Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming explained that the Origin Crystal would help protect him during an external assignment, then challenged the Universe Tongtian Mountain before advancing to the Domain Lord level. His success alerted the Demon Race, whose leaders began coordinating an assassination with other enemy races.

• Jiang Ming told Crimson Flame that the Origin Crystal’s importance would ensure the Human race protected him during his external assignment, and said he wanted to return home after clearing the Universe Tongtian Mountain.
• Jiang Ming arrived at the Tongtian Mountain plane and learned the challenge’s requirements for advancing between secret realms.
• Jiang Ming instantly defeated the three guardians at the foot of the Universe Tongtian Mountain and went on to clear it.
• Moon Wolf King learned of Jiang Ming’s victory and reported that his external assignment was approaching to Lord of Heavenly Wolf.
• Lord of Heavenly Wolf received the intelligence and concluded that the Bug Race and Mechanical Race should share the risks of assassinating Jiang Ming within human territory.

After passing Original Tongtian Mountain, Jiang Ming considered how to advance his understanding of the Time Laws and sought guidance from Chaos City Lord. He left with a clearer understanding of time’s essence but no specific secret technique chosen.

• Jiang Ming received notice that he would earn 100 million points upon becoming a Realm Lord after passing Original Tongtian Mountain.
• Jiang Ming reviewed the Virtual Universe Company's Time Laws secret techniques and ordered introductory outlines for Cosmic Light Secret Codex, Shadow of Time, and Time Scroll.
• Jiang Ming asked Crimson Flame to arrange a meeting with Chaos City Lord in his personal plane.
• Chaos City Lord explained that acceleration, deceleration, and stoppage were expressions of the Time Laws' shared essence of flowing change.
• Chaos City Lord advised Jiang Ming to focus on resonating with that essence, and Jiang Ming returned to his estate on Yu Xiang Mountain.

Jiang Ming bought and studied the Time Scroll, then demonstrated his growing mastery of time techniques. He decided to prepare for a breakthrough to the Domain Lord level, recognizing that Lifespan-Exhaustion Tempering no longer strengthened his will effectively.

• Jiang Ming spent 23.8 billion points to exchange for the Time Scroll and received its thirty-six volumes.
• Jiang Ming studied the Time Scroll for three months while his spacecraft returned to Wu Chen Time and Space of the Original Secret Realm.
• Jiang Ming used the Time Laws to freeze and accelerate rain, having begun to master the techniques Condense and Swift.
• Jiang Ming decided to prepare for a breakthrough to the Domain Lord level and concluded that Lifespan-Exhaustion Tempering had become ineffective as his fear of death faded.

Jiang Ming broke through to the Domain Lord level, transforming both his main body and Fire God clone. His Fire God clone gained unprecedented freedom to teleport through Space Lockdown, while a vast Inner World formed within his Progenote space.

• Jiang Ming began his breakthrough as the nine black holes inside his body merged into one, collapsed, and gave rise to an expanding gray sphere that enveloped his soul.
• Fire God Jiang Ming transformed as his crimson Life Core gained golden Space Secret Patterns and became a White-gold Flame.
• Fire God Jiang Ming discovered he could teleport without creating Space Fluctuations, even inside Space Lockdown, across a range of 0.1 light-years.
• Jiang Ming's Singularity devoured the remaining gray energy and erupted with light, forming an Inner World with its own Spacetime Laws.
• Jiang Ming's Inner World expanded to a diameter of 300 million kilometers.

Jiang Ming reflected on how his vast Inner World would make breaking through to Immortal increasingly difficult, then entered the Talent Awakening Space to climb toward the Universe's Strongest Talent Stars. He endured their destructive starlight as his will shattered and reformed, leaving his climb still underway.

• Jiang Ming realized his Inner World had reached 300 million kilometers and that its growing Singularity would make his breakthrough to Immortal exceptionally difficult.
• Jiang Ming decided to focus on secret techniques and entered the Talent Awakening Space to harvest a secret technique.
• Jiang Ming climbed past the Universe Master Talent Stars and reached the dark layer beneath the Universe's Strongest Talent Stars.
• Jiang Ming endured the crushing starlight, rejected the voices urging him to give up, and let his will shatter and gather anew as he pushed upward.

Jiang Ming endured the Starlight Layer’s crushing force and discovered that deliberately allowing his will to shatter produced purer, stronger Will Crystal Cores. As he repeatedly formed more cores, his resistance improved and he began advancing toward the Universe’s Strongest Talent Star.

• Jiang Ming realized that passively enduring the starlight’s pressure would never let him reach the Universe’s Strongest Talent Star, so he sought a more effective method.
• Jiang Ming deliberately stopped resisting the starlight, letting it shatter his will more completely despite the overwhelming pain.
• Jiang Ming’s purified will reassembled into its first Will Crystal Core, making him more resistant to the starlight’s pressure.
• Jiang Ming repeatedly shattered his will and formed additional Will Crystal Cores, steadily strengthening his resistance and increasing his speed.
• Jiang Ming continued advancing through the Starlight Layer, gradually drawing closer to the Universe’s Strongest Talent Star.

Jiang Ming forged an indestructible Path of Will and reached the layer of Universe's Strongest Talent Stars, but the immense pressure left him exhausted and asleep. His sleeping will then released an expanding absolute darkness that baffled Dark Lord.

• Jiang Ming’s will crystal cores united after he affirmed that his heart would remain unobscured through countless tribulations, transforming the starlight’s crushing pressure into tempering.
• Jiang Ming advanced through the sea of solidified starlight toward the Talent Stars, but its immense resistance suppressed his will to the size of a Singularity.
• Jiang Ming entered a Talent Star roughly 846 light-years in diameter and was ejected from the Talent Awakening Space, whereupon exhaustion made him fall asleep.
• Light from Jiang Ming’s sleeping will and soul froze space-time and spread absolute darkness across the surrounding region, while space-time separated it from the Original Universe.
• Dark Lord arrived and was bewildered by the darkness, which he could not understand despite his mastery of it.

Jiang Ming awakened a True God Level soul talent called Calamity Abyss, which could drag an opponent’s will into a constructed abyss and enslave them if they could not endure it. He used his experiences in the Universe’s Strongest Starlight Layer to build increasingly brutal layers of the abyss.

• Jiang Ming realized that his will and soul had grown stronger and identified his new talent as Calamity Abyss.
• Jiang Ming learned that Calamity Abyss could enslave opponents whose wills failed to withstand its constructed torment, though its strength depended on the caster’s experiences.
• Jiang Ming drew on his suffering in the Talent Awakening Space to construct the first layer, Starlight Grinding Hell.
• Jiang Ming created a second layer that crushed opponents with pain and despair while making them feel an unreachable trace of hope.
• Jiang Ming built a third layer that repeatedly shattered targets’ wills as they tried and failed to condense Will Crystal Cores.
• Jiang Ming continued weaving more layers from his most painful memories.

After waking from a long sleep, Jiang Ming discovered that the aura of his Calamity Abyss had transformed his manor’s servants and guards into Calamity Slaves. He learned that they could grow stronger through his power, revealing a new way for him to strengthen both the abyss and himself.

• Jiang Ming explained that he had woven 312 layers of the Calamity Abyss and reached the will of a Universe Master.
• Crimson Flame told Jiang Ming that his aura had tainted the surrounding land while he slept for three years, seven months, and twenty-one days.
• Jiang Ming realized that the manor’s servants and guards, including Vanessa, had become Calamity Slaves, and he asked Vanessa to name her wishes.
• Jiang Ming sensed that Vanessa retained her self-awareness but had to obey his orders, then used the Calamity Abyss to strengthen her.
• Vanessa broke through to the Marquis level, and Jiang Ming realized that cultivating powerful Calamity Slaves could strengthen the Calamity Abyss and his own will.

Jiang Ming discovered that an unseen Universe Hegemon had moved the Calamity power-infected land into a deep layer of time and space, while the Dark Lord watched him and wondered whether he might become like his Teacher. After Jiang Ming became an Inspection Envoy, the Zerg, demons, and Mechanical Race agreed to send a Universe Hegemon-level Zerg warrior and Lord Bilong’s Treasure Clone to capture him.

• Jiang Ming traced the Calamity power’s boundary and concluded that a Universe Hegemon had hidden the infected land in a deep layer of time and space.
• Jiang Ming thanked the unseen protector, and the Dark Lord chose not to meet him while reflecting on Jiang Ming’s possible future strength.
• Virtual Universe Company officials confirmed Jiang Ming had reached the Domain Lord level, and he became an Inspection Envoy of the Ganwu Universe Country.
• Lord Minglian secured the demons’ and Mechanical Race’s agreement to the Zerg plan by offering a Universe Hegemon-level warrior and Lord Bilong’s Treasure Clone.
• Lord Bilong told her elder sister that she accepted the risk of losing her Treasure Clone if it helped enslave Jiang Ming.

Lord Bilong explained that she wanted to soul-enslave Jiang Ming in hopes of learning how to become a Universe Master. In the Original Secret Realm, Jiang Ming discovered that the Calamity Abyss was transforming his Inner World and made Vanessa the first Abyss Lord, leaving his world foundation stronger.

• Lord Bilong told Lord Minglian that she was willing to risk enslaving Jiang Ming because their soul connection might help her glimpse the mysteries of a Universe Master.
• Jiang Ming sensed that the Calamity Abyss had increased his life genes, altered his will, and transformed his gestating Inner World.
• Jiang Ming discovered that his Inner World had developed 312 layers of dark space corresponding to the abyssal hells, which could grow stronger under the rule of Calamity Slaves.
• Jiang Ming summoned Vanessa and instructed her to sense the changes as he sent her Calamity aura into dark space number 7.
• Dark space number 7 became Thorn Descent Hell, and Vanessa was invested as its Abyss Lord, gaining Abyss Authority and a soul-symbiotic connection to the hell.
• Jiang Ming sensed that Vanessa's investiture had greatly stabilized the foundation of his Inner World.

After Vanessa became an Abyss Lord, Jiang Ming considered how his Inner World might strengthen her and the Calamity Abyss. He completed the fusion of one thousand Blood Luo Crystals, received a Virtual Universe Company reward, and prepared to travel to Ganwu Universe Country.

• Jiang Ming dismissed Vanessa to familiarize herself with her new strength and realized that Abyss Lords were bound to the dark space and could be resurrected through it.
• Vanessa requested divine kingdom teleportation to Ganwu Universe Country after Jiang Ming's appointment was issued.
• Jiang Ming fused one thousand Blood Luo Crystals, completing their power within his body, though they barely increased his life gene level.
• A Virtual Universe Company delegation delivered Jiang Ming a World ring containing a reward, and he recognized the Chaos City Lord's voice in his mind.
• Vanessa told Jiang Ming that the company's teleportation personnel had arrived and asked when they would depart.

Jiang Ming received the Thousand Illusions Light Splitting Mirror, a treasure that created weak mirror-light avatars useful for exploration, and considered how his Tribulation Abyss might affect beings without souls. He arrived at Purple Crystal Island as an inspection envoy, where the branch leaders feared his authority and the assembled crowd welcomed him.

• Jiang Ming traveled toward Qiongyu Star after arriving in the Ganwu Universe Country by divine kingdom teleportation.
• Jiang Ming opened his teacher’s gift and bound the Thousand Illusions Light Splitting Mirror, which could create up to 360 avatars.
• Jiang Ming tested a mirror-light avatar and considered how a Soul Gold Bead could conceal it, while recalling that Tribulation Abyss could act on will and memories.
• Three Marquis-level Immortals at the Ganwu branch discussed how to respond to Jiang Ming’s appointment as inspection envoy and reviewed proposed plans.
• Jiang Ming appeared on Purple Crystal Island, where the crowd, the three branch leaders, and hundreds of Immortals bowed to greet him.
• Jiang Ming noticed a figure among the Immortals gathered before him.

Jiang Ming toured the Ganwu Branch, where his warm recognition of Man Luo transformed Man Luo’s standing among the Immortals. As Jiang Ming traveled toward Qiongyu Star, the branch invited Earth to welcome him as its Inspector Envoy, prompting Jia Yi to believe Earth’s lineage was finally rising.

• Jiang Ming thanked Man Luo for recommending him to the Virtual Universe Company and asked Black Annihilation Marquis to dismiss the gathered leaders.
• The Immortals accompanying Jiang Ming moved Man Luo closer to the front and treated him with newfound respect as Jiang Ming asked him about the Black Dragon Mountain Star Domain.
• After Jiang Ming entered the Purple Crystal Palace, Immortals surrounded Man Luo with congratulations and requests for cooperation.
• Aboard his spaceship, Jiang Ming considered why the three Ganwu ministers feared him and continued cultivating in the Nutrition Chamber as Crimson Flame refilled the nutrient solution.
• The Ganwu Branch invited Earth to a welcoming banquet for Jiang Ming, and Jia Yi broke his fishing rod as he declared that Earth’s lineage was going to rise.

Jiang Ming arrived on Qiongyu Star and was formally welcomed as Ganwu Universe Country’s Inspector Special Envoy. While cultivating at his manor, he discovered that Calamity power was eroding Vanessa’s divine kingdom, and he sent his clones to seek more materials for weaving abyssal layers.

• Vanessa brought Jiang Ming to Qiongyu Star, where his guard army descended with him.
• Black Annihilation Marquis, Marquis Golden Feather, Marquis Purple Lightning, and dozens of Immortals bowed to welcome Jiang Ming.
• The three ministers showed Jiang Ming to his newly built manor and told him that his welcoming banquet would be held in twenty-two days.
• Jiang Ming cultivated in a Nutrition Chamber and watched his Inner World develop as his body grew stronger.
• Jiang Ming saw that Calamity power had begun to erode Vanessa’s divine kingdom and understood that it would eventually merge with Thorn Descent Hell.
• Jiang Ming sent 360 figures in E-class spaceships to search for materials to weave more abyssal layers.

Hong, Luo, and Bu Shi Ka used divine kingdom teleportation to reach the Qiongyu Star Domain for Jiang Ming’s welcoming banquet, where Hong learned how costly and risky the method was. At Jiang Ming Manor, Thor awaited Hong and speculated about how Earth’s other arrivals would be received.

• Bu Shi Ka brought Hong and Luo into his divine kingdom and warned Hong that teleportation exposed its location and that the divine kingdom was an Immortal God’s foundation.
• Bu Shi Ka teleported them across tens of millions of star systems, explaining that the trip cost four Chaos Units because they had only a month to reach Jiang Ming’s banquet.
• Jiang Ming contacted Hong and learned his spaceship would arrive in two days, while Thor told Hong he had already been waiting at Qiongyu Star for three days.
• Thor marveled at the F-class spaceships arriving for Jiang Ming’s gathering, and Jiang Ming said the guests feared the powers and position he represented.
• Thor asked what would happen when people from Earth arrived, and Jiang Ming glanced at his wristguard and said Thor would soon find out.

Jia Yi and Earth’s senior leaders arrived at Jiang Ming’s estate on Qiongyu Star and witnessed the immense power and status he had gained. After welcoming them and arranging their accommodations, Jiang Ming examined a Zerg Mother Nest and considered cultivating Mother Queens through the abyss.

• Vanessa escorted Jia Yi and Earth’s leaders from Jiang Ming’s spacecraft through an imposing guard legion and into the estate’s main hall.
• Jia Yi and the others bowed to Jiang Ming, who welcomed them and asked Thor to show them around while Vanessa arranged their accommodations.
• Jia Yi told Jiang Ming that he had done very well, then followed Thor and Vanessa out to explore the estate.
• Vanessa confirmed that all the guests had been settled and handed Jiang Ming the World ring he had asked her to retrieve.
• Jiang Ming examined the Zerg Mother Nest inside the ring and considered enslaving Mother Queens and cultivating them to higher realms through the abyss.

Jiang Ming enslaved the Zerg Mother Queen Ilena and used Calamity power to transform her. Ilena grew stronger and was placed in the ninth layer of Jiang Ming’s Calamity Abyss.

• Jiang Ming entered the Zerg Mother Nest and invaded all ten thousand of Ilena’s soul sources to enslave her.
• Ilena awakened, named herself, and addressed Jiang Ming as her master.
• Jiang Ming sent Calamity power into Ilena, changing her body, soul, and will.
• Ilena sensed her increased strength and found her soul and will had doubled in power.
• Jiang Ming placed Ilena’s dark aura in the ninth layer of abyssal hell within his spiritual world.

Jiang Ming witnessed Ilena’s Abyss No. 9 produce a powerful army of Abyss Tiger Beetles linked by Calamity power, and he considered expanding this force with other Abyss Lords. Meanwhile, intelligence about Jiang Ming’s welcome banquet reached Lord of Bilong, who decided to continue toward Ganwu Universe Country and seize the opportunity.

• Ilena’s Abyss No. 9 formed a vast world and a mother nest that nurtured more than ten thousand Abyss Tiger Beetles.
• The Abyss Tiger Beetles synchronized their Calamity power and unleashed a combined attack strong enough to reach the threshold of immortality.
• Ilena sensed the warriors’ strength, and Jiang Ming explained the Calamity Abyss’s power and its potential to nurture stronger or different Zerg units.
• Jiang Ming considered recruiting more Zerg Mother Queens and other legion-type lifeforms to create armies across multiple Abysses.
• Agents on Valuo Star reported that 11,521 immortals had gathered on Qiongyu Star and that three operatives had entered to attend Jiang Ming’s welcome banquet.
• Lord of Bilong received the intelligence and ordered her forces to continue toward Ganwu Universe Country despite suspecting the banquet might be a trap.

Jiang Ming attended his welcome banquet on Qiongyu Star, where a Zerg warrior attacked using Divine Kingdom teleportation. The Dark Lord stopped the assault and killed the warrior, then a vast will confronted him over his identity as a Human race Universe Master.

• Jiang Ming prepared for the banquet as Vanessa reported that nearly every Immortal God in the Ganwu Universe Country had accepted the invitation.
• Immortal Gods gathered at Jiang Ming Manor and watched as Jiang Ming stood with Black Annihilation Marquis, Marquis Golden Feather, and Marquis Purple Lightning.
• A Zerg warrior arrived through Divine Kingdom teleportation and unleashed pressure that overwhelmed most of the guests.
• A Universe Master froze space-time, but the Zerg warrior burned divine power and tried to kill Jiang Ming.
• The Dark Lord appeared, ensnared the Zerg warrior's will, and burned him to ashes.
• A vast will addressed the Dark Lord, saying it had not expected him to be a Human race Universe Master.