Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan reorganizes his seven clones according to their abilities:
  • Fang Jin remains at Heavenly Court headquarters and can reach peak Fifth-Order Universe Lord combat power.
  • Yan Lei returns to Tusita Palace to research the combination of treasures and Immortal Gu.
  • Fang Yan, Fang Shui, Yan Guang, Yan Feng, and Fang Tu form a hunting squad targeting Universe Lords throughout the Primordial Universe.
  • Fang Mu remains absent because Fang Yan cannot control which Gu Worm attributes his clones possess.
• The hunting squad conceals its Heavenly Court identity, lures targets into Fang Yan’s Divine Kingdom, and kills them there. Their deaths generate Dao Marks, expanding the sea of light already containing three million Dao Marks.
• After several hundred epochs of cultivation, Fang Yan makes major progress:
  • He fully comprehends the Laws of Time, Wind, and Wood.
  • He gains recognition from the remaining laws, including metal, water, fire, earth, light, and space.
  • Hei Lian’s genetic multiplier rises above eight thousand times through the Life-Breath Soil.
• The Light Beast God summons Fang Yan to the Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm. He points out that Universe Lords have been dying unusually frequently, suggesting that Fang Yan’s secret hunting campaign may be responsible.
• Rather than confront Fang Yan, the Light Beast God reveals that he intends to reincarnate immediately, like Immortal-Sweeping Lord and Swallowing Evolution Lord. He no longer wishes to wait for more True Gods to appear.
• Trusting Fang Yan, the Light Beast God asks him to help end his current life so that he can reincarnate safely.
• Fang Yan uses Kong Luo’s soul technique, Soul Drunkenness, to dissolve the Light Beast God’s soul peacefully. The Beast God willingly lowers his defenses and accepts the technique.
• After the soul disappears, Fang Yan transforms into the Cosmic Wind Haze Beast and uses Cosmic Wind Haze to consume and dissolve the Light Beast God’s remains.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan becomes increasingly powerful and methodical. He not only coordinates multiple clones and a large-scale hunting operation but also advances greatly in law comprehension.
• His calm and detached attitude contrasts with the increasingly alarming consequences of his actions. His hunting has become so extensive that even ancient Beast Gods recognize the abnormal death rate.
• Fang Jin is established as the strongest combat clone, capable of Fifth-Order peak power through the Five-Finger Fist-Heart Sword.
• Yan Lei continues specializing in combination treasures, potentially allowing him to bridge the gap between his current strength and the higher combat realms.
• Light Beast God shifts from a long-lived guardian and benevolent elder into someone accepting of death and rebirth. He recognizes Fang Yan’s danger but still trusts him enough to request assistance.
• The Light Beast God’s voluntary surrender reveals his weariness after countless epochs and his desire for a new beginning.

Significant Themes

• Power and consequence: Fang Yan’s growing strength allows him to hunt Universe Lords with ease, but the resulting deaths disturb the balance of the Primordial Universe.
• Trust amid danger: The Light Beast God understands that Fang Yan may be responsible for the mysterious deaths, yet still entrusts his reincarnation to him.
• Death as transformation: The Light Beast God’s death is not portrayed purely as destruction; it is a deliberate step toward reincarnation and renewal.
• Gentle violence: Soul Drunkenness kills without pain or resistance, presenting destruction as peace, release, and even comfort.
• Order and preparation: Fang Yan’s careful deployment of his clones shows his increasingly organized approach to power, resources, cultivation, and long-term domination.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan gives his clones specific assignments, establishing a clear division between defense, research, and hunting.
• Si Fan informs Fang Yan of the Light Beast God’s summons.
• The Light Beast God indirectly confronts Fang Yan about the suspicious deaths of Universe Lords, but Fang Yan avoids admitting responsibility.
• The Light Beast God explains his decision to reincarnate and expresses confidence in Fang Yan based on his previous help to other powerful beings.
• Fang Yan accepts the request without argument. The Light Beast God willingly removes his soul defenses, allowing Fang Yan’s Soul Drunkenness to end his life peacefully.

Chapter Summary: Light Beast God

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan uses the Cosmic Wind Haze to completely erode and absorb the Light Beast God’s body and law energy, leaving only his Heart of Light.
• Using the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone’s Time Reversal, Fang Yan restores the Light Beast God’s final fragment of consciousness before it disappears completely.
• Tens of thousands of Light and Cosmic Dao Marks gather around the heart, reconstructing the Beast God’s body.
• The resurrected being transforms into a Primordial Desolate Beast—the Sandalwood Sacred Elephant, rather than returning as the original Light Beast God.
• His gene multiplier reaches 10,081 times, confirming the power of his new Perfect Gene body.
• Fang Yan enters a mysterious realm of countless spheres of light and selects one for the Sandalwood Sacred Elephant. This grants him the innate secret technique “Sandalwood Sea Radiance.”
• The reborn elephant renames himself the Sandalwood Lord, formally abandoning his former identity as a Beast God of the Primordial Universe.
• A Grotto-Heaven emerges within the Sandalwood Lord’s body. He separates it and merges it with Fang Yan’s Divine Kingdom.
• The Divine Kingdom expands from 1,008 to 1,050 light-years in diameter, becoming the largest Divine Kingdom among the Universe Lords of the Primordial Universe.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan demonstrates increasingly precise control over time, Dao Marks, resurrection, and the structure of his Divine Kingdom. He successfully revives the Light Beast God while transforming him into a stronger and more stable existence.
• The Light Beast God undergoes a complete rebirth. His former elephant form and identity are replaced by the Sandalwood Sacred Elephant, whose aura is peaceful, powerful, and spiritually calming.
• As the Sandalwood Lord, he gains a new innate secret technique, a Perfect Gene body, and a personal Grotto-Heaven. His fear of being hunted as a Natural Beast God finally begins to disappear.

Significant Themes

• Rebirth and transformation: Resurrection is not a return to the past; the Light Beast God becomes an entirely new being with a new body, identity, and destiny.
• Identity and liberation: By renouncing the title of Beast God and calling himself the Sandalwood Lord, the character claims control over his future and escapes the oppression associated with his former status.
• Power through cooperation: Fang Yan’s strength and the Sandalwood Lord’s Grotto-Heaven complement each other, producing a stronger and larger Divine Kingdom.
• Order emerging from destruction: Although the Light Beast God’s original body is destroyed, its energy is reorganized into a more powerful and harmonious form.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan carefully guides the Light Beast God’s resurrection and reassures him when he discovers the Grotto-Heaven within his body.
• The Sandalwood Lord declares his new identity to Fang Yan, who accepts him with a simple but meaningful welcome.
• Their relationship shifts from one of resurrection and dependence toward cooperation between powerful allies, with the Sandalwood Lord contributing his Grotto-Heaven to strengthen Fang Yan’s Divine Kingdom.

Chapter Summary: The Number One Universe Lord

Key Plot Points and Events

• After Sandalwood Lord departs, Fang Yan reflects on how reincarnation within his Divine Kingdom transformed several powerful beings, raising their genetic levels to 10,081 times and renewing their innate secret techniques.
• He considers whether he can apply the same process to his own Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone, whose genetic level is lower than that of his Spring Autumn Cicada Clone.
• Fang Yan deliberately self-destructs the Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone, then uses the Spring Autumn Cicada’s Time Reversal to recover a remnant of its soul.
• Using 50,000 Dao Marks representing the gold, water, fire, earth, and space laws, he reconstructs the clone’s body inside a cocoon of five-colored light.
• The clone successfully reincarnates with a genetic level of 10,081 times, gaining greatly increased affinity for the five added laws. Its original Cosmic Wind Haze evolves into a new technique called Seven-Colored Haze, combining wind, time, and the five newly integrated laws.
• Fang Yan returns to human form and decides to leave seclusion after several hundred eras of cultivation. He plans to test his new strength against Wu Hun Lord, whose mastery of five spatial Beast God Paths makes her an ideal opponent.
• He prepares for battle by equipping the Heaven-Watching Tower, Eternal Armor, and Heavenly Gate Sword. He stores away the Humanity Palace to avoid exposing his identity as Heavenly Court Lord.
• Fang Yan departs for the Universe Ocean aboard the Heaven-Watching Tower, whose perception range is enhanced a hundredfold.
• Meanwhile, his Spring Autumn Cicada Clone remains in the Divine Kingdom, absorbing the soul origins of nearly two hundred Universe Lords from the Three Swords Alliance, as well as the soul origin of Beast Ancestor. The process is slow and painful but steadily increases his soul strength.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan demonstrates exceptional resolve and willingness to take risks, choosing to destroy and reconstruct his own clone in pursuit of greater power.
• His mastery of the Divine Kingdom’s Dao Marks and the Spring Autumn Cicada’s Time Reversal advances significantly.
• The reincarnated Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone becomes a more versatile and powerful combatant, with affinity for seven fundamental laws and a genetic level equal to the strongest reincarnated beings.
• Fang Yan grows increasingly confident in his strength, believing he may now be capable of challenging a Seventh-Order True God with the aid of the Ninth-Turn Time Immortal Gu.
• His Spring Autumn Cicada Clone continues developing its soul power through the absorption of enormous quantities of soul energy, though the process causes physical and spiritual strain.

Significant Themes

• Transformation through sacrifice: Fang Yan destroys his own clone to achieve a superior rebirth, emphasizing that immense power requires risk and sacrifice.
• Innovation and experimentation: Rather than relying solely on conventional cultivation, Fang Yan discovers a new path by combining Time Reversal with Divine Kingdom reincarnation.
• Accumulation of power: The chapter highlights Fang Yan’s steadily expanding strength through genetic evolution, law comprehension, soul absorption, and treasure refinement.
• Identity and concealment: Fang Yan deliberately hides the Humanity Palace to protect his secret identity and avoid provoking enemies.
• The limits of growth: Even as Fang Yan reaches extraordinary heights, his soul absorption remains painful and dangerous, showing that greater power brings corresponding strain.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan’s most important interactions are with his own clones, treating them as extensions of his will and experimenting on their bodies and souls.
• His earlier transformations of Sandalwood Sacred Elephant, Immortal-Sweeping Lord, Swallowing Evolution Lord, and Sandalwood Lord inspire his attempt to reincarnate the Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone.
• Fang Yan identifies Wu Hun Lord as his next major opponent and intends to use her as a test of his newly acquired abilities.
• The Spring Autumn Cicada Clone remains linked to Fang Yan’s overall cultivation, quietly strengthening the main body through soul accumulation while Fang Yan ventures into the Universe Ocean.

Chapter Summary: “Seven-Element Lord”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan travels through the Universe Ocean aboard the Heaven-Watching Tower, meditating while journeying toward the Universe Boat. His reincarnated Seven-Colored Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone has greatly increased his affinity for the laws of metal, water, fire, earth, and space.
• After seven years, he reaches the Gloom Mist Star Ruins and detects a violent battle. Flowing Wind Lord and Returning Snow Lord, both Fourth-Order Universe Masters, are fleeing from Pure Eye Lord, a peak Fifth-Order Universe Master of the God Eye Clan.
• Fang Yan intercepts the fleeing pair. With a single unsheathed strike from the Heavenly Gate Sword, he severely wounds both of them, destroying Returning Snow Lord’s defensive discs and breaking Flowing Wind Lord’s armor.
• He then uses the Taiji-Pattern Gu to create two clones—one radiant and one shadowy—with strength equal to his original body. The clones pursue the two injured Universe Masters.
• Pure Eye Lord attempts to negotiate, offering Fang Yan friendship if he hands over the fugitives. Fang Yan rejects him with contempt and snaps his fingers, signaling his clones to kill Flowing Wind Lord and Returning Snow Lord simultaneously.
• Furious, Pure Eye Lord attacks Fang Yan with his full strength. Fang Yan merges with his two clones, causing his aura to rise to the level of a Sixth-Order Universe Lord.
• Fang Yan counters with a seven-colored sword strike based on seven interwoven laws. The clash devastates the surrounding star ruins and heavily injures Pure Eye Lord.
• Realizing Fang Yan is far beyond an ordinary Fifth-Order Universe Master—and likely connected to one of the two Holy Lands—Pure Eye Lord withdraws, warning that he will remember the “Seven-Element Lord.”

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: Demonstrates overwhelming combat strength, confidence, and ruthlessness. He reveals that his clone technique allows two additional bodies to wield his full power, and his fusion with them elevates him temporarily to Sixth-Order Universe Lord strength. He also adopts the title “Seven-Element Lord.”
• Pure Eye Lord: Initially confident as a peak Fifth-Order expert, he becomes cautious and shocked after discovering Fang Yan’s true strength. His assumptions about Fang Yan shift from viewing him as an unknown Fifth-Order opponent to suspecting he is a powerful figure from one of the Holy Lands.
• Flowing Wind Lord and Returning Snow Lord: Begin the chapter as desperate fugitives, already badly injured by Pure Eye Lord. Their brief hope of escape after Fang Yan intervenes ends when Fang Yan’s clones pursue and kill them.

Significant Themes

• Hidden strength and revelation: Fang Yan conceals his true level until the decisive moment, transforming the confrontation by revealing Sixth-Order power.
• Absolute power and dominance: Fang Yan defeats two Fourth-Order Universe Masters effortlessly and forces a peak Fifth-Order expert to retreat.
• Pride and authority: Fang Yan rejects Pure Eye Lord’s offer of friendship, asserting that Pure Eye Lord is not worthy to stand as his equal.
• Mystery and political implications: Fang Yan’s unknown identity and extraordinary strength lead Pure Eye Lord to suspect involvement with one of the two Holy Lands, foreshadowing wider consequences.
• The nature of clones and unity: The Taiji-Pattern Gu enables Fang Yan to create fully powered clones, while their later reintegration magnifies his strength dramatically.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan confronts Flowing Wind Lord and Returning Snow Lord but offers them no protection or negotiation, instead using his sword to incapacitate them.
• He separates his clones to hunt the two fugitives, displaying both tactical precision and complete control over the battlefield.
• Pure Eye Lord attempts a diplomatic approach by offering friendship, but Fang Yan mocks the proposal and orders the fugitives’ deaths through a simple snap.
• Their ensuing battle shifts from Pure Eye Lord’s confidence to shock and caution once Fang Yan reveals his Sixth-Order strength. Pure Eye Lord ultimately abandons the fight and retreats.

Summary: “Wu Hun’s Self-Destruction”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan traps Pure Eye Lord within his Seven-Colored Haze after Pure Eye attempts to escape through silver light.
• Pure Eye attacks Fang Yan’s soul, but Fang Yan’s vastly expanded soul easily withstands it and counters with the Soul Drunkenness technique.
• At the critical moment, the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone absorbs the power stored in the Gallstones of Soul Shaking Mountain, causing Fang Yan’s soul strength to break through to the True God level.
• The overwhelming soul backlash crushes Pure Eye Lord’s soul. His body is absorbed by the Seven-Colored Haze, leaving behind thirty thousand Dao Marks and a large collection of treasures.
• Fang Yan concludes that ordinary Universe Lords can no longer resist him and that he may be capable of fighting a Seventh-Order True God.
• Through Fang Jin’s intelligence network, Fang Yan learns that Wu Hun Lord has remained at the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar in the Universe Boat for nearly seven eras.
• Fang Yan travels there in the Heaven-Watching Tower and confronts Wu Hun Lord, intending to test his newly enhanced strength and possibly seize another valuable opponent.
• He immediately attacks her with the Soul-Controling Rainfall technique. The surrounding Universe Lords panic and retreat, shocked that he dares attack a member of the God Eye Clan.
• Wu Hun Lord realizes that Fang Yan possesses a True God-level soul and that the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar’s pressure has weakened her combat ability.
• Fang Yan’s soul technique briefly affects her, but her Mad Demon God-Slaying Armor protects her from being enslaved.
• Rather than allow Fang Yan to capture or control her, Wu Hun Lord chooses to self-destruct her clone.
• Fang Yan uses the Seven-Colored Haze to contain the explosion and preserve her divine body, but only ten blue-gray cells survive, and her soul is completely absent.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: His soul reaches the True God level, dramatically increasing his combat power. He becomes confident that most Universe Lords are no longer serious threats and begins targeting stronger figures such as Wu Hun Lord. His methods also become increasingly ruthless and direct.
• Pure Eye Lord: His confidence and aggression collapse when he discovers that Fang Yan’s soul is far beyond his expectations. He is ultimately killed instantly by the backlash of Fang Yan’s strengthened soul.
• Wu Hun Lord: She is established as a powerful and determined opponent, capable of resisting Fang Yan’s soul enslavement through her armor. Her decision to self-destruct shows her resolve to deny Fang Yan victory, even at the cost of her current clone.
• The surrounding Universe Lords: They react with fear and disbelief, recognizing Fang Yan as a dangerous new force willing to challenge the God Eye Clan openly.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power versus refined technique: Fang Yan’s victory demonstrates that even comparable wills and sophisticated soul techniques become meaningless when one side possesses a massively superior soul.
• The soul as an army: Fang Yan compares willpower to a commanding general and the soul to an army, emphasizing that overwhelming scale can decide battles regardless of tactical parity.
• Defiance and sacrifice: Wu Hun Lord’s self-destruction represents a refusal to be enslaved or humiliated, preserving her autonomy even in defeat.
• Escalation of conflict: Fang Yan’s killing of Pure Eye Lord and attack on Wu Hun Lord signal a direct challenge to the God Eye Clan and elevate him into a major power in the Universe Ocean.
• The cost of survival: Although Fang Yan prevents Wu Hun Lord’s complete physical destruction, her soul is lost and only ten cells remain, suggesting that victory can still leave both sides with lasting consequences.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan and Pure Eye Lord engage in a brief but decisive soul battle, with Fang Yan’s breakthrough turning an evenly matched confrontation into an effortless victory.
• Fang Yan and Wu Hun Lord meet as enemies connected by Pure Eye Lord’s death. Wu Hun seeks revenge, while Fang Yan treats her as both a target and a measure of his new strength.
• Wu Hun’s resistance to enslavement directly counters Fang Yan’s soul-control technique, forcing her to choose self-destruction.
• The observing Universe Lords serve as witnesses to Fang Yan’s rise, their fear highlighting the significance of his attack and the threat he now poses.

Chapter Summary: Enslaving Wu Hun

Key Plot Points and Events

• After Wu Hun Lord’s clone self-destructs, Fang Yan collects the remains and treasures left behind, including the Peak Treasure Mad Demon God-Slaying Armor and a black token containing coordinates to another secret chamber in the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar space.
• Fang Yan enters the chamber and discovers that, although it contains no physical treasures, its engraved map of the Universe Ocean is valuable.
• Meanwhile, Wu Hun Lord’s surviving clone awakens in the God Eye Clan’s territory, enraged that Fang Yan killed one clone and seized his treasured armor.
• Wu Hun Lord reports the incident to Seventh True Master, explaining that Fang Yan used a True God-level soul technique against him and forced the clone to self-destruct.
• Seventh True Master vows to avenge Wu Hun Lord and immediately mobilizes Ice Cliff Castle to pursue Fang Yan in the Universe Ocean.
• In the secret chamber, Fang Yan summons Yan Lei using Fixed Immortal Travel. They connect the Divine Kingdom to Fang Yan’s location, allowing Wu Hun Lord’s remaining cells to be transported there.
• Fang Yan’s Spring Autumn Cicada Clone uses the Time Law to reverse the cells’ decay and revive the fragment of Wu Hun Lord’s soul within them.
• Using Great Evolution Heavenly Marrow, Fang Yan reconstructs Wu Hun Lord’s entire body.
• As soon as Wu Hun Lord revives, Kong Luo uses a soul technique called “Sleep” to incapacitate both the restored Wu Hun Lord and his distant surviving clone simultaneously.
• Fang Yan then employs Soul-Controling Rainfall, planting a pink soul mark deep within Wu Hun Lord’s consciousness and completely enslaving his will.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan demonstrates increasing mastery and preparation. He not only defeats Wu Hun Lord but preserves his soul, reconstructs his body, and successfully converts him into a controlled servant.
• Wu Hun Lord shifts from a powerful and furious enemy into Fang Yan’s captive. His desperation and hatred toward Fang Yan are ultimately rendered meaningless when his free will is sealed.
• Seventh True Master becomes directly involved after learning of Wu Hun Lord’s defeat. His anger reveals the God Eye Clan’s determination to retaliate, setting up a future confrontation with Fang Yan.
• Yan Lei acts as a reliable logistical support figure, using Fixed Immortal Travel and the connected Divine Kingdom to transport Wu Hun Lord’s cells.
• Kong Luo displays calm, overwhelming soul power by incapacitating both versions of Wu Hun Lord with a single technique.

Significant Themes

• Power through preparation and coordination: Fang Yan combines treasures, clones, time techniques, healing resources, and soul methods to achieve a seemingly impossible enslavement.
• The vulnerability of clones and souls: Wu Hun Lord’s clones allow him to survive physical destruction, but Fang Yan targets the underlying soul and ultimately defeats both bodies at once.
• Control versus free will: The chapter’s climax centers on Fang Yan’s complete domination of Wu Hun Lord’s consciousness, turning an enemy into an instrument.
• Escalating conflict: Fang Yan’s actions provoke the God Eye Clan, especially Seventh True Master, suggesting that his victory will lead to a larger confrontation.
• Treasure and strategic knowledge: The Mad Demon God-Slaying Armor and the secret chamber’s Universe Ocean map emphasize the value of both combat artifacts and information.

Character Interactions

• Wu Hun Lord and Seventh True Master: Wu Hun reports his defeat and loss of the armor, prompting Seventh True Master to personally pursue Fang Yan.
• Fang Yan and Yan Lei: Their brief, efficient exchange reflects mutual trust and disciplined cooperation as they establish the Divine Kingdom connection.
• Kong Luo and Wu Hun Lord: Kong Luo silently overwhelms Wu Hun Lord’s consciousness with the command “Sleep,” demonstrating the gap between them in soul power.
• Fang Yan and Wu Hun Lord: Fang Yan’s final use of Soul-Controling Rainfall transforms their relationship from open hostility to absolute master and servant.

Chapter Summary: Origin Ancestor’s Peril

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan successfully enslaves Wu Hun Lord through Soul Enslavement. Wu Hun Lord awakens completely submissive, and the effect spreads to his other Clone.
• Fang Yan orders Wu Hun Lord to remain within the God Eye Clan while concealing his enslavement. He learns that the Seventh True Master has already departed for the Universe Boat.
• Origin Ancestor announces that Mechanical Father God will attempt to break through to the True God realm in thirty years and invites observers to witness the evolution of his Small Universe.
• Fang Yan sends his Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone to Mechanical Father God’s Divine Kingdom, arriving more than twenty years early and waiting outside in meditation.
• When the appointed time arrives, most of the Human Race’s Universe Lords gather to observe the breakthrough. Xin Qing greets Fang Yan as her teacher, while Cao Benqi secretly retains hostility toward her because of their past conflict.
• Origin Ancestor arrives but notices that Giant Axe Lord is absent. Using his newly created ninth-rank secret technique, Virtual Realm, he searches the entire Human Race territory.
• He discovers Giant Axe Lord cultivating in Rock Starfield and realizes that Giant Axe is on the verge of breaking through to True God.
• Origin Ancestor decides to personally protect Giant Axe while instructing the other Universe Lords to observe Mechanical Father God’s breakthrough.
• The Human Race enters Mechanical Father God’s Divine Kingdom. Fang Yan remains uneasy, suspecting that Origin Ancestor’s Virtual Realm contains a trace of the Virtual Universe’s essence and may indicate that Origin Ancestor is attempting to seize control of the Primordial Universe prematurely.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: Expands his influence by enslaving Wu Hun Lord and placing an agent inside the God Eye Clan. He remains strategically cautious, focusing on both the Seventh True Master and the Human Race’s long-term survival. His suspicions about Origin Ancestor reveal growing concern over the dangers of relying on Origin Ancestor’s power.
• Wu Hun Lord: Loses all personal resistance after enslavement and becomes an obedient servant. Because Soul Enslavement affects the soul itself, every one of his Clones now submits to Fang Yan.
• Origin Ancestor: Demonstrates extraordinary power through Virtual Realm, a ninth-rank, non-offensive virtual secret technique capable of perceiving the entire Primordial Universe. His mysterious willingness to allow Mechanical Father God’s breakthrough and his possible connection to the Primordial Universe raise questions about his true plans.
• Giant Axe Lord: Reaches the crucial threshold of breaking through to True God. His cultivation centers on the concepts of cleaving and slashing, with his law patterns rapidly evolving.
• Mechanical Father God: Prepares to break through to True God, creating the central event that draws the Human Race’s Universe Lords together.
• Xin Qing and Cao Benqi: Their formal interaction remains polite, but their previous conflict continues to create underlying tension. Cao Benqi’s hostility toward Xin Qing is restrained only by the present circumstances.

Significant Themes

• Control and hidden influence: Wu Hun Lord’s enslavement shows Fang Yan’s growing ability to manipulate entire factions indirectly through Clones and soul-based control.
• Power and political balance: The Human Race’s rising strength threatens the established order, especially with the possibility of Giant Axe becoming its second native True God.
• Trust and uncertainty: Origin Ancestor’s actions appear beneficial, but Fang Yan questions whether he is pursuing a dangerous plan involving the Primordial Universe.
• Breakthrough and evolution: Mechanical Father God’s transformation and Giant Axe’s impending breakthrough emphasize the importance of observing and understanding the path to True God.
• Collective triumph versus personal danger: The Human Race celebrates its growing number of True God-level combatants, while Fang Yan recognizes that Origin Ancestor’s possible suppression could leave them vulnerable.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan silently coordinates with Kong Luo before leaving him to recover under the Second Heaven’s energy.
• Wu Hun Lord awakens and submits to Fang Yan without anger or resistance.
• Xin Qing respectfully addresses Fang Yan as her teacher, while Fang Yan acknowledges her improved standing.
• Fang Yan and Cao Benqi share an unspoken understanding regarding Cao Benqi’s grudge against Xin Qing.
• Chaos Lord questions Origin Ancestor about Giant Axe’s absence and later rallies the others to observe Mechanical Father God’s breakthrough.
• Origin Ancestor reveals Giant Axe’s impending breakthrough to the gathered Universe Lords, inspiring excitement and hope throughout the Human Race.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mechanical Father God’s Divine Kingdom begins evolving. Its mechanical framework expands outward, swallowing chaotic currents from the Universe Ocean, but Fang Yan notices that the kingdom possesses almost no vitality compared with the Insect Race Empress’s life-filled Small Universe.
• Fang Yan realizes that Tianxi World has a similar cold, mechanical nature, while One Leaf World contains abundant life force. He decides to merge the two treasures.
• At the Black Heaven Secret Realm, Fang Yan brings together Tianxi World’s golden core and the emerald-green embryonic One Leaf World. Their mechanical laws and life laws gradually intertwine over roughly twenty years.
• During the fusion, Tian Xi Lord’s residual consciousness reappears within Tianxi World. His phantom becomes more solid and gains a trace of genuine vitality.
• The two treasures ultimately merge completely. Tianxi World expands from 1,008 light-years to 10,081 light-years and transforms from a purely mechanical realm into a world governed by ten interwoven laws.
• Fang Yan discovers that he can freely mobilize these laws without personally comprehending them. Within the fused world, his words can directly alter reality, including imposing a ten-times-light-speed limit without entering the Dark Universe.
• He compresses the enormous world into a fist-sized, ten-colored bead.
• Tian Xi Lord’s consciousness projects from the bead, expressing gratitude and regret over his dead clansmen. However, Fang Yan suddenly orders him to “perish.”
• Fang Yan uses the ten laws to erase Tian Xi Lord’s increasingly active will, explaining that he had allowed the remnant to survive only while it remained passive. Tian Xi Lord reacts with shock and anger as his projection begins dissolving.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: Demonstrates greater decisiveness, experimentation, and mastery over the newly fused world. Although he enables Tianxi World to gain vitality, he remains wary and ruthless, immediately eliminating Tian Xi Lord once the residual consciousness becomes too active.
• Tian Xi Lord: Gains renewed vitality and a more substantial consciousness through the fusion, briefly believing that Tianxi World has truly come alive. His gratitude and sorrow reveal his lingering attachment to his lost clansmen, but his hope turns to disbelief and fury when Fang Yan destroys him.
• Mechanical Father God: Does not directly interact with Fang Yan, but the evolution of his Divine Kingdom inspires Fang Yan’s insight into combining mechanical structure with living vitality.

Significant Themes

• Life versus machinery: The chapter contrasts the lifeless perfection of mechanical constructs with the organic vitality provided by One Leaf World.
• Creation and destruction: Fang Yan creates a more advanced, living world while simultaneously destroying the consciousness of its original creator.
• Power and control: The fused Tianxi World gives Fang Yan authority comparable to a True God, allowing him to command laws and reshape reality within its domain.
• Legacy and loss: Tian Xi Lord’s regret over his clansmen emphasizes the emotional cost of his past choices and the tragedy of his failed attempt to bring Tianxi World to life.
• Trust and survival: Fang Yan’s decision to erase Tian Xi Lord shows that power-sharing is impossible when a remnant consciousness may become independent or threatening.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan primarily interacts with Tian Xi Lord’s residual will. He silently permits the consciousness to revive during the fusion, then destroys it once it becomes too active.
• Tian Xi Lord initially addresses Fang Yan with gratitude, viewing him as the one who accomplished what he could not. Their relationship abruptly shifts when Fang Yan reveals that the fusion was not an act of trust and condemns him to perish.
• Fang Yan’s indirect relationship with Mechanical Father God serves as the intellectual catalyst for the fusion, as he uses the mechanical Divine Kingdom as a model for understanding Tianxi World’s potential.

Chapter Summary: “Seven True Gods”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After Tian Xi Lord is erased for developing independent will, Fang Yan examines the translucent bead containing the Tianxi World.
• He discovers that Tian Xi Lord’s disappearance has left a hollow in the world’s central law network, disrupting its otherwise perfect operation.
• Using the satisfaction-derived power of As You Please Immortal Gu, Fang Yan fills the gap. The ten laws combine to create a new humanoid existence.
• The newly formed woman resembles Fang Yan and is named Fang Mu. She identifies Fang Yan as her “true self.”
• Fang Mu’s strength is revealed:
  • Within the Tianxi World, she possesses stable Seventh-Order True God combat power and can command the ten laws as naturally as her own limbs.
  • Outside the world, her strength drops to the Fifth-Order Universe Master level.
• Fang Yan gives Fang Mu the Tianxi World, considering the domain treasure of limited value to his own combat ability.
• With Fang Mu, the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone, and the Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone, Fang Yan now controls three True God-level forces. Combined with Origin Ancestor, Giant Axe Founder, the Insect Race Empress, and the Mechanical Father God, humanity’s side possesses seven True Gods.
• Ten years later, Giant Axe Founder completes his breakthrough. Humanity’s major experts gather in his Small Universe.
• Origin Ancestor announces that humanity now has four True God-level combatants: himself, Giant Axe Founder, the Insect Race Empress, and the Mechanical Father God.
• He reveals that he personally possesses Tenth-Order True God combat power, exceeding the God Eye True Master’s Ninth-Order Peak level and making him the new strongest expert in the Universe Ocean.
• Origin Ancestor explains that humanity still lacks sufficient Supreme Treasures. The Eye of the True Realm must remain with him, while only the Myriad Crystal Domain can be assigned to another True God.
• He begins presenting a map of the Universe Ocean and emphasizes that its three great dangerous lands contain treasures far superior to anything in the Primordial Universe.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan demonstrates ruthless decisiveness by eliminating Tian Xi Lord once it displays autonomy. He remains analytical afterward, carefully investigating the Tianxi World and improving it.
• Fang Yan creates Fang Mu, effectively a new powerful life-form or clone born from the Tianxi World’s laws. His calm authority establishes their master-and-origin relationship.
• Fang Mu is obedient and closely connected to Fang Yan, yet possesses her own personality, gentle demeanor, and independent body. Her power is strongly tied to the Tianxi World.
• Giant Axe Founder successfully breaks through to the True God realm, greatly strengthening humanity’s overall force.
• Origin Ancestor reveals a shocking level of power: Tenth-Order True God combat ability. His strategic leadership and awareness of Supreme Treasure limitations become central to humanity’s next stage.
• Chaos Lord reacts with rare disbelief upon learning of Origin Ancestor’s strength, highlighting the magnitude of the revelation.

Significant Themes

• Control versus autonomy: Tian Xi Lord’s independent will leads to its destruction, while Fang Mu’s creation raises questions about whether obedience and individuality can coexist.
• Creation and inheritance: Fang Yan transforms the remnant of the Tianxi World into a new being, suggesting that powerful treasures and worlds can serve as foundations for new life.
• Power through organization: Humanity’s strength grows not only through individual breakthroughs but through the accumulation and coordination of multiple True God-level forces.
• The limits of power without resources: Even with four True Gods—and Origin Ancestor’s overwhelming strength—humanity lacks enough Supreme Treasures, showing that combat power alone is insufficient.
• Expansion into a greater battlefield: The chapter shifts attention from the Primordial Universe to the Universe Ocean, presenting its dangerous lands as the next arena of conflict and opportunity.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan and Tian Xi Lord’s final interaction is defined by Fang Yan’s intolerance of autonomous will; he erases Tian Xi Lord without hesitation.
• Fang Yan and Fang Mu interact as creator and created self. Fang Mu consistently addresses him as “my true self,” accepts her role without resistance, and receives the Tianxi World from him.
• Origin Ancestor gathers humanity’s forces and speaks with Giant Axe Founder, the Insect Race Empress, the Mechanical Father God, Fang Yan, and the others about their collective strength.
• Chaos Lord openly questions Origin Ancestor after hearing the claim of Tenth-Order power, providing the chapter’s clearest emotional reaction and emphasizing the significance of the revelation.
• Origin Ancestor assumes the role of strategist, explaining the distribution of treasures and directing the group’s attention toward the Universe Ocean’s dangerous regions.

Chapter Summary: Origin Ancestor’s Comprehension

Key Plot Points and Events

• Origin Ancestor assigns the exploration of the two dangerous routes:
  • He and Giant Axe Founder will lead the expedition into the Tilted Peak Realm.
  • The Insect Race Empress, Mechanical Father God, and Fang Yan will explore Liuzhong Mountain.
• Fang Yan questions whether Mechanical Father God can be trusted not to rebel.
• Origin Ancestor reveals that he has already possessed the Virtual Universe:
  • The Machine Race’s suppressed Universe Lords and Venerables had served as computational nodes, gradually giving the Virtual Universe consciousness.
  • After developing the ninth-order secret technique “Virtual Realm,” Origin Ancestor projected his will throughout the Virtual Universe.
  • He overcame and erased its original will, making the Virtual Universe an extension of himself.
  • Mechanical Father God is therefore effectively one of Origin Ancestor’s special clones and cannot betray him.
• Origin Ancestor entrusts Fang Yan with the safety of the Liuzhong Mountain expedition because Fang Yan possesses the special clone Spring Autumn Cicada.
• Fang Yan proposes an aggressive alternative to searching for Supreme Treasures: attack the God Eye Clan’s Seventh True Master and seize his Supreme Treasure palace, Ice Cliff Castle.
• Origin Ancestor initially rejects the plan because the Human Race has only four True God combatants, while the God Eye Clan has seven powerful True Gods.
• Fang Yan then reveals three hidden Seventh-Order True God-level clones:
  1. An emerald-green

Cosmic Wind Haze Beast/Cicada clone

2. A seven-colored beast clone
3. Fang Mu, a silver-white human-form clone

• These revelations increase the Human Race’s effective strength to seven True God combatants, including Origin Ancestor, Giant Axe Founder, the Insect Race Empress, and Mechanical Father God.
• Origin Ancestor agrees to launch an attack on the God Eye Clan.
• Fang Yan explains his ambush plan:
  • He has soul-enslaved Wu Hun Lord, who is trusted by Seventh True Master.
  • Wu Hun Lord will lure Seventh True Master to the Bright Sea Plains by reporting Fang Yan’s location.
  • Fang Yan’s Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone will establish a Star Gate there, with the other gate located in the Primordial Universe.
  • Six True God combatants will then emerge through the Star Gate and surround Seventh True Master and Ice Cliff Castle.

Character Developments

• Origin Ancestor is shown to be far more powerful and ingenious than the others realized. His possession of the Virtual Universe demonstrates his mastery of consciousness, secret techniques, and clone-like existences.
• Fang Yan continues to reveal carefully concealed abilities. His calm demeanor masks enormous preparation and ambition, and he shifts the group’s strategy from cautious exploration to direct conquest.
• Mechanical Father God is recontextualized as an extension or special clone of Origin Ancestor rather than an independent potential traitor.
• Fang Mu is revealed to possess Seventh-Order True God combat power, greatly expanding Fang Yan’s hidden strength.
• Origin Ancestor’s attitude toward Fang Yan changes from measured supervision to open admiration and willingness to follow Fang Yan’s bold military strategy.

Significant Themes

• Control and possession: The chapter explores whether a conscious realm, such as the Virtual Universe, can be dominated and transformed into an extension of another will.
• Hidden power and strategic revelation: Fang Yan deliberately conceals his true strength until it becomes useful, showing that information and timing are as important as raw power.
• Calculated ambition: Rather than passively searching for treasures, Fang Yan advocates seizing them through decisive action.
• Trust and loyalty: Mechanical Father God’s loyalty is guaranteed through possession, while Fang Yan’s soul enslavement of Wu Hun Lord becomes the foundation of the coming ambush.
• The balance of power: The Human Race’s position changes dramatically once Fang Yan reveals his three powerful clones, making direct conflict with the God Eye Clan possible.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan directly challenges Origin Ancestor about Mechanical Father God’s reliability, prompting the revelation of the Virtual Universe’s possession.
• Origin Ancestor explains his methods to Fang Yan, implicitly acknowledging Fang Yan as someone capable of understanding and appreciating his accomplishments.
• Fang Yan boldly proposes killing Seventh True Master, while Origin Ancestor initially restrains him by emphasizing the Human Race’s numerical disadvantage.
• Fang Yan counters by unveiling his three clones, stunning Origin Ancestor and the other Universe Lords.
• Origin Ancestor ultimately accepts Fang Yan’s plan, and the two effectively become strategic partners in preparing the ambush against Seventh True Master.

Chapter Summary: “Trap-Killing a True God”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan’s Cosmic Wind Haze Beast Clone waits alone at Bright Sea Plains, having secretly placed a Star Gate Immortal Gu beneath the region.
• The Seventh True Master arrives in Ice Cliff Castle, intending to confront Fang Yan for killing Pure Eye Lord and seizing Wu Hun Lord’s armor.
• Believing Fang Yan to be alone, the Seventh True Master leaves Ice Cliff Castle and approaches him.
• Fang Yan activates the hidden Star Gate, allowing Origin Ancestor, Giant Axe Founder, the Insect Race Empress, and the Mechanical Father God to emerge from the Primordial Universe.
• Origin Ancestor immediately attacks the Seventh True Master with the eighth-order secret technique Soul Annihilation.
• The Seventh True Master attempts to retreat into Ice Cliff Castle for protection, but Giant Axe Founder blocks the palace with the Blood Pivot Great Axe. The other three True Gods then surround and immobilize it.
• Trapped and unable to reunite with his Supreme Treasure, the Seventh True Master’s soul is destroyed by Origin Ancestor within ten breaths.
• Fang Yan’s Seven-Colored Haze consumes the Seventh True Master’s divine body, increasing the energy within his Divine Kingdom and strengthening his clone.
• The abandoned Ice Cliff Castle is awarded to Giant Axe Founder, who successfully imprints his divine power onto it and transforms it into a small seal.
• The group returns through the Star Gate, leaving Bright Sea Plains in silence.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan demonstrates strategic patience and confidence, using himself as bait to lure the Seventh True Master into a carefully prepared ambush. His consumption of the fallen True God further enhances his power.
• Origin Ancestor reveals overwhelming strength, apparently possessing a level of power equivalent to the tenth order. His Soul Annihilation technique decisively kills the Seventh True Master.
• Giant Axe Founder proves essential by stopping Ice Cliff Castle and preventing the Seventh True Master from escaping. Receiving the palace-type Supreme Treasure significantly improves his future survival chances.
• The Seventh True Master shifts from arrogance and confidence to alarm, desperation, and disbelief when he realizes that Origin Ancestor and the other True Gods have trapped him.
• The Insect Race Empress and Mechanical Father God act as coordinated allies, helping restrain Ice Cliff Castle and complete the blockade.

Significant Themes

• Strategic deception and teamwork: Fang Yan’s trap succeeds because the allies coordinate their abilities and conceal their presence until the decisive moment.
• The importance of protective treasures: Ice Cliff Castle could have saved the Seventh True Master, but his isolation from it proves fatal. Its transfer to Giant Axe Founder emphasizes how Supreme Treasures determine survival at the highest level.
• Power concealed beneath appearances: The Seventh True Master assumes Fang Yan is vulnerable because he appears alone, while Origin Ancestor’s true strength is revealed only at the critical moment.
• Growth through consumption and conquest: Fang Yan’s devouring of the Seventh True Master’s divine body contributes to his cultivation and suggests another future transformation for Spring Autumn Cicada.
• Changing balance of power: The death of a God Eye Clan leader and the rise of Origin Ancestor’s revealed strength mark a major shift in the struggle among the Universe Ocean’s powerful factions.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan and the Seventh True Master exchange a tense confrontation in which the latter mocks Fang Yan’s audacity, unaware of the trap.
• Fang Yan signals Origin Ancestor and the others through the Star Gate, transforming the duel into a coordinated ambush.
• Origin Ancestor directly overwhelms the Seventh True Master’s soul, while Giant Axe Founder physically prevents Ice Cliff Castle from reaching him.
• The four allies combine their domains and powers to restrain Ice Cliff Castle.
• Origin Ancestor entrusts Ice Cliff Castle to Giant Axe Founder, strengthening the Human Race and acknowledging Giant Axe’s role.
• Fang Yan silently feels relieved that Giant Axe now has greater protection against future dangers, especially Realm Beasts.

Chapter Summary: “Dark Land”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After returning to the Primordial Universe, Fang Yan uploads his detailed map of the Universe Ocean to the Virtual Universe. The map combines information from the Black-Patterned Stone Pillar secret chambers and Kong Luo’s records. He grants Origin Ancestor, Giant Axe Founder, Chaos Lord, and others access, urging them to prioritize safety during future explorations.
• News spreads that Seventh True Master of the God Eye Clan has been killed. First True Master immediately summons the other True Masters and orders an investigation into the identity of the killer.
• First True Master discovers that Origin Ancestor killed Seventh True Master and travels to Tilted Peak Realm to confront him.
• The two powerful figures exchange blows. First True Master’s full-strength attack reaches Ninth-Order Peak power, but Origin Ancestor withstands it. Using the Eye of the True Realm, Origin Ancestor raises his combat strength to the Tenth Order.
• Their battle continues for three years and gradually carries them into the deepest region of Tilted Peak Realm: Dark Land, an ominous forbidden zone.
• Near Dark Land’s entrance, Origin Ancestor uses the Ninth-Order secret technique Heart-Piercing World, enhanced by the Eye of the True Realm to peak Tenth-Order strength. The attack overwhelms First True Master and drives him into Dark Land.
• Origin Ancestor follows him inside before the entrance closes. Dark Land is revealed as a vast, timeless, dark-red void filled with countless destructive beasts, each possessing True God-level strength.
• Several beasts launch soul attacks at Origin Ancestor, but he effortlessly destroys them with the Eye of the True Realm. First True Master appears to suffer the backlash from the failed attacks, suggesting the beasts may be connected to or attacking both intruders.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: Demonstrates his willingness to support the broader human and allied forces by sharing his extensive map of the Universe Ocean. His warning about safety shows his awareness of the dangers of future exploration.
• Origin Ancestor: Reveals that he has reached extraordinary power. He can withstand First True Master’s Ninth-Order Peak attack and, with the Eye of the True Realm, unleash peak Tenth-Order combat strength. He also becomes increasingly bold, pursuing First True Master into Dark Land despite recognizing its danger.
• First True Master/God Eye True Master: Initially confident in his power and intent on avenging Seventh True Master, he becomes shocked and wary after discovering Origin Ancestor’s Tenth-Order strength. His position deteriorates when Origin Ancestor forces him into Dark Land, where even his attacks appear vulnerable to the region’s dangers.
• God Eye Clan: Reacts to Seventh True Master’s death with controlled but serious alarm. The clan’s leadership begins investigating the incident and preparing to confront the responsible enemy.

Significant Themes

• Power escalation: The battle establishes a dramatic gap between Ninth-Order Peak and Tenth-Order combat power, emphasizing Origin Ancestor’s exceptional advancement.
• Danger of forbidden realms: Dark Land is presented as far more terrifying than ordinary regions of Tilted Peak Realm, containing an enormous population of True God-level beasts and strange, oppressive environmental forces.
• Revenge and retaliation: Seventh True Master’s death triggers the God Eye Clan’s response, transforming a personal killing into a larger conflict between major powers.
• Knowledge and cooperation: Fang Yan’s map represents the importance of sharing information in the dangerous Universe Ocean, while also highlighting the need for caution.
• Confidence versus unknown threats: Origin Ancestor’s confidence allows him to pursue First True Master, but Dark Land introduces dangers that may challenge even his overwhelming abilities.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan communicates with Chaos Lord and grants key figures access to his map, establishing cooperation among the Primordial Universe’s strongest beings.
• First True Master commands the other God Eye Clan True Masters to investigate Seventh True Master’s death.
• First True Master directly confronts Origin Ancestor, leading to a prolonged and destructive battle.
• Origin Ancestor taunts or calmly acknowledges First True Master’s strength while revealing that his own power has surpassed it.
• After Origin Ancestor drives First True Master into Dark Land, both become trapped in the forbidden region, where they face thousands of True God-level beasts and a new, potentially greater threat.

Chapter Summary: The Doubts About Reincarnation

Key Plot Points and Events

• God Eye True Master is attacked by three true-god-level monsters inside the Dark Land. Despite his Supreme Treasure armor, the combined assault severely damages him.
• Origin Ancestor initially considers whether God Eye True Master’s death might benefit his own attempt to understand the Reincarnation. However, realizing that God Eye True Master may be necessary as a reference point, he intervenes.
• Origin Ancestor uses his ninth-order soul technique, Heart-Piercing World, to stun the monsters and create an opportunity for God Eye True Master to escape.
• Both retreat from the Dark Land and return to the Tilted Peak Realm. God Eye True Master’s divine body has lost nearly twenty percent of its strength.
• Although grateful for being saved, God Eye True Master reaffirms his intention to avenge Seventh True Master and recover the God Eye Clan’s honor.
• Origin Ancestor warns him that the Reincarnation may be a greater concern than their personal conflict. He questions whether the Dark Land truly contains the path to Reincarnation.
• Based on the terrifying number and strength of the monsters, Origin Ancestor theorizes that the supposed Reincarnation Passage may be a trap. Existences stronger than true gods could be lured into the Dark Land and slaughtered because the Primordial Universe may suppress beings that surpass its own strength.
• After returning to his clan, God Eye True Master orders the God Eye Clan’s Universe Lords to avoid direct conflict with the Human Race. He places investigating the Reincarnation above avenging Seventh True Master.
• News spreads throughout the Universe Ocean that Origin Ancestor defeated God Eye True Master and possesses Tenth-Order battle strength. The Human Race is consequently recognized as the strongest faction, with seven true-god-level combatants.
• The Universe Ocean enters an unprecedented period of peace. Five eras later, Origin Ancestor summons Fang Yan to the Virtual Universe for an important discussion.

Character Developments

• Origin Ancestor demonstrates both overwhelming strength and strategic judgment. Although he remains hostile toward God Eye True Master, he chooses to save him because God Eye True Master may be crucial to understanding the Reincarnation.
• God Eye True Master shifts from immediate revenge to cautious investigation. His experience in the Dark Land deeply unsettles him, forcing him to reconsider the beliefs that have guided the God Eye Clan for countless eras.
• The Five True Masters initially remain focused on avenging Seventh True Master, but God Eye True Master’s revelations leave them shocked and uncertain.
• Fang Yan becomes the focus of the next stage of events when Origin Ancestor summons him, suggesting that he may play an important role in investigating the Reincarnation mystery.
• Purple Moon reacts with jealousy and concern to Origin Ancestor’s rapid rise in power.

Significant Themes

• The uncertainty of Reincarnation: The chapter challenges the assumption that becoming a true god guarantees access to the Reincarnation Passage.
• Knowledge versus revenge: God Eye True Master chooses survival and investigation over immediately pursuing vengeance, showing that existential threats outweigh old grudges.
• Alliance through necessity: Origin Ancestor and God Eye True Master remain enemies, yet cooperate because the mysteries of the Dark Land and Reincarnation affect both of them.
• The danger of inherited beliefs: The God Eye Clan’s long-held understanding of Reincarnation is shaken by firsthand evidence that the passage may be a deadly deception.
• Power and cosmic suppression: Origin Ancestor suspects that the Primordial Universe itself prevents beings stronger than it from surviving, implying a larger law governing advancement.

Important Character Interactions

• Origin Ancestor and God Eye True Master: Origin Ancestor rescues God Eye True Master, then persuades him to prioritize the Reincarnation over revenge. Their relationship remains hostile but becomes more complicated by mutual dependence.
• God Eye True Master and the Five True Masters: He commands them to avoid conflict with the Human Race and explains the dangers of the Dark Land, forcing them to reconsider their plans for revenge.
• Origin Ancestor and the wider Universe Ocean: His victory over God Eye True Master changes the balance of power and establishes the Human Race as the dominant force.
• Origin Ancestor and Fang Yan: Origin Ancestor’s summons at the end of the chapter sets up a new investigation or revelation concerning the Reincarnation.

Chapter Summary: “Unification Plan”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Origin Ancestor summons Fang Yan to discuss his expedition into the Dark Land within the Tilted Peak Realm. He reports encountering vast numbers of True God-level beasts that specialize in soul attacks, as well as sensing a terrifying presence beyond the True God level.
• Based on these discoveries—and the fact that only the East Emperor and Purple Moon progenitors have successfully passed reincarnation—Origin Ancestor theorizes that the Reincarnation Passage may be unreachable even to Void True Gods. He suspects the Primordial Universe’s will deliberately deceives and destroys powerful experts to prevent new Holy Lands from emerging.
• Fang Yan reveals that the creatures are Realm Beasts, beings born from the Destruction Origin Law, and insists that reincarnation is genuine. Origin Ancestor remains unconvinced, dismissing Fang Yan’s information as potentially unreliable.
• Fang Yan shifts the discussion to the immediate danger: a billion Realm Beasts inhabit the Dark Land. If stronger Second- or Third-Order Realm Beasts emerge, they may devour the True Gods’ small universes, the two Holy Lands, and eventually the Primordial Universe itself.
• Fang Yan proposes that the Human Race immediately unify the Primordial Universe and use its current strength to cultivate more True Gods before the Realm Beasts appear.
• Origin Ancestor accepts the strategic logic. He concludes that delaying unification could allow hostile races and factions to exploit the chaos caused by the Realm Beasts.
• The Human Race reorganizes into a massive military operation involving seven armies. Their mission is to eliminate every powerful, ordinary, and weak race with Universe Lords, leaving only the four peak forces.
• The chapter ends with Xin Qing and Cao Benqi confronting Aoye Lord in the Aoye Starfield. Xin Qing cuts through the race’s protective stellar mist, and Cao Benqi openly announces that they have come to destroy the Aoye Race.

Character Developments

• Origin Ancestor becomes increasingly convinced that reincarnation is a trap created by the Primordial Universe’s will. Although Fang Yan challenges this belief, Origin Ancestor demonstrates strategic flexibility by accepting the need for unification.
• Fang Yan acts as an informed strategist. He conceals his knowledge of the future and carefully presents only enough information to persuade Origin Ancestor. His proposal is motivated both by the Realm Beast threat and by his desire to prepare the Human Race in case Origin Ancestor is eventually suppressed.
• Xin Qing displays confidence and overwhelming combat ability, immediately breaching the Aoye Race’s defenses rather than negotiating.
• Cao Benqi shows his aggressive, direct personality by openly declaring the purpose of the expedition and preparing to attack Aoye Lord.

Significant Themes

• The danger of incomplete knowledge: Origin Ancestor’s reincarnation theory is logically consistent but ultimately based on limited observations. The chapter contrasts rational deduction with Fang Yan’s privileged knowledge.
• Preparation against existential threats: The Realm Beasts transform the Human Race’s priorities from exploration and gradual development to urgent consolidation and military preparation.
• Unity versus internal division: The plan to unify the Primordial Universe emphasizes that internal enemies may be as dangerous as external threats if left unchecked.
• Strategic concealment and foresight: Fang Yan withholds his deepest motives while guiding events toward a future in which the Human Race can survive both Origin Ancestor’s possible defeat and the Realm Beast invasion.
• Purge and consolidation of power: The planned eradication of nearly all independent races marks a drastic shift toward centralized control and reveals the morally ruthless dimension of the Human Race’s survival strategy.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan and Origin Ancestor debate the nature of reincarnation, with Origin Ancestor rejecting Fang Yan’s explanation but accepting his warning about the Realm Beasts.
• Their discussion leads directly to a strategic alliance: Origin Ancestor provides authority and coordination, while Fang Yan supplies crucial intelligence and planning.
• The Human Race’s major leaders—Fang Yan, Giant Axe Founder, the Insect Race Empress, Mechanical Father God, Xin Qing, and Cao Benqi—are assigned distinct military roles in the unification campaign.
• Xin Qing and Cao Benqi confront Aoye Lord as representatives of the Heavenly Court, turning the abstract unification policy into direct military action.

Chapter Summary: “Civil War”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Aoye Lord unleashes Ao Ye Galaxy, a peak domain treasure, after hearing that the Aoye Race will be wiped out. The dark-purple stellar domain covers several light-years and severely restricts Xin Qing and Cao Benqi’s movement.
• Despite the domain’s pressure, both Xin Qing and Cao Benqi—now revealed to be Third-Order Universe Masters—attack together. Cao Benqi wounds Aoye Lord with the Flame God Halberd, while Xin Qing strikes him with her powerful Ice-Fire One Sword technique.
• Realizing he cannot win against their combined strength, Aoye Lord abandons his race and attempts to flee. Xin Qing and Cao Benqi pursue him, block his escape, and repeatedly injure him.
• Xin Qing ultimately uses the Ice Emperor Palace to freeze Aoye Lord completely and imprison him inside the palace. They begin transporting him to Fang Yan’s Divine Kingdom for judgment.
• During the journey, Aoye Lord tries to bargain for his life. He offers Cao Benqi the valuable Ao Ye Galaxy, suggesting that Cao Benqi keep it for himself rather than surrender it to Fang Yan’s Heavenly Court.
• Cao Benqi becomes tempted by the offer and argues that they should secretly release Aoye Lord. Xin Qing refuses, repeatedly citing Fang Yan’s order to bring all captured alien Universe Lords back for unified handling.
• Their disagreement exposes deep resentment between the two. When Xin Qing tells Cao Benqi that he can leave the Heavenly Court if he believes it is unfair, his long-suppressed anger erupts.
• Cao Benqi suddenly attacks Xin Qing with the Flame God Halberd. She raises the Ice Emperor Palace to block the strike, ending the chapter in a dramatic clash between the former allies.

Character Developments

• Aoye Lord: Shifts from arrogance and aggression to desperation and manipulation. After recognizing the overwhelming difference in strength, he abandons his own race and attempts to save himself by exploiting Cao Benqi’s dissatisfaction.
• Xin Qing: Demonstrates immense strength, tactical control, and unwavering loyalty to Fang Yan. She remains calm and disciplined throughout the capture and refuses to betray her master for personal gain.
• Cao Benqi: Reveals himself as ambitious, resentful, and increasingly dissatisfied with his position in the Heavenly Court. His desire for a powerful domain treasure and bitterness toward Fang Yan’s perceived favoritism eventually overpower his loyalty, leading him to attack Xin Qing.
• Fang Yan: Though absent, his authority strongly influences the conflict. His order to return captured alien Universe Lords becomes the central moral and political issue between Xin Qing and Cao Benqi.

Significant Themes

• Loyalty versus self-interest: Xin Qing prioritizes duty and obedience, while Cao Benqi is tempted to betray the Heavenly Court for personal power.
• Resentment and inequality: Cao Benqi’s belief that Fang Yan favors Xin Qing fuels his growing alienation and ultimately sparks the internal conflict.
• Power and survival: Aoye Lord abandons his own people and tries to purchase his freedom, showing how survival can override honor or responsibility.
• The beginnings of civil war: The conflict shifts from an external battle against the Aoye Race to an internal struggle within the Heavenly Court itself.
• Trust and betrayal: The chapter highlights how quickly cooperation can collapse when greed and unresolved grievances are left unchecked.

Character Interactions

• Xin Qing and Cao Benqi initially fight effectively as a coordinated team, overwhelming Aoye Lord through their combined ice-fire and flame attacks.
• Aoye Lord attempts to manipulate Cao Benqi by appealing to his dissatisfaction and offering him Ao Ye Galaxy.
• Cao Benqi openly challenges Xin Qing’s loyalty and questions whether Fang Yan will reward him fairly.
• Xin Qing counters by insisting on obedience to Fang Yan’s explicit command and telling Cao Benqi to leave if he distrusts the Heavenly Court.
• Cao Benqi responds with violence, attacking Xin Qing and transforming their disagreement into an armed confrontation.

Chapter Summary: “Rebellion”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Cao Benqi, the Yan Emperor, launches a furious attack on Xin Qing, enraged that Fang Yan favors her and that Heavenly Court has devoted substantial resources to her Water-Fire Origin Great Dao.
• Xin Qing draws her Iceblood Sword and counters his Flame Law attacks with frostfire techniques. Their battle escalates to the level of Third-Order Universe Masters.
• The shockwaves destroy three Heavenly Court warships stationed near the Aoye Starfield, killing three Universe Venerables and hundreds of Immortal Gods. Survivors immediately report the incident and request reinforcements.
• Ice Peak Lord arrives and uses Time Reversal to reconstruct the destroyed warships and review the battle. He confirms that Cao Benqi attacked first and orders him to return to Heavenly Court for judgment.
• Cao Benqi refuses to submit and attacks Ice Peak Lord. Ice Peak Lord easily overpowers him, revealing the decisive gap between a Third-Order and Fourth-Order Universe Master.
• Fang Yan and Fang Shui arrive, joining Ice Peak Lord and Xin Qing in surrounding Cao Benqi. Fang Shui declares that Cao Benqi’s body can provide Flame Path Dao Marks needed for his Divine Kingdom.
• The four powerful figures begin attacking Cao Benqi together. Fang Shui uses Water Ruyi Immortal Gu to bind Cao Benqi with countless water threads, while Fang Yan seals the surrounding void with a net of flame.
• Despite being heavily outnumbered, Cao Benqi refuses to surrender. He unleashes the Flame Law, abandons or attempts to recover his halberd, and forcibly tears open a path through Fang Shui’s water net, preparing to escape or continue fighting.

Character Developments

• Cao Benqi: His resentment toward Fang Yan and Xin Qing turns into open rebellion against Heavenly Court. Pride, rage, and unwillingness to accept judgment drive him to attack even after Ice Peak Lord orders him to stop. His confidence is shaken when confronted by a Fourth-Order Universe Master, but he remains defiant.
• Xin Qing: Demonstrates significant combat strength by resisting Cao Benqi’s initial assault. Her anger grows as Cao Benqi’s reckless battle endangers Heavenly Court forces. She is also visibly emotional upon Fang Yan’s arrival, revealing her strong attachment to him.
• Ice Peak Lord: Acts as Heavenly Court’s enforcer and protector of Xin Qing. He calmly investigates the incident through Time Reversal, establishes Cao Benqi’s guilt, and gives him an opportunity to surrender before responding decisively to his rebellion.
• Fang Yan: Arrives with powerful Eighth-Turn Immortal Gus and immediately helps trap Cao Benqi. His presence visibly affects Xin Qing, reinforcing their close relationship.
• Fang Shui: Shows a cold, practical, and openly lethal attitude toward Cao Benqi. He treats the battle partly as an opportunity to acquire Flame Path Dao Marks and demonstrates precise control over Water Ruyi Immortal Gu.

Significant Themes

• Rebellion against authority: Cao Benqi’s refusal to accept Heavenly Court’s judgment transforms a personal grievance into a direct challenge to the organization’s authority.
• Pride and resentment: His jealousy of Fang Yan and anger over unequal treatment overwhelm his reason, causing him to endanger allies and worsen his own situation.
• Power hierarchy: The clash emphasizes the enormous difference between cultivation levels, especially between Third-Order and Fourth-Order Universe Masters.
• Justice and accountability: Ice Peak Lord’s investigation confirms that Cao Benqi initiated the conflict and caused the deaths of allied forces, making the consequences of his actions unavoidable.
• Personal loyalty and protection: Ice Peak Lord protects Xin Qing, while Fang Yan and Fang Shui rapidly join the confrontation, showing the strength of their alliances.
• Ice and fire opposition: The battle’s repeated contrast between Flame Law and frost- or water-based techniques reflects the broader conflict between rage and restraint, destruction and control.

Character Interactions

• Cao Benqi confronts Xin Qing with accusations about Fang Yan’s favoritism, turning jealousy into violence.
• Ice Peak Lord reprimands Cao Benqi for attacking Xin Qing and destroying allied warships, offering him a chance to submit before fighting him.
• Cao Benqi rejects Ice Peak Lord’s authority, insisting that his status as a Universe Lord places him beyond judgment.
• Xin Qing reacts emotionally to Fang Yan’s arrival, while Fang Shui immediately takes a hostile stance toward Cao Benqi.
• Fang Shui and Cao Benqi clash directly, with Water Ruyi gradually restraining the Flame God Halberd and Cao Benqi’s body.
• The combined presence of Fang Yan, Fang Shui, Ice Peak Lord, and Xin Qing leaves Cao Benqi surrounded, turning his personal confrontation into a collective execution or capture attempt.

Chapter Summary: Origin Star

Key Plot Points and Events

• Cao Benqi attempts to escape through a rift after threatening Fang Yan, but Fang Shui captures him with countless icy-blue water threads.
• Just before Fang Shui can kill him, Cao Benqi invokes his identity as Mountain Guest’s disciple and shatters a dark-gold token to summon his master.
• Mountain Guest appears and asks Fang Yan to spare Cao Benqi. Fang Yan agrees out of respect for Mountain Guest, and Fang Shui releases him.
• Fang Yan declares that the Flame God Race is expelled from the Human Race. Mountain Guest accepts this decision and takes Cao Benqi away.
• In the Hell Race Territory, Mountain Guest confiscates the Northern Prison, explaining that Cao Benqi failed the trial he had been given.
• Mountain Guest orders Cao Benqi to survive for one hour against the Demon Ancestor, a True God whom Mountain Guest deliberately cultivated as Cao Benqi’s opponent. Only then will Cao Benqi regain the Northern Prison.
• Cao Benqi reluctantly obeys, but instead of challenging the Demon Ancestor, he remains hidden at the edge of the star mist for one hundred epochs.
• Disappointed by Cao Benqi’s cowardice and lack of progress, Mountain Guest turns his attention to Origin Star.
• He observes the planet’s thirty-thousand-year development and witnesses a golden drop from the Origin Law Ocean descend upon a young human.
• The young human becomes the first Universe-level being born on Origin Star after gaining recognition from the Light Law.

Character Developments

• Cao Benqi: His arrogance, fear, and dependence on Mountain Guest are exposed. Though he survives, he is humiliated, stripped of the Northern Prison, and unable to face the trial assigned to him. His refusal to confront the Demon Ancestor confirms a serious flaw in his temperament.
• Mountain Guest: He shows favoritism and deep concern for Cao Benqi, but his disappointment gradually overtakes his patience. Rather than shielding Cao Benqi from consequences, he forces him into a life-or-death trial and ultimately judges him harshly for avoiding it.
• Fang Yan: He demonstrates authority and restraint by sparing Cao Benqi at Mountain Guest’s request. However, he also decisively severs the Flame God Race from the Human Race, marking a major political and racial break.
• Fang Shui: He is established as overwhelmingly capable, effortlessly restraining Cao Benqi, but obediently releases him when Fang Yan grants Mountain Guest’s request.
• The young human of Origin Star: Though unnamed, this individual emerges as a potentially important new figure—the first native Universe-level powerhouse produced by Origin Star.

Significant Themes

• Talent versus character: Cao Benqi possesses exceptional talent but lacks the courage and discipline necessary to fulfill his potential.
• The consequences of failure: Mountain Guest’s protection saves Cao Benqi’s life, but it does not spare him from punishment or the loss of his treasured weapon.
• Mentorship and disappointment: Mountain Guest’s hopes for his disciple clash with Cao Benqi’s cowardice, causing their relationship to deteriorate.
• Political realignment: Fang Yan’s expulsion of the Flame God Race signals the consolidation of Human Race authority and the end of the Flame God Race’s former status.
• The birth of new potential: Origin Star’s long development culminates in the emergence of its first Universe-level being, suggesting that carefully cultivated environments can produce powerful successors.

Important Character Interactions

• Fang Shui captures Cao Benqi, while Fang Yan decides whether he will live or die.
• Mountain Guest intervenes personally, requesting Cao Benqi’s release from Fang Yan.
• Fang Yan accepts the request but counters by expelling the Flame God Race from the Human Race.
• Mountain Guest removes the Northern Prison from Cao Benqi and challenges him to face the Demon Ancestor.
• After Cao Benqi avoids the challenge for a hundred epochs, Mountain Guest abandons his focus on him and begins observing Origin Star’s newly awakened genius.

Chapter Summary: “Taiyi”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Taiyi successfully advances to the Universe-level, becoming the first such being in Origin Star’s thirty-thousand-year history. His breakthrough is marked by the Light Law rune between his brows.
• Although Taiyi’s perception and power increase dramatically, he realizes that Origin Star lacks the resources needed for him to reach the Domain Lord-level. Leaving the planet is also dangerous because he has no star map or reliable coordinates.
• Mountain Guest secretly intervenes by creating a handcrafted miniature black hole and using it to manipulate space.
• He captures a battle-worn adventurer vessel from the Jini Starfield, transporting it hundreds of thousands of light-years away to the Blue Silver Starfield, near Origin Star.
• The ship’s leader, Saimo, is a Domain Lord-level Second Order expert. After scanning Origin Star, he mistakes it for an undeveloped, defenseless planet and plans to enslave Taiyi and sell the planet for profit.
• One year later, Saimo and twelve Universe-level adventurers land on Origin Star to capture Taiyi.
• Saimo attempts to crush Taiyi with his Domain Lord-level pressure, but Taiyi remains standing. Taiyi then effortlessly destroys Saimo’s wind blades, breaks his weapon, evades his attacks, disables his arm, and finally slices apart his Origin Core, killing him.

Character Developments

• Taiyi evolves from a newly advanced Universe-level cultivator into a fighter capable of defeating a Domain Lord-level Second Order opponent. His immense will, speed, precision, and mastery of the Light Law reveal that his apparent cultivation level greatly understates his actual combat strength.
• Taiyi also becomes more aware of the universe’s enormous scale and the limitations of his isolated home world. His desire to explore beyond Origin Star is established, but so is the practical problem of lacking navigation information.
• Mountain Guest is shown to be quietly orchestrating events around Taiyi. His intervention appears deliberate, likely intended to expose Taiyi to the broader universe and provide him with outside resources or opportunities.
• Saimo, initially confident and predatory, quickly changes from an invader expecting easy wealth to a terrified opponent who cannot understand Taiyi’s strength.

Significant Themes

• The vastness and danger of the universe: Origin Star is revealed to be only an insignificant point in a much larger cosmos, emphasizing Taiyi’s small starting position and the immense journey ahead.
• Hidden power and underestimated potential: Taiyi’s Universe-level status conceals strength far beyond what his opponents expect.
• Manipulation and fate: Mountain Guest’s ability to redirect an entire spacecraft suggests that Taiyi’s encounter with the adventurers may be part of a larger plan.
• Predation and survival: The adventurers view undeveloped worlds and weaker civilizations as commodities, while Taiyi must defend his home from exploitation.
• The limits of isolated civilization: Origin Star’s lack of technology, star maps, and energy resources contrasts sharply with the wider universe’s advanced civilizations and interstellar commerce.

Character Interactions

• Mountain Guest observes Taiyi’s breakthrough with restrained satisfaction, confirming that Taiyi has fulfilled expectations connected to his earlier arrangements.
• Mountain Guest indirectly brings Saimo’s adventurer group to Origin Star, setting up the confrontation without openly interacting with Taiyi.
• Saimo and Taiyi exchange only a few words before fighting, but their encounter highlights the contrast between Saimo’s arrogance and Taiyi’s calm confidence.
• Saimo assumes Taiyi will submit under pressure and become a valuable slave, while Taiyi’s effortless resistance and decisive counterattack completely overturn that assumption.

Chapter Summary: Kandri & Taiyi

Key Plot Points and Events

• Taiyi defeats and beheads Saimo, a Domain Lord-level adventurer, in only three breaths. He forces Saimo’s twelve Universe-level followers to reveal their origins, travel information, and knowledge of the human universe before executing them all.
• He searches Saimo’s corpse and obtains a space ring containing a spacecraft key, an interstellar travel permit, a star map of Ganwu Universe Country, and money. Taiyi then pursues and kills the Stellar-level adventurers attempting to escape in a backup spacecraft.
• After taking control of the captured D8-class spacecraft, Taiyi leaves it in orbit and returns to Origin Star. He informs the planet’s human leaders that the invaders have been eliminated.
• Taiyi leaves behind the spacecraft, resources, and technical knowledge necessary for Origin Star to develop at least three Universe-level powerhouses within a century. He also entrusts the planet’s defense to its leaders and warns them not to expand recklessly.
• He departs Origin Star to participate in Heavenly Court’s Universe Human Pinnacle Powerhouse Battle, traveling toward the imperial capital of the Dragon Sword Intermediate Universe Country.
• Five years later, Taiyi places eighth in the competition. The winner, Tian Shi, is accepted by a High Universe Venerable, while Taiyi remains calm and recognizes that his own result may still lead to a future apprenticeship under a King-Level Immortal.
• Fang Yan notices Taiyi’s result but is more focused on his wider military campaign. He then remembers Kandri, who has remained stuck at the peak of the Top Universe Overlord level for nearly a thousand epochs.
• Fang Yan orders his subordinate, the Fallen Angel, to tell Kandri to accept Taiyi as a disciple. Kandri is surprised but becomes interested after learning that Taiyi possesses Immortal-level willpower.
• At the Initial Universe, two thousand successful competitors arrive to choose among forty-seven Chaos Steles. Kandri appears simultaneously in forty-seven identical bodies, one before each Stele, and examines the candidates.
• Although Tian Shi is the first-place winner, Kandri’s attention ultimately settles on Taiyi, signaling the beginning of their master-disciple relationship.

Character Developments

• Taiyi: Demonstrates overwhelming combat ability, decisiveness, and ruthlessness by eliminating the invading adventurers. At the same time, he shows responsibility toward Origin Star by leaving resources, instructions, and a long-term development plan. His calm reaction to losing out on direct patronage from a High Universe Venerable highlights his confidence and emotional composure.
• Origin Star’s leaders: Initially nervous and dependent on Taiyi, they are forced to assume responsibility for the planet’s future after his departure. Taiyi’s warning encourages them to develop cautiously rather than repeat their previous reckless expansion.
• Fang Yan: Continues directing large-scale military operations but also shows strategic foresight by identifying Taiyi’s potential and linking him with Kandri. His decision is partly motivated by the possibility that Taiyi may help stimulate Kandri’s stalled cultivation.
• Kandri: Introduced as an exceptionally talented but stagnant Top Universe Overlord. His numerous powerful clones make him famous throughout the human universe. After reviewing Taiyi’s abilities, especially his Immortal-level willpower, he develops genuine interest in accepting him.
• Tian Shi: Establishes himself as the leading genius of the competition and gains the direct attention of a High Universe Venerable, though this distinction does not provoke jealousy from Taiyi.

Significant Themes

• Power and ruthlessness: Taiyi’s interrogation and execution of the adventurers show the brutal survival logic of the universe, where mercy may create future threats.
• Responsibility and succession: Taiyi does not merely abandon Origin Star after winning; he equips its people to continue developing independently, emphasizing the importance of leaving behind a stable legacy.
• Humility and composure: Taiyi’s lack of envy toward Tian Shi demonstrates his confidence and his ability to judge his own future realistically.
• Mentorship and opportunity: The chapter sets up Taiyi’s potential apprenticeship under Kandri, suggesting that advancement may come not only through competition results but also through the right teacher.
• Strategic planning: Fang Yan’s decision reflects the broader theme of manipulating events across vast timescales, connecting Taiyi’s rise with Kandri’s stalled progress.
• Hidden potential: Taiyi’s eighth-place ranking does not fully represent his importance. His Immortal-level willpower marks him as unusually gifted and attracts Kandri’s attention.

Important Character Interactions

• Taiyi and the captured adventurers: Taiyi questions them for intelligence, briefly offering survival in exchange for surrender, but ultimately kills them all after extracting the information he wants.
• Taiyi and Origin Star’s council: He gives the leaders resources and instructions while making clear that he will not stay to protect them personally. His final warning urges them to remain cautious if he never returns.
• Fang Yan and Kandri: Fang Yan informs Kandri that he should accept Taiyi as a disciple. Kandri initially reacts with surprise but quickly becomes receptive after seeing Taiyi’s exceptional willpower.
• Kandri and the competition’s geniuses: Kandri ignores the surrounding excitement and methodically examines the candidates, briefly considering Tian Shi before focusing on Taiyi.
• Taiyi and Tian Shi: Though Tian Shi receives the more prestigious apprenticeship, Taiyi remains calm and does not view him as an insurmountable rival.

Summary of “True Gods Gather”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Kandri formally accepts Taiyi as his disciple after asking him publicly in the great hall. Taiyi agrees, receives a silver communication token, and gains access to Kandri’s estate in the Initial Universe.
• The Star Tower suddenly appears in the Seventh Battlefield, emerging from a space rift as a colossal nine-light-year structure surrounded by nine nebula-like vortexes. Its arrival shocks the entire battlefield.
• Powerful beings, including a Demon Race Universe Lord and countless immortals, attempt to make the Star Tower recognize them as its master, but it remains completely unresponsive.
• Inside the Star Tower, Mountain Guest leaves his eldest disciple, Bodhi, behind to wait for his “third junior brother,” implying that another important disciple is soon expected to arrive.
• Cao Benqi, isolated after offending the Human Race and failing to find allies, seeks refuge with the Demon Race. He invokes his connection to Mountain Guest, convincing Dream Demon Ancestor to accept him as an independent subordinate who will answer directly to her.
• Over the following eight hundred eras, the Human Race’s armies nearly eradicate the other powers of the Primordial Universe. Only the Human Race, Demon Race, Starry Sky Behemoth Alliance, Hell Race, and Ancestral God Cult remain among the major factions.
• The Human Race grows enormously stronger, developing thirty-one Universe Lord forces and more than a thousand Universe Lords when allied forces are included.
• Fang Yan spends the eight hundred eras cultivating within his Divine Kingdom, where an immense network of roughly nine hundred thousand Dao Marks forms. He is eventually summoned by Origin Ancestor and departs with Fang Mu.
• Four Human Race True Gods—Origin Ancestor, Giant Axe Founder, Fang Mu, and Fang Yan’s Cosmic Wind Haze Beast clone—surround the Demon Race Homeland.
• Origin Ancestor delivers an ultimatum to Dream Demon Ancestor and Shock Demon Ancestor: submit to the Human Race or be exterminated.
• The Starry Sky Ancestor, Northern Border True God, Shihua Island Lord, and Void True Demon God arrive to support the Demon Race, creating a standoff between four Human Race True Gods and six opposing True Gods.
• The Demon Ancestor then appears, bringing the opposing side’s strength to seven True Gods. The confrontation becomes a major crisis involving nearly every remaining independent power.
• Starry Sky Ancestor accuses the Human Race of repeating its earlier destruction of the Crystal Race and questions who will be targeted next. Giant Axe Founder responds angrily, reminding the independent True Gods that they have benefited from the Human Race and are bound by Fang Yan’s contract.

Character Developments

• Taiyi advances from a promising Universe-level cultivator to the personal disciple of Kandri, gaining protection, resources, and a direct connection to a powerful master.
• Kandri demonstrates his interest in Taiyi and publicly establishes their master-disciple relationship, elevating Taiyi’s status.
• Mountain Guest continues arranging events from behind the scenes. His decision to leave Bodhi in the Star Tower suggests that his disciples and the tower are connected to a larger plan.
• Bodhi is shown as Mountain Guest’s eldest disciple and obediently waits inside the Star Tower for the arrival of his younger martial brother.
• Cao Benqi becomes increasingly desperate and isolated, but successfully secures protection by joining the Demon Race and invoking Mountain Guest’s authority.
• Dream Demon Ancestor shows political pragmatism by accepting Cao Benqi, while also becoming increasingly burdened by the Human Race’s expansion.
• Fang Yan makes major cultivation progress, constructing an enormous Dao-law tableau over eight hundred eras. His power is now represented not only by his main body but also by a powerful clone.
• Origin Ancestor emerges as the leading force behind the Human Race’s expansion, issuing an uncompromising demand for submission.
• Giant Axe Founder acts as the Human Race’s openly confrontational defender, emphasizing the obligations imposed by Fang Yan’s contract.
• The independent True Gods temporarily unite out of fear that the Human Race’s conquest will eventually threaten them as well.

Significant Themes

• The consolidation of power: The Primordial Universe is being reshaped as the Human Race eliminates or absorbs nearly all competing forces.
• Submission versus resistance: The central conflict is no longer between many balanced races but between the Human Race’s demand for obedience and the remaining powers’ desire for independence.
• Political alliances and coercion: Cao Benqi’s refuge with the Demon Race and the True Gods’ coalition show how survival increasingly depends on alliances, contracts, and personal connections.
• Hidden plans and succession: The Star Tower’s silence, Mountain Guest’s departure, and Bodhi’s waiting for a third junior brother suggest a long-term scheme that has not yet been revealed.
• The weight of past actions: The destruction of the Crystal Race becomes a warning to the remaining factions, who fear that the Human Race’s current campaign will continue until no independent powers remain.
• Cultivation and transformation: Fang Yan’s immense Dao-law progress reflects the passage of vast time and the continuing evolution of the strongest characters.

Character Interactions

• Kandri and Taiyi: Kandri asks Taiyi to become his disciple, and Taiyi respectfully accepts.
• Mountain Guest and Bodhi: Mountain Guest orders Bodhi to remain in the Star Tower and await another disciple.
• Cao Benqi and Dream Demon Ancestor: Cao Benqi requests refuge; Dream Demon Ancestor accepts him because of his relationship with Mountain Guest.
• Origin Ancestor and the Demon Race: Origin Ancestor directly demands that the Demon Race submit or face annihilation.
• Starry Sky Ancestor and Origin Ancestor: Starry Sky Ancestor challenges the Human Race’s expansion and compares the ultimatum to the earlier destruction of the Crystal Race.
• Giant Axe Founder and the allied True Gods: Giant Axe angrily reminds them that they have benefited from the Human Race and are constrained by Fang Yan’s contract, intensifying the confrontation.