Chapter Summaries

Chen Yuan and the surviving Ganwu Branch geniuses prepared for the final promotion assessment after Chen Yuan easily advanced through the second round. Black Annihilation Marquis asked him to help protect Nuolan and the others, and the chapter ended as the final round began.

• Black Annihilation Marquis explained that the eight Ganwu Branch survivors would be assigned to separate spaces in the second round and urged Chen Yuan and Nuolan to advance.
• Chen Yuan advanced effortlessly by occupying the center of his Assessment Space and eliminating contestants until only one hundred remained.
• Four of the six trainees coached by Black Annihilation Marquis advanced, and she asked Chen Yuan to help ensure that Nuolan and the others survived the final round.
• Chen Yuan met Ke Yan, Lyle, Cavina, and Copper Mountain, then joined them and Nuolan in planning their strategy.
• The final assessment began when the contestants were teleported into their spaces.

Chen Yuan gathered the Ganwu Branch contestants and led them through the shrinking Assessment Space, defeating teams that attacked them. He and the other five geniuses survived until the assessment ended and officially entered the Apocalypse Secret Realm.

• Chen Yuan used his Mind Domain to find Copper Mountain, then gathered the Ganwu Branch teammates and Nuolan within a day.
• Chen Yuan led the group to a concealed cave in the central region, where they waited as the Assessment Space shrank.
• On the thirteenth day, Chen Yuan detected a team of ten approaching and eliminated them in three seconds while Nuolan protected the others.
• Golden Peak Marquis accused Black Annihilation Marquis of secretly nurturing Chen Yuan, but a records check found no rule violation, and the dissatisfied Immortals withdrew.
• Chen Yuan and the five other Ganwu Branch geniuses survived the assessment, and the Black-Veiled Girl congratulated them on entering the Apocalypse Secret Realm.

Chen Yuan and the other newly promoted Core Layer members traveled to Yuxiang Mountain to see their assigned residences and learn about their new privileges. After moving into his room in Dusk Light Court, Chen Yuan opened the Treasury and saw that he had 10,000 points.

• The Black-Veiled Girl awarded Chen Yuan 40,000 Hunyuan Units and told the group they would leave for headquarters in one month to spend thirty years cultivating in the Initial Universe.
• Nuolan suggested visiting Yuxiang Mountain, and Chen Yuan and the others teleported to its Public Zone before continuing to the Apocalypse Zone.
• Taoming welcomed the newcomers, led them to Dusk Light Court, and gave Chen Yuan Room 1815 in Building One.
• Chen Yuan entered his residence, had Irel take control of its systems, and redecorated it to resemble an Earth villa.
• Chen Yuan opened the Treasury and saw that his Apocalypse Secret Realm account had 10,000 points.

Chen Yuan bought cultivation resources and the Morning Light secret technique, then broke through to Universe Level while his Optimization System upgraded. The upgrade finished with four optimization slots and a higher optimization limit, though Chen Yuan found no other obvious changes.

• Chen Yuan purchased Morning Light and resources for the Wind Luminaries Body and Time Luminaries Body, spending most of his Hunyuan Units and sending Black Marquis a list of additional needs.
• Taoming delivered the Morning Light manuals and advised Chen Yuan to save points for purchases that could not be handled with cash.
• Chen Yuan read all 110 manuals while his physical body broke through to the first level of Universe Level.
• The Optimization System upgraded for an hour after Chen Yuan's breakthrough, increasing its slots to four and its optimization limit by one.

Chen Yuan used the system’s increased optimization limit to improve his equipment and tailor the Morning Light secret method to his needs, then cultivated it intensely during the journey to the Virtual Universe Company headquarters. He emerged after eleven months with the first level complete and his comprehension of the Law of Time increased to 15.6%.

• Chen Yuan learned that the system could now optimize items three major realms above his own and ordered upgrades to the Origin Beginning Palace, his armor, and his weapon.
• Chen Yuan optimized Morning Light into a personal secret method and shortened its completion time to five and a half days.
• Chen Yuan began cultivating Morning Light with Shang Hou’s law insights as a reference and quickly immersed himself in comprehending the Law of Time.
• Chen Yuan boarded Black Annihilation Marquis’s spacecraft while continuing to cultivate, and the spacecraft collected other Ganwu Branch geniuses on its way to headquarters.
• After eleven months in seclusion, Chen Yuan emerged and revealed that he had completed Morning Light’s first level and reached 15.6% comprehension of the Law of Time.

Chen Yuan and the other newly promoted Core Layer geniuses arrived in Chaos City and began choosing a Chaos Stele to study. Elsewhere, Babata told Luo Feng that Chen Yuan had entered Chaos City, leaving Luo Feng shocked.

• Chen Yuan received his delivered purchases and waited with the other geniuses from the company branches.
• A red-eyed man brought the hundred geniuses through the passage to the Initial Universe, where Chen Yuan alone remained standing during the distorted flow of time.
• The group arrived in Chaos City, where the Reception Envoy explained the city's rules and led them to view rubbings of fifty-two Chaos Steles.
• Babata woke Luo Feng and told him that Chen Yuan had entered Chaos City, and Luo Feng reacted with disbelief.

Chen Yuan chose the Primordial Chaos Stele and gained new insights into the Law of Time during seven days of study in Chaos City. After leaving the chamber, he received a communication from Luo Feng, who wanted to meet him in person.

• Luo Feng learned that Chen Yuan had reached Chaos City and decided to wait until his Chaos Stele study was finished before contacting him.
• Chen Yuan chose the Primordial Chaos Stele over the Wind Shadow Chaos Stele because it offered insights into the Law of Time that he could not get from Shang Hou’s memories.
• Kandri led Chen Yuan and the other geniuses into the Primordial Chaos Stele chamber and reminded them not to disturb one another during their seven days of comprehension.
• Chen Yuan focused on the first Fallen Leaf Diagram and practiced the second level of the Morning Light secret manual, gaining insights into its three law essences.
• Chen Yuan quickly emerged from the Chaos Stele’s Conception when Kandri called the group out, then chose a residence and prepared to challenge the Heavenly Bridge.
• Irel received a communication request from Luo Feng, and Chen Yuan accepted it so Luo Feng could arrange to meet him.

Chen Yuan reunited with Luo Feng in Chaos City and described his rise through the Virtual Universe Company. He challenged the Primordial Heavenly Bridge, where his overwhelming strength shocked Luo Feng and guardian Bafen.

• Chen Yuan told Luo Feng how he had advanced from the Planetary Level into the Virtual Universe Company's Core Layer, and revealed that he had chosen the Primordial Chaos Stele.
• Luo Feng proposed testing Chen Yuan's strength, so Chen Yuan invited him to watch his Heavenly Bridge challenge instead.
• Chen Yuan entered the first level and discovered that the bridge suppressed his Domain, body-amplitude techniques, and special physique, leaving his Law comprehension and force output to be tested.
• Chen Yuan assessed his masked Martial Artist opponent's Law of Time, then killed him with a single sword strike and proceeded toward the second level.
• Luo Feng and guardian Bafen watched Chen Yuan's performance and stared at each other in shock.

Chen Yuan passed the first five levels of the Primordial Heavenly Bridge on his first attempt, drawing attention across the Virtual Universe Company and prompting a Universe Master to inquire about him. After defeating the fifth-level gatekeeper, he headed for the sixth level.

• Chen Yuan killed the first two gatekeepers with single strikes, astonishing Luo Feng and Supervisor Bafen.
• Bafen emailed Chen Yuan’s results to King-level experts and the promoted geniuses; Bolan and Long Yun learned that Chen Yuan had passed two levels, then heard he killed the third-level gatekeeper.
• After Chen Yuan defeated the fourth-level gatekeeper, King Jiuzhen and King Jinzhou discussed his talent, and Jiuzhen learned that his Universe Master teacher wanted detailed information about Chen Yuan.
• Chen Yuan used his mastery of the Laws of Time and Wind to defeat the fifth-level gatekeeper, then walked toward the sixth level.

Chen Yuan passed the sixth level of the Heavenly Bridge by learning from its gatekeeper and creating the Universe Level Peak Secret Method Morning Dew, but he was swiftly defeated on the seventh. Back at Dusk Light Court, he learned that King Jiuzhen’s teacher, Lord Youhou, wished to summon him.

• Chen Yuan chose to fight the sixth-level Martial Artist gatekeeper and struggled to overcome his defense with his Star Level Peak secret technique, Three-Foot Water.
• Chen Yuan used his Mind Domain to study the gatekeeper’s techniques during their thirty-minute battle and upgraded Three-Foot Water to a Universe Level Peak Secret Method.
• Chen Yuan unveiled his new move, Morning Dew, broke through the gatekeeper’s defense, and passed the sixth level of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Chen Yuan challenged the seventh level but was beheaded by its gatekeeper and returned to his room at Dusk Light Court in Yuxiang Mountain.
• Chen Yuan asked Irel to sort his messages and read King Jiuzhen’s email, which said that his teacher, Lord Youhou, wished to summon him.

Chen Yuan met Lord Youhou and learned that Lord of Darkness, the creator of the Primordial Chaos Stele, intended to take him as a registered disciple. Lord of Darkness explained that Chen Yuan’s unusual soul, willpower, and talent had drawn his attention, and warned Chen Yuan and King Jiuzhen to keep his identity secret.

• Chen Yuan traveled to Thunder Island after King Jiuzhen invited him to meet Lord Youhou, then waited three days for their arrival.
• Lord Youhou arrived with a bald man in black, and Lord of Darkness revealed that he was Lord Youhou’s teacher and Jiuzhen’s martial grandmaster.
• Lord Youhou explained that Lord of Darkness’s identity was confidential, and Chen Yuan and King Jiuzhen promised to keep it secret.
• Lord of Darkness offered to take Chen Yuan as a registered disciple, and Chen Yuan accepted.
• Lord of Darkness said Chaos City Lord had noticed Chen Yuan’s Immortal-level soul and peak King-level willpower, and revealed that he created the Primordial Chaos Stele Chen Yuan cultivated.

Lord of Darkness accepted Chen Yuan as a registered disciple and set a three-hundred-year trial for him to pass a Primal Heavenly Mountain. He gave Chen Yuan three secret techniques and arranged for Lord Youhou to publicly serve as his master while Lord of Darkness was away.

• Lord of Darkness explained that Chen Yuan had to pass a Primal Heavenly Mountain within three hundred years of Primal Universe time to become his personal disciple.
• Lord of Darkness criticized Chen Yuan’s rudimentary secret techniques and gave him Primordial Research Records, Illusion Truth Secret Canon, and Nine Transformations of Riding the Wind.
• Lord of Darkness described the three techniques as paths for studying the Law of Time, cultivating soul and illusion techniques, and learning the Wind-Time Fusion Law.
• Lord of Darkness said he would be away exploring the Universe Ocean and told Chen Yuan to publicly take Lord Youhou as his master.
• Lord Youhou accepted the arrangement, and Chen Yuan addressed him as Teacher before Lord of Darkness’s Divine Power Avatar departed.

Lord Youhou accepted Chen Yuan as his disciple, assigned King Jiuzhen to guide him, and arranged to mentor him personally every hundred years. After his permissions rose to King Immortal level, Chen Yuan began optimizing three secret techniques and prepared to earn points in Illusion Sea.

• Lord Youhou arranged for King Jiuzhen to guide Chen Yuan and promised to mentor him once every hundred years, while Chen Yuan agreed to the arrangement.
• Lord Youhou reassured Chen Yuan that his Immortal-level soul and peak King Will Branch would not expose Earth's secrets, and announced plans to make the apprenticeship public.
• Chen Yuan received King Immortal-level permissions, congratulated Luo Feng over a call, and returned to his residence.
• Chen Yuan read the nine volumes of Primordial Research Records and started optimizing its first three volumes, then queued Illusion Truth Secret Canon and the first level of Nine Transformations of Riding the Wind for optimization.
• Chen Yuan tapped the Illusion Sea teleportation button to earn points.

Chen Yuan challenged the Illusion Sea and passed its first nineteen trials, overcoming illusions and consciousness pressure with his powerful soul and will. He headed toward the twentieth island, where he planned to use an undisclosed trump card against its overwhelming strength.

• Chen Yuan entered the Illusion Sea and passed the first ten islands without slowing, while the black-scaled administrator discovered that his soul was far stronger than expected and learned he was Lord Youhou’s personal disciple.
• Chen Yuan slowed on the eleventh through fourteenth islands, then broke the fifteenth island’s Marquis-level illusion with his will.
• Chen Yuan passed the sixteenth and seventeenth islands before using the Sword of Heart to shatter the eighteenth island’s King-level illusion.
• Chen Yuan used his willpower to condense the Sword of Heart and destroy the nineteenth island’s high King-level consciousness pressure.
• Chen Yuan earned 52.42 million points from passing nineteen levels and set off for the twentieth island, confident that his hidden trump card gave him a chance to pass.

Chen Yuan cleared the twentieth Illusion Sea island but was instantly defeated by the Venerable-level pressure on the twenty-first. Back in Yuxiang Mountain, he used his new authority and points to buy cultivation resources, then redeemed Blood Luo Crystals to improve his law talent while in Chaos City.

• Chen Yuan used the Holy Embryo and Cosmic Origin Power to wear down Illusion Sea's consciousness and pass the twentieth island, earning fifty million points.
• Chen Yuan flew to the twenty-first island but was overwhelmed by a Venerable's consciousness and returned to his residence in Yuxiang Mountain.
• Chen Yuan spent fifteen million points on resources for the final three levels of the Time Luminaries Body and arranged delivery to Chaos City.
• Chen Yuan reviewed his free Resource Quota and decided not to claim most items while the Chaos City Lord could observe him.
• Chen Yuan redeemed all one hundred Blood Luo Crystals, intending to fuse them in Chaos City and improve his law talent.

Chen Yuan fused three Blood Luo Crystals, becoming a Blood Warrior and raising his genetic level to ten times, but his body could not endure a fourth. He planned to use the Nutrient Pod to reach the peak of the Universe Level before trying again.

• Chen Yuan continued cultivating the Wind Luminaries Body while waiting for his resources to arrive.
• Chen Yuan fused his first two Blood Luo Crystals, overcoming their killing wills and increasing his genetic amplification.
• Chen Yuan endured the strain of fusing a third crystal and became a Blood Warrior, doubling his amplification and improving his law comprehension.
• Chen Yuan tried to fuse a fourth crystal, but his body failed to withstand the transformation and the crystal's power flowed back out.
• Chen Yuan decided to use the Nutrient Pod to reach the peak of the Universe Level before attempting further fusions.

Chen Yuan spent three months improving his mastery of the Law of Time, then comprehended the second diagram of the Primordial Chaos Stele and tested whether Chaos True Spirits affected him. He began his planned cultivation in Chaos City, and ten years passed.

• Chen Yuan studied the optimized Primordial Research Records alongside the Morning Light secret canon, raising his comprehension of the first nine law essences.
• After three months, Chen Yuan had completely comprehended the first nine law essences, and King Jiuzhen advised him to study the Chaos Stele’s second diagram and begin cultivating combat secret arts.
• Chen Yuan’s real body reached Universe Level Peak at the fivefold genetic level, and he planned to cultivate the Nine Luminaries Body and fuse with Blood Luo Crystals.
• Chen Yuan comprehended the Chaos Stele again, then spent ten days digesting what he had learned.
• Chen Yuan hunted Chaos Beasts outside Chaos City and confirmed that Chaos True Spirits had no effect on him.
• Chen Yuan began following his cultivation plan in Chaos City, and ten years passed.

After ten years of cultivation in Chaos City, Chen Yuan had greatly improved his laws and strength and returned to the Heavenly Bridge to challenge its seventh level. His Time World collided with the Gatekeeper’s, leaving the outcome of the battle unresolved.

• Chen Yuan learned he had comprehended the forty-first mystery after a twenty-seven-day session and reviewed his greatly increased strength and cultivation progress.
• Chen Yuan decided to resume challenging the Heavenly Bridge after using all six opportunities to study the Chaos Stele.
• Chen Yuan met supervisor Bafen, who was surprised that Chen Yuan believed he could pass the seventh level after ten years.
• Chen Yuan reached the seventh level and chose to fight the Martial Artist Gatekeeper who had defeated him ten years earlier.
• The Gatekeeper opened his Time World, and Chen Yuan countered with his own as the two silver-white worlds collided.

Chen Yuan defeated the eighth-level Heavenly Bridge gatekeeper by countering his Time World and using improved Riding the Wind Secret Canon sword techniques. The gatekeeper acknowledged Chen Yuan’s talent before dissolving, leaving the path forward open.

• Chen Yuan defeated the seventh-level gatekeeper by tricking him with a Time Phantom and moved on to the eighth level.
• Chen Yuan and the eighth-level gatekeeper’s Time Worlds clashed, producing countless phantoms without either fighter landing a blow.
• Chen Yuan used Boundless Fog Sea and Time Corridor to suppress their shuttling abilities and bring both fighters to an equal footing.
• Chen Yuan’s improved sword techniques overwhelmed the gatekeeper, whose Void Piercing Style lost to Star Radiance and whose defense failed against Morning Dew.
• The gatekeeper praised Chen Yuan’s swordsmanship and genius before splitting apart and dissolving into black liquid.

Chen Yuan’s success on the Heavenly Bridge pushed Bolan, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun to improve faster during their years in Chaos City. After a long seclusion, Chen Yuan returned and cleared the tenth level, with only three years left in Chaos City.

• Chen Yuan studied the Chaos Stele and continued cultivating while Bafen’s announcement of his progress spurred the other geniuses.
• Bolan reconsidered his choice of cultivation path, then cleared the fifth level in two years; Luo Feng and the other geniuses also advanced ahead of their original progress.
• Chen Yuan cleared the ninth level, while Luo Feng, Bolan, and Rong Jun later surpassed their previous limits on the Heavenly Bridge.
• Nine Sword Venerable took Luo Feng, Bolan, Rong Jun, and the other departing geniuses from the Initial Universe as Chen Yuan remained in secluded cultivation.
• After emerging from seclusion, Chen Yuan learned that a year had passed since Luo Feng’s group left and saw that his time-law progress had reached 29.1%.
• Chen Yuan challenged the tenth level of the Primordial Heavenly Bridge and cleared it twenty minutes later.