Chapter Summaries

After fifty years of training, Lin Yuan defeated the silver-haired Brian from the previous Holy Land Ranking Tournament and applied for the C-Rank Assessment. He overcame the assessment’s powerful Black-Clad Man, passing the test.

• Lin Yuan defeated the silver-haired Brian in the Killing Space by burning him with “Burning Sky” and finishing him with his axe.
• Lin Yuan reflected on fifty years of progress in the Origin Laws of Earth and Fire and decided he was ready to attempt the C-Rank Assessment.
• Lin Yuan contacted World Master Fenyu, received an assessment invitation, and entered the Assessment Space.
• Lin Yuan fought the Black-Clad Man, whose techniques matched his own, and overwhelmed him with his stronger Domain and flames.
• Lin Yuan’s flames consumed the Black-Clad Man, completing the C-Rank Assessment.

Lin Yuan passed the Holy Land Universe Level C-Rank Assessment by overwhelming his opponent with his comprehension of the Law of Fire Origin, then discussed his progress and upcoming guidance from the Nine Flame Kingdom Lord with Marquis Yuankun. He later comprehended all 108 essences of the Law of Fire Origin and won Void Flame Profound Gold, which Liu Li tried but failed to devour.

• Lin Yuan passed the C-Rank Assessment, and the Black-Clad Man praised his comprehension of the Law of Fire Origin and predicted he could place in the top ten of the Peak Warrior Tournament.
• World Lord Fenyu congratulated Lin Yuan and told him the Kingdom Lord would visit the Holy Land to offer him personal guidance.
• Lin Yuan told Marquis Yuankun about passing the assessment, and Marquis Yuankun advised him to ask the Nine Flame Kingdom Lord about the Law of Space Origin.
• Lin Yuan fully comprehended all 108 mysteries of the Law of Fire Origin and drew a piece of Void Flame Profound Gold.
• Liu Li tried to devour the Void Flame Profound Gold, but Lin Yuan told it to wait until later.

After 180 years of gestation, Lin Yuan's Storm Ruins Spirit Clone was born, and its awakening triggered new Lucky Roulette System rewards. Lin Yuan gained a Higher Origin Law draw and an unused Flame-Ice Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal, which he decided to keep for now.

• Lin Yuan continued cultivating, strengthened his will, and lost his Holy Land first-place ranking to Brian at the Ranking Tournament.
• The golden sphere cracked open, and Lin Yuan's Storm Ruins Spirit Clone emerged at Universe Level 9.
• The clone's birth increased Lin Yuan's Gene Level and upgraded the Lucky Roulette System, granting him a draw for 1% comprehension of a Higher Origin Law.
• The Storm Ruins Spirit Clone's natural comprehension of the Law of Time Origin granted Lin Yuan another draw, which awarded him a Flame-Ice Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal.
• Lin Yuan learned the crystal's inheritance requirements and limitations, then decided to keep the unused crystal for a possible future trade or sale.

After gaining a Storm Ruins Spirit Clone, Lin Yuan tested its abilities and discovered that it greatly enhanced his perception of Origin Laws and could use powerful innate techniques. He began dividing his cultivation between the clone and his Original Body as the Peak Warrior Tournament approached.

• Lin Yuan drew a mechanical puppet and a Star Heart from the system lottery after his comprehension of the Laws of Time and Wind Origin reached the required thresholds.
• Lin Yuan used the Storm Ruins Spirit Clone to sense the Origin Laws of wind, earth, time, and space with greatly increased clarity.
• Lin Yuan tested Formless, finding that the clone could disperse through an area and transfer inanimate objects to and from the Clone Space, but could not transfer living things without the Original Core.
• Lin Yuan tested Condense in the Virtual Universe and found that it increased his speed and attack power thirtyfold but did not strengthen Burning Sky's area of flames.
• Lin Yuan assigned the clone to comprehend the Law of Space Origin while his Original Body cultivated the Fourth Layer Move of the Burning Universe Flame Wild Axe and continued studying other Origin Laws and footwork.

Lin Yuan trained his axe technique while preparing for the Peak Warrior Tournament, then joined the Nine Flame Sacred Land students to hear the Kingdom Lord’s address. The Kingdom Lord urged the students to claim seventy thousand of the kingdom’s tournament slots.

• Cohen told Lin Yuan, Resk, and Ling about a gifted Nanhu Universe Kingdom genius whose Law of Time Origin insights surpassed Brian’s Law of Space Origin insights.
• Lin Yuan encouraged his friends to keep cultivating for the tournament, then visited Mentor Moke to demonstrate “Long Rainbow Rending Sky.”
• Mentor Moke explained the Law of Fire Origin behind Lin Yuan’s axe technique and demonstrated its intricacies.
• The Nine Flame Kingdom Lord appeared before the students and Immortals at the Nine Flame Sacred Land, thanked the Immortals, and addressed the students.
• The Nine Flame Kingdom Lord announced that the kingdom had a hundred thousand tournament slots and urged the students to claim seventy thousand.

The Nine Flame Kingdom Lord summoned Lin Yuan and Brian to give them personal guidance ahead of the Peak Warrior Tournament. After Brian demonstrated his techniques, Lin Yuan revealed his mastery of several Origin Laws, surprising the Kingdom Lord, who sent Brian back and kept Lin Yuan behind.

• The Nine Flame Kingdom Lord urged the Universe Level disciples to aim for the top 1,000 in the Warrior Battle and told Lin Yuan and Brian to pursue first place.
• The Nine Flame Kingdom Lord brought Lin Yuan and Brian to his palace and asked them to demonstrate moves for his advice.
• Brian displayed his Ice-Sealing Domain and sword techniques, and the Nine Flame Kingdom Lord demonstrated improvements suited to Brian's abilities.
• Lin Yuan demonstrated his axe techniques and movement Secret Techniques, revealing insights into several Origin Laws.
• The Nine Flame Kingdom Lord expressed surprise at Lin Yuan's abilities, sent Brian back to the Holy Land, and told Lin Yuan to stay.

After impressing the Nine Flame Kingdom Lord with his mastery of several Origin Laws, Lin Yuan received personal guidance and spent more than twenty days comprehending it. He then learned that registration had opened for the Peak Warrior Tournament and reviewed its format.

• Brian returned to Sacred Land Plaza and wondered how Lin Yuan had developed such profound insights into multiple Origin Laws.
• The Nine Flame Kingdom Lord questioned Lin Yuan about his teacher, Marquis Yuankun, then demonstrated the Origin Laws using twenty-nine Flame Planets.
• Lin Yuan became absorbed in the demonstration, and the Nine Flame Kingdom Lord returned him to Sacred Land Plaza and ordered Longxin not to disturb him.
• World Lord Fenyu watched over Lin Yuan until he awoke more than twenty days later, then left after Lin Yuan thanked him.
• Cohen told Lin Yuan that registration for the Peak Warrior Tournament had begun, so Lin Yuan checked the announcement and learned that its final one-on-one matches would be held in person.

Lin Yuan registered for the Peak Warrior Tournament and learned that the competition would equalize participants’ physical attributes and telepathic strength. As the tournament approached, he found out he had been assigned to Sector 17 World and hoped to encounter many opponents.

• Lin Yuan read the tournament rules and learned how the Universe Kingdom Selection Tournament would advance participants through world rankings and arena battles.
• Lin Yuan registered for the tournament as a Universe Level 9 warrior.
• Brian vowed to become the top competitor and looked forward to facing Lin Yuan in the Warrior Battle.
• Marquis Huanyu advised Cohen to stay cautious, while Lena’s teacher sent her to compete and seek better guidance at the Great Axe Arena.
• Registration closed after attracting more than a billion experts from the Nine Flames Universe Kingdom, and Lin Yuan received rules guaranteeing equalized conditions for all participants.
• Lin Yuan learned that he had been assigned to Sector 17 World and hoped to find plenty of opponents.

Lin Yuan began the Peak Warrior Tournament after Marquis Yuankun warned him to stay cautious, and he was assigned to World Area 17. After killing his first opponent, Lin Yuan decided to seek the passage to the next floor, expecting it to draw the fiercest fighting.

• Marquis Yuankun warned Lin Yuan that his talent could attract attention and urged him to remain cautious in the tournament.
• Lin Yuan met Ling, Cohen, and Resk before the contestants were teleported to their World Areas, and Brian said he looked forward to their rematch in the Peak Grand Finals.
• Lin Yuan arrived in World Area 17, read the tournament rules, and learned that the preliminary elimination round would last 30 days inside a hundred-floor tower.
• A gray-robed contestant attacked Lin Yuan, but Lin Yuan outpaced him and killed him with his axe, earning one point.
• Lin Yuan surveyed the crowded forest floor and decided to search for the passage to the next floor.

Lin Yuan swept through the Ancient Tower, destroying its floors and killing contestants to amass points, then reached first place in his World Area. After clearing the first floor, he rested briefly and began climbing back up.

• Lin Yuan searched the ninth floor for its passage, killing contestants who attacked him before finding the entrance to the eighth floor.
• Lin Yuan destroyed the eighth floor’s buildings and drove its contestants toward the passages, then saw that Hui Guang ranked ahead of him.
• Lin Yuan continued downward, using his expanded Burning Sky technique to destroy each floor’s scenery and structures.
• On the first floor, Lin Yuan spared a fellow Nine Flame Sacred Land student who recognized him, then finished clearing the floor.
• Lin Yuan checked his Optical Computer and found himself ranked first with 378342 points, then rested and began working his way back up.

Lin Yuan, feared as the Flame Demon, cleared the hundredth floor and defeated a swift contestant who wielded the Laws of Time and Light. With every floor stripped of hiding places and the surviving contestants reduced to a few floor lords, Lin Yuan began his final sweep.

• Marquis Golden Sword and Yunting discussed Lin Yuan's strong tournament performance while Marquis Yuankun compared disciples' results with other powerhouses.
• Lin Yuan encountered a white-robed contestant who dodged his fire domain and used a technique combining the Laws of Time and Light.
• The white-robed contestant unleashed Purification Annihilation, but Lin Yuan struck him down with Domain Suppression Slash and gained four hundred thousand points.
• Lin Yuan saw that he remained first with 1,825,312 points after clearing every building and stretch of terrain from the first floor to the hundredth.
• The contestants were forced into fights, leaving each floor with only one contestant or a small team, and Lin Yuan began his final sweep.

The preliminary tournament ended after Lin Yuan dominated the 17th World Zone, earning nearly three million points and advancing without needing to compete in the Arena Tournament. After teleporting back to the Nine Flame Sacred Land, he reunited with Ling, Resk, and Cohen, who compared their results.

• Lin Yuan finished first in the 17th World Zone with 2,809,879 points while the surviving Nine Flame Sacred Land students praised his strength.
• The Nine Flames Universe Kingdom's analysts reviewed Lin Yuan's battles and judged him a possible contender for the universe's top spot, though stronger geniuses remained.
• The preliminary tournament's countdown ended, and all survivors were teleported out as the final rankings were announced.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Nine Flame Sacred Land with the other surviving students and told Ling he had earned just under three million points.
• Ling and Resk shared their first-place scores, while Cohen admitted he had placed second after failing to defeat a rival Spirit Reader.
• Lin Yuan teased Cohen about entering the Reincarnation Tournament, but Cohen refused and logged out of the Virtual Universe.

After the Preliminary Tournament, Lin Yuan returned to Marquis Yuankun, who gave him the Space Echo manual to help him advance his Law of Space Origin comprehension and improve his chances of entering the Great Axe Secret Realm. Lin Yuan accepted it eagerly as Marquis Yuankun bought the costly technique for him.

• Bart reviewed the qualifiers and noticed that a contestant named Lin Yuan had ranked first in a World Zone, but he assumed the contestant was someone else with the same name as a former slave he had tried to recruit.
• Hui Guang apologized to his teacher for placing fifty-third, and the old man reassured him that the Lin Yuan who defeated him was one of the strongest geniuses in the universe.
• Lin Yuan told Marquis Yuankun that he had taken first place in his World Zone, and Marquis Yuankun praised his talent while comparing him with Brian and a Nanhu Universe Kingdom genius.
• Marquis Yuankun gave Lin Yuan the Space Echo manual, explaining that it could speed up early comprehension of the Law of Space Origin but would eventually reach a bottleneck.
• Lin Yuan agreed to cultivate Space Echo, and Marquis Yuankun ordered the expensive manual for more than five hundred thousand Hunyuan Units.

Lin Yuan began studying the Spatial Echo manual Marquis Yuankun had given him to improve his comprehension of space before the Warrior Battle finals. Meanwhile, Marquis Huanyu ordered Cohen to enter the Reincarnation Tournament for three years of combat training, and Lin Yuan encouraged Cohen to focus on learning rather than winning.

• Lin Yuan read Spatial Echo and learned that mastering its ten volumes could bring his Law Comprehension to the Peak King level.
• Lin Yuan quickly understood much of the manual’s first two layers and realized his comprehension already matched the third layer of the Heavenly Bridge, then began cultivating with his main body and clone.
• Marquis Huanyu told Cohen to enter the Reincarnation Tournament, surrender in its final match, and spend three years cultivating and reviewing his battles.
• Ling discussed Barry and Brian’s Preliminary Tournament results with Cohen, who confirmed he would spend the next three years in the Reincarnation Tournament.
• Lin Yuan advised Cohen to restrain himself in battle and prioritize experience and self-improvement, and Cohen agreed to take that approach.

After the Nine Flames Universe Kingdom’s tournament ended, Lin Yuan strengthened his comprehension of the Law of Space Origin and prepared for the Peak Grand Finals. He gathered with the kingdom’s thousand finalists, met Hui Guang, and departed under Lord Longxin’s leadership.

• Lin Yuan watched the group arena battles and arena duels, studying Cohen, Hui Guang, and other geniuses for inspiration in their use of Origin Laws.
• Over three years, Lin Yuan mastered the first two volumes of Space Echo, reached the fourth layer of the Heavenly Bridge in Law Comprehension, and mastered the fourth form of Burning Universe Flame Wild Axe.
• Marquis Yuankun discussed Lena’s strength with Lin Yuan, who said that his defense and improved comprehension gave him a chance against her.
• Lin Yuan arrived at the floating island, greeted the Nine Flame Sacred Land students, and chatted with Hui Guang before all one thousand finalists gathered.
• Lord Longxin addressed the finalists, singled out Lin Yuan and Brian as likely top-ten contenders, and led the group to the Peak Grand Finals venue.

Lin Yuan and the Nine Flames Universe Kingdom geniuses arrived at the Warrior Battle's Plane Space, where other teams discussed the Kingdom's leading contestants. Meanwhile, Longxin and the other team leaders gathered at Restaurant No. 1, where they discussed the contenders and Sailuo boasted about Nanhu's exceptional talent.

• Longxin led the Nine Flames Universe Kingdom team to Island 0012, where other geniuses speculated about Brian, Hui Guang, and the unknown Lin Yuan.
• Cohen joked with Lin Yuan about the other teams discussing him without recognizing him, while the Nine Flames geniuses reacted to the attention.
• Longxin distributed room number tags, and Lin Yuan received number 2 while Cohen, Ling, and Rex received 7, 4, and 5.
• Longxin told the geniuses they could rest or visit the plaza before the Great Axe Arena representative's evening announcement.
• At Restaurant No. 1, Longxin told the other team leaders that Lin Yuan was Marquis Yuankun's disciple and had the strength to reach the top ten.
• Sailuo arrived at the restaurant, where the team leaders praised Nanhu's prospects, and he agreed that his Universe Kingdom had an exceptional young talent.

Lin Yuan toured the central continent square, where he learned about rival geniuses including “Flash” Lena and spotted Barry. Lena arrived and went into a restaurant, where Venerable Erosion Fire appeared before the gathered Immortals.

• Lin Yuan visited the central continent square with friends from the Nine Flame Sacred Land and saw Brian surrounded by other kingdoms’ geniuses.
• Brian asked about Lena, then flew to her house after learning she was resting there.
• Cohen introduced Lin Yuan to rival geniuses Mo Feng, Mo Yu, and Zaka Fire Dragon, while Lin Yuan noticed Barry watching him confidently.
• Lena arrived at the square and went straight into a nearby restaurant as the gathered geniuses discussed her talent.
• Venerable Erosion Fire entered Restaurant No. 1, and the Immortals rose and greeted him respectfully.

Venerable Erosion Fire announced that more than a million geniuses would compete for places in the Great Axe Arena through a trial-space preliminary selection. Lin Yuan entered his trial space after advising his companions to take their time, and flew into the first trial tower.

• Venerable Erosion Fire welcomed the geniuses and explained that the top 100 would become Core Members, the next 7,200 would compete for 900 places, and everyone else would be eliminated.
• The next morning, Lin Yuan advised Ling, Cohen, and Resk to leave some opponents alive so they could study each battle and progress more carefully.
• More than a million geniuses were transported to their individual trial spaces.
• Lin Yuan checked the rules and point rewards for the seven trial towers, then flew into the first tower.

Lin Yuan slowly cleared the first floor of the first Trial Tower, using the time to cultivate between attacks. After ten days, he advanced to the second floor, where ten thousand Mountain-Shaking Apes awaited him.

• Lin Yuan entered the first floor, where he faced ten thousand Red-Eyed Fierce Wolves, and used his Domain and Thousand Mountain Axe to defeat all but one.
• Lin Yuan spent most of the ten-day limit cultivating while the final wolf remained trapped by his Domain.
• Military Lord Longxin checked the rankings and worried that several Nine Flames Universe Kingdom contestants, including Lin Yuan, were near the bottom because they were cultivating.
• Marquis Yuankun and Marquis Huanyu watched Lin Yuan's trial and discussed his patience and decision to clear the floors unhurriedly.
• Lin Yuan killed the last Red-Eyed Fierce Wolf as the ten days ended and advanced to the second floor, where ten thousand Mountain-Shaking Apes awaited him.

Lin Yuan steadily cleared the first four Trial Towers while allowing the Zerg Mother Empress's growing Soul Attacks to test his will. He entered the fifth Trial Tower, while Brian was eliminated in the sixth tower after a Soul Attack knocked him unconscious.

• Lin Yuan reached the seventh level of the first Trial Tower and observed that the Zerg Mother Empress's Soul Attacks grew stronger over time.
• Three Nine Flame Sacred Land students were eliminated in the third Trial Tower and discussed their results, noting Lin Yuan's low ranking because he had not yet emerged.
• Lin Yuan passed every level of the second and third Trial Towers while his Storm Ruins Spirit Clone studied Space Recollection and deepened his understanding of the Law of Space Origin.
• Lin Yuan spent ten days on the seventh level of the fourth Trial Tower, endured the Zerg Mother Empress's Soul Attacks, then destroyed the Zerg Mother Nest with Burning Sky and entered the fifth Trial Tower.
• Immortals watched Lin Yuan climb into the top five hundred and praised his will and Law of Fire Origin comprehension.
• Brian was eliminated on the seventh level of the sixth Trial Tower after the Zerg Mother Empress's Soul Attack made him pass out.