Chapter Summaries

Zhuang Hong awoke after transforming into a god and reunited with Xu Kaidong and the others, who celebrated his breakthrough and asked about his divine title. He explained that he had not yet gained a Divinity Trait, then advised Strange Worms to devour their other selves as a shortcut to advancing.

• Zhuang Hong awoke in space, summoned Xu Kaidong, Nan Tian, and the others with their starship, and realized his immense body could endanger them.
• Zhuang Hong shrank back to human size and confirmed he had broken through to God Level, prompting the group to congratulate him.
• Nan Tian suggested Zhuang Hong choose a Deity Title, but Zhuang Hong said he would wait until he obtained a Divinity Trait.
• Zhuang Hong invited everyone to celebrate with a feast and explained that Strange Worms could advance by fusing with and devouring their other selves.
• Hua Jinglian regretted that his other selves were in the Dragon Court Mixed Domain, while Zhuang Hong told Cosmic Spirit Race members they had no such shortcut and should cultivate normally.

Zhuang Hong studied the Summoning God Grass and learned to make his divinity pulse in its pattern, gaining the Life Aura Divinity Trait. The aura transformed his starship and energized those aboard, and he continued cultivating aboard another ship.

• Zhuang Hong considered how difficult gods were to kill and recognized that he lacked an effective way to defend against other gods' Divinity Traits.
• Zhuang Hong took out the Summoning God Grass and observed the hidden, closed-loop pattern of its divinity.
• Zhuang Hong guided his divinity to imitate the plant's pattern and successfully produced a dense Life Aura.
• The Life Aura brought those aboard nearby starships renewed vitality and transformed Zhuang Hong's starship into a living forest.
• Zhuang Hong took out another starship and continued cultivating to master more Divinity Traits.

Zhuang Hong discovered that his divinity had transformed into the Life Force Trait, which let him awaken, accelerate, and drain life. After testing its effects on Star Beasts and Xu Kaidong, he continued to explore the trait’s limits as those around him marveled at his power.

• The crowd reacted with astonishment as Nan Tian announced Zhuang Hong’s Divinity Trait and dubbed him the God of Life.
• Zhuang Hong tested Life Power on lifeless objects and living material, finding that it could create a complete life form from material taken from a creature.
• He discovered that his Life Aura transformed his starship and nearby starships into thriving habitats filled with plants and Star Beasts.
• Zhuang Hong asked Xu Kaidong and the others for flesh and blood, then used Xu Kaidong’s sample to create a giant duplicate that grew to Sacred Spirit Level strength.
• Zhuang Hong reversed the flow of Life Power, draining the giant and a Star Beast of their life force, then concluded that he could grant and reclaim life from living creatures.

Zhuang Hong investigated the encrypted Divinity Trait in Time Crystal Sand by studying the Giant Corpse Gods, while learning other Traits and how gods fought. After twenty years, he had mastered nearly every Trait he possessed but had not yet deciphered Time Crystal Sand or Flowing Light.

• Zhuang Hong discovered that his Life Power had destroyed nearly all the starships, then gave Xu Kaidong and the others one of his two remaining ships.
• Zhuang Hong realized the Giant Corpse God might reveal the Time Crystal Sand Trait, so he activated one and examined the changes in its divinity.
• Zhuang Hong found that the God of Time had scrambled the Time Crystal Sand Trait and protected the Giant Corpse God with a binding formation, making both difficult to decipher.
• Zhuang Hong recorded the Time Crystal Sand fluctuations for Da Qi to analyze and decided to study more Giant Corpse Gods until he found the pattern.
• Over ten years, Zhuang Hong mastered all his other Divinity Traits except those of Time Crystal Sand and Flowing Light, and began learning to use Traits in combat.

Talisman Art emerged from ninety years of seclusion after developing divine arts that could threaten gods, and his friends came to see him. He planned to redesign his Little Spirit Army and Blue Fur units, while Zhuang Hong struggled to accept that someone younger than five hundred years old had become a god.

• Talisman Art reflected on how dreams and most mind-based abilities failed against gods, but runes, Talisman Arts, and the Little Spirit Army could still harm them.
• Talisman Art developed divine arts using trait-bearing power and Golden Light Bullets, which could damage a god's body and defenses.
• Talisman Art emerged from seclusion, and Lord Zhuang, Hua Wanying, Wei Ke, and Yan Ning flew over to congratulate him.
• Lord Zhuang admitted he wanted a change from the monotonous surroundings, while Talisman Art criticized him, Hua Wanying, and Wei Ke for remaining True Spirits.
• Zhuang Hong questioned his own achievements after learning that Talisman Art had become a god before turning five hundred.
• Talisman Art returned to the Sea of Consciousness World to redesign Blue Fur and the Little Spirits for future battles.

Fu Wen completed a portable teleportation array and implanted one in several companions, letting them travel between fixed locations with a small pattern on their hands. Shi Li expanded the Void Islands with Life Power, while Shi planned to keep researching before returning to the Yong Ze Star Territory.

• Shi Li decided to study teleportation arrays before returning to the Yong Ze Star Territory, where he expected to face its gods and eventually the God of Time.
• Fu Wen analyzed the arrays he had recovered from Lookout Star and developed a small, low-power version that could be inscribed on a hand and linked to a unique transmission code.
• Fu Wen implanted teleportation Little Spirits in Hua Wanying, Shi Licheng, Shi Li, and Blue Fur, then explained how they could use their arrays to travel between locations.
• Hua Wanying and Blue Fur tested their arrays by teleporting to Fu Wen, while Eternal Marsh and Xu Kaidong reacted to the patterns and their personal codes.
• Shi Li released Life Power that rapidly enlarged multiple Void Islands, and Shi Licheng covered his hand pattern with a ribbon.

Zhuang Hong mastered Flowing Light and, after nearly a century of research, discovered the divinity law of Time and gained Time Power. He stored his lifetime of experiences in a Time Unit, while the people around him sensed an aura resembling the God of Time's.

• Zhuang Hong studied Flowing Light and learned to use its rays as an attack, while discovering that non-Source Power energy such as Deep Space Crystal could shield against it.
• Zhuang Hong continued researching Time Crystal Sand as a powerful fluctuation spread from his starship and was sensed across the void.
• Nan Tian, Xu Kaidong, Wei Ke, Blue Fur, and the Spirit Race members recognized the fluctuation as resembling the Giant Corpse God and the God of Time.
• Da Qi analyzed years of recorded data and found the divinity law of Time Crystal Sand, allowing Zhuang Hong to master Time Power.
• Zhuang Hong stored his lifetime of experiences in a Time Unit and learned that he could use other people's Lifetime Strength, though using the power erased the user's traces of existence.

Zhuang Hong mastered Time Power and discovered that it could record a person's Lifetime Experience through contact with living tissue. After testing the ability on Nan Tian and the other Sacred Spirits, he completed his research and prepared to leave the void for the Yong Ze Star Territory.

• Zhuang Hong studied Time Power and realized that a Time Unit could store someone's Lifetime Experience and let him draw upon their Lifetime Strength.
• Zhuang Hong summoned Nan Tian and five Sacred Spirits, then recorded their Lifetime Experience and confirmed they felt no abnormalities.
• Nan Tian recognized Zhuang Hong's aura as similar to the God of Time's, and Zhuang Hong asked Dao Liang to provide a cell for testing.
• Zhuang Hong discovered that he could record Dao Liang's Lifetime Experience through a distant cell and confirmed that living tissue could serve as a link.
• Zhuang Hong spent five years researching how to defend against Time Power, then announced that they would leave the void for the Chaotic Stone Star Cluster in the Yong Ze Star Territory in three days.

Eternal Marsh returned to the Chaotic Stone Star Cluster with Yue Fang and his crew, raiding pirate groups while preparing a network of Teleportation Little Spirits to claim the region as Zhuang Hong’s territory. After reaching the Zhuang Hong Starfield, he began laying plans to spread the network and drive out the other pirates.

• Eternal Marsh sent more than two hundred thousand Teleportation Little Spirits to establish a mesh network around the Chaotic Stone Star Cluster, though Da Qi estimated that over twenty million would be needed to cover it.
• Eternal Marsh and Yue Fang traveled toward the Chaotic Stone Star Cluster, raiding several Hunting Groups along the way and capturing some of their Origin Spirits and Sacred Spirits.
• Eternal Marsh used a dream to rob a pirate group without its members realizing what had happened, then ordered his crew to take a few captives for experiments rather than kill everyone.
• After fifty years of travel, Yue Fang and the others arrived at the Zhuang Hong Starfield and began discussing how they would raid pirates and spread the network across the cluster.
• Eternal Marsh said they would gradually set up star points throughout the Chaotic Stone Star Cluster and aimed to complete the network within three hundred years.

Zhuang Hong tested the power gained by erasing people’s past experiences and discovered that the people retained their memories even after their experiences were removed. He released Captain Lu Shen, who claimed he remembered everything but had been forgotten.

• The crew aboard the starship suspected the Golden Light Pirate Group had stolen their Storage Spaces and made their captain and squad captains disappear.
• Zhuang Hong inspected the plunder, returned the Storage Spaces to his crew, and confined several captured pirates in Time Units.
• Zhuang Hong erased a Holy Spirit’s first twenty thousand years of experience and used the resulting power to destroy a massive asteroid with one punch.
• Zhuang Hong released Jing Ji and learned that he still remembered his erased experiences, though his Storage Space was gone.
• Zhuang Hong erased another Holy Spirit’s entire past and used its power to destroy a second asteroid.
• Zhuang Hong released Captain Lu Shen, who said he could not forget anything he had experienced but had been ruthlessly forgotten.

Zhuang Hong experimented with Time Power and discovered he could drain strength from captured Origin Spirits, while Lu Shen sank into despair after his past experiences were erased. A month later, Lu Shen believed the universe was accepting him again and resumed stabbing himself.

• Lu Shen described feeling rejected and forgotten by the universe, then borrowed a knife from Zhuang Hong and stabbed himself to feel pain.
• Zhuang Hong examined the Time Crystal Sand formed from Lu Shen's recorded experiences and found it appeared higher in quality than the God of Time's.
• Zhuang Hong drained an Origin Spirit's Life Aura to strengthen himself, killed him, and found that the Spirit's recorded experiences remained in the Time Unit.
• Over the next month, Zhuang Hong killed more than a dozen captured Origin Spirits while experimenting with Time Power, leaving three Saint Spirits alive.
• Lu Shen said he felt the universe accepting him again and continued stabbing himself with Zhuang Hong's knife.

Lu Shen built up his power by storing the experiences of Holy Spirits and spent years robbing pirate groups, drawing attention from the Great Universe. As he and the Lost King finally met, the God of Blazing Fire set out to confront Lu Shen and claim his Heart of Infinity.

• Zhuang Hong realized that recorded Lifetime Experiences could replenish the Time Units and began considering how to capture the power of gods.
• Over ten years, Lu Shen recorded the experiences of one hundred and seventy Holy Spirits and robbed numerous pirate groups with the Golden Light Pirate Group.
• Rumors spread that the Ghost Pirate Group was the Golden Light Pirate Group returned, reigniting treasure hunting in the Yong Ze Star Territory.
• The Lost King searched for Lu Shen while Lu Shen headed toward the Lost King's territory, and their groups met half a year later.
• Lu Shen and the Lost King clashed with their divinities before seeing each other's faces, and the Lost King was startled by Lu Shen's power.
• The God of Blazing Fire learned that the Golden Light Pirate Group had returned and went to confront Lu Shen, hoping to take his Heart of Infinity.

Zhuang Hong confronted the Lost King over the destruction of his starship and the deaths of his subordinates, then fought him by copying his divine techniques. The Lost King’s attacks damaged Zhuang Hong but could not overcome his vastly greater power, and Zhuang Hong left him demanding to show something new.

• The Lost King recognized Zhuang Hong’s immense divine power but believed his crude control gave him a chance to win.
• Zhuang Hong identified himself as the Golden Light Bandit and demanded an explanation for the Lost King destroying his starship and killing his subordinates two hundred years earlier.
• The Lost King proposed destroying Zhuang Hong’s fleet to settle the score, then attacked when Zhuang Hong refused.
• The Lost King used Lost Power and several other divine techniques against Zhuang Hong, who endured the damage and learned to imitate each move.
• Zhuang Hong countered the Lost King’s attacks and taunted him to show something new, leaving the Lost King stunned by his ability to copy the techniques.

Zhuang Hong fought the Lost King and revealed that he could learn divine spells after seeing them once. After breaking the Lost King’s strongest techniques, Zhuang Hong pursued him, intent on learning more ways to use divine power.

• The Lost King trapped Zhuang Hong with the Hinged Dragon and attacked him with Divine Light, but Zhuang Hong copied the spell and used Life Power to badly erode the Lost King’s body.
• Zhuang Hong learned the Hinged Dragon spell after seeing it, swallowed the Lost King, and tested Time Power on his decoy body.
• The Lost King realized Zhuang Hong was learning his techniques and tried to escape, but Zhuang Hong noticed and pursued him.
• Zhuang Hong used the Lost King’s own Divine Light technique to attack him, then urged him to demonstrate more spells.
• The Lost King fled again, while Zhuang Hong concluded that learning divine spells could make killing gods far easier.

Zhuang Hong tested the strength he had recorded from the Lost King’s fifty thousand years of life and shattered the god’s body and divinity with one punch. The Lost King rebuilt himself, surrendered his treasures, and agreed to cooperate in Zhuang Hong’s experiments, leaving his fate in Zhuang Hong’s hands.

• Zhuang Hong struck the Lost King with a punch, scattering his body and divinity and destroying the starship carrying his subordinates.
• The Lost King gathered his divinity and rebuilt his body while Zhuang Hong watched, then admitted he could neither fight nor escape.
• The Lost King surrendered his Storage Space sphere, and Zhuang Hong found more than a hundred treasures containing divinity inside.
• Zhuang Hong told the Lost King to cooperate in experiments and warned that his survival depended on his performance.
• The Lost King agreed to accompany Zhuang Hong, while Zhuang Hong notified Xu Kaidong and the others to collect the spoils.

Zhuang Hong kept the Lost King, whose real name was Zuo Guangping, on a meteorite to learn about divinity and experiment with divine techniques. After choosing the title God of Golden Light, Zhuang Hong mastered and tested new divine formations, then asked the Lost King to teach him the Lost Divinity Trait.

• Zhuang Hong introduced himself to the Lost King, who revealed his real name, Zuo Guangping, and warned that gods should protect their personal information from powerful beings such as the God of Divination.
• Zhuang Hong chose Golden Light as his Divine Name and settled on the title God of Golden Light after demonstrating an attack that erased a distant meteorite.
• The Lost King explained three categories of divine power techniques: blocking perception and dividing divine power, transforming into Divine Light to bypass defenses, and coordinating attacks through formations.
• Zhuang Hong quickly developed more than a dozen powerful formations for divine attacks and tested them, astonishing the Lost King.
• Zhuang Hong finished experimenting and asked the Lost King to teach him the Lost Divinity Trait.

Zhuang Hong quickly learned the Lost King’s Divinity Trait and discovered that his bodily cultivation had made his learning ability far surpass that of the gods. He began an experiment to draw gods into his Fully Virtual World of Doing as One Pleases, while his companions gathered the looted Storage Spaces.

• The Lost King displayed his Lost Trait, and Zhuang Hong mastered it after a brief examination, astonishing the Lost King.
• The Lost King revealed that mastering the trait had taken him around fifty thousand years, and Zhuang Hong reflected on how developing his body had transformed his mind and learning ability.
• Zhuang Hong asked the Lost King to relax while he conducted an experiment involving the Fully Virtual World of Doing as One Pleases.
• Xu Kaidong and the others debated whether to bring the looted Storage Spaces to Zhuang Hong, then decided to collect them from Nan Tian and Qing Zhu’s group.
• Nan Tian and Qing Zhu’s group readily handed over the Storage Spaces, leaving Xu Kaidong embarrassed when Wei Ke suggested they had overheard his plan.

Zhuang Hong perfected a way to trap gods in dreams during battle and tested it successfully on the Lost King. He set out with the Lost King to find three other pirate-group leaders, while warning his companions to conceal their identities and use code names.

• Zhuang Hong realized he could distract a god with attacks and secretly pull them into a dream during combat, then tested the method on the Lost King.
• Zhuang Hong trapped the Lost King in dreams twice without him noticing and confirmed the spell worked.
• Zhuang Hong asked the Lost King to lead him to the other three major pirate groups in the Chaotic Stone Star Cluster so he could test his spell and take their divine items.
• The Lost King agreed to guide Zhuang Hong, who promised to release him once they found the three gods.
• Xu Kaidong gave Zhuang Hong the Storage Spaces taken from the Lost Pirate Group, and Zhuang Hong returned most of their contents to his companions.
• Zhuang Hong warned Xu Kaidong and Hua Wanying not to reveal their origins and assigned them code names as the group prepared to depart.

Zhuang Hong tracked down the Revolving Wheel King, defeated him repeatedly, and forced him to surrender his belongings and teach him his Revolving Wheel Divinity. In the Yong Ze Star Territory, the God of Blazing Fire learned Zhuang Hong’s location and prepared to confront him in the Chaotic Stone Star Cluster.

• The Lost King explained that the Revolving Wheel King’s divinity made him difficult to fight, while Zhuang Hong said he planned to rob him.
• Two years later, Zhuang Hong found the Revolving Wheel King and shattered his body and divinity with a punch powered by 40,000 Years Sacred Spirit Power.
• As the Revolving Wheel King reformed, Zhuang Hong recorded him in the Time Unit, then punched him again when he questioned what had happened.
• Zhuang Hong forced the weakened Revolving Wheel King to surrender his Storage Space and demanded that he teach him the Revolving Wheel Divinity.
• A subordinate told the God of Blazing Fire that Zhuang Hong and the Lost King were in the Revolving Wheel Pirate Group’s territory, and Yan Zhe asked to attack them.
• The God of Blazing Fire ordered a divine warship prepared so he could depart for the Chaotic Stone Star Cluster in two days.

After defeating Revolving Wheel King, Zhuang Hong stayed aboard his starship to study a strange black stone called the Crystallization of Annihilation. He discovered that it absorbed even immense attacks and resolved to decipher its complex Divinity Trait, believing Xiao Qi could help him within two years.

• Lost King mocked the injured Revolving Wheel King and learned that he had used a Fire Transmission Stone to inform God of Blazing Fire.
• Lost King warned Zhuang Hong that Revolving Wheel King and others had ties to God King factions, but Zhuang Hong said he had stayed to await God of Blazing Fire.
• Zhuang Hong examined the Crystallization of Annihilation and found that it made the force of his attacks disappear, even when he used ten thousand years of Sacred Spirit Power.
• Zhuang Hong studied the stone’s intricate divinity patterns and decided he would master its Divinity Trait with Xiao Qi’s help within two years.