Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After spending two trillion eras traveling and studying the earth origin, Luo Feng returns to the Universe Ocean with Morosa.
• He reunites at Nine Realms Mountain with Xu Xin, his parents, sons, and close friends. The family welcomes him warmly, and Luo Feng resolves to spend time with them before continuing his journey.
• While speaking with Xu Xin about taking everyone to a new world beyond reincarnation, Luo Feng notices she has forgotten part of their earlier conversation. He suspects something is wrong, tests the supreme rule, and realizes the entire reunion is an illusion.
• Luo Feng breaks the false world with his will and meets Thirteen, the supreme treasure spirit of the Firmament Palace.
• Thirteen explains that the Palace’s world is created by the former master’s secret art. Although its people and surroundings are false, cultivation and insights gained within it are real.
• The Palace has ten floors of trials, with increasing rewards. The first six can be deadly, but challengers can quit by saying, “I give up.” Thirteen directs Luo Feng toward the second floor, where the real trials begin.

Character developments

• Luo Feng reveals his deep attachment to his family, along with guilt over being absent. His keen perception and willpower also let him detect and destroy the illusion.
• Xu Xin and Luo Feng’s family show how much they have missed his true self, distinguishing his return from the presence of a divine power clone.
• Morosa responds to the Universe Ocean with nostalgia, recalling that World Beasts had once traveled there.
• Thirteen presents himself as a courteous guide, while expressing pride in his master’s immense power and ambition.

Significant themes

• Love, absence, and home: Luo Feng’s reunion highlights the emotional cost of his long separation from those closest to him.
• Illusion and reality: The apparent family visit is false, yet the cultivation achieved inside it is genuine—making the boundary between illusion and reality complicated.
• Growth through trials: The Firmament Palace was created to help someone surpass its master, framing Luo Feng’s next challenge as part of a larger legacy.
• Perception and resolve: Luo Feng escapes not through force alone, but by noticing a contradiction and trusting his judgment.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng shares an emotional reunion with Xu Xin, his parents, sons, Zhen Yan, and Thunder God; his parents immediately plan a celebratory meal.
• In private, Xu Xin asks how long Luo Feng will stay. His answer about bringing everyone to a new world prompts the inconsistency that exposes the illusion.
• After escaping, Luo Feng questions Thirteen about the experience. Thirteen explains the Palace’s secret art, its master’s aims, and the dangers and rules of the trials.

Plot points and events

• Luo Feng enters Firmament Palace’s second level, where an immense Heaven-Reaching Stairway leads toward the next level. Its instructions tell him to climb it and “ascend to the heavens.”
• After climbing ten thousand steps, he meets Gold, a golden, three-eyed warrior guarding the stairway. Gold says Luo Feng must defeat him or survive for ten thousand eras to proceed.
• Gold draws Luo Feng into Gold World, where he can attack from every direction and seems to be everywhere. Luo Feng discovers that neither his Chaos Domain nor Dragon Tower Realm works there.
• Luo Feng burns divine power and unleashes First Arrival, a devastating attack powered by the Blood Shadow Blade. Though its force nearly overwhelms the golden world, it fails to break it.
• Gold explains that Luo Feng cannot win through external power alone: he must rely on his understanding of Origin Mysteries. They begin fighting directly.
• Luo Feng recognizes that Gold’s attacks carry the actual Origin of Gold, not merely its Mystery. Seeing this as a potential opportunity for comprehension, he has his Divine Power Clone study the fluctuations under accelerated time.
• Luo Feng stops burning divine power and shifts toward defense so he can observe Gold more clearly. Gold adjusts to match his reduced strength, but gradually grows stronger and presses him toward a lethal position.

Character development

• Luo Feng moves from testing his strength to studying the trial as a chance to deepen his understanding of the Metal Origin. He remains composed and analytical, but realizes the challenge is genuinely dangerous.
• Gold is both guardian and possible teacher: his skill and use of the Origin of Gold reveal what Luo Feng may need to learn. However, his increasingly powerful attacks show that he is not a passive instructor.

Significant themes

• Understanding over brute force: Even Luo Feng’s exceptionally powerful attack cannot overcome Gold World; progress depends on grasping the underlying Origin.
• Trial as instruction: The obstacle may also be deliberately designed to help Luo Feng comprehend the Metal Origin.
• Risk and growth: Pursuing new insight requires Luo Feng to lower his defenses while facing an opponent who continues escalating.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng and Gold begin with a formal challenge, then engage in repeated combat. Luo Feng studies Gold’s techniques while Gold tests and increasingly threatens him.
• Gold’s guidance—that Luo Feng must rely on Origin Mysteries—shapes Luo Feng’s approach, even as their fight remains deadly.

Key plot points

• As the first trial’s ten-thousand-era limit nears, Luo Feng stops holding back and treats the golden guardian, Gold, as a sparring partner. Gold’s skill and power steadily put him on the defensive.
• Over the long fight, Luo Feng comprehends the metal-origin profound mystery to minor accomplishment and creates Path to Ascend to Heaven, a blade technique approaching peak thirteenth-tier power. Even so, Gold remains much stronger.
• With only a day left, Luo Feng turns to the destruction-origin insights he had avoided confronting. Applying them to his blade techniques gives him enough breathing room to endure until the trial ends.
• Gold disappears, and a golden light enters Luo Feng, transforming him so he can sense the gold origin far more clearly—an effect comparable to the Time Heart. Delighted by the reward, Luo Feng climbs to the second level.
• There he meets Water, a pale-cyan guardian who sets the same challenge: defeat him or survive ten thousand eras. The level becomes an ocean filled with water-origin fluctuations.
• Luo Feng attacks first, aiming to study Water’s techniques. Water’s attacks are weaker than Luo Feng’s current strength, but his single-blade defense is exceptionally refined. Luo Feng and his divine-power clone begin analyzing it while they fight.

Character developments

• Luo Feng grows through prolonged pressure rather than victory by force. He becomes more resourceful, drawing on both metal- and destruction-origin insights, and enters the second trial eager to learn from its guardian.
• Gold is revealed as a relentless, increasingly cold combat puppet with immense close-combat ability, flawless defense, and immunity to soul attacks.
• Water initially appears more refined and personable than Gold, but his chief strength is masterful defensive technique.

Significant themes

• Growth through adversity: Luo Feng turns near-constant suppression into a chance to improve.
• Learning through combat: Both guardians function as formidable teachers, exposing flaws and demonstrating origin-based techniques.
• Endurance and composure: Luo Feng’s calm focus under extreme pressure lets him discover new strength.
• Progress as reward: Completing a trial grants not only survival but a deeper connection to its element.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng and Gold’s prolonged duel shifts from a test of endurance into an intense, if one-sided, lesson in combat.
• After Gold’s defeat by the time limit, his transformation becomes Luo Feng’s first-trial reward.
• Luo Feng and Water begin their encounter with Luo Feng taking the initiative; their exchange quickly becomes both a battle and an opportunity for Luo Feng to study water-origin defense.

Chapter Summary: “Water, Wood, Fire, Earth”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng continues ascending Firmament’s Heavenly Ladder, facing guardians who embody the five fundamental origin mysteries: gold, water, wood, fire, and earth.
• In the Water trial, Water’s control and restraint suppress Luo Feng’s attacks and prevent him from using the Saint Snow Cup. Water shifts between liquid and ice, further strengthening the world’s restrictive force.
• To survive, Luo Feng creates a new defensive blade technique, Absolute Blade Domain, which turns his blade into a protective domain capable of blocking attacks from every direction. The technique consumes enormous divine power, costing him over three percent of his divine body.
• After the Water trial, Luo Feng gains his fifth origin mystery, reaching only minor mastery.
• He then faces Wood in a world filled with vines and trees. Wood’s life-filled domain similarly suppresses Luo Feng, forcing him to rely on Absolute Blade Domain. Luo Feng does not immediately reach minor mastery but studies his battle memories in the accelerated Inheritance Space.
• After ten thousand years of accelerated study, Firmament summons him onward. Luo Feng is close to minor mastery of wood but cannot remain longer.
• On the next level, Luo Feng encounters Fire, whose blazing world and increasingly violent attacks are far more destructive than those of the previous guardians.
• Fire’s attacks continually accumulate momentum, growing stronger through successive waves of flames. His fire-based blade technique ultimately shatters Luo Feng’s Absolute Blade Domain.
• This decisive attack gives Luo Feng the breakthrough he needs. He finally gains an initial understanding of the fire origin mystery and begins adapting his combat style to use it.

Character Development

• Luo Feng continues progressing despite being repeatedly suppressed. Rather than relying solely on raw strength, he develops new techniques in response to each origin’s unique characteristics.
• His creation of Absolute Blade Domain shows his growing ability to transform defensive insights from battle into practical techniques.
• Luo Feng recognizes that the more origin mysteries he comprehends, the more difficult later origins become because earlier mysteries interfere with his perception.
• His understanding of combat becomes more flexible. Against Water and Wood, defense is effective, but against Fire he realizes that “offense as defense” is more suitable.
• By the end of the chapter, Luo Feng begins shifting from Absolute Blade Domain toward Path to Ascend to Heaven, hoping to incorporate fire’s violent and aggressive nature into his attacks.
• The guardians—Water, Wood, and Fire—are not merely opponents but manifestations of increasingly precise and powerful origin principles.

Significant Themes

• Mastery depends on application, not inherent superiority: The chapter emphasizes that gold, water, wood, fire, and earth are fundamentally equal; their strength depends on how completely and effectively they are integrated.
• Learning through suppression and adversity: Luo Feng’s greatest insights come while he is being overwhelmed rather than while he is dominating an opponent.
• The difficulty of cumulative understanding: Each new origin becomes harder to comprehend because Luo Feng’s existing insights interfere with his ability to perceive later ones clearly.
• Adaptation and innovation: Progress requires changing methods. Defensive techniques work against restraint-based powers, while violent destructive forces demand a more aggressive response.
• The value of an opponent as a teacher: Fire’s attacks function almost like direct demonstrations of the fire origin, allowing Luo Feng to break through a barrier in his understanding.
• Limits of partial mastery: Although complete mastery of an origin could rival the strength of a Peak God King, Luo Feng is only grasping fragments and must work through increasingly difficult thresholds.

Character Interactions

• Luo Feng and Water: Water suppresses and interferes with Luo Feng’s strength, forcing him into prolonged defense. Their battle teaches Luo Feng the importance of restraint, control, and defensive adaptation.
• Luo Feng and Wood: Wood overwhelms him through a world of vines and life force. Luo Feng survives with Absolute Blade Domain and later studies the encounter to extract deeper insights.
• Luo Feng and Fire: Fire attacks with escalating, violent momentum. Its final slash breaks Luo Feng’s defense but simultaneously provides the revelation needed for him to understand the fire origin.
• Luo Feng and Firmament: Firmament controls the progression of the trials, allowing Luo Feng only limited time at each level. The trials are designed less to be defeated through brute force than to force challengers to comprehend the origins themselves.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng survives a brutal fight with Fire, losing more than ten percent of his enormous godly body. When Fire merges into him, Luo Feng gains a much clearer perception of the Fire Origin, then spends a year digesting the experience.
• He reaches the sixth floor and climbs a Heavenly Ladder whose Will Impact is strong enough to affect him, reaching the level of a top-tier Saint Realm will by the final step.
• The floor’s guardian, Earth, announces this is the last test of strength. His blade strikes carry crushing, earthlike force, and even Luo Feng’s armor and Star Tower cannot fully prevent damage.
• Realizing that he cannot withstand Earth’s strongest attacks head-on, Luo Feng relies on movement and evasion. He develops his own footwork, drawing on the Shadow Blade Hundred Thousand Forms and the Time Origin.
• Earth gradually grows faster and eventually lands a devastating blow, costing Luo Feng two percent of his godly body despite his defenses. With a year still to endure, Luo Feng focuses on using Time Origin techniques—especially acceleration—to move faster and survive.

Character developments

• Luo Feng remains determined and clear-headed under extreme pressure. Rather than stubbornly trade blows with a stronger opponent, he assesses Earth’s weaknesses and adapts his strategy.
• His mastery of the Origins continues to deepen. Merging with Fire sharpens his understanding of that Origin, while the fight with Earth pushes him to develop more effective movement techniques through the Time Origin.

Significant themes

• Adaptation over raw power: Luo Feng recognizes that he cannot match Earth’s strength directly and turns to speed and technique.
• Persistence under overwhelming odds: He continues fighting despite severe damage and the threat of losing his massive godly body.
• Learning through combat: Each guardian’s power teaches Luo Feng more about the Origins and forces him to refine his abilities.

Character interactions

• Luo Feng and Fire: Their fight is a desperate test of endurance. Fire’s eventual merger with Luo Feng grants him deeper insight into the Fire Origin.
• Luo Feng and Earth: Earth’s crushing attacks force Luo Feng to abandon direct defense and rely on evasive movement. Earth’s ability to see through Luo Feng’s Time-based illusions further drives him to develop a faster approach.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng survives Earth’s final trial attack, a space-filling blade strike powerful enough to destroy more than ten percent of his divine body. Earth and the trial world then vanish, and a streak of earth-origin power enters Luo Feng, giving him a much clearer understanding of that origin.
• After a year of contemplation, Luo Feng climbs the Heavenly Ladder toward the seventh layer. Its will impact nearly overwhelms him, but he endures the 9,998th step and breaks through from the saint-realm top tier to the saint-realm limit. He then withstands the final step and reaches the seventh layer.
• There, Elder Thirteen rewards him with a Memory Crystal and explains Firmament’s method for advancing beyond ordinary god-king cultivation: combine the fundamental mysteries of the five elements into a basic chaos origin, then use it to derive the other origins.
• Thirteen outlines the realms beyond god king: supreme, followed by the still-unattained boundless realm, or chaos lord. He urges Luo Feng to continue toward the eighth and ninth layers, and ultimately the tenth.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Feng’s agility and growing grasp of time-origin principles help him evade Earth’s attacks, while his persistence allows him to survive the final blow.
• His defining trait, an unyielding will reinforced by Heart Like a Blade, carries him through the ladder’s near-overwhelming pressure. The ordeal strengthens both his will and his resistance to future impacts.
• Elder Thirteen acts as mentor and guide, congratulating Luo Feng, explaining the deeper cultivation path and cosmic hierarchy, and offering the crystal as a reward. Luo Feng listens closely and accepts the opportunity to pursue a path beyond simply becoming a god king.

Significant themes

• Perseverance under extreme pressure: Luo Feng advances by enduring trials that threaten both body and consciousness.
• Will and self-mastery: His resolve keeps his mind awake and ultimately turns the ladder’s pressure into a breakthrough.
• Knowledge and ambition: The chapter expands Luo Feng’s understanding of the realms ahead and presents a harder cultivation method as the route to greater heights.
• Progress through synthesis: Firmament’s approach links the origins, suggesting that mastery comes not only from studying them separately but from understanding how they generate one another.

Plot points and events

• After passing the previous layer, Luo Feng enters the Eighth Layer and loses all cultivation. The trial instructs him to follow the Sun Star toward the “end of the world” and survive using only his physical body and whatever food he can find.
• He walks through deserts, wilderness, and changing seasons for an immeasurable span of time, enduring hunger, danger, exhaustion, and isolation. Eventually, he reaches a vast, freezing snowfield as the sun nears the horizon.
• Near death and almost stripped of his memories, Luo Feng keeps moving even after the last sunlight disappears. He then collapses and loses consciousness.
• On awakening, he understands that the supposed journey to the world’s end was actually a test of resolve: he needed to keep walking until the sun vanished. Passing it grants him One Dream of Withered Silence, a secret technique created by Firmament.
• The technique allows cultivation inside dreams, where vastly greater spans of time can pass than in waking life, and dream cultivation carries over into reality. Luo Feng recognizes its immense potential, though its advanced stages will demand far greater heart force.
• With the path to the Ninth Layer open, Luo Feng proceeds, eager to face its trial.

Character development

• Luo Feng’s physical strength and cultivation are stripped away, leaving his persistence and inner resolve as his only real resources.
• His identity and ordinary memories fade during the endless journey, but his determination to follow the sun remains. The trial demonstrates that his heart force is exceptionally steadfast.
• After receiving the technique, Luo Feng quickly assesses both its difficulty and its potential to accelerate his future progress, including possibly reaching the God King Realm sooner.

Significant themes

• Endurance and unwavering purpose: Progress comes from continuing step by step despite uncertainty, suffering, and the loss of immediate hope.
• The strength of the heart: The trial tests neither combat skill nor understanding, but the resolve needed to withstand an apparently endless ordeal.
• Perception versus reality: The “end of the world” is a misleading premise; the true goal is to keep going until the sun disappears.
• The value of time and cultivation: The secret technique turns dream-time into a powerful means of advancement, but its benefits depend on exceptional inner strength.

Character interactions

• There is little direct interaction in this chapter. Elder Thirteen’s earlier mention of the technique is recalled, and Firmament’s trial reveals its purpose. Luo Feng’s main struggle is against the environment—and his own exhaustion and weakening will.

Key plot points

• Luo Feng enters the ninth layer of Firmament Palace, where he must complete gene charts. The chamber contains specimens ranging from ordinary high-tier genes to perfect genes, including the Golden Crow, a World Beast, and six mysterious Chaos Life forms.
• Using his own perfect gene as a reference, Luo Feng completes the charts with little difficulty. The charts above ninety-thousand-fold genes require more thought, but he finishes them and opens the passage to the tenth layer.
• The tenth layer contains a starry void, an ancient tree, and an alien man in green robes. The man reveals himself as an illusory, cultivation-capable consciousness left behind by Firmament, anchored to the palace and unaware of where the present Firmament has gone.
• The figure shows Luo Feng the corpses of six Chaos Life forms, each powerful enough to crush a God King. He explains that they came from outside the world, unlike the Golden Crow, which is native to the Origin Continent.
• As a reward, Luo Feng receives six samples—blood, a feather, skin, a scale, a horn, and fur—sealed in jade boxes. Firmament warns him not to open them until his will reaches the God King level, lest their force corrupt him into a Mad Demon.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng’s perfect genes make the ninth-layer trial unexpectedly easy, reinforcing how far he has advanced. He also recognizes that the gene charts could benefit humanity and considers whether Firmament restricts their use, but chooses to clear the trial first.
• The green-robed Firmament is genial and candid, while cautioning that the original Firmament’s actions had purposes Luo Feng may not yet understand. He praises Luo Feng’s achievement of One Dream of Withered Silence, saying it signals the potential for Supreme-level accomplishments.
• Luo Feng approaches Firmament respectfully, asks about Chaos Life forms, and listens carefully to the warnings surrounding his reward.

Significant themes

• Knowledge and advancement: The gene charts offer both a test and potentially transformative knowledge for Luo Feng’s people.
• Power’s limits: Luo Feng’s strengths make the ninth layer simple, but the Chaos Life samples remain dangerous even to him.
• Legacy and uncertainty: Firmament’s past consciousness preserves knowledge and rewards, yet cannot explain the present Firmament’s whereabouts or motives.
• Ambition tempered by caution: Luo Feng’s progress brings access to immense power, but safely using it depends on reaching the necessary level of will.

Chapter Summary: “Kill Him for Me”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng receives the partial remains of six corpses from the blue-robed Firmament, recognizing their immense value.
• The blue-robed Firmament explains the purpose of the Ninth Layer’s gene-chart trial: Firmament devoted his life to perfecting genes and created the supreme manual Infinite Kalpa.
• Infinite Kalpa can raise a cultivator’s genes toward the theoretical Perfect Gene level, though no one in Origin Continent’s history—including Firmament himself—has actually reached it.
• Luo Feng confirms that he became a True God through the Third Level of the Divine Body Path, but deliberately hides the fact that he already possesses Perfect Gene.
• The blue-robed Firmament gives Luo Feng:
  • The Infinite Kalpa manual, stored on a golden leaf.
  • Two powerful secret arts: the will-based Heaven-Piercing Thorn and the divine-power technique Annihilation of Heaven and Earth.
  • One extremely rare Primal Chaos Fruit, worth at least twenty God King-level Supreme Treasures and said to be more effective than ten thousand Floating Sand Fruits.
• The two secret arts are comparable to Yuan’s Lie Yuan Technique and may be combined with it, though mastering them is exceptionally difficult.
• After granting Luo Feng these rewards, the blue-robed Firmament reveals that he expects something in return: when Luo Feng becomes as strong as or stronger than Firmament, he must kill Firmament.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng demonstrates restraint and caution by concealing his Perfect Gene, understanding that revealing it could bring danger or unwanted attention.
• His confidence grows as he realizes the extraordinary opportunities he has gained, including techniques stronger than the Lie Yuan Technique and a treasure of immense value.
• Luo Feng’s position as an unusually gifted successor is reinforced: he has passed the Ninth Layer rapidly, mastered the Lie Yuan Technique, and cultivated the Divine Body Path to a high level.
• The blue-robed Firmament shifts from an approving teacher and generous benefactor to a mysterious figure harboring hostility toward his original self. His final request reveals a deep conflict or resentment toward Firmament.

Significant Themes

• The pursuit and limits of perfection: Firmament’s lifelong effort to achieve Perfect Gene illustrates the tension between theoretical possibility and an apparently insurmountable cosmic limit.
• Inheritance and succession: The trials are designed not merely to create God Kings, but to cultivate successors with extraordinary future potential.
• Power gained through risk and understanding: Infinite Kalpa and the two secret arts offer tremendous strength but require profound insight and carry great difficulty or danger.
• Secrecy and self-preservation: Luo Feng’s decision to hide his Perfect Gene highlights the dangers of revealing exceptional abilities in a competitive world.
• Power and obligation: The treasures Luo Feng receives come with a grave condition, turning the inheritance into a potential pact of vengeance.

Character Interactions

• The blue-robed Firmament treats Luo Feng with increasing approval, praising his Divine Body Path achievements and acknowledging his mastery of the Lie Yuan Technique.
• Luo Feng respectfully accepts each reward while carefully concealing information that could expose his true capabilities.
• When Luo Feng expresses interest in receiving more Primal Chaos Fruits, the blue-robed Firmament teases him but confirms that he will receive one.
• The relationship changes dramatically at the end: the blue-robed Firmament asks Luo Feng to kill Firmament, leaving Luo Feng shocked and creating a major mystery about the connection between the two versions of Firmament.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Feng accepts the green-robed Firmament’s bargain: when strong enough, he must either kill Firmament or provide two Primal Chaos Fruits or two Chaos Life corpses. He chooses the alternatives as a way to avoid the spiritual burden of failing to kill Firmament.
• Firmament rewards him with a Primal Chaos Fruit and explains that it must be stored in a special container to preserve its power.
• Luo Feng asks whether he may share knowledge from the Ninth Layer. Firmament permits him to pass on what he learned, except four prohibited secret techniques. Luo Feng is then expelled from the Palace, far from its hidden location.
• Reviewing his gains, Luo Feng recognizes that he has acquired an extraordinary collection: powerful techniques, a God King breakthrough method, the Primal Chaos Fruit, six Chaos Creature remains, and five compatible fundamental Origins.
• Still committed to destroying Food Country and avenging his teacher, Mountain Guest, Luo Feng summons Morosa to guard him and begins secluded cultivation in the Sea of Loss.
• He studies a Memory Crystal describing an alternate path to God King: fuse the five fundamental Origins—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth—then derive and complete the other five. This Fusion Origin route is exceptionally difficult but promises greater power than the conventional path.
• Luo Feng decides to prioritize the combat techniques Heaven-Piercing Thorn and Annihilation of Heaven and Earth, followed by One Dream of Withered Silence, which could greatly accelerate his cultivation. He sets aside Infinite Kalpa as irrelevant to his needs and begins studying Heaven-Piercing Thorn.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Feng shows caution and long-term thinking: he accepts Firmament’s terms while weighing the danger of a binding karmic burden, and he immediately turns his rewards toward strengthening himself for his mission.
• The green-robed Firmament is generous but teasing. He provides guidance and treasures, reassures Luo Feng about the bargain, and supports the spread of knowledge while protecting select secrets.
• Luo Feng and Firmament negotiate openly: Luo Feng raises both the bargain’s implications and the possibility of sharing knowledge, while Firmament answers and grants permission.
• Morosa is assigned to guard Luo Feng during his retreat.

Significant themes

• Power carries obligations: Luo Feng’s agreement could become a psychological and karmic burden if he cannot fulfill its terms.
• Knowledge and advancement: The chapter contrasts conventional cultivation with the more demanding but vastly stronger Fusion Origin path.
• Preparation for a larger purpose: Treasures matter most insofar as Luo Feng can turn them into strength to confront Food Country.
• Legacy and shared learning: Firmament allows Luo Feng to pass on most of his knowledge, reflecting an investment in future generations.

Plot points and events

• Luo Feng absorbs the contents of a Memory Crystal containing Heaven-Piercing Thorn and learns that it combines and refines portions of will into increasingly powerful attacks. A Two-Pattern Thorn modestly boosts his Saint Realm Limit will, while a Thirty-Six-Pattern Thorn could reach God King-level power—but would likely exhaust him in a single use.
• The technique also includes Sun Contemplation, a method for strengthening will from within. Luo Feng realizes he must cultivate this first before he can refine his will or master the Thorn.
• He learns that refined will can also strengthen the Lie Yuan Technique. At equal willpower, Lie Yuan remains the stronger attack, while Heaven-Piercing Thorn’s special value is its ability to refine will.
• Luo Feng then studies Annihilation of Heaven and Earth, which strengthens divine power by combining units into denser, more powerful forms. Its refinement is constrained by the user’s will: Luo Feng can currently control roughly a hundredfold concentration, but surpassing that risks losing control and suffering a destructive backlash.
• A limited use of Hundredfold Divine Power could greatly increase his strength, potentially letting him dominate below the God King level and perhaps contend with one. Using it broadly, however, would consume an unacceptable portion of his enormous divine body.
• Luo Feng begins studying the smallest units and structure of his divine power, seeking to fuse and reconstruct them as the technique requires.

Character development and interactions

• Luo Feng remains ambitious but pragmatic: he recognizes Heaven-Piercing Thorn’s difficulty and Annihilation’s risks, rather than assuming he can immediately master either.
• Firmament’s teachings shape his understanding of how the new technique can complement the Lie Yuan Technique. Luo Feng reflects with gratitude on the transformative knowledge he gained at Firmament Palace.
• Luo Feng’s confidence rises as he assesses the potential of the techniques, but he also acknowledges that becoming a threat to a God King would require both mastery of the Thorn and a breakthrough in willpower.

Significant themes

• Power through refinement: Both techniques transform existing will or divine power into something qualitatively stronger, rather than simply increasing quantity.
• Strength and control: Greater power brings greater demands on the user’s will and carries serious risks if control fails.
• Patience and preparation: Luo Feng must build the foundation—especially through Sun Contemplation—before attempting the most difficult applications.
• Ambition balanced by caution: He sees the possibility of unprecedented strength while carefully weighing its cost and limitations.

Plot points and events

• Luo Feng begins practicing Annihilation of Heaven and Earth, using disposable Divine Power Clones to test its dangerous refinement process.
• His first attempts trigger violent chain reactions that destroy the clones. After examining each failure and adjusting his method, he eventually succeeds in refining two units of divine power into Secondfold Divine Power.
• He discovers that refined power is too concentrated for his Saint-Realm body to store safely. It must be refined and used almost instantly, making speed and precision essential.
• After mastering each stage through repeated practice, he progresses from Threefold to Tenfold, then—after another million epochs—achieves instantaneous Twentyfold Divine Power, surpassing the technique’s stated highest level.
• The chapter briefly shifts to a distant starfield, where the damaged, sword-patterned Star Tower emerges from a spatial vortex in the Star Sand River.

Character development

• Luo Feng demonstrates exceptional patience and analytical discipline, persisting through hundreds of millions of failed attempts rather than abandoning the technique.
• His repeated study turns cautious experimentation into mastery. By the end, he believes his strength may have crossed into the Tenth-Origin Saint Realm, though he cannot precisely measure it.

Significant themes

• Persistence and learning: Failure becomes useful when Luo Feng carefully identifies and corrects mistakes.
• Power and risk: Greater strength comes with danger; refined divine power can destroy what cannot contain it.
• Limits and opportunity: The Supreme Rule prevents unlimited power from being stored freely, but Annihilation offers a narrow opening—provided the user can control it instantly.
• The cost of advancement: Luo Feng’s immense progress requires extraordinary time and concentration.

Character interactions

• There is little direct interaction. Luo Feng’s main engagement is with the technique itself: he guides and studies his clones, learning from each failure. The Star Tower’s emergence is a separate event, with no interaction with Luo Feng yet shown.

Plot points and events

• After an immense period of cultivation, Luo Feng reaches fortyfold Divine Power and comprehends seven Origin Mysteries. He believes his close-combat strength can soon reach the Sixth Source Saint Realm, while his will attacks already make him exceptionally dangerous.
• Luo Feng begins Sun Contemplation, a will-tempering method created by Firmament. He successfully visualizes the Sun Star and withstands the first wave of its scorching power, beginning a painful process that he expects to intensify dramatically.
• Meanwhile, the Fallen Star God King’s Tomb Hall emerges from the deeper spacetime of the Star Sand River. Its enormous treasure trove and inheritances draw Saint Realm experts from across the Origin Continent. The hall remains sealed, but its Sword Intent barrier is expected to weaken within ten thousand years.
• Humanity sends an elite group led by God King Kuipo, including her son Kui Jun. Kuipo orders them to prioritize the Fallen Star God King’s two core inheritances and the missing Haotian Mirror, warns them about the tomb’s dangers and rival races, and forbids them from killing one another.
• Kuipo privately tells Kui Jun to prioritize survival. Kui Jun, confident in his enhanced strength and vast swarm of God-Eating Bees, instead believes the tomb’s treasures will all be his.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng shows greater confidence in his combat potential but turns next to the difficult work of strengthening his will. His endurance and resolve carry him through the Sun Star’s initial torment.
• God King Kuipo acts as a commanding, protective leader: she gives the group clear objectives, enforces discipline, and privately urges her son to be cautious.
• Kui Jun is revealed as Kuipo’s powerful trump card, strengthened by diluted Golden Crow Blood and supported by Tenth-Origin God-Eating Bees. His confidence borders on greed, contrasting with his mother’s caution.
• Kuipo’s human team responds respectfully to her orders, while the coming tomb expedition sets them against other races and potentially against the tomb’s own lethal defenses.

Significant themes

• Strength through endurance: Luo Feng’s progress depends not just on power, but on withstanding pain and refining his will.
• Ambition versus caution: Kui Jun seeks to claim everything, while Kuipo emphasizes survival in an unknown and dangerous place.
• Contested legacy: The tomb’s appearance revives Humanity’s desire to reclaim the Fallen Star God King’s immense wealth and inheritance.
• Uncertainty and danger: Even formidable Saint Realm experts may be helpless against the tomb’s mechanisms and restrictions.

Key events

• Thousands of Saint Realm cultivators and Eternal True Gods gather around the untouched Fallen Star God King Tomb Hall, drawn by its rumored treasures and legacy. The hall remains sealed by powerful Sword Intent, expected to weaken soon.
• Space-Horned Beast Xukun arrives and sends three Tenth-Origin Saint Realm cultivators to claim three drops of Golden Crow Blood on his behalf.
• God King Yuxuan of Azure Hill Kingdom arrives with nine powerful cultivators, confident in their Soul Illusion abilities and one member’s God King-level Will. God King Ye Heng of Food Country later brings twenty more cultivators, urging them to seek the legacy or Supreme Treasures and highlighting the value of Golden Crow Blood.
• The approaching weakening of the seal heightens tension among the gathered forces. Ten God Kings are present by the time another arrival is anticipated.
• In secret, Spirit King and Xuan Ling prepare a surprise attack against the gathering. They blame the assembled powers for past suffering inflicted on their people and intend to kill as many as possible. Using concealed movement through space and time, they reach the gathering unnoticed and prepare to strike.

Character developments and interactions

• Xukun acts as a sponsor and strategist, binding his three agents to their promise through the Supreme Rule.
• Yuxuan displays confidence in Azure Hill Kingdom’s specialized strengths and believes the contest will be decided by Saint Realm cultivators, not God Kings.
• Ye Heng uses the promise of advancement for Food Country to motivate his followers, revealing both ambition and the kingdom’s aggressive expansionist reputation.
• Spirit King takes command of the revenge plot, warning Xuan Ling to avoid being surrounded. Xuan Ling agrees to support him, sharing his determination to avenge their people.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: The tomb hall’s treasures draw rival kingdoms, rulers, and cultivators seeking wealth, status, or a chance to become God Kings.
• Competition within limits: God Kings cannot directly participate inside the tomb hall, so they rely on powerful subordinates.
• Revenge and hidden danger: While the gathering focuses on the coming contest, Spirit King and Xuan Ling turn it into an opportunity for a surprise massacre.
• Unequal opportunity: Many Saint Realm cultivators may never reach God King status, making the tomb hall’s potential rewards especially compelling.

Plot points and events

• As eleven God Kings and numerous lesser cultivators wait near the tomb hall, the Star Spirit God King Xuan Ling appears. His arrival freezes time and space; a sudden torrent of spatial blades kills most nearby Saint Realm cultivators and Eternal True Gods before the God Kings can react.
• The group discovers Spirit King, a far more experienced Star Spirit with extraordinary command of time and space. The eleven God Kings overpower the surrounding spacetime with their Origin abilities, World Projections, and sealing treasures.
• Recognizing that Xuan Ling is the easier target, the God Kings coordinate an attack on him, hoping to seize the Supreme Treasure within his body: his Space Heart.
• Spirit King tells Xuan Ling to burn his soul and escape, then intercepts the attacks. He battles the God Kings and uses time power to slow God King Liusha, buying Xuan Ling a chance to flee.
• Xuan Ling burns his soul, regains his natural connection to the Star Sand River, and disperses into spatial particles. The God Kings try to seal the area, but they recognize that a space-gifted Star Spirit is exceptionally difficult to catch once fleeing.

Character developments and interactions

• Xuan Ling is powerful but inexperienced as a God King. Initially trapped by the God Kings’ combined restraints, he follows Spirit King’s urgent advice and uses soul-burning to escape.
• Spirit King reveals both his immense skill and loyalty to Xuan Ling. Though confident he can survive the confrontation, he risks himself to shield his companion and create an opening.
• King Muye quickly identifies Xuan Ling as the weaker target and urges the others to focus their attacks on him.
• The God Kings cooperate against the Star Spirits, driven partly by the chance to claim Xuan Ling’s Space Heart. Their assault also shows the limits of their control: they can restrain Xuan Ling temporarily, but Spirit King remains a formidable opponent.

Significant themes

• Power and experience: Sharing a perfected Origin does not guarantee equal mastery; Xuan Ling’s recent ascent leaves him vulnerable where Spirit King’s long experience makes him formidable.
• Sacrifice and loyalty: Spirit King accepts personal danger to protect Xuan Ling, who in turn risks burning his soul to seize the chance to escape.
• Greed and predation: The God Kings’ desire for the Space Heart turns the Star Spirits into targets.
• Belonging and natural affinity: Xuan Ling’s bond with the Star Sand River restores his power when he burns his soul, portrayed as a return to a nurturing home.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Xuan Ling escapes before the eleven pursuing God Kings can stop him. With the Star Sand River favoring the Star Spirit Race, Spirit King is difficult to restrain, and he turns to face the remaining pursuers.
• Spirit King reveals that the Spacetime Heart is incorporated into his Life-Bound Supreme Treasure, a many-sided cube. Within its domain, distance and time stretch so drastically that attacks struggle to reach him.
• The God Kings attack together, including Yuxuan’s Soul Illusion. Spirit King resists it, then expands the cube’s power in “Shattered Spacetime,” breaking the surrounding space into deadly fragments.
• The attackers press him from all sides. Though badly battered, Spirit King activates the cube again and transports the eleven God Kings to the Space Cube, a perilous region of layered, distorted spacetime and lethal Spatial Quicksand. He then abandons them there.
• King Muye sees the displacement as an opportunity to attack several God Kings who are less skilled in space. The group members challenge his confidence, but no fight begins: Kuipo, Liusha and Sansang, and Ye Heng each leave, with Ye Heng citing the imminent opening of the Fallen Star God King Tomb Hall.

Character developments and interactions

• Spirit King shifts from apparent vulnerability to confident control. His mastery of the Star Sand River and powerful Life-Bound treasure lets him withstand a group assault, turn the battlefield into a weapon, and escape without the others.
• King Muye remains the most formidable of the trapped group, using his command of three Origins—Space, Earth, and Light—to stabilize the shattered region. Once Spirit King is gone, his ambition surfaces: he considers killing several rivals.
• The other God Kings cooperate against Spirit King but have different reactions to the Space Cube. The spatial specialists understand its dangers better; several of the less experienced are unsettled. Illusion Demon, Yijiu, Moheng, and Xukun refuse to show fear when Muye threatens them.
• Yuxuan tests Spirit King with Soul Illusion, but it barely affects him. Ye Heng, Kuipo, and Liusha each disengage rather than join Muye’s potential attack.

Significant themes

• Home-ground advantage: The Star Sand River amplifies the Star Spirit Race’s abilities and makes Spirit King exceptionally difficult to capture.
• Power and its limits: Spirit King’s treasure nearly matches an Origin Supreme Treasure, but its range and divided strength constrain it—until he changes tactics.
• Shifting alliances and self-interest: The God Kings unite against a shared enemy, then immediately face the possibility of conflict among themselves.
• Danger as opportunity: The Space Cube is both a deadly trap and, for Muye, a setting where his spatial mastery may give him an advantage.

Key plot points and events

• Morosa detects an immense spatial disturbance, so Luo Feng interrupts his willpower training to investigate.
• They find the Fallen Star God King Tomb Hall, surrounded by lethal sword intent. Luo Feng concludes it is sealed and estimates that its weakening barrier may eventually allow entry. They wait nearby with numerous surviving Saint Realm experts.
• Seventy-seven years later, Lord Ye Heng—one of Food Country’s rulers—escapes the Space Cube region and arrives before the tomb.
• Rather than wait for the seal to weaken naturally, Ye Heng tears open an entrance by force. He sends his seventeen Food Country subordinates inside, then offers the other Saint Realm experts entry only if they swear to surrender 80 percent of their treasure to him.
• Luo Feng recognizes Ye Heng as a ruler of Food Country, the nation connected to his teacher Mountain Guest’s past. He suppresses his anger, deciding that he is not yet strong enough to pursue revenge safely.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng remains curious and pragmatic: he investigates the tomb but weighs the risks of acting against Ye Heng. His long-held resentment toward Food Country surfaces, yet he controls it rather than acting impulsively.
• Morosa demonstrates exceptional sensitivity by detecting the disturbance from nearly a billion light-years away. He follows Luo Feng’s lead and wonders whether the tomb’s restrictions will allow him to enter.
• Lord Ye Heng is confident and opportunistic. He exploits his strength to breach the tomb and demands tribute from the weaker experts, while leaving them to decide whether access is worth the price.
• Bing Mu and the other Saint Realm experts approach Ye Heng hoping to enter, but his 80-percent demand leaves them facing a difficult choice.

Significant themes

• Power and coercion: Ye Heng turns access to the tomb into a tribute bargain, showing how the powerful can control opportunities for the weak.
• Patience and restraint: Luo Feng’s desire for revenge conflicts with his awareness that acting too soon could endanger him and compromise his plans.
• Secrecy and strategic timing: Luo Feng avoids revealing Morosa’s strength or his own connection to Mountain Guest’s history, preserving his options for the future.

Key plot points and events

• Lord Ye Heng offers Saints access to the Fallen Star God King Tomb Hall in exchange for an oath: they may keep any inheritance they find, but must surrender other treasures and never attack Saints of his Food Country. Many Saints accept, largely because a God King controls the entrance.
• Luo Feng keeps his hostility toward Ye Heng concealed and asks Morosa to approach the tomb hall.
• A second God King, the black-robed Demon Calamity Walker, arrives. He enters the tomb by suppressing his aura and power to the Saint Realm, apparently fooling the tomb’s defenses. His Soul Illusion ability remains intact, making him especially dangerous inside.
• Ye Heng tries to follow but the tomb hall’s powerful sword intent repels him. Luo Feng then enters, telling Morosa to wait outside.
• When a Saint tries to rush in without permission, Ye Heng kills him with Space Strangulation, demonstrating the cost of defying him.
• Morosa offers the remaining Saints entry for seventy percent of their treasures—less than Ye Heng’s demand. Despite Ye Heng’s threats, most choose Morosa’s route and enter.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng remains cautious and strategic: he hides his resentment toward Ye Heng, assesses Demon Calamity Walker as a threat, and enters the tomb himself rather than risk sending Morosa in.
• Morosa emerges as a bold negotiator, challenging Ye Heng’s control by offering Saints better terms. Ye Heng is angered but avoids fighting him.
• Lord Ye Heng shifts from confident gatekeeper to frustrated and wary. He cannot enter the tomb, fears Demon Calamity Walker will undermine his faction, and responds to disobedience with lethal force.
• Demon Calamity Walker displays an unexpected method for entering a God King’s tomb and taunts Ye Heng. His presence unsettles Luo Feng and changes the balance of power.
• The Saints act pragmatically, accepting whichever bargain offers them a chance to enter while avoiding Ye Heng’s wrath.

Significant themes

• Power and coercion: Ye Heng uses overwhelming strength to dictate terms and punish defiance.
• Ingenuity against brute force: Demon Calamity Walker bypasses the tomb’s restrictions through power suppression, while Morosa counters Ye Heng through negotiation.
• Risk, opportunity, and shifting alliances: The Saints’ choices change as new entrants and competing offers reshape their chances of claiming treasure.

Chapter 117 Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Luo Feng enters the tomb palace through its enormous main gate, whose doors contain two sealed Giant Dragons. Their terrifying auras suggest they were once God Kings.
• A Sword Intent barrier blocks the entrance, but Luo Feng tests it with Tie Nanhe, whose body can withstand the attack. Finding the barrier comparable only to Ninth-Origin Saint Realm power, Luo Feng safely enters using the Gilded Palace.
• Inside, he discovers a vast, highly stable world with severely restricted divine sense. The world is far larger than one light-year in scale and contains human inhabitants.
• Luo Feng reaches Shen Xing City, secretly probes a random resident to learn its name, and then locates the city lord, Shen Xing.
• Using mental control, Luo Feng makes Shen Xing reveal the history and structure of the world. Afterward, Shen Xing’s memories of the encounter are erased.
• Luo Feng learns that the world is called Fallen Star World, a human-dominated realm over one hundred billion light-years across. Its supreme known beings are ten Eternal Gods, while the mysterious World Gods exist only in legend.
• The world contains four legendary forbidden lands: Sword Mound, God-Burial Abyss, Mirror Moon Lake, and Demonflame Mountain. No one who has entered any of them—including Eternal Gods—has ever returned.
• Luo Feng concludes that the tomb palace’s most important secrets and inheritances likely lie within these forbidden lands. Because the palace’s owner used a sword, he suspects Sword Mound may contain the core inheritance, but chooses to investigate Demonflame Mountain first to avoid possible competition with Demon Calamity Walker.
• After three years of teleportation, Luo Feng reaches Demonflame Mountain and enters the Gilded Palace to approach its most dangerous central region.

Character Developments

• Luo Feng remains cautious and analytical. Rather than personally testing the entrance barrier, he uses Tie Nanhe as a probe, demonstrating his strategic approach.
• His understanding of the tomb palace’s purpose deepens: he now suspects the four forbidden lands were deliberately designed to divide newcomers and conceal the palace owner’s greatest treasures.
• Luo Feng shows confidence in his strength by approaching Demonflame Mountain, whose outer flames already carry an Eternal True God-level Will Impact.
• Tie Nanhe has become exceptionally powerful after Morosa’s reforging, reaching roughly Eighth-Source Saint Realm strength and possessing a body that may require God King-level power to destroy.
• Shen Xing is revealed to be the strongest being in Shen Xing City, though still only a relatively weak local ruler compared with Luo Feng.

Significant Themes

• Mystery and exploration: The tomb palace leads Luo Feng into an unknown world filled with secrets no native has been able to uncover.
• Power beyond understanding: God Kings, Eternal Gods, and legendary World Gods establish an immense hierarchy of strength, while the forbidden lands remain mysterious even to the world’s supreme beings.
• Caution versus ambition: Luo Feng balances his desire for inheritance with careful reconnaissance and avoids rushing directly toward the likely most contested location.
• Inheritance and trials: The forbidden lands appear to be deliberately placed challenges containing the tomb palace owner’s greatest legacy and treasures.
• The limits of knowledge: Because no one returns from the forbidden lands, even the Eternal Gods possess no reliable information about what lies within them.

Character Interactions

• Luo Feng communicates indirectly with the sealed dragon guardians by enduring their intimidating presence and testing the entrance’s Sword Intent through Tie Nanhe.
• He mentally controls Shen Xing, interrogates him for information about Fallen Star World, and then removes Shen Xing’s memory of the encounter.
• Luo Feng compares the likely dangers of the four forbidden lands and reasons about where Demon Calamity Walker may have gone before selecting Demonflame Mountain.
• His interaction with the natives is largely observational: he studies their cultivation levels and uses them as sources of information while remaining undetected.

Chapter Summary — “Golden Crow Wing”

Key plot points

• Luo Feng ventures toward the center of Demonflame Mountain, where a savage Will Impact and increasingly powerful flames threaten even God Kings. His will, strengthened by Sun Contemplation, lets him endure the pressure.
• He enters the transformed Star Tower, whose nine inner worlds shield him from the Will Impact, malice, and fire. It advances rapidly through dangers that force others to move cautiously.
• Luo Feng encounters Demon Calamity Walker in a black triangular tower. When Demon Calamity identifies the hidden prize as a Golden Crow Corpse, Luo Feng speeds deeper into the mountain.
• Inside, Luo Feng discovers the treasure is not a whole corpse but a vast fragment—less than half of a Golden Crow Wing—covered in patterns that radiate extraordinary Fire Origin power. Its value could provoke God Kings to fight desperately.
• Luo Feng realizes removing the wing may end the mountain’s flames and Will Impact, leaving him exposed to Demon Calamity Walker. He considers using the powerful Will Impact to incapacitate the other cultivator, but sees that Demon Calamity is still advancing.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Feng grows more confident in the Star Tower’s capabilities, but remains cautious about the danger of facing a God King directly. His excitement at finding the wing is tempered by strategic concern over how to claim it safely.
• Demon Calamity Walker shifts from wary curiosity to desperation and alarm. He recognizes that the newcomer is unaffected by conditions that slow him, suspects the rival may be a God King, and contacts Flame Dragon King for help identifying them.
• Luo Feng and Demon Calamity Walker communicate briefly: Demon Calamity asks who Luo Feng is and accuses him of trying to claim the treasure alone, but Luo Feng ignores him and continues inward. Their race to the wing establishes an impending confrontation.

Significant themes

• Power and resilience: Luo Feng’s disciplined will and the Star Tower allow him to withstand forces that overwhelm others.
• Risk and reward: The Golden Crow Wing offers immense wealth and power, but claiming it may remove Luo Feng’s environmental protection and trigger a battle.
• Ambition and danger: Even treasures of extraordinary value do not guarantee safety; the chapter recalls that even mighty beings, including Golden Crows and God Kings, can fall.
• The limits of knowledge: Luo Feng recognizes how many dangers and secrets of the Origin Continent remain beyond his understanding.