Chapter Summaries

Li Ze pursued the retreating Mechanical Race, killing its soldiers until they ordered their remaining Mechanical Puppets to self-destruct. He escaped the blasts, helped secure the Human Race’s victory in the Sacred Mountain Battle, and collected the battlefield spoils.

• Li Ze pursued the retreating Mechanical Race and destroyed thousands of Mechanical Puppets, forcing the soldiers to attack him directly.
• Li Ze dodged their attacks and killed the Mechanical Race soldiers one by one, weakening the puppet forces and making the surviving soldiers fear they would all be killed.
• The Mechanical Race soldiers agreed to make their remaining puppets self-destruct, but Li Ze sensed the danger and used Extreme Speed to escape before the explosions engulfed the legion.
• Human Race commanders declared victory as its score surpassed those of the Mechanical Race and Demon Race; King Yuchi also secured other experts’ agreement not to compete for Li Ze as a disciple.
• Li Ze killed the last fleeing Mechanical Race soldier, then collected the fallen soldiers’ remains, Spatial Rings, and Mechanical Puppets as he returned across the battlefield.

Li Ze met Divine Pupil Venerable and chose to continue the Sacred Mountain Battle until every remaining Demon Race and Mechanical Race fighter was killed. After returning to his wounded companions, he learned that Luan, Shantuo, and Lan Teng were missing and likely dead.

• Divine Pupil Venerable offered Li Ze the choice to end the battle for compensation or continue fighting, and Li Ze chose to fight to the end.
• Divine Pupil Venerable rejected Qinglin and Golden Flame’s request to end the battle early, prompting the two leaders to threaten retaliation.
• Li Ze returned to Feng He and the other survivors, released their wounded companions, and waited for the Tongfeng Team members to recover.
• Mengqian woke after nine hours, and Li Ze told her he had been unable to find Luan, Shantuo, and Lan Teng after the Mechanical Race’s attack.

After the devastating final battle, Li Ze and the surviving Human Race soldiers turned their grief into a campaign to eliminate the remaining Demon Race and Mechanical Race forces in the Space-time Fortress. With the Sacred Mountain Battle nearing its end and Human Race victory assured, King Yuchi hinted that he had already decided what to do with Li Ze next.

• Two days after the final battle, the surviving soldiers woke, and Li Ze learned how Mengqian, Jirui Yu, Lairui'er, Han Fu, and Lan Kun had escaped while Lan Teng sacrificed himself to protect Lan Kun.
• Li Ze and Lairui'er urged the survivors to honor their fallen teammates by fighting on, and Human Race teams began hunting down the remaining Demon Race and Mechanical Race soldiers.
• Over the following month, Li Ze helped Tongfeng Team earn points by weakening enemies for his teammates, and all its members entered the upper ranks of the Individual Scoreboard.
• Human Race forces continued their encirclement as the remaining enemy soldiers dwindled, while more than 800,000 Demon Race soldiers and all but 250,000 Mechanical Race soldiers had been eliminated.
• At the Human Race immortals' gathering, King Yuchi and King Zhutian discussed the Qishen Treasure Vault and Li Ze's future, and King Yuchi said he had already decided how to arrange him.

The Human Race won the Sacred Mountain Battle, and Li Ze earned substantial Military Merit while the Tongfeng Team claimed first place in team points. After the team divided its reward and discussed spoils, King Yuchi invited Li Ze to become his disciple, prompting Li Ze to enter the Virtual Universe.

• King Huilei announced the Human Race’s victory, the distribution of Military Merit, and one thousand Sacred Mountain Baptism Quotas for the top-ranked soldiers.
• Xizes returned the 5th Legion soldiers to their garrison and revealed that the Tongfeng Team ranked first in team points while Li Ze ranked first in individual points.
• Lairui'er divided the Tongfeng Team’s ninety-thousand-Hun Yuan reward among its six survivors, and Li Ze offered his personal spoils of war for the team to share.
• Li Ze received an email from King Yuchi offering to take him as a disciple.
• Li Ze told Lairui'er about the invitation and connected to the Virtual Universe to meet King Yuchi.

Li Ze met King Yuchi in the Virtual Universe, studied his demonstration of the Fire Origin Law, and accepted his offer to become his second disciple. After leaving the meeting, Li Ze returned to his castle and began strengthening his Golden Crow Physique while planning how to use the Demon Race corpses he had collected.

• King Yuchi showed Li Ze the fundamental mysteries of the Fire Origin Law, and Li Ze grasped twenty-three of them before King Yuchi ended the lesson.
• King Yuchi offered to take Li Ze as his disciple, and Li Ze accepted.
• King Yuchi told Li Ze that he would arrange his cultivation and take him away from the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield after the Sacred Mountain Baptism, warning that the Demon Race and Mechanical Race had placed him on their Kill Lists.
• Li Ze returned to his castle, brought his Golden Crow Physique into his Inner World, and had it absorb Life Origin Liquid.
• Li Ze reviewed his Sacred Mountain Battle spoils and planned for his Golden Crow Physique to absorb the remaining Demon Race corpses after reaching Universe Level 9.

Li Ze examined Divine Pupil Venerable’s rewards and discovered that one was juvenile Blazing Grass and the other was valuable Slo Armor. After three months of cultivation and waiting for King Yuchi’s plan, Li Ze received notice that he had earned a Sacred Mountain Baptism quota and would be led there in three days.

• Li Ze identified the juvenile Blazing Grass in the World Ring and learned that cultivating it would cost more than he could afford, so he stored it for later.
• Li Ze discovered that the second reward was Slo Armor, fused it with his skin, and tested its protection and mobility.
• Li Ze spent three months studying the Origin Law while Lairui'er distributed the Tongfeng Team’s spoils, giving Li Ze another two hundred-odd Hun Yuan units.
• The other Tongfeng Team members reached the top thirty-one in the individual rankings and became disciples of King-level Immortals.
• Walli received a message from the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield Cosmic Army Command Center informing Li Ze that he had earned a Sacred Mountain Baptism quota and must arrive in three days.

Li Ze said farewell to his Tongfeng Team as he prepared to leave the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield after the Sacred Mountain baptism. Aboard the transport ship, he learned that King Yuchi was waiting for him at the Sacred Mountain and received 200,000 Hun Yuan units to help him redeem a valuable item from the Special Army Treasury.

• Li Ze told Lairui'er, Jirui Yu, Han Fu, Mengqian, and Lan Kun that he had to leave because the Demon Race and Mechanical Race had put him on their kill lists.
• Legion Commander Xizes gathered the soldiers with baptism quotas and brought them to a barracks base, where the thousand selected Universe level soldiers assembled.
• King Huilei arrived and ordered the soldiers aboard a massive F9-class time-ice spaceship bound for the Sacred Mountain.
• Li Ze entered the Virtual Universe at King Yuchi's request and learned that his teacher was waiting at the Sacred Mountain on the Yulan Continent to take him away from the battlefield after his baptism.
• King Yuchi told Li Ze to consider what to redeem from the Special Army Treasury and transferred 200,000 Hun Yuan units to his account.

Li Ze arrived at the Yulan Continent Sacred Mountain for the baptism and entered a peak’s hall to bathe in Sacred Mountain Divine Liquid. As the liquid transformed his soul and awakened his perception of the Origin Laws, the Primordial Origin Land replenished the nearly drained pool with energy from the eighty-one central peaks.

• King Huilei explained the Sacred Mountain’s origins, the rules of the baptism, and that only one thousand Universe level soldiers could enter.
• Li Ze received passage number one, teleported into a Sacred Mountain peak, and found a pool of Sacred Mountain Divine Liquid.
• Li Ze entered the pool, and the liquid’s energy gathered around his soul and inscribed Origin Law Mystic Patterns on it.
• Li Ze’s Chaos energy caused the liquid to drain rapidly, while he and his Golden Crow Physique comprehended the fluctuations of the ten great Origin Laws.
• When the pool was nearly empty, the eighty-one central peaks trembled, and their azure-green crystals appeared above the pool and replenished it with liquid.

Mountain Lord Yangu agreed to let King Yuchi’s new disciple Li Ze study on Miaohe Mountain and offered to guide him personally. Three years after the Sacred Mountain opened, Li Ze completed his baptism with major gains in his Origin Law comprehension and a transformed soul.

• Mountain Lord Yangu ended his lecture to the Special Lives living under his protection.
• King Yuchi visited Mountain Lord Yangu and asked to send his new disciple Li Ze to study on Miaohe Mountain for a hundred years.
• Mountain Lord Yangu agreed to teach Li Ze personally and invited King Yuchi to cultivate in the Miaohe Secret Realm as he prepared to break through.
• Three years after the Sacred Mountain on Yulan Continent opened, Li Ze stopped absorbing the blue-green liquid and emerged from the pool.
• Li Ze realized he had mastered twenty-nine fire mysteries and eleven space mysteries, crossed the threshold of wind, light, and time, and transformed his soul.

After the Sacred Mountain Baptism greatly increased Li Ze’s ability to comprehend laws, King Yuchi took him away to arrange his temporary departure from the battlefield. Li Ze then explored the Cosmic Army’s Special Army Treasury and reached its Biological Category planet.

• Li Ze discovered that the Sacred Mountain Baptism had increased his law-comprehension clarity tenfold, far beyond the gains reported by the other soldiers.
• Li Ze left the Sacred Mountain with the other 999 soldiers and reunited with Lairui'er, Jirui Yu, Han Fu, Mengqian, and Lan Kun from Tongfeng Team.
• King Yuchi summoned Li Ze, brought him to a military manor, and said he would guarantee Li Ze’s application to temporarily leave the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Li Ze connected to the Virtual Universe Network and used his Special Army Treasury privilege to teleport to its treasury.
• Li Ze toured the Secret Method Category, Weapon Armor Category, Rare Treasures Category, Technology Weapons Category, materials category, and Tools Category planets without making an exchange.
• Li Ze asked the treasury management intelligence to take him to the Biological Category planet.

Li Ze toured the Cosmic Army’s Biological Category planet and reviewed 323 Universe-level Special Lifeforms available for exchange. He chose Feng Ze as his first clone, paid 193,000 Hun Yuan units, and then asked to visit the Other Special Category planet.

• Li Ze entered the Biological Category planet and saw its simulated Special Lifeforms displaying their power.
• The intelligent administrator explained that the treasury held materials from 323 Universe-level Special Lifeforms, including 274 extinct species, and described their gene levels and exchange options.
• Li Ze reviewed the Special Lifeforms’ abilities and chose Feng Ze, a spacetime-talented beast with the Eye of Karma and Illusion Core techniques.
• Li Ze confirmed payment of 193,000 Hun Yuan units for Feng Ze, leaving 22,761.45 Hun Yuan units in his account.
• Li Ze asked the intelligent administrator to take him to the Other Special Category planet.

Li Ze began gestating a Feng Ze clone and learned it would take eighteen years and four months to complete. After entering temporary retirement from the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield, he left with King Yuchi for a century of training under his grandteacher, Mountain Lord Yangu.

• Li Ze received the damaged Fengze Scale Fragment and began gestating his first clone in his Inner World.
• After three days, Li Ze determined that the Feng Ze Clone would take eighteen years and four months to gestate.
• Li Ze received notice that his military records had been sealed and that he could leave the Fourth Outer Domain Battlefield in temporary retirement.
• Li Ze met King Yuchi, who said his teacher Mountain Lord Yangu was a seven-star Universe Overlord and would provide Li Ze with about a hundred years of training at Miaohe Mountain.
• King Yuchi wrapped Li Ze in Divine Power and teleported them away from the military camp.

King Yuchi took Li Ze to Miaohe Secret Realm, explaining Divine Kingdom Teleportation and warning him about its dangers. They arrived and met Li Ze’s grandmaster, Mountain Lord Yangu, who welcomed him and offered to craft him a treasure after his studies.

• King Yuchi used his enslaved Demon Race Immortal’s Divine Kingdom to teleport himself and Li Ze toward Miaohe Secret Realm.
• King Yuchi explained that Divine Kingdoms were vital to Immortals and warned Li Ze not to reveal or endanger his own.
• King Yuchi teleported Li Ze across space to Miaohe Secret Realm and cautioned him to avoid the time-saturated Miao River.
• Mountain Lord Yangu teleported them into the realm and tested Li Ze with his overwhelming presence before praising his willpower.
• Li Ze greeted Mountain Lord Yangu, who promised to craft him a treasure after his studies, then led him and King Yuchi toward Yangu Star.

Li Ze arrived at Yangu Star with Mountain Lord Yangu and King Yuchi and began his cultivation at Miaohe Mountain. After Li Ze left, Mountain Lord Yangu told King Yuchi that Li Ze was likely a Special Lifeform with a gene level around two hundred times.

• Mountain Lord Yangu brought Li Ze and King Yuchi to Yangu Star and explained that Miaohe Mountain welcomed cultivators from small and medium-sized races.
• King Yuchi showed Li Ze the Thousand Star Hall and explained its palaces and the difficult entry tests for Miaohe Mountain.
• Li Ze saw juvenile Special Lifeforms born prematurely in the Miaohe River, and Mountain Lord Yangu explained the dangers they faced during gestation.
• Mountain Lord Yangu welcomed Li Ze to cultivate at Miaohe Mountain, gave him a palace token, and told him about lectures and access to the Virtual Universe.
• After Li Ze left, Mountain Lord Yangu told King Yuchi that Li Ze's human Soul Aura concealed a likely Special Lifeform nature and a gene level of around two hundred times.

Li Ze arrived at Miaohe Mountain’s Thousand Star Hall, where Bobo explained the ranks, privileges, and cultivation resources available to Heaven Level Members. After seeing the vast Small World and its manor, Li Ze ordered the servants to keep others out so he could begin his seclusion.

• Li Ze used his palace token to enter Heavenly Character Number Seven Thousand Star Hall, where Bobo greeted him as a Holy Son.
• Bobo explained Miaohe Mountain’s membership ranks, the privileges of Heaven Level Members, and the resources available in the Thousand Star Hall.
• Bobo led Li Ze into the hall’s Small World and described how its dense Origin Source energy and facilities supported cultivation.
• Dozens of Divine Kingdom Lives welcomed Li Ze and escorted him to the manor, where Bobo explained their duties.
• Li Ze ordered the servants not to let anyone enter without his permission, then went into the castle with Bobo.

Li Ze refined the crystal that marked him as a Heaven Level Member of Miaohe Mountain and learned about the cultivation resources available to Thousand Star Hall members. After discovering the limits of his 1,200 Miaohe Crystals, he heard that he could enter the Universe Tower Forest and was advised to try Miaohe Mountain in the Virtual Universe first.

• Bobo gave Li Ze a crystal that created a unique Heaven Level imprint on his armor and explained how the imprint identified members of Thousand Star Hall.
• Bobo described the Preaching Hall, the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, and the Miaohe Crystals, which could accelerate time without consuming lifespan or hindering Origin Law comprehension.
• Li Ze discovered that the Mountain Master had granted him 1,200 Miaohe Crystals, but Bobo explained that Li Ze's high Life Gene Level would make them run out quickly.
• Bobo explained four ways to obtain Miaohe Crystals, including trials, missions, hunting Desolate Beasts during the Great Tide, and buying them with wealth.
• Bobo told Li Ze that the Universe Tower Forest held 314 towers containing paths to becoming Universe Venerables, and that Li Ze had sixty free days to comprehend there.
• Bobo recommended that Li Ze enter Miaohe Mountain in the Virtual Universe before visiting the three cultivation areas.

Li Ze entered the Virtual Universe’s Miaohe Mountain to take the newcomer test and measured his Origin Law comprehension. During the Soul Strength test, he broke through an illusion of his teammates dying and found himself on the first step of a mysterious staircase above the Endless Abyss.

• Li Ze teleported to the virtual Miaohe Mountain plane with Bobo and learned that its Assessment Center tested new members and provided cultivation advice.
• Li Ze took the Law Comprehension test and recorded progress of 13.6% in fire, 3.4% in space, 1.3% in wind, 1.2% in light, and 1% in time.
• Li Ze began the Soul Strength test and awoke in an illusion where Lairui'er and the Tongfeng Team were under attack in the Space-time Fortress.
• Li Ze recognized the scene as an illusion, shouted to break it, and found himself standing on the first step of a white staircase above the Endless Abyss.

Li Ze climbed the Heaven Ascending Ladder to test his Soul Strength, enduring Spiritual Pressure until World Lord ninth stage pressure knocked him unconscious. After learning his result was the World Lord eighth stage limit, he chose the Physical Force test and began striking a humanoid target.

• Li Ze steadily climbed the Heaven Ascending Ladder, resisting Spiritual Pressure and illusions with his resilient soul and powerful will.
• Li Ze reached the 9,000th step, where World Lord ninth stage Spiritual Pressure overwhelmed him and made him lose consciousness.
• Li Ze awoke in the luxurious room and saw that his Soul Strength had been recorded as the World Lord eighth stage limit.
• Li Ze chose the Physical Force test and appeared on a Suspended Island training ground, where his Original Force and external energy were unavailable.
• Li Ze delivered five rapid attacks to the humanoid target, and the screen displayed results of 22, 20, 22, 24, and 23 units, with a final result of 20 units.

Li Ze tested his physical force output, then entered the Starry Sky Arena to fight increasingly powerful waves of opponents. After battling Golden Horned Beasts for over a day, he faced a Bug Race Mother Nest.

• Li Ze repeatedly tested his force output, achieving a best result of 22 units, and then proceeded to the remaining tests.
• Li Ze set his Arena body to match his real abilities and killed a Demon Race Kē Kē in the first round.
• Li Ze defeated escalating waves of Kē Kē, then fought and killed a Domain Lord-level Golden Horned Beast with the Flowing Light Sword.
• Li Ze fought successive waves of Golden Horned Beasts, growing exhausted as the rounds continued.
• Li Ze encountered a Bug Race Mother Nest in the eleventh round after spending over a day battling thirty Golden Horned Beasts.

Li Ze completed his newcomer test, set Heaven No. 7 Hall as his Virtual Universe entry point, and traveled to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion to exchange for Miaohe Crystals. There, Ansibili gave him the crystals and advised him to skip the pavilion’s secret manuals, while Li Ze began browsing rare treasures.

• Li Ze failed to reach the Bug Race Mother Empress during the newcomer test and was killed by the bug swarm’s combined attacks.
• After completing the test, Li Ze traveled with Bobo to Heaven No. 7 Hall and set it as his fixed Virtual Universe entry point.
• Li Ze learned that he could not access the Universe Tower Forest or other locations until he entered the forest in reality, then disconnected from the Virtual Universe.
• Li Ze used the Thousand Star Hall’s teleportation channel to reach the Myriad Treasures Pavilion and learned that its floors offered different cultivation resources.
• Ansibili gave Li Ze a special Spatial Ring containing Miaohe Crystals and told him to exchange for resources through him.
• Li Ze browsed the rare treasures list after Ansibili advised him that stronger secret manuals would be available in the Universe Tower Forest.