Chapter Summaries

Liu Wanwan revealed that she and Liu Xiaoxiao had obtained ten invitations to the human race’s Grand Gathering, while Liu Xiaoxiao remained determined to advance without external help. Zhang Zhi visited Li Qianjun at the Seven Dragons Academy and revealed his own advancement and the invitations to a grand banquet he would host, leaving Li Qianjun astonished.

• Zhang Zhi asked Liu Xiaoxiao whether she planned to advance without external forces, and she said she would not settle for relying on them.
• Liu Wanwan presented the Liu Family’s patriarch with ten blank Grand Gathering invitations, five belonging to her and five to Liu Xiaoxiao, and the patriarch planned for them to distribute the invitations personally.
• News of Liu Wanwan’s independent advancement spread through the Seven Dragons Prefecture, drawing congratulatory visitors and preventing her from accompanying Zhang Zhi to the Seven Dragons Academy.
• Zhang Zhi visited Li Qianjun and handed him five invitations, which Li Qianjun recognized as Gold Rank divine artifacts.
• Zhang Zhi told Li Qianjun that he had advanced to the Thousand World Realm, become Professor Confucius’s disciple, and that Professor Confucius had reached the Main God Realm.
• Zhang Zhi clarified that the invitations were for a grand banquet he would host for the human race’s high-ranking cultivators, not a celebration of Professor Confucius’s advancement.

Zhang Zhi gave Li Qianjun, Seven Dragons Academy's headmaster, and Shangguan Feng invitations to the Grand Gathering. When he visited the Mutual Aid Society, Shangguan Feng revealed that conspirators, including several Great Thousand World Masters, were tracking the Key Cards and their holders; Zhang Zhi responded by giving him an invitation and showing he had a whole stack.

• Zhang Zhi gave Li Qianjun five blank invitations to the Grand Gathering, and Li accepted them as favors to distribute.
• Zhang Zhi and Li visited the headmaster, who accepted an invitation and wondered how Zhang Zhi had obtained so many.
• Zhang Zhi obtained the Mutual Aid Society's records and visited Shangguan Feng, who told him that conspirators were tracking Key Cards and their holders.
• Shangguan Feng explained that the cards had been exposed after the Mutual Aid Society gave some to another Vanguard Team, and that several Great Thousand World Masters were involved in the conspiracy.
• Zhang Zhi assured Shangguan Feng he could handle the conspirators and gave him an invitation to the Grand Gathering.
• Shangguan Feng was shocked when Zhang Zhi revealed the invitation was a Gold Rank artifact and saw him take out a stack of more invitations.

Zhang Zhi revealed his connection to Professor Confucius to protect the Mutual Aid Society and prepared to distribute Grand Gathering invitations. After returning to Yicheng, he learned that children had been disappearing from nearby cities.

• Zhang Zhi told Shangguan Feng he was Professor Confucius's disciple, a Lesser Thousand World Master, and planned to use twenty invitations to deter those plotting over the Key Cards.
• Shangguan Feng learned that Professor Confucius had reached the Main World Rank and that the Grand Gathering would include teachings on advancing and reforming knowledge monopolies.
• Zhang Zhi asked Shangguan Feng to set invitation eligibility rules and convene the Mutual Aid Society in three days, then asked him to investigate a member named Peng Huan.
• Zixia noticed that people were following Zhang Zhi, and the watchers decided to report their suspicions to their lord while one continued watching Shangguan Feng.
• Zhang Zhi returned to Yicheng and visited the Old Director at the expanded Orphanage, where he learned that children had been disappearing from several nearby cities.

Zhang Zhi visited Yicheng First Middle School to give the principal an invitation to the Human Race’s grand feast and learned the school had flourished thanks to his success. When he asked about children disappearing and Orphanage directors vanishing, the principal revealed his long-standing mission to infiltrate the Vampires and left Zhang Zhi suspecting he led the Vampire forces in Yicheng.

• Zhang Zhi gave the principal a Gold Rank divine artifact invitation to the grand feast, and the principal accepted it after seeing his name registered as its holder.
• The principal learned Zhang Zhi had become Professor Confucius’s disciple and praised his advancement, while telling him that Yicheng First Middle School had attracted talented students because of his achievements.
• Zhang Zhi asked the principal about the missing children and Orphanage directors, and the principal confirmed that the disappearances were connected to the Vampires.
• The principal explained that he had joined a secret mission to find the Vampires’ lair after his family was killed in a Vampire attack, and that he had posed as an infiltrator to earn their trust.
• The principal revealed that he and three others had been recruited by a human embedded in the Vampires’ ranks, and that the Vampires had placed him in Yicheng to infiltrate the city.
• Zhang Zhi realized from the principal’s account that the principal was likely the leader of the Vampire forces in Yicheng.

Zhang Zhi learned that Cloud Lake University had kept vampires active around Yicheng to find a strange object that might enable a Human Race transformation cultivation path, and he chose not to interfere with the plan. Back in Seven Dragons Prefecture, he learned Liu Wanwan’s Thousand World Ascension Ceremony had been postponed, and Liu Wanwan proposed holding it together with Liu Xiaoxiao’s.

• The Principal told Zhang Zhi that vampires had moved their base and that Cloud Lake University sought a strange object to develop a cultivation path that could transform other races into the Human Race.
• Zhang Zhi learned the abducted children were being groomed as controlled Masters of the World, though people obstructing the vampires could still be harmed.
• The Principal revealed that Zhang Zhi had once been considered for undercover work among the vampires, but Li Qianjun had taken him away.
• After leaving Yicheng, Zhang Zhi decided not to approach Professor Zhuang Zi or investigate the vampires, so he would not disrupt the Principal’s organization’s plans.
• Zhang Zhi returned to Seven Dragons Prefecture and waited at Liu Mansion while Liu Wanwan postponed her Thousand World Ascension Ceremony to allow time for invitations.
• Zhang Zhi encouraged Liu Xiaoxiao, and Liu Wanwan proposed holding their Thousand World Ascension Ceremonies together.

Zhang Zhi prepared genuine Grand Gathering invitations for the Mutual Aid Society, while observers in Seven Dragons Prefecture tried to understand his connections and the source of the Key Cards. Zixia drove away those spying on the gathering, and rumors spread that she was Zhang Zhi’s Half-Step Main Deity Realm Dao Protector and that Professor Confucius might own the Trial Tower.

• Liu Wanwan told Zhang Zhi that Liu Xiaoxiao might be giving invitations to the Liu Mansion to repay the family, and Zhang Zhi chose not to ask her about her painful past.
• Shangguan Feng announced that Zhang Zhi would attend the Mutual Aid Society gathering and give invitations to members who had made important contributions, prompting observers to speculate that the invitations were only attendant spots.
• The dean and Li Qianjun contacted Zhang Zhi, confirmed that he had prepared invitations, and approved of his generosity toward his old friends.
• Zhang Zhi arrived at the auditorium with Zixia, who detected 235 observers and drove them away with a burst of pressure that left some unconscious and dispelled their spying spells.
• Three Tianxing University professors recognized Zixia’s power as Half-Step Main Deity Realm, but one dismissed Zhang Zhi’s cultivation and refused to visit him.
• Observers concluded that Zixia was Zhang Zhi’s Dao Protector and speculated that Professor Confucius owned the Trial Tower, had accepted Zhang Zhi as his disciple, and had granted the genuine invitations.

Zhang Zhi gave the Mutual Aid Society sixteen invitations to the Grand Gathering, drawing attention across the region and concern over the recipients’ safety. After Li Qianjun questioned him about the invitations and Zixia’s power, Zhang Zhi began explaining how he had met her at Cloud Mist University.

• Leaders who had considered scheming for the Trial Tower learned Zhang Zhi held many invitations and abandoned their plans.
• Zhang Zhi gave Peng Huan an invitation, and she asked him to find information about joining Fengjing University.
• The Mutual Aid Society selected forty-eight people to attend the Grand Gathering, and news of Zhang Zhi’s sixteen invitations spread widely.
• Liu Mansion’s elders realized Zhang Zhi had likely given Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao their invitations, while the grand elder criticized the clan leader for favoring the powerful.
• Li Qianjun warned Zhang Zhi that the invitations could put the Mutual Aid Society in danger, and Zhang Zhi said Zixia had frightened off potential threats.
• Zhang Zhi told Li Qianjun that Zixia had become his Dao Protector after he helped her at Cloud Mist University, leaving Li Qianjun confused about how he could have helped a Half-Step Main Deity Realm Existence.

Zhang Zhi reassured Li Qianjun about Zixia’s origins and planned to build his own force from suitable members of the Mutual Aid Society, while Liu Mansion’s family members scrambled for invitations and favor. He continued cultivating and inspecting his Small Worlds, where Ao Guang’s alliance-building was beginning to unite the dragon race and Fang Yun lectured at Mount Buzhou.

• Li Qianjun learned that Zixia was a Half-Step Main Deity Realm Existence linked to Cloud Mist University, and Zhang Zhi assured him that Professor Confucius already knew her origins.
• Zhang Zhi told Zixia he intended to cultivate a force from suitable Mutual Aid Society members rather than rely on Liu Mansion, and he had Ao Guang drive away visitors from their courtyard.
• Liu Mansion’s clan head failed to enter Zhang Zhi’s courtyard, while Liu Wanwan confirmed that Zixia was Zhang Zhi’s Dao Protector and asked the clan to postpone her Thousand World Ascension Ceremony.
• Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao reflected on the clan members’ hypocrisy as Liu Mansion finalized its Grand Gathering invitation quotas.
• Zhang Zhi continued cultivating and patrolling his Small Worlds, where Ao Guang advanced his plan to unite the dragon branches through alliances and persuasion.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the witch race, Guangli Temple, the Three-in-One Spiritual Treasure, and the Qi Refinement Small World, where Fang Yun was lecturing at Mount Buzhou.

Zhang Zhi received the Gold Rank Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation after it caused the Spiritual Treasure Small World to begin nurturing a Gold Rank status, and he passed it to the Human Race. Later, he joined a low-risk exploration mission with Liu Wanwan and discovered a peculiar World Region inhabited only by humans, whose Cultivation Path reached just the Weak Divine Power Realm.

• Zhang Zhi discovered that the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure had deduced the Gold Rank Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation, causing the Spiritual Treasure Small World to begin nurturing a Gold Rank status.
• Zhang Zhi gave the Human Race's deities a jade pendant containing the Gold Rank Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation as a reward for their contributions.
• Zhang Zhi observed Yang Shi teaching the Calming Spell to demons and judged that it could help them focus but would be unsuitable for humans if cultivated too deeply.
• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan joined a Combat Class exploration mission in a newly merged World Region after the Human Race there requested help against attacks.
• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan explored the Lesser Thousand World and learned that the World Region contained only humans, yet their Cultivation Path could reach only the Weak Divine Power Realm.

Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan investigated why this world region contained only humans and why human cultivation was capped at the Weak Divine Power Realm. Zhang Zhi suspected the ancient humans had used a special Cultivation Path to secure humanity’s eternal dominance, and he began explaining the role of ancestral tablets in that path.

• Zhang Zhi proposed that internal rivalries and ignorance of the Main World’s strength could lead local human factions to resist annexation.
• Zhang Zhi inferred that the ancient humans had eliminated other intelligent races and restricted cultivation to make humans the region’s eternal protagonists.
• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan traveled with Ao Guang to a nearby world, investigated it, and found evidence that worlds in the region were unusually dense and its humans’ history stretched across many eras.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that the humans’ Cultivation Path might prevent other creatures from developing intelligence, and he pointed out that temples worshiped deceased ancestors bearing shared surnames and generation characters.
• Zhang Zhi began to explain his theory by recalling the saying that all things have spirits.

Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan investigated the ancestor-worship Cultivation Path and the many family factions in the World Region, concluding that the Main World's coming banquet could pave the way for unification and reform. Before their exploration ended, four strange Weak Divine Power Realm creatures attacked a faction, then escaped into the void when their abilities failed against the pair's Retainers.

• Zhang Zhi theorized that the temples' ancestral souls consumed spirit, possibly through Blood Sacrifice, to prevent other intelligent races from emerging, and Liu Wanwan considered the implications for human sacrifice and the Main World's isolation of the region.
• Over three days, Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan visited all seventeen factions in a world and learned that their ancestor-worship Cultivation Path let cultivators offer spirit to ancestral souls in exchange for borrowing their power.
• Zhang Zhi estimated that the region contained more than ten thousand factions and predicted that the Main World's upcoming banquet would give local leaders a chance to witness its power and prepare them for unification and Cultivation Path reform.
• As Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan exchanged information with classmates, the Great World they were in came under attack from four strange creatures that resembled both animals and humans.
• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan summoned their Deity Realm Retainers, who proved immune to the creatures' methods; the four Weak Divine Power Realm attackers then burrowed into the void and disappeared.

After a massacre in the city, Zhang Zhi learned that the attacking godsouls were taking revenge for their faction’s destruction and that the local Cultivation Path used spirits as its energy. He discovered that the path’s methods stopped at the Deity Realm, leaving open the possibility that the World Region could later gain access to higher cultivation methods.

• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan found the city’s streets filled with the dead, while the surviving elders refused to explain the monsters’ origins.
• Zhang Zhi suspected the monsters were avenging past atrocities and told survivors they could find him if they had information.
• An elder delivered a jade pendant revealing that four godsouls from a destroyed faction had attacked the city and that the local factions had committed similar massacres.
• A disguised elder asked Zhang Zhi to kill the four godsouls, and Zhang Zhi promised to do his best while questioning him about the Cultivation Path’s limits.
• Zhang Zhi told the elder that cultivation continued beyond the Deity Realm and learned that this path used spirit as energy, with souls becoming spirit-ified through repeated loss and replenishment of spirit.

Zhang Zhi learned how the Spirit Cultivation Path shaped humanity’s rule over its World Region, then returned to the Main World after gathering information during Combat Class. Professor Confucius assembled more than forty Main God Realm existences for a mission against the Mind Devourers, and Zhang Zhi recognized the Dragon Race Main Deity before the group set out through a spatial passage.

• Zhang Zhi concluded that the Spirit Cultivation Path encouraged humanity to explore every world and prevent other intelligent races from rising, while he suspected the Ancient Sages had deliberately limited its power ceiling.
• Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan gathered reports from visitors about the local forces, a vanished sacred land, and the reasons the force had been attacked before returning to the Main World.
• Professor Zou reviewed Zhang Zhi and Liu Wanwan’s extensive reports, scored the class, and ended Combat Class; afterward, Liu Xiaoxiao told Zhang Zhi she would ascend to Thousand World Master.
• Professor Confucius summoned Zhang Zhi to his cave abode, where more than forty Main God Realm existences gathered for a mission that Zhang Zhi believed would eliminate the Mind Devourers and the remaining foreign-race Main Deities.
• A Dragon Race Main Deity opened a spatial passage toward the Monster Race Main World, and Professor Confucius called Zhang Zhi over to take him through safely.

Zhang Zhi followed Professor Confucius and the human Main Deities to the Mind Devourers’ hiding place, where they overcame the Super Divine Artifact’s attacks and found it alongside the dead Mind Devourers. As the Main Deities debated whether to recruit the enslaved foreign-race survivors, Professor Confucius asked Zhang Zhi for his opinion.

• The human Main Deities passed the Monster Race Main World without attacking it, planning to deal with the foreign races after Professor Confucius’s Grand Gathering lecture.
• Professor Confucius led the group to the Mind Devourers’ ambush site, where more than a hundred avatars tested the Super Divine Artifact’s mental, spatial, and light-based attacks.
• The avatars located and broke through the formation hiding the black spherical Super Divine Artifact, then confirmed that the Mind Devourers and several enslaved foreign-race deities had died from its backlash.
• The Main Deities sent three experts in the Mental Power Law to retrieve the artifact while they debated whether to execute or recruit the surviving foreign-race deities.
• Professor Confucius asked Zhang Zhi what he thought, and Zhang Zhi replied, “Those who are not of our race will inevitably have different hearts.”

Zhang Zhi watched the human Main Gods reach a compromise over captured foreign gods and examined the enormous Super Divine Artifact before returning to the Main World with Professor Confucius. There, he discussed his upcoming lecture and explained that the Main Gods’ dispute had been a way to secure more support for developing human Cultivation Paths.

• Zhang Zhi realized the Main Gods were bargaining over resources and reached an agreement to restrain the foreign gods and fund missions for new human Cultivation Paths.
• Professor Confucius brought Zhang Zhi to the Super Divine Artifact, where Zhang endured its oppressive might with help from the Small Broken Bell and studied its Combination Runes.
• The Main Gods explained that the Mind Devourers had used a special refining method obtained through the Trading Temple, and they began preparing formations around the artifact.
• Professor Confucius took Zhang Zhi back to the Main World, where Zhang said he expected to advance to the Extraordinary Realm and planned to comprehend Three Heads Six Arms for his lecture.
• Professor Confucius asked Zhang about the dispute over captured foreign gods, and Zhang explained that the human-path Main Gods had used it to make the other Main Gods support new human Cultivation Paths.

Zhang Zhi discussed humanity’s future and the Spirit Cultivation Path World Region with Professor Confucius, then returned to Fengjing University as news of the Grand Gathering and Knowledge Gratuitization stirred humanity. With the policy set to undermine many families, Professor Confucius’s earlier warning about Zhang Zhi’s political judgment took on a clearer significance.

• Professor Confucius warned Zhang Zhi to be wary of schemes and danger, then explained why the Main Gods had delayed deciding the fate of the Spirit Cultivation Path World Region.
• Zhang Zhi proposed gathering all matter in the Multiverse into one world, but Professor Confucius said such a world would require an unimaginable rank and time to form.
• Zhang Zhi returned to his residence, where Zixia practiced the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique, and he told her that humanity had exterminated the Mind Devourers.
• Humanity announced that the Grand Gathering would address the Mind Devourers’ destruction, Professor Zhuang Zi’s glimpse beyond the Main God Realm, Professor Confucius becoming the Main World Master, and Knowledge Gratuitization.
• Cultivators gathered at Fengjing University as invitations became valuable, while Liu Mansion members worried that Knowledge Gratuitization would damage their family’s interests.
• Zhang Zhi revealed some confidential information to Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao and realized that families harmed by the policy might target him, unlike Zhuang Zi and Professor Confucius.

Zhang Zhi prepared for the Grand Gathering by reaching the Extraordinary Realm and inspecting the progress of his Small Worlds. He left the Qi Refinement Small World’s rapidly expanding population and immigration problems under review before entering the Trial Tower.

• Zhang Zhi advanced to the Extraordinary Realm and confirmed that he had comprehended Three Heads Six Arms for his upcoming sermon.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the Spiritual Treasure Small World, where Yang Shi led Guangli Temple while carefully limiting the spread of the Calming Spell.
• Zhang Zhi surveyed the Qi Refinement Small World and found it gaining divine positions and Weak Divine Power Realm cultivators faster than its population could keep pace.
• Zhang Zhi found that Fang Yun was still studying the Gold Rank Eight-Nine Mystic Cultivation and had not begun deducing the Gold Rank Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique.
• Zhang Zhi reviewed proposals about population growth, refugees, and immigration, setting them aside for further consideration by the Twelve Dynasties.
• Zhang Zhi learned that Six Paths of Reincarnation resources had improved human relations with other races in the Witchcraft World Region, then entered the Trial Tower.

Zhang Zhi discovered that the Spiritual Treasure Small World was connected to the Barren Heaven Continent, a world whose many races included powerful Dao Integration Realm experts. After learning that these experts drew their power from the continent’s Heavenly Dao, he faced questions from Chai Yun about his identity and the Small World.

• Zhang Zhi noticed that the human race’s exchanges between World Regions had increased and that Hu Xin'er had become popular for offering strategic advice.
• Zhang Zhi found an unfamiliar human cultivator among the Small World's leaders and learned from Ao Guang that the visitor came from the Barren Heaven Continent, the only world in its World Region.
• Chai Yun explained that the Barren Heaven Continent held many races and that five of its strongest races each had more than ten Dao Integration Realm existences; he also revealed that the Yinglong Race was among them.
• Chai Yun said that Dao Integration Realm experts merged with the Barren Heaven Continent’s Heavenly Dao and that nobody there had surpassed that realm.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that the continent’s Dao Integration Realm differed from the Main God Realm and asked Chai Yun about its history and the number of Dao Integration experts.
• Chai Yun asked Zhang Zhi whether he came from outside the domain, whether he was a Main God, what the secret realm was, and what he thought of the Barren Heaven Continent.

Zhang Zhi learned about Barren Heaven Continent’s unusual Heavenly Dao Cultivation Path and its hundreds of Dao Integration experts, then explained the strength and ambitions of his own Human Race to Chai Yun. He left the Spiritual Treasure Small World after asking those present to welcome Chai Yun.

• Zhang Zhi told Chai Yun that he came from another World Region, had created the secret realm, and had no designs on Barren Heaven Continent.
• Zhang Zhi explained that most World Regions contained millions of worlds, while Barren Heaven Continent was unique in containing only one.
• Chai Yun described Barren Heaven Continent’s races, Heavenly Dao Cultivation Path, and more than four hundred Dao Integration experts, prompting Zhang Zhi to consider the world’s many mysteries and potential significance.
• Zhang Zhi told Chai Yun that his Human Race had fewer than a hundred Main God Realm existences, had contacted humans in other World Regions, and had found a possible path Above the Main God Realm.
• Chai Yun and the Spiritual Treasure Small World’s deities were shocked by Zhang Zhi’s account, and Zhang Zhi asked them to welcome Chai Yun before leaving the world.

After learning about Barren Heaven Continent’s history and defenses, Zhang Zhi sent three cultivators from Spiritual Treasure Small World back with Chai Yun to establish contact. He then welcomed the Mutual Aid Society to Fengjing University and joined his classmates for the opening of the Combat Arena.

• Zhang Zhi concluded that Barren Heaven Continent was a defensive world that might have been an abandoned experiment by the Multiverse Consciousness, and he delayed reporting his discoveries until after the Grand Gathering.
• Chai Yun agreed to take three Weak Divine Power Realm cultivators from Spiritual Treasure Small World back to Barren Heaven Continent, and he explained that the Outer Domain Heavenly Demons had once invaded and killed nearly half its inhabitants.
• Shangguan Feng contacted Zhang Zhi, who welcomed the arriving Mutual Aid Society members to Fengjing University and arranged for them to stay at his residence.
• Zhang Zhi showed the Mutual Aid Society around Fengjing University, where its members spent much of their free time studying in the library.
• Zhang Zhi, Liu Wanwan, Liu Xiaoxiao, and others went to the Combat Secret Realm for the first day of Fengjing University’s Arena Match, while the Mutual Aid Society and Liu Mansion members came to watch.