Recaps

Sett cleared the fifteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge, becoming known as humanity’s number one genius, and completed the highest-point mission with a 100% rating. He then accepted a new mission to reach Lunyin Planet and judge five Immortals before the Dark Skywalkers could attack another planet.

• Sett defeated the fifteenth-level Gatekeeper with his antlers and the Innate Secret Technique Pummel, then left the Virtual Universe to reflect on his gains.
• Sett’s record drew attention from the Human Race’s leaders, while Lord of Virtual Gold and the Lord of Nine Universes discussed Giant Axe’s possible return and interest in Sett.
• Sett read the highest-point mission evaluation, received 3.83 million points, and decided to prepare for cultivation in Chaos City.
• Sett received a new mission to reach Lunyin Planet within seven days and judge the five Dark Skywalkers gathered there.
• Sett boarded the Dream Butterfly with the Third Legion Commander, Ying Aozhe, and several dozen Immortals, then departed for Lunyin Planet.

Niu Xu and the Dark Skywalkers lured Sett’s party into a trap, where they revealed their alliance with the Zerg. Ying Aozhe sacrificed himself to protect Sett, but the Zerg Mother Empress emerged and reached for Sett as he fled.

• Niu Xu agreed with four Immortals to undertake a secret mission that would leave them unable to remain in human territory.
• Sett and the Third Legion Commander confronted Niu Xu at the Dark Skywalkers’ estate, and Niu Xu led them into space to fight.
• The Third Army Lord’s Immortals used a combined attack against Niu Xu’s companions, while Niu Xu and the Third Army Lord suddenly attacked Ying Aozhe.
• A Zerg brood nest appeared, revealing the trap, and Ying Aozhe fought the two Marquis-level Immortals to give Sett time to escape.
• Ying Aozhe self-destructed, badly injuring the surrounding Immortals, but the Zerg brood nest emerged unharmed and released more than ten thousand Zerg warriors.
• The Zerg Mother Empress ordered the Third Army Commander and Niu Xu to stand aside, then reached toward Sett’s fleeing Dream Butterfly spacecraft.

Sett was ambushed by the Zerg Mother Empress, King Lingxi, who tried to enslave him, but he broke through her illusions and self-destructed to escape capture. Human leaders arrived at the battlefield and learned that King Lingxi had fled, while the Primal Chaos City Leader warned of increasingly serious Zerg infiltration.

• Sett fled in the Dream Butterfly as King Lingxi attacked him with a soul assault and tried to seize him.
• Sett's will broke through King Lingxi's illusions, but she prepared a stronger attack; Sett sent distress messages to his teachers and self-destructed before she could enslave him.
• King Lingxi ordered her surviving Immortals to teleport through their divine kingdoms and escaped toward Dream Island.
• Ao Axe King, Zhenyuan Venerable, King Zhenlian, and Lord of Virtual Gold learned of the attack and the suspected traitor within Giant Axe Arena.
• Zhenyuan Venerable found Sett's belongings aboard the Dream Butterfly, and the Primal Chaos City Leader arrived with other powerful human leaders.
• The Primal Chaos City Leader condemned the attack, while Lord of Nine Universes warned that Zerg agents might have infiltrated the upper ranks of other factions.

Lord of Virtual Gold resurrected Sett and Ying Aozhe after their deaths, and humanity’s leaders began organizing against Zerg infiltration. Giant Axe then secured the cooperation of the Monster and Mechanical races to target the Zerg’s Soul-Erosion Venerable.

• Lord of Virtual Gold reversed spacetime and revived Sett and Ying Aozhe, shielding them from the universe’s backlash.
• Sett explained that energy from the Beast God Inheritance had helped him withstand the Zerg Mother Empress’s soul attack, then confirmed his abilities still worked.
• Sett reported his safety to Ao Axe King and King Zhenlian and vowed to take revenge on the Zerg.
• Giant Axe’s meeting appointed Darkness Lord to lead the Human Security Bureau and ordered the human powers to purge traitors.
• Giant Axe persuaded Dream Demon Ancestor and Mechanical to contribute true treasures toward hiring True Void Devil God to target Soul-Erosion Venerable.

Sett arrived in Chaos City to begin a long period of cultivation, where Ao Axe King gave him secret-technique references and sent him to the City Lord Mansion. There, Venerable Guiyi brought Sett to meet the Chaos City Lord and the Giant Axe Founder.

• Sett thanked Ying Aozhe for protecting him and transferred one billion Hunyuan units to him before departing for the Initial Universe.
• Sett arrived in Chaos City, claimed a cultivation residence near Ao Axe King's manor, and attended Ao Axe King's lecture on the Giant Axe Chaos Stele.
• Ao Axe King gave Sett more than a hundred ordinary secret techniques and a valuable set of secret techniques, then told him to visit the City Lord Mansion.
• Venerable Guiyi received Sett at the City Lord Mansion and warned him to show great respect to the Chaos City Lord and Giant Axe Founder.
• Venerable Guiyi led Sett into the Chaos Ruins, where Sett saw the Chaos City Lord and Giant Axe Founder and felt overwhelmed by their power.

Sett became the Giant Axe Founder's nominal disciple and was assigned a thousand-year trial to defeat one hundred opponents in a special Virtual Universe battlefield. After studying the Giant Axe Chaos Stele and winning a qualification battle, he broke through to the World Lord level and created an enormous internal world called Star Continent.

• The Giant Axe Founder accepted Sett as his nominal disciple, granted him twenty Chaos Stele study opportunities, and set a trial of defeating one hundred opponents within a thousand years to earn personal-disciple status.
• Sett entered the special battlefield and was crushed by a Flame Star Beast, then began studying the Giant Axe Chaos Stele and training in Chaos City.
• The Giant Axe Founder guided Sett every ten years, and Sett later took first place in the qualification battle among Domain Lords of the Third Axe.
• Sett chose to advance to the World Lord level, fusing his soul and force crystals and resonating with the universe's origin.
• Sett formed a ten-million-kilometer internal world, named it Star Continent, and filled it with land, oceans, life, and a central star containing its core.

Sett reached the peak of World Lord Level 9 after a year in a nutrient pod, then spent a century cultivating in Chaos City and receiving guidance from the Giant Axe Founder. He began the hundred-floor trial, defeated the Flame Star Beast and twenty-nine more opponents, and found the challenges growing harder.

• Sett used the nutrient pod to reach the peak of World Lord Level 9 in one year, then studied secret techniques and the Origin Laws.
• Sett spent a hundred years cultivating in Chaos City, studying the Giant Axe Chaos Stele, and receiving guidance from the Giant Axe Founder.
• Sett began the hundred-floor challenge and killed the Flame Star Beast by attacking it from inside its mouth with Haymaker.
• Sett defeated the first thirty opponents in less than a month, then noticed the challenges were becoming more difficult.

Sett completed Giant Axe Founder’s hundred-opponent test and became his twelfth personal disciple. After asking about the second level of the Beast God inheritance in Monster Race territory, Sett left the matter with his teacher and planned to enter the Outer Battlefield after the upcoming World Lord qualification battle.

• Sett learned that the World Lord qualification battle would begin in five hundred years and continued cultivating toward Giant Axe Founder’s test.
• Sett defeated the final Titan opponent after ten years of battle, completing the test and earning the status of Giant Axe Founder’s personal disciple.
• Sett met Giant Axe Founder, who praised his talent, accepted him as his twelfth personal disciple, and invited him to visit the Giant Axe Palace for guidance.
• Sett asked Giant Axe Founder for help reaching the second level of the Beast God inheritance in Monster Race territory, and Giant Axe Founder said he would find a way after Sett completed the Outer Battlefield assessment.
• Sett decided to leave Chaos City for the Outer Battlefield after the qualification battle, hoping that combat would help him improve further.

Sett challenged the Giant Axe Heavenly Bridge after more than five hundred years of cultivation in Chaos City, passing its sixteenth and seventeenth levels. He continued toward the eighteenth level, wondering whether he could clear it without yet using Beast God Transformation or Pit Grit's passive.

• Sett told Guardian Bafen that he had returned to test his strength after more than five hundred years as a World Lord, then entered the Giant Axe Heavenly Bridge.
• Sett chose a Martial Artist for the sixteenth level and defeated the Gatekeeper by using The Show Stopper to smash him into the bridge.
• Sett chose a Martial Artist for the seventeenth level and fought a powerful blue-white Gatekeeper using Pummel, Facebreaker, Haymaker, and The Show Stopper.
• Sett defeated the seventeenth-level Gatekeeper by hurling him into the bridge at nearly the speed of light.
• Sett proceeded toward the eighteenth level, reflecting that he had not yet used Beast God Transformation or triggered Pit Grit's passive.

Sett passed the eighteenth level of the Heavenly Bridge using Beast God Transformation, then entered the World Lord qualification battles aiming to win first place and its two-billion-point reward. His match against Demon Jug, Third Axe’s only other World Lord to pass the eighteenth level, began as the chapter ended.

• Sett chose a Martial Artist opponent on the eighteenth level and was initially driven back by the Gatekeeper’s punch.
• Sett activated Beast God Transformation and overpowered the Gatekeeper, who declared that Sett had passed the eighteenth level.
• Sett reflected on his battles, then prepared for Third Axe’s qualification battles, where 101 World Lords competed for rankings and rewards.
• Sett learned that Demon Jug was his main rival and watched other World Lords gather to see their duel.
• Sett pointed out that Demon Jug was attempting to fuse four Origin Laws, and the two World Lords prepared to fight.

After winning all one hundred qualification battles, Sett chose to leave Chaos City for the Outer Battlefield and received powerful equipment from Giant Axe Founder and Zhenyuan Venerable. He began training with his new armor, hammer, and secret technique before preparing to depart.

• Sett defeated Demon Jug, won all one hundred qualification battles, and used his 2 billion-point reward to buy several levels of Gold World.
• Sett told Giant Axe Founder he planned to venture into the Outer Battlefield, and Giant Axe Founder warned him about the alien races and gave him a token and the Void Demon God Armor.
• Sett learned the armor's abilities and bought the Starquake hammer technique to conceal the use of his Innate Secret Technique.
• Sett told Zhenyuan Venerable that he needed a weapon, and Zhenyuan Venerable gave him the Starshatter Demon Hammer.
• Sett began cultivating Starquake and studying the Outer Battlefield while preparing for his departure.

Sett left Chaos City for the Outer Battlefield, concealing his identity as he traveled to Cangniao Star and joined a group of lone warriors. After receiving the highest World Lord military rank alongside Tim, he was sent with the troops to Base 036 on the Seventh Battlefield.

• Sett bid farewell to Ao Axe King, left Chaos City, and traveled through the Giant Axe Arena headquarters to Cangniao Star.
• Sett hid his identity under the alias Iron Hand and waited at the assembly area, where he met the World Lord named Tim.
• After a hundred World Lords gathered, the Immortal assigned military ranks; both Sett and Tim were classified as World Lord Generals.
• The assembled warriors were assigned to the Seventh Battlefield, whose average death rate was 96.8%.
• Sett and the other warriors passed through a divine kingdom transfer station and arrived at Base 036 of the Seventh Battlefield.

Sett arrived at Base 036 on the Seventh Battlefield, learned about humanity’s populations and the dangers of the Outer Battlefield, and joined Teda’s Demon Hunting Squad with Fire Blade. The squad prepared the two rookies for the brutal battles ahead.

• Sett arrived at Base 036 and joined the World Lord recruits as they learned how humanity’s populations differed across universe countries, cosmic secret realms, and divine kingdoms.
• Teda recruited Sett and Tim into his Demon Hunting Squad, introducing them to Venom, Wind, and Phantom Spirit.
• Sett introduced himself as Iron Hand, a Martial Artist who used a great hammer and comprehended the Origin Law of Gold, while Tim introduced himself as Fire Blade.
• Sett and Fire Blade listened to the veterans explain allied forces, military merit, and the high death rate on the Seventh Battlefield.
• Teda described how life-and-death battles could help World Lords become Immortals and warned that large-scale racial campaigns were even deadlier.

Sett and the Demon Hunting Squad left the safety of their military base and were ambushed by Kupa, who destroyed their spacecraft and trapped them in a Lightning Prison. The squad broke free of a lightning net, but Kupa’s million mechanical puppets were closing in.

• The Demon Hunting Squad boarded Captain Teda’s spacecraft and departed for a combat zone on the Outer Battlefield.
• Captain Teda warned Sett, Fire Blade, and Iron Hand to stay alert and support their veteran teammates during battle.
• Kupa detected the squad’s spacecraft and blasted it apart with an ambush attack, forcing the six members to emerge from its F9-grade lounge.
• Kupa trapped the squad in a Lightning Prison and sent a million mechanical puppets to capture them.
• The squad attacked together and shattered a lightning net, while Captain Teda shielded them from the resulting explosion.

Sett and the Demon Hunting Squad fought a million mechanical puppets, at first making quick work of the E9-grade machines before F8-grade core puppets trapped Captain Teda and threatened the squad. Sett unleashed Starquake and Blood River Power to break the enemy formations and rescue Phantom Spirit, then turned to help Fire Blade.

• Captain Teda ordered the squad to fight, and the six members cut through the surrounding E9-grade mechanical puppets while collecting the disabled machines.
• Kupa activated a Lightning Prison that let several thousand F8-grade core puppets absorb energy and overwhelm Captain Teda.
• Venom, Wind, Fire Blade, and Sett used their trump cards, and Sett's Starquake shattered tens of thousands of puppets and several F8-grade machines.
• Captain Teda warned that the energy-fed core puppets could match ordinary World Lord warriors, then asked Sett and Venom to bring the others into a World Ring.
• Sett rescued Phantom Spirit and moved to help Fire Blade, but several hundred F8-grade puppets surrounded him.
• Sett used Blood River Power to strengthen Starquake threefold, scattering the puppets and shattering dozens of F8-grade machines, astonishing Kupa.

Sett’s burst of strength helped the Demon Hunting Squad break the mechanical puppets’ siege, but Kupa attacked with an Entropy Energy Decomposer and drove Sett and Teda into a dangerous escape. After Sett’s hammer strikes opened a way out and stalled Kupa, the survivors regrouped aboard a replacement spaceship and celebrated.

• Sett shattered the puppets surrounding Fire Blade, Feng, and Teda, then helped the six members of the Demon Hunting Squad regroup as the puppet army withdrew.
• Kupa reactivated the Lightning Prison, gathered 800,000 puppets, and attacked the squad with an Entropy Energy Decomposer, seriously wounding Phantom Spirit.
• Sett shielded Phantom Spirit with his heavy treasure hammer, stored her and the other World Lords in his World Ring, and stayed behind with Teda.
• Sett’s Starquake opened a gap in the Lightning Prison, allowing him and Teda to flee, and another hammer strike forced Kupa to dodge and abandon the pursuit.
• Sett released his teammates after they escaped, and Teda assembled a replacement spaceship as the squad celebrated surviving the battle.

Sett joined the Demon Hunting Squad and learned that his official quota of one billion military merits concealed an actual quota of one hundred trillion. The squad arrived at the dangerous Sixth Meteorite Belt, where Teda briefed them on its battle zones and the Virtual Universe system’s support.

• Teda and the squad welcomed Sett and Fire Blade, then compared their military merit quotas; Sett’s one-billion quota marked him as a World Lord with combat power comparable to an ordinary immortal god.
• Venom explained how military merit quotas reflected strength, while Sett privately recalled that his true quota was one hundred trillion and that he commanded an immortal Zerg Mother Empress and thousands of immortal-level Zerg warriors.
• Teda described the Sixth Meteorite Belt’s dangers and warned Sett and Fire Blade against prolonged or conspicuous fights that could draw reinforcements.
• The Demon Hunting Squad arrived at the Sixth Meteorite Belt, where Fire Blade felt its baleful aura but Sett remained unaffected.
• Teda explained how the Virtual Universe system tracked nearby allies, summoned reinforcements, and recorded military merits in real time.

Teda established a hidden base in the Sixth Meteorite Belt and allied the Demon Hunting Squad with three nearby human teams. On their first operation, the squad approached a Monster Race team, planning to kill its Immortal leader while the others held off the remaining enemies.

• Teda carved a concealed base into a meteorite, contacted nearby teams, and arranged an alliance with three of them.
• Sett resolved to hide his true strength and work with Teda until he earned enough military merits to act independently.
• The squad prepared for its first operation, and Teda reassured the anxious rookie Fire Blade before leading everyone out in a C9-grade spaceship.
• Teda's detector found a foreign squad, and the Demon Hunting Squad chose to attack after Sett's superior detector concealed their own location.
• Teda identified the eight enemies as Monster Race experts, and Sett proposed that he, Teda, and Venom kill their Immortal while the other three held off the rest.
• The Demon Hunting Squad crept to within a hundred thousand kilometers of the Monster Race base and watched the enemies from behind a meteorite.

The Demon Hunting Squad ambushed a Monster Race squad, killing one World Lord and injuring the others before splitting up to fight. Sett and Teda targeted the Monster Race Immortal, and after poisoning its powerful tail, they struck its head while the other battle remained dangerous.

• Teda and Sett coordinated attacks with Venom’s potion, shattering the Monster Race squad’s hiding meteorite and killing a bird-like World Lord.
• The Monster Race Immortal gave healing fruits to three badly injured World Lords, while Fire Blade, Phantom Spirit, and Wind engaged three others.
• Venom joined Fire Blade’s group with his plant life, easing their struggle as the injured Monster Race World Lords began to recover.
• Sett advised Teda to identify the Immortal’s strongest body part before using Venom’s strongest potion, and they found its tail was exceptionally powerful.
• Teda took a hit to poison the Immortal’s tail, slowing it enough for Sett to land a heavy hammer blow on its head.

Sett and Teda overwhelmed a Monster Race Immortal while their squad fought the accompanying Monster Race World Lords. After Sett knocked the Immortal into a dormant state and stored him in his World Ring, the Demon Hunting Squad gathered its spoils and fled before reinforcements could arrive.

• Teda burned his immortal divine power and joined Sett in battering the Monster Race Immortal, then left Sett to hold him while he supported Fire Blade and the others.
• Teda killed a Monster Race World Lord and helped turn the World Lord battle in the squad’s favor.
• Sett hammered the Monster Race Immortal until his divine power fell to twenty-eight percent and he fell into slumber.
• Sett stored the dormant Immortal in his World Ring and rejoined Teda as the squad collected the Monster Race World Lords’ spoils.
• Teda led the squad away from the battlefield, and Sett concealed their location with his detector to evade reinforcements.

Sett and the Demon Hunting Squad killed a Monster Race Immortal, divided the spoils, and spent a year hunting in the Sixth Meteorite Belt. After reaching 120 million military merits, they headed toward a distress call from a human elite squad to intervene in a battle.

• Teda led the six-person squad in killing the slumbering Monster Race Immortal, earning Sett and Teda 40 million military merits each and Venom 15 million.
• Teda valued the Immortal's spoils at 30,000 Chaos Units, and Sett declined a share so the others could divide the loot.
• After Teda recovered, the Demon Hunting Squad resumed hunting, using Sett's detector to avoid danger and ambush enemy World Lord squads.
• Over the next year, the squad fought dozens of battles, and Sett's military merits reached 120 million while Fire Blade improved rapidly.
• Venom spotted a distress signal from a human elite squad 90 billion kilometers away, and Teda and Sett agreed to go help and take advantage of the fight.

The Demon Hunting Squad ambushed Prince Monnaka’s World Lord squad, only to be caught off guard when five Immortal bodyguards emerged. Sett revealed his trump card, a thousand-vine immortal-grade Star-Eating Grass, which devoured all five Immortals and left the squad to claim the spoils.

• The Demon Hunting Squad found ten World Lords hiding in an asteroid and struck first, killing two and badly injuring the others.
• Five Immortal bodyguards appeared, forcing Teda to call for a retreat as two of them attacked Venom and the other World Lords.
• Sett rescued the four World Lord warriors and told Teda he could handle the Immortals with a trump card.
• Sett unleashed his thousand-vine immortal-grade Star-Eating Grass, which expanded into a colossal plant and trapped all five Immortals.
• The Star-Eating Grass devoured the five Immortals, stunning Teda and the squad as Venom explained the plant’s rarity and strength.

Sett and the Demon Hunting Squad parted ways after he gave them the spoils and supplies from their battle. Choosing to fight alone for a new military-merit quota, Sett set course for Defiant Continent, a dangerous region filled with Marquis Level Immortals.

• Sett's Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass killed five Immortals and helped the squad defeat Monaka's forces, after which the team collected more than 1.5 million chaos units in spoils.
• Sett gave up his share of the spoils and gifted the Demon Hunting Squad weapons, cultivation treasures, and two Fire God Source Crystals before saying goodbye.
• Sett declined to lead a unit and chose to fight alone for a quota of one hundred trillion military merit.
• After studying the Seventh Battlefield star map, Sett chose Defiant Continent because it held many Marquis Level Immortals and planned to advance to more dangerous battlefields once stronger.
• Sett boarded the Dream Butterfly and flew toward Defiant Continent.

Sett arrived on Defiant Continent, rescued a human squad with his Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass, and recruited Zhang Haobai, an old acquaintance from Earth. After defeating and consuming Mad Bull Marquis, Sett established a base and prepared to strengthen his Star-Eating Grass before hunting again.

• Sett responded to a human squad’s distress call and sent his Thousand-Vine Star-Eating Grass to defeat Mad Bull Marquis.
• Sett introduced himself as Star-Eating Marquis, recognized Zhang Haobai, and took him under his command with Li Haotian’s approval.
• Sett withdrew when a Monster Race squad with two high-level Marquis Immortals approached, then gave Zhang Haobai cultivation resources and secret techniques.
• Sett learned about the region from Li Haotian’s information, established a base, and fed the unconscious Mad Bull Marquis to his Star-Eating Grass.
• Sett collected Mad Bull Marquis’s spoils and military merits, then waited for the Star-Eating Grass to digest him and grow stronger before setting out again.

Over four centuries on Defiant Continent, Sett honed his self-created hammer technique, Soulshaker, and grew powerful enough to contend with top Marquis Immortals without relying on Star-Eating Grass. After his clashes with the Ninth Region’s strongest fighters, he decided to return to base for a rest.

• Sett spent his first century hunting alien Immortals and created his own hammer technique, Soulshaker, after drawing on his battles and insights from Chaos City.
• Sett tested Soulshaker against Marquis Kaxi, whose Blazing Fire Blade met Sett’s Soul Severance strike; Kaxi lost two percent of his immortal divine power and fled by self-destructing part of his body.
• Sett continued seeking fights and refining Soul Severance, reaching the point where he could contend with high-level Marquis Immortals, though he had killed only ten Marquis Immortals in two hundred years.
• Sett fought Annihilation Marquis to a draw, while both recognized that neither could easily defeat the other without risking a costly battle.
• Sett reflected that he had grown stronger through four hundred years of combat and decided to return to base and rest after another hundred years of fighting.