Chapter Summaries

Giant Axe rejected the five races’ demand to surrender Zhou Hao and defended the Human Race’s decision to share Zhou Hao’s Talent Secret Method. Zhou Hao and other young geniuses gathered for the Supreme Council, where Zhou Hao took a throne equal to those of Top Universe Hegemons.

• The five races demanded that Giant Axe hand over Zhou Hao to end their war, but Giant Axe refused and accused them of opposing the Human Race despite its offer to share Zhou Hao’s Talent Secret Method.
• Zhou Hao received an email summoning him to the Human Race’s Supreme Council and traveled to Mount of the Gods.
• Wuka told Zhou Hao that he, Bolan, Rong Jun, and other young geniuses had been invited because they had passed the twenty-first level of the Tongtian Bridge.
• Several Universe Venerables questioned why the young geniuses were allowed to attend, while others defended the Human Race’s decision.
• The Human Race’s leaders were teleported into the Hall of the Gods, where Zhou Hao sat on a throne the size reserved for Top Universe Hegemons.

At the Supreme Council, Chaos City Lord announced that the other five peak races had declared war on the Human Race and ordered the Universe Venerables to defend its territories. After the meeting, Zhou Hao’s companions resolved to grow stronger and fight for the race, while he urged them to stay alive.

• Chaos City Lord explained that the other five peak races had formally declared war on the Human Race and that war was unavoidable.
• Chaos City Lord announced increased military merit rewards and promised the race would do everything it could to revive those who fell in battle.
• The Universe Venerables vowed to defend the race, and Chaos City Lord ordered them to obey deployments and guard the Human Race’s territories.
• Zhou Hao listened to the meeting and wished he were strong enough to join the fighting.
• Rong Jun, Ai Chen, and the others said they would raise their strength so they could fight for the Human Race, and Zhou Hao reminded them to be careful.

Zhou Hao continued cultivating while the Human Race and its allies endured fifty years of war against the five peak races. As he began another universal lecture, listeners abruptly started leaving the Great Dao Arena, and Zhou Hao suspected a major enemy move.

• Wuka promised Zhou Hao wine paid for with his contributions from killing Alien Races, while Bolan lamented that Luo Feng was absent to compete with.
• Zhou Hao resolved to stay in seclusion until he could survive an attack from a Universe's Strongest and continued improving his strength.
• The five peak races invaded human territory, but the Human Race and its allies held their borders for fifty years without losing territory.
• Zhou Hao began his once-in-a-century lecture on space and time in the Great Dao Arena, and listeners gained insights and breakthroughs.
• Listeners began leaving the lecture in growing numbers, and Zhou Hao noticed the Great Dao Admonition's feedback falling.
• Zhou Hao saw that only half of the several million attendees remained and wondered whether the five peak races were making a major move.

Zhou Hao advanced his Space-Time Fusion Law while planning his next cultivation goals. Meanwhile, the Five Great Peak Race Alliance seized ten Human Universe Nations in a surprise assault, and the Human Race resolved to hold its territory and wait for Zhou Hao and its new Universe Venerables to grow stronger.

• Zhou Hao reached the fourth level of the Space-Time Fusion Law and planned to cultivate the Nine Tribulations Secret Codex and research the fourth move of the Eight Divine Variations.
• The Five Great Peak Race Alliance attacked thirty-nine Universe Nations, capturing ten after five Universe Masters led the assault.
• The attack killed 348 Human Race Venerables and an incalculable number of immortal experts, alarming the Universe Masters at the Supreme Council.
• Penggong Lord, Lord Huang Jian, and Giant Axe warned that the five peak races sought to exterminate the Human Race and ordered stronger border patrols.
• The Universe Masters noted Zhou Hao's lectures had helped produce over seven thousand Universe Venerables in four hundred years, and Giant Axe urged the Human Race to hold its ground and trust Zhou Hao.

Zhou Hao invited Hong and Thor to his palace and used his talent secret method to help them improve their strength. Hong entered a deep state of enlightenment, and Zhou Hao told Thor it would likely last around three years.

• Chaos City Lord said the five peak races were more likely to wear down the Hong Alliance than launch an immediate all-out assault, but urged the Universe Masters to remain vigilant.
• Zhou Hao hit a bottleneck in his laws and ultimate techniques while his Nine Tribulations Secret Codex continued raising his Life Gene Level.
• Zhou Hao invited Hong and Thor to his palace, where they drank Purple Flame Thunder Wine and discussed their current strength.
• Zhou Hao used his Talent Secret Method, and Hong entered a profound state of enlightenment as his comprehension of laws surged.
• Zhou Hao told Thor that Hong's enlightenment would probably last around three years and asked him to settle Hong in the real world.

Zhou Hao used Word is Law to raise Hong and Thor’s law comprehension to the Universe Venerable level, then entrusted Earth’s defense to them while he cultivated. After reaching the perfect 10,081-times life Gene Level in the Initial Universe, he realized he had to leave it to receive the cosmic origin’s Talent Secret Method reward.

• Hong completed three years of enlightenment and discovered that he had completely mastered the Space Law, reaching Universe Venerable-level comprehension.
• Zhou Hao explained the universe’s higher power levels to Hong and Thor, then used Word is Law to enlighten Thor for three years until he too reached Universe Venerable-level comprehension.
• Zhou Hao left Hong and Thor to guard Earth while he continued cultivating in the Initial Universe.
• After eighty years, Zhou Hao’s life Gene Level reached 10,081 times, and his Iceberg Giant Beast body grew to more than one hundred thousand kilometers tall.
• When the cosmic origin did not pull him into the Land of Universe Origin, Zhou Hao realized he was in Original Ancestor’s Initial Universe and decided he had to leave it.

Zhou Hao entered the Land of Universe Origin and received 108 sign-in rewards, including powerful law talents and the universe-bestowed Mirror Clone talent. After claiming the talents, he examined his transformed body and considered the new ability's strengths and limitations.

• Chaos City Lord sensed Zhou Hao leaving the Initial Universe and secretly sent Darkness Lord to protect him.
• As Zhou Hao's spacecraft entered the Original Universe, a mysterious power froze everything and drew Zhou Hao's consciousness into the Land of Universe Origin.
• A light speck touched Zhou Hao's consciousness, showing him visions of a life ending in a merger with the universe's origin before he was expelled from the space.
• The Sign-in System announced 108 rewards, including Origin Comprehensions, Chaos, Life, and Destruction Law Talents, and the Mirror Clone talent.
• Zhou Hao claimed the talents, absorbed their law comprehensions, and found a new secret pattern in his Original Core.
• Zhou Hao examined Mirror Clone, learning that its replicas stayed synchronized with him but could not cultivate independently.

After the Universe Origin transformed Zhou Hao into a perfect lifeform, it bestowed the soul Talent Secret Method Soul Amplification, which let him manipulate souls using the Original Universe’s power. He decided to break through to Immortal, quickly comprehended the Water Law, and prepared to break open his Original Core.

• Zhou Hao examined his transformed Original Core and learned that the Universe Origin had bestowed Soul Amplification upon him.
• Zhou Hao assessed how Soul Amplification could strengthen or weaken souls, noting that it worked only within the Original Universe and could overcome ordinary Soul Supreme Treasure defenses.
• Zhou Hao decided to stop remaining a World Master and judged that his perfect life Gene Level, law comprehension, and will would let him break open his Original Core from within.
• Zhou Hao chose to comprehend the Water Law through his Iceberg Giant Beast clone as the basis for his breakthrough to Immortal.
• Zhou Hao completely comprehended the Water Law within a few years and prepared to break his Original Core’s shackles.

Zhou Hao shattered his Original Core and began transforming into an Immortal as an immense ocean of Water Laws poured divine power into him. The unprecedented breakthrough astonished the inhabitants of the Original Secret Realm and even the Chaos City Lord.

• Zhou Hao used the Iceberg Giant Beast's Eight Divine Variations technique to break his Original Core after his first attack failed to damage it permanently.
• The ocean of Water Laws descended above Zhou Hao's palace and poured divine power into him to form a divine body with the power of a billion World Masters.
• Countless Universe Venerables and Immortals in the Original Secret Realm reacted in shock to the vast Water Laws ocean covering nearly the entire Thousand Treasure River.
• The Chaos City Lord realized Zhou Hao had stepped into Immortality and marveled at the unprecedented scale of his disciple's breakthrough.

Zhou Hao completed his breakthrough to immortality and gained a divine body powerful enough to rival Top Universe Hegemons. Though the Zerg Race expected him to remain hidden in the Initial Universe, he left a Mirror Clone in the Original Secret Realm to seek a Divine Kingdom site and pursue his mission to kill Universe Venerables.

• Chaos City Lord witnessed the immense Water Law pressure and concluded that Zhou Hao's secrets and potential surpassed his expectations.
• Zhou Hao absorbed boundless divine power, became immortal, and estimated that his strength had reached the level of a Top Universe Hegemon.
• Zhou Hao recognized that leaving his protected region could expose him to enemies and spies eager to kill him.
• The Insectoid Empress discussed Zhou Hao's breakthrough and the danger Giant Axe posed to the Five Great Peak Race Alliance.
• Zhou Hao returned to the Initial Universe in his true body but left a Mirror Clone in the Original Secret Realm to search for a Divine Kingdom site and kill Universe Venerables for his Path of the Strong mission.

Zhou Hao's Mirror Clone secretly established a vast Divine Kingdom deep in the spatial interlayer, then set off for the frontier regions to hunt Alien Race Venerables. Meanwhile, the fifth Universal Grand Lecture began amid discussion of Zhou Hao's importance and the five peak races' threat to humanity.

• Zhou Hao's Mirror Clone disguised himself as an ordinary Starry Sky Beast Universe Venerable and traveled into the spatial interlayer.
• Zhou Hao fused his one-trillion-kilometer internal world with a spatial fragment to establish his Divine Kingdom.
• Zhou Hao decided to hunt Alien Race Venerables in the frontier regions and flew there in a spacecraft.
• Lord Meng En and Venerable Jin Jing discussed the fifth Universal Grand Lecture and Zhou Hao's importance to the Human Race.
• Venerable Jin Jing said the five peak races had threatened to fight humanity to extinction unless it handed Zhou Hao over.

After the Five Great Peak Races declared that Zhou Hao was their sole target, people across the universe and within the Human Race debated whether humanity should surrender him or protect him. Zhou Hao appeared at the Great Dao Arena as Chaos City Lord rejected calls to punish those who argued for surrender.

• Lord Meng En told Venerable Jin Jing that surrendering Zhou Hao could let humanity develop, while resisting the alliance risked the race’s survival, and he said holding out would be difficult.
• Humans in the Great Dao Arena argued over whether sacrificing Zhou Hao could save the Human Race, while Venerable Xue Yi condemned Venerable Tian Ji for advocating surrender.
• Zhou Hao appeared on the lotus platform, silencing the Great Dao Arena.
• Ice Peak Master urged Chaos City Lord to imprison or execute people advocating surrender, but Chaos City Lord said they were free to express their views unless they harmed Zhou Hao.

Zhou Hao lectured in the Great Dao Arena, using the Great Dao Admonition to help listeners and himself comprehend the laws. He initially fused the Life Law and Destruction Law into the Chaos Law, then the Original Stars began opening across the universe.

• Chaos City Lord told Ice Peak Master that they only needed to ensure most people shared their views.
• Zhou Hao began his lecture in the Great Dao Arena, and the Great Dao Admonition helped the audience make breakthroughs in their understanding of laws.
• Zhou Hao initially fused the Life Law and Destruction Law, gaining a trace of the Chaos Law, but the universe's origin restrained his ability to use it.
• The system rewarded Zhou Hao with increased Soul Will and Chaos Law Talent, then assigned him a task to initially master the Chaos Law.
• A total of 10,081 vortices appeared throughout the universe, and a Universe Venerable recognized them as the opening of the Original Stars.

At a Supreme Council meeting, Chaos City Lord announced that the Original Star would open early and that the Human Race had agreed to suspend its war with the five peak races. The pause shifted the conflict to the Original Star, where Human Race experts faced far greater danger from their enemies.

• Zhou Hao received notice of a Supreme Council meeting and joined Wuka, Bolan, and the other experts on Mount of the Gods.
• The gathered experts speculated that the meeting concerned the war or the five peak races’ demand to hand over Zhou Hao.
• Chaos City Lord announced that the Original Star was about to open and directed everyone to review its information.
• Chaos City Lord revealed that the Human Race had agreed to suspend the war and warned that experts from the five peak races might target Human Race experts on the Original Star.
• Chaos City Lord advised those who lacked confidence to stay away from the dangerous competition.

The Human Race learned that the Original Stars would open in ten years, and its new Universe Venerables discussed how to contribute to their race. While Wuka, Rong Jun, Ai Chen, Qian Shui, and Bolan planned to hunt alien powerhouses on the Frontier Battlefield, Zhou Hao secretly changed course for the Original Stars.

• The Supreme Council learned about the Original Stars, their dangers and treasures, and how powerhouses could earn contribution points by giving treasures to their race.
• Chaos City Lord announced that the Original Stars would fully open in ten years and that the Human Race would enter them then.
• Rong Jun, Ai Chen, Wuka, Qian Shui, and Bolan agreed to head to the Frontier Battlefield and fight alien powerhouses.
• Wuka assumed Zhou Hao could not leave and would miss the fighting, but Zhou Hao's mirror clone had already changed course for the Original Stars.

Zhou Hao prepared to enter the Original Star, studying its dangers and disguising himself as an Iceberg Giant Beast to avoid drawing the five peak races’ attention. After several hundred years of cultivation, he entered the passage, eager to test his strength.

• Zhou Hao learned that the Original Star suppressed spatial abilities, held powerful Venerables and Universe Masters, and could be deadly even for him.
• Zhou Hao equipped his Mirror Clone with supreme treasures, including the Chaos Golden Wings, and resolved to be cautious about the treasures he might obtain there.
• Zhou Hao took the form of an Iceberg Giant Beast, planning to appear as a high-level Universe Venerable from the Starry Sky Beast Alliance.
• Zhou Hao reached the vortex leading to the Original Star and entered it.

Zhou Hao entered the Original Star and signed in, receiving 144 treasures, including several supreme treasures. After equipping the Origin Feather Robe, Sword River Luo, and Myriad Stars Seal, he was prepared to face the dangers of the Original Star as one of the strongest Universe Venerables.

• Zhou Hao entered the Original Star and felt the immense pressure that made teleportation and Divine Kingdom transmission impossible.
• Zhou Hao signed in and received 144 treasures, including 36 supreme treasures and 108 heavy treasures.
• Zhou Hao assessed the Origin Feather Robe and found that its first form greatly strengthened his divine body and defenses.
• Zhou Hao examined Sword River Luo, a powerful domain and offensive treasure made from a compass and nine divine swords.
• Zhou Hao equipped the Origin Feather Robe, Sword River Luo, and Myriad Stars Seal, then tested their power and judged himself among the strongest Universe Venerables.

Zhou Hao secured his treasures before returning to Original Star, where he sought a chance to test his combat power. He found Zerg and Mechanical Race experts fighting over heavy treasures and provoked them, prompting them to unite against him.

• Zhou Hao decided to stash his treasures with his family before risking his Mirror Clone on Original Star, then returned through Divine Kingdom teleportation.
• After wandering for many days without finding anything, Zhou Hao sensed energy fluctuations and flew toward their source.
• Zhou Hao found seven Universe Venerables from the Zerg and Mechanical Races fighting above a swamp, while other teams watched nearby.
• Zhou Hao demanded that the fighters leave their heavy treasures and leave, and the Zerg and Mechanical experts agreed to join forces against him.

Zhou Hao pretended to be weakened, then revealed his overwhelming strength and defeated the Mechanical Race and Zerg Race teams. After killing several Universe Venerables and taking their treasures, he left nearby experts wary of provoking him.

• A Zerg Race expert attacked Zhou Hao's soul, but the attack barely affected him, and a Metallic Race expert struck him while Zhou Hao feigned injury.
• Zhou Hao counterattacked, badly damaging the bald Mechanical Race expert and another Mechanical Race expert with two claw strikes.
• The surviving enemies tried to flee, but Zhou Hao trapped them in his Sword River Luo domain and rejected the Zerg Race expert's offer to surrender treasures.
• Zhou Hao used a giant divine sword to kill the Zerg Race and Mechanical Race experts trapped in the domain.
• Zhou Hao collected the scattered treasures while nearby Alien Race experts recognized his strength and kept their distance.

After Zhou Hao’s Iceberg Giant Beast Mirror Clone killed seven Venerables on the Original Star, the universe’s factions named him the Sword River Lord and learned of his powerful River Sword Domain. The Demon Overlord and other Universe Masters viewed him as a potential target for his High-level Domain Supreme Treasure, while alliance constraints kept them from openly attacking him for now.

• Zhou Hao collected the fallen Venerables’ treasures and left as the watching experts judged his strength to be that of a top-tier Universe Hegemon.
• Experts shared battle recordings and reports, and the name Sword River Lord spread across the universe within half a month.
• The Demon Overlord considered taking Zhou Hao’s domain treasure but decided that alliance rules and the risk of being discovered made an attack impractical.
• The Demon Overlord concluded that Universe Masters would see Zhou Hao as a valuable target, and other allied factions sent Clones to the Original Star to watch for chances to act.