Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Alien soul-enslavement spies embedded in Human territory report the emergence of the Lord of Peace and Joy, a Universe Master with a godly body as vast as the Lord of Nine Serenities’ and the ability to create avatars. His body also lets him resurrect many Venerables, making him a major strategic asset to humanity.
• Ten years later, the Machine, Monster, and Zerg supreme beings meet to plan his assassination. They judge that a direct attack would be difficult and could trigger a costly war among the peak races.
• The Mechanical Progenitor proposes two options: have the Zerg Queen, Meng Cha, seduce and weaken or enslave Tang Ping, or hire a solitary Universe Supreme Being to kill him. The Queens reject the first option as beneath their dignity and agree to pool three Top-tier Supreme Treasures apiece to fund an assassin.
• In the Solar System, Tang Ping stays inside the Platinum Temple, wary of the threat. His Nether Sea is exceptionally well protected, but his distant avatars—especially the one in the Solar System—are more vulnerable.
• Tang Ping claims his confinement is a sacrifice for humanity, while secretly indulging his eccentric “Photography Dao” hobby by examining his maid Yingluo’s feet. He persuades her that he is lonely and trapped for the race; moved by his apparent sacrifice, she offers to let him continue.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Ping is powerful and cautious about assassination, but also playful, self-indulgent, and manipulative. He frames his confinement as heroic duty to win Yingluo’s sympathy and cooperation.
• Yingluo, initially puzzled and embarrassed by Tang Ping’s unusual request, comes to believe he has given up freedom for humanity. Her sympathy leads her to accommodate him.
• The Mechanical Progenitor takes the lead in organizing the plot against Tang Ping, presenting the assassination as a practical bargain.
• The Zerg Queen and Monster supreme being prioritize their dignity and personal ambitions over direct confrontation, but agree that eliminating Tang Ping is worth the price.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Tang Ping’s immense body and defenses make him formidable, yet his separated avatars remain potential targets.
• Espionage and strategic rivalry: Enslaved spies turn humanity’s own surveillance network into a channel for enemy intelligence.
• Sacrifice versus self-interest: Tang Ping presents himself as sacrificing for his race, while the rival supreme beings weigh the cost of assassination against their own status and goals.
• Comedic contrast and manipulation: The grand language of cosmic war contrasts with Tang Ping’s absurd hobby and his theatrical attempt to enlist Yingluo’s sympathy.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Ten days after her earlier visit, Yingluo leaves Tang Ping’s palace embarrassed and exhausted. Tang gleefully tells her to return, hinting at more “games.”
• Tang relaxes in the palace, confident that his strength and impressive status make him safe from alien assassins. His cultivation panel shows him as a Universe Master with formidable laws, will, and clones.
• An unseen intruder’s alluring call draws Tang into an elaborate illusion. He believes himself to be an ancient Chinese emperor enjoying a lavish feast, surrounded by beautiful women—including figures who are actually his allies and formidable enemies.
• While Tang is absorbed in the fantasy, Void True Demon God watches from above the Nether Sea. He plans to imprison and enslave the soul of Tang’s clone, then use their shared soul connection to seize control of Tang’s main consciousness.

Character developments and interactions

• Tang Ping is portrayed as powerful but complacent: his confidence that no one can threaten him leaves him vulnerable to manipulation. In the illusion, he abandons caution and ambition for pleasure.
• Yingluo is flustered by her time with Tang and leaves without daring to confront him, while Tang treats her embarrassment as amusement.
• Void True Demon God emerges as a patient, calculating predator. He identifies Tang’s pleasure-seeking as a weakness and believes his near-perfect illusions can turn the clone into a route to enslaving the main body.
• The illusion gathers Tang alongside Wind-Thunder Venerable, Babata, Star Illusion King, the Zerg Mother Queen, and the Monster Race’s Progenitor, recasting even familiar or hostile figures as eager companions. Their apparent tenderness is part of the trap, not a real change in their relationships.

Significant themes

• Complacency and vulnerability: Great power offers no protection when confidence causes a person to neglect basic caution.
• Illusion versus reality: Void True Demon God’s magic is dangerous because its world feels real and even allows genuine cultivation, making deception difficult to detect.
• Pleasure as a weapon: The chapter’s indulgent fantasy shows how desire can distract someone from danger and be exploited by an enemy.

Tang Ping fought the Void True Demon God above the Solar System, using his divine sea and Supreme Treasures to withstand the demon god’s attacks. Unable to overcome Tang Ping in the Primal Universe, Void True withdrew and promised to face him in the Universe Ocean.

• The Void True Demon God attacked Tang Ping’s Azure Divine Sea and challenged the Human Race.
• Tang Ping summoned the Tai'e Sword and struck the Void True Demon God, whose ultimate Supreme Treasure armor protected him.
• The two fought through more than a dozen exchanges, but Tang Ping’s burning divine power repaired damage faster than Void True Demon God could inflict it.
• Tang Ping said he would settle their grudge in the Universe Ocean after becoming a Universe Supreme Being.
• Void True Demon God retreated beyond the starfield and vowed to wait for Tang Ping in the Universe Ocean.

Tang Ping survived an assassination attempt by the Void True Demon God, whose illusions nearly overcame him, and received help from Human Race experts. After returning to his temple and spending time with his maids, he announced that he would enter secluded cultivation for at least thirty thousand years.

• Tang Ping told the arriving Human Race experts that the Void True Demon God had tried to assassinate him, and they learned that he had survived with the help of his Soul Defense Supreme Treasures.
• The Chaos City Lord and other experts praised Tang Ping's strength, introduced him to Lord Youhou, Lord Long Xing, and Lord of Ice Seal, and discussed cultivation with him for a hundred years.
• The experts departed without discussing revenge, since confronting the Void True Demon God would risk catastrophic losses for the Human Race.
• Tang Ping returned to the Platinum Temple and spent a hundred days entertaining himself with Yingluo, Qing He, and the other maids.
• Tang Ping announced that he would enter secluded cultivation for at least thirty thousand years to perfect his Soul Defense Secret Technique, leaving the maids dumbfounded.