Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• In the Game World, Xiao Yang discovers that a ruined Miniature Universe shrinks into a small sphere and can be exchanged for Voucher Points. One sphere yields roughly the equivalent of ten million Treasure Points—far more than his previous top-ups.
• Realizing the Human Race has records of many ruined Miniature Universes, Xiao Yang sees a way to complete his enormous top-up mission. He dispatches his avatars and Star Gate Vine clones to collect more, hoping to finish within a few hundred years and unlock higher-level crops and a valuable reward.
• On the Seventh Battlefield, Luo Feng returns to have his Mosha Clan clone consume level-9 Wild Ginseng and Level-7 Milk. The clone reaches perfect gene level and grows to over 100,000 kilometers tall.
• Luo Feng senses a powerful pull from a nearby World Ring, kills its Nashi Race owner—an Initial King Immortal—in one strike, and discovers a fragment of a Heavenly Soul Crystal containing the second stage of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual. Though he doubts it will help now that he has perfect genes, he keeps it to test later.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang shifts from worrying that his mission will take ages to pursuing it urgently, driven by the prospect of stronger crops and a better Dao Enlightenment Fruit.
• Luo Feng’s strength is now so great that General Armor would add less than one percent to it, and even a King Immortal opponent falls to a single blow. He remains curious and methodical, preserving the manual fragment for experimentation.
• Xiao Yang coordinates his many avatars toward a shared goal; Luo Feng’s encounter with the Nashi Immortal is brief and one-sided.

Significant themes

• Resource conversion and ambition: A previously overlooked resource—the ruined Miniature Universe—offers Xiao Yang a shortcut toward a seemingly impossible goal.
• Power and changing priorities: Luo Feng has outgrown earlier rewards, while Xiao Yang is motivated by the promise of future advancement.
• Experimentation amid uncertainty: Both characters act on new possibilities, but Luo Feng cautiously retains an artifact whose usefulness is unclear.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng completes the second stage of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual and decides to leave Yanji Continent for Star Tower, where he hopes to find more challenging training. He believes the reduced presence of alien Venerables makes the journey less dangerous, largely because Xiao Yang has killed or soul-enslaved many of them.
• Xiao Yang travels toward the Universe Boat and watches it devour a ruined Miniature Universe, regretting that he cannot safely claim it for redemption. He plans to collect other ruined Miniature Universes before the Universe Boat consumes them.
• Using a Star Gate Vine Avatar, Xiao Yang reaches another ruined Miniature Universe, Number 000801. He discovers someone is inside and realizes he cannot transfer it into the Game World without that occupant’s consent or incapacity.
• To avoid exposing his ability to collect Miniature Universes, Xiao Yang prepares to leave. But the occupant emerges and reveals himself as the Yilei Lord, a Third-Order Universe Master with the high-grade Domain Supreme Treasure Sea of Yilei.
• Recognizing that he has been discovered, Xiao Yang chooses to fight rather than retreat. He unleashes his Sea of Ten Thousand Flowers against the Yilei Lord.

Character developments

• Luo Feng shows renewed ambition: comfortable surroundings no longer satisfy him, so he chooses the danger of Star Tower in pursuit of growth.
• Xiao Yang is increasingly confident in his strength. His clones and Avatars have developed a Universe Master Ultimate Secret Technique, bringing him to Third-Order Universe Master power and close to the Fourth Order.
• Xiao Yang also acts cautiously to protect his secret, weighing the consequences of killing a witness before deciding that a confrontation is now unavoidable.

Significant themes

• Growth through risk: Luo Feng seeks a more demanding environment, while Xiao Yang tests his strength against a formidable opponent.
• The cost of power: Xiao Yang’s soul enslavement of Venerables has made the battlefield safer for Luo Feng but has also reshaped the balance of power.
• Secrecy and strategic restraint: Xiao Yang avoids using his strongest treasures or killing unnecessarily when either choice might expose his plans.
• Competition for resources: The Universe Boat’s consumption of ruined Miniature Universes threatens Xiao Yang’s opportunity to turn them into valuable redemption rewards.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng’s decision to enter Star Tower is indirectly enabled by the fear Xiao Yang has spread among alien Venerables.
• Xiao Yang’s attempted collection of Miniature Universe Number 000801 brings him into contact with the Yilei Lord. Their encounter shifts from a potential escape to an imminent battle, with Xiao Yang taking the initiative by attacking with his floral domain.

Key plot points

• Yilei Lord, a relatively weak Universe Master exploring a ruined Miniature Universe, is caught in Xiao Yang’s Sea of Ten Thousand Flowers, a Top-tier Supreme Treasure domain.
• Unable to escape, Yilei contacts the Zerg for help and asks Xiao Yang to identify himself, offering to leave rather than fight.
• Xiao Yang attacks with the Peak Ultimate Treasure spear Gui Yi, combining numerous laws into a vast Spear World. The strike devastates the already-ruined universe.
• Yilei counters with his own blade and domain. The attack is weakened before reaching him, and he takes almost no damage. He initially believes Xiao Yang is only slightly stronger than himself.
• Yilei then recognizes that Xiao Yang’s technique combines an extraordinary range of laws, including some unfamiliar fusion laws. He dismisses it as incoherent and wasteful.
• After Yilei reports the encounter to the Zerg, its Universe Masters suspect the opponent is Xiao Yang of the Human Race. The Zerg Queen orders nearby forces to verify his identity and tells Yilei to hold him while she comes to capture his clone or avatar.

Character development

• Xiao Yang displays formidable resources and an unconventional fighting style, but his true identity remains concealed during the encounter.
• Yilei Lord shifts from cautious negotiation to confidence when he judges Xiao Yang’s attack survivable, then to surprise at the technique’s unprecedented breadth. His limited awareness of current events leaves him unable to recognize Xiao Yang immediately.
• The Zerg Queen responds decisively to the possibility that Xiao Yang is present, treating the encounter as an opportunity to capture him.

Significant themes

• Power and misjudgment: Yilei assesses Xiao Yang by the apparent strength of a single attack, overlooking the significance of its unusual composition.
• Innovation versus orthodoxy: Xiao Yang’s many-law technique seems chaotic and ineffective to Yilei, but its unfamiliarity makes it remarkable to those who understand its context.
• Factional dependence and danger: Yilei’s alliance with the Zerg gives him a rescue network, but it also draws the Zerg into a potentially consequential confrontation.
• Identity and uncertainty: The chapter’s tension builds around whether the mysterious Universe Master is really Xiao Yang.

Character interactions

• Xiao Yang ignores Yilei’s attempt to avoid conflict and attacks without revealing his identity.
• Yilei calls on the Zerg for help and reports what he has observed.
• The Zerg Universe Masters debate the opponent’s identity, while the Queen directs them to investigate and orders Yilei to delay him.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang and Yilei Lord fight for months. Drawing on lessons from battling Tony, Xiao Yang identifies flaws in Yilei Lord’s techniques and keeps him on the defensive, draining over 3% of his divine power.
• Sulfur Nether Lord, a Fourth-Order Zerg Universe Master, joins Yilei Lord and turns the fight against Xiao Yang. Despite their combined attacks and her soul attack, Xiao Yang loses almost no divine power, thanks to his armor, defensive technique, and soulless Star Gate Vine avatar.
• Xiao Yang considers unleashing enough power to defeat them, but holds back so he can preserve the element of surprise and potentially ensnare more enemies later. Knowing the Zerg Queen is approaching, he chooses to withdraw.
• When both opponents strike, Xiao Yang opens a star-filled gateway and disappears with the Sea of Ten Thousand Flowers. Sulfur Nether Lord’s domain cannot detect him, leaving both Zerg fighters baffled.
• More than a month later, the Zerg Queen arrives and asks whether they saw the No. 000692 Miniature Universe, introducing a new mystery.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang demonstrates rapid growth, tactical insight, and exceptional durability. Though capable of briefly reaching the strength of a Strongest Being in the Universe, he prioritizes secrecy and a better-timed attack over immediate victory.
• Yilei Lord shifts from pressing his promised reward against Xiao Yang to struggling defensively, then regains the advantage when Sulfur Nether Lord joins.
• Sulfur Nether Lord is shocked by Xiao Yang’s progress and begins to fear how powerful he may become. She and Yilei Lord fight together but cannot stop his escape.
• The Zerg Queen arrives after Xiao Yang vanishes, focused on the missing miniature universe rather than the battle itself.

Significant themes

• Growth through adversity: Fighting a far stronger opponent has improved Xiao Yang’s ability to read and exploit others’ techniques.
• Restraint and strategy: Xiao Yang declines to reveal his full strength, valuing surprise and long-term plans over a decisive win.
• Unprecedented potential: His rapid advancement and novel Star Gate ability unsettle even long-lived, experienced enemies.
• Mystery and suspense: Xiao Yang’s escape and the Queen’s question about the vanished miniature universe leave the chapter on an unresolved revelation.

Summary

Plot points and events

• The Zerg Queen reports that Miniature Universe 000692 was missing from its usual location when she traveled through the area. Yilei Lord had last seen it 276,321 years earlier, while Lord Liuming had not passed through that route.
• The lords consider whether the universe could have shifted position. Since ruined Miniature Universes serve as landmarks in the Cosmic Sea, their disappearance could make navigation dangerous. The Zerg Queen orders nearby Universe Masters to check other such landmarks and report back.
• Unaware of the investigation, Xiao Yang continues his own travels. He has used dozens of Miniature Universes to complete a top-up mission and has obtained several level 11 crops.
• One of Xiao Yang’s Tianxu Avatars reaches the Flame Ice Domain after an exceptionally fast journey through repeated teleportation and avatar “save points.” The method costs divine power and has killed many avatars, but it is far quicker than ordinary travel.
• In the dangerous Inner Domain, Xiao Yang searches for the Tomb Ship, which he remembers appeared from a Black Swamp. Unsure which swamp it was, he sends multiple avatars—each carrying a True God Supreme Treasure palace—to investigate separate swamps. The swamps swallow the palaces.

Character developments

• The Zerg Queen responds to the missing landmark with caution and takes responsibility for organizing a wider search.
• Yilei Lord and Lord Liuming recognize the potential danger and treat the disappearance as a serious threat to navigation.
• Xiao Yang remains bold and resourceful, using avatars, powerful treasures, and his special abilities to explore places that would be deadly to others.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and risk: The Cosmic Sea’s changing coordinates make even familiar routes unreliable; the Flame Ice Domain presents immediate physical danger.
• Ingenuity through unique abilities: Xiao Yang turns teleportation, the Game World, and expendable avatars into an unconventional travel and exploration system.
• Preparation versus recklessness: The Zerg leaders prioritize checking and updating maps, while Xiao Yang presses ahead with dangerous exploration—but equips his avatars with palace treasures as protection.

Character interactions

• The Zerg Queen questions Yilei Lord about when he last saw the missing Miniature Universe, then consults both him and Lord Liuming about possible explanations.
• After they agree on the seriousness of the problem, the Queen instructs Zerg and allied Universe Masters to inspect nearby ruined Miniature Universes.
• Xiao Yang’s exploration proceeds independently; he has no interaction with the Zerg leaders and does not know their landmark investigation is underway.

Key plot points and events

• The Zerg and their allies discover that more than ten ruined Miniature Universes have vanished. Because those universes can no longer be trusted as navigation markers, the Zerg Queen orders new maps and an investigation into the disappearances. The Queen can still teleport more safely than the others thanks to her strength, Supreme Ultimate Treasure palace, and faint link to her own universe.
• Xiao Yang tells the Human Race that he has been taking ruined Miniature Universes for his own use. They accept his explanation and update their maps; the wider Hong Alliance is only told that the universes have disappeared.
• After using another ruined Miniature Universe to top up his account, Xiao Yang completes the current top-up mission and claims its reward. A new mission demands an impossibly large amount of Voucher Points, so he closes the event page rather than dwell on it.
• The reward is a level-12 Dao Enlightenment Fruit, which greatly increases the user’s Comprehension Potential. Xiao Yang eats it immediately.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang becomes more intent on developing his long-term potential. He recognizes that enhanced potential will compound as he grows, and that creating Secret Arts and playing the Rhino Emperor Game could further improve his comprehension.
• The Zerg Queen acts cautiously and decisively, taking charge of the response to the missing universes while continuing to search.
• The Human Race’s experts show growing trust in Xiao Yang, accepting his disclosure and acting promptly, though the broader alliance receives only a partial account.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and adaptation: The disappearance of familiar landmarks forces factions to revise their maps and reconsider how safely they can travel.
• Power with consequences: Xiao Yang’s resource-gathering benefits him but disrupts navigation across the Cosmic Sea.
• Potential over immediate gains: Xiao Yang values a lasting increase in comprehension potential over a short-term boost to ability.
• Secrecy and trust: The Human Race knows what Xiao Yang did, while the Hong Alliance is given a more guarded explanation.

Character interactions

• The Zerg Queen briefs her faction’s Universe Masters, warns them about the missing Miniature Universes, and secures their agreement to investigate and report findings.
• Xiao Yang informs the Human Race’s experts of his role in the disappearances; they respond with practical cooperation. They then pass a limited version of the news to the Hong Alliance.
• Xiao Yang considers how the Dao Enlightenment Fruit may work alongside future Secret Art creation and the Rhino Emperor Game before consuming it.

Key events

• After consuming the Dao Enlightenment Fruit, Xiao Yang senses a subtle change in his soul but cannot identify it. He returns to studying fusion laws in the Game World, where even chaos law is accessible.
• Luo Feng tells Xiao Yang he has found an inheritance on the Extraterrestrial Battlefield. Receiving it may take a long time and could be dangerous, so he warns Xiao Yang that he may disappear for a while.
• Xiao Yang recognizes that Luo Feng means the Star Tower inheritance and encourages him, confident he can succeed. He says he has no intention of competing for the Star Tower.
• While searching the Flame Ice Domain for the Tomb Ship, one of Xiao Yang’s avatars strikes something solid in a black swamp. The swamp erupts with immense force, flinging his True God Supreme Treasure palace out and costing him some divine power.
• Xiao Yang stores the palace in the Game World and watches the disturbance from outside. The swamp boils and shakes the surrounding space, alerting his other avatars; he expects nearby Universe Masters to investigate.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang remains focused on improving his mastery of laws and trusts Luo Feng’s ability to withstand the Star Tower trial. He is supportive rather than possessive, believing Luo Feng would share the Tower’s valuable features with him if needed.
• Luo Feng is candid about the danger and duration of his undertaking, though he jokes that Xiao Yang should wish him well rather than mention his possible death. They part on friendly terms.
• Xiao Yang’s discovery in the swamp shifts his attention from routine searching to a potentially major find, but the chapter ends before he identifies what has surfaced.

Significant themes

• Preparation and growth: Xiao Yang studies laws and emphasizes willpower, while Luo Feng faces a trial that may demand personal breakthroughs.
• Trust and friendship: The two speak openly and support one another without competing over the Star Tower.
• Danger and uncertainty: Powerful treasures offer protection, but even they can be overwhelmed by sufficiently great forces.

Key plot points and events

• The Tomb Ship’s emergence shakes the Flame Ice Domain’s spacetime, drawing nearby Universe Masters who suspect an Ultimate Treasure is appearing.
• Xiao Yang waits as the enormous black ship rises from the Black Swamp.
• Lord Ying Ai and Lord Wu Liang, a married pair from the powerful Divine Eye Clan, arrive. They mistake Xiao Yang for a weak, newly ascended human and consider killing him.
• Wu Liang’s Soul Attack reveals that Xiao Yang has no soul. Before the pair can act further, he enters his golden-red Peak Ultimate Treasure palace and calmly eats crops from his Farm Game.
• Ying Ai and Wu Liang decide to wait for their ally Jin Fang before trying to seize the Tomb Ship. Their attempts to make it recognize them as its master fail.
• Lord Liujiu of the Ancestor God Religion and a Skeleton Race Universe Master arrive; the latter trades insults with the Divine Eye pair, reflecting their races’ longstanding hostility.
• Jin Fang arrives. After another half month, the Tomb Ship fully emerges and opens a hatch. The gathered experts rush inside.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang remains calm and detached, neither warning nor confronting the others. His lack of a soul and possession of a Peak Ultimate Treasure palace hint that he is far more unusual and powerful than the visitors assume.
• Ying Ai and Wu Liang are eager to claim the ship and dismiss Xiao Yang as weak, but become cautious after seeing his palace and discovering he has no soul. They choose to wait for reinforcements.
• The Skeleton Race expert openly antagonizes the Divine Eye Clan representative, continuing his race’s rivalry with the clan.

Significant themes

• Greed and competition: The prospect of a rare treasure quickly draws powerful beings into a scramble for control.
• Underestimation and hidden strength: Xiao Yang’s quiet demeanor leads others to misjudge him, while his mysterious nature unsettles them.
• Rivalry among powerful factions: The Divine Eye Clan and Skeleton Race’s enduring enmity surfaces as soon as they meet.

Character interactions

• Ying Ai and Wu Liang act as a coordinated husband-and-wife team, with Wu Liang testing Xiao Yang and Ying Ai proposing their next move.
• Xiao Yang ignores their warnings and attempted attack, choosing to observe rather than engage.
• The Skeleton Race expert’s arrival turns the gathering tense through his insults toward the Divine Eye pair.
• Once the hatch opens, the gathered rivals abandon discussion and race toward the Tomb Ship.

Key plot points and events

• The Tomb Ship’s hatch opens, and the competing powers rush inside. Xiao Yang lags behind, then takes a random passage through a vast empty plaza.
• He happens upon the control room, where Lord Ying Ai and four others are trying to claim the ship. Ying Ai uses golden blood to verify ownership, but they discover the Control Core is not there.
• An ancient figure appears on a throne and identifies himself as Duan Donghe Wu, the 192nd bearer of an ancient lineage. He explains that he turned the Tomb Ship into an inheritance site so the Duan Donghe tradition would survive his death.
• Duan Donghe warns that the trials grow increasingly dangerous: at the final inheritance, only the chosen heir may survive—or everyone may die. The visitors can still leave, but staying makes failure more perilous.
• None of the group leaves. They value the complete ancient inheritance, which could transform their civilizations. Two additional Universe Masters arrive to support their respective factions.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang remains relaxed and observant, arriving after the others and recognizing that the inheritance will not be won simply by having more people. Though he is the only one present without a companion, he is confident in his own resources and ability.
• Lord Ying Ai shifts from confident efforts to take control of the ship to shock when he finds no Control Core.
• The assembled leaders react to Duan Donghe’s warning with hesitation, but their ambition outweighs their fear; they collectively choose to stay.
• Lord Chilu and Lord Yan Ju join their allies, while Xiao Yang notes that everyone else has backup.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and legacy: Duan Donghe risks his life to preserve a lineage carried through generations.
• Ambition versus survival: The contenders knowingly accept potentially fatal trials for the chance to gain overwhelming power.
• Individual strength versus numbers: Xiao Yang’s confidence suggests that sheer manpower may matter less than personal capability in the coming ordeal.
• The value of knowledge: The complete Duan Donghe inheritance is far more consequential than the fragmentary techniques other civilizations possess.

Key plot points and events

• Duan Donghe reveals a passage to the inheritance trials and warns that anyone who reaches the inheritance but fails to receive it completely will die. The entrance will remain open, and he encourages more challengers.
• Lord Chilu enters eagerly, hoping the inheritance will let him become a Strongest Being and establish a Holy Land Universe. Xiao Yang follows, as do the others.
• Elsewhere aboard the Tomb Ship, Duan Donghe releases the Thunder Robe Demon God from their agreement to help attract candidates. He promises the Demon God can leave safely, provided he has not received the core inheritance.
• In the first trial chamber, Duan Donghe presents a strange, pattern-covered cube that screens candidates one at a time. Xiao Yang enters first and passes; Duan Donghe praises him as “not bad.”
• Most candidates pass, but the two Skeleton Race Universe Masters and Lord Yan Ju fail. Duan Donghe explains that the inheritance is restricted to members of his race, dismissing the Skeleton Race candidates.
• Outside the Tomb Ship, Lord Lihai reacts with fury and vows to sabotage the remaining candidates’ chances.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang is confident and prepared, entering the device without hesitation. His successful screening—and Duan Donghe’s unusually warm response—makes him stand out and draws wary, potentially hostile attention from the other candidates.
• Lord Chilu acts decisively, motivated by the possibility of rising to greater power.
• Thunder Robe Demon God accepts the end of his arrangement with Duan Donghe, though he feels regret and returns to studying a stone pillar.
• Lord Lihai shifts from hopeful candidate to vengeful outsider after learning his race is excluded. His threat creates a danger beyond the trials themselves.
• Duan Donghe is generally impersonal and strict, but his praise of Xiao Yang distinguishes him from the rest.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and worthiness: Candidates face dangerous tests to prove their eligibility, while lineage—not merely ability—can determine who is allowed to compete.
• Ambition and risk: The promise of immense power draws challengers despite the warning that failure may be fatal.
• Exclusion and resentment: The Skeleton Race’s rejection turns disappointment into hostility, suggesting that unfair or absolute barriers can fuel retaliation.

Chapter Summary: “Favoring Xiao Yang?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Inside the Tomb Ship, Duan Donghe gives Xiao Yang and the other four surviving candidates one final chance to withdraw before entering a life-threatening trial. All five choose to continue.
• He leads them to a dark corridor and explains the rules: they must move straight through it and reach the next hall alive. They may use any method or treasure, but hiding inside a Palace Supreme Treasure counts as failure.
• Reaching the next hall will allow them to pass the basic screening and participate in the next trial. After that trial, they can finally begin accessing Duan Donghe’s inheritance.
• Duan Donghe orders Lord Ying Ai and the other three candidates to enter first, leaving Xiao Yang behind. The four are surprised and suspicious, especially because Duan Donghe had previously shown Xiao Yang unusual attention.
• Inside the corridor, the three Divine Eye Clan members speculate that Xiao Yang must be exceptionally talented—even by the standards of the ancient civilization—and that Duan Donghe separated him from them to protect him.
• They decide to deal with Xiao Yang later, while focusing first on surviving the corridor. They surround Lord Liujiu and force him to take the lead, implicitly treating him as expendable.
• Elsewhere, Lord Lihai reports to the Skeleton Race’s Four Great Demon Gods that their race is barred from receiving the inheritance because of its connection to the Tomb Ship’s past.
• The Skeleton Race realizes it may have no chance of obtaining the inheritance. The Skeleton Lord responds bitterly, deciding that if they cannot claim it, they should at least prevent the Divine Eye Clan from obtaining it easily.

Character Developments

• Xiao Yang: His mysterious nature and lack of a soul continue to distinguish him from ordinary Universe Masters. Duan Donghe’s special treatment suggests that Xiao Yang possesses extraordinary talent or some unique quality.
• Duan Donghe: He maintains strict control over the trial while clearly favoring or protecting Xiao Yang. His decision to keep Xiao Yang outside appears deliberate, possibly to prevent the other candidates from attacking him.
• Lord Ying Ai, Lord Wu Liang, and Lord Jin Fang: Their suspicion of Xiao Yang develops into hostility. They recognize him as a potential rival and begin planning to eliminate him if an opportunity arises.
• Lord Liujiu: He becomes isolated and vulnerable after being separated from Xiao Yang. The Divine Eye Clan’s decision to force him into the lead highlights his precarious position.
• The Skeleton Lord: His disappointment turns into resentment and a willingness to sabotage the Divine Eye Clan rather than allow them to gain the inheritance uncontested.

Significant Themes

• Favoritism and hidden worth: Duan Donghe’s preferential treatment of Xiao Yang raises questions about Xiao Yang’s true identity and abilities.
• Survival and mistrust: The trial forces the candidates into a hostile environment where cooperation is fragile and everyone suspects others of plotting against them.
• Power struggles over inheritance: The inheritance intensifies rivalry among the participating races, making even temporary alliances unstable.
• Resentment and sabotage: The Skeleton Race’s exclusion transforms its desire for the inheritance into a desire to obstruct its enemies.

Character Interactions

• Duan Donghe warns all five candidates of the danger, then separates Xiao Yang from the others by sending the four rivals into the corridor first.
• Lord Ying Ai and the other Divine Eye Clan members discuss Xiao Yang’s special status and agree that he must be eliminated later.
• The Divine Eye Clan surrounds Lord Liujiu and pressures him to lead the way through the dangerous passage.
• Lord Lihai informs the Skeleton Race’s leaders of the situation, prompting the Skeleton Lord to advocate obstructing the Divine Eye Clan.

Key plot points

• The Skeleton Race fears that the Divine Eye Clan—whose experts are already taking the trials—could gain the Duan Donghe inheritance and further threaten them. Its leader orders the news spread throughout the Cosmic Sea and sends talented members of its vassal races to try the trials.
• The Human Race learns what Xiao Yang experienced inside the Tomb Ship. Confident in him but unwilling to take chances, its leaders begin selecting geniuses and plan to send them to the site.
• Once the Ancestor God Religion independently confirms the inheritance’s existence and Lord Liujiu’s death, the Cosmic Sea’s factions accept the news and rush to send their strongest experts and promising candidates to the Flame Ice Domain.
• The Demon, Zerg, and Mechanical races pause their plans against the Human Race to prioritize the inheritance. The Zerg Queen reveals that the unknown Human Race Universe Master in the trials is Xiao Yang, now a Universe Master and already formidable. She urges the other two leaders to spread this information and stop him from obtaining the inheritance.

Character developments and interactions

• The Skeleton Race leader acts decisively, turning the race’s former vassals into potential allies whose success could benefit the Skeleton Race.
• Giant Axe and the Human Race’s other leaders react with excitement; the Primal Ancestor advocates sending additional candidates even though Xiao Yang is their best hope.
• The Dream Demon Ancestor initially treats the inheritance as more important than attacking the Human Race, then grows alarmed when she learns Xiao Yang is competing. The Mechanical Race Father God shares her concern, while the Zerg Queen drives the effort to rally opposition against him.
• Xiao Yang remains confident that the inheritance will belong to the Human Race.

Significant themes

• Competition for power: The inheritance could transform the balance among the Cosmic Sea’s factions.
• Alliance and self-interest: Rivals set aside existing conflicts when a greater opportunity—or threat—emerges.
• Fear of exceptional talent: Xiao Yang’s rapid rise makes enemies who once sought his death prioritize preventing his advancement.
• Information as a weapon: Confirmation and dissemination of the news trigger a race to the Tomb Ship and a campaign to identify and counter Xiao Yang.

Key events

• The Zerg Queen, Dream Demon Ancestor, and Mechanical Race Father God agree to spread the news that Xiao Yang has entered the Tomb Ship and is attempting the Duan Donghe Inheritance trial. They plan to block other human candidates and consider uniting the Cosmic Sea factions against humanity if Xiao Yang succeeds.
• Mechanical Race Father God estimates Xiao Yang has a 31.388% chance of obtaining the inheritance—an alarming prospect for the rival races.
• In Chaos City, thousands of human Immortals and Venerables gather to travel to the Flame Ice Domain. Chaos City Lord warns them of the danger and offers free resurrection if they die.
• Xiao Yang, Giant Axe, and Chaos City Lord use Xiao Yang’s Star Gate ability to reach the Flame Ice Domain in minutes. Giant Axe and Chaos City Lord are astonished that Xiao Yang can even open a gate inside Giant Axe’s Miniature Universe.
• At the Tomb Ship, Lord Yan Ju is still attacking it, grieving the death of Lord Liujiu. The two Skeleton Race Universe Masters let the human leaders pass, and Chaos City Lord enters the Tomb Ship while Xiao Yang and Giant Axe wait outside.
• Inside, Xiao Yang faces Kui Luo. Duan Donghe instructs him to survive without hiding in a Palace Supreme Treasure. Xiao Yang repeatedly hurls Kui Luo away with his spear, but Kui Luo remains unharmed and grows stronger with each attack.

Character developments and interactions

• The rival leaders shift from reacting to Xiao Yang’s entry to actively planning how to contain humanity, driven especially by fear of Xiao Yang’s rapid rise.
• Giant Axe and Chaos City Lord witness the extraordinary reach of Xiao Yang’s abilities and accompany him to support the human candidates.
• Lord Yan Ju’s continued assault on the Tomb Ship shows his grief and helplessness after Lord Liujiu’s death.
• Xiao Yang remains cautious despite his apparent advantage over Kui Luo; he recognizes that the opponent’s strength increases over time and keeps fighting.

Themes

• Fear of extraordinary talent: Xiao Yang’s potential unsettles the other factions and threatens the balance of power.
• Collective loyalty and sacrifice: Humanity sends a large group into a deadly trial and promises to resurrect those who fall.
• Escalating trials: Xiao Yang’s first challenge tests endurance as much as strength, since Kui Luo’s attacks intensify without causing lasting damage.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang’s attacks initially fail to stop Kui Luo, who relies on extraordinary physical strength rather than Secret Arts. Xiao Yang suspects Kui Luo may be a weapon or Ultimate Treasure.
• Xiao Yang’s power suddenly surges, letting him overwhelm Kui Luo with Sparks Set the Prairie Ablaze, a True God-level attack. Kui Luo’s own attacks reach the seventh tier before he stops fighting and returns to meditation.
• Duan Donghe declares Xiao Yang has passed the second trial. Beyond the gate, Xiao Yang finds Lord Ying Ai—the only other survivor present. Lords Jin Fang and Liujiu have died, while Lord Wu Liang survived only by retreating into a Palace Supreme Treasure.
• Duan Donghe leads Xiao Yang and Ying Ai to the third trial: the Rhino Emperor Game, a puzzle-based exercise meant to develop comprehension.
• Participants must study 123 solved positions to learn the rules, then solve incomplete positions in order, beginning with the 124th. They have three eras; failing the minimum standard means death, though only the participant’s current body is lost. Solving through the 6,000th position earns the Duan Donghe Lineage inheritance outright, and reaching the fourth stage also grants it.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang remains calm under pressure and grows curious about Kui Luo’s nature and whether John could create something similar. His confidence in protecting humanity is clear.
• Lord Ying Ai is shocked that Xiao Yang survived alone and suspicious of him. He threatens him over his treasures; Xiao Yang dismisses the threat and says his goal is the inheritance.
• Duan Donghe shows surprise at Xiao Yang’s power, then explains the next trial and its severe stakes.
• The Thunder Robe Demon God is already at the trial site; Ying Ai recognizes him as an enemy of the Divine Eye Clan and becomes wary.

Significant themes

• Strength and ingenuity: Xiao Yang’s breakthrough turns a losing fight, while the next trial tests insight rather than combat.
• Composure and ambition: Xiao Yang stays focused on the inheritance despite threats and danger.
• Cost of advancement: The trial offers a major reward but risks death, making progress a matter of both ability and survival.
• Knowledge as power: The Rhino Emperor Game is presented as a path to sharpen comprehension and potentially gain the lineage inheritance.

Plot and events

• After Lord Ying Ai leaves, Xiao Yang studies the Rhino Emperor Game’s rules, using a projection of the game in the Game World and recalling what he knows from the original account.
• Xiao Yang gathers his true body, clone, and avatars to focus on the game. Tony, a powerful Game World NPC, casually solves more than a thousand puzzles in minutes, then completes all 10,080 and returns to exercising.
• Tony tells Xiao Yang that the game is comparatively simple and mentions that the Go games in Farm Town’s Chess Room are more challenging. Xiao Yang resolves to investigate later, but chooses to master the Rhino Emperor Game himself rather than rely on Tony’s answers.
• With exceptional comprehension and the aid of Enlightenment Tea Leaves, Xiao Yang works out all the rules in a day and begins solving the puzzles.
• Years later, Duan Donghe appears and announces that Xiao Yang has reached the first stage. He urges him to continue toward the fourth stage, which would let him obtain the Duan Donghe Inheritance directly.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang shows discipline and confidence in his own ability: despite Tony’s effortless success, he insists on understanding and solving the game independently. His rapid progress confirms his extraordinary comprehension.
• Tony is revealed to be vastly stronger than expected—possibly beyond God King level—and treats the puzzles as trivial. He shares information about the more advanced Chess Room but does not solve the challenge for Xiao Yang.
• Duan Donghe recognizes Xiao Yang’s achievement and offers encouragement, while making clear that much more progress is needed.
• The other candidates, including Thunder Robe Demon God and Lord Ying Ai, are stunned by Xiao Yang’s speed. The Human Race Candidates are especially pleased, since they all stand to benefit if one of their own gains the inheritance.

Significant themes

• Independent understanding over borrowed answers: Xiao Yang believes that receiving solutions would not build the comprehension the game is meant to test.
• Talent and persistence: His rapid advance contrasts with the years others have spent struggling, while still leaving him a longer path to the inheritance.
• Collective stakes: Although the candidates compete, the Human Race sees Xiao Yang’s success as a potential benefit for them all.

Plot points and events

• After hearing that the Human Race’s newly ascended Universe Master, Xiao Yang—the Many-Treasure Lord—had passed the Duan Donghe inheritance’s First Stage, the Divine Eye Clan panics and rushes toward the Universe Boat.
• The First True God orders his people to burn Divine Power to travel faster, bring more Candidates, and use avatars—even self-destructing ones—to disrupt Xiao Yang. He also urges them to spread news about Xiao Yang and recruit other factions against the Human Race.
• Details of Xiao Yang’s extraordinary past—his rapid rise to Universe Master, battles against Venerables, and victory over thousands of them—confirm his identity and alarm the Cosmic Sea’s factions.
• Fearing the return of a being like the Primal Ancestor, rival factions converge on the Flame Ice Domain to stop the Human Race from securing the inheritance.
• At the Tomb Ship entrance, the Skeleton Race tries to block the Divine Eye Clan but is overcome. Giant Axe asks whether the Humans should help the Skeleton Race; Xiao Yang refuses, confident the assessment will eliminate intruders.
• Once inside, Divine Eye Clan members attack Xiao Yang with Secret Arts, but their strikes hit a protective barrier and do no harm. Duan Donghe appears.

Character developments and interactions

• The First True God shifts from urgency to alarm as he learns both that Xiao Yang passed the First Stage and that his history is genuine. His fear of another Primal Ancestor drives him to rally the Cosmic Sea against the Human Race.
• Xiao Yang remains calm and confident, dismissing the need to fight at the entrance and asserting that the inheritance will belong to humanity.
• Giant Axe considers aiding the Skeleton Race but defers to Xiao Yang’s judgment.
• The Chaos City Lord and other Human Candidates try to protect Xiao Yang from the Divine Eye Clan’s attack, but the barrier intervenes first.
• The Divine Eye Clan acts collectively under its leader’s orders, using information campaigns and direct interference to counter Xiao Yang.

Significant themes

• Fear of rising power: Rival factions unite not from trust, but from fear that the Human Race may produce another dominant figure like the Primal Ancestor.
• Talent as both promise and threat: Xiao Yang’s exceptional achievements make him a likely heir to the inheritance—and a target for the Cosmic Sea.
• Confidence versus desperation: Xiao Yang’s composure contrasts with the Divine Eye Clan’s escalating measures and the wider factions’ panic.
• Competition and political maneuvering: The inheritance race expands into a coalition-building effort, with factions spreading information to shape events and block their rivals.

Key events

• The Divine Eye Clan’s Universe Masters move to attack Xiao Yang, but Duan Donghe appears and warns that anyone who attacks inside the Tomb Ship will die.
• Duan Donghe’s soul attacks kill the attackers completely, including their other bodies. The Seventh True Master also dies, triggering the collapse of his Miniature Universe and killing countless inhabitants; the clan can rescue only a few.
• Green Eye True Master tries to protect himself inside a Palace Supreme Treasure, but Duan Donghe’s attack penetrates it and shatters his True God Heart. His death destroys his Miniature Universe, killing Universe Masters whose Life Imprints were anchored there and costing the Divine Eye Clan one of its seven remaining living spaces.
• Duan Donghe restates the Tomb Ship’s rule and disappears. Xiao Yang resumes solving the puzzles, while the surviving Divine Eye Clan members gather the dead and their treasures and focus on winning the inheritance.

Character developments and interactions

• Duan Donghe enforces the Tomb Ship’s rules with absolute authority, killing anyone who attacks another contestant.
• Xiao Yang prevents Chaos City Lord and the other humans from intervening, likely saving them from the same punishment. He remains focused on the puzzles even amid the deaths.
• The Divine Eye Clan shifts from aggression to fear and grief. Its surviving Strongest Being orders the group to pursue the inheritance rather than retaliate.
• Human experts feel satisfaction at the clan’s losses, but also relief that Xiao Yang stopped them from attacking.

Significant themes

• Rules and consequences: Violating the Tomb Ship’s prohibition on attacking others brings immediate, total death.
• The cost of power and conflict: The loss of a True God destroys an entire Miniature Universe, taking innumerable lives with it.
• Restraint and survival: Xiao Yang’s decision to hold back protects his allies, while the Divine Eye Clan must abandon vengeance and concentrate on the inheritance.

Plot points and events

• More than a decade passes as factions across the Cosmic Sea send candidates into the Tomb Ship to attempt Duan Donghe’s Rhino Emperor Game. Xiao Yang’s rapid progress makes him famous and alarms the other races.
• Duan Donghe appears and announces that Xiao Yang has reached the Second Stage, praising his talent and predicting he may reach the Fourth Stage within three eras. He warns that when Xiao Yang reaches it, he will kill everyone else in the Tomb Ship.
• Xiao Yang alerts the Chaos City Lord to the danger of other factions targeting the humans. The human candidates retreat into Palace Supreme Treasures for protection.
• Several hostile Universe Masters try to kill Xiao Yang by detonating themselves beside him or attacking while burning their Divine Power. Their assaults fail: Xiao Yang remains unharmed, and many nearby experts die in the blasts.
• Outside the Tomb Ship, the major factions’ leaders decide to unite against the Human Race. They plan to attack its territory in the Primordial Universe, hoping to weaken the humans and distract Xiao Yang from the inheritance. The Purple Moon Holy Land appears unusually eager to join in.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang remains focused and composed despite reaching a new stage, the threats around him, and the failed attacks.
• Duan Donghe shifts from cold evaluator to openly admiring mentor, though he still intends to kill the other candidates if Xiao Yang completes the trial.
• The Chaos City Lord responds quickly to Xiao Yang’s warning, organizing the humans’ retreat into protective treasures.
• The other races move from fear and resentment to desperate violence inside the Tomb Ship and coordinated political action outside it.

Significant themes

• Talent as both triumph and threat: Xiao Yang’s progress inspires the humans but makes him—and his entire race—a target.
• Collective punishment and power politics: Rivals seek to weaken the Human Race even though their true concern is Xiao Yang’s chance of inheriting Duan Donghe’s legacy.
• Futility against overwhelming power: The attackers’ sacrifices cannot harm Xiao Yang, underscoring the gap between his protection and their desperation.

Plot and events

• Cosmic Sea factions convene to plan an attack on the Human Race after learning that Xiao Yang has reached the Duan Donghe Tomb Ship’s second stage. They expect him to win the inheritance, leaving their own entrants at risk of dying.
• The factions agree to pay Primordial Universe groups for joining the assault: contributions include at least three Top-tier Supreme Treasures per faction, with some offering even greater treasures.
• The Purple Moon Holy Land promises unaffiliated Strongest Beings an inheritance that could bring them to the limits of their power if they help kill Xiao Yang. This offer spreads enthusiasm across the Cosmic Sea, and forces begin gathering in the Flame Ice Domain.
• Inside the Primordial Universe, most pinnacle factions—excluding the Ancestor God Religion—recruit additional fighters by offering Ultimate Treasures and powerful inheritances. Some Hong Alliance Universe Masters also secretly seek to join.
• At the Giant Axe Temple, Primal Ancestor briefs the Human Race’s leaders: more than a thousand Universe Masters may attack, including over ten with strength comparable to Strongest Beings. The humans acknowledge they cannot repel this coalition alone and consider recruiting allies.

Character and faction developments

• Xiao Yang’s progress makes him the coalition’s central target and sharpens other factions’ fear of losing their Tomb Ship entrants and their own Strongest Beings.
• The Human Race’s leadership recognizes that its usual strength is insufficient against the unprecedented threat. Even with all human Universe Masters at fifth-tier strength or higher, they face overwhelming numbers.
• The Skeleton Race joins the conspiracy despite being unable to take the Tomb Ship trial, hoping to seize the inheritance from its eventual holder while avoiding losses inside the ship.

Themes and interactions

• Power and self-interest: Factions set aside rivalries and offer vast rewards to eliminate Xiao Yang and weaken the Human Race.
• Survival and political calculation: Groups weigh the cost of losing powerful leaders against the chance to gain territory, treasures, or a path to greater strength.
• Threat of overwhelming numbers: The chapter presents the Human Race’s crisis as not merely a contest of individual power, but a coordinated assault by a vast coalition.
• Cooperation under pressure: The Human Race’s leaders discuss securing allies, while its enemies form alliances through bargains and promises.

Key plot points and events

• Primal Ancestor asks Xiao Yang to share some lesser parts of the Duan Donghe inheritance if he obtains it, hoping to win over other races’ Universe Masters or at least stop them from joining the siege on humanity. Xiao Yang agrees, confident that sharing poses little risk.
• Primal Ancestor proposes distributing Xiao Yang’s stock of treasures to human Venerables. Xiao Yang has already given human Universe Masters Wild Ginseng, raising their genes to perfection and enlarging their divine bodies; the Venerables may now gain similar benefits and become much stronger.
• To protect the Human Race from the coming assault, Primal Ancestor orders people and resources dispersed among Giant Axe’s Miniature Universe, the Divine Kingdoms of cloned Universe Masters, and humanity’s core territories.
• Xiao Yang reassures the others that he can contribute far more combat power than they assume. By combining his original body, clones, and many avatars, he can field the equivalent of sixty Sixth-Order Universe Masters—fifty-nine even without the avatar inside the Tomb Ship.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang shows confidence in both his inheritance-sharing plan and his ability to defend humanity. He reveals the full scale of his avatar secret art, surprising even his allies.
• Primal Ancestor takes a pragmatic leadership role, seeking allies, strengthening humanity, and organizing evacuations and defensive preparations.
• Giant Axe and the other human powerhouses are initially anxious about the siege and skeptical that Xiao Yang’s forces amount to more than eight Sixth-Order fighters. His revelation leaves them stunned and astonished.

Significant themes

• Collective survival and alliance-building: Humanity seeks to deter enemies and preserve its territory through both diplomacy and preparation.
• Power and responsibility: Xiao Yang’s vast strength makes him central to humanity’s survival, while his willingness to share some inheritance reflects strategic generosity.
• Hope amid danger: The Human Race faces a major siege, but Xiao Yang’s resources and unprecedented combat strength transform its prospects.