Chapter Summaries

Luo Zhiyuan reached the summit of Primal Heavenly Mountain and faced its three guardians, who challenged him despite his having passed only the Tenth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge. As the Minotaur and Ape Person attacked, the Snake Woman trapped Luo Zhiyuan in an illusion, and he began breaking free while their strikes closed in.

• The Ape Person noticed Luo Zhiyuan approaching and alerted the sleeping Minotaur and the Snake Woman to prepare for a fight.
• Luo Zhiyuan reached the summit, inspected the three guardians, and agreed to challenge them rather than leave without a battle.
• The Minotaur swung his golden great hammer at Luo Zhiyuan as the Ape Person sent his Blue Short Blade after him.
• Luo Zhiyuan used Time Flow to switch places with a distant History Trajectory Phantom, but the Snake Woman's illusion transported his perception to a battlefield.
• Luo Zhiyuan recognized the illusion, shook the Four Great Mountains phantom in his Consciousness Ocean, and used Time Acceleration to hasten his escape from it.

Luo Zhiyuan fought the Ape Person, Minotaur, and Snake Woman at the summit, using his Historical Phantoms and soul attacks to overcome their coordinated assault. After killing Snake Woman and the Ape Person, he granted the Minotaur’s request and finished him off.

• Luo Zhiyuan used the Universe Bead’s Star-Suppressing Realm to escape the Ape Person’s Blue Short Blade, then sent his phantoms and soul attacks after Snake Woman.
• The Minotaur rescued Snake Woman while the Ape Person fought Luo Zhiyuan’s phantoms, and Luo Zhiyuan pressed all three guardians with attacks drawn from the Laws of Space and Time.
• The Ape Person, Minotaur, and Snake Woman launched a coordinated counterattack that destroyed several of Luo Zhiyuan’s remaining Historical Phantoms and sent the Blue Short Blade toward him.
• Luo Zhiyuan swapped places with his last phantom and sent blood-red beasts into the guardians’ Consciousness Oceans, killing Snake Woman and stopping the Ape Person’s blade.
• The Minotaur asked Luo Zhiyuan to kill him, and Luo Zhiyuan shattered his head with the Universe Bead.

After conquering the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain, Luo Zhiyuan celebrated with its three gatekeepers and promised to visit them again. News of his achievement reached the Virtual Universe Company’s Venerables, who welcomed him as Demon Eye Venerable’s disciple and worried that enemies might target him as they had past geniuses.

• Luo Zhiyuan asked whether he could eat the fruit growing on the mountain, and the gatekeepers invited him to try some.
• The Ape Person brought out homemade fruit wine, and Luo Zhiyuan thanked the three gatekeepers and promised to return to drink and talk with them.
• News of Luo Zhiyuan’s conquest spread among the Virtual Universe Company’s upper ranks, and Nine Swords Venerable read it before logging out.
• Demon Eye Venerable hosted fellow Venerables, who congratulated him on taking Luo Zhiyuan as his disciple.
• The Venerables recalled how the Zerg had killed past geniuses Kedi and another disciple, and Demon Eye Venerable hoped Luo Zhiyuan would survive to grow stronger.

Luo Zhiyuan became Chaos City Leader’s personal disciple after passing Primal Heavenly Mountain, then passed the Twelfth Layer of Heaven’s Bridge. He comforted Ai Chen over her anxiety about falling behind him, and she confessed her feelings before they spent the night together.

• Luo Zhiyuan reported passing Primal Heavenly Mountain, and Chaos City Leader made him his personal disciple, advised him to stay humble, and urged him to reach World Lord Level.
• Luo Zhiyuan visited Blood Crocodile King, reviewed his gains, and passed the Twelfth Layer of Heaven’s Bridge; Bolan passed the Sixth Layer, while the others failed to advance.
• Luo Zhiyuan found Ai Chen dispirited and invited her to Primal Heavenly Mountain’s plane to share fruit wine and talk.
• Ai Chen admitted she had fallen for Luo Zhiyuan and had pushed herself to cultivate because she feared she would no longer be able to compete with him or stand by his side.
• Luo Zhiyuan reassured Ai Chen that she would always matter to him, and they finished the wine, talked together, and fell asleep nestled beside each other.

Ai Chen cleared the fifth level of the Heavenly Bridge, and Luo Zhiyuan revealed how far the veteran members had progressed to the gathered tournament geniuses. Afterward, he told Ai Chen about Rainbow Light Era, a cultivation guide that could help her keep advancing after leaving Chaos City.

• Ai Chen attempted the fifth level of the Heavenly Bridge while Luo Zhiyuan watched, and she defeated its guardian with Flowing Light Nine Variations before falling at the sixth level.
• Bafen summoned Bolan, Rong Jun, Wuka, Qianshui, and other tournament geniuses to the Heavenly Bridge plaza.
• Luo Zhiyuan told Bolan that the Primal Secret Region's weakest current members had cleared the seventh level, and warned Rong Jun and the others that Absolute Beginning Region veterans had cleared the sixth or seventh.
• A day later, Luo Zhiyuan shared what he had learned with Ai Chen, who said she hoped to reach the sixth or seventh level within decades and enter the Primal Secret Region.
• Luo Zhiyuan told Ai Chen to seek out Rainbow Light Era in the Virtual Universe secret technique treasury so she could continue studying the Zhouguang Chaos Stele after leaving Chaos City.

As the geniuses prepared to leave Chaos City, Luo Zhiyuan completed a Star-Eating Grass carving that recorded his understanding of the first three diagrams of the Universe Chaos Stele. After leaving his residence for the Universe School, he departed with Nine Swords Venerable, carrying Chaos City Leader’s emergency token.

• King Longyu reported the tournament’s deaths and Heavenly Bridge rankings, and Nine Swords Venerable declined to take Bolan as a disciple until he proved himself in the first Qualification Battle.
• Nine Swords Venerable summoned the geniuses, reprimanded them, and then visited Candery, while Luo Zhiyuan went to say goodbye to Blood Crocodile King.
• Luo Zhiyuan spent eight days organizing his cultivation technique and then carved a Star-Eating Grass on his rooftop, with its leaves embodying his understanding of Space, Time, and the Chaos Stele.
• Luo Zhiyuan presented the carving as a reference for future Universe School disciples, and Chaos City Leader gave him a token to summon help in a life-threatening crisis.
• Luo Zhiyuan withdrew his residence mark and flew to Nine Swords Venerable’s spacecraft; afterward, the residence became the Universe School’s Public Cultivation Residence.

Luo Zhiyuan and Bolan entered the Primal Secret Region, where Nine Swords Venerable and the reception staff introduced them to their new home and the risks of cultivation missions. At his estate, Luo Zhiyuan reviewed his new Virtual Universe options and spent 1.86 million points on two Detectors, postponing the purchase of a spaceship.

• Wuka teased Luo Feng and Rong Jun for advancing further on the Heavenly Bridge, while Ai Chen and Luo Zhiyuan shared a final moment before their paths separated.
• Luo Zhiyuan and Luo Feng reunited with Xu Xin in Rain-Phase Mountain, where Luo Zhiyuan left his parents alone to talk.
• Nine Swords Venerable sent Luo Zhiyuan and Bolan to Wuchen Space-Time and warned them that cultivation missions held both opportunities and dangers.
• Yinwo welcomed Luo Zhiyuan and Bolan, and Yuan Fen greeted Luo Zhiyuan before the two youths were taken to their separate residences.
• Luo Zhiyuan browsed the Virtual Universe exchange and decided not to buy a costly spaceship, then bought a Large Detector and a small Detector for 1.86 million points.

Luo Zhiyuan explored the Virtual Universe Company's training missions, comparing their risks and objectives across several difficulty levels. After reading about the six Dangerous Level missions and four Desperate Level missions, he considered taking on a Dangerous Level mission but had not chosen one.

• Luo Zhiyuan reviewed the Study and Practice options, including lectures, the Heavenly Bridge, the Illusion Sea, and the Immortal Altar.
• Luo Zhiyuan examined Safe, Ordinary, and Difficult Cultivation Missions and noted the kinds of assignments they involved.
• Luo Zhiyuan read about six Dangerous Level missions in the Primal Secret Region: Viska Star, the Ruined Ancient Temple, the Mud Snail World, Dusa Star, Flame Swamp Continent, and the Eerie Maze.
• Luo Zhiyuan looked over the four Desperate Level missions and felt alarmed by their descriptions.
• Luo Zhiyuan considered trying one of the Dangerous Level missions but had not decided which to choose.

Luo Zhiyuan compared the six Dangerous Level missions and, after Bulieni argued that the Ruined Ancient Temple might conceal an opportunity tied to two native Universe Venerables, chose it as his first cultivation mission.

• Luo Zhiyuan weighed the potential rewards and dangers of Viska Star, the Ruined Ancient Temple, Mud Snail World, Dusa Star, Flame Swamp Continent, and the Eerie Maze.
• Bulieni used a process of elimination to rule out Flame Swamp Continent and Dusa Star, then pointed out the two unusually large temples in the Ruined Ancient Temple complex.
• Bulieni argued that the temples might belong to Universe Venerables and that the region's remaining dangers seemed manageable with Luo Zhiyuan's strength, Xingxing, the spaceship, and the Shadow Blade Bugs.
• Luo Zhiyuan compared his abilities with Luo Feng's past expedition and concluded that he could explore farther into the Ruined Ancient Temple.
• Luo Zhiyuan reread the mission details and selected the Ruined Ancient Temple as his first cultivation mission.

Luo Zhiyuan accepted the dangerous Ruined Ancient Temple mission and set out for the shattered continent after preparing his equipment and companions. After arriving, he headed toward a ruined temple in the direction of the deadly Temple Complex while keeping his Detector’s stealth function active.

• Luo Zhiyuan accepted the mission to collect statues from three temples despite its warnings about the Temple Complex’s high death rate.
• Luo Zhiyuan received his Detector and provisions, then heard Yuan Fen warn him about unpredictable blasts of Chaotic Immortal God Force in the Temple Complex.
• Luo Zhiyuan traveled to the continent, learned he could escape native attacks by fleeing beyond it, and disembarked at its edge.
• Luo Zhiyuan merged his Shadow Race Clone with his shadow and asked Xingxing to form protective armor, naming its combat technique Star Eater.
• Bulieni detected two ruined temples, and Luo Zhiyuan chose the one toward the Temple Complex and flew there under the Detector’s stealth function.

Luo Zhiyuan searched a ruined Temple for statues and clues, but found only murals, empty rooms, and broken statue fragments. He avoided confronting the Temple's native guards and left with no clear reward for his search.

• Luo Zhiyuan sent his Xingshuo Avatar through the nearby Temple buildings and found only empty rooms marked with indecipherable symbols.
• After fifteen hours of searching, Luo Zhiyuan discovered murals that appeared to depict a powerful figure's battles.
• Bulieni detected 360 ninth-rank Universe Level natives guarding the Temple, and Luo Zhiyuan chose to avoid alerting them.
• Luo Zhiyuan used Charm to pass one native unnoticed and decided he would visit Dusa Star after leaving the Temple.
• Luo Zhiyuan reached the tallest building and found only fragments of more than a dozen statues, with no intact statue to take.

Luo Zhiyuan reached the temple complex and realized it might hold a special treasure that helped Immortals become Universe Venerables. He tested the chaotic energy there with two avatars, both of which were destroyed, and began to suspect he had found part of the eruptions’ pattern.

• Luo Zhiyuan traveled toward the central temple complex while his Xingshuo Avatar explored and his Shadow Race Clone hid in its shadow.
• Bulieni detected chaotic Immortal God Force throughout the ruins and inferred that a treasure there might explain how the natives produced two Universe Venerables from only a few hundred Immortals.
• Luo Zhiyuan suspected the statues mentioned in his mission could point to the treasure and sent a Main Body Avatar into the temple complex to investigate the energy eruptions.
• Chaotic energy detonated around the first Main Body Avatar and destroyed it shortly after it entered the ruins.
• Luo Zhiyuan sent in a second avatar using Time Acceleration, but another eruption destroyed it, leading him to consider the eruptions’ pattern.

Luo Zhiyuan tested how law effects and Innate Secret Techniques behaved within the Ruined Ancient Temple, finding that law effects triggered energy explosions while Innate Secret Techniques did not. After an Immortal arrived to investigate the explosions, Luo Zhiyuan and his clones escaped undetected.

• Luo Zhiyuan sent avatars into the Ruined Ancient Temple and confirmed that using law effects there caused energy explosions, even when the avatar waited after attacking.
• Luo Zhiyuan used the Xingshuo race's Lie Kong and the Shadow Race Clone's Shadow Transformation inside the Temple, and neither Innate Secret Technique triggered an explosion.
• Luo Zhiyuan launched a law attack from a Vine Leaf and retracted it, but an energy explosion still erupted at the attack's location.
• Bulieni warned Luo Zhiyuan that an Immortal was approaching, so the Xingshuo Avatar teleported away with the Shadow Race Clone.
• A beast-headed Immortal searched the Temple's surroundings and destroyed part of the Black Forest, but he failed to find Luo Zhiyuan's avatars and returned to the Temple.
• Bulieni confirmed the Immortal had not followed them, and Luo Zhiyuan resolved to be more careful.

Luo Zhiyuan discovered that Body Force let a native move through the Ruined Ancient Temple’s chaotic energy without triggering an eruption, so he decided to train it there. After measuring his Body Force and buying a claw-based manual, he began practicing in the Temple.

• Bulieni showed Luo Zhiyuan a Universe Level 7 native using Body Force to move through the Temple’s chaotic energy without resistance or explosions.
• Luo Zhiyuan tested his Body Force in the Virtual Universe’s Immortal Altar plane and scored a best unit of 42, with an initial result of 40.
• Bulieni explained that Old Mystic’s Ninefold Body required a Body Force unit of 100, so Luo Zhiyuan searched the Virtual Universe for a technique to train toward that level.
• Luo Zhiyuan bought a claw technique because his clone could practice without risking weapons or leaving fragments that might draw the natives’ attention.
• Luo Zhiyuan received the manual and began practicing Body Force in the Ruined Ancient Temple.

Luo Zhiyuan sought Chaos City Leader’s guidance on Force Application Technique and returned to the Ancient God Temple Complex to train and investigate. After several of his avatars perished, his Shadow Race Clone secretly entered the inner halls and continued toward the palaces.

• Luo Zhiyuan asked Chaos City Leader about Force Application Technique and learned that the Temple Complex held a Marquis Level Immortal Spirit, five Immortal Army Lords, and potentially rewarding statues.
• Luo Zhiyuan practiced Force Application Technique until his score reached 56 units, then sent a Main Body Avatar into the Temple Complex to explore.
• Luo Zhiyuan dispatched nine more avatars to explore and train, but seven perished, mostly after accidentally triggering energy explosions with traces of the Laws.
• Luo Zhiyuan sent his Shadow Race Clone into the Temple Complex to investigate while using its shadow abilities to evade a native and enter an inner hall.
• The Shadow Race Clone found murals and furnishings in an inner room, then merged into the shadows and slipped deeper into the palaces.

Luo Zhiyuan investigated the statues in the Ancient God Temple, finding corrosion on the brows of three damaged statues but no clear explanation. After collecting many statues, his Shadow Race Clone discovered a silver-symbol pattern on one statue beside a World Lord native, identifying it as the special statue the Chaos City Leader had mentioned.

• Luo Zhiyuan examined three damaged statues and found that the corroded areas between their brows were identical in proportion, though he could not determine why they had eroded.
• Luo Zhiyuan collected three statues and then returned to gather the fragments of a damaged statue for further study inside his World Ring.
• Over the next three months, Luo Zhiyuan collected six types of statues while his score in the Immortal Altar Plane reached 63 units.
• Luo Zhiyuan's Shadow Race Clone entered another temple and found a World Lord native sitting beside a statue, then noticed a faint reflection near the entrance.
• Luo Zhiyuan discovered that silver symbols painted on the statue matched symbols on nearby buildings, and concluded that he had found the special statue.

Luo Zhiyuan searched the Ancient God Temple complex for Special Statues while improving his abilities and devising a faster way to explore. His Shadow Race Clone was discovered by a Heicong Race Immortal Army Lord and killed before it could respond.

• Luo Zhiyuan found that a World Lord native was guarding a Special Statue, then continued exploring other temples without taking it.
• Luo Zhiyuan told Luo Feng he had stayed on his dangerous-level mission to investigate unusual discoveries, while Luo Feng urged him to pursue Xueluo Crystals.
• Over two years, Luo Zhiyuan raised his Force Application Technique to 88 and explored 70 temples, finding 11 guarded Special Statues.
• Luo Zhiyuan created a Xingshuo Avatar to teleport his Shadow Race Clone near temple halls so it could infiltrate them more quickly.
• A Heicong Race Immortal Army Lord forced Luo Zhiyuan's Shadow Race Clone out of hiding, recognized it as human, and killed it with his axe.

Luo Zhiyuan escaped the Ruined Ancient Temple after discovering five Special Statues, while the Heicong found that sacred treasures had been stolen. Haofeng gave the remaining Sacred Spirit Marrow to Harris and ordered him to seek the strength needed to save their race.

• Haofeng learned that Harris had killed a human intruder before questioning him, then ordered the Heicong to search the Temples for missing Sacred Statues.
• Xingshuo Avatar fled the Ancient Temple complex and dismissed the Main Body Avatars as Luo Zhiyuan recalled finding five Special Statues in Harris's Temple.
• Niqiuhe reported that eighteen ordinary statues and one Sacred Statue fragment were missing from his guarded area.
• Harris recalled unusual energy disturbances from two years earlier, and Haofeng explained that only a Sacred Envoy could enter the Clan Elders' Temples through Teleportation.
• Niqiuhe and the other Heicong urged Haofeng to give all ten portions of Sacred Spirit Marrow to Harris, and Haofeng ordered Harris to cultivate until he reached Sacred Envoy strength.

Luo Zhiyuan deduced that the Special Statues were not the true prize and suspected a greater treasure lay inside the two central temples. He used the Xingshuo Avatar to enter one tower, but strange sounds briefly disrupted his will before he escaped.

• Luo Zhiyuan and Bulieni reasoned that the Special Statues were too numerous to be treasures that enabled a breakthrough to Universe Venerable, and that the natives' strongest guardian was likely a Marquis Level Immortal.
• Luo Zhiyuan examined the central temples and concluded that a greater treasure might be hidden inside, beyond the Marquis Level Immortal's reach.
• Bulieni showed Luo Zhiyuan a clear image of the temple complex, revealing two unusual five-story towers linked by a black bridge.
• Luo Zhiyuan sent the Xingshuo Avatar into one tower, where strange sounds and light interfered with his control and briefly disrupted his will.
• After Bulieni called to him and Xingxing nudged him, Luo Zhiyuan regained control and teleported the Xingshuo Avatar out.

Luo Zhiyuan used the tower’s ethereal voice to temper his will and consciousness while exploring its floors. After reaching the third floor, he found no further passage and waited until he could better withstand the voice before investigating the connecting space.

• Luo Zhiyuan resisted the tower’s bewitching voice after Bulieni and Xingxing woke him, and Bulieni explained that the tower could help strengthen his will and consciousness for claiming the Light Beast God’s weapon.
• Luo Zhiyuan sent an Xingshuo Avatar into the tower to train under the voice while another avatar continued practicing Body Force techniques.
• A year later, Luo Zhiyuan told the Chaos City Leader that his Body Force technique had reached 93 and that he had found several Special Statues, though he planned to wait before claiming them.
• Luo Zhiyuan explored the tower’s first floor, found the staircase upward, and entered the second floor after preparing to resist its stronger voice.
• After his consciousness advanced to Third Stage World Lord Level, Luo Zhiyuan entered the third floor and later searched its space, which he suspected connected the Twin Towers, but found no passage.