Chapter Summaries

Bai Yang repeatedly fought his inner demon in a mental space until he destroyed it. The inner demon accepted defeat as it faded away.

• Bai Yang lost track of how many times he had practiced his sword techniques in the empty mental space.
• Bai Yang remained determined to destroy the inner demon.
• Bai Yang pierced the inner demon's head with his final sword strike.
• The inner demon told Bai Yang that its memories came from him and that it had never possessed a body before fading away.

Molo reacted furiously after hearing that Bai Yang had survived the Purgatory Abyss and awakened. His plans to set Luo Feng up had already failed, and he had been demoted to the Primeval District after losing to Luo Feng, Krov, and Bolan.

• Molo hurled a cup against the wall and shattered it.
• Molo learned that Bai Yang had awakened after surviving the Purgatory Abyss.
• Molo recalled that Bai Yang's disappearance had seemed to give him an opportunity to frame Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng defeated Molo during the qualification battles.
• Krov and Bolan also defeated Molo, sending him to the Primeval District.

Bai Yang cleared the tenth level of the Heavenly Bridge with little effort, shocking the Virtual Universe Company’s Original District members. Undying beings and Universe Venerables gathered to watch him, including Nine Swords Venerable and the Ganwu Country Lord.

• Bai Yang flew along the Heavenly Bridge and cleared the tenth level without much effort.
• The other Primeval District members at the Universe level had not reached as high as Bai Yang.
• Undying beings and Universe Venerables appeared on the Heavenly Bridge plane to observe Bai Yang’s battle.
• Nine Swords Venerable and the Ganwu Country Lord concealed themselves and watched.

After Bai Yang cleared the eleventh level of the Heavenly Bridge, Fito announced that seven minutes had passed. Krov accepted the vast gap between himself and Bai Yang and called it his good fortune to share an era with him.

• Fito announced that seven minutes had passed since Bai Yang cleared the eleventh level.
• Krov said he had once thought he had uncovered the secret of the Prison Battlefield.
• Krov admitted that the gap between him and Bai Yang was far greater than he had imagined.
• Krov said he considered it good fortune to be born in the same era as Bai Yang.
• Fito praised Krov for not falling into despair, and Krov turned to him in surprise.

Through shared memories with his spacetime avatar, Bai Yang comprehended new mysteries of the laws of time and sharply increased his combat strength. His opponent, the gatekeeper, launched rapid attacks to recover lost ground as the Universe Venerables noticed Bai Yang’s breakthrough.

• Bai Yang’s spacetime avatar shared memories of the previous battle with his original body.
• Bai Yang comprehended new mysteries of the laws of time, causing his combat strength to surge.
• The gatekeeper launched rapid attacks and recovered some of the ground Bai Yang had gained.
• Nine Swords Venerable observed that Bai Yang had comprehended at least three new mysteries of the laws of time.

Bai Yang reflected on how his battle against his inner demons had shaped him and inspired his interest in interfering with others’ sense of time. After his friends left the manor, he did not rest.

• Bai Yang admitted that his secret art was still only a rudimentary prototype.
• Bai Yang recalled that his battle against his inner demons had felt like hundreds of years and had changed him.
• Bai Yang considered how the lack of reference points had distorted his sense of time.
• Bai Yang became interested in interfering with others’ sense of time.
• Bai Yang did not rest after his friends bid him farewell at the manor.

The Snake Woman avoided using telekinesis against Bai Yang’s mind, while the trio formed a coordinated golden combat formation to attack him. The Minotaur’s earth-based strike weighed Bai Yang down as the Ape Man launched a nine-section bamboo staff.

• The Snake Woman refrained from attacking Bai Yang’s mind with telekinesis.
• The trio on the mountainside formed a golden combat formation.
• The Minotaur charged Bai Yang and swung an axe that invoked the origin laws of earth.
• Bai Yang felt overwhelming gravity weigh down his body and hinder his attempts to dodge.
• The Ape Man unleashed a nine-section bamboo staff with his telekinetic weapon.

Bai Yang countered the ape-man’s sudden, stealthy attack with a burst of sword light. The clash showed that the ape-man had grown nearly a hundred times stronger since the foot of the mountain.

• The ape-man launched a sudden attack with a black bamboo rod that even Bai Yang’s psychic force had not detected.
• Bai Yang chose not to dodge, knowing he could not outrun a psychic weapon at close range.
• Bai Yang released a sphere of light from his body and knocked the black bamboo rod aside.
• Bai Yang recognized that the ape-man’s strength had increased nearly a hundredfold since the mountain’s foot.

Bai Yang completed the final rift arrangement on the 665th floor, and his mist-like consciousness gathered into a golden ocean of psychic power. The black egg embryo came alive as all 6,703,865 rifts became linked by hidden streams of psychic power.

• Bai Yang finished arranging the final rift on the 665th floor at midnight.
• Bai Yang's consciousness gathered between floors 665 and 666 and formed a golden ocean of psychic power.
• Bai Yang felt the black egg embryo come alive.
• The 6,703,865 rifts linked together through hidden streams of psychic power.

The abyssal clone cast an obscure curse that exposed the inner demon hiding deep within its sea of consciousness. The inner demon began to feel as if the clone’s spiritual power was melting it.

• The abyssal clone recited the Nether Yin Extinguishing Curse.
• The inner demon felt intense heat despite hiding beyond the reach of Bai Yang’s consciousness.
• The clone transformed its spiritual power into spiritual energy that scorched the inner demon.

Bai Yang’s situation became a point of contention among the Virtual Universe Company’s universe venerables after he regained consciousness nearly two months earlier. Bosiwa challenged him to leave or stay, and another venerable questioned Bosiwa’s motives.

• The universe venerables present turned to look when Bosiwa addressed Bai Yang.
• Those present considered the delicate timing of Bai Yang’s recovery and whether he should leave or stay.
• A sinister-looking man in emerald-green battle armor reminded Bosiwa that Bai Yang was Dragon Traveler Lord’s disciple.
• Bosiwa raised his voice and denied that he was making things difficult for Bai Yang.

Bai Yang examined the Minotaur after it broke through to the 400th level of the abyss, recognizing its strength and the unusual limits of illusion-based soul attacks. The Minotaur remained in good condition and could potentially reach the 500th level.

• Bai Yang stopped three meters from the Minotaur.
• Bai Yang delved into the Minotaur's consciousness and saw that it had charged through to the 400th level without resistance.
• Bai Yang judged the Minotaur to be a super expert among World Masters and still in fairly good condition.
• Bai Yang thought the Minotaur could reach the 500th level with more time.
• Bai Yang considered why illusion-based soul attacks had worked poorly against martial artists, noting the Minotaur's confidence and disregard for them.

Bai Yang received a brief message from Dragon Traveler Lord hinting that he had something to give him. He used the email’s circular symbol to teleport through the Virtual Universe and arrived in a vast hall, where he saw Dragon Traveler Lord and another imposing figure.

• Bai Yang perked up at the words “Treasures of the Original Star” and wondered whether Dragon Traveler Lord wanted to give him something.
• Bai Yang decided to wait until he met Chaos City Leader so he could ask about the message.
• Bai Yang pressed the circular symbol in the email and teleported through the Virtual Universe.
• Bai Yang arrived in a vast hall and saw Dragon Traveler Lord standing beside another imposing figure.

Bai Yang sought guidance from Dragon Traveler Lord while choosing a treasure and then told Chaos City Leader his selection. The chapter ended before the chosen treasure was revealed.

• Bai Yang glanced at his teacher, Dragon Traveler Lord, as he considered the treasures.
• Dragon Traveler Lord subtly pointed his tail toward one of the images.
• Bai Yang pointed at the image and told Chaos City Leader that he chose it.

Bai Yang reached Domain Lord Level and received new system functions and 1,000 Earth Points. He began to understand how Reward Storage would work, but the chapter ended before he finished explaining it.

• The system congratulated Bai Yang on reaching Domain Lord Level and awarded him 1,000 Earth Points.
• The system announced the new Earth Enhancement and Reward Storage functions and an update to Earth Traversal.
• Bai Yang read the new information and praised the system for the large reward.
• Bai Yang began explaining what Reward Storage would do before the chapter cut off.

Bai Yang gained insights into the laws of metal from Ye Qikong, but touching a spatial prodigy's soul avatar gave him far greater insights into the laws of space. The chapter ended as the new insights surpassed everything he had gained before.

• Bai Yang recalled that Ye Qikong, a domain lord-level prodigy of the Shanhai Realm's Law of Metal, had supplied nearly all his insights into metal-element laws.
• Bai Yang reflected that Ye Qikong's insights had greatly benefited his swordsmanship over the past century.
• Bai Yang placed his hand on the spatial prodigy's soul avatar and received an enormous flow of insights into the laws of space.
• Bai Yang realized the spatial insights were at least ten times greater than Ye Qikong's and had already surpassed his previous metal-law insights.

Bai Yang brought the Star Yang Group department heads to Abyss City and used teleportation to show them its second level, where they saw demonic energy pouring from an abyssal rift. The chapter ended as the cultivators began reacting to the threat of its influence.

• Bai Yang led the Star Yang Group department heads on a tour of the mountaintop buildings in Abyss City.
• The department heads began planning where to establish their offices.
• Bai Yang used his teleportation privileges to take the group to the second level.
• The cultivators watched demonic energy surge from an abyssal rift behind a protective barrier.
• The cultivators were astonished by the erosion of one's will.

Bai Yang asked the Dragon Traveler Lord what had happened after he completed the Purgatory Abyss. The Dragon Traveler Lord explained that the Virtual Universe’s core program had been alerted by the unprecedented data, and Bai Yang acknowledged that he owned a unique intelligent companion.

• Bai Yang calmly asked the Dragon Traveler Lord what had happened.
• Bai Yang admitted that he had a one-of-a-kind intelligent companion that had acknowledged him as its master.
• The Dragon Traveler Lord said Bai Yang’s completion of the Purgatory Abyss had alerted the Virtual Universe’s core program.
• The Dragon Traveler Lord said no Domain Lord had ever produced data of that magnitude, despite their knowledge of Bai Yang’s opportunity in the mechanical flow.
• Bai Yang reacted with confusion.

Bai Yang entered Dragon Traveler Lord's palace in the Virtual Universe and found Dragon Traveler Lord and Venerable Xuechen checking a delivery. Venerable Xuechen confirmed that he had gathered everything.

• Bai Yang entered the Virtual Universe and went to Dragon Traveler Lord's palace.
• Bai Yang found Dragon Traveler Lord and Venerable Xuechen beside thirteen metal crates.
• Venerable Xuechen checked the crates against a list and told Bai Yang he had gathered everything.

Bai Yang experienced a profound connection with the universe and sensed eight unfamiliar laws. He realized they were fusion laws and considered the Beast God’s path a possible route for his future cultivation.

• Bai Yang felt as though he had become the universe and perceived the fluctuations of its laws with unusual clarity.
• Bai Yang sensed eight laws he had never encountered before.
• Bai Yang recognized that the eight laws were fusion laws, distinct from the ten great laws.
• Bai Yang realized he had crossed a major threshold without studying the Beast God statue and considered following the Beast God’s path.