Ch. 481Extra: Primal Chaos City Lord

Plot points and events

  • Sea King Bodong and Primal Chaos City Leader begin a live duel in the Spacetime Arena, each wielding a powerful weapon: Bodong’s trident, which combines metal, time, and space, and Primal Chaos’s ancient staff.
  • Their first collision devastates the arena’s spacetime, astonishing the watching God Kings. The fight quickly escalates into tens of thousands of exchanges, with Bodong’s trident manipulating distance and time while Primal Chaos’s staff exerts overwhelming, world-crushing force.
  • Primal Chaos’s phantom-like movement and staff repeatedly suppress Bodong’s attacks. Bodong evades a decisive strike with an ability that lets his body turn intangible, but finds himself increasingly on the defensive.
  • Bodong burns his divine power, transforms his trident into claws, and launches a more direct assault. Primal Chaos meets his claw with a barehanded strike, demonstrating that he can withstand Bodong’s full-power attack without using a special enhancement technique.
  • After an hour of combat, Primal Chaos wins. Bodong nevertheless earns the spectators’ respect for revealing the extraordinary level of God King combat.

Character developments and interactions

  • Primal Chaos City Leader reveals strength and mastery beyond what even his fellow humans expected. His calm confidence gives way to focused intensity, and he proves capable of countering Bodong’s unusual abilities with his staff, domain, and raw power.
  • Sea King Bodong begins assured but becomes wary as Primal Chaos controls the fight. Rather than concede, he burns his divine power and presses the attack, showing resolve and a desire to demonstrate his own prowess.
  • Lie Gu and the other God Kings, including Humanity’s leading experts, are shocked by Primal Chaos’s performance. Lie Gu in particular reconsiders his estimate of his own strength relative to his teacher’s grandmaster.
  • The duel is respectful and purposeful: both agree to fight without holding back, and Bodong continues even after recognizing that victory is unlikely.

Significant themes

  • Hidden strength and changing judgments: The duel exposes how little the God Kings know about one another’s true abilities.
  • Respect through combat: Though defeated, Bodong earns recognition by pushing the spectacle to a new level.
  • Power and mastery: The fight contrasts Bodong’s exotic manipulation of time and space with Primal Chaos’s overwhelming force, control, and adaptability.
  • Humanity’s formidable position: Primal Chaos’s victory reinforces the strength of Humanity’s God Kings, while Bodong’s showing confirms that their rivals are formidable too.

Ch. 482Infinite Hunyuan Space (New Book: Swallowed Star: Hunyuan)

Key plot points and events

  • After completing his affairs, Luo Feng leaves the Origin Continent and joins Yuan and Jinchuan in Infinite Hunyuan Space.
  • The three share rare, valuable wines and fruit while celebrating Luo Feng’s breakthrough: by using Break Law with Force, he has become a Hunyuan lord and the cultivators’ third lord.
  • Their relaxed meal gives way to a serious discussion. Luo Feng asks about the space’s strange powers and the mysterious region he senses, Eternal Land.
  • Yuan explains that Infinite Hunyuan Space has 10,081 dimensions, faint spatial rules, and vast unexplored regions. Long-distance teleportation is difficult, and even lords risk becoming trapped or dying in unknown areas.
  • The space contains countless Source Worlds, great worlds that gave rise to innate Hunyuan races, and millions of known kinds of Hunyuan lifeforms. Many hostile races devour Source Worlds for food, strength, or reproduction.
  • Eternal Land is a mysterious place where time appears motionless relative to the surrounding space. Its eighteen thrones are reserved for the most powerful beings; Yuan and Jinchuan hold two of the cultivators’ seats, and Luo Feng is expected to receive another.
  • Luo Feng asks whether powers greater than Hunyuan lords exist. Yuan confirms three lord realms and says the strongest beings in their region are likely in the Second Realm, which he himself barely qualifies for.

Character developments and interactions

  • Luo Feng adjusts to the scale and danger of his new realm. His curiosity about the space gives way to caution as he learns that becoming a lord does not make him invincible.
  • Yuan and Jinchuan reveal a warm, familiar friendship through constant teasing and competitive generosity. They bicker over who is stingier, but their affection and trust are clear.
  • Both welcome Luo Feng as a peer and celebrate the cultivator side’s increased strength. Their explanations also serve as guidance for his next stage of exploration.

Significant themes

  • Vastness and uncertainty: Even powerful lords have explored only a tiny portion of a truly infinite space.
  • Power and vulnerability: Great strength does not remove the dangers of the unknown.
  • Rivalry and camaraderie: Yuan and Jinchuan’s playful arguments coexist with genuine friendship and shared experience.
  • Worlds as resources and targets: Source Worlds are both homes and objects of predation, making survival a struggle among powerful beings.

Ch. 483Realms (Hunyuan Space)

Key events and worldbuilding

  • Yuan explains the four grades of Hunyuan power: Semi-Hunyuan, Basic, Peak, and Ultimate. The First Realm generally involves one form of Basic or Peak power; the Second Realm requires at least two forms of Peak power; and the Third Realm is believed to require even a trace of Ultimate Power. Ultimate Power remains Yuan’s theory, and no one in their region has reached the Third Realm.
  • Luo Feng has Basic Hunyuan power from his transformation, plus Peak power through his Eternal Blade Dao, making him exceptionally strong for a First Realm Lord. Yuan is a Second Realm Lord, while Jinchuan and Luo Feng are both near the peak of the First Realm.
  • Hunyuan Space is dominated by powerful Innate Primal Chaos Lifeform clans, especially the inhabitants of the Primordial Beginning Great World and the Primordial Origin Great World. They treat Source Worlds as prey, sometimes farming and devouring them. Special Hunyuan lifeforms form other factions, while the Source World cultivators have only three Lords: Yuan, Jinchuan, and Luo Feng.
  • Yuan reveals that he has long left legacies in Source Worlds to encourage future Lords. Luo Feng is the only one to emerge from those efforts so far; Jinchuan developed independently. Yuan also admits that pressure on the Origin Continent was allowed to push Luo Feng toward breaking through, though Yuan had been prepared to protect it.
  • Luo Feng urges Yuan and Jinchuan to take a more active role in protecting Source Worlds. They agree to consider claiming more worlds and expanding their reach, though the worlds are distant, difficult to defend, and coveted by rival factions. The group plans to begin acting together, while Luo Feng also asks for help preserving his avatars’ combat strength.

Character developments and interactions

  • Luo Feng learns the hierarchy of power and accepts that his Eternal Blade Dao is a major advantage, but not necessarily the end of his growth. His experience of having once been vulnerable strengthens his resolve to defend weaker lives and give them a chance to choose their own fate.
  • Yuan emerges as an experienced but cautious strategist: he has studied Hunyuan Space for ages, cultivated potential allies, and avoided open conflict while his side was weak. Luo Feng’s arrival renews his hope that the cultivators can stand against the dominant clans.
  • Jinchuan acknowledges the imbalance between their side and its rivals, but remains practical about the risks and limits of protecting distant Source Worlds. He is less interested than Yuan in cultivating future Lords.
  • The three Lords move from discussing power and history toward a shared political purpose. Yuan and Jinchuan take Luo Feng’s moral argument seriously, and Luo Feng agrees to follow their lead.

Significant themes

  • Power and its limits: The realm system offers a framework for strength, but the highest level remains uncertain, leaving room for further discovery.
  • Predation and vulnerability: Source Worlds and their inhabitants are caught in a harsh hierarchy where the weak can become resources for the strong.
  • Responsibility and solidarity: Luo Feng argues that powerful Lords should protect developing worlds, not merely observe their fate.
  • Hope through cultivation and cooperation: Yuan’s legacy-building and the alliance among the three Lords suggest that isolated worlds may produce allies capable of changing the balance of power.
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