Chapter Summaries

Zhou Hao returned from a successful hunt with Cheng Ji's party, trading the Poison Horn Fire Rhinos he had killed for a chance to obtain high-level Hun Yuan Creature bloodlines. He agreed to help Fire Demon Ancestor hunt a high-level creature in exchange for its incomplete fire-attribute corpse and the location of one with an earth bloodline.

• Zhou Hao used an Illusion Fruit to gather Silver Line Origin Fish, helping Cheng Ji's hunting party catch enough fish for thousands of years of food.
• Cheng Ji's party returned to Mu Xia City without casualties, and Cheng Ji credited Zhou Hao with killing more than a hundred Poison Horn Fire Rhinos.
• Zhou Hao asked Tu Yin to trade the Poison Horn Fire Rhinos for a complete high-level Hun Yuan Creature with a fire, earth, or metal bloodline, and Cheng Ji's party spread the offer.
• Cheng Ji told Zhou Hao that Fire Demon Ancestor had an incomplete high-level creature with a fire bloodline and wanted to negotiate.
• Fire Demon Ancestor offered half the corpse and the location of a high-level creature with an earth bloodline in exchange for Zhou Hao joining a hunt in several thousand years.
• Zhou Hao accepted the deal and examined Fire Demon Ancestor's corpse.

Zhou Hao completed tempering his heart, strengthening his Miniature Universe into an embryonic Origin World, and spent three thousand years deepening his understanding of Hun Yuan Rules. He agreed to bring Xue Zhi and Jin Ling on a hunt in exchange for their help locating powerful Soul Category Hun Yuan Creatures, then departed with Fire Demon Ancestor’s team to hunt a high-level creature.

• Zhou Hao used a signed-in high-level Hun Yuan Creature corpse to make three great medicines and tempered his heart, bringing his body closer to full transformation.
• Over the next three thousand years, Zhou Hao’s Miniature Universe formed Hun Yuan Crystals and became capable of supporting God King-level experts, while his understanding of Hun Yuan Rules advanced.
• Xue Zhi and Jin Ling asked to join Zhou Hao’s upcoming hunt, and he agreed on the condition that they investigate high-level Soul Category Hun Yuan Creatures afterward.
• More than seventy Mu Xia City experts gathered at Gather Origin Tower for Fire Demon Ancestor’s hunting team, including Xue Zhi and Jin Ling.
• After a feast, Fire Demon Ancestor explained the target creature’s Chaos, time, and domain abilities, and the team set out directly for its lair.

Zhou Hao and the Mu Xia City experts reached the Lord of Chaos’s domain, where the creature trapped them in temple worlds built from rule evolutions. Zhou Hao saw through the trap, destroyed the temple worlds in moments, and exposed the Lord of Chaos’s true body, leaving the group ready to attack.

• Fire Demon Ancestor led Zhou Hao and the others through the mist domain to the Taoist temple territory of the Lord of Chaos.
• The group entered the temple region and became separated in individual worlds where replicas appeared across different timelines.
• Zhou Hao recognized the rule-based trap, constructed a temple to contain its cycles, and destroyed the replicas and the Lord of Chaos’s golden Dharma body.
• Zhou Hao’s spear shattered every temple world and revealed the Lord of Chaos’s true body, a vast mountain range.
• Fire Demon Ancestor ordered the experts to attack the exposed creature together.

Zhou Hao completed most of his body tempering in Hun Yuan Genesis Land, returned to the Cosmic Sea, and reunited with Luo Feng. He began guiding Luo Feng by demonstrating patterns, leaving Luo Feng watching closely.

• Zhou Hao helped Fire Demon Ancestor and Sword Venerable’s hunting party defeat Lord of Chaos and the summoned Hun Yuan Creatures, then refused a share of the corpse materials.
• Zhou Hao hunted a high-grade Hun Yuan Creature at Ant Demon Grotto and gathered metal-element creatures before tempering his body in Mu Xia City.
• Zhou Hao completed ninety percent of his tempering and realized he needed a soul-category Hun Yuan Bloodline to become a true Hun Yuan Expert.
• Zhou Hao returned to the Cosmic Sea, chose not to destroy the World Beasts, and traveled to Jin's World to find Luo Feng.
• Zhou Hao assessed Luo Feng’s progress and traced patterns in the air, telling Luo Feng to watch closely.

Zhou Hao shared his perfect Life Gene Map with Luo Feng, guided the Human Race’s True Gods, and offered his Miniature Universe as a path to greater breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Giant Axe and the other True Gods advancing beyond the usual limits, astonishing the Cosmic Sea.

• Zhou Hao gave Luo Feng a perfect Life Gene Map, which Luo Feng hoped to comprehend to reach True God.
• Zhou Hao reassured Chaos City Lord that the World Beasts posed no threat to him and demonstrated the Space-Time Path’s origin structure.
• Zhou Hao guided Giant Axe, Hong, Rong Jun, Wuka, and other allies before returning to seclusion.
• Chaos City Lord told the Human Race’s True Gods that they could advance inside Zhou Hao’s Miniature Universe, and Giant Axe and the others chose to enter it.
• The Human Race’s True Gods discovered that Zhou Hao’s Miniature Universe exceeded one trillion light-years across and was still expanding.
• Giant Axe broke through to Void True God, and the expanding universes of Chaos, Darkness, Ice Peak, and others left the Cosmic Sea’s races bewildered.

The Human Race announced that seven of its True Gods had become Void True Gods through Zhou Hao’s Miniature Universe, alarming the Cosmic Sea’s other powers. After preparing Luo Feng to face the World Beast calamity, Zhou Hao left for the Dim Land and eliminated its fourth- and fifth-order World Beasts, while Giant Axe and the others began planning the Human Race’s expansion and future growth.

• Purple Moon Progenitor learned that seven Human Race True Gods had become Void True Gods and suspected the Human Race had found a way to bypass reincarnation; other powers sought to uncover the secret.
• The Origin Will told the Ancestral Gods that Zhou Hao’s Miniature Universe had enabled the Human Race’s breakthroughs and that the Human Race was destined to face the World Beast calamity.
• Giant Axe and the other Human Race leaders planned to train their people in Jin’s World and use Zhou Hao’s Miniature Universe to help more True Gods advance.
• Zhou Hao gave Luo Feng a powerful soul secret technique and warned him that the World Beast calamity would fall to him after Zhou Hao left.
• Zhou Hao entered the Dim Land and silently eliminated Bedi and the other fourth- and fifth-order World Beasts.
• Giant Axe demonstrated his external clone as the Human Race leaders discussed raising thousands of True Gods, nurturing younger generations, and claiming more territory in the Original Universe.

The Human Race began expanding into half of the Original Universe’s territory, relying on its vastly increased strength and seven Void True Gods who had transcended reincarnation. As other races accepted its terms and sought Zhou Hao’s guidance, Divine Eye True Lord met Chaos City Lord in the Cosmic Sea to ask what the Human Race would require in exchange for its breakthrough experience.

• Giant Axe, Darkness, and the other Human Race experts approved expansion, and the Human Race announced its plans to the Original Universe.
• The Ancestral God Cult’s True Gods objected to becoming vassals, but the Two-faced Ancestral God persuaded them that Zhou Hao’s role in the seven breakthroughs made resistance too dangerous.
• The Original Universe’s race alliances accepted the Human Race’s terms, and six months later Chaos and Giant Axe ordered their forces to occupy the ceded territory.
• Divine Eye True Lord sought a chance for his race to pass reincarnation, and Chaos City Lord appeared as a powerful clone and explained that the Human Race had no general method for achieving it.
• Chaos told Divine Eye True Lord that the Human Race had some breakthrough experience and asked what price the Divine Eye Race would offer for it.

Divine Eye True Lord agreed to make the Divine Eye Race a vassal of the Human Race in exchange for True God breakthrough experience, while the Human Race expanded and flourished. In Mu Xia City, Zhou Hao agreed to hunt three high-level Hun Yuan Creatures with the Hun Tian Rule for a Great Realm Heart Token, which could take him and his companions to higher Hun Yuan Worlds.

• Divine Eye True Lord offered the Divine Eye Race’s combined-attack secret arts for breakthrough experience, but Chaos said the Human Race already had superior methods and revealed Zhou Hao had obtained Jin’s inheritance.
• Divine Eye True Lord agreed to swear upon the Supreme Rules that the Divine Eye Race would become a Human Race vassal, and Chaos assured him that the Human Race had a countermeasure for the World Beast calamity.
• Bone Master offered powerful Mechanical Flow Supreme Treasures for breakthrough experience, while the Human Race expanded its territory, formed Venerable legions, and accumulated many more Venerables.
• Demon Lord Xue Zhi and Fairy Jin Ling told Zhou Hao that Mu Xia City Lord would trade a Great Realm Heart Token for three high-level Hun Yuan Creatures containing the Hun Tian Rule, and asked to accompany him.
• Zhou Hao accepted the hunt, and Mu Xia City Lord marked the three creatures’ locations 13,000, 17,000, and 22,000 kilometers from Mu Xia City.

Summary of Chapter "Chi Ming District"

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhou Hao hands over a ring containing corpses of three high-level Hun Yuan Creatures to the City Lord of Mu Xia City, receiving a Great Realm Heart Token in return.
• Zhou Hao, Xue Zhi, and Jin Ling use the token to travel to Chi Ming District Third Domain Star in a High-level Hun Yuan World.
• Upon arrival, they encounter and kill a high-level Hun Yuan Creature, a Fire Source Desert Dragon.
• They are approached by a group of experts who claim the right to buy the corpse, but Zhou Hao declines and learns about the rules of the Third Domain Star and the Crimson Bright Military Camp.
• Zhou Hao, Xue Zhi, and Jin Ling travel to Chi Ming Third City, paying an entrance fee and purchasing information tokens.

Character Developments

• Zhou Hao demonstrates his strength by killing a high-level Hun Yuan Creature with ease, further cementing his status as a powerful expert.
• Xue Zhi and Jin Ling show respect and gratitude towards Zhou Hao for bringing them to this world and protecting them.
• The middle-aged man leading the group of experts is revealed to be connected to the Chi Ming Army and the Crimson Bright Military Camp, showing the influence of these factions in the Third Domain Star.

Significant Themes

• The struggle between living beings and Hun Yuan Creatures, with Chi Ming District being a frontier battlefield.
• The importance of Contribution Points in the High-level Hun Yuan World, which are used for various purposes, including entry fees, living expenses, and purchases.
• The vastness and danger of the High-level Hun Yuan World, with even the air carrying dense Hun Yuan Energy that can be comprehended by cultivators.

Character Interactions

• Zhou Hao, Xue Zhi, and Jin Ling work together to kill the Fire Source Desert Dragon, showcasing their unity and trust in each other.
• Zhou Hao interacts with the middle-aged man and his group, learning about the rules and factions in the Third Domain Star.
• Zhou Hao, Xue Zhi, and Jin Ling enter Chi Ming Third City together, highlighting their bond and shared goal of cultivating and improving their strength.

Zhou Hao and his companions struggled with the costs and dangers of life in the giant city, but his resources and cultivation allowed Xue Zhi and Jin Ling to grow stronger. Ten years later, rising tensions and a mandatory mission brought the three of them to the Crimson Bright Mission Hall.

• Xue Zhi and Jin Ling worried that they could not afford city life, and Zhou Hao reassured them that he would provide Contribution Points.
• Zhou Hao claimed the Primordial Spirit Illusory Heart Technique and spent three days absorbing its information before returning to Xue Zhi and Jin Ling for food.
• Zhou Hao gave Xue Zhi and Jin Ling Contribution Points to buy creatures with Rule bloodlines, and they improved their strength over the next ten years.
• Xue Zhi reported that teleportation nodes were being destroyed and the city’s situation was growing tense as the ten-year mission deadline approached.
• Zhou Hao, Xue Zhi, and Jin Ling set out to accept missions and met a female Enlightened One who suggested they work together.
• The group arrived at the Crimson Bright Mission Hall, where many cultivators had gathered to accept missions.

Zhou Hao chose to guard a node with Xue Zhi and Jin Ling, but a World-class Hun Yuan Creature trapped them and hundreds of cultivators in Soul Rule Contamination. Zhou Hao awakened in a martial-world illusion with the System’s Soul Rule rewards and arrived at Jiang City, where he planned to seek a martial arts master.

• Zhou Hao chose a node-guarding task, joined forces with Sister Zhu, and established a defensive palace near the teleportation node.
• Zhou Hao, Xue Zhi, and Jin Ling hunted around the node as its safety drew cultivators, while reports warned that World-class Hun Yuan Creatures had destroyed several defensive lines.
• Zhou Hao decided to abandon the task, but a World-class Rule Contamination interrupted the group’s teleportation and engulfed the cultivators; Xue Zhi and Jin Ling trusted Zhou Hao to protect their souls.
• Zhou Hao awakened in a snowbound martial-world illusion, recognized Xue Zhi and Jin Ling as his maidservants, and used the System to gain Soul Rule comprehension and other rewards.
• Zhou Hao realized Soul Rules could help him break the illusion, then arrived with Xue Zhi and Jin Ling at Jiang City to seek a saber wielder as his master.

After digesting the Soul Rule, Zhou Hao reached the Heavenly Human Realm while concealing his strength and helping Xue Zhi and Jin Ling advance to the Celestial Phenomenon Realm. On their way to Lijiang Academy, Xue Zhi rescued two students from an assassination attempt, and Zhou Hao and his companions were welcomed at the academy as news of the two powerful women spread.

• Zhou Hao joined the Twin Blade Master's household and spent a month digesting his Soul Rule insight while practicing basic training.
• Zhou Hao reached the Heavenly Human Realm, then secretly improved Xue Zhi and Jin Ling's innate physiques; the two maids later reached the Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
• Zhou Hao traveled with Xue Zhi and Jin Ling toward Lijiang Academy, where they encountered Zhen Xue and her junior brother fleeing black-clad assassins.
• Xue Zhi drove off the attackers with her Celestial Phenomenon-level True Qi, and Zhen Xue guided Zhou Hao's party to the academy.
• The Lijiang Palace Master welcomed Zhou Hao and his companions, while news that two Celestial Phenomenon experts had arrived spread through the martial world.

Zhou Hao stayed at Lijiang Academy while Xue Zhi and Jin Ling mastered their Celestial Phenomenon Realm cultivation, drawing the attention of powerful factions and prompting speculation that he had reached the Heavenly Human Realm. True Man Tianhua asked Cang Yunzi to seek Zhou Hao’s help in the Contending for the Dragon Throne, while Zhou Hao remained wary of the world’s hidden countermeasures.

• A middle-aged man received a report about two unfamiliar Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts at Lijiang Academy and sent agents to investigate them.
• Zhou Hao transformed Cang Yunzi’s date tree into a Spiritual Treasure, then arranged for Xue Zhi and Jin Ling to train at the academy.
• Zhao Lingxue waited two days outside Zhou Hao’s lodgings hoping to become his disciple, but he did not meet her.
• True Man Tianhua visited Cang Yunzi, learned of Zhou Hao’s extraordinary abilities, and asked him to probe whether Zhou Hao would support the Contending for the Dragon Throne.
• Zhou Hao warned Xue Zhi and Jin Ling that the world might react to their presence, and they reported that they had mastered their cultivation and could suppress Cang Yunzi.

Zhou Hao left Lijiang Academy with Xue Zhi and Jin Ling, then traveled toward Emei and encountered an ambush by poisoned dead soldiers. At Emei, he inspected a python rumored to be nearing transformation and rejected an old Celestial Phenomenon Realm expert’s offer to hunt a Flood Dragon in the Eastern Sea.

• Zhou Hao gave Cang Yunzi a spiritual cultivation technique, and Cang Yunzi bowed in gratitude.
• Half a month later, Xue Zhi and Jin Ling mastered Lijiang Academy’s ultimate arts and reached the Celestial Phenomenon Realm before Zhou Hao left with them.
• During a storm, Xue Zhi defeated black-clothed dead soldiers who tried to recruit her and Jin Ling after poisoning the area around their ruined-temple shelter.
• In the Great Marsh of Qingzhou, a middle-aged man and an old man discussed the failed ambush and the difficulty of dealing with Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts.
• At Mount Emei, Zhou Hao inspected an aged python and refused an old expert’s invitation to hunt Flood Dragons in the Eastern Sea.
• Zhou Hao flashed before the python and pointed a finger at it.

Zhou Hao turned a giant python into a Flood Dragon and set off with it pulling his carriage, drawing the attention of martial powers across the realm. After the Flood Dragon killed the King of Shu’s son, Zhou Hao erased the King and his army with a palm, prompting the Sword God to leave seclusion and the emperor to plot against him.

• Zhou Hao transformed the giant python into a Flood Dragon, forced it to pull his carriage, and rejected the Emei Patriarch and the gaunt old man’s pleas to become his disciples unless they proved their value.
• The Emei Patriarch and the gaunt old man agreed to gather more giant pythons and prepare carriage materials, while Zhou Hao traveled with Xue Zhi and Jin Ling and explained that the Flood Dragon could transform if it had enough Primal Energy.
• The Sword God learned of Zhou Hao’s power and ordered his people to verify the rumors, while Zhuang Dieyi watched Zhou Hao’s carriage arrive in the City of Heavenly Mansion and hoped to win his assistance.
• The Flood Dragon swallowed the King of Shu’s son and then defeated the King’s cavalry; Zhou Hao destroyed the King of Shu and several thousand soldiers with a palm of Primal Energy.
• The Sword God drew his sword and left East Sword City, while the emperor ordered his forces to wait for the Sword God’s clash with Zhou Hao and sought the Flood Dragon’s flesh.

Zhou Hao traveled to Tianxing Tower, where he accepted Princess Antai’s offer to help restore Chu Kingdom and headed toward Jiangnan. When the Sword God challenged him on the river, Zhou Hao effortlessly stopped his strongest strike and offered to help him enter the Heavenly Human Realm if he aided Princess Antai.

• Zhuang Dieyi revealed that she was Princess Antai of Chu Kingdom and recruited Zhou Hao’s help in restoring her kingdom.
• Zhou Hao joined Zhuang Dieyi’s cause, and his group left the City of Heavenly Mansion for Jiangnan by Flood Dragon carriage and pleasure boat.
• Zhuang Dieyi warned Zhou Hao that court experts planned to kill him at the next ferry crossing, and Zhou Hao dismissed the danger.
• The Sword God confronted Zhou Hao on the river and attacked with his strongest sword strike, but Zhou Hao stopped it without moving.
• Zhou Hao returned the Sword God’s divine sword and offered to help him enter the Heavenly Human Realm if he helped Princess Antai restore Chu Kingdom.
• Zhou Hao jumped into the river and drained the water around him, astonishing the Sword God before inviting him to sit and talk.

Zhou Hao helped Princess Antai secure East Sword City as a base for restoring Chu Kingdom, prompting Emperor Taiyuan and rival factions to plot against him. In Xiangcheng, Cai Huang attacked Zhou Hao during her Nishang Dance, and armed martial artists then swarmed the courtyard.

• The Sword God agreed to support Zhou Hao and help Princess Antai establish Chu Kingdom's base in East Sword City, while Zhou Hao directed him to seek Cang Yunzi's aid at Lijiang Academy.
• Emperor Taiyuan ordered the martial sects and Xuanwu Guard to kill Zhou Hao, and promised the crown prince position to whichever of his sons succeeded.
• At Lakeheart Island, a strategist and an old adviser discussed Zhou Hao's victory over the Sword God and considered poisoning him and targeting his companions.
• Zhou Hao arrived in Xiangcheng with Zhuang Dieyi, Xue Zhi, and Jin Ling, and agreed to visit Caiyi Tower.
• The Third Prince secured five thousand naval troops from his uncle to test Zhou Hao, who had refused to risk his forces directly.
• Cai Huang performed a Nishang Dance for Zhou Hao, then turned her ribbons into poisoned weapons; Xue Zhi and Jin Ling knocked her away before numerous martial artists charged into the courtyard.

Zhou Hao killed the old emperor, restored Chu Kingdom under Empress Zhuang Dieyi, and crushed the forces gathered against the new court. The northern iron cavalry withdrew and the remaining rebels fled, leaving Zhuang Dieyi to begin consolidating power across the realm.

• Zhou Hao killed the Third Prince and went to Kyoto, where he killed the old emperor and ordered the court to change the nation's name to Chu.
• Zhou Hao made Zhuang Dieyi a Celestial Phenomenon expert, and she ascended the throne as Chu Kingdom's first empress.
• When royal forces and Northern Prefecture's three hundred thousand iron cavalry marched toward Kyoto, Zhou Hao sent Xue Zhi and the Sword God to confront them.
• Xue Zhi entered the Heavenly Human Realm and defeated King of Beizhou; he died after ordering his cavalry to return to Northern Prefecture rather than perish with him.
• Jin Ling and the Sword God eliminated the royal families that had answered the emperor's call, and the remaining troops fled Kyoto.
• Zhuang Dieyi used conciliation and other methods to calm the capital and began working to bring the provinces' powerful families and forces under her control.

Zhou Hao spent years securing Chu Kingdom’s rule, strengthening the Empress and her daughter, and preparing Zhuge Wolong to protect the kingdom after he departed. After reaching the Hun Yuan level in the Soul Rule, he arranged for the girl’s future and left her under the Sword God’s care.

• The Second Prince and his advisers concluded that Chen Kingdom could only be restored after Zhou Hao left, and they resolved to wait for him to shatter the void.
• Zhou Hao told Zhuang Dieyi that he would leave in six or seven years, and later agreed to help her produce an heir through a secret technique rather than attend her bed.
• Zhou Hao let Zhuge Wolong resign as master of the Six Doors and remain by his side, while Cang Yunzi succeeded him.
• Zhou Hao helped the Empress of Chu Kingdom produce a daughter, and she entered the Heavenly Human Realm in the ninth year after Chu Kingdom’s restoration.
• Zhou Hao reached the Hun Yuan level in the Soul Rule, sealed great power in the princess until she turned fifteen, and left three protective auras on her.
• Zhou Hao tasked Zhuge Wolong with teaching the princess and promised that he would protect Chu Kingdom for twenty years after Zhou Hao left.

After escaping a rule-contaminated world, Zhou Hao protected Xue Zhi and Jin Ling in Crimson Bright Third Megacity and spent a hundred years cultivating. He eventually tempered his head and transformed into a Yuan lifeform.

• Zhou Hao broke free of the illusory world after centuries had passed inside it, blocked a World-class Hun Yuan Creature's attack, severed half its arm, and teleported away with Xue Zhi and Jin Ling.
• Xue Zhi and Jin Ling awoke in Crimson Bright Third Megacity, where Zhou Hao explained that the defensive lines had collapsed and the city was under siege.
• A Hun Yuan Lord arrived and drove off three of the four World-class Hun Yuan Creatures besieging the city, stabilizing the situation.
• Xue Zhi and Jin Ling joined hunting teams, and Zhou Hao gave each of them Hun Yuan Battle Armor before using the creature's severed arm to plan his own body tempering.
• Over a hundred years, Xue Zhi and Jin Ling brought their Great Dao comprehension to perfection, while Zhou Hao mastered the Primordial Spirit Illusory Heart Technique and advanced his Soul Rules.
• Zhou Hao refined the severed arm into medicinal liquid, tempered his head over two years, and became a Yuan lifeform.