Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi learned that the Sage intended to turn the Gold Clan’s scheme against them and was relieved that the Ten Thousand Races Region remained under control. At the Trading Market, he discovered Yan Bo had consigned three mobile ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays, then raised their purchase requirements and bought one set himself.

• Zhang Zhi read the Coordination Missions and learned that the Sage planned to gather forces in the Jade Gate Region and strike the Gold Clan.
• Zhang Zhi checked the Trading Market and found that supplies were depleted but still within the Small World's capacity.
• Zhang Zhi discovered three pre-refined, cross-world ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays at Yan Bo's consignment shop.
• Zhang Zhi realized Yan Bo's spatial ability explained how he had established teleportation arrays across the Celestial Dog World Region.
• Zhang Zhi raised the arrays' purchase requirements, increased their price, and bought one set for himself.

Zhang Zhi entered the Trial Tower to check on the war against the foreign races, then recognized Hu Xin'er and discovered that she was the Sage known as Fox. The revelation left him stunned as he realized she was the figure coordinating humanity across the Ten Thousand Races Region.

• Zhang Zhi checked the Trial Tower and Trial Battlefield, finding humanity united and still resisting attacks from the foreign races.
• Zhang Zhi watched souls and Evil Creatures enter the Underworld as the Six Paths of Reincarnation cultivators defeated the invading monsters at Ghost Gate Pass.
• Zhang Zhi returned to the Trial Tower the next evening and saw that the seven Coordination Missions and attacks on human forces remained largely unchanged.
• Zhang Zhi recognized Hu Xin'er from the Blood Race's prison and discovered that she had disguised her Extraordinary Realm cultivation.
• Zhang Zhi watched Hu Xin'er use the Mission Panel and realized that she was Fox, the Sage coordinating humanity in the Ten Thousand Races Region.

Zhang Zhi discovered that Hu Xin'er was the strategist known as The Sage, who had unified the humans of the Ten Thousand Races Region. He met with her in the Task Center, praised her work, asked her to help other human branches as they grew stronger, and learned that her people had blocked seven attacking races and were preparing a counterattack.

• Zhang Zhi realized Hu Xin'er had planned the operation in Blood God City and unified the humans of the Ten Thousand Races Region.
• Hu Xin'er finished updating the Coordination Mission and recorded information from the Mission Panel.
• Zhang Zhi approached Hu Xin'er, revealed himself as the Trial Tower Master, and asked why she had once sought him out.
• Hu Xin'er credited Zhang Zhi's Task Center, supplies, and cultivation techniques for helping her unite her people, while Zhang Zhi praised her abilities.
• Zhang Zhi asked Hu Xin'er to support other human branches as they entered the Trial Tower, and she promised to help them.
• Hu Xin'er told Zhang Zhi that her people had repelled seven attacking alien races and were planning a counterattack.

Hu Xin'er explained how the human race planned to trick the Jin Clan into launching a counterattack where prepared forces and formations could destroy them. She had not yet decided how to choose the battlefield, but proposed either baiting the Jin Clan into capturing a seemingly vital region or attacking something they were compelled to rescue.

• Zhang Zhi questioned whether Hu Xin'er had enough high-level cultivators and could withstand the Jin Clan's counterattack.
• Hu Xin'er said the Demon Lord World Region had supplied powerful divine artifacts and formations capable of trapping and killing Middle God Realm cultivators.
• Hu Xin'er explained that the humans would gather forces in advance through the Trial Battlefield and trigger the Jin Clan's attack by launching a counterattack against the seven foreign races.
• Hu Xin'er revealed that portable ultra-long-distance Teleportation Arrays could bring twenty-seven Weak Divine Power Realm seniors and other reinforcements from the seven-clan battlefield.
• Zhang Zhi asked how they would choose the decisive battlefield, and Hu Xin'er proposed baiting the Jin Clan into capturing a vital region or attacking something they had to rescue.

Hu Xin'er interpreted Zhang Zhi's suggestion as a plan to use the jade gate as bait for the final battle against the Jin Race, while Zhang Zhi warned her about its dangerous inheritance and arranged an emergency contact method. After returning to the Main World, Zhang Zhi visited Fengjing University's Logistics Management Office and selected artifact-refinement cards for the Small World.

• Hu Xin'er realized that the jade gate could lure the Jin Race into a final battle, and Zhang Zhi suggested spreading a story that it held a secret beyond the Main God Realm and an extraordinary inheritance.
• Zhang Zhi warned Hu Xin'er that the jade gate's inheritance was an Insidious Race trap that could corrupt cultivators and turn them into vessels.
• Zhang Zhi told Hu Xin'er to contact him through the Material Recycling Center in emergencies, and she recorded information after he left.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the Small World, returned to the Main World, and went to Fengjing University's Logistics Management Office to find artifact-refinement cards.
• Zhang Zhi chose four yellow-rank artifact-refinement cards, including the Divine Artifact Forging Techniques Compendium, and used his Purple Card privileges to exchange for eleven Purple Rank cards.

Zhang Zhi browsed Fengjing University's card exchange list and selected Monster Race artifact-forging and formation cards for his future Small World. He left with several useful manuals and plans to put them to use after opening his Second Small World.

• Zhang Zhi exchanged a yellow-rank card, "On the Forging and Nurturing of Natal Artifacts," to strengthen the Monster Race Path he planned to follow in his second Small World.
• Zhang Zhi examined the scarce yellow-rank formation cards, rejected several with demanding setup requirements, and exchanged for "Introduction to Advanced Array Formations."
• Zhang Zhi selected the "Ten Thousand Gods Punishing Demons Array," hoping Fang Zhen could comprehend it and teach it to humans in the Ten Thousand Races Region.
• Zhang Zhi browsed the much larger selection of purple-rank formation cards and chose twenty-three he believed would benefit his Small World.

After exchanging cards, Zhang Zhi inspected the Small World's expanding wreckage operation and prepared for his first Combat Simulation Class at Fengjing University. The class arrived at Yuzhang Third Middle School in Qingshan Dao, where Professor Li singled out Zhang Zhi as a local.

• Zhang Zhi exchanged eight Yellow Card permissions and fifty-seven Purple Card permissions for six Yellow Cards and thirty-four Purple Cards, then returned the bronze mirror-like magic tool.
• Zhang Zhi refined two Purple Cards and observed the Twelve Dynasties dismantling World Wreckage, with more than a thousand boats operating around the Small World.
• Zhang Zhi checked the Trial Tower, found the jade gate still out of reach, and saw continued growth in Qi Refiner missions and rewards.
• Six days later, Zhang Zhi joined Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao for his first Combat Simulation Class, traveling with the class through several Teleportation Gates.
• Liu Wanwan identified their destination as Yuzhang Third Middle School in Qingshan Dao, and Professor Li asked whether any student came from the region.
• Zhang Zhi said that he was from Qingshan Dao, drawing numerous gazes from his classmates.

Zhang Zhi visited Yuzhang Third Middle School for a practical exercise, where the staff recognized him as the extraordinary student from Yicheng who had entered Fengjing University. He arranged for his old friend Li Yuan to join the exercise, and Liu Wanwan ended by asking whether Li Yuan wanted to study at Seven Dragons Academy.

• Zhang Zhi told Yuzhang Third Middle School staff that he had studied at Seven Dragons Academy and was from Yicheng, confirming he was the student rumored to have advanced his Small World and entered Fengjing University.
• Yuzhang Third Middle School's leaders and lecturers reacted with awe to Zhang Zhi's achievements and led the visitors into a plaza where thousands of students had gathered for the practical exercise.
• Zhang Zhi asked the school to make an exception so his friend Li Yuan could participate, and a lecturer went to fetch him.
• Li Yuan arrived, reunited warmly with Zhang Zhi, and greeted Zixia, Liu Wanwan, and Liu Xiaoxiao.
• Liu Wanwan asked Li Yuan whether he wanted to study at Seven Dragons Academy.

Zhang Zhi and the Fengjing University group passed through an ancient Teleportation Gate into a region containing many worlds but no Chaos Qi, revealing that the Combat Class was part of a larger investigation. The professor sent his clones to investigate, barred those above the Deity Realm from intervening unless danger arose, and sent the students toward their target world as Zixia sensed something was wrong.

• The vice principal tried to keep Li Yuan at Yuzhang Third Middle School, while Zhang Zhi told Li Yuan to decide for himself whether to join Seven Dragons Academy and warned him to avoid the dangerous mission.
• Zhang Zhi and the others noticed mysterious runes on the Teleportation Gate and speculated that it had been found in Ruins.
• The group emerged from an underground cavern into a region filled with glowing worlds and discovered that the void between them contained no Chaos Qi.
• Zixia suggested that powerful laws or an array could have dispersed or isolated the Chaos Qi, while the professor said the students should focus on their Combat Class and gather information for extra Academic Credits.
• The professor sent out two clones, forbade those above the Deity Realm from acting unless danger arose, and pointed the students toward their destination world before declaring the Combat Class started.
• Zhang Zhi went with Liu Wanwan and the others toward the target world, while Zixia said she sensed something was wrong with the area.

Zhang Zhi and his companions discovered that the Teleportation Gate led to a strange World Wreckage hidden from the Multiverse Map, then began their Combat Simulation Class in a Lesser Thousand World. When they answered a distress signal, they found a deity-level Stone Spirit pursuing Yuzhang Third Middle School students, and Fang Yun’s formation engaged it.

• Zixia identified their surroundings as the remains of a destroyed Medium World and suspected the Teleportation Gate was ancient.
• Zhang Zhi checked his Multiverse Map and found that it did not record the area, leading him and Zixia to conclude that the place was extraordinary.
• Zixia suggested investigating how the school leaders found the gate and researching which race had built it, while Liu Wanwan urged the group to focus on their class.
• After three days of gathering information, Zhang Zhi and the others learned that the Stone Spirit Race had fled into the area from humans, whom they regarded as a savage butcher race.
• The four followed a distress signal and found a deity-level Stone Spirit pursuing two Yuzhang Third Middle School lecturers and their students.
• Zhang Zhi, Liu Wanwan, and Liu Xiaoxiao summoned their Retainers, and Fang Yun’s formation fought the Stone Spirit evenly, astonishing the students.

Fang Yun and the Fengjing University students killed a Stone Spirit Race deity, shared its spoils with Yuzhang Third Middle School, and completed their Combat Simulation Class. Back in the Small World, Zhang Zhi learned how Fang Zhen’s formation had helped Fang Yun, then entered the Trial Tower as the plan to lure the lord into the jar reached its critical moment.

• A Fengjing University student joined Fang Yun’s fight with Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan’s permission, and four more students arrived before their thirty-six Demigods defeated the Stone Spirit Race deity.
• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan took the godhead and materials, while the other students and Yuzhang Third Middle School received shares of the spoils.
• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan declined to join another deity siege, gathered information for days, and returned to school after the professor called everyone to assemble.
• Zixia searched the library for information about the rune while Zhang Zhi refined cards and learned that Fang Zhen had used his formation cards to improve the Qi Condensing God Slaying Array.
• Zhang Zhi entered the Trial Tower as the plan of Luring the Lord into the Jar reached its most critical moment.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Jin race planned to join forces with seven foreign races to crush the human forces in one battle. Hu Xin'er asked him to approve bringing Deity Realm cultivators from the Demon Lord World Region into the Ten Thousand Races Region, and Zhang Zhi gave his approval.

• Zhang Zhi saw that the human counterattack against the seven foreign races had begun, but the Jin race did not attack near the Jade Gate as expected.
• Hu Xin'er told Zhang Zhi that the Jin race planned to wait for the human counterattack, then join the seven races to eliminate or severely injure the human Deity Realm forces.
• Hu Xin'er explained that the Ten Thousand Races Region could not defeat the allied forces without bringing in more cultivators from the Demon Lord World Region through the Trial Battlefield.
• Hu Xin'er asked Zhang Zhi to approve the cultivators' entry, since the humans of the Ten Thousand Races Region considered themselves his vassals.
• Zhang Zhi told Hu Xin'er that all humans could travel wherever they wished, approving the cultivators' move.

Zhang Zhi learned that the mysterious region’s runes came from the vanished Yuan Race, then waited as the human race prepared for war against the Gold Race and its seven allies. Hu Xin'er reported a decisive human victory, though the battle cost many lives, and said Zhang Zhi’s Jade Gate mission would be completed the next day.

• Zixia told Zhang Zhi that the Teleportation Gate’s runes originated with the Yuan Race, whose cultivators inscribed Heaven and Earth Patterns into their bodies before their method brought disaster upon them.
• Zixia and Zhang Zhi found no records explaining the supposedly nonexistent region and left the mystery for the human race’s Main Deities to investigate.
• The Gold Race and its seven allied races began probing attacks, and Zhang Zhi considered the human race’s unity and superior strength against their divided coalition.
• Zhang Zhi found Hu Xin'er in the Trial Tower’s Mission Hall and asked whether the war against the Gold Race had ended.
• Hu Xin'er reported that a Sword Talisman killed a Gold Race ancestor and an allied deity, causing five other Intermediate Divine Power deities to flee and the allied army to collapse.
• Hu Xin'er reported the human casualties, said the newly arrived cultivators from the Demon Lord World Region would receive the defeated races’ territories, and told Zhang Zhi his Jade Gate mission would be completed the next day.

After clearing the last of the Mental Corruption, Zhang Zhi prepared to open a Second Small World along the Monster Race Path. He finalized a demanding card list and planned to rest and refine the chosen cards before beginning.

• Two days after the human race defeated the Golden Race, it occupied the world containing the Jade Gate, but Zhang Zhi learned that no one could move the gate into the Trial Tower.
• Five months later, Zhang Zhi cleared the final traces of Mental Corruption and began preparing to open his Second Small World.
• Zhang Zhi selected key Yellow Cards for the Monster Race World, including the Emperor's Nectar Card, South Heaven Gate Card, Fusang Tree Card, Parasol Tree Card, and Dragon Gate Card.
• After calculating the materials and mental power required, Zhang Zhi decided to prioritize more than fifty Purple Cards and set aside some optional cards, including the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation Card and Qing Qiu Card.
• Zhang Zhi finalized his card list and planned to rest and refine the selected cards into his sea of consciousness before opening the Second Small World.

Zhang Zhi opened a second Small World in seclusion, integrating cards into its World Embryo while carefully managing his Mental Power and contamination. After discovering that a large Mental Power Crystal Shard carried stronger contamination than expected, he completed his card integrations and left the World Embryo spinning as the new world began to form.

• Zhang Zhi entered a time-accelerated secluded chamber at Fengjing University and began opening his second Small World.
• Zhang Zhi measured how long green, blue, purple, and ordinary purple cards took to integrate, then used the results to adjust his card plans.
• Zhang Zhi integrated many basic cards and began adding yellow cards after the Small World’s framework took shape.
• Zhang Zhi absorbed Mental Power from a large Mental Power Crystal Shard and discovered its contamination was stronger than that of his previous shard.
• Zhang Zhi integrated several yellow cards, including the Emperor's Nectar Card and the South Heaven Gate Card, then returned to adding necessary purple cards.
• After more than 83,700 hours, Zhang Zhi cut off the flow of Mental Power, and the World Embryo began spinning rapidly.

After emerging from a long seclusion in which he opened a second Small World, Zhang Zhi reunited with Zixia, Liu Wanwan, and Liu Xiaoxiao before inspecting his original Small World. He discovered that Fang Yun had reached the Demigod Realm and that the Qi Refiner Path had grown dramatically.

• Zhang Zhi finished opening his Second Small World, then left seclusion with severe Mental Power contamination suppressed by the Small Broken Bell.
• Zhang Zhi found Zixia, Liu Wanwan, and Liu Xiaoxiao waiting outside; they told him he had been secluded for almost four months.
• Zhang Zhi returned to his residence, confirmed that his seclusion had succeeded, and later entered his sea of consciousness to inspect the contamination.
• Zhang Zhi entered his Small World and discovered that Fang Yun had advanced to the Demigod Realm, giving the world Deity Realm Combat Power.
• Zhang Zhi found that Mount Buzhou had thirteen Legendary Realm Qi Refiners, more than two hundred thousand Qi Refiners, and over three hundred Extraordinary Realm Qi Refiners.

Zhang Zhi inspected the Small World and Trial Tower after more than a decade away, finding that electricity had begun spreading and that the number of Qi Refiners had surged. He learned how the three regions had developed, including why Celestial Dog Region humans had embraced the Qi Refiner Path, and found that they had chosen to remain and help their scattered people.

• Zhang Zhi visited Chaoge and saw that the Research Institute had brought electricity to the capital and several nearby cities.
• Zhang Zhi observed that the Underworld had expanded as more souls and Evil Creatures arrived, while its jade gate remained unchanged.
• Zhang Zhi checked the Trial Tower and found that the Celestial Dog Region’s population and morale had improved.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that more than 23,000 people had claimed Qi Refiner rewards and learned that Fang Yun’s easier cultivation technique had driven the increase, especially in Celestial Dog Region.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed the regions’ development and learned that Ten Thousand Races humans had absorbed conquered territories while Demon Lord immigrants integrated with them.
• Zhang Zhi learned that Celestial Dog Region humans had refused to immigrate, choosing to remain as a source of hope for their scattered people.

After returning to the Small World and catching up on its development, Zhang Zhi resumed classes while his Second Small World Prototype continued evolving. His latest Combat Class brought him back to Yuzhang Third Middle School, where the students were ordered to kill every intelligent lifeform themselves, leaving Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan wondering what made the world’s inhabitants special.

• Zhang Zhi left the Trial Tower, reviewed the Small World's growth to more than 134 million people, and reunited with Fang Yun, Fang Long, Fang Qi, Ao Guang, and the other Legendary Realm cultivators after twelve years away.
• Zhang Zhi returned to the Main World, resumed classes, and watched his Second Small World Prototype continue spinning without finishing its evolution over several weeks.
• During a Combat Class, Zhang Zhi learned that Fengjing University had secured one rank in a Thousand World following the Birdman Path.
• Zhang Zhi attended a Combat Class at Yuzhang Third Middle School with students from Fengjing University, its affiliated middle school, and the local school.
• The class received a mission to kill every intelligent lifeform in the Lesser Thousand World, while the professor ordered them to target high-ranking cultivators and forbade nonhuman creatures, including Retainers, from killing the inhabitants.

Zhang Zhi’s group discovered that killing the intelligent beings of the region yielded extraordinary amounts of Heavenly Mandate, and Zixia explained that the region preserved the fortune of a former Protagonist Race. The group suspected the region was a refuge outside the Multiverse Consciousness, but Liu Wanwan and Zixia doubted any race could have created it.

• Zhang Zhi’s group chose to fight a foreign-race faction without Zixia’s help, and Fang Yun killed its Demigod while the others dealt with the remaining cultivators.
• Liu Wanwan revealed that her Heavenly Mandate ability let her sense fortune and merit, and that killing the foreign races had granted her and the Retainers large amounts of it.
• Zixia explained that a next-generation Protagonist Race could seize the Heavenly Mandate of a former one by killing its members, but that such fortune would normally dissipate after the race left history.
• Zhang Zhi proposed that the region was a vast refuge preserving a former Protagonist Race’s Heavenly Mandate outside the Multiverse Consciousness.
• Liu Wanwan and Zixia argued that a race powerful enough to create such a refuge could not have withdrawn from history, leaving the region’s origin unexplained.

Zhang Zhi and his companions cleared a Lesser Thousand World and gained huge amounts of Heavenly Mandate, but most of it dissipated or merged into the human race’s collective fortune after they returned to the Main World. The chapter ended with them discovering that only a tenth of Liu Wanwan’s personal gains remained.

• Zixia told Zhang Zhi about an ancient legend of a deity who found races living in an isolated world, and Zhang Zhi wondered whether it described their region.
• Zhang Zhi’s group killed foreign cultivators throughout the Lesser Thousand World, while Zhang Zhi ignored students slaughtering ordinary cultivators.
• After roughly ten days, Zhang Zhi, Liu Wanwan, and Liu Xiaoxiao calculated their enormous Heavenly Mandate gains and returned with their class to Fengjing University.
• Zixia questioned why the university’s higher-ups had shared the Heavenly Mandate opportunity, and Zhang Zhi defended the human race’s sense of racial identity.
• After the group returned to the Main World, Liu Wanwan sensed that their Heavenly Mandate was rapidly dissipating; the loss eventually stopped, leaving her with about one-tenth of her original amount while the rest merged into humanity’s collective Heavenly Mandate.