Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi used the Arena Match to reveal that he could summon a hundred Retainers at the Weak Divine Power Realm, making onlookers reconsider provoking him. The chapter ended with the patriarch of Liu Mansion realizing Zhang Zhi was Professor Confucius’s disciple and bitterly regretting how his clan had treated him.

• Zhang Zhi defeated a Thousand World Master almost instantly by summoning a hundred Weak Divine Power Realm Retainers, and the watching cultivators spread news of his strength.
• Zhang Zhi left with Liu Wanwan as Liu Wanwan and Zhang Zhi continued through their Arena Match rounds, drawing larger crowds.
• Zhang Zhi defeated another opponent quickly, then faced a well-informed Thousand World Master who recorded the match with a jade pendant.
• The patriarch of Liu Mansion watched Zhang Zhi command a hundred Retainers and regretted driving away someone who could have been close to the clan.
• The patriarch heard that Professor Confucius had accepted Zhang Zhi as his disciple and realized why Zhang Zhi had received Grand Gathering invitations.

After Zhang Zhi won the Arena Match, he inspected his Small Worlds and learned that Chai Yun’s party had reached the Barren Heaven Continent. Jin Da’s report led Zhang Zhi to question whether worlds had a limit to their size, and the chapter ended with news that the party had met Chai Yun’s sect master.

• Clan Leader Liu told Old Huang San that he planned to resign after the Grand Gathering because his family’s relationship with Zhang Zhi had deteriorated.
• Zhang Zhi won first place in the Arena Match with a hundred Weak Divine Power Realm retainers, while Zixia took first place in the accompanying-student match.
• As the Grand Gathering approached, Zhang Zhi inspected his Small Worlds and saw that a Footman Armor flying ship was undergoing a trial flight.
• Ao Guang told Zhang Zhi that Jin Da had reported the party’s arrival at the Barren Heaven Continent after a long journey through Chaos and an empty void.
• Zhang Zhi considered whether the Barren Heaven Continent’s vast empty surroundings meant that worlds had a maximum size, and wondered what rank would let his Qi Refinement Small World expand further.
• Ao Guang added that Chai Yun had introduced the party to his sect’s Intermediate Divine Power Realm Sect Master and that events had gone smoothly so far.

Zhang Zhi discovered that Buddhist Path techniques were spreading among souls and Evil Creatures in the Underworld, threatening the Six Paths of Reincarnation Path. He ordered Yang and Fang Sanzang to keep Buddhist Path cultivators separated for now and said he would handle Guangli Temple.

• Zhang Zhi praised Ao Guang for his work and found the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure attempting to advance to the Gold Rank.
• Zhang Zhi witnessed the Ghost Gate Pass open and saw Yang and Fang Sanzang meet a Lion Demon and a Peacock Demon from Guangli Temple.
• Zhang Zhi learned that fallen Buddhist Path cultivators had spread their techniques through the Underworld because those techniques cleansed Negative Emotions and Mental Corruption.
• Yang and Fang Sanzang explained that they had separated Buddhist Path souls and Evil Creatures to contain the spread, and Zhang Zhi ordered them to continue until they could suppress the affected Evil Creatures.
• Zhang Zhi told the Lion Demon and Peacock Demon he would visit Yang Shi at Guangli Temple, while Yang and Fang Sanzang recognized him as the Master of the World.

Zhang Zhi celebrated Fang Yun’s advancement to the Low Divine Power Realm, then told Professor Confucius how the Tian Zhao Family had tried to force him to marry into their family. Professor Confucius confronted Professor Zhaozi, and after hearing the details, found the visitors’ registration record.

• Zhang Zhi discovered that Fang Yun had deduced the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique to Gold Rank and advanced to the Low Divine Power Realm.
• Zhang Zhi continued avoiding intrusive visitors at Fengjing University as the Grand Gathering drew near.
• Professor Confucius summoned Zhang Zhi and learned that visitors had repeatedly pressured him to marry into their families.
• Professor Confucius confronted Professor Zhaozi after suspecting that the Tian Zhao Family had sent the offending visitors.
• Zhang Zhi recounted how the Tian Zhao Family’s cultivators had threatened him and tried to suppress him with Martial Dao True Intent.
• Professor Confucius checked the university’s visitor records and found the Tian Zhao Family’s registration.

Professor Confucius had the four members of the Tian Zhao Family imprisoned for attacking Zhang Zhi, then explained how their actions related to opposition to Knowledge Gratuitization and humanity’s plans. As the Grand Gathering approached, Zhang Zhi reported that his Small World’s Retainers had deduced the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique to Gold Rank, and Professor Confucius asked about Fang Yun’s cultivation.

• Professor Confucius summoned his Main God Realm Retainer, who brought Zhao Guanghan and three others before him and Zhao Zi.
• Zhao Guanghan and Zhao Guangyu denied attacking Zhang Zhi, but Zhang Zhi explained that the group had come to pressure him into marrying into their family and had tried to suppress him with Martial Dao True Intent.
• Zhao Zi left Professor Confucius to handle the matter, and Professor Confucius ordered the four sent to Fengjing University’s Dark Prison for a hundred years and their Grand Gathering invitations canceled.
• Professor Confucius explained that the four had tried to weaken his authority and oppose Knowledge Gratuitization, then revealed humanity’s plan to use increased fortune to raise three Main Gods above the Main God Realm.
• Professor Confucius warned Zhang Zhi that more families might oppose Knowledge Gratuitization, then asked how preparations for the Grand Gathering were going.
• Zhang Zhi said the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique had reached Gold Rank through his Small World’s Retainers, and Professor Confucius asked what cultivation level Fang Yun had reached.

Zhang Zhi declined to compete for the Merit-Based Sainthood quotas and decided to support Yan Bo in the Celestial Dog World Region instead. As the Grand Gathering approached, the Old Director and the Principal of Yicheng disappeared, but Zhang Zhi brought Fang Yun to the Main World to prepare for the lecture.

• Zhang Zhi asked Professor Confucius to let Fang Yun explain the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique at the Grand Gathering, and Professor Confucius approved his lecture plan.
• Professor Confucius offered Zhang Zhi a chance to pursue Merit-Based Sainthood, but Zhang Zhi declined and resolved to first help Yan Bo save the humans in the Celestial Dog World Region.
• Zixia returned from Yicheng with news that the Old Director had been taken away, and Zhang Zhi found that the Principal of Yicheng was missing as well.
• Zhang Zhi decided to postpone investigating the disappearances and opened a World Gate to bring Fang Yun from the Qi Refinement Small World to the Main World.
• Fang Yun arrived in the Main World, marveled at its vastness and the many Deity Realm cultivators, and Zhang Zhi told him they would discuss the surprise later.

Zhang Zhi brought Fang Yun to Fengjing University and asked him to explain the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique at the human race’s Grand Gathering. The gathering began with Zhang Zhi and Fang Yun assigned a palace above the other attendees, and the Sound of Nature rang out, strengthening Zhang Zhi’s Mental Power.

• Zhang Zhi learned that Fang Yun could absorb the insights of cultivators who learned from his teachings, helping him develop the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique.
• Zhang Zhi invited Fang Yun to explain the technique and the Qi Refinement Path at the Grand Gathering, and Fang Yun eagerly agreed.
• Zhang Zhi asked Zixia to investigate the Old Director’s disappearance in Yicheng, and she set off for the city.
• Zhang Zhi, Fang Yun, the Liu Family, and the Mutual Aid Society traveled to the Grand Gathering, where Zhang Zhi and Fang Yun were brought to Cloud Ascent Hall by Professor Confucius’s arrangement.
• Cloud Ascent Hall’s artifact spirit, Yun'er, explained how the palace could display the preaching and teleport its occupants to the Floating Mountain’s lecture platform.
• The Sound of Nature rang ninety-nine times, raising Zhang Zhi’s Mental Power, and attendees identified it as a sound produced by consuming the human race’s fortune.

At the Human Race Grand Gathering, welcoming music and lavish offerings revealed the power of the Main World to cultivators from the Liu Family, the Mutual Aid Society, and other worlds. As Zhang Zhi examined the feast in Cloud Ascent Hall, outsiders accepted that their worlds would likely be absorbed by the Main World, while those responsible for Blood Sacrifices struggled to justify their actions.

• The Sound of Nature purified Mental Power Contamination, increased comprehension, and loosened cultivation bottlenecks; Liu Xiaoxiao comprehended One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and created clones.
• After the Ninety-Ninth Bell Sound, cultivators from a special World Region resolved to merge with the Main World, and Third Brother predicted the Lei Family and Wei Family would submit to punishment.
• Zhang Zhi checked his increased Mental Power Value as the welcoming music ended and the feast began, then received a tray of nine kinds of immortal fruits in Cloud Ascent Hall.
• The Liu Family Patriarch promised to honor the invitation spots sold to other families, while cultivators explained that Ten Thousand Flowers Azure Cloud wine could temporarily increase comprehension.
• Cranes delivered a lavish succession of Spirit Food to Zhang Zhi, who told Fang Yun to eat and considered packing away what they could not finish.
• At the edge of the gathering, outsiders resolved to prepare their families for the Main World's unification, while another cultivator defended Blood Sacrifice as a consequence of their ancestors' teachings and fear of the deities.

Professor Zhuang Zi lectured for six days on his insights into the Realm Above the Main God Realm, openly tying the prestigious knowledge to the Human Race’s Knowledge Gratuitization campaign. Zhang Zhi and Fang Yun ignored the lecture because it concerned Merit-Based Sainthood, while the chapter ended with Zhang Zhi surprised that one cultivator’s insights had lasted a full day.

• Professor Zhuang Zi began sharing his insights into the Realm Above the Main God Realm, and cultivators from the Ancestor Cultivation Path praised the Human Race’s willingness to share knowledge.
• Clan Head Liu and others recognized the lecture as an open conspiracy to secure support for Knowledge Gratuitization and discussed how Masters of the World might seek fortune through combat against foreign races.
• Zhang Zhi and Fang Yun declined to listen because Professor Zhuang Zi’s insights concerned Merit-Based Sainthood, and they discussed their own upcoming lecture instead.
• Immortal Crane Fairy watched Zhang Zhi and Fang Yun with curiosity while serving them wine, unable to understand why they ignored the lecture.
• Professor Zhuang Zi’s lecture continued for six days, pausing to let cultivators absorb each section.
• A Great Divine Power Realm cultivator experienced churning clouds for a full day after gaining insight, and Zhang Zhi realized the cultivator might be a candidate for Merit-Based Sainthood.

After Professor Zhuang Zi’s lecture caused Flowers of the Great Dao to descend, Zhang Zhi took the stage as the second preacher. He introduced himself as a seventeen-year-old Lesser Thousand World Realm Lord in the Extraordinary Realm, stunning the audience as his lecture began.

• Professor Zhuang Zi’s lecture ended with Flowers of the Great Dao descending and spreading insights among cultivators across the gathering.
• Zhang Zhi worried that the flowers’ impact would overshadow Professor Confucius’s lecture, so he arranged to take the next preaching slot himself.
• A day later, Zhang Zhi appeared on the Light Screens as the second preacher, shocking Liu Wanwan, Liu Xiaoxiao, the Liu family, and other acquaintances.
• Li Qianjun and the Headmaster discussed Zhang Zhi’s rise and urged everyone to listen closely to understand why he had been chosen.
• Zhang Zhi created two clones with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, then revealed that he was seventeen, in the Extraordinary Realm, and the Realm Lord of a Lesser Thousand World.

Zhang Zhi explained the Qi Refiner Path and the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique at the Grand Gathering, claiming they could grant powerful divine abilities and let practitioners fight above their tier. He had Fang Yun continue the lecture, and the chapter ended as the first attendee arrived in person to learn more about the path.

• Zhang Zhi introduced the Qi Refiner Path and the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique, saying they offered a chance to comprehend a divine ability with each realm advancement.
• Zhang Zhi claimed One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones created clones as powerful as the original, allowing Qi Refiners to fight above their tier invincibly.
• Professor Confucius told Professor Zhuang Zi that Zhang Zhi's Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique had already reached the Low Divine Power Realm, while Liu Wanwan, Liu Xiaoxiao, and the Liu Family reacted with surprise.
• Zhang Zhi invited Fang Yun, a Retainer from his Small World, to explain the Qi Refiner Path and demonstrate its potential to the gathered cultivators.
• Fang Yun lectured on the path, and many listeners recognized its power, though some Masters of the World found their Retainers could not cultivate it.
• A cultivator teleported to the Floating Mountain to hear Fang Yun in person, and Professor Zhuang Zi noted that the cultivator's spiritual qi would let him switch to the Qi Refiner Path.

Fang Yun’s lecture convinced many Grand Gathering cultivators of the Qi Refiner Path’s strength, while a flood of questions forced Zhang Zhi and Fang Yun to arrange a more limited question process. After answering the senior cultivators’ questions, Fang Yun returned to the Lecture Platform eager to continue lecturing and develop new insights.

• Professor Confucius had Fang Yun pause after several hours so listeners could digest the Qi Refiner Path lecture.
• A Half-Step Main Deity Realm Existence tested the path, confirmed spiritual qi’s overwhelming strength, and stopped Fang Yun for detailed guidance; other high-tier cultivators followed with questions.
• Zhang Zhi suggested collecting questions through Flying Crane Messages, and Professor Zhuang Zi limited guidance requests to Great Thousand World Masters and those above the Half-Step Main Deity Realm.
• Zhang Zhi and Fang Yun reviewed the remaining questions, while cultivators across the Grand Gathering discussed and praised the Qi Refiner Path.
• After nearly six shichen of answering questions, Fang Yun told Zhang Zhi that lecturing while his mind was active could lead to breakthroughs, and the two returned to the Lecture Platform.

Fang Yun completed his lectures on the Qi Refiner Path and Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique, leaving cultivators convinced that Zhang Zhi had not exaggerated their power. As they discussed the path’s potential to transform humanity, Hua Tianyi sought Liu Xiaoxiao’s insight into One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.

• Fang Yun answered questions about the Deity Realm bottleneck and finished explaining the Qi Refiner Path before beginning a two-day lecture on the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique and its divine abilities.
• Zhang Zhi saw that Fang Yun was exhausted from the lectures and hoped the insights he gained would help him advance the technique to Cyan Rank.
• Liu Mansion and the Mutual Aid Society discussed the Qi Refiner Path, and three of their members said they planned to switch paths after the Grand Gathering.
• Hua Tianyi visited the Floating Pavilion, confirmed that Liu Xiaoxiao had comprehended One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and asked her to explain her insights.
• The cultivators concluded that Zhang Zhi had not been bragging and discussed how the Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique could greatly increase humanity’s strength, though some thought Zhang Zhi had been exposed to danger too soon.

Cultivators debated whether Zhang Zhi was truly the founder of the Qi Refiner Path, while the Grand Gathering continued with Professor Yuan Zi and then Professor Confucius lecturing. After Professor Confucius concluded the final lecture, Professor Zhuang Zi announced that the talks would be distributed as jade pendants for one White Card each, launching Knowledge Gratuitization.

• Cultivators argued that Zhang Zhi might be a decoy concealing the true founder of the Qi Refiner Path, making foreign races hesitant to target him.
• Professor Yuan Zi lectured on the Space Law for two days, and Zhang Zhi realized Professor Confucius had likely been scheduled to speak near the end.
• Professor Confucius gave a lengthy lecture on the Master of the World Path, advising listeners to adapt his insights to their own worlds rather than copy his methods.
• Professor Confucius finished without causing the Flower of the Great Dao to descend, and Zhang Zhi wondered whether it appeared only for knowledge about realms Above the Main God Realm.
• Professor Zhuang Zi announced that the other speakers’ lectures would be distributed across human territory as jade pendants costing one White Card each, while his own lecture would remain confidential.

Professor Zhuang Zi announced the creation of the Professor Alliance as humanity’s highest authority and named Zhang Zhi, an Extraordinary Realm cultivator, among its first professors. Zhang Zhi refused the appointment, and Professor Zhuang Zi left to discuss it with the other professors as the crowd questioned whether the apparent reversal was a deliberate ploy.

• Professor Zhuang Zi announced Knowledge Gratuitization plans, warned of a coming crisis, and declared the formation of the Professor Alliance to unite humanity.
• Zhang Zhi learned that Zhao Zi had been named a professor, then was stunned when Professor Zhuang Zi called his own name.
• Zhang Zhi refused the Jade Ruyi, questioning how he could shoulder a professor’s responsibilities at his current cultivation level.
• Professor Zhuang Zi said half the Main Gods had supported Zhang Zhi’s appointment and urged him to accept the resources it would bring, but Zhang Zhi refused five times.
• Professor Zhuang Zi left to discuss Zhang Zhi’s refusal with the other professors, while Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao wondered whether the uproar had been intended to make his appointment acceptable.

Zhang Zhi realized that the proposed professorship had become a political trap, but Professor Zhuang Zi resolved the crisis by naming him an Honorary Professor and giving him a powerful defensive Jade Ruyi. After the Grand Gathering, Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao worried that Zhang Zhi’s fame would draw many Fox Spirits seeking to marry him.

• Zhang Zhi deduced that clan cultivators had maneuvered the Main Gods into proposing his professorship, putting both him and the Professor Alliance in a difficult position.
• Professor Zhuang Zi announced that Zhang Zhi would receive the title of Honorary Professor, tasked with promoting the Qi Refiner Path and Mystic Pure Qi Cultivation Technique.
• Zhang Zhi accepted the title and received a Seven-Colored Rank Main God Artifact Jade Ruyi with powerful defensive capabilities.
• Zhang Zhi returned to Cloud Ascent Hall and considered the Jade Ruyi’s protection as Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao recognized how famous he had become.
• Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao worried that Fox Spirits and other female cultivators would pursue Zhang Zhi, and resolved to keep him from going out alone and improve their own cultivation.

The Professor Alliance announced a long-term plan to cultivate Merit-Based Sainthood candidates and prepare four people to reach the Realm Above the Main God Realm, in response to a crisis facing the Human Race. Zhang Zhi and those around him considered how the plan would shape his position and the wider Human Race, while the chapter ended with attendees speculating about why the candidates needed to advance together.

• The Liu Family Patriarch urged the Great Elder to expose Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao’s relationship with Zhang Zhi, but the Great Elder warned that Zhang Zhi might reject them both.
• Professor Zhuang Zi announced that the Grand Gathering would become the Human Race Exchange Meeting and outlined a schedule for future meetings.
• Zhang Zhi realized Professor Zhuang Zi and Professor Confucius had used the plot against him as an opportunity to grant him the Honorary Professor title and support his cultivation path.
• Professor Zhuang Zi revealed a plan to select a thousand Merit-Based Sainthood cultivators, help the first fifty recognized by the Multiverse reach the Main God Realm, and eventually support four cultivators in entering the Realm Above the Main God Realm.
• Li Qianjun, Headmaster Yang Botian, and a Great Divine Power Realm cultivator discussed how candidates might gain recognition by aiding Human Races in nearby World Regions.
• Professor Zhuang Zi said the plan addressed a crisis facing the Human Race, and attendees speculated that simultaneous advancement could increase the chance of success.

After the Grand Gathering ended, Zhang Zhi learned that the Old Director and Principal’s disappearance might be connected to vampires, then checked on the Barren Heaven Continent and discovered its time flow differed from his world’s. He left the story astonished that a continent far larger than his Main World seemed to run only four or five times slower than the Spiritual Treasure Small World.

• Professor Zhuang announced policies for integrating humanity, eliminating the Seven Great Foreign Races, exploring nearby World Regions, and developing cultivation talent and new paths.
• The five-day Exchange Meeting concluded, and Zhang Zhi returned home with the Grand Gathering invitation and its policy materials.
• Zixia told Zhang Zhi that the Old Director and Principal’s disappearance appeared related to vampires, prompting him to plan to investigate further.
• Liu Xiaoxiao told Zhang Zhi that she had comprehended One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and she and Liu Wanwan agreed to unite against other Fox Spirits.
• Zhang Zhi visited Ao Guang, who reported that the Barren Heaven Continent was friendly and might soon send a delegation of Great Divine Power Realm cultivators.
• Ao Guang explained that the Barren Heaven Continent’s time flow was four or five times slower than the Spiritual Treasure Small World, which astonished Zhang Zhi.

Zhang Zhi told Professor Confucius and Professor Zhuang Zi about the Barren Heaven Continent, a vast world in his second Small World's World Region, and requested aid in case its wary inhabitants attacked. The professors planned to approach the continent's humans cautiously, then learned that Zhang Zhi's second Small World had already advanced to a Lesser Thousand World; Zhang Zhi prepared to reveal more about it.

• Zhang Zhi inspected the Spiritual Treasure Small World for intruders, warned its leaders to prepare for attacks, and contacted Professor Confucius for help.
• Zhang Zhi revealed that he had opened a second Small World and described the Barren Heaven Continent, the only other world in its World Region.
• Professor Confucius and Professor Zhuang Zi discussed the continent's Harmonized beings and world-merging law, and Professor Zhuang Zi agreed to handle communication with its humans.
• Zhang Zhi explained that the Barren Heaven Continent's inhabitants might attack his Small World, prompting the professors to ask about its defenses and arrange for support.
• Zhang Zhi revealed that his second Small World was already a Lesser Thousand World with Weak Divine Power Realm Retainers, surprising both professors.
• Zhang Zhi decided to tell the professors more about the Spiritual Treasure Small World before they visited it.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Foreign Race Affairs Department had little information about Cloud Lake University’s secret plans against the Vampires, then reconsidered the Old Director’s disappearance after Zixia revealed that no children had vanished from the orphanage. The chapter left Zhang Zhi realizing that the Old Director might, like the missing school Principal, have been a human spy who withdrew to the Vampires’ lair.

• Zhang Zhi told Professor Confucius and Professor Zhuang Zi that his second Small World had ascended directly to a Thousand World and described the Innate Spiritual Treasure; the professors suspected his extraordinary Mental Power was behind his unusual achievements.
• Zhang Zhi asked about the missing Old Director, and Professor Zhuang Zi directed him to the Foreign Race Affairs Department for information on the Vampires.
• Director Liu gave Zhang Zhi the available Vampire documents, which suggested the Vampires were preparing to leave the Main World after abducting children with the potential to become Masters of the World.
• Zhang Zhi found the documents incomplete and wondered whether the Principal had gone to the Vampires’ lair as part of Cloud Lake University’s long-running plan.
• Zixia told Zhang Zhi that no children had disappeared from his orphanage and pointed out that the Old Director and the school Principal had vanished at the same time.
• Zhang Zhi realized the Old Director might also have been a Cloud Lake University spy who had withdrawn to the Vampires’ lair.