Chapter Summaries

Richard entered the True Heavenly Tomb, took part of the Dao Tree’s origin to strengthen Xiao Yao, and then headed deeper to recruit Emperor projections. He arrived at Zhan Heavenly Emperor’s checkpoint, where he found Zhan, Shuxiang, and Second Cat.

• Richard subdued the Dao Tree and extracted more than half its origin, leaving it alive at Break Nine strength.
• Xiao Yao consumed the Dao Tree’s origin, gained new abilities, and appeared as a little girl who could accompany Richard.
• Richard entered the Heavenly Tomb, intending to recruit Emperor projections rather than take the trials’ rewards.
• Richard brought Xiao Yao to Zhan Heavenly Emperor’s checkpoint and entered the cottage filled with Zhan’s combat manuals.
• Richard found Zhan Heavenly Emperor with Shuxiang and Second Cat inside the cottage.

Richard visited Zhan Heavenly Emperor’s projection in the Heavenly Tomb, explained the changes in the Three Realms, and invited him to join Richard’s Origin World. Zhan Heavenly Emperor postponed his decision until the Heavenly Tomb shattered, while Richard left with the other Emperors’ cultivation methods and planned to travel through the River of Time.

• Xiao Yao met Second Cat and fed it water from the Life River while Richard spoke with Zhan Heavenly Emperor and Shuxiang.
• Richard told Zhan Heavenly Emperor and Shuxiang that the Spirit Emperor had escaped and that the Heavenly Emperor had been dealt with.
• Richard invited Zhan Heavenly Emperor to see his Origin World, where Zhan Heavenly Emperor recognized it as an imitation of Cang Mao’s Cat World.
• Zhan Heavenly Emperor withheld his decision and agreed to consider Richard’s proposal by the day the Heavenly Tomb shattered; Richard asked him to persuade Mie Heavenly Emperor and Ba Heavenly Emperor as well.
• Richard visited the other Emperor projections, collected their supreme techniques and cultivation methods, then told Xiao Yao he planned to travel through the River of Time to another era.

Richard traveled through the River of Time, learned from Li Hao, and reached Su Yu’s era. He appeared in the middle of a battle between humanity and the ten thousand races, where his strength turned the tide and Xiao Yao joined him.

• Richard entered the River of Time alone and watched the world’s history and future unfold as he traveled downstream.
• Li Hao manifested in the River of Time, demonstrated the Dao of Time to Richard, and asked him to leave opportunities for Su Yu.
• Richard passed the Human Emperor’s conflict with the Masters of Rules and continued through the tides until Su Yu was born and entered the Great Xia Civilization Academy.
• Richard emerged during the ten thousand races’ assault on humanity and destroyed an incarnation of the Celestial Ancient Immortal Emperor with one palm.
• The ten thousand races’ forces fled as humanity rallied, and Richard brought Xiao Yao out of the Origin World.

Richard told the Human Race leaders he came from another world and would offer only limited help, then privately told King Dazhou that the Human Emperor had expected their support but the Human Race had been left near extinction. Outside, Xiao Yao exposed Su Yu’s hidden booklet and Furball, bound him with a branch, and Richard emerged to find the others unable to free him.

• The Human Race captured the invading Myriad Races experts, while the surrounding leaders wondered why Richard had not been erased by the Rules of the Heavens.
• Richard told Wan Tiansheng and the other Human Race leaders that he belonged to another world and would not become their dependable backer.
• Xiao Yao recognized Su Yu’s hidden Little Booklet and identified Furball as a Rule Fragment Incarnation, then refused his offered resources and bound him with a branch.
• After the other leaders left, King Dazhou asked Richard about the Human Emperor, and Richard explained that the Human Emperor had awaited their support while the Human Race suffered near extinction.
• Richard left the room and found the gathered Human Race experts fretting over the branch that had trapped Su Yu.

Richard told Su Yu about the Little Booklet, the Human Emperor’s era, and the traitor behind the Burning Sea King’s betrayal, then left to explore the Three Gates. He planned to enter the Heavenly Gate and seek insights from Masters of Rules while avoiding major forbidden lands so Su Yu could develop.

• Richard released Su Yu and explained that the Little Booklet belonged to the ancient Time Master, whose allies and the Human Emperor needed Su Yu’s help.
• Richard described how the Human Emperor’s rule ended, identified King Yu as a traitor, and revealed that the Forbidden Heavenly King had impersonated Ye Batian and provoked the Burning Sea King.
• Richard left with Xiao Yao after telling Su Yu that the Iron-Eating Beasts might become humanity’s allies under his leadership.
• Richard reflected on the River of Time and the rare beings who had created heaven and formed their own worlds.
• Richard decided to explore the Three Gates, starting with the Heavenly Gate, where he would study Masters of Rules with unusual paths and avoid the major forbidden lands.

Richard gathered Masters of Rules, then visited the Iron-Eating Beast race and offered them a safe refuge in his Origin World. The race sent a branch to live there, and Richard left them with protection and advice before returning to enjoy the pandas with Xiao Yao.

• Richard recruited several dozen Masters of Rules into his Origin World and left the Heavenly Gate without interfering in the other gates or imprisoned powerhouses.
• Richard brought Xiao Yao to the Ancient Realm of Iron-Eating Beasts and asked July whether the race wanted to preserve a branch in his world.
• Richard showed July, August, and September his bamboo forest and explained that his Origin World was safe, though the Iron-Eating Beasts sent there would never return.
• July, August, and September agreed to send several dozen Iron-Eating Beasts, including Hua Yue, to Richard's world.
• Richard gave July a powerful seal that could be used three times and advised the Iron-Eating Beasts to watch Su Yu.
• Richard opened the Way of Devouring and the Path of the Physical Body to the Iron-Eating Beasts, helped Hua Yue reach the Dao Integration Realm, and returned to pet them with Xiao Yao.

Richard returned to Coiling Dragon World after taking the projections of Zhan Heavenly Emperor, Mie Heavenly Emperor, and Ba Heavenly Emperor from the High Martial timeline, then spent centuries cultivating and strengthening his Origin World. After a long absence, he reopened the Chat Group and learned how Lin Daiyu had used her new strength to reject Jia Baoyu and resist her relatives’ matchmaking plans.

• Richard failed to travel upstream from the Tribulation of Ten Thousand Races timeline, returned to the High Martial timeline, and took the projections of Zhan Heavenly Emperor, Mie Heavenly Emperor, and Ba Heavenly Emperor before leaving.
• Richard revived Zhan, Mie, and Ba in his Origin World, assigned them to its God Realm Management Committee, and entered long-term seclusion.
• Over several hundred years, Richard’s Divine Clones advanced, his Origin World expanded, and Xiao Yao grew into a powerful World Tree with eighteen God Rings.
• Richard reopened the Chat Group and read how Lin Daiyu had become a cultivator with help from its members and her father Lin Ruhai.
• Lin Daiyu rejected her relatives’ attempt to match her with Jia Baoyu, snapped a willow tree to frighten him, and complained about the incident in the group.

Xia Mi expanded her power through a fifteenth God Ring and a shared Origin World, while Richard considered his own energy shortage and prepared to visit the Plane Prison. The chapter ended with the Hegel family secure but unevenly developing, as Richard let its younger members choose their own lives under strict family laws.

• Lin Feng told Richard that comprehending the Origin of Space had brought him close to the previous God of Space's strength, and Richard praised his progress.
• Xia Mi described how she allied with the Spirit Emperor to defeat powerful experts, used the rewards to condense her fifteenth God Ring, and grew her Origin World.
• Xia Mi opened her Origin Dao to new gods and group members, allowing them to cultivate in her Origin World while strengthening it through their participation.
• Richard told Xia Mi that Martial Souls could advance beyond the Supreme God level and showed her Xiao Yao's eighteen God Rings, leaving her worried about the energy required.
• Richard decided to visit the Plane Prison after noting that Hogg and Salami had become gods, while Della and Cain remained at the Saint Domain Limit.
• Richard accepted that younger Hegel family members pursued pleasure, but he had Hogg enforce the family laws strictly.

Richard entered the Plane Prison and began searching Atlas Territory for powerful experts who could threaten the Tara Plane while his Divine Clones were away. After half a month of fighting his way across the territory, he arrived in Portland City, where Preston and more than a dozen High-level Gods confronted him.

• Richard crossed into the Plane Prison, killed a High-level God who tried to return to the Tara Plane, and sealed the spatial weak point behind him.
• Richard decided to eliminate experts stronger than Six-Star Demons so they could not threaten his home while his Divine Clones traveled to the Divine Planes.
• Richard attacked two High-level Gods he had detected, then spent half a month challenging High-level Gods throughout Atlas Territory.
• Richard reached Portland City, where Preston and more than a dozen High-level Gods waited for him.
• Preston politely asked Richard why he had attacked his subordinates, while recognizing that a fight could be dangerous for them both.

Richard cleared the Plane Prison of its powerful inhabitants, forcing or persuading them to leave for Divine Planes, then resealed its spatial weakness. With the task complete, he sent two pairs of Divine Clones to the Life God Realm and Hell, leaving Plane Overseer Steven wary of his power.

• Preston ordered his forces to attack Richard, but Richard destroyed Portland City and killed Preston with the Sword of Destruction.
• Richard persuaded the Storm Empress and her trusted subordinates to leave for Hell, then escorted them through the sealed passage while his two Divine Clones waited outside.
• Hogg sensed the arriving High-level Gods, but Richard told him to ignore them as they departed through the Plane Teleportation Array.
• Richard cleared the four Emperor territories and remote regions, killing those who broke their agreements and finding three more Six-Star Demons.
• Richard met the Plane Prison's Seven-Star Fiend, who agreed to leave for the Heavenly Realm, then resealed the spatial weakness after finishing the sweep.
• Richard sent his Life and Water Element Divine Clones to the Life God Realm and his Death and Wind Element Divine Clones to Hell, while Steven resolved not to provoke him.

Richard repeatedly refreshed his teleportation coordinates until his Divine Clones reached Mirror Moon Cliff on the Bauhinia Continent, intending to become a Sovereign's Emissary and obtain Sovereign's Might. After departing for the nearest city, he realized his limited funds and lack of transport would make the journey difficult.

• Richard sent his Death Divine Clone and Wind Element Divine Clone through the teleportation array repeatedly to refresh the coordinates to Mirror Moon Cliff, leaving Steven too bewildered to question him.
• Richard planned to seek the Bauhinia Sovereign's favor by building a relationship with her son, Reisjing, and becoming a Sovereign's Emissary.
• The Divine Clones arrived at Mirror Moon Cliff and learned from a Bauhinia Army soldier that Di Yi City was the nearest large city, months away by Metal Lifeform.
• Richard tipped the soldier a Mid-level Godhead and flew toward Di Yi City, expecting bandits might provide him with a Metal Lifeform and loot.
• Richard assessed his limited Ink Stones and decided that selling his spare Divine Artifacts and Godheads would not give him enough wealth to match his status.

Richard traveled through Hell to Di Yi City, earning a fortune by killing bandits and selling their spoils. After buying Metal Lifeforms, maps, and other supplies, he left for the Bauhinia Mountain Range, unaware that a group of God Level experts was pursuing him.

• Richard ambushed robbers along his route, collected their Godheads and Space Rings, and eventually found Metal Lifeforms among a large gang’s spoils.
• Richard continued counter-robbing bandits for months, upgraded his Metal Lifeform, and sent spare ones to his other Clones.
• Richard reached Di Yi City and sold his accumulated loot for nearly one billion Ink Stones, bringing his wealth to nearly five billion.
• Richard spent more than one billion Ink Stones at Bauhinia Castle on advanced and mid-grade Metal Lifeforms, maps, and Hell’s specialties.
• Richard toured Di Yi City, then departed for the Bauhinia Mountain Range aboard an advanced Metal Lifeform.
• A group of God Level experts who had watched Richard leave the city prepared to pursue him and rob him.

Richard defeated a group of High-level God bandits in Hell and used their stolen wealth to plan for a Soul Defense Divine Artifact. He then traveled to Yang Chan’s world and arrived safely at her temple on Mount Hua, unsure whether the great gods had noticed him.

• Richard was ambushed by High-level Gods who demanded his Space Ring, and he killed all but one with attacks combining Law Profound Mysteries.
• Richard killed the surviving Six-Star Demon with a space-time sword strike, then recovered the bandits’ Space Rings and found tens of billions of Ink Stones and other valuables.
• Richard decided to look for a ready-made Soul Defense Divine Artifact while continuing his journey through Hell.
• Richard asked Yang Chan for permission to visit her world, and she approved despite warnings from Xia Mi and Lin Feng about its powerful Eastern deities.
• Richard appeared without disturbance in the Holy Mother Temple on Mount Hua and wondered whether the great gods had noticed his arrival.

Richard visited Yang Chan and examined the Lotus Lantern, where he witnessed Nuwa creating the world and gained her Creation Manipulation inheritance. He woke after several days with a legitimate connection to Nuwa, while Xiao Yao and Yang Chan had kept watch and chatted beside him.

• Yang Chan welcomed Richard to her secluded temple and lent him the Lotus Lantern to examine.
• Richard carefully explored the Lotus Lantern's inner chaos and witnessed Nuwa divide chaos and create the world.
• Xiao Yao appeared to guard Richard as he entered sudden enlightenment, and she chatted with Yang Chan about her Martial Soul and Yang Chan's duties.
• After several days, Richard awoke having inherited Creation Manipulation from Nuwa.
• Richard realized the inheritance gave him Nuwa's approval and a respected identity in the world.

Richard told Yang Chan that he had received Nuwa's inheritance through the Lotus Lantern, then met Howling Celestial Dog when he came to deliver supplies from Yang Jian. After hearing that a stranger from the chaos was visiting his sister, Yang Jian decided to go to Mount Hua himself.

• Richard thanked Yang Chan for lending him the Lotus Lantern and revealed that he had gained Nuwa's inheritance.
• Howling Celestial Dog arrived with supplies from Yang Jian and found Richard and Xiao Yao at Yang Chan's home.
• Yang Chan introduced Richard and Xiao Yao, but Howling Celestial Dog questioned Richard about his origins and invited him to meet Yang Jian.
• Yang Chan dismissed Howling Celestial Dog and offered Richard and Xiao Yao Heavenly Court food, while Richard added delicacies from his own worlds.
• Howling Celestial Dog reported Richard's presence to Yang Jian, who grew uneasy and decided to visit Yang Chan himself.

Yang Jian arrived at Yang Chan’s sanctuary and cautiously questioned Richard about his origins and interest in the Lotus Lantern. As they talked, Richard raised the possibility that Yang Chan’s past love for Liu Yanchang had been caused by a supernatural scheme, leaving them intent on investigating who was behind it.

• Yang Jian and the Howling Celestial Dog arrived at Yang Chan’s sanctuary, where Richard had been staying and asking Yang Chan about powerful beings in the world.
• Yang Jian questioned Richard about his origins and whether he had come to claim the Lotus Lantern, and Richard reassured him by revealing his creation qi and denying any ill intent.
• Richard, Yang Jian, Yang Chan, and Xiao Yao sat down for tea and began discussing matters of the Heavenly Court.
• Richard reasoned that Yang Chan’s past behavior toward Liu Yanchang contradicted her character and might have resulted from manipulation involving fate, desire, or karma.
• Yang Chan admitted she had never discussed her situation with Lin Feng, and Richard concluded that they needed to identify the person scheming against her.

Richard warned Yang Jian that Yang Chan might be targeted by a scheme that could lead her to fall in love with a mortal, and showed him a possible future in which she married Liu Yanchang and had a child. Yang Jian began investigating who might be behind it, while Richard’s estimate that the events would happen soon left the threat unresolved.

• Richard told Yang Jian that someone might be plotting against Yang Chan, and Yang Chan admitted she had hoped to handle the danger herself.
• Richard showed Yang Jian a possible future in which Yang Chan fell in love with Liu Yanchang, married him, and had a child.
• Yang Jian asked which powerful beings could manipulate karma or desire, and explained that Buddhist figures were known for karma while Su Nu and Yue Lao were skilled in desire.
• Richard suggested Buddhism might be involved, leading Yang Jian to fear a deeper struggle between the Buddhist sect and the Heavenly Court.
• Yang Jian asked when the predicted events might occur, and Richard estimated they would happen soon, roughly five hundred years after the Journey to the West.

Yang Chan and Richard discussed whether she should leave her divine office and avoid a possible Buddhist scheme, while Yang Jian returned to the Heavenly Court to monitor her marriage thread. The chapter left Yang Chan preparing to craft an artifact clone so she could travel with Richard without leaving Mount Hua unwatched.

• Yang Jian returned to the Heavenly Court to watch Yang Chan's marriage thread, and Richard asked whether loose Immortals were bound by the same rules as Heavenly Court officials.
• Richard suggested Yang Chan resign from her position as Mount Hua's Third Holy Mother and leave the world if Buddhism was plotting against her, and she agreed to consult Yang Jian first.
• Richard invited Yang Chan to travel with him, then asked Xiao Yao to leave a clone behind to watch over her jurisdiction.
• Richard recommended the Spirit Emperor's artifact clone method, and Yang Chan found it in the group files and bought it.
• Yang Chan saw that the method required rare materials and skilled artifact refining, and decided she could gather materials from Yang Jian's storeroom and craft a clone.

Richard and Yang Chan traveled toward the East Sea Dragon Palace, trading gossip and comparing their worlds. They arrived at the palace just as Richard dodged Yang Chan’s questions about his late wife.

• Yang Chan admitted she had not properly studied the Chat Group files, and Richard explained the powerful cloning methods available in his world.
• Yang Chan chose to visit Tingxin at the East Sea Dragon Palace and then Fairy Chang'e at the Moon Palace, while Richard agreed to accompany her.
• Richard and Yang Chan discussed whether Yang Chan’s second brother loved Fairy Chang'e and compared their worlds’ customs and rules.
• Richard told Yang Chan that his wife and son had died centuries earlier, and he hoped he might bring them back to life someday.
• Yang Chan asked Richard about his marriage and relationship with his wife, but Richard changed the subject by using the Dao of Heaven and Earth to bring them to the East Sea Dragon Palace.

Yang Chan brought Richard to the East Sea Dragon Palace, where Ao Tingxin welcomed them and hosted a meal. As they talked about Richard’s origins and Xiao Yao, the gathering ended with Ao Tingxin lamenting that she might never travel beyond the chaos.

• Yang Chan and Richard reached the Dragon Palace gates, where the guards made them wait while they announced Yang Chan’s visit.
• Ao Tingxin came to meet them, and Yang Chan introduced Richard as Nuwa’s inheritor from another world.
• Ao Tingxin led Yang Chan and Richard into the palace, where Richard admired its riches but judged its treasures mostly ornamental.
• Ao Tingxin served the guests Dragon Palace delicacies, and Richard summoned another incarnation of Xiao Yao to join them.
• Yang Chan explained Xiao Yao’s origins as Richard’s cultivated Martial Soul, and Ao Tingxin said her limited strength might prevent her from visiting other worlds.