Chapter Summaries

After studying the Chaos Stele, Chen Yuan raised his Law of Time comprehension and challenged the Heavenly Mountains to advance beyond the Apocalypse Secret Realm. He passed Heaven and Earth Heavenly Mountain and Taichu Heavenly Mountain, becoming a member of the Taichu Secret Realm.

• Chen Yuan studied the Chaos Stele for seven days, then secluded himself for two years and fully comprehended the eighty-second, eighty-third, and eighty-fourth essences.
• Chen Yuan found that his Law of Time progress had reached 30.7% and decided to challenge Heavenly Mountain rather than attempt the eleventh level of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Chen Yuan defeated the three Gatekeepers at the foot and summit of Heaven and Earth Heavenly Mountain, passing the mountain.
• Chen Yuan reached Taichu Heavenly Mountain and defeated its foot and mountainside Gatekeepers without difficulty.
• Chen Yuan used an illusion to outmaneuver the summit Gatekeepers, killed all three, and passed Taichu Heavenly Mountain.
• The Gatekeepers announced that Chen Yuan had become a member of the Taichu Secret Realm.

After passing Taichu Heavenly Mountain, Chen Yuan moved from the Apocalypse Secret Realm to the Primordial District, where he reunited with Luo Feng and discussed future plans. A year later, he left Chaos City with the surviving geniuses, beginning his next journey.

• Chen Yuan explained to the three Gatekeepers that his Will Branch had reached the strength of someone who passed the twentieth level of Illusion Sea, then left the Heavenly Mountain plane with rewards due when he became a World Lord.
• Chen Yuan’s companions and manager Taoming congratulated him on advancing to the Taichu Secret Realm, and they accompanied him to the Primordial District boundary.
• Manager Foss welcomed Chen Yuan to Estate No. 1139 and told him that his World Lord Level guard squad would be finalized in three days.
• Luo Feng visited Chen Yuan, shared information about the Taichu Secret Realm and Blood Luo Crystals, and said he had failed to pass Primal Heavenly Mountain.
• After a year of cultivation, Chen Yuan boarded a spacecraft leaving Chaos City with the surviving geniuses; only sixty-seven remained from their batch.

Chen Yuan traveled with King Jinzhou to the Taichu Secret Realm while refining his equipment and optimizing treasures aboard a Heavy Treasure spacecraft. He arrived with his new Flight Palace and improved Blood Luo Crystals, ready to continue his development in the secret realm.

• Chen Yuan left the Initial Universe with the Apocalypse Secret Realm geniuses, then boarded King Jinzhou’s Golden Boat for the Taichu Secret Realm.
• King Jinzhou told Chen Yuan that the Golden Boat was a Flight Palace Type Heavy Treasure and explained the secret realms during their journey.
• Chen Yuan reviewed his optimized Azure Sky and Sky Radiance, then extracted them and the G9 Origin Beginning Palace directly into his soul.
• Chen Yuan spent the journey optimizing his treasures, completing every item except the Blood Luo Crystals and improving one crystal enough to make fusing more than ten feasible.
• King Jinzhou informed Chen Yuan that they had arrived at the Taichu Secret Realm.

Chen Yuan arrived at his assigned continent in the Taichu Secret Realm, met his guard unit, and began using optimized resources to improve his abilities. After raising his law talent and bloodline, he started testing strange crystals to see how far they could strengthen his genetic level.

• King Jinzhou escorted Chen Yuan to Star Fragment No. 80399097 and left him to take possession of the continent.
• Chen Yuan met his guard unit, led by Yixian, and toured Star Continent before claiming a secluded pavilion as his residence.
• Chen Yuan fused his optimized Blood Luo Crystal and found that it brought him to seven fused crystals with an amplification of about 3.3 times.
• Chen Yuan consumed the law-type resources, increasing his quantified law talent from 1 to 1.5.
• Chen Yuan used three optimized Evolution Agents to raise his bloodline to mid-tier World Lord Level, while his genetic level improved only slightly.
• Chen Yuan began drawing power from an azure Strange Object crystal to test whether it could further raise his genetic level.

After improving his talents, Chen Yuan tested the Origin Beginning Palace’s Time Acceleration and found it could not speed up law comprehension or system optimization. He refined four more Blood Luo Crystals, reached a hundredfold gene level, and realized he had hit the Cosmic Limit.

• Chen Yuan absorbed the gentle energy from the crystals and raised his Life Gene Level to 12x, his Bloodline Level to World Lord pinnacle, and his Law Talent to 3.
• Chen Yuan discovered that his law comprehension had become ten times faster and estimated he could reach the Primal Secret Realm within ten years.
• Chen Yuan tested the Origin Beginning Palace’s Time Acceleration up to sixty-fourfold, learned its energy costs rose sharply above thirtyfold, and found it could not accelerate law comprehension or system optimization.
• After a month of cultivation, Chen Yuan refined four Blood Luo Crystals, bringing his total to eleven, and activated their Blood Luo Power.
• Chen Yuan’s gene level stopped at one hundred times, and he realized that a hundredfold gene level was the Cosmic Limit.

Chen Yuan realized that the universe’s hundredfold genetic limit could only be broken by a secret art like the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, and learned his system could extract its information from the Heaven Soul Crystal. He planned his next steps around obtaining the manual and Blood Luo resources while optimizing goods to build wealth for a top-tier clone secret art.

• Chen Yuan recalled that the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual could break the universe’s genetic limit and confirmed that his system could retrieve its information from the Heaven Soul Crystal.
• Chen Yuan decided to return to Earth for the manual before Luo Feng came back, but postponed the trip because Luo Feng would remain on Blood Luo Continent for decades.
• Chen Yuan bought large quantities of fifth-tier equipment, spacecraft, and cultivation resources to optimize and resell for profit.
• Chen Yuan aimed to save enough points for a ten-billion-point clone secret art, expecting to earn wealth faster after advancing to Domain Lord Level.
• Chen Yuan planned to collect the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual on Earth and Blood Luo Crystals and Beast God information on Blood Luo Continent before passing Primal Heavenly Mountain and advancing to Domain Lord Level.

After his purchased goods arrived, Chen Yuan left the Taichu Secret Realm under the pretext of a cultivation mission and traveled toward Earth. During the seven-month journey, he greatly improved his secret techniques and comprehended three more law essences, then arrived at Earth.

• Chen Yuan inspected the delivered goods, stored them in his World Ring, and chose a Difficult Level hunting mission as cover for leaving the Taichu Secret Realm.
• Chen Yuan instructed Yixian to guard the manor, then departed in the Origin Beginning Palace and entered the Dark Universe toward Earth.
• During the journey, Chen Yuan raised Soul-Shocking Cauldron and Hall of Reality to Completion Level and advanced the Thousand Illusion Soul Control Art to the proficient level.
• Chen Yuan comprehended the eighty-seventh, eighty-eighth, and eighty-ninth essences, leaving him one essence short of the eleventh level of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Chen Yuan reached Earth and looked at the planet, relieved to be back.

Chen Yuan returned to Earth during a cultivation mission to retrieve the Black Metal Plate and reunite with his old friends. After catching up with them, he said he would leave soon, with his data collection still at 87%.

• Chen Yuan disabled the Origin Beginning Palace's shielding, flew to Earth, and located the Black Metal Plate with his Mind Domain.
• Earth's surveillance systems detected the spacecraft, and Thor and Luo Hai learned that Chen Yuan had returned.
• Chen Yuan reunited with Thor, Luo Hai, and Wei Wen at Luo Family Castle and told them about joining the Virtual Universe Company's core layer and visiting Chaos City.
• Luo Hai learned from Chen Yuan that his father was carrying out a cultivation mission and felt reassured about his safety.
• Chen Yuan checked that his data collection had reached 87% and told his friends he would leave Earth soon.

Chen Yuan gave gifts to his old friends, returned the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual plate to its hiding place, and began a system optimization to make the manual safer for him to cultivate. As he reached Dark Sea Star for his mission, an assassination team prepared to intercept him near the Youlan Universe Kingdom.

• Chen Yuan gave Thor a Nutrient Pod and Nutrient Solution, Luo Hai insights into the Laws of Fire, and Wei Wen an optimized cultivation manual, leaving gifts for absent friends with Thor.
• Chen Yuan returned the Black Metal Plate to its original hiding place, then ordered Irel to take the Origin Beginning Palace to Dark Sea Star.
• Chen Yuan spent 23,000 units of Origin Energy to optimize the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual for greater genetic growth, limit-breaking, and safety.
• A Youlan Universe Kingdom assassination team learned Chen Yuan was traveling toward the Black Hole Secret Realm and ordered the peak World Lord Ghost Shadow to wait near the kingdom's border.
• Chen Yuan arrived at Dark Sea Star after traveling through the Dark Universe.

Chen Yuan registered for Black Tide hunting on Dark Sea Star and used his Mind Domain and Thousand Illusion Soul Control Technique to wipe out a deep-sea horde. He earned 175 million points and replenished 1.03 million units of Origin Energy before setting out to search the sea for treasure.

• Chen Yuan arrived at the First War Base and registered for Black Tide hunting with S-rank mission authority.
• Chen Yuan flew to the deep sea, where his Mind Domain revealed nearly ten million Black Tide Creatures, including nearly eighty thousand at Domain Lord Level.
• Chen Yuan used the Thousand Illusion Soul Control Technique to make the creatures surface and commit suicide.
• After ten hours, Chen Yuan had exterminated every Black Tide Creature in the region and gained 175 million points and 1.03 million units of Origin Energy.
• Chen Yuan prepared to descend into the sea and search for treasure.

Chen Yuan harvested valuable Heavy Treasure scraps beneath Dark Sea Star while Cosmic Galaxy Bank’s Venerables escalated his extraordinary point gains to Lord Peng Gong. Lord Youhou told Chen Yuan to leave the Black Hole Secret Realm, and Chen Yuan said he planned to visit the Blood Luo World next.

• Chen Yuan discovered that Dark Sea Star’s black tides were waste-disposal creatures connected to a factory producing Heavy Treasure components.
• Venerables Tao Yue, Mi Yin, and Jin Fu discussed Chen Yuan’s 175 million points and referred the matter to Lord Peng Gong.
• Chen Yuan gathered more than a dozen black fragments worth over two million Hunyuan Units from the seafloor.
• Lord Youhou told Chen Yuan that Lord Peng Gong had reviewed his video and that Cosmic Galaxy Bank would ask him to leave the Black Hole Secret Realm.
• Chen Yuan agreed to leave and told Lord Youhou he wanted to visit the Blood Luo World.

Chen Yuan told Lord Youhou that Blood Luo Power had raised his gene level to fifty times, then accepted Venerable Mi Yin’s escort after learning Alien Race assassins were targeting him. Mi Yin captured the assassin Ghost Shadow, and Chen Yuan resumed his journey to the Taichu Secret Realm.

• Chen Yuan told Lord Youhou that he had absorbed ten Blood Luo Crystals and reached a fiftyfold gene level with Blood Luo Power.
• Venerable Mi Yin arrived on Lord Peng Gong’s orders and revealed that Alien Race assassins planned to attack Chen Yuan during his return journey.
• Chen Yuan agreed to travel slowly through the Youlan Universe Kingdom so Mi Yin could draw out the Alien Race’s hidden organization.
• Ghost Shadow intercepted the Origin Beginning Palace, but Mi Yin suppressed and captured him with her divine power.
• Mi Yin left to report and deal with the Alien Race organization, while Chen Yuan sent the Origin Beginning Palace through the Dark Universe toward the Taichu Secret Realm.

During the voyage to the Taichu Secret Realm, Chen Yuan advanced his understanding of the Laws of Time and Wind and gained recognition from the Law of Wind. The Nine Tribulations Secret Manual finished optimization, revealing a guaranteed-success method that could raise his innate genetic level fivefold, and Chen Yuan extracted its complete contents.

• Chen Yuan focused on comprehending the Laws of Time and Wind while the Origin Beginning Palace traveled toward the Taichu Secret Realm.
• Chen Yuan comprehended the ninetieth essence of the Law of Time, raising his progress to 34.3%.
• Chen Yuan raised his progress in the Law of Wind beyond 80% and received recognition from the Origin Law, forming a Wind Mark and merging his consciousness into the Law Ocean.
• Chen Yuan resumed studying the Law of Time as the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual finished optimization after 200 days.
• Chen Yuan learned that the optimized manual could raise his innate genetic level fivefold and guaranteed success after thirty years of cultivation.
• Chen Yuan realized the system had used fragments from the other tribulations on the first Metal Plate and extracted the complete contents of the New Nine Tribulations Secret Manual.

Chen Yuan completed the optimized Nine Tribulations Secret Manual and raised his Gene Level to 720-fold. After planning to seek Beast God-related resources on the Blood Luo Continent, he accepted the Blood Luo World mission.

• Chen Yuan cultivated the optimized Nine Tribulations Secret Manual under thirtyfold acceleration while studying the Laws, and the Inner Universe inside his body evolved automatically.
• The Origin Beginning Palace returned to the Taichu Secret Realm, where Chen Yuan continued his secluded study until the manual reached Completion Level.
• Chen Yuan’s base life level reached sixtyfold, and he found that activating Blood Luo Power raised his Gene Level to 720-fold.
• Chen Yuan planned to gather Blood Luo Crystals and seek the Beast God Statue and Ancient God Ruins to support his future cultivation.
• Chen Yuan entered the Virtual Universe and accepted the Blood Luo World mission.

Chen Yuan descended into Blood Luo World to find the Ancient God Ruins, but a Patrol Envoy confronted him and attacked after suspecting he was an offworlder. Chen Yuan survived the strike and revealed strength reaching the seventh-level World Lord, leaving Feng Chen facing an overwhelming opponent.

• After studying Blood Luo World's language and customs, Chen Yuan piloted the Origin Beginning Palace down through the clouds and planned to buy a map to locate the Ancient God Ruins and its hidden Beast God Statue.
• Chen Yuan sensed Feng Chen, a Peak World Lord and Immortal Temple Patrol Envoy, and tried to avoid him, but Feng Chen chased him down and questioned his origins.
• Chen Yuan claimed to come from Yan Gang Territory, but Feng Chen attacked after Chen Yuan failed to address him by the required title of Patrol Envoy.
• Feng Chen struck Chen Yuan with a Thunder World Projection, but Chen Yuan emerged unharmed.
• Chen Yuan unleashed his strength, used his Blood Luo Power, body-amplitude technique, and Heavenly Radiance Battle Suit, and reached the seventh-level World Lord.

Chen Yuan fought Feng Chen after revealing the millionfold power boost of the Heavenly Radiance Battle Suit. After Feng Chen exhausted himself with Soul Burning, Chen Yuan killed him with Star Breaker, leaving behind a shattered world.

• Chen Yuan surged to seventh-stage World Lord strength, shocking Feng Chen, who recognized him as an extraordinary outsider and vowed to kill him.
• Feng Chen attacked with his purple blade, but Chen Yuan evaded and blocked him, matching his strikes despite Feng Chen's greater basic strength.
• Feng Chen activated Soul Burning and relentlessly attacked, while Chen Yuan used the battle to regain control of his body and restore his force output to a hundredfold.
• After ten minutes, Feng Chen was utterly spent, and Chen Yuan revealed that he had prolonged the fight to adjust to the Heavenly Radiance Battle Suit.
• Chen Yuan unleashed Years, also called Star Breaker, and killed Feng Chen, leaving only a shattered world and scattered objects.

Chen Yuan searched the Ancient God Ruins for the Beast God Statue and found it at the bottom of a lake before Kurun could discover it. After ordering the system to record the statue’s Beast God Conception, Chen Yuan headed toward the region where Luo Feng was located.

• Chen Yuan recovered Feng Chen’s maps, and Irel plotted a route to lakes with Lake Heart Islands in the Ancient God Ruins.
• Chen Yuan traveled to the ruins, resisted the slaughter miasma, and searched more than three hundred lakes.
• At the 382nd lake, Chen Yuan recognized Kurun and secretly found a spatial storage bracelet buried beneath the lakebed.
• Chen Yuan took the Beast God Statue from the bracelet and destroyed it without Kurun noticing.
• Chen Yuan ordered the system to record the statue’s Beast God Conception and directed Irel toward the region where Luo Feng was located.

Chen Yuan visited Luo Feng in Blood Luo World, explained his pursuit of Beast God Conception, and revealed that he knew Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Beast secret. He offered Luo Feng a Beast God Statue in exchange for observing his Original Core, leaving Luo Feng hesitant about whether to agree.

• Chen Yuan found Luo Feng cultivating in a cliffside cave and explained that he had come to Blood Luo World for Blood Luo Crystals, Beast God Conception, and the giant pit’s baleful aura.
• Chen Yuan explained that Blood Luo Crystals were Beast God blood and that the Three Style Image was the Beast God Conception, then told Luo Feng he had fused twenty crystals and become a Black Warrior.
• Chen Yuan identified Luo Feng’s threefold Blood Luo Power increase as the effect of a Golden Horned Beast, and Luo Feng admitted the secret while explaining that his human self was still his true body.
• Chen Yuan reassured Luo Feng that the Chaos City Lord had verified his human soul and advised him to keep his clone ability secret.
• Chen Yuan asked to observe Luo Feng’s Original Core and offered him a Beast God Statue, prompting Luo Feng to hesitate because the Core was tied to the survival of all his clones.

Chen Yuan observed Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Beast Original Core to collect secret patterns for a clone technique, then explained how rare and valuable Luo Feng’s innate clone talent was compared with techniques in the Virtual Universe Treasury. Chen Yuan planned to optimize a clone secret technique using his talent, though he was unsure whether he could succeed.

• Luo Feng let Chen Yuan study the Golden Horned Beast’s Original Core for half an hour, and Chen Yuan completed his data collection without touching it.
• Chen Yuan told Luo Feng that he wanted to use the secret patterns to create an Original Core for a clone technique of his own.
• Chen Yuan showed Luo Feng the Treasury entries for Thousand Treasure Body and Fire Refined Body, and Luo Feng realized their limitations made his Golden Horned Beast clone an extraordinary fortune.
• Luo Feng asked whether Chen Yuan planned to buy Thousand Treasure Body, and Chen Yuan said he hoped to optimize a clone technique beyond the Original Canon’s limitations.
• Chen Yuan warned that he had never optimized a secret technique of such a high level, but said his talent might improve as his realm advanced.

Chen Yuan revealed his extraordinary will and soul strength to Luo Feng before descending alone into the Miasma Vortex. He resisted the Immortal-level murderous will and reached the true Miasma Core.

• Chen Yuan told Luo Feng he planned to enter the Miasma Vortex's core, then revealed he had cleared twenty levels of the Illusion Sea.
• Chen Yuan explained that his soul had reached the Immortal level and that he could use Illusion Technique against powerful opponents.
• Luo Feng warned Chen Yuan about Blood God Ba Qi and the guards at the bottom of the giant pit, but declined Chen Yuan's offer to remove the monitoring device.
• Chen Yuan left Luo Feng's cave residence and descended alone into the giant pit toward the crimson Miasma Core.
• Chen Yuan resisted the Immortal-level murderous will, passed through the Red Sun's outer layer, and reached the true core.