Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi told Professor Confucius that he had encountered a creature nearing a breakthrough beyond Main Deity and shared information about a human branch in the Demon Lord World Region. After the token verified his account, Shu Zi recognized Sword One, linking Zhang Zhi’s report to the lost Immortal Cultivation Main World.

• Yun Wuxia left the bishop’s office after Professor Confucius warned him not to spread Zhang Zhi’s claim about an existence beyond Main Deity.
• The bishop and Professor Confucius assumed Zhang Zhi had merely found a method related to reaching the Realm Above the Main God Realm, while Zhang Zhi explained the Demon Lord World Region to Confucius.
• Zhang Zhi recounted True Lord Changfeng’s proposal and handed over a token, convincing Professor Confucius that his report might be genuine and important to humanity.
• Professor Confucius returned with Shu Zi and Yun Zi, confirmed the token was authentic and its bearer had not been compromised, and asked Zhang Zhi to repeat his account.
• Shu Zi recognized Sword One from Zhang Zhi’s report and said he had once been her rival before an incident prevented him from becoming Sword Child.

Professor Confucius summoned the human Main Gods after Zhang Zhi reported finding descendants of the Immortal Cultivation Main World in the Demon Lord World Region and learning of a possible existence Beyond the Main God Realm. The Main Gods confirmed the descendants’ identity and began weighing whether the Demon Lord could achieve that breakthrough, which would determine how urgently they searched for the scattered humans.

• Shu Zi asked Zhang Zhi how he had found the race seeds, and Professor Confucius confirmed they were doing well and summoned the other Main Gods.
• Yuan Zi and thirty-six other Main God Realm Existences arrived at the palace in response to Confucius’s Red Rank summons.
• Confucius announced that he had definite information about an existence Beyond the Main God Realm and asked Zhang Zhi to recount his experience in the Demon Lord World Region.
• Zhang Zhi described what he had learned, and Confucius defended his credibility by explaining his discoveries involving the Jade Gates and the Three-Eyed Race’s Land of Inheritance.
• Shu Zi confirmed that Zhang Zhi had encountered descendants sent out from the Immortal Cultivation Main World before its destruction.
• The Main Gods debated whether the Demon Lord of the One Demon Sect could break through by devouring the region’s intelligent life, and whether confirming that possibility would justify a rapid, large-scale search for the humans there.

The Main Deities agreed that the Demon Lord might ascend beyond the Main God Realm and resolved to search for his World Region while preparing to kill him during his ascension. The chapter left them planning to eliminate alien Main Deities as a precaution against an attack on humanity while they were away.

• Zhuang Zi argued that the Demon Lord could ascend by devouring intelligent life, but warned that humanity might become a tribulation he would face.
• Confucius announced that the forty Main Deities would search for traces left by the races from the Immortal Cultivation World while continuing their war against the Mind Flayer Race.
• The Main Deities discussed using a powerful beacon and agreed that Zhang Zhi could carry one to the Demon Lord World Region if he returned there through the Trial Tower.
• A Main Deity warned that the beacon's fluctuations could attract alien powers before humanity reached the region, so Confucius proposed searching old traces while preparing a beacon as a backup.
• Confucius declared that if necessary, the Main Deities would slaughter the alien races' Main Deities to prevent them from attacking humanity during the campaign against the Demon Lord.

Zhuang Zi persuaded the Main Gods to spare the foreign races for now, arguing that their attacks were part of the Main World's tribulation. After the meeting, Professor Confucius offered Zhang Zhi rewards for his service, and Zhang Zhi accepted his teacher's arrangement.

• Zhuang Zi argued that killing the foreign races' Main Gods could make the Main World's future tribulation more severe, and the Main Gods agreed to leave them alive for now.
• The Main Gods ended the meeting with plans to trace the route to the Demon Lord Main World, send exploration teams, and prepare to use Zhang Zhi's Trial Tower coordinates if necessary.
• Professor Confucius praised Zhang Zhi's service and asked what reward he wanted, while Zhang Zhi considered but ruled out asking for the Gate of Reincarnation fragment.
• Professor Confucius offered Zhang Zhi school points, library and Scripture Depository access, a Thousand World advancement quota, and future rewards when he became a Thousand World Master of the World.
• Zhang Zhi accepted Professor Confucius's arrangement and addressed him as Teacher.

Confucius explained to Zhang Zhi that severe internal strife had caused the human race’s historic decline, and revealed how Zhuang Zi had tried to prevent it. He left Zhang Zhi understanding that Zhuang Zi’s influence came both from his warnings being borne out and from the debts and karma others owed him.

• Zhang Zhi asked Confucius whether Zhuang Zi’s unusual theories came from mastering a special law, and Confucius said the reasons were complicated and partly classified.
• Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the human race had been abandoned by the Multiverse Consciousness after its cultivation paths failed to support the Magic Main World and Heavenly Court Main World during their destruction.
• Confucius explained that Zhuang Zi had warned humanity to unite and prepare for future calamities, but people had ignored his Theory of Racial Fortune and Misfortune.
• Zhang Zhi realized that the human race’s leaders had encouraged conflict with the Seven Great Foreign Races to divert attention from internal strife.
• Confucius revealed that Zhuang Zi had fought to defend multiple Main Worlds, helped unite the surviving cultivation paths, and earned widespread gratitude and karma.
• Confucius said Zhuang Zi had proposed keeping foreign races alive, and that the continuing external threat had reduced human internal strife.

Professor Confucius explained that humanity secretly turned promising foreign-race geniuses into cards to limit rival powers, while Professor Zhuang Zi personally hunted threats to humanity. Zhang Zhi wondered whether Zhuang Zi had become a Main Deity through merit, and Confucius told him his discipleship would remain private until the conflict with the Mind Flayer Race was resolved.

• Zhang Zhi asked Professor Confucius how humanity could control foreign races without nurturing a threat, and Confucius explained that humans had secretly sealed many of their strongest geniuses into cards.
• Professor Confucius described why humanity had targeted the Beast Race, demon race, Spirit Race, Ghost Race, Giant Race, Birdman Race, and Star God Race to different extents.
• Zhang Zhi realized that foreign-race infiltrators had targeted human geniuses in retaliation for humanity's card-sealing practices.
• Professor Confucius revealed that Professor Zhuang Zi had sealed and killed more foreign-race geniuses than any other Main Deity, while also cultivating destructive villains to reduce internal strife.
• Professor Confucius said Zhuang Zi's unusual path to becoming a Main Deity had earned others' trust, and Zhang Zhi wondered if it involved merit.
• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that his discipleship would remain private and that a celebration would wait until humanity dealt with the foreign races.

Zhang Zhi met Professor Confucius, became his disciple, and received a Paper Crane for contacting him. After returning to his Small World and reviewing its growing population and trade, Zhang Zhi decided to open the Trading Market to all humans through consignment sales.

• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi to bring a reinforced waypoint to the Trial Battlefield and give it to the humans if he returned to the Demon Lord Region, then gave him a Paper Crane for communication.
• Zhang Zhi met Zixia at the Trial Tower entrance, and she remarked that he seemed increasingly suited to his title of Protagonist of the Human Era.
• Zhang Zhi decided to keep a low profile despite gaining status as Professor Confucius's disciple, and he focused on refining Human Cards to increase his Small World's population.
• Zhang Zhi found that humans from the Demon Lord World Region were accepting more missions and helping advance the campaign toward the Jade Gate.
• Zhang Zhi saw that high-level cultivators had joined the Trial Tower and decided to open the Trading Market to all humans through consignment sales.

Zhang Zhi opened a consignment area in the Trading Market, then returned to Mount Kunlun and discovered that plants containing spiritual qi had been gathered through Trial Tower tasks. Fang Long planned to use them to develop Qi Refiner medicines, while Fang Yun focused on creating a technique that would help people sense spiritual qi.

• Zhang Zhi opened a consignment area in the Trading Market where cultivators could list goods for sale.
• Zhang Zhi failed to reach the Demon Lord World Region and reflected on the difficulties of building a World Gate between worlds.
• Zhang Zhi found Fang Yun and Fang Long examining Spirit Plants in Medicine City and discovered that the plants contained spiritual qi.
• Fang Long explained that cultivators had submitted thirty-seven different Spirit Plants through a Trial Tower task to find plants containing spiritual qi.
• Fang Long said she was preparing to cultivate Spirit Medicines for Qi Refiner pills, and Fang Yun said he would focus on creating a technique to help people sense spiritual qi.

Zhang Zhi inspected developments in his Small World, then received Fengjing University's rewards and used his new library access to enter its restricted collection. The chapter left him poised to explore the university's vast stores of knowledge.

• Fang Yun named the Qi Refiner Path's spiritual medicines Qi Medicine and worked toward developing pills for its cultivators.
• Zhang Zhi visited the Research Institute and Engineering Institute, where researchers studied imported science and engineers planned a hydroelectric power station.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that Ao Guang had reached the Legendary Realm and considered moving him to the Second Small World once it opened.
• Zhang Zhi received recurring monthly rewards from Fengjing University, including Academic Credits, cards, access privileges, and contributions.
• Zhang Zhi called Zixia and entered the library's restricted collection using his new Level Five Library Access.

Zhang Zhi explored Fengjing University's Main World Library and learned that his access credentials let him reach its sixth floor. There, he obtained an alien Insectoid Compendium that recorded the traits and weaknesses of more than 1,370 insectoid types, and began reading its introduction.

• Zhang Zhi met Zhiyin, the library administrator, and learned that Fengjing University's library had 3,756 entrances throughout the Main World and offered unlimited information searches to authorized users.
• Zhang Zhi asked how many insectoid-related books the second floor held and learned that it contained billions, including hundreds of thousands classified as Level One Confidentiality.
• Zhang Zhi presented his Student Card, discovered he could access floors one through six, and chose the sixth floor.
• Zhiyin transformed into a mature woman and embraced Zhang Zhi, transporting him to the sixth floor, where she returned to her girl form.
• Zhiyin recommended an Insectoid Compendium, fetched it for Zhang Zhi, and he read that its alien authors had recorded insectoid traits and weaknesses after centuries of war.

Zhang Zhi read about Soul Insects, a terrifying spore-reproducing branch of Insectoids, and the mysterious Mother Clan that created other Insectoid branches. He realized the Insectoids he had encountered in his Small World might have been a Mother Clan, but wondered why it had been on a fragment of World Wreckage.

• Zhang Zhi read that Soul Insects parasitized Intelligent Lifeforms, spread through dormant spores, and could exterminate entire races.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the Mother Clan absorbed the flesh and souls of Intelligent races to create new Insectoid branches, though most information about it was speculation.
• Zhang Zhi read that Mother Clan traces included a huge Blood Pit used to absorb flesh and souls and nurture new races.
• Zhang Zhi recognized the Blood Pit as a feature of the Insectoids he had encountered in his Small World and concluded they might have been a Mother Clan.
• Zhang Zhi wondered why that Mother Clan had been on a fragment of World Wreckage.

Zhang Zhi read the Insectoid Compendium and concluded that a hidden broodmother might still be near his Small World, while the human translator’s notes revealed how the insect race sought to break through to Above the Main Deity. The chapter ended with Zhang Zhi learning that the Star Constellation Immortal Race had compiled the compendium and fought the insect race for more than twenty eras.

• Zhang Zhi reasoned that the broodmother might have been trapped near the spirit race’s Main World Wreckage and could now be hiding near his Small World.
• Zhang Zhi restrained himself from rushing into his Small World, knowing that he could not locate or fight the concealed broodmother without more knowledge.
• Zhang Zhi finished reading the Insectoid Compendium and noted that its recorded insect branches possessed remarkable abilities and could produce Main God Realm existences.
• The human translator speculated that the broodmother had created many insect branches to collect and refine Cultivation Paths in an attempt to reach Above the Main Deity.
• The translator described how the Star Constellation Immortal Race had fought the insect race for more than twenty eras and destroyed dozens of its branches.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the Star Constellation Immortal Race had compiled the Insectoid Compendium.

Zhang Zhi learned from the Insectoid Compendium that the Star Constellation Immortal Race had exterminated many Insectoid branches, and discovered the book was a Main God Artifact protected from the laws it described. After leaving the library, he asked Zixia about the Star Constellation Immortal Race and why it had become the Insectoids’ mortal enemy.

• Zhang Zhi noticed the Insectoid Compendium did not describe the Insectoids he had encountered and resolved to prepare his Small World against them.
• Zhiyin explained that the compendium’s pages and ink came from Main God Realm beings, making it immune to laws and an Anchor of fact.
• Zhang Zhi returned the book and left the library’s sixth floor through a Teleportation Gate.
• Zixia met Zhang Zhi in the library hall and asked what he had found upstairs.
• Zhang Zhi asked Zixia to explain the Star Constellation Immortal Race and its enmity with the Insectoids.

Zixia explained how the Star Constellation Immortal Race gathered wishes to cultivate and became the Insectoids’ enemy, while Zhang Zhi considered whether the Insectoids in the Small World might be the Insectoid Mother Race. Zhang Zhi decided to warn the Small World and its patrols to be cautious, then entered the Small World himself.

• Zixia told Zhang Zhi that the Star Constellation Immortal Race’s branches were separate races, usually numbering fewer than a thousand members, and that human cultivation paths had been derived from their methods.
• Zixia explained that the Star Constellation Immortal Race collected intelligent beings’ wishes to grow stronger and fought the Insectoids, eventually losing most of its branches and Immortal Palaces.
• Zixia said rumors claimed that the human race possessed an Immortal Palace from which its Heavenly Court and Main God cultivation paths had been adapted.
• Zhang Zhi asked Zixia whether the Insectoids in the Small World might be the Insectoid Mother Race, and he explained the evidence and his deductions from the Insectoid Compendium.
• Zixia agreed there was a slight possibility but warned Zhang Zhi not to underestimate the threat; Zhang Zhi chose to alert the Small World and the Patrol Team rather than have her search for hidden Insectoids.
• Zhang Zhi entered the Small World to warn its inhabitants to be careful.

Zhang Zhi investigated whether the insect race had infiltrated the Small World but found no evidence, then studied the Cloud Mist Deity and the structure of World Regions. He learned that the Birdman Race and Mind Flayer Race had once belonged to separate regions that merged with the expanding Human Race World Region.

• Zhang Zhi ordered a census of the Small World, checked the Qi Refiner and patrol rosters, and questioned the Underworld’s souls, finding no signs of missing people or insect attacks.
• Zhang Zhi told Zixia that the investigation had uncovered nothing unusual, and he decided she should remain with him in the Main World for now.
• Zhang Zhi read Fengjing University’s records about the Cloud Mist Deity, learning about her strength, her death, and her current role as a Dao Protector.
• Zhang Zhi studied records about World Regions and learned that the Birdman Race and Mind Flayer Race had once lived in separate regions before the Human Race World Region expanded and merged with them.
• Zhang Zhi realized that continued human development could expand the Human Race World Region across the Multiverse, helping him understand why the Multiverse Consciousness had favored humanity again.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Extraordinary Technology Path in his Small World lacked its own cultivation system and realized it could not develop sustainably without one. After class, he discussed the flaw with Zixia, who had assumed the other paths were meant to support it.

• Zhang Zhi studied records about World Regions, the vampires, and the Three-Eyed Race, learning that Fengjing University had discovered another jade gate.
• After several days of library study, Zhang Zhi remembered his first class when Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao came to fetch him.
• A Realm Lord lectured that a Cultivation Path needed a coherent Power System, prompting Zhang Zhi to recognize that his Extraordinary Technology Path had no independent cultivation methods.
• Zhang Zhi listened closely to the rest of the class, hoping to learn how to develop cultivation techniques and realms for the path.
• Zixia praised the Extraordinary Technology Path's combat strengths and low requirements, then asked whether its other Cultivation Paths were meant to cultivate its users.

Zhang Zhi considered how to create a distinct cultivation system for the Extraordinary Technology Path, then learned that a serial murderer had killed eleven people in his Small World. The murders exposed severe failures in the Underworld’s administration, prompting the Twelve Dynasties to strengthen population registration and movement controls.

• Zhang Zhi rejected Mechanical Modification as the Extraordinary Technology Path’s power system because he did not want ordinary people turned into cannon fodder, and he questioned whether Gene Lock existed in this world.
• Zhang Zhi accepted Liu Wanwan’s invitation to lunch, helped choose an employment agency and courtyard staff, and went with Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao to the library.
• Zhang Zhi resumed his routine of attending classes, studying in the library, refining cards, clearing pollution from his sea of consciousness, and managing his Small World.
• The Twelve Dynasties established household registration records and entry-and-exit controls after Zhang Zhi discovered that a newcomer had murdered eleven people before moving to another nation.
• The killer confessed that he killed because he felt uncomfortable when he did not, and Zhang Zhi recognized that the Underworld lacked basic systems for tracking souls and investigating deaths.

Zhang Zhi addressed the administrative failures exposed by the Serial Killer Incident and considered creating an artifact-based population register. At the Trial Tower, he discovered that the human race of the Demon Lord Region had sold him a jade gate, leaving him to wonder what they hoped to gain by befriending him.

• Zhang Zhi revoked the Underworld administrators’ positions, promoted replacements, and planned for the Twelve Dynasties to provide them with an administrative plan.
• After identifying weak population oversight in the Twelve Dynasties, Zhang Zhi considered creating a durable register that could resist interference through the Karma Law.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed the Twelve Dynasties’ remedial policies and decided the Underworld and the Twelve Dynasties needed a reliable communication channel.
• Zhang Zhi checked on the Ten Thousand Races Region’s efforts to claim the jade gate and expected them to bring it into the Trial Tower soon.
• Zhang Zhi noticed a red flag at the Material Acquisition Center and learned that the human race of the Demon Lord Region had sold it a jade gate.
• Zhang Zhi recognized the jade gate as a valuable discovery and wondered why the human race of the Demon Lord Region wanted to befriend him.

Zhang Zhi tested a jade gate in the Underworld and confirmed it slowly absorbed the Six Paths of Reincarnation Law, though he expected the process to take decades or longer. After another unsuccessful attempt to reach a new Trial Battlefield, he prepared to open his Fengjing University shop so he could qualify for its auction.

• Zhang Zhi placed the jade gate in the Underworld, then had a cultivator channel Six Paths of Reincarnation magic power into it and used the World Bead to observe the law seeping inside.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that the jade gate was likely a fragment of the Gate of Reincarnation and reasoned that a larger fragment or a more complete Underworld might increase the absorption speed.
• Zhang Zhi entered the Trial Battlefield hoping to reach a new human region, but after about ten hours he returned without finding one.
• Zhang Zhi told the Material Acquisition Center's person in charge to arrange for important materials to be moved to Mount Kunlun and planned to send surplus materials to the Main World for his shop.
• Zhang Zhi decided to run his Fengjing University shop properly so he could meet the transaction threshold for the university's auction, where he hoped to attend.

Zhang Zhi researched Bloodline Burst at Fengjing University and learned that it resembled Gene Locks but could cause fatal Bloodline Collapse when used repeatedly. He found scattered advice for controlling it and concluded that his Extraordinary Technology Path would depend on discovering how to prevent the collapse.

• Zhang Zhi searched the Fengjing University library for records about humans breaking through their limits and learned that the phenomenon was called Bloodline Burst.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that repeated Bloodline Burst could cause Bloodline Collapse, and that most recorded cases involved ordinary people or low-tier cultivators.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed competing theories about Bloodline Collapse and found one proposal that locating and healing the damage would require extensive investigation by an Intermediate Divine Power existence.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that the Multiverse possessed Gene Locks and that their use might improve Control, but repeated activation risked genetic collapse.
• Zhang Zhi found books describing ways to enter Bloodline Burst again and reduce its side effects, though he noted that the information lacked a coherent system.