Chapter Summaries

Yin Zizhong used Hundred-Handed Vajra to hold Hai Chen at bay while secretly preparing the Ten Thousand Swords Token. The token’s sword shadows killed Hai Chen and nearly killed Zheng Jiu, whom Mu Zhang rescued before facing Yin Zizhong.

• Yin Zizhong realized he could not defeat Hai Chen with Hundred-Handed Vajra alone and planned to use the Ten Thousand Swords Token while keeping him occupied.
• Mu Zhang agreed to let Zheng Jiu join the fight, and Zheng Jiu descended to challenge Yin Zizhong.
• The Ten Thousand Swords Token’s hidden sword shadows overwhelmed Hai Chen’s defenses and killed him.
• Yin Zizhong redirected the sword stream toward Zheng Jiu, who fled and cried out for Mu Zhang to save him.
• Mu Zhang rescued Zheng Jiu from the sword shadows, crushed his mangled head, and looked down at Yin Zizhong.

Yin Zizhong killed two True Spirits, then faced Mu Zhang, who had come to New Paradise with Chi Zongling’s help. Mu Zhang attacked through the Ten Thousand Swords Stream to test Yin Zizhong, leaving Yin Zizhong confronting an opponent whose strength exceeded his expectations.

• Yin Zizhong killed Hai Chen and Zheng Jiu, shocking the watching Travelers and making Chi Zongling regret bringing Mu Zhang.
• Shao Yi told Ma Qing and the White Dragon Hall Travelers to prepare to protect Yin Zizhong if he was defeated.
• Yin Zizhong questioned Mu Zhang about his attack on New Paradise, and Mu Zhang admitted that Chi Zongling had told him about the Strange Worms.
• Mu Zhang said he wanted to meet Zhuang Hong and test Yin Zizhong, then charged through the Ten Thousand Swords Stream without being slowed.
• Mu Zhang reached Yin Zizhong’s Hundred-Handed Vajra and raised a hand to attack.

Yin Zizhong fought Mu Zhang but was badly wounded as Mu Zhang revealed that his Source God Technique could extract skills from their memories. After Zhuang Hong received Yin Zizhong’s signal and rushed back toward New Paradise, Yin Zizhong and the remaining Travelers were left facing Mu Zhang alone.

• Mu Zhang destroyed Yin Zizhong’s Hundred-Handed Vajra and sealed the space around him, but Yin Zizhong used Vibration Sword Style to evade a fatal strike and took a devastating wound to his right shoulder.
• Yin Zizhong ordered the Travelers not to interfere while he attacked Mu Zhang with the Ten Thousand Swords Stream and tried to find a way to overcome their strength gap.
• Zhuang Hong sensed Yin Zizhong’s signal, left his companions behind, and flew toward New Paradise, while Yin Guan gave Communication Stones to the others and promised Xiao Bai a pair later.
• After a day of fighting, Yin Zizhong had lost his right hand and left leg, many Travelers were dead or badly injured, and Mu Zhang announced that his Source God Technique let him learn their skills from their memories.

After Mu Zhang nearly searched Yin Zizhong’s memories, Zhuang Hong returned and confronted him over his attack on New Paradise. The two revealed their powers and prepared to fight, with Mu Zhang appearing before Zhuang Hong to strike as Zhuang Hong remained unruffled.

• Mu Zhang prepared to use his Source God Technique to search Yin Zizhong and the others’ memories, but Zhuang Hong’s Golden Light Bullet struck him and sent the survivors flying.
• Zhuang Hong arrived, told Yin Zizhong to evacuate the injured, and identified Mu Zhang as Chi Zongling’s Chief.
• Mu Zhang questioned Zhuang Hong about killing the Giant Corpse God, while Zhuang Hong demanded to know why Mu Zhang had attacked New Paradise.
• Zhuang Hong summoned his Magic Treasures and unleashed his Mental Characteristics, surprising Mu Zhang with the strength of his Mental Strength.
• Mu Zhang formed Orange Source Power Armor, vanished, and appeared before Zhuang Hong to attack, but Zhuang Hong said Origin Spirits were nothing more than this.

Zhuang Hong fought Mu Zhang inside the Reality Dreamscape, using its power to evade every attack and match Mu Zhang’s escalating speed and strength. Mu Zhang transformed into his armored combat form but still could not hit Zhuang Hong, who ended the chapter by taunting him.

• Mu Zhang’s attacks repeatedly struck Zhuang Hong’s afterimages, while Zhuang Hong counterattacked at high speed.
• Mu Zhang pushed his power to Origin Spirit strength, but Zhuang Hong continued to evade him and match his attacks.
• Mu Zhang decided to end the fight quickly and transformed, growing larger and manifesting steel armor and nine claw-tipped tails.
• Mu Zhang unleashed a furious barrage, yet every strike hit only an afterimage, leaving him unable to explain what he was seeing.
• Zhuang Hong mocked Mu Zhang for boasting about his power, and Mu Zhang was overcome with fury and humiliation.

Mu Zhang trapped Zhuang Hong in the Abyss of Frozen Space and repeatedly tore him apart, but Zhuang Hong revealed that he could regenerate through blood and fire. Zhuang Hong escaped the seal and kept evading Mu Zhang’s attacks, leaving Mu Zhang increasingly unsure how to defeat him.

• Mu Zhang sealed Zhuang Hong inside the Abyss of Frozen Space and attacked him after Zhuang Hong broke free of the crystals.
• Mu Zhang tore Zhuang Hong into pieces, but Zhuang Hong regenerated through Blood Rebirth and explained that even one surviving cell could restore him.
• Mu Zhang burned Zhuang Hong’s remains, but Zhuang Hong used Rebirth Through Fire to return unharmed and shattered the spatial seal with a Golden Light Bullet.
• Zhuang Hong evaded Mu Zhang’s attacks with phantom abilities while Mu Zhang repeatedly failed to restrain or injure his real body.
• Mu Zhang unleashed powerful skills that destroyed the area, but Zhuang Hong kept regenerating, and Mu Zhang grew increasingly unsettled.

Mu Zhang used a spatial technique to tear Zhuang Hong apart, but Zhuang Hong escaped even after being swallowed and refused Mu Zhang’s offer to make peace. Mu Zhang then activated a grain of Time Crystal Sand, gained the Giant Corpse God’s power, and moved too fast for Zhuang Hong to perceive as the dream battle escalated.

• Mu Zhang folded space to attack Zhuang Hong from a distance, then swallowed his shredded body, but Zhuang Hong escaped with Borrow Body Rebirth.
• Mu Zhang proposed a truce and cooperation against the True God Race, but Zhuang Hong rejected him because he did not trust Mu Zhang.
• Mu Zhang revealed a grain of Time Crystal Sand and merged it into his body, taking on the Giant Corpse God’s aura and power.
• Mu Zhang moved so quickly that he smashed Zhuang Hong’s dream body into powder before Zhuang Hong could react.
• Zhuang Hong decided to add ten more dream layers to keep Mu Zhang trapped and kill him within the dream.

Zhuang Hong trapped Mu Zhang in a dream to learn his abilities, then revealed that he could also use Time Crystal Sand. Mu Zhang mistook Zhuang Hong for a surviving Strange Worm from the previous era, while Zhuang Hong planned to test whether decapitation could kill him.

• Zhuang Hong studied Mu Zhang's Normal, Shape-shifting, and Berserk Stages through their dream battle and concluded he needed to prevent Mu Zhang from using Time Crystal Sand in reality.
• Mu Zhang exhausted his Time Crystal Sand while repeatedly smashing Zhuang Hong's dream body, and Zhuang Hong then produced his own piece of crystal sand.
• Zhuang Hong transformed into the Giant Corpse God and struck Mu Zhang, cracking his armor and sending him into a crater.
• Mu Zhang recovered and concluded that Zhuang Hong was a Strange Worm from the previous era hiding from the True God Race.
• Zhuang Hong assessed Mu Zhang's defenses and decided to test whether cutting off his head would kill him without breaking the dream.

Zhuang Hong defeated Mu Zhang in the dream by stealing his Time Crystal Sand, then disabling and burning his body fragments so they could not regenerate. He pretended to spare Mu Zhang while preparing to use powerful Magic Treasures in reality to kill him by surprise.

• Zhuang Hong repeatedly took Mu Zhang's Time Crystal Sand, leaving him unable to defend himself or escape.
• Zhuang Hong cut Mu Zhang apart, paralyzed the fragments with lightning, and burned them until only Mu Zhang's head remained.
• Zhuang Hong decided lightning and fire could permanently destroy Mu Zhang's regenerative power, then captured his head and claimed he might spare him for information and future help.
• Mu Zhang accepted Zhuang Hong's offer of a chance to live, while Zhuang Hong's real body prepared the Super Ten Thousand Swords Token and Super Purple Thunder Pearl using True Spirit Source power.

Zhuang Hong questioned the defeated Mu Zhang about Red Sun Ranch, the coming reincarnation calamity, and Time Crystal Sand. He learned that the sand converts a day’s accumulated strength, speed, and defense into an instant burst, though overuse can exhaust or kill its user.

• Zhuang Hong brought Mu Zhang's head to the surface and questioned him, promising to consider sparing his life if he answered honestly.
• Mu Zhang revealed that he had survived the previous era's Great Cleansing and said the next reincarnation tribulation would arrive in about seventeen hundred years, when the Red Sun Ranch Master would harvest all life in the Nine Great Regions.
• Mu Zhang explained that Strange Worms could not escape Red Sun Ranch without an ultra-long-range Space Folding Transfer Technique and could no longer grow by devouring Void Spirits after becoming true spirits.
• Zhuang Hong asked about Time Crystal Sand, and Mu Zhang explained that it stored a Time Accumulation State, letting users unleash a day's worth of their own strength, speed, or defense in an instant.
• Mu Zhang warned that each grain of Time Crystal Sand held only a day's power, which could be spent in one burst or several uses, and that exhausting one's power could cause death.

Zhuang Hong used an illusion to learn Mu Zhang’s abilities and weaknesses, then destroyed his true body with sword phantoms, lightning, and fire. Mu Zhang vanished completely, though Zhuang Hong remained wary of a possible return.

• Mu Zhang explained that he had come to the Dragon Court Mixed Domain to use Strange Worms to lure and hunt the True God Race for Time Crystal Sand.
• Zhuang Hong revealed his attack, severing Mu Zhang’s head and breaking him out of the illusion.
• Zhuang Hong’s Super Purple Thunder Pearl paralyzed Mu Zhang’s scattered flesh and stopped it from reassembling.
• Zhuang Hong burned Mu Zhang’s remains with Flowing Fire and repeatedly struck them with lightning as Mu Zhang regretted falling for the illusion.
• Mu Zhang’s final strand of Source Power dispersed, and Zhuang Hong watched the charred remains without lowering his guard.

Zhuang Hong found Mu Zhang’s hidden Storage Space and discovered a vast hoard, including far more Time Crystal Sand than Mu Zhang had claimed. After Mu Zhang’s death, Zhuang Hong questioned Chi Zongling, then cut ties with her and warned her to keep the Longting Miscellaneous Region secret.

• Zhuang Hong opened Mu Zhang’s bone-fragment Storage Space and found a huge collection of treasures and materials.
• Zhuang Hong discovered more than a hundred pieces of Time Crystal Sand but decided not to use them until he understood them better.
• Chi Zongling watched as sword phantoms, lightning, and flames killed Mu Zhang, leaving his body charred.
• Zhuang Hong confronted Chi Zongling and asked what had happened, while she asked whether Mu Zhang was dead.
• Chi Zongling explained how she had brought Mu Zhang to New Paradise, and Zhuang Hong told her they would have become enemies regardless.
• Zhuang Hong spared Chi Zongling but barred her from New Paradise, ordered her to stay away, and warned her not to reveal anything about the Longting Miscellaneous Region.

After defeating Mu Zhang, Zhuang Hong helped Yin Zizhong recover and introduced him to a cross-world network for Travelers. Ten days later, Yin Guan returned to New Paradise with his companions and reunited with Zhuang Hong, who urged him to grow stronger.

• Zhuang Hong gave restorative items to the badly injured Yin Zizhong and explained the limits of his strength against Origin Spirits.
• Yin Zizhong planned to rebuild the Main God Plaza, and Zhuang Hong agreed to recast its statue and began connecting him to the Traveler network.
• Zhuang Hong brought Yin Zizhong into the Traveler Floating Sky Net, where he met Hua Wanying, then left as the surviving Travelers watched him with awe.
• Back in his room, Zhuang Hong reflected on how his Dream Creation Technique and powerful Mental Strength had helped him survive Mu Zhang and planned to keep improving the network and learning techniques.
• Ten days later, Yin Guan returned to New Paradise with Hao Liang, Sun Ye, Zero, and Deadwater, then visited Zhuang Hong with Xiao Bai.
• Zhuang Hong noticed Yin Guan was still at Spirit Ascension Level Stage 3 and gave him useful items so he could strengthen himself.

Zero reclaimed control of the Seeking Dao Group and launched God's World Technology, where Zhuang Hong connected five hundred engineers to the Floating Sky Net. Their arrival strengthened the network and revealed that it might let Zhuang Hong influence its members.

• Zero reclaimed the Seeking Dao Group, and members who had rejected his plans disappeared without a trace.
• Zero founded God's World Technology, bought and renamed its headquarters, and transferred ten billion into the company account.
• Zhuang Hong told Sun Wenmu that he was an orphan rather than a conglomerate heir, then instructed Zero to recruit five hundred network engineers.
• Zhuang Hong connected the engineers to the Floating Sky Net, where Moon God agreed to lead their work building Future City.
• Zhuang Hong sensed that the influx of engineers had strengthened the network and might let him affect members remotely, then increased Yin Zizhong's access quota to five hundred.
• Hao Liang suddenly felt inexplicable happiness and wondered why he was not feeling frustrated.

Zhuang Hong considered the Floating Sky Net’s potential and the safeguards it would need as it grew, then left Earth after giving Zero a Burning Sky Pearl. Back on New Paradise, he gave his companions Magic Treasures and told Hua Wanying to travel independently, leaving her determined to grow stronger.

• Zhuang Hong realized that a stronger Floating Sky Net might let users with greater Mental Strength influence or control others, so he considered restricting its connection ports and adding helpful functions.
• Over ten days on Earth, Zhuang Hong watched Moon God and the engineers make smooth progress on the Floating Sky Net, then gave Zero a Burning Sky Pearl and left for New Paradise.
• Zhuang Hong gave Burning Sky Pearls to Hao Liang, Sun Ye, and Deadwater, and gave Hua Wanying a Sixfold Vajra Seal for protection.
• Zhuang Hong told Hua Wanying to stop traveling with him and venture out on her own, though she could team up with Hao Liang and contact him through the network.
• Hua Wanying accepted Zhuang Hong’s advice and promised to protect herself and become strong enough to surprise him when they met again.

After thirty years of exploring the Dragon Court Mixed Domain, Zhuang Hong had greatly expanded his abilities while the Travelers and Floating Sky Net flourished. He sensed a powerful fluctuation spreading across the domain and realized someone had advanced to True Spirit, though he did not know who.

• Zhuang Hong left New Paradise with Yin Guan and Xiao Bai, choosing a route through civilization worlds and Life Worlds while studying Mu Zhang’s spells.
• Over thirty years, Zhuang Hong explored many worlds, learned new Source Power techniques, devoured numerous Other Selves, and greatly increased his physical and mental strength.
• The Travelers grew to fifty thousand and spread across nearly half the Dragon Court Mixed Domain, while the Floating Sky Net developed into three expansive zones.
• While studying demonic creatures in the Demon World, Zhuang Hong sensed a growing fluctuation spreading through the Dragon Court Mixed Domain.
• Zhuang Hong recognized the fluctuation as a sign that someone had advanced to True Spirit and wondered whether it was a Strange Worm or a Void Spirit.

After a domain-wide fluctuation signaled an advance to True Spirit, Zhuang Hong and Yin Zizhong discovered that eight high-ranking Travelers had disappeared and were secretly advancing despite the ban. With the True God Race likely to arrive and purge the Strange Worms, Zhuang Hong decided that he and Yin Zizhong should advance to True Spirit as well.

• Zhuang Hong told Yin Zizhong that a powerful fluctuation across the Dragon Court Mixed Domain indicated someone was advancing to True Spirit.
• Yin Zizhong summoned the Spirit Ascension Level Travelers and found that Feng Yuan, Guang Qing, and six others were absent.
• Yin Zizhong reported the absences to Zhuang Hong, who concluded that the eight Travelers were advancing to True Spirit in different locations.
• Zhuang Hong sensed a second advancement fluctuation and realized the advances could not be stopped before the True God Race noticed them.
• Zhuang Hong told Yin Zizhong they should take the opportunity to advance to True Spirit themselves.

Zhuang Hong decided to advance to a True Spirit with Yin Zizhong so they could confront the True God Race, while the other Travelers stayed behind. After meeting Yin Zizhong and preparing separately, Zhuang Hong began his advancement and formed bright-red Red Spirit, ready to attempt the fusion of his Source Power and Mental Strength.

• Zhuang Hong told Yin Zizhong that they alone would advance first, and Yin Zizhong agreed to face a member of the True God Race after advancing.
• Yin Zizhong recalled the Travelers to New Paradise and headed to the location Zhuang Hong designated, while Zhuang Hong set out separately.
• Two days later, Zhuang Hong gave Yin Zizhong advancement supplies and the Sixfold Vajra Seal, then they went in opposite directions to advance in hiding.
• Zhuang Hong built a concealed protective formation in a mountain cave and began dissolving a Two Realms Magnetic Stone with Spirit Fluid.
• After dissolving a second Two Realms Magnetic Stone, Zhuang Hong obtained bright-red Red Spirit and prepared to attempt the fusion.

Zhuang Hong began advancing to True Spirit and formed his first True Spirit Source Power without a pill, while the resulting ninth fluctuation drew attention across the Dragon Court Mixed Domain. Third Generation Mu Zhang revealed that he had helped eight others advance to lure Zhuang Hong into action, and Chi Zongling feared the consequences of aiding him.

• Zhuang Hong fused Red Spirit, Mental Strength, and Source Power to form True Spirit Source Power, then continued transforming his power and body.
• The ninth True Spirit advancement fluctuation swept through the Dragon Court Mixed Domain, prompting speculation about who had advanced.
• Third Generation Mu Zhang wondered whether Zhuang Hong was the ninth person and said he intended to uncover Zhuang Hong's secrets and kill him.
• Chi Zongling urged Third Generation Mu Zhang to leave because the True God Race might attack, but he chose to stay and watch Zhuang Hong.
• Third Generation Mu Zhang admitted that he had helped the first eight Strange Worms advance, and Chi Zongling panicked that Zhuang Hong would kill her for helping him.

Zhuang Hong completed his advancement to True Spirit ahead of the other Travelers and found Chi Zongling and Third Generation Mu Zhang in hiding. He exposed Mu Zhang’s identity and confronted them with evidence from Mu Zhang’s old Storage Space, while Chi Zongling pleaded for a chance to explain.

• Third Generation Mu Zhang learned that the ninth Traveler had completed their True Spirit transformation in only five days and asked Chi Zongling to identify the two unknown Travelers.
• Chi Zongling said she had already seen the two but did not know them, and Mu Zhang urged her to keep hiding from Zhuang Hong.
• Zhuang Hong suddenly appeared in their cave, revealing that he knew Chi Zongling and Mu Zhang were hiding there.
• Chi Zongling tried to pass Mu Zhang off as her new disciple, Amu, but Zhuang Hong called him Lord Mu Zhang and mentioned the Storage Space he had left behind.
• Zhuang Hong named the Time Crystal Sand and three Jade Slips containing spells, prompting Mu Zhang to realize the records had come from his old spoils.
• Chi Zongling blurted out that Zhuang Hong should listen to her explanation.