Chapter Summaries

Bai Yang's rapid progress on an inner armor design stunned the nearby examinees. The four especially capable candidates had only begun processing materials when they noticed him.

• Bai Yang's actions attracted the attention of examinees who had not yet settled on a design.
• The nearby examinees realized that Bai Yang's inner armor was already close to taking shape.
• The four exceptionally capable examinees, who had only just begun processing materials, glanced toward Bai Yang.
• After seeing Bai Yang's progress, the four examinees could not look away.

The examinees gathered around Venerable Xiao Zhou as damaged inner armors began repairing themselves, showing that artifact refining remained possible. Bai Yang smiled at the other four examinees, though he wondered whether they could understand the spacetime clone’s appearance.

• Venerable Xiao Zhou looked around and saw that no one wanted to withdraw.
• Damaged inner armors floated in midair and slowly began repairing themselves.
• Bai Yang noticed the other four examinees watching him and gave them a friendly smile.
• Bai Yang wondered whether the others could understand the spacetime clone’s current appearance.

Venerable Ganyan was pleased with the candidates who had qualified, particularly Aifilo, whom he thought could be useful right away. He let each candidate ask a question.

• Venerable Ganyan laughed, astonishing the people present.
• Bai Yang wondered whether the snow mountain held something special.
• Venerable Ganyan assessed the qualified candidates and singled out Aifilo as immediately useful.
• Venerable Ganyan allowed each candidate to ask a question.
• The other four candidates asked about doubts that had troubled them for years.

Bai Yang recorded the artifact-refining inheritance and began deducing its contents. Star Guardian also made a copy of the inheritance, and Bai Yang finished recording a third of it after two days.

• Bai Yang received the inheritance as text and diagrams on a screen.
• Bai Yang rapidly memorized and recorded the inheritance while making deductions.
• Star Guardian copied the inheritance into the optical computer.
• Bai Yang spent two days recording more than seventy thousand pages, completing a third of the inheritance.

Venerable Ganyan refused to give up Icefire Peak, the culmination of her artifact-refinement work, leaving Ice Deuterium Venerable unable to resolve the dispute. He recalled Yan Emperor’s order to obtain a top-grade pinnacle artifact after the emperor’s furious return from the Yan God Secret Realm.

• Venerable Ganyan said she would never give up Icefire Peak.
• Ice Deuterium Venerable recognized that Venerable Ganyan would not yield, and their discussion reached another deadlock.
• The chapter revealed that Venerable Ganyan had spent nearly all her energy on Icefire Peak for ten epochs, neglecting other commissions.
• Ice Deuterium Venerable recalled that Yan Emperor had left the Yan God Secret Realm a hundred years earlier, returned in a rage, and ordered him to obtain a top-grade pinnacle...

Bai Yang and the other four candidates arrived for their official discipleship assessment, where Venerable Ganyan would decide their fate. A frail, purple-skinned man stood with Venerable Ganyan and Venerable Xiao Zhou, apparently holding a status above Xiao Zhou's.

• Bai Yang left his stone chamber early in the morning, looking relaxed.
• Bai Yang and the other four candidates headed to the place where they had first arrived for their assessment.
• Bai Yang and the candidates found Venerable Ganyan and Venerable Xiao Zhou waiting in the largest stone chamber with a frail, purple-skinned man.

Bai Yang used the black flames of a supreme treasure to melt the broken sections of a long blade, forcing Venerable Fu Hai to expend strength despite his efforts to appear at ease. More than ten minutes passed, and the blade sections were completely melted.

• Venerable Fu Hai grew furious as Bai Yang released the supreme treasure’s flames toward him.
• Venerable Fu Hai withstood the flames but spent strength maintaining an appearance of ease.
• Bai Yang continued using the black flames for more than ten minutes.
• The three broken sections of the long blade completely melted.

After Bai Yang passed the examination, Venerable Fu Hai congratulated him and urged him to cultivate diligently. Bai Yang inspected the other examinees’ weapons, confirming that they had been damaged deliberately but were easier to repair than his own.

• Venerable Fu Hai congratulated Bai Yang on passing.
• Venerable Fu Hai urged Bai Yang not to disappoint their master’s guidance.
• Bai Yang used divine power to draw in and inspect the other four examinees’ weapons.
• Bai Yang confirmed that the weapons had been deliberately damaged and had originally belonged to the same piece of equipment.
• Bai Yang concluded that repairing them would be easier than repairing his own weapon.

Bai Yang and the new disciples followed Venerable Xiao Zhou into the enormous pit’s central cave after he briefly explained how little experience they had with refining heavy treasures. The chapter ended as they entered the cave.

• Bai Yang agreed inwardly that the new disciples could not yet understand how to refine a domain-type supreme treasure.
• Venerable Xiao Zhou gave the group a simple explanation without going into detail.
• The group reached the center of the pit, where the stone steps split between a descending path and a gigantic cave.
• Bai Yang and the others followed Venerable Xiao Zhou into the cave.

Bai Yang’s reforged Heaven and Earth Square proved unexpectedly deadly when he used it in a sudden attack. The passage ended as his near-level-50 strength and the weapon’s sharp law patterns were being described.

• Bai Yang attacked too quickly and ruthlessly for the disciples to react.
• Bai Yang used a mind-force weapon instead of the close-combat flame treasure the disciples had feared.
• Heaven and Earth Square had been reforged from high-quality materials into a weapon nearly as hard as a top-tier pseudo-heavy treasure.
• Bai Yang had added cutting and sharpness law patterns to the weapon’s edges and corners, increasing its lethality.

Bai Yang continued attacking Ice Deuterium Venerable while Star Guardian secured Icefire Peak’s entrances and exits. Satellite footage then showed Ice Deuterium Venerable openly standing in space outside Wobor Star.

• Bai Yang became more ruthless in his attacks on Ice Deuterium Venerable.
• Star Guardian imitated Bai Yang’s voice and ordered the rescued nominal disciples to guard Icefire Peak’s entrances and exits.
• Bai Yang watched satellite footage showing Ice Deuterium Venerable standing openly in space outside Wobor Star.

Ice Deuterium Venerable ordered the six Yan Shen Clan members to attack Bai Yang, but Bai Yang rapidly expanded his divine body to two hundred kilometers and caught up to them.

• Ice Deuterium Venerable ordered everyone to attack Bai Yang at once.
• Bai Yang continued expanding his original body.
• Bai Yang's divine body grew from two hundred meters to two hundred kilometers.
• Bai Yang's immense body caught up to the six Yan Shen Clan members as they tried to scatter.

Bai Yang prepared to deal with six High Universe Venerables and asked Star Guardian to confirm that their communications were under control. The chapter ended as Bai Yang listened in through the soul link.

• Bai Yang realized the six High Universe Venerables could flee in different directions beyond his ability to catch them all.
• Bai Yang asked Star Guardian to confirm the plan was foolproof.
• Star Guardian said the Venerables could not contact the Yan Shen Clan or the Nine Domains Alliance.
• Star Guardian reported that Ice Deuterium Venerable was speaking with Venerable Fu Hai and that the conversation had been left undisturbed.
• Bai Yang listened through the soul link.

Bai Yang used the Dragon Stele's golden light against Ice Deuterium Venerable, drawing on his research into the Holy Talisman's ability to imitate the evil green light. The chapter ended before revealing the effect on Ice Deuterium Venerable.

• Bai Yang prevented Ice Deuterium Venerable from getting his way.
• The Dragon Stele released a fine thread of golden light that struck Ice Deuterium Venerable.
• Bai Yang used the Holy Talisman's power to imitate properties of the evil green light.
• Bai Yang recalled that even Lord of Myriad Dragons could not withstand the green light's influence.

Yan Emperor reflected on his failed attempt to stop Cao Benqi after a sudden golden light appeared. The chapter ended with Cao Benqi pondering the vanished River of Time and the unprecedented phenomenon.

• Yan Emperor, now a Universe Master who had betrayed humanity, stood amid the void in his immense scaled form.
• Yan Emperor admitted that he had failed and might have been seriously injured if he had not stopped in time.
• Cao Benqi watched the River of Time vanish and wondered about the unprecedented golden light.

Bai Yang told Venerable Fu Hai that the material he had shared was only basic and promised to find more profound, eventually perfect material for him. Bai Yang continued researching and collecting knowledge during the nine epochs before Luo Feng took the Star Tower.

• Bai Yang understood Venerable Fu Hai's feelings about encountering knowledge he had never imagined.
• Bai Yang said the material he had provided was relatively basic and that deeper knowledge remained.
• Bai Yang promised he could eventually provide Venerable Fu Hai with perfect material to fully display his abilities.
• Bai Yang used [True Simulation] under ten-thousandfold acceleration to replicate everything while researching and collecting more knowledge.

Monster Clone received an invitation to the Human Supreme Council after more than six epochs had passed. He entered the Virtual Universe and headed to his palace on Thunder Island.

• Star Guardian informed Monster Clone that the Supreme Council would convene that day and invited him to attend.
• Monster Clone sent his consciousness into the Virtual Universe and teleported to his palace halfway up Thunder Island.
• The chapter noted that the council would meet in the Temple of the Gods atop the Mountain of the Gods.
• Most human venerables did not know Bai Yang's current cultivation level.

Bai Yang regretted that he knew no other way to strengthen a Universe Master beyond secret pattern diagrams and visions of the universe's creation and destruction. Lord of Myriad Dragons explained that the Dragon Stele could not preserve the state of power indefinitely, but Dragon Traveler Lord was satisfied with how much he had grown.

• Bai Yang could think of no other way to increase a Universe Master's strength.
• Lord of Myriad Dragons said the Dragon Stele could shield someone from the universe origin's will but could not keep them in that powerful state forever.
• Dragon Traveler Lord said his strength had grown more in six epochs than it had throughout countless ages before.

Bai Yang struck the great tree on the Original Star but found it rooted in the endless earth, and he salvaged the leaves that fell from it.

• Bai Yang punched the great tree with divine power, but it resisted as though it were one with the earth.
• The recoil nearly sent Bai Yang flying backward.
• The shaking tree shed one or two leaves, which Bai Yang quickly drew into the Dragon Stele.

Chaos City Leader informed Dragon Traveler Lord and Lord of Myriad Dragons that Bai Yang was at the center of a fight over a pinnacle supreme treasure. Lord of Myriad Dragons was delighted and envious, while Dragon Traveler Lord was unsettled by how quickly Bai Yang had become involved.

• Chaos City Leader shared the news with Dragon Traveler Lord and Lord of Myriad Dragons.
• Lord of Myriad Dragons laughed and wondered how Bai Yang would handle Universe Masters fighting over the treasure.
• Lord of Myriad Dragons wished he could rush to the battlefield and join the fight.
• Dragon Traveler Lord was troubled that Bai Yang had become involved in a pinnacle supreme treasure battle after only a few years on the Original Star.