Chapter Summaries

Zhou Lin and the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms fought two Myriad-touch Dragon Sons, and Zhou Lin killed them by infiltrating their Life Cores with disasters. After storing their corpses for study, Zhou Lin suspected the trial’s encounter with the two creatures was significant.

• The two Myriad-touch Dragon Sons attacked Zhou Lin and the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms, and Zhou Lin gradually mastered their fighting patterns while suppressing them with his worlds and Secret Arts.
• Zhou Lin used the Causal Origin Dao to infiltrate the Dragon Sons’ Life Cores while he and the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms fought them for four hundred thousand years.
• Zhou Lin unleashed a Karma World Dao killing move that caused disasters to erupt inside both Life Cores, killing the Myriad-touch Dragon Sons.
• Zhou Lin stored the two corpses for later study and promised the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms he could have them afterward.
• Zhou Lin told the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms that the trial might be mysterious and that their encounter with two low-level primal chaos lifeforms could be related to it.

Zhou Lin passed the fourth trial, exchanged his points for a Miniature Origin World, and refined it to strengthen his cultivation and combat abilities. Yan Feng Progenitor and Lei Ting Ancestor joined him to force the later trials to become harder, and the three entered the next challenge together.

• Zhou Lin studied the Myriad-touch Dragon Son’s corpse, fused two branches of the Void Realm, and advanced to the Three-Dao Universe God Second Layer.
• Zhou Lin passed the fourth trial and received 3,000 points, then exchanged them for a Miniature Origin World and merged it into his body.
• Zhou Lin refined the Miniature Origin World, gaining help with World Origin Great Dao comprehension and stronger divine power and World Projection.
• Yan Feng Progenitor and Lei Ting Ancestor agreed to team up with Zhou Lin to increase the difficulty of his trials, while Zhou Lin refused to compromise with them over their conflict.
• Zhou Lin, Yan Feng Progenitor, and Lei Ting Ancestor entered the next trial together, while Di Qing watched their strange alliance in confusion.

Zhou Lin, Yan Feng Progenitor, and Lei Ting Progenitor faced a trial against three One-Eyed Giant Beasts whose soul attacks tested their will. Yan Feng and Lei Ting struggled to meet the trial’s requirement, while Zhou Lin claimed his will was stronger and challenged Yan Feng to prove otherwise.

• Yan Feng Progenitor led Zhou Lin and Lei Ting Progenitor to the universe’s trial zone, where they encountered three enormous One-Eyed Giant Beasts.
• Yan Feng Progenitor attacked one beast, but its soul technique overwhelmed him with illusions and left him dazed for several years.
• Yan Feng Progenitor explained that passing required retaining seventy percent of one’s mental strength, then admitted his will was insufficient.
• Lei Ting Progenitor endured the beasts’ soul attack better than Yan Feng but still needed to keep tempering his will.
• Yan Feng Progenitor mocked Zhou Lin for having no Avatar outside to support his cultivation, and Zhou Lin said his will was stronger than theirs.

Zhou Lin endured the Low-Level Primal Chaos lifeform’s trial, experiencing its memories of war, captivity, and slaughter before rejecting its accusations with the conviction that strength determined survival. He broke free with a terrifying will and continued along the road of trials, leaving Yan Feng Progenitor and Lei Ting Progenitor alarmed by his potential.

• Lei Ting Progenitor ended his hundred-year trial and told Yan Feng Progenitor that passing it could benefit their cultivation.
• Zhou Lin entered the trial and experienced a Low-Level Primal Chaos lifeform’s memories, including a distant battle between World-class Primal Chaos lifeforms and the slaughter of its people by cultivators.
• When the lifeform’s memories filled him with fear and hatred toward cultivators, Zhou Lin answered that they captured the weak because stronger Primal Chaos lifeforms would threaten Origin Worlds.
• Zhou Lin broke free from the illusion, displaying a will that shocked Yan Feng Progenitor and Lei Ting Progenitor.
• Zhou Lin pressed onward through the perilous road of trials, while Lei Ting Progenitor and Yan Feng Progenitor worried that he could eventually surpass the Cage.

Zhou Lin cleared the trials leading up to the final stage, strengthening his will and powers as he overcame increasingly difficult opponents. He received notice that the final-stage trial was about to begin, while Thunder Ancestor and Yan Feng Progenitor remained trapped in the universe.

• Thunder Ancestor resolved to keep tempering his Dao Heart and will, while he and Yan Feng Progenitor discussed escaping the Cage to survive Zhou Lin.
• Zhou Lin broke through a colossal storm and left the universe, proving his Mental Will surpassed Yan Feng Progenitor’s.
• Zhou Lin continued through the trial stages, exchanged his points for Miniature Origin Worlds, and passed the sixth stage with ease.
• Zhou Lin struggled against an unsealed Low-Level Primal Chaos Lifeform in the seventh stage, then spent several dozen Eras improving his Dao and Secret Arts before killing it.
• Zhou Lin received notice that he had reached the final stage and was about to undergo its trial.

After passing the seventh trial, Zhou Lin entered the final challenge and faced a perfect copy of himself, whose strength and techniques adapted to match his. Realizing that he could not win by improving his existing moves, Zhou Lin searched his stored remnants for a way to advance the Void Realm and defeat his counterpart.

• Zhou Lin exchanged his seventh-trial points for Miniature Origin Worlds, greatly increasing his energy reserves, then entered the final trial.
• A golden-robed Zhou Lin appeared and explained that he would have to defeat an identical copy to pass; the two fought evenly for ten thousand years.
• Zhou Lin improved his strongest killing move, but his opponent instantly replicated the improved version, revealing that the trial copied his insights in real time.
• Zhou Lin concluded that the Void Realm offered his best chance, since the trial could not simulate its killing moves, and searched his stored remnants for relevant profundities.
• Zhou Lin found a World-level Primal Chaos Lifeform remnant filled with eyes containing Illusory Worlds and began cultivating the Void Realm lineages of world, desire, illusion, and annihilation.

Zhou Lin used the Thousand-Eyed Clan’s illusion worlds to deepen his Void Realm understanding, then began developing a killing move that joined the Void Realm with the real world. He left still struggling to discover how to make illusion, desire, and vitality fit within his creation.

• Zhou Lin drew on the Thousand-Eyed Clan’s World-level Primal Chaos Remnant and other remnants to study the Void Realm’s profundities.
• The Artifact Spirit doubted Zhou Lin could break through within the remaining three hundred billion years, unaware of his unusual cultivation background.
• Zhou Lin began studying the remnant’s illusion worlds to create a dominant Void Realm killing move.
• Zhou Lin concluded that the real world might encompass the Void Realm and combined the World, Desire, Illusion, and Destruction branches with Chaos and life and death.
• After seventy thousand years of work on Descent of the Real World, Zhou Lin felt its Illusion and Desire profundities were too weak and continued searching for the right path.

Zhou Lin created the Void Realm Illusion killing move Eternal World and defeated Golden-robed Zhou Lin in the seventh trial. Yuan then arrived, praised Zhou Lin’s potential, and urged him to escape the Cage before his Origin World’s Reincarnation Era ended so he could save his family and clansmen.

• Zhou Lin spent a long time studying how illusion and reality could be fused, then developed the embryonic Void Realm Dao and refined a Soul Dao killing move.
• Zhou Lin completed Eternal World, an illusion that trapped opponents in countless ages and blurred their Dao Hearts.
• Golden-robed Zhou Lin was affected by the move, conceded defeat, and vanished, while the Artifact Spirit confirmed Zhou Lin had passed the seventh trial.
• The Artifact Spirit told Zhou Lin that Yuan had been informed of his achievement, and Yuan appeared to meet him.
• Yuan praised Zhou Lin’s extraordinary potential and warned him to escape the Cage before his Origin World’s Reincarnation Era ended, so he could save his family and clansmen.

After Yuan told Zhou Lin about Yan Feng Progenitor’s plan to destroy the world, Zhou Lin exchanged his inheritance rewards for rare blood, remains, and secret treasures to strengthen himself. He absorbed refined Myriad-touch Dragon Son Heartblood and left with a Domain Nightmare Beast corpse suited to his Dao comprehensions.

• Yuan told Zhou Lin that Yan Feng Progenitor was preparing to destroy the world, while Thunder Ancestor focused on escaping the Cage, and said Lord Star Brilliance would take Zhou Lin to explore other regions.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that Zhou Lin could exchange for one treasure from each category after clearing the final challenge, and Zhou Lin chose the Eternal World God King inheritance stages.
• Zhou Lin exchanged for several dozen drops of refined World-class Primal Chaos Myriad-touch Dragon Son Heartblood and absorbed some of its mysteries, strengthening his soul and shielding it from ordinary Karmic Tracking.
• Zhou Lin chose the head of a World-class Primal Chaos and selected a Domain Nightmare Beast corpse whose life structure suited his Void and Causality comprehensions.
• Zhou Lin exchanged for Palace-type, domain-type, Reconnaissance-type, Defense-type, Weapon-type, and Flying Boat secret treasures.

After exchanging for powerful secret treasures, Zhou Lin met Xingmang, who allowed him to return to the Origin Continent and arrange matters before training his Nine Avatars. Seeing the devastation left by the war, Zhou Lin returned to Cang Yuan Capital, where he honored allies who had supported his camp.

• Zhou Lin exchanged for secret treasures that could only be studied inside the Origin World, and he told the Artifact Spirit that the Dao mattered more than equipment.
• Xingmang arrived through the Sea of Time, let Zhou Lin return to the Origin Continent, and offered to take his Nine Avatars to train after Zhou Lin made arrangements.
• Zhou Lin saw the ruined Origin Continent and learned that the Lord of Ten Thousand Realms had held back during the war, while Molosa, A Yu, Feng Xi, and other allies had fought to defend the remaining strongholds.
• Zhou Lin returned to Cang Yuan Capital, where the corpses of defeated Emperors and Monarchs hung before the Imperial Palace and the surviving leaders greeted him.
• Zhou Lin rewarded Old Demon of Space-time and Lord of Ten Thousand Laws by allowing their followers to enter the Heaven Pillar Realm and Dream Domain, and promised each of them a High-level Primal Chaos Remnant.

Zhou Lin confronted Lord of Ten Thousand Realms for using weak Avatars to evade his war pledge, then used karmic tracking to locate him and sent Molosa to disrupt his cultivation. Lord of Ten Thousand Realms survived Molosa’s attack, but Zhou Lin intended to keep him from cultivating in peace and reclaim the Supreme Secret Treasure later.

• Zhou Lin accused Lord of Ten Thousand Realms of faking his participation in the war, but Lord of Ten Thousand Realms claimed he had kept the oath and left Cang Yuan Capital.
• Emperor Gui Xu and the Space-time Ark Master condemned Lord of Ten Thousand Realms, while Zhou Lin ordered Molosa to make sure he could not cultivate peacefully.
• Zhou Lin spread an illusory world across the Origin Continent and used black Causal Threads to track Lord of Ten Thousand Realms.
• Molosa attacked Lord of Ten Thousand Realms, who endured the assault with secret treasures that gave him roughly eighty percent of invincible combat strength.
• Zhou Lin accepted that Molosa could not kill Lord of Ten Thousand Realms and resolved to keep him fighting until he could reclaim the Supreme Secret Treasure.

Zhou Lin rewarded Cang Yuan Country’s God Kings, then left the Origin Continent with Lord Star Brilliance to study the Primal Chaos Space and train in worlds with different rules. He entered a brutal technological world created by Jin, stabilized his collapsing Divine Body, and began searching for local cultivation manuals.

• Zhou Lin gave God King Zi Mu and A Yu the Myriad-touch Dragon Son’s corpse and rewarded the other meritorious God Kings with treasures and remains.
• Lord Star Brilliance arrived and showed Zhou Lin the Primal Chaos Space, explaining its structure and the danger of traveling through it at his speed.
• Lord Star Brilliance took Zhou Lin to a prosperous world cluster and sent his Nine Avatars into a world created by Jin, where they could attempt to break through to the Ultimate Realm.
• Zhou Lin’s Divine Body began collapsing under the world’s rules, so he used the Void Realm Illusion to conceal himself and reconstruct his body.
• Zhou Lin adapted to Jin’s world by abandoning conflicting mysteries and absorbing its rules until his strength stabilized at the Universe God Second Layer.
• Jin met Lord Star Brilliance and welcomed Zhou Lin’s potential to become a Lord, while Zhou Lin decided to find local cultivation manuals.

Zhou Lin discovered that Jin’s universe forced its inhabitants to kill for survival points and judged the harsh system while traveling through the Ascension Passage. He reached the Hunger World, where two God Kings greeted him and one offered him scriptures for Chaos Beast Meat.

• Zhou Lin incapacitated billions of battlefield pilots and searched their memories, learning that inhabitants needed Reward Points from killing or risked execution.
• Zhou Lin learned that the universe’s survival rules included periodic Great Annihilations and that becoming a God King required mastering a branch of the Dao.
• Zhou Lin decided to enter the Ascension Passage because the available scriptures reached only the Chaos Realm level.
• The passage tested Zhou Lin’s lifeform and allowed him through because he had already reached God King-level existence.
• Zhou Lin arrived in the Hunger World, felt hungry, and noted that its rules and suppressive force were milder than he had expected.
• A God King approached Zhou Lin and offered him scriptures in exchange for 30,000 Chaos Beast Meat.

Zhou Lin arrived in the Holy Realm, defeated Gan Laoguai, and accepted Yun Jie's offer to join the Sacred Palace in search of higher-level Enlightenment scriptures. After a long journey, he reached the Palace and was stunned by the vast number of powerful cultivators there.

• Gan Laoguai attacked Zhou Lin after he refused to buy scriptures, but Yun Jie intervened and invoked the protection rules for Ascenders.
• Zhou Lin sealed Gan Laoguai with his World and Void Dao techniques, then asked Yun Jie to explain the Holy Realm.
• Yun Jie described the Sacred Palace and offered to recommend Zhou Lin for membership; Zhou Lin gave his name as Bei Chen and agreed to join.
• Yun Jie escorted Zhou Lin through several teleportation arrays toward the Sacred Palace headquarters, explaining the Holy Realm's distances and food-based economy.
• Zhou Lin arrived at the Sacred Palace and saw its immense palace complexes and more than a trillion Chaos Realm cultivators.

Zhou Lin entered the Sacred Palace and studied its records, gaining insight into how worlds and rules related and advancing his understanding of the Karma World Dao. After forty million years, Fu Xu arrived with Yun Jie in custody and confronted Zhou Lin, who stepped out of the Scripture Pavilion to face the Sacred Palace guardians.

• Yun Jie brought Zhou Lin into the Sacred Palace, where the white-haired old man issued him robes and an insignia despite the Vice Palace Lords’ absence.
• Yun Jie explained the Sacred Palace’s ranks and ascension requirements, then led Zhou Lin to the Bamboo Tower’s collection of Jade Slip records.
• Zhou Lin scanned the records, studied Causality and other Daos, and realized that Daos developed within the rules of ascending levels of worlds.
• Zhou Lin cultivated in the Bamboo Tower for forty million years, drawing close to the Ultimate Realm in his World Dao and Causality Dao.
• Fu Xu entered with Yun Jie bound and stripped of his guardian status, then demanded that Zhou Lin leave the Scripture Pavilion and submit.
• Zhou Lin warned Fu Xu not to mistreat Yun Jie, stepped outside, and faced several Silver Robe Guardians ordered to seize him.

Zhou Lin overwhelmed Fu Xu outside the Scripture Pavilion, defeating his Time Origin techniques and preparing to cripple and imprison him. Fu Xu warned that Ying knew about the confrontation and could shrink the Sacred Palace array, potentially trapping Zhou Lin inside.

• Zhou Lin sent the Silver Robe Guardians flying with a word, and Fu Xu attacked him with the Eternal World illusion.
• Zhou Lin sealed space, stopped Fu Xu from escaping through the Void Dao, and destroyed Fu Xu’s past and Future Incarnations through time and causality.
• Fu Xu’s Time Guillotine collapsed against Zhou Lin’s finger, and Zhou Lin declared that he would cripple and imprison him.
• Zhou Lin repeatedly struck Fu Xu until he was badly injured, while Yun Jie wondered whether Bei Chen had gained such power after ascending.
• Fu Xu warned Zhou Lin that Ying knew everything and could shrink the array formation to keep Zhou Lin trapped in the Sacred Palace.

Zhou Lin defeated Fu Xu, sealed his soul for ten trillion years of torment, and confronted Vice Palace Lord Ying at the Sacred Palace. Ying refused to surrender and struck at Zhou Lin with power drawn from Emperor Venerate’s formations.

• Zhou Lin beat Fu Xu, tore apart his Divine Body, and sealed his soul inside the Calamity Cloud to suffer torment for ten trillion years.
• Yun Jie marveled at Zhou Lin’s strength, and Zhou Lin explained that he intended to study the world’s rules rather than ascend yet.
• Ying watched Zhou Lin’s attack and, fearing his strength, remained inside the Sacred Palace’s main hall.
• Zhou Lin reached the Sacred Palace and demanded that Ying surrender or face the destruction of the palace.
• Ying drew power from the Sacred Palace’s formations, formed a gigantic crimson palm, and attacked Zhou Lin.

Zhou Lin destroyed the Sacred Palace’s formation, killed Vice Palace Lord Ying, and confronted the Emperor Venerate Projection. The projection conceded that it could not stop him and warned that Zhou Lin would eventually have to ascend, leaving him puzzled about why he seemed exempt from that rule.

• Zhou Lin shattered the independent space and defeated Ying’s attacks, revealing the Sacred Palace to God Kings across the cosmos.
• Zhou Lin used a causal technique that struck Ying’s life essence and erased him completely.
• Zhou Lin entered the Sacred Palace as its terrified residents called on Emperor Venerate.
• The Emperor Venerate Projection appeared and acknowledged that it could not stop Zhou Lin, but said the Sacred Palace would be rebuilt if anyone survived.
• The projection warned Zhou Lin that he would have to ascend within a certain period, and Zhou Lin wondered why he seemed unaffected by that rule.

Zhou Lin allied with the Emperor Venerate Projection to stabilize the Sacred Palace and learned about the Holy Realm’s ascension and its powerful Forbidden Lifeform. After securing Yun Jie’s future and returning to study, he awaited the chance to see the lifeform.

• The Emperor Venerate Projection revealed that he retained all his memories and asked Zhou Lin to support the Sacred Palace, and Zhou Lin agreed.
• Zhou Lin created a stronger world around the Sacred Palace while the Emperor Venerate Projection condemned Fu Xu and Ying and endorsed Sheng Yan as the true successor.
• Zhou Lin suggested Yun Jie could become the Sacred Palace’s future Palace Lord in recognition of his help with the ancient texts.
• The Emperor Venerate Projection explained that ascension involved the Bloodline Flow and that a Forbidden Lifeform’s diluted blood could produce a God Emperor-level bloodline.
• Zhou Lin asked to see the Forbidden Lifeform, then returned to the Scripture Pavilion while the Emperor Venerate Projection remained to secure the Silver Robe Guardian’s position.
• Zhou Lin continued reading and planned to strengthen Yun Jie with Secret Art inheritances and a Peak Secret Treasure.

After ten thousand years of cultivation, Zhou Lin traveled to the passageway containing a World-class Primal Chaos Prisoner, which he believed held his greatest opportunity. He entered the darkness and came face to face with the immense imprisoned lifeform.

• Emperor Venerate dealt with the Sacred Palace, Yun Jie took his position, and the other God Kings submitted to Zhou Lin.
• Zhou Lin assessed his progress toward the Ultimate Realm and continued traveling under Emperor Venerate Projection's guidance.
• Emperor Venerate Projection warned Zhou Lin about the passageway's crushing pressure and the danger of blood from the Forbidden Lifeform.
• Zhou Lin reached the Ultimate Black Hole passageway and used his Miniature Origin World energy to enter safely.
• After flying through the darkness, Zhou Lin heard the prisoner's voice and saw its enormous golden-veined eyes.