Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan reached the twentieth island of the Illusion Sea before the consciousness pressure shattered his defenses and forced him out, but his achievement drew attention from humanity’s higher-ups. After his privileges were upgraded, Lord of Void Gold welcomed him as a personal disciple and promised him an Ordinary Supreme Treasure if he passed the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain.

• Lin Yuan failed to withstand the pressure on the twentieth island, while the Golden-Robed Elder marveled at how close he had come to the final island.
• Lin Yuan returned to his manor, assessed his willpower and Illusion Sea results, and found that he had earned 52,428,700 points.
• Venerable Erosion Fire congratulated Lin Yuan and told him that Lord of Void Gold was waiting at his palace on Divine Arrival Island.
• Lin Yuan ate the Golden Soul Fruit, which refreshed his soul, then teleported to Lord of Void Gold’s palace.
• Lord of Void Gold told Lin Yuan that his Illusion Sea achievement had stirred the human race’s Universe Masters and promised him an Ordinary Supreme Treasure if he passed the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain.

Lord of Void Gold gave Lin Yuan a small Chaos Stele to study, the Void Gold Secret Canon, and guidance on cultivating his techniques. He advised Lin Yuan to begin with the dangerous Nine Star Sea mission in Giant Axe Secret Realm, where he would be safe from assassination.

• Lord of Void Gold offered Lin Yuan a choice of defensive Supreme Treasures and showed him a small Chaos Stele made from leftover materials, which Lin Yuan could borrow for unlimited study and would eventually have to return.
• Lord of Void Gold gave Lin Yuan the complete Return to Ruins Evolution technique and ten volumes of the Void Gold Secret Canon, advising him to choose suitable combat techniques and eventually create his own.
• Lord of Void Gold told Lin Yuan that Shi Huo could help with minor matters and invited him to ask about cultivation.
• Lin Yuan checked the dangerous-level cultivation missions and saw that 186 options took place in Cosmic Secret Realms controlled by the Five Great Giants.
• Lord of Void Gold directed Lin Yuan to start with the Nine Star Sea mission in Giant Axe Secret Realm, then pursue missions in other secret realms after meeting his cultivation goals.

Lin Yuan reviewed the Nine Star Sea cultivation mission with Lord of Void Gold, who urged him to focus on combat while pursuing valuable opportunities safely. Lin Yuan also showed his teacher an unrecorded Flame-Ice Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal, which had never been used, leaving Lord of Void Gold puzzled.

• Lin Yuan examined the Nine Star Sea mission and learned that its Illusion Moon Sea faction held an inheritance left by a Universe Overlord.
• Lord of Void Gold advised Lin Yuan to use Nine Star Sea to practice combat, and also explained the benefits of Blood Luo World and Dragon Tower Star.
• Lord of Void Gold warned Lin Yuan that the Blood Luo Crystal could improve his Life Gene Level and stressed that he should prioritize staying alive.
• Lin Yuan showed Lord of Void Gold a half-red, half-blue crystal, and his teacher identified it as an unrecorded Flame-Ice Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal.
• Lord of Void Gold explained that the crystal granted an inheritance once every 10,081 eras, then reacted with puzzlement when Lin Yuan said it had never been used.

Lin Yuan decided to sell his unused Flame-Ice Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal for points and planned a high-quality breakthrough for his Metal Lifeform Liu. He also auctioned half a bottle of Purple Fire Ape Wine for 72.5 billion Hunyuan Units, leaving him with a large new windfall.

• Lord of Void Gold explained the crystal’s value and the distant dates of the Divine General Inheritances, and Lin Yuan chose to sell it to the Great Axe Arena for points.
• Lin Yuan asked his Smart Optical Brain to compare growth and breakthrough plans for Liu, then ordered the 900-facet plan and materials for 77,000 points.
• Lin Yuan listed half a bottle of Purple Fire Ape Wine for auction after choosing settlement in Hunyuan Units.
• An auction representative told Lin Yuan that several hundred powerful beings wanted the wine and arranged an auction.
• Lin Yuan accepted the winning bid of 72.5 billion Hunyuan Units for the half-bottle of Purple Fire Ape Wine.

Lin Yuan prepared for Liu’s advancement and his own cultivation mission, studying the Void Gold Secret Canon while Liu broke through to Peak World Lord Level. After accepting the Nine Star Sea mission, Lin Yuan departed with Watson accompanying him.

• The Great Axe Arena collected the Purple Fire Ape Wine and Inheritance Crystal and paid Lin Yuan, while his breakthrough materials arrived.
• Liu consumed the materials and began breaking through as Lin Yuan planned his preparations for the Nine Star Sea.
• Lin Yuan studied the Void Gold Secret Canon and considered his combat path and future Second Clone.
• Liu reached Peak World Lord Level, and Lin Yuan equipped his armor and gathered protective treasures before accepting the Nine Star Sea mission.
• Lin Yuan boarded a spacecraft with Watson after more than a thousand guards saw him off, and the spacecraft entered the Dark Universe.

Lin Yuan entered the Nine Star Sea to begin his cultivation mission and chose the Illusion Moon Sea faction. After arriving on Illusion Moon Planet, he decided to enlist as a soldier and joined the recruitment line.

• The Ape-man Race Domain Lord brought Lin Yuan to the Nine Star Sea, where staff registered him and explained how his token and Optical Computer worked.
• Lin Yuan chose the Illusion Moon Sea faction and met Karsen, who praised his Heavenly Bridge achievement and said he had chosen the Thunder Domain.
• Lin Yuan watched Universe Level fighters from three factions battle as his ship carried him toward Illusion Moon Planet.
• Lin Yuan arrived on Illusion Moon Planet, passed the city gate scan, and observed that the locals had a high cultivation level.
• Lin Yuan decided to sign up as a soldier and joined the line at a recruitment building.

Lin Yuan joined the Illusion Moon Sea as a warrior and learned that the region’s inheritance could be bought with military merits. He registered for a coming battle against the Thunder Domain and arrived at the Q2432 battlefield as the armies prepared to fight.

• Lin Yuan received a warrior badge and learned that warriors earned military merits by fighting for the Illusion Moon Sea.
• Lin Yuan discovered that military merit rewards were exchanged at the Illusion Moon Palace in the virtual world, where an illusion-related inheritance cost 50,000 merits.
• Lin Yuan registered for a battle over mineral stars in the Q2432 region, calculating that he needed 60,000 merits to complete his first two missions.
• Lin Yuan assessed his strength and decided that combat experience and access to the Illusion Moon Sea’s inheritance mattered more than simply completing the mission.
• Ten days later, Lin Yuan traveled with other warriors to Q2432, where the two armies faced each other and the battle began.

Lin Yuan left the Universe Level battlefield and entered the Domain Lord battlefield, where he killed a Domain Lord Ninth Stage warrior and earned ten thousand military merits. After the battle, he hid his identity by sending his Storm Ruins Spirit Clone to another city.

• Lin Yuan watched Karsen kill a thousand Illusion Moon Sea warriors before a Thunder Domain leader ordered Karsen to stop.
• Lin Yuan entered the Domain Lord battlefield and challenged a black-clad Domain Lord Ninth Stage warrior who had comprehended a trace of the Law of Lightning Origin.
• Lin Yuan tested his Return to Ruins Evolution combat techniques and eventually killed the black-clad Domain Lord with Ash Extinguishing Void.
• The battle ended, and the Illusion Moon Sea leader thanked Lin Yuan for defeating a top Domain Lord, but Lin Yuan refused to reveal his master.
• Lin Yuan released his Storm Ruins Spirit Clone, entered Clone Space, and sent the clone in disguise to another city.

After entering the Illusion Moon Palace as an Elite Warrior, Lin Yuan studied its illusion Secret Technique and Marquis Illusion Cloud’s teachings. He unleashed his strongest illusion during the test, and the examiner immediately collapsed.

• Lin Yuan altered his Optical Computer information, entered the Illusion Moon Palace, and qualified for its year-long illusion Secret Technique trial with ten thousand military merits.
• A uniformed woman explained that passing the illusion test would make Lin Yuan a Core Member and led him to a training room.
• Lin Yuan mastered the Secret Technique in two months and spent the remaining time studying the illusion techniques and insights Marquis Illusion Cloud had given him.
• When Lin Yuan’s year of training ended, the uniformed woman brought him to the test hall, where an examiner failed another warrior for only grasping the Secret Technique’s basics.
• The Domain Lord Ninth Stage examiner told Lin Yuan to use his strongest illusion attack, and Lin Yuan’s attack made the examiner’s eyes roll back before he fell over.

Lin Yuan passed the Illusion Moon Palace trial and gained access to its Core Inheritance. Inside the Inheritance Chamber, he studied the Crystal Holy Stele and sensed the mysteries of its illusion-based Soul Path.

• Lin Yuan's illusion attack knocked out the Domain Lord overseeing the trial, and he accepted membership as an Illusion Moon Palace Core Member.
• World Lord Ivan explained the three layers of the Core Inheritance and gave Lin Yuan a badge for entering the Inheritance Chamber.
• Lin Yuan bought a residence on Illusion Moon Planet and killed a World Lord Fifth Order fighter from the Azure Wood Realm, earning five hundred thousand military credits.
• Lin Yuan entered the Inheritance Chamber with nineteen other core warriors and saw the Crystal Holy Stele at its center.
• Lin Yuan avoided looking directly at the engraved full moon, then studied the stele's edge and sensed the meaning of its illusion-based Soul Path.

Lin Yuan left the Inheritance Chamber before completing its first layer, then spent ten years preparing a plan to steal the Crystal Holy Stele with his soulless Storm Ruins Spirit Clone. After the clone made the stele disappear and escaped the Green-Robed Elder’s attack, Lin Yuan reunited with Watson and celebrated that his plan had worked.

• After nine years of receiving the inheritance, Lin Yuan pretended to faint and left before fully understanding the first layer, avoiding the attention of an Immortal Expert.
• Over the next ten years, Lin Yuan cultivated while his Storm Ruins Spirit Clone fought in World Lord wars, and the Illusion Moon Sea faction’s mysterious battlefield kills alarmed the other factions.
• When the Inheritance Chamber reopened, Lin Yuan entered as a Universe Level 9 native, while his Original Body remained elsewhere and the soulless clone carried out his plan.
• At the world passage, Lin Yuan met Watson and began to tell him about his gains before exclaiming that his plan had worked.
• Inside the Inheritance Chamber, Lin Yuan’s Storm Ruins Spirit Clone touched the Crystal Holy Stele, making it vanish, then disappeared after the Green-Robed Elder’s Soul Attack failed to harm it.

After Lin Yuan took the Illusion Moon Sea’s Sacred Stele, Venerable Anzan negotiated compensation with the Silver-Armored Woman. Lin Yuan revived his Storm Ruins Spirit Clone and prepared to cultivate with the stele, then was summoned to meet Venerable Anzan.

• The Green-Robed Elder reported the Sacred Stele’s theft to the Silver-Armored Woman, who questioned World Lord Ivan about Cohen’s examination.
• The Silver-Armored Woman accused Venerable An of sending a World Lord into the Nine Star Sea, but Venerable An explained that Lin Yuan was a Universe Level 9 genius and offered to repair two damaged Sacred Steles and provide resources.
• The Silver-Armored Woman accepted Venerable An’s compensation after he agreed to prevent future thefts.
• Lin Yuan revived his Storm Ruins Spirit Clone, used Condense to recover energy faster, and celebrated that he could now study the Crystal Holy Stele’s inheritance without restrictions.
• A Black-Armored World Lord escorted Lin Yuan to meet Venerable Anzan while Watson waited outside.

Lin Yuan met Venerable An, who confirmed that Lord of Void Gold would cover symbolic compensation for the Illusion Moon Sea inheritance stele and praised Lin Yuan’s military merits. Venerable An rewarded him with rare Star Tear Gold and sent him back to his residence with an escort.

• Lin Yuan entered the black palace and met Venerable An beside a dark lake.
• Venerable An asked whether Lin Yuan had taken the Illusion Moon Sea inheritance stele and said Lord of Void Gold would pay symbolic compensation for it.
• Lin Yuan told Venerable An he had earned nearly eight hundred million military merits, and Venerable An praised his achievements.
• Venerable An gave Lin Yuan a valuable piece of Star Tear Gold as a reward.
• Venerable An sent Lin Yuan from the palace, and Lin Yuan boarded a spaceship with Watson and the escort returning him to his residence.

Lin Yuan rewarded Watson with illusion Secret Techniques and then gathered Marquis Yuankun's disciples to share the Secret Techniques and treasures he had acquired in the cultivation world. His senior brothers and sisters began examining the offerings, astonished by their range.

• Lin Yuan gave Watson several better illusion Secret Techniques, and Watson accepted them as a reward for his service.
• Lin Yuan visited Marquis Yuankun in the Virtual Universe and asked him to summon the other disciples.
• Seven of Marquis Yuankun's disciples arrived and chatted with Lin Yuan about his achievements and Law Comprehension.
• Lin Yuan displayed lists of cultivation techniques, treasures, and resources from the cultivation world and invited his senior brothers and sisters to choose what they could use.
• Saiwen examined the Secret Techniques and was stunned by what Lin Yuan had offered.

Lin Yuan shared Secret Techniques and cultivation resources with his senior brothers and sisters, then gave Marquis Yuankun a bottle of Myriad Transformation Ethereal Dew and offered Secret Techniques to Instructor Moke. He returned to his palace and began seclusion, determined to pass the twelfth level of the Heavenly Bridge before venturing out again.

• Lin Yuan offered his senior brothers and sisters a choice of Secret Techniques and cultivation resources, and Marquis Yuankun agreed to help them choose suitable techniques.
• Lin Yuan gave Marquis Yuankun a bottle of Myriad Transformation Ethereal Dew, and after Lin Yuan persuaded him, Marquis Yuankun accepted it and considered preparing for further cultivation.
• Lin Yuan visited Instructor Moke and gave him several Secret Techniques combining fire and space.
• Lin Yuan returned to his palace and began cultivating in seclusion until he could pass the twelfth level of the Heavenly Bridge.

After completing his Nine Star Sea mission, Lin Yuan resumed cultivating and helped Liu break through to immortality. A hundred years after returning, he prepared to challenge the twelfth level of the Heavenly Bridge again.

• Lin Yuan received 160,000 points after his Nine Star Sea cultivation mission was confirmed complete.
• Lena visited Lin Yuan, asked about his Danger-Level mission and the Blood Luo World, and said Black Jade Venom had strengthened her willpower.
• Lin Yuan focused on improving his Law Comprehension by having his Original Body and Clone cultivate Return to Ruins Evolution.
• After failing three attempts, Liu successfully broke through to immortality and became an Initial King-level Metal Lifeform.
• Lin Yuan continued cultivating for a hundred years and grew confident that he could pass the twelfth level of the Heavenly Bridge.

During his hundred years in seclusion, Lin Yuan dominated the Great Axe Arena Qualification Battle and watched other members’ rankings change. He returned to the Heavenly Bridge and passed the Twelfth Floor with his newly comprehended “Immortal Can Also Be Defeated,” then entered the Thirteenth Floor to test his illusion technique.

• Lin Yuan won every match in the Qualification Battle, while Lena held her place in the Giant Axe District and Cohen and Resk fell to the God Origin Secret Realm.
• Lin Yuan arrived at the Heavenly Bridge Plane and told Guardian Bafen he was confident he could pass the Thirteenth Floor, prompting Bafen to notify many talents and important figures.
• Lin Yuan defeated the Twelfth Floor’s Yellow-Clad Man with the Heaven Opener’s Ninth Axe, “Immortal Can Also Be Defeated.”
• Lin Yuan flew to the Thirteenth Floor to test his illusion Secret Technique, and the gathered spectators noticed he had chosen an Illusionist as his opponent.

Lin Yuan chose an Illusionist on the Thirteenth Floor of the Heavenly Bridge to test his newly learned illusion Secret Technique and defeated the Flame Armor Guardian with ease. He returned to the plaza without attempting the Fourteenth Floor, keeping his true willpower concealed.

• Lin Yuan chose the Illusionist opponent, explaining that he wanted to test his illusion Secret Technique.
• The Flame Armor Guardian's illusions failed to affect Lin Yuan, whose Ten Thousand Hearts Undying defended his mind.
• Lin Yuan trapped the Flame Armor Guardian in the illusion of a vast silvery-white moon, leaving him motionless and unconscious.
• Lin Yuan waited, then finished off the Guardian with an axe as the watching Immortals and geniuses reacted with shock.
• Lin Yuan declined to challenge the Fourteenth Floor and was transported back to the Heavenly Bridge Plane plaza.

Lin Yuan challenged and passed the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain, defeating its three Guardians through his law comprehension and combat techniques. He left the Heavenly Mountain Plane after promising to meet the Guardians again when he advanced to Domain Lord.

• Brian watched Lin Yuan's performance, accepted that the gap between them would only grow, and left the Heavenly Bridge Plane.
• King-level Immortals crowded around Lin Yuan to propose family connections, so he gave brief replies and teleported away.
• Lin Yuan reached the Primal Heavenly Mountain, where the Guardians learned he had passed the Thirteenth Floor of the Heavenly Bridge using illusion techniques.
• Lin Yuan said he would rely only on his law comprehension, then swiftly cleared the first two trials and faced all three Guardians at the summit.
• Lin Yuan defeated the Minotaur, the ape, and the Snake Woman, passed the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain, and teleported away.

After clearing the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain, Lin Yuan arranged for the Flame Dragon Star Sector’s slaves to be freed and traveled toward the Great Axe Universe. Along the way, he helped Liu establish a God Kingdom near the passage, leaving him able to use it as a future teleportation point.

• Lin Yuan accepted the transfer of the Flame Dragon Star Sector and ordered Kaufman to seize the slave traders’ property, expel them, and free every slave on its slave planets.
• Kaufman agreed to carry out Lin Yuan’s orders and summoned his subordinates to begin the work.
• Lin Yuan departed the Giant Axe Secret Realm with Watson and several dozen Peak World Lord guards, while Liu merged with the spaceship and greatly strengthened it.
• Near the passage to the Great Axe Universe, Lin Yuan chose a safe star system as the site for Liu’s God Kingdom.
• Lin Yuan and Watson entered the Space Interlayer with Liu, who merged his Internal World with a Space Fragment to establish his God Kingdom.