Chapter Summaries

Zhou Zheng and Fu Heng ambushed Shockwave, but Shockwave survived a decapitating strike with his Immortal Body and fought back. Zhou Zheng wounded him with a sword that devoured his life force, leaving Shockwave’s regeneration under pressure.

• Fu Heng attacked Shockwave from behind while Zhou Zheng slowed time, and the dagger pierced Shockwave’s head.
• Shockwave regenerated his head with his Immortal Body, then flew toward Zhou Zheng as power of heaven and earth gathered around him.
• Zhou Zheng combined Time Deceleration and Time Acceleration to strike Shockwave’s chest before evading his punch and Wave Domain.
• Zhou Zheng’s domains and Black Fiend Dao Wind Robe blocked Shockwave’s counterattack.
• Shockwave chased Zhou Zheng, then realized the sword wound was consuming his life force at the micro-particle level.

Zhou Zheng and Fu Heng relentlessly attacked Shockwave until Shockwave unleashed his control over the Transcendent World and overwhelmed them with the power of heaven and earth. Zhou Zheng survived behind a Temporal Temple barrier, and Shockwave collapsed after his burst of power faded.

• Zhou Zheng and Fu Heng repeatedly attacked Shockwave, draining his life force while he searched for a chance to kill Zhou Zheng.
• Herk persuaded the Native Transcendents not to join the fight and collected their remaining Special Lifeform Corpses.
• Shockwave merged his aura with the Transcendent World, seized control of the surrounding power of heaven and earth, and forced Fu Heng out of Shadow Space before crushing him to pieces.
• Zhou Zheng activated his dark golden life-saving barrier as Shockwave's attacks engulfed him.
• After more than ten breaths, Shockwave's attacks weakened and he fell from the sky, allowing Zhou Zheng to lower the barrier.

Zhou Zheng defeated Shockwave and the native Transcendents, then returned to the Temporal Temple after the mission ended. He assessed his rewards and found that his haul of Time-Space Points, Origin Stones, and Special Lifeform Corpses was substantial.

• Zhou Zheng approached the dying Shockwave and defeated the native Transcendents who tried to stop him.
• Zhou Zheng took Shockwave's Storage Treasure, and Herk handed over the Special Lifeform Corpses and surviving treasures he had collected.
• Zhou Zheng left Herk to handle the native Transcendents and secretly watched as Herk mocked them before leaving.
• Zhou Zheng waited until the mission deadline, then returned to his Private Space in the Temporal Temple.
• Zhou Zheng checked his rewards and counted 17,100 Time-Space Points, five or six thousand jin of Origin Stones, and nearly seventy percent of the Special Lifeform Corpses.

After becoming a Silver Token Divine Envoy, Zhou Zheng shared mission spoils with his team and told them their next mission would be fifteen years away. He agreed to establish a team territory on Time-Space Island No. 954, then entered the Time-Space Arena.

• A ripple appointed Zhou Zheng a Silver Token Divine Envoy and granted him greater authority.
• Zhou Zheng gave Mo Zitong, Feng Zhuhong, and Herk shares of the Special Lifeform corpse, and handed Herk over a thousand jin of Origin Stones.
• Zhou Zheng said their next mission would be in fifteen years because his promotion had extended the interval, prompting the others to worry about keeping pace with his strength.
• Mo Zitong proposed that the team establish a territory on 954 Time-Space Island, and Zhou Zheng agreed to have Feng Zhuhong set up formations there.
• Zhou Zheng selected the Time-Space Arena through his Temporal Temple mark and vanished from 954 Time-Space Island.

Zhou Zheng entered the Time-Space Arena and learned from Overlord Blade Master how its tavern, rankings, and duels worked. He declined a fight for now, shared a drink with Overlord Blade Master, and discovered the Azure Wave Dew cost one hundred Time-Space Points.

• Zhou Zheng appeared in the arena tavern and met Overlord Blade Master, who invited him to sit and drink.
• Overlord Blade Master explained that the arena was mainly used by Silver Token Divine Envoys and that the tavern let them wait for opponents.
• Overlord Blade Master asked Zhou Zheng for his rank, and Zhou Zheng said his number was 9958.
• Overlord Blade Master guessed Zhou Zheng had an extreme True Meaning, but Zhou Zheng kept quiet about having Proto True Meaning.
• Overlord Blade Master offered to spar, but Zhou Zheng declined until his Proto True Meanings evolved into True Meaning.
• Zhou Zheng toasted with Overlord Blade Master and learned that Azure Wave Dew was a Temporal Temple benefit costing one hundred Time-Space Points.

Zhou Zheng spent twelve of his fifteen years cultivating, focusing on the Micro-particle True Meaning while remaining immersed in contemplation beneath a mountain. Feng Zhuhong returned from her mission having comprehended the Shadow Space Proto True Meaning, and she and Mo Zitong wondered at Zhou Zheng's prolonged stillness.

• Zhou Zheng learned from the Overlord Blade Master how rankings and challenges worked in the Time-Space Arena before leaving for his Private Space.
• Zhou Zheng planned his cultivation for the next fifteen years, prioritizing his body and soul, two Proto True Meanings, and the combination of Wind, Thunder, and Light Mysteries.
• After twelve years, Zhou Zheng contemplated how Micro-particles formed all things and continued studying the Micro-particle True Meaning beneath a mountain on Time-Space Island No. 954.
• Feng Zhuhong returned from a Danger-level Mission after comprehending the Shadow Space Proto True Meaning and met Mo Zitong on the mountain.
• Feng Zhuhong noticed Zhou Zheng had remained motionless for days, and Mo Zitong told her not to disturb him.

Zhou Zheng comprehended the Micro-particle True Meaning and tested its deadly domain before reuniting with Feng Zhuhong and Mo Zitong, who had returned from their missions with new insights. Herk eventually returned badly injured, and Zhou Zheng urged him to recover and improve before the squad’s group mission.

• Zhou Zheng awakened the Micro-particle True Meaning and spread a domain of invisible particles capable of severely injuring even a Demigod.
• Feng Zhuhong and Mo Zitong returned from their mission, and Mo Zitong told Zhou Zheng that Feng Zhuhong had grasped the Shadow Space Proto True Meaning.
• Zhou Zheng learned Herk had not returned and decided to wait, since a month had not yet passed.
• After nearly ten more days, Herk returned with an unstable aura and admitted he had become greedy during his mission.
• Zhou Zheng told Herk to recover and strengthen himself before the group mission, noting that Mo Zitong and Feng Zhuhong had gained new True Meaning abilities.

Zhou Zheng entered the Time-Space Arena and sparred with Crystal Prince, whose Death Domain and powerful recovery overcame Zhou Zheng’s attacks. The defeat exposed Zhou Zheng’s weak physical body, and he left considering whether a top-grade divine secret manual could help him address it.

• Zhou Zheng left Herk to manage his own progress, then entered the Time-Space Arena after mastering Micro-particle True Meaning and rising to rank 6345.
• Overlord Blade Master introduced Zhou Zheng to Crystal Prince, and the two agreed to spar despite their ranking gap.
• Zhou Zheng attacked Crystal Prince with Micro-particle True Meaning, time deceleration, and accelerated sword strikes, but Crystal Prince endured them with a powerful Death Domain and rapid recovery.
• The Temporal Temple stopped the fight when Zhou Zheng’s defenses failed and declared Crystal Prince the victor.
• Back in the tavern, Crystal Prince praised Zhou Zheng’s strength, while Zhou Zheng recognized his frail physical body as a major weakness and considered seeking a solution in a top-grade divine secret manual.

After several battles exposed his fragile body as a deadly weakness, Zhou Zheng studied ways to develop an Immortal Body and searched the mall for a suitable physical cultivation manual. He found the Proto Micro-particle Divine Body and considered choosing it with his Silver Token Divine Envoy privilege.

• Zhou Zheng stayed in the Time-Space Arena for several days and fought more Silver Token Divine Envoys before returning to his Private Space.
• Zhou Zheng recognized that his fragile body left him vulnerable to domain skills and hidden attacks, so he purchased information about Immortal Bodies.
• Zhou Zheng learned that ordinary life forms could gain an Immortal Body through powerful True Meanings, enormous quantities of Origin Stones, or physical Secret Manuals.
• Zhou Zheng decided that a Divine-level Secret Manual was the most suitable option and searched the Temporal Temple mall.
• Zhou Zheng found the top-grade Divine-level Secret Manual Proto Micro-particle Divine Body, whose first level granted an Immortal Body and whose later levels offered vastly greater durability.

Zhou Zheng chose the Proto Micro-particle Divine Body, bought its required resources, and studied the method before beginning cultivation. He completed its first level, gaining a body with peak Saint Level strength and extraordinary regenerative power.

• Zhou Zheng chose the Proto Micro-particle Divine Body and received its cultivation method from the Temporal Temple.
• Zhou Zheng spent thirty thousand Time-Space Points on the required resources and spent three days studying the secret manual.
• Zhou Zheng swallowed a life-force fruit and used Micro-particle True Meaning to reorganize particles in his palm into a new structure.
• Zhou Zheng consumed a hundred and eight fruits as the transformation spread throughout his body.
• Zhou Zheng completed the first level with peak Saint Level physical strength and the ability to recover rapidly unless his body's Particles were pulverized.

Zhou Zheng and the Black Wind Squad began a six-month Danger-level mission on a remote God Realm star, where they had to retrieve experimental records left by a powerful mage. With a hundred Cyclic Reincarnator squads competing and the mage possibly a Deity, Zhou Zheng chose to search cautiously before entering the Experiment Towers.

• Zhou Zheng and his teammates arrived on the star after three years and showed off their new equipment, including his Sun Radiance and Gleaming Moon swords.
• The Temporal Temple assigned the squad a six-month Danger-level mission to find and return experimental information from the star.
• Mo Zitong warned that a hundred squads could threaten one another, while Zhou Zheng noted that the star was vast enough to make encounters less likely.
• Zhou Zheng revealed that the mage had built twelve Experiment Towers and that he knew the location of one, but suggested delaying entry while they searched the star.
• Feng Zhuhong wondered whether the mage had been a Deity, and Zhou Zheng cautioned the squad to be careful.

The Black Wind Squad explored a dangerous planet where Zhou Zheng’s Micro-particle True Meaning detected bizarre, unintelligent lifeforms. After collecting specimens from repeated attacks, the squad found an area Zhou Zheng could not investigate, and Mo Zitong sent an Illusion Clone to scout it.

• Zhou Zheng slowed a lizard-like creature with Time Deceleration, and Mo Zitong and Herk captured it before Herk killed it.
• Feng Zhuhong suspected the creature was connected to a Mage’s experiments, and Zhou Zheng and Feng Zhuhong collected halves of its corpse for study.
• The Black Wind Squad encountered more than ten attacks, including one from a Demigod-level Lifeform, as Zhou Zheng deliberately sought specimens while avoiding threats he judged too powerful.
• Zhou Zheng discovered an area his Micro-particle True Meaning could not investigate and asked Mo Zitong to send an Illusion Clone inside.

Zhou Zheng and his team explored a hidden underground corridor protected by dangerous arrays, using Mo Zitong’s Illusion Clone and Zhou Zheng’s Time Deceleration to get past its traps. At the corridor’s end, Mo Zitong discovered that the latest threat seemed to be a lifeform rather than an array.

• Mo Zitong found an opening underground that led to a corridor lined with sturdy, reinforced walls.
• After a flame destroyed Mo Zitong’s Illusion Clone, Zhou Zheng led the team into the corridor and had Feng Zhuhong place an Alert Array at the entrance.
• Zhou Zheng used Time Deceleration to help Mo Zitong’s Illusion Clone evade the corridor’s bursts of fire.
• The team carefully overcame several more dangers and reached the corridor’s end after hours of exploration.
• Mo Zitong reported that an attacker at the end of the corridor seemed to be a lifeform.

Zhou Zheng and his companions fought a colossal tentacled creature in the vast space, and Zhou Zheng’s Micro-particle True Meaning overwhelmed its regenerating body. The creature surrendered before he could deliver another strike, giving Zhou Zheng a chance to learn about the planet from a sentient local lifeform.

• Zhou Zheng sent Mo Zitong’s Illusion Clone into the space again, where a gigantic creature destroyed it with a single strike.
• Zhou Zheng ordered the group to attack, and Mo Zitong and Herk charged the creature while Feng Zhuhong supported them from afar.
• The creature’s thousand-plus tentacles proved immensely powerful and quickly regenerated after being severed, forcing Mo Zitong and Herk to evade its attacks.
• Zhou Zheng joined the fight and used Micro-particle True Meaning to cut the tentacles and prevent them from regenerating.
• The creature engulfed Zhou Zheng in corrosive black mist, but he continued attacking until it could no longer withstand the damage.
• The creature spoke and surrendered, and Zhou Zheng stopped attacking so he could question it about the planet.

Zhou Zheng’s team found that the enormous creature, Fei Er, could speak and had guarded a Stone Tablet containing a Deity-level Mage’s experimental records. After confirming the records fulfilled their mission, the team chose to hide and cultivate until they could return to the Temporal Temple.

• Zhou Zheng questioned Fei Er and learned that its Master had created it and left a Stone Tablet in its care.
• Fei Er brought out the Stone Tablet, and Feng Zhuhong identified its contents as the Mage’s experimental records and results.
• Zhou Zheng secured a portion of Fei Er’s body, then concluded that the records completed the team’s mission.
• Zhou Zheng decided the team would remain in their hidden refuge until the mission ended, and Herk, Mo Zitong, and Feng Zhuhong agreed not to venture out.
• The four members focused on cultivation and research while they waited, with Zhou Zheng studying the Mage’s conclusions and the lifeforms’ flesh and blood structures.

After grasping the Proto Life True Meaning, Zhou Zheng decided to search for the Deity-level Mage’s experimental records to deepen his understanding of particle structures. He led the Black Wind Squad out to explore, and their search ended when a horned figure recognized him as the Lightning Swordsman.

• Zhou Zheng realized that his newly grasped Proto Life True Meaning was not the path he wanted to pursue, but decided to seek more knowledge about particle structures in the Mage’s research.
• Zhou Zheng told Feng Zhuhong, Mo Zitong, and Herk he would continue searching, and all three chose to accompany him.
• After preparing, Zhou Zheng led the Black Wind Squad away from the underground refuge, taking another piece of Fei Er’s body before they set out.
• For half a month, Zhou Zheng used the Micro-particle True Meaning to investigate unfamiliar lifeforms and capture them, but the squad found no experimental records.
• Zhou Zheng sensed a three-zhang-tall, horned figure a thousand li away, and the figure recognized him as the Lightning Swordsman and flew toward him.

Zhou Zheng met Qiao Yadu, a fellow Silver Token Divine Envoy, who invited him to join forces against a Demigod-level Lifeform in an Underground Laboratory and explore a Mage Tower. Zhou Zheng agreed to discuss the laboratory while rejecting Qiao Yadu’s suggestion that he abandon his current teammates.

• Zhou Zheng recognized Qiao Yadu approaching and warned Herk, Mo Zitong, and the others that he was a powerful Silver Token Divine Envoy who had mastered Micro-particle True Meaning.
• Qiao Yadu greeted Zhou Zheng and proposed cooperating to defeat a Demigod-level Lifeform in an Underground Laboratory and explore a Mage Tower.
• Qiao Yadu said his former teammates were likely dead and urged Zhou Zheng to join a team made entirely of Silver Token Divine Envoys.
• Zhou Zheng refused to leave his current team and agreed to discuss the Underground Laboratory before considering the Mage Tower.

Zhou Zheng accompanied Qiao Yadu to an underground laboratory, where Feng Zhuhong detected an unfamiliar spell formation at the entrance. After Qiao Yadu went inside to investigate, a powerful Demigod emerged and attacked the Black Wind Squad, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Qiao Yadu led Zhou Zheng and the Black Wind Squad to an underground tunnel he had discovered after searching for more than two months.
• Feng Zhuhong sensed an unfamiliar spell formation at the entrance, and Qiao Yadu went deeper into the tunnel to investigate.
• Zhou Zheng led his teammates outside to stay cautious while they waited for Qiao Yadu to return.
• A Demigod emerged from the tunnel and bound the Black Wind Squad with his domain, but Zhou Zheng slowed time and ordered Mo Zitong and Herk to attack.
• Zhou Zheng recognized the Demigod's Dark Divine Heart and life-saving treasure, then drew his Twin Swords and joined the fight.

Zhou Zheng killed a demigod who attacked him and collected the man’s treasures. He then followed Qiao Yadu into the tunnel to confront a fast-moving lifeform, concealing the full strength of his Time Deceleration True Meaning as Qiao Yadu engaged it.

• Zhou Zheng shattered the demigod’s life-saving treasure, killed him with his sword, and took his storage treasure.
• Qiao Yadu returned from the tunnel and told Zhou Zheng that the lifeform they were hunting was still inside.
• Zhou Zheng told Mo Zitong and the other two to wait outside, then followed Qiao Yadu through the dangerous tunnel.
• Zhou Zheng slowed time by thirty times while hiding his progress, and Qiao Yadu charged at the sleeping lifeform.
• The lifeform fled with a burst of speed, but Qiao Yadu trapped it in a blood-red domain and closed the gap.

Zhou Zheng and Qiao Yadu defeated the creature in the Underground Laboratory and recovered the Mage's experimental information. They agreed to use the information to lure or coerce others into a Mage Tower, then parted ways to search for targets.

• Qiao Yadu killed the creature and devoured its soul, learning from its memories that it held experimental information.
• Qiao Yadu retrieved a stone tablet containing the experimental information, and he and Zhou Zheng agreed to divide the tablet and its contents.
• Qiao Yadu proposed using the information to lure and coerce people into one of the planet's Mage Towers so they could assess its dangers and gather intelligence, and Zhou Zheng agreed.
• Qiao Yadu gave Zhou Zheng a Jade Conch for communication, and they left the Underground Laboratory to search separately for suitable targets.
• Zhou Zheng returned to Feng Zhuhong and the other two, gave them copies of the experimental information, and told them it was real.