Chapter Summaries

Chen Yuan confronted the Fire Chaser Squad after they claimed Azure Wolf Gorge and tried to rob him of the Energy Crystals. When they attacked, Chen Yuan revealed his Domain and killed one of them, leaving the rest stunned.

• Chen Yuan told Clayway and the Fire Chaser Squad that he had cleared Azure Wolf Gorge and claimed the Crystal Beasts under company rules.
• Clayway blocked Chen Yuan's Virtual Universe connection with a jammer and admitted the squad planned to kill him and take his Energy Crystals.
• Chen Yuan recorded the confrontation and warned the squad to leave, but Clayway ordered his teammates to attack.
• Chen Yuan spread his pale cyan Domain, suppressed the attackers, and pierced the red-haired squad member through the chest with the Azure Firmament Sword.

Chen Yuan battled the Fire Chaser Squad, using his speed and Azure Firmament Sword to kill two members before Clayway's secret technique disrupted his movement. Under a coordinated assault, Chen Yuan broke through to the Fourth Layer of his Wind Domain and gained new insights into the laws of wind and time, then killed every squad member except Clayway.

• Clayway warned the Fire Chaser Squad about Chen Yuan's sword and tied him down with his superior strength while the others prepared to attack.
• Chen Yuan used Storm Shadow to evade the squad's strikes and killed Bolo after Clayway's warning came too late.
• Clayway unleashed Burning Heaven Fire Domain, which erased Chen Yuan's phantoms and let the squad corner him with a coordinated attack.
• Chen Yuan rejected using his Illusion Technique and broke through his bottleneck, advancing his Wind Domain to the Fourth Layer and comprehending new laws.
• Chen Yuan moved too quickly for the squad to react and killed every member except Clayway within a second.

Chen Yuan defeated Clayway and discovered that he had gained new insights into the Law of Time, including the Retrospection profundity. He realized Retrospection might let him experience even a powerful person's past and considered trying it on his Teacher.

• Chen Yuan cut off Clayway's left arm and told him that the company would punish him once the signal block was lifted.
• Clayway resolved to kill Chen Yuan for survival and briefly touched the threshold of the Laws, but Chen Yuan struck his heart and killed him.
• Chen Yuan checked his panel and found his Kill Points had risen to 1.97 billion, Raging Storm had reached Completion Level, and his Domain had reached the fourth level.
• Chen Yuan discovered that he had comprehended Time Acceleration and Retrospection, two Law Profundities.
• Chen Yuan realized Retrospection might let him experience the past of a powerhouse without a strength restriction and considered testing it on his Teacher.

Chen Yuan collected the Fire Chaser Squad’s spoils, mined the secret realm’s Universe Crystals, and completed his trial mission. After finding several large Crystal Beast settlements occupied or empty, he reached Mystic Crane Mountain and recognized Xia falling from a rock wall.

• Chen Yuan searched the Fire Chaser Squad’s Space Rings, found a B9-Grade Mining Robot in Clayway’s ring, and stored the canyon’s energy crystals.
• Chen Yuan removed the signal blocker, had Wind Sprite operate the Mining Robot, and decided to optimize Wind Sprite to protect its database.
• Chen Yuan’s Space Ring finished optimizing, and he used the Mining Robot to harvest 2.16 million cubic meters of Universe Crystals from underground.
• Chen Yuan checked his trial mission, confirmed he had 10,087 Trial Points, and set out to hunt more Crystal Beasts.
• Chen Yuan found Green Ox Plains and Dragon Marsh Bay occupied, then reached the empty Mystic Crane Mountain.
• Chen Yuan saw a white figure crash through a rock wall and recognized her as Xia, the Planetary Level Special Grade Elite he had fought before.

Chen Yuan rescued the unconscious Xia from seven Third-Grade Elites who were pursuing her, then killed them all when they attacked. Xia awoke to find the fight over and heard Chen Yuan explain why he had intervened.

• Chen Yuan stopped the seven pursuers from killing Xia and caught her as she fell from the cliff.
• The blue-haired Psychic Master accused Xia of stealing their treasure, but Chen Yuan refused to hand her over and prepared to heal her.
• The seven attacked Chen Yuan, who used his Domain and speed to kill Rui Xi and then decapitate the other six.
• Xia woke on the cliff and stared in disbelief as Chen Yuan approached her.
• Chen Yuan told Xia the pursuers had claimed she stole their treasure and that they had attacked first.

After Xia explained the Nine Luminaries Body, the body-amplitude secret method she had obtained in a trial in Mystic Crane Mountain, Chen Yuan agreed to study its manuals and share them with his World Lord teacher. The chapter left Xia letting Chen Yuan read the secret method while insisting that she alone would sell it to the company.

• Xia told Chen Yuan that she had found a hidden trial in Mystic Crane Mountain and obtained a secret method, while leaving out that her teammates had ambushed and betrayed her.
• Xia offered to share the Nine Luminaries Body with Chen Yuan as repayment for saving her, explaining that its eight law-based sections could each reach tenfold body amplitude and that the theorized hundredfold limit was likely unattainable.
• Chen Yuan learned that the Nameless World Lord had created the method and agreed to accept Xia's offer despite the high cultivation threshold.
• Xia brought out the manuals and allowed Chen Yuan to read every section, but insisted that he not sell them to the company before she did.
• Chen Yuan asked to pass the secret method to his World Lord teacher, who was recognized by the Law of Wind, and Xia readily agreed.

Chen Yuan sheltered the injured Xia in a hidden cave and studied the Nine Luminaries Body, finding flaws in its promised combined amplitude. He began a costly optimization tailored to himself and left the secret method in the system for sixty days.

• Chen Yuan took the injured Xia to a concealed cave and gave her a healing potion while she recovered.
• Chen Yuan read the Wind Luminaries Body and learned that optimizing it would cost 22 million Kill Points.
• Chen Yuan continued reading the Nine Luminaries Body and concluded that its later sections were speculative, its secret methods conflicted, and its claimed eightyfold amplitude was unrealistic.
• Chen Yuan decided to optimize the complete Nine Luminaries Body to lower its cultivation threshold, reduce resource use, and fuse its effects without conflict.
• Chen Yuan spent 750 million Kill Points to begin the optimization, which the system estimated would take sixty days.

Chen Yuan and Xia left the Purple Glow Secret Realm after recovering and gathering valuable resources, then reached a Special Grade Elite service counter to sell their gains and settle their trial missions. Xia completed her transaction, and Chen Yuan was about to handle his.

• Xia recovered enough to travel and told Chen Yuan that her soul had broken through, allowing her to prepare for the Star Level.
• Chen Yuan and Xia flew to the silver vortex and exited the secret realm, where Chen Yuan reflected on his plans and the rewards he had gained.
• Xia explained that Special Grade Elites had access to exclusive service counters and led Chen Yuan through the crowded business hall.
• Domain Lord Lie Shan confirmed Chen Yuan's Special Grade Elite status and brought them to a reception room to process their transactions.
• Lie Shan valued Xia's Universe Crystal and Energy Crystals at 395 million Universe Coin and settled her 8,310 trial points.

Chen Yuan sold his collected crystals, settled his training mission, and learned how the Ganwu Branch selects Star Level geniuses and promotes them into its Core Layer. He left knowing that he must first reach the Ganwu Branch, rise to Seed level, and then compete against 100,800 Seed geniuses for one of a hundred Core Layer places.

• Chen Yuan sold 3.34 million cubic meters of Universe Crystals and Energy Crystals to Lie Shan for 3.358 billion Universe Coins, upgrading his bank account to a One-Star Account.
• Lie Shan and Xia were surprised that Chen Yuan had earned 10,000 training points in two days by clearing two Crystal Beast settlements alone.
• Lie Shan explained that the Ganwu Branch has 100,100 Star Level geniuses and uses a ten-year elimination and promotion process to select its members.
• Chen Yuan asked about Core Layer promotion, and Lie Shan explained that the top hundred Seed-level geniuses from the Ganwu Branch qualify for an assessment held every hundred years.
• Lie Shan told Chen Yuan that Seed geniuses from 1,008 universe countries compete for 100 Core Layer qualifications.

Chen Yuan bought two S-Grade Bloodline Evolution Agents and added one to his full optimization queue. He then discovered that the Virtual Universe’s Simulation Room could help him test whether pain improved his Meditation Method, and learned the system could record data from simulated materials.

• Lie Shan told Chen Yuan that the upcoming promotion assessments left too little time for him to reach Star Level, but Chen Yuan said he was confident he could succeed.
• Xia asked Chen Yuan not to share the Nine Luminaries Body technique before she sold it, and they exchanged Virtual Universe numbers.
• Chen Yuan bought two S-Grade Bloodline Evolution Agents, and Si Kun delivered them while reminding him not to sell them externally.
• Chen Yuan spent 12 million Kill Points to add one Evolution Agent to his optimization queue, then began cultivating and asked Shi Lan about simulating pain in the Virtual Universe.
• Chen Yuan entered the Simulation Room, summoned images of rare materials, and confirmed that his system could scan and store their characteristic data.

Chen Yuan used simulated pain to improve his meditation and arranged a daily cultivation routine while his body grew stronger in a Nutrient Pod. After his information was raised to Top Secret Level, he went to view the Purple Glow Inscription and met a powerful purple-skinned elder who recognized him.

• Chen Yuan discovered that the system could record material data from simulations and tested whether simulated pain could accelerate meditation.
• Chen Yuan raised his meditation proficiency from 0.13% to 0.37% after three hours of pain-assisted meditation and planned to study laws in the Killing Space each afternoon.
• Ten days later, Chen Yuan reached Planetary Level Seventh Rank (53%) and asked Si Kun for more Nutrient Solution.
• Si Kun received a warning that Chen Yuan's information access was Top Secret Level, then prepared three tons of Nutrient Solution for him.
• Chen Yuan arrived at the Purple Glow Inscription hall, where a purple-skinned elder recognized him and displayed his confidential information.

Chen Yuan viewed the Purple Glow Inscription after reaching entry level in the Law of Wind, using it to deepen his understanding of the Raging Storm Secret Manual. After his seven-day session ended, he returned to cultivation and received notice that his Smart Optical Computer’s optimization was complete.

• Bailijia introduced himself as the Guardian of the Purple Glow Inscription and gave Chen Yuan seven days to view it.
• Chen Yuan studied the inscription, resonated with the Law of Wind, and realized its tangled laws could guide cultivators who had already entered the Origin Law.
• Chen Yuan focused on the eight essences in the second level of the Raging Storm Secret Manual, raising his progress to 15.7% before his viewing time expired.
• Chen Yuan left the inscription without using his second viewing opportunity, returned to his manor, and resumed cultivating in the Nutrient Pod.
• More than twenty days later, Chen Yuan’s Smart Optical Computer reported that its optimization was complete.

Chen Yuan discovered that the optimized Wind Sprite had gained the innate secret technique Possession, which greatly increased his thinking speed when they fused. After the trial injured him, the Wind Sprite warned that prolonged use could kill him.

• Chen Yuan checked the optimized Wind Sprite’s abilities and learned it had gained the Possession secret technique, while he placed a second Evolution Agent into optimization.
• Chen Yuan rebooted the Wind Sprite and asked her to change her beautiful adult appearance to a younger form so she would not distract him.
• The Wind Sprite fused with Chen Yuan, increasing his thinking speed by more than a thousand times and improving his efficiency at analyzing laws.
• Chen Yuan ended the fusion after his nose began bleeding, and the Wind Sprite calculated that more than two hours of Possession would give him a 99.98% chance of dying.

Chen Yuan learned how Wind Sprite’s thousandfold thought acceleration improved his combat potential, then gave the Sentient AI the name Irel. He received Xia’s 1,000 Hunyuan Units from the sale of the Nine Luminaries Body and was left considering her encouragement to aim for the Core Layer.

• Chen Yuan assessed how Wind Sprite’s ability could overcome the limits of his reactions and boost his combat strength.
• Wind Sprite explained that Soul Binding had given her access to Chen Yuan’s memories, then asked him to choose a proper name.
• Chen Yuan named Wind Sprite Irel and stored her core within his soul, where she became a subordinate AI in his Auxiliary Optical Brain.
• Irel notified Chen Yuan that Xia’s Nine Luminaries Body secret technique had sold for 100,000 Hunyuan Units, with additional commissions and permission for Chen Yuan to teach it to up to ten people.
• Xia transferred Chen Yuan 1,000 Hunyuan Units and refused to let him return the money, calling it an investment in his cultivation.
• Xia urged Chen Yuan to leave the Black Dragon Mountain Branch behind and make a name for himself in the assessment seven years later.

Chen Yuan accepted Xia’s thousand Hunyuan Units and vowed to enter the Core Layer within seven years. During Shi Lan’s monthly guidance, he revealed his surprising mastery of two Law of Time mysteries, leaving his teacher stunned.

• Chen Yuan reasoned that he could earn far more than a thousand Hunyuan Units and accepted Xia’s gift, resolving to fulfill his seven-year goal.
• Chen Yuan demonstrated his swordsmanship to Shi Lan, who recognized that he had comprehended the Flow Essence and crossed the threshold of the Origin Law of Wind.
• Chen Yuan told Shi Lan that he had also comprehended Time Acceleration and Retrospection, shocking his teacher.
• Chen Yuan demonstrated Time Acceleration, and Shi Lan inferred that he possessed a physique related to the Law of Time.
• Chen Yuan explained Retrospection, and Shi Lan realized that it could let Chen Yuan experience the cultivation process of people from the past.

Chen Yuan tested his Retrospection ability by possessing Shi Lan during a sword demonstration and experiencing his mastery of force and the laws. The test showed that Chen Yuan could possess a Peak World Lord for three minutes, but his soul needed about twenty days to recover, and Shi Lan believed he could reach the company's Core Layer within seven years.

• Chen Yuan asked Shi Lan to demonstrate eight Law of Wind essences so he could test Retrospection, and Shi Lan agreed.
• Shi Lan performed a sword routine, deepening Chen Yuan's understanding of several law essences.
• Chen Yuan used Retrospection to travel back ten minutes and possess Shi Lan, memorizing his force control and demonstration of the laws.
• Chen Yuan returned to the present after three minutes, collapsed from exhaustion, and refreshed his physical state in the Virtual Universe.
• Shi Lan estimated that Chen Yuan could use Retrospection once every twenty days and said his prospects for entering the Core Layer in seven years were strong.

Chen Yuan gave Shi Lan a body-amplitude secret technique and gained his promise to demonstrate laws regularly, along with a soul-healing potion. Discovering that the potion extended Irel's Possession, Chen Yuan found a cheaper alternative and prepared to use it to improve his cultivation.

• Shi Lan explained that he lacked powerful secret techniques and had hoped Chen Yuan would help him advance his law comprehension.
• Chen Yuan gave Shi Lan the wind section of the Nine Luminaries Body, which could grant him up to fivefold Body Amplitude with his current savings.
• Shi Lan accepted the secret technique and promised to demonstrate laws for Chen Yuan every ten days, providing potions to restore his soul.
• Chen Yuan injected the soul-healing potion, realized its restorative effects could extend Irel's Possession, and used Possession to study laws.
• Chen Yuan lasted over ten hours in Possession and raised his second law essence comprehension to 67 percent.
• Chen Yuan searched the Treasury and found the Spirit Recovery Potion, a cheaper option that continuously repaired bodily condition.

Chen Yuan used Spirit Recovery Potions to extend Irel’s Possession and accelerate his law comprehension, then applied the technique while studying the Purple Glow Inscription. After seven days, he made major gains, optimized his genes, and completed Raging Storm’s second layer.

• Chen Yuan ordered a thousand Spirit Recovery Potions and tested how many he could safely use, learning that three doses a day sustained about six hours of Overclocking.
• Chen Yuan planned to use Overclocking for daily law study and returned to Purple Glow Peak to study the Purple Glow Inscription again.
• Chen Yuan spent seven days comprehending laws under Possession, raising his Wind origin law to 8.73% and bringing Raging Storm’s second layer close to completion.
• Two days after returning to his residence, Chen Yuan injected the optimized Evolution Agent, increasing his Brain Domain Width by five points and his genetic multiplier to 4.5 times.
• That night, Chen Yuan comprehended the ninth law essence and completed the second layer of Raging Storm.

After a month of training, Chen Yuan broke through from Planetary Level Peak to Star Level First Rank and examined the secret methods optimized by his system. He prepared to begin cultivating them while keeping the Nine Luminaries Body’s value and his ability to optimize secret methods secret.

• Chen Yuan reached Planetary Level Peak and compared his rapid progress with Luo Hai’s slower cultivation.
• Chen Yuan used his powerful soul control to fuse the nine planets in his dantian into a star, then completed his bodily transformation into Star Level First Rank.
• Chen Yuan’s system upgraded after his breakthrough, adding a third simultaneous optimization slot.
• Chen Yuan reviewed the optimized Thousand Wind Secret Canon and Nine Luminaries Body, learning their effects and cultivation limitations.
• Chen Yuan decided not to reveal the optimized Nine Luminaries Body and prepared for his first formal cultivation session at Star Level.

After reaching the Star Level, Chen Yuan planned his training, bought resources for Wind Luminaries Body, and began cultivating it. With a year to prepare before company missions began, he followed Irel's schedule and headed to Purple Glow Peak to study the Purple Glow Inscription.

• Chen Yuan found that his comprehension of laws had become clearer at the Star Level and planned to cultivate the Thousand Wind Secret Canon and Wind Luminaries Body.
• Chen Yuan ordered Wind Luminaries Body resources with batch delivery and received the first shipment from Si Kun the next day.
• Chen Yuan learned that his Planetary Level Nutrient Solution had become inefficient, and Si Kun promised to deliver five times the usual amount of Star Level Nutrient Solution.
• Chen Yuan used the first batch of materials to reach entry level in Wind Luminaries Body and estimated that completing its first level would take two or three months alongside his other training.
• Chen Yuan reviewed World Lord Shi Lan's advice about the one-year foundation period before missions and planned to train his force exertion, body amplitude, and law comprehension.
• Irel arranged Chen Yuan's cultivation schedule, and he set off for Purple Glow Peak to study the Purple Glow Inscription.