Chapter Summaries

After gaining the title Marquis Aurora, Luo prepared to leave Qiongyu Planet and joined Luo Feng and Hong for a meeting with Phantom Spirit King. They reached her palace in the Virtual Universe, where her seductive illusions surrounded them, and stood before her as the chapter ended.

• Busika congratulated Luo on becoming Marquis Aurora, and Luo said he would leave Qiongyu Planet once his affairs were settled.
• Silver Snow Marquis told Hong, Luo Feng, and Marquis Aurora that Phantom Spirit King had agreed to meet them and warned Hong not to try to prove the strength of his feelings for Qing'er.
• Silver Snow Marquis explained that a welcoming banquet for Luo Feng would be held on Imperial Capital Planet, giving the Black Dragon Mountain Empire and Blue Star Lineage a chance to connect with powerful figures.
• Bushela, Phantom Spirit King's disciple, welcomed Marquis Aurora and Luo Feng, then led them and Hong to his teacher's palace in the Virtual Universe.
• The group passed through halls filled with Phantom Spirit King's seductive illusions, which did not affect Luo Feng or Hong, and then saw Phantom Spirit King seated on her throne.

Luo Feng and Phantom Spirit King discussed Luo’s understanding of the laws while Hong faced her Eighteen Desires Illusion. After Hong passed, Phantom Spirit King offered Hong and Qingqing a choice about their relationship and Qingqing’s chance to inherit her secret manual.

• Phantom Spirit King questioned Hong before he agreed to attempt the Eighteen Desires Illusion, despite Marquis Aurora Luo’s attempt to dissuade him.
• Marquis Aurora Luo explained his view that the Origins of Laws were connected and that light was more than light, while Phantom Spirit King cautioned him against settling on one explanation.
• Hong struggled through the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Layers, then quickly passed the Eighteenth, even after Phantom Spirit King increased the illusion’s intensity.
• Hong argued that truly understanding desire came from experiencing it, and that renouncing desire went against one’s heart.
• Phantom Spirit King offered to give Qingqing her secret manual and allow her to see Hong if they avoided a physical relationship until both reached Peak World Lord and decided whether to stay together.

After Hong agreed to enter the Great Axe Coliseum’s Special Elite Training Camp, Aurora Luo joined the Coliseum and created a new technique. At Luo Feng’s welcome banquet, he reunited with his brothers and learned how rapidly the Blue Star Lineage had grown.

• Marquis Qu Ke visited Luo Feng’s estate to recruit Aurora Luo into the Great Axe Coliseum and Hong into its Special Elite Training Camp, and Hong agreed to join after Luo Feng’s banquet.
• Aurora Luo joined the Great Axe Coliseum after receiving an offer that included access to the Initial Universe and a Chaos Stele, while reserving his plan to guard the Solar System for a thousand years.
• Aurora Luo emerged from seclusion having created Three-Phase Light Blade, a technique thirty percent stronger than Five-Colored Aurora, and planned to pass his Aurora manual to Hong and its first move to Lin Chenxing.
• At his welcome banquet on Imperial Capital Planet, Luo Feng reunited with Thunder God and Lin Chenxing, while Mohanderson and East remained absent.
• Thunder God and Lin Chenxing told Luo Feng that the Blue Star Lineage’s plentiful resources had brought its development to the point where Star Level cultivators might soon be common on Blue Star.

Luo Feng learned how the Blue Star Lineage had grown and joined its leaders at a banquet, where they secured valuable ties and opportunities. The banquet left the lineage with new training support and a wave of business deals.

• Luo Feng heard that Blue Star had become the lineage’s cultivation base, Bamboo Mountain supplied abundant resources, and nearly sixty of their fighters had reached Universe Level.
• Luo Feng, Lin Chenxing, Thunder God, and Hong went to the banquet to put their plan into motion.
• The Black Dragon God Lord arranged for the Blue Star Lineage to send ten disciples to study at the Black Dragon Mountain Sacred Land every ten years, in exchange for a share of its resource sales.
• Jiang Tianchen arranged with Luo, Thunder God, Lin Chenxing, and the others for the Blue Star People to favor Three Axe Mountain and receive visits from its World Lords.
• Lin Chenxing and Thunder God represented the Blue Star Lineage at the banquet, where Immortals placed orders with Three Realms Company and made deals.

Lin Chenxing and Hugelder traveled to the Tower Star System to investigate a Metal Giant Tree that had attacked an exploration team. Hugelder examined the tree while it attacked him, and he concluded that it had transformed entirely into metal and comprehended the origin of the Law of Gold.

• An exploration team member reported the Metal Giant Tree to Mohanderson, who promised to send reinforcements.
• Mohanderson contacted East and Lin Chenxing, and Lin Chenxing invited Hugelder to investigate the tree with him.
• Lin Chenxing and Hugelder arrived in the Tower Star System and found the exploration team unable to damage the tree with laser cannons.
• Hugelder approached the tree, dodged its branches, and drew all its attacks away from the exploration team.
• Lin Chenxing appeared beside the team, then joined Hugelder near the tree as Hugelder explained that it was fully metallic and showed signs of comprehending the origin of the Law of Gold.

Hugelder subdued the Metal Giant Tree, taught it about its origins, and accepted it as a new disciple named Cassio. After Cassio learned to control its size, it remained ready to follow Hugelder’s orders.

• Lin Chenxing asked whether the Metal Giant Tree counted as a Metal Lifeform, and Hugelder explained that its plant structure and consciousness made it a plant lifeform despite its metal body.
• Hugelder transformed into a banyan tree, restrained the Metal Giant Tree, and transmitted information to it before suppressing it with his World Projection.
• Hugelder decided to guide the Metal Giant Tree, which recovered, introduced itself as Cassio, and recognized Hugelder as its teacher and Lin Chenxing as its senior brother.
• Hugelder instructed Cassio to shrink, and Cassio gradually reduced its height to just over twenty meters over two days.
• Hugelder told Cassio to stop shrinking, and Cassio said it was ready to follow his orders.

Lin Chenxing and Hugelder brought Cassio to Hugelder’s God Kingdom, where they learned how his Assimilation ability had helped him grow and understand the Law of Gold. Inspired by Cassio’s progress, Lin Chenxing left to focus on comprehending laws in a secret realm.

• Hugelder welcomed Cassio into his God Kingdom and told him to plant himself and use the ores Lin Chenxing had gathered for him.
• Cassio explained that his Assimilation ability had let him absorb Silver Lake Gold, but he had reached a bottleneck after replacing his body with it.
• Lin Chenxing and Hugelder realized Cassio’s ability had helped him comprehend the Origin of the Law of Gold and develop his domain.
• Lin Chenxing felt inspired by Cassio’s progress and told Hugelder he was going to the secret realm to comprehend laws.
• Hugelder encouraged Lin Chenxing to go and turned his attention to teaching Cassio.

Lin Chenxing gathered his disciples after eight years of seclusion and learned that He Meng had comprehended the Origin of the Law of Water. He explained that the Five Elements’ generation was a pattern found throughout all things and Laws, leaving the disciples with a new principle to study.

• Lin Chenxing ended his seclusion and gathered his disciples to assess their progress.
• He Meng told Lin Chenxing he had comprehended the Origin of the Law of Water about nine months earlier.
• He Meng asked why the Water Origin felt pure and unlike the other Origins of Law.
• Lin Chenxing explained how the Five Elements generated one another through transformations reflected in nature.
• Lin Chenxing told the disciples that the pattern of the Five Elements extended beyond the Five Elements to wind, light, Lightning, all things, and the Laws themselves.

Lin Chenxing explained his theory that laws could transform within their Origins and outlined a path for deriving new laws from the Wood Origin of Laws. His disciples split over whether to follow his unconventional approach, leaving a future division within the Lingzhu Dojo.

• Lin Chenxing presented his ideas about the Origins of Laws and warned the disciples that researching them would be difficult.
• Lin Chenxing planned to study the Wood Origin of Laws, create Spirit Bamboo, sort its characteristics into eight categories, and use specialized clones to comprehend new laws.
• Lin Chenxing connected his theory to the laws and stable objects found in secret realms, including King Qi Jade.
• Lin Chenxing shared his insights with Hugelder and discussed his plans with Marquis Aurora Luo, who explained how he combined light and Wood in his Aurora technique.
• Bian Shuo chose not to follow Lin Chenxing's path, while He Meng decided to pursue it.
• The disciples of the Lingzhu Dojo divided into two factions over Lin Chenxing's approach, planting the seeds of a future schism.

After two hundred years away, Luo Feng returned to Mars and reunited with Lin Chenxing, who described the Blue Star Lineage’s growth and the transformation of the Solar System. The chapter ended with Luo Feng learning how the lineage had developed while he was gone.

• Lin Chenxing sensed Luo Feng’s return, and Luo Feng arrived on Bamboo Mountain with Dylan.
• Lin Chenxing told Luo Feng that Second Brother was away on a mission, hoping to join a major power’s Core Layer.
• Lin Chenxing described how Blue Star’s population, territory, and strength had grown, while Mars became a stronghold for powerful members of the lineage.
• Lin Chenxing explained that his Earth-origin clone had transformed planets in the Quling Star System and that he was developing a second clone tied to the Law of Gold.
• Lin Chenxing recounted the Blue Star Lineage’s rise, including its growing numbers of Planetary, Star, and Universe Level members and its profitable Spirit Bamboo products.
• Lin Chenxing explained how the Solar System had been divided into living areas and training grounds, with planets and moons beyond the asteroid belt awarded through Dojo Battles held every fifty years.

Luo Feng and Dylan saw Lin Chenxing’s experiments with creating a pseudo Origin of Laws and learned how he had transformed properties of Wood into a new pseudo law origin. Lin Chenxing then showed them the vast Myriad Bamboo Secret Realm and its advanced resources.

• Luo Feng asked Lin Chenxing what he planned to do next, and Lin Chenxing said his path no longer suited the major powers.
• Lin Chenxing showed Luo Feng and Dylan a golden bamboo that held a pseudo Origin of Laws of Gold with fundamentally different properties from the true Origin of Laws of Gold.
• Lin Chenxing explained how he filtered properties from the Origin of Laws of Wood and rearranged their causal relationships to create the pseudo law origin.
• Lin Chenxing led Luo Feng and Dylan through the Myriad Bamboo Secret Realm, which had expanded to a radius of roughly four thousand kilometers and contained many varieties of bamboo.
• Lin Chenxing explained that the secret realm’s Spirit Bamboo Weapons and Bamboo Fruits had reached C8 Grade, making them usable by Universe Level cultivators.

Luo Feng discussed diversifying Blue Star’s income with Lin Chenxing, while the Myriad Bamboo Secret Realm neared its growth limit. Two years later, Lin Chenxing’s new Gold Clone awakened and set out to find his missing Earth Clone and investigate the Echo Conch and the star system that had trapped it.

• Luo Feng urged Lin Chenxing to develop more industries for Blue Star, and Lin Chenxing agreed to discuss the idea with the council.
• Luo Feng and Lin Chenxing saw that the Myriad Bamboo Secret Realm had nearly reached its maximum size and would serve only as a resource reserve or training ground.
• Two years later, Lin Chenxing’s golden bamboo clone took human form, awakened, and agreed to search for the missing Earth Clone.
• Lin Chenxing recalled that his Earth Clone had entered a star system after hearing of the rare Echo Conch, then vanished when an unknown force seized it near the system’s third planet.
• Lin Chenxing sent his Gold Clone to the star system, suspecting that an Echo Conch would help reveal its secret.

Lin Chenxing's Gold Clone reached the Nading Star System to find an Echo Conch and investigate where his Earth Clone had disappeared. After studying the star system's strange light-blocking effect, he met Wind Wheel, who revealed that the Ganwu Secret Region had extensively studied the area.

• The explorers' alliance questioned Lin Chenxing about his purpose, clones, and missing Earth Clone, then barred entry without permission.
• Lin Chenxing examined the black planet and discovered that it completely blocked the star's light from one direction, while the view from the other side seemed normal.
• Wind Wheel approached Lin Chenxing and said he was friends with Luo Feng and had come to the star system for an adventure mission.
• Wind Wheel explained that the Ganwu Secret Region had collected extensive information about the place but forbade him from sharing it.

Lin Chenxing waited for the Echo Conches to appear, then followed the major forces toward a green-light portal on the dark planet, hoping to find his missing Earth Clone. He entered in the second wave, close behind the scions of the major forces.

• Lin Chenxing agreed to cooperate with Wind Wheel's family and watched ships from major forces arrive as the gathered cultivators formed an alliance.
• After about a year, tens of thousands of Echo Conches emerged from the dark planet, and Lin Chenxing secured one.
• Lin Chenxing sensed the Echo Conch contained the source of the Law of Wind but could not comprehend it, then suspected the Ganwu Lord had altered the region to block outside contact.
• Lin Chenxing saw the major forces activate their Echo Conches and follow green beams toward the dark planet, so he did the same moments later.
• Lin Chenxing followed the beam and reached a person-sized vortex like a wormhole.

Lin Chenxing’s Gold Clone found his Earth Clone being pursued in a prison created by the Ganwu Lord to confine weaker Alien Races. After learning how the prison worked and why the Earth Clone had been drawn inside, Lin Chenxing understood how the clone had survived for decades, while both clones remained trapped until they could find a way out.

• Lin Chenxing’s Gold Clone followed his connection to the Earth Clone and found him battling seven Alien Races in the darkness.
• The Alien Races fled when the Gold Clone joined the fight, and the two clones returned to human form.
• The Earth Clone explained that the prison held Alien Races favored by the Origin of the Law of Wind and kept them from cultivating.
• Lin Chenxing learned that the Ganwu Lord used the prison to train geniuses and that an Echo Conch could let intruders escape when the prison opened.
• The Earth Clone revealed that he had been hunted repeatedly for decades and had survived by rooting himself in the ground.

Lin Chenxing learned of a prison treasure containing the Origin of the Law of Wind and took his Earth Clone deeper into the prison with his Gold Clone to find it. The Alien Race’s leaders ambushed the two clones, who combined their domains and counterattacked.

• Lin Chenxing reviewed the materials his Earth Clone had collected and prepared to leave the prison.
• The Earth Clone told Lin Chenxing about a treasure containing the Origin of the Law of Wind, so Lin Chenxing decided to seek it with both clones.
• The Alien Race’s leaders learned that outsiders were killing their people and gathered to discuss the coming purge and the two human plants.
• Seven second-stage Domain Lords and more than thirty members of the Alien Race ambushed Lin Chenxing’s clones near a blue mountain.
• Lin Chenxing’s Earth Clone blocked the attack as his Gold Clone countered, then their domains merged and weighed down their enemies.

Lin Chenxing reached the Law of Wind’s Core Land and searched its wind-eroded cliffs for a treasure. Four members of a powerful family confronted him and demanded to inspect his spatial equipment, and he refused.

• Lin Chenxing and the Alien Race retreated from their standoff as Ganwu Universe Country’s forces approached, then Lin Chenxing continued toward the Law of Wind treasure site.
• A family team arrived at the battlefield and split up, with four members sent to pursue Lin Chenxing and demand materials from any second-level Domain Lord aliens he had killed.
• Lin Chenxing reached the mountain range, where the wind’s pressure no longer affected his human soul, and reasoned that the Law of Wind and Echo Conches had gathered there.
• Lin Chenxing searched the wind-eroded cliffs and found an unusually smooth, square patch of rock that might conceal a treasure.
• Four people confronted Lin Chenxing, warned him not to take treasures without a Ganwu Secret Region mission, and demanded to inspect his spatial equipment; Lin Chenxing refused.

Lin Chenxing and his clones overwhelmed four Domain Lords in the Core Region, but their battle caused a chain of mountain collapses before he escaped with a treasure. After returning to the universe, he learned an Immortal was investigating damage to the region and chose to confess his role.

• Lin Chenxing’s fused domains suppressed the four Domain Lords, and his clones attacked them with a spinning sphere of metallic bamboo.
• The four men’s strongest attacks deflected off the sphere and struck a mountain, triggering a chain of collapses across the Core Region.
• Lin Chenxing picked up the stone he had come to collect, fled several hundred kilometers, and used the Echo Conch to leave the prison with his clones.
• Lin Chenxing returned to the universe and learned from Wind Wheel that an Immortal had come to repair the Core Region after someone disrupted its operation.
• Lin Chenxing approached the Immortal and admitted that his fight had caused the mountains to collapse, offering to accept punishment.

An immortal investigated damage to the prison’s Core Region, fined the responsible family and Lin Chenxing, and ordered both sides to help watch over the site. Back in the Virtual Universe, Thunder God celebrated his success with his brothers as Hong prepared to leave the Initial Universe.

• The family representative brought four family members to the immortal and admitted they had damaged the Core Region while fighting Lin Chenxing.
• The immortal questioned both sides, and Lin Chenxing described how sixteen mountains fell and how the ground and wind changed afterward.
• The immortal fined each of the four family members about three thousand Hunyuan Units, assigned the repairs, and ordered both sides to send people to guard the prison before it reopened.
• Lin Chenxing signed the punishment acknowledgment, and the blockade around the star system was lifted.
• Thunder God celebrated his success with Hong and their brothers in Nine Star Bay, while Hong said he would soon leave the Initial Universe.
• East said he would focus on building the Quling Star System instead of trying to join a major organization’s Core Layer.

Luo Feng and his brothers discussed their cultivation progress, Lin Chenxing’s independent path, and Mohanderson’s choice to join the Universe Mercenary Alliance. Their conversation about the Illusion Sea led them to conceal the Blue Star Lineage’s unusual resistance to illusions until its wider situation was exposed.

• Hong said he had cleared six levels of the Heaven's Bridge, while Thunder God claimed he would eventually surpass him and Luo Feng.
• Lin Chenxing explained that he preferred pursuing his new path independently, and Hong shared his concern that Lin Chenxing might not reach Immortality in time.
• Mohanderson chose to join the Universe Mercenary Alliance because its adventurous life suited him, and Thunder God teased him about watching over Hong’s sister-in-law.
• Luo Feng explained that the Illusion Sea’s later islands tested consciousness against Immortal God and Universe Venerable pressure, prompting Hong and Thunder God to consider how far they might get.
• Lin Chenxing advised Hong that he could attempt the twenty-first island but urged Thunder God not to go deep until the Blue Star Lineage’s unusual resistance to illusions became publicly known.