Ch. 517Undercurrents Surge

The Human Race rallied alien Universe Masters from the Hong Alliance for the coming war against the Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race, offering rewards and agreeing to protect their races. After gathering more than seventy Universe Masters, the Human Race chose to strike the Machine Race first and assembled its forces in a remote region of Human Territory.

  • Chaos City Lord told Lu Qingshan and Giant Axe Creator that the Demon, Insect, and Machine Races had begun coordinating their response to the Human Race’s victory.
  • Chaos City Lord invited the Hong Alliance’s alien Universe Masters to join the coming war, and Lu Qingshan offered rewards and agreed to their conditions for participating.
  • Thirteen additional alien Universe Masters joined the Human Race’s side, bringing its allied forces to more than seventy Universe Masters.
  • Lu Qingshan proposed attacking the Machine Race before its allies could assemble, and the Human Race’s experts agreed.
  • Giant Axe Creator, Lu Qingshan’s three battle avatars, and the assembled Universe Masters gathered in four palace-type supreme treasures in a remote part of Human Territory.

Ch. 518Different Schemes

The Human Race launched an attack on Machine Race territory, but the Machine Race had gathered its allies and was prepared to resist. Lu Qingshan confronted the Machine Race Father God while Giant Axe Creator looked for a chance to strike the enemy forces, and Lu Qingshan became trapped in the Father God's mechanical puppet swarm.

  • Giant Axe Creator led the Human Race's Universe Masters and allied experts toward the Machine Race's core territory to eliminate or suppress its Universe Masters before reinforcements arrived.
  • The Machine Race Father God learned that the Human Race was approaching and ordered the Machine Race and allied Universe Masters to gather inside Lord Luo Chen's palace-type supreme treasure.
  • The Human Race's four palace-type supreme treasures appeared before the Machine Race Father God, and Lu Qingshan challenged him after he insulted Lu Qingshan for interrupting his exchange with Giant Axe Creator.
  • Lu Qingshan told Giant Axe Creator to attack the enemy Universe Masters while he held off the Machine Race Father God.
  • The Machine Race Father God unleashed 10,081 mechanical puppets, and Lu Qingshan's peak sixth-tier sword attack met their combined fist strike without either combatant being pushed back.
  • The Machine Race Father God sent the puppet army against Lu Qingshan again, surrounding and entangling him.

Ch. 519Stalemate

The Human Race ambushed the Machine Race faction and killed three of its Universe Masters before the Machine Race Father God arrived to protect the survivors. The Demon Race and Insect Race reinforcements then joined the battle, leaving both sides wary as the three-race alliance gathered only about eighty Universe Masters, with more than twenty still missing.

  • The Giant Axe Creator led more than seventy Human Race and allied Universe Masters in a combined attack on the Machine Race faction.
  • Lu Qingshan's two other avatars joined the assault, overwhelming the Machine Race's defenses and killing three Universe Masters before the Machine Race Father God could intervene.
  • The Machine Race Father God urged the Demon Race and Insect Race to hurry, and their forces arrived after both had deliberately delayed their reinforcements.
  • The Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race gathered their Universe Masters and resumed the battle against the Human Race faction.
  • The Human Race discovered that the three-race alliance had only about eighty Universe Masters present, and suspected the more than twenty missing fighters were part of a scheme.

Ch. 520Suppression, Self-Destruction

The Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race joined forces to ambush Lu Qingshan, and the Insect Race Empress managed to suppress his main combat body inside the Empress Palace. Lu Qingshan refused to surrender his treasures and self-destructed the captured body, leaving the battle unresolved.

  • The Insect Race Empress and dozens of Universe Masters joined forces to drive Giant Axe Creator back while Dream Demon Ancestor and Shock Demon Ancestor blocked him from helping Lu Qingshan.
  • The Insect Race Empress, Shock Demon Ancestor, Machine Race Father God, and their Universe Masters attacked Lu Qingshan's main combat body, but he survived the combined strike and rapidly recovered his divine power.
  • Machine Race Father God’s mechanical puppets prevented Lu Qingshan from escaping into the Dark Universe as the Empress Palace drew him inside.
  • The Insect Race Empress released Machine Race Father God’s puppets and offered to spare Lu Qingshan’s captured body if he surrendered his supreme treasures.
  • Lu Qingshan refused, declared that they would meet again, and self-destructed his main combat body along with the split divine body of the Endless Divine Sea Body.

Ch. 521Back and Forth

Lu Qingshan escaped the Insect Race Empress’s suppression by rebuilding his body from his vast reserves of divine power, then proved he could still unleash pinnacle sixth-tier strength without the treasures she seized. The three-race alliance continued the war rather than negotiate, while Lu Qingshan stayed beside Giant Axe Creator to avoid being isolated again.

  • The Insect Race Empress discovered that Lu Qingshan had left behind only several pinnacle or top-grade true treasures, not the supreme treasures she expected.
  • Lu Qingshan restored his body inside Giant Axe Creator’s world ring, armed himself with prepared treasures, and asked Giant Axe Creator to release him.
  • Lu Qingshan returned to the battlefield and struck Dream Demon Ancestor with Beginning of Myriad Paths, matching the power of his earlier attacks.
  • The Insect Race Empress concluded that Lu Qingshan’s pinnacle sixth-tier strength came from a secret technique he had created, not from supreme true treasures.
  • The Insect Race Empress proposed negotiating, but Dream Demon Ancestor, Shock Demon Ancestor, and the Machine Race Father God chose to keep fighting.
  • Lu Qingshan stayed close to Giant Axe Creator as the two camps continued clashing.

Ch. 522Ceasefire

Lu Qingshan and Giant Axe Creator led the human camp against the three-race alliance until both sides’ Universe Masters suffered heavy divine-power losses. Lu Qingshan proposed a ceasefire, which the Insect Race Empress and Machine Race Father God accepted despite Dream Demon Ancestor’s objections, and the human forces withdrew from Machine Race territory.

  • Dream Demon Ancestor and the three-race alliance gathered more than a hundred Universe Masters to attack the human camp, while Lu Qingshan and Giant Axe Creator rallied the human forces to defend.
  • The two camps fought for more than half a day, steadily depleting their Universe Masters’ divine power without killing anyone from the human camp.
  • The Insect Race Empress and Giant Axe Creator told their allies that their forces were weary, and Lu Qingshan concluded that the time was right to negotiate a ceasefire.
  • Lu Qingshan proposed a ceasefire to Dream Demon Ancestor, Shock Demon Ancestor, the Insect Race Empress, and Machine Race Father God; Dream Demon Ancestor objected, but the Insect Race Empress and Machine Race Father God supported the proposal.
  • The Insect Race Empress agreed to a ceasefire on the condition that the Human Race stop ambushing their Universe Masters, and Lu Qingshan agreed before the human forces withdrew from Machine Race territory.

Ch. 523Celebration, Losses, and the Division of Territories

After the Human Race forced the Demon, Insect, and Machine Races to negotiate, Lu Qingshan gained authority equal to the Giant Axe Creator and led the territory talks. The chapter ended with Lu Qingshan demanding half of the core territories and the rival leaders rejecting his claim.

  • Lu Qingshan and the Giant Axe Creator celebrated the Human Race's success, and the Human Race's Universe Masters agreed to give Lu Qingshan authority equal to the Giant Axe Creator's.
  • The Chaos City Lord calculated that the Human Race owed foreign allies numerous valuable treasures, and Lu Qingshan instructed him to fulfill their promises.
  • The Giant Axe Creator assigned Lu Qingshan to negotiate with the Demon, Insect, and Machine Races.
  • At the meeting, the Insect Race Empress offered the Human Race forty star regions, but Lu Qingshan rejected the offer and demanded half of the core territories.
  • Dream Demon Ancestor threatened to resume the war, while Shock Demon Ancestor and the Insect Race Empress argued that Lu Qingshan's strength did not justify giving the Human Race half the territory.

Ch. 524Butterfly Wings, Vast Territory

Lu Qingshan negotiated with the Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race to expand Human Race territory, securing the cession of 600 star sectors. After reflecting on how the expansion could change Human Race’s future, he returned to the Primal Universe to inform its experts.

  • Lu Qingshan demanded that Human Race receive two-fifths of the core territory, but Dream Demon Ancestor and Shock Demon Ancestor rejected the proposal and threatened war.
  • Shock Demon Ancestor proposed a smaller territorial settlement, but Lu Qingshan refused to let the other races dictate his future breakthrough and insisted Human Race deserved more territory.
  • The Insect Race Empress, Machine Race Father God, and Shock Demon Ancestor agreed to cede Human Race 150, 150, and 300 adjacent star sectors respectively, and Lu Qingshan accepted their offer.
  • Dream Demon Ancestor departed angrily, while Shock Demon Ancestor and the other leaders discussed withdrawal arrangements with Lu Qingshan.
  • Lu Qingshan reflected that Human Race’s territory would grow from 1,008 to 1,608 universe countries and considered how this might strengthen the race before Luo Feng’s rise.
  • Lu Qingshan returned to the Primal Universe through divine kingdom teleportation and placed his main consciousness in the Virtual Universe to inform Human Race’s experts.

Ch. 525Humanity's Excited Upper Echelons

Lu Qingshan told the Human Race’s experts that the Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race had agreed to cede six hundred star sectors, which the Human Race would occupy in ten years. The experts celebrated the expansion and began discussing how to allocate the new universe countries among their factions.

  • Giant Axe Creator told Darkness Lord and Forgetfulness River Lord that their identities had been exposed, and they welcomed the protection of the Human Race’s backing.
  • Chaos City Lord reported that Nine Ridge Lord and Yellow Rock Lord wanted their races to join the Hong Alliance, and the Human Race’s experts approved.
  • Lu Qingshan revealed that the three rival races had agreed to cede six hundred star sectors, prompting the Human Race’s experts to celebrate.
  • The experts urged Chaos City Lord, Darkness Lord, and Lord Peng Gong to pursue breakthroughs to the universe supreme being realm.
  • Lu Qingshan said the Human Race could take over the ceded territory in ten years, and Lord Huang Jian asked whether the three factions could receive some of the newly established universe countries.

Ch. 526Supreme Council

The Human Race’s leaders settled how three factions would manage six hundred newly ceded star regions and convened the Supreme Council to announce the expansion. The council tasked the Universe Venerables with preparing to take over the territories in ten years.

  • Lu Qingshan proposed that the Universe Mercenary Alliance, Universe First Bank, and Cosmic Star River Bank each manage two hundred of the new universe countries, and Giant Axe Creator approved the plan.
  • At a gathering in the Initial Universe, Venerable Lei Huan told other Universe Venerables that the Human Race had defeated the Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race and gained vast territory.
  • The Human Race’s Universe Venerables received notice of the Supreme Council and assembled in the Hall of Gods.
  • Chaos City Lord announced that the Human Race had forced the three allied races to cede six hundred star regions and would establish six hundred new universe countries there.
  • Chaos City Lord told the Universe Venerables to prepare for the takeover, which would begin in ten years.

Ch. 527Too Many Monks, Too Little Porridge

After the Human Race secured vast new territories, Giant Axe Creator assigned plans to protect and settle them, while Origin Ancestor praised his leadership and Lu Qingshan’s rise. Meanwhile, Universe Mercenary Alliance venerables began maneuvering for a share of the new universe-country lordships, and Venerable Xin Feng considered asking one of Lu Qingshan’s disciples for help.

  • Giant Axe Creator warned the Human Race’s universe masters to guard against retaliation and ordered Chaos City Lord to strengthen intelligence efforts in the newly acquired territories.
  • Lord Huang Jian, Lord Peng Gong, and Qing Dong Lord discussed securing core regions and relocating their factions’ headquarters into the new territories.
  • Origin Ancestor appeared before Giant Axe Creator, praised his work, and agreed that Lu Qingshan’s strength would help protect the Human Race.
  • Universe Mercenary Alliance venerables discussed competing for the two hundred universe-country lordships allocated to their faction.
  • Venerable Xin Feng considered using his good relationship with Lawrence, one of Lu Qingshan’s disciples, to pursue a lordship.

Ch. 528Expansion and Development of Territory

After the Human Race gained six hundred universe countries, its factions began settling and developing the new territories. Lu Qingshan helped secure posts for allied Universe Venerables, accompanied Qing Dong Lord and Lord Peng Gong during the takeover, and left after Universe First Bank established its new headquarters and settlement efforts began.

  • Lu Qingshan obtained more than thirty universe-country leader positions and assigned them to Universe Venerables who had been on good terms with him.
  • Ten years later, Lu Qingshan sent his main battle body and second avatar to accompany Qing Dong Lord and Lord Peng Gong as they took over territories ceded by the Insect Race and Machine Race.
  • Qing Dong Lord and Lu Qingshan found that the Insect Race had left many hidden warriors and stripped resources from its territory, while the Machine Race had extensively destroyed its former territory.
  • Qing Dong Lord summoned Universe First Bank's Venerables, immortal gods, and World Masters to build a new Headquarters Continent and connect it to the Human Race's teleportation network.
  • After the Headquarters Continent became operational, Lu Qingshan arranged for members of his family to settle in the new territories, while the Human Race continued dividing and developing the expanded lands.
  • Lu Qingshan's main battle body and second avatar bid farewell to Qing Dong Lord and Lord Peng Gong and returned to their divine kingdoms.

Ch. 529Purple Moon Ancestor's Attention

After Lu Qingshan’s ability to create a peak sixth-tier combat secret technique spread through the Universe Ocean, the God Eye Race and Purple Moon Holy Land discussed the threat and potential behind his strength. Purple Moon Ancestor examined a battle recording and ordered Juehua True God to monitor Lu Qingshan’s future progress.

  • The God Eye Race’s Third True Master confirmed that Lu Qingshan’s incarnations had unleashed peak sixth-tier power without a supreme true treasure, forcing the Demon Race, Insect Race, and Machine Race to cede territory.
  • The God Eye Race’s True Masters debated targeting Lu Qingshan for a possible ancient civilization inheritance, but the First True Master ordered them to observe him and avoid provoking him.
  • Azure Roar Lord told the Purple Moon Holy Land powerhouses that Lu Qingshan had created a combat secret technique at the Universe Strongest One level, and Juehua True God summoned him to meet Purple Moon Ancestor.
  • Purple Moon Ancestor watched a recording of Lu Qingshan’s battle, considered his potential and his own ambitions to possess the Primal Universe, and ordered Juehua True God to keep monitoring him.
  • Purple Moon Ancestor rewarded Azure Roar Lord with a peak true treasure, and Juehua True God told him they would follow the Ancestor’s order for up to three reincarnation eras.

Ch. 530Pang Bo's Request for Help

After explaining Lu Qingshan’s strength and granting the Golden Horn Race new territory, the chapter turned to Pang Bo’s request for help with Ye Fan’s conflict involving the Ji Family. Lu Qingshan and several chat group members agreed to travel to Pang Bo’s world, and Lu Qingshan began the journey.

  • North True Star Master explained that Lu Qingshan’s ability to unleash peak sixth-tier power made him a quasi-strongest being, and the universe’s factions grew wary of provoking him.
  • Lu Qingshan granted Hirodo and Klimans territory for the Golden Horn Race, and Hirodo arranged for Klimans to support Lu Qingshan’s family.
  • Pang Bo told the chat group that the Northern Plains Wang Family had asked the Ji Family for Xiaoyue’s hand in marriage for Wang Teng, and he worried that the Ji Family might endanger Ye Fan.
  • Pang Bo invited the group to help Ye Fan confront the Ji Family, and Lu Qingshan, Ye Chen, Xiao Yan, Han Li, and others agreed to go.
  • Lu Qingshan left behind his true treasures to reduce travel costs, received Pang Bo’s approval, and vanished while traveling to the world of Shrouding the Heavens.

Ch. 531Storms Gather at the Ji Family

Pang Bo gathered Lu Qingshan and the chat group members in the Divine City before leading them to the Ji Family, where they backed Ye Fan against Wang Teng’s marriage proposal to Ji Ziyue. After friends and allies assembled at the Ji Family, Ye Fan arrived and challenged Wang Teng to face him.

  • Pang Bo told Lu Qingshan and the chat group members that Wang Teng had proposed to Ji Ziyue and that Ye Fan was expected to come to the Ji Family.
  • Pang Bo led the group through the Divine City, where they uncovered rare treasures and defeated experts who tried to rob them.
  • Pang Bo brought the group to the Ji Family and presented Divine Mark Purple Gold as Ye Fan’s betrothal gift, contrasting it with Wang Chengkun’s Phoenix Stone.
  • Li Heishui and members of the Thirteen Great Bandits arrived to support Ye Fan, followed by the Saint Prince, who challenged Wang Teng at the Ji Family gates.
  • After three days passed, Ye Fan arrived at the Ji Family gates and called on Wang Teng to face him.

Ch. 532A One-Sided Battle, the Group Leader Takes Action

Ye Fan entered the Ji Family to challenge Wang Teng and free Ji Ziyue from their forced engagement, while Pang Bo and the chat group members backed him. After Lu Qingshan and the others intervened against the Ji Family’s attack, Lu Qingshan seized the Void Mirror’s power without being harmed, and the Ji Family began fully awakening the Emperor Weapon.

  • Ye Fan arrived at the Ji Family carrying a bronze coffin, where Pang Bo, Li Heishui, Saint Prince, and other friends joined him, and Pang Bo introduced Lu Qingshan as the group leader.
  • Ye Fan asked Ji Ziyue whether she agreed to marry Wang Teng, and she refused; Ye Fan then challenged Wang Teng to fight.
  • Ye Fan killed Wang Teng with the bronze coffin, but Wang Chengkun and the Wang Family elders attacked him, prompting the Ji Family’s Eighth Patriarch to strike with the Void Mirror’s power.
  • Pang Bo asked Lu Qingshan to uphold justice, and Lu Qingshan and the chat group members released their powerful auras.
  • Lu Qingshan reached toward the Void Mirror and withstood its imperial might, so the Ji Family head ordered the weapon fully awakened to attack him.

Ch. 533Suppressing an Imperial Weapon with One Hand

Lu Qingshan suppressed the Ji Family’s revived Void Ancient Mirror and defeated a Ji Family Great Sage and the Void Emperor’s phantom with a casual strike. He returned the mirror to Ji Ziyue as Ye Fan’s betrothal gift, leaving the Ji Family chastened and the marriage proposal underway.

  • The Ji Family Holy Lord awakened a sealed Great Sage and called forth the Void Emperor’s phantom to fight Lu Qingshan.
  • Lu Qingshan shattered the phantom, defeated the Great Sage, and seized the Void Ancient Mirror.
  • Lu Qingshan told the Great Sage that he held no grudge against the Ji Family and had intervened because its descendants had gone too far.
  • Lu Qingshan placed restrictions on the Void Ancient Mirror and gave it to Ji Ziyue, declaring it Ye Fan’s betrothal gift.
  • Ji Ziyue blushed at the proposal, while Li Heishui asked Ye Fan and Pang Bo about Lu Qingshan’s strength.

Ch. 534Grand Gathering, Trade

Lu Qingshan offered the Ji Family life-extending divine liquid in exchange for ancient scriptures and treasures, prompting the family to host a grand gathering that attracted powerful factions across the Big Dipper Star region. The gathering began amid rising tensions when a Primordial race member arrived at the Ji Family.

  • The Ji Family Great Sage purged abusive younger members, then allowed Lu Qingshan to study the Void Ancient Scripture after he returned the Void Ancient Mirror and promised not to spread it beyond the world.
  • Lu Qingshan gave the Ji Family Great Sage life-extending divine liquid and asked the Ji Family to publicize an exchange of the liquid for ancient scriptures and other treasures.
  • Rumors about Lu Qingshan's strength spread, and the Ji Family invited factions to a grand gathering where he would trade life-extending treasures.
  • The announcement stirred cultivators into searching for ancient scriptures and prompted Primordial Ancestor Kings to plan to attend and consider attacking humanity.
  • Powerful human figures gathered at the Ji Family, where a crimson, qilin-like Primordial race member arrived in an ancient war chariot.

Ch. 535Trade

Lu Qingshan traded life-extending spiritual liquid for ancient scriptures and special bloodline essence, then entered the Primordial Ancient Mine to meet its ancient Sovereigns. He offered more spiritual liquid in exchange for their guidance and essence blood.

  • Ancient races surrounded the Ji Family and demanded that Lu Qingshan appear, threatening the Human Race when the Ji Family Patriarch said he was discussing the Dao.
  • Lu Qingshan finished discussing the Dao with Gai Jiuyou, gave him two bottles of life-extending spiritual liquid, and stopped the Ji Family Great Saint from confronting the ancient races.
  • Lu Qingshan demonstrated the spiritual liquid and exchanged it for many ancient scriptures, then offered more in return for essence blood from special bloodlines.
  • After suppressing those who tried to seize his spiritual liquid, Lu Qingshan spent about half a year collecting a vast quantity of essence blood.
  • Lu Qingshan entered the Primordial Forbidden Land, dismissed its Dao-pattern attack, and offered life-extending spiritual liquid to the ancient Sovereigns in exchange for guidance and essence blood.

Ch. 536Imperial Battle

Lu Qingshan challenged the Primordial Ancient Mine and easily overwhelmed one ancient Supreme, prompting the other seven to join the fight. He faced all eight Supremes as they gathered around him, preparing to force them into submission.

  • Lu Qingshan shattered the divine attack from the Primordial Ancient Mine, alarming experts across the Big Dipper Starfield and drawing concern from Gai Jiuyou and the others.
  • An ancient Supreme attacked Lu Qingshan, but Lu Qingshan broke his techniques and blasted him backward with a punch.
  • The wounded ancient Supreme called on the other Supremes to help, and all eight emerged to confront Lu Qingshan.
  • The Supremes’ auras shook the Big Dipper Starfield, while Lu Qingshan resolved to defeat them all in one battle.
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