Chapter Summaries

Tang Ping used his power as the Heavenly Emperor to track down 213 fugitive scammers and broadcast their arrests and punishment across the Virtual Universe. After the scammers died in a three-month cycle of experiencing the suffering they had inflicted, Tang Ping declared that he would suppress every enemy beneath the heavens.

• Tang Ping remembered being scammed out of 10,000 Black Dragon Coins and recorded a new grudge against Liu Hui in his notebook.
• Tang Ping searched the Black Dragon Mountain Empire for scammers, found evidence of their crimes, and ordered his system to locate them.
• Tang Ping’s system identified 213 fugitive scammers, including Li Gang and Mei'er, and Tang Ping arranged a livestream broadcast across the empire and hundreds of lower-tier Universe Countries.
• Black-robed figures arrested all 213 scammers, and a Golden Armored Deity displayed their crimes and forced them to relive the suffering of their victims inside black cocoons.
• After three months, the scammers’ souls were extinguished and their bodies destroyed; the Golden Armored Deity identified himself as the Heavenly Emperor and vanished.

Tang Ping enjoyed his growing strength and carefree life until a manifesto accused Luo Ping and King Anle of weakening the Milky Way through welfare, security, abolishing slavery, and indulgence. The chapter left Tang Ping baffled and questioning the manifesto’s accusations.

• Tang Ping entered the Virtual Universe, found a hundred billion livestream followers, and read messages from people seeking mercy or help.
• Tang Ping returned to his novel chat group, sent red packets, and asked its members what they thought of the Heavenly Emperor.
• Tang Ping analyzed treasures from Chaos City Lord with the Creation Secret Technique, raising his divine power and strengthening his body.
• Tang Ping spent his days cultivating, relaxing, intervening against criminals, and chatting with the group.
• Fenghua shared a manifesto calling for a punitive campaign against Luo Ping and King Anle, accusing them of promoting comfort and moral decline.
• Tang Ping read the manifesto and was bewildered that Luo Ping’s welfare policies and his own indulgent lifestyle were branded crimes.

As the fusion process pushed Luo Feng’s soul toward collapse, a threat to the Luo Family in the Virtual Universe reignited his will and strengthened his comprehension of the Way of the Beast God. Meanwhile, Luo Ping explained a plan to protect Earthlings from exploitation and prepare them to face the wider universe, while Tang Ping offered to shift some of the public blame onto himself.

• Luo Feng connected to the Virtual Universe, saw King Anle’s proclamation calling for the Luo Family’s extermination, and learned of the rot beneath the Milky Way Galaxy’s apparent peace.
• Luo Feng renewed his resolve to protect the Galaxy, severed his Virtual Universe connection, and surged forward in his comprehension as Puti watched in astonishment.
• Luo Ping told Tang Ping that outside powers were crowding Earthlings out of the Galaxy and capturing them for bloodline experiments.
• Tang Ping proposed driving hostile powers out by force, but Luo Ping said the approach was too risky and presented a broader protection plan.
• Luo Ping proposed investigating bloodline research, training Earthlings, creating a security force, and prioritizing cultivation through tax and welfare changes.
• Tang Ping praised Luo Ping’s willingness to shoulder the backlash, then asked him to blame Tang Ping’s supposed womanizing on a cover story.

Mee’s elimination algorithm fueled a public campaign against the Luo Family, which responded with reforms that won overwhelming support. After the policies took effect, Chaos Mage discovered that ordinary people bore higher taxes, longer hours, and more expensive internet access, and he regretted voting for them.

• Mee posted an elimination algorithm arguing that removing about 37% of the population would help the Milky Way Galaxy progress, and netizens praised it while attacking dissenters.
• The Luo Family released a reform plan and public vote, and the policies won approval from as many as 90% of voters.
• Oath Under Snow warned Tang Ping’s novel group that the reforms would burden ordinary people, but Chaos Mage and others dismissed his concerns.
• Half a month later, the policies took effect, and Chaos Mage found that his pay had fallen, his workday had grown longer, and internet access had become more expensive.
• Chaos Mage considered immigrating, but after reading about harsher conditions in other star systems, he deleted his resignation letter and regretted voting yes.

Tang Ping used rare treasures to raise his divine power to 1,000 times the King Rank limit, then told Honored One Guiyi that his Nether Sea Clone might reach a ten-billion-kilometer divine body at the Immortal stage. Chaos City Lord approved drawing five quadrillion Hunyuan Units from the Race Treasury, then worried that Tang Ping’s future expansion could cost the race far more.

• Tang Ping combined rare treasures to raise his divine power to 1,000 times the King Rank limit and estimated his Immortal-stage divine body could reach ten billion kilometers.
• Honored One Guiyi presented a four-phase plan to expand Tang Ping’s divine body to about one billion kilometers, but Tang Ping interrupted to report his clone’s higher potential.
• Honored One Guiyi reported Tang Ping’s claim to Chaos City Lord, who realized the Human Race might have gained an exceptionally valuable opportunity.
• Chaos City Lord saw that expanding Tang Ping’s divine body to ten billion kilometers would require about five quadrillion Hunyuan Units and approved taking the resources from the Race Treasury.
• Chaos City Lord reconsidered the potential savings, then worried about the cost of fulfilling the race’s promise to expand Tang Ping’s divine body again at the Venerable level.

Tang Ping followed a four-stage cultivation plan to expand his divine body from one hundred million kilometers to ten billion kilometers. After a hundred years of secluded cultivation, he emerged with a vast, stabilized body and wondered who could kill him if his Soul Will kept pace.

• Honored One Guiyi gave Tang Ping a World Ring of cultivation treasures and arranged to oversee affairs around the Solar System.
• Tang Ping entered secluded cultivation while his two injured clones slept as they recovered.
• Tang Ping used Star Divine Marrow, Domain Realm Divine Sand, and rare treasures in a four-stage plan to expand and strengthen his divine body.
• After a hundred years, the energy storm over the Nether Sea subsided, revealing Tang Ping's ten-billion-kilometer divine body.
• Tang Ping marveled at his new size and believed he would be difficult to kill if his Soul Will kept pace.

Tang Ping arranged his family’s affairs before setting out to stop King Jiantuo from threatening the Luo Family while Luo Feng was away. He ambushed King Jiantuo, leaving the newly promoted King-Rank expert gravely wounded and unable to identify his attacker.

• Tang Ping reviewed his strength and decided to enter seclusion to pursue Venerable status after making arrangements for his family, friends, and concubines.
• Tang Ping noted that the Luo Family had helped eliminate factions targeting the Earth Lineage, stabilizing the Milky Way Galaxy despite new complications for Earthlings seeking work.
• Tang Ping recalled King Jiantuo’s past trouble with the Luo Family and decided to attack him before entering seclusion.
• Tang Ping burst into the Ross Family’s sacred grounds and struck King Jiantuo, destroying nine-tenths of his divine body before vanishing.
• King Jiantuo used a protective Supreme Treasure to restore part of his divine body, then searched for his attacker without finding a trace.

A thousand years after the attack that left him gravely injured, King Jiantuo accepted a Dark Net contract to test the Luo Family for a huge recovery treasure. He directed his descendants to handle the family’s growing business conflict with the Luo Family, believing the task carried little risk.

• King Jiantuo received a coded Dark Net message and sent an Immortal Attendant to investigate its offer.
• The attendant reported that the client wanted King Jiantuo to test Lord Luo Feng’s family, and King Jiantuo accepted after learning the reward was a divine-body recovery treasure worth one hundred million Hunyuan Units.
• King Jiantuo reflected on his Dark Net dealings and decided he could fulfill the task without revealing himself.
• King Jiantuo’s descendant reported that the Luo Family’s businesses were clashing with the Ross Family’s in the Jinlan Universe Kingdom.
• King Jiantuo told his descendant to handle the family affairs while he recovered, and he celebrated the expected windfall.

Sun Ruowei faced a dangerous transfer order and a devastating crash in her leveraged Luo Group investments after rumors claimed Luo Feng had died. The Luo Group announced that Luo Feng was safe in seclusion, sending its stocks soaring and prompting Sun Ruowei to invest again with ten-times leverage.

• Sun Ruowei received an order from Marquis Black Annihilation, Vissa, transferring her to the Outer Battlefield after her next thousand-year term.
• Sun Ruowei saw her leveraged portfolio plunge as the Luo Group’s real estate and energy sectors clashed with the Ross Family, but she trusted Luo Feng would return.
• The Ross Family announced that King Jiantuo suspected Luo Feng had fallen, and Sun Ruowei’s losses neared Kensiren Financial Company’s liquidation threshold.
• Sun Ruowei sold all her stocks and discovered that her assets had fallen to less than 200 Hunyuan Units.
• The Luo Group announced that Luo Feng was safe in seclusion and revealed new strategic partnerships, causing its stocks to surge.
• Sun Ruowei invested all in Luo Concept Stocks with ten-times leverage.

Tang Ping studied the Initial Universe’s secret patterns and united the three branches of the Time Law into a single pattern. He ended the chapter having mastered the Time Law.

• Tang Ping spent a thousand years absorbing the profundity of Sword Ten and studying the patterns in the heavens.
• Tang Ping recognized the golden, deep-blue, and colorless patterns as Time Acceleration, Time Deceleration, and Time Stasis.
• Tang Ping discovered the connections among the three branches and guided their Divine Power patterns together using Sword Ten’s configuration.
• Tang Ping merged the three patterns into a gray pattern that embodied time’s essence.
• Tang Ping understood the nature of time and declared that he had mastered the Time Law.

Tang Ping broke through to Cosmic Venerable after mastering the Time Law, and the universe’s origin transformed his main body while only partially transforming his enormous Endless Nether Sea. He created nine powerful Nether Sea Clones and received Supreme Treasures from Lord of Peng Gong and Chaos City Lord, leaving him newly empowered and determined to serve the Human Race.

• Tang Ping asked Chaos City Lord to move him out of the Initial Universe, whereupon the Universe Origin Laws descended on his Endless Nether Sea and began his breakthrough.
• Tang Ping’s Earthling Main Body completed its transformation to Venerable level, while the Endless Nether Sea transformed only 12% before the origin’s descent ended.
• Tang Ping discovered that his God Kingdom had expanded to a billion kilometers across and created Nether Sea Clones, eventually forming nine colossal clones with immense combat potential.
• Lord of Peng Gong and Chaos City Lord arrived, admired Tang Ping’s vast sea, and gave him the promised Soul Defense Supreme Treasures and other Supreme Treasures.

After Tang Ping received a treasure from the race in the Void Land, Peng Gong and Chaos City Lord advised him to remain within Human Race territory and focus on cultivation. They agreed he could guard the Solar System, but his enormous Nether Sea Clone could not be moved back to the Initial Universe, leaving him to rely on emergency tokens and consider keeping a clone behind.

• Peng Gong asked Tang Ping about his cultivation plans, and Tang Ping volunteered to fight Peak Kings and Invincible Kings on the Outer Battlefield.
• Peng Gong and Chaos City Lord told Tang Ping to stay within Human Race territory and concentrate on comprehending laws, and Tang Ping asked to keep guarding the Solar System.
• Peng Gong agreed to let Tang Ping guard the Solar System, provided he did not cause a catastrophe, and said the race would arrange combat missions if he failed to become a Universe Master after ten million eras.
• Tang Ping asked Chaos City Lord to move his Nether Sea Clone to the Initial Universe, but Chaos City Lord refused because its size would consume too much of the universe's origin.
• Chaos City Lord and Peng Gong gave Tang Ping divine power tokens so Human Race Universe Masters could come to his aid, and Tang Ping resigned himself to leaving a clone in the Initial Universe.

Tang Ping examined the Supreme Treasures granted by the Human Race and Chaos City Lord, then assigned them among his true body and clones. After becoming a Time Venerable, he emailed his master to share the news and remind him of a promised Palace Supreme Treasure, leaving Wind-Thunder Venerable bewildered.

• Tang Ping sent his Nether Sea Clone deeper into space while reviewing the treasures he had received.
• He studied the Soul-Suppressing Glazed Lamp, Dark Iron Battle Armor, Space-Time Sword, Universe-Suppressing Orb, Palace Supreme Treasure, and three additional soul-defense treasures.
• Tang Ping assigned defensive treasures to his true body, soul-defense treasures to his other clones, and the remaining treasures—including the Soul-Suppressing Glazed Lamp—to his Nether Sea Clone.
• He emailed his master to announce that he had become a Time Venerable and politely reminded him of the Palace Supreme Treasure promised in the Wind-Thunder Secret Realm.
• Wind-Thunder Venerable replied with a question mark.

Tang Ping was ambushed by Wind-Thunder Venerable in the Virtual Universe, then learned she was leaving for a hundred million eras and had given him control of the Wind-Thunder Secret Realm. After buying the book club’s sympathy with a red envelope, he sent avatars to oversee his realms and returned to the Solar System, anticipating a new Galaxy Beauty Pageant.

• Tang Ping entered the Killing Field and dodged Wind-Thunder Venerable’s sword attacks, but she trapped him and slashed him 8,768 times to collect interest for his plan to bully her later.
• Wind-Thunder Venerable praised Tang Ping, gave him control of the Golden Tower in the Wind-Thunder Secret Realm, and announced she would leave on a long-term mission for about a hundred million eras.
• Tang Ping complained to the book club chat about his beating, then sent a red envelope of one million Universe Coins and received fawning messages from the group.
• Tang Ping formed avatars to oversee the Wind-Thunder Secret Realm, cultivate with his children and brothers in the Blood Fiend Secret Realm, and travel to the Solar System.
• Tang Ping anticipated the next Galaxy Beauty Pageant as he set his avatars to work.

Tang Ping returned to the Solar System, reassured his children, and learned that King Jiantuo had recovered and was involved in a business conflict with the Luo Family. He offered Xu Xin protection and support, while she mistook his carefully staged bravado for dependable loyalty and planned to tell Luo Feng about it.

• Tang Ping reunited with Tang An, Tang Guo, and Tang Yiyi, praised their training, and privately planned how to keep them motivated; he also added Liu Hui to his Little Notebook.
• Tang Ping read Xu Xin's request for help and discovered that Venerable Jin Zhou had rescued King Jiantuo, who was active again.
• Tang Ping sent Xu Xin an earnest email promising to confront King Jiantuo, then put on a show of indulgence before answering her video call.
• Tang Ping learned that Xu Xin mainly wanted to discuss the Luo and Ross Families' business competition, and he promised to urge fair dealings without revealing Luo Feng's situation.
• Tang Ping offered Star Leaves containing his Divine Power to the Luo Family's core members, and Xu Xin felt reassured before wondering why he had called Luo Feng "Fengzi."

Tang Ping warned King Jiantuo against using dirty tactics in the commercial war against the Luo Family, and Jiantuo ordered his descendants to compete fairly while privately coveting Earth. Five hundred years later, the Luo Family was under pressure from factions across the universe, and Sun Ruowei came to Tang Ping and begged him to save her.

• Tang Ping sent King Jiantuo a warning that he would personally intervene if the Ross Family used dirty tricks against the Luo Family.
• King Jiantuo inspected Tang Ping’s profile, saw evidence of his power and backing, and ordered the Ross Family to compete fairly.
• King Jiantuo speculated that Tang Ping might be waiting to claim Earth and hoped that Luo Feng had died.
• Five hundred years later, rival factions had joined the commercial war, leaving the Luo Family’s companies in mounting losses despite continued financial support.
• Sun Ruowei visited Tang Ping in the Platinum Temple and begged him to save her.

Sun Ruowei asked Tang Ping for eight hundred Hunyuan to cultivate in the Initial Universe, offering to repay him if she became an Immortal God or serve him if she failed. Tang Ping doubted her worth and proposed a public poll to decide whether he would lend her the money, leaving Sun Ruowei to accept despite the threat to her reputation.

• Tang Ping rewarded Fang Shu with resources to help her break through to Domain Lord Rank, prompting Sun Ruowei to resent the unfairness of her own struggles.
• Sun Ruowei blamed Tang Ping for her transfer to the Outer Battlefield, and he promised to ask people there to keep her alive.
• Sun Ruowei asked Tang Ping to lend her eight hundred Hunyuan so she could cultivate in the Initial Universe, offering repayment or years of service in return.
• Tang Ping saw that Sun Ruowei had once amassed nearly one thousand Hunyuan through margin investment in Luo Concept Stocks and dismissed her as a gambler.
• Tang Ping proposed posting her photo with a poll to a hundred million Virtual Universe users, promising the loan if most approved, and Sun Ruowei reluctantly agreed.

Sun Ruowei’s public loan wager failed, and Tang Ping rejected her attempt to bargain with her beauty. He then offered her a new loan under a perilous wager, leaving her convinced she could recover her fortunes by investing in Luo Concept Stocks.

• Sun Ruowei watched the poll on her loan request end with 14% supporting it, leaving her fearing punishment from her company.
• Sun Ruowei tried to approach Tang Ping, but an invisible barrier stopped her, and he ordered her to leave.
• Tang Ping offered Sun Ruowei 500 Hunyuan at 1% annual interest, with interest waived if she earned 300 Hunyuan within two thousand years; failure would double the interest, and inability to repay would make her his Soul Slave.
• Sun Ruowei accepted the wager, put on the collar Tang Ping gave her, and signed the loan contract despite its warning.
• After receiving the 500 Hunyuan, Sun Ruowei left confidently, determined to invest in Luo Concept Stocks and win back her dignity.

After a thousand years of peaceful rule and secluded cultivation, Tang Ping challenged Thunder God to a duel and overwhelmed him in both contests. The chapter ended with Thunder God vowing to get revenge after Tang Ping mocked him and stripped the “God” from his name.

• Tang Ping completed a thousand years of seclusion, reaching eighty percent mastery of Sword Thirteen and bringing his Space Law comprehension close to completion.
• Chaos City Lord guided Tang Ping for several decades, helping him advance his Space Law comprehension further.
• Tang Ping learned from Hong that the Founder of the Giant Axe and other Human Race Universe Masters were returning, then explained that the Primitive Star would open in eighty thousand years.
• Tang Ping wagered a Heavy Treasure set against Thunder God in a duel, first defeating him with Lightning Law and then mastering Thunder God's Nine Layers of Thunder Blade.
• Tang Ping called Thunder God “Lei” after the duel, and Thunder God vowed to take revenge.

Tang Ping rewarded Marquis Justice with his newly created Undying Sword Qi and submitted her name for a company award. He then discovered a contract clause that could grant Earth’s future Cosmic Venerables shares in Cosmic Galaxy Milky Way, and emailed his grandmaster to claim the benefit for himself.

• Tang Ping dismissed the maids so Marquis Justice could report on the Security Department’s performance and thwarted infiltrations.
• Tang Ping showed off his sword and lamented that he had no worthy opponent, but Marquis Justice earnestly suggested sparring options instead of flattering him.
• Tang Ping gave Marquis Justice an Undying Sword Qi for her service and told her he had nominated her as one of the company’s best employees.
• Tang Ping studied how he had created the sword technique and explained that he could afford its immense divine-power cost because he had an enormous Divine Power Ocean.
• Tang Ping found a contract clause granting Cosmic Galaxy Milky Way shares to Earth’s future Cosmic Venerables and emailed Lord of Peng Gong, announcing that he qualified as a Cosmic Venerable.