Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• The Human Race’s leaders learn that Xiao Yang has enough Avatars to provide the equivalent of sixty Sixth-Order Universe Masters. After recalling his overwhelming strength and powerful Secret Arts, they feel far more confident about defending themselves.
• Giant Axe proposes attacking first rather than waiting for rival forces to unite. The leaders agree: a show of strength could frighten other Universe Masters away from joining an assault.
• The group considers targets among the neighboring Demon, Zerg, and Machine Races, hoping to avenge past losses and reclaim territory.
• The Primal Ancestor instead suggests striking the Northern Border Alliance. Though it has hundreds—nearly a thousand—Universe Masters, its unusual political arrangement means its leader cannot shelter its talented young people in his Miniature Universe. This could make it more vulnerable to a decisive attack.

Character developments and interactions

• The Human leaders shift from a defensive mindset to considering expansion, encouraged by Xiao Yang’s immense combat strength.
• Giant Axe takes the initiative by proposing a preemptive strike.
• The Void Gold Lord and the others look to Xiao Yang to choose the target, recognizing that he will carry much of the fighting. Xiao Yang says he is willing to attack any force.
• The Primal Ancestor contributes a strategic alternative, arguing that the Northern Border Alliance may be a better target than the neighboring races.

Significant themes

• Power reshapes strategy: Xiao Yang’s Avatars transform the Human Race’s prospects and ambitions.
• Deterrence and initiative: Attacking first could prevent enemies from organizing against them.
• Strategic vulnerability over raw numbers: The Primal Ancestor weighs an enemy’s ability to protect its future generation, not just its current strength.
• Reclamation and revenge: The Human Race’s leaders are motivated by lost territory and past deaths as well as security.

Key plot points and events

• The Human Race considers the Northern Border Alliance its next target. The Primal Ancestor argues that its members are divided and uneven in strength, making them easier to defeat than a united pinnacle race. A decisive victory could also deter other factions from supporting the Human Race’s enemies.
• Xiao Yang approves the plan. The Human Race prepares to campaign together, leaving Candri to guard its territory, and discusses how to secure any lands it captures.
• The Human Race plans to use Xiao Yang’s treasures to strengthen its King-level fighters and Venerables. Candri is added to the priority-training list because his many powerful clones could provide enormous strength if he becomes a Universe Master.
• Human fighters gather in Chaos City and receive treasures after Giant Axe checks that they have not been enslaved. Several reach perfect gene level and break through, including King Zhen Yan and Seven Sword King. The Human Race keeps these gains secret.
• Meanwhile, Xiao Yang continues training in the Game World. Listening to a symphony while using a Jianshou Mushroom, he breaks through the bottleneck in his will and expects to solve the Rhino Emperor Game faster, perhaps reaching its fourth stage soon.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang makes the final call on the Northern Border Alliance campaign, accepting the Human Race’s recommendation.
• The Primal Ancestor provides the strategic case for the attack, emphasizing the alliance’s lack of unity and the value of deterring potential enemies.
• The Human Race’s leaders coordinate their military plans and discuss how Xiao Yang’s resources can strengthen both their defenders and future fighters.
• Xiao Yang’s will advances beyond the Universe Master limit after millions of years of training. In the Concert Hall, he shares a silent listening session with Tony.

Significant themes

• Strategy and deterrence: A victory against a fragmented alliance could weaken the siege and discourage other factions from joining it.
• Preparation and collective growth: The Human Race turns Xiao Yang’s treasures into a long-term plan for strengthening its fighters and securing new territory.
• Secrecy and vigilance: The Human Race conceals its breakthroughs while guarding against alien observation and possible enslavement.
• Persistence and breakthrough: Xiao Yang’s prolonged training finally pays off, showing how sustained effort and complementary experiences can overcome a seemingly fixed limit.

Key plot points

• Xiao Yang has held back from formally completing the Tomb Ship’s third puzzle stage, buying the Human Race time to prepare. Over several decades, more than a hundred Human Race experts become Venerables, with many others poised to advance.
• When the Human Race launches its campaign, nearly all its Universe Masters gather, while Xiao Yang sends out numerous powerful Avatars. The newly empowered Venerables guard key Human territories; in total, the Human Race can field roughly a thousand fighters with Universe Master-level attacks.
• The Human Race strikes the Northern Border Alliance across multiple locations. At the Jiemu Secret Realm, a vast, precisely targeted Sea of Fire overwhelms the Latam Race’s defenses. Lord Ram tries to save his people in a Palace Supreme Treasure, but both he and the Latam experts are annihilated.
• Elsewhere, the Lord of the Galaxy is trying to recruit a third-order Universe Master for a planned assault on the Human Race. Distress calls then reveal that the Human Race has struck first and that dozens of alliance Universe Masters are already under attack.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang demonstrates patience and strategic foresight: he delays revealing his progress so the Human Race can strengthen and organize before war begins. He leads the operation through his own presence and powerful Avatars.
• Lord Ram reacts decisively to the threat, attempting to protect his people, but is outmatched by the attack’s overwhelming power.
• The Lord of the Galaxy moves from confidence in an impending coalition against the Human Race to shock as the alliance comes under attack. His conversation with another alliance Universe Master establishes their intended assault—and is interrupted by the crisis.

Significant themes

• Preparation and timing: Xiao Yang’s restraint gives the Human Race time to build its strength and choose when to strike.
• Collective power and escalation: The Human Race’s newly empowered Venerables transform the balance of power, though their weaker defenses remain a vulnerability.
• The cost of underestimating an opponent: The Northern Border Alliance expects to attack the Human Race, only to find itself facing a coordinated offensive.
• War’s devastation: Lord Ram’s failed efforts to save his people emphasize the brutal consequences of a conflict between powerful factions.

Key plot points and events

• The Lord of the Galaxy receives urgent reports that Giant Axe has killed many Northern Border Alliance Universe Masters, including a Third-Order fighter.
• As he prepares to aid them, Xiao Yang—“Many Treasures”—traps him and Mu Tuo Lord in a powerful Flame Domain. The Lord of the Galaxy’s Peak Domain-type Supreme Treasure cannot break free.
• Xiao Yang confirms that only Human Race fighters are involved and attacks with a Sea of Fire strong enough to identify him as a Sixth-Order Universe Master.
• The Lord of the Galaxy protects Mu Tuo Lord by drawing him into his Palace Supreme Treasure, then tries his signature art, River Under the Dark Night. Xiao Yang’s flames overwhelm it, draining the Lord of the Galaxy’s divine power.
• Unable to hold out, the Lord of the Galaxy sends an urgent call for help to the Anti-Human Alliance.
• At a meeting place near the Ancestral God Secret Realm, the Northern Border Alliance’s representatives report the surprise attack and the Human Race’s unexpectedly large fighting force. Their warning brings several Strongest Beings in the Universe to the scene.
• The revelation that Many Treasures has a Supreme Ultimate Treasure alarms and excites the alliance leaders. Black Lotus Lord adds that Chaos City Lord also possesses a Domain-type Supreme Treasure and an attack-type Supreme Ultimate Treasure.

Character developments and interactions

• Lord of the Galaxy shifts from trying to manage the crisis to fighting for survival. Despite his own danger, he acts to protect Mu Tuo Lord and calls the alliance for help.
• Mu Tuo Lord accepts the Lord of the Galaxy’s protection rather than resisting.
• Xiao Yang/Many Treasures is confident and taunting, justifying the Human Race’s preemptive strike by pointing out that the Northern Border Alliance had already joined the Anti-Human Alliance.
• The Anti-Human Alliance’s leaders move quickly from disbelief to alarm and greed as they learn of the Human Race’s strength and rare treasures. The Beast Ancestor openly wonders how many Supreme Ultimate Treasures the Human Race has.

Significant themes

• Power and shifting balance: The Human Race’s strength appears far greater than its enemies expected.
• Escalation and preemption: Both sides regard the other as preparing to strike, turning suspicion into open conflict.
• Greed and fear: The alliance’s leaders respond to the Human Race’s treasures with envy even as the scale of its military power unsettles them.
• Protection amid defeat: The Lord of the Galaxy risks himself to save Mu Tuo Lord, even while the Northern Border Alliance suffers heavy losses.

Key plot points

• The lone Strongest Beings in the Universe become eager to join the campaign against humanity after learning that Human Race Universe Masters possess Supreme Ultimate Treasures. They hope to seize the treasures for themselves; the promised inheritance from the Purple Moon Holy Land remains their main reason for joining the war.
• Sitting Mountain Guest alone stays silent, watching thoughtfully. The Zerg Queen and her allies recognize the lone beings’ motives but do not object, since they also want more treasures.
• The Lord of the Galaxy, badly worn down by Xiao Yang’s relentless attacks, calls for reinforcements. The newcomers head to his location—not to protect the Northern Border Alliance, but to take Xiao Yang’s treasures. Others seek the Chaos City Lord’s treasures from the Black Lotus Lord.
• Xiao Yang senses the Northern Border Alliance leader trying to counter his Supreme Ultimate Treasure domain. Six Strongest Beings in the Universe arrive and surround him. They demand that he surrender his treasures, promising to let his avatar go unharmed.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang remains composed despite being outnumbered, having already inflicted heavy losses on the Lord of the Galaxy with his flames.
• The Lord of the Galaxy is bitter and alarmed: he has lost over 20 percent of his Divine Power and fears he cannot last much longer. He resents the newcomers’ behavior but lacks the power to challenge them.
• The lone Strongest Beings reveal their greed and opportunism, openly treating the conflict as a chance to acquire rare treasures rather than as support for the alliance.
• The Northern Border Alliance leader joins the group’s demand for Xiao Yang’s treasures, showing that the alliance’s interests have become secondary to the potential loot.
• Sitting Mountain Guest remains enigmatic, while the Zerg Queen and her companions tolerate the plan for their own benefit.

Significant themes

• Greed and opportunism: Several factions exploit the war to pursue personal gains.
• Power and coercion: The Strongest Beings assume they can force a Universe Master to surrender treasures.
• Shifting loyalties: The alliance’s supposed defenders prioritize loot over its welfare, leaving the Lord of the Galaxy isolated.
• Composure under threat: Xiao Yang’s calm contrasts with his enemies’ confidence and the Lord of the Galaxy’s growing desperation.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang dismisses the lone Strongest Beings in the Universe who tell him to spare them, then opens several Star Gates. Six more versions of himself emerge, adding to the Xiao Yang already present.
• Each avatar engages a different opponent and wields multiple Supreme Ultimate Treasures—at least a spear, armor, and domain treasure. Together, the avatars display at least twenty-one such treasures.
• The enemies discover Xiao Yang is not merely powerful: each avatar can match the peak of what a combatant can wield in the Primordial Universe. The Lord of the Galaxy is trapped by Xiao Yang’s domain and a sealing mountain-like treasure, and is left in despair.
• The scene shifts to the Thousand-Wing Secret Realm, where the Chaos City Lord is fighting the Black Lotus Lord. The Black Lotus Lord has taken the Lord of Thousand Wings into his treasure.
• Six more Strongest Beings arrive and surround the Chaos City Lord, trying to force him into the Zerg Queen’s Empress Nest and seal him. The Chaos City Lord stays calm and contacts Xiao Yang.
• Xiao Yang then appears through Star Gates with six avatars and attacks. His opponents are stunned: they had just received reports of seven Xiao Yangs at the other battlefield, yet six more have arrived here. They confirm that these avatars, too, are soulless and possess peak sixth-tier strength.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang reveals the extraordinary scale of his avatar ability and his overwhelming stock of Supreme Ultimate Treasures. He can confront multiple groups of formidable enemies at once.
• The Lord of the Galaxy shifts from hoping to escape to utter despair as Xiao Yang’s domain, sealing treasure, and apparent abundance of avatars leave him with no way out.
• The Chaos City Lord faces a numerically superior force but remains composed and summons help by contacting Xiao Yang.
• The Dream Demon Ancestor, the Zerg Queen, and the other Strongest Beings are shocked by how little they understood about Xiao Yang’s capabilities. Their attempts to overwhelm his allies are disrupted by his sudden appearances.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and escalating reveals: Each new appearance overturns the enemies’ assumptions about Xiao Yang’s limits.
• Abundance versus scarcity: Treasures once rare across the Primordial Universe seem commonplace in Xiao Yang’s hands.
• Despair against overwhelming odds: Xiao Yang’s enemies lose hope as conventional advantages—numbers, strength, and traps—prove ineffective.
• Loyalty and mutual support: The Chaos City Lord calls on Xiao Yang when surrounded, and Xiao Yang responds.

Plot points and events

• The Alien Race leaders realize the Human Race’s Universe Masters possess many avatars, each equipped with Supreme Ultimate Treasures. Unable to explain how the Humans acquired them, they abandon one-on-one combat and agree to coordinate their forces.
• The Mechanical Race Father God proposes splitting into large teams: some will reinforce the Northern Border Alliance, while others will attack the Human Race’s Core Secret Realm to draw its defenders home. The Lord of the Galaxy, badly weakened by Many-Treasure Lord’s attacks, hopes the reinforcements will arrive in time.
• The Human Race tracks the enemy’s movements through the Virtual Universe. The Primal Ancestor orders their scattered fighters to regroup before the Alien forces can surround them.
• The Human Race’s Venerables have all reached Perfect Gene Level, making them at least Overlords; many are now powerful enough to rival Universe Masters. Giant Axe cheerfully accepts responsibility for reviving any who fall.
• The Human fighters have killed nearly half of the Northern Border Alliance’s weaker Universe Masters, but the survivors have gathered together, forcing the Humans to regroup as well.
• Meanwhile, the battle in the Thousand-Wing Secret Realm has devastated the area. Clashes between high-order Universe Masters have shattered space, created dangerous storms, and even destroyed Divine Kingdoms caught in the chaos.

Character developments and interactions

• The Alien leaders’ confidence gives way to alarm and desperation as they recognize the Human Race’s unexpected strength. The Mechanical Race Father God takes charge of organizing a united counterattack.
• The Lord of the Galaxy openly admits he is close to exhausting his Divine Power, revealing how severely Many-Treasure Lord has pressed him.
• Xiao Yang highlights the Virtual Universe’s strategic value, while the Primal Ancestor uses its intelligence network to direct the Human forces.
• The Chaos City Lord reports the Venerables’ remarkable advancement and teases Giant Axe about the burden of reviving them. Giant Axe responds with enthusiasm, emphasizing his confidence in the Human Race’s growing strength.

Significant themes

• Information and coordination as power: The Virtual Universe lets the Human Race anticipate enemy movements and act collectively.
• Escalation and adaptation: The Alien alliance shifts from isolated confrontations to coordinated mass attacks in response to the Humans’ new strength.
• Collective resilience: The Human Race’s upgraded Venerables, powerful treasures, and willingness to revive fallen fighters suggest that its strength increasingly lies in the whole faction, not only its top individuals.

Key plot points and events

• More than 200 alien Universe Masters arrive outside the Thousand-Wing Secret Realm, supported by several Strongest Beings in the Universe. They launch a coordinated assault on Xiao Yang’s avatars and the Chaos City Lord.
• Xiao Yang and the Chaos City Lord retreat into Supreme Ultimate Treasure palaces. The aliens’ combined attacks exceed the sixth tier, but only knock the palaces away; both occupants remain unharmed.
• The attackers move to surround the palaces. When Xiao Yang and the Chaos City Lord step back outside, the Zerg Queen and her allies expect to overwhelm them with another joint attack.
• Star Gates then open, bringing in human Universe Masters—including Qing Dong Lord, Void Gold Lord, Ice Peak Lord, and Lord Peng Gong—and more than a dozen additional Xiao Yang avatars.
• The aliens discover that Xiao Yang’s avatars all possess identical Supreme Ultimate Treasures, while each human Universe Master carries treasures apparently tailored to their own abilities.
• Xiao Yang’s avatars immediately launch a coordinated attack. Their combined secret arts merge with a Domain Supreme Treasure to form a vast sea of fire, already exceeding sixth-tier power and alarming the Zerg Queen.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang demonstrates that his many avatars can coordinate effortlessly, giving him an advantage in executing powerful joint attacks. His resources and influence appear far greater than the enemy had assumed.
• The Chaos City Lord proves equally difficult to harm, protected by his Supreme Ultimate Treasure palace.
• The Zerg Queen and other alien leaders shift from confidence to alarm as Xiao Yang’s reinforcements and unusual treasures overturn their expectations.
• The human Universe Masters arrive equipped with personalized Supreme Ultimate Treasures, revealing a major and previously hidden strength of the Human Race.

Significant themes

• Preparation and strategic surprise: Xiao Yang anticipated the invasion and had reinforcements ready through the Star Gates.
• Collective strength: Coordinated attacks can surpass the power of even formidable individual beings.
• Innovation and unequal resources: The Human Race’s custom-made Supreme Ultimate Treasures challenge the other factions’ assumptions about what is possible.
• Escalating power: Each revelation—from palace defenses to the number of avatars and their combined attack—raises the stakes of the conflict.

Character interactions

• The alien factions coordinate against Xiao Yang and the Chaos City Lord, while the Zerg Queen directs the effort to contain them.
• The Zerg Queen and her allies react with growing disbelief as Xiao Yang’s avatars and the human reinforcements appear.
• Xiao Yang’s avatars cooperate as if acting through a single mind, combining their abilities almost instantly; their attack forces the aliens to respond urgently.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yang’s “Sparks Set the Prairie Ablaze”, fused with his domain, devastates the coalition of alien forces. Even the strongest attacks from several Strongest Beings in the Universe are wiped out.
• The Void True Demon God escapes immediately in a Palace Supreme Treasure, using Words Become Law to travel at extreme speed. Xiao Yang chooses not to pursue him.
• The attack kills more than twenty Universe Masters and sends many Palace Supreme Treasures flying. Human experts exploit the opening, capturing and suppressing several of them; more than thirty enemies are killed or suppressed overall.
• The Mechanical Race Father God orders a retreat. Xiao Yang’s avatars hold the Zerg Queen, Zhen Monster Ancestor, Mechanical Race Father God, and other powerful leaders in place while human forces pursue the fleeing Universe Masters.
• The chapter then shifts to the Lord of the Galaxy’s battlefield, where over three hundred reinforcements initially seem to give him a decisive advantage. A Star Gate brings in Xiao Yang’s additional avatars and human allies, and their combined fiery attack burns away much of the continent, killing everyone on it.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang demonstrates overwhelming battlefield power and tactical control, using his avatars and domain to divide, restrain, and defeat multiple opponents at once.
• The Void True Demon God proves the most pragmatic: he abandons the fight at once rather than risk death.
• The Zerg Queen and the other leaders are forced to prioritize protecting their followers, leaving them unable to flee freely. Their confidence gives way to anxiety as their forces are captured and destroyed.
• The Lord of the Galaxy goes from confidence in his numerical advantage to facing catastrophic danger as Xiao Yang’s forces arrive.

Significant themes

• Power versus numbers: A large army cannot compensate for the gap between Xiao Yang’s strength and that of his enemies.
• Loyalty and responsibility: The alien leaders stay behind because they cannot abandon their own people.
• Tactical coordination: Xiao Yang’s use of avatars, domain treasures, and human allies turns individual strength into a coordinated encirclement.
• Panic and survival: The Void True Demon God’s escape contrasts with the leaders who remain to protect their followers.

Character interactions

• Xiao Yang tells his senior brother to pursue the retreating enemies while he holds off the leaders.
• His avatars taunt and pin down their opponents, preventing them from escaping in Palace Supreme Treasures.
• The alien leaders urge one another to stop the human pursuit, but Xiao Yang’s coordinated attacks keep them occupied as their forces fall.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yang’s combined attack, Sparks Set the Prairie Ablaze, devastates the Northern Border Alliance’s forces. It destroys unprotected Universe Masters and even begins wearing down High-grade Palace Supreme Treasures—something considered exceptionally difficult in the Primordial Universe.
• The Black Universe Founder, the Beast Ancestor, and other lone Strongest Beings retreat into their treasures and flee. The Northern Border Alliance Leader also abandons the battle, realizing he cannot take Xiao Yang’s Supreme Ultimate Treasure and may be killed.
• The Dream Demon Ancestor is the only Strongest Being still nearby. She retreats while gathering the Universe Masters of her own faction, rather than staying to defend the alliance.
• Xiao Yang’s next attack drives the survivors’ palace treasures together so the Human forces can seal them. More than sixty Northern Border Alliance Universe Masters die, while dozens more are captured; the alliance loses over a fifth of its reinforcements.
• Seeing that the Dream Demon Ancestor has fallen behind the other fleeing Strongest Beings, Xiao Yang proposes capturing her. The Human experts redirect their efforts, and the Darkness Lord volunteers to try sealing her in his Supreme Ultimate Treasure palace, with Xiao Yang providing a soul attack and domain support.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang demonstrates overwhelming power and tactical control. He shifts from eliminating or sealing the alliance’s reinforcements to targeting the Dream Demon Ancestor when an opportunity appears.
• The Northern Border Alliance Leader goes from confidence in his faction’s strength to panic and despair. He regrets not siding with the Human Race.
• The Dream Demon Ancestor acts pragmatically, prioritizing escape with her own faction’s members over protecting the wider alliance. Her responsibility for them slows her down and makes her vulnerable.
• The lone Strongest Beings choose survival over solidarity, leaving the alliance’s Universe Masters exposed. The Darkness Lord and Xiao Yang coordinate with the Human forces to exploit the Dream Demon Ancestor’s isolation.

Significant themes

• Power reshapes security: Palace treasures that offer near-invulnerability in one realm can be destroyed in another.
• Self-interest over loyalty: The strongest figures flee when the danger becomes real, leaving their allies behind.
• The cost of misjudgment: The alliance’s confidence in its safety and strength leads to disastrous losses.
• Opportunity in crisis: Xiao Yang turns the enemy’s retreat and the Dream Demon Ancestor’s protective instincts into a possible capture attempt.

Key plot points and events

• Once Xiao Yang’s suction on the Northern Border Alliance’s Palace Supreme Treasures stops, their Universe Masters flee. The Human Race lets them go, focusing instead on capturing the Dream Demon Ancestor.
• Xiao Yang coordinates his Star Gate Vine avatars, the Darkness Lord, and the Qing Dong Lord to block her escape routes. A combined attack drives her Palace Supreme Treasure toward the Darkness Lord, who ambushes her with a Soul Attack.
• The Dream Demon Ancestor escapes the Darkness Lord’s sealing range, only to be caught by Qing Dong Lord’s sealing treasure. Xiao Yang’s Star Gates help position the attackers, and she is soon surrounded by the Darkness Lord, Qing Dong Lord, and an avatar.
• Forced to abandon her Palace Supreme Treasure, she fights back with giant serpent attacks. The three opponents hold their ground while Xiao Yang repeatedly unleashes Sparks Set the Prairie Ablaze, trapping and severely burning her.
• Her injuries worsen with each wave of sparks. Her True God Heart begins to crack, and she starts drawing on her miniature universe’s origin. Inside it, the universe decays: planets lose vitality, spacetime shatters, and continents break apart.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang demonstrates careful coordination and tactical foresight, using multiple avatars, Star Gates, and repeated attacks to contain a far stronger opponent.
• The Darkness Lord is revealed as a Universe Master concealed by the Human Race. He works closely with Xiao Yang and Qing Dong Lord, repeatedly pressuring the Dream Demon Ancestor.
• The Dream Demon Ancestor shifts from confidence in her palace’s durability to desperation as her escape attempts fail and her body and True God Heart suffer grave damage.

Significant themes

• Coordination against superior strength: Positioning, sealing treasures, and synchronized attacks let the Human Race threaten a Strongest Being.
• Escalating cost of survival: The Dream Demon Ancestor’s attempt to endure the assault drains her own power and devastates her miniature universe.
• Desperation and inevitability: Though she fights fiercely and seeks help, the Dream Demon Ancestor recognizes that rescue may be impossible.

Character interactions

• Xiao Yang’s avatars, the Darkness Lord, and Qing Dong Lord cooperate to surround and suppress the Dream Demon Ancestor.
• The Dream Demon Ancestor attacks the three when trapped, while they prioritize staying outside their palaces so they cannot be blasted away.
• She calls to the Zhen Monster Ancestor for help, but her growing injuries and the damage to her miniature universe make her predicament increasingly dire.

Key plot points and events

• Dream Demon Ancestor’s Miniature Universe begins collapsing as she drains its Universe Origin to heal herself. Its secret realms and spatial regions start breaking apart, forcing demons to flee.
• On the battlefield, Xiao Yang, the Darkness Lord, and their allies wear Dream Demon Ancestor down with repeated combined Starfire attacks. Her Supreme Ultimate Treasure armor reduces the damage, but her True God Heart keeps cracking.
• Unable to withstand another hit, Dream Demon Ancestor retreats into her palace. The Human Race powerhouses use their own Supreme Ultimate Treasure palaces to trap and suppress her.
• The Human Race celebrates the victory at Giant Axe Temple. Xiao Yang urges them to exploit the moment by pursuing the retreating Northern Border Alliance forces and weakening them before a future campaign for their territory.
• Dream Demon Ancestor informs the Anti-Human Alliance that she has been suppressed. She blames its members for fleeing instead of helping her resist the Human Race’s combined attack.
• Several unaffiliated Strongest Beings leave the alliance, while the Lord of the Galaxy’s Divine Power Avatar dissipates. The Black Lotus Lord and Liulan follow, recognizing that the Northern Border Alliance is doomed.
• Zhen Monster Ancestor proposes a last-ditch united assault on Human Race territory and its Core Secret Realms, warning that the Human Race could grow even stronger if Xiao Yang gains the Duan Donghe Inheritance.

Character developments and interactions

• Dream Demon Ancestor shifts from desperate resistance to defeat. Her regret and anger surface as her allies abandon her, and she directly confronts the Northern Border Alliance for its cowardice.
• Xiao Yang remains focused on strategy rather than celebration, pressing the Human Race to capitalize on its victory.
• The Darkness Lord and Qing Dong Lord proudly announce Dream Demon Ancestor’s capture; the Human Race’s leaders respond with excitement and plans to reclaim territory.
• The Northern Border Alliance Leader and other alliance members defend their retreat as self-preservation, revealing that fear has displaced solidarity.
• Zhen Monster Ancestor remains comparatively composed and takes command of the remaining opposition, calling for unity despite the alliance’s collapse.

Significant themes

• Power and strategic advantage: The Human Race’s coordinated use of powerful treasures turns the tide against a formidable enemy.
• Fear versus loyalty: The alliance’s members abandon Dream Demon Ancestor when the fight becomes dangerous, undermining their coalition.
• The consequences of defeat: Dream Demon Ancestor’s struggle damages her Miniature Universe, while the Northern Border Alliance faces the loss of its forces and territory.
• Escalating conflict: The Human Race’s victory prompts both expansion plans and a desperate counterattack, setting up a wider confrontation.

Plot points and events

• The alien factions conclude that human Universe Masters likely each possess complete sets of Supreme Ultimate Treasures, making them formidable sixth-tier combatants.
• The Mechanical Race Father God estimates the aliens have only a 5.78998% chance of defeating humanity, even if they coordinate perfectly. Their best hope would be to separate Xiao Yang’s many avatars and have the Empress trap them.
• Demon Ancestor Tremor argues that conflict is inevitable: humanity needs territory and is already taking over the Northern Border Alliance’s lands. The remaining factions decide to unite and fight now rather than face a stronger humanity later. The Prison Lord urges them to risk everything, while the Astral Beast Progenitor withdraws, judging that its people need little territory and cannot prevail against Xiao Yang.
• In the Virtual Universe, the humans celebrate their campaign. They killed over 500 Northern Border Alliance Universe Masters and imprisoned more than 300.
• The human leaders credit Xiao Yang with the operation’s success. When the Darkness Lord asks whether the captives can be enslaved rather than killed, Xiao Yang agrees to test whether he can do it.

Character developments and interactions

• Demon Ancestor Tremor turns the aliens’ fear into a case for immediate resistance, emphasizing that humanity’s territorial expansion threatens them all.
• The Prison Lord accepts that the aliens may eventually die regardless, but insists that fighting now is their last chance.
• The Astral Beast Progenitor breaks from the coalition and chooses retreat, unlike the other factions.
• Xiao Yang is celebrated as one of humanity’s most important figures, second only to the Primal Ancestor in standing. He remains modestly engaged with the group and volunteers to investigate enslaving the prisoners.
• Giant Axe regrets missing the fighting while guarding humanity, and the Primal Ancestor reassures him that he will have another opportunity. The others raise toasts to Xiao Yang, reinforcing their respect and closeness.

Significant themes

• Fear and strategic calculation: The aliens’ decision is shaped by the overwhelming odds against them.
• Territorial survival and inevitability: Both sides need space and resources, making future conflict seem unavoidable.
• Unity versus withdrawal: Most alien factions unite out of desperation, while the Astral Beast Progenitor chooses self-preservation.
• Power and loyalty: Xiao Yang’s strength has elevated his status within humanity, and his allies trust him with the next step involving the captured enemies.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yang visits Giant Axe’s Miniature Universe, where more than a hundred captured alien Universe Masters are held in Palace Supreme Treasures. Giant Axe gives him seven palaces containing relatively weak targets.
• Xiao Yang takes twelve candidates—ten Third-Order, one Fourth-Order, and one Fifth-Order Universe Master—back to the Game World. He dismisses Giant Axe’s suggestion that he eventually enslave the Dream Demon Ancestor, preferring to recruit more Universe Masters.
• At the Sports Arena, Tony teaches Xiao Yang how to improve his Enslavement Secret Art: tailor it to each target’s soul, combine the strongest techniques, and use a suitable musical instrument. After decades of practice, Xiao Yang develops several arts approaching sixth-order strength.
• To boost his attack further, Xiao Yang prepares to consume a Power-Burning Fruit. With his exceptional Divine Power and other enhancements, he expects to reach roughly eighth-order power. Stephen and the Symphony Orchestra agree to trap the targets in a Will Illusion while Xiao Yang works.
• Xiao Yang successfully brands the Soul Imprint of one flesh-and-blood Universe Master before the captive can awaken. The strain and excitement cause his avatar to explode, but another avatar soon replaces it.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang becomes more methodical and ambitious, refining his enslavement techniques and coordinating several advantages—his soul treasure, Divine Power, and the orchestra’s illusion—to secure his first captive.
• Giant Axe supports Xiao Yang by handing over the prisoners, though he remains puzzled by Xiao Yang’s mysterious ability to leave his Miniature Universe.
• Tony acts as Xiao Yang’s instructor, devising and demonstrating customized Secret Arts.
• Stephen cooperates after Xiao Yang appeals to him and offers Gold Coins; the orchestra’s music incapacitates the captives without distracting Xiao Yang.
• Dream Demon Ancestor remains imprisoned and untouched; Xiao Yang considers enslaving her an unnecessary detour.

Significant themes

• Power through preparation and collaboration: Xiao Yang combines specialized techniques, artifacts, and allies rather than relying on raw strength alone.
• Ambition and expansion: He sees enslaved Universe Masters as future assets and seeks to build his forces.
• Risk and perseverance: The attempt pushes Xiao Yang’s power to the brink, but he presses on—and even the destruction of his avatar does not stop him.

Key plot points and events

• Xiao Yang brings ten soul-capable avatars into the Concert Hall and attempts to enslave alien Universe Masters taken from Giant Axe.
• He successfully enslaves ten of the twelve prisoners. Two attempts fail when the targets self-destruct after Xiao Yang’s avatars are destroyed.
• Xiao Yang gives the newly enslaved Black Armor Master and the others cultivation resources, including Law-Affinity treasures and Wild Ginseng, and urges them to prepare to become Strongest Beings in the Universe.
• After Giant Axe agrees to release all the alien Universe Masters he has suppressed, Xiao Yang takes them back to the Game World and enslaves nearly all of them.
• Xiao Yang ends up with more than 230 Universe Master slaves, including former Venerables who have since advanced.
• He brings over two hundred of them to an uninhabited region of the Primordial Universe and orders them to begin breaking through.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang grows more confident in his ability to enslave Universe Masters and shifts his focus from gathering followers to turning them into a powerful force for humanity. He regards their individual potential as secondary to their usefulness in defending the Human Race.
• The Black Armor Master changes from a captured enemy into a devoted subordinate. Though initially reluctant to accept the valuable resources, he obeys Xiao Yang and is awed by the cultivation environment.
• Giant Axe is astonished by Xiao Yang’s success, having considered even one or two enslavements remarkable. He cooperates, handing over all the prisoners he has suppressed.
• Xiao Yang’s enslaved Masters respond with respect and enthusiasm, accepting his resources and immediately obeying his order to attempt breakthroughs.

Significant themes

• Power through loyalty and cultivation: Xiao Yang plans to strengthen his slaves into formidable defenders rather than rely solely on his own power.
• The cost and limits of control: Enslavement is difficult and risky; some targets escape it through self-destruction, costing Xiao Yang avatars and resources.
• Strategic protection of humanity: Xiao Yang’s actions are driven by the goal of making the Human Race secure, potentially powerful enough to dominate the Cosmic Sea.
• Ambition and transformation: The chapter ends with more than two hundred Universe Masters beginning a major transformation, setting up a dramatic escalation in Xiao Yang’s forces.

Chapter Summary: “Reached the Fourth Stage!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Yang’s Universe Master slaves begin transforming their Divine Kingdoms into Miniature Universes, allowing them to break through and become Strongest Beings in the Universe.
• The transformation destroys each Divine Kingdom, returning it to chaos before it expands into a Miniature Universe roughly one hundred million light-years in diameter.
• Once complete, each Miniature Universe is expelled from the Primordial Universe into the Cosmic Sea, causing immense disturbances and tearing temporary openings in the Primordial Universe Membrane.
• Xiao Yang secretly observes the breakthroughs and confirms that all of his slaves have successfully advanced. The Human Race and other factions remain unaware of what has happened.
• Ten years later, all of Xiao Yang’s former Universe Master slaves have completed their evolutions. Thanks partly to Enlightenment Tea Leaves, even the weakest can create Peak Sixth-Order Secret Techniques, while many produce Seventh-Order techniques.
• Because their identical True God Supreme Treasures allow them to share insights, the slaves rapidly improve their understanding of Secret Patterns. Each now possesses at least Peak Seventh-Order combat strength.
• In the Tomb Ship inheritance trial, Xiao Yang continues solving puzzles while the other Candidates struggle even to reach the First Stage. Xiao Yang has already advanced to the Second Stage, while Thunder Robe Demon God remains the only other Candidate to make significant progress.
• Xiao Yang suddenly resumes solving puzzles at extraordinary speed, progressing through hundreds in succession.
• Duan Donghe appears and announces that Xiao Yang has reached the Third Stage, adding another protective layer around him. He declares that reaching the Fourth Stage will grant Xiao Yang the Duan Donghe Inheritance directly.
• Xiao Yang continues without stopping and solves puzzles 3654 through 3999, finally completing puzzle 4000 and reaching the Fourth Stage.

Character Developments

• Xiao Yang: Demonstrates overwhelming power, foresight, and mastery. He not only elevates all his slaves to the level of Strongest Beings but also advances rapidly through the Tomb Ship trial, surpassing the expectations of every other Candidate.
• Xiao Yang’s slaves: Their status changes from weak or ordinary Universe Masters to powerful Strongest Beings. Their newfound abilities and improved Secret Techniques make them a major hidden force.
• Duan Donghe: Normally calm and indifferent, he becomes visibly excited by Xiao Yang’s achievement. His emotional reaction shows how exceptional reaching the Fourth Stage is.
• Thunder Robe Demon God and the other Candidates: Their relative weakness becomes increasingly clear. The other races grow desperate and some begin abandoning hope as Xiao Yang’s progress leaves them far behind.
• Human Race experts: They react with pride and excitement as Xiao Yang advances, though they remain unaware of the full extent of his growing power and the breakthroughs of his slaves.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and evolution: The destruction and rebirth of the Divine Kingdoms symbolize a fundamental transition from one level of existence to another.
• Hidden power and strategic preparation: Xiao Yang keeps his slaves’ breakthroughs secret, quietly building an overwhelming force while the wider universe focuses on confronting the Human Race.
• Talent and perseverance: Xiao Yang’s effortless-looking progress contrasts with the despair of the other Candidates, emphasizing his extraordinary aptitude and relentless advancement.
• Accumulated advantage: Enlightenment Tea Leaves, shared knowledge, standardized treasures, and Xiao Yang’s guidance combine to produce rapid growth.
• Hope versus despair: The Human Race is encouraged by Xiao Yang’s success, while the other races lose confidence as the gap between him and the remaining Candidates widens.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Yang’s slaves seek his permission before beginning their transformations, showing their loyalty and dependence on him.
• The slaves cooperate in the Game World’s Sports Arena, exchanging insights about their identical Supreme Treasures and accelerating one another’s progress.
• The other Candidates repeatedly watch Xiao Yang from a distance, trying to measure his progress but becoming increasingly discouraged.
• Duan Donghe directly congratulates Xiao Yang upon his arrival at the Third Stage and personally confirms that the Fourth Stage will grant the inheritance.
• Xiao Yang’s continued puzzle-solving leaves Duan Donghe and the Human Race impressed, while the other races watch in growing despair.

Plot points and events

• Xiao Yang completes the fourth stage of the Duan Donghe inheritance, having solved four thousand games in remarkably little time.
• Duan Donghe declares Xiao Yang the 193rd successor and says he will eliminate the other inheritors. He offers to spare the Thunder Robe Demon God, whom he had promised not to kill, and lets Xiao Yang choose whether to deal with him.
• Xiao Yang asks Duan Donghe to spare the Human Race’s experts and geniuses. Duan Donghe agrees, then wipes out the other factions’ participants, including those sheltering inside Palace Supreme Treasures. Some Universe Masters try to kill Xiao Yang by self-destructing, but the fourth-stage barrier protects him.
• Duan Donghe honors his promise and releases the Thunder Robe Demon God, who thanks both him and Xiao Yang before leaving.
• Duan Donghe tells the Human Race’s remaining members to wait, then leads Xiao Yang away.
• Outside the Tomb Ship, rival factions learn that Xiao Yang has reached the fourth stage and secured the inheritance. Their shock deepens into despair as they recognize that the Human Race’s growing power may soon make it dominant in the Cosmic Sea.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang proves extraordinarily gifted, advancing faster than even the strongest expected. He protects his own people but shows no hostility toward the Thunder Robe Demon God, whose faction has no conflict with his.
• Duan Donghe displays intense excitement over Xiao Yang’s progress and places the new successor above his prior promise to the Thunder Robe Demon God—though he ultimately keeps that promise. He readily spares the Human Race at Xiao Yang’s request.
• The Thunder Robe Demon God leaves with gratitude toward both Duan Donghe and Xiao Yang, while showing regret at losing the inheritance and relief at the Divine Eye Clan’s fate.
• The other factions’ experts move from disbelief to helplessness as Duan Donghe kills them and Xiao Yang’s success becomes clear.

Significant themes

• Exceptional talent and rapid advancement: Xiao Yang’s achievement overturns others’ assumptions about what a Venerable can accomplish.
• Power and helplessness: Duan Donghe’s overwhelming strength makes resistance—including refuge in Supreme Treasures or self-destruction—futile.
• Loyalty and restraint: Xiao Yang prioritizes the Human Race but declines revenge against the Thunder Robe Demon God; Duan Donghe balances his enthusiasm with his promise.
• Fear of rising dominance: The inheritance’s transfer to Xiao Yang intensifies rival factions’ dread of the Human Race’s future supremacy.

Key events

• Major Cosmic Sea factions plan to seize the inheritance from Xiao Yang by intercepting the Tomb Ship in the Flame Ice Domain. They cannot enter the Primordial Universe, where they would be destroyed, and see this journey as their last chance.
• The factions’ scramble is interrupted by an astonishing discovery: over two hundred new Miniature Universes have appeared, meaning more than two hundred new Strongest Beings in the Universe have emerged.
• No one can explain the breakthroughs. The Human Race is initially considered an unlikely source, since it has relatively few Universe Masters.
• At a meeting in the Giant Axe Temple, Xiao Yang reveals that the new Strongest Beings are his enslaved former Northern Border Alliance powerhouses. He explains that superior Wild Ginseng can raise Gene Level to thirty thousand times the norm, enabling the Divine Power Path to Strongest Being status.

Character developments and interactions

• The Human Race leaders are anxious about facing more than two hundred new Strongest Beings, while Xiao Yang and Primal Ancestor remain composed.
• Primal Ancestor reveals he had noticed the Virtual Universe could no longer observe many Universe Masters, but had not realized they had all advanced.
• Xiao Yang stops keeping the breakthrough secret and explains his role in it. Chaos City Lord, intrigued and embarrassed to ask, wonders whether Xiao Yang has more of the improved Wild Ginseng.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: Cosmic Sea factions are willing to risk their lives for an inheritance they believe could help them transcend reincarnation.
• Knowledge as leverage: Xiao Yang’s discoveries give him an advantage powerful enough to transform his slaves and reshape the balance of power.
• Uncertainty and revelation: The sudden appearance of hundreds of Miniature Universes shocks the Cosmic Sea, while the truth is known only to Xiao Yang and gradually uncovered by the Human Race.

Key plot points

• Xiao Yang admits he can provide enough Wild Ginseng to raise the Human Race powerhouses’ Gene Levels to thirty thousand times. He warns them not to become True Gods too soon: higher Gene Level thresholds—sixty thousand, ninety thousand, and one hundred thousand—offer progressively greater potential.
• The others agree to delay their breakthroughs and continue improving their Secret Arts. Giant Axe, who has already become a Strongest Being in the Universe, regrets losing the chance to raise his Gene Level, but Xiao Yang reassures him that Ancient Civilization methods may let him improve after passing through reincarnation. Giant Axe says his earlier breakthrough was necessary to save humanity.
• Xiao Yang reveals that more than 230 of his slaves are now Strongest Beings in the Universe, though the life in their Miniature Universes died during their breakthroughs. Giant Axe proposes using those universes as future Human Race territory; Xiao Yang agrees.
• The Human Race powerhouses collect Wild Ginseng and sign IOUs, promising to repay Xiao Yang through future production of Universe Crystals. Giant Axe receives a sample, which restores some of his Divine Power.
• The scene shifts to Xiao Yang’s inheritance trial. After reaching the fourth stage of the Rhino Emperor Game, he follows Duan Donghe into the Inheritance Space. Duan Donghe explains that the space preserves life and contains 820 gates holding different categories of Basic Inheritance. He then takes Xiao Yang to a statue of the lineage’s Third Generation Ancestor, Duan Donghe Jueyi Saint King.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Yang shows generosity toward humanity while giving candid guidance about the long-term consequences of breaking through. He also reassures Giant Axe and accepts the proposal to use his slaves’ Miniature Universes for humanity.
• Giant Axe briefly feels regret over his lost potential, but stands by his past choice, emphasizing that it helped preserve the Human Race. His companions and Xiao Yang promise to support him.
• The Human Race powerhouses shift from excitement about the Wild Ginseng to caution and patience once they understand the benefits of waiting.
• Duan Donghe and Xiao Yang establish a respectful, familial relationship: Duan Donghe asks Xiao Yang to call him “senior brother,” acknowledging Xiao Yang as the new inheritor.

Significant themes

• Long-term potential versus immediate power: Delaying a breakthrough can preserve the chance to reach much higher realms.
• Sacrifice and mutual support: Giant Axe’s early breakthrough saved humanity, while the group’s response shows its gratitude and solidarity.
• Collective survival and responsibility: Xiao Yang’s resources and the Miniature Universes may secure humanity’s future territory.
• Inheritance and continuity: The preserved space, collected knowledge, and ancestral statue connect Xiao Yang to generations of the Duan Donghe lineage.

Key plot points and events

• Duan Donghe tells Xiao Yang about the Third Generation Ancestor, a God King whose genius brought the lineage to great prominence.
• Xiao Yang kneels before the ancestor’s statue and receives the lineage’s black-and-white Inheritance Mark. The process is intensely painful, but the mark makes him the 193rd Inheritor and allows him to attune to the Inheritance Space.
• Duan Donghe explains that only the mark’s bearer can master the space and receive the lineage’s true inheritance. Xiao Yang swears not to reveal its Core Inheritance.
• They visit a chamber containing three central Memory Stones, 12,002 additional stones in a pond, and over a hundred million more in the surrounding ocean. Duan Donghe forbids Xiao Yang from sharing the contents of the three central stones or the pond’s stones, but permits him to share information from the ocean’s stones.
• Xiao Yang uses his Divine Power to access the three central stones and receives the lineage’s three supreme arts: Sever, Donghua, and Undying River.

Character developments

• Xiao Yang officially becomes the lineage’s 193rd Inheritor and gains access to its core teachings.
• His tremendous will lets him endure the inheritance process, though his reaction to the pain exposes limits in his mental toughness compared with Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God.
• He recognizes that the inheritance is chiefly a stepping stone for his time in the Cosmic Sea, but sees particular future value in Undying River.

Character interactions

• Duan Donghe guides Xiao Yang through the ritual, explains the inheritance’s rules, and imposes its secrecy oath.
• Xiao Yang follows the procedure without resistance, then candidly complains to Duan Donghe about the pain. He listens to the explanations and promptly tests the Memory Stones.

Significant themes

• Inheritance and responsibility: Access to powerful knowledge comes with ritual obligations and strict limits on what may be shared.
• Power balanced by survival: Sever increases strength, Donghua enables escape, and Undying River preserves life—together, the arts address different aspects of enduring danger.
• Cost of advancement: Even a powerful inheritor must endure pain and accept constraints to gain the lineage’s core legacy.