Chapter Summaries

Zhou Hao persuaded the Human Race’s Universe Masters to let Giant Axe retreat toward him, claiming he could protect them with domain- and palace-type Ultimate Supreme Treasures. As Zhou Hao prepared to rendezvous with Giant Axe, the Divine Eye Race’s hunt spread across the Cosmic Sea, drawing other factions to watch and plot.

• Chaos received reports that Giant Axe had been injured while fighting off the Divine Eye Race’s three True Lords and was being slowed by their domain treasure as the Demon Race and Zerg Race joined the pursuit.
• Zhou Hao warned that more True Lords would arrive and proposed guiding Giant Axe along a safe route through the Cosmic Boat so they could meet.
• Zhou Hao revealed that he possessed defensive, domain-type, and palace-type Ultimate Supreme Treasures, and Chaos ordered Huang Jian to relay the plan to Giant Axe.
• Giant Axe continued fighting through the Cosmic Boat’s star-filled region as his peak supreme treasure axe cracked, while the Divine Eye Race threatened the Human Race and demanded Zhou Hao.
• News of the pursuit spread across the Cosmic Sea, prompting other factions to follow the chase and consider intervening for their own gain.
• After half a year, Giant Axe prepared to make one last full-strength breakout if Zhou Hao lacked the treasures, while Zhou Hao told the Human Race’s Universe Masters he expected to rendezvous with Giant Axe in three days.

Zhou Hao reunited with Giant Axe Founder in the Cold Current Corridor and helped him recover while the group planned an escape from the Divine Eye Race. When Fourth and Fifth True Lords intercepted them, Zhou Hao used Lightning Realm and his will divine art to stun them, letting Giant Axe lead Flowing Mountain Hall away.

• Zhou Hao brought Flowing Mountain Hall to Giant Axe Founder, who boarded while fleeing the Divine Eye Race’s pursuit through the Cold Current Corridor.
• Giant Axe Founder recovered sixty percent of his injuries using rare treasures Zhou Hao provided, and the group chose a route through Magma Rock Cave.
• Fourth and Fifth True Lords caught up and attacked Flowing Mountain Hall as the group neared the corridor’s exit.
• Zhou Hao revealed his domain-type Ultimate Supreme Treasure, Lightning Realm, and used Mountain Transformation to stun the two True Lords with a powerful will impact.
• Giant Axe Founder took control of Flowing Mountain Hall and drove it away while the two True Lords recovered from the attack.

The Divine Eye Race’s Fourth and Fifth True Lords failed to capture Giant Axe after Zhou Hao used a powerful Will Impact secret technique to help him escape. Zhou Hao explained the technique to Giant Axe and the others, who began to regard him as an expert on the level of Giant Axe and Chaos.

• The Third True Lord angrily questioned the Fourth and Fifth True Lords after Giant Axe escaped, but they said a mysterious helper with a domain Ultimate Supreme Treasure and a Will Impact technique had disrupted them.
• The First True Lord believed the Fourth and Fifth True Lords and ordered the Divine Eye Race to regroup and continue the pursuit while alerting Universe Masters inside the Cosmic Boat.
• In Flowing Mountain Hall, Giant Axe, Huang Jian, Qing Dong, and Long Xing asked Zhou Hao how he had affected two True Lords.
• Zhou Hao explained that his Ancient Civilization Will Impact inheritance, the Lightning Realm’s amplification, and his strong will had let him daze the True Lords, though the technique caused little lasting soul damage.
• Huang Jian, Qing Dong, and Long Xing began treating Zhou Hao with the respect they showed powerful experts such as Giant Axe and Chaos.

After a million years cultivating at the Black Pattern Stone Pillar, Zhou Hao had advanced greatly but continued pursuing full comprehension of the Chaos Law before becoming a Universe Master. Later, while helping Giant Axe and the others escape the Divine Eye Race, he traveled with them into Yanbing Domain, a dangerous region where the enemy had powerful experts stationed.

• Zhou Hao checked in at the Black Pattern Stone Pillar and gained further will along with detailed explanations of its diagrams.
• Zhou Hao reflected that his Mountain Transformation Will Secret Technique could affect even the Divine Eye Race’s true masters, though his will remained short of the level needed to cultivate its second stage.
• Zhou Hao reviewed his million years of progress in the laws and continued cultivating, determined to fully comprehend the third level of the Chaos Law before breaking through.
• Giant Axe and the others discussed crossing Yanbing Domain, where Ying Ai and Wu Liang of the Divine Eye Race were stationed, and Zhou Hao’s secret technique gave them hope of evading the pair.
• Flowing Mountain Hall reached Yanbing Domain, and Zhou Hao silently began a check-in as the group entered.

Zhou Hao and Giant Axe’s group crossed Yanbing Domain while Ying Ai and Wu Liang tried to delay them, ultimately triggering a catastrophic energy vortex. The eruption subsided when the Tomb Ship emerged, and the rival factions raced to enter it, with Giant Axe slowing the two Holy Lands’ forces.

• Zhou Hao received the Peak Supreme Treasure Water Pole for checking in within the Cosmic Boat’s inner region as Giant Axe’s group traveled through Yanbing Domain.
• Ying Ai and Wu Liang triggered a magma fall to hinder Giant Axe, while other factions watched and discussed Zhou Hao’s rumored talent.
• Giant Axe used the Lightning Realm to help Flowing Mountain Hall cross the falling rocks, so Ying Ai and Wu Liang deliberately destabilized Yanbing Domain and caused an energy vortex to erupt.
• The vortex battered Flowing Mountain Hall, but a gigantic black warship rose from the swamp and calmed the magma sea; the factions recognized it as the Tomb Ship.
• After the Tomb Ship’s hatch opened, the factions raced inside, and Giant Axe used the Lightning Realm to slow the two Holy Lands’ Universe Masters.

Zhou Hao signed in at the Tomb Ship and obtained most of its resources before Duan Donghe Wu revealed the inheritance trial. Zhou Hao entered the trials with the other factions, passed the first tests, and endured the Life-and-Death Corridor while the Bone Race spread news of the inheritance.

• Giant Axe joined Lord of Fire Sun and Lord of Golden Hammer, leading Zhou Hao and the Human Race forces into the Tomb Ship’s control room, where no one could find its control authority.
• Duan Donghe Wu appeared and announced that the powerhouses must accept the inheritance or die, while Zhou Hao’s sign-in granted him most of the Tomb Ship’s inheritances and resources.
• Zhou Hao persuaded Giant Axe to withdraw, and twelve powerhouses from the Human Race and other factions descended to attempt the inheritance.
• Duan Donghe Wu’s test found that the Bone Race powerhouses failed the life-characteristics examination, while Zhou Hao and the others passed; Duan Donghe Wu reacted with surprise to Zhou Hao’s youth.
• Huang Jian, Qing Dong, and Long Xing barely survived the Life-and-Death Corridor after three other powerhouses died, while Zhou Hao passed through it easily with his strength and treasures.
• The Bone Race spread word that the Tomb Ship had revealed the Duan Donghe inheritance.

As forces across the Cosmic Sea rushed toward the Tomb Ship for the Duan Donghe inheritance, Zhou Hao and the other candidates began the Xi Huang Bureau trial. Zhou Hao quickly understood its rules and started ahead of the others, while more factions continued forcing their way into the Tomb Ship.

• The Bone Race spread news of the Tomb Ship inheritance, prompting races and alliances to send experts toward the Cosmic Boat.
• Duan Donghe Wu introduced the Xi Huang Bureau trial, requiring the eight candidates to study the perfect stone pillars and solve incomplete games or face death.
• Giant Axe arranged for Zhou Hao, Huang Jian, Qing Dong, and the others to study in his Miniature Universe, while warning them that other forces had entered the Tomb Ship.
• After half a year, Zhou Hao revealed that he had understood the Xi Huang Bureau's fundamental rules and explained them to Huang Jian and the others.
• Huang Jian and the others began solving the incomplete games as Zhou Hao watched them start.
• The East Emperor Holy Land and other arriving forces fought to control the Tomb Ship entrance, and the Purple Moon Holy Land joined the rush inside.

Zhou Hao’s rapid progress in the Xi Huang Bureau provoked the other factions to attack him and his companions. He protected Huang Jian, Qing Dong, and Long Xing inside the Flowing Mountain Hall, then continued working toward completing the test.

• Duan Donghe revealed that a human had solved the 832nd Xi Huang Bureau puzzle, prompting the other factions to identify Zhou Hao as their greatest rival.
• The other experts attacked Zhou Hao, but his Flowing Mountain Hall withstood their assaults while he continued studying.
• The attackers turned on Huang Jian, Qing Dong, and Long Xing, who endured the siege inside a Peak Palace Supreme Treasure.
• Zhou Hao told the three humans to flee toward the Immortal Venerables and then come to his hall; Duan Donghe’s defenses killed four Universe Masters when their attacks struck the Immortal Venerables.
• Huang Jian, Qing Dong, and Long Xing reached the Flowing Mountain Hall and entered safely, while the other factions resumed studying the Xi Huang Bureau.
• Zhou Hao told his companions he had already comprehended all two thousand puzzles and only needed to draw them with divine power.

Zhou Hao solved the 1,000th Xi Huang Bureau game in under ten years and the 2,000th game twenty years later, prompting Duan Donghe to protect him and praise his extraordinary progress. The other factions despaired of competing for the inheritance, while Zhou Hao continued studying toward the 6,000-game requirement.

• Duan Donghe announced that Zhou Hao had solved the 1,000th game, met the minimum requirement, and must be allowed to comprehend without interference.
• Duan Donghe shielded Zhou Hao from the factions’ attacks and warned that anyone who disrupted his comprehension would be killed.
• Zhou Hao continued solving games, while the Divine Eye Race’s True Lords discussed trying to trade for other inheritances if Zhou Hao won the core inheritance.
• Twenty years later, Duan Donghe announced that Zhou Hao had solved the 2,000th game and had an eighty percent chance of meeting the inheritance requirement.
• The other participants realized they could not catch up with Zhou Hao and gave up hope of competing for the inheritance.

Zhou Hao solved the 3,000th Xi Huang Bureau game, widening his lead in the Duan Donghe inheritance trial and prompting Duan Donghe to name him the likely heir. As Duan Donghe warned the other participants they would die when Zhou Hao reached 6,000 games, Zhou Hao hinted that they might still have a chance to survive.

• Human Race leaders celebrated Zhou Hao's progress, then Giant Axe ordered every Human Race Universe Master to return to the Original Universe to protect their race from a possible attack.
• Meng Tu, the Insectoid Empress, the Demon Ancestor, and Mechanical Father God discussed seeking support from Cosmic Sea forces and the two Holy Lands against the Human Race.
• Duan Donghe watched Zhou Hao approach the 3,000th game and praised his comprehension, while the other trial participants abandoned hope of catching up.
• Zhou Hao solved the 3,000th game after only twenty-three years, and Duan Donghe congratulated him and urged him to continue toward the 6,000th game.
• Duan Donghe told the other participants they would be killed when Zhou Hao solved the 6,000th game, and a Universe Master died after attacking the canopy.
• Zhou Hao said there was always a sliver of hope and resumed comprehending the Xi Huang Bureau, prompting some experts to hope they might survive.

Zhou Hao solved the four-thousandth Xi Huang Bureau and became a core inheritor of the Duan Donghe Lineage, then secured the authority to decide which participants would be killed or spared. As he continued solving the bureaus toward the six-thousandth, the Human Race considered the offers of other forces and anticipated the benefits of his inheritance.

• Zhou Hao solved the four-thousandth bureau, and Duan Donghe named him a core inheritor while inviting him to continue solving the Xi Huang Bureau.
• Zhou Hao asked Duan Donghe to let him decide which participants would be killed or spared, and Duan Donghe granted him that authority while retaining control of the killings.
• The Sky Bell Race, Divine Eye Race, Holy Lands, and other forces sent Zhou Hao offers in exchange for their participants’ lives, but Zhou Hao ignored them and continued his work.
• Chaos, Giant Axe, and the Human Race’s Universe Masters discussed the offers and the possible treasures they could gain, while Chaos urged them to wait for Zhou Hao’s view.
• Original Ancestor watched Zhou Hao approach the six-thousandth bureau after nearly two hundred years and marveled at his comprehension.

Zhou Hao completed all 6,000 Xi Huang Bureau puzzles in 270 years and became the 193rd inheritor of Duan Donghe. He used his authority over the Life-and-Death Corridor to decide which factions could leave, then offered half the traded treasures to the Human Race.

• Zhou Hao solved all 10,080 incomplete stone pillars in less than twenty years, completing the Xi Huang Bureau and receiving Duan Donghe's golden inheritor armor.
• Duan Donghe named Zhou Hao the 193rd inheritor and gave him authority to decide which rejected candidates would live or die.
• Zhou Hao told the Human Race to let the Demon Race and other willing factions leave in exchange for treasures, while refusing to spare the Zerg Race, Prison Race, and Crystal Race; he demanded three Ultimate Supreme Treasures from the two Holy Lands.
• Zhou Hao explained that the Holy Lands could threaten the Human Race by uniting other factions, and Chaos agreed to relay his terms; Giant Axe collected the treasures as the factions departed.
• After the trades brought the Human Race fifteen Ultimate Supreme Treasures and several hundred Peak Special Supreme Treasures, Zhou Hao offered half to the clan.

Zhou Hao let Chaos handle negotiations while he rejected the Divine Eye Race’s offer and allowed Duan Donghe to destroy its trapped powerhouses at Lei Yi Demon God’s request. After Giant Axe deterred attacks on the Human Race’s new treasures, Zhou Hao followed Duan Donghe to begin the inheritance ceremony.

• Chaos told Zhou Hao that East Emperor Holy Land had traded three Ultimate Supreme Treasures for its people’s release and requested a share of the inheritance that could be disclosed.
• Zhou Hao agreed to East Emperor Holy Land’s terms and advised Chaos that the Human Race should consolidate its gains and develop steadily.
• Zhou Hao demanded that the Divine Eye Race apologize to Giant Axe, then refused to release its True Lords when they rejected the demand.
• Duan Donghe revealed that he had promised Lei Yi Demon God to eliminate the Divine Eye Race, destroyed the trapped powerhouses, and gave their treasures to Lei Yi.
• Giant Axe drove off two attackers with the Lightning Realm, discouraging the other Universe’s Strongest from trying to seize his treasures.
• Zhou Hao followed Duan Donghe into the core inheritance land, where Duan Donghe began the inheritance ceremony.

Zhou Hao accepted the Duan Donghe inheritance, took control of its training space, and promised to trade the lineage’s other collected inheritances with Cosmic Sea factions. He returned to the Human Race, where he explained the trade plan and the inheritance’s limits, leaving the race encouraged by its potential to help them advance.

• Zhou Hao knelt before the third-generation patriarch’s statue, received the inheritance mark, swore not to reveal the core inheritance, and absorbed the three fundamental techniques Annihilation, Donghua, and Undying River.
• Duan Donghe warned Zhou Hao to retain reverence, then faded away as Zhou Hao took ownership of the inheritance space and explored its training facilities.
• Zhou Hao emerged from the Tomb Ship and told the waiting factions that the core inheritance was forbidden to share, but the other collected inheritances could be traded.
• Zhou Hao reassured the factions that he would remain in the Cosmic Sea and notify them when trades were arranged, while news of the available inheritances spread widely.
• At the Virtual Universe’s Chaos Divine Hall, Zhou Hao told the Human Race that the other inheritances were mostly foundational and that the race would sell them gradually to buy time to establish itself.
• Zhou Hao said the inheritance contained knowledge beyond the ultimate level of the Universe’s Strongest, but the universe’s Origin Will prevented him from viewing it until he surpassed that level.

After nearly nine thousand epochs studying the Chaos Law at the Black Pattern Stone Pillar, Zhou Hao broke through to Universe Master and saw his divine power and Divine Kingdom grow to extraordinary levels. He decided to leave the Cosmic Sea, while Luo Feng and their generation celebrated the Human Race’s abundance of supreme treasures on the Original Star.

• Zhou Hao completed his study of the first three steps of the Chaos Law and reached the Eternal True God peak in will.
• Zhou Hao used the third step of the Chaos Law to break through to Universe Master, increasing his divine power a hundredfold and expanding his Divine Kingdom to one hundred million light-years across.
• Zhou Hao decided to leave the Black Pattern Stone Pillar after concluding that further study there would bring him no more benefits.
• The Human Race distributed its growing stockpile of supreme treasures more freely, and Luo Feng, Wuka, Bolan, Rong Jun, and the others gained powerful equipment.
• Luo Feng revealed that Zhou Hao had given him the Peak Domain Supreme Treasure Dao Huo Jie, astonishing his companions.

At the Supreme Council, the Human Race revealed its immense strength and approved territorial expansion, tighter treasure oversight, and restricted access to Zhou Hao’s preaching. After the council, Zhou Hao announced that the Tomb Ship would remain at the Cosmic Sea gathering point and that he would trade portions of the Duan Donghe inheritance with other races.

• The Human Race’s leaders gathered over one hundred thousand Venerables and sixty-four Universe Masters in the Hall of the Gods, and credited Zhou Hao for the race’s rapid rise.
• Chaos and Giant Axe appointed Sky Eclipse Lord to lead an expansion into Zerg and Demon territories, while the council advanced the Peak Genius Battle and tightened rules on treasures and listening seats.
• Wuka, Rong Jun, and Ai Chen said they would join the territorial campaign, while Luo Feng declined and resolved to steadily improve under Mountain Lord’s guidance.
• Zhou Hao and Giant Axe arrived at the Human Race’s Cosmic Sea encampment aboard the Tomb Ship, where Hong Alliance experts welcomed them and acknowledged the Human Race’s power.
• Zhou Hao announced that the Tomb Ship would stay permanently and asked other races to prepare offers for trading portions of the Duan Donghe inheritance.

The Divine Eye Race and the two Holy Land progenitors considered Zhou Hao’s announced trade of Duan Donghe’s inheritance and the threat posed by his growing talent. After more than a century, Zhou Hao stationed one body aboard the Tomb Ship and prepared his Mirror Clone to explore the inner region of the Tilted Peak Realm.

• The Divine Eye True Lord urged his brothers to prioritize the race’s chance to transcend reincarnation, while the Divine Eye Race planned to participate in Zhou Hao’s inheritance trade.
• The East Emperor Progenitor instructed Bei Zhen to seek any discloseable portions of Duan Donghe’s inheritance and valuable cultivation experience.
• Purple Moon Progenitor worried that Zhou Hao’s exceptional talent might eventually let him surpass him and considered how to restrict Zhou Hao’s growth.
• More than a hundred years later, Zhou Hao’s soul-split arrived at the Tomb Ship and entered its core control room as his Mirror Clone dispersed.
• Zhou Hao left a soul-split stationed aboard the Tomb Ship and prepared another Mirror Clone to venture into the inner region of the Tilted Peak Realm, confident in his formidable equipment and secret techniques.

While traveling toward the core of Tilted Peak Realm, Zhou Hao claimed the Universe Chapter and a fourth pair of Chaos Golden Wings, gaining guidance on Miniature Universe construction and powerful new abilities. On Earth Continent, he tested more than ten thousand prospective disciples and selected three to train for a chance to become his registered disciples.

• Zhou Hao claimed the Race Rise mission reward, absorbed the Universe Chapter knowledge, and merged with the fourth pair of Chaos Golden Wings.
• Zhou Hao studied Miniature Universe designs and discovered that the wings could suppress a one-light-year domain, serve as weapons, and protect him from attacks.
• Zhou Hao visited Earth Continent in the Virtual Universe, where his will pressure overwhelmed the gathered Venerables and Hegemons.
• Zhou Hao gave more than ten thousand Earth Lineage geniuses and powerhouses a chance to become his disciples and tested their character with an illusion.
• Zhou Hao selected two men and one woman to train in the castle for a hundred years before he would decide whether to accept them as registered disciples.

Zhou Hao agreed to teach the Human Race the secondary foundational experience from the Duan Donghe inheritance and left treasure allocation to Chaos and Giant Axe Founder. Meanwhile, the Northern Frontier Alliance Leader explained the Human Race’s terms to other Universe’s Strongest beings, who weighed joining the Hong Alliance against the loss of their independence.

• Chaos praised Zhou Hao for taking disciples and discussed the Human Race’s plans to develop its strength in the Cosmic Sea.
• Zhou Hao told Chaos he had organized the secondary Duan Donghe inheritance and would teach it to the Human Race’s Universe Masters in five years.
• Huang Jian, Peng Gong, Xu Jin, and the other Universe Masters began preparing for Zhou Hao’s lecture.
• Black Zhou Founder, Shǐ Huà Island Master, and other Universe’s Strongest beings gathered to discuss the Human Race’s growing influence and potential cooperation.
• The Northern Frontier Alliance Leader outlined the benefits and obligations of joining the Hong Alliance, including access to Ultimate Supreme Treasures and Duan Donghe cultivation experience in exchange for supporting the Human Race.

Shǐ Huà Island Master decided to join the Human Race, while Zhou Hao gathered the Human Race’s Universe Masters on Earth to explain paths to becoming a Universe’s Strongest. His teaching opened new directions for their cultivation, and the gathering ended with them meditating inside a protected plaza.

• Shǐ Huà Island Master declared that he intended to join the Human Race because its Ultimate Supreme Treasures and other opportunities outweighed the restrictions on his freedom.
• Five years later, Human Race Universe Masters gathered on Earth to hear Zhou Hao discuss the Duan Donghe Inheritance.
• Zhou Hao explained that cultivators could pursue either the difficult divine power path or the law path to become a Universe’s Strongest.
• Zhou Hao described how the ten fundamental laws and their many possible fusions could lead to different paths toward the Universe Origin.
• Under the Great Dao Admonition, Huang Jian, Peng Gong, Ice Peak, and the other Universe Masters entered a mysterious state and began to perceive paths suited to them.
• Zhou Hao, Chaos, Giant Axe, and Darkness left the plaza as a Peak Palace Supreme Treasure enclosed the meditating Universe Masters.