Chapter Summaries

Bai Yang rescued martial artists trapped by a massive rat swarm in the Wilderness Zone and led them toward the intercity highway. After learning that Jiangnan Base City was on alert and no other people remained nearby, he asked where War God Lu Gang was.

• Mei Xiaqing explained that Earth’s equipment had failed to detect the rat swarm and sent warnings that prompted Jiangnan Base City to enter combat readiness.
• Bai Yang jumped from the flying saucer and used his Mount Hua Sword to rescue five injured martial artists from the swarm.
• Bai Yang gathered more survivors, protected them as they fought through the rats, and led the group toward the intercity highway.
• Bai Yang’s support team reported that eighty-seven people were under his protection and that no one else remained within a hundred-mile radius.
• Bai Yang asked whether War God Lu Gang was nearby rescuing people.

Bai Yang learned that martial artists were protesting his expected War God Camp slot, but he ignored the controversy and hurried to find Lu Gang. At the coordinates, he discovered an underground river and signs that something powerful had once been there, possibly connected to the Mirage Dragon.

• Bai Yang received Lu Gang’s last known coordinates after learning that Lu Gang’s signal had vanished four hours earlier.
• A bearded War General told Bai Yang that martial artists were arguing over whether he should take a War God Camp slot, and Bai Yang dismissed the controversy.
• Bai Yang noticed that Lu Gang’s disappearance near a small county town and the sudden rat tide seemed suspicious.
• Bai Yang matched the coordinates to the site of Thor and the Mirage Dragon’s earlier battle and hoped to find traces of the Mirage Dragon.
• Bai Yang reached the location, sensed that something had once been there, and used ground vibrations to confirm the presence of an underground river.

Bai Yang found Lu Gang under the control of a Phantom Void Rat in an underground cavern and freed him, but the rat used a blue crystal to trap Bai Yang in an illusion. Bai Yang summoned 72 Dragon Snakes to pursue the rat while avoiding harm to Lu Gang.

• Bai Yang swam into the underground cave and followed sounds of fighting to a cavern, where he found Lu Gang attacking invisible enemies.
• Bai Yang spotted the Phantom Void Rat and distracted it with a stone, breaking its mental control over Lu Gang.
• Bai Yang used Crane Form Fist to seal Lu Gang’s Origin Force and caught him as he collapsed unconscious.
• The Phantom Void Rat used a blue crystal to attack Bai Yang’s mind, then trapped him in an illusion and fled.
• Bai Yang recognized the illusion and summoned 72 Dragon Snakes to hunt down the Phantom Void Rat without injuring Lu Gang.

Bai Yang defeated the Phantom Void Rat, ended its control over the Beast Tide, and rescued the exhausted Lu Gang from the underground cavern. The cavern collapsed as Bai Yang punched a way to the surface, where Lu Ting and Mei Xiaqing arrived and prepared to take Lu Gang to the base city.

• Bai Yang used his seventy-two Dragon Snakes to expose and subdue the Phantom Void Rat, then killed it and took its sapphire-blue crystal.
• Bai Yang carried Lu Gang through the cavern and punched through the rock toward the surface as water flooded the underground tunnels.
• Bai Yang emerged with Lu Gang, and the ground collapsed to reveal the cavern system and countless dead rat monsters.
• Lu Ting told Bai Yang that the Beast Tide had begun retreating and fighting among itself after the Phantom Void Rat was killed.
• Bai Yang identified Lu Gang and asked Lu Ting to take him to the base city, and Lu Ting agreed.

After returning to Jiangnan Base City, Bai Yang rested at home and logged into the War God Palace for the first time. He discovered its Trial Tower appeared to share the War God Camp’s setup and entered its first floor to test the connection.

• Bai Yang confirmed Luo Feng had avoided the Beast Tide and told him to be careful before he left for Magic City.
• Bai Yang rested at home, reflecting that he needed to make time for recovery even when cultivation and responsibilities kept him busy.
• Bai Yang entered the War God Palace and was publicly welcomed as a new intermediate War God, bringing the total number of human War Gods to 3516.
• Bai Yang met Jiang Long and agreed to meet him again in Kyoto Base City before heading to the Trial Tower.
• Bai Yang entered the Trial Tower’s first floor and found Earth-native Reckless Bulls set up like the War God Camp’s trial beasts, prompting him to laugh at the apparent connection.

Bai Yang fought through the first floor of the virtual Trial Tower and cleared it, then entered the second floor to face Ironclad Scorpions. He began the new trial determined to overcome its greater difficulty.

• Bai Yang adapted to his limited virtual body and prepared to fight two hundred Reckless Bulls on the first floor.
• Bai Yang used his swordsmanship and movement technique to defeat the Reckless Bulls, targeting the intermediate beast generals first.
• After losing his sword, Bai Yang killed the remaining Reckless Bulls with Tiger Form Fist and cleared the first floor.
• Bai Yang entered the second floor, where he was tasked with killing forty beginner and ten intermediate Ironclad Scorpions within sixty minutes.
• When the preparation period ended, Bai Yang charged toward the Ironclad Scorpions with his longsword.

Bai Yang cleared the second floor of the Trial Tower in just over four minutes, then faced a flock of Golden Vultures on the third floor. He used dust and precise swordplay to defeat the flying monsters and completed the challenge.

• Bai Yang used three rings of sword shadows to break the Ironclad Scorpions' formations and cleared the second floor in just over four minutes.
• Bai Yang entered the third floor, where he had to kill 170 beginner commander-class Golden Vultures and 30 mid-level commander-class Golden Vultures.
• Bai Yang scraped up earth to blind the diving Golden Vultures, knocked several from the air, and killed the fallen monsters.
• Bai Yang evaded the thirty mid-level Golden Vultures' attacks and wounded them with counterattacks.
• Bai Yang unleashed the Thirty-Six Swords from the seventh level of Mist Sword and struck down all thirty mid-level Golden Vultures.

Bai Yang cleared the Trial Tower’s third floor in just thirty-seven minutes, shocking the War Gods gathered in the War God Palace. Li Yao feared Bai Yang’s rapid rise would ruin his chance to become Yan Hai’s disciple, and the chapter ended as Yan Hai arrived.

• Bai Yang cleared the third floor and was announced as the eighty-second person in history to do so.
• Jiang Long told Lu Ting that Bai Yang had cleared the floor in thirty-seven minutes, prompting the War Gods to spread the news.
• Li Yao confided to Vinina Polenas that Yan Hai and Jia Yi were enemies and worried Bai Yang’s connection to Jia Yi would cost him Yan Hai’s favor.
• Li Yao wondered how quickly Bai Yang might clear the fourth floor as more War Gods gathered to watch.
• Councilor Fal, Third Speaker Mohanderson, and Jia Yi arrived, and Li Yao spotted Yan Hai.

Yan Hai and Jia Yi’s tense encounter was interrupted by Thor and Hong, who gathered the War Gods to watch Bai Yang’s fourth-floor trial. Bai Yang struggled underwater against a giant dragon turtle, and his unusual technique for redirecting force astonished the spectators as the fight continued.

• Yan Hai and Jia Yi exchanged hostile looks until Thor arrived and drew their attention away from each other.
• Thor asked Hong to show Bai Yang’s trial footage, and Hong displayed the fourth floor on the hall’s screen.
• The War Gods saw Bai Yang underwater facing an elementary lord-level dragon turtle and realized how dangerous the trial was for an elementary war general.
• Bai Yang used tiny movements and the currents from the dragon turtle’s charges to evade its attacks, astonishing the War Gods and councilors.
• Thor acknowledged that Bai Yang’s force-generation technique surpassed his Nine-Layer Thunder Blade, while Bai Yang searched for a way to fight back.

Bai Yang struggled to fight a dragon turtle underwater, where martial artists lacked the ranged attacks that had helped other War Gods clear the fourth floor. He devised a way to control bubbles and currents with his sword and palm, then unleashed a powerful vortex at the turtle.

• Jia Yi explained that Spirit Readers and fighters with techniques like Cattelan’s Phantom Demon Strike had cleared the fourth floor, while underwater-trained martial artists were rare exceptions.
• Hong and Thor discussed Bai Yang’s exceptional force-exertion technique and his lack of effective underwater ranged attacks, while Hong suspected he might still find a way through.
• As his oxygen ran low, Bai Yang decided to test a technique he had only theorized about and began generating bubbles and tiny vortices with his sword.
• Bai Yang gathered the currents with his left palm until he formed a large whirlpool filled with bubbles, then drove it toward the dragon turtle’s shell.

Bai Yang cleared the fourth floor by using underwater vortices and cavitation bubbles to wear down the Dragon Turtle, then began the fifth floor’s overwhelming challenge. The first attack by the Subordinate Earth Dragon Kings killed him almost immediately.

• Bai Yang used increasingly powerful vortices and bubbles to trap and defeat the Dragon Turtle, clearing the fourth floor and entering the top hundred.
• Jia Yi, Jiang Long, and Lu Ting discussed Bai Yang’s technique and his potential to surpass Hong and Thor, while Yan Hai left in a rage and Li Yao and his wife fled.
• After resting, Bai Yang entered the fifth floor, where the trial ordered him to kill 100 Subordinate Earth Dragon Kings within sixty minutes.
• Bai Yang appeared in a desert and was ambushed by dozens of Earth Dragon Kings bursting from underground, which tore him apart after he barely dodged their first attack.

Bai Yang tried the Earth Dragon trial again, using the terrain and his jumping ability to survive longer, but he could not kill the monsters before time ran out. His performance impressed Hong and Thor, who began reconsidering their views on Bai Yang and his plan to build a War Base.

• Bai Yang reentered the trial and used the five-minute preparation period to study the desert's stone pillars.
• Bai Yang dodged the Earth Dragons by leaping onto a pillar, then blinded one and used its body to evade the others.
• Bai Yang used the Vibrating Sword Technique to wound the Earth Dragons, but their regenerative vitality kept him from killing enough before the 60-minute limit expired.
• Bai Yang logged off to review the fight, while the War Gods discussed his performance and Thor logged off to experiment with his methods.
• Hong reconsidered meeting Bai Yang and building a War Base, and the War Gods who had opposed Bai Yang's return to the War God Camp fell silent.

Bai Yang learned that the blue crystal was the heart's blood of a King-Level Mirage Dragon and swallowed it after Lu Ting and Jiang Long converted it from crystal to liquid. He noticed no immediate changes, but as he entered a bath, he suddenly sensed something strange about the water.

• Bai Yang trained at home, guided Bai Sheng, and hunted monsters with the Blood Brake Squad and Yang Wu away from Magic City.
• Lu Ting and Jiang Long visited Bai Yang with research confirming that the blue crystal was a King-Level Mirage Dragon's heart's blood.
• Bai Yang, Lu Ting, and Jiang Long used electrical current and Genetic Origin Energy to turn the crystal into a red liquid droplet.
• Bai Yang swallowed the droplet, but after two hours he and the others detected no changes in his body.
• Bai Yang went to take a bath, then felt a tremor in his heart and sensed that the water was strange.

After consuming Mirage Dragon heartblood, Bai Yang discovered an affinity for water and devised a way to awaken his stronger affinity for light. He began his path toward comprehending the universe’s laws.

• Bai Yang stirred the bathwater and found he could make it form tiny whirlpools.
• Bai Yang tested his new water affinity in the swimming pool, creating a huge whirlpool and sensing ordinary water laws.
• Bai Yang ordered his subordinates to bring high-powered sun lamps, but their light alone did not awaken his affinity.
• Bai Yang had the training room darkened, then opened his eyes as the lamps switched on and his light affinity activated.
• Bai Yang saw the primary colors within the white light and realized the Mirage Dragon bloodline gave him an even stronger affinity for light than for water.

Bai Yang tested his speed to seek insight into the Law of Light and nearly destroyed his training room when he used the Spirit World Oar to move at extreme speed. With the room in ruins, he decided he would need to train outside the city and find a place suited to comprehending both light and water laws.

• Bai Yang let Yang Wu and the other servants watch him test his abilities after they asked to learn about the Laws of the Universe's Origin.
• Bai Yang ran laps using only his physical strength and recorded a speed of 480 m/s, then flew around the track with Psychokinesis at about 850 m/s.
• After twenty minutes of flying, Bai Yang began to sense the speed profundity of the Law of Light but could not fully comprehend it.
• Bai Yang used the Spirit World Oar to travel 4,800 meters in 0.1 seconds, unleashing a shockwave that shattered the training room's glass, lamps, and track.
• Bai Yang explained the damage to Bai Sheng and decided to return to the Wilderness Zone to train somewhere capable of supporting his law comprehension.

Bai Yang intensified his training in the laws of Light and Water before accepting Hong’s invitation to join the War God Camp. He arrived at Hongning Base City and headed to Jiangnan Pavilion to settle in.

• Bai Yang trained on the lake and in the Trial Tower, making major progress in controlling water and improving his comprehension of the laws of Light and Water.
• Yang Wu told Bai Yang that Hong had invited him to join the War God Camp and meet in person, and Bai Yang arranged a time to go.
• Inspector Liu picked Bai Yang up from the Bai Family’s airstrip and flew him to Hongning Base City.
• Bai Yang arrived at the War God Camp, saw the ranked dragon sculpture and the Ninefold Building, and followed Inspector Liu toward Jiangnan Pavilion.

Bai Yang arrived at Jiangnan Pavilion as a new student, chose the codename 570103, and learned about the camp’s training facilities. He left the chapter exploring the effects of the gravity chamber as he sought to strengthen his foundation and advance his Genetic Origin Energy.

• Bai Yang chose 570103 as his codename and explained his force-generation technique to Inspector Liu, who could not grasp how to perform it.
• Bai Yang met Zhao Ruo and Shi Jiang at Jiangnan Pavilion, then settled into the eastern building as its third student.
• Inspector Liu left to study the technique, while Bai Yang reviewed internal martial arts and ancient yoga videos on his issued laptop and practiced his fist techniques.
• Bai Yang received notice that the gravity chamber was free and went to the Ninefold Building, where he set it to nine times Earth's gravity.
• Bai Yang spent the afternoon studying how the gravity affected his body and considered how training at his limit might help him become an Advanced War God.

Bai Yang met Hong to negotiate buying a War Base to protect Jiangnan Base City from monster attacks. Hong offered him a high-end version for 50 Star Coins and promised access to modern Earth technology, and Bai Yang asked him to obtain hydrogen bombs with yields of at least 200 million tons.

• Bai Yang left the Gravity Room after failing to comprehend space, then spent the evening studying boxing techniques.
• The next morning, Bai Yang traveled to Limit Dojo headquarters and met Hong in a reception room.
• Bai Yang said he wanted a War Base to protect Jiangnan Base City from Magic City monsters, and Hong accepted his genuine desire to fight monsters despite suspecting other motives.
• Hong explained that standard War Bases cost 10 Star Coins and offered a high-end version for 50 Star Coins.
• Bai Yang decided to pursue the high-end War Base and asked Hong to help him buy powerful hydrogen bombs, including one with a possible one-billion-ton yield.

Hong warned Bai Yang that Jia Yi and Yan Hai might have shortened lifespans from the hardships of the Grand Nirvana Era, and Bai Yang resolved to seek a remedy. Bai Yang continued cultivating until he reached Advanced War God, while Eben Pass grew furious that Bai Yang monopolized the gravity chamber during Eben’s final year at War God Camp.

• Hong asked Bai Yang to tell Jia Yi if he found a way to extend his lifespan in the treasured sword, and offered to pay for such a method himself.
• Bai Yang left Hong, resolved to enter the No. 9 Ancient Civilization Ruins and find a solution for Jia Yi, then resumed his regular training.
• About twenty days later, Bai Yang advanced to Advanced War God and stayed to cultivate toward the peak of that level.
• Eben Pass complained that Bai Yang kept the gravity chamber occupied, preventing Eben from training during his final year at War God Camp.
• The other top students watched Eben’s anger as schemers saw an opportunity in his frustration.

Bai Yang trained at the Gravity Room’s maximum setting and decided to postpone advancing to Planetary Level so he could preserve future system draws. After leaving War God Camp, he received Flame Legion’s invitation to visit the former site of the No. 5 Ancient Civilization Ruins, where Moya Crystals had first been found.

• Renatus Bridge provoked Eben Pass over his grievances against Bai Yang, while the gathered students’ taunts deepened Eben’s resentment.
• Bai Yang endured 1,000 times Earth’s gravity and reached the limit of his Genetic Origin Energy, but chose to delay his breakthrough until after 2060 to preserve system draws.
• Bai Yang noticed Eben Pass and Anno wanted to challenge him, but walked past them and returned to his loft.
• Flame Legion invited Bai Yang to Africa to tour the former site of the No. 5 Ancient Civilization Ruins, and Bai Yang recognized its connection to Moya Crystals.