Chapter Summaries

The Yinglongs and Phoenixes discovered that Zhang Zhi could control the Small World’s spiritual energy and had restricted its flow to their sacred sites. The Phoenixes debated whether to submit or resist, then considered exploiting Zhang Zhi’s concern for the human nations as a weakness.

• The Yinglongs argued over their dealings with Zhang Zhi and the Phoenix Race, revealing the divisions that kept their powerful race from acting as one.
• After learning of the Nine-Tailed Foxes’ actions, the Yinglongs erupted into another argument, then realized the Dragon Gate had vanished.
• The Phoenixes found that the Parasol Tree and other Parasol Trees could absorb only a small fraction of the surrounding spiritual energy.
• The Phoenixes suspected Zhang Zhi had restricted the spiritual energy because they had refused to submit, and they debated resisting him or leaving the world.
• One phoenix proposed that the Phoenixes exploit Zhang Zhi’s attachment to the human nations, which he believed were the Master of the World’s weakness.

The Phoenix Race plotted with the Golden Crow Race and Dragon Race to attack the human kingdom and pressure Zhang Zhi, believing their combined deities could force him to negotiate. As Zhang Zhi watched the Small World's reversion, he was stunned when lights appeared from the Dragon Gate and elsewhere in addition to the Fusang Tree's Exotic Treasure.

• The Phoenixes agreed to ally with the Dragon Race and Golden Crow Race, attack the human kingdom, and keep the Nine-Tailed Foxes from learning of their plan.
• Phoenix envoys told the Golden Crow elders that the Wind Monster Kingdom would attack the humans within a week, and Jun examined the dimming Fusang Tree before calling a council.
• Jun and the Golden Crow elders debated whether to submit to Zhang Zhi or attack the human race, then dispatched Golden Crows toward the Dragon Palace and Crow Kingdom.
• The North Sea churned as Dragon forces gathered, signaling that the three races had begun preparing a united attack.
• Zhang Zhi watched the Fusang Tree's Exotic Treasure appear during the Small World's reversion, then froze when a White Light emerged near the Yellow Rank Dragon Gate and another yellow light pierced the world.

Zhang Zhi inspected the eight Yellow Rank Innate Spiritual Treasures that had appeared in his Small World and discovered the Dragon Race’s Dragon Palace and Dragon Gate, as well as a fortune-revealing mirror belonging to the Nine-Tailed Foxes. He left the remaining treasures unexplored, planning to continue examining them.

• Zhang Zhi realized that opening a Thousand World while opening a Small World had produced eight Yellow Rank Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Zhang Zhi examined the treasure beside Fusang and found only a newly forming cluster of White Light with no detectable effects.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that the Dragon Race’s Innate Spiritual Treasure consisted of both the Dragon Palace and Dragon Gate, and that the palace could strengthen dragon bloodlines, speed cultivation, and help dragons comprehend the experiences of their predecessors.
• Zhang Zhi found another unexplained cluster of White Light beside the Parasol Tree, then inspected a palm-sized mirror at Qingqiu.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the mirror consumed fortune to reveal a target’s karma and fortune connections, while also helping Nine-Tailed Foxes cultivate and increase their charm.
• Zhang Zhi wondered whether the Nine-Tailed Foxes had submitted quickly because the mirror revealed his fortune and karma, then prepared to inspect another treasure.

Zhang Zhi examined the Ascension Stairway and Thousand Monster Banner among the Small World's Innate Spiritual Treasures, then resumed its evolution to observe the treasures still taking shape. As monsters emerged and threatened humanity, Yang became the leader of a human Gathering Place and began organizing resistance.

• Zhang Zhi discovered that the Ascension Stairway could raise the Small World's rank and that the Thousand Monster Banner could greatly increase monsters' aptitudes at a cost to their destiny and souls.
• Zhang Zhi considered sharing what he had learned about Innate Spiritual Treasures with humanity's upper echelons, but decided against it for the time being and resumed the Small World's evolution.
• Living creatures appeared in the Small World, and three months later Emperor's Nectar awakened the intelligence of some creatures, creating monsters and demon beasts.
• Yang earned his name by killing a huge Sheep Demon that had devoured more than ten people, and the humans at the Gathering Place made him their leader.
• Yang organized the humans to clear out nearby monsters, but the Monster Race grew stronger, gathered in groups, and raised demon beasts, worsening humanity's struggle to survive.

Zhang Zhi watched Yang unite human settlements and the Small World’s first Golden Crow claim an Innate Spiritual Treasure, while the Crow and Phoenix races began to flourish. The chapter left Zhang Zhi unable to inspect several treasures after Yang took the spiritual leyline’s treasure and moved his people to its main vein.

• Yang created a cultivation technique only he could use, then rescued human cultivators and obtained their settlement’s cultivation materials.
• Yang helped merge two human Gathering Places and began traveling the Small World to find others.
• The first crow passed the Fusang Tree’s trial, transformed into a Golden Crow, and fused with an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Golden Crows guided their kin through lower-rank Fusang Tree trials, while the first Phoenix-blooded bird emerged from the Parasol Tree.
• Nineteen marine creatures crossed the Dragon Gate after Yang took the spiritual leyline’s Innate Spiritual Treasure, triggering a surge of spiritual energy in the ocean.
• Yang moved his people to the main vein of the Yellow-Rank spiritual leyline, and Zhang Zhi found he could not inspect its treasure.

Zhang Zhi watched Yang lead the human race into the Small World’s resource-rich but dangerous Central Land, where the humans built a city, gained demonic vassals, won a major war, and established the nation of Yang. In the twenty-sixth year, Yang encountered the first Golden Crow, and the chapter ended as Yang rushed toward it after sensing its Light Cluster.

• Yang led the human race to migrate toward the Yellow Rank spiritual vein, while the first Nine-Tailed Fox-blooded Lord of Qing Qiu was born and its mirror refused to acknowledge a master.
• In the twelfth year, the human race built its first city in the Central Land, and Yang tried unsuccessfully to comprehend the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation.
• The human race subdued a demonic race in the thirteenth year, and Yang set out to seek an opportunity in the fifteenth year as the first Golden Crow did the same.
• Yang reached the Legendary Realm in the eighteenth year, and by the twentieth year the Golden Crow had obtained the companion Innate Spiritual Treasure of the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation.
• The human race defeated the demons in a seven-month war, established the nation of Yang, and Yang later set out on an inspection tour.
• In the twenty-sixth year, Yang sensed the first Golden Crow’s Light Cluster as the Golden Crow fought flying demonic beasts, and he rushed toward the battle.

Yang killed the Golden Crow and united three Innate Spiritual Treasures into an Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure, which helped him comprehend the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and spur humanity’s growth. Over the following decades, the races expanded into the Small World’s central region, until the Phoenix clan leader ascended to demigodhood and started the first Race War.

• Yang ambushed and killed the Golden Crow, then claimed its two treasures, which fused with his own into an Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure.
• Zhang Zhi used the World Bead to learn that the fused treasure had an artifact spirit and needed merit to reveal its true form; the spirit asked Yang for Heavenly Mandate and had previously misled him about what it required.
• Three days later, Yang’s cultivation dropped as he comprehended the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation; he returned to humanity six months later, and humanity entered a period of rapid development.
• Five years after the Golden Crow’s death, its race found its remains, while Zhang Zhi continued wondering whether the treasure at the Parasol Tree was part of the Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure.
• From the Small World’s fifty-third year onward, the major races expanded into the central region and subjugated Yao clans, forming a standoff among five races.
• In the Small World’s seventy-sixth year, the Phoenix clan leader became its first demigod and ignited the first Race War.

The Small World’s races prepared for and fought a second war as humanity advanced its Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and gained its first Deity Realm cultivator. The war ended with heavy losses, while Yang’s broken marriage alliance with a Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit left him grieving after her death.

• After the First Race War, Yang spent humanity’s destiny to obtain higher stages of Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and techniques that made it easier for humans to practice.
• As Deity Realm cultivators emerged among the other races, Yang persuaded the Innate Spiritual Treasure to deduce a version of Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation that reached the Deity Realm.
• When the Second Race War began, the Nine-Tailed Fox Race intervened to protect humanity, and the Yinglong Race later joined the conflict.
• Yang advanced to the Deity Realm and led humanity’s counterattack as the war continued for nearly forty years, devastating the other races and costing humanity one Deity Realm cultivator.
• After Yang appeared to consider ending his marriage alliance with a Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit, she dissolved their engagement and left human territory with her clan.
• The Fox Spirit died in a later divine battle, and Yang withdrew alone for a month after learning of her death.

After the Second Race War ended, Yang provoked the Golden Crow Race in hopes of avenging Hu'er, whose hidden connection to him Zhang Zhi uncovered. Yang avoided their curse by entering a specially refined house, while Zhang Zhi reviewed the world’s development and wondered whether he had been right to keep the Ghost Gate Pass Card and Fengdu Card out of it.

• The Five Races reached a twenty-two-article truce agreement that omitted the demon race, and the Small World entered a period of peace.
• The Golden Crow Race learned that Yang had killed its former clan leader and taken the two Innate Spiritual Treasures, then sacrificed seventy-two Legendary Realm members to curse him with the clan leader’s remains.
• Zhang Zhi learned from Hu'er's relic that she had loved Yang since he rescued her as a young fox, and that she had intervened to protect the human race before the Golden Crow Race killed her.
• Yang lured the Golden Crow Race into acting so he could avenge Hu'er, but the curse object forced him to seek a way to hide his aura.
• Yang entered the specially refined house and never came out, while the human race expanded and the Nine-Tailed Fox Race withdrew from contact.
• Zhang Zhi finished reviewing the Small World’s development and questioned whether he had been right not to merge the Ghost Gate Pass Card and Fengdu Card into it.

Zhang Zhi considered whether the second Small World's Underworld might connect to the first, potentially enabling travel between worlds and supplying souls for the first world's needs. He then found the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure in the Human Race Secret Treasury and learned why it had no name and why it was waiting to draw on the human race's Heavenly Mandate.

• Zhang Zhi wondered whether the two Small Worlds shared an Underworld and considered the benefits of a connection, including access to fallen cultivators' souls and travel through the Ghost Gate Pass.
• Zhang Zhi reflected on the gains from the second Small World, especially the improved Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Zhang Zhi appeared in the Human Race Secret Treasury and asked the concealed Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure what its name was.
• The Innate Spiritual Treasure explained that it was one of many candidates competing for a Sole Name, and that the losers' consciousness and attributes would merge into the winner.
• The Innate Spiritual Treasure told Zhang Zhi it was waiting to trade with the human race for Heavenly Mandate after they became the world's protagonists.

Zhang Zhi discussed the Human Race's innate spiritual treasure's plan to gain the sole True Name and gave it golden fortune to nurture its growth. He then examined the Small World's other treasures and left the South Heaven Gate's Treasure Pagoda in place, deciding not to take it to the Main World.

• The Human Race's innate spiritual treasure explained that it hoped to choose a fortunate human partner, while Zhang Zhi considered the risks of giving it its sole True Name.
• Zhang Zhi showed the innate spiritual treasure the Small Broken Bell, but it could not identify it, then gave the treasure golden fortune from the Small World and promised future tasks.
• Zhang Zhi left the Human Race Secret Vault and went underground beneath the South Heaven Gate to inspect its Companion Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Zhang Zhi examined the Treasure Pagoda's ability to enhance the Small World's rank and crush opponents with its stored destiny.
• Zhang Zhi decided the Treasure Pagoda might lose its enhancement effect if removed from the Small World, so he returned it to its original position.

Zhang Zhi named his two Small Worlds and discovered that the Multiverse Map had expanded to show a much larger multiverse than he had expected. When he asked the Innate Spiritual Treasure to develop the Qi Refiner cultivation path, it explained that it could not deduce techniques that had never left traces in the multiverse.

• Zhang Zhi returned from the Second Small World and named his first world the Qi Refinement Small World and the second the Spiritual Treasure Small World.
• He added the Purple Ghost Gate Pass Card and Purple Fengdu Card to the Spiritual Treasure Small World, then asked Fang Yun to organize the Qi Refiner cultivation techniques.
• Zhang Zhi saw that the Multiverse Map had expanded and concluded that the multiverse might contain many times more World Regions than he had estimated.
• After visiting the Trial Battlefield, Zhang Zhi asked Zixia about the multiverse's size, and she recalled an ancient text saying it was far larger than people could imagine.
• The Innate Spiritual Treasure told Zhang Zhi it could not deduce the Qi Refiner techniques because they had never left traces in the multiverse.

Zhang Zhi learned how the Innate Spiritual Treasure’s deductions worked, then used it to prepare for a possible war in the Spiritual Treasure Small World. When he returned the next day, the Small World had already fallen into complete chaos.

• The Innate Spiritual Treasure explained that its deductions relied on data and heavenly mandate, and warned Zhang Zhi that locating a powerful race could overwhelm it.
• Zhang Zhi gave the Innate Spiritual Treasure golden luck and learned it could begin deducing Gold Rank Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation, especially if it found more remnants of the techniques.
• Zhang Zhi saw human and demon Demigods gathering at the South Heaven Gate and armies from three kingdoms assembling near human borders, including Sea Race forces.
• Zhang Zhi set the Innate Spiritual Treasure to patrol the Small World and notify him if a Deity Realm existence entered the conflict.
• Back in the Main World, Zhang Zhi reflected on the lack of reference material for the Qi Refiner Path and the difficulty Fang Yun had faced establishing it.
• When Zhang Zhi entered the Spiritual Treasure Small World the next day, he found it in complete chaos.

Zhang Zhi assessed the warring factions in the Spiritual Treasure Small World and considered how to restore order before the Heaven and Earth Trial. He approached Yang with the possibility of reuniting him with Hu'er, then hinted that he planned to teach the factions challenging his authority a lesson.

• Zhang Zhi surveyed the battlefield and identified the rival factions, including a newly united Monster Race army backed by a Deity Realm expert.
• Zhang Zhi weighed whether to suppress the fighting or support the Monster Race, while considering how the Ghost Gate Pass might connect this world to the Qi Refiner World's Underworld.
• Zhang Zhi decided to seek Yang's help and appeared before him with an offer to let him see Hu'er again.
• Yang pledged himself to Zhang Zhi, who explained that the Golden Crow Race, Phoenixes, and Yinglong Clan were challenging his control of the world.
• Yang asked Zhang Zhi how he planned to bring the rebellious factions under control.

Zhang Zhi used Yang to warn the races in the Spiritual Treasure Small World that they would face a trial in a year, then watched their conflicts subside as they prepared. Later, Zhang Zhi joined a Combat Simulation Class against a curse-wielding foreign race and withdrew after learning how dangerous its death-triggered curses were.

• Zhang Zhi told Yang to deliver a warning to the Golden Crows and other races: the Small World would face a trial in one year, and failure could mean its return to chaos.
• Zhang Zhi promised to lift Yang’s Golden Crow curse and said passing the trial could let him see Hu'er again; Yang left to deliver the message and considered whether cooperation between the races was part of the test.
• Zhang Zhi returned to the Main World, planned cultivation techniques and yellow spirit veins for the Small World, and waited to add them until after the trial.
• Yang conveyed Zhang Zhi’s intentions, and the Small World’s wars gradually ended as its races prepared for the trial and tried to gain the Master of the World’s favor.
• During Combat Simulation Class inside the Kun, Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan’s group killed a third Weak Deity from a curse-based foreign race before Zhang Zhi withdrew.
• Professor Zou warned the students that killing Deity Realm members of the race could cause curses to follow Karma back to their killers, and cautioned them against killing too many Weak Divine Power cultivators.

After the Combat Class, Zhang Zhi inspected his Qi Refiner Small World and the busy Trial Tower, then entered a new World Region where humans gained power through mutations. He watched the mutated humans fight a similarly mutated Beast Race, confirming that their altered organs were the source of their strength.

• Zhang Zhi stopped killing Deity Realm outsiders after their curses and Mental Corruption affected Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao, and the class hunted weaker outsiders instead.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the Research Institute’s work on creating a sun and learned that scarce uranium remained the main obstacle to experiments.
• Zhang Zhi expanded the Trial Tower’s Trading Market but rejected Hu Xin'er’s proposal to add dedicated shops, since he lacked the resources to maintain a Tier 4 tower.
• Zhang Zhi entered a new World Region and found that nearly everyone on the Trial Tower plaza had visible mutations.
• Zhang Zhi watched the mutated human race fight a mutated Beast Race and realized that the humans’ altered organs were the source of their power.

Zhang Zhi discovered that the people in this World Region cultivated by grafting mutated organs called Divine Limbs, because a powerful law suppressed ordinary spiritual-energy cultivation. He suspected that a race was sustaining this law to pursue a way to ascend Above the Main God Realm.

• Zhang Zhi watched human cultivators defeat the beastmen using attacks produced by their mutated organs, then received a bloody eyeball from a cultivator who assumed he was new to the Trial Tower.
• Zhang Zhi learned that ordinary people had evacuated during the beastmen attack and returned to buy Divine Limbs so they could begin cultivating.
• A local explained to Zhang Zhi that people had to fuse Divine Limbs to communicate with heaven and earth and become Godhood Attainers.
• Zhang Zhi found that his Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation absorbed spiritual energy at only one-tenth its usual effectiveness in the World Region.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that a special law restricted cultivation to Divine Limbs and wondered whether a race was maintaining it in pursuit of ascension Above the Main God Realm.

Zhang Zhi secretly questioned Peng Xiong about the mutated Divine Limbs and learned that the Deity Slayer Alliance opposed the Godhood Attainer Path. Peng Xiong began explaining how the Deity Creator Organization had introduced that path to his World Region, leaving Zhang Zhi startled by the organization’s name.

• Zhang Zhi approached Peng Xiong, whose body was covered in mouths, and led him into a concealed room to ask about his Divine Limbs.
• Zhang Zhi revealed that he could use spells without Divine Limbs and explained that he came from another World Region, proving it by summoning a Legendary Realm Retainer.
• Peng Xiong identified himself and said he had visited the Deity Slayer Alliance’s Trial Battlefield, where he learned information about the Godhood Attainer Path and survived by not spreading it.
• Peng Xiong explained that the Deity Slayer Alliance consisted of cultivators who could use spells without Divine Limbs, and that everyone in his World Region had once cultivated that way.
• Peng Xiong said the Deity Creator Organization had appeared and spread the Godhood Attainer Path, prompting Zhang Zhi to ask him to confirm the organization’s name.

Zhang Zhi deduced that outsiders had imposed the Godhood Attainer's Law on Peng Xiong's world region, but questioned his theory after learning the law was expanding. He told Peng Xiong about humanity's world and asked whether the Godhood Attainer Organization could threaten them if it discovered a way to travel between regions.

• Peng Xiong confirmed that the Godhood Attainer Organization had appeared suddenly and that the Godhood Attainer Path had spread after cultivators lost the ability to cultivate normally.
• Zhang Zhi suspected that an outsider race had created the Godhood Attainer's Law to control cultivation across world regions, though he realized his theory might be incomplete.
• Peng Xiong explained that the Deity Slayer Alliance opposed the expanding law and warned that worlds could become controlled by the Godhood Attainers, but races felt forced to cultivate the path to survive.
• Zhang Zhi described the Human Race Main World to Peng Xiong, who wished he could live there.
• Peng Xiong said he knew little about Main Worlds or humanity's past cultivators, but had heard of people attaining godhood in seven worlds within the past twenty years.
• Zhang Zhi asked whether the Godhood Attainer Organization discovering a way to travel through the Trial Tower would harm humanity, and Peng Xiong asked if Zhang Zhi could take them to his world region.

Zhang Zhi gave Peng Xiong human-only Key Cards that could lead worthy cultivators to a special Trial Tower, then returned to the Main World. There, the Spiritual Treasure Small World's Heaven and Earth Trial began with waves of Chaos Monsters, while Zhang Zhi treated the trial as a way to borrow the tiger's might.

• Zhang Zhi explained the Trial Tower and gave Peng Xiong a Card Pack of White Rank and Green Rank Key Cards to distribute to worthy human cultivators.
• The beastmen launched three more attacks, but each was repelled; Zhang Zhi then returned to the Trial Tower and considered how little he could do to help the humans in Peng Xiong's World Region.
• Zhang Zhi returned to the Main World, and several days later the Spiritual Treasure Small World's Intelligent Lifeforms gathered anxiously for the Heaven and Earth Trial.
• Chaos Qi churned above the Small World, and the first wave of Gray Rank and White Rank Chaos Monsters appeared.
• The cultivators quickly destroyed the first wave, while Zhang Zhi remained unaware of their complaints and regarded the trial as borrowing the tiger's might.