Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After Chen Ming’s decisive attack wiped out the Miasma Beast army near Qingqiu City, the Heaven-Patrolling Mirror awarded him Third-Level Merit. He was surprised, expecting a higher rank, but learned that most participants had not even earned First-Level Merit.
• Chen Ming replenishes his mental energy with the Moon Pool and prepares to lead Qingqiu City’s forces deeper into the Great Mist.
• He plans to use the Star Dipper Chessboard to clear each new area with a powerful opening strike, letting the others handle the remaining enemies. He expects this approach to maximize rewards while conserving his strength and sharing the spoils.
• Chen Ming reunites Qingqiu City’s four battle zones beneath the Black Piece Astral Domain and orders them forward into the Great Mist.
• The Saints explain that the campaign has become more dangerous because it is linked to renewed conflict between the Human Race and Blood Race in the distant Chaos Star Domain. The Great Mist Campaign may be an extension of that larger Saint-level war.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming shifts from celebrating his victory to planning the campaign’s next phase. He takes command confidently and treats his chessboard as the key to advancing efficiently.
• Qingqiu City’s Saints, despite their reservations, follow Chen Ming’s leadership. They are impressed by the Black Piece Domain’s unusual defensive strength but cannot explain it.
• A Golden-Armored Saint warns the group to prepare for a difficult fight and explains the wider conflict behind the campaign.
• 2B is visibly astonished that Chen Ming has earned Third-Level Merit, underscoring how exceptional the achievement is.

Significant themes

• Merit and achievement: Battle merit is difficult to earn and may determine access to important Saint-level opportunities.
• Leadership and cooperation: Chen Ming’s strength brings disparate forces together, though the Saints’ cooperation is tempered by caution.
• Escalating conflict: What began as a campaign against Miasma Beasts is revealed to be connected to a broader Human–Blood Race war, raising the stakes.
• Power and uncertainty: Chen Ming’s chessboard displays extraordinary abilities, while the origins and true scope of the Great Mist’s dangers remain unknown.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming’s Star Dipper Chessboard repeatedly bombards enemy-held territory, helping Qingqiu City surge from tenth place to first in the campaign rankings. Other cities are stunned by its battlefield-clearing power.
• The faction has pushed through the Miasma Beasts’ outer defenses into the Great Mist’s core, where enemies are stronger and mostly elite. The chessboard is less effective against high-tier foes, though it remains valuable against large groups.
• Chen Ming notes that the chessboard is still in its early stages: only the first pair of Black-and-White Chess Pieces has been fused, and his Yin-Yang Twin Fish have yet to be incorporated. He believes it has considerable potential.
• While the others clean up surviving enemies, Chen Ming still gains experience because his bombardment damaged them. He is close to level 49 but remains frustrated by how slowly he earns battle merit.
• Before the group can move on, a huge armored, masked Blood Race Ancient Beast appears. The Saints identify it as a Saint-Grade combatant and order everyone else to retreat, preparing to take the fight themselves.

Character developments

• Chen Ming is confident in his strategy and pleased with the chessboard’s results, while realistically recognizing its limits against powerful individual enemies. He is also thinking ahead about how to strengthen it.
• His rapid progress raises expectations: he hopes to reach level 50 during the campaign, but doubts that battle merit will bring him close to the rewards he wants.
• The Qingqiu City Saints, previously made to help with cleanup, are eager to reclaim their status and prove their importance in a major battle.

Significant themes

• Power and specialization: The chessboard excels at broad, large-scale attacks but is less effective against elite opponents.
• Growth and potential: Chen Ming’s spirit source is powerful already, yet remains far from fully developed.
• Recognition and status: Qingqiu City’s rise in the rankings draws attention, while its Saints are keen to demonstrate their value.
• The limits of reward systems: Despite Chen Ming’s major contributions, earning battle merit remains difficult.

Character interactions

• Other cities’ talents react with amazement—and some envy—to Qingqiu City’s rapid climb and Chen Ming’s bombardments.
• Chen Ming lets the faction handle cleanup, while his earlier damage still earns him experience.
• The Saints warn the others to withdraw from the Ancient Beast, then welcome the chance to step forward and show their strength.

Key events

• A metal-armored Blood Race Ancient Beast arrives, calls Chen Ming by name, and appears to be specifically targeting him.
• Chen Ming’s Star Dipper Chessboard disappears, plunging the area into darkness as the Great Mist blocks the light.
• Chen Ming shifts from the Star Dipper Chessboard to the Five Saints manifestation. His energy becomes Sacred Spirit Energy, summoning the Bi Fang Divine Bird, whose light drives away the Great Mist.
• The Saints hold back, wanting to see whether Chen Ming can truly face a Saint Grade enemy while still at King Rank.
• Chen Ming strikes once with a purple-gold trident. The lightning pierces the ancient beast, then erupts into a Qilin-shaped storm that tears it apart.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming remains unfazed by the beast’s recognition of him and demonstrates a far higher level of power than the onlookers expected. He kills the Saint Grade enemy without using his Minor Scourge.
• The Saints initially feel uneasy about taking direction from a younger fighter, but curiosity outweighs their pride. Their confidence turns to shock when Chen Ming destroys the beast in a single attack.
• The people of Qingqiu City admire Chen Ming and are stunned by the scale of his strength. Their joking discussion of walking two Divine Paths highlights how exceptional his achievement is.
• The Blood Race beast is introduced as Chen Ming’s apparent pursuer, but it is killed before it can explain its connection to him.

Significant themes

• Power beyond rank: Chen Ming’s King Rank status contrasts sharply with his ability to defeat a Saint Grade opponent.
• Revelation and spectacle: The change in Chen Ming’s manifestation and the Bi Fang’s light reveal the unusual power of walking two Divine Paths.
• Pride versus respect: The Saints’ initial reluctance to follow a junior gives way to awe at his actual capabilities.
• Escalating threat: The beast’s knowledge of Chen Ming hints at a larger conflict with the Blood Race.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming tests his strength with an ordinary, ability-free strike and kills a Saint Grade ancient beast with ease. He judges the Great Mist Campaign’s beasts less dangerous than expected, leaving the watching Saints stunned by the gap between his power and theirs.
• Searching the beast’s remains, Chen Ming finds glowing crimson blood rich in energy. The Saints identify it as Ancient Beast Essence Blood, a rare bloodline resource containing Divine Essence.
• Chen Ming learns that Divine Essence is one of the materials needed to break through to God Grade. Godhood also requires a sufficiently advanced world and the Eternal Attribute; gods are tied to the world that sustains them.
• Ancient Beast Essence Blood is unusually valuable because it has no elemental affinity, so any Saint can use it. Its divine quality comes from the ancient beasts’ bloodline, said to descend from a progenitor above level 97 who could become World Law.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming’s casual display of strength confirms that he vastly outclasses the Saint Grade beasts—and likely those observing him. He is surprised that such a weak creature can yield a resource of this importance.
• The Saints explain the blood’s value and history. Their visible longing shows how coveted it is, but none dares challenge Chen Ming for it.
• Chen Ming gains a potential godmaking resource unexpectedly, despite having been searching for Saint Grade essence to prepare for his next breakthrough.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: What Chen Ming considers an unimpressive opponent is a major threat to others.
• Bloodline and inheritance: Ancient Beast Essence Blood carries diluted power from a legendary progenitor, making lineage a source of extraordinary strength.
• The limits of advancement: Reaching God Grade requires more than personal power; it depends on the world, an Eternal Attribute, and a rare resource containing Divine Essence.
• Scarcity and desire: A resource useful to any Saint is especially prized, yet Chen Ming’s overwhelming strength keeps the Saints’ greed in check.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming learns that Ancient Beast Essence Blood can serve as rare Divine Essence. Unlike the closely guarded Ancestral Dragon Bloodline, ancient beasts are spread across many races, so their essence blood is less likely to provoke the Ancient Beast Race’s intervention.
• After a world announcement reports the defeat of a level 52 World Beast, the Saints discover that the next, level 53 World Beast is a naturally spawned ancient beast—not a Blood Race creation. Its World-Law-empowered essence blood could be extraordinarily valuable, prompting them to head into the Forbidden Zone.
• Chen Ming leaves the Qingqiu City faction, having led its fighters through the campaign and helped many earn First-Level Merit. He and the Saints continue toward the Forbidden Zone, where Saint Grade beasts, World Beasts, and Blood Race Saints make the area dangerous.
• The group enters the World Beast’s domain and sees the enormous level 53 ancient beast beneath a crimson sky. Its battle has only just begun.
• A Blood Race presence arrives in a drifting cloud of blood mist. A powerful-looking Human Race Saint emerges, carrying a golden halberd, and fixes his attention on Chen Ming. Chen Ming senses a Blood Race aura in him and wonders whether he has been parasitized.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming moves on from the campaign he led and turns toward his own “personal battle.” The Saints increasingly recognize that his strength exceeds what they would expect from someone at King Rank—even Saint Grade ancient beasts seem less formidable by comparison.
• The fighters in the four battle zones regret his departure, but understand that they would hinder him in the coming battles. Their campaign success is partly due to having followed Chen Ming.
• The Saints, drawn by the prospect of Divine Essence, abandon hesitation and pursue the level 53 World Beast.
• The newly arrived Human Race Saint’s focused attention on Chen Ming establishes an immediate potential confrontation, while Chen Ming’s suspicion raises the possibility that the man is under Blood Race influence.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: The Saints are willing to enter a perilous battlefield for a chance to advance toward godhood.
• Heritage and ownership: The Dragon Race’s intense protection of its bloodline contrasts with the more dispersed Ancient Beast Race.
• Leadership and independence: Chen Ming has carried the faction through its campaign, but now leaves its protection to pursue his own path.
• Uncertainty and hidden threats: The Forbidden Zone’s dangers include not only powerful beasts but also possible Blood Race interference and concealed parasitism.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming uses Void Sight to discover that the man carrying a halberd is not Commander Yan but a Blood Race parasite that has taken over Yan’s mind and body. Yan’s Spirit Body is already dead.
• The parasite admits to consuming Yan and speaks of his body with disturbing pleasure, enraging the Saints who recognize and respect the fallen commander.
• The parasite invites Chen Ming to join the Blood Race, claiming that someone important wants him. Chen Ming refuses.
• The parasite attacks suddenly, moving at extreme speed and trying to seize Chen Ming by the head. Chen Ming dodges with a burst of lightning.
• Chen Ming judges his opponent to be at least a Supreme Saint, likely level 79. Wanting to avoid using his trump cards—and repulsed by the parasite—he prepares to fight with manifested weapons and elemental abilities instead.
• He summons the Five Saints Phenomenon, lightning and fire armor, and Auspicious Clouds, then launches an attack as the excerpt ends.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming recognizes the threat through Void Sight and remains controlled despite his disgust. His usual confidence is tempered by caution: he intends to preserve his strongest abilities for a later contest and avoid any physical contact with the parasite.
• The parasite reveals itself as cruel, arrogant, and predatory. It treats Commander Yan’s body as an object and regards Chen Ming as a desirable potential host.
• The Saints identify the impostor and react with anger at the desecration of Commander Yan, but the parasite’s speed and power leave them unable to intervene before Chen Ming dodges.

Significant themes

• Loss of identity and bodily violation: The parasite has erased Yan’s mind while continuing to use his body.
• Desecration and respect for the dead: The Saints’ fury stems from the parasite’s degradation of a respected commander.
• Caution amid confidence: Chen Ming believes he can win, but must manage his resources and adapt to a powerful opponent.
• Revulsion as motivation: Chen Ming’s unusual reluctance to engage directly is driven as much by the parasite’s grotesque behavior as by its strength.

Key events

• Chen Ming traps the Blood Race’s possessed man by folding space around himself and sealing the battlefield with the Void Law.
• He unleashes Eternal Storm, a prolonged attack of thunder-and-fire halberds that grows into a vast, space-warping tempest.
• The possessed man initially underestimates the attack and takes most of its buildup head-on. Though he avoids serious injury, his body instinctively trembles as the storm reaches full power.
• The man briefly refers to a prophecy, then declares that the Blood Race must have Chen Ming. A black altar and blood cloud appear, revealing the intervention of the Supreme Saint behind him.
• Their opposing forces erupt beyond the sealed area, drawing attention from Saints across the level 53 World Grade battlefield. Onlookers mistake the spectacle for a clash between two Supreme Saints.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming demonstrates that his Five Saints, empowered by Nine-Colored Auspicious Clouds and the Void Law, can approach Supreme Saint-level offensive strength. He chooses Eternal Storm as his strongest available option, reserving the Heavenly Scourge for the World Beast War.
• The possessed man shifts from confidence to alarm and respect once he recognizes the storm’s true power. His brief, fervent reaction to Chen Ming hints at a prophecy and the Blood Race’s special interest in him.
• The Qingqiu City faction’s Saints are stunned by Chen Ming’s power, especially because he is still only King Rank and not yet level 50.

Significant themes

• Power beyond established limits: Chen Ming’s strength challenges assumptions about what someone of his rank can achieve.
• Escalation and restraint: He deploys a carefully chosen ultimate attack while conserving another major weapon for a larger war.
• Prophecy and hidden agendas: The possessed man’s words suggest that Chen Ming’s importance extends beyond this encounter.
• Reputation and perception: The battlefield’s witnesses interpret the extraordinary clash as a fight between Supreme Saints, underscoring the scale of Chen Ming’s power.

Plot points

• The Saints discuss what Chen Ming might achieve by level 79, speculating that he could become the first lower-level fighter to defeat a Deity.
• A violent clash between Chen Ming and a man possessed by the Blood Race shatters the sealed space and sends a devastating shockwave across the battlefield.
• The watching Saints are overwhelmed by the force and can barely react, but they remain nearby, ready to rescue Chen Ming if necessary.
• As the destruction subsides, Chen Ming is found standing unharmed. His opponent, despite appearing intact at first, is covered in cracks and then disintegrates into fragments and blood mist.
• The chapter confirms Chen Ming’s victory, though it does not explain the full mechanics of the battle.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming demonstrates power far beyond what the Saints expected: he survives a battle whose shockwaves suppress even level-70 Saints, while his opponent is destroyed.
• The Saints shift from having dismissed Chen Ming to recognizing him as a potentially invaluable human talent. Their concern leads them to stay and prepare to protect him.
• The possessed man appears composed after the clash, but his cracked body reveals the damage he has sustained before he suddenly falls apart.
• The Saints watch the confrontation from the sidelines, first fearing for Chen Ming, then gathering to witness its outcome.

Significant themes

• Unprecedented potential: Chen Ming’s strength challenges assumptions about the limits separating Saints from Deities.
• Power and its consequences: The battle’s collateral destruction shows how dangerous Supreme Saint-level combat is, even to powerful bystanders.
• The value of exceptional talent: Chen Ming’s abilities prompt the Saints to reconsider their priorities and unite around protecting him.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming decisively defeats the Blood Race Saint’s spiritual host, reducing him to a mist of blood while emerging unharmed. The other Saints are stunned by the mismatch between Chen Ming’s apparent King Rank and the strength he has just demonstrated.
• More Saints arrive from across the World Beast battlefield, including Humans, Blood Race, and ancient beasts. The ancient beasts are drawn by the prospect of gaining source power from a Level 53 World Grade beast’s essence blood.
• Fu Yuntian, a powerful Heavenly God Race commander of the Human Law Court, arrives. He senses traces of an immense battle and assumes two Supreme Saints fought nearby, but overlooks Chen Ming when searching for them.
• The witnesses stay silent, deciding it is for Chen Ming—not them—to explain what happened. They suspect he may not want his identity or strength exposed and believe he could be the strongest person in the region.
• A Blood Race Saint, Youye, arrives and attempts to cover the area with a storm of black clouds, crimson wind, and rain. Fu Yuntian counters with a domain of light, summoned sword, and three blazing halos. Their opposing domains stabilize without either gaining the upper hand.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming: His decisive victory reveals power far beyond his apparent rank. The surrounding Saints now regard him with awe and caution.
• Fu Yuntian: Confident and formidable, he investigates the battle but misreads the scene, unaware that Chen Ming is the person he seeks.
• The other Saints: Their shock turns into guarded deference; they choose not to speak for Chen Ming.
• Fu Yuntian and Youye: The two recognize one another and immediately clash through their opposing light and dark domains. Fu Yuntian challenges Youye’s presence on Desolate Star and warns him of the danger.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: Chen Ming’s apparent King Rank conceals power capable of defeating a Supreme Saint’s host.
• Power and uncertainty: Even experienced Saints struggle to understand what happened, while Fu Yuntian’s assumptions show how limited perception can be.
• Secrecy and restraint: The witnesses withhold information rather than reveal Chen Ming’s strength without his consent.
• Rival forces in balance: Fu Yuntian’s light and Youye’s darkness meet in a stalemate, setting up a larger conflict.

Plot points and events

• Human Saint Fu Yuntian confronts Blood Saint Youye, arguing that the Blood Race Saints in Desolate Star are expendable distractions. Youye rejects this, suggesting the Blood Race has a larger plan.
• Human Saints and Blood Race Saints—alongside Saint Grade ancient beasts—gather after an earlier clash draws them to the battlefield. The Human forces assemble behind Fu Yuntian; the opposing forces form behind Youye.
• Fu Yuntian declares that he will capture the enemy forces in one strike, and both sides prepare for a decisive Saint-level battle.
• Chen Ming, disguised as an ordinary King Rank, breaks open the boundary between the two sides’ domains so he can escape toward the World Beast Battlefield. He openly says that a King Rank should run rather than get caught in a battle between Saints.
• His blunt escape attempt surprises and embarrasses the assembled Saints. Youye mocks the Human Race’s younger generation, while the Human Saints criticize Chen Ming’s timing and apparent greed.
• The Saints from Qingqiu City recognize that Chen Ming is deliberately pretending to be an insignificant, clueless youth.

Character developments and interactions

• Fu Yuntian is wary of Youye’s presence: he suspects the Blood Race has a purpose beyond sacrificing its Saints. He later grows irritated with Chen Ming for disrupting the tense standoff.
• Youye remains confident and taunting, denying Fu Yuntian’s assumptions and using Chen Ming’s behavior to ridicule the Human Race.
• Chen Ming stays practical and self-interested, choosing to exploit the distraction to reach the World Beast fight and pursue its rewards. His disguise makes the other Saints underestimate him.
• The Qingqiu City Saints are the only ones who understand that Chen Ming’s apparent foolishness is an act.

Significant themes

• Hidden motives and misdirection: Youye’s presence suggests the Blood Race’s apparent sacrifice may conceal a larger strategy, while Chen Ming conceals his true identity and intentions.
• Power and responsibility: The Saints face a battle where one mistake could ruin their path to godhood; Chen Ming, as a King Rank, sees no reason to involve himself.
• Self-interest and ambition: Chen Ming prioritizes personal advancement, and his pursuit of World Beast rewards is interpreted by others as greed.
• Appearances versus reality: The Saints mistake Chen Ming for a nobody, while those who know him recognize his calculated performance.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming’s arrival has already disrupted the planned order of events: the Human and Blood Race Saints are now preparing for their first clash, while the World Beast battle has been pushed aside.
• Several Saints realize Chen Ming might be able to kill the level 53 World Beast alone and claim its rewards. One considers warning the others but stays silent after Chen Ming gives him a gentle, intimidating smile.
• Youye tells Chen Ming that the Abyssal Ancient Beast is vulnerable to attacks made at close range. He also reveals that breaking its Abyssal Heart could yield a treasure for refining Ancient Beast Essence Blood.
• Chen Ming appreciates the information and calls Youye a good man, unaware that Youye meant his advice as a taunt to provoke the Human camp.
• Fu Yuntian sends Chen Ming out of the Blazing Sun Domain, warning him to stay at the battlefield’s edge and leave quickly. Youye mocks the Human leader for cutting their conversation short.
• The Saints on both sides ready their forces, bringing the Human–Blood Race Saint War to the brink of battle.
• Outside the domains, Chen Ming watches the confrontation but focuses on his own objective: obtaining the World Law Fragment before openly targeting the World Beast.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming maintains his harmless-looking, “greedy King Rank” act, but his strength and composure unsettle the Saints. He recognizes the information about the World Beast as useful and intends to exploit his early advantage.
• Youye uses apparent friendliness to taunt the Human Race and assumes Chen Ming is an ignorant youngster. His advice, however, genuinely helps Chen Ming.
• Fu Yuntian is frustrated by Chen Ming’s unusual behavior and regrets not stopping him earlier, but still warns him and sends him away.
• The other Saints fear crossing Chen Ming and quietly accept that he may seize the World Beast’s rewards for himself.

Significant themes

• Deception and misjudgment: Chen Ming’s harmless appearance conceals his real ability, while Youye mistakes his useful advice for a successful provocation.
• Rivalry and opportunism: The Human and Blood Races are poised to fight, but Chen Ming is pursuing his own prize amid the larger conflict.
• The difficulty of killing powerful beings: Saints are hard to destroy permanently, making their battles dangerous even when they do not necessarily end in death.
• Ambition under pressure: Chen Ming’s competitors are now Saints rather than ordinary geniuses, so he must secure his objectives before revealing his full strength.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming enters the World Beast Battlefield’s inner region, hoping to gather damage against the level 53 World Beast while the Saint-level fighters focus on battling one another.
• He intends to appear harmless by relying on ordinary attacks, saving his powerful finishing moves for later competition.
• On the way, he searches for the Abyssal Space inside the enormous Sunken Abyss Ancient Beast. He knows a treasure can be obtained there only by breaking the beast’s core before it dies.
• The World Beast attacks Chen Ming with rock spikes, but each deals only one point of damage—less than his automatic recovery—so he continues unhindered.
• In the inner region, Chen Ming finds what appears to be the Abyssal Space’s entrance. The beast then brings two vast sections of terrain together in a crushing attack. Chen Ming is caught in the middle, but the blow also deals just one point of damage.

Character developments

• Chen Ming shows strategic patience: rather than immediately revealing his strongest abilities, he plans to conserve them while quietly contributing damage.
• His confidence and unusual resilience are emphasized by his calm response to attacks that would devastate most opponents.
• He remains curious and goal-oriented, investigating the Abyssal Space and weighing how to claim its treasure without killing the World Beast too soon.

Significant themes

• Scale and power: The beast’s immense size makes ordinary movements resemble world-shaking, divine attacks.
• Strategy over brute force: Chen Ming’s plan depends on timing, concealment, and conserving his best abilities.
• Power and vulnerability: The World Beast’s attacks are spectacular, yet Chen Ming’s recovery makes them nearly harmless to him.
• Opportunity with limits: The treasure inside the beast can only be claimed under specific conditions, creating a race against the beast’s eventual death.

Character interactions

• Chen Ming has no direct exchange with the Saint-level fighters in this chapter, though their ongoing battle shapes his strategy.
• His only direct confrontation is with the World Beast, which repeatedly attacks him as he approaches its interior.

Plot points and events

• A level 53 World Beast tries to crush Chen Ming by forcing two mountain-sized hands together, triggering a chain of explosions. Chen survives and emerges unharmed.
• Using Void Sight, Chen realizes the enormous Sunken Abyss Ancient Beast gives off no energy of its own. Instead, energy briefly floods into its body from the sealed Abyssal Space passage whenever the beast attacks.
• Chen concludes that the visible World Beast is a shell or puppet, controlled by a more powerful Ancient Beast hidden inside the Abyssal Space.
• He approaches the passage, provoking a barrage of black thorns, crushing hands, and sound waves. His body withstands the attacks, including reflected damage, without injury.
• Rather than destroy the apparent World Beast and risk losing access to the Abyssal Space, Chen withdraws and waits for the energy animating it to run out. He hopes to enter when the passage opens again, explore its treasures, and obtain the true beast’s essence blood.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming demonstrates patience and tactical restraint: instead of taking the direct route to complete his mission, he prioritizes uncovering the hidden truth and gaining access to the Abyssal Space. He also recognizes that Youye’s earlier help may have enabled this opportunity and resolves to thank him.
• Youye does not appear directly, but Chen credits him with having helped indirectly.
• The Sunken Abyss Ancient Beast is revealed to be a concealed controller behind a seemingly living mountain-sized body. Its puppet reacts defensively when Chen nears the passage, suggesting it is anxious to protect its secret.
• Chen suspects the Saints are unaware of the beast’s true nature.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus reality: The apparent World Beast is only a vessel; the real power lies hidden within.
• Observation and strategy over brute force: Chen’s ability to detect energy patterns helps him avoid a potentially wasteful fight.
• Patience and calculated risk: He accepts ongoing attacks while waiting for the right moment to reach his goal.
• Wonder at the unknown: Chen sees the strange nature of the beast as evidence of how varied the supernatural world can be.

Key plot points and events

• The Saint battle between the Human and Blood Races grows more intense, led by near-supreme Saints Fu Yuntian and Youye. Several Qingqiu City Saints conserve their strength, expecting Chen Ming’s involvement to turn the fight decisively.
• Checking the World Beast damage rankings, they find Chen Ming at the bottom with only 50,000 damage. They conclude he has not yet attacked the Ancient Beast and wonder what he is planning.
• In the World Beast Battlefield, Chen Ming waits until the Ancient Beast puppet runs out of energy. When the Abyssal Entrance briefly opens so it can be replenished, he swaps places with a Night Tour clone and slips inside.
• Chen Ming emerges in a small, enclosed Abyssal Space surrounded by turbulent spatial currents. At its center is a crystal-like object, and nearby he finds a puppy-sized, furry beast.
• The little beast tries to flee through a passage, but Chen Ming blocks it with a spatial barrier. He suspects it may be the real Sunken Abyss Ancient Beast or the force controlling the puppet.

Character developments

• Chen Ming demonstrates patience, tactical deception, and precise use of his spatial abilities. Rather than attack the puppet openly, he studies its energy cycle and exploits the brief opening to reach its source.
• The Qingqiu City Saints show confidence in Chen Ming’s strength but remain uncertain about his intentions after seeing his low damage score.
• The little beast is revealed to be more than an ordinary creature: it reacts to Chen Ming and attempts to escape, though its true nature remains unknown.

Significant themes

• Strategy over brute force: Chen Ming wins access through observation and timing rather than direct confrontation.
• Hidden identities and deception: The puppet, the carefully controlled entrance, and the unexpected small creature suggest that appearances conceal the real threat.
• Power and competition: The Saints balance survival in battle with conserving strength for later rivalry.

Character interactions

• Fu Yuntian and Youye clash as the central figures in the Saint war, while Qingqiu City’s Saints support Fu Yuntian and discuss Chen Ming’s progress.
• Chen Ming confronts the little beast, blocks its escape, and challenges it with the possibility that it is the true mastermind behind the Ancient Beast.

Chen Ming reaches the stone platform and identifies the crystal sphere as the Abyssal Heart, which contains the Sunken Abyss Ancient Beast’s essence blood. A cloudlike little beast guards it and taunts him from within the crystal barrier. It has slipped through Chen Ming’s spatial blockade, but appears unwilling to leave the sphere behind.
When Chen Ming tests the barrier with lightning, it reflects the attack back at him with greater force. His Shield of Reversal then reflects that reflected damage, dealing a guaranteed counterattack. The barrier responds by reflecting his counter again, and Chen Ming deliberately lets the exchange continue to see what will happen. Its attacks can be dodged, unlike his conceptually guaranteed counter, but they grow faster and stronger. The clash becomes a runaway cycle, while the essence blood inside the sphere boils and shifts toward pale gold.
Character developments and interactions: Chen Ming moves from curiosity about the beast’s spatial ability to confidently testing the barrier’s limits. The little beast’s initial smugness gives way to confusion as it watches Chen Ming and the barrier trade escalating attacks. Their interaction is largely a contest of taunts and retaliation, with Chen Ming treating the clash as an experiment.
Themes: The chapter highlights the difference between ordinary reflection and absolute, rule-based abilities; it also uses escalating counterattacks to build comic absurdity and suspense. The changing essence blood suggests that the chaotic battle may be affecting the Abyssal Heart.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming’s rapid counterattacks finally shatter the crystal barrier, despite its ability to withstand Saint-level attacks. The exchange ends before it can develop into a dangerous God Grade offensive domain.
• He steps onto the platform and confronts the small cloud beast. The beast rushes at him—but abruptly kneels and apologizes, claiming its hostility was a joke.
• Chen Ming suspects the beast has stayed behind because it wants the Abyssal Heart. The sphere’s bubbling contents have turned completely pale gold, but the transformation is not yet stable.
• Chen Ming reaches for the sphere. The beast grabs his legs and warns that taking it too soon would waste much of its divinity. Chen Ming recognizes the warning as another attempt to delay him until the Abyssal Heart stabilizes, when the beast can take it and escape.

Character developments

• Chen Ming demonstrates extraordinary durability and combat ability, surviving a barrier that should have severely harmed someone of his rank. He remains observant and skeptical, quickly identifying the beast’s likely motive.
• The cloud beast shifts from smug taunting to shameless pleading once Chen Ming breaks through. Its sudden apology and warning reveal it as cunning and self-interested, though its inability to escape—or choice not to—leaves its true intentions uncertain.

Character interactions

• Chen Ming silently taunts the beast after breaking the barrier, reversing their earlier dynamic.
• The beast tries to disarm him with an apology, then clings to his legs to stop him from taking the Abyssal Heart.
• Chen Ming sees through its performance and refuses to trust its advice.

Significant themes

• Power and reversal: The seemingly overwhelming barrier fails, and the creature that mocked Chen Ming becomes the one pleading with him.
• Deception and mistrust: Both the beast’s apology and its warning may be self-serving; Chen Ming must judge its claims against his own interests.
• Restraint amid power: Chen Ming’s near-emergence of an offensive domain hints at immense potential, but also at the danger of unchecked force.

Plot points

• Chen Ming discovers that the Abyssal Heart is joined to nearby passages by delicate spatial links, like a heart connected to blood vessels. One link leads to the passage he used to enter the region.
• He begins carefully unraveling the links so he can remove the Abyssal Heart without destroying it.
• The little mist beast tries to stop him, but Chen Ming’s attacks cannot lock onto it. Neither can harm the other, so he continues working on the Heart.
• The beast offers to become Chen Ming’s spirit pet and voluntarily exposes its mental origin. Although suspicious, Chen Ming detects no trap and establishes the mental link.
• Through the connection, Chen Ming learns that the beast is a Grand Void Ancient Beast, a lineage renowned for spatial escape abilities and near-immortality.

Character developments

• Chen Ming remains cautious and pragmatic: he prioritizes securing the Abyssal Heart, then accepts the beast’s offer because he believes the risk is negligible.
• The mist beast reveals both its intelligence and unusual willingness to surrender its freedom, though its true motives remain uncertain.
• Chen Ming recognizes a resemblance between the beast’s spatial powers and his own abilities, but sees it as a weaker counterpart.

Significant themes

• Trust and control: The beast’s offer creates a master-servant bond, but Chen Ming’s doubts persist even after the connection is made.
• Survival versus strength: Grand Void Ancient Beasts have extraordinary defenses but little offensive power, illustrating the cost of specializing in survival.
• Hidden structures and discovery: Chen Ming’s close inspection reveals a new spatial function of the Abyssal Heart and suggests that its nature—and perhaps the little beast’s influence—remains mysterious.

Character interactions

• Chen Ming and the beast initially face off over the Abyssal Heart: he ignores its warnings and tries to claim the Heart, while it evades his attacks.
• The conflict shifts when the beast calls him “Master” and voluntarily offers its mental origin. Chen Ming accepts, establishing a direct mental link between them.

Key plot points

• Chen Ming discovers that the creature behind the Abyssal Space is a level 72 Saint Grade Grand Void Juvenile Beast. The Abyssal Heart holds ancient-beast essence blood it has gathered.
• The beast explains that it chose Chen Ming because of his extraordinary combat strength and because it needs protection from enemies pursuing it.
• Chen Ming learns that ordinary Grand Void blood can elevate nearly anything with spiritual essence—resources, equipment, treasures, and even people. The beast is still absorbing the essence blood in the Abyssal Heart and says its blood will become more potent after it evolves.
• When Chen Ming asks why it absorbs the blood of its own kind, the beast briefly shows hatred, then claims the Ancient Beast Race follows a law of the jungle. Chen Ming notices its reluctance and lets the subject drop.
• The beast suddenly rushes to the Abyssal Heart, claiming it has stabilized. Chen Ming tries to control it through their mental link but gets no response, leaving him suspicious.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming is pleased by the unexpected alliance and recognizes that his strength and the beast’s rare abilities could complement each other. He sees its choice of him as a smart path to a safer future.
• He is curious about the beast’s blood and asks to test it, but backs off when it says it is in a crucial stage of evolution.
• The little beast presents itself as vulnerable and dependent on Chen Ming, yet its unexplained dash toward the Abyssal Heart suggests it may have its own agenda. Chen Ming stays calm and alert rather than reacting in panic.

Significant themes

• Power and mutual dependence: Chen Ming offers protection and combat strength; the beast offers extraordinary enhancement abilities.
• Trust and hidden motives: Their mental bond appears genuine, but the beast’s guarded history and sudden action cast doubt on how much Chen Ming truly controls the situation.
• Survival and exploitation: The Grand Void Ancient Beasts’ valuable blood makes them targets, while their own race’s harsh “law of the jungle” may involve conflict among kin.

Key plot points and events

• The Cloudmist Juvenile Beast reveals that its Grand Void Ancient Beast constitution can evade Chen Ming’s Spirit Link, then breaks the Space Links binding the Abyssal Heart and escapes through a spatial passage with it.
• Chen Ming had anticipated this possibility and activates Eternal Agility, freezing space and time. Using Space-Time Vision, he reverses time in a small area around the stone platform, undoing the beast’s escape.
• When time resumes, Chen Ming grabs the Abyssal Heart and stores it in his mental space. The beast lunges at empty air, realizes something has gone wrong, and flees again without the sphere.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Ming is impressed by the beast’s unusual resistance and exceptional spatial abilities, but remains composed because he has prepared a countermeasure.
• The Grand Void Juvenile Beast shifts from feigned compliance to open defiance, showing itself to be cunning and confident. After Chen Ming’s reversal, its confusion turns to alarm and wary respect.
• Chen Ming and the beast repeatedly outmaneuver one another: the beast escapes with the Heart, but Chen Ming rewinds the escape; the beast then retreats empty-handed.

Significant themes

• Preparation and adaptability: Chen Ming’s foresight lets him respond to an unexpected failure of the Spirit Link.
• Power and control: The beast can resist one form of restraint, but Chen Ming’s mastery of space-time gives him a broader means of intervention.
• Deception and uncertainty: The beast’s apparent cooperation conceals its plan, while Chen Ming’s time reversal makes its successful escape seem to have happened—and then not happened.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Ming lets the Grand Void Ancient Beast escape rather than waste time trying to capture it. He has already secured the Abyssal Heart, whose amber-colored essence blood contains concentrated divinity and qualifies as a God Grade resource.
• As the pocket realm collapses, Chen Ming returns to the World Beast Battlefield carrying a spatial link connected to the level 53 World Beast. The link reaches the creature’s body, mind, and consciousness, effectively serving as its lifeline.
• Chen Ming uses the link to destroy the World Beast effortlessly, earning a huge jump in the damage rankings: he takes first place with 450,050,000 damage and reaches level 49.
• Meanwhile, the Human and Blood Race Saints remain locked in an attritional battle outside the battlefield. Youye mocks the Human camp, assuming Chen Ming has failed or died, while Fu Yuntian refuses to be baited. The Qingqiu City Saints also mistakenly conclude Chen Ming has done nothing—then miss his sudden ranking surge.

Character developments

• Chen Ming remains pragmatic: he accepts that the elusive beast was never truly his to keep and focuses on the prize he gained. He also recognizes the spatial link as a potentially useful model for future spatial techniques.
• Youye is confident enough to taunt the Humans, but his assumptions about Chen Ming are badly mistaken.
• Fu Yuntian stays composed under provocation and does not let Youye’s comments disrupt the battle.
• The Qingqiu City Saints expect Chen Ming to change the course of the conflict, but their reliance on the rankings leads them to misjudge what he is doing.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and opportunity: Chen Ming gives up on an unrecoverable target once he has achieved his main goal.
• Power through understanding: Observing the spatial link gives Chen Ming insight that may help him develop new techniques.
• Misjudgment and hidden action: The Saints judge Chen Ming by an outdated ranking, unaware that he is about to make a dramatic impact.
• Contrasting scales of conflict: The prolonged Saint battle unfolds alongside Chen Ming’s swift, decisive destruction of the World Beast.

Character interactions

• Chen Ming’s brief confrontation with the Grand Void Ancient Beast ends with the beast escaping and Chen Ming choosing not to pursue it.
• Youye tries to provoke Fu Yuntian by suggesting Chen Ming has failed or been killed; Fu Yuntian dismisses the taunt.
• The Qingqiu City Saints privately anticipate Chen Ming’s involvement, but their attention returns to the Saint battle just before his achievement appears on the rankings.