Chapter Summaries

Mu Yuan led Tian Yuan City's first expedition through a passage in the Vortex Sea and discovered a developed, inhabited great domain. As he weighed the risks and opportunities of contact, other lords in the God Luo Great Domain also learned of the passage and began making plans.

• Falcon Lord lost track of the Outer Domain explorers, but Mu Yuan used his clues to mark the likely passage and sent exploration teams to investigate the eastern sea.
• General Duo Lai found a passage inside a gigantic vortex, and Mu Yuan assembled a twelve-person team to cross it beneath the Space Urn.
• Mu Yuan's team emerged into a vast sea of spatial vortices, then explored a nearby region and found a livable domain with few monsters and signs of civilization.
• A lord in Gem City learned that the domain beyond the Vortex Sea might border the Red Mist Land and ordered further scouting, while a rival lord demanded intelligence on the new domain.
• Mu Yuan concluded that the developed domain could offer opportunities through trade and exchange, despite the risks of further exploration.

Mu Yuan learned that the God Luo Great Domain was ruled by powers connected to the Star Luo Holy Temple and established a cautious partnership with the Gem Duchy. The Gem Duke agreed to investigate the domain beyond the Vortex Sea, while Sophia and Dolei headed to Iron Stone Mountain to meet a skilled Gun Master.

• Sophia reported that the God Luo Great Domain belonged to a vassal of the Star Luo Holy Temple and that the Gem Duchy controlled the region around Red Stone City.
• Deathbone led an undead delegation to Red Stone City, where the Gem Duke sent Black Obsidian to assess them and decided to cooperate with Mu Yuan rather than compete over the outer domain.
• Mu Yuan and the Gem Duke agreed on initial trade terms, including routes for Ten Directions Island Domain's Black Iron Mine and the Gem Duchy's Elemental Orbs and Elemental Shards.
• The Gem Duke ordered Black Obsidian to scout the domain beyond the Vortex Sea and abandoned efforts to recruit the Gun Master at Iron Stone Mountain.
• Sophia and half of Dolei traveled to Iron Stone Mountain to seek out the Gun Master, whose firearm-modification skills could benefit Mu Yuan.

Sophia, Duo Lai, and Falcon Lord overcame the Golden Duke’s blockade of Iron Stone Mountain and secured Gun Master Roy’s agreement to teach apprentices. Mu Yuan later sent six gun-class professionals to Roy, whose reaction prompted the Golden Duke to consider copying the approach.

• Sophia and Duo Lai met the Divine Cat Lord at Iron Stone Mountain, where the Golden Duke had ordered challengers to face two golden giant statues or show a Star Luo Holy Temple Honor Badge.
• Falcon Lord defeated both golden giant statues with Wind God's Sigh, and Duo Lai’s Legendary pressure deterred the Golden Duchy's powerhouse from retaliating.
• Sophia asked Roy to serve as an instructor rather than join a lord, and Roy agreed to teach apprentices in exchange for payment and their labor.
• Mu Yuan sent Sophia and Duo Lai back with six apprentices, including two Gun Masters and four Gun Experts, and Roy enthusiastically accepted them.
• After seeing the apprentices, the Golden Duke ordered a subordinate to find him three hundred apprentices.

Mu Yuan welcomed Treant Grandmother’s breakthrough into the Legendary Realm and assigned it duties defending Tian Yuan Territory and preparing against Blood Tree Great Forest. Meanwhile, the Blood Tree King agreed to cooperate with the Black Crow Clan and Great Snake Clan, while Daisy returned from a trade run with airships and a Barrier Stone Tablet.

• Fire Powder and five other Gun Masters continued their training at Iron Stone Mountain while Mu Yuan worried about their inexperience and arranged guards for the mountain.
• Treant Grandmother entered the Legendary Realm, giving Tian Yuan Territory six Legendary experts, and Mu Yuan tasked it with building an underground root defense network and extending its forest westward.
• A Black Crow Clan envoy offered the Blood Tree King a Millennial Tree Heart, and the Blood Tree King agreed to cooperate in a plan to expand Blood Tree Forest toward Tian Yuan City.
• Nature Garden held a grand banquet for its new Legendary expert, attended by Mu Yuan and other leaders, while Frost King worried about the Monster Overlords’ plans.
• Daisy returned from the Twilight Plains Great Domain with four airships after opening trade routes, and reported that the Domain Field Disruptor blueprint was unavailable but the Barrier Stone Tablet had been acquired.

Mu Yuan’s territory bought a Barrier Stone Tablet and continued expanding its city and trade routes, while its troops transported monster corpses to the Soul Shrine. The Black Crow Clan and Great Snake Clan launched surprise attacks across Tian Yuan Territory, but their high-order forces failed to capture the shrine and instead supplied fresh offerings for new recruits.

• Daisy bought a Barrier Stone Tablet cheaply, and Mu Yuan arranged her next trade journey and the deployment of personnel to Panshi City and Tianze City.
• Tian Yuan Territory expanded its districts and outer defenses as its troops carried out nighttime duties across the wilderness.
• Bone Forty-Four’s squad delivered high-order monster corpses to the Soul Shrine, where Bai Li prepared to exchange the accumulated soul power.
• The Black Crow Clan and Great Snake Clan surprised the Soul Shrine and other sites with more than a hundred high-order monsters, but Bai Li and Bone Forty-Four defeated the attackers without Mu Yuan intervening.
• The Black Crow Clan’s Legendary Realm experts resolved to keep wearing down Tian Yuan Territory, while the attacks provided fresh corpses that the Soul Shrine turned into new recruits.

After the battle, Mu Yuan assessed the losses, used the Soul Shrine to expand Tian Yuan City’s forces, and prepared to evolve Deathbone despite the risks. He learned that Legendary births were accompanied by vast but concealed phenomena, leaving the Legendary Gate within reach but its mysteries unresolved.

• Mu Yuan revived fallen undead and reviewed the damage from the attacks, while allies reported that their mining areas had survived at a cost.
• Mu Yuan found that the Soul Shrine could harvest fresh corpses to create Remnant Souls, and he used the spoils to recruit new troops and grow Tian Yuan City’s forces.
• Mu Yuan saw that his Evolution Power had reached 623,000, putting the 500,000 needed to evolve an Epic Three-Star lifeform to Legendary within reach.
• Isroya described preparations to conceal Deathbone’s evolution, but Deathbone remained concerned that the phenomenon might attract powerful enemies.
• Mu Yuan consulted the Cold Moon City Lord, who explained that Legendary Lifeforms could not be recruited and that the world concealed them despite the immense phenomena accompanying their births.

Mu Yuan confirmed that Deathbone could undergo legendary evolution without exposing Tian Yuan City, then prepared the city and mystic realm for the ritual. Deathbone’s evolution began at midnight, and after more than three hours he was still enveloped in its light.

• Mu Yuan consulted Cold Moon City Lord and Minister Qin, learned that even a visible legendary birth could not reveal the new legend’s identity, and concluded that Deathbone’s evolution could proceed safely.
• Deathbone prepared skills to develop during the Miracle Baptism and planned to record insights for future evolutions while Mu Yuan and Isroya arranged the ritual.
• Tian Yuan City’s forces continued exploring, clashing with the Monster Overlord’s minions, finding wild buildings, and gaining new opportunities; A-Sun created his Azure Wind Domain and became a Legendary Seed.
• At the Dragon Hill Fertile Soil Mystic Realm, Isroya activated the safeguards, the realm was sealed from the outside, and Tian Yuan City entered Level One Combat Readiness.
• At midnight, Mu Yuan released the Evolution Power and began Deathbone’s legendary evolution, immersing himself in its flow as the ritual’s light continued for over three hours.

Deathbone’s evolution lasted nearly a day before it completed its Legendary transformation, becoming the Bone King and empowering the Undead Bone Sacred Mountain. The birth of the Undead King sent celestial signs across the Eternal World, drawing varied reactions from powerful factions and undead alike.

• Mu Yuan sent Lu Six and Dola out of the Dragon Hill Fertile Soil Mystic Realm to guard Tian Yuan City while Deathbone continued evolving.
• Isroya reduced the power of the Domain Field Disruptor and other facilities as Deathbone’s evolution stretched through the day.
• After eighteen hours, Deathbone’s black mist and pressure spread while its Domain Radius expanded to four thousand meters and its Epic Skills advanced.
• Deathbone completed its evolution as the Legendary One-Star Bone King, awakened Undead Calamity Breath, and transformed the Undead Bone Sacred Mountain, where three special creatures entered the Legendary Realm.
• Celestial signs revealed the birth of a Legend across several Great Domains; the Star Observation Association cautioned against pursuing it, while an Eternal Star Empire prince ordered a search.
• A crowned undead ruler awoke in a desolate domain, and undead across the land knelt in respect for the birth of their king.

After Deathbone’s Legendary evolution transformed the Undead Bone Sacred Mountain and granted it Undead Calamity Breath, Deathbone comprehended a trace of the Law of Desolation. It then tested the new ability in the Black Crow Clan’s territory, where two slain Legendary foes rose again as powerful undead.

• Deathbone’s evolution awakened Undead Calamity Breath, which could permanently create undead, sometimes grant them intelligence, and raise Deathbone’s power as its undead forces grew.
• Mu Yuan learned that Deathbone had comprehended a trace of the Law of Desolation after spending three days in enlightenment.
• Deathbone proposed finding a suitable place to manifest the Undead Bone Sacred Mountain, and Mu Yuan told it to test Undead Calamity Breath on a small scale first.
• Deathbone traveled to the Black Crow Clan’s territory with Sophia’s crows searching for isolated Legendary beings.
• Deathbone confronted two Black Crow Clan Legendaries, and one secretly attacked its companion from behind.
• Both Black Crow Legendaries died and transformed into a Legendary Undead Bone General and a Legendary Harbinger Bird, which retained abilities from their former lives.

Deathbone discovered a Realm Passage into a new great domain saturated with undead energy and considered establishing the Undead Bone Sacred Mountain there. Meanwhile, Daisy’s group set out to establish a base in Boulder City, and Eileen’s party reached Tianze City as Red Dress began her academy assignment with her newly awakened Reincarnation Eye.

• Deathbone followed death-law patterns through an elemental storm, found a Realm Passage, and crossed into a new great domain filled with black mist, corpse bones, and undead energy.
• Deathbone considered placing the Undead Bone Sacred Mountain in the new domain and using the Undead Calamity Breath there without affecting Tian Yuan City.
• Daisy led the Tian Yuan Merchant Group to Boulder City, left Kibi in charge of the guild’s local affairs, and saw Eileen’s party depart for Tianze City.
• Mu Yuan assigned Red Dress to record academy lessons with her illusions, and she accepted after receiving an early evolution baptism.
• Red Dress reached Epic Three-Star Realm and awakened the Reincarnation Eye, which could draw targets into a replayable space and store up to six slices of an area or herself.
• Eileen messaged Mu Yuan that her train had arrived at Tianze City.

Mu Yuan’s group arrived in Tianze City, where Eileen, Red Shadow, Zhou Yi, and Lost Soul planned to apply as academy instructors. During the examination, Red Shadow revealed his fame as a top Dragon Gate List powerhouse, while Lost Soul recognized Senior Uta’s former title.

• Mu Yuan and his companions traveled by Iron Train from Panshi City to Tianze City, where Eileen described the city’s academies and their instructor recruitment.
• Eileen, Red Shadow, Zhou Yi, and Lost Soul prepared to apply as instructors, while Great Lord Mu’s selected students registered to study at the junior academy.
• The four arrived at Tianze Academy and learned that applicants had to be on the Dragon Gate List, survive sixty seconds in the Water Dragon’s Wail Illusion-Killing Array, or hold an Expert-level Skill certificate.
• Red Shadow entered the formation and cut through it with ease, impressing the gathered crowd.
• A local powerhouse identified Red Shadow as Limitless Heavenly Wolf, the Dragon Gate List’s twelfth-ranked fighter, and Lost Soul realized that One-Punch Martial Maniac was Senior Uta’s title.

Mu Yuan followed the Dragon Gate List and received reports from Tianze City as Tianze Academy began recruiting instructors through the Water Dragon's Song Formation. Lost Soul passed the assessment with second-class benefits and introduced Yun Juan to his companions, including team leader Eileen, Zhou Yi, and Red Shadow.

• Mu Yuan speculated that the Dragon Gate List concealed details about powerful figures and noted that his spiritual connection with Lost Soul weakened over long distances.
• Red Shadow demonstrated his strength by slaughtering his way through the Water Dragon's Song Formation before Tianze Academy began its instructor assessment.
• Several applicants failed the trial, while Golden Wheel General lasted 121 seconds and qualified for second-class instructor benefits.
• Lost Soul used his combat experience to survive 153 seconds in the formation and earned second-class instructor benefits.
• Yun Juan introduced himself as a fellow second-class instructor, and Lost Soul introduced Eileen, Zhou Yi, and Red Shadow as members of his team.

Eileen and Zhou Yi, two subordinate generals from Tian Yuan Territory, took part in Tianze Academy’s instructor assessment and revealed very different strengths. Eileen earned a record-setting result through observation and technique, while Zhou Yi endured the formation’s full time limit with overwhelming archery; Red Robe then headed toward the formation.

• Eileen used her Eye of Memory and precise technique to survive the Water Dragon’s Song Formation for 203 seconds, surpassing Lost Soul’s record and qualifying for instructor benefits.
• Tianze Academy’s deans learned that Eileen and Lost Soul came from Tian Yuan Territory, whose isolation in a remote island domain had kept its experts from gaining a reputation.
• Eileen reflected that her strengths suited the assessment but that she would lose to Lost Soul in a real fight, then left the formation.
• Zhou Yi entered the formation and used star-infused arrows and the Myriad Arrows Treasure to destroy the water dragons, lasting until the 300-second limit without breaking the formation.
• The deans praised Zhou Yi’s Polar Star Arrow abilities and noted that he could not receive special-grade instructor treatment because those positions were full.
• Red Robe woke from a nap and drifted toward the formation for his assessment.

Red Shadow broke the Water Dragon's Song Formation in 9.62 seconds, astonishing Tianze Academy and securing a special-grade instructor position with enhanced benefits. She and the others completed their hiring and began exploring academy resources as recruitment battles reshaped the Dragon Gate List.

• Red Shadow observed the Water Dragon's Song Formation, devised a quick strategy, and shattered it in 9.62 seconds.
• Spectators and Yun Juan reacted in disbelief, and Lost Soul explained that the group really came from a recently advanced level-five territory.
• The interviewer hesitated because Tianze Academy had no special-grade positions left, but the academy president promised Red Shadow special-grade treatment with 20% extra benefits.
• Tianze Academy's leaders agreed to fund Red Shadow's position themselves, and Red Shadow, Zhou Yi, Lost Soul, and the others completed their hiring that afternoon.
• Red Shadow studied the academy's illusion cultivation materials while recruitment contests spread across the region and the Dragon Gate List rankings shifted.

The new Dragon Gate List revealed an unprecedented surge of Tian Yuan experts, including several newcomers near the top. Mu Yuan saw that nine people associated with Tian Yuan were ranked, though some were listed under unknown territories.

• Jiang Luo Xing and the Feathered Serpent read the new list and noted that seventy-four experts had entered, pushing the same number off.
• The Feathered Serpent and Jiang Luo Xing spotted two Tian Yuan newcomers ranked 134th and 101st after their performance at Panshi City Advanced Academy.
• Hegemon Dragon reviewed the rankings, found four Tian Yuan experts in the lower portion, and discovered Zhou Yi at nineteenth and Red Robe at sixth.
• People across Tai Xuan reacted to the sudden appearance of six Tian Yuan powerhouses on the list.
• Mu Yuan checked Tian Yuan's copy and counted nine ranked people, including Sophia and Lian Yue, whose affiliated territories were unknown.

Mu Yuan considered how Tian Yuan City could use advanced academies to develop its experts and arranged overseas posts for some subordinates. At the Northern Mine, Sario unveiled his new frost-and-death skill and challenged Uta, but Uta quickly overwhelmed him again.

• Mu Yuan decided Tian Yuan City might establish an advanced cultivation academy once its finances and staffing improved, and he looked to Panshi City and Tianze City for ideas.
• Tian Yuan General's subordinates began overseas assignments, with Li Erniu and Tina working in Panshi City and Red Shadow's group in Tianze City.
• Mu Yuan planned to acquire Legendary breakthrough materials through academy connections while keeping his Fourth Order subordinates in valuable teaching posts.
• Sario showed Uta his newly awakened divine skill, Elegy of Frost and Death, which combined frost and decay in a spreading cycle.
• Uta broke his Flesh Shackles and charged through Sario's attack, then struck before Sario could finish admiring his handiwork.

At Tianze Academy’s instructors’ conference, the Lord of Tianze City explained the path to the Legendary Realm and revealed that Dragon Lord guarded Tianze Lake and a Legendary being dwelled in the Nirvana Mystic Realm. Meanwhile, Deathbone transformed the Undead Bone Sacred Mountain into a vast underground stronghold, and Mu Yuan received a notification as the Lord’s Power surged.

• Instructors discussed three new students with Epic-grade professions and wondered who would teach them.
• The Lord of Tianze City addressed the instructors, explained bloodline purification and Epic abilities, and identified Dragon Lord as Tianze Lake’s guardian.
• The Lord of Tianze City revealed that a Legendary being lived within the Nirvana Mystic Realm, though few people could meet it.
• Deathbone settled on an underground site and integrated the Undead Bone Sacred Mountain, expanding it across the surrounding region.
• Deathbone reshaped the mountain with grave mounds, an underground Black Lake, a Bone Forest, defensive regions, and Miracle Buildings over two and a half days.
• Mu Yuan heard a notification as the Lord’s Power began to surge in Tian Yuan Territory.

Mu Yuan observed Deathbone expanding its undead territory and army, then discussed future expansion with Mireina and the Frost King. As War Armor General investigated the northern Overlord Forces, a Great Snake Clan War Machine emerged beside the Observation Base and began an attack.

• Mu Yuan discovered that Deathbone’s Undead Bone Sacred Mountain had greatly increased Tian Yuan Territory’s Territory Power and watched Deathbone’s undead army spread through the Outer Domain.
• Deathbone’s undead tide defeated a monster horde by converting fallen enemies, strengthening its forces with the Power of Desolation, and reviving the dead.
• Mireina and the Frost King asked Mu Yuan about expanding their factions’ resource operations, and he agreed to consider it once their factions gained more Legendary power.
• War Armor General investigated the Black Crow Clan and Great Snake Clan, then received an alarm as a massive Great Snake Clan War Machine erupted from the ground beside the Observation Base.

The Monster Overlords launched coordinated attacks across Tian Yuan Territory while the Blood Tree Great Forest expanded toward Tian Yuan City, and Mu Yuan ordered the city to follow its contingency plan. Elsewhere, the Golden Duke discovered that the supposedly unclaimed island domain was already defended by a Legendary monster and a vast army.

• The War Armor General killed the Troll Legendary that attacked the Observation Base and warned Tian Yuan City that other wilderness outposts might also be under assault.
• Cheng Zi, Misha, and Tao received a succession of alarms from the Observation Base, mines, and camps as Mu Yuan learned that attacks were underway.
• Mireina and Frost King left to defend their territories while Mu Yuan ordered Tian Yuan City to follow its contingency plan and prepared for attacks from three directions.
• Uta crushed the monsters attacking the Medium Soul Sand Mine, then left after Sario suspected the assault was a feint and volunteered to guard the site.
• A Tian Yuan City envoy and the catfolk prepared to hold their mine until reinforcements arrived as attacks struck mines across the territory.
• The Golden Duke found Star Radiance Sand and assumed the island domain was unclaimed, but a Legendary monster and tens of thousands of flying monsters attacked his group.

The Golden Duke and the Gem Duke investigated the growing threat in the Ten Directions Island Domain as Tian Yuan City prepared for a monster-tide assault. When Tian Yuan’s forces fought at the mining districts, A-Shun defeated a Legendary Storm Banshee, but Black Crow Clan legends ambushed the reinforcements; a powerful Tian Yuan fighter charged through an enemy domain to meet them.

• The Golden Duke chose to advance deeper into the island domain to find its living faction, while the Gem Duke sent a trusted legend to learn Tian Yuan City’s situation.
• Mu Yuan reviewed the battles and incoming monster tides, then ordered Niu Si and Azure Frost to defend selected sites around Tian Yuan City and destroy the waves there.
• The War Armor General dispatched his deputy and several Fourth Order fighters to check on Tian Yuan City and help if necessary.
• The deputy witnessed A-Shun defeat a Legendary Storm Banshee with a swift attack that severed her wings and split her domain.
• Two masked Black Crow Clan legends ambushed A-Shun, and Falcon Lord was struck by a hidden attack that caused decay to spread across one wing.
• A bare-chested Tian Yuan fighter charged through a Black Crow legend’s two-thousand-meter domain and launched Dragon God Punch.