Chapter Summaries

Lin Qingyu’s feat of clearing the seventh level of the Cosmic Tongtian Bridge spread across the human race and drew the attention of rival races. As he remained in Chaos City, the Insect, Monster, and Mechanical Races began treating him as a high-priority target.

• Undyings and Chaos City geniuses learned that Lin Qingyu had cleared the seventh level, and Luo Feng urged Wuka to train harder while Bolan questioned his cultivation path.
• Country Lord Yuan Chen taught Rong Jun the first axe of the Great Axe Chaos Tablet and resolved to train him harder despite Lin Qingyu’s overwhelming advantage.
• An Insect Race agent reported Lin Qingyu’s feat to his master, who reclassified him as NO.1 and decided to report the threat to the race.
• A Monster Race Venerable ordered his followers to consider assassinating Lin Qingyu once he left Chaos City to train as a World Lord.
• Mechanical Race Universe Master Hengxian ordered hidden organizations in Human Territory to prioritize gathering intelligence on Lin Qingyu and attempting his assassination.

Lin Qingyu secluded himself after comprehending the threshold of the Time Origin Law at the Tongtian Bridge, using his Will Space and Chaos Tablet model to advance his understanding of time and space. After a year, he emerged with substantial gains and planned to find Secret Methods to aid his study of time.

• Lin Qingyu disabled Virtual Universe reception and began closed-door cultivation in Chaos City, using the diagrams in his residence and a recorded Chaos Tablet model to study the Laws.
• Lin Qingyu used Void Conception to power the Will Space's deduction ability, allowing him to study the Time Law while his physical body separately comprehended the Space Law.
• Luo Qingshuang waited for Lin Qingyu at Hongyue King's Rainbow Moon Tower, while Hongyue King warned her not to disturb his cultivation and said his Tongtian Bridge gains required time to absorb.
• After a year in seclusion, Lin Qingyu had comprehended twenty-two of the Space Law's fundamental mysteries and six mysteries of time, with no bottleneck slowing his progress.
• Lin Qingyu ended his seclusion and planned to seek suitable Secret Methods to help him comprehend the Time Origin Law.

After Lin Qingyu cleared the seventh level of the Tongtian Bridge, Hongyue King invited him to the Rainbow Moon Tower to discuss his progress and recommend Secret Methods. The chapter left him with new techniques to study and Hongyue King offering to guide him as his Undying teacher.

• Lin Qingyu received Hongyue King's invitation and went to the Rainbow Moon Tower, where her disciple Jiao Mòyà brought him inside.
• Hongyue King and Luo Qingshuang asked about Lin Qingyu's Law Comprehension, and he revealed that he had comprehended twenty-two Space Law mysteries and six Time Law mysteries.
• Lin Qingyu demonstrated his insights, impressing Hongyue King, who said his talent could give him a chance to become a Universe Master.
• Hongyue King gave Lin Qingyu a list of Secret Methods related to time, space, and their combination, and Lin Qingyu purchased them all.
• Hongyue King told Lin Qingyu that he could name her as his Undying teacher when applying for guidance in his manor.

Hongyue King agreed to instruct Lin Qingyu and explained why the Virtual Universe Company had denied him special authority. She revealed a compromise: Lin Qingyu would earn that authority if he passed the tenth Tongtian Bridge level within his first thirty years in Chaos City.

• Hongyue King offered to guide Lin Qingyu in the Universe Chaos Tablet, and Lin Qingyu accepted while continuing to address her as Senior Sister.
• Hongyue King said the Virtual Universe Company's higher-ups had rejected her request for special authority for Lin Qingyu because he had not passed Original Tongtian Mountain.
• Hongyue King explained that special authority granted access to powerful treasures and resources, while cultivation missions could lead to dangerous opportunities.
• Hongyue King told Lin Qingyu that the Virtual Universe Company had offered a compromise: he would receive authority equivalent to passing Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain if he passed the tenth Tongtian Bridge level within his first thirty years in Chaos City.

Lin Qingyu learned that he might qualify for Virtual Universe Company trial missions if he reached the tenth level of the Tongtian Bridge within thirty years. He worried that his rapidly strengthening soul would outgrow his body, so he prioritized finding ways to increase his Gene Level and began studying powerful Secret Methods.

• Hongyue King explained that Lin Qingyu could undertake selected trial missions after meeting the Virtual Universe Company's requirements and warned him not to rush into becoming a Domain Lord.
• Lin Qingyu calculated that his soul could grow stronger than his body could endure and identified raising his Gene Level as his most urgent need.
• Lin Qingyu considered buying treasures, obtaining a Clone to cultivate the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex, or modifying his genes through the Will Space.
• Lin Qingyu entered the Virtual Universe, bought the Secret Methods recommended by Hongyue King, and selected five top-level techniques to cultivate.

Lin Qingyu began cultivating five Top-tier Secret Techniques while continuing his Law Comprehension through parallel Information Models in his Will Space. His insights into how Laws interacted across the universe helped him advance especially quickly in Secret Methods related to the Universe Chaos Tablet.

• Lin Qingyu chose five Top-tier Secret Techniques covering defense, movement, close-combat attacks, and Mental Force attacks.
• After returning to his residence, Lin Qingyu connected to the Virtual Universe and spent half a month memorizing the Secret Methods he had purchased.
• Lin Qingyu assigned five Information Models to cultivate his combat Secret Techniques while others studied the Universe Chaos Tablet and analyzed cosmic treasures.
• Lin Qingyu used the treasures’ complex Law traces to gain insight into the overall operation of the Cosmic Origin and improve his ability to combine different Laws.
• With that insight, Lin Qingyu cultivated Universe Chaos Tablet-related Secret Methods faster than anyone else.

Five years after Lin Qingyu entered seclusion, Longyu King arrived in Chaos City to inspect and guide the geniuses, while the Kings discussed concerns about Lin Qingyu and Bolan. The chapter ended with Bolan emerging from seclusion to challenge the Tongtian Bridge.

• Over five years, Lin Qingyu and Bolan remained in seclusion, while Luo Feng cleared the Tongtian Bridge's third level and became King Zhenyan's disciple.
• Longyu King arrived in Chaos City under orders from a Venerable to inspect the geniuses and offer guidance.
• Longyu King told King Zhenyan and King Tongnan that the Venerables were closely invested in the batch because of a wager, and that Lin Qingyu's sudden emergence had prompted them to nurture rival geniuses.
• King Zhenyan and King Tongnan worried that Bolan's pride had been damaged by Lin Qingyu's achievements and that he might have gone astray in his cultivation.
• King Zhenyan received word from Bafen that Bolan had emerged from seclusion to challenge the Tongtian Bridge.

Bolan passed the fourth level of the Tongtian Bridge after correcting his cultivation path, prompting other geniuses to test their progress. After five years of seclusion, Lin Qingyu mastered his Secret Methods and brought his Space and Time comprehension to the same level, leaving him confident he could pass the seventh level.

• Bolan challenged the Tongtian Bridge and passed its fourth level.
• Longyu King, King Tongnan, and King Zhenyan praised Bolan for focusing on Space Law and using Time Law as support.
• Bolan's success spurred the other geniuses to challenge their Tongtian Bridges, though most failed to break through their bottlenecks.
• Lin Qingyu emerged from five years of seclusion after mastering his Secret Methods and equalizing his Space and Time comprehension.
• Lin Qingyu had completely comprehended the first thirty-six mysteries of both Laws and believed he could pass the seventh level of the Cosmic Tongtian Bridge.

Lin Qingyu showed Hongyue King his rapid progress in the Time and Space Laws and asked her to guide his Secret Method cultivation. After a week of instruction, he had comprehended one additional mystery of each law.

• Lin Qingyu told Hongyue King that his Time Law comprehension had caught up with his Space Law comprehension over the past five years.
• Lin Qingyu demonstrated the Time-Space Maze, astonishing Hongyue King by revealing that he had mastered the first thirty-six mysteries of both laws and begun studying the third diagram of the Universe Chaos Tablet.
• Lin Qingyu said he planned to study up to the tenth level before challenging the Tongtian Bridge, and Hongyue King told him Bolan had passed the fourth level after focusing on Space.
• Hongyue King demonstrated and explained the Time-Space Maze, then guided Lin Qingyu in using defensive and attack-type Secret Methods.
• After a week of Hongyue King's guidance, Lin Qingyu comprehended one more mystery of the Space Law and one more of the Time Law.

Longyu King learned of Lin Qingyu’s extraordinary progress and discussed securing resources for him with Hongyue King. Lin Qingyu studied the Universe Chaos Tablet, then returned to secluded cultivation, confident he could pass the eighth Tongtian Bridge level whenever he chose.

• Longyu King and the other kings discussed the geniuses challenging the Tongtian Bridge, including Luo Feng, Bolan, and Lin Qingyu.
• Longyu King visited Hongyue King and learned that Lin Qingyu’s talent in time and space might let him reach the Universe Master level.
• Hongyue King asked Longyu King to seek the Nine Swords lineage’s support for Lin Qingyu’s future rare-resource allocations, and Longyu King agreed to report the request.
• Lin Qingyu visited the City Lord’s Manor and studied the Universe Chaos Tablet for seven days, gaining confidence that he could pass the eighth Tongtian Bridge level.
• Lin Qingyu returned to his residence to cultivate time and space laws while his soul continued strengthening and his Information Models researched the Myriad Manifestations Soul technique.

After fifteen years of secluded cultivation, Lin Qingyu brought his Mental Power amplification and Law Comprehension to a temporary peak and decided to challenge the Tongtian Bridge. The Undyings learned of his challenge and hurried to watch.

• Lin Qingyu spent fifteen years cultivating in Chaos City, focusing on Myriad Manifestations Soul while occasionally contacting his family, Luo Qingshuang, and Hongyue King.
• Luo Feng passed the fifth Tongtian Bridge level, Bolan passed the sixth, and Rong Jun passed the third as the other geniuses also improved with guidance from Undyings.
• Lin Qingyu emerged from seclusion, judged his Mental Power amplification and Law Comprehension to have reached their current limits, and entered the Tongtian Bridge Plane to challenge the bridge.
• Bafen notified the Undyings that Lin Qingyu had entered the Tongtian Bridge Plane, and King Zhenyan and the others went to observe.

Lin Qingyu challenged the Tongtian Bridge after fifteen years of cultivation and defeated the gatekeepers on the eighth, ninth, and tenth levels with his Azure God Weapon. His performance stunned the watching Undyings, while Hongyue King considered how to secure resources for him now that he had met the Virtual Universe Company's requirements.

• Lin Qingyu greeted Bafen and began his Tongtian Bridge challenge as a crowd of Undyings gathered to watch the livestream.
• Lin Qingyu used the seventh level of the Azure God Weapon, Single Tree Becomes Forest, to defeat the eighth-level gatekeeper.
• Lin Qingyu overwhelmed the ninth-level gatekeeper with Single Tree Becomes Forest and passed the ninth level.
• Lin Qingyu matched the tenth-level gatekeeper's Myriad Trees Compete in Glory and defeated him after several exchanges.
• The watching Undyings marveled at Lin Qingyu's apparent ease, and Hongyue King considered securing resources for him.

Lin Qingyu passed the eleventh and twelfth levels of the Cosmic Tongtian Bridge, but the thirteenth-level gatekeeper defeated him in one move. Afterward, Hongyue King said Lin Qingyu would become a Domain Lord outside Chaos City so he could undertake a particular cultivation mission.

• Lin Qingyu used his fivefold Mental Force amplitude to defeat the eleventh-level gatekeeper and advance to the twelfth level.
• Lin Qingyu adapted to the twelfth-level gatekeeper's techniques during their long fight and eventually defeated him.
• Lin Qingyu challenged the thirteenth-level gatekeeper, who used Myriad Phenomena Renew to defeat him in a single move.
• Longyu King, King Tongnan, Green Bamboo King, and Hongyue King discussed Lin Qingyu's future after he passed the twelfth level.
• Hongyue King said Lin Qingyu would become a Domain Lord outside Chaos City and undertake a cultivation mission with the Nine Refinements lineage's support.

Lin Qingyu's rapid rise to the twelfth level of the Tongtian Bridge sparked discussions among Virtual Universe Company leaders about his talent and the Nine Refinements lineage. As they weighed his prospects and the benefits of supporting him, Lin Qingyu arrived at Hongyue King's residence in Chaos City.

• News spread that Lin Qingyu had cleared the twelfth level of the Cosmic Tongtian Bridge.
• Bovas criticized the Nine Refinements lineage and argued that it wasted resources, while a bald Venerable defended its value and Lin Qingyu's potential.
• The Qianwu Country Lord and Venerable Mingu discussed Lin Qingyu's prospects, possible pursuit of an Innate Clone Technique, and the protection his powerful backing could provide.
• The Qianwu Country Lord said he had arranged support for Lin Qingyu, Luo Feng, and their hometown Earth.
• Lin Qingyu arrived at Hongyue King's residence in Chaos City.

Lin Qingyu discussed ways to raise his life Gene Level with Hongyue King and Luo Qingshuang, learning that Blood Luo Crystals could not permanently solve his problem before he became Undying. He chose to buy some for research and asked Hongyue King to find other effective treasures, regardless of their cost.

• Hongyue King told Lin Qingyu that his free resource allowance was worth about 100 million points, while his purchasing privileges matched those of geniuses who had passed the World Lord level Original Tongtian Mountain.
• Lin Qingyu asked about treasures that could raise his Gene Level, and Hongyue King recommended Blood Luo Crystals and explained their cost and benefits.
• After studying the crystals, Lin Qingyu concluded that their temporary effect before he became Undying would not help him strengthen his body enough to support his powerful soul.
• Luo Qingshuang explained that Blood Luo Crystals could be restored into Beast God Blood and described them as a special potion derived from the Cosmic Origin Law.
• Hongyue King said Blood Luo Crystals were unique to humanity and hinted that their origin involved an ancient invincible human expert.
• Lin Qingyu declined to use Beast God Blood for now but requested Blood Luo Crystals for research, and Hongyue King agreed to seek out other cost-effective Gene Level treasures.

Hongyue King advised Lin Qingyu to use his wealth to raise his Gene Level toward the hundredfold limit before becoming Undying, and recommended a fruit to help improve his soul-amplitude cultivation. She told him to strengthen himself in Chaos City before undertaking a cultivation mission in Purgatory Abyss.

• Hongyue King gave Lin Qingyu a list of more than a hundred resources costing nearly twenty trillion Hunyuan units and explained that buying them before he became Undying could raise his Gene Level toward one hundred times.
• Luo Qingshuang and Hongyue King urged Lin Qingyu to take advantage of his potion income and remain at the World Lord stage long enough to build strength cheaply.
• Lin Qingyu asked about improving his Myriad Manifestations Soul, and Hongyue King recommended the repeatedly usable Void Spirit Bright Fruit, which cost him five million points per fruit.
• Hongyue King told Lin Qingyu to order resources usable at Universe Level and cultivate in Chaos City during his remaining thirty years there.
• Lin Qingyu asked whether he should advance to Domain Lord after using the resources, but Hongyue King told him to first reach his strength limit in Chaos City and then undertake the Purgatory Abyss cultivation mission.

Lin Qingyu learned that Purgatory Abyss offered a chance to obtain an innate secret method, possibly the innate Clone Technique, and heard how its Origin Altars worked. After Hongyue King urged him to prepare during his remaining thirty years in Chaos City, Lin Qingyu agreed to enter Purgatory Abyss, where Luo Qingshuang warned him to avoid Soul Control.

• Hongyue King and Luo Qingshuang explained that Purgatory Abyss held a chance to obtain an innate secret method, though the mission had a high death rate and the reward was uncertain.
• Hongyue King assured Lin Qingyu that the Nine Refinements lineage could arrange his resurrection if he died in Human Race territory.
• Luo Qingshuang explained that killing left traces that could be sacrificed at an Origin Altar for an innate secret method, and that each person could use an altar only once before leaving Purgatory Abyss.
• Luo Qingshuang revealed that she had obtained her Rebirth secret method in Purgatory Abyss, and Hongyue King said Lin Qingyu should try to obtain an innate Clone Technique.
• Hongyue King told Lin Qingyu to improve his strength during his remaining thirty years in Chaos City before entering Purgatory Abyss, and Luo Qingshuang warned him not to be subjected to Soul Control.

After receiving the resources he ordered, Lin Qingyu used Void Spirit Bright Fruits to advance his Mental Force Amplitude. He raised it from twenty-fivefold to twenty-sevenfold before turning to his next goal: increasing his Gene Level.

• Three Undying Gods delivered Lin Qingyu’s purchased resources to his residence in Chaos City.
• Lin Qingyu recorded the Void Spirit Bright Fruit’s Information Model and consumed it to cultivate Myriad Manifestations Soul.
• After seven days, Lin Qingyu found that the fruit had helped him advance the secret technique beyond its bottleneck.
• Lin Qingyu consumed nine Void Spirit Bright Fruits, raising his Mental Force Amplitude from twenty-fivefold to twenty-sevenfold.
• Lin Qingyu attributed his progress to his unusual soul and decided to raise his Gene Level next.

Lin Qingyu used Gene Level treasures recommended by Hongyue King, raising his Gene Level from fiftyfold to sixty-threefold at great expense. Concerned that the treasures would lose effectiveness as he advanced, he decided not to wait a hundred thousand years.

• Lin Qingyu used nine attributes of Nine Radiance Jade Marrow, which cost nine hundred million points, but it raised his Gene Level only from fiftyfold to fifty-fivefold.
• Lin Qingyu considered buying all the Gene Level treasures while still at the Universe Level, but the full list would cost twenty trillion Hunyuan Units.
• Lin Qingyu bought the other two Universe Level resources recommended by Hongyue King and used them over the next three days.
• Lin Qingyu found that the three resources had raised his Gene Level from fiftyfold to sixty-threefold and worried that later treasures would have little effect.
• Lin Qingyu decided not to wait a hundred thousand years and resolved to act despite the declining benefits of the treasures.

Lin Qingyu arranged to borrow two hundred trillion Hunyuan units so he could buy Gene Level-raising treasures before advancing to a higher realm. With Hongyue King's help, he secured the full amount from thirty-two powerful experts and planned to spend it all on cultivation resources in Chaos City.

• Lin Qingyu told Hongyue King he wanted to buy every treasure that could raise his Gene Level while he was still at the Universe Level.
• Lin Qingyu proposed using the protected future revenue from his Frost Universe Potion and Clear Spirit Potion formulas to secure loans, and promised to repay the debt within one hundred thousand years.
• Several Venerables discussed whether lending to Lin Qingyu would be worthwhile, weighing the risk against the favor and possible future benefits of helping the Nine Refinements Hall Master's disciple.
• Over three months, Hongyue King helped Lin Qingyu gather two hundred trillion Hunyuan units from thirty Cosmic Venerables and two Undying beings.
• Hongyue King said she had spread the word that Lin Qingyu would spend all the borrowed money on Gene Level-raising resources in Chaos City, and Lin Qingyu thanked her before returning to cultivate.