Chapter Summaries

Zhou Hao confronted Fan Ze and Li Zheng after they plotted to abduct Zhou Ling'er, and discovered that Mind Controllers used Hun Yuan Energy. He resisted Li Zheng's mental influence and faced his mechanical armor, eager to learn more about the energy while the fight continued.

• Fan Ze threatened Zhou Ling'er after she repaid his money, but Zhou Hao ordered him to leave and promised to protect her.
• Zhou Ling'er and Su Xiaoru went to view a secluded house, while Zhou Hao secretly followed and noticed two cars tailing them.
• Zhou Hao subdued the men in the cars and confronted Fan Ze and Li Zheng at an unfinished development.
• Li Zheng used increasingly strong mental power on Zhou Hao, who recognized it as Hun Yuan Energy and pretended to be affected.
• Zhou Hao revealed that Li Zheng's mental influence had failed, punched him, and dodged the attacks of his mechanical armor while studying its moves.

After defeating Li Zheng and making him a subordinate, Zhou Hao learned that Illusion Fruits could help Mind Controllers absorb mind power and sought a way to obtain them. Back in Kyoto, he began expanding his training group into the Black Stripe Sect while planning to strengthen his trainees and investigate the Mind Controller world.

• Zhou Hao defeated Li Zheng, forced him to choose between death and obedience, and made him his subordinate by teaching him a secret art.
• Fan Ze apologized to Zhou Ling'er and compensated her five hundred thousand, confirming that Zhou Hao had resolved the conflict.
• Li Zheng told Zhou Hao that Illusion Fruits were rare sources of mind power and that the Luo Family could obtain them through the Mind Controller Holy Temple and its annual auction.
• Zhou Hao returned to Kyoto, where He Qing and the other trainees welcomed him after practicing the Black Stripe Fist through winter vacation.
• He Qing told Zhou Hao that Luo Si was connected to the Luo Family and offered to seek him a ticket to its May auction.
• Zhou Hao increased the trainees' daily practice to four hours, promised to teach them an explosive secret art, and established the Black Stripe Sect with He Qing tasked with finding a base.

He Mu visited the Black Stripe Sect to take He Qing home and challenged her to prove that boxing could not make her strong. After Zhou Hao encouraged her to fight, He Qing defeated He Mu’s mechanical armor, shocking the students and changing her brother’s view of Black Stripe Fist.

• He Mu and Wang Min Shu arrived at the Black Stripe Sect and demanded that He Qing stop practicing boxing and return home.
• He Qing refused, and Zhou Hao told her to challenge He Mu after asking whether she had mastered his secret techniques.
• He Qing fought He Mu’s mechanical armor, dodged its attacks, and struck its waist with Thousand Crane Strike, destroying its internal structure.
• The students and Uncle Feng marveled that He Qing had defeated a Mind Controller after only a little over half a year of training.
• He Mu admitted he was wrong, and He Qing told him she was simply a little stronger.

Zhou Hao attended the Luo Clan auction gala and traded simple psychic secret techniques for six Illusion Fruits, securing materials for his comprehension. After obtaining the fruits, he stayed for the three-day auction, bought a protective mechanical jewelry gift for his older sister, and received an invitation to Wu Ji’s birthday banquet.

• Zhou Ling'er and Su Xiaoru entered the venue with Chen Feng, while Zhou Hao arrived with He Mu, He Qing, and Wang Min Shu to visit Wu Ji’s private room.
• Zhou Hao demonstrated his strength to Wu Ji and the plump elder, then asked whether the auction would offer Illusion Fruit.
• After learning that Zhou Hao’s secret techniques could benefit Mind Controllers, Wu Ji and the plump elder arranged a deal with Luo Tiannan for six Illusion Fruits in exchange for two techniques.
• Zhou Hao gave the two elders the secret techniques and received the six Illusion Fruits, then agreed to attend the auction with them.
• During the three-day auction, Zhou Hao acquired protective mechanical jewelry for his older sister, and Wu Ji invited him to his two hundred and thirtieth birthday banquet.

Zhou Hao rescued Zhou Ling'er and Su Xiaoru from Chen Feng’s coercion by invoking Wu Ji’s support and making Chen Feng pay them compensation. After half a year of studying the Hun Yuan Rule with Illusion Fruits, Zhou Hao emerged from seclusion stronger and planned a martial arts competition, partly to ask Wu Ji about obtaining more fruits.

• Chen Feng pressured Su Xiaoru and Zhou Ling'er to become his companions until Zhou Hao arrived with Wu Ji and confronted him.
• Wu Ji made Chen Feng apologize, and Zhou Hao demanded that he slap himself and pay five million each to Su Xiaoru and Zhou Ling'er.
• Zhou Hao named the strange world the Hun Yuan World and spent half a year cultivating with Illusion Fruits to comprehend the Hun Yuan Rule.
• Zhou Hao estimated that his strength could crush Town Guard Level opponents, though he needed many more Illusion Fruits to sustain his progress.
• After leaving seclusion, Zhou Hao praised He Qing, heard what had happened at the Black Stripe Sect, and ordered a martial arts competition for the next day.

Mind Controller families gathered at the Black Stripe Sect’s disciple competition, hoping to trade Illusion Fruits for Zhou Hao’s secret arts. As Wu Ji began negotiating on Zhou Hao’s behalf, he learned that Zhou Hao’s precious arts could raise a Mind Controller’s power by at least three levels.

• Wang Yu agreed to send Wang Huan and other Wang Family members to Kyoto to seek secret arts, while Luo Tiannan prepared twenty Illusion Fruits and arranged for Luo Family Mind Controllers to approach Wu Ji.
• Wu Ji welcomed Mind Controller families to the Black Stripe Sect after He Mu worried that the visitors could threaten Zhou Hao and his family.
• Zhou Hao questioned He Qing about her progress in his secret arts as the Black Stripe Sect students gathered for the competition.
• Mind Controller families arrived in large numbers, and the competition began with Black Stripe Sect students fighting Wu Ji’s disciples and drawing attention by suppressing Mind Controllers.
• Zhou Hao set the exchange rate at four Illusion Fruits for an ordinary secret art and ten for a precious one, which could raise a Mind Controller’s power by at least three levels.
• Wu Ji urged Zhou Hao to charge fifteen Illusion Fruits for each precious secret art.

Zhou Hao traded secret techniques for ninety-two Illusion Fruits, drawing the attention of powerful Mind Controller families while he secluded himself to comprehend the Hun Yuan Rule. Seven years later, after the Black Stripe Sect endured repeated attacks, Zhou Hao emerged having grasped the rule’s fluctuations and prepared for another round of trades.

• Wu Ji sold Zhou Hao’s secret techniques, including four that raised power by three levels, and Zhou Hao gained ninety-two Illusion Fruits.
• Wu Ji warned Zhou Hao that the trade would attract schemes, and Zhou Hao accepted the Luo Family’s offer to protect the Black Stripe Sect in exchange for an extra precious technique in a future trade.
• Luo Tiannan ordered National Level Mind Controllers to protect the Black Stripe Sect and told Luo Si’s branch clan to strengthen its ties with Zhou Hao.
• Mind Controller families sought to contact or attack Zhou Hao, while Zhou Hao ignored them and spent seven years cultivating the Hun Yuan Rule.
• He Qing defended the Black Stripe Sect branch in Modu against repeated attacks, and Wang Huan and Luo Tiannan prepared Illusion Fruits for Zhou Hao’s next trade.
• Zhou Hao emerged from seclusion after exhausting the Illusion Fruits and completely grasped the fluctuations of the Hun Yuan Rule.

After seven years in seclusion, Zhou Hao emerged stronger and prepared to trade powerful secret arts for Illusion Fruit. When foreign Mind Controllers attacked the Black Stripe Sect, he confronted them and killed one of their Town Guard Level experts with a single punch.

• Zhou Hao emerged from seclusion, sensed that the world's suppression of him had weakened, and praised He Qing for mastering the thirty-sixth movement of the Black Stripe Fist.
• He Qing reported that the Luo Family, Wang Family, and other Mind Controller families had benefited from his secret arts, while Zhou Hao planned to use the next trade to obtain Illusion Fruit.
• Zhou Hao arranged a secret art trade for two days later, and foreign Mind Controller experts secretly planned to attack the Black Stripe Sect and seize the arts.
• Zhou Hao spent time with Zhou Ling'er and Luo Si, then taught secret arts to the Black Stripe Sect's core disciples and told He Qing to keep the trainees calm that night.
• Five foreign Town Guard Level experts attacked the Black Stripe Sect, but Zhou Hao blocked their Hun Yuan Energy and shattered one attack with his fist.
• Zhou Hao punched the attacking elder in the heart and killed him in front of the Black Stripe Sect.

After Zhou Hao killed a Town Guard Level Mind Controller with one punch, the other powerful Mind Controllers accepted his terms and traded for secret arts using Illusion Fruits. Zhou Hao entered a long seclusion, while the Black Stripe Sect grew into the country’s leading martial arts school; twenty years later, his family and students still awaited his return.

• Zhou Hao killed a Town Guard Level expert who approached the Black Stripe Sect, frightening the survivors into claiming they had come to trade for secret arts.
• The surviving experts returned the next day, and Zhou Hao raised the prices for secret arts before the families bid for them with Illusion Fruits.
• The trading event brought Zhou Hao nine hundred and twenty Illusion Fruits, and he entrusted the Black Stripe Sect to Wu Ji before entering seclusion.
• Over the next twenty years, the Mind Controller families studied their new secret arts while the Black Stripe Sect expanded and He Qing grew strong enough to contend with a Town Guard Level expert.
• Zhou Ling'er and He Qing discussed the sect’s growth, Zhou Hao’s prolonged seclusion, and Zhou Ling'er’s relationship with He Mu.

Zhou Hao learned that he had nearly comprehended Hun Yuan Rule in the Hun Yuan Mind Aspect World, but needed to grow stronger before he could safely transcend the Origin World. After returning to the Cosmic Sea, he created a defensive secret technique and used it to enter the mind aspect world with his true body.

• Zhou Hao told He Qing he would leave for a long time, entrusted the Black Stripe Sect to her, and spent his remaining days with He Qing, Zhou Ling'er, and Luo Si before disappearing.
• Zhou Hao returned to his body in the Black Pattern Stone Pillar, discovered several thousand years had passed, and learned he could sense a mark that would let him reenter the Hun Yuan Mind Aspect World.
• Zhou Hao decided to create a defensive secret technique from the Hun Yuan framework so his true body could withstand the mind aspect world's pressure and allow him to sign in there.
• Zhou Hao met Luo Feng in the Virtual Universe and encouraged him as he trained in Jin's World and prepared for the Title Mission.
• Zhou Hao used the Great Dao Proverb Talent to create a Hun Yuan defensive secret technique, then activated it and entered the Hun Yuan Mind Aspect World, where a powerful force dragged him into a vortex.

Zhou Hao returned to the Hun Yuan Mind Aspect World after 230 years and saved the Black Stripe Sect from destruction. He avenged the sect, restored its strength, and left it secure while preparing to enter the Island Sacred Hall.

• Zhou Hao appeared during the Mind Controllers’ attack on He Qing and the Black Stripe Sect, destroyed the remaining mechanical armors and their operators, and learned that 230 years had passed.
• Zhou Hao signed in at the Hun Yuan Mind Aspect World, gained Hun Yuan Rule comprehension and other rewards, and received a new task to comprehend a trace of Hun Yuan Rules.
• Zhou Hao returned to the Black Stripe Sect’s former site and learned that Wu and Zhou Ling'er had died while he was away.
• Zhou Hao ordered He Qing to identify the Town Guard Level experts who had attacked the sect, then personally eliminated them as the Luo Family, Wang Family, and others purged the remaining hostile families.
• Over the next ten years, Zhou Hao trained He Qing, Luo Si, and the disciples, rebuilt the Black Stripe Sect into a stable force, and streamlined the Black Stripe Fist while preparing for the Island Sacred Hall.

Zhou Hao entered the Island Sacred Hall, transcended the Origin World, and comprehended a trace of Hun Yuan Rule. He used that power to strengthen humanity and Earth before beginning his breakthrough to True God.

• Zhou Hao said farewell to He Qing, Luo Si, and the Black Stripe Sect disciples, then boarded a ship for the Island Sacred Hall.
• Luo Haiyi explained the Island Sacred Hall and its Phantom Beasts as Zhou Hao arrived, registered his identity, and chose a residence.
• Zhou Hao signed in, gained Hun Yuan Rule comprehension, and comprehended a trace of the rule, transforming his will and gaining the power to defeat the World Beast.
• Zhou Hao returned to the Original Universe, suppressed its Origin Will, and increased origin energy across the Human Territory and around Earth.
• Zhou Hao told Chaos that his methods had caused the changes, then began breaking through to True God as his Divine Kingdom rapidly expanded.

Zhou Hao became a True God with a Miniature Universe powered by Hun Yuan Energy, then celebrated his breakthrough while the Cosmic Sea mistook him for a Void True God. After preparing a safeguard and returning to Island Sacred Hall, he began planning how to deepen his Hun Yuan Rule comprehension before confronting Hun Yuan Creatures.

• Zhou Hao expanded his Miniature Universe to 50 billion light-years, concealed it to appear 2 billion light-years wide, and transformed into a True God protected by Hun Yuan patterns.
• Zhou Hao agreed to Chaos's proposal for a Human Race celebration, while powerhouses across the Original Universe and Cosmic Sea debated his immense Miniature Universe and feared he had become a Void True God.
• The Ancestral God Cult confirmed through the Original Universe Origin Will that Zhou Hao was only a True God, and hundreds of millions of races attended his Virtual Universe celebration.
• Zhou Hao told Chaos he would not rush into the Dim Land, then later cultivated the Undying River and stored a drop of blood in his Miniature Universe as a safeguard.
• Zhou Hao returned to Island Sacred Hall, considered how Mind Controllers and Hun Yuan Creatures related to his goal of becoming a Yuan lifeform, and decided to improve his Hun Yuan Rule comprehension before testing himself against the creatures.

After learning that the Sacred Hall’s strongest defender had died and Hun Yuan Creatures would attack in three hundred years, Zhou Hao joined Luo Haiyi’s group to search for a safe refuge. Beyond the Sacred Hall’s barrier, the group encountered Wood Vine Snakes, and Zhou Hao helped them fight their way through the poisonous mist.

• Luo Haiyi told Zhou Hao that the Black Stripe Sect had been destroyed and that the Sacred Hall was vulnerable after Senior Cheng died.
• Luo Haiyi gathered Mind Controllers and proposed searching for a cave in Blood Crow Valley as a refuge from the coming attack.
• After ten days, Zhou Hao left the Sacred Hall with Luo Haiyi and six other Mind Controllers, having tempered thirty percent of himself through five hundred years of cultivation.
• Luo Haiyi led the group beyond the warning barrier, where the surrounding Hun Yuan Energy weakened their senses and forced them to wear protective armor.
• Wood Vine Snakes attacked the group, and Zhou Hao used Flame Blade to kill more than a hundred of them as poisonous mist spread.
• Zhou Hao and the others put on masks and escaped the mist-covered area after clearing a path through the Wood Vine Snakes.

After escaping the Wood Vine Snakes, Zhou Hao learned that his team could not safely reach its destination, then ventured out alone to seek resources that would speed his transformation. He obtained rare materials through the Sign-in System, bought the last Source Returning Fruits, and emerged from a hundred years of seclusion with fifty percent of his body transformed.

• Zhou Hao helped Luo Haiyi and the others escape the Wood Vine Snakes, and they returned to the Sacred Hall after deciding their team could not safely continue.
• Zhou Hao left the Sacred Hall alone, reached the Season Willow River region, and used the Sign-in System to obtain Ji Liu Divine Wood Heart, Season Willow Source Liquid, and other rewards.
• Zhou Hao bought all one hundred remaining Source Returning Fruits at the Myriad Things Pavilion after learning they came from the dangerous Crocodile Poison Swamp.
• Zhou Hao entered seclusion for a hundred years while many Mind Controllers died exploring and Luo Haiyi and the others failed to meet with him.
• Zhou Hao completed another twenty percent of his transformation, reaching fifty percent and gaining greatly increased speed.

Zhou Hao advanced to sixty percent transformation, surrendered his Source Returning Fruits to help a supposed peak expert, and escaped the chaos after that expert was exposed as a fraud. After a century of gathering materials and cultivating in hiding, Zhou Hao reached eighty percent transformation and faced the challenge of finding rarer materials to transform his torso and organs.

• Luo Haiyi told Zhou Hao that a supposed ninety-percent-transformed expert was coming to protect their Sacred Hall, and Zhou Hao reached sixty percent transformation after using Season Willow Source Liquid.
• The supposed expert arrived injured and needed Source Returning Fruits, so Zhou Hao gave up his remaining supply in exchange for more than six hundred thousand Illusion Fruits.
• Luo Haiyi revealed that the expert was a fraud who had looted the Sacred Hall treasury, and Zhou Hao killed the Mind Controllers who tried to rob him before leaving Luo Haiyi one hundred thousand Illusion Fruits for his family.
• Zhou Hao traveled beyond the Sacred Hall and used sign-ins to gather precious materials, including five hundred Source Returning Fruits from the edge of the Crocodile Poison Swamp.
• After a hundred years of cultivation, Zhou Hao reached eighty percent transformation and realized that transforming his torso and organs would require much rarer auxiliary materials.

Zhou Hao returned to Safe City to learn how to temper his body beyond eighty percent, but found the city in disarray and its experts gone. After checking in at the deserted treasury and recruiting the Luo Family, he led them to a natural safe haven more than seven thousand kilometers away.

• Zhou Hao reached Safe City and destroyed a group at the western gate after they tried to extort more than ten thousand Illusion Fruit from him.
• A captain told Zhou Hao that the Enforcement Team had disbanded and most powerful experts had left to escape the coming disaster.
• Zhou Hao checked in at the treasury, gained a Hun Yuan secret technique, a weapon, valuable materials, and instructions for tempering beyond eighty percent.
• Zhou Hao met Luo Haiyi and the other Luo Family members, agreed to take them along, and left the Sacred Hall with them.
• Zhou Hao protected the Luo Family as they crossed the forest and killed a mid-level Hun Yuan Creature with one thrust of his spear.
• Zhou Hao brought the group to a natural stone cave that blocked Hun Yuan Energy, and the Luo Family members prepared it as their safe haven.

After leaving the ruined Sacred Hall, Zhou Hao journeyed through dangerous regions toward Mu Xia City, surviving encounters with powerful Yuan creatures and collecting rare materials. At Moon Mist Lake, he saved Jin Ling and Xue Zhi by killing a high-level plant creature, then asked them to guide him to Mu Xia City in exchange for Moon Mist Crystals.

• Zhou Hao finished a period of cultivation, learned that the Sacred Hall's crisis had passed, and returned Luo Haiyi and the others to the ruined city before setting out alone.
• Zhou Hao avoided the fire eagle near Fire Eagle Ravine and traveled toward Mu Xia City, fighting his way through several high-level Yuan creature territories and gathering rare materials.
• After more than five years on the road, Zhou Hao rested at Moon Mist Lake and heard Jin Ling and Xue Zhi searching for Moon Mist Crystals.
• Jin Ling and Xue Zhi fought a high-level tentacled plant creature in the lake, and Zhou Hao killed it with five consecutive strikes of Void Spirit Seven Slashes.
• Zhou Hao gave Jin Ling Moon Mist Crystals and asked her to take him to Mu Xia City, and she agreed.

After settling in Mu Xia City and completing more of his bodily tempering, Zhou Hao joined Cheng Ji’s hunting party to explore the area outside the city. The party of more than three hundred experts set out with Zhou Hao and Xue Zhi, while Zhou Hao planned to scout for powerful Hun Yuan Creatures with the bloodlines he needed.

• Jin Ling and Xue Zhi brought Zhou Hao to Mu Xia City after he killed the high-grade Hun Yuan Plant at Moon Mist Lake, and the City Lord confirmed Zhou Hao was not a Hun Yuan Creature.
• Zhou Hao settled into an empty house, met the City Lord and other experts, then entered seclusion after half a month of visits.
• Over the next ten years, Zhou Hao refined materials from two high-grade Hun Yuan Plants into medicinal liquids, then used them over the following thirty years to temper his liver and kidneys.
• Zhou Hao met Cheng Ji’s hunting party at the Gather Origin Tower and asked to join their expedition, which excited Cheng Ji and the other members.
• News of Zhou Hao joining spread, and the hunting party grew to more than three hundred experts, including Xue Zhi and several other city elites.
• Cheng Ji and Xue Zhi asked Zhou Hao to oversee the expedition and act only if needed, and the party traveled away from Mu Xia City on alert.

Zhou Hao joined Cheng Ji and Xue Zhi’s expedition from Mu Xia City toward Cang Ling River Valley, learning about the dangers beyond the city and the periodic attacks by Hun Yuan Creatures. He revealed overwhelming strength by killing more than a hundred Poison Horn Fire Rhinos, then reached the valley with the team.

• Xue Zhi and Cheng Ji explained the regions around Mu Xia City, the rules that restrained powerful creatures, and the attacks that occurred every million years.
• After resting, the team encountered more than a hundred Poison Horn Fire Rhinos, and Zhou Hao chose to fight through them rather than detour.
• When the rhinos trapped several team members and began to go berserk, Zhou Hao used Void Spirit Seven Slashes to kill them all and collected their corpses.
• The team traveled on and reached Cang Ling River Valley, where Cheng Ji asked Zhou Hao to oversee the group while they hunted Silver Line Origin Fish.
• Cheng Ji and Xue Zhi discussed Zhou Hao’s power and guessed that he followed the Enlightened One path.