Chapter Summaries

Lu Yan'an agreed to join King Shenmu and the Five Elements Squad in exploring the Secret Abyss, a hidden site said to hold Yuanming Continent’s complete Secret Pattern inheritance. Meanwhile, a Monster Race creature spotted the two humans and arranged for Lai Yin to test them while its own ship changed course.

• King Shenmu told Lu Yan'an that his squad had found the Secret Abyss and six Letter Talismans, but needed a sixth person to enter with them.
• King Shenmu offered Lu Yan'an a tenth of the squad’s gains, explaining that the Secret Abyss required six people to enter simultaneously from different directions.
• Lu Yan'an accepted the invitation, confident he could survive and unwilling to pass up the Secret Pattern inheritance.
• A Monster Race creature detected Lu Yan'an and King Shenmu talking on a mound and considered whether they were baiting prey.
• The Monster Race creature ordered its ship to avoid the humans and sent Lai Yin after them to test their strength.

Lu Yan'an and King Shenmu arrived at the Mingyuan Thunder Prison, where King Hui Mu approached them and probed their identities. After leaving, Hui Mu prepared to ambush them, while the two continued deeper into the Core Layer.

• King Shenmu explained that the Mingyuan Thunder Prison’s Secret Pattern Thunder Domain could unleash lightning powerful enough to threaten even a Venerable.
• King Hui Mu introduced himself as a Peak King and questioned Lu Yan'an’s connection to the Five Elements Squad.
• Lu Yan'an identified himself as Jue and claimed he was only a reserve member, while King Shenmu warned Hui Mu that he belonged to the Five Elements Squad.
• King Hui Mu exchanged contact details with the two, warned them that Peak Kings hunted near the Thunder Prison’s edge, and Teleported away.
• King Shenmu suspected Hui Mu had an ulterior motive, and Lu Yan'an continued onward with him as Hui Mu secretly prepared to attack them.

Lai Yin suspected his brother had sent two humans to trap him and decided to use Sky Whale King to redirect them. In the Mingyuan Thunder Domain, Lu Yan'an and King Shenmu watched Sky Whale King battle a Machine Race fortress, but both sides suddenly attacked their hiding place.

• Lai Yin suspected his brother had arranged a trap and planned to have Sky Whale King lure the two humans toward his brother.
• Lu Yan'an and King Shenmu traveled through the Mingyuan Thunder Domain as King Shenmu explained how Secret Patterns had created its continent.
• Lu Yan'an and King Shenmu hid nearby while Sky Whale King battered a Machine Race fortress with its war machines and lightning.
• The Machine Race fortress activated nine energy cores and gathered a powerful attack against Sky Whale King.
• Sky Whale King and the Machine Race Immortal both noticed Lu Yan'an and King Shenmu and attacked their hiding place.

Lu Yan'an used Teleportation to escape King Tianxie and Sky Whale King's ambush, then destroyed the Machine Race War Base with his Starfall technique. He killed King Tianxie with the second form of Origin, Yao Yue, while Sky Whale King realized he could not escape.

• Lu Yan'an teleported himself and King Shenmu away from King Tianxie's attack and rushed toward the War Base.
• King Tianxie called for help, but nearby warriors fled, and King Xieyuan said he would need three days to reach him.
• Lu Yan'an struck the War Base, tearing through its defenses as Sky Whale King recognized the attack's Peak King-level power.
• Lu Yan'an unleashed Origin, Second Form: Yao Yue, destroying the War Base's core and killing King Tianxie.

Lu Yan'an chased Sky Whale King through Mingyuan Thunder Prison after killing King Tianxie, while Sky Whale King sought help and was ordered by Lai Yin to lead his pursuers to Hart. The chapter left Sky Whale King trapped between his pursuers and the threat of disobeying Lai Yin.

• Lu Yan'an killed King Tianxie and pursued Sky Whale King, who taunted him while fleeing toward the thunder field.
• Sky Whale King endured a lightning strike and continued running as Lu Yan'an suspected he was being lured somewhere.
• Lu Yan'an called on King Hui Mu to help intercept Sky Whale King, and King Hui Mu joined the chase.
• Sky Whale King sent distress messages through the Monster Race Military System and contacted Lai Yin for help.
• Lai Yin refused to rescue Sky Whale King and ordered him to lead his pursuers to Hart, threatening him if he failed.

Lu Yan'an pursued Sky Whale King with King Hui Mu until the Monster Race demon Hart arrived to protect it, revealing Lu Yan'an's strength in a clash between Peak Limit Kings. As Hart and Lu Yan'an fought, Sky Whale King ambushed King Hui Mu, and Lu Yan'an struck it with a devastating Soul Attack, leaving the battlefield silent.

• Lu Yan'an told King Hui Mu he could use Teleportation and Soul Attacks, and promised they would split Sky Whale King's spoils.
• Hart arrived in response to Sky Whale King's request for help, and Lu Yan'an offered to hold Hart off while King Hui Mu attacked Sky Whale King.
• Lu Yan'an and Hart clashed, and King Hui Mu realized Lu Yan'an was far stronger than he had seemed.
• Sky Whale King ambushed King Hui Mu, shattering most of his body and provoking him to charge with his spear.
• Lu Yan'an used the Soul Attack Huo Shen on Sky Whale King, plunging its will into darkness.

Lu Yan'an incapacitated Sky Whale King with a Soul Attack, then stopped King Hui Mu from killing him by proposing to sell him as a slave. Lu Yan'an returned to deal with the Secret Pattern inheritance and worried about explaining his hidden abilities to King Shenmu.

• Lu Yan'an's Soul Attack put Sky Whale King into a coma, and King Hui Mu and his subordinates attacked the defenseless fish.
• Snake Demon Hart fled after realizing Lu Yan'an was a Soul Attack master, while Lu Yan'an chose not to pursue him.
• Lu Yan'an proposed selling Sky Whale King, whose Divine Body had fallen to 10%, and King Hui Mu agreed to transfer Lu Yan'an his share of the proceeds.
• King Hui Mu left, and Lu Yan'an headed back toward King Shenmu, concerned that his strength and Teleportation would expose his harmless image.

Lu Yan'an joined the Five Elements Squad’s expedition into the Secret Abyss, agreeing to receive thirty percent of the inheritance. The six entered the hidden site and passed through its first barrier, finding a dead King Level Immortal God outside.

• King Shenmu negotiated with Lu Yan'an, and the Five Elements Squad agreed to give him thirty percent of the inheritance under a Military Merit System contract.
• Thick Earth King gave Lu Yan'an a Letter Talisman, which he claimed with his Spiritual Imprint.
• Thick Earth King transported the six Human Faction powerhouses deep underground, where Lu Yan'an saw the Secret Abyss but could not detect it with Spiritual Force or the No. 2 Detector.
• Soft Water King and Thick Earth King identified a nearby corpse as a King Level Immortal God who had likely died in a large-scale Soul Attack.
• Thick Earth King used his Letter Talisman to open the sealed passage, and Lu Yan'an and the Five Elements Squad passed through the first barrier.

Lu Yan'an and the Five Elements Squad reached the Secret Abyss’s core entrance and placed their Letter Talismans to open the way. They entered the core area, then split up to search for the inheritance.

• Lu Yan'an discovered that the Secret Abyss’s Secret Patterns sealed space and prevented Teleportation as the group passed through corpse-filled halls.
• Thick Earth King explained that all six had to enter separate passages and place their Letter Talismans to open the core entrance.
• Lu Yan'an and the five squad members entered the six passages, broke through their layered barriers, and fitted their talismans into the openings.
• The six passages joined into one, allowing Lu Yan'an and the others to reach a vast, empty hall.
• Thick Earth King proposed that the group explore separately and contact each other through the Virtual Universe if anyone found the inheritance site, and the six departed down different passages.

Lu Yan'an explored the Secret Abyss, found three treasure chests belonging to the natives of Yuanming Continent, and then witnessed the Abyss shake apart. At the core exit, he found native Immortal Gods trying to seal the passages and charged at them alone while the Five Elements Squad remained inside.

• The six members of the Five Elements Squad split up to search separate passages through the Secret Abyss.
• Lu Yan'an found a dead Immortal God and discovered a message explaining that three treasure chests held World Rings filled with treasures for the people of Yuanming Continent.
• Lu Yan'an took the three chests, intending to have the Virtual Universe Company open them later.
• The Secret Abyss shook violently, and its wall patterns shattered before the tremor subsided.
• Lu Yan'an reached the core exit and found unfamiliar native Immortal Gods manipulating the Secret Patterns to seal the passages.
• Lu Yan'an charged the natives alone because the other members of the Five Elements Squad had not yet emerged.

Lu Yan'an and the Five Elements Squad learned that the native Futuo had set a trap around the Secret Pattern legacy and forced them to choose who would claim it. Lu Yan'an secured the squad’s agreement to let him receive the legacy in exchange for sharing its knowledge and compensation, then prepared to confront the natives.

• Thick Earth King and Blazing Fire King joined Lu Yan'an and found natives guarding the passageways out of the Secret Abyss.
• Futuo revealed that the three boxes were keys to the legacy and that he had been watching the visitors and trying to make them turn against each other.
• Futuo announced that the legacy would open in one hour, and only someone with the Letter Talisman and all three boxes could receive it and leave the Secret Abyss.
• Lu Yan'an proposed receiving the legacy while sharing its knowledge and compensating the Five Elements Squad, with the Virtual Universe as witness.
• King Shenmu and Golden Sword King agreed, and Thick Earth King accepted Lu Yan'an’s proposal before Lu Yan'an turned to face the natives.

Lu Yan'an defeated the six native King-level Immortals with his Heart Power techniques and sealing method, then was transported to an unfamiliar land of forests, plains, and enormous statues. He arrived there with all six Letter Talismans and three boxes, but did not know where he was.

• Lu Yan'an struck the six native Immortals with the Heart Power Extinction Technique, killing one and leaving the others reeling.
• Lu Yan'an used the Heart Power Celestial Star Technique to trap the five surviving natives in illusions.
• Lu Yan'an combined the illusion with the Six-Phase Sealing Method, killing Native Futuo and his four subordinates and turning them into a painting.
• The Five Elements Squad gave Lu Yan'an their Letter Talismans, and he gathered all six talismans and three boxes before law light transported him away.
• Lu Yan'an arrived above a vast forest and plains filled with towering statues of unfamiliar exotic beasts, and wondered where he was.

Lu Yan'an explored the Secret Abyss, where he studied 64 beast statues and discovered that their Secret Patterns revealed a vast diagram explaining the laws inscribed on his Original Core. He left shaken by the beauty and significance of the Secret Pattern Diagram School.

• Lu Yan'an discovered that time flowed 100.81 times faster in the inheritance land than in the Original Universe.
• Lu Yan'an reasoned that the beast statues, rather than the scattered secret techniques, held the key to the Secret Pattern inheritance.
• Lu Yan'an examined the statues and found that their patterns and movements varied with each beast's state and fighting style.
• Lu Yan'an spent ten years studying all 64 statues, focusing especially on the eight that explained the Laws of Light and Time.
• Lu Yan'an compared the statues' patterns with those on his Original Core and deciphered a vast Law Secret Pattern Diagram.

Lu Yan'an discovered that the Original Core's intricate patterns were built from 1,024 Secret Pattern Diagrams and began cultivating by combining them into secret techniques. After hundreds of thousands of years of experimentation, he instinctively formed a technique that carved a vast trench through the wilderness, leaving him uncertain of its power.

• Lu Yan'an separated the Original Core Secret Pattern Diagram into 1,024 diagrams matching the patterns on the 64 Beast Statues and realized they could be used as elements for creating secret techniques.
• He spent ten thousand years imitating combinations of the diagrams and created dozens of techniques, though only two matched the power of his first move, Starfall.
• Lu Yan'an focused on the 64 diagrams of the Origin Law of Light and the 256 diagrams of the Law of Time, then created an Ultimate Technique by chance over the next hundred thousand years.
• He mastered thousands of diagram combinations and continued experimenting, eventually drawing and joining patterns through instinct without consciously using the laws of the universe.
• A golden light tore through frozen space and carved a trench nearly ten million kilometers long, leaving Lu Yan'an astonished and wondering what level of secret technique he had created.

Lu Yan'an created a Universe Overlord Ultimate Secret Technique after a hundred thousand years of cultivation in the Secret Pattern Diagram School, then was abruptly teleported out of the Secret Abyss. He learned that the Five Elements Squad had exposed his inheritance and left him a target across Yuanming Continent, but he warned King Shenmu that anyone who came after him would face a fight.

• Lu Yan'an carved his new secret technique onto a cliff and confirmed that it was a Universe Overlord Ultimate Secret Technique.
• A burst of spatial power struck Lu Yan'an and teleported him from the Secret Abyss to Yuanming Thunder Prison.
• Lu Yan'an met King Shenmu in the Virtual Universe, where Shenmu told him that the Five Elements Squad had disbanded after its members revealed Lu Yan'an's inheritance to other experts.
• King Shenmu warned Lu Yan'an that everyone in Yuanming Continent viewed him as a target, and Lu Yan'an answered that they would have to get past him to take anything.

After the Five Elements Squad publicized Jue’s Secret Pattern inheritance and the Secret Abyss coordinates, Lu Yan'an learned that King Shenmu had been punished for trying to conceal the news. Lu Yan'an decided to answer the hunt by making his strength known, while powerhouses across Yuanming Continent began searching for him.

• Lu Yan'an learned from Tianmeng King that the Five Elements Squad had spread the inheritance rumor and the Secret Abyss coordinates across Yuanming Continent.
• Lu Yan'an resolved to build a bloody reputation that would deter those seeking to seize his inheritance.
• Tianmeng King told Lu Yan'an that King Shenmu had been beaten and forced to leave the Outer Region Battlefield for helping cover up the news.
• Two Machine Race members, including Kelvin, joined forces to hunt Jue and claim the inheritance.
• Alien Race powerhouses searched Yuanming Continent for Jue but could not find him, while Thick Earth King grew angry and suspected Lu Yan'an would seek revenge.

Lu Yan'an learned that Thick Earth King had captured King Shenmu to lure him out of the Barracks Base, so he set out to rescue Shenmu. Unable to locate Thick Earth King through his contacts, Lu Yan'an decided to place a bounty.

• Alien Race powerhouses learned that Lu Yan'an was hiding in Barracks Base No. 44 and began giving up their search for him.
• Thick Earth King planned to use King Shenmu, whom he had handed over to the aliens, to force Lu Yan'an out of hiding.
• Tianmeng King told Lu Yan'an that Thick Earth King had captured King Shenmu after Shenmu left the Military System's protection.
• Lu Yan'an asked Tianmeng King for information on Thick Earth King and King Shenmu, then left the Barracks Base for Yuanming Continent.
• After several days, Lu Yan'an found that his Human Faction contacts could not locate Thick Earth King, so he decided to offer a bounty.

Lu Yan'an publicly offered a 100-million-Hunyuan-Unit bounty for Thick Earth King's coordinates, drawing the Human Faction into a continent-wide search. After a Crow Person Immortal found Thick Earth King waiting in a trap, Lu Yan'an arrived by God Kingdom Teleportation and prepared to strike first.

• Lu Yan'an announced a public bounty of 100 million Hunyuan Units for Thick Earth King's confirmed coordinates, and Immortals across the Human Faction began searching for him.
• After weeks without news, Lu Yan'an received a call and email from a Crow Person Immortal who claimed to have found Thick Earth King.
• Thick Earth King revealed that he had deliberately exposed his location to lure Lu Yan'an into a prepared trap and detected Lu Yan'an's God Kingdom Teleportation.
• Lu Yan'an arrived near Thick Earth King with Tianmeng King, confirmed the Crow Person Immortal's report, and told Lord Shen to pay the bounty.
• Lu Yan'an recognized that Thick Earth King was waiting for him and decided to give him a welcome gift that would leave him no future.

Lu Yan'an ambushed Thick Earth King with a Fire God Source Crystal, badly injuring him but learning that he could escape by Teleportation. Shaken by Lu Yan'an's wealth and strength, Thick Earth King summoned four Peak King allies and arranged a coordinated attack, while both he and Lu Yan'an waited for the confrontation to begin.

• Lu Yan'an detonated a Fire God Source Crystal near Thick Earth King, who Teleported away but still suffered severe injuries.
• Thick Earth King returned to the devastated Lava Mountain Range and decided to use his hidden cards against Lu Yan'an.
• Thick Earth King contacted Tianji King, King Tianyun, King Mingyun, and King Heimeng and ordered them to follow Plan B by surrounding Lu Yan'an.
• Tianji King, King Mingyun, King Heimeng, and the others Teleported to their assigned positions.
• Lu Yan'an and Thick Earth King taunted each other while waiting for the four Peak King experts to arrive.

Lu Yan'an faced four powerful Alien Race King-level Immortals at the limit and unveiled his Heart Force Path illusion, the Great Freedom Dream Realm. He incapacitated the Machine Race attackers and overcame Thick Earth King, leaving the remaining enemies vulnerable on the battlefield.

• Thick Earth King summoned Tianji King, King Tianyun, King Mingyun, and King Heimeng to surround Lu Yan'an.
• Lu Yan'an rushed toward Thick Earth King as the four attackers converged, then activated the Great Freedom Dream Realm.
• The illusion instantly made Tianji King and King Tianyun lose consciousness, while Thick Earth King struggled to resist.
• Thick Earth King unleashed his ultimate life-saving trump card, but soon fell into the dream realm and became peaceful.