Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi inspected the Spiritual Treasure Small World and considered how narrow cultivation standards held back human talent, while planning to introduce the Bald Monk Path among the Monster Race. He examined the Dragon Palace’s clan-wide benefits and ended at the territory of the weakened Nine-Tailed Fox clan.

• Zhang Zhi concluded that the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s focus on the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation Path prevented gifted cultivators in other fields from thriving, and considered introducing additional Cultivation Paths.
• Zhang Zhi decided to prepare Rebirth Mantra Fragment cards and considered establishing the Bald Monk Path among the Monster Race, whose territory was chaotic and filled with zombies.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the Elephant Demon’s Monster Kingdom and considered naming it the Jin Kingdom, though he worried about its internal divisions and the unnamed Human Kingdom.
• Zhang Zhi examined the Dragon Palace and found that more than three hundred and thirty Deity Realm dragons had imprinted it, granting nearby dragons substantial cultivation and combat bonuses.
• Zhang Zhi visited the Nine-Tailed Fox territory and found that the clan was the weakest in the Spiritual Treasure Small World after its Innate Spiritual Treasure was destroyed.

Zhang Zhi arranged the first exchange between the humans of the Spiritual Treasure Small World and the Qi Refinement Small World, while introducing Guangli Temple and its Bodhi Tree into the Spiritual Treasure Small World. The exchange ended with the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s cultivators questioning whether their world should rely on a single cultivation path.

• Zhang Zhi inspected the Spiritual Treasure Small World, resolved to guide its humans more closely, and planned an exchange with the Qi Refinement Small World.
• After receiving a Purple Rank Guangli Temple card, Zhang Zhi refined it into the Spiritual Treasure Small World, moved it to the demonfolk region, and planted the Bodhi Tree there.
• Yang delivered Zhang Zhi’s proposal for an exchange between the two worlds, and the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s humans prepared to host it.
• Fang Yun led cultivators and officials from the Qi Refinement Small World through the World Gate, where the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s leaders welcomed them.
• The two groups exchanged knowledge and sparred, and the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s cultivators were shocked by the Qi Refiner Path, the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique, and the visitors’ other paths and technologies.
• The Spiritual Treasure Small World’s cultivators began questioning whether their world should continue with only the Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation as its cultivation path.

The first exchange between the Qi Refinement Small World and the Spiritual Treasure Small World prompted reforms and renewed interest in cultivation paths. While inspecting Guangli Temple, Zhang Zhi discovered that a human named Yang Shi had arrived there and suspected he was the Bald Monk Path’s fated one.

• Fang Zhen impressed the Spiritual Treasure Small World by defeating its Deity Realm cultivators with his formations, while the two worlds exchanged knowledge about cultivation and governance.
• The Spiritual Treasure Small World began adopting cultivation techniques and reforming its systems, while cultivators in the Qi Refinement Small World sought to increase their number of Deity Realm beings.
• Zhang Zhi inspected Guangli Temple and found Yang Shi treating injured demonkin with alchemy techniques from another world.
• Zhang Zhi questioned Yang Shi about his journey into demonkin territory, and Yang Shi said he had felt a sudden urge to travel there.
• Zhang Zhi asked when Yang Shi had comprehended the Rebirth Mantra, leaving Yang Shi startled and asking how he knew.

Yang Shi met Zhang Zhi, the human World Master who created the Spiritual Treasure Small World, and learned that Guangli Temple and the Rebirth Mantra were part of a cultivation path called the Buddhist Path. Zhang Zhi explained its possible dangers and concluded that Yang Shi’s perilous journey might have been a trial; he wondered whether Guangli Temple or the Multiverse Consciousness caused it.

• Yang Shi recognized Zhang Zhi as the World Master and asked why he had placed Guangli Temple and the Bodhi Tree in demon-clan territory.
• Zhang Zhi revealed that he had introduced the Buddhist Path to the demon clans first because it might entrench social ranks and weaken a race’s drive to advance.
• Yang Shi told Zhang Zhi that he had comprehended the Rebirth Mantra before the exchange between the two worlds but only followed its call after humans began exploring other cultivation paths.
• Yang Shi recounted surviving dangers on his journey to Guangli Temple, with each escape clarifying the way forward.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that Yang Shi had passed a series of trials and wondered whether Guangli Temple or the Multiverse Consciousness had created them.

Zhang Zhi learned that Yang Shi had become the first Buddhist Path cultivator and urged him to develop the path among the demon race while protecting humanity from its harmful effects. After Zhang Zhi left, Yang Shi returned to his work, while Zhang Zhi continued investigating the Buddhist Path and patrolling the Spiritual Treasure Small World.

• Zhang Zhi concluded that neither Guangli Temple nor the Bodhi Tree had caused the trial and suspected the Multiverse or the Buddhist Path itself.
• Yang Shi asked whether he should continue cultivating the Buddhist Path, and Zhang Zhi explained that Guangli Temple could enable others to cultivate it while the Bodhi Tree could help them comprehend new techniques.
• Zhang Zhi told Yang Shi to master more Buddhist techniques, become Guangli Temple's abbot and the Leader of the Buddhist Path, and direct its early growth into demon territory.
• Yang Shi agreed to follow Zhang Zhi's plan, and Zhang Zhi advised him to preserve his Original Heart before vanishing.
• Yang Shi remembered Zhang Zhi's advice, took the spiritual herbs, and carried them to another room instead of immediately going to the Bodhi Tree.
• Zhang Zhi worried that the Buddhist Path could harm humanity, considered restricting its spread into human territory, and resumed patrolling the Spiritual Treasure Small World.

Zhang Zhi reviewed reforms in the Spiritual Treasure Small World and the Qi Refinement Small World’s plans to build a powerful technological flying ship. Concerned that the ship lacked weapons capable of threatening divine beings, he decided to investigate the Technology Secret Realm, where records suggested an unknown force rapidly absorbed all extraordinary laws and energy.

• Zhang Zhi saw the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s upper echelons begin directing cultivation resources and scientific improvements toward ordinary people, though management reforms remained slow.
• Zhang Zhi visited the Wu Clan’s domain, then inspected the Qi Refinement Small World and found the Twelve Dynasties assembling the keel of the Footman Armor flying ship.
• Zhang Zhi considered the ship’s weak attack system and decided to seek advanced technology in the Technology Secret Realm.
• Zhang Zhi obtained detailed records from the Secret Realm Management Office describing how extraordinary laws and energy rapidly dissipated in the Technology Secret Realm.
• Zhang Zhi speculated that something like a black hole might be absorbing those laws, then set aside the mystery and focused on finding technology for the Qi Refinement Small World.

Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan entered the Technology Secret Realm, a place without Extraordinary Energy that appeared to be a former military staging base. Their Retainers began exploring, but robot attacks near the supposedly cleared plaza raised the possibility that automated defenses were still active.

• Zhang Zhi reviewed the limits on summoning Retainers and prepared to explore the Technology Secret Realm with Liu Wanwan.
• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan entered through the metallic Teleportation Gate, which would not reopen for thirty days inside the Secret Realm.
• Zhang Zhi examined the vast plaza and concluded that the Secret Realm had likely served as a forward base for a belligerent race.
• Zhang Zhi sent Retainer teams southeast to explore previously cleared areas and assigned Deity Realm Retainers to protect them and the gate.
• Explosions erupted soon after the teams set out, and a Deity Realm Retainer brought Zhang Zhi a large combat robot.
• Zhang Zhi questioned why robots were attacking in an area that a previous explorer had supposedly cleared, suspecting that automated factories might still be operating.

Zhang Zhi investigated the secret realm’s robots and realized their weapons could help the Qi Refinement Small World develop Gauss technology. After stronger robots inflicted heavy casualties, he ordered the teams to defend themselves while preserving the weapons for study, leaving the researchers hopeful they could reproduce them.

• Zhang Zhi examined a destroyed robot and learned that its weapons could threaten Mortal Transformation Realm cultivators, though he suspected they were security equipment rather than the strongest weapons available.
• Zhang Zhi summoned mecha researchers to study the wreckage as robots attacked the Exploration Teams, causing nearly a thousand casualties in just over two hours.
• A larger robot armed with several kinds of powerful shells appeared, and further robot models soon brought the Exploration Teams heavy losses.
• Zhang Zhi refused to deploy the Spiritual Energy Annihilation Cannon and instead summoned more Retainers to defend the teams and search the buildings.
• After researchers identified the robots’ Control Hubs, Zhang Zhi ordered Deities to disable those hubs while leaving the Gauss Weapons intact.
• The researchers studied the weapons and concluded that the Qi Refinement Small World might be able to reproduce them with its existing energy and electromagnetic technology.

Zhang Zhi’s team designed a Gauss supercannon for the flying ship, survived a secret realm counterattack, and returned to the Main World with robot wreckage and research records. While transferring the materials to the Qi Refinement Small World, Zhang Zhi discovered something unusual among the recovered flying craft wrecks.

• Zhang Zhi gathered researchers, who confirmed the Spiritual Energy Annihilation Engine could power a Gauss Weapon and planned a supercannon for the flying ship.
• Fang Qi, Fang Ke, and the researchers finalized the weapon design, including its energy system, barrel, and specialized projectiles.
• Zhang Zhi tested the secret realm’s defenses, provoking thousands of flying craft and a Gauss attack aimed at him and Liu Wanwan.
• Deity Realm retainers destroyed the flying craft and blocked the attack, and Zhang Zhi waited until the Teleportation Gate opened before leaving with Liu Wanwan.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed the risks of the expedition and prepared to deliver the recovered wreckage and research records to the Qi Refinement Small World.
• Zhang Zhi discovered something unusual among the wreckage of the flying craft collected by his retainers.

Zhang Zhi discovered unexplained biological limbs preserved inside semicircular aircraft in the Technology Secret Realm, then learned that the Human Race had nearly destroyed the Mind Devourer worlds. He recognized the Master of the World Path as the Human Race’s immense foundation and was summoned by Professor Confucius to the Trading Temple.

• Zhang Zhi found twelve wrecked semicircular aircraft filled with different biological limbs preserved in pale-green liquid, and sent the limbs to researchers and Fang Long.
• Zhang Zhi returned to his routine and learned from Liu Xiaoxiao that nearly all worlds connected to the Mind Devourer had been destroyed.
• Zhang Zhi calculated that the Human Race had hundreds of millions of Thousand World Masters and realized their world-building path underpinned the race’s power and potential.
• Liu Xiaoxiao returned after more than four years in chaos, surprising Zhang Zhi, Liu Wanwan, and Zixia with her transformation.
• Professor Confucius summoned Zhang Zhi to the Trading Temple, now located at Fengjing University, and called him over to join a discussion with other professors.

Professor Confucius explained that records from seven foreign races supported Zhang Zhi’s deduction that repeated Great Calamities would continue until a race found a way to cross the Main God Realm or Main World Rank barrier. He and the other professors also discovered that the fate-type Great Calamity was absent from all the trade records, leading them to conclude that it had a problem.

• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the professors had compared his research with information traded for the Book of Curses and confirmed his earlier deduction about the Great Calamity.
• Professor Confucius described records of seven foreign races, whose Great Calamities came at different intervals and whose survivors endured between two and eleven waves.
• Professor Confucius explained that one foreign race believed an unknown factor, such as fortune, merit, Karma, or Cultivation Path, determined the Calamities’ intervals and severity, and that finding the right method might prevent further waves.
• Professor Confucius revealed that the trade records contained only Mental Power Contamination Calamities, with no fate-type Calamities like those experienced by humanity and the Demon Lord.
• Professor Confucius said the Trading Temple had confirmed the foreign race traded all it knew, so the absence of fate-type Calamities meant that kind of Great Calamity had a problem.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Three-Eyed God Race had gathered secrets through its Inheritance Shrine and that a Transformation Race protagonist had exposed its methods, while the Book of Curses remained too dangerous to discuss. After preparing to lecture at the Grand Gathering, Zhang Zhi returned to Fengjing University as students discussed the Human Race’s strength and expanding territory.

• Professor Confucius explained that the Three-Eyed God Race might know how to survive the Great Calamity but could only delay it, and that a Transformation Race protagonist had leaked secrets after infiltrating the Three-Eyed Race.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the Book of Curses caused the destiny and merit of anyone who learned its contents to disappear, so Professor Confucius withheld its details.
• Professor Confucius told Zhang Zhi that the Mind Devourer threat was weakening and confirmed that the Grand Gathering would proceed in three months, with Zhang Zhi giving a lecture on the Dao.
• After leaving the professors, Zhang Zhi wondered whether surviving the Great Calamity required avoiding Mental Corruption and concluded that the Human Race needed to grow stronger regardless.
• Realm Lords returned from the Mind Devourer Region, Fengjing University resumed normal life, and students discussed the Human Race’s unexpectedly large number of Thousand World Realm Lords and its expanding territory.

As the human race’s hidden strength became clear and Combat Class resumed, Zhang Zhi investigated the Buddhist Path developing at Guangli Temple and the growing witch race. He left with heightened concern about Buddhist conversion and noticed that Ao Guang had advanced to the Weak Divine Power Realm.

• Students at Fengjing University compared figures from their hometowns and realized the human race possessed at least tens of millions, and possibly hundreds of millions, of Thousand World Masters.
• Zhang Zhi’s Combat Class explored a world belonging to a race still active in the Multiverse and collected its cultivation techniques instead of seeking heavenly mandate.
• Zhang Zhi visited Guangli Temple and found that Yang Shi had comprehended a fragment of the Diamond Sutra and the Vajra Palm, while the other chosen ones had learned two more techniques.
• Zhang Zhi observed Yang Shi reciting the Diamond Sutra to nearly a hundred demons and worried that Buddhist scriptures could convert Intelligent Lifeforms and eventually spread among humans.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the witch race, found that it had grown to forty-nine members, and discovered that Ao Guang had advanced from the Half-God Realm to the Weak Divine Power Realm.

Zhang Zhi chose Ao Guang, a rare dragon with destiny, to lead and unite the Dragon Race in the Spiritual Treasure Small World, giving him authority over the Dragon Palace and permission to invoke Zhang Zhi’s name if necessary. He then surveyed the worlds’ races and cultivation paths, ending with news that Fang Sanzang had become a Deity Realm cultivator far ahead of the other practitioners of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Zhang Zhi summoned Ao Guang and heard his assessment that the Dragon Race was divided, selfish, and at risk of falling behind the demon race.
• Zhang Zhi explained that the Dragon Race was Destiny Deficient and that Ao Guang possessed more destiny than any other dragon in the Spiritual Treasure Small World.
• Zhang Zhi gave Ao Guang the Dragon Palace master’s authority, making him the nominal Dragon King, and allowed him to borrow Zhang Zhi’s name when necessary.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the human race’s newly introduced cultivation paths and found rapid progress in Immortal Cultivation and Fantasy, alongside growing technological development and initial political reforms.
• Zhang Zhi visited the other races and noted the Phoenix patriarch’s growing strength, the trees’ progress toward Gold Rank, and the Nine-Tailed Fox Race’s weaker prospects.
• Zhang Zhi learned that Fang Min and Fang Sanzang had advanced to the Deity Realm, with Fang Sanzang far ahead of the other Six Paths of Reincarnation cultivators.

Zhang Zhi inspected the Qi Refinement Small World, where Fang Yun preached and Fang Sanzang had begun teaching the Six Paths of Reincarnation Law, before investigating the growing population stranded in the Trial Tower. A survey revealed that many residents were waiting for Key Cards, seeking better places to cultivate, or refugees whose homes had fallen, and Zhang Zhi began reconsidering how to support them.

• Zhang Zhi inspected Mount Buzhou and found five Demigod Realm Qi Refiners and more than a hundred Legendary Realm Qi Refiners, while Fang Yun continued preaching.
• Zhang Zhi visited the Shang Kingdom, where researchers were developing Gauss Weapons and studying robot wrecks, and learned that Fang Sanzang had advanced to the Weak Divine Power Realm and was preaching the Six Paths of Reincarnation Law.
• Zhang Zhi opened the Underworld to Fang Sanzang and then found that more than ten million cultivators were registered as living in the Trial Tower.
• Zhang Zhi read a survey showing that many residents claimed to be waiting for Key Cards, while more than 25,700 were staying to cultivate and many had bodily deformities associated with the Godhood Attainer and Demon Refiner World Regions.
• Zhang Zhi learned that more than 13,700 surveyed cultivators had nowhere to return because their worlds or cities had fallen, and he discovered that several hundred could not verify their claimed origins.

Zhang Zhi reviewed survey results on why cultivators remained in the Trial Tower and considered ways to resettle those who were stranded, including possible immigration to the Ten Thousand Races Region. The survey also revealed students and families, merchants, cultivators afraid of death, and people fleeing human factional conflicts, leaving Zhang Zhi to continue reviewing the remaining reasons.

• Zhang Zhi found that many stranded cultivators wanted to immigrate to the Ten Thousand Races Region, and he weighed several difficult ways to transport them before deciding to pursue immigration and reclaiming fallen territories.
• Zhang Zhi learned that more than twelve thousand cultivators and family members stayed in the Trial Tower because of Multiverse Human Race Exchange University, and he planned to build student and instructor residences there.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that merchants and independent operators remained in the Trial Tower to trade resources, and he welcomed their role in exchange between World Regions.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed more than four thousand cases of cultivators who stayed because they feared death, noting that many came from the Godhood Attainer and Demon Refiner World Regions and that some came from the Ten Thousand Races World Region.
• Zhang Zhi read about cultivators hiding from factional pursuit or internal power struggles, with the Demon Refiner World Region having the most severe internal strife, then finished the survey with a small collection of miscellaneous reasons.

Zhang Zhi planned new measures to manage cultivators hiding in the Trial Tower, then learned that the human race would hold a Grand Gathering at Fengjing University. At a class meeting, Yun Wuxia explained that students could earn invitations through an Arena Battle and other assessments, and asked the class to share their current situations so they could improve their chances.

• Zhang Zhi decided to establish a Cultivator Registration System and Enforcement Agency to identify and expel criminals hiding in the Trial Tower, then gave the Twelve Dynasties officials instructions for carrying out the plan.
• Zhang Zhi continued his routine while rumors spread that the human race would hold a Grand Gathering to celebrate its victory over the Mind Devourer.
• Zixia reminded Zhang Zhi about the class meeting, and he arrived with Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao just before it began.
• Yun Wuxia confirmed that the Grand Gathering would take place at Fengjing University, where powerful cultivators would lecture on the Dao.
• Yun Wuxia explained that students could earn places through an Arena Battle and assessments of their potential and class performance, then asked whether anyone objected to discussing ways to improve their chances.

The class agreed on a compensation system for distributing Grand Gathering slots, and Wang Tianfeng revealed that four brothers had found the remains of a powerful being during the Mind Devourer War. When Liu Junkong called Zhang Zhi the Protagonist of the Human Era, Yun Wuxia recognized that jealousy had distorted his view of Zhang Zhi, while the class reacted with disbelief.

• Yun Wuxia proposed distributing slots according to school assessments and compensating classmates who did not receive one, and the class raised its enthusiasm for competing.
• Zhang Zhi and eight other students raised their hands to show they had advanced to Thousand World Masters, including two previously inconspicuous students, Wang Tianfeng and Wang Tianyun.
• Wang Tianfeng revealed that four brothers had discovered the remains of a special existence during the Mind Devourer War and asked for two slots if the class earned more than four; the class agreed to the contract.
• Zhang Zhi said he and the women beside him would not take the class's slots, and Zhao Zhaoyun tried to claim any extras he might obtain.
• Liu Junkong declared that professors considered Zhang Zhi the Protagonist of the Human Era, and Yun Wuxia realized his jealousy over not becoming Professor Confucius's disciple had biased his judgment of Zhang Zhi.
• Yun Wuxia felt his Mental Power rise after recognizing his obsession, while a classmate questioned whether Liu Junkong had mistaken Zhang Zhi for the human race's Contemporary Protagonist.

After Liu Junkong claimed Zhang Zhi was the human race’s Contemporary Protagonist, Zhang Zhi obtained Grand Gathering invitations and planned whom to give them to. He set out with Liu Wanwan, Liu Xiaoxiao, and Zixia to return to Qingshan Dao and deliver invitations.

• Liu Junkong claimed Zhang Zhi was the Contemporary Protagonist, but Zhang Zhi dismissed his statement, and classmates including Hu Hu, Zhao Zhaoyun, and Liu Junkong offered their support.
• Yun Wuxia warned Zhang Zhi that his cultivation method amplified his Negative Emotions, and Zhang Zhi reassured him that he held no grudge.
• Zhang Zhi contacted Professor Confucius about invitations, then obtained fifty blank Gold Rank divine-artifact invitations from Fengjing University’s Logistics Management Office.
• Zhang Zhi gave Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao ten invitations, explained their functions, and agreed to return with Liu Wanwan to Qingshan Dao.
• Zhang Zhi planned to distribute the remaining invitations among Li Qianjun, the principals, Seven Dragons Academy, and the Mutual Aid Society.
• Zhang Zhi, Liu Wanwan, Liu Xiaoxiao, and Zixia departed for the Teleportation Hall to travel back to Qingshan Dao.

Zixia revealed that the Cloud Mist Deity had come to the Human Race Main World after being abandoned by a human Master of the World, and she said her final obsession with that former self had vanished. After Zhang Zhi, Liu Wanwan, and Liu Xiaoxiao returned with her to Seven Dragons Prefecture, Liu Wanwan announced that she had become a Lesser Thousand World Master, stunning her clan.

• Zixia explained that the Cloud Mist Deity had attacked humanity after a human Master of the World abandoned her, and that her soul survived because the Human Race spared it and preserved her Divine Body.
• Zixia told Zhang Zhi that visiting Cloud Mist University had erased her last trace of obsession with the Cloud Mist Deity, leaving her wholly Zixia.
• Zhang Zhi and the others returned to Seven Dragons Prefecture, where Liu Wanwan invited Zhang Zhi and Zixia to stay at the Liu Mansion.
• Liu Yunzhong discovered that Liu Wanwan had summoned a Weak Divine Power Realm Retainer and learned that she had become a Lesser Thousand World Master without relying on a divine spark or divine position.
• Fourteenth Uncle rang the clan bell, and Liu Wanwan told the assembled clan elders that she had advanced after the war against the Mind Devourers and Fengjing University's special benefits.