Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi learned more about how heavenly mandates were gained and became increasingly suspicious that the Special Area had hidden restrictions. After returning from the Demon Lord World Region and waiting for Professor Confucius to respond, he finally advanced to the Mortal Transformation Realm.

• Liu Wanwan explained that some heavenly mandates from fallen races merged into humanity’s mandates, and Zhang Zhi concluded that killing aliens from extinct races yielded them while killing Stone Spirit Race members did not.
• Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao described the benefits they had gained from heavenly mandates, while Zixia noted that Zhang Zhi’s usual fortune made such benefits seem ordinary to him.
• During a class meeting, Zhang Zhi questioned why other races and Fengjing University’s senior cultivators had not harvested the Special Area’s resources themselves, suspecting it had special restrictions.
• In the eighth week, Zhang Zhi returned to the Demon Lord World Region, left Professor Confucius’s marker there, and reported his visit by Paper Crane.
• Professor Confucius replied that he had urgent matters to handle, and Zhang Zhi wondered whether they concerned the Special Area.
• Zhang Zhi could no longer suppress his cultivation and advanced to the Mortal Transformation Realm, prompting acquaintances to remark that he had finally advanced.

Zhang Zhi and his classmates joined nearly twenty thousand students from many schools for a ten-day Combat Class in a vast Middle Thousand World inhabited by the Elf Race. After fighting Elf cultivators and rescuing other students, Zhang Zhi’s group headed toward a distress signal from a Low Divine Power Elf deity, whose defeat carried a major university reward.

• Professor Zou announced that the class would return to the area and led the students through several worlds to a Middle Thousand World, where nearly twenty thousand students from different schools would participate.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the class’s designated area contained many powerful foreign races, and he and Zixia recognized its inhabitants as members of the Elf Race.
• Zhang Zhi’s group killed one Elf at the Weak Divine Power Realm and six at the Demigod Realm on the first day, while rescuing seven groups of students who had sent distress signals.
• On the third day, Zhang Zhi’s group spotted a golden Cloud-Piercing Arrow signaling a Low Divine Power foreign-race threat and rushed toward it.
• The professor offered ten thousand Academic Credits and one Yellow Contribution for killing the Elf deity, then warned that beings above the Deity Realm could not take action; Zhang Zhi’s group decided to investigate and join the fight if enough people gathered.

Zhang Zhi summoned Fang Yun and Fang Zhen to help defeat a Low-Grade Divine Power Realm Jing Clan cultivator, drawing attention from powerful observers at Fengjing University. After the battle, the class realized the Jing Clan fighter had stayed behind to help its people escape.

• Zhang Zhi summoned Fang Yun and Fang Zhen, whose formation helped withstand the Jing Clan cultivator’s attacks during a two-day siege that ended with its self-destruction.
• A lecturer tried to recruit Zhang Zhi, but Professor Zou and Fairy Peng explained that Zhang Zhi was already Lord Confucius’s disciple and had a Half-Step Main God Dao Protector.
• Zhang Zhi asked Liu Wanwan about the Heavenly Mandate they had gained, and she said their share exceeded everything they had collected before combined.
• Zhang Zhi and his class found no more high-level Jing Clan cultivators, and the remaining low-level ones gradually disappeared from the area.
• The class concluded that the fallen Jing Clan cultivator had refused to flee so it could distract the Masters of the World while the other Jing Clan members escaped.

Zhang Zhi investigated the elves’ records and suspected the Special Area was a hidden refuge containing former Protagonist Races, though he could not determine its true purpose. During the eleventh-week Combat Class, he obtained a map of the elves’ remaining forces and led his group toward the last surviving stronghold.

• Zhang Zhi and Zixia found records describing how the elves’ ancestors had fled to the Special Area through an ancient Teleportation Gate, and Zhang Zhi wondered whether former Protagonist Races were being collected there.
• Zhang Zhi remembered Professor Confucius’s earlier response about the Demon Lord World Region and suspected that it was connected to the Special Area, but the elves’ records offered no clear answers before the Combat Class ended.
• Liu Wanwan told Zhang Zhi that a Destiny Master in her Small World had reached the Demigod Realm under her guidance, and Zhang Zhi admired her talent.
• In the eleventh week, Zhang Zhi returned to the elves’ devastated world for Combat Class and asked Professor Zou for a map of the elves’ major forces.
• Yuzhang Third Middle School gave Zhang Zhi a detailed map and explained that a professor had destroyed most forces capable of resisting the human schools after students were killed in a battle.
• Zhang Zhi chose the only surviving elf force with a mountain-gate stronghold as his group’s target, and he and Liu Wanwan’s companions set out for it.

Zhang Zhi gathered information in the elf world and discovered that records of a mysterious existence vanished when taken out of the Special Area. He suspected that the existence was stealing the Multiverse’s destiny and that humanity’s campaign there aimed to recover it, though many questions remained.

• Zhang Zhi and his companions reached an elf faction, where he noticed ordinary elf civilians remained because humanity had not ordered their extermination.
• Zhang Zhi, Liu Wanwan, and the others searched the faction and its ruined Scripture Depository, then spent the ten-day Combat Class gathering information.
• After returning to school, Zhang Zhi found that a legend about a Special Existence had disappeared from the records he brought out of the region.
• Zhang Zhi inferred that the Special Existence was a Destiny Thief hiding from the Multiverse Consciousness and stealing the destiny of former Protagonist Races.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that humanity was attacking the races in the Special Area to reclaim the stolen destiny and gain the Multiverse Consciousness’s favor.

Zhang Zhi joined Professor Confucius and other Main God Realm professors, who discussed gathering destiny before searching for the Demon Lord and pursuing the human race’s advancement. Confucius revealed that the Special Area was inside the body of an enormous, intelligent living creature.

• Professor Zou brought Zhang Zhi to Professor Confucius during Combat Class so Confucius could hear about Zhang Zhi’s visit to the Demon Lord World Region.
• Zhang Zhi recounted what he had seen, and the professors decided to gather more destiny before seeking the Demon Lord for information about advancing beyond the Main God Realm.
• Zhang Zhi realized that advancement consumed destiny and suspected the Demon Lord’s cultivation method had depleted the Demon Lord’s reserves.
• Zhang Zhi asked why killing foreign races yielded destiny, fortune, and merit, and explained that Liu Wanwan had discovered this through her Destiny Master Path.
• Zhang Zhi shared his deductions that the Special Area’s foreign races had once been Protagonist Races, and Confucius praised his reasoning while correcting one point.
• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the Special Area was inside the body of an enormous living creature with some intelligence.

Zhang Zhi learned that the region was inside the ancient Yu Kun, whose body contained countless worlds and whose reactions threatened humanity’s efforts to gain destiny. Professor Confucius explained humanity’s refusal to retreat, then revealed that the Race Sanctuary was a trap aimed at former Protagonist Races.

• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the worlds in the region lay inside a Yu Kun, an ancient creature with immense spatial and devouring powers.
• Professor Confucius explained that the Yu Kun had nearly expelled the thirty-four Main Gods when their killings and unfamiliar power awakened it.
• Professor Confucius said the Yu Kun marked its native Intelligent Lifeforms, and killing too many caused it to resist and risk expelling the killers.
• Professor Confucius explained that former Protagonist Races treated the region as a refuge, while humanity chose to fight for destiny rather than accept its decline.
• Professor Zhuang Zi and Professor Confucius declared that humanity would not give up, and Professor Confucius revealed that the Race Sanctuary was a trap targeting former Protagonist Races.

Professor Confucius explained that the Yu Kun’s sanctuary assimilated former Protagonist Races and used them as vessels for heavenly mandate, while its own race could not carry that mandate. He also warned Zhang Zhi that the Three-Eyed Race remained a Protagonist Race, leaving Zhang Zhi wary of its growing threat as the human students prepared to hunt powerful cultivators.

• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the Yu Kun’s Space Law had expelled other races and that the human race had endured its repulsion seven times.
• Professor Confucius explained that an Assimilation Law bound life born in the sanctuary to the Yu Kun, letting it claim the heavenly mandate of former Protagonist Races.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the Yu Kun used Intelligent Lifeforms as vessels for heavenly mandate because the Multiverse did not recognize the Yu Kun race as intelligent.
• Zhuang Zi said the Yu Kun was genuinely unintelligent and had likely learned its scheme from an Intelligent Lifeform long ago.
• Professor Confucius revealed that killing members of the Three-Eyed Race yielded no heavenly mandate, leading Zhang Zhi to suspect they remained a powerful Protagonist Race and future enemy.
• Zhang Zhi returned to Zixia, Liu Wanwan, and the other woman, then learned that the Combat Class would target cultivators above the Legendary Realm under a Race Extermination Order.

After a deadly Combat Class against the stealthy Wind Race, Zhang Zhi considered how humanity might adapt its cultivation path and realized Yukun held an extraordinary trove of former protagonist races’ techniques. At the auction, Zixia asked whether he would add any of the newly available paths to his Small World.

• Zhang Zhi learned that a lecturer and eleven students had died in Wind Race ambushes, so Professor Zou evacuated the three schools and ended the Combat Class.
• Zhang Zhi told Zixia that Professor Zou would study the Wind Race’s techniques and innate ability rather than destroy its world.
• Zhang Zhi suspected the Wind Race had targeted Yuzhang Third Middle School and Yuanzhou Middle School because they were exterminating its members from settlement to settlement.
• At the university auction, Zhang Zhi realized Yukun’s inner space contained countless cultivation paths that could help humanity establish more Main Worlds.
• Zixia asked Zhang Zhi whether he would add some of the auction’s new cultivation paths to his Small World.

Zhang Zhi studied the auction and bought several cards that could help him prepare for the Second Small World, including the Remnant of Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation, the God-Beating Whip, and the High Heavens Palace. He spent nearly all his savings on the rare Heavenly Court card, leaving him with plans for a possible Monster Race Heavenly Court.

• Zhang Zhi decided to wait for next year's auction before buying more Cultivation Paths, and planned to expand his shop to earn enough to participate.
• Zhang Zhi spotted the newly listed Remnant of Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and bought it for 1,300 strands of providence.
• Zhang Zhi bought the God-Beating Whip for more than 2,300 strands of providence, intending to keep the deities in his Second Small World in check.
• Zhang Zhi bid on the rare High Heavens Palace card because the Second Small World already had a South Heaven Gate, and won it for 2.2 million Academic Credits.

Zhang Zhi and his classmates were sent to a Mind Devourer-occupied Lesser Thousand World to protect a Teleportation Gate, and the battle revealed that orc and demon gods were fighting alongside the Mind Devourers. Zhang Zhi recognized the likely reason humanity had begun attacking the Mind Devourers, but the chapter left that reason unstated.

• Zhang Zhi worried that his Second Small World's prolonged deduction could create powerful Retainers and deepen conflicts among its races, though the pollution in his sea of consciousness had fallen below the warning line.
• Professor Zou brought Zhang Zhi's class to the Mind Devourer Region and assigned them to defend a Teleportation Gate under construction, warning them about the Mind Devourers' mental and Soul Spells.
• Zhang Zhi and his classmates learned that students from Shen City First Secondary Education School had prepared defensive formations around the gate and that their task was to protect it rather than hunt the Mind Devourers.
• When testing the completed gate attracted Mind Devourers, five classmates killed a Weak Divine Power Realm Mind Devourer and identified limits to its ability to control Retainers and cast spells.
• As a larger Mind Devourer force attacked, several more Weak Divine Power Realm Mind Devourers arrived with two orc gods and a demon god, and Zhang Zhi began to understand why humanity had attacked.

Zhang Zhi and Fengjing University’s forces defeated the Mind Devourers who had enslaved Beastman and demon deities, while humanity launched a large offensive in the Mind Devourer Region. Professor Zou explained that the Mind Devourers had trapped and enslaved leaders of the Seven Great Foreign Races, and revealed that humanity chose to strike the enemy’s heart rather than investigate the dangerous site of their secret meeting.

• Zhang Zhi realized the Mind Devourers had likely enslaved Beastman and demon deities and concluded the Seven Great Foreign Races had suffered severe losses.
• Several hundred Demigod Realm Retainers emerged from the formation, and the reinforcements killed all six Mind Devourer deities while restraining the two Beastman deities and the demon deity.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that more than a hundred Great Divine Power Great Thousand World Masters had arrived in the Mind Devourer Region, and Professor Zou later led the group back to the university.
• Zhang Zhi asked Professor Zou whether the Mind Devourers’ alliance with the Seven Great Foreign Races had collapsed, and Professor Zou explained how a demon cultivator exposed their scheme to enslave the races’ leaders.
• Professor Zou said the seven races had leaked the secret meeting’s location to humanity, but humanity’s higher-ups chose to attack the Mind Devourer Region instead of entering the dangerous meeting site.

Zhang Zhi learned that humanity had begun attacking the Mind Devourers while continuing his studies, and his second Small World finally formed as a Lesser Thousand World. He explored the new world and discovered a powerful Golden Crow kingdom beneath a giant Fusang Tree.

• Zhang Zhi agreed with humanity's plan to attack the Mind Devourers' territory and decided not to interfere with the Mutual Aid Society members' access to the Trial Tower.
• Humanity announced its preparations to seize the Mind Devourer Main World as the Mind Devourers dealt with the Seven Great Foreign Races, and its armies began destroying Mind Devourer worlds.
• Zhang Zhi continued his routine through the following weeks until his Consciousness Space shook and his second World Bead formed, making him a Thousand World Master.
• Zhang Zhi returned to his residence and entered his Second Small World, finding a South Heaven Gate that its monsters did not recognize.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the Land of the Extreme East and discovered a Golden Crow city beneath a gigantic Fusang Tree, with eleven Weak Divine Power Realm beings and nearly a hundred Demigods.

Zhang Zhi inspected the four great monster races and found the Golden Crows, Phoenixes, Fox Spirits, and especially the Yinglongs had grown powerful during the Small World's long deduction. After seeing the Dragon Race's vast numbers and many Dragon Gates, he wondered why they remained in their ocean territory instead of acting more aggressively.

• Zhang Zhi discovered that the Golden Crow Kingdom contained eight cities, twenty-four Weak Divine Power Realm cultivators, and nearly a hundred million monsters above the Elite Realm.
• Zhang Zhi visited Qingqiu and found the Fox Spirits isolated in their mountain palaces, then inspected the Phoenixes' single city around the Parasol Tree and sensed sixteen Weak Divine Power Realm auras.
• Zhang Zhi traveled to the northern ocean and found more than sixty Weak Divine Power Realm auras in the main Dragon Palace, along with countless Dragon-Blooded creatures of varied species.
• Zhang Zhi discovered five additional Dragon Palaces beneath Purple Rank Dragon Gates and smaller outposts beneath thirty-two Blue Rank gates, bringing the Yinglongs' Weak Divine Power Realm numbers close to a hundred.
• Zhang Zhi watched a Blue Rank Dragon Gate open and saw countless aquatic creatures leap through it, with about ten thousand gaining Dragon Bloodline each time.
• Zhang Zhi questioned why the powerful Dragon Race remained in its lair instead of behaving more aggressively.

Zhang Zhi explored the Central Region of his Second Small World and discovered that its strongest kingdom was a human-led realm resisting three Divine Beast kingdoms. He realized the kingdom’s hundreds of millions of people might have come from Human Cards he accidentally merged, including a powerful Sword Immortal card.

• Zhang Zhi reasoned that the Central Region’s monsters might have mastered the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and decided to investigate its largest city.
• Zhang Zhi surveyed the Central Region and found it divided among four kingdoms, with one kingdom occupying much of the region while resisting the other three.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that the kingdom fighting the three Divine Beast Races was a human-led kingdom with roughly four or five hundred million humans and many monsters.
• Zhang Zhi deduced that he had accidentally merged numerous Human Cards into the Small World while creating it.
• Zhang Zhi remembered a missing purple Sword Immortal card and concluded its owner might have helped the humans flourish, leaving him to regard the accident as a blessing in disguise.

Zhang Zhi inspected the Human Kingdom and learned that its people’s remarkable strength came from a heavily modified Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation, which let practitioners gain divine abilities as they advanced. After realizing that he, as Master of the World, could cultivate any method mastered by someone in his Small World, he decided he could cultivate the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation too.

• Zhang Zhi inspected the South Heaven Gate and considered how it and the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation helped the human race withstand the monsters.
• Zhang Zhi surveyed the Human Kingdom and counted fifty-three humans and thirty-seven monsters at the Weak Divine Power Realm.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the kingdom’s modified Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation had five levels and gave practitioners chances to comprehend divine abilities as they advanced.
• Zhang Zhi watched a Legendary Realm human cultivator use clones and Three Heads Six Arms to drive off a Demigod Realm tiger monster.
• Zhang Zhi realized he could cultivate the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation himself because he was the Master of the World.

Zhang Zhi learned from historical records that Yang had used a treasure taken from a Golden Crow to perfect the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and develop an auxiliary technique. He found Yang hiding in a sealed cavern and asked him how he had done it.

• Zhang Zhi discovered that his Small World's modified Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation could let him sense others' Epiphanies by consuming World Power.
• Zhang Zhi read that Yang, a Purple Rank Body Cultivator, had obtained an Exotic Treasure from a Golden Crow and used it to perfect the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and create an auxiliary technique.
• Zhang Zhi wondered whether his Small Broken Bell was the Golden Crow treasure or a Companion Divine Object born with his unprecedented Thousand World.
• Zhang Zhi used the World Bead to find Yang, then entered the aura-isolating black house where Yang was hiding in a cavern.
• Yang realized Zhang Zhi was the Master of their world, and Zhang Zhi explained that he had opened it and asked Yang how he had perfected the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation.

Yang told Zhang Zhi how an intelligent Light Cluster helped him improve the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation by consuming destiny, then revealed that the Golden Crow Race cursed him for taking it. Zhang Zhi left without testing the curse, and Yang concluded that he had met the human Master of the World.

• Yang explained that he had taken the Light Cluster from a Golden Crow and used it to improve the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation by spending fortune, merit, and other forms of destiny.
• Yang said the Light Cluster had embezzled destiny, including humanity's, and that he tricked it into spending its hoarded reserves while deducing the fifth level of the cultivation method.
• Yang revealed that Golden Crow elders had sacrificed themselves to curse him, causing the curse to absorb his destiny and transmit it to their race.
• Zhang Zhi found no sign of the curse near Yang's isolated house and chose not to use Yang as bait to draw it out.
• Zhang Zhi departed, and Yang concluded that only the Master of the World could have found him and wondered what the human master would do about the demon races.

Zhang Zhi visited the Golden Crow, Dragon, and Phoenix races to learn how they regarded him as the World Master, and their responses convinced him to bring the monster races under control. The chapter left him arriving in Qingqiu, where a five-tailed Fox Spirit immediately welcomed him as the Master of the World.

• Yang questioned why the Heavenly Dao held only one incomplete human cultivation technique, the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation, and wondered whether the Master of the World had really left.
• Zhang Zhi appeared before seven Golden Crow deities, who rejected his claim and attacked him, so he imprisoned them with the World Bead.
• Zhang Zhi decided to make the human race the world's main race and use the Deification List and a Monster Court to govern the monster races.
• Zhang Zhi found the Yinglongs evasive and disrespectful at the Dragon Palace, while the phoenixes acknowledged him but considered themselves tenants rather than his subjects.
• Zhang Zhi arrived in Qingqiu, where a five-tailed Fox Spirit prostrated herself and welcomed him as the Master of the World.

Zhang Zhi visited the Fox Spirits and humans, then punished the other monsterfolk before using the World Bead to review the Small World’s past four hundred years. The Dragon Palace learned that the humans he had visited might be dealing with the true Master of the World, while the Golden Crows reported that he had easily restrained seven of their Deity Realm cultivators.

• Zhang Zhi accepted the Fox Spirits’ submission and later left Qingqiu wondering why they had acknowledged him so readily.
• Zhang Zhi met the human cultivators, learned that their leaders trusted him because he had met Yang, and judged the humans’ situation satisfactory.
• Zhang Zhi cut off most of the spiritual energy to the Fusang and Parasol Trees, moved the Dragon Gates beside the South Heaven Gate, and began reviewing the Small World’s history.
• The Old Loaches argued over whether the Dragon Race should submit to Zhang Zhi, with some insisting their strength meant he would have to win them over.
• A Deity Realm Yinglong reported that Zhang Zhi had restrained the seven Deity Realm Golden Crows as they attacked him.