Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi asked Cloud Lake University for information about Yang Xiong and learned that the Old Director had gone to a vampire nest with the Principal. The documents confirmed Yang Xiong was safe for now and revealed the vampires’ far-reaching network of nests, while Cloud Lake University continued investigating their strength and a valuable treasure.

• Zhang Zhi asked Director Liu to send Cloud Lake University an urgent inquiry about Yang Xiong, and he sealed the official letter with his Jade Ruyi.
• Director Liu explained the Foreign Race Affairs Department’s network of foreign-race agents while Zhang Zhi waited for Cloud Lake University’s response.
• Cloud Lake University’s documents revealed that Yang Xiong had entered a vampire nest as the Principal’s assistant, not been transformed into a vampire.
• Zhang Zhi read that the vampires had seven known great nests, nearly one hundred smaller nests, and connections across eleven World Regions.
• Cloud Lake University’s report said it suspected the vampires were researching the Master of the World Path and planned to use infiltrators’ beacons to reveal their nests.
• Zhang Zhi learned that Yang Xiong and the Principal were in a great vampire nest with twenty-one human Masters of the World, and he concluded Yang Xiong was not in immediate danger.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Qi Refiner Path was being promoted through Director Xia’s new management office and discovered that its success could earn merit for those involved. Director Xia revealed that Professor Confucius had attached another condition to his appointment, but he had not yet told Zhang Zhi what it was.

• Zhang Zhi rested after returning from the Grand Gathering, while the Mutual Aid Society members began copying information from Fengjing University's library.
• Director Xia brought Zhang Zhi, Fairy Zixia, Liu Wanwan, and Liu Xiaoxiao to the Qi Refiner Path Promotion Management Office and explained its promotion plan.
• Director Xia asked Zhang Zhi to recommend inspectors, then explained that promoting the Qi Refiner Path could earn merit and that Zhang Zhi was widely considered a leading Merit-Based Sainthood candidate.
• Zhang Zhi realized Director Xia might have been selected to pursue Merit-Based Sainthood through the promotion effort and asked whether he was a predetermined candidate.
• Director Xia said Professor Confucius had set an additional condition when appointing him, and Zhang Zhi asked what it was.

Director Xia told Zhang Zhi that Professor Confucius had asked him to assist Zhang in leading humanity to the Peak of the Multiverse, prompting Zhang to question whether their relationship was merely transactional. Zhang offered Director Xia a choice between serving as Qi Refiner Path promoter for merit and becoming a genuine companion, and left the decision unresolved.

• Director Xia revealed that Professor Confucius had asked him to help Zhang Zhi lead humanity to the Peak of the Multiverse and had offered him leadership of the Qi Refiner Path promotion effort.
• Zhang Zhi questioned the arrangement and explained that he would not object to Director Xia earning merit, but required honesty and loyalty from anyone who wanted to become his companion.
• Director Xia admitted that merit had motivated him, but said he sincerely intended to follow Professor Confucius's condition and believed Zhang could lead humanity to the peak.
• Zhang Zhi told Director Xia to keep the Jade Ruyi-sealed plan and postponed further discussion, then left the meeting room with Zixia, Liu Wanwan, and Liu Xiaoxiao.
• Zixia questioned Zhang Zhi's caution, arguing that he needed Director Xia's help and did not need to fear a future betrayal so soon.

Zhang Zhi considered the risks of appointing Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao as Inspection Envoys, then proposed helping them achieve the Three Flowers Converging on the Crown and become Main Gods. They argued that Zhang Zhi himself should become a Main God first, and Liu Xiaoxiao warned that even their own loyalties might change after reaching that realm.

• Zhang Zhi explained to Zixia why he tested Director Xia before accepting him as a companion, fearing that a powerful cultivator with impure motives could threaten them.
• Zhang Zhi offered Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao Inspection Envoy positions, and both agreed after Liu Xiaoxiao realized they could patrol in shifts.
• Zixia warned that the Merit-Based Sainthood Plan could attract dangerous scrutiny and that people might challenge the women’s authority to keep them from earning merit.
• Back at his study, Zhang Zhi asked whether Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao wanted to achieve the Three Flowers Converging on the Crown and become Main Gods, saying he knew how to help them.
• Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao urged Zhang Zhi to become a Main God first, and Liu Xiaoxiao cautioned that advancing to that realm could change even their own mindsets.

Zhang Zhi explained the Merit-Based Sainthood Path to Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao, who had refused his offer because they feared taking his only chance. After learning he knew of several Human Race regions in crisis, they reconsidered the opportunity, while Zhang Zhi warned that excessive selfish motives could prevent someone from gaining the Human Will’s recognition.

• Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao refused Zhang Zhi’s offer to pursue Three Flowers Converging on the Crown, and Zhang Zhi considered whether he should pursue it himself.
• Zixia explained that Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao were worried about using up Zhang Zhi’s opportunity, prompting him to reveal that he knew of several World Regions where the Human Race faced crises.
• Zhang Zhi described the Ten Thousand Races, Celestial Dog, Dao Seeker, and Demon Cultivator World Regions, and Liu Wanwan noted that Yan Bo might become the second Human Race Main God to achieve Merit-Based Sainthood.
• Zhang Zhi argued that excessive selfish motives could prevent cultivators from gaining the Human Will’s recognition, and Liu Xiaoxiao questioned whether people who deliberately created crises would be detected.
• Zhang Zhi said the Human Will was inanimate and that powerful families had many ways to bypass its detection.

Zhang Zhi explained how candidates could earn the Human Will’s acknowledgment while avoiding Human Race Consciousness, then discussed plans for Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao to pursue Merit-Based Sainthood in distant World Regions. He proposed helping Yan Bo reach the Main God Realm to support them, and the chapter ended with Liu Wanwan asking whether Yan Bo could be trusted and what Zhang Zhi planned for himself.

• Zhang Zhi explained that families could secretly arrange crises in human-inhabited World Regions, but competing candidates might undermine one another and prevent anyone from gaining acknowledgment.
• Zixia warned that the Ten Thousand Races World Region could attract rivals, and Zhang Zhi said his ties to Professor Zhuang Zi and Professor Confucius would help protect it.
• Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao agreed to try for Merit-Based Sainthood, while Zhang Zhi proposed using a teleportation array to send them to distant World Regions.
• Liu Wanwan said the crises in those regions required greater strength, so Zhang Zhi proposed telling Professor Zhuang Zi about Yan Bo and seeking help to advance Yan Bo to the Main God Realm.
• Zixia cautioned that Zhang Zhi’s plans could look like an attempt to monopolize the available Main God positions, and Zhang Zhi said he would put Yan Bo forward while keeping Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao out of the spotlight.
• Liu Wanwan asked what Zhang Zhi planned for his own ascension and whether Yan Bo could be trusted to help them.

Zhang Zhi planned to help Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao pursue recognition by the Human Will while he waited for a chance to advance Yan Bo’s path. As the Merit-Based Sainthood Plan drew attention, Zhang Zhi became so popular that he moved into a secluded university cave dwelling, but admirers still found ways to approach him.

• Zhang Zhi outlined a plan for Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao to contact Human Race communities in other World Regions and earn recognition from the Human Will, with Hu Xin’er preparing the way and Yan Bo advancing toward Three Flowers Converging on the Crown.
• Zhang Zhi continued researching with the Mutual Aid Society while Professor Confucius and Professor Zhuang Zi handled the Human Race’s many post-Grand Gathering plans.
• The Merit-Based Sainthood Plan became a major topic, and predicted lists made Zhang Zhi the presumed leading candidate, bringing him a flood of invitations and unwanted visitors.
• Zhang Zhi moved from his Small Courtyard into a Fengjing University cave dwelling and blocked visitors, while Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao moved in with him.
• Zixia asked Zhang Zhi why he rejected the female cultivators pursuing him, and he said they wanted influence and would not necessarily stand by him in hardship.
• Female students continued finding excuses to approach Zhang Zhi during his classes, despite Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao keeping watch.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Ten Thousand Races Region had been invaded by a hostile, multi-armed race that had slaughtered billions of intelligent lifeforms. Hu Xin'er began explaining how the race had appeared and spread, but the account stopped before revealing its strongest fighters or the full scope of the threat.

• Zhang Zhi avoided girls trying to approach him at school, while Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao turned away those who tried to befriend them for his sake.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the Spiritual Treasure Small World and found no outsiders had infiltrated it; the planned human delegation from the Barren Heaven Continent remained delayed by disagreements.
• Zhang Zhi checked the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure, then visited Mount Buzhou and found Fang Yun still in seclusion.
• Zhang Zhi found an urgent report in the Twelve Dynasties' Council Hall and learned that a nonhuman race had invaded the Ten Thousand Races Region.
• Zhang Zhi met Hu Xin'er in the Trial Tower, where she identified the invaders as the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race and reported that they had exterminated dozens of races and killed billions.
• Hu Xin'er explained that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had likely entered the region five or six years earlier and that a top-hundred race discovered entire worlds' intelligent populations had vanished.

Hu Xin'er told Zhang Zhi how the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had invaded the Ten Thousand Races World Region, leaving vanished populations and devoured worlds in its wake. Zhang Zhi questioned the reports and worried the invaders might be powerful enough to threaten the Human Race, so he ordered Hu Xin'er to investigate their strength and intentions.

• Hu Xin'er explained that the Sky Cave Race had found bloodstains but no survivors in lost worlds, and that its force sent to confront the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had disappeared.
• Hu Xin'er said the Sky Cave Race had found a huge breach in the Chaos Crystal Wall and a mobile world that appeared to be the invaders' lair; Zhang Zhi doubted such a passage could have been opened by any known power.
• Hu Xin'er reported that the Sky Cave Race had alerted the other races and that investigators believed the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had devoured most of the Thousand Worlds in its territory.
• Zhang Zhi considered whether the invaders might possess Main God Realm Existence and decided the threat should eventually be reported to Confucius or Professor Zhuang Zi.
• Zhang Zhi ordered Hu Xin'er to determine the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race's true strength and motives, and Hu Xin'er agreed.

Zhang Zhi investigated the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race’s motives and waited for more information before alerting Professor Zhuang Zi. Hu Xin'er later reported that the race had launched attacks across the Ten Thousand Races World Region and was abducting many of the Intelligent Lifeforms it encountered.

• Zhang Zhi told Hu Xin'er he had never heard of the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race and urged caution when exploring the neighboring World Region.
• Zhang Zhi suspected the race’s indiscriminate slaughter and world-devouring were tied to its unusual Cultivation Path, but decided to wait for more evidence before reporting his concerns to Professor Zhuang Zi.
• A week later, Hu Xin'er urgently summoned Zhang Zhi and reported that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had attacked more than one hundred races across thirteen areas in the past month.
• Hu Xin'er said the attacks had escalated into a full-scale assault and that seven attacked worlds had found special worlds belonging to the invaders.
• Hu Xin'er reported that a Deity Realm Existence had discovered that the invaders abducted many Intelligent Lifeforms and took them to their continent instead of killing them all.

Zhang Zhi learned from Hu Xin'er that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race was invading the Ten Thousand Races Region with overwhelming strength and that its moving continents might conceal even more powerful beings. He promised to coordinate outside help, then returned to the Main World to brief Professor Confucius and Professor Zhuang Zi, who were stunned by the scale of the race’s mobile worlds.

• Hu Xin'er told Zhang Zhi that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had captured some Intelligent Lifeforms, defeated attacks by powerful races, and might be hiding much of its strength.
• Hu Xin'er explained that rivalries and distrust among the races made a united coalition unlikely, while reports suggested the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race’s continents contained Half-Step Main God Realm and Main God Realm beings.
• Zhang Zhi agreed that the enemy’s strength could be only the tip of the iceberg and promised to coordinate cultivators from other World Regions to assist the humans.
• Hu Xin'er said the origins of the fourteen known Multi-Armed Slaughter Race continents remained unknown and confirmed that more continents likely existed; Zhang Zhi asked her to report any news from investigators across the passage.
• Zhang Zhi returned to the Main World, contacted Professor Confucius with a Paper Crane, and stepped through a Teleportation Gate to meet him and Professor Zhuang Zi.
• Zhang Zhi told Professor Confucius and Professor Zhuang Zi that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race was invading the Ten Thousand Races Region with complete mobile worlds ranging from Middle Thousand World to Great Thousand World size.

Zhang Zhi briefed Professor Zhuang Zi and Professor Confucius on the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race, prompting Zhuang Zi to plan an investigation in the Ten Thousand Races World Region. Zhang Zhi then revealed that a Human Race cultivator there had condensed Two Flowers of Merit, and Zhuang Zi prepared to travel there in person.

• Zhang Zhi explained that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had breached the Ten Thousand Races Region’s Chaos Crystal Wall and conquered worlds to slaughter, enslave, and grow stronger.
• Professor Zhuang Zi and Professor Confucius concluded that the race might be near the Human Race and discussed investigating it before it became a threat.
• Professor Zhuang Zi decided to travel to the Ten Thousand Races World Region to assess the race’s strength and potentially keep it occupied while the Human Race prepared.
• Zhang Zhi told the professors that he had found a Human Race cultivator who had condensed Two Flowers of Merit and could arrange for them to meet him.
• Professor Zhuang Zi decided to obtain a long-distance Teleportation Array and asked Zhang Zhi to set it up, saying he would travel there himself after arranging his affairs.

Zhang Zhi received Professor Zhuang Zi’s formation blueprints and arranged for Hu Xin’er to set them up in the Ten Thousand Races World Region. The chapter ended as he asked whether she could conceal the Teleportation Array inside a Concealment Array Formation.

• Professor Zhuang Zi agreed to investigate the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race, and Zhang Zhi returned to his cave abode to await the formation blueprints.
• Associate Professor Peng delivered Professor Zhuang Zi’s Storage Ring and instructed Zhang Zhi to place the Concealment Array Formation around the Teleportation Array.
• Zhang Zhi had Fang Zhen inspect the formation diagrams, and Fang Zhen estimated that arranging them would take four or five years and noted that the Teleportation Array blueprint was incomplete.
• Zhang Zhi posted a mission asking Human Race cultivators to notify Hu Xin’er to meet him in the Trial Tower.
• Zhang Zhi gave Hu Xin’er the two formation diagrams and told her to arrange the Concealment Array Formation first, then build the Teleportation Array inside it.

Zhang Zhi arranged for Hu Xin'er to conceal the Human Race’s connection to him while she coordinated formations to protect the Ten Thousand Races World Region and build a Teleportation Array. As the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race’s invasion spread, the array was completed, and Zhang Zhi returned to the Professor Alliance’s Teleportation Tower to prepare for what came next.

• Zhang Zhi gave Hu Xin'er formation plans and instructed her to keep information about him and the Trial Tower from Professor Zhuang Zi, who was coming to the Ten Thousand Races World Region as a Main God Realm Existence.
• Hu Xin'er gathered Array Masters under the pretext of preparing for an attack, while Professor Zhuang Zi delegated his work in preparation for the journey.
• The Multi-Armed Slaughter Race attacked more regions, and Zhang Zhi learned that dozens of its mobile continents had appeared across the Ten Thousand Races World Region.
• Hu Xin'er reported that the Concealment Array Formation was complete and that the Teleportation Array had advanced rapidly under pressure from the spreading invasion.
• Professor Zhuang Zi prepared to depart after Zhang Zhi told him the Teleportation Array was nearly complete.
• Hu Xin'er confirmed the Teleportation Array was complete, and Zhang Zhi informed Professor Confucius before returning to the Professor Alliance headquarters.

Zhang Zhi and Professor Confucius watched Professor Zhuang safely use the newly activated transmission array to reach the Ten Thousand Races World Region. Zhang Zhi reassured Hu Xin'er, then warned her to guard the array and prepare for the region's growing ties to the Master of the World Region.

• A Great Divine Power Realm retainer tested the transmission array and returned safely, after which Professor Zhuang used it to travel to the Ten Thousand Races World Region.
• The array flared dramatically during Professor Zhuang's transmission, but a Flying Talisman confirmed that he had arrived safely.
• Zhang Zhi learned that Hu Xin'er had panicked after the array produced a pillar of light but no visible arrival, and he told her Professor Zhuang was safe and avoiding contact for security.
• Zhang Zhi said Professor Zhuang would investigate the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race and that he would pass along what he learned.
• Zhang Zhi told Hu Xin'er to guard the transmission array and prepare for the Master of the World Region to expand its influence and reduce the local human leadership's status.

Zhang Zhi received Professor Zhuang Zi’s report on the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race and learned that its mobile continents grew powerful by sacrificing and absorbing other intelligent lifeforms. He concluded that the race might pose a greater threat than the Three-Eyed Race because it could discover the secrets of the human race’s Master of the World Path.

• Zhang Zhi told Hu Xin'er that the Master of the World Region might eventually hand the Ten Thousand Races World Region over to him after exploring its Main World Wreckage.
• Zhang Zhi returned to the Main World, and Professor Confucius’s Paper Crane delivered Professor Zhuang Zi’s investigation report.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race controlled more than seventy mobile continents, many comparable to Half-Step Main Worlds and possessing Half-Step Main Deity Realm positions.
• Professor Zhuang Zi’s report revealed that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race sacrificed captured intelligent lifeforms in strange cities, where the continents absorbed them and likely gained their laws and cultivation paths.
• Zhang Zhi reasoned that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had destroyed many World Regions and might expose the secrets of the human race’s Master of the World Path in a large-scale war.

Professor Zhuang Zi reported that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race’s mobile continent transformed and absorbed a Lesser Thousand World, while Zhang Zhi suspected the race and its digestion ability had originated on the Barren Heaven Continent. Zhang Zhi planned to ask the arriving Barren Heaven Continent Human Envoy Group about the possible connection, leaving the theory unconfirmed.

• Professor Zhuang Zi watched the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race’s continent fire twenty-seven Crimson Light Beams and digest a Lesser Thousand World over five days.
• Professor Zhuang Zi sent humanity his findings, including that the race cultivated its mobile continents by absorbing intelligent lifeforms and worlds, and that unusual patterns might be the key to its power.
• Professor Zhuang Zi left the Middle Thousand Continent to investigate a much larger mobile continent that might contain a Main God Realm Existence.
• Zhang Zhi considered whether the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race was connected to the Outer Domain Heavenly Demons, then theorized it had escaped the Barren Heaven Continent with knowledge of a Digestion Law.
• Zhang Zhi decided to ask the Barren Heaven Continent Human Envoy Group about the theory when they arrived in approximately four Main World days.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race might threaten the Ten Thousand Races World Region and warned Hu Xin'er while reassuring her that the danger was not yet certain. He then considered sending Yan Bo there, since saving the Human Race might help Yan Bo reach the Main God Realm, and awaited more information about the enemy’s Mobile Continent.

• Zhang Zhi inspected the Spiritual Treasure Small World, confirmed that the Barren Heaven Continent emissaries would arrive in about three months, and found Fang Yun still comprehending his gains in seclusion.
• Zhang Zhi told Hu Xin'er the information and conjectures about the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race, including the threat posed by its Mobile Continent and its ability to digest other intelligent lifeforms.
• Hu Xin'er feared the Human Race in the Ten Thousand Races World Region would be devastated, but Zhang Zhi urged her not to despair while the Main God continued investigating the enemy.
• Zhang Zhi considered using Yan Bo to save the Human Race in the Ten Thousand Races World Region, reasoning that the merit might help Yan Bo attain the Main God Realm and persuade Professor Zhuang Zi to intervene.
• Zhang Zhi decided to wait for more information about the suspected Main World Rank Mobile Continent before considering Yan Bo's arrival as a last resort.

Zhang Zhi received Professor Zhuang Zi’s findings from a neighboring World Region and learned how the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race opened passages through the Chaos Crystal Wall and expanded its forces. The report suggested that the race might possess multiple Main World-ranked Mobile Continents, leaving Zhang Zhi concerned about the scale of its strength.

• Zhang Zhi waited seventeen days for a Paper Crane and worried that Professor Zhuang Zi had been delayed on the Great Thousand World-sized Mobile Continent.
• Zhang Zhi learned that Professor Zhuang Zi had instead crossed the Chaos Crystal Wall passage into a neighboring World Region, while Professor Confucius had withheld his earlier updates.
• Zhang Zhi read that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race used a method to corrode the Chaos Crystal Wall and that the neighboring World Region’s intelligent races had left information in worlds the invaders spared.
• Zhang Zhi learned that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had destroyed four Half-Step Main Worlds over nearly 200 years, and that the region’s races had once captured and destroyed two of its Mobile Continents.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that the race’s Main World-ranked Mobile Continent had opened multiple passages to other World Regions, prompting him to conclude that it might possess several such continents.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Canton Fair, a major event in the story, has concluded.
• The protagonist, now with free time, is expected to resume normal updates.

Character Developments

• No significant character development is mentioned in this chapter.

Significant Themes

• Time management and priorities (free time vs. work)
• Consistency and responsibility (resuming normal updates)

Character Interactions

• No character interactions are described in this chapter.