Chapter Summaries

Bai Yang accepted the Flame Legion’s invitation to visit Ancient Civilization Ruins No. 5 in three days, curious about Africa’s monsters and the possibility of finding a Moya Crystal. The Flame Legion’s councilors ordered Eben Pass to prepare to receive him, leaving Eben to cancel his training reservations and seek out Bai Yang.

• Bai Yang read the Flame Legion’s invitation, learned it was a routine event at the long-looted ruins, and decided to attend.
• Bai Yang replied that he would come, then headed to the basement to train after confirming the visit was set for three days later.
• Gushan Pass and Guqing Pass called Eben Pass and learned that he did not know Bai Yang despite training at War God Camp with him.
• Gushan Pass ordered Eben Pass to arrange Bai Yang’s reception and discover his preferences before the visit.
• Guqing Pass berated Eben Pass for wanting to train, so Eben canceled his Gravity Room reservations and set off to find Bai Yang.

Bai Yang prepared for his Africa trip and met Eben Pass and Anno, who welcomed him and shared information about the Flame Legion and the No. 5 Ancient Civilization Ruins. Renatus Bridge misread their meeting as evidence of a major operation, alerted the Bridge Family, and was promised a place among its heirs if his suspicions proved correct.

• Bai Yang obtained Lu Ting's agreement to get a saucer fighter and delegated the paperwork to Yang Wu and the others.
• Eben Pass and Anno approached Bai Yang to welcome him to Africa, then answered his questions about the region and the No. 5 Ancient Civilization Ruins.
• Bai Yang assessed Anno's potential and considered recruiting the Flame Legion's War Gods to help Mount Hua.
• Renatus Bridge saw reports of Bai Yang dining with Eben Pass and concluded that their meeting involved a major operation tied to the upcoming opening of the No. 5 Ancient Civilization Ruins.
• Renatus Bridge sent his analysis to the Bridge Family, whose Supreme Council ordered him to keep watch and promised him a place among the heirs if his information proved true.

Bai Yang and Yang Wu traveled with Eben Pass and Anno to Africa, where they toured the ruins and met councilors Gushan Pass and Guqing Pass. The councilors welcomed Bai Yang warmly after seeing his advanced cultivation, and he stayed to explore the ruins with them.

• Bai Yang, Yang Wu, Eben Pass, and Anno flew from the War God Camp to the Flame Legion's base near Cairo in Mount Hua's fighter.
• Bai Yang saw the damaged pyramids and toured African historical sites with Yang Wu and Eben Pass.
• Gushan Pass and Guqing Pass arrived after clearing their schedules and insisted on accompanying Bai Yang around the ruins.
• The Pass brothers noticed that Bai Yang had reached the peak of the Advanced War God level and grew more convinced of his future strength.
• At dinner, members of the Pass Family's younger generation sought Bai Yang's attention, while Eben Pass and Anno guarded their chance to spend time with him.

Bai Yang toured Ruins No. 5, an enormous spacecraft preserved beneath a desert oasis, with the Pass brothers and Yang Wu. After the Flame Legion representatives left him alone in the stripped command cabin, Bai Yang began searching the hall with his vibrations.

• The Pass brothers took Bai Yang and Yang Wu to Ruins No. 5, where three Advanced War Gods opened the spacecraft to them.
• Gushan Pass explained that the spacecraft had more than fifty levels and several thousand cabins, and Bai Yang inspected its remarkably hard metal walls.
• Bai Yang toured the ship and wondered why several alien forces had converged on Earth, but decided the mystery had little to do with him.
• Bai Yang saved the command cabin for last, and the Pass brothers left him and Yang Wu there to look around alone.
• Yang Wu offered to stand guard and alert Bai Yang through their Mental Network if anyone approached.
• Bai Yang tapped the command cabin floor and sent vibrations through the hall to gather information.

Bai Yang searched the command hall for an object with strong spiritual energy while the Pass brothers secretly monitored him. After his search and contemplation, he suspected that a section of the spaceship’s alloy shell was a metallic lifeform hiding something inside it.

• The Pass brothers watched Bai Yang’s search and agreed they would negotiate peacefully with Jia Yi if he found the valuable object.
• Bai Yang used numerous detection techniques, then relied on his spiritual energy meter to confirm that something in the hall had strong spiritual energy.
• After testing again, Bai Yang traced the meter’s readings to a vast area of solid alloy but found no visible sign of anything unusual.
• While waiting to test the alloy again, Bai Yang considered how the universe’s laws might relate to the Five Elements and imagined gaining affinity by consuming Golden Horned Behemoth flesh.
• Bai Yang realized the alloy might be the body of a metallic lifeform fused with the spaceship and guessed it could be concealing an object that ordinary instruments could not detect.

Bai Yang secretly excavated a device from the metal lifeform’s remains and later discovered it was the onboard terminal of a Ganwu Dojo transport ship. After learning enough of the universal language to question it, he asked about the ship’s cargo and survivors, and the terminal began revealing the escape pod’s coordinates.

• Bai Yang used the spiritual energy detector and Psychokinesis to locate and retrieve a hidden device inside the metal remains while pretending to cultivate.
• Bai Yang and Yang Wu met the Pass brothers at the ruins’ entrance, claimed they had found nothing, and returned to the base city.
• Bai Yang and Yang Wu activated the flying saucer’s defenses, and Bai Yang examined the black device and connected with its terminal.
• Bai Yang persuaded the terminal to teach him the universal language, then learned it belonged to a Ganwu Dojo transport ship that had crashed after an attack.
• Bai Yang asked about Moya Crystal and the ship’s survivors, and the terminal said the crew’s chances were low before giving the escape pod’s coordinates.

Bai Yang learned that the survival pod containing Moya Crystals had crashed in the Sahara Desert and used Mount Hua's research to pinpoint a search area. He secretly left the flying saucer to search the desert, determined to find the pod and restore the wonders of Earth.

• Bai Yang had Yang Wu enter the terminal's coordinates, which pointed to the Sahara Desert, and learned that finding the survival pod and its crew's remains could earn a reward from the Ganwu Dojo.
• Bai Yang understood a recording in the Mount Hua Sword and learned that its sword technique was linked to King Jianhuang and the Nine Swords Venerable.
• Mount Hua's technology team narrowed the most promising search area to three hundred square kilometers, and Bai Yang thanked the Pass brothers before leaving Africa with Yang Wu.
• Bai Yang secretly flew from the saucer toward the Sahara Desert and reached the target area after nearly three hours.
• Bai Yang began searching the desert and resolved to restore the wonders of Earth that had been destroyed during the Grand Nirvana Era.

Bai Yang searched beneath the desert and found the ancient escape pod buried deep underground. He uncovered its hatch and saw several objects inside, including a ring and a metal bracer.

• John Bridge ordered his subordinates to mobilize the Bridge Family's forces across Africa to find Bai Yang.
• Bai Yang narrowed the escape pod's location to a few dozen square kilometers using the Spirit Energy Meter and his heightened senses.
• Bai Yang dug through the desert floor and broke into a vast underground cave.
• Bai Yang followed the cave's increasing cold to its source and uncovered an oval escape pod more than five meters long.
• Bai Yang looked through the pod's transparent hatch and saw a ring, a metal bracer, two strange metal objects, and dust inside.

Bai Yang found a way to break open the frozen escape pod and recovered a spatial ring, Moya Crystals, and powerful equipment. The haul belonged to Enbers, a Ganwu Dojo instructor whose crash on Earth had left him entombed for tens of thousands of years, and Bai Yang considered whether his ashes might still contain usable genetic material.

• Bai Yang used the Spirit World Oar to turn himself and the Mount Hua Sword into spirit-particle energy, piercing the escape pod and cutting it open.
• Bai Yang recovered a spatial ring and found a box containing sixty or seventy Moya Crystals inside it.
• Bai Yang put on the metal armguard and learned that the pod's owner was Enbers, a One-Leaf Ganwu and Universe Rank instructor of the Ganwu Dojo.
• Bai Yang identified the two metal objects as Enbers's third-tier Force weapon, the Brilliant Sun Blade, and third-tier Force battle suit.
• Bai Yang wondered whether Enbers's frozen corpse might still contain usable genetic material.

Bai Yang extracted a freezing-related law affinity from Embers’ ashes and gathered the remains of the escape pod before discovering that the Bridge Family had triggered a nearby nuclear blast to locate him. John Bridge arrived with eight War Gods and invited Bai Yang to meet Councilor Atkin, while Bai Yang recognized the threat behind the invitation.

• John Bridge ordered his subordinates to use seismic waves and a small nuclear bomb to locate the anomaly in the Sahara Desert.
• Bai Yang absorbed Embers’ ashes and learned that Embers had mastered a freezing mystery of the water-origin laws.
• Bai Yang searched the area, collected the escape pod, and sensed an earthquake and intense nuclear radiation at the surface.
• Yang Wu told Bai Yang that the Bridge Family had taken control of nearby satellites, and Bai Yang suspected Atkin was behind the search.
• John Bridge arrived with eight War Gods, questioned Bai Yang about the underground cavity, and invited him to meet Atkin.
• When John Bridge threatened to contact Atkin or the Flame Legion’s councilors, Bai Yang’s gaze turned cold.

Bai Yang defeated John Bridge and the eight other War Gods, then used Moya Crystals to advance his Monster Body to the fourth stage and gain Planetary Level combat power. He turned all nine into loyal servants and decided the Bridge Family would now belong to him.

• Bai Yang used Psychokinesis to make John Bridge attack him, then sealed John’s voice and stabbed his throat and limbs with the Mount Hua Sword.
• Bai Yang overwhelmed the other eight War Gods, forcing three mid-level fighters to surrender and driving the five Primary War Gods away.
• Bai Yang dragged all nine men into the underground cave and sealed its entrance from the satellites’ view.
• Bai Yang swallowed two Moya Crystals, advancing his Monster Body to the fourth stage and gaining Planetary Level combat power.
• Bai Yang fed Monster Cells to the nine War Gods, making them his servants, then gave John Bridge five more cells and claimed the Bridge Family for the Bai surname.

Bai Yang returned from Africa, studied the Ganwu Dojo materials on an Auxiliary Optical Computer, and sharpened his combat skills while gaining control of the Bridge Family. A month later, he entered the War God Palace Trial Tower, confident that his growing grasp of the law of light would help him pass the fifth floor.

• Bai Yang had John Bridge erase evidence of his presence, evade satellite surveillance, and return to Huaxia without detection.
• Bai Yang watched Li Yao and his wife offer a 100-billion-Huaxia-dollar bounty for their son's killer, but chose not to interfere with Luo Feng's ordeal.
• Bai Yang studied the Auxiliary Optical Computer's training materials, learned new force-exertion techniques, and spent a month training and improving his combat ability.
• John Bridge implanted Monster Cells into the Bridge Family head and four other Advanced War Gods, giving Bai Yang control of the family and access to rare monster flesh and blood.
• Bai Yang entered the War God Palace Trial Tower in mid-March 2057, with a better understanding of the law of light and confidence in attempting the fifth floor.

Bai Yang returned to the Trial Tower and cleared the fifth floor with his improved speed, Mist Sword technique, and Light Law [Interference]. After entering the top one hundred, he stayed to attempt the sixth floor and assess his future progress.

• Bai Yang entered the fifth floor again, prompting Hong, Thor, and the mysterious consciousness to receive notifications.
• Bai Yang used his improved speed to evade the Subordinate Earth Dragon Kings and reach a stone pillar without being hit.
• Bai Yang enhanced his virtual longsword with Light Law [Interference], letting him cut down the Earth Dragon Kings despite their vitality.
• Bai Yang defeated the remaining monsters and cleared the fifth floor, entering the top one hundred as the third expert to clear it.
• Bai Yang remained in the Trial Tower to see whether he could clear the sixth floor.

Bai Yang failed to defeat the sixth floor’s thirty Sea Snake Kings and realized he needed greater mastery of the water laws to move freely underwater. He returned to the tower, spoke to its hidden intelligent life, and learned it had been helping humanity through the Trial Tower.

• Bai Yang entered the underwater sixth floor and faced thirty Planetary Level Sea Snake Kings, but their currents overwhelmed him and killed him.
• Bai Yang concluded that he needed to improve his control of the water laws, then reentered the tower to test an idea.
• Bai Yang addressed the hidden presence in the universal language, causing the underwater arena to vanish and a ball of light to appear.
• The ball of light revealed that it had watched Bai Yang since the fifth floor and begged to see the Ganwu Dojo terminal at his home.
• The ball of light explained that it had been a Ganwu Dojo program before Hong activated its mainframe and it gained intelligence.
• Bai Yang reasoned that the intelligent life had created the Trial Tower’s lifelike Earth monsters and had been helping humanity train.

Bai Yang helped the War God Palace’s hidden consciousness transfer into his optical computer and named her Star Guardian. She agreed to organize information for Earth while setting the seventh floor of the Trial Tower as the condition for acknowledging him as her master.

• Bai Yang pointed out flaws in the Trial Tower’s design, and the light orb admitted that its later stages had been made difficult for fun.
• The light orb explained that it could leave the War God Palace mainframe, and Bai Yang connected it to his optical computer.
• Bai Yang named the light orb Star Guardian and introduced her to the Ganwu Dojo terminal, which she found far from being an intelligent lifeform.
• Star Guardian said she would acknowledge Bai Yang as her master if he cleared the Trial Tower’s seventh floor.
• Bai Yang asked Star Guardian to sort the optical computer’s information for cultivation methods suited to ordinary Earthlings and ways to address Planetary Level warriors’ shortened lifespans, and she requested eight hours.

Bai Yang reviewed cultivation methods and techniques Star Guardian found in Enbers’s materials, including ways to help injured Planetary Level martial artists recover their lifespans. He then met Hong and Thor in the War God Palace, where Hong proposed an arena match to experience Bai Yang’s Light Law profound truths.

• Star Guardian organized Enbers’s materials and showed Bai Yang cultivation methods and techniques for reaching the Planetary Level.
• Bai Yang learned that Moya Crystals could help injured Planetary Level martial artists restore their lifespans and asked Star Guardian to organize the relevant methods.
• Hong invited Bai Yang to meet him in the War God Palace, where Thor joined them as they watched footage of Bai Yang clearing the fifth level.
• Thor asked Bai Yang how he had accelerated, and Bai Yang explained seven profound truths of the Light Origin Law.
• Thor asked about the Lightning Law, and Bai Yang advised him to focus on its profound truths related to speed.
• Hong challenged Bai Yang to an arena match so he could personally experience two of Bai Yang’s Light profound truths, and Bai Yang agreed.

Bai Yang sparred with Hong in the War God Palace arena to compare their mastery of the laws. Bai Yang defeated Hong by breaking through his light domain, leaving both men to reflect on what they had learned.

• Bai Yang and Hong chose standardized bodies at the peak of Advanced War God and began their spar with a sword-and-spear clash.
• Hong used his light domain to distort the arena and conceal his position, while Bai Yang formed a defensive field of lingering sword energy.
• Bai Yang detected Hong’s approach and used the [Interference] profound meaning to shatter his light domain.
• Bai Yang overwhelmed Hong with his speed and attacks, breaking Hong’s spear and ending the match.
• Thor laughed at Hong’s rare defeat, and Hong reflected that Bai Yang had surpassed him in attack power and speed.

Bai Yang sparred with Hong and Thor, helping them deepen their understanding of Law while developing his New Beast Fist. Afterward, he remembered his plan to discuss selling Moya Crystals and obtaining weapons, and prepared for the threat of a Golden Horned Behemoth.

• Bai Yang advised Hong to pursue the Refraction profound meaning and suggested Thor explore the Load profound meaning.
• Bai Yang demonstrated a new fist technique that used distorted light to create illusory arms, and Thor joined him in a spar.
• Bai Yang, Hong, and Thor practiced together until dusk, rapidly improving their combat skills and Law comprehension.
• Hong and Thor resolved to support Bai Yang’s future decisions, while Bai Yang gained confidence that he could comprehend the Light Domain after reaching the Planetary Level.
• Star Guardian reminded Bai Yang that he had meant to discuss selling Moya Crystals to Hong and Thor, and Bai Yang said he would speak with them the next day.
• Bai Yang told Star Guardian they would prepare a hydrogen bomb trap at the War Base and then seek a B6-Grade Laser Cannon in Ancient Civilization Ruin No. 12.

Bai Yang warned Hong and Thor that a Star Rank disaster would strike Earth in 2060, then traded Moya Crystals for weapons and extraterrestrial supplies while organizing global defenses. He also gave Jia Yi Moya Crystals and a cultivation method, and waited as time passed toward the system’s next lottery draw on June 21, 2057.

• Bai Yang told Hong and Thor that a Star Rank monster would attack Earth in 2060 and that War Bases would be among its first targets.
• Bai Yang offered Hong and Thor five Moya Crystals each in exchange for the War Base, hydrogen bombs, and other extraterrestrial items.
• Hong and Thor sent Bai Yang their exchange lists, and Bai Yang selected weapons and completed the trade at Limit Dojo headquarters.
• Bai Yang, Hong, and Thor agreed to connect War Bases to a global network, stockpile hydrogen bombs, and combine satellites to monitor space around Earth.
• Bai Yang gave Jia Yi six Moya Crystals and a cultivation method to help him digest them and restore his lifespan.
• Bai Yang continued sparring with Hong and Thor until the system became able to hold another lottery draw on June 21, 2057.

Bai Yang learned the Spirit Wave Fist and rapidly increased his spiritual power, then emerged from seclusion to face the uproar over Jia Yi’s restored youth and the lifespan-restoring technique. He listed the Health Preservation Art for ancient civilization items, leaving councilors around the world scrambling to acquire it.

• Bai Yang used a simulation to gain the abilities of the Spirit Wave Fist’s successor and began training its spiritual-power techniques.
• Bai Yang practiced the Spirit Wave Fist for twenty days, gaining unrestricted use of the Spirit Energy Meter and extending his Spirit World Oar travel time.
• Jia Yi’s rejuvenated appearance and the revelation that Planetary Level fighters could live for up to a thousand years sparked intense interest from councilors.
• Councilors pressured Star Guardian and Bai Sheng’s family for access to Bai Yang’s lifespan-restoring cultivation technique.
• Bai Yang listed the Health Preservation Art in the War God Palace exchange for ancient civilization items, and Jia Yi, Thor, and Hong endorsed it.
• Councilors around the world rushed to trade their collectibles for the Health Preservation Art, causing turmoil in their households.