Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming endured repeated brushes with death while answering questions, realizing more deeply the meaning of finite life before resuming his Talent extraction. He acquired the Myriad Transformation Returning Ruins Divine Body with help from the Primeval Universe Will, while Ganwu Country Lord was left stunned by the energy passage’s appearance.

• Jiang Ming approached his self-imposed limit of thirty thousand questions, relived the sensation of death, and gained a deeper appreciation of life and finitude.
• Jiang Ming pushed through the increasingly heavy starlight around the Talent Stars until he could advance no farther, then selected a Talent Star to extract.
• The Primeval Universe Will descended as Jiang Ming returned to the ring world, opening an energy passage that flooded his body with energy.
• Jiang Ming acquired the Myriad Transformation Returning Ruins Divine Body, which could weaken attacks, and learned that his body could shift between twenty centimeters and one hundred kilometers.
• Jiang Ming’s Body Gene level rose to 363 times the genetic level, while Ganwu Country Lord wondered whether he had fallen under the Zerg Empress’s illusion.

Chaos City Lord discovered that Jiang Ming had received the Primeval Universe Will’s favor and, after consulting Great Axe Strongest, agreed to nurture him fully. Meanwhile, Jiang Ming continued cultivating and later received recognition from the Flame Origin Law, allowing his consciousness to enter the Land of Fire Law.

• Ganwu Country Lord informed Chaos City Lord that Jiang Ming had drawn the descent of the Primeval Universe Will, and Chaos City Lord traveled to investigate.
• Chaos City Lord examined Jiang Ming’s past and saw his unusual cultivation, the Primeval Universe Will’s descent, and his transformed body.
• Chaos City Lord told Great Axe Strongest what he had witnessed, and they agreed that the Human race should nurture Jiang Ming while Great Axe Strongest was away.
• Jiang Ming continued practicing the Blood War Secret Codex after reaching the Universe level.
• In the Sun’s core, Jiang Ming received recognition from the Flame Origin Law and entered the Land of Fire Law with part of his consciousness.
• Jiang Ming found that the Flame Origin Law’s recognition had greatly increased his comprehension speed.

After three years of cultivation, Jiang Ming gained recognition from the Flame Origin Law and arrived at the Virtual Universe Company headquarters with Marquis Flame Abyss. He reunited with Luo Feng and the other tournament geniuses, then sampled hometown delicacies offered by Ai Chen.

• Jiang Ming emerged from three years of cultivation with a Flame mark showing recognition from the Flame Origin Law, astonishing the Immortals aboard the spacecraft.
• The spacecraft reached the Virtual Universe Company headquarters, where Marquis Flame Abyss told Jiang Ming they would travel to the Initial Universe separately and urged him to survive.
• Jiang Ming bowed to Marquis Flame Abyss, then followed a guide into a hall where the Peak Genius Tournament contestants stared at his Flame mark.
• Luo Feng congratulated Jiang Ming on his opportunity, and Jiang Ming shared wine with him as other geniuses joined their conversation.
• Ai Chen brought Jiang Ming Seven-Colored Dream and other Dream Snail Wing Clan delicacies from her hometown.

Nine Sword Venerable took the gathered geniuses aboard a fish-shaped spacecraft and led them through the passage to the Initial Universe. Jiang Ming remained unaffected by the passage and studied the universe’s exposed Origin Laws as the ship traveled onward.

• The red-eyed man escorted the thousand geniuses to a fish-shaped spacecraft, where Nine Sword Venerable announced their departure for the Initial Universe.
• The spacecraft entered the universe passage, leaving most of the geniuses in pain from its chaotic flow of time while Jiang Ming stayed calm.
• The Immortals discussed Jiang Ming’s Flame Origin Law recognition and his first-place ranking on the demon race’s assassination list.
• Nine Sword Venerable explained that the demon race had lost a Venerable’s avatar while hinting that more significant events remained undisclosed.
• Jiang Ming observed the Initial Universe’s exposed space patterns and compared them with the incomplete Space Laws patterns on the Venerable’s Bone.

Jiang Ming and the other geniuses arrived in Chaos City, where their reception envoy explained the city's treasures and the fifty-two Chaos Monuments. After studying copies of the monuments, Jiang Ming narrowed his choice to the Dragon Walk and Heart Scar Chaos Monuments as the selection period ended.

• Nine Sword Venerable brought the thousand geniuses to Chaos City in the Initial Universe and sent them out of the spacecraft.
• The reception envoy led the group through Chaos City and explained its rules, the City Lord's Residence, and the city's three treasures.
• The reception envoy described the fifty-two Chaos Monuments and told each cultivator they could choose one to comprehend for seven days.
• The geniuses examined copied paintings of all fifty-two monuments for half an hour before choosing one.
• Jiang Ming felt especially drawn to the Dragon Walk and Heart Scar Chaos Monuments, and the reception envoy called time and asked everyone to report their choices.

Jiang Ming chose the Dragon Walk Chaos Monument and entered its chamber to begin comprehending it. A mysterious golden energy entered his Wheel of Time, boosting his time flow to a hundred thousand times as he studied the monument.

• Jiang Ming chose the Dragon Walk Chaos Monument because its Flame Origin Law suited his talents.
• The reception envoy led the geniuses to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Lord Kandri explained that his avatars guarded all fifty-two Chaos Monument chambers.
• Jiang Ming entered the Dragon Walk Chaos Monument chamber and examined its nine images of a growing beast.
• Jiang Ming began comprehending the monument with his Wheel of Time and a Fire God Crystal, initially reaching a ten-thousandfold time flow.
• A wisp of golden energy entered Jiang Ming’s Wheel of Time and raised his time flow to a hundred thousand times.

Jiang Ming realized the Chaos City Lord had intervened to accelerate his Wheel of Time, while the City Lord reflected on Jiang Ming’s extraordinary talent. In Chaos City, Luo Feng and the other geniuses witnessed the City Lord crush two Immortal experts who had fought within the city, leaving Luo Feng awed by the City Lord’s power.

• Jiang Ming sensed golden energy from the Chaos City Lord entering his Wheel of Time and bringing its speed to its current limit.
• The Chaos City Lord wondered why the Primeval Universe Will seemed to favor Jiang Ming so greatly, despite his not yet being Immortal.
• Luo Feng and the other geniuses waited to enter occupied Chaos Monuments when Witersel and Leibo fought across Chaos City.
• The Chaos City Lord froze the laws of the Initial Universe and crushed Witersel and Leibo with a palm of Chaos current.
• The City Lord ordered the Third Law Enforcement Team to imprison Witersel in the Ninth Starfield Prison and Leibo in the Second Starfield Prison, and Luo Feng marveled at the City Lord’s realm.

While comprehending the Dragon Walk Chaos Monument, Jiang Ming made rapid progress in the Flame Origin Law and received acknowledgment for Teleportation, a Space Origin Law. He worried the new mark could expose him to assassination, just as a towering figure arrived in the cultivation chamber.

• Jiang Ming discovered that the Chaos Monument’s nine diagrams guided comprehension step by step, and he perceived them differently through his human body and Fire God clone.
• As Jiang Ming comprehended under accelerated time, his Flame mark gradually transformed into a Sea of Fire mark.
• Chaos City Lord suspected the Primeval Universe Will had permitted the Wheel of Time’s extraordinary acceleration for Jiang Ming.
• A silver-white droplet descended onto Jiang Ming’s Fire God clone, granting him Space Origin Laws acknowledgment for Teleportation.
• Jiang Ming realized the Space mark could reveal his strength to alien races and invite a Universe Master to assassinate him.
• A towering figure descended into the Dragon Walk Chaos Monument cultivation chamber, freezing spacetime.

The Chaos City Lord met Jiang Ming, praised his extraordinary time-acceleration talent and law comprehension, and accepted him as his personal disciple. He gave Jiang Ming a Soul Gold Bead to conceal his law imprint and protect his soul, then vanished while the other geniuses remained unaware of his visit.

• The Chaos City Lord appeared before Jiang Ming and revealed his identity, praising Jiang Ming's talent and comprehension.
• The Chaos City Lord asked Jiang Ming to become his personal disciple, and Jiang Ming accepted.
• The Chaos City Lord warned Jiang Ming that his law comprehension could provoke foreign races to assassinate him.
• The Chaos City Lord gave Jiang Ming a Soul Gold Bead that could disguise his law imprint and protect his soul, and told him to study its secret manual through the Virtual Universe.
• The Soul Gold Bead entered Jiang Ming's sea of consciousness and refined itself, while the Chaos City Lord vanished and the other geniuses did not notice him.

After comprehending the Dragon Walk Chaos Monument, Jiang Ming settled into Chaos City for his thirty-year stay and learned that the race had awarded him a hundred billion points. He entered the Tongtian Bridge plane, where countless powerful beings gathered to watch his attempt.

• Kandri told Jiang Ming and the other cultivators to find residences in Chaos City and apply to access the Tongtian Bridge through the Virtual Universe.
• Jiang Ming and Ai Chen chose neighboring residences and settled on their rooftops to observe the Initial Universe’s laws.
• Jiang Ming read emails announcing a hundred billion points and expanded permissions, then decided to study how to use the points later.
• Jiang Ming teleported to the Tongtian Bridge plane and met Guardian Bafen, who explained how passing bridge levels earned Chaos Monument comprehension opportunities.
• After the other Dragon Walk geniuses failed their attempts, Guardian Bafen called Jiang Ming forward as countless Immortal existences gathered to watch.

Jiang Ming challenged the Dragon Walk Tongtian Bridge while Immortals gathered to watch and bet on how far he would advance. He left the first level almost instantly and headed for the second.

• Crimson Flame told Jiang Ming that the Tongtian Bridge awarded doubling points for each level and gave newcomers tenfold rewards for thirty years, but Jiang Ming said the points would add little to his existing hundred billion.
• King Longyu arrived at the Tongtian Bridge plane to watch Jiang Ming, where she found several thousand Immortals gathered.
• King Zhenyan revealed that he had wagered ten million Chaos Units on Jiang Ming clearing the tenth level, while King Tongnan had wagered one million on the eleventh.
• Jiang Ming chose a warrior as his first-level opponent and defeated him before the clouds finished explaining the trial.
• Jiang Ming flew toward the next level of the Tongtian Bridge.

Jiang Ming rapidly cleared the early levels of the Tongtian Bridge, impressing the gathered geniuses and earning qualification to attend Sect Master lectures. On the fifth level, he demonstrated the Flame God Blade’s Void Burning Domain and defeated its guardian, leaving the bridge ahead open.

• Guardian Bafen showed the gathered geniuses a projection of Jiang Ming instantly clearing the first level, then revealed that he had already reached the third.
• Jiang Mo explained to Qian Shui that passing the third level qualified Jiang Ming to attend lectures at a Sect Master's dojo.
• Jiang Ming instantly cleared the fourth level and advanced to the fifth, where a red-armored guardian attacked using the Flame God Blade's Void Burning Domain.
• The guardian struck Jiang Ming 6,120 times through space rifts, but Jiang Ming blocked every attack without difficulty.
• Jiang Ming activated his own Void Burning Domain, vanished, and destroyed the red-armored guardian, clearing the fifth level.

Jiang Ming cleared the eleventh and twelfth levels of the Tongtian Bridge by studying and defeating guardians who wielded increasingly advanced forms of the Flame God Blade. His success shocked the watching Immortals, and King Longyu warned that even Nine Sword Venerable might not be able to keep him from being claimed by another powerful figure.

• Jiang Ming exchanged blows with the sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-level guardians to learn their techniques before defeating them.
• Jiang Ming cleared the ninth level and then defeated the tenth-level guardian after nearly a hundred exchanges, winning King Zhenyan’s admiration and unsettling the watchers.
• Jiang Ming defeated the eleventh-level guardian, shocking the Immortals and ruining King Tongnan’s wager on the twelfth level.
• King Zhenyan urged King Longyu to inform Nine Sword Venerable about Jiang Ming’s talent, and King Longyu sent him a message.
• Jiang Ming unleashed Divine Blade Shatters Firmament against the twelfth-level guardian and cleared the level after only a few exchanges.

Jiang Ming challenged the thirteenth level of the Tongtian Bridge, where he defeated the flaming-armored guardian despite the guardian’s God Slayer technique. He cleared the level, then ended his challenge as a storm of attention gathered around him.

• Jiang Ming flew to the star battlefield of the thirteenth level, astonishing King Zhenyan and the other Immortal Experts with his progress.
• The flaming-armored man appeared and announced that he would use the ninth form of the Flame God Blade, God Slayer.
• Jiang Ming used the eighth form, Divine Blade Shatters Firmament, and his Stellar Body’s third form to withstand the guardian’s attacks and identify his true body.
• Jiang Ming sustained thousands of peak strikes by drawing energy from half the star, then cut apart the flaming-armored man.
• Jiang Ming cleared the thirteenth level, saw that the fourteenth led into the star’s interior, and ended his Tongtian Bridge challenge.

Marquis Flame Abyss learned that Jiang Ming had cleared the thirteenth Tongtian Bridge level and won over ten million Chaos Units from her bet, then received a shocking message that the Country Lord wanted her as a registered disciple. Jiang Ming ignored the attention his feat drew and invited Ai Chen to hunt Chaos Beasts and absorb Chaos True Spirits.

• Marquis Flame Abyss received 10,840,000 Chaos Units after Jiang Ming cleared the thirteenth Tongtian Bridge level, winning the bets she had placed on levels ten through fourteen.
• Marquis Flame Abyss received an email saying the Country Lord wanted to accept her as a registered disciple.
• Immortals spread news of Jiang Ming's achievement across the universe, while Jiang Ming disabled Virtual Universe Network reception to focus on cultivation.
• Ai Chen told Jiang Ming she planned to hunt Chaos Beasts and absorb Chaos True Spirits, and Jiang Ming invited her to go with him.

Jiang Ming and Ai Chen hunted Chaos Beasts outside Chaos City, where Jiang Ming effortlessly slew tens of thousands and collected their Chaos True Spirits. Meanwhile, Luo Feng learned that Jiang Ming had passed the thirteenth level of the Tongtian Bridge and resolved to work harder.

• Ai Chen explained that Chaos Beasts left behind Chaos True Spirits that could transform the soul, and she asked Jiang Ming to let her rely on his strength while hunting.
• Jiang Ming killed several hundred Chaos Beasts with a crimson blade strike, drawing a vast tide of beasts toward him and Ai Chen.
• Jiang Ming cut down tens of thousands of Chaos Beasts in a single attack, gathered their Chaos True Spirits, and continued hunting with Ai Chen.
• Luo Feng emerged from the Nine Universe Chaos Monument cultivation chamber, chose a residence near the City Lord's Manor, and connected to the Virtual Universe.
• Luo Feng learned that Jiang Ming had passed the thirteenth level of the Tongtian Bridge and vowed to work harder so he would not fall too far behind.

After absorbing Chaos True Spirits, Jiang Ming reached a limit in his soul’s improvement and worried that using the Wheel of Time outdoors would expose its temporal fluctuations. He mastered the first level of Soul Concealment, which hid both his soul aura and the Wheel’s fluctuations, and began using it atop his cultivation residence.

• Jiang Ming absorbed Chaos True Spirits for over half an hour, improving his soul and law comprehension before reaching the limit of their effect.
• Jiang Ming recalled that the Wheel of Time’s temporal fluctuations could attract powerful experts in Chaos City and considered whether the Soul Gold Bead could conceal them.
• Jiang Ming returned to his Virtual Universe estate, and Vanessa agreed to handle the important figures seeking to contact him while he focused on cultivation.
• Jiang Ming studied the Soul Gold Bead records and learned that mastering Soul Concealment’s first level, Seamless Shadow, could hide soul and nearby law fluctuations from detection.
• Jiang Ming cultivated Seamless Shadow for three days inside a World ring and successfully concealed his soul fluctuations and the Wheel of Time’s temporal fluctuations.
• Jiang Ming went to the rooftop, condensed the Wheel of Time, and began accelerating time around himself.

Jiang Ming advanced his understanding of the Space Origin Laws while years passed in Chaos City and Earth continued to develop. In 2100, he visited Jia Yi in the Virtual Universe and learned that Jia Yi had decided not to seek another term as Earth Federation leader.

• Jiang Ming broke through a bottleneck in the Blood War Secret Codex, comprehended Teleportation, and continued studying the Dragon Walk Chaos Monument.
• Rong Jun passed the first level of the Tongtian Bridge and became Yuan Chen Country Lord's disciple, while the number of geniuses remaining in Chaos City gradually declined.
• Earthlings began building cities in the seas in 2092, and the Mars terraforming project began in 2099.
• Jiang Ming met Jia Yi in the Virtual Universe in 2100, and Jia Yi told him about Earth's changes over the past decades.
• Jiang Ming asked Jia Yi to remain in office, but Jia Yi said he was ready to step down and make room for the next generation.

Jia Yi finally rested after his term ended, while Jiang Ming broke through in his understanding of space and completed the Blood War Secret Codex. Having finished the path of the Blood War Marquis, Jiang Ming resolved to pursue his own path.

• Jia Yi told Jiang Ming that he had completed his duties and wanted to rest, and Jiang Ming accepted his decision.
• Jia Yi nearly returned to his old habit of reviewing documents, then learned from his intelligent butler that his term had ended and fell into a deep sleep.
• Jiang Ming immersed his consciousness in a Space rift and used its primal rhythm to integrate his years of insights into the Blood War Secret Codex.
• Jiang Ming left Chaos City and battled the Chaos Beasts, refining his blade techniques and mastering the Space Laws through combat.
• Jiang Ming comprehended the Blood War Secret Codex completely and declared that he would now walk his own path.

After thirty years in Chaos City, Jiang Ming was summoned by Nine Sword Venerable as the geniuses prepared to leave. The Chaos City Lord arranged for a powerful hidden figure to take on a task involving Jiang Ming, as alien races began making moves against him.

• Rong Jun, Luo Feng, Bolan, Wuka, Long Yun, Galexi, and Qian Shui advanced through the Tongtian Bridge during their years in Chaos City.
• Nine Sword Venerable arrived and praised Jiang Ming for passing the thirteenth level, then rebuked the group because nearly twenty percent of them had died.
• Nine Sword Venerable ordered the geniuses to use their final ten days to study the Chaos Monument or challenge the Tongtian Bridge before leaving.
• Jiang Ming headed to the City Lord's Manor after the Chaos City Lord summoned him before his departure.
• The Chaos City Lord persuaded a powerful being hidden in the Chaos Ruins to undertake a task involving Jiang Ming, while they discussed the danger posed by alien races.