Chapter Summaries

Ren Ze captured the Heavenly Laws’ chains by binding them to an illusion of Yaoji, then intervened as Yang Jian continued his revenge against the Jade Emperor’s family. The Jade Emperor released the Weak Water to stop Yang Jian, but the Heavenly River burst its banks, and Yang Jian escaped and attacked the Heavenly Court again.

• Ren Ze drew Yaoji into a dream, copied her appearance and vital aura into an illusion, and used karmic threads to lure the Heavenly Laws’ chains into his inner universe.
• Ren Ze hid Yaoji in his inner universe and left to persuade Yang Jian, while the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother discovered that the Heavenly Laws’ origin and chains had been stolen.
• Yang Jian killed the Ninth Golden Crow, but Ren Ze stopped his next axe strike when Chang'e shielded the last Little Golden Crow; Yang Jian then spared the Little Golden Crow and flew toward the Jade Pool to kill the Jade Emperor.
• The Jade Emperor ordered the Heavenly Sluice opened to drown Yang Jian with Weak Water, despite the immortals’ protests, and received word that Yang Jian had been submerged.
• The Heavenly Sluice could not be closed and the Heavenly River burst its banks; Yang Jian escaped the Weak Water and attacked the Heavenly Court again, while the Jade Emperor ordered Tianpeng to abandon containing the flood and confront him.

The Queen Mother lured Yang Jian into the Fourth Heaven of the Desire Realm and weakened him by turning his grief and hatred toward his mother. Meanwhile, Ren Ze infiltrated Taiyi True Man’s cave to seize the newly emerged Lotus Lantern, but the spirit treasure resisted him and damaged the Heavenly Dao Chains.

• General Rolling Curtain found Marshal Tianpeng dancing incoherently in the Weak Water, and Huang Wu offered the Jade Emperor a way to weaken Yang Jian in exchange for becoming an immortal.
• The Queen Mother led Yang Jian into the Fourth Heaven of the Desire Realm, where she manipulated his memories of Yaoji until his hatred and divine power began to fade.
• Little Golden Crow arrived and prepared to kill the weakened Yang Jian, while the Jade Emperor ordered Marshal Tianpeng to deal with the Weak Water.
• Ren Ze returned to his cave and began refining the Heavenly Dao Chains in his origin space before sneaking into Taiyi True Man’s cave to watch over Nezha’s awakening.
• Nezha awoke, seized his weapons, and fled to kill his father; Taiyi True Man refused to descend the mountain and urged Yang Chan to stop him.
• The Lotus Lantern emerged from the pond, and Ren Ze tried to seize it, but it repelled him and shattered several fragments from the Heavenly Dao Chains.

Ren Ze failed to claim the Lotus Lantern, which chose Yang Chan and sent her to stop Nezha. After discovering the calamity spreading across the land, Ren Ze traveled to Sanshan Pass and challenged Kong Xuan to learn the Five-Colored Divine Light; their duel ended when Ren Ze absorbed some of Kong Xuan’s divine light into his inner universe.

• Ren Ze recalled the Chains of Heavenly Dao after the Lotus Lantern resisted him, while Taiyi True Man searched in vain for the unseen intruder.
• Taiyi True Man explained the Lotus Lantern’s origins to Yang Chan and urged her to claim it, and the lamp chose her and carried her away to stop Nezha.
• Ren Ze noticed Weak Water falling from the heavens and refugees fleeing toward Western Qi, then headed to Sanshan Pass to meet Kong Xuan.
• Ren Ze introduced himself to Kong Xuan as an Interception Sect disciple and asked to study the Five-Colored Divine Light, so Kong Xuan led him to a desolate valley for a duel.
• Kong Xuan demonstrated that his Five-Colored Divine Light could take Ren Ze’s Xuanyuan Sword, then fought Ren Ze’s body-refining power with his saber.
• Ren Ze opened a passage into his inner universe and intercepted part of Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light, startling Kong Xuan, who called for a halt.

Ren Ze secretly obtained Kong Xuan’s essence blood and spent a year learning the Five-Colored Divine Light, then used it to confront Sirius Lord inside his body. Sirius Lord failed to overcome Ren Ze’s new defense and offered terms, while Ren Ze left without accepting, planning to seek knowledge from Jade Cauldron True Man.

• Ren Ze concealed that he had intercepted part of Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Divine Light and sparred with him, using a Scarlet Needle to draw blood from his foot.
• Ren Ze transformed his bloodline with Kong Xuan’s essence blood, then used his inner universe to suppress the divine light and erase Kong Xuan’s lingering divine consciousness.
• Ren Ze spent a year at Sanshan Pass studying the Five-Colored Divine Light with Kong Xuan, eventually gaining an initial mastery of it.
• Ren Ze used the Five-Colored Divine Light to withstand Sirius Lord’s soul invasion and tried to enslave him with the Ten Thousand Hearts Soul-Control Secret Technique.
• Sirius Lord offered not to harm Ren Ze and promised to do three favors, but Ren Ze left without negotiating and considered asking Jade Cauldron True Man for advice.

Ren Ze investigated the Weak Water flood, absorbed two streams into his inner universe, and subdued Weak Water after learning she was a sentient spirit. Five years later, he enslaved the Sirius Lord with a talisman and prepared to return to the Swallowed Star Universe, taking Yaoji along before the Investiture of the Gods calamity began.

• Kong Xuan warned Ren Ze not to meddle in the Heavenly Court's affairs, but Ren Ze left Sanshan Pass to investigate the Weak Water flooding the mortal world.
• Ren Ze secretly absorbed one stream of Weak Water into his inner universe and persuaded its spirit to become his soul servant.
• Ren Ze absorbed another stream in front of Jade Cauldron True Man and received a jade slip containing the Spirit Treasure Descends to Subdue Demons and Save the World Talisman.
• After five years of studying the talisman, Ren Ze used it to enslave the Sirius Lord and planned for him to infiltrate the Demon Race after they returned.
• Ren Ze taught the Sirius Lord the body-refining portion of the Eight-Nine Profound Art, moved Yaoji out of his inner universe, and returned to the Swallowed Star Universe.

Ren Ze and Sirius Lord staged a battle in the Twin Spiral Region until the Chaos City Leader arrived, then Ren Ze returned to Chaos City and revealed his new abilities. The Chaos City Leader recognized the Heavenly Dao Chain’s immense danger and told Ren Ze to refine it in seclusion, while promising to share his useful inheritances with humanity’s upper ranks.

• Ren Ze and Sirius Lord staged a convincing fight, but Ren Ze’s Heavenly Dao Chain struck harder than expected and sent Sirius Lord flying.
• The Chaos City Leader arrived with the Thousand Treasures River, and Sirius Lord accused Ren Ze of breaking the rules before retreating.
• The Chaos City Leader brought Ren Ze to the Initial Universe, and Ren Ze demonstrated his laws and divine abilities in the Chaos Ruins.
• Ren Ze struck the Chaos City Leader with the Heavenly Dao Chain, which he recognized as the chain used to restrict Universe Strongest beings.
• The Chaos City Leader warned Ren Ze to refine the chain, keep its existence secret, and remain in Chaos City while cultivating.

News of Ren Ze’s World Master strength, supreme treasures, and battle with Sirius Lord spread throughout the universe, prompting the Demon, Mechanical, and Zerg races to order his death. As Ren Ze began seclusion, Sitting Mountain Guest learned of his achievements and suspected that Ren Ze’s methods came from the Origin Continent.

• Ren Ze told Luo Feng that he would not explain his different path, then began seclusion in Chaos City after dissolving the soul contracts of human immortals enslaved by the Zerg Queen.
• Dreamtea ordered the Demon Race alliance to seize any chance to kill Ren Ze and prevent his resurrection.
• Mechanical Father God and the Zerg Queen separately mobilized their forces to kill Ren Ze and ensure he could not be resurrected.
• Puti reported Ren Ze’s feats to Sitting Mountain Guest, including that Ren Ze had declined to enter the Star Tower.
• Sitting Mountain Guest judged that Ren Ze might have a chance to claim the Star Tower and recognized that some of his methods resembled schools from the Origin Continent.

After spending ages cultivating in Chaos City, Ren Ze was invited by Chaos City Leader to build a palace on Thunder Island’s summit and take on greater responsibility within humanity. When Ren Ze began choosing a site, Nine Swords Venerable learned of the arrangement and left in displeasure.

• Ren Ze advanced to Taiyi Golden Immortal and mastered the Origin Law of Space, but remained unable to break through his life core’s inner wall.
• Luo Feng won hundreds of thousands of glory points, survived an assassination through the loss of one clone, gestated the Remote Ocean Clone, and advanced to immortality.
• Chaos City Leader told Ren Ze to build a palace on Thunder Island’s summit and said Ren Ze would need to prove his strength to earn a place in humanity’s highest council.
• Ren Ze chose a site near Venerable Guiyi’s temple and encountered Nine Swords Venerable, who assumed Ren Ze had just become immortal.
• After Ren Ze explained that Chaos City Leader had assigned him a summit residence, Nine Swords Venerable grew resentful and left.

Ren Ze learned that the human race’s highest council had recognized him as its nineteenth Master of the Universe, and he joined the other Masters of the Universe in the Virtual Universe Company faction. The gathering ended with Chaos City Leader praising Ren Ze’s exceptional survival ability, surprising the others.

• Ren Ze built a palace on the mountaintop, prompting Universe Venerables to complain that he and Luo Feng had taken residences above their station.
• Chaos City Leader told Ren Ze that the human race’s highest council had unanimously appointed him its nineteenth Master of the Universe.
• Chaos City Leader introduced Ren Ze to the other Masters of the Universe in their faction, and Youhou Master, Dragon Walk Master, Ice Peak Master, and Darkness Master arrived.
• Darkness Master examined Ren Ze and marveled that he had reached his level in less than a hundred thousand years.
• Chaos City Leader gathered the six Virtual Universe Company Masters to discuss their faction and said Ren Ze’s survival ability ranked among the best, startling the others.

Ren Ze chose the Universe Master title Phantom Master and was taken by Chaos City Leader and the others to pay respects to Original Ancestor. After seeing Original Ancestor’s statue and learning more about his achievements, Ren Ze felt his unconventional cultivation path had been acknowledged, while the statue hinted that Original Ancestor might soon be able to emerge and thank him.

• Chaos City Leader asked Ren Ze to choose a Universe Master title, and Ren Ze settled on Phantom Master.
• Chaos City Leader and the other Universe Masters took Ren Ze through the chaotic currents to meet Original Ancestor, whom they described as Yuan, the human race’s legendary first Supreme Master of the Universe.
• Ren Ze studied Original Ancestor’s towering statue and was astonished by its complete laws and embryonic forms of the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Chaos City Leader introduced Phantom Master, Ren Ze, as a new Universe Master of the Virtual Universe lineage, and Ren Ze respectfully paid his respects to Original Ancestor.
• After the group departed, Original Ancestor’s statue subtly moved its eyes and said that the day he could emerge and thank Ren Ze was near.
• As the group flew away, Ren Ze reflected on Original Ancestor’s recognition of his unusual path and the Virtual Universe’s extraordinary ability to sustain cultivation with almost no energy.

Ren Ze attended the Giant Axe Conference as a World Master, where Giant Axe Founder demonstrated the Eight-Nine Profound Art and recognized its value. Ren Ze received Earth’s ownership and the title Phantom Master, officially becoming humanity’s nineteenth Universe Master.

• Chaos City Leader led Ren Ze and the Virtual Universe lineage’s other Universe Masters to the Giant Axe Temple for the conference.
• Giant Axe Founder welcomed Ren Ze and showed the gathered Universe Masters that the Eight-Nine Profound Art could perfectly transform him into Chaos City Leader, convincing them of its strategic importance.
• Giant Axe Founder offered Ren Ze a race gift, and Ren Ze requested that Earth be returned to him while allowing each faction to keep one Floating Sky City.
• Giant Axe Founder agreed to return Earth and granted Ren Ze 150 true treasure points in place of a treasure.
• Chaos City Leader announced Ren Ze’s title as Phantom Master, and Giant Axe Founder formally recognized him as humanity’s nineteenth Universe Master and returned ownership of Earth.

After teaching the Eight-Nine Profound Art, Ren Ze attended a human race highest-level meeting where the leaders addressed resentment over Luo Feng’s treasures. Chaos City Leader clarified that Luo Feng had obtained most of his early treasures himself, and the meeting began with news that the Primordial Star was about to open.

• Ren Ze finished teaching the Eight-Nine Profound Art, though only Darkness Master among the other Universe Masters fully grasped it.
• Ren Ze joined the human race’s highest-level meeting at the Hall of Gods, where he reunited with Chaos City Leader and saw Luo Feng attend as an immortal.
• Giant Axe Founder and the other Universe Masters discussed Universe Venerables’ jealousy over Luo Feng’s many treasures.
• Chaos City Leader explained that only Luo Feng’s Wu Slaying Wings had been bestowed by him when Luo Feng was a World Master; Luo Feng had acquired the other treasures himself.
• Chaos City Leader announced that the Primordial Star was about to open, and Ren Ze eagerly anticipated it.

Ren Ze and the human experts learned that the Primordial Stars would open in ten years, bringing a thousand epochs of battles over treasures. After the meeting, Luo Feng visited Ren Ze for the first time in more than eighty thousand years, and Ren Ze encouraged him to keep advancing toward becoming a super being.

• Chaos City Leader explained the Primordial Stars, their dangers and treasures, and the contribution system, then announced that they would open in ten years.
• Ren Ze said he would enter the Primordial Stars, while Chaos City Leader asked him to join major battles and the human race prepared to march there.
• Ganwu Country Leader wrestled with whether to risk entering the Primordial Stars, and the supreme meeting ended.
• Luo Feng arrived at Ren Ze's palace, where Colvin led him inside for their reunion.
• Ren Ze congratulated Luo Feng on becoming Immortal and praised his will, perseverance, and luck, telling him he could eventually become a super being.

Luo Feng refused repeated requests to lend out his true treasures and set out for the Yan God Secret Realm to reclaim the Tribulation Armor. After Luo Feng ignored Chaos City Leader’s warning to return from the Yan God Race’s domain, Chaos City Leader sent Ren Ze to watch over him and intervene only if his life was in danger.

• Luo Feng told Ren Ze that he had refused Nine Swords Venerable and Venerable Guiyi’s requests to borrow his true treasures, including a soul true treasure he could not safely lend.
• Luo Feng decided to retrieve the Tribulation Armor from the Yan God Secret Realm, while Ren Ze warned him that the Yan Emperor might not surrender it willingly.
• Ten years later, the Primordial Star opened, but Ren Ze stayed away because his status as a Universe Master would undermine his plan to lure enemies into an ambush.
• Chaos City Leader summoned Ren Ze after learning that Luo Feng had entered the Yan God Secret Realm and refused to return despite being warned.
• Chaos City Leader ordered Ren Ze to watch Luo Feng in secret and bring him back only if he faced mortal danger; Ren Ze accepted and departed.

Ren Ze, the human Phantom Master, entered the Yan God Secret Realm and confronted the Yan Emperor from afar while Luo Feng advanced toward the lair to reclaim the Tribulation Armor. The Yan Emperor’s plan to stop Luo Feng faltered, and he stayed in his stronghold, wary of Ren Ze and hoping the other races would intervene.

• Ren Ze arrived in the Yan God Secret Realm, and the Yan Emperor sensed his powerful aura and went to investigate.
• Ren Ze revealed himself as the human Phantom Master, prompting the Yan Emperor to hold back because he feared Ren Ze and suspected Sitting Mountain Guest was involved.
• Luo Feng explained that he had sent his Golden Horned Beast clone and his treasures back to human territory, leaving his other bodies without valuable equipment as he advanced toward the Yan Emperor’s lair.
• As alien pursuers approached, the Yan Emperor shrank his space-sealed region, but Luo Feng used his Demon Killer Clan clone’s Domain technique to evade them and press onward.
• The Yan Emperor raged over his failed scheme and the impending loss of the Tribulation Armor, but remained at his lair while Ren Ze watched from nearby and Luo Feng continued flying toward him.

Ren Ze met Sitting Mountain Guest in the Yan God Secret Realm, where Sitting Mountain Guest proposed cooperating to help Ren Ze grow stronger in exchange for future help. Ren Ze agreed to consider the offer but demanded a worthwhile reward, leaving Sitting Mountain Guest to respond to his request for a domain-type supreme treasure.

• Ren Ze shared wine with Sitting Mountain Guest, who discussed creating Earth and guiding humanity alongside the Yan God Race.
• Sitting Mountain Guest offered to help Ren Ze advance farther than the progenitors of the two Sacred Land Universes if Ren Ze would give his all to help him once in the future.
• Ren Ze revealed that the Sacred Land progenitors were not his ultimate goal, startling Sitting Mountain Guest with his knowledge of a place beyond reincarnation.
• Sitting Mountain Guest offered Ren Ze a custom-made peak supreme treasure as a meeting gift for cooperating with him.
• Ren Ze said ordinary peak supreme treasures were of no use to him and asked Sitting Mountain Guest for a domain-type supreme treasure.

Ren Ze negotiated with Sitting Mountain Guest for a domain-type treasure before intervening to protect Luo Feng from two Universe Masters sent by the Demon Race and Bug Race alliances. He exposed Master Banfu’s attempted ambush and struck him with a chain, while Yan Emperor watched from afar.

• Ren Ze demanded a treasure powered by the ten fundamental laws and capable of merging them into the Law of Chaos, but Sitting Mountain Guest explained that the required materials were unavailable and offered to forge a lesser treasure for now.
• Sitting Mountain Guest gave Ren Ze a communication token and asked him to protect Luo Feng as two Universe Masters approached the Yan God Secret Realm.
• Yan Emperor recognized Master Tongling and Master Banfu as the intruders and hoped they would kill Luo Feng before Ren Ze could intervene.
• Ren Ze arrived at the spatial blockade, where Master Tongling and Master Banfu confronted him and Master Banfu claimed there was no reason to fight.
• Master Banfu hid in space and tried to attack Luo Feng, but Ren Ze saw through the trick and struck him with a chain, costing Banfu three percent of his divine body.

Ren Ze protected Luo Feng from Master Banfu and Master Tongling, revealing overwhelming durability that forced both attackers to retreat. As Sitting Mountain Guest recognized Ren Ze’s extraordinary potential, Yan Emperor remained in the Yan God Secret Realm, consumed by fear and resentment toward his teacher.

• Ren Ze transformed into a nearly ninety-thousand-kilometer giant inside Master Tongling’s Floating Mountain Sea, while Master Tongling burned his divine body and sent Master Banfu after Luo Feng.
• Ren Ze created a duplicate to block Master Banfu and took Master Tongling’s full-force hammer strike without injury, stunning Yan Emperor and Master Tongling.
• Yan Emperor suspected Ren Ze possessed armor comparable to Tribulation Armor, while Ren Ze revealed that he had redirected the attack into his inner universe and tested his material defense.
• Sitting Mountain Guest observed Ren Ze from afar and inferred that his enormous divine body came from near-perfect genes, delighting in Ren Ze’s potential.
• Master Banfu and Master Tongling admitted defeat and teleported away, and Ren Ze returned to the star fragment to wait beside Luo Feng.
• Yan Emperor brooded over Ren Ze’s strength and Sitting Mountain Guest’s apparent favor, fearing the danger near his domain and lamenting that he was losing the Tribulation Armor.

Ren Ze completed his mission of retrieving the Tribulation Armor for Luo Feng, then continued wandering while pursuing his cultivation. After reaching perfect genes, he received a universe-origin bestowal and learned the innate secret technique Spacetime Illusion Annihilation.

• Luo Feng arrived at Yan Emperor's lair, claimed the Tribulation Armor, and returned to human territory through divine kingdom teleportation.
• Ren Ze left Yan Emperor's lair and later told Chaos City Leader that his mission was complete.
• After wandering the universe for ten thousand years, Ren Ze's life genes reached perfect genes and his body expanded to over ninety thousand kilometers.
• The universe's origin will transformed Ren Ze's Origin Pearl and drew his consciousness into a mysterious space, where he remembered a universe's complete birth and destruction.
• Ren Ze returned to his body with a new innate secret technique imprinted in his consciousness: Spacetime Illusion Annihilation.

Ren Ze mastered the miniature Spacetime Illusion Annihilation and attended a Giant Axe Conference about Luo Feng’s Qishen Mirror Stone. After Luo Feng revealed he had become a Universe Venerable, Ren Ze gave him a strand of hair for his main combat avatar, anticipating that Luo Feng would soon surprise the alien races.

• Ren Ze comprehended Spacetime Illusion Annihilation, then learned that Luo Feng had killed universe overlords on a Primordial Star and reached top-tier Universe Overlord strength.
• At the Giant Axe Conference, Chaos City Leader reported that Luo Feng would keep the Qishen Mirror Stone for a hundred thousand years to prove he could stand alongside the Universe Masters; Ren Ze supported waiting, and Giant Axe Founder agreed.
• Luo Feng visited Ren Ze on Thunder Island, where they reminisced and Luo Feng revealed he had broken through to become a Universe Venerable.
• Ren Ze met Luo Feng near the Solar System and gave him a strand of hair to store with his main combat avatar; Luo Feng accepted and vowed to surprise the alien races.