Chapter Summaries

Yanfeng Guild suspected Chen Yuan was the mysterious trader and that he was also tied to a treasure-stealing thief. Difu defended his disciple against Emperor Yan’s attempt to seize him, leaving Emperor Yan wary of provoking Difu.

• Yanfeng Guild investigators watched Chen Yuan’s cave abode and grew more suspicious when he did not emerge after the Still-Time Divine Bird’s feather was destroyed.
• Emperor Yan told Difu that Chen Yuan might be the mysterious trader and demanded that his true body come for an investigation.
• Difu explained that Chen Yuan had inherited a God King’s legacy and the foundation of Wu Kingdom’s Saint Weapon Sect, then refused to let anyone take him without permission.
• Emperor Yan accused Chen Yuan of also being the treasure-stealing thief and claimed he possessed a means to cultivate treasures.
• Difu condemned Emperor Yan for his past attacks on Li He and Zongfu and warned that he could ally with Di Xuan and Emperor Chu against him.
• Emperor Yan backed down, concerned that Difu’s alliance would leave him vulnerable.

Chen Yuan completed his Trinity Form transformation and discovered he could command 300 billion Silver Rivers, giving him confidence that he was invincible at the first level of God King. As he considered who had swindled him and whether his dealings with two major chambers of commerce had brought trouble, someone attacked his avatar in the imperial capital.

• Emperor Yan tried to recruit Difu and offered Diwu in marriage, but Difu refused and blocked his voice transmission.
• Chen Yuan condensed 300 billion Silver Rivers, each comparable in power to a peak Chaos Realm expert, and judged himself invincible at the first level of God King.
• Chen Yuan recalled losing ten billion Universe Sand to the scheme involving the silver feather and resolved to remember the grudge.
• Chen Yuan distributed some Silver River power to his other avatars but withheld it from his Origin Continent avatar to avoid revealing his strength.
• Chen Yuan suspected that his transactions with the two major chambers of commerce were connected to the targeting of his imperial capital avatar, which was then attacked.

Difu protected Chen Yuan when Emperor Yan Qiong attacked his cave dwelling to seize the secret treasure he believed Chen Yuan possessed. After Yan Qiong refused to back down, Difu destroyed his avatar and declared the Di Yan Lineage an enemy.

• Difu’s karmic warning alerted him when Emperor Yan Qiong attacked Chen Yuan’s cave dwelling, and Difu arrived and bound Yan Qiong with spatial chains.
• Chen Yuan realized the Di Yan Lineage likely wanted the Hand of Origin Beginning after noticing his resource production and transactions.
• Yan Qiong told Difu that Emperor Yan wanted Chen Yuan’s secret treasure and demanded that Difu surrender his disciple.
• Difu refused, reminded Yan Qiong of their past friendship and his help suppressing the Hunyuan bloodline contamination, and warned that they would become enemies if Yan Qiong continued.
• Yan Qiong demanded that Difu hand over Chen Yuan or sever their ties, so Difu used the formation to destroy Yan Qiong’s avatar.
• Difu declared the Di Yan Lineage an enemy and ordered its related personnel to leave the imperial capital or be killed.

After Emperor Fu drove out those connected to the Yanfeng Lineage, he explained why Yanfeng had targeted Chen Yuan and urged him to leave the Origin Continent for his own safety. Chen Yuan departed for the Universe Ocean, intending to return after growing stronger.

• Emperor Fu ordered those connected to the Yanfeng Lineage to leave the imperial capital, then summoned Chen Yuan to his palace.
• Emperor Fu told Chen Yuan that Yanfeng, Di Xi, and Diwu were behind the attack and had targeted him over suspicions that he was the mysterious trader.
• Emperor Fu refused to demand Chen Yuan reveal his secrets and explained that Yanfeng would exploit him even if the suspicion proved false.
• Emperor Fu advised Chen Yuan to leave the Origin Continent and offered to let Chen Yuan's servant cultivate in his Miniature Universe.
• Chen Yuan agreed to leave, teleported away from the palace, and departed the Origin Continent for the Universe Ocean.
• Chen Yuan withdrew his avatar in the Yuan Chu Universe and vowed to return to confront Yanfeng, Di Xi, and Diwu.

Chen Yuan assessed his strength and resolved to avoid drawing the Two Ancient Kingdoms’ Progenitors’ attention until he could rival a God Emperor. After reviewing his mastery of the Great Daos, he chose to pursue God Emperor-level willpower and ordered Irel to continue exploring universes.

• Chen Yuan judged that his three sources of power made him difficult for Emperor Lords to kill, but he still feared the Two Ancient Kingdoms’ Progenitors.
• Chen Yuan resolved to keep his conflict with Emperor Yan contained and cultivate until he possessed God Emperor-level strength.
• Chen Yuan reviewed how Irel’s exploration had uncovered 2,684 Primal Universes and helped him master more than fifty branches across the nine Great Daos.
• Chen Yuan concluded that mastering perfect-level inheritances required God Emperor-level willpower and made that his next cultivation goal.
• Chen Yuan contacted Irel and instructed her to continue opening new universes so he could complete more Great Dao branches.

Chen Yuan asked Difu for Hunyuan bloodline creature corpses so he could study higher life forms, and Difu agreed to lend them to him. Chen Yuan immediately finished studying the first corpse and asked for the rest, leaving Difu stunned.

• Chen Yuan focused his cultivation on World Lifeform, Calamity of Ashen Extinction, and his mind and will, then asked Difu for Hunyuan bloodline creature remains.
• After learning Chen Yuan had comprehended one Trinity Form, Difu realized his disciple had reached the strength of a Chaos Realm Transcendent.
• Difu offered Chen Yuan fifteen Trinity Form corpses and three Ten Directions World corpses, but agreed to lend him as many as ten Ten Directions World corpses when Chen Yuan promised not to damage them.
• Difu gave Chen Yuan a bull-headed beast corpse with the Ten Directions World form and said he could provide more Trinity Form corpses.
• Chen Yuan immediately took out the beast's corpse again and told Difu he had already finished comprehending it, then asked for the remaining corpses.

Chen Yuan developed six more Trinity Forms and strengthened his combat abilities, but Difu could no longer obtain ordinary research materials after Emperor Yan exposed his requests. When Chen Yuan learned that God King Jiu Ye had destroyed Irel’s clone, he traveled to Jiu Ye’s Primal Universe and released a Sector Beast to deal with him.

• Chen Yuan mastered the Iceberg, Hurricane, Lightwing, Black Curtain, and Dark Star Forms, eventually learning thirteen Trinity Forms and gaining insight into the Ten Directions World Form.
• Difu told Chen Yuan that Emperor Yan had exposed his requests for biological materials, but promised to seek approval for an Ultimate Realm bloodline lifeform corpse with multiple Twenty-Four Aspects Forms.
• Irel reported that God King Jiu Ye had destroyed her clone and the Tower of Origin Beginning while she explored Universe No. 2963.
• Chen Yuan decided not to rely on his Will to kill Jiu Ye and chose instead to use a Sector Beast against the Primal Universe controller.
• Chen Yuan arrived at the edge of God King Jiu Ye’s Primal Universe, opened the Origin Beginning Palace, and released Tuyuan.

Chen Yuan confronted God King Jiu Ye over his attack on Irel and ordered Tuyuan to devour the Primal Universe's Cosmic Origin. God King Jiu Ye attacked Chen Yuan, who dismissed his Blood Sea transformation as an empty facade.

• God King Jiu Ye discovered Tuyuan outside the Primal Universe and realized he was a Sector Beast King enslaved to Chen Yuan.
• Chen Yuan revealed that Irel was his servant and asked God King Jiu Ye to confirm his identity.
• Chen Yuan ordered Tuyuan to consume the Primal Universe's Cosmic Origin until the universe entered Great Destruction.
• God King Jiu Ye let Tuyuan pass and threatened to kill Chen Yuan, which would also kill the enslaved Sector Beast King.
• God King Jiu Ye transformed into a Blood Sea to test Chen Yuan, who judged the Trinity Form to be only divine power without changes in material origin.

Chen Yuan endured God King Jiu Ye's attacks while Tuyuan devoured the Primal Universe's origin, forcing Jiu Ye to escalate his Origin Killing Array. The chapter ended as Jiu Ye burned the origin to unleash its third form, a Chaos Hole collapsing toward Chen Yuan.

• Chen Yuan revealed that he was only a True God and rejected God King Jiu Ye's offer of compensation, insisting that Jiu Ye had to die for his killings.
• God King Jiu Ye used Origin Lockdown to trap them both, then struck Chen Yuan with the first layer of the Origin Killing Array, Chaos Blades.
• Chen Yuan shrugged off the damage and activated Galaxy Form to withstand the second layer, Spacetime Turmoil, while Tuyuan continued devouring the Cosmic Origin.
• God King Jiu Ye realized Chen Yuan was stalling until the leaking origin weakened him, so he burned the Primal Universe's origin to activate the third layer, Chaos Hole Collapse.

Chen Yuan resisted God King Jiu Ye’s chaotic hollow attack with his Dark Star Form, driving Jiu Ye to burn the Primal Universe’s origin faster. As Tuyuan struggled to keep that origin from being wasted, Irel arrived to guard him while he devoured it.

• Chen Yuan transformed into Dark Star Form and restored the stalemate against God King Jiu Ye’s chaotic hollow.
• God King Jiu Ye panicked at the prospect of losing his universe and accelerated the burning of its Cosmic Origin.
• Tuyuan noticed the origin draining rapidly and manifested his World, increasing his absorption rate a hundredfold.
• Tuyuan extended black tentacles from his World into the Primal Universe’s crystal wall and began devouring its origin in earnest.
• Irel arrived to protect Tuyuan, explaining that she had sensed his situation through the Virtual Universe and reported it to Chen Yuan.
• Tuyuan thanked Irel and focused on devouring the Cosmic Origin.

Chen Yuan used God King Jiu Ye’s attacks to comprehend the complete Laws of Chaos before defeating him and ending his chance at reincarnation. With the Primal Universe entering Great Destruction and Tuyuan having devoured only a fraction of its origin, Chen Yuan and his servants went to observe the collapse.

• Chen Yuan revealed that he had baited God King Jiu Ye into burning the Primal Universe’s origin so he could comprehend the complete Laws of Chaos.
• God King Jiu Ye learned that Chen Yuan still intended to kill him and, after years of stalemate, burned the remaining origin to trigger Great Destruction.
• God King Jiu Ye’s avatar dissipated, but Chen Yuan used Lie Yuan Art: Sword of Destruction to destroy his reincarnating will completely.
• Tuyuan told Chen Yuan that he had devoured only one percent of the origin and expected to reach the late Chaos Realm after about one thousand epochs of digestion.
• Chen Yuan, Tuyuan, and Irel arrived at the collapsing Primal Universe, where Chen Yuan told Irel to collect data on its Great Destruction.

Chen Yuan observed the Primal Universe’s destruction and rebirth, then learned that Irel had gained insight toward breaking through to Eternal True God. After sending his servants to cultivate, he prepared to break through to the Chaos Realm but paused to handle one final matter.

• Chen Yuan took Irel and Tuyuan to the Origin Land to observe the Primal Universe’s destruction and rebirth, recording the cycle for the Virtual Universe.
• Chen Yuan returned to his universe and instructed Irel to use the data to recreate the cycle for the race’s experts.
• Irel told Chen Yuan that she had comprehended the Eternal True God bottleneck and expected to break through within a thousand years, while Tuyuan gained no insight.
• Chen Yuan sent Irel into seclusion and told Tuyuan to digest the origins before using resources he had prepared for him.
• Chen Yuan decided to break through to the Chaos Realm rather than wait to comprehend a Great Dao branch, but noted that he needed to handle one matter first.

Chen Yuan warned the Original Ancestor to delay his breakthrough because three Emperor Lords and their powerful backers were hunting him, then broke through directly to Chaos Master in the Yuan Chu Universe. After assessing his newly doubled power, Chen Yuan prepared to transform his Miniature Universe.

• Chen Yuan told the Original Ancestor that he had crossed reincarnation over a hundred eras earlier and was being hunted by God Kings, so the Original Ancestor agreed to remain in the True God realm until the danger passed.
• Chen Yuan stopped suppressing his desire to ascend and broke through in succession to Void True God, Eternal True God, and Chaos Master.
• East Emperor Progenitor and Purple Moon Progenitor sensed Chen Yuan’s breakthrough, while Mountain Sitting Guest rejoiced at his disciple’s progress and the prospect of revenge.
• Chen Yuan found that his Chaos Realm body had restored his divine power and doubled his maximum strength, but his realm of the heart and soul had not advanced.
• Chen Yuan turned his attention to transforming his Miniature Universe.

Chen Yuan’s Yuan Chu Universe expanded to ten trillion light-years, and he divided eleven mastered Great Daos between it and the Dark Universe to stabilize both. The resulting yin-yang structure raised the universes’ power and support to the Ultimate Realm level of a God King, and Chen Yuan tested its time acceleration before opening his system panel to check its new limits.

• Chen Yuan let the Yuan Chu Universe expand, and it grew past the Holy Land Universes until it reached ten trillion light-years across.
• East Emperor Progenitor speculated that Chen Yuan had reached the Chaos Realm, while Purple Moon Progenitor feared that he had provoked a God King.
• Chen Yuan distributed six Great Daos to the Origin Universe and five to the Dark Universe, forming a stable yin-yang structure that raised his universe’s power to the Ultimate Realm level of a God King.
• Chen Yuan used the Dark Universe’s Origin of Time to accelerate time, receiving roughly a thousandfold acceleration himself and granting much greater acceleration to distant regions.
• Chen Yuan opened the system panel to inspect its upper limit after his breakthrough.

Chen Yuan discovered that the system’s optimization limit weakened beyond the Cage, restricting it to the Middle God Emperor Realm for now. He accepted the uncertainty of reaching Hunyuan, reviewed his alternative paths, and prepared to optimize three Great Daos using the data he had collected.

• Chen Yuan found that his optimization limit had stopped at Fifteenth Rank Level Six because the God Emperor realm had surpassed the Cage and the system’s rules.
• Chen Yuan considered possible routes to the Hunyuan Lord realm through the Fusion Dao, Soul Dao, or Great Dao of the Mind, and noted that his Mental Realm had not advanced while his Illusion Branch mastery had risen to ninety-five percent.
• Chen Yuan decided to continue optimizing the God King chapter after bringing his other inheritances close to Completion Level.
• Chen Yuan prepared to optimize the Great Daos of life, Destruction, and matter, and learned that data from God King Jiu Ye had raised his collection rate for the Great Dao of Causality to about ninety-seven percent.
• Chen Yuan planned to ask Master Difu to help fill the remaining gaps in his collected Great Dao data.

Chen Yuan discovered that optimizing higher-realm tasks required vastly more energy, then learned the fourth chapter of the Origin Beginning Life Method could evolve his system and reduce those costs. He wondered whether combining the Origin Beginning Heart with the Hand of Origin Beginning could create unlimited energy, but the chapter ended before he tested the idea.

• Chen Yuan tested optimization costs and found them rising from millions of Universe Sand for God King tasks to thousands of Hunyuan Units for mid-stage God Emperor tasks.
• Chen Yuan decided to reserve Ultimate Realm optimization for Perfect Level secret arts and planned to improve his peak Chaos Realm secret treasures to the second God King Realm.
• Chen Yuan activated the Origin Beginning Key and absorbed the fourth chapter, Origin Beginning Heart, which could drive the system's evolution.
• Chen Yuan learned that cultivating the Origin Beginning Heart could raise the system's essence and sharply reduce optimization costs, potentially eliminating costs for tasks two realms below its level.
• Chen Yuan considered using the Hand of Origin Beginning to break down the results of zero-consumption optimization and wondered how to improve the Origin Beginning Heart.

Chen Yuan refused the Supreme Rules’ order to undergo reincarnation, hoping the confrontation would force his mental realm to break through its bottleneck. After waiting out the deadline in the Yuan Chu Universe, he faced the Supreme Rules’ arrival.

• Chen Yuan reviewed the seven ongoing optimization tasks and calculated how long they would take under the thousandfold acceleration.
• After receiving the Supreme Rules’ demand that he undergo reincarnation within a year, Chen Yuan decided to defy it and use the pressure to seek a mental breakthrough.
• Chen Yuan reasoned that the Supreme Rules would try to restore the world’s proper course rather than kill him, and he prepared to comply if he faced danger.
• Chen Yuan remained in the Yuan Chu Universe for the year instead of traveling to the Origin Continent to visit Difu.
• When Chen Yuan did not enter the reincarnation passage by the deadline, the Supreme Rules’ will descended upon the Yuan Chu Universe, and Chen Yuan faced it expectantly.

Chen Yuan endured the Supreme Rules’ command to enter reincarnation and broke through to the first level of the God King realm, completing the Dream Branch of the Great Dao of the Mind. He used his new power to follow the Supreme Rules into the Source World’s Origin Space, where an invisible force destroyed his incarnation after he tried to take a drop of origin.

• The Supreme Rules pressured Chen Yuan to enter the Reincarnation Passage, but he resisted as cracks spread through his realm barrier.
• Chen Yuan withstood a final surge of pressure and advanced his realm of mind to the first level of the God King realm, perfecting the Dream Branch.
• Chen Yuan discovered that his fused Power of Mind could conceal him from the Supreme Rules and followed them into the Source World’s Origin Space.
• Chen Yuan saw the vast Origin Sea and tried to store a drop of origin in his system.
• An invisible force ignored Chen Yuan’s concealment and obliterated his incarnation, leaving him dumbfounded in the Yuan Chu Universe.

Chen Yuan returned to Origin Space by exploiting the Supreme Rules, but they corrected the loophole and prevented him from taking origin energy. He studied the World Origin Great Dao and, after two years, advanced the Origin Beginning Heart to its fifth layer before testing whether he could generate energy through repeated optimization.

• Chen Yuan used the Supreme Rules to reenter Origin Space, but found that they had patched the loophole and would no longer let him collect origin energy.
• Chen Yuan located the Origin Great Daos and studied the World Origin Great Dao, using the Eye of Origin Beginning to record its structure.
• After two years, Chen Yuan completed five God King tasks, obtained five secret treasures, and advanced the Origin Beginning Heart to the fifth layer with 10% proficiency remaining.
• Chen Yuan discovered that the fifth layer halved the cost of optimizing God King-level tasks and wondered whether the Hand of Origin Beginning could break down zero-cost results.
• Chen Yuan placed a peak True God Level secret treasure into the optimization slot to test his perpetual-motion-machine hypothesis.

Chen Yuan discovered that the Origin Beginning Heart could make lower-level optimization tasks consumption-free, but overloading it forced him to spend energy repairing the system. After completing data collection for all the Origin Great Daos, he felt a mysterious pull from the center of the Origin Space.

• Chen Yuan converted an optimized void-level secret treasure into 113 Source of Great Dao and tested the Origin Beginning Heart's limits with vast numbers of tasks.
• The Origin Beginning Heart overloaded, and Chen Yuan learned that it would recover after 1,000 years or faster by spending energy.
• Chen Yuan concluded that consumption-free tasks drew on the Heart's limited reserves, while tasks with reduced costs did not overload it.
• Chen Yuan spent 100 billion Source of Great Dao to repair the system, then sent World Great Dao inheritances for optimization as his avatar continued collecting data.
• More than a decade later, Chen Yuan completed collecting all the Origin Great Daos and felt drawn toward the center of the Origin Space.