Chapter Summaries

Yang Yu entered the Virtual Universe’s Gambling Arena and defeated Universe Level opponents across tiers, earning over 500 trillion Ganwu Dollars. After half a month in the Nutrient Pod, he reached Star Level 5 and began testing the soul-splitting step of the Soul-Splitting Possession Secret Technique on a thousand Star Level 9 Fierce Beasts.

• Yang Yu challenged Universe Level 1 Qinglin and killed him with a lightning-fast Thunder Slash, astonishing the spectators.
• Yang Yu won more than ten further gambling battles against Universe Level fighters, earning over 500 trillion Ganwu Dollars before leaving the arena.
• Yang Yu spent half a month studying the Soul-Splitting Possession Secret Technique while his Nutrient Pod raised him to Star Level 5.
• Yang Yu checked in with Grandfather and Wang Lin in the Virtual Universe and learned that Earth remained peaceful.
• Yang Yu flew to test his progress on the thousand Star Level 9 Fierce Beasts he had ordered.

Yang Yu tested his newly comprehended Soul-Splitting Slash by killing a thousand Zhashi Race Fierce Beasts, then spent the following month mastering the secret technique and refining the attack. After reaching Star Level 9, he checked on his Subordinates and resumed comprehending the Lightning Law.

• Yang Yu used the Soul-Splitting Slash to kill a thousand Zhashi Race Fierce Beasts in under a minute, confirming the power and efficiency of his new soul attack.
• Yang Yu spent the next half month refining the Soul-Splitting Slash, then another half month cultivating in a Nutrient Pod until he reached Star Level 9 and mastered the Soul-Splitting Possession Secret Technique.
• Yang Yu discovered that his Spiritual Power could reach nearly fifty thousand kilometers, rivaling that of a Universe Level 2 Spirit Reader, and decided to rest before returning to law comprehension.
• Yang Yu watched Fengling Yin defeat Fengling Yue in a spar and praised both sisters for reaching Peak Star Level 9, especially Fengling Yin for comprehending a domain.
• Yang Yu encouraged his Subordinates, relaxed with his companions through the Virtual Universe, then returned to the Cultivation Chamber to study a mystery opposite to the essence of speed in the Lightning Law.

Yang Yu comprehended the Mystery of Slowness, greatly increasing his speed, then led his companions to Qiu Long Planet to register as Universe Adventurers and sign up for the Apprentice Mercenary Assessment. Their assessment was assigned to Shilan World on Shilan Planet, and Yang Yu left regretting that he would not be able to explore Thunder World.

• Yang Yu combined the Mystery of Speed and the Mystery of Slowness, then tested their power by crossing the Cangming Sea at more than ten times his previous speed.
• Yang Yu summoned Yan Hun, the Fengling Yue Sisters, and ten Star Level 9 Slaves and announced they would travel to Qiu Long Planet for the assessment.
• Yang Yu and his companions arrived on Qiu Long Planet and registered as Universe Adventurers at the Universe Mercenary Alliance station.
• Fengling Yue registered all thirteen members for the Apprentice Mercenary Assessment and learned it would be held in Shilan World on Shilan Planet in half a month.
• Yang Yu regretted missing the chance to explore Thunder World on Canglan Planet, but decided his small group would have been poorly positioned amid the competition there.

Yang Yu prepared for the Apprentice Mercenary Assessment, traveled to Shilan Planet, and entered the Shilan World with his twelve companions. The group landed hard inside the World Lord World, where they would begin the dangerous mission.

• Yang Yu planned to search Shilan World for rare lifeforms compatible with time or space and ordered suppliers to find one.
• Yang Yu bought assessment supplies and fifty Lanke Fruits, then led his Subordinates toward Shilan Planet.
• Yang Yu and his companions reviewed the mission requirements: collect three Shilan Crystals and three Storm Beast crystal cores in the vast, dangerous World Lord World.
• Yang Yu trained during the journey and arrived at Shilan Planet, where he and his group scouted Xingmeng Lake and waited for the assessment to begin.
• Yang Yu, Jarvis, Fengling Yue, and the others confirmed their participation and entered Shilan World while holding hands.
• Yang Yu and his twelve companions regained consciousness while falling, but their attempts to control gravity came too late and they crashed onto the ground.

Yang Yu and his Subordinates traveled across Shilan World toward a Core Region, taking precautions against its unpredictable dangers. A Time Storm suddenly knocked Doris and Bliss unconscious, but the group rescued them and continued with a plan to keep traveling in separated teams.

• Yang Yu led his group across the grassland toward a nearby Core Region, warning them about Shilan World's dangers and using Babata's detector to scan their surroundings.
• Yang Yu divided the thirteen travelers into teams spaced apart so a Time Storm could not incapacitate everyone at once.
• A newly formed Time Storm struck Doris and Bliss, rendering them unconscious and drawing them toward its center.
• Jarvis used a rope to pull Doris and Bliss from the storm, and Yang Yu helped carry them to safety as the group escaped.
• Doris and Bliss described how the storm's erratic time flow overwhelmed their consciousness, and Yang Yu ordered the teams to maintain their spacing and rescue anyone caught in a storm.

Yang Yu’s group crossed the Flower Language Plain toward the Dark Forest, but a juvenile Wildebeest Beast drew a massive herd into pursuit. As the others began to falter in the encirclement, Yang Yu unleashed his Thunder Domain to slow and attack the beasts.

• Yang Yu warned his group about the dangers of traveling at night and assigned them watches while he cultivated the Mystery of Slowness.
• After resting overnight, Yang Yu led the group toward the Dark Forest and estimated that reaching Shilan World’s Core Region would take more than half a year by their route.
• A juvenile Wildebeest Beast spotted the group and drew more than ten thousand beasts into a charge, forcing Yang Yu and his companions to flee.
• Yang Yu fell behind to kill the fastest pursuers with the Thunder Blade Diagram, then followed Babata’s directions toward Cui Ling Lake as more herds converged.
• Third Imperial Princess Vera and her guard Naya watched from a distant mountain while Yang Yu’s group fought the surrounding Wildebeest Beasts.
• When his companions began to struggle, Yang Yu unleashed his Thunder Domain Ninth Stage, slowing the beasts within five hundred meters and striking them with lightning.

Yang Yu used his Thunder Domain to save his team from a Wildebeest Beast herd, then continued toward the Dark Forest. When Xien and the Hundred Tiger Tower students tried to extort them, Yang Yu’s group killed all twenty attackers and collected their equipment.

• Yang Yu unleashed the Nine-Layer Thunder Domain, slowing and paralyzing the Wildebeest Beasts while his companions attacked.
• Yang Yu used the domain’s speed technique to carry his team away from the herd, then rested at Cui Ling Lake and recovered his Origin Force.
• Jarvis spotted twenty Hundred Tiger Tower students approaching, and Yang Yu told his team to ignore them unless they provoked an attack.
• Xien demanded a hiring fee from Yang Yu, who refused and warned that the Flower Language Plain would become their burial ground.
• Yang Yu and his companions attacked and killed Xien, Garde, Deruzan, and the other Hundred Tiger Tower students.
• Yang Yu told his team to keep the spoils, and Fengling Yue reported that they had finished searching the battlefield.

A violent storm swept Yang Yu into a previously unknown World within a World, separating him from his companions, who remained safe in the Dark Forest. With Babata’s help, Yang Yu began exploring the smaller world and headed toward its Core Region in search of treasure and Universe Crystals.

• Yang Yu’s group entered the Dark Forest, where a sudden violent storm swept Yang Yu away after he grabbed the Fengling Yue Sisters with Moyun Vine.
• Yang Yu awoke alone in an unfamiliar world and, with Babata’s help, discovered that it was a World within a World inside Shilan World.
• Yang Yu contacted Fengling Yue and learned that she and the other eleven companions were safe in the Dark Forest, then told them to continue toward the Core Region without him.
• Babata detected that the inner world was a small continent with an exit at its eastern edge, and Yang Yu began flying across it while killing the Fierce Beasts in his path.
• Babata urged Yang Yu to reach the Core Region, explaining that the undiscovered world could contain a vast trove of Universe Crystals.

Yang Yu discovered an Underground Palace beneath the core plain of the Shilan World within a World and met the memory phantom of the Shilan World Lord. After learning about the Wind-Thunder-Time Secret Technique and the inheritance left for a qualified successor, Yang Yu headed toward the palace’s Treasure Vault.

• Yang Yu and Babata reached the core plain, where Babata’s robots mined Universe Crystals while Yang Yu searched the area.
• Yang Yu found an Underground Palace more than eight hundred meters underground, and he and Babata entered after their robots confirmed it was safe.
• The Shilan World Lord’s memory phantom appeared and explained that Yang Yu had passed the Time Storm selection and qualified to receive his inheritance.
• The Shilan World Lord described his failed pursuit of the Wind-Thunder-Time Secret Technique and urged Yang Yu to preserve it if he could not master it.
• After the phantom vanished, Babata and Yang Yu discussed the inheritance, and Yang Yu went deeper into the palace toward the Treasure Vault.

Yang Yu discovered a World Ring and a treasury filled with rare fruits, an E9 Grade Laser Gun, and valuable fifth-tier weapons. He found three Controller Divine Weapons and began nurturing the Thunder God Weapon, while Babata pointed him toward the next part of the treasury.

• Yang Yu opened the treasury and refined a World Ring large enough to store living things.
• Yang Yu and Babata found rare fruits, an E9 Grade Laser Gun, and Smart Brains holding the Shilan World Lord's secret techniques.
• Babata identified the shelves of fifth-tier weapons, and Yang Yu collected the weapons that might suit him and his future Clones.
• Yang Yu found the Thunder God Weapon, and Babata explained its nine forms and the abilities required to wield them.
• Yang Yu discovered the Light God Weapon and Wind God Weapon, stored all three divine weapons, and began nurturing the Thunder God Weapon with his Spiritual Mark.
• Yang Yu finished searching the weapons, and Babata moved to the first shelf to examine the next part of the treasury.

Yang Yu and Babata discovered and captured a newly hatched, time-affiliated Qilin-like creature hidden in the Shilan World. Yang Yu used his Soul-Splitting Possession Secret Technique to attack its soul, and his soul phantom turned gentle when it touched the creature’s true Soul Body.

• Yang Yu retrieved the Shilan World Lord’s Light-and-Time secret technique and listened as Babata warned him to strengthen his Soul Defense.
• Yang Yu realized the Shilan World Lord’s mysterious creature was missing, so he and Babata searched the World within a World with a Machine Race spaceship.
• Babata detected a Star Level 6 creature with strong Time Law fluctuations and led the spaceship to its hiding place beneath a lake.
• Yang Yu and Babata captured the Qilin-like creature in an E9 Grade Energy Net and identified its unusual time-related abilities.
• Yang Yu sent a Soul Sub-body into the creature, whose Soul Spike failed to stop him; his soul phantom reached its true Soul Body and became gentle.

Yang Yu successfully possessed the infant Special Life Zhuliuyin, gaining its inherited memories and a powerful path to mastering the Time Law. While Babata’s robots mined Universe Crystals, Yang Yu comprehended the Lightning Law’s mysteries of speed and slowness, crossed into the Time Law, and discovered the Zhuliuyin Clone’s formidable time-based abilities.

• Yang Yu’s Soul Sub-body possessed the Exotic Beast, and he concealed his success from Babata while claiming he had only knocked it unconscious.
• Yang Yu learned that the Exotic Beast was Zhuliuyin, an infant Special Life with a gene multiplier of 1,081 and a deep affinity for the Time Law.
• Yang Yu stored Zhuliuyin in his World Ring and returned with Babata to the Core Region, where Babata continued mining Universe Crystals as Yang Yu cultivated.
• Yang Yu fully comprehended the Lightning Law’s mysteries of slowness and speed, then crossed the threshold into the Time Law.
• Yang Yu’s Zhuliuyin Clone finished absorbing its inherited memories, revealing its Time Acceleration, Time Stasis, and Time Deceleration abilities and greatly improving Yang Yu’s Time Law comprehension.

Yang Yu strengthened his Zhuliuyin Clone by building up its soul defenses and hunting Star Level 9 Fierce Beasts to feed the Soul Devour Secret Technique. After two days, the clone’s soul had grown nearly tenfold and Yang Yu’s cultivation efficiency had risen sharply, though the clone had not yet reached its limit.

• Yang Yu strengthened the Zhuliuyin Clone’s Soul Defense with the Thunder Soul-Suppressing Tower and planted the Thunder Soul Refining Technique in its Consciousness Sea.
• Yang Yu merged the Zhuliuyin Clone into his body, tested its speed and his Time Law comprehension, then flew out to hunt Fierce Beasts.
• Yang Yu killed a Demon Ox herd and absorbed their True Spirits, discovering that the Zhuliuyin Clone needed far more soul energy than his human body.
• Yang Yu slaughtered thousands of Star Level 9 Crocodile Fierce Beasts in a swamp, then spent two days hunting more than a hundred thousand Fierce Beasts across the World within a World.
• Yang Yu improved his Thunder techniques and raised the Zhuliuyin Clone’s soul nearly tenfold, then decided to finish strengthening it before leaving with Babata.

Yang Yu hunted powerful Fierce Beasts in the World within a World, strengthening his Zhuliuyin Clone’s soul and improving his Law comprehension. After returning to the Shilan World and cultivating, he discovered a new Lightning Law Essence that specialized in both material and soul attacks.

• Yang Yu killed a Universe Level 1 giant scorpion and a Universe Level 2 Tuna Beast, absorbing their True Spirits into his Zhuliuyin Clone.
• Yang Yu hunted thousands of Star Level 9 Tuna Beasts, bringing the clone’s soul to its limit and greatly improving its comprehension.
• Yang Yu returned to the central region, where Babata had mined over fifty million cubic meters of Universe Crystals and gave Yang Yu half.
• Yang Yu left the World within a World, found a cave near the Sunset Mountain Range, and began cultivating while waiting for Fengling Yue and the others.
• Yang Yu comprehended a new Lightning Law Essence, which he named Judgment Profundity, and discovered that it enabled both material and soul attacks.

Yang Yu learned that Hundred Tiger Tower trainees had killed four members of his team, then led the survivors onward through the Sunset Mountain Range. After discovering the Judgment Profundity, he used his new Soul Judgment attack to kill a Hundred Tiger Tower team and continued refining it while traveling toward the Core Region.

• Fengling Yue told Yang Yu that thirty Hundred Tiger Tower trainees had ambushed the team and killed Parker and three others before Fengling Yin helped the survivors defeat them.
• Yang Yu ordered the remaining eight to kill Hundred Tiger Tower trainees without mercy and led them through the mountain range, avoiding other forces.
• During the night, Yang Yu found the Judgment Profundity beneath the Essence of Judgment and began comprehending it.
• Yang Yu spotted ten Hundred Tiger Tower trainees, surrounded them with his Thunder Domain, and helped Jarvis and the others kill them; he then used Soul Judgment to kill Captain Awei.
• Yang Yu's team fought through Fierce Beasts and reached their campsite, where Yang Yu cultivated through the night and corrected flaws in Soul Judgment.

Yang Yu rescued Fengling Yue and Fengling Yin from a Time Storm, then led his team toward the Pale Highlands and chose to fight through a migrating Giant Devouring Beast herd. After killing its leader and crossing the valley, he drew the wrath of a large Iron-Armored Eagle flock.

• Yang Yu’s Zhuliuyin Clone took control when a Time Storm knocked out his original body, and he used the Moyun Vine to pull Fengling Yue and Fengling Yin to safety.
• After the sisters recovered, Yang Yu confirmed the Time Storm had not dragged them into the World within a World and continued toward the Pale Highlands with his team.
• Yang Yu found a herd of over a hundred thousand Giant Devouring Beasts blocking the valley and ordered his team to fight through rather than take a lengthy detour.
• Yang Yu split the Giant Devouring Beast leader apart and shredded it with the Thunder Blade Diagram, while Jarvis, Fengling Yue, and the others battled their way across the herd.
• Yang Yu killed an attacking Iron-Armored Eagle, provoking a flock of more than seventy eagles that swooped toward him.

Yang Yu slaughtered the Iron-Armored Eagle Flock, including its Universe Level 1 leader, while the Giant Devouring Beasts feasted on the fallen eagles and Fengling Yue's group crossed the valley. The group entered the Pale Highlands and, after enduring the brutal winds and ice blades of Mountain Wind Pass, reached the highlands' interior.

• Yang Yu killed more than three hundred Iron-Armored Eagles, drawing the entire flock of over ten thousand birds toward him.
• Yang Yu defeated the Iron-Armored Eagle Leader with Soul-Splitting Slash while the Giant Devouring Beasts ate the fallen eagles and fought over the food.
• Fengling Yue and the others crossed the valley as Yang Yu finished off the flock, then continued onward while the Third Imperial Princess and her guards chose to detour.
• Doris pointed out the Pale Highlands, and Yang Yu led the group through the frigid high-altitude terrain toward Mountain Wind Pass.
• Yang Yu protected Fengling Yue and the others from the high winds and incoming ice blades as they slowly crossed the pass and reached the interior of the Pale Highlands.

Yang Yu led Fengling Yue and the others through the Pale Highlands, killed a Universe Level 3 Snow Lion Beast, and reached the Shilan Plain. At camp, the Thunder God Weapon finally acknowledged him as its Master, allowing him to unleash its First Form, Phantom Thunder Style.

• Yang Yu and his group crossed the Pale Highlands, where he killed a Snow Lion Beast with the Thunder Blade and avoided the legendary Domain Lord Level Fierce Beast.
• Yang Yu led the group out of the Pale Highlands and onto the Shilan Plain, aiming to reach its Core Region and gather Shilan Crystal.
• Yang Yu and his companions traveled across the plain, and he used the Moyun Vine to rescue Jarvis and another slave from a Time Storm.
• Yang Yu discovered that the Thunder God Weapon had fully acknowledged him as its Master and brought out its 1,024 small War Blades.
• Yang Yu used the Thunder God Weapon's First Form, Phantom Thunder Style, and Babata praised the speed and power of the Illusory Lightning.

Yang Yu mastered the Thunder God Weapon’s Second Form with his Human Original Body, while his Zhuliuyin Clone learned the Third and Fourth Forms. He left the Fifth Form for later, as its Law Comprehension and Psychic Amplitude requirements exceeded his current abilities.

• Yang Yu discussed joining the Virtual Universe Company and continued practicing the Thunder God Weapon with Babata.
• Yang Yu mastered the Second Form and promised Babata he would avenge Hu Yanbo and help protect and cultivate Earth’s younger generation.
• Yang Yu sent the Thunder God Weapon to his Zhuliuyin Clone, which mastered the Third and Fourth Forms in the World Ring.
• Yang Yu determined that the Zhuliuyin Clone’s Fourth Form could threaten Domain Lords and might become far more powerful after a Universe Level breakthrough.
• Yang Yu’s Zhuliuyin Clone tried to study the Fifth Form but stopped when its Law Comprehension and Psychic Amplitude requirements proved too high.

Yang Yu mastered the Judgment Profundity and tested its soul-attack power against a Universe Level 4 Time Shadow Beast. He killed the beast with one Soul-Splitting Slash, while his group continued studying the Annihilation Rays to gather Shilan Crystals.

• Yang Yu and his group reached the Core Region and began observing the Annihilation Rays before attempting to gather Shilan Crystals.
• Yang Yu completed his comprehension of the Judgment Profundity after two days of cultivation, strengthening his Soul-Splitting Slash.
• Yang Yu flew to a nearby cave on the Thunder Light Disc to test his new power against a Universe Level 4 Time Shadow Beast.
• Yang Yu's Soul-Splitting Slash tore through the beast's defenses and killed it before it could reach him.
• Babata appeared and marveled that Yang Yu's single Soul Attack had slain the Time Shadow Beast.