Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi arranged for cultivators to spread Key Cards and explore the Eerie Lands, hoping to learn why worlds seeking to advance beyond the Main World were destroyed. After noticing that the Multiverse Map had expanded, he wondered whether advancement was blocked by the Multiverse’s limit or an unseen mastermind.

• Zhang Zhi decided to issue dangerous Eerie Land missions with generous rewards and rely on cultivators from the local world to investigate.
• Ning Wuren took Zhang Zhi to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Zhang Zhi explained the Key Cards and Trial Tower; he collected ancient books and urged them to spread the cards.
• Zhang Zhi recruited Wang Zhushan to help distribute Key Cards among the cultivators gathered at the Trial Plaza.
• At the Trial Tower’s Task Center, Zhang Zhi issued yellow- and Purple-rank Eerie Land missions for Demigod Realm and Weak Divine Power Realm cultivators, with exploration rewards including Key Cards.
• Zhang Zhi examined the expanded Multiverse Map and considered whether the difficulty of advancing beyond the Main World came from a universal limit or an unseen force destroying those who tried.

After studying ancient books, Zhang Zhi learned that the Eerie World Region once had passages between its regions and set missions to gather records, creature information, and maps. A month later, he reviewed the growing map and intelligence gathered through the Trial Tower, including the discovery that humans controlled two Great Thousand Worlds.

• Zhang Zhi read Ning Wuren’s ancient books and learned that a passage between regions had once existed, though the records did not explain why it disappeared.
• Zhang Zhi added Trial Tower missions to collect regional histories and eerie-creature information and to map the regions of the Eerie World.
• A month later, Zhang Zhi returned from Combat Class and inspected the nuclear weapon production facilities in the Qi Refinement Small World, where construction was eighty percent complete.
• Zhang Zhi examined a sand table built from information gathered by Trial Tower visitors, showing 105 confirmed Eerie Lands and many surrounding regions.
• Zhang Zhi learned that humans in the Eerie World Region possessed two Great Thousand Worlds, while many isolated human groups hoped for rescue and the Great Thousand Worlds’ cultivators concealed their origins to avoid trouble.

Zhang Zhi reviewed the Cabinet’s report on humanity’s presence in the Eerie World Region and considered how to draw its powerful cultivators into exploring the Eerie Lands. A new report on their cultivation path revealed that its later stages fused the soul with the body, reminding Zhang Zhi of a legendary primordial race.

• Zhang Zhi examined reports detailing humanity’s worlds and factions in the Eerie World Region, along with the region’s vast scale and scattered information about the Eerie Lands.
• Zhang Zhi read how the Cabinet gathered and reviewed information through multiple levels of personnel and evaluation groups.
• Zhang Zhi considered ways to recruit powerful cultivators to explore the Eerie Lands, but doubted that appeals to humanity or divine godheads would persuade them.
• Zhang Zhi read the Cabinet’s updated report describing a cultivation path built around refining magic weapons and strengthening the body.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the path’s later techniques fused cultivators’ souls with their bodies, prompting him to recall a powerful primordial race that cultivated the physical body without a Primordial Spirit.

Zhang Zhi named the Eerie World’s soul-fusing cultivation path Witchcraft and considered using the Zombie Law to create witch-like zombies in the Spiritual Treasure Small World. After learning that zombies could awaken as intelligent beings, he left the question of whether they formed a new race unresolved.

• Zhang Zhi decided the Eerie World’s cultivation path was too costly for his Small Worlds’ reincarnation system, but renamed it Witchcraft and the Eerie World Region the Witchcraft World Region.
• Zhang Zhi realized the Zombie Law might complement Witchcraft and considered spreading it to the Spiritual Treasure Small World so zombies could learn the path.
• Zhang Zhi visited Fang Long’s Undead Research Institute, where Fang Long said more than a hundred thousand foreign corpses had failed to become zombies because their souls had left their bodies.
• Fang Long explained that zombies initially retained their former memories, which faded as their new intelligence emerged, and that greater Mental Power led to greater intelligence.
• Fang Long showed Zhang Zhi a woman he believed had awakened as a true zombie, but said he could not tell whether zombies were a new race because he did not know if she could reproduce.

Fang Long explained the intelligent zombie’s abilities and research limits, and Zhang Zhi gave her a technique that might make it a suitable candidate for a witch tribe. Zhang Zhi also brought foreign races into the Small World and learned why the Witchcraft World Region had retained only the witch Cultivation Path.

• Fang Long asked Zhang Zhi for foreign races to use in experiments and confirmed that the intelligent zombie could cultivate body techniques but not techniques requiring Mental Power or divine sense.
• Zhang Zhi gave Fang Long a jade pendant containing a technique that fused the soul with the body, hoping the zombie could cultivate it.
• Zhang Zhi found a purple Flat Peach Tree, posted a Trial Tower task to spread other cultivation paths in the Witchcraft World Region, and later added orc and birdman cards to the Small World for Fang Long’s research.
• Zhang Zhi learned that strange beings devoured Mental Power and souls, while the witch Cultivation Path merged both into the body, making humanity harder to prey on.
• Zhang Zhi understood that the witch Cultivation Path had survived as humanity’s sole path because it helped people endure the strange beings and surrounding foreign races.

Zhang Zhi canceled his mission to have cultivators in the Witchcraft World Region switch paths after seeing their resistance, then received Fang Long’s research findings on zombies. Her results suggested that a human intelligent zombie who cultivated Witchcraft techniques had become an existence that was neither living nor undead, and Zhang Zhi was left considering whether this was what the Exalted Lord sought.

• Zhang Zhi canceled his mission after humans in the Witchcraft World Region resisted abandoning their Cultivation Paths.
• The human race continued clearing Mind Devourer strongholds in a Great Thousand World, while Zhang Zhi watched the Half-Step Main Deities attack its Protective Formation.
• Fang Long reported that more than 113,000 foreign races had produced over 6,350 zombies, and that zombies could increase their numbers only by killing intelligent creatures.
• Fang Long explained that intelligent zombies spread the infection more effectively, could cultivate their former races’ techniques, and appeared not to age.
• Fang Long revealed that the first intelligent human zombie had gradually lost her ability to infect others and her zombie energy after cultivating Witchcraft techniques.
• Zhang Zhi considered that the transformed zombie might be what the Exalted Lord sought, but noted that only one human zombie had been tested.

Zhang Zhi considered how to bring the Zombie Law into the Spiritual Treasure Small World so demons could become witches, while Fang Long proposed research into zombie cultivation and witch techniques. He named the Priestess Houtu, declared her the first witch and Ancestral Witch, and charged her with expanding the witch clan.

• Zhang Zhi planned to bring zombies, including the intelligent former human zombie, into the Spiritual Treasure Small World to help it acquire the Zombie Law.
• Fang Long asked Zhang Zhi to bring human-form demons for experiments, then proposed studying the Zombie Path in the Spiritual Treasure Small World; Zhang Zhi refused because it was too dangerous and directed her to consult Witchcraft World Region cultivators in the Trial Tower.
• Fang Long returned to her laboratory to study demon bodies and seek improved Witchcraft Cultivation Path techniques that demons could use.
• Zhang Zhi later brought more than a thousand zombies and the Priestess into the Spiritual Treasure Small World, where he discovered she had advanced from the Mortal Transformation Realm to the Legendary Realm in one year.
• The Priestess told Zhang Zhi she no longer wanted her former human name, so he named her Houtu, called her the first witch and Ancestral Witch, and entrusted her with expanding the witch clan.

Zhang Zhi sent Houtu into the Spiritual Treasure Small World to build the Witch Race and later found that its Zombie Law had begun producing Monster Race zombies. He then entered the Qi Refinement Small World, where he learned its first Nuclear Weapon was ready for testing.

• Zhang Zhi named the Priestess Houtu and instructed her to grow the Witch Race while keeping a low profile among powerful humans and monsters.
• Fang Long asked to visit the other world and gained Zhang Zhi's promise that she could go if she reached the Weak Divine Power Realm.
• Zhang Zhi entrusted Houtu to Ao Guang and the Small World's Innate Spiritual Treasures, then returned to the Main World and wondered whether naming the Witch Race had formed Karma.
• Zhang Zhi observed the Monster Race's factional disputes and found no zombies in the Spiritual Treasure Small World until his third visit, when Monster Race zombies had appeared.
• Zhang Zhi informed Houtu about the zombies, then entered the Qi Refinement Small World and learned that its first Nuclear Weapon was ready for a test.

Zhang Zhi witnessed the successful Nuclear Weapon test in his Small World, then met with Professor Confucius after advancing to the Thousand World Master realm. He demonstrated the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique, leaving Professor Confucius shocked by its power and potential.

• Zhang Zhi watched the first Nuclear Weapon detonate as Fang Yuanyi and the other observers marveled at its power.
• Professor Confucius summoned Zhang Zhi and praised him for advancing to the Thousand World Master realm at a record-breaking age and cultivation level.
• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi to arrange his verification through the Academic Affairs Office and warned him to hide any Small World secrets before the examiners arrived.
• Zhang Zhi reported that he had learned the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique and demonstrated three indistinguishable versions of himself.
• Zhang Zhi explained the technique's abilities, and Professor Confucius realized it could be exceptionally powerful and beneficial to the human race.

After hearing about the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique, Professor Confucius explained that Professor Zhuang Zi had halted his apparent breakthrough beyond the Main God Realm when it threatened to collapse human destiny. The chapter left Zhang Zhi reflecting on the dangers beyond that barrier and the Ancient Sages’ sacrifices for humanity.

• Professor Confucius recognized that the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique could greatly increase human strength and accepted the jade pendant containing its details from Eldest Son.
• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the human race’s Main Gods would discuss spreading the technique after they had time to recover.
• Professor Confucius revealed that his Small World had advanced into a Main World, making him the first person in the human race to achieve this.
• Professor Confucius explained that Professor Zhuang Zi’s destiny had reached a critical point and he showed signs of breaking through beyond the Main God Realm.
• Professor Zhuang Zi discovered that human destiny was collapsing as his breakthrough began, then halted it after divinations showed ominous signs for the human race.

Professor Confucius explained that Professor Zhuang’s halted breakthrough had given humanity a way to reach beyond the Main God Realm by accumulating heavenly mandate, though it required Merit-Based Sainthood and suitable candidates. Zhang Zhi considered Yan Bo’s potential and whether Professor Confucius could help restore the Sun Law in the Celestial Dog World Region, then wondered if he should mention the Witchcraft World Region.

• Professor Confucius explained that the main deities had shared the force of Professor Zhuang’s halted breakthrough, gaining insight into the Main God Realm Barrier.
• Zhang Zhi realized Professor Confucius meant that heavenly mandate could provide a path to a realm above the Main God Realm.
• Professor Confucius said that accumulating enough heavenly mandate could require destroying five alien races with Main Worlds, and that humanity had enough to support three cultivators toward the World Barrier.
• Professor Zou said humanity lacked suitable candidates, and Zhang Zhi concluded that only cultivators who achieved Merit-Based Sainthood could follow the path.
• Zhang Zhi thought Yan Bo might earn a third Flower of Merit by restoring the Sun Law to the Celestial Dog World Region, and considered asking Professor Confucius for help.
• Zhang Zhi wondered whether he should tell Professor Confucius about the Witchcraft World Region.

Professor Confucius explained how destiny helped his dragon-populated Great Thousand World advance to a Main World, then heard Zhang Zhi’s report about the Witchcraft World Region. He concluded that its vast World Wreckages might be remains of worlds that had advanced Beyond the Main World Rank, leaving the human race with a chance to investigate the threat and learn from another powerful Cultivation Path.

• Professor Confucius explained that aura from Professor Zhuang Zi’s breakthrough helped complete the dragon race’s Destiny Deficient state and advance his world to a Main World.
• Professor Confucius described how his advancing Great Thousand World devoured energy, resources, laws, and living beings, while nearby Main Gods helped stabilize it.
• Zhang Zhi decided to reveal his journeys through the Trial Tower and reported what he had discovered in the Witchcraft World Region.
• Professor Confucius accepted Zhang Zhi’s deduction that the region’s World Wreckages could be remains of worlds that had advanced Beyond the Main World Rank.
• Professor Confucius considered how investigating the destroyed worlds might help the human race prepare for its own advancement and discover another powerful Cultivation Path.

Zhang Zhi learned that humanity’s Main God Realm professors had returned and that they planned to destroy the Mind Devourer Region after resting. Professor Confucius invited him to explain his cultivation at a Grand Gathering, while Zhang Zhi considered how to verify his Small World and wondered whether Ao Guang might be the Yinglong Race’s destined dragon.

• Professor Confucius praised Zhang Zhi’s report about the Witchcraft World Region and invited him to explain his cultivation at the upcoming Grand Gathering after Professor Zhuang Zi and himself.
• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the gathering would also celebrate humanity’s coming destruction of the Mind Devourer Region, and Zhang Zhi learned that the Main God Realm professors would act after a few days of rest.
• Liu Wanwan, Liu Xiaoxiao, and the other girls waited for Zhang Zhi, and he reassured them that humanity’s Main God Realm professors had returned safely.
• Zhang Zhi considered what to reveal during the school’s verification of his Small World and decided to show the Main World Wreckage beside it.
• Zhang Zhi wondered whether the Yinglong Race lacked a destined leader and considered that Ao Guang might carry its destiny.
• Zhang Zhi reflected on the significance of being chosen as the third cultivator to explain the Dao at the Grand Gathering.

Zhang Zhi wondered why the Mind Devourers were defending one Great Thousand World so desperately while preparing to conceal secrets in his Small World before the Grand Gathering. After six Main Gods and nearly a hundred Half-Step Main Deity Realm professors destroyed the world’s Protective Formation, a strange fluctuation spread from within.

• Zhang Zhi considered Professor Confucius’s reasons for making him the Third Lecturer and decided to accept the role if the Main Gods approved it.
• Professor Zou questioned Zhang Zhi about meeting Professor Confucius and learning of his breakthrough and recent events.
• The Mind Devourers brought their two Main Gods back from their home world to defend the Great Thousand World, and Liu Wanwan guessed it held their imprisoned alien-race Main Gods.
• Zhang Zhi rejected Liu Wanwan’s guess, then planned to hide the Trial Tower, Fang Long’s research institute, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation Law before his Thousand World Master Verification.
• Six Main Gods and nearly a hundred Half-Step Main Deity Realm professors attacked the Great Thousand World’s Protective Formation and broke it after three days.
• A strange fluctuation spread outward from inside the Great Thousand World after its Protective Formation fell.

Professor Confucius explained that the Mind Devourer’s trump card was an unfinished divine artifact made from the remains of an ancient existence, and the human race’s forces destroyed the Mind Devourer’s leaders. He introduced Zhang Zhi to Long Aotian, whose advancement made Professor Confucius’s Small World a Main World, before bringing them to inspect the remains.

• Professor Confucius and the others sensed a powerful aura from the Great Thousand World and went to investigate as the human race’s forces attacked it.
• Zixia identified the strange fluctuation as Mental Power, and Professor Confucius explained that the Mind Devourer had made a divine artifact from an ancient being’s remains and used it to protect its world and enslave alien Main Gods.
• Zhang Zhi realized that Professor Zhuang’s decision to stop his breakthrough had prevented the human race from falling into a trap that could have cost it many Main God Realm Existences.
• A Main God reported that the Mind Devourer’s Main Gods had been executed, and Professor Confucius introduced Long Aotian as the first Main God from his Small World.
• Professor Confucius brought Zhang Zhi and Long Aotian to the Great Thousand World to examine the ancient being’s remains, and Zhang Zhi asked whether the Demon Lord’s body could also be used to make divine artifacts.

Professor Confucius explained the Human Race’s plan to use the fallen being’s remains to counter the Mind Devourers and told Zhang Zhi about plans to search their region and cultivate new Main God Realm experts. He urged Zhang Zhi to verify his Master of the Thousand World status soon and kept the Qi Refiner path secret, believing it could greatly strengthen the Human Race against the coming calamity.

• Professor Confucius explained that the Human Race planned to refine the remains into an artifact that could contain the Mind Devourers’ contamination and help destroy them.
• After Combat Class, Zhang Zhi considered the Human Race’s plan to destroy worlds in the Mind Devourer Region to locate the fallen being’s other remains and plunder the defeated race’s heavenly mandate.
• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the Human Race planned to deploy cultivators across the region and urged him to verify his Master of the Thousand World status early.
• Professor Confucius revealed that the Human Race was cultivating Beastman Path experts and debating whether to weaken the other foreign races to gain more Masters of the Main World.
• Professor Confucius said Zhang Zhi’s Qi Refiner laws and Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique might be more valuable than a hundred Main Worlds, and he had kept the path secret from the other Main God Realm existences.

Zhang Zhi restored the Six Paths of Reincarnation Law to his Underworld, strengthening it, then received an unusually swift inspection notice. Professors Confucius and Zhuang Zi arrived as his examiners, and the chapter ends with them discovering the Main World Wreckage inside his Small World.

• Zhang Zhi drew the Six Paths of Reincarnation Law back into the Underworld before the Ghost Gate Pass closed, while Fang Yun repelled an attack by powerful monsters.
• Zhang Zhi found that the concentrated law accelerated cultivation, cleansed souls faster, and strengthened the Underworld, and he considered repeating the process after the inspection.
• Zhang Zhi requested a school inspection and quickly received notice that Professors Confucius and Zhuang Zi would examine his Lesser Thousand World.
• Confucius and Zhuang Zi entered Zhang Zhi's Small World through the World Gate, where they were shocked to see the nearby Main World Wreckage.

Zhang Zhi showed Professors Zhuang Zi and Confucius the remains of the Spirit Race’s Main World and explained his findings about its destruction and possible Insectoid Mother Race involvement. Zhuang Zi discovered evidence that the Spirit Race destroyed its own world, possibly in connection with Above the Main God Realm, and led Zhang Zhi and Confucius to a vast region emptied of Chaos Qi.

• Zhang Zhi told the professors that the wreckage belonged to the Spirit Race and described evidence suggesting the Spirit Race had destroyed its own world, with possible Insectoid Mother Race involvement.
• Zhang Zhi assured Confucius that a secret technique confirmed his Small World had not been infiltrated, while Confucius examined its Spirit Qi and development.
• Zhuang Zi inspected the wreckage and confirmed that a single energy fluctuation indicated the Spirit Race had destroyed its own Main World.
• Zhuang Zi said the destruction might be connected to Above the Main God Realm and brought Zhang Zhi and Confucius to a distant void where a powerful Mental Power imprint had erased the Chaos Qi.

Zhang Zhi and the professors discovered evidence that a Spirit Race member had suffered a mind-related calamity after breaking through the Main God Realm, possibly destroying its own world and race. They suspected its remains lay in the Mind Devourer World Region and planned to investigate so the human race could prepare for its own breakthrough.

• Professor Confucius and Professor Zhuang Zi identified traces of attacks bearing an aura Above the Main God Realm and concluded that a Spirit Race member had made them.
• Professor Zhuang Zi and Professor Confucius reasoned that breakthrough calamities targeted each race’s weaknesses and that the Spirit Race may have been destroyed by a mind-related calamity.
• Zhang Zhi proposed that the fallen existence in the Mind Devourer World Region was the Spirit Race member, citing its location and the Mind Devourers’ mind-based path.
• Zhang Zhi revealed that vampires from the region had infiltrated the human race, but Professor Confucius said they had already abandoned their lair.
• Professor Confucius offered to help Zhang Zhi return to the wreckage, and Professor Zhuang Zi resolved to find the remains and investigate the calamity before the human race attempted its own breakthrough.

Zhang Zhi and the professors investigated the Zerg Main World's destruction, then inspected his Small World and its cultivation paths. Professor Confucius explained that Zhang Zhi's reward would include a Dao Marker, which he should deploy in the Trial Tower rather than inside his own world.

• Professor Zhuang Zi and Professor Confucius found traces showing that a Zerg existence's breakthrough to the Main God Realm had destroyed the Zerg Main World, and Zhang Zhi wondered whether the Great Calamity resembled a Heart Demon Tribulation.
• The professors watched Qi Refiner cultivators and high-level divine abilities on Mount Buzhou, praised the path, and examined its founder, Fang Yun.
• The professors toured Zhang Zhi's cities and research institute, watched a nuclear weapon test, and found no problems during their inspection of his Small World.
• Professor Zhuang Zi left to submit the inspection results, while Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi to collect his reward and deploy its Dao Marker in the Trial Tower's World Region.
• Professor Confucius explained that using the Dao Marker would open a Teleportation Array at its location and permanently record that location in the School History Record, so Zhang Zhi refused to place it in his Small World.