Chapter Summaries

Lu Qingshan completed the second stage of the Spirit Wind God General Inheritance, gained the Black Obsidian Flowing Light Wings and Wind Soul Fruit, and activated the chat group's enlightenment enhancement function again. Meanwhile, King Jiu Feng reached the 9,000th stair and pursued the complete inheritance, believing it could make him a seven-star overlord.

• King Jiu Feng cleared the first stage, collected the Illusory Wind Pearl and Wind Spirit Fruit, and continued to the 3,334th stair.
• Lu Qingshan swallowed the Wind Spirit Fruit and reached the 6,666th stair after more than ten months of enhanced cultivation.
• Lu Qingshan received the alternate candidate rewards, bound the Black Obsidian Flowing Light Wings, and swallowed the Wind Soul Fruit.
• Lu Qingshan used his remaining chat-group points to activate the enlightenment enhancement function for another year.
• King Jiu Feng reached the 9,000th stair in just over a year and stepped toward the final thousand stairs, aiming to complete the inheritance.

Lu Qingshan reached the 8,888th step of the Spirit Wind God General Inheritance but decided not to spend more chat-group points to continue. Jiu Feng King accepted the inheritance’s final trial, mastered the complete Time Origin Law, and triggered a vast reaction from the universe’s origin laws.

• Lu Qingshan lost the Enlightenment Boost effect at the 8,888th step and decided to stop pursuing the Spirit Wind God General Inheritance.
• Jiu Feng King completed the inheritance on the 9,999th step, then stepped onto the final level and met the guardian of the forbidden land.
• The guardian told Jiu Feng King that the final inheritance would make him a supreme powerhouse quickly but prevent him from advancing to a higher realm.
• Jiu Feng King chose to enter the temple, where a point of light fused with his soul and filled his consciousness with information.
• Jiu Feng King mastered Time Acceleration and Time Deceleration, fused them with Time Stop to master the complete Time Origin Law, and drew down the universe’s origin-law pressure.

Jiu Feng King completed the Spirit Wind Divine General Inheritance, mastered the complete time origin law, and became Jiu Feng Venerable, a Universe Venerable with strength approaching the Universe Overlord level. He learned that he was now a Candidate God General of the Ancestral God Cult and was led to collect his reward, while discovering that Lu Qingshan had nearly reached the final inheritance stage.

• Wind Shadow King sensed the time origin law descending and hurried to the inheritance site, suspecting that a recipient had broken through to the Universe Venerable realm.
• Demonic Dragon King and the other inheritors, including Lu Qingshan, noticed the breakthrough but continued receiving their inheritances.
• Jiu Feng Venerable absorbed the inheritance’s information and realized he had mastered the complete time origin law and become a Universe Venerable.
• Jiu Feng Venerable discovered that the inheritance had raised his life gene level to one hundred times that of ordinary life and granted him the powerful soul attack innate secret technique Little Spirit Wind.
• The middle-aged man’s light projection explained that Jiu Feng Venerable was a Candidate God General and an outer member of the Ancestral God Cult, then gave him the cult’s coordinates and led him to collect his reward.
• The light projection revealed that Lu Qingshan had reached the 8,888th stair and might have completed the inheritance if Jiu Feng Venerable had not reached the final stage first.

Jiu Feng Venerable completed the Spirit Wind Divine General Inheritance, became a Universe Overlord, and caused the inheritance site to collapse. News of his breakthrough spread through the Human Race, prompting his teacher and the race’s leaders to celebrate and consider rewarding him.

• Jiu Feng Venerable claimed the cyan top-tier heavy treasure armor and was sent out of the inheritance temple.
• The thirty-two inheritance palaces collapsed, and Jiu Feng King destroyed the attacking strange beasts with a casual strike, revealing his immense new strength.
• A king-level inheritor recalled that completing a Divine General Inheritance caused the site to collapse, and the gathered inheritors congratulated Jiu Feng Venerable.
• Brahma Venerable learned that Jiu Feng had completed the inheritance and become a Universe Venerable, then set out with two fellow Venerables to meet him.
• Lord Huang Jian shared news of Jiu Feng’s achievement with the Human Race’s Universe Masters, who discussed awarding him treasure points and a supreme treasure.

After Jiu Feng Venerable completed the Spirit Wind God General Inheritance and became a universe venerable, Lu Qingshan received an invitation to his celebratory banquet. Lu Qingshan then returned to the Extraterritorial Battlefield to test his greatly enhanced soul attacks, and after searching for more than twenty years, he finally found a suitable opponent.

• Jiu Feng Venerable left the collapsed inheritance site with Brahma Venerable as universe venerables arrived to congratulate him, while Lu Qingshan and the other immortals returned to the Virtual Universe Company's headquarters.
• Blood Soul King offered to return five billion chaos units because Lu Qingshan had lost the chance to complete the inheritance, but Lu Qingshan refused the money.
• Wind Shadow King invited Lu Qingshan on Jiu Feng Venerable's behalf to a banquet at the Universe Mercenary Alliance's Headquarters Continent, and Lu Qingshan invited Blood Soul King to join him.
• Lu Qingshan assessed that the inheritance had raised his soul amplitude to eighty-eight times and decided to return to the Extraterritorial Battlefield to test his strength.
• Lu Qingshan hunted in the Five Lotus Domain for more than twenty years before finding a suitable opponent.

Lu Qingshan ambushed Sky Snail King in the Five Lotus Domain and killed him with a soul attack, surviving the king’s self-destruction with minor losses. Meanwhile, Stone Armor King learned that Lu Qingshan had appeared and teleported toward his coordinates to fulfill the Demon Race’s mission.

• Lu Qingshan identified Sky Snail King as a powerful Demon Race king-level immortal with weak soul defense and pursued him across the Five Lotus Domain.
• Lu Qingshan destroyed Sky Snail King’s spacecraft and attacked, while Sky Snail King reported Spirit Sword King’s location to the Demon Race intelligence network.
• Lu Qingshan burned immortal divine power and shattered Sky Snail King’s soul defense, preventing him from using his amplitude secret technique before he self-destructed.
• Lu Qingshan survived Sky Snail King’s explosion after losing only two percent of his divine body and collected the scattered spoils.
• Stone Armor King killed Azure Maple King, then learned that Spirit Sword King had appeared and teleported toward his reported coordinates.

Lu Qingshan was forced to fight Stone Armor King, whose overwhelming speed and strength drove him to detonate his divine body. He revived in his divine kingdom and decided to pause his high-profile hunts until he grew stronger, while planning to return for revenge.

• After collecting Sky Snail King's spoils, Lu Qingshan sensed Stone Armor King teleporting into the battlefield and sealing the surrounding space.
• Stone Armor King attacked Lu Qingshan, and their exchange revealed that Lu Qingshan could withstand his blows but could not effectively harm him.
• Stone Armor King burned his immortal divine power and launched a killing strike, forcing Lu Qingshan to detonate his divine body.
• Lu Qingshan's self-destruction cost Stone Armor King five percent of his divine body, and Stone Armor King found only Lu Qingshan's equipment among the spoils.
• Lu Qingshan revived in his divine kingdom and concluded that the Demon Race had targeted him, so he planned to stop his large-scale hunts and strengthen himself before seeking revenge.

Lu Qingshan learned that his teacher, Thunder Illusion King, had fallen during an expedition into the Star Radiance Secret Realm. After hearing the surviving Soft Water King’s account, Lu Qingshan and the other disciples left wondering whether their teachers could be revived and who had killed them.

• Lu Qingshan attended Venerable Jiu Feng’s banquet, then received an urgent email from Extreme Electric King saying Thunder Illusion King had fallen.
• Extreme Electric King told Lu Qingshan, King Tongye, and Azure Scale King that five of the six king-level undyings on the expedition had fallen and that Soft Water King had survived with severe injuries.
• Extreme Electric King explained that Human Race king-level undyings could be revived through time-space reversal but had to repay the race for the resources used.
• Lu Qingshan and twelve other king-level undyings visited Soft Water King, who said a terrifying universe venerable had attacked their group in the Star Radiance Secret Realm and killed Thunder Illusion King and the others.
• Soft Water King showed them a recording of the unknown alien venerable annihilating several limit king-level experts, but no one recognized the attacker.
• Outside Soft Water King’s residence, Ice Soul King suggested the Human Race might revive their teachers for free if it killed the attacker, but Extreme Electric King said they would likely have to wait for a unified revival.

After learning that Thunder Illusion King had fallen, Lu Qingshan and the others discussed the rules and costs of resurrecting King-level Immortals and arranged to protect their teacher’s interests while he was gone. Lu Qingshan resolved to grow strong enough to resurrect Thunder Illusion King and his former teacher Morris, then applied to enter the Initial Universe.

• Extreme Electric King explained that Thunder Illusion King would be eligible for resurrection, while King Fengyan and Silver Crane King might never return because they still owed enormous debts to the Human Race.
• Lu Qingshan learned that resurrection debts and the risks of continued adventuring left many fallen King-level Immortals without another chance to be revived.
• Extreme Electric King assigned Azure Scale King to guard Thunder Illusion King’s Bernal Tribe and asked Lu Qingshan to look after their fellow disciples in Chaos City.
• Extreme Electric King warned his junior brothers that Red-Eyed King might cause trouble because of his grudge against Thunder Illusion King.
• Lu Qingshan mourned Thunder Illusion King and remembered Morris, his former teacher, then resolved to become strong enough to resurrect them both.
• Lu Qingshan submitted an application to enter the Initial Universe.

Lu Hongyuan broke through to become an immortal god, and Lu Qingshan allowed him to return to the family. After settling his fellow disciples in Chaos City, Lu Qingshan chose to pursue a body-amplitude God General Inheritance and sought his grandmaster’s help arranging a place.

• Lu Hongyuan comprehended the complete wind-origin law and became an immortal god within Lu Qingshan’s divine kingdom.
• Lu Qingshan praised Lu Hongyuan, permitted him to return to the family, and guided him to establish a divine kingdom near Thunder Star.
• Lu Qingshan traveled to Chaos City and reassured his fellow disciples after their teacher Thunder Illusion King’s death; two senior brothers left while the others stayed to cultivate.
• Lu Qingshan decided that a body-amplitude God General Inheritance would best strengthen his material attacks, defense, and overall power.
• Lu Qingshan learned that the Four Directions God General Inheritance would open in just over one thousand eras and went to ask Radiant Light Venerable for help securing a place.

Lu Qingshan obtained Radiant Light Venerable’s support for a Four Directions God General Inheritance quota and spent millions of years cultivating across his three clones. He defeated the Green Thread Devourer in training and brought the second form of his Soul-Slaughter Sword to the pinnacle level, while Radiant Light Venerable urged him to focus on improving his Laws of Time comprehension.

• Lu Qingshan asked Radiant Light Venerable for help applying for a Four Directions God General Inheritance quota, and his grandmaster agreed to serve as guarantor and recommender.
• Lu Qingshan’s application was approved, and he divided his cultivation between accumulating points, battling on the Extraterritorial Battlefield, studying the Laws of Time, and developing secret techniques.
• After several million years, Lu Qingshan defeated the Green Thread Devourer in Radiant Light Venerable’s training ground and raised the second form of his Soul-Slaughter Sword to the pinnacle level.
• Radiant Light Venerable praised Lu Qingshan’s progress and told him to prioritize deepening his Laws of Time comprehension before attempting to create a third form.

Lu Qingshan continued training to raise his secret techniques while secretly hunting aliens in the Extraterritorial Battlefield. He found White Rainbow King, whom he had killed before and who had been revived, and moved to attack him.

• Radiant Light Venerable explained the five levels of secret techniques and warned Lu Qingshan that reaching the peak level would be difficult, but agreed to keep guiding his training.
• Lu Qingshan resumed challenging opponents in the training grounds while his true body searched the Extraterritorial Battlefield for a target to test his improved soul attack.
• Lu Qingshan reviewed his covert killings of alien marquis-level immortals and learned that White Rainbow King, whom he had killed more than three million years earlier, had returned after being revived through time reversal.
• White Rainbow King celebrated his latest haul, considered his improved time-law comprehension, and vowed to take revenge on Spirit Sword King.
• Lu Qingshan approached White Rainbow King's spacecraft, emerged within range, and launched an attack with his immortal divine power.

Lu Qingshan killed White Rainbow King with a soul attack, then fought Cold Moon King and forced him to retreat. As Lu Qingshan left the battlefield, he reflected on ways to counter enemies who could teleport before receiving an email from Lu Hongwen.

• White Rainbow King sent Cold Moon King a distress signal and tried to flee, but Lu Qingshan's soul attack killed him before Cold Moon King could save him.
• Lu Qingshan ignored Cold Moon King's plea, took White Rainbow King's body, and charged into battle against him.
• Cold Moon King trapped Lu Qingshan with his race's white threads, but Lu Qingshan burned immortal divine power and broke free.
• Lu Qingshan's soul attack forced Cold Moon King to burn immortal divine power, and Cold Moon King teleported away rather than continue fighting.
• Lu Qingshan left the battlefield, considered how to stop teleporting enemies, and received an email from his third son, Lu Hongwen.

Lu Wenxuan used the Azure Sky Fruit to break through to the undying god realm and chose to join the Virtual Universe Company. Lu Qingshan resumed cultivating, then read about Cao Cao unifying his realm and Yue Buqun leading the eradication of Japanese pirates.

• Lu Hongwen told Lu Qingshan that Lu Wenxuan had broken through after consuming the Azure Sky Fruit, and Lu Wenxuan thanked her father for the treasure.
• Lu Qingshan asked Lu Wenxuan what she wanted to do next, and she chose to join the Virtual Universe Company like her fifth brother, Lu Hongtu.
• Lu Qingshan arranged for Hogus to receive Lu Wenxuan, reflected on the different fates of his family and disciples, and returned to cultivation.
• Lu Qingshan used up his Heaven-Soaring Creation Dew and concluded that it would eventually become useless once he comprehended the complete time origin laws.
• Cao Cao told the chat group he had unified the realm while minimizing casualties, and Yue Buqun said he had refused the Ming emperor’s offer to become Imperial Preceptor.
• Yue Buqun organized martial artists to cross to the Japanese islands, where they exterminated the Japanese pirates in less than a year.

Xiao Yan returned to Wu Tan City as a Dou Zong and began livestreaming his arrival, while the chat group discovered a new limit on valuable red-packet transfers. The chapter left him arriving home as Yun Leng, Ge Ye, and Nalan Yanran reached the city too.

• Pang Bo and Han Li teased each other about provoking powerful cultivators, while Yue Buqun reflected on how far his own cultivation had advanced.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had reached the Dou Zong realm after rapidly merging Heavenly Flames with the Enlightenment Boost function, and agreed to livestream his return home.
• Lu Qingshan sent out an Enhanced Body-Tempering Potion red packet, and Xiao Yan won the largest share before sending the group Tranquility Pills.
• Han Li discovered that sending more than fifty drops of Heaven-Soaring Creation Dew at once required points, so he sent Lu Qingshan fifty drops and exchanged for Deity Transformation Potions and spirit herbs.
• Xiao Yan started a livestream upon arriving in Wu Tan City, where Yun Leng, Ge Ye, and Nalan Yanran also appeared.

Nalan Yanran returned to the Xiao Clan with Yun Leng to fulfill her three-year pact with Xiao Yan, while Yun Leng privately prepared to intervene if she lost. Their spar began with Xiao Yan revealing his overwhelming strength, leaving Nalan Yanran defeated in a single clash.

• Yun Leng reassured Nalan Yanran that her sect-backed training would let her defeat Xiao Yan, and secretly planned to force Xiao Yan to concede if necessary.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wu Tan City with Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yu, and other Xiao Clan members, where the clan elders welcomed him warmly.
• Xiao Wei reported that Nalan Yanran and Cloud Mist Sect First Elder Yun Leng had arrived, and Xiao Zhan led the clan to greet them.
• Nalan Yanran explained that she had come to spar with Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan agreed while declaring they would have nothing more to do with each other afterward.
• Nalan Yanran attacked Xiao Yan with her sword, but his Dou Qi formed a solid barrier that sent her flying back as he revealed he was a three-star Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Cloud Mist Sect during the Three-Year Agreement, secured an apology, and won approval to move the Xiao Clan to the Black-Corner Region. Meanwhile, Lu Qingshan comprehended Temporal Instant Pause, reorganized his divine power, and set his sights on reaching the twentieth Heavenward Bridge level before fighting on the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

• Xiao Yan revealed his three-star Dou Zong strength, stunning Nalan Yanran, Ge Ye, Yun Leng, and the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Yun Yun personally come apologize, then persuaded Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders to approve relocating the clan to the Black-Corner Region.
• Lu Qingshan entered the Heavenly Thunder Chaos Stele chamber and comprehended Temporal Instant Pause, reaching the law comprehension of the nineteenth Heavenward Bridge level.
• Lu Qingshan consolidated his insights in seclusion for half a year, then reorganized the divine power of his avatars and true body.
• Lu Qingshan resolved to keep cultivating until he reached the twentieth Heavenward Bridge level and could take on the Extraterritorial Battlefield.

Lu Qingshan spent millions of years guiding his fellow disciples, saving resources for the Four Directions God General Inheritance, and fighting on the Extraterritorial Battlefield. When Flash Space King brought him to rescue Dragon Treasury King from Heart Shatter King, the Machine Race expert recognized Lu Qingshan and abandoned his attempt to finish Dragon Treasury King.

• Lu Qingshan guided his senior brothers and sisters in Chaos City, then decided to save his Chat Group points for the Four Directions God General Inheritance rather than activate enlightenment enhancement.
• Over several million years, Lu Qingshan’s three clones accumulated wealth and points, while his progress toward comprehending time stop remained slow.
• After his first sword technique defeated its nine-hundredth opponent, Lu Qingshan planned to test Heavenly Thunder Break against an alien expert.
• Flash Space King told Lu Qingshan that Dragon Treasury King was in danger from Heart Shatter King, and Lu Qingshan agreed to help.
• Flash Space King teleported Lu Qingshan to the battle, where Heart Shatter King recognized Spirit Sword King and gave up trying to kill Dragon Treasury King.

Lu Qingshan and Flash Space King rescued Dragon Treasury King, and Lu Qingshan fought Heart Shatter King to test his improved sword move. After they agreed to stop, the group left the battlefield, Dragon Treasury King paid the reward, and Lu Qingshan and Flash Space King parted ways.

• Dragon Treasury King summoned Lu Qingshan and Flash Space King for help while Heart Shatter King attacked him.
• Lu Qingshan and Heart Shatter King clashed, and Lu Qingshan tested his swordsmanship while using soul attacks to counter Heart Shatter King's powerful hammer techniques.
• Lu Qingshan and Heart Shatter King agreed to stop fighting, and Flash Space King teleported Lu Qingshan and Dragon Treasury King away.
• Dragon Treasury King paid Lu Qingshan five hundred million chaos units, thanked both rescuers, and returned home through a temporary divine kingdom transmission passage.
• Lu Qingshan paid Flash Space King fifty million chaos units, then Flash Space King teleported away.

After assessing his fight with Heart Shatter King, Lu Qingshan realized his soul attacks could threaten ordinary king-level peak experts. He sold Cold Moon King and dozens of other slumbering immortals to King Qingping, bringing his fortune to more than two trillion mixed-element units.

• Lu Qingshan reviewed his battle with Heart Shatter King and concluded that his immense soul power could kill some king-level peak experts despite his weaker combat techniques.
• Deep Blue notified Lu Qingshan of King Qingping’s email, and she visited him to discuss buying slumbering immortals.
• Lu Qingshan showed King Qingping the slumbering Cold Moon King and explained that Black Panther King’s self-destruction had left Cold Moon King vulnerable.
• King Qingping offered 360 billion mixed-element units for Cold Moon King and explained how soul slaves could earn wealth over long periods.
• Lu Qingshan sold King Qingping Cold Moon King and more than thirty other slumbering immortals for 365 billion mixed-element units.
• Lu Qingshan reflected that his total fortune had surpassed two trillion mixed-element units, largely because his avatar let him fight without fearing the loss of immortal divine power.