Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi kept the Red Crystals of the World on display, weighed how to use an Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation Card, and decided to heed Zixia’s warning about the suspected uranium deposit. At the next Combat Class, he learned that a Mind Devourer Main Deity had attacked the fortress and caused enormous losses, leaving him troubled by how readily he had accepted the exchange of millions of lives for victory.

• Zhang Zhi accepted Liu Wanwan’s explanation of the shop staff’s actions and decided to keep the Red Crystals of the World on display to attract future rare-item trades.
• Zhang Zhi weighed refining the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation Card into either the Spiritual Treasure Small World or the Qi Refinement Small World, then considered offering Yellow Rank Crystals of the World in exchange for more cards.
• Zixia warned Zhang Zhi that the suspected uranium deposit was far from the Main World and advised him to send someone else because his displayed Red Rank Crystal could make him a target.
• Zhang Zhi and the other students arrived at the fortress and saw its Protective Formation active, damaged buildings, and missing cultivators.
• Professor Zou revealed that a Mind Devourer Main Deity had attacked the fortress, killing or controlling roughly one-third of its cultivators, but the fortresses had killed the attacker.
• Zhang Zhi realized he had considered the deaths of several million cultivators a worthwhile price for defeating a Main Deity and questioned his own coldness.

Professor Zou explained the Mind Devourers’ spells while the fortress waited for allies to gather outside a heavily defended Great Thousand World. The Insect Queen arrived battered from fighting the Mind Devourers, and the three fortresses prepared to face the world together.

• Professor Zou told the students that the target was an outer defensive line of the Mind Devourers and warned them about the dangers of fighting high-ranking foes.
• After reaching the much larger Great Thousand World, Professor Zou kept the fortress at the edge of the chaos and explained the Mind Devourers’ charm, enslavement, fear, Soul Pollution, Demonic Language, Illusionary Soul, and God-Shattering spells.
• A fortress arrived, and Professor Zou introduced Half-Step Main Deity Great Mentor Xiang from the Magic Main World, who praised Fengjing University for bringing students to observe the battle.
• Great Mentor Xiang and Professor Zou discussed the war while they waited for another ally to arrive.
• The Insect Queen arrived with one wing missing and the other broken, and she told Zhang Zhi that her larvae’s abilities restrained the Mind Devourers but that she had suffered in several battles.

Zhang Zhi and the others watched the insect race attack the Mind Devourers’ Great Thousand World, whose powerful formations and spatial spells suggested they were buying time for their plans to enslave foreign Main Deities. As Great Mentor Xiang prepared a major spell, Zhang Zhi noticed the Small Broken Bell trembling and saw space ripple above the enemy world.

• The Insect Queen discussed a plan with Professor Zou and Great Mentor Xiang, while Professor Zou warned everyone to stay inside the fortress and retreat through the Teleportation Gate if danger arose.
• The insect race charged the Mind Devourers’ Great Thousand World, where a layer of Black Mist and a powerful Protective Formation blocked their advance.
• The Mind Devourers fired interwoven Black Light and White Light beams that caused spatial annihilation and wiped out large numbers of insects.
• Zixia explained that the two beams contained opposing energies and the Space Law, while Zhang Zhi compared their destructive collision to forces he remembered from a novel.
• The Small Broken Bell above Zhang Zhi began trembling, and he noticed rippling space above the Great Thousand World after Great Mentor Xiang disappeared.

Great Mentor Xiang unleashed a Meteor Shower of enormous meteorites infused with Profound Nether Cold Flame against the Mind Devourers’ Protective Shield. After repeated impacts left the shield close to breaking, a tentacled monster appeared and seized a meteorite, changing its course.

• Professor Zou explained that Great Mentor Xiang’s divine ability, Profound Nether Cold Flame, turned his meteorites into a Frozen Cold Domain.
• The first meteorite accelerated toward the Great Thousand World and struck the Mind Devourers’ Protective Shield, spreading blue Profound Nether Cold Flame across it.
• More meteorites crashed into the shield, freezing parts of it and leaving it covered in cracks as the insect race advanced again.
• A figure appeared before the shield, transformed into a gigantic monster with dozens of tentacles, grabbed a meteorite, and forcibly redirected it.

A Mind Devourer Main Deity clone fought Professor Zou’s Retainers while Great Mentor Xiang’s meteorites battered the Mind Devourer’s Protective Shield. The clone unleashed a deadly eyeball that killed the Retainers and harmed anyone who looked at or described it, then destroyed the object and returned to normal; Professor Zou offered the class a chance to leave as more explosions sounded in the distance.

• The Mind Devourer appeared to repel meteorites, then battled more than twenty of Professor Zou’s Great Divine Power Realm Retainers as another wave approached.
• Zhang Zhi warned that the Mind Devourer was likely a clone, and he and Zixia discussed the creature’s mental power as Great Mentor Xiang increased the meteorites to three per wave.
• The Mind Devourer spat out a huge round object that immobilized Professor Zou’s Retainers, and Professor Zou ordered everyone to close their eyes and turn away.
• The object killed the Retainers and harmed Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao when Zixia began describing it, so Zhang Zhi stopped her.
• Zixia realized the Mind Devourer had destroyed the object, which had been a one-time-use replica, and said the danger had passed.
• Professor Zou told the class they could return to the Main World or keep watching, just as two more booms sounded in the distance.

Zhang Zhi and the others discussed the Mind Devourer’s strange, mind-attacking power and the danger posed by its mysterious object, while the creature approached the meteorites. The meteorites then vanished and reappeared around it, revealing a trap that engulfed the Mind Devourer in successive explosions.

• Zhang Zhi asked Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao if they were all right after Zixia’s description of the Mind Devourer attacked their seas of consciousness.
• Zixia warned everyone not to discuss or describe the creature, and Liu Wanwan and Zixia speculated that its strange object might be connected to the disappearances of alien Main God Realm beings.
• Zhang Zhi and the others wondered whether Professor Zou would intervene as the Mind Devourer flew toward Great Mentor Xiang’s meteorites.
• The Mind Devourer suspected a human Main God might be lying in ambush, but relaxed when no one appeared as it neared the meteorites.
• The three meteorites suddenly vanished and reappeared around the Mind Devourer, exploding into dark-blue Light Clusters.
• More meteorites struck the Light Clusters in succession, and Zhang Zhi and the others realized the meteorites had been a trap.

Great Mentor Xiang’s enhanced Meteor Shower destroyed the Mind Devourer’s defenses and devastated the Great Thousand World, allowing Professor Zou’s group to defeat its remaining forces. After the battlefield was cleared, the Insect Queen rewarded Zhang Zhi with Crystals of the World and a Heart of the World.

• Great Mentor Xiang’s meteors struck and apparently killed the Main God Realm Mind Devourer’s avatar, while another meteor destroyed the Protective Array and one devastated the Great Thousand World.
• Zhang Zhi and the others saw that the Profound Nether Cold Flame had frozen and destroyed much of the world, and Great Mentor Xiang explained that treasures, formations, and other mages had amplified his Meteor Shower.
• Professor Zou’s group and the insect armies swept through the Great Thousand World, killed its remaining high-level Mind Devourers, and turned it into a ruin.
• After nine days of cleanup, Professor Zou led everyone back toward the fortress with a rich harvest that included a Heart of the World.
• The Insect Queen gave Zhang Zhi additional Crystals of the World and a Heart of the World, whose law imprints could help a world understand and control corresponding laws faster.

The Insect Queen gave Zhang Zhi a Great Thousand World's Heart of the World in gratitude, and he considered which of his Small Worlds should use it. After continuing his usual studies and work, Zhang Zhi entered the Trial Secret Realm and found himself in the Maze Secret Realm again.

• The Insect Queen gave Zhang Zhi a Heart of the World and explained that she hoped he could help her advance to the Main God Realm; Zhang Zhi accepted it.
• Zhang Zhi searched the library for a Cultivation Path like the Mind Devourers' but found no records of a Cthulhu system in the Human Race Main World.
• Zhang Zhi considered using the Heart of the World on the Spiritual Treasure Small World or the Qi Refinement Small World, then decided to wait until the latter advanced to a Thousand World.
• Zhang Zhi continued his studies and routines, estimating that he might comprehend One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones after another month or so.
• Zhang Zhi visited the Research Institute and found that the atomic power project remained stalled due to a lack of uranium ore.
• Zhang Zhi entered the Trial Secret Realm and discovered that he had arrived in the Maze Secret Realm again.

Zhang Zhi entered the Maze Secret Realm and joined a group of cultivators who mistook him for an Elite Realm junior. When the monsters overwhelmed the group during the fifteenth wave, he revealed his strength and offered to finish the fight.

• Zhang Zhi assessed the Maze Secret Realm’s monster waves and planned how to manage the later waves using the World Gates and the cultivators in his small worlds.
• Zhao Ermin invited Zhang Zhi to join his group, and Zhang Zhi agreed while joking with the other Elite Realm cultivators about their chances of drawing rare rewards.
• The Maze Secret Realm trial began, and Zhang Zhi fought alongside the group as stronger monsters appeared in successive waves.
• During the fifteenth wave, large numbers of powerful monsters overwhelmed the cultivators, leaving many injured and at risk of dying.
• Zhang Zhi stepped forward and used a Sword Talisman to kill more than a dozen monsters, then told the stunned cultivators to leave the rest to him.

Zhang Zhi revealed that he was a Thousand World Master and sent Yun Miao to capture the Maze Secret Realm’s monsters so they could strengthen his world. He summoned Treasure Hunting Elites to investigate the maze, and Yun Miao returned with the cultivators’ decision to unite under Zhang Zhi’s command.

• Zhang Zhi opened a World Gate, and Yun Miao emerged and greeted him as Your Majesty.
• Zhang Zhi ordered Yun Miao to capture the monsters and bring them into his world, then explained that stronger waves could yield divine essences and godhoods.
• After Yun Miao swept the monsters into the World Gate, Zhang Zhi told the cultivators that his retainer was at the Deity Realm, prompting them to realize he was a Thousand World Master.
• The cultivators speculated that Zhang Zhi could help them reach the later waves and earn powerful rewards.
• Zhang Zhi summoned more than a thousand Treasure Hunting Elites to explore the Maze Secret Realm and investigate its secrets.
• Yun Miao returned after an hour and told Zhang Zhi that the cultivators had decided to unite and place themselves under his command.

Zhang Zhi approved Yun Miao’s plan to lure the thirty-second wave of Deity Realm monsters into the Spiritual Treasure Small World and kill them there. After the cultivators prepared to gather reinforcements, Zhang Zhi sent the other Trial Tower participants away before opening a gate to his second Small World.

• Deity Realm cultivators entered the Maze Secret Realm through Zhang Zhi’s World Gate, while nearby Trial Tower participants speculated about his identity and the visitors’ strength.
• Yun Miao explained the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s plan to kill the thirty-second wave of four hundred Weak Divine Power Realm monsters, potentially taking on another wave as well.
• Zhang Zhi judged the plan feasible and approved it, prompting the cultivators to summon explorers back and gather reinforcements for the coming battle.
• The Spiritual Treasure Small World’s cultivators dealt with the intervening waves, including the twenty-sixth wave of Demigod Realm monsters.
• Before the thirty-first wave arrived, Zhang Zhi asked the remaining Trial Tower participants to leave, and they departed without learning about his second Small World.

Zhang Zhi watched the Qi Refinement Small World’s human cultivators swiftly defeat a wave of kobold monsters, while nearby humans recognized the strength of the Venerable One’s other world. He then intervened in a much harder battle in the Spiritual Treasure Small World, using laws and a Sword Talisman to keep casualties low as the next wave approached.

• Zhang Zhi sent fifty-one Weak Divine Power Realm cultivators into the Qi Refinement Small World, where they killed the kobold attackers in about half an hour.
• Yun Miao chose not to contact the humans of the Qi Refinement Small World and led his group back to help in the Spiritual Treasure Small World.
• Fang Long and Fang Zhen found the kobold corpses, concluded that the Venerable One’s other-world forces had killed them, and ordered the bodies harvested while urging everyone to cultivate faster.
• Zhang Zhi weakened the thirty-second wave in the Spiritual Treasure Small World by suppressing curses and applying negative laws, then patrolled the battle with his two Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• With monsters still alive as the next wave approached, Zhang Zhi ordered more attackers drawn into the world and used Sword One’s Sword Talisman of Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin to kill over four hundred Weak Divine Power Realm monsters.
• The Spiritual Treasure Small World defeated the wave with no Deity Realm cultivator deaths, and its residents credited the low casualties to the Venerable One’s intervention.

After leaving the Maze Secret Realm, Zhang Zhi assessed the gains for his two Small Worlds and discovered that the Spiritual Treasure Small World could gain hundreds of divine ranks from the monsters that died there. While assembling the Treasure Hunters’ maps, he noticed that the labyrinth’s terrain had changed and wondered why the library materials had not mentioned it.

• Zhang Zhi ended the Maze Secret Realm expedition before the thirty-fourth wave arrived, then inspected the battlefield where Fang Long and the others harvested materials from fallen kobolds.
• Zhang Zhi observed the laws dispersing from the kobolds and estimated that the Qi Refinement Small World would need about four months to nurture Weak Divine Power Realm ranks and divine spark laws.
• Zhang Zhi calculated that the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s slain monsters could yield hundreds of ranks, potentially bringing its gains close to one thousand Weak Divine Power Realm beings, along with 1,200 divine sparks.
• Zhang Zhi considered how his unusually low-tier Trial Tower had let him defeat the maze’s monsters, unlike the far larger swarms found in higher-tier trials.
• Zhang Zhi compared the Treasure Hunters’ jade-pendant maps and found that some areas recorded as squares with treasure chests had later become passageways, revealing that the labyrinth’s terrain could change.

Zhang Zhi mapped the Maze Secret Realm’s changing passages and planned to investigate them more thoroughly on his next visit. Back in his Small World, he learned that a dog-headed man’s corpse had become a zombie and ordered the corpses sealed off.

• Zhang Zhi combined more than forty sand tables and found that most altered areas were passages near the Trial Tower.
• Zhang Zhi planned to refine the Treasure Hunter cards into Small Worlds and have Treasure Hunters record their experiences during the next maze expedition.
• Fang Long told Zhang Zhi that a monster had killed all 353 people in a Shang Kingdom gathering place, draining their blood and leaving their souls missing.
• Fang Long explained that the monster was a Legendary Realm dog-headed man’s corpse that had returned to life and then spontaneously combusted in sunlight.
• Zhang Zhi ordered Fang Long and the others to seal off the buried dog-headed corpses and cremate the victims’ remains.

Zhang Zhi investigated the threat of zombies in the Qi Refinement Small World, then oversaw the Spiritual Treasure Small World's rapid growth and the relocation of three races to their Polar Regions. He later resumed his routine and joined another Combat Class inside the Cosmic Kun, where the students encountered a bizarre foreign race.

• Zhang Zhi explained that cultivators killed by zombies could become zombies because their souls fused with their bodies, and Fang Long persuaded him to let her keep corpses for research.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the fast-growing Spiritual Treasure Small World and moved the Golden Crow, phoenix, and Nine-Tailed Fox Ancestral Lands to their Polar Regions.
• Zhang Zhi moved the laws related to the Emperor's Nectar to the Monster Race Kingdom, deciding to let the Monster Race develop freely as a challenge to the human kingdom.
• Zhang Zhi continued his routine and discovered that Fang Yun had emerged from seclusion with ideas about combining Qi Refiners with Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation before returning to seclusion.
• Zhang Zhi's Combat Class returned to the Cosmic Kun, where the students encountered a foreign race whose three arms were its reproductive organs.

Zhang Zhi watched the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s cultivators and laws grow rapidly while the Mind Devourer war remained deadlocked. A battle led him to suspect that humanity’s Main Deities had shifted their attention to developing a path to a new Main World, and he ended the chapter looking at the Paper Crane in his Storage Ring.

• After a difficult Combat Class, Zhang Zhi noted that the Spiritual Treasure Small World had 671 Divine Realm cultivators and that Ao Guang had reached the demigod realm.
• Zhang Zhi compared the rapidly developing Spiritual Treasure Small World with the slower Qi Refinement Small World, while Fang Yun continued studying how to combine Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation with the Qi Refiner Path.
• Humanity’s battle for a Great Thousand World stalled against two Mind Devourer Main Deity avatars, and Zhang Zhi speculated that the front could not advance quickly without more Main Deities.
• The Qi Refinement Small World finished absorbing scattered laws and began nurturing its own godhead and divine-position laws.
• During another battle in the same Great Thousand World, Zhang Zhi saw five Mind Devourer Main Deity avatars and eleven Half-Step Main Deity Realm opponents face a human force that included a Main God Realm existence.
• Zhang Zhi inferred that humanity’s Main Deities were focused on modifying old Cultivation Paths from the Yu Kun to create a path to a new Main World, then glanced at the Paper Crane in his Storage Ring.

After the Qi Refinement Small World began producing divine laws and statuses, Zhang Zhi observed its technological growth and visited Fang Yun, who revealed that he had fused insights from the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation into the Qi Refiner Path. Fang Yun had created the divine ability One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, but his new cultivation method still needed to be organized.

• Zhang Zhi decided to wait until the Qi Refinement Small World advanced further before using the paper crane to contact Professor Confucius.
• More than forty days later, the Qi Refinement Small World began producing laws of godhood and divine status, and its first divine status condensed the next day.
• Over the following months, Zhang Zhi saw the Small World enter the age of electrification as researchers advanced mech technology and work combining extraordinary energy with technology.
• Zhang Zhi visited Mount Buzhou and found Fang Yun out of seclusion, where Fang Yun demonstrated three identical selves.
• Fang Yun explained that he had adapted the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation's methods for comprehending divine abilities to the Qi Refiner Path and had naturally comprehended One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Zhang Zhi praised Fang Yun and asked how long it would take to organize the new cultivation method, while Fang Yun modestly noted that his path still lacked a Deity Realm method.

Zhang Zhi assessed the Qi Refinement Small World's growth and considered upgrading the Trial Tower, while Fang Yun prepared to organize the Qi Refiner cultivation techniques. The next day, Zhang Zhi sensed trouble in the Small World and found tribulation clouds gathering above Mount Buzhou, possibly connected to Fang Yun.

• Zhang Zhi praised Fang Yun's ability to develop the Qi Refiner path and left him to organize its cultivation techniques.
• Zhang Zhi surveyed the Small World, noting that absorbed wreckage had expanded its area by nearly one-third.
• Zhang Zhi visited the Trial Tower, checked his increased Mental Power, and considered its future upgrade and expanded trading floors.
• Zhang Zhi entered an ordinary Trial Secret Realm and returned to the Main World.
• The next day, Zhang Zhi sensed the Qi Refinement Small World trembling and found dark tribulation clouds above Mount Buzhou, wondering whether they were connected to Fang Yun.

Fang Yun broke through to the Weak Divine Power Realm after creating a Qi Refiner technique that reached the Deity Realm, triggering a rare thunder tribulation against him and the new cultivation path. The golden tribulation lightning struck through his palm, revealing a terrifying Gold Attribute attack as the trial began.

• Zhang Zhi arrived at Mount Buzhou and realized Fang Yun’s breakthrough and the newly established Qi Refiner Path had attracted a thunder tribulation.
• Fang Yun explained that he had organized the Qi Refiner techniques and unexpectedly completed a method for reaching the Weak Divine Power Realm.
• Zhang Zhi told Fang Yun that the Multiverse Consciousness had sent the tribulation to test him and the Qi Refiner Path, and that surviving it could bring benefits.
• The tribulation cloud compressed into a small golden cloud, and Fang Yun refused Zhang Zhi’s offer to intervene, insisting he face the trial himself.
• Fang Yun activated Heaven and Earth Manifestation, but the golden tribulation lightning pierced through his palm and continued toward his head.

Fang Yun endured the first two strikes of the golden Tribulation Lightning, using his spiritual qi and incarnations to weaken the attacks. After recovering with Zhang Zhi’s Lotus Seed, he prepared to face the final strike, and the golden cloud descended into the pit around him.

• Fang Yun wore down the first golden lightning cloud with his fists and arms, then absorbed its remaining energy.
• Fang Yun created three incarnations and charged the cloud, but its golden lightning struck him and left him severely injured in a huge pit.
• Zhang Zhi gave Fang Yun a Yellow Rank Lotus Seed and asked whether he needed help with the final strike.
• Fang Yun said he could withstand the last strike, explaining that his spiritual qi had worn away the lingering golden power and that he still had about half his spiritual qi remaining.
• After roughly an hour, the golden cloud trembled, appeared inside the pit, and enveloped Fang Yun.