Chapter Summaries

Yi Chen ordered the main force to detour through a Great Canyon to evade the Thunderbolt Bee King and recalled the Spirit Law Stage tribespeople from the other armies. The Live Stream Room speculated that he planned to teach them the New Cultivation Method, but viewers warned one another not to celebrate too early.

• Yi Chen asked Gu Li how far the main force was from the Flame Mountain Tribe and directed her to lead it around The Valley by way of the Great Canyon.
• Yi Chen ordered Gu Li to have the other three armies halt their expansion and send their chiefs and most Spirit Law Stage tribespeople back to the tribe, warning them to evade the Thunderbolt Bee King if they saw it.
• Gu Li understood Yi Chen's route and orders, then left to arrange them while Yi Chen returned to cultivating on the Green Barbarian Bull.
• Viewers in the Live Stream Room reasoned that Yi Chen intended to teach the New Cultivation Method to the recalled tribespeople so they could resist the Thunderbolt Bee King.
• The viewers cautioned one another against assuming Yi Chen would teach the method for certain, and the Live Stream Room fell silent.

Yi Chen scouted above the Great Canyon to prevent the Thunderbolt Bee King from getting ahead of the main force, while viewers realized his flight path would bring him to Bai Ruoxin. Bai Ruoxin, an overlooked Fake Serious Criminal, was mapping the Flame Mountain Range from a boulder above the canyon when Yi Chen approached.

• Gu Li told Yi Chen that the main force had reached the entrance to the Great Canyon, and Yi Chen ordered the formation tightened as they entered.
• Yi Chen flew above the canyon to search for the Thunderbolt Bee King and prevent it from reaching the far end ahead of the main force.
• Viewers discussed the Thunderbolt Bee King's likely reluctance to enter the canyon and noticed that Yi Chen was heading toward Bai Ruoxin.
• The viewers recalled that Bai Ruoxin had left the Flame Mountain Tribe to map the Flame Mountain Range and was heavily unfavored in predictions about who would approach Yi Chen first.
• Bai Ruoxin stood on a large boulder above the canyon, drawing a topographical map directly along Yi Chen's flight path.

Yi Chen found Bai Ruoxin drawing a topographical map of the Flame Mountain Range and was impressed by the detailed maps and resource records she had compiled. When he asked why she was doing it, she honestly said she wanted to earn his appreciation, leaving Yi Chen and the livestream viewers surprised.

• Yi Chen searched the canyon for the Thunderbolt Bee King and spotted a human figure on a boulder.
• Bai Ruoxin introduced herself to Yi Chen and explained that she was mapping the Flame Mountain Range and recording information about its resources.
• Bai Ruoxin showed Yi Chen her maps, which covered the area around the Flame Mountain Tribe and included notes on plants, animals, and Spirit Mines.
• Yi Chen praised the maps and asked Bai Ruoxin what had inspired her to make them.
• Bai Ruoxin told Yi Chen she had planned to present the maps to him so he would value her and give her power and status.
• The livestream viewers debated whether Bai Ruoxin was being sincere or pursuing a hidden plan.

Yi Chen agreed to Bai Ruoxin’s request to establish an intelligence organization, despite her demand for broad authority to gather intelligence on both unexplored regions and tribe members. The chapter ended with the Live Stream Room debating why Yi Chen accepted her proposal and whether Bai Ruoxin had deliberately earned his trust.

• Yi Chen agreed to let Bai Ruoxin form a team to map unexplored regions for the Four Routes Army once its members learned to fly.
• Bai Ruoxin asked for authority to collect intelligence on Ferocious Beasts and investigate the tribe members, and she acknowledged the dangers that came with the role.
• After studying Bai Ruoxin, Yi Chen granted her request, and she thanked him with a smile.
• Viewers in the Live Stream Room argued over Yi Chen’s decision, with one viewer claiming Bai Ruoxin had impressed him by stating her ambitions directly.

Yi Chen brought Bai Ruoxin back to the army, where she began investigating Gu Li to prove her value and earn Yi Chen’s trust. As the main force neared the Flame Mountain Tribe, viewers debated whether Gu Li could withstand the schemes of the Fake Serious Criminals.

• Yi Chen flew Bai Ruoxin back to Gu Li after meeting her above the canyon, then left to search for the Thunderbolt Bee King.
• Bai Ruoxin asked Gu Li about her past victory, and Gu Li took her along while recounting the story and discussing the Cloudfall Tribe assassination.
• Bai Ruoxin subtly gained Gu Li’s trust and learned more by investigating her first, prompting Gu Li to invite her to join the East Route Army.
• Viewers debated Gu Li’s position and whether her friendship with Yi Chen would protect her from the Fake Serious Criminals’ schemes.
• The main force crossed the Great Canyon, covered its tracks, and continued toward the Flame Mountain Tribe.

Yi Chen returned to the Flame Mountain Tribe with the Cloudfall Tribe’s people, and the High Priest welcomed him with an extravagant beast-hide carpet. Yi Chen began arranging the newcomers’ settlement and warned that the Cloudfall Tribe’s Fake Deity might have followed them.

• The High Priest and the Flame Mountain Tribe welcomed Yi Chen and the returning East Route Army, while tribe members laid beast hides from the valley entrance to Yi Chen’s Stone House.
• Viewers revealed that Feng Yue had prompted the High Priest to make the beast-hide carpet, hoping to undermine him and attract Yi Chen’s attention.
• Yi Chen rode into the valley and asked whether housing, food, tools, and a Bonfire Party were ready for the Cloudfall Tribe’s arrival.
• Yi Chen ordered the Spirit Mine’s work paused and told the clanspeople to stay in The Valley in case the Cloudfall Tribe’s Fake Deity had followed them.
• The High Priest could not answer Yi Chen’s question about finding enough Spirit Stone-earning jobs for the growing population, while the newcomers rested and awaited settlement.

Yi Chen noticed Lou Xing’s talent but ordered the High Priest to discipline him rather than taking him as a disciple. Afterward, Feng Yue accused the High Priest of stealing from the tribe’s warehouse, and Yi Chen heard the evidence against him.

• Lou Xing staged a near-collision with Yi Chen’s Green Barbarian Bull, but Yi Chen caught him with a vine and praised his talent.
• The High Priest identified Lou Xing and explained that the unruly orphan had reached the Spirit Release Realm Fifth Level.
• Yi Chen ordered the High Priest to find someone to discipline Lou Xing, using beatings if necessary.
• Feng Yue followed Yi Chen after he left the settlement, knelt, and accused the High Priest of theft and mismanagement.
• Feng Yue described the warehouse record discrepancies and revealed that the High Priest had buried stolen goods at home, leaving the High Priest unable to answer.

Feng Yue exposed the High Priest’s abuses to Yi Chen, who spared the priest but warned him to stay within limits and ordered him to adopt Lou Xing. Lou Xing remained tied up and battered, unaware that the High Priest had become his new father.

• Feng Yue accused the High Priest of wasting the tribe’s winter hides and unfairly judging disputes, leaving the priest collapsed and unable to defend himself.
• Yi Chen praised Feng Yue’s courage and investigation, but gave him no reward after Feng Yue said he wanted nothing.
• Yi Chen told the High Priest he would spare him, asked whether he had taken Spirit Mines, and warned him to respect the limits of his position.
• Yi Chen ordered the High Priest to adopt the orphan Lou Xing and raise him as his own son.
• The High Priest accepted Yi Chen’s orders, while Lou Xing remained hanging from a vine as his friends beat him.

After two days of cultivation, Yi Chen gathered the Spirit Law Stage tribesmen and began teaching them the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art. He warned that learning it would cause their left arms to wither and rot after three months, leaving the tribe, the viewers, and the wider Milky Way in shock.

• Yi Chen left Stone House, saw how much The Valley had grown, and ordered the High Priest to send eloquent disciples to the Four Routes Army.
• Yi Chen gathered more than forty Spirit Law Stage tribesmen and carved the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art and its cultivation chart onto the stone wall.
• Yi Chen warned that anyone who learned the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art would have their left arm slowly wither and rot after three months.
• Viewers debated whether to risk learning the method, while the news sent stock markets across the Milky Way plunging.
• Marshal Tie Xue summoned military leaders to discuss the crisis, while Boton reacted with delight.

Yi Chen explained the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art after all forty-three Spirit Law Stage cultivators agreed to learn it despite losing an arm. He taught them to understand spiritual energy’s balance, while he continued searching for loopholes in the Great Dao’s rules to advance safely.

• Zong Shan decided to learn the Chaos Art, and Gu Li, Tai Shi, and the other Spirit Law Stage cultivators followed, bringing the total to forty-three.
• Viewers in the Live Stream Room discussed the arm loss as the cost of gaining strength and extending their lifespans.
• Yi Chen began teaching the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art and explained how spiritual energy replenished and could be depleted within a region.
• Yi Chen described how the Great Dao enforced balance and could create variables to restrain races that monopolized resources.
• Yi Chen chose to seek loopholes in the Great Dao’s rules, since he could not yet enter a larger closed loop or break and establish rules himself.

Yi Chen taught the Spirit Law Stage clansmen and the live-stream audience the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art, the complete Heaven Severing Art, and the Myriad Laws Art. His third public lesson ended after roughly a day, leaving everyone eager to explore the newly revealed powers.

• Yi Chen finished teaching the forty-three Spirit Law Stage clansmen the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art, whose cultivation required sacrificing an arm.
• Yi Chen carved and taught the complete Heaven Severing Art, explaining how Sword Intent strengthened its techniques without mentioning any side effects.
• As humanity accepted the arm sacrifice, the plunging stock market began to stabilize.
• Yi Chen carved the complete Myriad Laws Art and explained how it guided the Law Power practitioners had comprehended.
• Yi Chen spent most of the day teaching and answering questions, and Gu Li and Tai Shi faintly sensed Law Power.
• Yi Chen concluded his third public lesson after about a day, leaving the clansmen and viewers fascinated by the new cultivation methods.

Yi Chen revealed that the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art would not actually cost cultivators an arm, and the High Priest guessed that Yi Chen had staged the threat to restore the clansmen’s reverence and strengthen his control. The Live Stream Room realized humanity had panicked over the same deception and began discussing how to appease Yi Chen if he ever returned to the Federation.

• Yi Chen ordered the Spirit Law Stage clansmen to cultivate and test their new abilities in an empty place, then asked the High Priest about sending priests’ disciples to the Four Routes Army.
• The High Priest proposed proclaiming Yi Chen the one true god and claiming that only devout followers who drank Divine Water would avoid losing their left arms; Yi Chen approved the plan and said to announce later that he had developed the water.
• The High Priest worried that Yi Chen might destroy him for knowing too much, but concluded that he had correctly understood Yi Chen’s intentions.
• Viewers in the Live Stream Room realized that Yi Chen had used the supposed risk of losing an arm to warn clansmen whose reverence for him had faded, and that humanity had also been deceived.
• The viewers debated building statues of Yi Chen and offering him a Life Planet or noble status to appease him if he returned to the Human Federation.

Humanity’s military spent a day rebuilding its plans around the belief that the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art crippled one arm, only to learn Yi Chen had made the claim as a warning to his subordinates. Boton learned the same truth after withdrawing his agents and abandoning a plot against Yi Chen, leaving him furious and unsure whether he could revive the plan without exposing himself.

• Across the Milky Way, reports spread that evolving into a high-level life-form had no aftereffects, while the stock market and public excitement surged.
• Marshal Tie Xue received word that Yi Chen had only warned his subordinates about losing their reverence, and that cultivating the Spirit Law Stage Chaos Art did not cost an arm.
• The military leaders realized their all-night restructuring meeting and completed budget plan had been based on a false assumption.
• Boton dismissed his subordinates and summoned Manmiao Qingrou to dance, but a message from the High Priest interrupted him with news about Yi Chen’s cultivation method.
• Boton killed Manmiao Qingrou in anger after learning the Chaos Art had no side effects, then smashed his throne and regretted withdrawing his Silver Winged Angels and tearing up his agreements with Human Race conspirators.

Lou Xing maneuvered the High Priest into considering an academy for the tribe’s children and a marketplace where people could trade goods for Spirit Stones. He left after deciding not to push the High Priest to build a network of allies, while his unexpected fatherly affection continued to unsettle him.

• While Yi Chen cultivated, Lou Xing complained to the High Priest that Xiao Hu had to gather Earth Fruits with his father instead of playing with him because their family lacked Spirit Stones.
• The High Priest focused on Lou Xing’s talk of climbing cliffs and offered to arrange a supervised hunt, but Lou Xing explained that he wanted the children taught together.
• Lou Xing demanded that the High Priest ask Yi Chen to approve a dedicated academy and make the High Priest its dean.
• Lou Xing proposed a place for tribespeople to trade goods for Spirit Stones, and the High Priest recognized it as a solution to the newcomers’ lack of work.
• Lou Xing decided not to urge the High Priest to cultivate trusted aides, fearing that doing so might cross Yi Chen’s limits, and left while reflecting on his new father’s affection.

Yi Chen approved the High Priest’s plans to establish an Academy and a marketplace, then expanded the Academy to include childcare and introduced a reward for every newborn. The High Priest celebrated his reward by showing it off around the tribe while viewers debated how Yi Chen’s policies might affect women’s status.

• The High Priest told Yi Chen that nearly two thousand children needed supervision and proposed an Academy where they could learn writing and cultivation; Yi Chen approved.
• The High Priest proposed a marketplace for handmade goods and ways for tribespeople to earn Spirit Stones through gathering, hunting, mining, and the Guard Team’s patrols; Yi Chen approved and awarded him one thousand Spirit Stones.
• Yi Chen instructed the High Priest to include newborns and toddlers in the Academy’s childcare, with free care scheduled by parents.
• Yi Chen decreed that each family would receive three hundred Spirit Stones whenever a baby was born in the tribe.
• After the High Priest left, viewers in the Live Stream Room debated the childbirth reward’s effects on women, and the High Priest walked around the tribe showing off his reward.

Flame Mountain Tribe and the wider Human Race adapted to the changes caused by the Myriad Laws Art, while Yi Chen focused on cultivation and received Bai Ruoxin’s investigation into Gu Li. The report cleared Gu Li of acting out of jealousy, and Yi Chen ordered Bai Ruoxin to continue investigating and identify talented tribesmen.

• Flame Mountain Tribe expanded its academy and marketplace, and the reward of three hundred Spirit Stones for each child prompted tribesmen to return home and have children.
• Across the Milky Way, people used newly learned elemental laws in disruptive ways, while the Federal Parliament struggled to respond and the Military developed spell-using infantry and improved Space Warship operations.
• Yi Chen cultivated the Chaos Art in the Stone House until Bai Ruoxin entered through the window and advised him to strengthen the guard force.
• Bai Ruoxin reported that Gu Li had hidden the Scout Squad’s designer because Hai Lan, whom Yi Chen had sent to the East Route Army, had proposed the squad structure.
• Yi Chen read Bai Ruoxin’s written evidence, concluded that his concern about Gu Li was unfounded, and told her to continue the other investigation and quickly identify talented tribesmen.

Yi Chen continued cultivating while viewers discussed the coming reorganization of the Flame Mountain Tribe's power and Bai Ruoxin's ambitions. The chapter left the viewers debating whether Yi Chen would create another New Cultivation Method after reaching a new Great Realm.

• After Bai Ruoxin left, Yi Chen resumed cultivation, having reached the Spirit Law Stage Ninth Level and aiming to break through to a new Great Realm.
• Viewers analyzed why the High Priest resisted sharing power and why Lou Xing did not challenge him.
• Viewers debated Bai Ruoxin's pursuit of authority over Yi Chen's Guard Team and concluded she wanted to qualify as a candidate without provoking Yi Chen's suspicion.
• Viewers predicted that Yi Chen would reorganize the Flame Mountain Tribe's power when he had time, giving the Fake Serious Criminals a chance to rise.
• Viewers argued over whether Yi Chen would create another New Cultivation Method after his breakthrough, splitting into the Science Faction and the Mysticism Faction.

Yi Chen discovered that advancing beyond Spirit Law Stage Ninth Level Peak required comprehending the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, then broke through after a brief effort. He began testing his newly awakened Divine Sense, while considering how future realm requirements might limit ordinary Flame Mountain Tribe clansmen.

• Yi Chen realized that reaching the limit of his Spiritual Power was not enough to break through and suspected he needed to comprehend the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
• After comprehending the laws for a short time, Yi Chen broke through to a new Great Realm, and the Live Stream Room viewers celebrated his doubled lifespan limit of one thousand years.
• Yi Chen worried that ordinary clansmen might be unable to meet the comprehension requirement for future breakthroughs, but decided to focus instead on helping them advance faster.
• Yi Chen closed his eyes and extended his perception, gradually seeing every detail within about one meter before stopping because the sensory information overwhelmed him.
• Yi Chen began trying to listen to the sounds around him through his perception rather than his ears.

Yi Chen developed enhanced versions of the Six Consciousnesses and realized Divine Sense would require fusing them into one comprehensive ability. As he began that research, viewers discovered his brainwaves sometimes traveled at over a thousand meters per second, potentially enabling brainwave-operated machines to move ten times faster.

• Yi Chen enhanced his Visual, Ear, Nose, Tongue, Body, and Mind Consciousnesses, but found they could not provide the combined perception he needed to analyze Spirit Mines for Weapon Forging.
• Yi Chen realized Divine Sense should combine the enhanced Six Consciousnesses and began merging their abilities, spending hours fusing Visual and Ear Consciousnesses before attempting to add Nose Consciousness.
• Viewers noticed Yi Chen's Spiritual Power was being consumed and discovered that his brainwaves sometimes traveled between neurons at more than a thousand meters per second.
• Viewers concluded Yi Chen's faster thinking would not overwhelm his body because his enhanced reaction speed could keep pace, then realized brainwave-operated machines might also run ten times faster if their AI and hardware could keep up.

The Live Stream audience debated how Yi Chen’s tenfold brainwave surges could improve Mecha and warship combat, but they could not explain what caused them. Yi Chen revealed that he had condensed Divine Sense, then resumed cultivating as observers concluded he had returned to normal.

• Mecha warriors and viewers discussed how faster brainwaves could improve Mecha reactions, while noting that fully upgrading the machines would require extensive redesigns and could benefit Space Warships most.
• Viewers wondered why Yi Chen’s brainwaves had occasionally surged more than tenfold, since his actions did not seem to match the start of creating a New Cultivation Method.
• After nearly three days of stillness, Yi Chen opened his eyes and realized he had fused his enhanced Six Consciousnesses and condensed Divine Sense.
• Yi Chen used Divine Sense to sense everything within a one-meter radius, briefly felt watched, then withdrew it and entered the Meditative State to stabilize his realm.
• The observers’ Scanner showed Yi Chen stabilizing his realm and improving the Chaos Art, reassuring the audience that he had returned to normal.