Chapter Summaries

Xia Manggan exchanged his spoils for the Thunder Marsh Map and Qingsuo armor, then settled into his new residence in Chaos City. Meanwhile, Mountain Sitting Guest celebrated Luo Feng’s success in gaining Star Tower’s recognition before answering an urgent summons from the Zerg Queen.

• Xia Manggan chose the Thunder Marsh Map, reasoning that its domain could combine with the Illusion Light Pool to suppress and bind enemies.
• After his donated spoils earned him 352.1 Supreme Treasure Points, Xia Manggan exchanged 230 points for the Thunder Marsh Map and 112 for the Qingsuo armor.
• Xia Manggan kept his remaining 10.1 Supreme Treasure Points, planned to bring Copper Flame Clan members to his new residence, and entered the Virtual Universe.
• Mountain Sitting Guest praised Luo Feng for enduring Star Tower’s recognition trial, while his serpent-race disciple said Luo Feng had repeatedly pushed his soul to its limits.
• Mountain Sitting Guest received an urgent request from the Zerg Queen and sent his consciousness to meet her in an ancient starry sky.

The Zerg Queen asked Mountain Sitting Guest to kill Xia Manggan, but he refused, while Xia Manggan gained the title Tianmang Palace Lord. After Venerable Mangya asked for help against aliens slaughtering human elites on the Outer Battlefield, Xia Manggan agreed to send King Feijing and considered secretly going himself with his Youhai Clone.

• The Zerg Queen accused Mountain Sitting Guest's supposed disciple of reaching the perfect Life Gene Level and killing hundreds of thousands of elite geniuses, but Mountain Sitting Guest learned Xia Manggan was not his disciple and refused to kill him.
• The Zerg Queen decided that the allied races would retaliate by killing humanity's elite geniuses while they waited for a chance to target Xia Manggan.
• The Copper Flame Clan's Old Clan Leader explained that his people called Xia Manggan Tianmang Palace Lord and had built a sacred hall in his honor.
• Venerable Mangya told Xia Manggan that aliens were slaughtering human King-Level experts on the Outer Battlefield and asked to borrow King Feijing.
• Xia Manggan agreed to send King Feijing and considered using his Youhai Clone to enter the Outer Battlefield himself, then went to report the matter to his teacher.

Hong attended Xia Manggan’s first lecture in Chaos City, where Xia Manggan recognized him and invited him to Tianmang Palace afterward. Meanwhile, Xia Manggan’s Youhai Clone arrived at Migratory Bird Star and applied to enter the Outer Battlefield.

• Hong read the notice announcing Xia Manggan’s lectures and joined the crowds heading to the residence.
• More than five hundred thousand cultivators gathered, and Xia Manggan’s overwhelming presence forced them to kneel before he began teaching the foundations of the Light Law.
• Xia Manggan recognized Hong, spoke to him privately, and invited him to Tianmang Palace after the lecture.
• Xia Manggan considered Hong’s Heart Force cultivation and how it might help strengthen his divine power.
• Xia Manggan’s Youhai Clone arrived at Migratory Bird Star aboard a G-class Machine Race spaceship and applied to enter the Outer Battlefield.

Xia Manggan arrived at the Seventh Battlefield under the identity of King Youhai and met King Qijian, who had been targeted by the Machine Race. After reviewing the ambush that nearly killed King Qijian, Xia Manggan chose King Qianxing as his first target.

• Xia Manggan entered the passage to the Seventh Battlefield and reached Barracks Base No. 077, where he arranged a residence under his concealed identity, King Youhai.
• King Qijian quickly came to meet Xia Manggan, carrying scars from recent battles and doubts about the unfamiliar King Youhai’s strength.
• King Qijian showed Xia Manggan a recording of a Machine Race ambush in which over a hundred enemies used a Decomposition Tower and King Qianxing’s black spheres to devastate his group.
• Xia Manggan recognized King Qianxing’s weapon and judged that the Machine Race expert had grown far stronger since their last fight.
• Xia Manggan told King Qijian that King Qianxing would be his first target and planned to seize the Qianxing Heavy Treasure.

King Qianxing and King Juejue tracked King Daohe into Star Tower, unaware that he was Luo Feng and that the forbidden space favored its master. Xia Manggan learned of the hunt and contacted Luo Feng, who prepared to face the Machine Race force that arrived around him.

• King Juejue asked King Qianxing for protection, and King Qianxing welcomed him while boasting about his newly awakened Heavy Treasure set.
• King Qianxing’s scouts discovered King Daohe in Star Tower, so King Qianxing and King Juejue used God Kingdom Teleportation to pursue him.
• Xia Manggan and King Qijian arrived at King Qianxing’s palace after he had departed, and Xia Manggan used the Virtual Universe to locate King Daohe and send Luo Feng an email.
• Luo Feng spotted a High King-Level alien following him and prepared to test the Star Preaching Map, but more than a hundred Machine Race King-Level experts appeared with King Qianxing and King Juejue.
• Luo Feng recognized that the intruders had made him their prey and faced them confidently because the battle was taking place in Star Tower.

Luo Feng faced Qianxing and King Juejue in the Star Tower, escaped their combined assault, and lured King Juejue into the Endless Ocean to fight him alone. After Xia Manggan contacted him about coming to confront Qianxing, Luo Feng attacked King Juejue with two Strongest Fire God Source Crystals, while Xia Manggan set out for Luo Feng’s location.

• Luo Feng attacked Qianxing with six Sealing Stars, but King Juejue blocked them and charged after him while Qianxing’s forces prepared their weapons.
• Luo Feng evaded King Juejue’s attacks and escaped Qianxing’s Million Stars assault through a spatial passage, with King Juejue following him into the Endless Ocean.
• Luo Feng revealed that he had deliberately created the passage to separate King Juejue from Qianxing and prepared his Poison Shadow War Blade and two Strongest Fire God Source Crystals.
• Xia Manggan emailed Luo Feng about Qianxing and asked him to delay the Machine Race powerhouse while arranging a meeting at the Star Tower entrance.
• Luo Feng sent Xia Manggan the coordinates and detonated both Strongest Fire God Source Crystals against King Juejue.
• Xia Manggan gave Luo Feng’s coordinates to King Qijian, who took him there by Teleportation.

Xia Manggan arrived at the forbidden space and revealed the overwhelming power of his Youhai Clone, killing King Qianxing and crushing the Machine Race’s Decomposition Tower. In the Star Tower, Mountain Sitting Guest watched the battle and recognized Xia Manggan’s transformation, leaving his secret and the Zerg Queen’s interest in him unresolved.

• King Heavy Arrow brought Xia Manggan and King Qijian through God Kingdom Teleportation to the forbidden space, where Luo Feng’s Golden Horned Behemoth Clone was enduring the Machine Race’s attack.
• Xia Manggan’s Youhai Clone expanded into a giant nearly ten thousand kilometers tall, and its pressure astonished Luo Feng, King Qijian, King Heavy Arrow, and the Machine Race experts.
• Xia Manggan swept the Machine Race’s black Heavy Treasure spheres aside, then crushed the Decomposition Beam and flattened the Decomposition Tower with his palm.
• King Qianxing died inside the ruined Decomposition Tower, and Luo Feng wondered whether his own Golden Horned Behemoth Clone could nurture a powerful Special Lifeform.
• Mountain Sitting Guest watched the battle from a hidden space in the Star Tower, identified Xia Manggan’s transformation art, and said he was only observing despite the Zerg Queen’s interest in having Xia Manggan killed.

Xia Manggan and Luo Feng swept through Star Tower, killing hundreds of alien King-Level experts and forcing the three peak races to abandon their campaign against human geniuses. After returning to Xia Manggan’s God Kingdom, Luo Feng was stunned when Xia Manggan revealed he knew about the Nine Calamities Manual.

• Xia Manggan killed King Qianxing and more than a hundred Machine Race King-Level Immortals, while King Qijian chose to return to Chaos City and Luo Feng joined Xia Manggan’s hunt.
• Over four days, Xia Manggan and Luo Feng killed more than 900 Peak King-Level experts, prompting alien forces to spread news of King Youhai and many warriors to leave the Outer Battlefield.
• When Monster Race, Zerg, and Machine Race experts ambushed the pair, Xia Manggan defeated them, and King Feijing joined the fight against later attackers.
• The Zerg Queen, Father God of the Machine Race, and Dream Demon Ancestor discussed the failed campaign and decided to call off their Outer Battlefield operation while leaving the bounties on human geniuses unchanged.
• After the peak races withdrew, Xia Manggan returned to his God Kingdom with Luo Feng and offered him genetic material to nurture a Youhai Clone.
• Xia Manggan asked Luo Feng for seawater from his Clone after each increase in Life Gene Level, revealing that he knew about the Nine Calamities Manual and leaving Luo Feng shocked.

Luo Feng returned to Chaos City with Xia Manggan’s soul servants and received the World Lord-level Endless Nether Ocean blood water to nurture his final Clone. Meanwhile, Hong reunited with Luo Feng, and Xia Manggan’s discussions with Hong helped him break through to the Return to Truth Heart Force realm, whose pressure reached across Black Lotus City.

• Xia Manggan gave King Feijing’s seized treasures and his own spoils to Belka to inspect and sell, then returned to his true body to cultivate.
• Luo Feng traveled to Chaos City, where the ship’s crew privately resented having to defer to him until they witnessed him Teleport.
• Luo Feng reunited with Hong outside Tianmang Palace, and Hong explained that they had discussed spiritual growth and cultivation of the state of mind.
• Hong gave Luo Feng Xia Manggan’s World Ring, and Luo Feng moved its World Lord-level Endless Nether Ocean blood water into his Internal World to nurture his final Clone.
• Xia Manggan reached the Return to Truth Heart Force realm, causing an invisible pressure to weigh on beings throughout Black Lotus City.

Xia Manggan reached the fifth level of Heart Force and learned that the reconstructed Great Xia Chaos World needed a powerful protective formation. When his Golden Crow Avatar went to ask World God Sanhan for help, a breakthrough shook Damo Academy, revealing that the Academy Master's Wife had become a Life-Death Dao Lord.

• Xia Manggan broke through to fifth-level Heart Force after comprehending the Realm of Return to Truth, and the Xia Emperor came to ask about the spiritual pressure.
• The Xia Emperor told Xia Manggan that the Great Xia Chaos World had been rebuilt and needed him to arrange its protective grand formation.
• Xia Manggan decided to seek help from a Damo Academy senior proficient in formations and sent his Golden Crow Avatar to World God Sanhan's estate.
• A vast surge of Chaos power erupted at Damo Academy, prompting disciples to wonder whether a World God had become a Life-Death Dao Lord.
• World God Sanhan identified the breakthrough as the Academy Master's Wife's, and Xia Manggan recognized that she had become a Life-Death Dao Lord.

Xia Manggan visited World God Sanhan, who invited him to explore the dangerous Star Tower Space in Tianqing Domain. After reconsidering his habit of avoiding unfamiliar risks, Xia Manggan accepted the invitation.

• World God Sanhan welcomed Xia Manggan into his residence and shared fruit from trees he had brought from his destroyed hometown.
• World God Sanhan discussed Xia Manggan's killing of the Black Lotus God Emperor and praised his rare strength as an Ancestor God.
• World God Sanhan invited Xia Manggan to join him and Junior Brother Liuqi in exploring the Star Tower Space, including its perilous Seventh Heaven.
• Xia Manggan weighed the dangers against his desire to remain safe and recognized that his reluctance to embrace uncertainty had contributed to his past failures.
• Xia Manggan asked when they would leave for the Star Tower Space and agreed to go.

Xia Manggan agreed to explore Star Tower Space with World God Sanhan and planned for the Three Realms’ immortals and fiendgods to venture into his newly established Great Xia Chaos Kingdom. After his Second Primordial Spirit sensed Ji Ning breaking through in the Ancient Ruins, Ji Ning began advancing to True God.

• World God Sanhan told Xia Manggan that the Strange Bat lifeforms would need several decades before their expedition, and Xia Manggan considered using the time to strengthen himself.
• World God Tu Sheng said he would join the Star Tower Space expedition after entrusting his steward duties to Junior Brother Qicai.
• Xia Manggan’s Second Primordial Spirit told Patriarch Bodhi that the Three Realms’ immortals and fiendgods could leave their homeland for the Great Xia Chaos Kingdom, and Sanqing and Tathagata revealed that Xia Manggan had defeated a rival kingdom and killed the Heart Spirit General.
• Xia Manggan sensed a familiar aura breaking through in the Ancient Ruins and turned his attention toward Ji Ning.
• Ji Ning recalled his Senior Sister and resolved to kill Wind Demon and Master Huanmu after becoming a True God, then began his breakthrough in Qianshan World.

Ji Ning broke through to become a True God, and Xia Manggan urged him to leave the Three Realms and temper himself in Chaos rather than pursue revenge immediately. After Ji Ning returned to the Three Realms, Xia Manggan went to Nine Directions Island to investigate a benefit connected to Lord of Nine Directions's death.

• Ji Ning's breakthrough drew immense Chaos power into Qianshan World, and Lord of Ten Thousand Demons told Master Huanmu that he was tired and would bear the Wujian Sect's karma, though he would not die easily.
• Xia Manggan's Second Primordial Spirit listened unseen as Lord of Ten Thousand Demons and Master Huanmu discussed Ji Ning and the Wujian Sect's past crimes.
• Ji Ning completed his breakthrough and realized his new strength could contend with powerful Ancestor Gods, then resolved to pursue the Wujian Sect leaders once he gained more power.
• Xia Manggan revealed that he knew about World God Beixiu and Ziguang Qiong, reassured Ji Ning that he did not covet the weapon, and advised him to explore Chaos and focus on becoming a World Realm expert.
• Xia Manggan opened a passage, and Ji Ning returned to the Three Realms to see his daughter Mingyue before leaving with the other newly advanced True Gods and Dao Ancestors.
• Xia Manggan traveled to Nine Directions Island, believing his strength now qualified him to learn about the great benefit behind Lord of Nine Directions's death.

Xia Manggan demonstrated his immense strength to the Array Spirit of Nine Directions Island and watched Lord of Nine Directions' memory of the ambush that led to his death over a Star Stone. The memory ended with Lord of Nine Directions appearing in Kunyu Hall and greeting Xia Manggan.

• Xia Manggan told the Array Spirit that his true body had become a Peak World God, joined Damo Academy, and established the Great Xia Chaos Kingdom.
• Xia Manggan used Nine Directions World-Extinguishing to destroy Void Fragments across hundreds of millions of kilometers, convincing the Array Spirit of his power.
• The Array Spirit gave Xia Manggan the memory image Lord of Nine Directions had left behind, which revealed that he had found and hidden a Star Stone in Ice Extreme Heaven.
• Five powerful figures, led by Young Master Black Dragon, cornered Lord of Nine Directions and demanded the Star Stone, but he refused to surrender it or become Young Master Black Dragon's follower.
• Young Master Black Dragon attacked Lord of Nine Directions, and the memory shifted to Kunyu Hall, where Lord of Nine Directions greeted Xia Manggan with, "Finally, I've been waiting for you."

Xia Manggan inherited Lord of Nine Directions’ request for revenge and learned that the Star Stone could open the way to Eternal Heaven. He recruited World God Tu Sheng and other Damo Academy disciples to explore Star Tower Space, while Daoist Lord Damo realized Xia Manggan’s plans had brought karma involving Dao Lord Dragon God.

• Lord of Nine Directions revealed that Young Master Black Dragon and four other World Realm cultivators had killed him, entrusted Xia Manggan with the Star Stone, and asked him to avenge him and preserve the Jiufang lineage.
• Xia Manggan accepted the White-haired Elder as his Array Spirit, took Nine Directions Island to guard the Three Realms, and left the Void Sea.
• Xia Manggan asked World God Tu Sheng for intelligence on Young Master Black Dragon, Old Mother Kuteng, Fairy Fenfu, World God Huoli, and Immortal Jiuzhen, then invited him to pursue Eternal Heaven together.
• World God Tu Sheng agreed to join the expedition but refused to help Xia Manggan avenge Lord of Nine Directions, and he gave Xia Manggan intelligence that included information on Dao Lord Dragon God.
• Daoist Lord Damo’s wife stabilized her new Dao Lord realm, and Daoist Lord Damo realized Xia Manggan’s request for information on Dragon God had set karmic consequences in motion.

Xia Manggan left the Great Xia Chaos World with Su Youji and Fairy Fengli to meet World God Tu Sheng and the others before traveling to the Star Tower Space. The group reached the Star Tower and entered its surrounding Chaos Thunder Domain, where they faced the first trial of their journey.

• Xia Manggan agreed to bring Su Youji and Fairy Fengli along after noticing their Fortune Values rise, then secretly left the Great Xia Chaos World with them.
• Xia Manggan met World God Tu Sheng, World God Sanhan, Immortal Liuqi, and other Damo Academy disciples before the group traveled toward the Tianqing Domain.
• During the journey, Xia Manggan cultivated by studying his Eternal Divine Weapons and combining his insights with the laws of his other Clone in the Swallowed Star world.
• After more than three months of travel, the group saw the Star Tower devouring Chaos Worlds and learned that it had consumed no fewer than ten thousand of them.
• World God Sanhan guided the flying boat into the Chaos Thunder Domain, where immense bolts of lightning began raging around the group.

Xia Manggan and his companions entered the Star Tower, where he used Origin Force to observe its Starry Sky Map and gained a profound new impression of the Blade Dao. As the others waited to be transported, the Star Tower Spirit was left puzzled by Xia Manggan’s presence.

• World God Sanhan used his three Eternal Divine Weapons to clear a path through the Chaos Thunder Domain, and the group’s flying boat escaped the lightning.
• World God Tu Sheng explained that the Star Tower Spirit controlled the tower’s trials, opportunities, and access to its heavens.
• After more than a month of travel, Xia Manggan, World God Sanhan, World God Tu Sheng, and Immortal Liuqi entered the Star Tower and saw its Starry Sky Map.
• Xia Manggan used the Azure Flower Mist’s Origin Force to keep watching the map, memorized the movement of about a hundred stars, and gained a new understanding of Breaking the Firmament.
• World God Sanhan noticed that the group had not been transported to a world, while the black-robed Star Tower Spirit wondered why an Ancestor God was present.

The Star Tower Spirit sent Xia Manggan and his companions to Wind Extreme Heaven, where Xia Manggan used a blade technique to hold back a Ziyun Black Wind sandstorm and reveal a palace. The group was transported inside and awakened a Blade Master Puppet guarding its master’s inheritance, leaving Xia Manggan asking whether the master had also used a blade.

• Handsome Man sensed Xia Manggan’s affinity for the Blade Dao and sent him and the others to Wind Extreme Heaven to grant him an opportunity to inherit a blade technique.
• Xia Manggan and his companions landed in a deep-blue sand desert and learned that its grains could become deadly when swept up by the Ziyun Black Wind.
• A Ziyun Black Wind sandstorm rushed toward them, revealing a palace buried beneath the sand, and Xia Manggan used Breaking the Firmament to hold back the storm.
• Xia Manggan and his companions were transported inside the palace, where a Blade Master Puppet awakened and challenged Xia Manggan to defeat it without help to obtain its master’s inheritance.
• World God Tu Sheng and World God Sanhan recognized the Puppet’s Eternal Divine Weapons, and Xia Manggan asked whether its master had also used a blade.

Xia Manggan faced the Sculpture Blade Master’s blade-art trial and used the Starry Sky Map’s mysteries to improve while they fought. His insights triggered a breakthrough into the World Realm, leaving the Sculpture Blade Master and the onlookers astonished by the enormous influx of Chaos power.

• The Sculpture Blade Master explained that Xia Manggan had to defeat him using only physical strength and blade techniques, while World God Sanhan doubted Xia Manggan could win.
• Xia Manggan attacked with Breaking the Firmament and repeatedly used the same move to keep the Sculpture Blade Master on the defensive.
• As they fought, Xia Manggan learned from the Sculpture Blade Master’s techniques and gained insights into the mysteries of the Starry Sky Map.
• Xia Manggan’s Blade Dao seed transformed into a Dao Tree as he broke through to the World Realm, and his Golden Core Space expanded while drawing in vast amounts of Chaos power.
• The Sculpture Blade Master stopped attacking during the breakthrough, while enormous Chaos vortices formed over Wind Extreme Heaven and startled the nearby cultivators.

Xia Manggan broke through from Ancestor God to World Realm inside the Opportunity Palace, advancing on both the Qi Refining and Fiendgod Paths and displaying power far beyond ordinary World Realm cultivators. As he absorbed immense chaos power to expand his Azure Flower Space, observers outside the palace and the Handsome Man artifact spirit became intrigued by his breakthrough and Azure Flower Mark.

• World Realm cultivators tried to approach the chaos surge but found their way blocked by vast Ziyun Black Winds, while a short old man crossed the winds and waited outside the Opportunity Palace.
• The short old man realized that the breakthrough had resumed with both the Qi Refining Path and Fiendgod Path advancing together.
• Xia Manggan formed a thirty-two-thousand-zhang Dao Tree and condensed 32,471 Divine Crystals, reaching the World Realm on both paths.
• Xia Manggan used the endless chaos power to condense Azure Flower Mist and fill his Azure Flower Space, astonishing the Sculpture Blade Master, World God Tu Sheng, World God Sanhan, and Immortal Liuqi with how much power he absorbed.
• The Handsome Man artifact spirit noticed that Xia Manggan's Azure Flower Mark resisted his investigation and decided to examine its abilities.