Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming challenged the Heavenly Bridge, studying his opponents’ techniques as he advanced through its layers. On the Seventh Layer, he learned to imitate World Force with his war halberd and defeated the Blue-Clad Man using Martial Warrior methods.

• Qin Ming defeated the black-clad Martial Warrior on the First Layer after studying his combination of spatial laws.
• Qin Ming cleared the Second Layer against The Controller and the Third Layer against the Illusionist, using the battles to study their methods.
• Qin Ming fought different opponents on the Fifth and Sixth Layers before reaching the Seventh Layer.
• Qin Ming chose a Martial Warrior and battled the Blue-Clad Man, learning to combine the Earth and Void Laws through his war halberd to imitate World Force.
• Qin Ming gained the upper hand and killed the Blue-Clad Man with a halberd strike through his throat.

Qin Ming defeated the Blue-Clad Man on the Ninth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge by overpowering his illusion with the Ninefold Hell, then was instantly killed on the Tenth Layer. Lord of Darkness praised his soul power, taught him through an illusion of the Eighteen Hells, and directed him to study the Dark Saint Clap secret art.

• Qin Ming defeated the Blue-Clad Man on the Eighth Layer by using his Universe World and World Force.
• Qin Ming fought the Blue-Clad Man's illusion on the Ninth Layer and won by opening all Nine Hells together and crushing him in Iron City Hell.
• Qin Ming entered the Tenth Layer, chose a Martial Warrior, and was killed by a single halberd strike.
• Lord of Darkness summoned Qin Ming to Thunder Island and advised him to experience the Eighteen Prisons to make his illusions more realistic.
• Lord of Darkness subjected Qin Ming to the punishments of the Eighteen Hells and explained that an Illusionist needed a strong will.
• Lord of Darkness told Qin Ming to buy and study the Dark Saint Clap secret art.

Qin Ming bought the first three volumes of Darkness Scripture with his Points and checked on the Soul River Avatar gestating in the Myriad Souls Banner. He refined the treasures from Lord of Darkness and his senior brothers, equipping his Human Original Body and Mountain Range Giant Avatar for different styles of combat.

• Qin Ming found Darkness Scripture cost 100 billion Points and bought its first three volumes for 100,000 Points, planning to earn more through challenges and missions.
• Qin Ming saw that his Second Avatar, the Soul River Avatar, would take about thirty years to gestate and wondered whether his Myriad Souls Banner Clones would merge when he became a True God.
• Qin Ming refined Lord of Darkness's Liekong Hall, a flying palace treasure that could protect him from attacks and summon his teacher and senior brothers in an emergency.
• Qin Ming refined the Thousand Illusion Mirage Pearl and found that it protected his soul but revolved around the Myriad Souls Banner rather than dominating it.
• Qin Ming refined the Flowing Cloud Wings for his Human Original Body, then equipped the Mountain Range Giant Avatar with the Panshi Armor and Blood Rage Battle Axes.

Qin Ming studied the Darkness Scripture and, aided by the Myriad Souls Banner, began researching soul strength to establish a measurable path toward a Soul Great Dao. After a year of intense study, he remained absorbed in the work, prompting the Lord of Darkness to wonder what had happened to him.

• Qin Ming quickly mastered the first two volumes of Darkness Scripture and made progress in the third, strengthening his soul and deepening his understanding of Space Law.
• Qin Ming decided to divide soul strength into 10,081 levels and entered the Myriad Souls Banner to investigate the essence of souls.
• Qin Ming compared monster souls and found that their structures differed even though they shared basic Soul Particles, then studied the souls of a Golden Horned Beast and Queen Irina.
• Qin Ming observed that Queen Irina's 10,000 Soul Origins were connected in a special structure that enabled her to multitask and control many Zerg Warriors.
• Qin Ming spent a year researching the Soul Path without logging into the Virtual Universe or continuing his Chaos Stele studies, and the Lord of Darkness grew puzzled by his behavior.

Qin Ming sought Lord of Darkness's guidance after spending a year trying to classify souls into Life Levels, and learned that he had mistaken a vast, established field for a problem he could solve alone. He left with a more focused plan to study human souls alongside the body, pursue soul research after strengthening himself, and pass the twelfth level of the Heavenly Bridge before leaving Chaos City.

• Qin Ming told Lord of Darkness that his year of studying soul structures and Soul Particles had left him confused.
• Lord of Darkness pointed out that Qin Ming's Soul River Avatar was a pure soul lifeform with its own way to raise its Life Level.
• Lord of Darkness explained how souls develop alongside bodies in flesh-type lifeforms and described ways to strengthen souls through treasures, Chaos True Spirits, potions, and secret arts.
• Qin Ming resolved to focus on human souls and his own strength while considering the Soul River Avatar and inherited memories as future avenues of study.
• Lord of Darkness instructed Qin Ming to comprehend laws and pass the twelfth level of the Heavenly Bridge before leaving Chaos City, and Qin Ming agreed.

Qin Ming broke through to Domain Lord, hunted Chaos Beasts to absorb their True Spirits, and resumed studying the Darkness Chaos Stele and its secret arts. After passing the Tenth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge during thirty years of cultivation, he prepared to leave Chaos City.

• Qin Ming broke through to Domain Lord Level 1, expanding his Inner World to one hundred million kilometers and forming a singularity that began merging with the Mountain Range Giant's Origin Core.
• Qin Ming met Luo Feng at the city gates, learned that he had returned from hunting Chaos Beasts, and went outside the city to hunt alone.
• Qin Ming killed tens of thousands of Chaos Beasts and absorbed their Chaos True Spirits, which improved his affinity with the Space Law and Earth Law until he reached their limit.
• Qin Ming returned to Chaos City, studied the Darkness Chaos Stele and the Darkness Scripture's space and soul secret arts, and passed the Tenth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Luo Feng passed the Fourth Layer and Bolan passed the Third Layer of the Heavenly Bridge as Qin Ming's thirty years in Chaos City came to an end.

After thirty years of cultivation in Chaos City, Qin Ming mastered all 108 spatial essences and prepared to leave by challenging the Heavenly Bridge again. He passed the Eleventh Layer with ease and set his sights on the Twelfth, a feat no one had achieved while still in Chaos City.

• Qin Ming completed his comprehension of the third diagram of the Darkness Chaos Stele after thirty years of cultivation, aided by his Mountain Range Giant Avatar, powerful soul, and Lord of Darkness's guidance.
• Qin Ming returned to the Heavenly Bridge plane to challenge the bridge before leaving Chaos City, and Guardian Bafen notified those following his progress.
• Luo Feng, Bolan, Rong Jun, Qian Shui, and other members of Qin Ming's Genius Battle batch gathered to watch his challenge.
• Qin Ming passed the Eleventh Layer, prompting True Yan King, Long Yu King, and King Tong Nan to discuss whether he could pass the Twelfth Layer and the Cosmic Level Primal Heavenly Mountain.

Qin Ming crushed the Twelfth Layer opponent and continued to challenge the Thirteenth Layer, astonishing the geniuses and experts watching him. He faced a much harder trial against the Flame Armor Man, who wielded the final stage of the God-Suppressing Weapon.

• Qin Ming chose The Controller and defeated the Yellow-robed Man on the Twelfth Layer with his Floating Tower.
• Qin Ming advanced toward the Thirteenth Layer as other geniuses, including Bolan, and the watching Undying gods reacted to his record-breaking progress.
• Lord of Chaos City regretted that Qin Ming had become Lord of Darkness's disciple, while Lord of Darkness defended his claim that he was best suited to teach Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming chose The Controller for the Thirteenth Layer and considered the challenge a chance to learn the ninth level of the God-Suppressing Weapon.
• The Flame Armor Man appeared with the Universe Suppressing Tower and announced that he would use Universe Secures Heaven and Earth before the battle began.

Qin Ming defeated Flame Armor Man on the Thirteenth Layer of Heavenly Bridge but was instantly defeated on the Fourteenth, shocking humanity’s experts with his achievement. He then asked Lord of Darkness to leave Chaos City for combat training, and his teacher gave him new scriptures and a stronger soul amplification art before sending him onward.

• Qin Ming used his 32-fold soul amplification to overpower Flame Armor Man’s ninth-layer God-Suppressing Weapon, then killed him when he charged into close combat.
• Qin Ming reached the Fourteenth Layer of Heavenly Bridge, where Flame Armor Man defeated him in a single collision, ending his attempt at the Thirteenth Layer.
• The watching Undying experts and Virtual Universe Company’s upper echelons were stunned that Qin Ming had passed the Thirteenth Layer after only thirty years of cultivation.
• Qin Ming appeared before Lord of Darkness and asked to leave Chaos City to temper himself through actual combat, accepting the danger of foreign-race assassins.
• Lord of Darkness gave Qin Ming Volumes Four through Six of the Darkness Scripture, the Dark Soul amplification art, and materials for cultivating up to forty-eightfold amplification.

Qin Ming, Luo Feng, and Bolan left Chaos City for the Primal Secret Realm, where Nine Swords Venerable showed them the realm and delivered them to their territories. Qin Ming settled into his estate under the protection of Kuide, a powerful hidden Soul Master, and planned to strengthen himself before taking on training missions.

• After thirty years in Chaos City, Qin Ming, Luo Feng, and Bolan remained behind while the other geniuses departed for their Secret Realms.
• Qin Ming discussed future missions with Luo Feng and Bolan, considering the Blood Luo Crystals and other opportunities while deciding to wait for his Soul River Avatar to be born.
• Nine Swords Venerable teleported Qin Ming, Luo Feng, and Bolan to the Primal Secret Realm and explained its origins and cultivation environment.
• Nine Swords Venerable assigned Qin Ming Continent 114 and introduced him to the Undying commander Kuide, who was secretly a peak King-level Soul Master protecting him on behalf of Darkness Teacher.
• Qin Ming toured his new estate, entered the Virtual Universe, and planned to use a nutrient pod and resources to strengthen himself before accepting training missions.

Qin Ming explored the Primordial Zone’s resources, bought combat and research Secret Arts, and prepared to strengthen himself and the Mountain Range Giant before entering training missions. The chapter ended with him sensing that his Second Avatar was nearly conceived.

• Qin Ming reviewed the Life, Study, and Cultivation options, applied for a Nutrient Pod, and planned to seek a close-combat instructor and test himself in the Illusion Sea and Undying Altar.
• Qin Ming bought the Fourth Layer of Black Hole Evolution to improve the Mountain Range Giant, whose growth had consumed vast resources and made it powerful enough to threaten Peak Realm Lords.
• Qin Ming purchased Bloodline Record and Soul Forging to study bloodlines and souls, then bought Life Puppet to create and modify powerful flesh followers.
• Qin Ming sensed that his Second Avatar was about to finish being conceived.

Qin Ming’s Soul River Avatar emerged with a Soul Crystal Core, giving him a second immense Inner World and powerful soul-based abilities. He discovered that the avatar could grow by absorbing refined Soul Origin, but reaching its potential would require enormous quantities of souls, leaving him to accept slaughter while holding to his own limits.

• The Soul River hatched from its blood-red egg, revealing a Soul Crystal Core and forming a blood-haired version of Qin Ming.
• Qin Ming tested the Soul River’s transformations and divided it into multiple bodies to study different origin laws, then chose to focus on spatial comprehension for now.
• Qin Ming learned the Soul River’s innate Soul Control ability, which let him manipulate and inspect souls, expose weaknesses in soul defenses, and potentially enslave others.
• Qin Ming discovered that the Soul River could devour Soul Origin to grow, and the Myriad Souls Banner supplied refined Soul Origin that the avatar absorbed immediately.
• Qin Ming realized that growing the Soul River to its full potential would require immense amounts of Soul Origin and likely great slaughter, but resolved to avoid indiscriminate killing and keep his own bottom line.

Qin Ming cleared the Cosmic Level Primal Heavenly Mountain and chose his first Dangerous Level training mission, Visca Star. After reviewing its dangers and opportunities, he planned to hunt its Beasts before heading to Blood Luo World.

• Qin Ming decided to postpone Illusion Island, then flew to Primal Heavenly Mountain to claim its Points reward.
• Qin Ming killed the three gatekeepers at the mountain’s foot, cleared the halfway checkpoint, and defeated the summit gatekeepers to pass.
• Qin Ming, whose Human Original Body had reached Universe Level Nine, accepted a Dangerous Level training mission despite the warning about its risks.
• Qin Ming reviewed the available missions and learned that Visca Star was a vast world ruled by powerful Beasts, with hidden opportunities and a risk of being hunted if discovered.
• Qin Ming decided to hunt Beasts on Visca Star first, then go to Blood Luo World.

Qin Ming prepared for the Visca Star training mission, raising his Human Original Body to Universe Level Nine and gathering supplies to hunt Beasts while concealing his identity. After departing with a Virtual Universe Company escort, he continued toward the enormous Visca Star aboard his stealth-equipped Machine Race spaceship.

• Qin Ming accepted the Visca Star mission to hunt 100 types of Beasts or obtain the Dead Soul Jade, and prepared resources and methods to conceal his identity among the Beasts.
• After spending more than three months in a nutrient pod, Qin Ming reached Universe Level Nine in both body and spiritual force.
• Kuide gave Qin Ming a World Ring containing the supplies he had bought, including metal ores, demonic beast corpses, and specialized instruments.
• Qin Ming boarded the Virtual Universe Company's spaceship and traveled toward Visca Star while his Soul River Avatar and its Soul Avatars conducted research inside the Myriad Souls Banner.
• At the edge of the Secret Realm, Qin Ming transferred to his stealth-equipped Machine Race spaceship and flew toward the vast Visca Star.

Qin Ming entered Visca Star, learned about its Demon Race territories by searching a Blood Soul Tiger’s soul, and traveled in disguise to the Blood Soul Tiger Clan’s stronghold. He arrived at Blood Soul City intent on hunting the clan and gathering powerful souls.

• Qin Ming descended into Visca Star, assessed its harsh environment, and killed a Domain Lord Level 1 Blood Soul Tiger with a soul attack.
• Qin Ming searched the Blood Soul Tiger’s memories and learned about Visca Star’s Demon Race territories, the Royal Court, and the Blood Soul Tiger Clan’s Undying members.
• Qin Ming turned the Blood Soul Tiger into a Flesh Puppet, hid inside a World Ring, and controlled it toward the clan’s Holy Land.
• After a day of travel, Qin Ming reached Blood Soul City, a settlement beneath the Blood Soul Tiger Clan’s Holy Mountain.
• Qin Ming controlled the puppet toward the Holy Mountain and prepared to hunt the Blood Soul Tiger Clan.

Qin Ming infiltrated the Blood Soul Tiger Clan’s Holy Mountain, learned that it held a Soul Crystal Vein and that some elders possessed Dead Soul Jade, then began secretly killing the elders. After his attacks exposed him, he unleashed Irina and the Myriad Souls Banner against the clan.

• Qin Ming entered Blood Soul City in a Blood Soul Tiger puppet and flew to the Holy Mountain, where he planned to investigate its powerful residents.
• Qin Ming used Soul Control and the Eighteen Hells illusion to subdue Elder Demon Eye, who revealed that the Undying gods were at the Royal Court and that the Blood Soul Tiger Clan had received Dead Soul Jade.
• Elder Demon Eye told Qin Ming that a Soul Crystal Vein ran beneath the Holy Mountain, and Qin Ming decided to seize it along with the clan’s treasures.
• Qin Ming controlled Elder Demon Eye and secretly killed seventy-three Realm Lord-level Blood Soul Tigers in less than half a day.
• A Peak Realm Lord-level elder resisted Qin Ming’s Soul Attack, exposing his scheme, so Qin Ming summoned Irina and activated the Myriad Souls Banner’s Soul Domain across the mountain peak.

Qin Ming and Irina annihilated the Blood Soul Tiger Clan’s Holy Mountain and Blood Soul City, taking its treasures and Soul Crystal Vein before escaping Visca Star. While examining a Dead Soul Jade aboard his spaceship, Qin Ming discovered that it contained soul power and a savage will, and began to suspect what it truly was.

• Irina used the Myriad Souls Banner’s Soul Domain to destroy the Blood Soul Tiger elders while Qin Ming kept his Zerg army hidden.
• Qin Ming used the Mountain Range Giant’s Earth King talent to extract the Soul Crystal Vein and collapse the Holy Mountain as Realm Lord Flesh Puppets massacred Blood Soul City.
• Qin Ming Devoured the city’s inhabitants and corpses, collected the spoils, and escaped aboard the Machine Race Spaceship.
• A Blood Soul Clan Undying arrived too late, found the sacred ground gone, and swore to hunt down the attacker.
• Qin Ming tested a Dead Soul Jade and endured its violent soul power and will, then suspected its true nature.

Qin Ming discovered that Dead Soul Jade could be refined into pure Soul Essence, which strengthened his soul and raised the Soul River’s gene level, then began slaughtering Demon Race Royal Clans to gather more. After he destroyed the Dream Demon Spider clan, the Demon Race Royal Court organized a hunt for the unknown killer and suspected a human genius had entered Visca Star.

• Qin Ming used the Myriad Souls Banner to refine Dead Soul Jade, purifying its chaotic wills into Soul Essence that strengthened his soul and psychic power.
• Qin Ming fed Soul Essence to the Mountain Range Giant and Soul River, discovering that the Soul River’s gene level increased and that pure Soul Origin could also enlarge it.
• Qin Ming set out to harvest more Dead Soul Jade, resolved to target the Demon Race Royal Court, and headed for the Dream Demon Spider territory.
• Qin Ming destroyed the Dream Demon Spider Holy Land and wiped out the clan using his Mountain Range Giant.
• The Demon Race Undying gathered at the Royal Court, issued a bounty, and returned to guard their clans while suspecting that a human genius was behind the massacres.

After Flame Venerable reported Qin Ming’s mass slaughter on Visca Star, Lord of Chaos City learned that Qin Ming was gathering souls for his Second Avatar and allowed him to continue within the rules. Qin Ming then attempted to ambush an Undying deity in the Zi Qian Wan Snake clan’s Snake Valley, but the deity detected his puppet and confronted him.

• Flame Venerable reported that Qin Ming had slaughtered Demon clans, raided mineral veins, and gathered vast resources across Visca Star.
• Lord of Chaos City consulted Lord of Darkness, who explained that Qin Ming’s Second Avatar needed souls, and then told Flame Venerable that anything within the rules was permitted.
• Qin Ming considered attacking the Undying deity at the Zi Qian Wan Snake clan’s Snake Valley, hoping the battle would help the Myriad Souls Banner advance.
• The Undying deity detected Qin Ming’s Realm Lord-level Flesh Puppet and froze it, exposing the infiltration.
• Qin Ming ordered Irina to attack the Undying deity.

Irina used the Myriad Souls Banner to kill the Demon Race Undying Zi Qian Wan Snake and wipe out Snake Valley before reinforcements arrived. As Qin Ming escaped aboard the Machine Race Spaceship, he discovered that the Undying’s soul was reforming inside the banner, potentially giving it another Main Soul.

• Irina shattered Zi Qian Wan Snake’s frozen domain and struck him with a Soul Attack empowered by the Myriad Souls Banner and the souls Qin Ming had collected.
• Irina’s Soul Annihilation broke through Zi Qian Wan Snake’s soul defenses and killed him, and the Myriad Souls Banner swallowed his Soul Fragments.
• Irina swept through Snake Valley, killing its inhabitants, then escaped in the waiting Machine Race Spaceship.
• The Demon Race Undyings arrived too late, found Snake Valley silent, and learned from survivors that a Zerg Mother Queen had attacked.
• Qin Ming celebrated Irina’s victory and found that Zi Qian Wan Snake’s Soul Fragments were condensing into an illusory snake inside the Myriad Souls Banner.