Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang uses the Game World to travel instantly to the Inner Domain of the Ten Thousand Plants Continent, intending to test his strength against a King-level opponent and capture potential slaves.
• He reflects on Moxiya’s rapid progress. With his crops and the Manor’s benefits, she has greatly improved her law comprehension, mastered over eighty essences of the time origin law, and expects to master teleportation within a century. Xiao Yang plans to let her become an Immortal only after she gains the time origin law’s acknowledgment and masters teleportation.
• Xiao Yang intends to recruit and cultivate more King-level slaves. He believes this will help prepare for a future conflict in which alien Universe Masters may unite against the Human Race, while keeping his remarkable resources secret.
• His detector finds Flame Wolf King, a High King of the Demon Race’s Sky Wolf Clan. Xiao Yang locks the space around him, preventing escape.
• Flame Wolf King reveals his enormous true body from his World Ring; the wolf-headed humanoid Xiao Yang first sees is a travel puppet.
• Flame Wolf King demonstrates that he has mastered space strangulation, destroying Xiao Yang’s assumption that he would be an easy opponent. Xiao Yang retaliates with a spear strike combining spatial and time-origin techniques.
• Realizing he cannot evade or withstand the attack, Flame Wolf King burns his divine power and counters with a claw strike. The confrontation is left unresolved.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang is confident in his growing strength but remains cautious about protecting his secrets and preparing for future threats. Flame Wolf King’s unexpected ability makes him eager for a genuine challenge.
• Moxiya has advanced dramatically under Xiao Yang’s support and is being carefully groomed for Immortality and greater power.
• Flame Wolf King proves to be an unusually capable High King, with formidable spatial mastery and the resolve to burn divine power when cornered.

Significant themes

• Power cultivated through opportunity: Xiao Yang’s resources can transform exceptional talents into far stronger beings.
• Preparation and secrecy: He seeks loyal, powerful subordinates to face future dangers without exposing his methods to the wider Human Race.
• Strength tested through conflict: Xiao Yang’s hunt for an opponent becomes a real challenge when Flame Wolf King reveals unexpected abilities.

Character interactions

• Xiao Yang confronts Flame Wolf King directly, inviting him to use his full strength. Their exchange quickly escalates from Xiao Yang’s spatial lock to Flame Wolf King’s fire attack and Xiao Yang’s time-enhanced spear thrust.
• Xiao Yang’s relationship with Moxiya is that of a patron and mentor: he supplies the means for her growth while setting conditions for her eventual advancement.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang fights the Flame Wolf King with his spear, Gui Yi, coated in pokeweed venom. The venom corrodes Immortal Divine Power far more effectively than the Wolf King’s wounds alone.
• Xiao Yang steadily drains the Wolf King’s enormous reserves. Though the process is initially slow, the Wolf King’s strength eventually collapses to less than one percent of its original level.
• Reinforcements begin arriving—five or six powerful Demon Race experts, all at least Peak King-level—but Xiao Yang keeps attacking rather than retreating.
• As the Wolf King prepares to self-destruct, Xiao Yang’s true self appears and traps him in an illusion. Xiao Yang then seals him inside a palace Supreme Treasure, intending to enslave him in the Game World.
• The Heavenly Void Clone releases its Space Lock and tries to teleport away, only for another powerful expert to seal the space again. The chapter ends with this new opponent appearing before Xiao Yang.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang learns that pokeweed venom is exceptionally potent, even surpassing the Human Race’s renowned Fimo Venom. Confident in his resilience and the venom’s effects, he presses the attack despite approaching reinforcements.
• The Flame Wolf King shifts from grim endurance to confidence when help arrives, then to panic and despair as Xiao Yang continues weakening him. He ultimately cannot resist Xiao Yang’s illusion or prevent his capture.
• Xiao Yang and the Wolf King engage in a prolonged battle of attrition. The Wolf King repeatedly urges Xiao Yang to flee, but Xiao Yang ignores him and focuses on wearing him down.
• Xiao Yang’s true self works in tandem with the Heavenly Void Clone, appearing at the decisive moment to incapacitate and capture the Wolf King.

Significant themes

• Preparation and tactical advantage: Xiao Yang’s use of poison turns a strength-based fight into a war of attrition.
• Composure under pressure: Despite multiple reinforcements approaching, Xiao Yang stays focused on capturing his opponent.
• The limits of overwhelming power: The Wolf King’s immense body and Divine Power prolong the fight, but neither can protect him once his reserves are depleted and his defenses fail.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yang faces Lion King Yu, a powerful Demon Race king who demands the release of Flame Wolf King, Xiao Yang’s captive. Xiao Yang refuses to trust him.
• Zerg Mother Emperor Lan Ke’er arrives with powerful enslaved Kings and ten thousand elite Zerg Warriors. She suggests teaming up with Lion King Yu, but neither side trusts the other.
• More alien powerhouses gather until hundreds surround Xiao Yang, including over a hundred Kings. Several maintain Space Locks to prevent his escape.
• Human Kings consider coming to help, but Xiao Yang tells them to stay away, fearing they would be overwhelmed by the assembled alien factions.
• The standoff ends when someone attacks. A massive barrage of physical, elemental, spatial, and soul attacks engulfs Xiao Yang, yet he emerges unharmed, baffling the crowd.
• The attackers launch another wave. This time Xiao Yang uses Time Acceleration to evade some attacks, rushes into their ranks, and targets an Elementary King with his spear.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang remains composed and defiant despite being surrounded. His apparent immunity to the attackers’ combined assault reveals that he is far more unusual and resilient than they expected. He also acts strategically by keeping human allies out of danger.
• Lion King Yu is driven by concern for Flame Wolf King but remains wary of Lan Ke’er and the danger of her Soul Master abilities.
• Lan Ke’er presents herself as a potential ally, but her amusement and the deep mistrust between the Demon Race and Zerg make her offer suspect.

Significant themes

• Mistrust among enemies: Even while facing a common target, the alien factions hesitate to cooperate because they fear betrayal.
• Power and vulnerability: Xiao Yang’s apparent invulnerability shifts the attackers’ confidence, while their fear of his possible self-destruction prevents them from striking first.
• Loyalty and sacrifice: Xiao Yang refuses to draw human allies into a battle where they could suffer devastating losses.
• Overconfidence versus adaptability: The crowd assumes numbers will defeat Xiao Yang, but he quickly changes tactics once he understands their attack.

Character interactions

• Lion King Yu confronts Xiao Yang and demands Flame Wolf King’s release; Xiao Yang dismisses the demand.
• Lan Ke’er tries to recruit Lion King Yu into a joint attack, but his suspicion of her prevents an alliance.
• The surrounding Kings watch and wait, each wary of both Xiao Yang and one another, until a sudden attack triggers the battle.
• Xiao Yang communicates with human Kings, telling them not to come, then turns the fight toward the enemy by charging into their formation.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang withstands a mass assault and kills an Elementary King-level Immortal with a single spear thrust, then quickly kills a fleeing Peak Marquis by combining Time Acceleration and Time Deceleration.
• The weaker Marquis- and Elementary King-level fighters retreat and attack from a distance, while stronger opponents—including Lion King Yu—move to block Xiao Yang.
• Xiao Yang cannot seriously injure Lion King Yu amid the interference, but he welcomes the fight as training. His near-genuine Heavy Treasure Armor reduces incoming attacks to one percent of their force, leaving his Flame Star Vine body essentially unharmed.
• The attackers conclude that Xiao Yang must possess a defensive Supreme Treasure and grow greedy, believing they could claim several treasures by killing him.
• Xiao Yang continues selecting and killing weaker fighters. Some targets self-destruct in desperation, also causing casualties among those nearby. More than a thousand King-level fighters eventually join the assault, including fighters from the Inner Domain of the Ten Thousand Plants Continent.
• Despite the sealed space and mounting opposition, Xiao Yang’s aura shows no sign of weakening. He remains surrounded and continues fighting rather than escaping.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang is confident, resilient, and eager to use the overwhelming battle as training. His mastery of Time Acceleration, Deceleration, and Stop lets him catch opponents who would otherwise flee.
• Lion King Yu stands against Xiao Yang and can block his spear, but neither he nor the other powerful fighters can readily overcome Xiao Yang’s defenses.
• The weaker Immortals shift from attacking to fleeing, then to desperation and self-destruction as Xiao Yang picks them off. Their fear spreads to the stronger fighters, who begin considering retreat.
• The assembled fighters are an uneasy coalition with rivalries and grudges. Their coordination is fragile, and their greed over the presumed Supreme Treasure competes with their growing fear.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power and fear: Xiao Yang’s effortless kills turn a massive force into a panicked crowd.
• Endurance and hidden strength: His armor and Flame Star Vine body allow him to withstand attacks that should exhaust or destroy an Immortal.
• Greed and unstable alliances: The attackers’ hope of claiming treasure keeps them fighting even as their numbers and confidence decline.
• Time as a weapon: Xiao Yang’s mastery of time lets him bypass the sealed space and make escape nearly impossible for weaker opponents.

Plot points and events

• For six or seven days, more than 30,000 experts besiege Xiao Yang, yet his aura never weakens. He kills over a thousand weaker King-level and Marquis Immortal opponents, while many others flee or keep their distance.
• Xiao Yang welcomes the battle because facing so many veterans exposes him to a wide range of powerful, self-created techniques, giving him valuable inspiration. His main cost is some Level-7 Crops used to replenish the Flame Star Vine’s divine power.
• Rumors spread that his armor is a top-tier or even ordinary Supreme Treasure, drawing interest from several alien Invincible Kings. Xiao Yang decides it is time to end the fight and escape.
• The attackers counter his attempts to use time-based abilities. Xiao Yang instead accelerates beyond light speed and enters the Dark Universe, where travel can cover vast distances in the Primordial Universe.
• As the besiegers’ attacks keep him from gaining speed, Xiao Yang summons a small tower—a palace-type Supreme Treasure—and takes shelter inside it. The tower continues onward, beyond the attackers’ ability to damage or stop.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang remains confident and resourceful under overwhelming pressure. He turns the siege into an opportunity to study techniques, then uses his Supreme Treasure when escape becomes difficult.
• The besiegers grow from hopeful attackers into frustrated, wary opponents: their numbers and attacks have failed to weaken him, and the tower leaves them with no effective way to intervene.

Significant themes

• Strength and limits: Vast numbers of King-level fighters still cannot overcome Xiao Yang or damage a palace-type Supreme Treasure.
• Learning through adversity: Xiao Yang treats a dangerous battle as a source of knowledge and improvement.
• Treasure and power: The Supreme Treasure shifts the balance of the confrontation; only far stronger beings or specialized sealing equipment might counter it.
• Persistence and strategy: Xiao Yang survives not just through endurance, but by choosing the right moment and method to escape.

Character interactions

• The besiegers coordinate attacks, use time-based techniques to hinder Xiao Yang, and urge one another to stop his escape.
• Xiao Yang ignores their attacks while accelerating through the Dark Universe, then withdraws into the tower.
• The experts recognize the tower’s significance and react with envy and frustration, knowing they cannot damage it or safely deploy a sealing treasure.

Key plot points and events

• After the massive assault fails to stop Xiao Yang, the surviving attackers withdraw rather than risk fighting one another over the spoils. Weaker Immortals flee first, and news of Xiao Yang’s survival quickly spreads across the Ten Thousand Plants Continent and beyond.
• Xiao Yang is widely regarded as an Invincible King-level threat. His defense seems nearly impenetrable, and his lack of a soul makes him immune to soul attacks; although his offensive power is lower, he can still kill Peak King experts given time.
• Once clear of pursuit and any Space Lock, Xiao Yang returns to the Game World. He has captured seven unconscious Immortals during the battle—five Elementary King-level experts and two Marquis Immortals—and gives them to his original body to enslave.
• Xiao Yang begins a long period of seclusion in a Time Palace, taking the Origin Bead to help the Star Gate Vine develop. His goal is to reach Universe Master level as soon as possible.
• Elsewhere, Luo Feng follows his original course: after dealing with the Mother Emperor Hu Yan Bo left behind, he goes to the Garbage Starfield, where an Immortal’s assassination attempt fails against his Peak World Lord Golden-Horned Beast clone and Mo Yun Vine. Luo Feng advances his human clone to World Lord and returns to Chaos City to begin seclusion.
• The Ganwu Branch’s three directors, having just relaxed after Luo Feng’s departure, are surprised by the arrival of another Inspector: Hong, newly advanced to Domain Lord.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang emerges from the battle exhilarated rather than shaken. He values the experience as a way to learn beyond simulated fights and is eager to turn it into progress through seclusion.
• The Flame Wolf King, now Xiao Yang’s enslaved subordinate, has recovered his Divine Power and begun making progress after receiving crops and access to the Manor’s Unclaimed Divine Power. He respectfully asks whether Xiao Yang suffered losses, feeling guilty because he summoned the attackers; Xiao Yang reassures him and says he enjoyed the fight.
• Luo Feng is increasingly motivated to advance quickly, a goal reinforced by Xiao Yang’s influence. The failed assassination gives him the chance to make that advance and withdraw to train.
• The attackers’ temporary cooperation collapses once Xiao Yang escapes: mutual distrust and the risk of being killed by rival factions outweigh any chance of pursuing him.

Significant themes

• Power and reputation: Surviving the siege transforms Xiao Yang’s standing, as others judge him nearly invincible based on his defense and unusual immunity.
• Self-interest and distrust: The attackers’ alliances prove fragile; factional rivalry and competition for treasure prevent them from coordinating further.
• Growth through experience: Xiao Yang finds real combat more instructive than simulations, while both he and Luo Feng respond to major events by committing to seclusion and advancement.
• Master–subordinate relations: The Flame Wolf King’s recovery and progress reflect Xiao Yang’s generosity, while the subordinate’s guilt and deference show the personal dynamics of their bond.

Key plot points and events

• After Luo Feng became a World Lord, Hong and Thunder God advanced to Domain Lord and took turns serving in the Dry Witch Universe Country. Neither wanted to undertake the difficult Domain Lord Highest Points Mission; both planned to visit Earth and then advance to World Lord, where cultivation was faster.
• Hong served for twenty years, broke through to World Lord, and went to Chaos City. Thunder God followed the same path after his own twenty-year assignment.
• Xiao Yang spent more than a century in seclusion, using the Time Palace to accelerate the Star Gate Vine’s growth and refine his abilities.
• The Star Gate Vine emerged as a plant life-form with a soul, remarkable Time and Space affinity, and the innate secret skill Mastery of Time and Space. With it and his other clones, Xiao Yang mastered all three profound aspects of both Origin Laws.
• Xiao Yang created an Immortal-level Peak Secret Technique and replaced his Pseudo-Heavy Treasures with genuine Supreme Treasures. A new Supreme Treasure Golden Armor gave him and his other bodies the combat power of Invincible King-level experts.
• Using level-seven Wild Ginseng, Xiao Yang raised the Gene Levels of his original body and Heavenly Void Clone to a thousand times. Blood Luo Power brought his original body to 10,000 times Gene Level, but not to Perfect Gene. He suspects the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual is the reason Luo Feng reached that threshold more easily.
• He also raised the Flame Star Vine’s Gene Level to a thousand times. As a King-level Immortal, it can reach the strength of a Top Universe Overlord, despite lacking techniques of that caliber.

Character developments and interactions

• Hong and Thunder God follow Luo Feng’s example by pursuing earlier breakthroughs, while coordinating their assignments so they can eventually return to Earth and visit their families.
• Xiao Yang’s long seclusion turns him into a far more formidable fighter, strengthening both his techniques and equipment. He now plans to train more talented slaves and visit the Ancestor God Religion to obtain Nether Sea material for a third clone.
• Xiao Yang’s Flame Star Vine becomes his most powerful asset in raw strength, surpassing his other bodies.

Significant themes

• Cultivation through patience and timing: Hong and Thunder God delay breakthroughs only until their assignments are complete, while Xiao Yang commits to an exceptionally long period of focused training.
• The value and limits of talent: The Star Gate Vine’s innate affinity and skill provide extraordinary advantages, yet Xiao Yang’s efforts still fall short of Perfect Gene.
• Preparation and accumulated power: Xiao Yang’s progress comes from combining rare crops, clones, accelerated time, refined techniques, and Supreme Treasures.
• Family and ambition: Even as the characters pursue power, Hong and Thunder God remain intent on returning to Earth to see their families.

Key plot points

• Xiao Yang’s Flame Star Vine has grown to an immense size, making him confident he can defeat powerful enemies and potentially capture them.
• Finding too few King-level experts left on Ten Thousand Plants Continent, Xiao Yang heads to Broken Starfield to hunt for suitable captives.
• Broken Starfield is a shattered former secret realm, notorious for unstable space that prevents teleportation. Its abundance of soul-type treasures once drew fierce battles, and more than two hundred thousand King-level experts are said to inhabit it.
• As Xiao Yang explores, he scatters tiny pieces of his Star Gate Vine clone. These covert markers will let him open Star Gates across Broken Starfield later.
• His detector finds a Peak King nearby. Xiao Yang approaches and recognizes the target as Yamina, an Immortal Level Mother Emperor and Moxiya’s senior fellow disciple.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang is increasingly confident in his strength, especially with the Flame Star Vine at his disposal. He sees Broken Starfield primarily as a source of King-level captives, whose innate comprehension makes them more valuable than weaker experts.
• He acts strategically: scouting for targets while secretly placing Star Gate Vine fragments to create future access points.

Significant themes

• Power and confidence: Xiao Yang’s new strength changes how he views encounters, from dangerous fights to opportunities for capture.
• Talent and innate potential: King-level experts are valuable not merely for their rank but for the comprehension that helped them attain it.
• Preparation and control: The hidden vine fragments show Xiao Yang planning for long-term mobility and advantage.
• A fractured battleground: Broken Starfield’s ruined geography and unstable space reflect the devastation caused by the Four Races’ past conflict.

Character interactions

• No direct confrontation occurs yet. Xiao Yang’s first identified target is Yamina, whose connection to Moxiya makes the impending encounter personally significant.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang encounters Yamina, Moxiya’s senior sister and fellow disciple of the Star Devourer Lord. Yamina recognizes him from the earlier battle in which she helped besiege him and immediately tries to escape.
• To delay Xiao Yang, Yamina sacrifices waves of Zerg Warriors, including Immortal- and World Lord-level troops. The explosions tear through the unstable Broken Starfield but leave Xiao Yang unharmed.
• Xiao Yang’s spear attack overwhelms Yamina and her two Demon Race slaves. One slave is killed and the other badly injured; Yamina also loses much of her Divine Power.
• Yamina invokes their teacher’s name and repeatedly uses her remaining slaves and Zerg Warriors to blunt Xiao Yang’s attacks. As her forces run out, she charges him while burning her Divine Power, preparing to self-destruct.
• Xiao Yang’s true body appears and traps Yamina in a soul illusion. The Jianshou Mushroom’s illusion of will further suppresses her, interrupting the force of her self-destruction but not stopping her Divine Power from burning.
• Xiao Yang begins an enslavement technique, greatly amplifying his strength with Blood Luo Power, Soul Amplitude, and an Enhancement Secret Technique. The chapter ends as he races to enslave Yamina before her Divine Power is exhausted.

Character developments

• Yamina is established as talented but far less gifted than Moxiya: her likely ceiling is Peak King, and she has mastered Space Lock. Her confidence collapses when she realizes how outmatched she is, but she remains desperate and defiant, sacrificing everything rather than surrendering.
• Xiao Yang demonstrates overwhelming combat strength and tactical resourcefulness. His true body’s appearance reveals that the “Origin Spear King” is an avatar of a human powerhouse, and his use of layered illusions gives him a way to counter Yamina’s final gambit.

Significant themes

• The cost of survival: Yamina spends her valuable Zerg Warriors and slaves simply to buy time.
• Power gaps and desperation: Even a formidable Peak King can be helpless against a vastly stronger opponent.
• Hidden identity and strategy: Xiao Yang’s concealed human body and soul abilities overturn assumptions about him.
• Persistence under pressure: Yamina continues fighting even as escape, defense, and eventual self-destruction all appear futile.

Character interactions

• Yamina’s knowledge of Xiao Yang’s past exploits drives her immediate flight and desperate defenses.
• She tries to deter him by invoking their shared teacher, the Star Devourer Lord, but Xiao Yang ignores the threat.
• Xiao Yang methodically breaks through Yamina’s defenses; she sacrifices her slaves and Warriors to protect herself.
• Once Xiao Yang’s true body appears, Yamina realizes Moxiya may have been enslaved by his human self. She tries to self-destruct, while Xiao Yang uses two successive illusions to restrain her and attempts to enslave her.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yang uses his Soul-attack Supreme Treasure to enslave Yamina, who had already spent nearly all her Divine Power fighting him.
• After eating Xiao Yang’s crops, Yamina recovers slightly and discovers that her affinity for the laws has greatly improved. She believes cultivating in his Manor could help her become a Venerable.
• Yamina reveals that she sent word of Xiao Yang to her teacher, the Star Devourer Lord, and gave Xiao Yang the Lord’s token. Xiao Yang is unconcerned, confident the Lord cannot reach him.
• The Star Devourer Lord considers intervening personally to capture Xiao Yang and seize his palace-type Supreme Treasure, but must plan carefully to avoid the battlefield’s restrictions and the Human Race’s response.
• Xiao Yang continues hunting in the Broken Starfield. Over twenty years, he enslaves more than twenty King-level fighters and kills over two hundred others.
• News breaks that a rare primary material for a Soul-type Supreme Treasure will emerge in the Shattered Star Sea. Fighters flock there from across multiple battlefields.
• Xiao Yang heads there too—not for the material, which he considers unimpressive, but because the gathering offers a chance to find and enslave many King-level fighters at once.

Character developments and interactions

• Yamina shifts from an enemy to Xiao Yang’s obedient slave. She accepts the new arrangement with surprising enthusiasm, especially after seeing the cultivation benefits of his Manor.
• Moxiya welcomes her “big sister” and offers to explain Xiao Yang’s circumstances and abilities.
• Xiao Yang treats Yamina pragmatically, stabilizing her with crops and assigning Moxiya to guide her, while remaining eager to exploit the influx of powerful fighters.
• The Star Devourer Lord grows furious and considers a risky personal attack, revealing both his desire for Xiao Yang’s treasure and his caution about acting openly.

Significant themes

• Power and opportunity: Xiao Yang turns even dangerous encounters and large-scale gatherings to his advantage.
• Loyalty and subjugation: Enslavement changes Yamina’s allegiance, and she comes to regard serving Xiao Yang as an honor.
• Ambition and risk: The Star Devourer Lord is tempted to break the usual balance of power, while the Soul-treasure material draws immense competition.
• Cultivation through resources: Xiao Yang’s crops and Manor offer Yamina advantages unavailable among the Zerg, reshaping her view of her future.

Plot points and events

• At the heart of the Shattered Star Sea, a rare material capable of becoming a soul-type Ultimate Treasure is forming near an enormous abyss. Experts from across the Broken Starfield have gathered to wait for it to mature.
• Xiao Yang arrives to find more than 200,000 experts present, including forces from the four major races and several smaller factions.
• The Human Race welcomes Xiao Yang, whose palace-type Supreme Treasure and exceptional defenses make him a major advantage in the coming contest.
• The Profound Heaven King, an Invincible King-level Human expert, greets Xiao Yang and introduces him to the camp’s leading figures. Xiao Yang agrees to fight alongside them.
• Human intelligence specialists report that the four major races will likely cooperate first to eliminate the smaller factions.
• Meanwhile, representatives of the Demon Race, Zerg, and Machine Race meet secretly. The Flamefin King proposes that, after the smaller factions are driven out, the three races turn against the Human Race to keep the treasure material from Xiao Yang’s side.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang is treated as a peer by the Profound Heaven King and welcomed as a powerful ally. His presence substantially improves the Human Race’s prospects.
• The Profound Heaven King emerges as a respected leader whose strength and combat reputation make him a key partner for Xiao Yang.
• The Flamefin King takes the initiative in planning against the Human Race, while the Machine Race representative presses him to state the plan plainly. Moika, the Zerg Mother Emperor, remains watchful and reserved.

Significant themes

• Power and deterrence: Xiao Yang’s palace treasure and durability influence other races’ strategy even before a battle begins.
• Temporary alliances and rivalry: The major races may cooperate against weaker factions, but that cooperation is expected to collapse when the prize is at stake.
• Competition for rare resources: The soul-type treasure material draws an immense gathering and threatens to turn strategic calculation into open conflict.

Character interactions

• Xiao Yang and the Profound Heaven King greet each other warmly and form the basis of a likely battle partnership.
• Human camp leaders welcome Xiao Yang, exchange information with him, and prepare for the long wait together.
• The Flamefin King warns the other representatives about Xiao Yang’s threat and proposes a three-race alliance against the Human Race; the Machine Race demands a direct proposal, while Moika listens in silence.

Key plot points and events

• The Zerg and Machine Race consult their factions and agree to the Demon Race’s proposal. All three recognize that Xiao Yang’s extraordinary defense makes him difficult to stop: he could potentially charge through their attacks and claim the Soul Crystal.
• More than a decade passes. Xiao Yang attends several Game World gatherings but fails to find Level 8 Wild Ginseng, though he acquires plenty of Level 7.
• During this period, he studies the Fire-Space Beast God Path in preparation for a future visit to the Ancestor God Religion. He reaches its third stage and raises one of his techniques to the top-tier level. He also begins studying Fusion Laws, having nearly completed his work on the Time and Space Origin Laws.
• Xiao Yang’s Heavenly Void Clone senses a fluctuation in the abyss. A Soul Crystal—a rare material that can be made into a Soul-type Supreme Treasure—is close to fully forming.
• The Demon Race attacks the assembled forces of several other groups. The Zerg, Machine Race, and Human Race join in, each targeting only outsiders to their own faction. The four major races overwhelm their opponents, who are mostly forced to flee or die.
• Xiao Yang captures five King-level experts alive during the assault. Just as he and Profound Heaven King prepare to wait for the Soul Crystal to emerge, the Demon, Zerg, and Machine Races suddenly turn on the Human Race.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang continues to grow rapidly. He develops his Fire-Space Beast God Path, improves his technique, and plans to seek an inheritance at the Ancestor God Religion, confident he can obtain a Beast God Inheritance Token.
• He remains ambitious and practical: he intends to refine his technique further for Glory Points and sees the coming battle as an opportunity to capture more enemies alive.
• Profound Heaven King accompanies Xiao Yang to the abyss, where both prepare for the struggle over the Soul Crystal.

Significant themes

• Power and deterrence: Xiao Yang’s defense is so formidable that even top experts fear he could ignore their combined attacks.
• Preparation and ambition: Xiao Yang uses the years before the next conflict to strengthen his abilities and plan future opportunities.
• Shifting alliances and betrayal: The four races cooperate to eliminate outside opponents, but that solidarity proves temporary when the other three suddenly attack the Human Race.
• Scarcity and competition: The Soul Crystal’s rarity makes it valuable enough to provoke a large-scale battle.

Character interactions

• The Zerg and Machine Race representatives initially delay the Demon Race’s proposal while consulting their factions, then agree once their experts have been briefed.
• The four major races coordinate their attacks against outsiders, carefully avoiding strikes on their own allies.
• Xiao Yang and Profound Heaven King stand together near the abyss, but their brief pause ends when the other three races launch a coordinated assault on the Human Race.

Key events

• The Human Race is ambushed when the other three races jointly attack amid chaotic spatial storms. The Human forces are outnumbered, suffer heavy casualties, and even the Profound Heaven King is badly strained.
• With the Soul-type Supreme Treasure material now nearly impossible to obtain, the Profound Heaven King orders a retreat. The three races keep attacking, hoping to kill more Human experts.
• Xiao Yang deploys his palace Supreme Treasure, which absorbs the barrage and protects the retreating forces. He gathers nearly all the Human and Hong Alliance experts inside, then escapes with the tower into the Dark Universe.
• Once the Human forces are gone, the three races stop attacking and turn wary eyes on one another.

Character developments and interactions

• The Profound Heaven King recognizes the hopelessness of the situation and prioritizes saving his people, despite his reluctance to abandon the treasure.
• Xiao Yang demonstrates the defensive power of his palace Supreme Treasure and takes responsibility for extracting the remaining fighters. His actions earn the gratitude of the survivors.
• Human and Hong Alliance experts respond with alarm and anger at the alliance against them, but also relief that Xiao Yang’s intervention prevents further losses.

Significant themes

• Unity under pressure: The Human forces coordinate quickly despite the surprise attack.
• Sacrifice and survival: They give up the treasure to preserve their people.
• Shifting alliances and suspicion: The three races cooperate against a common rival, then become wary of one another once that rival escapes.
• The value of protection: Xiao Yang’s timely intervention turns a potentially disastrous retreat into a successful escape.

Chapter Summary: “Return to the Battlefield”

Key plot points and events

• After escaping the Broken Starfield aboard his giant tower, Xiao Yang is thanked by the Human Race and Hong Alliance experts he rescued. He insists it was simply the right thing to do, drops them outside the Broken Starfield, and leaves on his own.
• Xiao Yang enters the Game World, disguises his Heavenly Void Clone as ordinary cosmic dust, and returns to the Broken Starfield. He chooses the Game World over the Star Gate Vine because it is less likely to draw attention.
• Back at the battlefield, the Demon, Machine, and Zerg forces are facing one another in tense standoff. Xiao Yang quietly drifts behind the Demon Race formation, hoping to capture and enslave some King-level experts during the coming chaos.
• He judges the Demon Race to be the easiest target for soul enslavement. The Machine Race cannot be enslaved directly, while the Zerg Mother Emperors are highly skilled in soul techniques.
• The Soul Crystal is nearing completion as its fluctuations and aura weaken. The Zerg, eager to claim it and use it to create an offensive soul-type Ultimate Treasure, launch a sudden attack on the Demon and Machine forces.
• The Demon and Machine experts counterattack, but the Zerg’s large, pre-charged barrage inflicts heavy losses and drains the opponents’ Divine Power. The chapter ends as all three sides are drawn into battle.

Character development

• Xiao Yang remains composed and calculating. Rather than pursuing the Soul Crystal itself, he prioritizes the long-term value of recruiting powerful King-level Immortals who might eventually become Venerables or Universe Masters with his help.
• The rescued experts’ gratitude shows Xiao Yang has earned respect and potential allies among the Human Race and Hong Alliance.

Significant themes

• Pragmatism and long-term strategy: Xiao Yang values promising talent more than rare treasure.
• Caution and concealment: Even cosmic dust is treated as a possible threat, and Xiao Yang chooses the least conspicuous route back.
• Ambition and opportunity: The impending battle offers Xiao Yang a chance to expand his circle of enslaved experts.
• Power and vulnerability: The Zerg’s overwhelming opening attack is effective, but their need to charge it exposes a weakness.

Character interactions

• The rescued experts thank Xiao Yang and offer future assistance; he responds modestly and parts from them.
• Xiao Yang silently observes the three races, deliberately positioning himself near the Demon forces.
• The Zerg initiate hostilities against the Demon and Machine Races, prompting both to retaliate and turning the standoff into a full battle.

Key plot points and events

• The soul crystal finishes forming, triggering a frantic struggle among the Demon, Zerg, and Machine races. With the crystal now impossible to destroy, all three camps can attack freely, and their attention shifts away from other targets.
• Xiao Yang seizes the opening. From behind the Demon camp, he ambushes a carefully chosen High King Demon Immortal, cripples most of his divine body, and has him sent to the Game World to be enslaved.
• He rapidly attacks more Demon Immortals, shrugging off the surrounding fighters’ strikes through his exceptional speed and defense. In under three minutes, he kills over a hundred and captures dozens.
• The Demon camp’s attempts to reinforce its fighters are obstructed by the Zerg and Machine races, who welcome the Demon losses. As the battle spreads, fighters from those two races also attack Xiao Yang.
• Xiao Yang responds by bringing out a hundred Fire God Source Crystals, hinting at a new escalation as the chapter ends.

Character development

• Xiao Yang is more powerful and confident than in his earlier battle on the Ten Thousand Plants Continent. His combined time-acceleration abilities, strong defenses, and poison-coated spear let him overwhelm even high-ranking opponents while under heavy attack.
• His opportunism remains central: he waits for the precise moment when everyone’s attention is elsewhere, then targets Demon Immortals for capture as well as killing them.

Character interactions

• The three races compete for the soul crystal while simultaneously disrupting one another’s attempts to reach it.
• Demon fighters try to protect their camp and rescue those Xiao Yang attacks, but the Zerg and Machine fighters block them.
• The Demon experts react to Xiao Yang’s return with shock and fear, questioning his speed, durability, and even whether he is truly only an Immortal.

Significant themes

• Timing and strategy: Xiao Yang waits until the soul crystal’s completion distracts the battlefield before striking.
• Power and adaptation: His improved abilities and cultivated poisons demonstrate how sharply his strength has grown.
• Opportunism amid rivalry: The three races exploit one another’s priorities rather than acting in unity; Xiao Yang likewise uses their distraction to advance his own aims.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yang shocks the three-race coalition by detonating 100 powerful Fire God Source Crystals beside the Zerg, then another 100 beside the Machine Race. Each blast kills hundreds of King-level experts, while Xiao Yang survives unharmed by briefly entering the Game World.
• He captures a few incapacitated Zerg experts, though most are taken away by their allies. The blasts terrify the assembled forces, who see no way to injure him.
• Xiao Yang takes cover inside his palace-type Supreme Treasure, the Small Tower, and uses it to reach the Soul Crystal despite the coalition’s attacks. He emerges and claims it.
• Rather than escape, Xiao Yang returns to the Demon Race camp to hunt more enemies. The Zerg and Machine Race keep attacking, and their assaults also strike the Demon Race, causing panic and defections across all three forces.
• The Demon Race reveals a hidden trump card: a Venerable emerges from an Immortal’s World Ring and confronts Xiao Yang, demanding the Soul Crystal.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang demonstrates overwhelming confidence, resourcefulness, and tactical cunning. He uses explosive weapons, his Game World, and the Small Tower to survive, seize the objective, and continue fighting rather than retreat.
• The coalition’s experts shift from aggression to fear and desperation, unable to harm Xiao Yang or stop him from taking the Soul Crystal. The Machine Race and Zerg also exploit the battle to weaken the Demon Race.
• The Demon Race Venerable enters as a powerful new threat and directly challenges Xiao Yang, abruptly changing the balance of the confrontation.

Significant themes

• Power and strategic ingenuity: Xiao Yang’s tools and quick decisions let him overcome a vastly larger force.
• Fear and shifting alliances: Once the coalition loses hope of stopping him, self-preservation and rivalry take over.
• Escalation: The fight grows from a massed battle into a direct confrontation between Xiao Yang and a Venerable.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang recognizes the approaching Demon High Venerable Yan Xin, a powerful member of the Star-Devouring Elephant clan, and expects to lose his chance to capture more King-level Immortals alive.
• A second pursuer appears: Star Devourer Lord, the Zerg Universe Overlord who placed a bounty on Xiao Yang and seeks revenge for the deaths of his disciples, Moxiya and Yamina. He also wants Xiao Yang’s Palace Supreme Treasure and Soul Crystal.
• Star Devourer Lord uses a soul attack to delay Yan Xin, then attacks Xiao Yang with a saber. His soul techniques cannot affect Xiao Yang, who has no soul.
• Just before the saber strikes, Xiao Yang reveals the Flame Star Vine. Its immense aura and 1,024 tendrils annihilate many Demon experts and seize over a hundred sleeping King-level Immortals.
• The vine regenerates after taking Star Devourer Lord’s blow, barely losing any divine power. It then turns on both pursuers. When its attacks fail to harm them, it begins burning its vast reserves of divine power to grow stronger.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang shifts from trying to capture enemies discreetly to openly unleashing the Flame Star Vine when facing two powerful attackers.
• Star Devourer Lord reveals his personal vendetta and greed, and targets both Xiao Yang and Yan Xin to secure the Soul Crystal for himself.
• Yan Xin is shown as formidable but vulnerable to Star Devourer Lord’s superior soul mastery; once freed, he becomes a rival for Xiao Yang’s prize.
• The two pursuers, though enemies, are temporarily focused on the same target. Star Devourer Lord actively obstructs Yan Xin, while both are forced to defend themselves against Xiao Yang’s unexpected weapon.
• The Flame Star Vine demonstrates overwhelming power and loyalty, escalating its strength when its master is threatened.

Significant themes

• Hidden strength and surprise: Xiao Yang’s apparently vulnerable position conceals a power capable of challenging far stronger opponents.
• Ambition and rivalry: Yan Xin and Star Devourer Lord compete for Xiao Yang and the valuable Soul Crystal.
• Power beyond accepted limits: The Flame Star Vine’s strength as an Immortal appears to defy the Primordial Universe’s normal laws.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• The Flame Star Vine begins burning its Divine Power, forcing the Star Devourer Lord and Venerable Flameheart to burn theirs as well. Both realize they are unlikely to obtain the soul crystal.
• The Vine’s spreading tendrils drive nearby King-level fighters into a panicked retreat. The Demon Race suffers the most because its fighters are closest to Xiao Yang; the Machine Race suffers the least, being farther away and largely immune to Xiao Yang’s soul enslavement.
• The four Venerables overseeing the Eleventh Battlefield discover that Venerables have entered it. The Demon and Zerg Venerables admit their side’s involvement, while the Human and Machine Venerables condemn them for breaking the agreement barring Venerables from the battlefield.
• The Human Venerable threatens retaliation if the Star Devourer Lord harms the Origin Spear King. The Zerg Venerable knows the Star Devourer Lord’s grudge but cannot control him.
• The Venerables learn that the powerful Flame Star Vine is only at the Immortal level, so its presence does not violate battlefield rules. The Human Venerable is pleased, while the others are frustrated.
• Using Xiao Yang’s battlefield-system feed, the Human Venerable watches events unfold. Most King-level fighters escape, but the Star Devourer Lord and Venerable Flameheart remain trapped and unable to flee the Vine.

Character developments and interactions

• Star Devourer Lord and Venerable Flameheart are forced onto the defensive, burning Divine Power and struggling to escape the Vine.
• The Human Venerable shifts from anger and alarm to confidence once he realizes the Vine is legally permitted. He also warns the Zerg Venerable that harm to the Origin Spear King will provoke retaliation.
• The Zerg Venerable moves from smug dismissal to anxiety: she knows the Star Devourer Lord’s grudge could cause trouble but lacks the authority to stop him.
• The Machine Venerable is frustrated by the losses and by the Machine Race’s lack of a Venerable-level combatant, though its fighters have suffered comparatively less.
• The Demon and Zerg Venerables initially downplay the crisis, provoking the Human and Machine Venerables and intensifying the dispute among the four races.

Significant themes

• Power and survival: Fighters abandon alliances and objectives when confronted with overwhelming danger.
• Rules and political consequences: The battlefield’s ban on Venerables is meant to preserve it as a place for fighters to grow; breaking that agreement threatens broader conflict.
• Unequal vulnerability: Position and abilities determine which camps suffer most, while the rules allow powerful Immortal-level plant life to participate.
• Limits of authority: The Zerg Venerable cannot command a Universe Overlord, even when his actions may endanger inter-race stability.

Key plot points and events

• Star Devourer Lord and Venerable Yan Xin fail to seize the Soul Crystal. Xiao Yang’s Flame Star Vine withstands their attacks and steadily wears down their Divine Power, despite being only Immortal Level.
• After more than ten days, the two Venerables escape the Vine’s range. Star Devourer Lord has lost nearly 10% of his Divine Power and Yan Xin about 5%—losses that could take countless epochs to restore.
• Xiao Yang recalls the Vine and leaves the Extraterrestrial Battlefield. At the Broken Starfield, the Human Race Venerable taunts the Demon and Zerg Venerables, who withdraw without reaching the already-settled battle at the Shattered Star Sea. The Machine Race Venerable leaves as well.
• News spreads across the battlefield. The Human Race celebrates Xiao Yang’s strength, while the other races are shocked and the Machine Race resents having been the only faction without a Venerable-level fighter.
• Back in the Game World, Xiao Yang enslaves more than 500 captured Alien Race King-level experts, restores and improves them, and sends them to train in his Manor. The crowded Manor makes him wish for a better skin, though none suitable has appeared.
• He recalls seeing a rare Rockery Skin containing the complete Time and Space Origin Laws, with an additional effect that could stack with the Manor’s own effect.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang’s Flame Star Vine proves powerful enough to threaten High Venerables through sheer force, even without fitting secret arts. Xiao Yang remains unaware of the battlefield’s reaction to his victory.
• Star Devourer Lord and Yan Xin are forced to abandon their attempt, having underestimated the Vine and paid a lasting cost.
• The Human Race Venerable gloats over the Demon and Zerg Venerables, who cannot credibly protest because their own Venerables broke the rules by entering the battlefield. The Machine Race Venerable departs in frustration.
• The captured experts, especially those from the Demon Race, are pleased with their improved training conditions after being enslaved.

Significant themes

• Power and expectations: The Flame Star Vine overturns assumptions about the limits of Immortal-level strength.
• Consequences of overconfidence and rule-breaking: The rival Venerables’ intervention fails and leaves their factions politically embarrassed.
• Growth and cultivation: Xiao Yang’s system of restoring, enhancing, and training captured experts turns his victory into a lasting expansion of strength.
• Scarcity and ambition: Even with vast resources, Xiao Yang faces practical limits in his Manor and continues to seek valuable upgrades.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yang reviews the powerful rockery in his Manor, whose effects combine with the Manor’s bonuses to greatly improve his understanding of the Time and Space Origin Laws.
• When the Back Hill gathering event returns, he realizes his Star Gate Vine clone can gather there. Its 10,081 vines spread across the region, collecting crops far faster than he could alone.
• The clone finds vast quantities of resources, including Level-8 crops, materials for Supreme Treasures, and eventually a Ninefold Void Return Fruit. Xiao Yang hopes to find more, but the event ends before he does.
• He uses Level-8 Wild Ginseng to raise both his original body’s and Heavenly Void Clone’s Gene Levels to 3,000 times the norm. He then leaves the Game World and heads to the Thousand Treasures River to test whether Blood Luo Power can bring his original body to Perfect Gene level.

Character development

• Xiao Yang shows increasing ingenuity by recognizing that his Star Gate Vine clone can overcome the Back Hill’s usual gathering limitations.
• His excitement shifts from collecting resources to pursuing a major breakthrough: reaching Perfect Gene level and gaining its associated secret skill.

Significant themes

• Ingenuity and resourcefulness: Xiao Yang turns the clone’s unusual abilities into a massive gathering advantage.
• Accumulation leading to breakthrough: The harvest provides the resources needed to strengthen his bodies and pursue the next stage of evolution.
• Power and protection: The Ninefold Void Return Fruit is prized for its defensive secret skill, which can reduce physical attacks to one percent of their normal force and stack with armor-type treasures.

Character interactions

• The chapter is largely focused on Xiao Yang directing and benefiting from his Star Gate Vine clone; no major conversations or confrontations occur.
• Xiao Yang’s main interaction with others is indirect, through the resources and abilities he seeks to match or surpass—particularly the formidable defensive skill associated with Yintu of the Cosmic Sea.