night sky with stars.

After three thousand years of peace, Zhang Qing told Great Xia’s Crisis Response Team that he would soon leave and urged them to prepare for a distant conflict. Before departing, he visited Li Liming and encouraged him to defend his command of the Blood Dragon Army against challengers from the younger generation.

• Zhang Qing told the Crisis Response Team that he would leave Great Xia and asked whether they wanted changes to their way of life before his departure.
• Zhang Qing said a future conflict would force Great Xia to make difficult choices, then promised to carve out a path for those capable of following him.
• Zhang Qing visited Li Liming and learned that younger officers were coveting his position as commander of the Blood Dragon Army.
• Zhang Qing told Li Liming to fight for his position and explained that his origins in the Primordial Universe made him Primal Life.
• Li Liming agreed to accept the challenge, giving Zhang Qing a chance to observe the advantages of Primal Life in battle.

Ning Yu challenged Li Liming for command of the Blood Dragon Army, and Li Liming won with the advantage granted by their old-era status as Primal Life. Zhang Qing recognized that the fight exposed a growing divide between Primal Life and the new era, while sword challenges gained an unwritten right in Great Xia.

• Ning Yu challenged Li Liming publicly in the Imperial Capital, hoping to prove his Sword Dao before the Dragon Venerable.
• Li Liming fought Ning Yu in the sky and won, relying partly on the advantages of Primal Life.
• Zhang Qing reflected that Great Xia’s Primal Life had begun from a higher starting point because they had carried lives through the changes of eras.
• Ning Yu accepted his defeat, while Zhang Qing and Li Liming recognized that their victory had revealed a growing divide between old-era and new-era people.
• Zhang Qing left without judging the fight, and sword cultivators gained an unwritten right to issue sword challenges in Great Xia.

Zhang Qing visited the Star Array Civilization as it emerged into the Three Thousand Worlds and told its leaders they would need to leave in about a thousand years, offering them a place on his train. Meanwhile, Yun Xiaoxi discovered she was pregnant after returning to the Divine Kingdom to investigate a strange sensation.

• Zhang Qing entered the newly evolved universe of the Star Array Civilization and met its middle-aged representative, who welcomed him into the Star Realm.
• The Star Array Civilization’s leaders served Zhang Qing tea, and he warned them that the Myriad Worlds were unsuitable for them and that they would need to move in roughly a thousand years.
• Zhang Qing explained that he would open a high-speed passage and that they should board his train on time, then said the Myriad Worlds did not belong to Primal Life.
• The Star Array Civilization’s leaders agreed to obey Zhang Qing and accepted his offer of a passage.
• Yun Xiaoxi finished meditating in the Divine Kingdom and discovered that she was pregnant.

Zhang Qing left the Myriad Worlds through the Bronze Gate to enter the unknown realm beyond it. He arrived at a vast metal platform where a message summoned reinforcements to Battlefield No. 1.

• Yun Xiaoxi kept her true body safe in the divine kingdom while Zhang Qing traveled through the Myriad Worlds and watched Hao live happily after reincarnating.
• Zhang Qing gathered the Progenitors, Venerables, Yun Xiaoxi, and others before the Bronze Gate and announced that he would try to pass through it.
• Zhang Qing reassured everyone, then approached the gate as his aura detached from the Myriad Worlds and his nine divine sparks reached their limit.
• The Bronze Gate opened, and Zhang Qing passed through before it closed behind him; Yang Man urged everyone to guard their regions against emerging threats.
• Zhang Qing emerged onto a metal platform alongside special lifeforms from other gates, and a transmitted message called for reinforcements at Battlefield No. 1.

Zhang Qing joined the cannon-fodder army on a vast battlefield, where War Soldiers fought Chaos Life for Chaos Qi. After discovering that authority underpinned this world's power, he followed Duoli toward a weakened Chaos Life and considered how to exploit the battlefield.

• Zhang Qing concealed himself among the army and assessed the War Soldier system, deciding he could advance toward becoming one of those in power.
• Zhang Qing learned that War Soldiers fought Chaos Life, whose intelligent members had broken away from the Chaos Sea and remained at war with its inhabitants.
• Duoli approached Zhang Qing and proposed teaming up; Zhang Qing agreed while recognizing Duoli intended to deceive him.
• Zhang Qing sensed authority beneath the world's chaotic power and concluded that personal authority offered a surer path than mastering more laws.
• Duoli led Zhang Qing across the battlefield, explaining that War Soldiers earned Chaos Qi by helping kill Chaos Life and that it could strengthen divine sparks and potentially lead to greater power.

Zhang Qing discovered that the Chaos Battlefield used game-like rules to reward those who struck dying Chaos Life, while subtly pushing them to abandon their original paths. He intercepted the reward as a Chaos Bead and planned to exploit the system as a cheater.

• Duoli led Zhang Qing to a battlefield where War Soldiers were surrounding a wounded Chaos Life, hoping to use Zhang Qing as a shield if danger arose.
• Duoli and Zhang Qing each struck the Chaos Life, and Zhang Qing received a reward after it died.
• Zhang Qing realized the reward’s Chaos Qi could alter his convictions and inferred that the rulers had built the battlefield’s rules from authorities to keep newcomers trapped as players.
• Zhang Qing used Time to compress the Chaos Qi into a Chaos Bead and decided he could exploit the game mechanics to rise toward the rulers’ position.
• Duoli called Zhang Qing toward another dying Chaos Life, believing Zhang Qing had become absorbed in the battlefield’s rewards.

Duoli led Zhang Qing into a hidden Illusory Extinction Space, intending to sacrifice him with a secret technique and kill the pursuing Chaos Life. Zhang Qing froze the space and everyone inside it, leaving Duoli powerless and stunned.

• Duoli and Zhang Qing were targeted by more than twenty Chaos Life, so Duoli carried Zhang Qing away as they fled.
• Duoli brought Zhang Qing toward a hidden Chaos rift, planning to use his secret technique to sacrifice him and strengthen himself.
• Duoli took control of the Illusory Extinction Space with the laws of his ten divine sparks and explained that rulers could not detect it.
• Duoli activated his secret technique against Zhang Qing, but Zhang Qing unleashed nine special laws that froze the space, Duoli, and the Chaos Life.
• Zhang Qing told the helpless Duoli that he was Zhang Qing.

After killing Duoli, Zhang Qing gathered Chaos Beads and searched for a way to ascend to power, but the stagnant Chaos Battlefield gave him no opening. He stirred up Illusory Extinction Spaces with Chaos Beads, built a reputation and a squad, and eventually caused a sensation as these spaces began releasing large numbers of beads.

• Zhang Qing killed Duoli and the Chaos Life forms, collected their divine sparks, and formed Chaos Qi into Chaos Beads.
• Zhang Qing heard a distant plea promising knowledge of how to become one in power, ignored it, and left the Illusory Extinction Space.
• After a thousand years of stagnation in the Chaos Battlefield, Zhang Qing began scattering tens of thousands of Chaos Beads into newly appearing Illusory Extinction Spaces.
• Over the next thousand years, Zhang Qing used nine conventional laws and secret arts to build a reputation and gather a small squad while continuing to seed the spaces with Chaos Beads.
• Illusory Extinction Spaces began appearing and vanishing with large bursts of Chaos Beads, stirring strange emotions and causing a sensation across the Chaos Battlefield.

Zhang Qing led his squad into Zone Three after signs of a Chaos Tide appeared, hoping to gather enough Chaos Beads to reach the Beyond Limit Level. As War Soldiers and Chaos Life converged on Zone Three, a ruler considered whether the gathering tide was linked to a Primal Life learning the rulers’ advancement path or to suppressed rulers seeking to escape.

• Ailipu warned Zhang Qing that a Chaos Tide might be about to appear, and Zhang Qing decided to enter it despite the danger.
• Three-Eyed and the rest of Zhang Qing’s squad agreed to follow him, trusting his battlefield judgment and hoping to gain Chaos Beads.
• Zhang Qing’s departure prompted War Soldiers from Zone One and other war zones to flood into Zone Three, while Chaos Life rushed to reinforce it.
• Zhang Qing sensed that a greater tide was gathering as the conflict in Zone Three escalated.
• A terrifying ruler considered two possible causes of the tide: a Primal Life learning how rulers advanced, or suppressed rulers stirring up events to escape.

Zhang Qing waited in Zone Three as the Chaos Tide grew, while another hidden force helped intensify it. As his squad dwindled, Tian Qi remained beside him, believing he had seen destiny in Zhang Qing.

• The rulers rejected destroying Zone Three and agreed to suppress any new rulers as long as they remained united.
• Zhang Qing arrived in Zone Three and ordered his squad to ignore the reports and wait while the Chaos Tide developed.
• After more than three years, Zhang Qing concluded that another hidden force was helping strengthen the tide.
• Three-Eyed left the squad after being tempted by the chance to become a ruler, and Zhang Qing realized someone else was adding to his scheme.
• Zhang Qing's squad gradually dwindled as members left, but Tian Qi stayed and said he had seen destiny in Zhang Qing.

Zhang Qing and Tian Qi entered the Sea of Lightning as the greater trend triggered a chaotic rush for Chaos Beads. They reached the edge of Illusory Extinction Space, where Zhang Qing waited while Three-Eyed followed a mysterious voice into the depths of Chaos.

• Zhang Qing set out with Tian Qi, and their ascent through the lightning-filled sky drew the attention of the Third War Zone.
• Three-Eyed recognized Zhang Qing and, urged on by the voice in his mind, joined the rush into the Sea of Lightning.
• Countless fighters attacked the Sea of Lightning’s cracks for Chaos Beads, and Zhang Qing and Tian Qi traveled deeper through its increasingly dangerous lightning.
• At the edge of Illusory Extinction Space, Zhang Qing waited inside the Sea of Lightning while Tian Qi resisted entering the gathering place of Chaos Beads.
• Three-Eyed collected Chaos Beads in Illusory Extinction Space and followed the voice into the depths of Chaos to gather Purple Qi.

Three-Eyed and Zhang Qing helped spread word of treasures deep in the sea of lightning, drawing War Soldiers and Chaos Life into a slaughter where the dead’s power accumulated. As the battlefield accelerated the War Soldiers’ evolution, Zhang Qing detected the influence of a suppressed Authority and realized he knew who was behind the scenes.

• Three-Eyed chose to collect Chaos Beads first while the voice guiding him mocked his caution and urged him to keep the secret.
• The hidden masterminds and Zhang Qing spread news of the treasures, bringing War Soldiers to the depths of the sea of lightning.
• War Soldiers fought over Chaos Beads and Chaos Purple Qi, and the lightning sea trapped the power and divine sparks released by the dead.
• Chaos Life joined the fighting as the dense aura drove some War Soldiers to sudden growth before they were killed.
• Zhang Qing recognized that a force bearing the scent of slaughter was a suppressed Authority breaking through its restraints, and he realized who was behind the scenes.

Zhang Qing watched Three-Eyed amass divine sparks and realized that an unseen authority holder was using him as a vessel. When Three-Eyed's sparks began clashing, the voice in his mind urged him to seek purple qi and evolve a universe within himself, leaving Zhang Qing suspicious of the path's true purpose.

• Zhang Qing remained hidden in the sea of lightning and watched the suppressed authority holders begin to stir.
• Three-Eyed gathered more than twenty divine sparks, formed Law Armor, and absorbed Chaos Beads to accelerate his growth.
• Zhang Qing told Tian Qi that Three-Eyed could not be saved, while identifying Three-Eyed as an anchor for someone else's power.
• Three-Eyed ignored the voice in his mind when it asked him to find purple qi, but his conflicting divine sparks soon clashed and weakened him.
• The voice persuaded Three-Eyed that purple qi could help him evolve a universe within his body, and Three-Eyed rushed toward a wisp of it.
• Zhang Qing recognized the proposed transformation as a path resembling Kid Brother's and Universe Demon God's, but doubted it could truly create an authority holder.

Zhang Qing and Tian Qi entered the Chaos Battlefield as suppressed authority holders began stirring and authority holders gathered to contain them. The Chaos True Ancestor opened a passage into the Thunder Sea, and terrifying beings descended around the battlefield.

• Zhang Qing recognized that Slaughter and other suppressed authorities were awakening, then decided he needed to enter the fray.
• Tian Qi agreed to follow Zhang Qing, who brought him out of the Thunder Sea and told him to blend in by fighting a level-nine War Soldier.
• The Divine Radiance authority holder warned others that a newly born Myriad Worlds contained Primal Life forms and the scent of authority, reminding them that Slaughter had emerged under similar circumstances.
• Authority holders learned that the Chaos True Ancestor had entered the fray to help the trapped beings escape, and they projected into the Thunder Sea to stop him.
• The Chaos True Ancestor opened a passage that let War Soldiers and Chaos Life forms rush into the Thunder Sea, while terrifying beings descended around it.

Zhang Qing watched the Controllers and Chaos True Ancestors clash over the Thunder Sea as the Chaos True Ancestors revealed their plan to create the authority of death. The scheme would return mortality and lifespan to all life, and Zhang Qing eagerly welcomed it.

• The Controllers arrived at the Thunder Sea and ordered the war soldiers to leave, but a Chaos True Ancestor sealed the area and a Controller imprisoned everyone in separate times and spaces.
• Zhang Qing studied the Controller’s Time Barrier and stayed calm, believing his former experience as a Venerable gave him an advantage.
• The Divine Light Controller questioned why the Chaos True Ancestors had sided with Slaughter and the others, and a Chaos True Ancestor said they wanted change after ages of unchanging life.
• The Divine Light Controller realized the Chaos True Ancestors intended to create a Death Controller, while the True Ancestor condemned the Controllers as relics of an old era.
• The Chaos True Ancestors spread the aura of death and revealed their plan to return its authority to chaos, making every life struggle against death and giving lifespan meaning.
• Zhang Qing praised the Return Longevity to Heaven scheme as sheer genius.

The Chaos True Ancestors tried to bring death into being by sacrificing the War Soldiers, hoping to force the rulers from their thrones. Divine Radiance disrupted the sacrifice and the rulers began a battle that threatened to destroy Chaos, while Zhang Qing fled with Tian Qi and kept his own plans hidden.

• The Chaos True Ancestors argued that their plan to create death could break the rulers’ endless stagnation, and Zhang Qing recognized humanity and divinity as the conflict’s core.
• Divine Radiance attacked the emerging authority of death, but the Chaos True Ancestors revealed that the gathered War Soldiers were meant to serve as sacrifices.
• Zhang Qing told Tian Qi to stay calm and waited as his nine independent laws showed signs of merging.
• Divine Radiance sent the War Soldiers away, disrupting the sacrifice and returning Zhang Qing and Tian Qi to safety temporarily.
• The rulers launched an all-out battle that shattered spacetime and began sinking Chaos, so Zhang Qing took Tian Qi and fled across the collapsing battlefield.

Divine Radiance tried to prevent death by returning the War Soldiers to their Myriad Worlds, but Slaughter and the other rulers revealed that their real goal was to shatter those worlds and restore Chaos to its primal state. As the Bronze Gates began to break, Zhang Qing fled with Tian Qi, left with no clear way to save everyone.

• Divine Radiance turned the War Soldiers into streams of light to send them back to their Myriad Worlds, while Chaos True Ancestor and the others broke free from the Sea of Thunder.
• Slaughter and the rulers revealed that they had used death as a smokescreen and intended to shatter the Myriad Worlds to recreate the cosmic big bang on the scale of Chaos.
• The rulers destroyed the first Bronze Gate, collapsing the Myriad Worlds behind it into Chaos and causing a drop of the Chaos River to return.
• Zhang Qing realized that his loved ones and Great Xia would be erased if he did not act, but he still lacked the power to make the Ultimate Leap.
• Zhang Qing pulled Tian Qi out of the Chaos Qi and fled just as another Bronze Gate burst open, leaving him feeling as though everything had been lost.