Chapter Summaries

Zhang Zhi reviewed Professor Zhuang Zi’s findings about the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race’s invasions and learned that its dispersed attacks stemmed from a feudal society of rival empires and clans. The chapter left him with new questions about the race’s origins and the time required to open passages between World Regions.

• Zhang Zhi realized that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race might have far more Mobile Continents in the Ten Thousand Races World Region than he had estimated.
• Professor Zhuang Zi found the Formation Race resisting a siege by the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race and learned that its powerful formation could withstand attacks from more than ten Half-Step Main Deity Realm existences.
• Professor Zhuang Zi suspected the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race’s clans protected separate spheres of influence, then told the Formation Race what humanity knew about the invaders and exchanged information with its leaders.
• The Formation Race reported that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had invaded its World Region more than 3,300 standard years earlier, leading Zhang Zhi to estimate how long opening passages could take.
• Zhang Zhi learned that special Mobile Continents could create new continents, forming rival empires in which each Mobile Continent competed with the others.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race was ruled by a hereditary Royal Family and organized into rival families and clans, with advancement controlled through channels that kept the social order stable. The Formation Race’s reports suggested the race posed little short-term danger to the Human Race, though Professor Zhuang Zi warned that uncertainties remained.

• Zhang Zhi learned that only members of the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race’s Royal Family could rule Mobile Continents, and that families and clans formed its wider political structure.
• Zhang Zhi discovered that rulers controlled advancement recommendations and profited when cultivators moved to higher-ranked Mobile Continents, while the race’s feudal system encouraged acceptance of Royal Family rule.
• Zhang Zhi reasoned that rival families and clans would struggle to unite, leaving the Human Race room to confront the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race one group at a time.
• Professor Zhuang Zi concluded that the Human Race faced only one Main World-Rank Mobile Continent in its region for now and should continue developing its strength, while acknowledging that long-distance teleportation remained uncertain.
• Professor Zhuang Zi reported that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race had failed to conquer two World Regions, partly because its Mobile Continents refused to share spoils, and speculated that its cultivators were weaker because their worlds lacked recognition from the Multiverse.

Zhang Zhi reassured Hu Xin'er that humanity’s Main World had learned the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race was not a major threat to it, though the Ten Thousand Races World Region remained in danger. He explained that Professor Zhuang might destroy the invaders’ Main World, but warned that doing so could trigger a much larger invasion.

• Zhang Zhi concluded that the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race posed little threat to humanity and entered the Qi Refinement Small World to check on Hu Xin'er.
• Zhang Zhi found Hu Xin'er absent from the Trial Tower, then received Director Xia’s invitation to attend the next day’s appointment ceremony for the first Qi Refiner Path Patrolling Envoys.
• Zhang Zhi told Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao about the ceremony and asked them to visit the Promotion Department to prepare.
• Zhang Zhi met Hu Xin'er in the Trial Tower and told her that a human main god could handle the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race already in the Ten Thousand Races World Region.
• Zhang Zhi shared Professor Zhuang’s findings with Hu Xin'er and explained that destroying the invaders’ Main World could bring a far larger force down on the region.

Zhang Zhi inspected the Qi Refinement Small World and saw how its World Traits had driven a dramatic rise in Qi Refiner cultivators, then attended the Patrolling Envoy Appointment Ceremony amid a crowd of uninvited observers. Director Xia traced the leak to another university department and decided to proceed with the ceremony, keeping Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao on the envoy list.

• Zhang Zhi saw that the Qi Refinement Small World had over 7.3 million Qi Refiners, many of them New Generation cultivators whose growth reflected the effects of its World Traits.
• Zhang Zhi inspected the Small World’s nations, returned to the Main World, and prepared with Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao for the appointment ceremony.
• Zhang Zhi arrived at the ceremony and found more than ten thousand observers, many of whom had come without invitations.
• Zhang Zhi suspected that the crowd’s presence was meant to make him and Director Xia suspect an internal spy in the Promotion Department.
• Director Xia told Zhang Zhi that staff in other university departments had likely leaked the ceremony’s time and location.
• Director Xia decided the ceremony would proceed as planned and that Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao would remain on the first batch of Patrolling Envoys.

Zhang Zhi and Director Xia recognized that the scheme around Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao’s appointments might be an attempt to displace Director Xia, and Zhang Zhi pledged his support if Xia successfully promoted the Qi Refiner Path. After the ceremony, Zhang Zhi returned to his routine and visited Guangli Temple in the Spiritual Treasure Small World, where the Buddhist Path had grown into a regional power.

• Zhang Zhi and Director Xia reasoned that someone might be using the appointment controversy to undermine Xia and take the Promotion Department Director position.
• Director Xia admitted he could not identify the mastermind, and Zhang Zhi promised to support him as long as he rapidly promoted the Qi Refiner Path throughout Human Race territory.
• Zhang Zhi attended the Patrolling Envoy Appointment Ceremony, where Liu Wanwan and Liu Xiaoxiao’s appointments drew envy and speculation from the audience.
• Back at his dwelling, Zhang Zhi explained to Liu Xiaoxiao that many people seeking his attention were really pursuing merit-related positions through the Qi Refiner Path.
• Zhang Zhi refined cards, entered the Spiritual Treasure Small World, shared merit with the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure, and went to Guangli Temple, whose Buddhist Path had attracted most nearby demon clans.

Zhang Zhi worried that Professor Zhuang Zi’s planned departure would leave the Ten Thousand Races World Region vulnerable to a self-interested guardian. Professor Confucius reassured him that Long Yun would take over, leaving Zhang Zhi relieved.

• Zhang Zhi inspected the Buddhist Path’s quiet expansion and the witch clan’s new Witch City in the Spiritual Treasure Small World.
• Zhang Zhi read Professor Zhuang Zi’s plan to search other World Regions for humans under attack by the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race and feared another Main World Existence might exploit the Ten Thousand Races World Region.
• Zhang Zhi hurriedly contacted Professor Confucius to ask who would guard the region after Professor Zhuang Zi left.
• Professor Confucius revealed that Long Yun would guard the Ten Thousand Races World Region, as Professor Zhuang Zi had also recommended.
• Zhang Zhi realized Long Yun was a suitable guardian and left Professor Confucius’s palace relieved.

Zhang Zhi learned that Professor Zhuang Zi wanted Long Yun to oversee the Ten Thousand Races World Region and had uncovered key details about the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race. In the Spiritual Treasure Small World, Xiang became its first Low Divine Power Realm existence, and Zhang Zhi discovered that Monster Race providence had gathered around him, leaving him considering whether to claim it and give Xiang the title of Jin.

• Zhang Zhi read Professor Zhuang Zi's report on the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race, including its clans, its Mobile Continent creation site, and the report's warning to target that site early in a future war.
• Zhang Zhi received Professor Confucius's message that Long Yun had set out to oversee the Ten Thousand Races World Region.
• While patrolling the Spiritual Treasure Small World, Zhang Zhi discovered that Xiang, the Elephant Demon who founded the Monster Race Kingdom, had advanced to the Low Divine Power Realm.
• Xiang explained that the Monster Race Kingdom had more than 270 Deity Realm existences, over two thousand Demigod Realm existences, and growing stability and influence.
• Zhang Zhi realized that Monster Race providence had gathered around Xiang and wondered whether to claim that providence and give Xiang the title of Jin.

Zhang Zhi granted the Monster Kingdom the title of Jin Kingdom and agreed to attend its Founding Ceremony, using Xiang’s achievement to encourage the other races in the Spiritual Treasure Small World. He then told Ao Guang to reorganize the Dragon Race, and Ao Guang asked whether he could receive a kingdom title as well.

• Xiang asked Zhang Zhi to grant the Monster Kingdom an official title, and Zhang Zhi named it the Jin Kingdom.
• Xiang proposed holding a Founding Ceremony, and Zhang Zhi agreed to attend while warning that the title could be revoked if the kingdom failed to develop.
• Xiang vowed that the Jin Kingdom would uphold its honor and hurried to share the news with the Monster Race.
• Zhang Zhi decided the title would help motivate the complacent races and appeared in the Dragon Palace to tell Ao Guang about the Jin Kingdom and its ceremony.
• Ao Guang reacted with surprise that Xiang had reached the Low Divine Power Realm first, and Zhang Zhi told him to reorganize the Dragon Race before Ao Guang asked for a kingdom title.

Zhang Zhi explained to Ao Guang that the Dragon Race's Destiny Deficient curse might be a trial whose accumulated power could become a blessing, while warning that the Dragon Race needed stronger curses to gain much from it. He then turned his attention to the humans of the Spiritual Treasure Small World, whose cultivation techniques mostly stopped at the Extraordinary Realm.

• Zhang Zhi told Ao Guang that only five national titles remained and that the Dragon Race would need an impressive achievement, such as producing the first Intermediate Divine Power Realm cultivator, to qualify for one.
• Ao Guang described how mysterious incidents and individuals had slowed his efforts to unify the Dragon Race, and Zhang Zhi explained competing theories about the race's Destiny Deficient curse.
• Zhang Zhi told Ao Guang that Long Yun had treated the curse as a spring: overcoming it could release accumulated power, which had helped Long Yun reach the Main God Realm.
• Zhang Zhi explained that the Dragon Race needed increasingly powerful curses to accumulate a significant blessing, and Ao Guang said he hoped to become the Small World's first Intermediate Divine Power Realm existence.
• After leaving the Dragon Palace, Zhang Zhi went to inspect the human region and found that most cultivation techniques there reached only the Extraordinary Realm, despite years of exchange with Qi Refinement Small World humans.

Zhang Zhi judged that reform in the Spiritual Treasure Small World had failed under entrenched conservative forces, and he hoped the new Jin Kingdom would pressure its stagnant society. In the Main World, he chose the second batch of Patrolling Envoys and learned that a renowned Half-Step Main Deity had come seeking a position.

• Zhang Zhi concluded that the Spiritual Treasure Small World's reform had failed and decided that the Jin Kingdom's establishment would test whether its people could still change.
• Director Xia sent Zhang Zhi a list of candidates for five Patrolling Envoy positions, and Zhang Zhi selected four people before adding Li Qianjun, Your Excellency, as the fifth.
• Zhang Zhi returned the list to Director Xia and decided to avoid courting powerful cultivators because he lacked information about their factions and feared for his safety.
• Director Xia announced that Zhang Zhi had chosen the candidates and would confirm future Patrolling Envoys, prompting a Half-Step Main Deity Realm cultivator to visit Zhang Zhi seeking a position.

Zhang Zhi learned why Professor Confucius and Director Xia had rejected a Half-Step Main Deity’s request to become a Patrolling Envoy, then turned his attention to the Small World, where rumors of the Venerable One’s attendance at Jin’s Nation Founding Ceremony stirred the other races. The chapter ended with the Elephant Demon’s claim seeming credible, leaving the Small World’s leaders stunned and wary.

• Zhang Zhi asked Professor Confucius how to handle the Half-Step Main Deity’s request and received the blunt reply, “Don't bother with him.”
• Director Xia sent Zhang Zhi information showing that the Half-Step Main Deity represented entrenched Fantasy Path interests and had a history of opposing reform.
• Zhang Zhi had Zixia turn the Half-Step Main Deity away, and the visitor left after saying he would return in a few days.
• Zhang Zhi learned that Ao Guang had received Jin’s invitation to a Nation Founding Ceremony, prompting the other races to wonder why the demon kingdom was holding one.
• After the Elephant Demon advanced to the Low Divine Power Realm, he announced that the Venerable One would attend Jin’s ceremony, and the Small World’s racial leaders were stunned.

Zhang Zhi entered a new World Region and learned that a war involving the Three-Eyed God Race had destabilized its races. He left the Trial Tower crowd with no way to identify the Three-Eyed Race’s opponent, since the local humans could not approach the battlefield.

• Zhang Zhi inspected the Spiritual Treasure and Qi Refinement Small Worlds, then checked on Long Yun’s conversations with humans in the Ten Thousand Races World Region.
• Zhang Zhi entered the Secret Realm Battlefield and arrived in a previously unseen World Region with a brown-floored Trial Plaza.
• Zhang Zhi listened to local cultivators and learned that a Three-Eyed God Race war had spilled into their World Region more than a century earlier, killing powerful cultivators and reigniting conflicts between local races.
• Zhang Zhi concluded that humans in this World Region had not entered the Three-Eyed Race’s Inheritance Shrine, so hidden Three-Eyed Race members were unlikely to compromise contact with local leaders.
• Zhang Zhi considered possible identities for the Three-Eyed Race’s opponent but could not determine which race was fighting it because the local humans could not reach the war’s edge.

Zhang Zhi joined a human team in the Trial Battlefield and learned that humanity had faced little danger from the Half-Giants. When Titans ambushed the group, he blocked an attack with an Exotic Treasure while concealing his origins.

• Zhang Zhi asked Peng Feiyan about the Trial Battlefield and learned that the Half-Giants were humanity’s only known enemy.
• Zhang Zhi questioned Peng Feiyan about the Three-Eyed God Race and speculated about the Race Alliance.
• A Demigod Realm Titan ambushed the human team, and its leader survived the first attack but was injured.
• Peng Feiyan warned Zhang Zhi that the Half-Giants had likely allied with the Titans and other giant races, then urged him to escape and warn the others.
• Zhang Zhi recognized that the human cultivators strengthened their bodies and decided to intervene without revealing his identity.
• Zhang Zhi leapt in front of an incoming White Light, blocked it with yellow light, and claimed he had obtained an Exotic Treasure in a World Wreckage.

Zhang Zhi learned that the Half-Giant Race and allied Giant Races had breached the Trial Tower and were ambushing human cultivators, while he investigated a hidden Titan Deity Realm expert and the Trial Tower’s mysterious imprint. He confirmed that human Deity Realm cultivators had entered the battlefield to counter the attack, and the others began to suspect Zhang Zhi was a Deity Realm existence.

• A Legendary Realm human cultivator explained that the Half-Giant Race and its allies had secretly attacked the Trial Tower and urged Zhang Zhi to carry news back to the human race.
• A tremor revealed that the Trial Tower had fallen, and the humans scattered under attacks from the Giant Races.
• Zhang Zhi pondered the Trial Tower’s imprint and wondered whether its power came from something Above the Main God Realm.
• Zhang Zhi told Peng Feiyan that a Deity Realm Titan was hiding nearby, and the cultivators reasoned that the Titans were targeting hidden human Deity Realm fighters.
• Zhang Zhi sensed a battle between Deity Realm beings and realized a human cultivator had intercepted the Titan; the others questioned whether Zhang Zhi was a Deity Realm existence.

Zhang Zhi insisted that he was only at the Extraordinary Realm, but his Small Broken Bell and Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure made the Human Race cultivators believe he was a Deity Realm expert. After a Giant Race Deity Realm cultivator attacked, Zhang Zhi severed his hand and pierced his body as he tried to escape.

• Zhang Zhi denied being a Deity Realm cultivator as a distant roar revealed that powerful Human Race forces were fighting nearby and the Titan Race began retreating.
• A Giant Race Deity Realm cultivator appeared and attacked the gathered Human Race cultivators with a massive palm.
• Zhang Zhi blocked the palm with the Small Broken Bell, then summoned the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure and severed the giant's hand.
• The wounded giant fled, but Zhang Zhi sent the White Light through his body, prompting him to activate a red teleportation artifact.
• The Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure began cutting around the red Light Cluster as the giant attempted to escape.

Zhang Zhi killed a Mountain Giant deity with his Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure, stunning the human cultivators who witnessed it. He insisted that he was only in the Extraordinary Realm and that his artifact was responsible, but Fei Zhenzi remained unconvinced.

• Zhang Zhi used the Three-in-One Innate Spiritual Treasure to break the Mountain Giant’s protective red light and kill him with a single strike.
• The watching human cultivators were shocked by the giant’s death and speculated that Zhang Zhi was in the Low or Intermediate Divine Power Realm.
• Zhang Zhi sensed that the Giant Race deities were retreating and chose not to pursue them because his Extraordinary Realm cultivation made him too slow to catch up.
• Zhang Zhi told the gathered cultivators that he really was in the Extraordinary Realm and had relied on his divine artifact to kill the giant.
• Fei Zhenzi arrived, introduced himself, and questioned Zhang Zhi’s claimed cultivation, but Zhang Zhi insisted that the artifact’s power had accounted for the victory.

Zhang Zhi insisted that he was an Extraordinary Realm cultivator despite having killed a Weak Divine Power Realm Giant with one strike, leaving Fei Zhenzi and True Lord Tianqing skeptical. As they faced a Giant Race force threatening to trap them at the Trial Tower, Zhang Zhi’s knowledge of the Three-Eyed Race led the others to realize he came from a different, far more powerful human World Region.

• True Lord Tianqing reported that the Half-Giants had seized the Trial Tower, raised a powerful defensive formation, and trapped a wounded Titan Race deity inside.
• True Lord Tianqing warned that Giant Race cultivators might arrive before the Defense Time ended and asked Zhang Zhi how well he could fight them.
• Zhang Zhi again claimed he was in the Extraordinary Realm but said he could handle several Low or Intermediate Divine Power Realm opponents, prompting Fei Zhenzi and True Lord Tianqing to doubt him.
• True Lord Tianqing asked where Zhang Zhi came from, and Zhang Zhi instead asked what the others knew about the Three-Eyed Race.
• Fei Zhenzi said humanity knew little about the Three-Eyed Race and had never encountered its Inheritance Shrine or cultivation techniques.
• Zhang Zhi described the Three-Eyed Race as one of humanity’s future enemies in its bid to become the Multiverse’s protagonist, leading Fei Zhenzi and True Lord Tianqing to infer that he came from another, powerful human World Region.

Zhang Zhi explained the Three-Eyed Race and the wider Multiverse to Fei Zhenzi and True Lord Tianqing before Giant Race reinforcements interrupted them. He sent Fang Yun to face the threat and revealed that his Master of the World cultivation path allowed him to summon powerful cultivators from his Small World.

• Zhang Zhi described how the Three-Eyed Race recruited other races' geniuses and absorbed their memories and destiny, alarming Fei Zhenzi and True Lord Tianqing.
• Zhang Zhi began explaining the Multiverse, its World Regions, and the Main God Realm when distant explosions signaled the arrival of Giant Race reinforcements.
• Fei Zhenzi and True Lord Tianqing suspected the Giant Race's forces had returned, and Zhang Zhi assured them he would handle the threat.
• Zhang Zhi summoned Fang Yun and ordered him to confront the Giant Race's divine beings, and Fang Yun promptly flew toward the battlefield.
• Zhang Zhi explained that he followed the Master of the World cultivation path, which let him nurture Small Worlds and summon their cultivators, leaving Fei Zhenzi and True Lord Tianqing impressed by humanity's potential.

Zhang Zhi explained how Cultivation Paths, heavenly mandate, and rare geniuses determined whether a Great Thousand World could become a Main World, and revealed the limits on how many Main Worlds races could possess. Fei Zhenzi then described his world’s rune-based cultivation system, leaving Zhang Zhi to learn how it worked.

• Fei Zhenzi asked Zhang Zhi how their Great Thousand World could advance, and Zhang Zhi said an Intelligent Lifeform had to reach the Half-Step Main Deity Realm through their own Cultivation Path.
• Zhang Zhi explained that breakthroughs required exceptional comprehension and sufficient merit and fortune, and warned that each Cultivation Path could have only one Main World.
• Zhang Zhi said humans controlled seven Main Worlds and expected to have at least fourteen within a hundred years, while the Three-Eyed Race had nineteen.
• Zhang Zhi explained that Main Worlds were rare and that races abandoned by the Multiverse lost their heavenly mandate and became targets for other lifeforms.
• Fei Zhenzi told Zhang Zhi that his world’s humans had one rune-based Cultivation Path, using runes to strengthen their bodies and create Lifebound Magic Tools.

Fei Zhenzi explained the Rune Cultivation Path to Zhang Zhi, including its runes, cultivation realms, and Quake Heaven Divine Ability. Zhang Zhi suspected the runes were manifestations of laws and planned to use rune information to compare them with the patterns controlled by the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race.

• Fei Zhenzi described Basic, Special, and Composite Runes and explained how runes strengthened the body and formed divine abilities.
• Fei Zhenzi demonstrated the power of his Quake Heaven Divine Ability, which could disrupt spells and repel mental and nonphysical attacks.
• Fei Zhenzi outlined the Rune Cultivation Path's realms and said cultivators advanced through runes without controlling laws.
• Zhang Zhi questioned how runes were discovered and why most focused on solidity, sharpness, and toughness, but Fei Zhenzi admitted he did not know their origins.
• True Lord Tianqing said the first rune had reportedly been a Solidification Rune, and Zhang Zhi decided to seek rune information to compare it with the Multi-Armed Slaughter Race's patterns.