Chapter Summaries

Zhang Sanxian reached the Dark Butterfly Nebula aboard the Bei Xuan flying sword and found that his ripple perception could detect only Qi Refiners. Nearby, the refugee miners aboard the Digger learned that three Exterminator-class cultivators had appeared in the nebula, and the captain ordered an immediate retreat.

• Zhang Sanxian used ripple perception while traveling toward the Dark Butterfly Wormhole and found that he could sense true essence but not ordinary beings.
• The Bei Xuan flying sword crossed two hundred light-years and arrived outside the Dark Butterfly Nebula.
• Aboard the Digger, alien miners discussed their harsh lives as refugees and worried about the radiation on their next mining planet.
• The Digger's detector identified three anomalous high-energy entities in the nebula as possible Exterminator-class cultivators.
• The dick-faced captain ordered the crew to activate emergency evasion and retreat to the edge of the nebula.

The passengers aboard the Digger learned that three Extinction-class cultivators were ahead, then heard that a Sun-Destroyer-class cultivator had appeared nearby. The ships in the nebula stopped and waited, hoping not to provoke the unknown cultivator.

• The Digger’s captain announced that three Extinction-class cultivators were ahead, and the passengers panicked.
• Carlo asked about cultivators as other passengers described planets destroyed by cultivators of different ranks.
• The Digger’s detector found a signal suspected to come from a Sun-Destroyer-class cultivator, and the captain warned the passengers to prepare for the worst.
• Carlo’s father explained that a Sun-Destroyer could extinguish stars, leaving Carlo stunned.
• The Digger and more than a dozen other ships stopped in the nebula because their captains knew they could not outrun the cultivator.

Zhang Sanxian arrived at the Dark Butterfly wormhole, where three cultivators were competing to enter an ancient ruin, and learned about the primeval civilization behind it. After confirming the ruin’s history and rules, he confronted the cultivators over the billions of innocent lives they had killed.

• Ao Zheng, a bone-armored lizardman, a one-horned brute, and a four-eyed cultivator argued over who could enter the ancient ruin behind the stone door.
• Zhang Sanxian arrived with overwhelming true essence power, frightening the three cultivators into respectful submission.
• The cultivators told Zhang Sanxian that the ruin appeared only occasionally and that the stone door admitted one type of true essence power before disappearing.
• The four-eyed cultivator described the vanished primeval civilization and its artifacts, while the one-horned brute explained that entrants could exit through other gateways in the ruin.
• After verifying their accounts with Phenomenon Fiction, Zhang Sanxian accused all three cultivators of slaughtering billions of innocent lives.

Zhang Sanxian killed three battle-clan members after learning they had slaughtered so-called lowborn tribes, revealing that he had been born among those tribes. He entered the ancient stone gate and arrived in an ancient star system, where he found a radiant palace near a black dwarf.

• The bone-armored lizard and his two companions defended their slaughter of lowborn tribes, and Zhang Sanxian condemned them.
• Zhang Sanxian revealed his lowborn origins and killed all three men, earning seven Stronger Fragments.
• The Digger’s crew announced that the danger had passed, and its passengers celebrated their survival as the ships resumed their journey toward the Dark Butterfly Wormhole.
• Zhang Sanxian passed through the stone gate into a silent star system filled with frozen planets and the ruins of enormous megastructures.
• After finding no traces of the ancient civilization among the ruins, Zhang Sanxian approached the black dwarf and discovered a radiant palace.

Zhang Sanxian explored the abandoned palace and found that its supposed Yin-Yang Celestial was a custom doll made for Qi Refiners. On the third level, he awakened a powerful statue that identified itself as an attendant for a Shiny Funland attraction.

• Zhang Sanxian searched the palace’s first two levels and found only ruins and ancient corpses.
• Zhang Sanxian discovered a preserved humanoid corpse in a display case and learned from its label that it was a custom Yin-Yang doll.
• Zhang Sanxian recognized the doll’s aura as the same source as Lei Zhenyue’s Yin-Yang Celestial and laughed at the revelation.
• Zhang Sanxian descended to the third level and found a black platform surrounded by statues, including one with powerful true essence.
• Zhang Sanxian touched the goblin-like statue with his true essence, awakening it as a Shiny Funland attraction attendant.

Zhang Sanxian learned that the ancient relic was a children’s amusement park and entered its combat attraction, where an oversized goblin challenged him as the Green-Skinned Greater Demon King. As the arena came alive, Zhang Sanxian realized the awakened figures in the stands were prisoners trapped there after losing to the attraction’s primordial demon weapon.

• Zhang Sanxian used the Grand Void Sword Soul to learn the administrator’s language and claimed he had come to play.
• The oversized goblin explained the Happy Grand Melee challenge, then malfunctioned and announced itself as the Green-Skinned Greater Demon King.
• The arena rose, holographic spectators appeared, and the hundred statues around the stands awakened as powerful cultivators.
• Zhang Sanxian recognized the awakened cultivators as prisoners, while others predicted he would lose to the primordial demon weapon.
• A newcomer struggled against an invisible force, and a neighboring cultivator explained that losers became statues imprisoned there forever.

Zhang Sanxian faced the oversized goblin, an ancient demon weapon with 680,000 true essence power, while imprisoned cultivators expected him to be defeated. He froze time with The World and destroyed the machine by striking its lines of death, leaving the spectators baffled about what had happened.

• Rakshasa told the armored cultivator that he had been imprisoned for seventy-three thousand years and that Blazing Light had been trapped for over two million years.
• The awakened cultivators watched Zhang Sanxian and expected the oversized goblin to overwhelm him.
• The oversized goblin unleashed 680,000 true essence power, but Zhang Sanxian judged that he did not need to fight it directly.
• Zhang Sanxian stopped time with The World, saw the goblin's lines of death with the Eyes of Death Perception, and slashed them.
• When time resumed, the oversized goblin collapsed into wreckage, leaving the spectators stunned and questioning what had happened.

Zhang Sanxian explored the Star Shuttle Baby flying sword and discovered its vast internal world, powerful surviving weapons, and a map pointing toward an ancient adventure project. As he prepared to leave the primordial ruins, Phenomenon Fiction alerted him to a secret treasure among the Large Goblin remains.

• Zhang Sanxian entered the Star Shuttle Baby flying sword and found surviving virtual reality games, demon-soldier dao seeds, armor, and flying swords in its internal world.
• Zhang Sanxian learned that the sword could travel at a maximum speed of one trillion times the speed of light.
• Zhang Sanxian recovered a golden invitation to the Immortal Cultivation World Adventure and located its site in another spiral arm of the Galaxy.
• Zhang Sanxian decided to visit the adventure site after leaving the ruins and dealing with Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable.
• Phenomenon Fiction activated and warned Zhang Sanxian that a secret treasure existed within the remains of the Large Goblin.

Zhang Sanxian discovered that the demonic soldier’s remains contained Mysterious Kun Thunderflame, a power that had kept the arena’s cultivators restrained, and began refining it. The freed cultivators demanded his sword, while three newcomers arrived and found themselves facing the powerful crowd.

• Zhang Sanxian identified the remains’ Mysterious Kun Thunderflame and learned that it could immobilize cultivators and absorb their true essence.
• The arena’s projections disappeared, and more than a hundred cultivators realized they were free to move again.
• The freed cultivators gathered around Zhang Sanxian and demanded that he surrender the sky-blue sword, using threats and promises.
• Zhang Sanxian ignored the cultivators and began refining the Thunderflame by forcing true essence into it.
• Three armored cultivators entered the arena and froze in fear when they saw the powerful cultivators gathered around Zhang Sanxian.

Zhang Sanxian finished refining the Mystic Earth Thunderflame and revealed overwhelming power, forcing the cultivators who had surrounded him to their knees. He confronted them over their betrayal, then unleashed the flames across the arena, leaving all hundred cultivators enveloped.

• Three brothers found themselves trapped on the arena level and watched as over a hundred cultivators confronted Zhang Sanxian.
• Zhang Sanxian told the cultivators to stop barking and continued refining the Mystic Earth Thunderflame, provoking them to attack.
• Zhang Sanxian activated Super Three Transformation, raising his true essence to three million and forcing every cultivator present to kneel under his pressure.
• Zhang Sanxian accused the cultivators of repaying his rescue with hostility, and most begged him to spare them.
• A defiant cultivator from the Flame Tiger Clan refused to beg, and Zhang Sanxian praised his courage.
• Zhang Sanxian expanded the Mystic Earth Thunderflame into a vast curtain that covered the arena and enveloped all hundred cultivators.

Zhang Sanxian dissolved the Cultivation of a hundred clan cultivators, killing them and collecting their Stronger Fragments. He spared three Dragon Dove Clan juniors and heard how their ancestor, a Qian-born cultivator, founded their lineage on a distant planet.

• Zhang Sanxian’s thunderflame canopy stripped the hundred cultivators of their Cultivation, leaving them in the Fetal Breath Realm before they rapidly aged and died.
• Zhang Sanxian gained three hundred and one Stronger Fragments and stored the cultivators’ true essence in his black flame.
• Zhang Sanxian noticed that the three surviving juniors had little karmic sin and asked why they differed from the slain cultivators.
• The juniors explained that their Dragon Dove Clan ancestor was born among the Qian people, discovered Cultivation through ancient texts, and was later hunted by natural-born war clans.
• The juniors described how their wounded ancestor was nursed by a mortal family, helped their planet achieve peace, and established a lineage there.
• Zhang Sanxian questioned how their ancestor could have children with mortals, and the juniors said the universe’s myriad races might share a primordial origin.

Zhang Sanxian learned that the Dragon Dove Clan descended from Qian Clan ancestors and had been hunted because their ancestor obtained the Immortal Mirror. He accompanied three Dragon Dove youths through their gateway to their underground territory to negotiate for the mirror, where the clan members regarded him with hostility.

• The Dragon Dove youths explained that their clan descended from Qian Clan ancestors and had only a few Battle Soul wielders.
• Zhang Sanxian pressured the youths until they admitted their ancestor had been hunted for obtaining the Immortal Mirror.
• Zhang Sanxian said he wanted the Immortal Mirror and would trade for it, then asked the youths to take him to their territory.
• Zhang Sanxian crossed the star system with the youths and entered a gateway on a frozen planet.
• Zhang Sanxian followed the youths through a corridor into their vast underground settlement, where Dragon Dove clansmen watched him warily.

Zhang Sanxian pressured the Dragon Dove Clan Chief into offering the Immortal Mirror in exchange for driving the Yazi War Clan from the clan’s ancestral planet. After learning the Yazi forces’ strength, Zhang Sanxian showed eager interest in confronting them.

• The Dragon Dove Clan Chief arrived and learned that Zhang Sanxian wanted the clan’s Immortal Mirror in a fair trade.
• Zhang Sanxian threatened the Clan Chief, who offered the Immortal Mirror in exchange for help reclaiming the ancestral planet.
• The Clan Chief identified the occupiers as the Yazi War Clan, and Zhang Sanxian revealed that he had already killed three of them.
• The Clan Chief warned that the Yazi served Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable and described their powerful forces.
• Zhang Sanxian reacted with anticipation when he heard how many Yazi War Clan fighters occupied the ancestral planet.

Zhang Sanxian learned where the Yazi invaders were and set off to kill them, after discovering that the Dragon Dove Clan’s ancestral planet lay 163 light-years away. His Star Shuttle Baby vanished at a speed of a trillion times the speed of light, leaving the Dragon Dove Clan in awe.

• Zhang Sanxian learned that Biladi, an early five-digit Yazi leader, had brought five early four-digit subordinates to the star domain.
• The Dragon Dove Clan Chief showed Zhang Sanxian a star map and identified the ancestral planet Dragon Eye and the wormhole the Yazi had used to enter the domain.
• Zhang Sanxian asked about paradise planets, then told the Dragon Dove Clan members to wait while he went to kill the Yazi.
• Zhang Sanxian revealed that his Star Shuttle Baby could travel at roughly a trillion times the speed of light and entered the sword before it vanished.
• The Dragon Dove Clan Chief and the three youths were stunned by Zhang Sanxian’s speed, and the Chief’s unease gave way to reverence.

On ruined Dragon Eye Star, A-Feng told the other youths about a history book describing the world’s former civilization before demons destroyed it. Their fear of the demons deepened when Lord Biladi announced the annual Destruction Day and revealed that the drawing had ended, leaving them waiting to learn which region had been chosen.

• A-Feng hunted a Six-Eared Mouse Rabbit and shared it with several other Dragon Eye Star youths in a ruined underground pipeline.
• A-Feng told the youths that a history book described thirty thousand years of history, including an interstellar federation spanning five hundred worlds.
• The youths wondered how their world had become ruins, and one boy said demons had tormented their ancestors for generations.
• Lord Biladi announced that he would choose a region to destroy for Destruction Day, and A-Feng and the others feared West Capital or District 41 would be selected.
• Lord Biladi announced that the drawing had ended.

Biladi announced that West Capital would be destroyed, but Zhang Sanxian then declared himself a helper of the Dragon Dove Clan and challenged Biladi. His announcement stirred hope and uncertainty across Dragon Eye Star, including among A-Feng and the youths awaiting death in West Capital.

• Biladi named West Capital District 41 the winner of the Destruction Day lottery and gave its residents five minutes before destruction.
• Chen Luo reprimanded Biladi for neglecting his mission to find the Dragon Dove Clan and the possible Immortal Mirror.
• Zhang Sanxian sent a psychic announcement across Dragon Eye Star, identifying himself as the Dragon Dove Clan's helper and challenging Biladi to face him.
• People across Dragon Eye Star reacted to Zhang Sanxian's announcement with a mixture of hope and fear.
• A-Feng and the youths in West Capital wondered whether Zhang Sanxian could save them.

Chen Luo disguised herself as a Yazi subordinate and joined Biladi in confronting Zhang Sanxian, hoping to surprise him by revealing her strength later. Zhang Sanxian unleashed his peak five-digit power, shaking Dragon Eye Star and giving A-Feng hope that the demons could be driven away.

• Chen Luo sensed Zhang Sanxian's peak five-digit true essence and decided to disguise herself while Biladi pretended to be intimidated.
• Zhang Sanxian confronted Biladi and demanded to know how many Yazi Clan members were beyond the wormhole.
• Biladi threatened Zhang Sanxian and displayed his early five-digit strength while Chen Luo concealed her true aura.
• Zhang Sanxian dismissed the group as no match and unleashed an aura that sent Dragon Eye Star spinning wildly.
• A-Feng and the people in West Capital witnessed the upheaval in the heavens, and A-Feng declared that Zhang Sanxian was fighting the demons.

Chen Luo revealed her 480,000 true essence to confront Zhang Sanxian, but he transformed into a seven-digit powerhouse and forced her to use the Yazi Transformation. The two reached equal true essence values of three million, and their clashing pressures shook the star system around Dragon Eye Star.

• Zhang Sanxian detected a six-digit true essence fluctuation, and Chen Luo stepped forward and admitted she was the source.
• Chen Luo unleashed 480,000 true essence and mocked Zhang Sanxian, but he transformed and revealed a true essence value of 3,000,000.
• Zhang Sanxian told Chen Luo to use her Yazi Transformation, explaining that he had seen Bei Xuan demonstrate it before he killed him.
• Chen Luo transformed into a giant half-dragon, half-ape beast and raised her true essence to 3,000,000.
• Chen Luo and Zhang Sanxian clashed their immense pressures, causing the star system containing Dragon Eye Star to tremble.

Zhang Sanxian transformed into Super Saiyan Fourth Form and overwhelmed Chen Luo and the five other Yazi warriors with his eight-digit peak power. He annihilated all six with a single attack, and the golden light disappeared over West Capital.

• Chen Luo matched Zhang Sanxian's earlier power and challenged him to fight to the death.
• Zhang Sanxian transformed into Super Saiyan Fourth Form and his true essence reached 99999999.
• The force of Zhang Sanxian's power enveloped the star system in golden radiance, terrifying A-Feng and the other youths on Dragon Eye Star.
• Chen Luo realized Zhang Sanxian's strength rivaled Floating Slaughter Demon Venerable and despaired.
• Zhang Sanxian pointed at Chen Luo and the other five Yazi warriors, annihilating all six and receiving eighteen Stronger Fragments.
• The golden light vanished, and A-Feng and the other youths saw the azure sky again.

Zhang Sanxian announced that he had purged every Yazi on Dragon Eye Star, prompting its survivors to celebrate the end of centuries of oppression. He then returned to the Dragon Dove Clan and revealed that he had also defeated Chen Luo, a powerful Yazi who could transform to reach the seven-digit level.

• Zhang Sanxian proclaimed to everyone on Dragon Eye Star that every Yazi had been purged and the Dragon Dove Clan would return soon.
• A-Feng and the youths in Western City realized the demons were gone and celebrated with tears and cheers.
• Survivors across Dragon Eye Star rejoiced as lights came on, families reunited, and a soldier welcomed the rain aboard a surfaced submarine.
• Zhang Sanxian reappeared before the Dragon Dove Clan chief and three youths on the mining planet.
• Zhang Sanxian revealed that Chen Luo had been a six-digit Yazi who could transform to reach the initial stage of the seven-digit level, leaving the Dragon Dove Clan terrified and grateful.