Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingshan learned from King Qingping that the transportation department purge had exposed Hundred Flowers King as a powerful Demon Race spy responsible for Luo Sha’s death, though she killed herself before the intelligence department could capture her. King Qingping invited Lu Qingshan to join the intelligence department and attend Hong Alliance City’s upcoming super auction; he declined the job but agreed to attend the auction with her.

• King Qingping told Lu Qingshan that the transportation department purge had been driven by the discovery that Hundred Flowers King was a Demon Race spy.
• King Qingping revealed that Hundred Flowers King had helped cause Luo Sha’s death, and that her superior Phoenix Soul King had been sent to Ninth Starfield Prison.
• King Qingping explained that Hundred Flowers King’s true strength and will were formidable, and she self-destructed before Soul Mourning Venerable could enslave her.
• King Qingping invited Lu Qingshan to join the intelligence department in return for a chance at a precious heavy treasure, but he declined and said he preferred acting independently.
• King Qingping invited Lu Qingshan to Hong Alliance City’s once-in-ten-thousand-eras super auction, and he agreed to attend with her.

Hundred Flowers King returned to Demon Race territory after her identity as a long-term spy in the Virtual Universe Company was exposed. Lord of Annihilation praised her service, accepted her as his personal disciple, and equipped her before she chose to train on the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

• Dragon Marten Venerable brought Hundred Flowers King to meet Lord of Annihilation in the Annihilation Forbidden Secret Realm.
• Lord of Annihilation praised Hundred Flowers King's years of espionage and accepted her as his personal disciple.
• Lord of Annihilation gave Hundred Flowers King four top-tier heavy treasures and urged her to strengthen her secret techniques and spatial-law comprehension.
• Hundred Flowers King said she would send her human avatar to train on the Extraterritorial Battlefield and vowed to reach the Universe Venerable realm.
• Lord of Annihilation promised Hundred Flowers King two supreme treasures if she broke through, then watched her and Dragon Marten Venerable depart while thinking of Chaos City Lord.

Lu Qingshan sold his Flash Spirit Grass to the Virtual Universe Company's purchasing department for nine trillion chaos elements, then attended the Hong Alliance super auction with King Qingping. The auction began with host Zichen welcoming the attendees.

• Lu Qingshan visited King Lihuo and agreed to sell his Flash Spirit Grass directly to the Virtual Universe Company's purchasing department for nine trillion chaos elements.
• More than ten years later, Lu Qingshan met King Qingping in Hong Alliance City and entered the super auction with her.
• Lu Qingshan and King Qingping received adjacent seats among the hundreds of thousands of auction attendees.
• Zichen opened the super auction and announced that 306,041 people were attending.

At the Super Auction, Lu Qingshan watched the opening lots sell for enormous sums and bought a Sky-Locking Mirror to counter opponents who could teleport. As the auction continued, he passed on a Time Stop treasure and eventually spotted another lot that strongly interested him.

• Purple Zenith King auctioned the sleeping, unenslaved Stingtail King, whose divine body sold for 13.8 billion mixed yuan units.
• The auction began, and Black Obsidian for rock-type lifeforms sold for more than 1.3 trillion mixed yuan units per piece.
• Purple Zenith King introduced the Sky-Locking Mirror, and King Qingping advised Lu Qingshan to consider buying a teleportation treasure instead.
• Lu Qingshan bid 850 billion mixed yuan units and won a Sky-Locking Mirror for 848 billion mixed yuan units.
• Lu Qingshan passed on a Time Stop treasure priced above 1.8 trillion mixed yuan units and continued watching the auction until another treasure caught his attention.

Lu Qingshan won the Purple Thunder Skywing Sword for 10 trillion chaos units, then borrowed from King Qingping to obtain the Heart of Teleportation at the super auction. The auction ended with him having secured several treasures suited to his abilities, though his remaining wealth was depleted.

• Purple Zenith King introduced the Purple Thunder Skywing Sword, and Lu Qingshan recognized it as a weapon that could greatly improve his strength.
• King Qingping explained the sword’s origins and offered to lend Lu Qingshan money, but he initially said he could afford the bidding himself.
• Lu Qingshan outbid the other contenders and won the Purple Thunder Skywing Sword for 10 trillion chaos units.
• As the super auction continued, Lu Qingshan found a suitable teleportation treasure but lacked enough money to bid for it.
• Lu Qingshan borrowed 700 billion chaos units from King Qingping and won the Heart of Teleportation on the auction’s final day.

Lu Qingshan watched a supreme treasure armor sell for 23,800 heavy treasure points at the Super Auction, then received and inspected the three treasures he had bought. He tested the Sky-Locking Mirror and Heart of Teleportation in a desolate starfield and considered the teleportation device useful mainly for surprise attacks or escape.

• Purple Zenith King announced the supreme treasure armor as the Super Auction’s final item, and Lu Qingshan learned from King Qingping that such a finale was far more valuable than ordinary auction lots.
• Bidders drove the armor’s price to 23,800 heavy treasure points, and guest number ZSE45603 won it as Purple Zenith King closed the auction.
• Lu Qingshan left Chaos City and returned to his residence on the Virtual Universe Company's Headquarters Continent, where King Jin Hong delivered his auction purchases.
• Lu Qingshan opened the cases and examined the Sky-Locking Mirror, Heart of Teleportation, and Purple Thunder Skywing Sword.
• Lu Qingshan tested the Sky-Locking Mirror’s spatial lockdown and the Heart of Teleportation in a desolate starfield, finding the latter less smooth and shorter-ranged than a cultivator’s own teleportation.

Lu Qingshan received the Four Directions God General Inheritance, gained an eighty-sixfold body amplification, and broke through to universe venerable-level willpower. After the inheritance ended, Five Phoenix King and the other inheritors congratulated him and hosted a banquet.

• Lu Qingshan traveled to Blood Demon Continent and waited with the other inheritors for the Four Directions God General Inheritance to open.
• Lu Qingshan used the chat group's enlightenment enhancement function to advance through the inheritance, gaining a Tricolor Fruit and Golden-Thread Dark Cloud Armor.
• Lu Qingshan reached the 8200th step and broke through to universe venerable-level willpower, stabilizing his body and speeding up his comprehension.
• Lu Qingshan continued receiving the inheritance for several thousand years, reached the 8666th step, and left the inheritance hall with eighty-sixfold body amplification.
• Five Phoenix King and the other king-level undyings congratulated Lu Qingshan and invited him to a banquet, where he learned Marcellus and his father had lasted less than ten years.

After gaining enough strength to begin seeking revenge for his past defeats, Lu Qingshan set out to kill Flying Swallow King, the first of seven alien experts he planned to target. Flying Swallow King instead arrived first and attacked the Human Race's King of Bewitching Heart, leaving Lu Qingshan's revenge plan poised to collide with her hunt.

• Lu Qingshan gathered his true self and avatars, strengthened his second avatar, and equipped it with several treasures after confirming that his new bodily amplitude could be used by all his avatars.
• Lu Qingshan judged that he could kill Flying Swallow King, Azure Feather King, Heaven Piercing King, and Mystic Phoenix King, but decided to postpone revenge against Stone Armor King, Golden Inscription King, and the Insect Race Mother Empress Hong Yu.
• Lu Qingshan chose Flying Swallow King as his first target and set off for the Flame Sacrifice Continent.
• Flying Swallow King decided to kill a Human Race king-level immortal before leaving the battlefield, selected King of Bewitching Heart, and obtained his location from Armor-Piercing Marquis.
• Flying Swallow King teleported in front of King of Bewitching Heart's spacecraft, destroyed it with her divine power, and began burning her divine body as she attacked.

Lu Qingshan rescued King of Bewitching Heart from Flying Swallow King, then killed her with a soul attack and learned that Void Squad had fallen years earlier. King of Bewitching Heart returned to Human Race territory to recover, while Lu Qingshan remained on Flame Sacrifice Continent with a new grudge against Spirit Fox King unresolved.

• Flying Swallow King burned her undying divine power and relentlessly attacked King of Bewitching Heart, who fled and offered eight billion mixed element units for rescue.
• Lu Qingshan received King of Bewitching Heart’s distress signal, teleported to the battlefield, and sealed the space as Flying Swallow King tried to escape.
• Lu Qingshan revealed that he was the former Spirit-Burning Marquis, then killed Flying Swallow King instantly with a soul attack.
• King of Bewitching Heart offered Lu Qingshan the promised reward, but Lu Qingshan accepted only the military merits and returned the treasures.
• King of Bewitching Heart told Lu Qingshan that Void Squad had fallen to Spirit Fox King, who had since returned to Thorn Crow Race territory.
• King of Bewitching Heart departed for Human Race territory to recover, while Lu Qingshan postponed taking revenge on Spirit Fox King.

After killing Flying Swallow King, Lu Qingshan hunted down Heaven Piercing King and Azure Feather King, then traveled to the Scarlet Flame Belt to confront Mystic Phoenix King. As Mystic Phoenix King celebrated his newly enslaved Purple Illusion King, Lu Qingshan arrived at his lair.

• Lu Qingshan considered improving his soul-enslavement technique and chose to seek valuable enemies while avoiding a large-scale slaughter that could provoke other races.
• Lu Qingshan examined Flying Swallow King’s carried treasures and found loot worth more than fifty billion chaos units.
• Lu Qingshan tracked down Heaven Piercing King in the Blacklight Sea and killed him with a soul attack.
• Lu Qingshan killed Azure Feather King in the Seven Star Lake region, but failed to enslave him before Azure Feather King self-destructed without harming Lu Qingshan.
• Lu Qingshan traveled to the Scarlet Flame Belt to confront Mystic Phoenix King, while Mystic Phoenix King celebrated enslaving Purple Illusion King with his soul servants.
• Lu Qingshan teleported to Mystic Phoenix King’s lair just as Mystic Phoenix King sensed a strange spatial fluctuation.

Lu Qingshan attacked Mystic Phoenix King in the Scarlet Flame Belt, killing his soul servants and steadily destroying his divine body despite Mystic Phoenix King's desperate resistance. As Demon Race reinforcements began arriving, Lu Qingshan remained confident he could finish Mystic Phoenix King before they reached the fight.

• Lu Qingshan revealed himself to Mystic Phoenix King, resisted his soul attack, and killed all ten of his soul servants with a powerful soul attack.
• Mystic Phoenix King burned his undying divine power and attacked Lu Qingshan, but Lu Qingshan's soul assault disrupted him and the Purple Thunder Skywing Sword destroyed five percent of his divine body.
• Mystic Phoenix King sealed the space again, called for help, and spread word that Lu Qingshan possessed treasures capable of teleportation and space lockdown.
• Demon Race experts received Mystic Phoenix King's distress message and began heading toward the Scarlet Flame Belt to rescue him or investigate the treasure.
• Fire Phoenix King received Mystic Phoenix King's urgent distress message and set out to help the friend who had once saved his life.
• Lu Qingshan pursued the increasingly weakened Mystic Phoenix King as Demon Race experts gathered beyond the space lockdown, confident he could kill him before they arrived.

Lu Qingshan killed Mystic Phoenix King despite Fire Phoenix King's intervention, then fought Fire Phoenix King to a standstill with his soul attacks. He withdrew after the battle, leaving Fire Phoenix King unwilling to risk a deadly fight.

• Demon Race experts rushed to save Mystic Phoenix King, but Lu Qingshan killed Blue Sea King with a soul attack, frightening many of them into retreating.
• Lu Qingshan repeatedly attacked Mystic Phoenix King until Mystic Phoenix King, nearly out of divine power, detonated himself.
• Fire Phoenix King arrived and attacked Lu Qingshan, but Lu Qingshan met his strike and challenged him to a fight.
• Lu Qingshan's soul attacks disrupted Fire Phoenix King's techniques as they exchanged several hundred blows, allowing them to fight evenly.
• Lu Qingshan withdrew and teleported away, while Fire Phoenix King decided against pursuing a deadly fight.

After Lu Qingshan killed Mystic Phoenix King and fought Fire Phoenix King to a draw, the alias Spirit Sword King became famous across the Extraterritorial Battlefield and the Primal Universe. As others investigated his identity, Shadow Lord recognized that Spirit Sword King was Lu Qingshan and decided to keep his identity secret.

• Golden Peak King arrived, watched Fire Phoenix King's battle footage, and ordered the Demon Race camp to investigate Spirit Sword King's identity.
• Demon Race witnesses spread accounts of Spirit Sword King's powerful soul attacks, prompting alien powerhouses to fear and speculate about him.
• Flash Space King learned of Spirit Sword King's strength, decided it was safer to leave the battlefield, and teleported away.
• King Qingping recognized Spirit Sword King as Lu Qingshan and went to report his newfound strength to Shadow Lord.
• Shadow Lord confirmed that Lu Qingshan was Spirit Sword King, told King Qingping to keep his identity secret, and then set out for Radiant Light Venerable's residence.

Radiant Light Venerable and Shadow Lord investigated how Lu Qingshan had suppressed Fire Phoenix King and worried that he might possess a valuable soul-type heavy treasure. Lu Qingshan explained that his will had reached the Universe Venerable level and revealed that his soul amplitude was eighty-eightfold, leaving Radiant Light Venerable stunned.

• Shadow Lord showed Radiant Light Venerable records of Lu Qingshan’s battle and warned that other experts might target him if they suspected he owned a top-tier soul-type heavy treasure.
• Radiant Light Venerable invited Lu Qingshan to the Virtual Universe and asked how he had suppressed Fire Phoenix King with soul attacks.
• Lu Qingshan said his will had broken through to the Universe Venerable level, delighting Radiant Light Venerable and Shadow Lord.
• Radiant Light Venerable asked whether Lu Qingshan’s soul amplitude had reached thirtyfold, and Lu Qingshan revealed that it had risen to eighty-eightfold after he received the Spirit Wind God General Inheritance.
• Radiant Light Venerable froze in shock at Lu Qingshan’s answer.

Lu Qingshan told Radiant Light Venerable and Shadow Lord how far he had advanced in the Spirit Wind God General Inheritance, then Radiant Light Venerable arranged to buy him a lightning-element heavy treasure armor on credit from Fire God Venerable. Fire God Venerable remained curious about Lu Qingshan’s unexplained importance as Radiant Light Venerable prepared to collect the armor in Chaos City.

• Lu Qingshan confirmed that he had reached the 8,888th inheritance stair before Jiu Feng Venerable obtained the complete Spirit Wind God General Inheritance.
• Shadow Lord and Radiant Light Venerable marveled at Lu Qingshan’s soul amplitude and universe venerable-level willpower, then urged him to keep advancing his comprehension.
• At a gathering on Thunder Island, Fire God Venerable discussed his forged heavy treasure armors, while the others talked about the delay in resurrecting fallen members of the Virtual Universe Company faction.
• Radiant Light Venerable privately asked Fire God Venerable for a lightning-element heavy treasure armor for Myriad Worlds King Lu Qingshan.
• Radiant Light Venerable agreed to pay five heavy treasure points up front and repay the remaining fourteen within ten million eras, and Fire God Venerable accepted the arrangement.
• After Radiant Light Venerable left, Fire God Venerable searched Lu Qingshan’s files but found nothing that explained why Radiant Light Venerable valued him so highly.

Radiant Light Venerable gave Lu Qingshan the Thunder Dragon Shaking-Heaven Armor and promised to recommend him to his own teacher if Lu Qingshan reached the twentieth Heavenward Bridge level and created a pinnacle-level combat secret technique. After millions of years of cultivation and repeated trials, Lu Qingshan created the first move of such a technique, but a sudden call interrupted him.

• Lu Qingshan sold the treasures he had acquired and repaid King Qingping before preparing to cultivate in Chaos City.
• Radiant Light Venerable visited Lu Qingshan, praised his strength, and bestowed the Thunder Dragon Shaking-Heaven Armor upon him.
• Radiant Light Venerable promised to recommend Lu Qingshan to his teacher once he reached the twentieth Heavenward Bridge level and created a pinnacle-level combat secret technique.
• Lu Qingshan gave the armor to his second avatar for use in the Extraterritorial Battlefield while his true body continued comprehending the time fundamental law.
• After several million years, Lu Qingshan failed to comprehend Time Stop from the Heavenly Thunder Chaos Stele, but gained further insights through the enlightenment enhancement function.
• Lu Qingshan defeated the Eight-Armed Demon Insect in training and created the first move of a pinnacle-level combat secret technique, just as a call rang beside his true body in Chaos City.

King Tongye returned to Chaos City badly wounded after Flying Spear King nearly killed her, and Lu Qingshan decided to confront him despite her warning. Lu Qingshan gathered his soul-slave experts and traveled to the Redfire Domain, where he located Flying Spear King and set out to attack him.

• King Tongye told Lu Qingshan that Flying Spear King had nearly killed her in the Extraterritorial Battlefield and that Heart-Devouring King had rescued her at great cost.
• King Tongye settled in Chaos City to recover and guide their fellow disciples, then left with them after several days of conversation.
• Lu Qingshan ended his second body's seclusion and revealed that he had enslaved five powerful alien King-level limit experts, all stronger than Flying Spear King.
• Lu Qingshan ordered Extreme Mountain King to lead him and his soul slaves to the Redfire Domain, using a divine power token left there by one of Extreme Mountain King's servants.
• After waiting more than ten years, Lu Qingshan learned that Flying Spear King was attacking a Human Race squad and ordered Black Blade King to teleport them near his location.

Lu Qingshan killed Flying Spear King and learned that Meng Huan needed help defending the Great Prosperity World from Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable. Lu Qingshan agreed to intervene, and Meng Huan sent him 120,000 points as the battle in the Great Prosperity World grew dire.

• Lu Qingshan arrived as Flying Spear King hunted a human faction team, sealed the area, and killed him with a soul attack.
• The two surviving human experts identified Lu Qingshan as Spirit Sword King, and word of Flying Spear King's death reached King Tongye, who celebrated in Chaos City.
• Meng Huan told the chat group that Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable was invading the Great Prosperity World to force Qin Yun to surrender the remaining Starstone.
• Meng Huan explained that Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable had gained the upper hand with the Lunar Disc, leaving Qin Yun at risk of surrendering the Starstone or attempting a dangerous breakthrough.
• Lu Qingshan agreed to help confront Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable, and Meng Huan transferred him 120,000 points.

Lu Qingshan accepted Meng Huan’s request for help and crossed into the Great Prosperity World, where the Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable was threatening to destroy Qin Yun’s homeland. Lu Qingshan emerged before the assembled watchers and left the protective formation to face the devil, with their battle about to begin.

• Meng Huan offered Lu Qingshan 120,000 points to help save the Great Prosperity World, and Lu Qingshan agreed to come.
• The Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable attacked the world’s eight protective formations while Patriarch Zhang and Qin Yun failed to stop him; Qin Yun prepared to force a breakthrough until Meng Huan asked him to wait for help.
• Lu Qingshan used the group’s cross-world passage to arrive unnoticed in Kunlun Province, where the local Heavenly Dao suppressed his ability to draw on the origin laws of his own universe.
• Lu Qingshan revealed himself to the experts watching the crisis, then challenged the Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable and asked Patriarch Zhang to let him through the formation.
• Patriarch Zhang allowed Lu Qingshan to leave the formation, and Lu Qingshan confronted the Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable as the chat group watched.

Lu Qingshan tested Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable’s power, then burned his immortal divine power and turned the fight around. He killed Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable, leaving the Great Prosperity World’s fate unresolved.

• Lu Qingshan endured Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable’s attacks while Patriarch Zhang and the others failed to break through the fiend’s defenses.
• Lu Qingshan attacked with the Purple Thunder Skywing Sword, but Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable dismissed his blows and continued tearing at the defensive formation.
• Lu Qingshan burned his immortal divine power and struck Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable’s true body, forcing him to flee.
• Lu Qingshan caught up with Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable and repeatedly slashed away his black-cloud body.
• Lu Qingshan ignored Star-Annihilating Grand Venerable’s pleas and annihilated him, leaving behind a few items.