Chapter Summaries

Chen Yuan met Ming Yu, an external deacon of the Virtual Universe Company's Black Dragon Mountain Branch, who assessed him as a Special Grade Elite and explained the benefits and dangers of different bloodline products. Chen Yuan revealed that he was a ninth-grade Earthling and named Luo Feng as his race's lord, leaving Ming Yu stunned.

• Chen Yuan correctly guessed that the Virtual Universe Company had sent the Killing Field tester and invited him to meet its representative.
• Ming Yu confirmed that he had arranged the test and rated Chen Yuan a Special Grade Elite, the highest classification in the Black Dragon Mountain Branch.
• Ming Yu offered Chen Yuan an S-Grade Bloodline Evolution Agent if he joined the Virtual Universe Company and explained how it differed from forbidden Bloodline Agents.
• Chen Yuan told Ming Yu that his bloodline was ninth grade and that Luo Feng was the lord of the Earthlings.
• Ming Yu's eyes widened when he heard Luo Feng's name.

Chen Yuan learned about the benefits and restrictions of becoming an internal member of the Virtual Universe Company. After deciding he could accept the terms, he agreed to join and learned that selection assessments could also lead to the company's core layer.

• Ming Yu recognized Luo Feng as Chen Yuan's clansman and praised the talents of their race, while Chen Yuan considered how Hong's Illusion Sea attempts could expose Earth's secret.
• Ming Yu explained that Special Grade Elites received 1,000 branch points, a Grade E Nutrient Pod, and three chances to view the Purple Glow Inscription.
• Ming Yu described the restrictions on internal members, which eased as they advanced in strength, along with the company's training and promotion arrangements.
• Chen Yuan asked about routes to the core layer, and Ming Yu said that passing the company's selection assessments was another possible path besides becoming an Immortal.
• Chen Yuan said he had no problem with the restrictions and agreed to join the Virtual Universe Company.

After Chen Yuan joined the Virtual Universe Company as a Special Grade Elite, he arrived at Purple Glow Peak and learned about the branch’s Elite Zone and its path to the company’s core level. Tu Lan brought him to the Elite Zone, where Chen Yuan was about to see his residence.

• Man Luo learned that Chen Yuan was a Fourth Rank Planetary Level warrior with a double Domain, exceptional combat power, and the same race as Luo Feng, then arranged a Domain Lord escort to collect him.
• Chen Yuan received confirmation of his membership, access to the Purple Glow Peak plane, and credited points, then teleported to Purple Glow Peak.
• Tu Lan contacted Chen Yuan and explained that Purple Glow Peak housed the Black Dragon Mountain Branch’s internal members, with regions divided by strength and status.
• Tu Lan told Chen Yuan that elite students could qualify for the Ganwu Branch and its core-level selection by reaching Star Level and passing the Selection Exam.
• Tu Lan led Chen Yuan to the Elite Zone at the foot of the mountain and pointed out its buildings.

Tu Lan showed Chen Yuan the residences of the different Elite ranks before bringing him to his Special Grade Elite castle and arranging a spaceship pickup in ten days. Alone in the castle, Chen Yuan browsed the Treasury for secret techniques and found only one result matching the keyword “essence of the Law of Wind”: Raging Storm.

• Tu Lan explained the Elite rankings and told Chen Yuan that the Black Dragon Mountain Branch had twelve Special Grade Elites, including Xia, whom Chen Yuan had fought in Battle Space.
• Tu Lan took Chen Yuan to his castle, where the Virtual Universe bound the residence as his future login location.
• Chen Yuan and Tu Lan agreed that Tu Lan's spaceship would pick him up in about ten days.
• After Tu Lan left, Chen Yuan used Wind Sprite to change the castle's interior to a Huaxia style and opened the Treasury.
• Chen Yuan searched the secret techniques for ones involving the essence of the Law of Wind, and Wind Sprite found only Raging Storm.

Chen Yuan bought the Raging Storm secret canon and discovered how his existing Conception branches could help him master the essences of the Law of Wind. He tasked the Optimization System with tailoring Raging Storm to him, and it began a sixty-day optimization.

• Chen Yuan noticed Raging Storm cost only 1,000 points and bought the suspiciously cheap secret canon.
• Chen Yuan learned that Raging Storm was written by Lan Jin, a fallen World Lord, and read its seventy-three volumes.
• Chen Yuan realized the first sword technique connected Scorching and Extreme Cold Conception to an essence of the Law of Wind.
• Chen Yuan failed to combine Raging Storm with the Thousand Winds secret canon because the two techniques differed too greatly.
• Chen Yuan confirmed an optimization of Raging Storm that would lower its threshold and improve efficiency at the cost of universality, and the system estimated it would take sixty days.

Chen Yuan waited in Silverdome Mansion for Tu Lan’s spacecraft, avoiding any risk of being recognized while he prepared to travel to Purple Glow Star. When Chang Hu of the Hundred Tiger Tower identified him as Wind Master and tried to recruit him, Tu Lan arrived with a Virtual Universe Company battleship and escorted Chen Yuan away.

• Chen Yuan learned that he could spend Kill Points to accelerate optimization, but chose to save his remaining points for the S-Grade Bloodline Evolution Agent and stayed inside Silverdome Mansion.
• Chang Hu recognized Chen Yuan as Wind Master, contacted the Hundred Tiger Tower, and approached him with an invitation to join.
• A heavily armed Virtual Universe Company battleship descended on Silverdome Mansion, and Tu Lan arrived with more than a thousand armored Martial Artists.
• Chen Yuan dismissed Chang Hu as unimportant and left with Tu Lan for Purple Glow Star aboard the battleship.
• After seeing the footage of the Virtual Universe Company’s arrival, the Hundred Tiger Tower’s Silverdome branch canceled its plans to pursue Wind Master.

Chen Yuan arrived at Purple Glow Star, where Tu Lan explained the Purple Glow Inscription and the planet’s special environment. Si Kun welcomed Chen Yuan to the Special Grade Elite Zone and told him that an examination would determine his future teacher.

• Tu Lan explained that Purple Glow Star’s elite students lived in rings around Purple Glow Peak according to their evaluations, and that the peak enhanced law comprehension.
• Tu Lan told Chen Yuan that the Purple Glow Inscription contained the eight-law insights of the Nameless World Lord, who had failed to become Immortal because the laws he mastered were in absolute balance.
• Chen Yuan and Tu Lan landed at Purple Glow Star, where Chen Yuan felt the law oscillations beneath his feet.
• Si Kun introduced himself as the Special Grade Elite Zone supervisor and led Chen Yuan to his manor, where a Grade E Nutrient Pod and Nutrient Solution awaited.
• Si Kun said Chen Yuan’s strength could reach Planetary Level Peak in about half a year and that his S-Type Evolution Agent would arrive within three hours.
• Si Kun told Chen Yuan that he first had to take an examination to determine his future teacher.

Chen Yuan entered the Trial Space to take the Trial Tower examination that would determine which World Lord might become his teacher. He quickly cleared the first floor and waited to be teleported onward.

• Si Kun explained that World Lords would assess Chen Yuan’s Trial Tower performance and might offer to teach him.
• Chen Yuan entered the Trial Space, chose Azure Sky and a Force Suit, and began the first tower.
• Chen Yuan found that the first floor required him to kill 10,000 Blood-Haired Mammoths.
• Chen Yuan used his Domain and sword to kill the mammoths in thirty minutes, completing the first-floor trial.
• Chen Yuan awaited teleportation after the completion countdown began.

Chen Yuan advanced through the Trial Tower, clearing its second through sixth levels with overwhelming strength. After he defeated ten Starry Sky Behemoths in under three minutes, the World Lords watching from Purple Glow Peak fell silent.

• Chen Yuan slaughtered the Nine-Headed Pythons on the second level while World Lords debated his talent and Kaila's interest in recruiting him.
• Chen Yuan used his third-tier Azure Firmament Sword to defeat the Tuoluo Race Warriors on the third level in barely ten minutes.
• Chen Yuan cleared the fourth level's Fei beasts after fifteen minutes, then sliced through the Machine Race puppets on the fifth level while predicting their laser attacks.
• Chen Yuan fought ten Starry Sky Behemoths Cang on the sixth level and used Law Amplitude exceeding fivefold to overpower them.
• Chen Yuan defeated all ten Cang in less than three minutes, leaving the World Lords in the Purple Glow Peak lounge silent.

Chen Yuan cleared the first two Trial Towers and fought through the third, while World Lord Shi Lan secured the chance to teach him. The chapter left Chen Yuan defeating all ten thousand Blood-Haired Mammoths with his Third-Tier Domain, impressing Shi Lan.

• Chen Yuan destroyed the Zerg Hive on the seventh floor of the first Trial Tower and was transferred to the second tower.
• The World Lords recognized Chen Yuan's unusually high Law Amplitude and argued over who would teach him.
• Shi Lan entered the lounge and announced that he would teach Chen Yuan, citing his Wind Law Recognition and interest in Chen Yuan's special constitution.
• Chen Yuan cleared the final floor of the second Trial Tower, then struggled against the Blood-Haired Mammoths in the third.
• After killing 3,700 mammoths, Chen Yuan unleashed his Third-Tier Domain and killed all ten thousand within twenty minutes, surprising Shi Lan.

Chen Yuan reached the third floor of the Trial Tower before being defeated, earning a score of 3-3 and attracting the attention of World Lord Shi Lan. Shi Lan became his teacher, set his cultivation and law-comprehension training, and learned that Chen Yuan expected to grasp his first essence within three years.

• Chen Yuan killed the Nine-Headed Pythons on the second floor and fought through three hundred Tuoluo Race warriors on the third before failing with a final score of 3-3.
• Chen Yuan received an email assigning World Lord Shi Lan as his teacher and met him in the Public Zone.
• Shi Lan explained that he had driven away competing World Lords because he had received recognition from an Origin Law, and told Chen Yuan the next Star Level Selection Exam was in seven years.
• Shi Lan ordered Chen Yuan to spend three months improving his strength, then enter a secret realm for life-and-death training, and instructed him to buy the Raging Storm secret technique.
• Shi Lan gave Chen Yuan ten years to comprehend his first essence, but Chen Yuan said he had already studied Raging Storm and expected to do it within three years.

Chen Yuan cultivated while his optimized Raging Storm Secret Manual was being prepared, and his body advanced to the fifth rank of the Planetary Level. When the manual was complete, he discovered its first Law essence was the Flow Conception, which he recognized from his earlier Retrospection Conception.

• Chen Yuan optimized the S-Grade Bloodline Evolution Agent for 12 million Kill Points and entered a Nutrient Pod to cultivate while Raging Storm continued optimizing.
• Chen Yuan trained in the Killing Space and studied Yunmo Planet's secret techniques, improving his Thousand Wind Secret Canon and preparing for further optimization.
• After ten days in the Nutrient Pod, Chen Yuan reached the fifth rank of the Planetary Level, with his Meditation Method at 67% proficiency and his Brain Domain Width at 38 points.
• More than twenty days later, Chen Yuan received the optimized Raging Storm, which refined its seventy-two sword techniques into nine levels for comprehending the Law of Wind.
• Chen Yuan examined the manual's first Law essence and recognized it as the Flow Conception, previously known to him as Retrospection Conception.

Chen Yuan discovered that the optimized Bloodline Evolution Agent could raise his bloodline to Domain Lord Level, boost his genetic multiplier, and increase his Brain Domain Width. After injecting one dose and enduring intense pain through Entering Stillness, he completed his first genetic evolution and resolved to keep cultivating.

• Chen Yuan studied the Wind of Flow essence in Raging Storm and added the secret manual to his daily training.
• The system revealed that the Bloodline Evolution Agent could be used up to three times, with each dose halving the next dose’s effects, but Chen Yuan lacked the points and Kill Points to optimize it again.
• Chen Yuan injected one dose of the Evolution Agent and used Wood Crystals and the Nutrient Pod to supply the life energy his body needed.
• As the transformation caused severe pain, Chen Yuan entered stillness, endured it, and rapidly increased his Meditation Method proficiency.
• Chen Yuan’s Life Gene level reached three times, his bloodline became elementary Domain Lord Level, and his Brain Domain Width rose to 51.
• Chen Yuan connected the pain to his improved Meditation Method progress, decided to ask Shi Lan about simulated pain training, and returned his focus to cultivation.

After reaching Planetary Level Seventh Rank and completing the Thousand Wind Secret Canon, Chen Yuan prepared to enter the Purple Glow Secret Realm. Shi Lan explained that the secret realm was an ancient World Lord’s Internal World and that Chen Yuan’s life-and-death training would involve fighting the Crystal Race.

• Chen Yuan completed the Thousand Wind Secret Canon, reviewed his greatly increased strength, and told Shi Lan he was ready to enter the secret realm.
• Shi Lan approved Chen Yuan’s entry, judging that his strength and Wind Domain should let him protect himself there.
• Shi Lan explained that the Purple Glow Secret Realm had formed from an ancient World Lord’s Internal World, which still produced Universe Crystals.
• Shi Lan said the fragile secret realm restricted powerful entrants and that its low output made permanent occupation unprofitable.
• Shi Lan told Chen Yuan that the Crystal Race were the secret realm’s enemies and the targets of the Training Camp students’ life-and-death training.

Chen Yuan learned about the Crystal Race and received his Life-and-Death Trial mission, which required him to earn 10,000 points in the Purple Glow Secret Realm. After beginning a costly optimization of his Thousand Wind Secret Canon, he entered the secret realm, hoping to gain insight into the Law of Wind.

• Shi Lan explained that the Crystal Race in the secret realm were energy-lifeform subspecies whose Energy Cores had to be shattered to kill them.
• Chen Yuan received permission to enter the secret realm and learned that his trial required 10,000 points, with points converted into company points afterward.
• Chen Yuan decided to conceal his genetic and spiritual talents until he reached the Virtual Universe Company's Core Layer.
• Chen Yuan ordered the system to optimize the Thousand Wind Secret Canon for Star Level cultivation and wind- and time-related secret techniques; the process required an additional 200,000 Kill Points and would take 60 days.
• Chen Yuan traveled to the entrance in Purple Glow Star's Antarctic region, confirmed his eligibility, and entered the passage toward the Purple Glow Secret Realm.

Chen Yuan explored the Purple Glow Secret Realm, confirmed that its Crystal Beasts lacked intelligence, and gained a breakthrough in his cultivation after reaffirming his moral principles. At a valley packed with Crystal Beasts, he discovered five poorly equipped strangers lying in ambush and suspected they were Universe Adventurers who had somehow entered the secret realm.

• Chen Yuan flew south from the secret realm’s remote northwest and observed a Crystal Antelope, confirming that it had no intelligence and that its crystals contained purified cosmic energy.
• Chen Yuan killed the Crystal Antelope, gained Kill Points, and collected the pure crystals it left behind.
• Chen Yuan resolved that he would not kill an intelligent race without cause, and his Meditation Method reached Great Accomplishment as his realm advanced to Constant Stillness.
• Chen Yuan cleared two small groups of Crystal Beasts, raising his Kill Points to 98 million and his Trial Points to 357.
• Chen Yuan reached a valley with about sixty-seven thousand Crystal Beasts and detected five armed strangers in ambush, including a leader at Star Level Seventh Rank.
• Chen Yuan suspected the poorly equipped strangers were Universe Adventurers and wondered how they had entered Purple Glow Secret Realm.

Chen Yuan learned from Shi Lan that the Purple Glow Secret Realm had entered a decay period, allowing a fissure to connect it to Dim Blue Star through the Dark Universe. After the Purple Glow Army ordered him to keep the five adventurers in place, Chen Yuan stopped them from leaving and waited for the garrison, whose first arrival turned out to be the guard he had met before entering the secret realm.

• Chen Yuan contacted Shi Lan after discovering that five Universe Adventurers from Dim Blue Star had entered the Purple Glow Secret Realm.
• Shi Lan explained that the secret realm was in its decay period and that a fissure had reached Dim Blue Star through the Dark Universe, though collapse was at least ten epochs away.
• Shi Lan told Chen Yuan to watch the adventurers until the Purple Glow Army arrived, and commander Bell confirmed that a squad would converge on his location.
• Bell informed Chen Yuan that restrictions on mining Universe Crystals had been lifted.
• Chen Yuan sensed that the adventurers planned to leave, flew to them, and hypnotized all five Star Level adventurers into unconsciousness.
• A ninth-stage Star Level Purple Glow Army member arrived, and Chen Yuan recognized him as the secret realm guard he had met before entering.

Chen Yuan secured the captured adventurers with Kemo’s help, then wiped out the Crystal Beasts in the valley and earned a huge haul of Kill Points. After upgrading his Space Ring, he discovered a Universe Crystal deposit of more than one million cubic meters beneath the valley.

• Kemo restrained the five captured adventurers and took them away, assuring Chen Yuan they would be questioned under company law and released once the company controlled Dim Blue Star’s rift passage.
• Chen Yuan returned to the valley and killed more than a thousand Planetary Level Crystal Beasts, then defeated the Star Level beasts that attacked him.
• Chen Yuan hunted down the remaining fleeing Crystal Beasts, filling his Space Ring and raising his Kill Points to 780 million and his Trial Points to 2,316.
• Chen Yuan started optimizing his Space Ring to increase its capacity and bind it to himself, spending Kill Points to shorten the process to two and a half hours.
• Chen Yuan sensed underground and discovered a Universe Crystal deposit measuring at least one million cubic meters.

Chen Yuan mined the Universe Crystal deposit beneath the secret realm, then learned that the company would soon open the realm to millions of trainees. After Shi Lan agreed to keep his training mission active, Chen Yuan set out to gather crystals and kill Crystal Beasts before competition intensified.

• Chen Yuan dug through 5,300 meters of earth, optimized his Space Ring twice, and collected 1.18 million cubic meters of Universe Crystals worth 1.18 billion Universe Coins.
• Chen Yuan flew to a nearby Crystal Beast gathering site but found its crystal deposit already excavated by other miners.
• Shi Lan told Chen Yuan that the company had confirmed the Purple Glow Secret Realm would last ten more epochs, purchased Dim Blue Star, and planned to open excavation permits to Elite Zone members for one month.
• Shi Lan said Chen Yuan's training mission had been canceled, but Chen Yuan showed that he had already earned more than two thousand points and asked to continue it.
• Shi Lan reinstated the mission, and Chen Yuan resolved to move faster as millions of trainees prepared to enter the secret realm.

Chen Yuan attacked Azure Wolf Gorge ahead of other explorers and wiped out its Crystal Beasts, including the Star Level Eighth Rank leader. As he gathered the Energy Cores, new arrivals discovered the cleared gorge and confronted the unexpected scene.

• Chen Yuan chose to prioritize Azure Wolf Gorge after realizing other explorers were entering the secret realm, and found its 130,000-plus Crystal Beasts still undisturbed.
• Chen Yuan used his Domain and Azure Firmament Sword to kill the Crystal Wolves in waves, then fought the 137 Star Level wolves while avoiding their leader.
• Chen Yuan killed the Crystal Wolf leader after eliminating its subordinates, then cleared the remaining Crystal Wolves and collected their Energy Cores.
• Chen Yuan left the Energy Cores piled up because his Space Ring was being optimized, and several newcomers arrived to find Azure Wolf Gorge empty.