Chapter Summaries

Li Ze mastered most of the Karma Fire Red Source Tower’s second layer and used it to wound a High Source Being, greatly increasing his combat power as he waited for the Lord Game. In Wu Realm, Zhan Mo passed a brutal God Emperor trial and was summoned by Origin Lord Wu.

• Li Ze spent thirty trillion epochs comprehending the Karma Fire Red Source Tower’s second layer with help from Hong Yuan.
• Li Ze activated the tower’s power-amplifying Karma Fire Heart and wounded the imprisoned High Source Being with the Sword of Ten Thousand Daos.
• Li Ze judged that his strength now surpassed that of ordinary God Emperor Perfected beings and returned to waiting for the Lord Game.
• Zhan Mo completed Wu’s God Emperor trial by killing a hundred God Emperor Perfected opponents and was escorted to Wu City.
• Origin Lord Wu summoned Zhan Mo, who flew toward the city to meet his Ancestor.

Wu ordered Zhan Mo to assemble an army for the approaching Lord Game and gave him the World-class Source Secret Treasure Lingyu Armor. Across the Infinite Source Space, the major factions prepared their God Emperors, while Li Ze and Luo Feng departed to participate.

• Wu summoned Zhan Mo, praised his strength, and ordered him to select one hundred God Emperor Perfected experts, one thousand Late God Emperors, and ten thousand Mid God Emperors for the Lord Game.
• Wu gave Zhan Mo Lingyu Armor and explained that he should aim for the top hundred, warning him of powerful rivals from other factions.
• Gold Ancestor ordered Jin Ming to select Demon Emperors for the Lord Game, while other factions—including the Tower Spirits and Infinite Serpent Clan—also prepared their fighters.
• Li Ze and Luo Feng told the Original Ancestor they would be away, then activated Yuan's silver tokens and vanished from the Human Race Holy Hall.

Li Ze and Luo Feng joined hundreds of thousands of Cultivator Faction God Emperors as the seven Origin Lords brought them to Fantasy City for the Lord Game. They reached the preparation area alongside participants from other factions and waited for the unpredictable trials to begin.

• Li Ze and Luo Feng discussed the Cultivator Faction’s vast number of God Emperors as the remaining participants gathered in Heaven Origin Source World.
• Yuan and the six other Origin Lords appeared, announced the Lord Game, and transported the participants and observers aboard a warship to Fantasy City.
• Yuan sent the participating God Emperors with Tian Langke to the preparation area while the Origin Lords and observers went to the viewing passage.
• Li Ze and Luo Feng saw that more than 1.7 million God Emperors were waiting across five factions, including over one million from the Innate Source Being Faction.
• Tian Langke instructed the Cultivator Faction’s God Emperors to prepare quietly, and Li Ze and Luo Feng began cultivating while awaiting the game’s rules.

Origin Lord Han announced the Lord Game’s rules and teleported more than two million God Emperors into Fantasy Sea’s Battle Realms. Li Ze arrived in the God Emperor Perfected realm, tested its restrictive conditions, and flew toward the first signs of combat.

• Origin Lord Han explained that the first stage would divide participants into Battle Realms by strength, where they had to earn points by defeating or killing opponents and could escape with their protective tokens.
• Li Ze and Luo Feng received their identity tokens, and Han teleported all participants into Fantasy Sea as spectators watched from Fantasy City.
• Li Ze arrived in the God Emperor Perfected Battle Realm and discovered that its immense spatial stability severely limited his power, perception, and speed while preventing teleportation.
• Li Ze scanned the surrounding area, found no opponents, and set off in a random direction.
• After several days, Li Ze sensed distant combat fluctuations and flew toward them.

Li Ze defeated a purple-scaled Strange Beast Source Being and drove a flaming Metal Life from the Lord Game, then hid to cultivate. In Battle Realm 27, Luo Feng encountered three Innate Source Being participants and prepared to fight them.

• Li Ze used the Karma Fire Red Source Tower and the Heaven Seizing Sword to kill the purple-scaled Strange Beast Source Being, while the flaming Metal Life conceded and escaped.
• Li Ze checked his token, saw that he had 3 points and ranked fourth among God Emperor Perfected, then chose to hide and cultivate rather than seek more opponents.
• Source Experts and Origin Lords watched the battles, and Yuan, Wu, and Xing Mang praised Li Ze's strength and cautious approach.
• Luo Feng sat in a cave in Battle Realm 27 until three Innate Source Being participants entered; he rose with the Wu Mo Blade and Golden Wings as both sides moved to fight.

Luo Feng used the Flame Flow Divine Wings to overwhelm opponents in Battle Realm 27, drawing attention from the Source Experts and Origin Lords while rapidly climbing the rankings. In the Lord Game’s 730th year, he spotted two powerful beasts resting in a lake and prepared to attack them.

• Luo Feng killed the Black Armored Scaled Giant Tiger and White Scaled Giant Serpent, while the Three-Headed Silver Robed Old Man escaped with his Protective Pattern.
• Luo Feng checked his token, saw that he had earned 17 points, and resolved to sweep Battle Realm 27 and claim first place.
• Luo Feng flew into the sky and fought repeatedly, raising his points as his Blade Dao improved and attracting attention from Source Experts and Origin Lords.
• Yuan confirmed that Luo Feng had the Flame Flow Divine Wings and said he believed Luo Feng could eventually reach the World-Class level, though the other Origin Lords doubted him.
• In the Lord Game’s 730th year, Luo Feng checked his ranking of 109th, then found two beasts resting in a lake and flew toward them.

Luo Feng defeated two Innate Source Being Faction God Emperors in Battle Realm 27, took their points, and obtained intelligence about powerful Mid God Emperor opponents. In the God Emperor Perfected realm, Li Ze repelled three attackers and continued seeking the point he needed to pass the Preliminary Selection.

• Luo Feng trapped Double-Winged Pangolin God Emperor and his younger brother in his golden domain, then heavily injured Double-Winged Pangolin God Emperor with one slash.
• Double-Winged Pangolin God Emperor gave Luo Feng a crystal containing intelligence about peerless God Emperors, and Luo Feng spared the brothers after taking their points.
• Luo Feng read about Snake Demon, Star Destroyer, and Qi Ling, then set out to gather more points before challenging them.
• Li Ze fought off three God Emperor Perfected experts, forcing each to flee by activating their life-saving patterns.
• Li Ze checked his ranking and points, found himself one point short of passing the Preliminary Selection, and went to seek another opponent.

Luo Feng fought Snake Demon, a powerful Mid God Emperor, in Battle Realm 27 and used the intense battle to find the final insight he needed. The chapter ended with Luo Feng breaking through to the Mid God Emperor stage.

• Luo Feng sensed a nearby battle and found Snake Demon in a ruined rift.
• Luo Feng challenged Snake Demon, who agreed to fight and sought to eliminate a Cultivator Faction powerhouse.
• Luo Feng and Snake Demon clashed, and Snake Demon’s Black Flame Domain overpowered Luo Feng’s initial attacks.
• Luo Feng unleashed the Flame Flow Divine Wings’ Golden Light Domain, and the two fought evenly as distant God Emperors watched.
• After several days of battle, Luo Feng found the final point of fusion between the Destruction Dao, Blade Dao, and Slaughter Dao and broke through to the Mid God Emperor stage.

Luo Feng broke through to Mid God Emperor during his battle with Snake Demon and used his mastery of Break Law with Force to overpower him. He killed Snake Demon with the Lie Yuan Technique’s will attack, leaving the gathered experts astonished by his strength.

• Luo Feng gained a breakthrough in Break Law with Force and advanced from Early God Emperor to Mid God Emperor while fighting Snake Demon.
• Snake Demon proposed a draw, but Luo Feng refused and struck him with a blade technique that revealed his new power to the watching experts.
• Snake Demon unleashed his perfected spear technique and burned his Source Bloodline Power, but Luo Feng defeated him in their direct clash and pressed the attack.
• Luo Feng injured Snake Demon repeatedly, then used the Lie Yuan Technique’s will attack to overwhelm his soul and disrupt his defenses.
• Luo Feng knocked aside Snake Demon’s spear and cut through his neck, annihilating his soul before he could activate his identity token’s life-saving Mystic Patterns.

After killing Snake Demon, Luo Feng absorbed the lessons of their battle and hunted opponents across Battle Realm 27, rising to first place among Mid God Emperors. Meanwhile, Li Ze struggled to find opponents until five figures from the Innate Source Being Faction approached him, setting up a new fight.

• The Cultivator Faction's Source Experts praised Luo Feng's talent and suspected that Yuan had nurtured him, while She Yuan accused him of cheating and other Innate Source Being experts dismissed the claim.
• Luo Feng spent decades digesting his breakthrough and battle with Snake Demon, then checked his score of 593 and rank of sixth among Mid God Emperors.
• Luo Feng resumed hunting in Battle Realm 27, fought two Cloud Mist Lifeforms, and deliberately let them escape after using the battle to study their techniques.
• Over the following centuries, Luo Feng fought many God Emperors, eliminated Innate Source Being opponents, and reached first place with 973 points.
• Li Ze searched for opponents in the God Emperor Perfected Battle Realm for several hundred years without finding a suitable fight, until five figures from the Innate Source Being Faction flew toward him.

Li Ze faced a prearranged ambush by five elite God Emperor Perfected beings from the Innate Source Being Faction, who combined domain treasures and attacks to try to kill him. He overwhelmed Tian Wu and Tian Ming with his counterattack, but Old Turtle’s golden weapons forced him to take their threat seriously.

• Tian Wu, Tian Ming, Ling Wudao, White Shadow, and Old Turtle surrounded Li Ze, while the Origin Lords watched the ambush from outside the battle realm.
• Tian Wu and Tian Ming fused their domain-type Source Secret Treasures, Purple Lightning Wood and Azure Wave Source, to bind Li Ze across hundreds of billions of light-years.
• Li Ze resisted the domain without activating the Karma Fire Red Source Tower and declared that it could not harm him.
• Tian Wu, Tian Ming, Ling Wudao, White Shadow, and Old Turtle attacked together, but Li Ze’s domain and Soul Attack disrupted their assault.
• Li Ze struck Tian Wu and Tian Ming away, blocked Ling Wudao’s arrow, and cut through White Shadow’s binding threads.
• Old Turtle sent countless golden weapons from the coffin on his back toward Li Ze, forcing him to turn grave as the weapons pierced through the surrounding domains.

Li Ze and Xi Mu, also known as Old Turtle, fought a fierce duel in the God Emperor Perfected Battle Realm after Xi Mu revealed the Myriad Weapons Returning to Ruin Coffin. Li Ze gained the upper hand with his speed and stamina, but Xi Mu unleashed ten golden Battle Swords that pierced Li Ze’s defenses and left him injured as the battle continued.

• Li Ze blocked Xi Mu’s golden weapon torrent with the Heaven Seizing Sword, and Xi Mu introduced himself as Xi Mu, or Old Turtle.
• Xi Mu summoned the Myriad Weapons Returning to Ruin Coffin, a grand formation of more than ten thousand weapons, and clashed with Li Ze’s full-strength sword strike.
• Li Ze and Xi Mu fought repeatedly within the formation as Li Ze used his speed and Soul Attacks to gain the upper hand, while Xi Mu marveled at Li Ze’s seemingly inexhaustible energy.
• Xi Mu formed ten smaller weapon formations and launched ten golden Battle Swords at Li Ze with his Ten Swords, Death Sentence technique.
• Li Ze evaded three swords and knocked aside five, but the remaining two struck him and sent him flying thousands of light-years, leaving him bleeding and eager to continue fighting.

Li Ze battled Old Turtle for more than ten days, using the pressure to create the Origin Level sword technique Guiyi and overwhelm Xi Mu. The two agreed to end the fight, and Li Ze was left recognized by the onlookers as the strongest God Emperor in the Lord Game.

• Li Ze’s prolonged fight with Old Turtle deepened his Sword Technique, fusing his Daos, Inner Universe, Divine Power, physical strength, and soul methods.
• Old Turtle offered to let Li Ze leave, but Li Ze refused and revealed that he had not yet used his full strength.
• Li Ze created and unleashed the Guiyi Sword, shattering Old Turtle’s formations and golden swords, striking the Myriad Weapons Returning to Ruin Coffin, and injuring Xi Mu.
• The Source Experts and observing God Emperors were shocked by Li Ze’s power, while Tian Wu, Tian Ming, Ling Wudao, White Shadow, and the other Source Beings feared his strength.
• Li Ze thanked Xi Mu for helping him break through, and the two agreed to end their battle without fighting to the death.
• Xi Mu departed with the Myriad Weapons Returning to Ruin Coffin, the other Source Beings left, and Li Ze did not pursue them.

Li Ze passed the God Emperor Perfected Preliminary Selection after defeating a Shadow Demon, then met Jin Feng of the Destruction Demon Race, who proposed they join forces in the Lord Game. In Battle Realm 27, Luo Feng defeated Lan Tuo and became the first Mid God Emperor to pass the Preliminary Selection.

• Li Ze finished absorbing his insights from his battle with Old Turtle and set out to find another opponent.
• Li Ze defeated a Shadow Demon expert, raised his points to twelve, and passed the Preliminary Selection.
• Li Ze met Jin Feng, who praised his strength and suggested they work together to win the Lord Game for the Cultivator Faction.
• Luo Feng fought Lan Tuo, whose dark techniques briefly challenged him, and overwhelmed him with his third saber strike.
• Luo Feng eliminated Lan Tuo and passed the Preliminary Selection as the first Mid God Emperor to do so.

Luo Feng passed the Lord Game’s Preliminary Selection after breaking through to Mid God Emperor, and he ranked first among Mid God Emperors when the selection ended. The surviving participants learned the rules of the Realm Conquest War and were teleported away to begin the next stage.

• Luo Feng appeared in the plaza after passing the Preliminary Selection, and he told Li Ze he had broken through to Mid God Emperor during his battles.
• More than eight thousand years passed as participants continued fighting, and the Preliminary Selection ended with 2,273 God Emperors qualifying.
• The rankings showed Luo Feng in first place among Mid God Emperors, while Li Ze ranked fifth among God Emperor Perfected experts.
• A Sturdy Strongman announced that the second stage would be a million-year Realm Conquest War across seven connected worlds, where factions had to defend their own world and capture at least one other.
• The Sturdy Strongman explained that factions needed special Secret Treasures from Artifact Mountain and paired secret arts from the central world’s Law Domain to shatter Realm Heart Stones.
• Spacetime Waves enveloped the plaza and teleported all the qualified God Emperors away.

Li Ze and Luo Feng entered the Central World to search for Artifact Mountain and the Law Domain, then split up to explore a Star River. Luo Feng encountered Hao Xu, an Innate Source Being expert, and killed him after revealing power comparable to a top God Emperor Perfected expert; a strange ripple then came from a nearby planet.

• Jin Feng urged the Cultivator Faction’s God Emperors to search the Central World for the secret treasures and techniques while protecting anyone who found them.
• Li Ze and Luo Feng searched the Central World together for several days, then split up to investigate a Star River.
• Hao Xu detected Luo Feng and decided to ambush him, hoping to kill him or learn the extent of his strength.
• Luo Feng detected Hao Xu, confirmed no other enemy God Emperors were nearby, and attacked him with overwhelming speed and power.
• Hao Xu warned his faction through his Message Token that Luo Feng fought at the level of a top God Emperor Perfected expert and reported that the planet might contain Artifact Mountain or the Law Domain.
• Luo Feng killed Hao Xu with a succession of Black Blade Lights, and an unusual ripple emanated from a nearby planet.

Luo Feng killed Hao Xu, a Late God Emperor, then discovered an Artifact Mountain inside a cave in the Central World. Its appearance drew God Emperors from multiple factions toward the site, and the mountain formed stairs for Luo Feng to climb to its summit.

• Luo Feng killed the Three-Headed White Tiger, collected his remains and secret treasures, and realized the planet he came from held an anomaly.
• Hao Xu told the Innate Source Being Faction that Luo Feng had top God Emperor Perfected strength and that a planet might contain an Artifact Mountain or Law Domain before his incarnation vanished.
• Luo Feng entered a cave and found the Artifact Mountain, whose palace released a fluctuation that spread beyond the mountain.
• Li Ze headed toward Luo Feng while the three serpent-shaped flame beasts Ao Yun, Ao Liang, and Ao Shui abandoned plans to attack him and rushed toward the fluctuation.
• Dozens of God Emperor powerhouses from various factions set out for the Artifact Mountain as stairs formed on its face and the stone tablet told Luo Feng to reach the summit for artifacts.

Luo Feng began climbing Artifact Mountain’s will trial, breaking through its illusions with unwavering resolve. Outside the mountain, Li Ze fought the Black Octopus Giant Beast to keep the cave clear, but three powerful Energy-Type Strange Lifeform experts arrived and threatened to overwhelm him.

• Luo Feng learned that Artifact Mountain’s stairs tested will through increasingly difficult illusions and stepped onto the first stair.
• Luo Feng quickly overcame the early illusions and climbed higher, allowing each new illusion to surround him as he sought flaws in his state of mind.
• Li Ze reached the cave after receiving Luo Feng’s message and descended toward Artifact Mountain’s entrance.
• The Black Octopus Giant Beast attacked Li Ze to prevent him from entering, but Li Ze drove it back with the Heaven Seizing Sword and sent messages for Cultivator Faction reinforcements.
• Ao Yun, Ao Shui, and Ao Liang arrived, and Li Ze prepared to stop the three powerful experts from reaching the cave.

Li Ze killed the Black Octopus Giant Beast and Ao Yun after they and Ao Shui and Ao Liang tried to force their way to the cave containing Artifact Mountain or a Law Domain. When Ao Shui and Ao Liang self-destructed in a final attack, Li Ze survived inside the Karma Fire Red Source Tower and returned to the planet to await the other Cultivator Faction experts.

• Ao Yun, Ao Shui, and Ao Liang joined the Black Octopus Giant Beast in attacking Li Ze to drive him away from the cave, but Li Ze's Guiyi sword strike killed the Black Octopus Giant Beast.
• Ao Yun, Ao Shui, and Ao Liang fled, but Li Ze pursued them and forced them to merge into a three-headed flame snake to fight him.
• Li Ze's sword killed Ao Yun, and Ao Shui and Ao Liang attacked him in a desperate, explosive charge.
• Li Ze sheltered inside the Karma Fire Red Source Tower and survived Ao Shui and Ao Liang's self-destruction, then collected the spoils and flew back to the planet where Artifact Mountain was located.

Li Ze guarded the entrance to Artifact Mountain as God Emperors from across the factions gathered, while Li He arrived and chose to wait rather than fight. Inside, Luo Feng endured increasingly severe will trials and, despite his exhausted soul, caught sight of the palace at the summit with fewer than ten thousand steps remaining.

• Li Ze continued guarding Artifact Mountain as cautious puppet Strange Lifeforms and Hun Guang with two Innate Source Being experts arrived and stayed outside the planet.
• More than thirty God Emperors gathered over two days, and Li He, ranked fourth in the Preliminary Selection, arrived and asked Li Ze whether Artifact Mountain was inside the cave.
• Li Ze confirmed the location and said he had reasons for not entering, so Li He and the other experts waited as their numbers grew beyond a hundred.
• Luo Feng climbed three-quarters of the Stone Stairs, where the illusions began testing his will at the God Emperor Perfected level.
• Luo Feng pushed through the illusions despite severe soul pain and saw the palace at the summit, with fewer than ten thousand steps left.