Chapter Summaries

Lu Yan'an joined the human forces at the Machine Race front, where Venerable Yantian questioned his strength before assigning him a position to guard. Lu Yan'an accepted the post and teleported toward it, intending to prove himself in battle.

• Venerable Gui Yi brought Lu Yan'an to Line 44 and told Venerable Yantian that Lu Yan'an had true Overlord-level strength and could affect Machine Race fighters with illusions.
• Venerable Gui Yi returned to report to his teacher, leaving Lu Yan'an with Venerable Yantian.
• Lu Yan'an described his Gene Level and strength, while Venerable Yantian explained how Venerables used divine power purity, burning divine power, and secret techniques to reach Overlord strength.
• Venerable Yantian assigned Lu Yan'an to a near-front-line position guarded mostly by High Venerables and fighters barely comparable to Universe Overlords.
• Lu Yan'an received his location from the Virtual Universe and teleported toward his assigned post.

Lu Yan'an reached his assigned post on Line 44 and waited amid the desolate border battlefield until Venerable Yantian warned him that enemies were approaching. He intercepted Venerable Kangjia and destroyed the Machine Race Overlord’s mechanical castle with one slash, prompting Kangjia to flee in fear.

• Lu Yan'an saw that his assigned guard area was smaller than those given to stronger Venerables and surveyed the devastated Line 44 battlefield.
• While waiting alone, Lu Yan'an learned that the Venerables’ border war had become a drawn-out battle of attrition focused on draining Divine Bodies and consuming restoration resources.
• Venerable Yantian sent Lu Yan'an a warning that enemies were advancing, so Lu Yan'an teleported toward the approaching threat.
• Venerable Kangjia detected Lu Yan'an’s divine-power fluctuation and headed toward him, expecting to fight a newly assigned human Venerable.
• Lu Yan'an and Venerable Kangjia locked down space, and Lu Yan'an’s first blade strike split apart Kangjia’s mechanical castle.
• Venerable Kangjia mistook Lu Yan'an for a disguised human Universe Master and fled, while Lu Yan'an was surprised that he had retreated so quickly.

Lu Yan'an defeated Venerable Kangjia but discovered that burning his divine power drained him far faster than it would for most fighters. After speaking with Venerable Yantian, he resolved to master a Universe Master's Strongest Secret Technique before his future missions.

• Lu Yan'an struck Venerable Kangjia twice, overcoming his defenses and driving him to activate his self-destruct system.
• Lu Yan'an survived the explosion with Dream God Armor and collected Venerable Kangjia's Supreme Treasure Armor and other equipment.
• Venerable Yantian called Lu Yan'an, identified the defeated enemy as Venerable Kangjia, and questioned how Lu Yan'an had beaten him.
• Lu Yan'an learned that Venerable Yantian could use his strongest secret technique tens of thousands of times, while Lu Yan'an's two attacks had cost him nearly 2 percent of his Divine Body.
• Lu Yan'an concluded that his current technique was insufficient for upcoming missions and resolved to master a Universe Master's Strongest Secret Technique.

Lu Yan'an defeated Venerable Kangjia, prompting the Machine Race to send two stronger Venerables to confront him. He attacked them with overwhelming force, sending the giant dog flying and pursuing the Gundam-like mechanical giant.

• The Machine Race Venerables learned that Venerable Kangjia had fallen to an unfamiliar powerhouse and resolved to identify the threat.
• Lu Yan'an resumed cultivating, then detected an approaching enemy and told Venerable Yantian to pull back the front line.
• Two Machine Race Venerables recognized Lu Yan'an as Venerable Huan Shi and warned him they were stronger than Kangjia.
• Lu Yan'an burned divine power and struck the giant dog with his blade, sending him flying and costing him nearly one ten-thousandth of his Divine Body.
• The giant dog realized how powerful Lu Yan'an's attack had been as Lu Yan'an chased after the Gundam-like mechanical giant.

Lu Yan'an drove off two Machine Race Universe Overlords, though Venerable Yantian did not believe he had defeated them. Afterward, Lu Yan'an focused on finding a way to replenish his divine power quickly before advancing toward the Universe Ocean.

• Lu Yan'an struck one of the two Machine Race Overlords with his War Blade, and both enemies fled after fighting their way out of Space Lockdown and Teleporting away.
• Lu Yan'an wondered at his strength and lamented that the cost of Divine Power Burning had kept him from catching the Overlords.
• Venerable Yantian arrived, doubted Lu Yan'an had driven off the enemies, and advised him to stay safe and restore his Clone's Divine Body.
• Lu Yan'an considered whether increasing his Life Gene Level or Divine Body size could solve his divine power shortages, but decided neither was enough.
• Lu Yan'an resolved to develop a technique modeled on his World Tree Clone's Absorption talent so he could rapidly replenish divine power, even during battles.

Lu Yan'an studied the essence of time and created a miniature universe, then spent thousands of years developing a divine power absorption secret technique. The technique restored his Divine Body quickly but stopped at sixty percent, leaving him convinced that his attempt had failed.

• Lu Yan'an spent a hundred years contemplating time and realized that fixing time revealed changes in space, while fixing space let time flow.
• Lu Yan'an created a miniature universe with Time Fusion Law power and made it absorb cosmic energy, drawing the attention of Venerable Yantian.
• Lu Yan'an used the World Tree's innate Secret Patterns as the basis for a divine power absorption technique and refined it over three thousand years.
• Lu Yan'an tested the technique by attacking his miniature universe with Heavenly Radiance until his Divine Body fell below fifty percent.
• Lu Yan'an activated the technique and recovered his Divine Body to sixty percent before stopping and declaring that it had failed.

Lu Yan'an struggled to develop a way to replenish his Divine Body during battle, but his attempt to build a Miniature Universe ended in an explosion. Venerable Yantian’s suggestion to construct a divine-power-converting organ gave Lu Yan'an a promising new direction.

• Lu Yan'an realized that his secret technique restored only 1% of his Divine Body every two seconds, far too slowly to sustain fierce battles.
• After more than a thousand years of research, Lu Yan'an's experimental Miniature Universe exploded and destroyed nearby planets.
• Venerable Yantian arrived and asked Lu Yan'an about the blast, learning that he had been trying to create a recovery technique by constructing a Miniature Universe.
• Venerable Yantian suggested building an organ inside Lu Yan'an's Divine Body to convert divine power.
• Lu Yan'an recognized that a specialized organ modeled on his Origin Bead might rapidly convert unowned divine power, and decided this was a better approach.

Lu Yan'an turned Venerable Yantian’s remark about constructing an organ into an idea for using a Miniature Universe to convert energy into divine power. After more than three thousand years of research, he created the Law Universe, gained an apparently Universe Master-level Strongest Secret Technique, and left wondering what level the Primal Universe had recognized it as.

• Venerable Yantian questioned Lu Yan'an’s strange gaze, and Lu Yan'an thanked him for inspiring a new idea.
• Lu Yan'an planned to reshape a Miniature Universe into an organ that absorbed universal energy and converted it into divine power.
• After centuries of preparation, Lu Yan'an expanded his Law Domain into a Miniature Universe with a radius of one light-year and activated its Divine Power Channel.
• Lu Yan'an successfully converted incoming universal energy into divine power, then unleashed a barrage of blade strikes powered by his replenished Divine Body.
• Lu Yan'an shrank the Law Universe to a radius of a hundred thousand kilometers and concluded that it would prevent him from running out of divine power in battle.
• Golden light enveloped Lu Yan'an, leading him to suspect that the Primal Universe had recognized his Law Universe as a Universe Master-level Strongest Secret Technique.

Lu Yan'an learned that Lord of Time-Machine was coming to kill him and chose to face the Machine Race Universe Master with his Clone. As Lord of Time-Machine approached Line 44, City Lord of Chaos and Mountain Guest watched with interest, while Lu Yan'an prepared to fight using Tianji Palace and the Heaven Realm.

• Venerable Yantian arrived and learned that Lu Yan'an had created a Law Universe that improved his divine power and helped restore it.
• Venerable Yantian warned Lu Yan'an that Lord of Time-Machine was coming, but Lu Yan'an sent him away and decided to test his new secret technique against the Universe Master with his Clone.
• Lord of Time-Machine hurried toward Line 44, intending to suppress Lu Yan'an and bring him back to the Machine Race.
• City Lord of Chaos learned that Lu Yan'an had defeated Venerable Kangjia and two Overlords, and considered what he might do against a Universe Master.
• Mountain Guest heard that Lu Yan'an was about to face a Universe Master and traveled to watch, telling Pu Ti that he might soon have another junior brother.
• At Line 44, Lu Yan'an prepared Tianji Palace and the Heaven Realm, deciding to use the two Supreme Treasures in the coming battle.

Lu Yan'an fought Lord of Time-Machine, using his Law Universe and the Origin secret technique to withstand its domain and strike with near Third-Order power. He could repeatedly send Lord of Time-Machine flying, but its high-level Supreme Treasure Armor kept him from inflicting real damage, leaving him to recognize that he needed a stronger offensive secret technique.

• Lord of Time-Machine trapped Lu Yan'an in its Mechanical Heart domain and charged, confident its high-level treasures would secure victory.
• Lu Yan'an activated Origin and struck Lord of Time-Machine, breaking through the domain's restraints and forcing it back.
• Lu Yan'an unleashed Origin again with greater power, but Lord of Time-Machine's armor absorbed the blow without sustaining meaningful damage.
• Lu Yan'an concluded that he needed to develop a Universe Master-level offensive secret technique powerful enough to surpass the armor's defensive limit.

Lu Yan'an countered Lord of Time-Machine's Mechanical Heart with the stronger Heavenly Realm and battered it with attacks powerful enough to make it fear for its life. As Lu Yan'an trapped the fleeing Machine Race Venerable with control over space-time, Lord of Nether God arrived as its reinforcement.

• Lord of Time-Machine expanded Mechanical Heart's domain across a light-year and crushed Lu Yan'an with its pressure.
• Lu Yan'an activated the Heavenly Realm, forcing Mechanical Heart's domain back and overcoming its suppression.
• Lu Yan'an's Origin slash reached Third-Order Universe Master strength and badly damaged Lord of Time-Machine despite its armor.
• Lord of Time-Machine tried to flee, but Lu Yan'an pursued and used control over space-time to trap it.
• A vortex passage opened, and Lord of Nether God arrived as reinforcement for Lord of Time-Machine.

Lu Yan'an killed Lord of Time-Machine despite Lord of Nether God's Thousand-Thought Sea and the Machine Race's reinforcements. After collecting the fallen enemy's Supreme Treasures, Lu Yan'an returned to Line 44 and prepared to call for help against the approaching Fourth-Order powerhouses.

• Lord of Nether God arrived and flooded the battlefield with his Thousand-Thought Sea, compressing Lu Yan'an's Heavenly Realm domain.
• Lu Yan'an resisted the Thousand-Thought Sea and pursued Lord of Time-Machine as Lord of Nether God tried to hold him back.
• Lu Yan'an used Heart Power to strengthen his attacks and repeatedly slashed Lord of Time-Machine until he died.
• The Machine Race learned of Lord of Time-Machine's death and erupted into chaos, vowing revenge against the humans.
• Lu Yan'an collected Lord of Time-Machine's Supreme Treasures at Line 44 and decided to call in reinforcements against the approaching Machine Race powerhouses.

Lord of Jiaben confronted Lu Yan'an after the Machine Race learned he was a third-tier Universe Master who had killed Lord of Time-Machine. Their first exchange showed that Lu Yan'an could withstand Lord of Jiaben’s powerful attacks, and the battle was about to escalate.

• Lord of Jiaben arrived at Line 44, intending to capture Lu Yan'an alive as the Machine Race Father God had ordered.
• At a virtual meeting, the Machine Race Father God revealed that Lu Yan'an was a third-tier Universe Master and warned that his power against lifeless beings posed a grave threat.
• Lord of Jiaben challenged Lu Yan'an, who said he had chosen the approach that benefited him most and blamed the Machine Race for provoking him.
• Lord of Jiaben fired a black beam, and Lu Yan'an blocked it with Arc Light before a stronger saber strike destroyed the beam.
• Lu Yan'an drew Arc Light and prepared to show Lord of Jiaben what he could do.

Lu Yan'an fought Lord of Jiaben inside Lord of Nether God's Thousand-Thought Sea, where the Domain Supreme Treasure suppressed his movements and left him at a severe disadvantage. Despite being driven onto the defensive, Lu Yan'an's Divine Body remained at full strength as the battle became a contest of exhaustion.

• Lord of Jiaben urged Lord of Nether God to unleash the Thousand-Thought Sea's full power and help wear down Lu Yan'an.
• Lord of Jiaben attacked Lu Yan'an with a cyan spear, and Lu Yan'an met the strike with Arc Light but was blasted backward.
• Lord of Jiaben mocked Lu Yan'an's Life Gene Level and the Human Race for sending him into battle without raising his strength further.
• Lu Yan'an charged back into the fight, and he and Lord of Jiaben clashed repeatedly while Lord of Nether God maintained the sea's suppression.
• Lord of Jiaben relied on his purer divine power, armor, and enormous Divine Body to wear Lu Yan'an down, but Lu Yan'an's Divine Body remained at 100%.

Lu Yan'an was nearly killed when Lord Jiaben unleashed a devastating attack while Lord of Nether God trapped him with the Thousand-Thought Sea. He escaped into the Tianji Palace, leaving the two attackers unable to harm him, and they withdrew.

• Lord of Nether God realized Lu Yan'an was replenishing his damaged Divine Body with his Clone, and Lord Jiaben decided to kill both his original body and Clone.
• Lord Jiaben unleashed a scarlet whirlwind that threatened to annihilate Lu Yan'an's Divine Body, while the Thousand-Thought Sea prevented him from dodging.
• Lu Yan'an summoned the Tianji Palace and fled inside, surviving Lord Jiaben's attack with the High-level Flying Palace-type Supreme Treasure.
• Lord Jiaben recognized that the Tianji Palace made Lu Yan'an effectively invulnerable to their physical attacks, and Lord of Nether God withdrew the Thousand-Thought Sea before both attackers fled.

Giant Axe Founder confronted the Machine Race Father God and its allies, who were blocking the human forces from reaching Battlefield Number Forty-Four. After overpowering the Father God and rejecting its threats, he led the humans onward while the Machine Race forces stood aside.

• The Machine Race Father God and its allies blocked Giant Axe Founder, City Lord of Chaos, Lord of Dragon Walk, and the other human powerhouses from reaching Battlefield Number Forty-Four.
• A Mechanical Falcon insulted Giant Axe Founder, who struck it through the Father God's metal barrier and badly damaged its Divine Body.
• The Machine Race Father God threatened to destroy humanity by invoking its alliance with the Monster Race and Zerg, but Giant Axe Founder unleashed a powerful attack and forced it back.
• Giant Axe Founder dismissed the Father's threats, declared that the human race would no longer join the Machine Race, and challenged the Machine Race forces to fight or move aside.
• Giant Axe Founder led the human forces toward Battlefield Number Forty-Four, and the Machine Race higher-ups did not dare stop him.

Lu Yan'an returned to the human territory after escaping two Machine Race Universe Masters, and the human experts marveled at his overwhelming aura and strength. City Lord of Chaos recognized him as a Universe Master in status despite his still being a Universe Venerable, affirming that his feat of killing a Universe Master qualified him.

• City Lord of Chaos told Giant Axe Founder and the other human experts that Lu Yan'an had escaped the Machine Race pursuers and was returning, so they turned back.
• Lu Yan'an teleported to the Virtual Universe Company Headquarters and entered the Initial Universe, where experts and geniuses reacted to his powerful aura and manifested laws.
• Venerable Gui Yi greeted Lu Yan'an at the Chaos City Lord's Mansion and told him that City Lord of Chaos was waiting.
• City Lord of Chaos asked whether Lu Yan'an had personally killed Lord of Time-Machine, and Lu Yan'an confirmed that he had.
• City Lord of Chaos declared Lu Yan'an a Universe Master by human standards, despite his remaining a Universe Venerable, and told him his battle record qualified him.

Lu Yan'an was recognized as the Human Race's nineteenth Universe Master and met the Universe Masters of the Virtual Universe Lineage. Ice Peak Master revealed that he had previously defeated Kuang Xiao Master, who later joined the assassination attempt against Lu Yan'an.

• City Lord of Chaos confirmed Lu Yan'an's qualification to become a Universe Master and took him to meet the Virtual Universe Lineage's Universe Masters.
• At the Thunder Island meeting, City Lord of Chaos announced that the Human Race had unanimously approved Lu Yan'an as its nineteenth Universe Master.
• City Lord of Chaos introduced Lord of Dragon Walk and Ice Peak Master to Lu Yan'an.
• Ice Peak Master said Kuang Xiao Master had teamed up with another opponent and lost to him before Kuang Xiao Master tried to assassinate Lu Yan'an.
• Lu Yan'an recalled the failed assassination and resolved to settle the score with Kuang Xiao Master someday.

Lu Yan'an explained how his Law Universe secret technique and Supreme Treasures had enabled him to reach Third-Order Universe Master strength and kill Lord of Time-Machine. After discussing the technique’s limitations, he chose the title Lord of Heavenly Heart before going to meet the Human Race’s experts.

• City Lord of Chaos introduced Lord of Darkness and Lord of Youhou, and Lord of Youhou asked Lu Yan'an how he had killed Lord of Time-Machine.
• Lu Yan'an explained that his Law Universe secret technique restored his divine power, while his Heavenly Realm domain treasure helped him reach Third-Order strength.
• City Lord of Chaos and Lord of Youhou questioned Lu Yan'an about the technique, and he described its dependence on his Divine Body and Time Fusion Law.
• Lu Yan'an said that without Heavenly Realm he would likely be only a second-level Universe Master.
• Lu Yan'an chose the title Lord of Heavenly Heart, and the others accepted it as the sixth Universe Master of the Virtual Universe Lineage.

Lu Yan'an attended the Giant Axe Meeting for the first time after becoming a Universe Master and met the Human Race’s leading powerhouses. Giant Axe Founder revealed that Lu Yan'an had a World Tree clone, leaving the other Universe Masters surprised and drawing their attention to his abilities.

• City Lord of Chaos explained the Giant Axe Meeting and led the Virtual Universe Lineage’s six Universe Masters to the Giant Axe Temple.
• Lu Yan'an took his place among the Human Race’s top leaders and observed the powerful figures from its different factions.
• Giant Axe Founder arrived, praised Lu Yan'an’s rapid rise, and said his survival ability ranked among the best Universe Masters present.
• Giant Axe Founder revealed that Lu Yan'an could create clones and that one of them was the World Tree, surprising several Universe Masters.