Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan discovered that a seemingly ordinary golden wall concealed a Star Traveller-level Metal Lifeform, which he subdued and named Bumblebee. With Bumblebee now bonded to him, he entered the hidden passage to find out what lay beyond.

• Qi Yuan flew through the dark cave in his Force Battle Suit and found a broad cavern with a pale golden section of wall.
• Qi Yuan struck the golden wall, revealing a small liquid-metal humanoid and a hidden doorway.
• The Metal Lifeform attacked Qi Yuan as a golden hammer, but he trapped it in a lightning net and forced it to accept him as its master.
• Qi Yuan fed the Metal Lifeform his blood to establish a bond, and it transformed into a golden battle suit on his body.
• Qi Yuan learned the Metal Lifeform belonged to the Sky Golden race, named it Bumblebee, and entered the passage behind the wall.

Qi Yuan discovered a World Ring and a library of books beside a golden skeleton in the cave, then encountered two Wuji Palace warriors who tried to rob him. The chapter ended as he unleashed a lightning blade against their attack.

• Qi Yuan found a golden skeleton and claimed the World Ring lying beside it, discovering a vast inner world with a six-story library full of books.
• Qi Yuan stored the skeleton and a one-horned beast statue in the World Ring, suspecting the statue had once been Bumblebee's body.
• Qi Yuan left the cave and detected two powerful life signatures approaching the entrance.
• Two Wuji Palace warriors confronted Qi Yuan, blocked his escape, and demanded that he hand over his storage item.
• The two warriors attacked Qi Yuan, and a blinding bolt of lightning blade-light erupted.

After defeating two cultivators from Wuji Palace, Qi Yuan found little treasure in their Space Rings but discovered that his World Ring held a vast Secret Pattern Master inheritance. He planned to use the inheritance and his Return System to build up resources, but focused first on finding more in the Secret Realm ruin.

• Qi Yuan branded his Spiritual Imprint onto the two Space Rings and found that the defeated cultivators had carried only a few valuable items.
• Qi Yuan transferred the rings’ contents into his World Ring and took out a book titled “Eight Formations - Gold.”
• Qi Yuan learned through the Virtual Universe that the books in the World Ring described Law-based formations and constituted a Secret Pattern Master inheritance.
• Qi Yuan imagined training disciples in many specialties, then set aside the fantasy and resolved to search the Secret Realm ruin for more resources.

Qi Yuan discovered an immense ruin filled with valuable treasures and began searching it, soon recruiting Bumblebee to help. As their search accelerated, a Second Stage Universe Level woman quietly contacted him.

• Qi Yuan reached a vast ruin where three Universe Level experts were searching, including a Third Stage member of the Imperial Sea Pavilion.
• Qi Yuan searched several sections and found five or six treasures comparable to Tier 3 Force Weapons.
• Excited by the riches, Qi Yuan realized the Return System could multiply the value of every treasure he found.
• Bumblebee asked to come out and search, so Qi Yuan sent it underground with a Space Ring.
• Bumblebee quickly found and swallowed a piece of icy black ore, and Qi Yuan changed course to search another area.
• The Second Stage Universe Level woman glanced toward Qi Yuan and sent him a mental transmission.

Qi Yuan resisted a seductive Universe Level Second Stage woman’s illusion and rapidly gathered weapons and rare ores from the ruins with Bumblebee’s help. Before the ruins were fully explored, a powerful group from the Eternal Empire’s imperial family arrived and demanded all the treasures, including what the others had already collected.

• A Universe Level Second Stage woman tried to persuade Qi Yuan to join forces and attacked his consciousness with an illusion, but he resisted and struck her with purple lightning.
• Qi Yuan warned the woman to stay away, then continued clearing the ruins alongside the other Universe Level experts.
• Qi Yuan collected dozens of weapons and armor while Bumblebee searched the rubble for rare metals and secretly intercepted treasures along the others’ routes.
• A group led by a Universe Level Sixth Stage expert arrived while less than half the ruins had been explored and ordered everyone to stop.
• Xing Ming of Imperial Sea Pavilion proposed dividing the area, but the newcomers demanded all the treasures and everything the explorers had already taken.

Qi Yuan learned that an Immortal God’s remains had appeared in the Secret Realm ruin and discovered that a fierce struggle had begun over them. He was left alone above the ruins as powerful fighters rushed toward the remains’ location.

• The silver-robed young master of Governor Lieyang’s Manor demanded that Imperial Sea Pavilion and Qi Yuan’s group hand over their gains, but then he and his companions abruptly left.
• The lean man from Imperial Sea Pavilion, the seductive Universe Level Two woman, and her companion received news and followed the departing group.
• Qi Yuan summoned Xiao Ai and ordered her to search for the latest news about Secret Realm ruins in the Eternal Empire.
• Xiao Ai reported that Kanqi had found a corpse suspected to belong to a fallen Immortal God after it drifted from a spatial rift.
• Xiao Ai announced that a hidden Universe Level Nine powerhouse had killed Kanqi and taken the corpse, drawing many Universe Level powerhouses toward the site for a possible melee.

Qi Yuan arrived at the Secret Ruins and joined Dong Yu and his companions as thousands of Universe Level experts gathered to fight over treasures emerging from spatial fissures. Just as Dong Yu warned him to avoid the fiercest battles, another enormous fissure opened nearby.

• A spatial fissure opened in the Secret Ruins, and Universe Level experts fought over the treasures that fell through it, with several experts killed.
• Qi Yuan arrived at the spatially weak zone, where about two thousand Universe Level experts had gathered, and searched for a place to wait.
• Dong Yu invited Qi Yuan to join his group, introduced Qiu Long, Keliya, and Kun Na, and learned that Qi Yuan served under Lord Bu Chen.
• Dong Yu told Qi Yuan that a recent battle over fissure treasures had killed several Seventh and Eighth Stage experts and advised him to avoid the front lines.
• As more experts arrived and Dong Yu introduced prominent figures to Qi Yuan, another enormous spatial fissure opened nearby.

A spatial rift spewed out more than a hundred treasures, triggering a chaotic battle among thousands of Universe Level powerhouses. Qi Yuan seized a mysterious Golden Paper, killed Gongsun Bai and the pink-eyed woman who attacked him, and then rushed away with their loot.

• A spatial rift opened and scattered treasures across the weak zone, causing the gathered factions to fight over them.
• A Golden Paper flew toward Qi Yuan and his companions, and Gongsun Bai's Ink Jade Flying Disc attacked them as they approached it.
• Dong Yu blocked the weapon and urged the group to retreat, but Qi Yuan charged toward the Golden Paper and drove back the rival cultivators with lightning attacks.
• Qi Yuan seized the Golden Paper, evaded another attack from Gongsun Bai, and struck him with a soul attack followed by a fatal lightning slash.
• Qi Yuan killed the pink-eyed woman, collected both enemies' equipment and Space Rings, and charged away.

Qi Yuan fought off the experts pursuing the Golden Paper and escaped with Dong Yu’s group to the protection of Qian Lao Liu of the Imperial Sea Pavilion. As they prepared to join Qian Lao Liu, a strange thought surfaced in Qi Yuan’s mind, calling him master and asking for a key and tower.

• Qi Yuan escaped the encirclement, then helped Dong Yu and the others flee toward Qian Lao Liu while dozens of Universe Level experts pursued them for the Golden Paper.
• Qi Yuan killed a fourth stage Universe Level expert with his Soul Extinguishing Saber and drew the attackers’ attention as Dong Yu’s group reached Qian Lao Liu.
• Qian Lao Liu revealed his Eighth Stage Universe Level aura, driving off the weaker experts, and invited Qi Yuan and Dong Yu’s group to fight alongside him.
• Dong Yu introduced Qi Yuan as a Virtual Universe Company external member under Elder Bu Chen and explained that Qi Yuan had seized the treasure.
• As Qi Yuan was about to accept Qian Lao Liu’s offer, he sensed a trembling, yearning thought that said, “Master, key, tower, summon.”

Qi Yuan followed Bumblebee’s mysterious pull to the spatially weak region, then used a decoy and the Fraud Bracelet to evade those watching him. After changing his appearance and returning, he quietly joined the powerful factions waiting for another spatial rift.

• Bumblebee told Qi Yuan that something important beyond a spatial rift might be drawn over and captured when the rift appeared again.
• Qi Yuan declined Brother Qian’s invitation, left Dong Yu and the others, and flew to the edge of the spatially weak region.
• Qi Yuan buried Bumblebee and a Space Ring beneath an uninhabited land fragment, then fled to draw pursuit away from the hidden treasure.
• Qi Yuan used the Fraud Bracelet to change his appearance and equipment before heading back toward the spatially weak region.
• The factions divided territory after a bloody treasure contest, and Qi Yuan returned in disguise as a burly first-rank Universe Level warrior.

A failed attempt to enter the Secret Realm ruins confirmed that they were reviving and repelling powerful entities, while a reduced treasure eruption triggered a battle among Universe Level experts. Qi Yuan grabbed a Black Metal Fragment and came under attack, just as Bumblebee warned him and a towering pagoda descended from the spatial turbulence.

• A golden-armored figure was badly injured by the spatial rifts around the Secret Realm entrance and retreated, while Gregor discussed the ruins' revival with other Realm Lords.
• Fewer than twenty treasures appeared in the spatial weak zone, prompting Universe Level experts to fight over them.
• Qi Yuan caught a Black Metal Fragment knocked toward him by the battle's aftershock and was targeted by more than a hundred experts.
• Qi Yuan dodged attacks and asked Bumblebee whether it was ready, while psychic impacts left him dizzy.
• Bumblebee warned Qi Yuan as the surrounding space collapsed and a nearly thousand-meter-tall pagoda descended amid colorful secret pattern threads.

Bumblebee fused with a thousand-meter pagoda, awakening as a gigantic Golden Horned Lion and escaping after swallowing the attacking Psionic Weapons. Qi Yuan and the gathered factions were left behind as the transformed creature vanished into shattered space.

• A thousand-meter pagoda descended from spatial turbulence, prompting the Universe Level experts to abandon their battles and fight over it.
• A streak of Golden Flowing Light shot from below the pagoda and covered it, joining Bumblebee to the pagoda’s missing six-story tip.
• The pagoda’s secret patterns imprinted themselves on Bumblebee’s Golden Liquid body, awakening its power as Qi Yuan watched in shock.
• The golden-armored young man ordered the imperial army to attack before the fusion finished, but the awakened creature slowed and swallowed their Psionic Weapons.
• Bumblebee transformed into a winged Golden Horned Lion, shrank the pagoda into a horn, and escaped through shattered space.

After Bumblebee stole the mysterious pagoda, it used newly awakened powers to help Qi Yuan kill two Sixth Stage Universe Level pursuers. Bumblebee revealed that the pagoda had transformed it and explained that Qi Yuan’s Eight Formations manual belonged to the ancient Tiangong Clan, leaving Qi Yuan stunned by the idea that Formations were everywhere.

• The Eternal Empire’s golden-armored youth ordered the Secret Realm exits sealed and sent search parties after the stolen pagoda.
• Qi Yuan fled the battlefield, met two black-armored Sixth Stage Universe Level warriors, and let Bumblebee empower him with mysterious Formation energy.
• Qi Yuan killed both pursuers with a single strike and stored their corpses before escaping.
• Qi Yuan asked Bumblebee about its transformation and the power it had lent him.
• Bumblebee explained that the pagoda had awakened its Tiangong Clan heritage and that Qi Yuan’s Eight Formations manual was the clan’s core inheritance.
• Bumblebee described Formations as applications of the Dao found throughout existence, and Qi Yuan was left astonished.

Qi Yuan learned that the Tiangong Clan had excelled at Formation research despite producing few Immortals, and that the Tiangong Tower could aid cultivation and unleash formidable power. After Bumblebee explained its connection to the tower and how it had improved its intelligence, Qi Yuan began considering founding his own sect.

• Qi Yuan questioned Bumblebee about the Tiangong Clan's powerhouses and learned that few of its members had reached the Immortal Level.
• Bumblebee explained that the Tiangong Tower contained independent training spaces where cultivators could study the Formation insights and Law Comprehension of past masters.
• Bumblebee described how the tower could let World Lord Formation Masters wield power comparable to an Immortal God, and how a perfected tower might rival peak King-level beings and Universe Venerables.
• Qi Yuan asked why Bumblebee knew so much about the tower and why its intelligence had improved.
• Bumblebee explained that its predecessor had been Metal Life fused with the Tiangong Tower, and that the tower's computational core had enhanced its intelligence and supplied Tiangong Clan knowledge.
• Qi Yuan considered using the tower, its inheritance, and his Return System resources to establish his own sect.

Qi Yuan emerged from the Secret Realm and learned that the imperial family was forcing factions to escort everyone out because a powerful treasure had vanished. He showed Bu Chen the Golden Paper containing a Soul Defense Secret Method, then escaped into the Dark Universe, relieved that Bumblebee’s Mimicry had concealed him.

• Qi Yuan left the Secret Realm and followed the soldiers’ orders to gather at the nearest assembly point.
• Qi Yuan contacted Bu Chen, who arranged to pick him up with the Imperial Sea Pavilion members.
• Bu Chen explained that the imperial family was searching for a vanished treasure and had ordered Domain Lord leaders to escort everyone out.
• Qi Yuan showed Bu Chen the Golden Paper and offered to let him copy its Soul Defense Secret Method.
• Bu Chen offered to submit the Secret Method to the company for a large reward.
• Qi Yuan left Canghai Star in his spacecraft and entered the Dark Universe, reflecting that Bumblebee’s Mimicry had fooled even Bu Chen.

Qi Yuan reviewed the treasures he had brought out of the Secret Realm and learned that the Virtual Universe Company had awarded him 10 Hun Yuan Units for the incomplete Soul Defense Secret Method. He took Bu Chen’s warning about the danger of his new wealth seriously and began planning to cultivate faster and leave the chaotic Eternal Empire to lie low.

• Qi Yuan used Bumblebee’s Mimicry to conceal his World Ring from Bu Chen’s inspection and examined his gains aboard the spaceship.
• Qi Yuan assessed the Tiangong Tower, the Eight Formations manuals, the Golden Paper, the Black Metal Fragment, and Bumblebee as his most valuable treasures.
• Bu Chen told Qi Yuan that the company had accepted the Golden Paper’s incomplete Soul Defense Secret Method and awarded him 10 Hun Yuan Units.
• Bu Chen warned Qi Yuan that Realm Lord experts might kill him to seize his fortune, and Qi Yuan received a transfer of ten trillion Cosmic Coins.
• Qi Yuan decided to accelerate his cultivation and leave the chaotic Eternal Empire to lie low, then searched the Virtual Universe for ways to make arrangements.

Qi Yuan received an E-grade Nutrient Pod and gifted it to his disciple Liao Li, who had remained loyal while he was away. After warning her to keep the treasure secret, he told her they might soon leave Tai Yue Star, and the system rewarded him with an F-grade Nutrient Pod and Nutrient Fluid.

• Qi Yuan accepted delivery of the E-grade Nutrient Pod from the Virtual Universe Company and stored it away.
• Qi Yuan returned to his courtyard on Tai Yue Star and saw that Liao Li had advanced to Star Traveller fourth stage.
• Qi Yuan gave Liao Li the E-grade Nutrient Pod and explained that it could rapidly raise her strength to Star Traveller Tier 9 peak.
• Qi Yuan warned Liao Li not to reveal the Nutrient Pod and said they might leave Tai Yue Star within days.
• The system triggered a 2,640-fold return, depositing an F-grade Nutrient Pod and ten tons of Nutrient Fluid in the System Space.

Qi Yuan left Tai Yue Star and visited the Lanting Universe Nation office to buy Life Planets, securing a promising large batch for his future development. He agreed to purchase all 14,283 planets in the Blue Bay Star Domain for 6.7 billion Cosmic Coins, as Volume Two ended.

• Qi Yuan spent three days on Tai Yue Star, then boarded a spacecraft with Liao Li and began advancing toward Cosmic Level Nine in an F-grade Nutrient Pod.
• Qi Yuan traveled through the Virtual Universe to the Lanting Universe Nation's Tianyu Great Area Office and asked to purchase around ten thousand Life Planets.
• Barto found a package of 14,283 planets in the Blue Bay Star Domain, including a high-grade Life Planet inhabited by nearly ten billion Na Wu Clan members, and quoted a price of 6.7 billion Cosmic Coins.
• Qi Yuan approved the planet package and agreed to sign the purchase contract.

During the long journey, Qi Yuan instructed Liao Li to study a soul-defense method and practiced a more advanced one himself. After nearly two years of travel, he arrived with Liao Li on Red Leaf Star, where the Na Wu Clan elders awaited their new lord.

• Qi Yuan gave Liao Li the Five Directions God Refining Wall and urged her to cultivate her spirit and will alongside her warrior training.
• Qi Yuan studied the Thousand Tribulations Heart Abyss, repeatedly failing to form its first barrier as the spaceship traveled through the Dark Universe.
• The Na Wu Clan elders on Red Leaf Star worried that their new lord might treat them as cruelly as the former Black Demon King had.
• Qi Yuan and Liao Li arrived on Red Leaf Star and emerged from their spaceship before the waiting elders.

Qi Yuan learned that the Na Wu Clan had lost many Star Traveller warriors to its former ruler, Naxia, and ordered the elders to focus on cultivating their people under his rule. The chapter then shifted to Blood Sun Star, where the aging Belong Family patriarch prepared to raise funds for an Origin Crystal before the next Lanting Auction.

• Qi Yuan questioned Elder Qishen about the Na Wu Clan's population and unusually small number of Star Traveller warriors.
• Qishen revealed that Naxia had repeatedly taken Star Travellers for battles from which they never returned, and that Naxia's administrator, Panbi, had taken more than half of those remaining.
• Qi Yuan ordered the Na Wu Clan to stop answering summons and to cultivate more outstanding clansmen for him.
• On Blood Sun Star, the Belong Family patriarch worried that the planet's prosperity would collapse when he died without breaking through to Realm Lord.
• The patriarch told his son that an old friend would watch for an Origin Crystal at the Lanting Auction and ordered the family to raise funds by any means.