Chapter Summaries

Guen accepted Venerable Song Island’s offer to take him as a disciple and learned about Gongyu Sea’s resources and the Hollow Realm. After Master Ze hosted a banquet, Guen returned to Fengya Pavilion and revealed the Void Travel Boat he had received.

• Guen agreed to visit Song Island in a month to become Venerable Song Island’s disciple.
• Guen gave King Bifa two World Rings, and King Bifa showed him around Gongyu Sea and explained the Hollow Realm’s limited entry slots.
• Master Ze hosted a banquet for Guen and Venerable Song Island, then Guen met powerful figures on Jihan Island.
• Guen returned to Fengya Pavilion, where Moto asked to see Master Ze’s gift.
• Guen showed Moto the Void Travel Boat and explained its speed and ability to lessen Space Lockdown suppression.

Guen learned more about the Void Travel Boat, his possible path into crafting, and the coming upheaval among the universe’s races. After reading Venerable Tanshi’s account of the universe’s power hierarchy, he became more determined to grow stronger.

• Guen explained the Void Travel Boat’s defensive strength and fixed size to Moto, who studied the Pseudo-Heavy Treasure closely.
• Venerable Tanshi questioned Guen about meeting Master Ze, and Guen told him about the Void Travel Boat and Venerable Song Island’s offer to take him as a disciple.
• Venerable Tanshi said a great upheaval was approaching as the Ghost Tomb Race neared its limits, and described how its fall could spark a conflict across the Core Land.
• Venerable Tanshi sent Guen information on the universe’s race classifications and strongest beings, including the Universe’s Strongest and Universe Overlords.
• Guen read the email, considered humanity’s place among the peak races, and resolved to keep pursuing strength and learning about the universe.

Primal Ancestor told Lord of Chaos City that the Virtual Universe would soon expand across the Primordial Universe and that he planned to confront what lay behind it, despite the risks. Meanwhile, Guen failed again to master the Thunder Universe Light Pupil and prepared to leave for Song Island the next day.

• Primal Ancestor appeared before Lord of Chaos City and dismissed his second disciple so they could speak privately.
• Primal Ancestor explained that the Virtual Universe had begun sustaining its own expansion and would soon reach the edge of the Primordial Universe, forcing him to face an unknown danger.
• Lord of Chaos City tried to dissuade Primal Ancestor, but Primal Ancestor insisted he had to pursue the truth and advised Chaos to let one incarnation experience slaughter.
• Primal Ancestor promised to make contingency arrangements, while Lord of Chaos City accepted that his teacher could not be stopped.
• Guen's attempt to cultivate the Thunder Universe Light Pupil failed again, and its lightning damaged the Chenhan Stone floor before the Seven-Star Insect Thread healed his eyes.
• Guen resolved to inform King Bifa and the others about the damaged floor before leaving for Song Island the next day.

Guen arrived at Song Island to begin training under Venerable Song Island, accompanied by King Bifa. Chisong welcomed him as a fellow disciple and began teaching him the fundamentals of artifact crafting.

• Guen and King Bifa traveled across Gongyu Sea in the Void Travel Boat, and King Bifa warned Guen to be cautious about displaying it beyond the sea.
• The Thirty-Six Heavenly Guards let them enter Song Island after King Bifa showed his Jihan Island token.
• Venerable Song Island guided Guen and King Bifa to the island's center, where Chisong asked King Bifa to leave.
• Chisong told Guen that he was Venerable Song Island's thirty-seventh personal disciple and that he would have to satisfy Chisong before receiving the teacher's personal guidance.
• Chisong explained the universe's eighteen artifact categories and began teaching Guen how artifact crafters classify weapon levels.

Chisong taught Guen the ranks and difficulty of weapon refining, then trained him in the Ice Refining Method. After mastering the basics in four thousand years and discovering his strengths, Guen prepared to attempt his first Immortal-quality weapon.

• Chisong explained weapon ranks and warned Guen that even Pseudo-Heavy Treasures were extraordinarily difficult to refine.
• Chisong led Guen into the Ten-Thousand-Year Fierce Ice cavern and taught him to refine disposable and poisoned weapons with the Ice Refining Method.
• Guen spent more than four thousand years mastering ordinary-quality forging and found that he excelled at Origin-type and mechanical weapons.
• Chisong noted that Guen's Water Origin Law comprehension limited how well he could benefit from Chisong's specialties, while Guen relied on his affinity for Lightning Origin and Gas Refining.
• Chisong asked Guen to attempt an Immortal-quality weapon, and Guen eagerly prepared to test his talent.

Guen forged an Origin-type treasure from the Three-Leaf Bud Flower while coordinating thousands of materials through different spaces and rates of time. During the process, he mastered Time Turbulence, and a small, water-blue staff took shape.

• Guen placed the poisonous Three-Leaf Bud Flower in a lightning cloud and used forging techniques to separate and preserve its substances.
• Guen reflected on how artifact refining combined materials, then began processing thousands of them at once with different rates of time flow.
• Chisong watched Guen's chaotic-looking work progress in an orderly fashion, and Venerable Song Island praised Guen's talent.
• Guen realized he had mastered Time Turbulence while forging, making him no longer vulnerable to time stop unless his opponent was overwhelmingly stronger.
• Guen's forging session ended as a small, water-blue staff shaped like a spine formed in the void.

Guen completed an Immortal-quality origin-type weapon and Venerable Song Island began teaching him the Purgatory Myriad Universes technique. After mastering its first three layers over more than five thousand years, Guen prepared to leave Song Island for the Pantheon, while Moto became entranced by the island’s quiet scenery.

• Guen finished refining a strange origin-type weapon, and Venerable Song Island judged it usable but limited before agreeing to teach him a unique technique.
• Venerable Song Island took Guen to his refining hall, showed him the Void Spirit Five-Colored Flame, and assigned him to practice weapon refinement there.
• Guen learned that Purgatory Myriad Universes combined weapon refinement, combat, and a Heavy Treasure formula, and he mastered its first three layers in a little over five thousand years.
• Venerable Song Island offered Guen fifteen Heavy Treasure formulas and told him to choose three before ending his instruction.
• Guen waited for King Bifa so he could visit Master Ze and say goodbye before traveling to the Pantheon, while explaining to Moto that he still had much to learn.
• Moto used his detection equipment near Song Island and became entranced by the island’s silent harmony of sea, people, and trees.

After seven thousand years of travel and reflection, Guen arrived at the Pantheon Star Sector, where the Pantheon forced entrants into deadly battles for powerful rewards. He studied the trials’ dangers and tiers, then headed toward a fleeting wormhole with Moto.

• Moto emerged from a daze after contemplating the sea and trees, and Guen shared the moment with him before King Bifa took Guen back to Jihan Island.
• Guen left Jihan Island for the Pantheon Star Sector, traveling in a mechanical bird he had crafted while studying laws, secret methods, and weapon-making.
• During his journey, Guen explored the universe, developed a more flexible will, and attended a reunion where he learned that Maidi and Wuhu had died and Han was unreachable.
• Guen arrived at the Pantheon Star Sector seven thousand years after leaving Gongyu Sea and explained to Moto that the Pantheon trapped entrants in successive battles for a chance at rare treasures.
• Guen described the Pantheon’s battle tiers and likely trial for a World Lord, then approached a temporary wormhole with Moto.

Guen entered the Realm of Samsara after the Pantheon’s lingering will provoked him into revealing his full power, and learned that Jiehai Tower was the battle’s Heavy Treasure reward. After waiting for the arena to fill, he entered the fiery battlefield and faced a Machine Race war machine.

• Guen entered the Pantheon and sensed a terrifying will that he suspected belonged to a God Lord, then discovered it had placed him in the Realm of Samsara.
• Guen read the Realm of Samsara’s rules and learned that Jiehai Tower, a sealing-type Heavy Treasure, was the reward.
• Guen consulted the Virtual Universe about past Pantheon rewards, decided to prepare weapons, and waited for the battle to begin.
• Guen joined the other participants in kneeling and praising the Supreme God Lord, then entered the Realm of Samsara when the preparations were complete.
• Guen encountered a Machine Race war machine in the fiery battlefield and charged toward it before it could analyze him and establish a plan.

Guen fought a Machine Race life-form that used mist, chains, and powerful weapons to probe and attack him. After his silver matter armor was badly depleted, Guen revealed his mastery of space and time laws, but the enemy’s silver-matter defenses held as microscopic machines reached his body.

• A yellow gemstone shattered, spreading mist that impaired Guen’s perception while mechanical rings probed him.
• Guen deployed Dark Tendrils to clear and seal the mist, but a rainbow beam struck him and consumed much of his Silver Matter Armor.
• Guen cut through the beam and faced the Machine Race life-form, which attacked with laser nets and questioned his fused aura.
• Guen shattered the laser net with Space Strangulation, then used Time Turbulence and space-based attacks against the Machine Race life-form.
• The Machine Race life-form’s silver-matter shield blocked Guen’s Darkness Invasion, and microscopic mechanical creatures landed on Guen’s body.

Guen fought a Machine Race lifeform in the Pantheon, using his hidden strength and Purgatory Myriad Universes to weaken it. As the Machine Race lifeform began sacrificing its divine body to power a lotus-shaped device, Guen faced an unknown ultimate weapon.

• Guen survived the Machine Race lifeform’s barrage and revealed that his Law Comprehension let him use the Leisha Core at six thousand times a Peak World Lord’s strength.
• Guen struck the Machine Race lifeform with the Torch of Burning Ashes and formed Purgatory Myriad Universes, suppressing it and damaging its divine body.
• The Machine Race lifeform deployed more weapons, including a concealed sixteenth appendage, but Guen kept it trapped and prevented it from using its arsenal freely.
• The Machine Race lifeform activated the lotus-shaped device above its neck, sacrificing its divine body to power it, and Guen realized he could not wait passively.

Guen defeated a Machine Race life-form in the Pantheon using Purgatory Myriad Universes, then reflected on how a true King-level expert could turn a battle around. The chapter ended with a Luomen Behemoth facing an undying god who had burned Immortal Divine Power and suddenly gained overwhelming strength.

• Guen recognized the Machine Race life-form’s Seven-Kill Rainbow Seat attack and countered it by slowing time with the Thunder Universe Light Pupil.
• Guen combined Purgatory Myriad Universes with red scales and fragments to damage the Machine Race life-form until it detonated three Fire God Source Crystals and emptied its World Ring.
• Guen sheltered in the Void Travel Boat and survived the blast, then collected the wreckage left behind after the Pantheon took the most valuable materials.
• Guen told Moto that the defeated opponent was not a true King-level expert because it lacked a skill capable of turning the tables.
• An undying god burned Immortal Divine Power, forcing the Luomen Behemoth to use its innate crystals to keep its phantom gate from collapsing and leaving it afraid to move.

Guen prepared for the second round of the Pantheon’s deadly battles while reflecting on why he had delayed becoming immortal. When a poisonous, mist-wreathed opponent’s carving lit up on the door, Guen reacted with alarm.

• Moto asked whether Guen could burn Immortal Divine Power if he became immortal, and Guen confirmed it while revealing he had chosen to hold back for a reason.
• Moto assessed the Machine Race opponent’s wreckage, estimating the spoils at more than 700 million Hunyuan Units.
• Guen considered the second round’s three-way battles, where only one fighter would advance and Origin-type resources would be available to restore one person’s body.
• Guen realized that, as an undisclosed World Lord, he could avoid competing for those resources and use his hidden status to his advantage.
• A second carving on the door lit up, showing a sphere surrounded by poisonous mist, and Guen’s expression changed dramatically.

Guen feared that the next round would pit him against a Zerg Mother Emperor, so he weighed the risks of breaking through to immortality and began cultivating the Law of Thunder Origin. In another space within Wansheng Hall, a Zerg Mother Emperor discovered that the final sculpture on an enormous door depicted another Mother Emperor.

• Guen considered the danger of fighting a Zerg Mother Emperor and recalled how her warriors could combine their attacks into a devastating force.
• Guen reviewed the requirements for becoming Immortal and the risks of breaking his Origin Bead before fully comprehending an Origin Law.
• Guen remembered Venerable Tanshi's warning that his deep foundation might prevent an ordinary breakthrough and that he needed a Space Fragment to preserve his Internal World.
• Guen decided to focus on survival and began striving to fully comprehend the Law of Thunder Origin.
• A Zerg Mother Emperor admired Kui's plan to equip Zerg warriors with weapons, then saw the final sculpture on the door light up with the image of another Zerg Mother Emperor.

Guen entered the Pantheon’s second round and fled from two Zerg Mother Emperors, Fu and Milyu, while their armies spread across the battlefield to hunt him. Fu persuaded Milyu to cooperate against Guen first, leaving both Mother Emperors poised for a later fight as Guen continued evading capture.

• Guen realized that the second round would force him to face two Zerg Mother Emperors and that only one of the three contestants could survive.
• After entering the battlefield, Guen merged with the void and fled while Fu’s Banskana Zerg spread out to detect and pursue him.
• Fu recognized Milyu and urged her to send warriors after Guen before the two Mother Emperors fought each other.
• Milyu explained that a Black Devour Race member had driven her into the Pantheon, then sent warriors to pursue Guen while keeping others near her nest.
• Guen assessed Fu’s larger, more focused Zerg force and continued fleeing as both Mother Emperors hunted him.

Guen explained why he was avoiding a prolonged fight and concluded that the Pantheon wanted the two Zerg Mother Emperors to battle each other. After its warning forced them to engage, Fu revealed an Ancient King Legion and attacked Milyu, leaving Guen to watch the clash begin.

• Guen explained to Moto that the Zerg could sustain a prolonged battle better than the Machine Race, but that a drawn-out fight would let a Zerg Mother Emperor target his soul.
• The Pantheon warned Guen and the two Zerg Mother Emperors for allowing the battle to remain passive, and Guen told Moto that the Pantheon likely wanted the two sisters to fight.
• Guen revealed himself and attacked the nearest swarm, forcing Milyu and Fu to stop ignoring each other or risk being erased by the Pantheon.
• Fu sent a mixed force of Mantis-type Zerg Warriors against Milyu's nest and used a soul attack to knock out some of Milyu's warriors.
• Milyu recognized Fu's force as an Ancient King Legion, while Guen observed its varied units and understood that its immense strength came at a tremendous cost.

Guen fought the two Zerg Mother Emperors and saw how the First Zerg Mother Emperor’s precise coordination let her control the battlefield. After a sudden concentrated attack nearly struck him, Guen recognized the First Zerg Mother Emperor as a threat comparable to a King-Level Immortal.

• Guen used his Light and Shadow World Domain to kill tens of thousands of Zerg Warriors, but the First Zerg Mother Emperor adapted her formations to restrain him.
• Guen observed that the Second Zerg Mother Emperor’s forces were stronger individually but poorly coordinated, while the First Zerg Mother Emperor skillfully directed both swarms.
• A Life Fruit appeared, but Guen and the two Zerg Mother Emperors ignored it because none had suffered divine body damage in the previous round.
• The Second Zerg Mother Emperor recalled her warriors as the Mantis King legion pressed her nest, leaving Guen facing the First Zerg Mother Emperor’s forces alone.
• The First Zerg Mother Emperor secretly arranged a brief firing path for more than seventy-five thousand Red-Armored Flying Ants, whose concentrated attack shook the Pantheon and forced Guen to flee.
• The Second Zerg Mother Emperor destroyed the attacking ants and triggered further losses for the First Zerg Mother Emperor, while Guen brought out the Guqiong Divine Light and abandoned his plan to let the two fight.

Guen fought through the Zerg forces and advanced toward the Mother Emperor's nest as Fu defeated Milyu. Guen wounded Fu with a surprise attack, but she retreated into the nest and became wary of him.

• Guen charged toward the Mother Emperor's nest while Moto analyzed Fu's battlefield tactics and guided his advance.
• Guen adapted to fighting the Zerg Warriors and killed them in increasingly large numbers as he moved through their formations.
• Milyu's life force vanished, and her remaining Warriors launched suicidal attacks against Fu's forces.
• Fu used soul fluctuations to influence nearby Zerg Warriors, then slaughtered Milyu's Zerg Kings when she could not win them over.
• Fu emerged from the nest and addressed Guen, but he struck her with a Light Ray that cut away half of her head.
• Fu retreated into the nest, while Guen realized his surprise attack had succeeded but would be harder to repeat now that she was alert.

Guen fought through Fu’s Zerg defenses, using Pseudo-Immortal Power to advance toward her nest while the Mantis King Legion and massed Zerg Warriors tried to hold him back. With both sides facing a worsening stalemate, Fu and Guen each prepared to use a soul attack, leaving their confrontation poised to escalate.

• Guen used his World Projection and Guqiong Divine Light to break through the Crystal Domain and cut down Zerg Warriors, while Fu realized he was relying on external power rather than being a true King-Level Immortal.
• Fu sent the Mantis King Legion to stop Guen, but he injured its Hunter Mantis and destroyed several Mantis Kings with Instant of the Era, overcoming their unusual healing and defensive abilities.
• Guen used Purgatory Myriad Universes to disrupt the Mantis Kings’ formation and slip past them, while Fu began gathering her scattered Zerg Warriors into a larger attacking force.
• Guen and Fu became locked in a tug-of-war: he pressed toward her nest while preventing the Zerg Warriors from concentrating their power, and Fu tried to gather enough warriors to deliver a decisive blow.
• Fu prepared a soul attack as her final defense, while Guen gathered lightning in his eyes and prepared to counter with his own formidable soul attack.

Guen used his soul attack to gravely wound Mother Emperor Fu, subdue the Zerg Warriors, and reach her nest to seal her. As his seal neared completion, Fu opened her eyes.

• Guen isolated the Zerg Kings with Purgatory Myriad Universes and used Double Soul Roar to devastate Fu’s soul and crack her Origin Bead.
• Guen switched the Star-Studded Sunflower’s domain to illusions, ensnaring the Zerg Warriors while Fu struggled to break free.
• Guen reached the nest, defeated the remaining Banskana Zerg King guards, and began inscribing a seal on Fu’s body.
• Fu opened her eyes just as the seal on her Origin Bead was nearing completion.