Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming arrived at Master Craftsman Star to meet the Master Craftsman, while the Original Universe braced for a possible Human Race expansion. The Master Craftsman welcomed Qin Ming after discovering his unexpected expertise in artifact forging and invited him to meet several Cosmic Lords.

• Qin Ming used the Soul Race’s spatial coordinates to reach Yinfa Secret Realm and approached Master Craftsman Star, intending to discuss artifact forging with the Master Craftsman.
• The Master Craftsman sensed Qin Ming’s formidable aura and worried that his visit signaled trouble amid growing tensions and the Human Race’s rising strength.
• Qin Ming told the Master Craftsman that he had researched artifact forging, surprising him and easing his nervousness.
• The Master Craftsman led Qin Ming across Master Craftsman Star, where aspiring Artifact Forgers knelt before him, then brought Qin Ming to a banquet at his cultivation mountain.
• Qin Ming sensed several powerful Special Lifeform Cosmic Lords at the mountaintop and agreed to meet them.

Qin Ming confronted the Master Craftsman's allies on Master Craftsman Star and overwhelmed the Lord of Purple Mist with a soul attack. He then invited the Master Craftsman to join the Hong Alliance, offering an ancient inheritance and the prospect of learning from Zuoshan Ke.

• The Master Craftsman introduced the Lord of Myriad Flowers, the Lord of Purple Mist, and the Lord of Jueji to Qin Ming.
• The Lord of Purple Mist tested Qin Ming with his aura, and Qin Ming nearly destroyed him with a single soul attack.
• The Lord of Jueji erupted in anger, but Qin Ming suppressed him and warned the others before withdrawing his aura.
• After the Master Craftsman apologized on the Lord of Purple Mist's behalf, the group resumed their gathering.
• Qin Ming invited the Master Craftsman to join the Hong Alliance and offered him an ancient inheritance, saying Zuoshan Ke and he were friends.

Qin Ming tried to recruit Master Craftsman and three other Special Lifeform Cosmic Lords into the Hong Alliance by offering access to humanity’s powerful inheritances and a chance to advance their abilities. Master Craftsman became convinced Qin Ming was connected to Zuoshan Ke, while Qin Ming secretly planned to recruit both of them for his own purposes.

• Master Craftsman recalled that Zuoshan Ke had once guided him, rejected him as a disciple, and entrusted him with a black metal plate for Luo Feng.
• Qin Ming offered Master Craftsman access to humanity’s inheritances and the possibility of becoming Zuoshan Ke’s disciple if he joined the Hong Alliance.
• Qin Ming invited Lord of Jueji, Lord of Purple Mist, and Lord of Myriad Flowers to join as well, explaining that the inheritance could perfect their genes and bring the Original Universe’s favor.
• Qin Ming revealed his ten-million-kilometer Divine Body and described how the inherited cultivation system could help create powerful Secret Arts and improve artifact forging.
• Master Craftsman connected Qin Ming’s knowledge of Zuoshan Ke and Luo Feng to their longstanding friendship, while Qin Ming resolved to recruit Master Craftsman and Zuoshan Ke for his own plans.

Qin Ming recruited the Master Craftsman, Lord of Jueji, Lord of Purple Mist, and Lord of Myriad Flowers into the Hong Alliance by promising access to ancient inheritances and a chance to learn from Zuoshan Ke. After they joined, Qin Ming shared a new artifact-forging method with the Master Craftsman, who eagerly took him to experiment beneath Master Craftsman Star.

• Qin Ming explained how the Myriad Souls Banner might absorb the Godking of Jin's corpse and its inhabitants, and how he planned to use Zuoshan Ke's desire for revenge to gain his help.
• Lord of Jueji, Lord of Purple Mist, and Lord of Myriad Flowers agreed to join the Hong Alliance, and the Master Craftsman joined after hearing Qin Ming's offer.
• Qin Ming gave the four Virtual Universe wristbands and notified Lord of Chaos City about their arrival.
• Qin Ming told the Master Craftsman that he had cultivated for over two hundred million years and shared his Secret Pattern Diagram Record and unconventional forging methods.
• The Master Craftsman became excited by Qin Ming's new approach and brought him to the crafting grounds beneath Master Craftsman Star, while the other three contacted Lord of Chaos City in the Virtual Universe.

Qin Ming showed Master Craftsman the Human Race’s Secret Pattern Diagram Record—Flame Chapter and Perfect Secret Manual—Rock Chapter, which Master Craftsman bought and used to complete his genetic transformation. After a century of study and collaboration, Master Craftsman joined the Hong Alliance and prepared to move Master Craftsman Star into Human Territory to pursue forging a pinnacle treasure.

• Qin Ming showed Master Craftsman the black gourd at Master Craftsman Star’s core and explained the two inheritance chapters he could purchase.
• Master Craftsman studied and bought both chapters for 4,000 Treasure Points, while Qin Ming earned tens of thousands of Treasure Points from sales.
• A hundred years later, Master Craftsman had attained a Perfect Divine Body and, after studying the Flame Chapter, bought the Rock Chapter and recognized the flaws in his past Secret Pattern Diagrams.
• Qin Ming and Master Craftsman exchanged knowledge about Secret Pattern Diagrams and artifact forging, improving Qin Ming’s skills and expanding the Summoning Banner’s domain through repeated forging.
• Master Craftsman agreed to announce his joining the Hong Alliance and move Master Craftsman Star into Human Territory, where he planned to forge it into a pinnacle treasure.

Mengyao Ancestor and the other factions reacted to Master Craftsman joining the Hong Alliance, while Qin Ming helped him bring several Artifact Forging Masters into humanity. Luo Feng broke through to become a World Master, and Qin Ming said their plan could begin.

• Mengyao Ancestor learned Master Craftsman had joined the Hong Alliance and warned the Demon Race to recall its Cosmic Lords.
• The Zerg Queen learned that Master Craftsman and three other Cosmic Lords had joined humanity, and ordered the Zerg to prepare for war.
• Master Craftsman brought four more Cosmic Lords into the Hong Alliance, and he, Lord Penggong, and Lord of Dragon Travel began working to upgrade Master Craftsman Star into a pinnacle treasure.
• Luo Feng broke through after more than twenty thousand years of cultivation, drawing down the Golden Fundamental Law and absorbing divine power.
• Qin Ming arrived with the Siwu Wings and told Lord of Darkness and Lord of Chaos City that their plan could begin now that Luo Feng had broken through.

After Luo Feng broke through to Undying, his teachers and Senior Brothers prepared to support his mission to reclaim the Jie Armor from Yan Emperor. Qin Ming revealed that his Myriad Souls Banner could grow into a soul Supreme Treasure and distributed protective branches before Luo Feng set out for the Yan God Secret Realm.

• Luo Feng broke through to Undying, received congratulations from Qin Ming, Lord of Darkness, and Lord of Chaos City, and went to establish his Divine Kingdom.
• Luo Feng met with his teachers and Senior Brothers in the Primal Secret Realm and prepared to confront Yan Emperor over the Jie Armor.
• Qin Ming gave Luo Feng a Myriad Souls Banner branch that provided powerful soul defense, access to the Netherworld God Country, and the ability to collect souls.
• Qin Ming revealed that the Myriad Souls Banner could become a soul Supreme Treasure by killing a Cosmic Overlord, prompting Giant Axe to vow they would secure a kill.
• Qin Ming distributed Myriad Souls Banner branches to his allies as protection and a means of collecting souls and being revived, and Luo Feng set out for the Yan God Secret Realm.

Luo Feng traveled to the Yan God Clan Secret Realm to claim the Jie Armor, while Yan Emperor prepared to resist him and stirred other races against him. As Luo Feng approached, Lord of Chaos City warned that hostile experts might attack, and Luo Feng chose to face them himself.

• Luo Feng used the Emperor Banner and a Palace Treasure to travel toward the Yan God Clan Secret Realm, hoping the Jie Armor would let him join humanity’s coming war.
• The Yan God Clan’s remaining members grew suspicious of Yan Emperor after learning that their abducted clansmen flourished under humanity and that the Secret Realm had stifled their potential.
• Yan Emperor detected Luo Feng approaching, refused to surrender the Jie Armor, and sealed the Secret Realm’s space and Dark Universe coordinates.
• Luo Feng left the Dark Universe and continued toward the Yan God Clan continent at sublight speed.
• Lord of Chaos City warned Luo Feng that Yan Emperor had alerted powerful figures across many races, and Luo Feng decided to deal with any attackers himself.

Luo Feng fought off Northern Frontier Alliance experts and reached Yan Emperor in the Yan God Clan Secret Realm to demand the Jie Armor. When Yan Emperor attacked him, Luo Feng summoned Qin Ming from the Soul Banner for help.

• Luo Feng repeatedly wounded Venerable Kebi and evaded the Northern Frontier Alliance’s forces, while Qin Ming and the other Human Race lords watched from the Netherworld God Country.
• Qin Ming and Lord of Darkness discussed targeting the Northern Frontier Alliance after the Human Race dealt with the Nine Domain Alliance, and the Lord of Chaos City agreed they should focus on the Nine Domain Alliance first.
• Luo Feng broke through the encirclement and entered the Yan God Clan Secret Realm, but Yan Emperor hid from him and left him waiting in a side hall.
• After a year, Yan Emperor appeared and claimed he had been delayed; Luo Feng accused him of drawing alien experts into an attempt to kill him and demanded the Jie Armor.
• Yan Emperor attacked Luo Feng with a War Halberd, and Luo Feng summoned Qin Ming from the Soul Banner and called for his senior brother to save him.

Qin Ming overwhelmed Yan Emperor in the Yan God Clan Secret Realm after Yan Emperor attacked his junior brother, while Yan Emperor desperately sought aid from Zuoshan Ke and the Nine Domain Alliance. When the alliance’s Cosmic Lords arrived, Qin Ming revealed that Human Race and Hong Alliance forces had surrounded the realm, and ordered them to attack.

• Qin Ming used his overwhelming will and halberd skills to batter Yan Emperor, leaving him unable to fight back despite the protection of Yuan Soul and Jie Armor.
• Yan Emperor called for help from Zuoshan Ke and the Nine Domain Alliance, and Juefeng Lord and several other Cosmic Lords arrived in the secret realm.
• Juefeng Lord and the other alliance Cosmic Lords attacked Qin Ming, who vanished amid their bombardment and challenged them over whether they meant to declare war on humanity.
• Qin Ming said Yan Emperor had tried to kill his junior brother and warned that humanity had reinforcements too.
• Lord of Darkness, Lord of Chaos City, other Human Race Cosmic Lords, and Hong Alliance forces appeared around the secret realm as Qin Ming ordered an attack.

Humanity ambushed the Nine Domain Alliance and Qin Ming killed Yan Emperor with a Sixth Order secret art, while Zuoshan Ke watched without intervening. As the Demon Race, Zerg, and Machine Race moved to stop humanity, Giant Axe blocked Mengyao Ancestor and Qin Ming faced the approaching Queen's Palace.

• More than fifty Human Cosmic Lords attacked the Nine Domain Alliance, killing several of its Cosmic Lords and leaving Yan Emperor badly wounded.
• Lord of Chaos City and Lord of Darkness struck down surviving enemies as Qin Ming pressed his assault on Yan Emperor.
• Qin Ming summoned the Mountain Range Giant and killed Yan Emperor with the Myriad Tribulations World-Destruction Axe.
• Zuoshan Ke chose not to save Yan Emperor and wondered about Qin Ming's extraordinary power and the force drawing fallen enemies' Soul Fragments into him.
• Mengyao Ancestor, Queen's Palace, and the Machine Race Father God moved toward the battlefield, while Giant Axe intercepted Mengyao Ancestor.
• Qin Ming turned toward the approaching Queen's Palace as Juefeng Lord and three other Nine Domain Alliance Cosmic Lords remained alive.

Qin Ming’s Mountain Range Giant Avatar held off Queen’s Palace and resisted the Queen’s Soul Attacks, but the battle shifted when Zhenyao Ancestor joined in and Queen tried to rescue the Nine Domain Alliance. Humanity wiped out the alliance before reinforcements arrived, and the chapter ended as the Three-Race Alliance and Northern Frontier Alliance gathered against Qin Ming and the humans.

• Qin Ming used his Black Hole Domain and fused axe techniques to stop Queen’s Palace, while the Queen’s Soul Attacks and Spike Telekinetic Weapon failed to harm him.
• Zhenyao Ancestor arrived and attacked Qin Ming with the Shattered Domain Cone, forcing Qin Ming to fight back with his Battle Axes.
• The Queen redirected Queen’s Palace toward the battlefield, but Qin Ming and more than fifty human Cosmic Lords killed all fifteen Nine Domain Alliance Cosmic Lords before she could save them.
• The Machine Race Father God arrived with more than twenty Machine Race Cosmic Lords and declared that humanity had to be suppressed.
• More than a hundred Cosmic Lords from the Three-Race Alliance gathered, and Galaxy Lord appeared with the Northern Frontier Alliance.

The Machine, Zerg, Demon, and Northern Frontier factions gathered nearly two hundred Cosmic Lords to confront humanity and the Hong Alliance after the Nine Domain Alliance was destroyed. Giant Axe and Qin Ming stood firm with their strengthened allies, and the chapter ended as the Machine Race Father God ordered the attack.

• Qin Ming and Giant Axe assembled more than fifty powerful Human Race and Hong Alliance Cosmic Lords to face the arriving factions.
• The Zerg Queen and Galaxy Lord accused humanity of aggression and challenged its claim to the Nine Domain Alliance's territory.
• Galaxy Lord tried to persuade Master Craftsman, Lord of Jueji, and other recent Hong Alliance members to abandon humanity, but they refused.
• The Machine Race Father God called on Zuoshan Ke to intervene, but Zuoshan Ke declined to take part in humanity's internal war.
• The Machine Race Father God ordered the allied forces to attack, claiming their numbers and four Cosmic Overlords gave them the advantage.

The four-race alliance launched a massive assault on humanity, and Qin Ming and the human Cosmic Lords struggled to withstand the combined attacks of their enemies’ Cosmic Lords and Cosmic Overlords. As Mengyao Ancestor charged toward the human formation, Qin Ming summoned his enormous World Tree Avatar and knocked her back.

• The Machine Race, Zerg, Demon Race, and Northern Frontier Alliance joined forces to attack the human Cosmic Lords with more than two hundred combatants and their armies.
• Giant Axe led humanity’s more than seventy Divine Bodies in a combined attack that clashed with the alliance’s forces in a vast Energy Domain.
• The Machine Race Father God sent his 10,081 Machine Puppets to hold back Giant Axe and attack the human formation while Zhenyao Ancestor, Mengyao Ancestor, and Queen targeted humanity’s leaders.
• Qin Ming and his allies resisted the Cosmic Overlords’ attacks as Mengyao Ancestor and Queen’s Palace threatened to break through their formation.
• Qin Ming summoned his sixty-billion-kilometer World Tree Avatar, whose Tree Realm Descent: Three Thousand Worlds struck Mengyao Ancestor and sent her flying backward.

Qin Ming and humanity’s Cosmic Lords planned to use his World Tree Clone to ambush the Northern Frontier Alliance, while Qin Ming relied on hidden soul defenses and refined Cosmic Lord souls to withstand the enemy’s attacks. The World Tree entered the battlefield and suppressed rival domains, prompting the enemy forces to focus their attacks on Qin Ming.

• Giant Axe and the other Cosmic Lords identified the Northern Frontier Alliance as the best target and planned a surprise attack using Qin Ming’s World Tree Clone and nine hidden Cosmic Lords.
• Qin Ming assured Giant Axe that Soul Attacks would not threaten him, revealing his Soul River Avatar, three peak soul treasures, and thirteen refined Cosmic Lord Main Souls.
• Qin Ming’s World Tree Clone descended onto the battlefield and combined its Space-Time Control with the peak domain treasure Space-Time Domain, suppressing other domain treasures.
• The World Tree swept its branches across the enemy forces and empowered the Hong Alliance’s Cosmic Lords as they launched their attack, focusing on the Northern Frontier Alliance.
• The Queen, Mengyao Ancestor, Zhenyao Ancestor, and the other enemy leaders ordered their forces to unleash Soul Attacks and kill Qin Ming.

Qin Ming endured the Four-Race Alliance’s combined soul attack without harm, then used the World Tree to suppress and entangle enemy forces while humanity launched a planned counterattack. His River of Oblivion Ten Thousand Reincarnations incapacitated a group of Northern Frontier Alliance Cosmic Lords, leaving them exposed to Lord Tian Shi and the others.

• The Four-Race Alliance and Northern Frontier Alliance unleashed a combined soul and virtualized divine power attack against Qin Ming and the World Tree.
• Qin Ming remained unharmed and ordered the Human Race and Hong Alliance to launch their surprise attack.
• The World Tree expanded, suppressed the enemy forces, and entangled many Northern Frontier Alliance Palace Treasures.
• Lord Tian Shi and eight newly advanced human Cosmic Lords attacked a Palace Treasure carrying more than a dozen Northern Frontier Alliance Cosmic Lords.
• Qin Ming’s River of Oblivion Ten Thousand Reincarnations left the enemy Cosmic Lords, including Liulan Star Lord, unable to resist.
• Lord Tian Shi and the others annihilated the exposed Cosmic Lords as the Yan God Halberd swept out.

Qin Ming used the World Tree and Yan God Halberd to devastate the Northern Frontier Alliance forces. The chapter ended with three of Black Lotus Lord’s seventeen Cosmic Lords dead and the rest badly wounded or calling for rescue.

• Qin Ming’s River of Oblivion Ten Thousand Reincarnations distracted Star Lord Lan’s group, and his Yan God Halberd killed Star Lord Lan and the other seventeen Cosmic Lords.
• Qin Ming used the Yan God Halberd to break Galaxy Lord’s attacks and severely wound him before turning toward Black Lotus Lord’s group.
• Lord Tian Shi, Lord Penggong, Ice Peak Master, and other human Cosmic Lords attacked Black Lotus Lord while the World Tree restrained his allies.
• Giant Axe blocked Mengyao Ancestor from rescuing Black Lotus Lord, while Lord of Darkness, Lord Huangjian, and others held Queen’s Palace back.
• Qin Ming unleashed Army Breaker Desolates Slash, killing three of Black Lotus Lord’s seventeen Cosmic Lords and injuring the others.

The Human Race turned the battle against the Four-Race Alliance with the World Tree and Qin Ming’s Myriad Souls Banner, drawing the attention of powerful observers. The Northern Frontier Alliance Leader intervened to save his allies, but Qin Ming’s soul attack killed Black Lotus Lord and the Cosmic Lords behind him.

• Zuoshan Ke predicted that the humans would win, while Xuzhen Demon God and the Northern Frontier Alliance Leader hesitated to join the fight.
• A colossal World Tree appeared, entangled the Four-Race Alliance forces, and killed eighteen Northern Frontier Alliance Cosmic Lords while leaving Galaxy Lord gravely wounded and Black Lotus Lord in mortal danger.
• The Northern Frontier Alliance Leader used Qiqu Star Lake to break through the World Tree’s domain and reach Black Lotus Lord and the other threatened Cosmic Lords.
• Qin Ming refused Lord of Chaos City’s offer of help, unleashed the Myriad Souls Banner’s Soul Domain, and clashed with Qiqu Star Lake.
• Qin Ming used Pojun Power Souls Slash to kill Black Lotus Lord and the Cosmic Lords behind him through soul annihilation, prompting Galaxy Lord to tell the survivors to flee.

The Human Race defeated the Four-Race Alliance, and Qin Ming’s soul attack helped drive the enemy forces into retreat. With the Nine Domain Alliance devastated, the Hong Alliance moved to seize its territory and hunt down its remaining forces, while the Netherworld God Country began devouring Cosmic Lord Divine Kingdoms.

• The Machine Race Father God, Queen, Demon Race, and Northern Frontier Alliance forces retreated after Qin Ming’s soul attack and the World Tree’s defenses halted their counterattack.
• Qin Ming and Giant Axe dismissed the alliance’s threats of revenge, and the Human Race celebrated its victory after killing fifty Cosmic Lords.
• Qin Ming urged the Hong Alliance to collect the spoils, and its Cosmic Lords set out for the Nine Domain Alliance Headquarters.
• Lord of Chaos City ordered the Hong Alliance to attack the Nine Domain Alliance’s remaining forces before they could flee, while Primal Ancestor monitored the Original Universe.
• The World Tree returned to the Netherworld God Country as its Divine Kingdom began devouring the approaching Cosmic Lord Divine Kingdoms.

After defeating the four alliances, Qin Ming’s forces devoured the Nine Domain Alliance’s Divine Kingdoms and swept through its territory for souls and resources. As humanity expanded, the four remaining alliances gathered to recruit unaffiliated powers and draw the Prison Race and Crystal Race into opposing it.

• Qin Ming explained that his Netherworld God Country grew by devouring Divine Kingdoms, then sent Luo Feng to hunt the Nine Domain Alliance’s remaining Cosmic Venerables for their souls.
• Luo Feng used his Jie Armor and Qin Ming’s forces to kill Cosmic Venerables at the Nine Domain Alliance’s headquarters, while Lord of Chaos City gathered souls and treasures.
• Lord of Chaos City ordered Darkness, Ice Peak, and Dragon Walk to plunder the powerful races within the Nine Domain Alliance.
• Humanity’s destruction of the Nine Domain Alliance and crippling of the Northern Frontier Alliance frightened weaker powers, leading many neutral races to lean toward the Four Races Alliance.
• Mengyao Ancestor, Zhenyao Ancestor, the Zerg Queen, the Machine Race’s Father God, and Galaxy Lord met on Blood Fang Star and planned to recruit unaffiliated Cosmic Lords and enlist the Prison Race and Crystal Race.