Chapter Summaries

Qin Ming faced the Seventh Trial Tower’s final challenge as Humanity’s most powerful leaders watched and debated his potential. As three thousand Zerg Warriors charged, he opened his eyes and made a seemingly ordinary sword thrust, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Venerable Tianyu and the country lords gathered to watch Qin Ming reach the Seventh Trial Tower’s seventh floor.
• The leaders praised Qin Ming’s talent and debated whether Ganwu Kingdom Lord could afford to cultivate him as a disciple.
• The country lords considered how Qin Ming would face the first wave of three thousand Zerg Warriors and what his performance would mean for his future support.
• Qin Ming waited until the Zerg Warriors charged, then revealed the clarity of his laws and raised his sword.
• Qin Ming thrust his sword forward just as its tip pierced the air.

Qin Ming erased all three thousand Zerg Warriors with an initial resonance of four Origin Laws, drawing the attention of the Human Race’s highest leaders. After he passed the seventh level, Chaos City Lord appeared before him and said he would not need to continue the Genius Tournament.

• Qin Ming used the powers of Gold, Wind, Earth, and Space to erase the three thousand Zerg Warriors in a single attack.
• Venerable Tianyu identified Qin Ming’s extraordinary affinity for the Universe Origin, and the Human Race classified his abilities as a highest-level secret.
• Chaos City Lord ordered Ganwu Kingdom Lord to protect Qin Ming and escort him to the Initial Universe.
• Qin Ming destroyed the unguarded Zerg Hive and passed the seventh level of the Seventh Trial Tower.
• Chaos City Lord met Qin Ming in a void filled with chaotic energy and told him the remaining stages of the Genius Tournament were unnecessary.

After revealing his mastery of law fusion, Qin Ming received the Chaos City Lord’s orders to cultivate in Chaos City, with Virtual Universe Company promising to protect his family. He returned to his quarters, left Ruoxi behind with a polite distance, and prepared to meet Ganwu Kingdom Lord for his journey to the Initial Universe.

• The Chaos City Lord told Qin Ming to enter the Initial Universe and promised protection for his family in the Primal Universe.
• Qin Ming returned to his quarters and received an encrypted notice detailing his journey to the Initial Universe.
• Ruoxi waited outside Qin Ming’s quarters, then congratulated him after he appeared and hurried away when he responded distantly.
• Qin Ming decided that romance would distract him from his dangerous path of cultivation and vanished from the Virtual Universe.
• Ganwu Kingdom Lord arrived above Lanfeng Planet in a terrifying display of power.

Ganwu Kingdom Lord took Qin Ming to the Initial Universe while Venerable Tianyu announced the Genius Tournament results and final-round rules. Ruoxi won three elimination matches and qualified for the Virtual Universe Company's Core Layer, as the remaining contestants learned how they would compete for secret-realm placements.

• Ganwu Kingdom Lord descended on Lanfeng Planet, collected Qin Ming, and departed with him for the Initial Universe.
• Venerable Tianyu announced that contestants ranked second through one hundred had directly earned entry to the Core Layer and explained the elimination matches for the remaining competitors.
• Ruoxi won three consecutive arena matches, using her forbidden secret technique Eternal Instant to defeat her final opponent and qualify for the Core Layer.
• Venerable Tianyu announced the rewards and secret-realm placements for the tournament's top contestants, including an additional Primal Secret Realm place for second place.
• Venerable Tianyu outlined the final-round selections and matches, then stated that contestants who disagreed with the Virtual Universe System's choices could leave the company.

Qin Ming arrived in the Initial Universe with the Ganwu Kingdom Lord and learned why Chaos City offered rare opportunities to study the laws. They went to meet the Chaos City Lord, but a red-robed man named Venerable Guiyi greeted them first.

• Ruoxi was absent from the final list of 100 contestants, ending her run in the Peak Genius Tournament.
• Qin Ming reached the Initial Universe ahead of the other qualified geniuses under the Ganwu Kingdom Lord’s escort.
• The Ganwu Kingdom Lord explained how the Initial Universe’s visible laws aided cultivation, while Qin Ming compared them unfavorably with the Jin World.
• The Ganwu Kingdom Lord led Qin Ming through Chaos City to the Chaos City Lord’s Inner Mansion.
• At the Inner Mansion’s plaza, the Ganwu Kingdom Lord respectfully addressed the bald man in a red battle robe as Venerable Guiyi.

Qin Ming met Chaos City Lord in Chaos Ruins, where the City Lord tested his identity and praised his talent. Chaos City Lord took Qin Ming as his personal disciple, making him the thirty-second disciple under his tutelage.

• Venerable Guiyi escorted Qin Ming to Chaos Ruins while Ganwu Kingdom Lord remained behind.
• Qin Ming entered the ruins and paid his respects to Chaos City Lord.
• Chaos City Lord explained that he had investigated Qin Ming and watched him to ensure he was not an infiltrator or someone who had seized another body.
• Chaos City Lord declared Qin Ming a genius who surpassed Kedi, and Qin Ming accepted his praise without reservation.
• Chaos City Lord offered to take Qin Ming as his personal disciple, and Qin Ming accepted.
• Chaos City Lord named Qin Ming his thirty-second personal disciple.

Chaos City Lord urged Qin Ming to pursue the Way of the Beast God and recommended two Chaos Steles for his first studies. After settling Qin Ming in Chaos City, Ganwu Kingdom Lord promised to protect the Qin Family while Qin Ming focused on cultivation.

• Chaos City Lord explained the Ancestral God Sect and Beast God Inheritance, encouraging Qin Ming to follow the Way of the Beast God toward the Universe Master realm.
• Chaos City Lord recommended the Gravity Chaos Stele or Heavenly Ruins Chaos Stele and granted Qin Ming fifty opportunities to study whichever he chose.
• Venerable Guiyi guided Qin Ming and Ganwu Kingdom Lord to an independent courtyard near the City Lord Mansion and the 52 Chaos Tablets.
• Venerable Guiyi explained Qin Ming's access to Chaos City resources and offered to answer his cultivation questions.
• Ganwu Kingdom Lord asked Qin Ming to call him Brother Ganwu and promised to keep the Qin Family safe in the Primal Universe.

Qin Ming chose the Heavenly Ruins Chaos Stele and settled into cultivation in Chaos City, using it as a supplement to the insights from his Jin World clone. Three years later, the newest Genius Tournament recruits arrived, including Ruoxi, who became his neighbor but did not approach him.

• Qin Ming selected the Heavenly Ruins Chaos Stele and began studying its Gold and Space laws before returning to his courtyard to cultivate through his Jin World clone.
• Three years later, nearly a thousand Virtual Universe Company geniuses arrived in Chaos City, including Ailuos and Ruoxi.
• Qin Ming sensed the newcomers but chose to continue cultivating rather than join them at the City Lord's Manor.
• Ruoxi selected the empty courtyard beside Qin Ming's and hesitated outside his door before deciding not to disturb him.
• Qin Ming noticed Ruoxi had stood outside but returned to his cultivation, while Ruoxi focused on choosing a Chaos Stele and working hard to catch up.

After years of cultivating in Chaos City and advancing his Law Comprehension through Jin World, Qin Ming went to test himself on the Heavenly Bridge. He reached the Heavenly Ruins Bridge as a crowd of geniuses gathered to watch his challenge.

• Qin Ming decided to challenge the Heavenly Bridge and earn points after years of cultivation.
• Qin Ming entered the Virtual Universe, and news of his arrival at the Heavenly Bridge Plane spread among the geniuses.
• Ruoxi heard that Qin Ming was challenging the bridge and logged in to watch.
• Guardian Bafen explained how the Heavenly Bridge related to the fifty-two Chaos Tablets and noted Qin Ming’s special access to study the Heavenly Ruins Chaos Stele.
• Qin Ming chose the Heavenly Ruins Bridge and entered it.

Qin Ming advanced through the Heavenly Bridge, defeating opponents with ease before deliberately stopping at the ninth level to conceal his true strength. His achievement spread across the Virtual Universe Company’s secret realms and left even veteran geniuses shaken by the gap between them.

• Qin Ming chose to face warriors on the Heavenly Bridge and cleared the first six levels with a single move each.
• Qin Ming fought for dozens of moves at the seventh level and hundreds at the eighth before defeating both opponents.
• Qin Ming deliberately suffered a narrow defeat at the ninth level and returned to the plaza, satisfied that he had shown enough without revealing his full ability.
• Qin Ming left the Tongtian Bridge Plane after acknowledging Guardian Bafen, while the watching geniuses reacted with awe and envy.
• News of Qin Ming’s ninth-level result spread through Chaos City and the Virtual Universe Company’s secret realms, shocking veteran geniuses who had thought themselves stronger than him.

After Qin Ming reached the ninth level of the Heavenly Bridge, the Primal Secret Realm veterans panicked and began training desperately to keep their places. In Jin World, Qin Ming continued strengthening his foundation as a child, and the Heye Tribe chief agreed to tell him and Amu about his adventures.

• The Primal Secret Realm veterans feared Qin Ming would displace them and spent their accumulated resources on techniques and dangerous training missions.
• Qin Ming told Amu that he was delaying his breakthrough to reach the pinnacle of law comprehension before entering adolescence, hoping to surpass True God.
• The Heye Tribe chief praised Qin Ming’s patience and ambition and offered to help him.
• Amu asked the chief to share stories about his travels and battles, and the chief began recounting his past adventures.

The Heye clan chief told Qin Ming and Amu how the army had forged him into a Void True God and urged them to seek its opportunities when they were ready. Thirty years later, Qin Ming prepared to leave Chaos City, and Chaos City Lord gave him a rare Star Crystal Beast with exceptional law affinity and the ability to create life-linked clones.

• The Heye clan chief recounted his dangerous service in the Eastern Army, where he found an inheritance, earned military merit, broke through to Void True God, and eventually returned to protect his tribe.
• The Heye clan chief encouraged Qin Ming and Amu to treat the tribe as their foundation and the army as an essential path toward becoming powerful.
• Thirty years passed in Chaos City, and Qin Ming's cultivation period ended as he prepared to return to the Primal Universe and enter his assigned secret realm.
• Qin Ming visited Chaos City Lord before leaving, and Chaos City Lord noted that he had never sought guidance because his cultivation had progressed smoothly.
• Chaos City Lord presented Qin Ming with a Star Crystal Beast, explaining that it could double law-comprehension speed, create independent clones from other creatures' tissue, and let the main body recover if a clone survived.

Qin Ming received the Star Crystal Beast from Chaos City Lord but postponed possessing it until he reached Virtual Universe Company Headquarters, where he planned to choose a suitable clone form. After thirty years in Chaos City, he and the surviving geniuses left the Initial Universe to be sent to different secret realms for dangerous training.

• Chaos City Lord gave Qin Ming the Star Crystal Beast and warned him to rely on his own strength as well as his clones.
• Qin Ming decided not to possess the Star Crystal Beast until he reached Headquarters, where he could search the Virtual Universe Company's treasury for a suitable life gene sample.
• Venerable Tianyu learned that 793 of the 1,000 geniuses remained alive and that Qin Ming had passed the ninth level of the Heavenly Bridge.
• Qin Ming, Ruoxi, and the other surviving geniuses boarded a spacecraft and departed Chaos City.
• After the spacecraft entered the Primal Universe, a King Rank Immortal announced that the geniuses would be divided among four secret realms and face dangerous training and life-or-death missions.

Qin Ming arrived at the Primal Secret Realm, where he received Manor 114 and a powerful guard force arranged by Venerable Guiyi. He began searching the Virtual Universe Company's records for a suitable special lifeform for his next clone, but concluded that the Golden Horned Behemoth could not be used.

• Venerable Tianyu took Qin Ming and Ailuos to the Primal Secret Realm, where Aituo'er welcomed them and assigned Qin Ming Manor 114.
• Qin Ming met his Guard Army, including its commander Aisi, a King Rank Immortal sent by Venerable Guiyi.
• Qin Ming ordered that no one disturb him in his cultivation chamber and connected to the Virtual Universe.
• Qin Ming asked Xiaoye to retrieve records on special lifeforms with talents suitable for clones.
• Qin Ming considered the Golden Horned Behemoth as a clone choice but realized the Primal Universe's laws forbade using a clone to nurture another clone.

Qin Ming chose the Space-Time Nightmare Beast as his first clone because of its exceptional gene level and affinity for time and space, but its ten-million-point price was beyond his means. He asked Chaos City Lord for help, and his teacher agreed to provide the points while seeking the required approval.

• Xiaoye showed Qin Ming compatible lifeforms, and he chose the Space-Time Nightmare Beast after learning about its abilities and 180-times gene level.
• Qin Ming reviewed the beast’s history and realized its ten-million-point cost was far beyond his current funds.
• Qin Ming contacted Chaos City Lord and asked him to provide the points or help obtain permission to exchange for the beast.
• Chaos City Lord agreed to pay the ten million points as a gift and said the exchange still needed special approval.
• Qin Ming thanked his teacher and felt more confident about his future with the Space-Time Nightmare Beast clone and insights from the Jin World.

Qin Ming received the Space-Time Nightmare Beast life tissue and used the Star Crystal Beast’s innate clone ability to begin cultivating it. While the clone developed, he entered the Virtual Universe and considered the training options available to him.

• Chaos City Lord arranged for Qin Ming’s request to obtain the Space-Time Nightmare Beast tissue to be approved and paid the ten million points on his behalf.
• King Tieyun delivered the tissue to Qin Ming’s manor, and Qin Ming verified and accepted the sealed sample.
• Qin Ming released the sleeping Star Crystal Beast, entered its body, and awakened its ability to nurture clones.
• Qin Ming used the Star Crystal Beast to begin cultivating a Space-Time Nightmare Beast clone, a process expected to take years or longer.
• Qin Ming entered the Virtual Universe and reviewed the living and learning options available to geniuses in the Primal Secret Realm.

Qin Ming earned points by reaching a force score of 100 on the Immortal Altar, then advanced through the Illusion Sea to the ninth island. There, he suddenly found himself living as an ordinary office worker, where he met the new CEO, Ruoxi, whose name seemed familiar from his dream.

• Qin Ming scored 100 on all five strikes at the Immortal Altar and earned 50,000 points.
• Qin Ming cleared eight islands in the Illusion Sea, astonishing the Black Scaled Elder, and entered the ninth island's illusion.
• Qin Ming awoke in the life of an overworked wage slave and wondered whether his memories of power in the universe had been a dream.
• Qin Ming's coworker told him the new CEO was young and beautiful and named Ruoxi, a name Qin Ming thought he recognized.
• Qin Ming saw Ruoxi introduced as the new CEO and was stunned by her beauty.

Qin Ming became trapped in the ninth island’s illusion, where he lived a peaceful family life with Ruoxi and their daughter, Qin Xue. When Qin Xue’s question stirred memories of his real life among the stars, he recognized the illusion but chose to remain in its warmth.

• Qin Ming married Ruoxi, and they had a daughter named Qin Xue, settling into a happy family life inside the illusion.
• The Black Scaled Elder realized Qin Ming was immersed in the ninth island’s illusion and watched without interfering.
• As Qin Xue grew, Qin Ming occasionally felt an unexplained emptiness, but family life quickly distracted him.
• On Qin Xue’s fifth birthday, her question about what lay beyond the sky triggered fragments of Qin Ming’s real memories.
• Qin Ming remembered the stars, Chaos City, and his promise, but reassured Ruoxi and chose to hold Qin Xue rather than follow the call to wake.

Qin Ming failed the ninth Illusion Sea trial after choosing to remain in an illusion of family happiness, then resolved to temper his will. Ten years later, his Space-Time Nightmare Beast clone finished hatching and he accepted a Dangerous Level cultivation mission, pausing as he spotted Blood Luo World on the list.

• Qin Ming succumbed to the ninth island's illusion and returned to the Virtual Universe after living an entire life within it.
• Qin Ming recognized that his will had not been tested by hardship and decided to strengthen it through study and cultivation missions.
• After ten years, Qin Ming's Space-Time Nightmare Beast clone finished hatching with a gene level 180 times that of an ordinary life form.
• Qin Ming transformed the clone into his human form and selected a Dangerous Level cultivation mission despite a warning that his first-mission mortality rate could reach 78.2%.
• Qin Ming scanned the 186 mission locations and paused when he saw Blood Luo World.

Qin Ming prepared his Space-Time Nightmare Beast clone and traveled to Blood Luo World to undertake a dangerous mission while hiding his identity as an outsider. After entering the world disguised as a native, he killed a Desolate Beast with a glance and continued into the forest.

• Qin Ming accepted the Blood Luo World mission, raised his clone to the peak of Universe Level, and learned the world's languages and customs.
• Qin Ming traveled to Blood Luo World, saw Sky Erosion Palace, and continued alone in a disguised spacecraft.
• Qin Ming disguised himself as a native, entered Blood Luo World, and landed in a primeval forest.
• A Desolate Beast attacked Qin Ming, and he killed it with the force of his will before disappearing into the forest.