Chapter Summaries

The Dark Lord thwarted Lord of Bilong’s attempt to kill Jiang Ming and revealed that Jiang Ming’s apparent body was a soulless clone protected by the Soul Gold Bead. After the battle, Lord of Bilong went mad in Zerg Territory, prompting the Zerg Empress and other Zerg Universe Masters to arrive.

• The Dark Lord destroyed Lord of Bilong’s Treasure Clone after she tried to attack Jiang Ming, and she recognized his identity as a human Universe Master.
• Lord of Bilong discovered that Jiang Ming was a weak soulless clone protected by the Soul Gold Bead, then conceded defeat and dispersed her clone’s consciousness.
• The Dark Lord gave Jiang Ming the transparent crystal from Lord of Bilong’s clone, and Jiang Ming resumed the banquet while hiding the turmoil in his mental world.
• In Zerg Territory, Lord Bilong’s palace unleashed destructive attacks across the star systems while she cried out in pain and appeared to have gone mad.
• Lord Huangsha summoned the other Zerg Universe Masters and the Zerg Empress, whose Empress Nest arrived in the damaged starfield.

The Zerg Empress failed to remove the strange attack trapping Lord of Bilong and learned that Dark Lord had protected Jiang Ming, possibly using a technique from Origin Ancestor. At Qiongyu Star, Jiang Ming began weaving the experiences of populations across hundreds of planets into his inner world, hoping to strengthen Tribulation Abyss and eventually enslave Lord of Bilong.

• The Zerg Empress and six Zerg Universe Masters gathered at Lord of Bilong's palace, but the Empress could not dispel the attack on Bilong's consciousness.
• Lord of Bilong awoke from the illusion after hearing the Empress call her and identified Dark Lord as the clone that had protected Jiang Ming.
• The Zerg Empress suspected Dark Lord was a disciple of Origin Ancestor and warned that the attack might last for millions of years, advising Bilong to kill herself if she could not endure it.
• Jiang Ming resolved to develop Weaving the Abyss so he could enslave Lord of Bilong, who remained trapped but could not yet be killed.
• Jiang Ming spread illusions across hundreds of life planets, making their inhabitants unknowingly experience generations of life while he absorbed their experiences into his inner world.

Jia Yi urged Earth’s leaders to use Jiang Ming’s standing to build a stronger foothold in the Ganwu Universe Country and Virtual Universe Company. Meanwhile, Jiang Ming expanded the Calamity Abyss to 714 layers, trapping Lord Bilong’s divided consciousness and considering how the thoughts of countless beings could fuel its limitless growth.

• Jia Yi, Thor, Hong, and Earth’s higher-ups discussed the danger of the failed assassination and resolved to develop Earth through its connection to Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming drew on the thoughts of beings across hundreds of planets to weave new layers into the Calamity Abyss.
• Jiang Ming expanded the abyss from 312 layers to 714, dividing Lord Bilong’s consciousness into 714 trapped portions.
• Jiang Ming observed that the new abyssal layers grew stronger by absorbing thought fragments and inflicting varied torments on Lord Bilong.
• Jiang Ming concluded that drawing on the thoughts of countless living beings could let the Calamity Abyss grow without limit.

Jiang Ming advanced to the ninth rank of the Domain Lord level while traveling back to Earth and reflected on the importance of emotion, home, and protecting what he loved. His realization deepened his control over the Tribulation Abyss and steadied his will as the spacecraft continued toward Earth.

• Jiang Ming reached the ninth rank of the Domain Lord level and learned that seven days remained before the spacecraft reached Earth.
• As he anticipated returning home, Jiang Ming recognized his homesickness as a meaningful expression of emotion and life.
• Jiang Ming reflected that emotions could be the foundation of will and more than mere nourishment for the Tribulation Abyss.
• Jiang Ming named Earth the first anchor point of his emotions and realized that where his heart returned was home.
• Jiang Ming's newfound understanding blended warmth into his aura and brought greater stability to his control over the Tribulation Abyss and his will.

Jiang Ming returned to Earth after more than four million years of personal experience and saw how the Solar System and his home planet had transformed. After reviewing Earth’s prosperity, he settled into his castle to pursue the final step in comprehending the first level of the Wheel of Time.

• Jiang Ming and Vanessa arrived in the Solar System aboard the Judgment Sword, where they saw that its planets had been transformed into habitable worlds and Earth had become a celebrated destination.
• Jiang Ming chose to return to Earth quietly, and Vanessa stored the guards before he and his companions descended onto the Asian continent.
• Jiang Ming surveyed Earth’s transformed cities, preserved wilderness, foreign districts, and interstellar institutions as Crimson Flame reported the planet’s population and special status.
• Crimson Flame reported that Tianshen Group had a market value of 573,000 Chaos Units and attracted interest from more than six thousand investment firms after Jiang Ming’s return.
• Jiang Ming went to his residential castle and focused on comprehending the first level of the Wheel of Time, anticipating that his clones could use it to gather materials and open abyssal layers faster.

Jiang Ming completed the first level of the Wheel of Time and used it across 360 clones to accelerate the evolution of countless civilizations, gathering their thoughts to expand his Tribulation Abyss. The abyss grew toward a thousand layers, further tormenting the trapped Lord of Bilong and strengthening Jiang Ming’s will.

• After four million years of cultivation and comprehension, Jiang Ming fully comprehended the first level of the Wheel of Time, and all 360 Illusion Light Clones gained a complete phantom of it.
• Jiang Ming observed primitive civilizations evolve in accelerated Illusion Worlds, where desire and conflict repeatedly led to wars and destruction while some people pursued knowledge and progress.
• Jiang Ming used the Wheel of Time to speed up the clones’ observations, allowing all 360 clones to gather intense emotional thoughts from civilizations across many worlds.
• The collected thoughts rapidly formed new Tribulation Abyss layers, pushing the total toward a thousand and dividing Lord of Bilong’s consciousness into ever more fragments.
• Jiang Ming sensed the Tribulation Abyss growing more inclusive and complex, while its accumulated thoughts made his Will Crystal Core clearer and tougher.

Jiang Ming used the thoughts of countless beings to strengthen his Tribulation Abyss and weaken Lord Bilong’s resistance, while Lord Bilong’s declining clarity drove her to order Eyi to kill her if the Mind Origin Liquid could no longer keep her conscious. On Earth, a Dragon Horn race woman arrived and reported that her mission was complete.

• Jiang Ming expanded his Tribulation Abyss with the thoughts of countless beings and sensed Lord Bilong’s struggle weakening.
• Lord Bilong endured increasingly severe mental torment in the Empress Secret Realm, and Eyi reported that she had lasted only seventeen days before needing Mind Origin Liquid.
• Lord Bilong ordered Eyi to kill her if the Mind Origin Liquid could keep her conscious for only one hour, and reassured Eyi that the Zerg could revive her after death.
• Jiang Ming left his meditation chamber on Earth as a Dragon Horn race woman arrived by spacecraft and reported that her mission was complete.

Jiang Ming welcomed Li Yue back after she rescued the Nuolanshan family and used their consciousnesses to test how hope and despair affected his Calamity Abyss. After repeatedly subjecting them to an illusory cycle of ruin, he found that the Calamity Abyss had grown stronger.

• Jiang Ming told Li Yue to call him by his name and thanked her for managing his affairs while he was away.
• Li Yue gave Jiang Ming a World ring containing the rescued members of the Nuolanshan family.
• Jiang Ming reflected on how hope and despair might form two sides of life and decided to use the Nuolanshan family as an experiment.
• Jiang Ming drew all 7.9 billion Nuolanshan family members into an accelerated spiritual illusion and engineered disasters that drove them from prosperity into desperate infighting and collapse.
• Jiang Ming repeatedly sent the Nuolanshan family through cycles of despair and hope, extracting their negative thoughts to strengthen the Calamity Abyss.
• Jiang Ming opened his eyes on the castle balcony and concluded that the Calamity Abyss had grown more than he expected.

Jiang Ming used the despair of the Nuolanshan family to strengthen his Calamity Abyss, while Lord of Bilong endured its growing illusions and resolved to investigate the technique for her race. He awakened the people of Biliu Star from their illusion lives and left them to begin their own future among the stars.

• Jiang Ming reflected on how hope and despair fed the Calamity Abyss as his Illusion Light Clones continued operating across the universe.
• Lord of Bilong woke after only nine days in the secret technique, told Eyi to warn her race about the Dark Lord, and chose to study the illusions instead of resisting them.
• Jiang Ming found that the 7.9 billion Nuolanshan family members had become empty husks, then destroyed their bodies and World ring.
• Jiang Ming shattered the Illusion World on Biliu Star, returning its inhabitants to their bodies with memories of many illusory lives.
• A Tianshen Group spacecraft landed on Biliu Star, and its staff began guiding the awakened inhabitants into cosmic civilization.
• Jiang Ming's Illusion Light Clone departed for another life-bearing planet, leaving Biliu Star's people to shape their own futures.

Jiang Ming completed the first transformation of his 'Myriad Transformation Returning Ruins Divine Body' and unexpectedly connected his Inner World to the Land of Origin. A torrent of World Power began expanding and reshaping his Inner World as Origin Laws imprinted themselves upon it.

• Jiang Ming spent three years under the Wheel of Time modifying the first life-origin unit of his divine body.
• The completed modification recombined his life-origin units, causing his body to shrink and then grow again as its energy absorption surged.
• Jiang Ming's expanding divine body prompted his Inner World to contact the Land of Origin without the Origin Crystal.
• World Power poured through the new connection, rapidly expanding the Inner World and its hells while transforming their terrain and structures.
• Origin Laws flowed into the expanding Inner World, making it more stable and closer to the essence of the universe.

Jiang Ming strengthened his Inner World and accelerated his corruption of Lord of Bilong while preparing to use criminals and slave traders as targets for his illusions. He left his clones moving toward hundreds of selected locations and ordered every Universe Country to gather its most serious criminals.

• Vanessa and Ilena grew stronger as Jiang Ming's Inner World and the abyssal hell developed.
• Jiang Ming judged that he needed to delay his breakthrough until he had gained more power in the Talent Awakening Space.
• Jiang Ming realized that Lord of Bilong was voluntarily exploring the Abyss of Tribulation, speeding her corruption, and decided to gather enough power to taint her before she might kill herself.
• Jiang Ming directed Crimson Flame to find criminal prisons and slave-trading groups, and she identified 737 targets across the Ganwu Universe Country.
• Jiang Ming sent his Illusion Light Clones toward the selected targets and ordered every Universe Country to gather its most serious criminals.

Jiang Ming harvested the despair of prisoners on Obsidian Star to nourish his Tribulation Abyss talent, then traveled to Phoenix Nest Star, a slave-trading planet. Seeing the darkness beneath its prosperous surface stirred anger, shock, and killing intent in him.

• Jiang Ming surveyed Obsidian Star and found more than two million Stellar-level prisoners laboring under brutal conditions.
• Jiang Ming quietly used Tribulation Abyss to harvest the prisoners’ negative emotions without disrupting the prison’s order.
• Jiang Ming sent Illusion Light Clones to other mining prison planets and stored the excess nourishment for Tribulation Abyss.
• Jiang Ming arrived at Phoenix Nest Star and saw its glamorous reception centers and auction halls concealed the trade in slaves.
• Jiang Ming felt anger, shock, and killing intent rise as he witnessed the slave planet’s darkness.

Jiang Ming uncovered the atrocities on Phoenix Nest Star and trapped the perpetrators in illusions of the suffering they had inflicted, while arranging for the Ganwu branch to take over the planet. On Earth, his divine body reached 710 kilometers tall, and he wondered whether the Wheel of Time could accelerate his cultivation by a millionfold.

• Jiang Ming probed Phoenix Nest Star’s underground torture chambers and discovered slaves being abused by the Fire Phoenix Group and powerful figures.
• Jiang Ming used the Tribulation Abyss to make the abusers experience the tortures they had inflicted and extracted their terror and despair.
• Jiang Ming sent the evidence to Crimson Flame, who reported it to the Ganwu branch, which planned to take over Phoenix Nest Star in seven hours.
• Jiang Ming kept the perpetrators trapped in illusions for more than a hundred thousand years while innocent beings awaited judgment.
• Jiang Ming’s true body on Earth reached 710 kilometers tall, but he found that completing the second form of the Myriad Transformation Returning Ruins Divine Body required far more energy.
• Jiang Ming sensed the Wheel of Time’s engravings growing clearer and anticipated reaching its second level.

Jiang Ming completed the second level of the Wheel of Time and discovered that extreme acceleration consumed vast energy because it opposed the universe’s governing rules. Meanwhile, the Tribulation Abyss reached one thousand layers, transforming his Inner World and drawing the attention of Lord of Bilong.

• Jiang Ming mastered the second level of the Wheel of Time, gaining the ability to manipulate time’s fluctuations directly.
• He tested the new power and stopped when the energy surge threatened to collapse the ring world.
• Jiang Ming discovered that acceleration beyond a hundred thousandfold consumed extra energy to counter the universe’s rules, and he maintained a maximum flow of six hundred and seventy thousand times with the Origin Crystal.
• The 360 Illusion Light Clones continued gathering emotions and thoughts from planets, expanding the Tribulation Abyss toward one thousand layers.
• When the thousandth layer formed, the Tribulation Abyss resonated with Jiang Ming’s Inner World, reshaping it and creating a thousand illusory dark nodes.
• Lord of Bilong sensed the changes in Jiang Ming’s Inner World from a distant territory.

Lord of Bilong lost control of her body as Calamity power overwhelmed her, and she dissolved her consciousness in despair. But the Calamity Abyss had formed its own space-time, where Jiang Ming accelerated its erosion of her will until it succeeded and triggered a major transformation.

• Lord of Bilong's mobilizable consciousness collapsed, leaving her paralyzed, so she recorded her findings with Eyi and began dissolving her consciousness.
• The Zerg Empress appeared and blamed humanity for Lord of Bilong's condition, suspecting Jiang Ming had inherited a method from Yuan.
• Lord of Bilong's consciousness began gathering again after it had dissolved, while the Zerg Empress realized the Calamity Abyss had formed its own space-time.
• Jiang Ming opened new abysses with his stored materials and used the space-time's faster flow of time to erode Lord of Bilong's will.
• The Calamity Abyss Space-time completed its erosion of Lord of Bilong's will and underwent a tremendous transformation.

After Lord of Bilong became Jiang Ming’s Calamity Slave, she was absorbed into a new abyss that transformed Calamity Abyss Space-time and made Jiang Ming’s Inner World expand into a Realm Lord world. Jiang Ming named its main continent Abyss Continent and created Calamity Abyss Palace before descending into Bilong Myriad Insect Hell.

• Lord of Bilong was incorporated into an abyssal layer, which renamed itself Bilong Myriad Insect Hell and began expanding.
• The new layer strengthened Calamity Abyss Space-time and Jiang Ming’s Singularity, while the resulting feedback increased his will and soul.
• Calamity Abyss Space-time expanded beyond tenfold, producing its first wisp of World Power and connecting Jiang Ming to the Land of Origin.
• For three days, cosmic origin energy poured into Calamity Abyss Space-time, expanding it into a world with a 13-billion-kilometer main continent and 1,081 dark layers.
• Jiang Ming named the main continent Abyss Continent, created Calamity Abyss Palace, and sent his will into Bilong Myriad Insect Hell.

Jiang Ming helped Lord of Bilong transform her soul to the level of a Master of the Universe, giving her a clear path toward a breakthrough. Lord of Bilong entered the Empress Realm to cultivate, intent on repaying the Dark Lord for plotting against her.

• Within Calamity Abyss Space-time, Jiang Ming explained that Lord of Bilong's soul had reached the Master of the Universe level and that her body could follow after she comprehended the laws.
• Lord of Bilong told Jiang Ming she could break through within a few thousand epochs, or within ten thousand years by cultivating in the Empress's universe.
• Lord of Bilong awoke in the Zerg Empress's secret realm and reported that her soul had transformed after she survived a crisis.
• Lord of Bilong asked to cultivate in the Empress Realm so she could become a Master of the Universe and settle her debt with the Dark Lord, and the Zerg Empress agreed.
• On Earth, Jiang Ming stopped resisting a vague pull and let his will vanish.

Jiang Ming discovered that the Talent Stars formed a unified Star Array and used its structure to refine his Will Crystal Cores. After achieving a stable new will structure, he broke through the pressure of the starlight and raced toward the upper reaches of the Talent Star layer.

• Jiang Ming found that his greatly strengthened will was still compressed to the size of a Singularity in the Talent Awakening Space.
• Jiang Ming studied the Talent Stars and realized they formed an interconnected Star Array governed by unified laws.
• Jiang Ming repeatedly adjusted his Will Crystal Cores to find a structure suited to his own will.
• Jiang Ming formed a harmonious will structure that greatly increased its stability and eased the starlight pressure.
• Jiang Ming shot rapidly toward the upper reaches of the Talent Star layer.

Jiang Ming crossed into the Void True God Talent Layer, discovered its overwhelming intensity, and strengthened his will by studying the Star Array below. As his stay neared its end, he chose a special black-hole-like Talent Star that resonated with him most.

• Jiang Ming passed through the starlight ice layer into the Void True God Talent Layer, where his will-body was repeatedly crushed and he lost a tenth of his will.
• Jiang Ming concluded that his current will could not withstand the Void True God Layer and focused on imitating the Star Array in the True God Level Talent Layer.
• Jiang Ming strengthened his will structure until it was ten times sturdier, though he judged it still insufficient to enter the higher layer safely.
• Jiang Ming decided to leave the Talent Awakening Space and flew toward a black-hole-like special Talent Star that resonated with him most.

Jiang Ming gained the Chaos Root and glimpsed how the ten Basic Laws could merge into the Chaos Laws, then learned that twelve years had passed during his comprehension. Ai Chen visited him after entering the Original Secret Realm, and their conversation left her expressing how hard it was to keep up with his progress.

• Jiang Ming comprehended the Chaos Root and gained a clearer understanding of the ten Basic Laws and the path toward the Chaos Laws.
• Jiang Ming left his long meditation and learned from Crimson Flame that twelve years had passed and Luo Feng and Ai Chen had entered the Original Secret Realm.
• Jiang Ming reviewed 781 emails, 515 of which were from Ai Chen.
• Ai Chen visited Jiang Ming in his Original District estate, and he congratulated her on becoming an Original Secret Realm member.
• Ai Chen told Jiang Ming she had worked hard to get closer to him because he kept advancing so quickly.