Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang traveled with the other contestants through the Great Storm and rescued a Sword Immortal caught in its wind blades. After the group reached the Pillar of Authenticity, Mo Wu explained that they would enter it one at a time and be forced to reveal their true appearances.

• The contestants used defensive treasures to withstand the weakened storm, but sudden lightning struck a Sword Immortal and turbulent currents swept participants away.
• Moghu raised his defense against the storm while Ye Liang flew into the wind blades to free the Sword Immortal’s flying sword and rescue him.
• The rescued Sword Immortal resumed controlling his sword, allowing both Sword Immortals to protect the group as Ye Liang returned to the others.
• The group left the Great Storm and arrived at the towering Pillar of Authenticity.
• Mo Wu told Ye Liang that the pillar would make everyone reveal their true appearances when they entered one at a time.

Ye Liang helped Baiguo conceal her true form as they entered the Pillar of Authenticity, where the newcomers were teleported to separate floors for a test. Ye Liang struggled to find an exit until a question board appeared, asking him a brain teaser.

• A bell rang from the Pillar of Authenticity, opening its entrance, and Mo Wu explained that entrants would face an identity check and a test.
• Baiguo revealed her true form as Dora Star’s High Priest while passing through the doorway, but Ye Liang’s Genjutsu kept the Morning Star warriors from seeing the change.
• Ye Liang entered the pillar and realized its rippling entrance had teleported him to a separate floor about thirty meters up.
• Ye Liang searched his empty chamber for an exit and heard a man on the floor above escape after following his advice to feel along the walls.
• Ye Liang kicked the floor in frustration, causing a pedestal and question board to appear with the question, “Under what circumstances does 1+1 equal 2?”

Ye Liang survived Cosmic Star’s second trial, a deadly lightning strike that left thousands unconscious and seemed to target him specifically. He woke in a wooden cabin with Mo Wu beside him, unsure why the lightning had carried killing intent.

• Ye Liang joined Mo Wu after passing Cosmic Star’s comprehension trial, and the Sword Immortals announced that two more examinations remained.
• Lightning began striking the crowd, and Ye Liang stayed low while the aides’ defensive efforts drew attacks and many contestants were knocked unconscious.
• The lightning intensified until a massive red bolt struck the crowd; Ye Liang alone remained standing, badly burned, while more than ten thousand aides fell unconscious.
• Mo Wu rushed to Ye Liang, who sensed the red lightning had been aimed at him before losing consciousness.
• Ye Liang awoke in a wooden cabin, where Mo Wu gave him water, and he asked what had happened.

Ye Liang recovered from the extra Sky Thunder while Mo Wu and Scar joined the third trial, where contestants had to capture ten Mystic Gate Soldier soybeans. The chapter ended with Mo Wu learning that the extra soybeans she had saved for Ye Liang could not count toward his result.

• Mo Wu told Ye Liang that the trial had already ended before the extra Sky Thunder struck him, so he had not been eliminated, but his depleted energy threatened his foundation.
• Mo Wu decided to hide the third match from Ye Liang, while he rested and planned to recover in time to compete.
• The Sword Immortal Gao Qiu began the third match, requiring contestants to defeat ten bean people and keep their soybeans as proof.
• Mo Wu and Scar organized aides to fight the fast but fragile Soybean Golems in groups, and Mo Wu’s side gathered enough soybeans to meet the requirement.
• Moghu asked Gao Qiu whether his injured brother Ye Liang could compete later, but Gao Qiu refused to make an exception to the rules.
• Gao Qiu rejected Mo Wu’s attempt to save ten extra soybeans for Ye Liang, and they flew back to him.

Ye Liang arrived late to the third trial, but the Sword Immortal gave him five minutes to defeat ten Soybean Golems. Ye Liang used Rashomon gates and a Fire Dragon Bullet to trap and burn them, then passed by cutting down 108 before time ran out.

• The Sword Immortal ended the trial and called for the participants to hand over their soybeans.
• Ye Liang rushed in wearing pajamas and asked the Sword Immortal for an extra test; the Sword Immortal gave him five minutes to defeat ten Soybean Golems.
• Ye Liang was knocked back by a Soybean Golem, then returned to the arena and summoned Rashomon gates to trap the golems.
• Ye Liang fired a Fire Dragon Bullet at the trapped golems and cut down 108 with the Chaos Demonic Blade before time ran out.
• The Sword Immortal declared Ye Liang had passed, and Mo Wu and the others celebrated him.
• The remaining factions handed in their soybeans, while the narration noted that about half of the tens of thousands of participants remained and that weaker civilizations had suffered deadly trials.

Ye Liang discovered that Little Kagura had been captured and sold to an underground auction house on Cosmic Star, then tracked her to a warehouse. He reached the warehouse and opened its door, where a silent figure confronted him.

• Ye Liang recognized Little Kagura being dragged away and was warned by a refined young man that her captor was too dangerous to confront directly.
• The refined young man told Ye Liang that Kagura had likely been sold to the underground auction house, then left without helping him further.
• Kagura recalled being separated from the Myriad Races Planet group during a storm and captured after an attack by exotic beasts.
• Kagura met Ah Li in the warehouse cages, and Ah Li promised to help her escape around midnight.
• Ye Liang gathered information, stole a guard's key, and opened the warehouse door, where a silent figure appeared before him.

Ye Liang rescued Kagura and other kidnapped girls from an underground auction house, then brought the girls to Mo Wu for help. He reunited Kagura with Kannazuki in Unicorn Territory and began catching his old friend up on what had happened since they last met.

• Ye Liang found Kagura and Ah Li among the kidnapped girls, then used Amenominaka to take the girls into his space as a guard dog alerted their captors.
• Ah Li escaped at incredible speed, while Ye Liang used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the War Planet residential district with the rescued girls.
• The next day, Ye Liang asked Mo Wu to contact the girls' civilizations, then decided to travel to Myriad Races Planet himself because its people were in Unicorn Star's territory.
• Ye Liang reached Unicorn Territory and reunited Kagura with her father, Kannazuki, who had been searching for her.
• Ye Liang visited Kannazuki and told him about his experiences on Dora Star and his new role as an adviser on War Planet.

After Kannazuki told Ye Liang that Ōtsutsuki Kaguya had become Unicorn Star's Princess Consort, Ye Liang confronted Prince Tatsumi at the inn. Tatsumi defeated him and ordered his guards to throw him out.

• Kannazuki told Ye Liang he had seen someone resembling his wife, and identified her as Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, Unicorn Star's Princess Consort.
• Ye Liang went to the inn at night, demanded that its occupants come out, and used his powers to defeat the guards and restrain several of Unicorn Star's advisers.
• Prince Tatsumi arrived, and Ye Liang accused him of stealing his wife before attacking him.
• Tatsumi restrained Ye Liang with his power and pierced his heart with his horn.
• Tatsumi ordered his guards to carry Ye Liang away and throw him out.

Mo Wu confronted Dugu, who claimed he had recovered his strength in another world and challenged her to settle their grudge at the Grand Competition. Meanwhile, Ye Liang went with Gao Qiu to the Deva Palace, where the Exalted One examined him and recognized his depleted golden Spiritual Energy as a sign of former cultivation.

• Mo Wu attacked Dugu when he appeared, but he disarmed her, explained that he had been summoned to Treasure Star, and vanished after challenging her to the Grand Competition.
• Mo Wu ordered her aides and Scar to keep Dugu’s visit secret, including from General Mo Hu, and vowed to settle the matter herself.
• Ye Liang followed Gao Qiu to the Deva Palace, where they passed rows of powerful, scaled welcoming children and entered the Exalted One’s hall.
• Ye Liang mistook a paper figure for the Exalted One and bowed to it before Gao Qiu pointed out the giant old man on the high chair.
• The Exalted One examined Ye Liang and observed that his blood and vitality were depleted, while his pure golden Spiritual Energy suggested he had once been a cultivator.
• Ye Liang realized the Exalted One was detecting his Sage Mode Chakra, which was difficult to replenish in the civilizations beyond the realm.

Ye Liang received an incomplete Contemplation Method from the old man at Deva Palace and used it to enter the Law Orb and absorb its Law Power. He recovered and grew stronger, but nearly died from overloading his body; with one week left before the Cosmic Grand Competition, he planned to reach level 90 and face Tatsumi.

• The old man took Ye Liang's Law Orb, then returned it and gave him an incomplete chapter of the original Contemplation Method before leaving.
• Gao Qiu helped Ye Liang leave Deva Palace, and Ye Liang studied the golden paper on Gao Qiu's roof.
• Ye Liang used the method to enter the Law Orb, discovered its Law Power, and absorbed enough to recover his strength.
• Ye Liang kept absorbing Law Power until his body cracked and his consciousness nearly faded, so the system healed him and lowered his level to around 88.
• Ye Liang stabilized his strength and reached level 89 in one afternoon, then resolved to reach level 90 before the Cosmic Grand Competition and face Tatsumi.

As the Cosmic Grand Competition began, War Planet faced the contest without strategist Ye Liang, while Prince Tatsumi and Dugu drew attention with their formidable power. Mo Wu revealed War Planet’s Heavenly Thunder Law, but Dugu’s stronger display and his history as War Planet’s former heir left War Planet in a worse position.

• Mo Wu watched the grand arena anxiously as Ye Liang failed to arrive and spectators overlooked War Planet.
• Prince Tatsumi revealed Ninth Stage power, frightening the spectators until Kaguya urged him to stop.
• Mo Wu summoned War Planet’s Heavenly Thunder Law, drawing attention to her strength.
• Dugu displayed an even more imposing Heavenly Thunder Law, and spectators identified him as War Planet’s former heir who had defected.
• Mo Wu clenched her fists as Dugu’s display overshadowed her trump card and deepened concerns about War Planet’s decline.

Ye Liang returned with the Sword Immortals and revealed a Chaos Law that devoured Mo Wu’s Heavenly Thunder Law, drawing fear and attention from the gathered civilizations. He then unleashed a Ninth Stage warrior phantom that shattered the crowd’s momentum and struck Tatsumi, leaving Kaguya stunned by his strength.

• Gao Qiu brought Ye Liang to the opening ceremony, where the crowd speculated that he was connected to Supreme Wuji and Tatsumi and Kaguya recognized him.
• Mo Wu embraced Ye Liang, and he told her that Tatsumi had nearly beaten him to death.
• Ye Liang released his Chaos Law, which swallowed Mo Wu’s Heavenly Thunder Law and absorbed it into his body.
• The spectators feared Ye Liang’s devouring Law, while rival civilizations displayed their powerful weapons, techniques, and Ninth Stage beasts.
• Ye Liang summoned a massive red warrior phantom that broke the gathered forces’ momentum and struck Tatsumi, who coughed up blood.
• Kaguya watched Ye Liang’s power in shock and vowed not to yield to him.

Mo Wu rejected a group of Eighth Stage experts from minor civilizations, who had blocked the routes to stop War Planet recruiting other candidates. When they challenged her, Ye Liang stepped in and defeated them all, then called them back as they were leaving.

• Experts from minor civilizations, led by a red-haired man, asked Mo Wu to recruit them for War Planet’s team.
• Mo Wu rejected them, and the red-haired man revealed that his group had blocked the roads to prevent other candidates from reaching her.
• Mo Wu attacked the red-haired man, but his force field kept her at bay until Ye Liang stopped her from using the Heavenly Thunder Law.
• Ye Liang accepted the group’s challenge and defeated all the geniuses, even when they attacked him together.
• As the defeated geniuses turned to leave, Ye Liang called after them, asking who had told them to leave.

Tatsumi confessed his love to Kaguya, but she rejected him and revealed that she was already married to Ye Liang and had a child with him. When Tatsumi admitted he had killed Ye Liang, he attacked Kaguya and trapped her behind a wall of light before leaving to meet his subordinate Hongwan.

• Tatsumi asked Kaguya to marry him, but she refused and told him she was married to Ye Liang and had a daughter named Ye Buhui.
• Tatsumi revealed that Ye Liang had come looking for Kaguya and that he had crippled and killed him, then thrown his body into the sewers.
• Kaguya cried out in horror and condemned Tatsumi, who became furious and lunged at her.
• Tatsumi overpowered Kaguya and dragged her toward the bed, but a maid interrupted to announce that Hongwan had arrived.
• Tatsumi trapped Kaguya in a wall of light and went to meet Hongwan, while the maid entered to check on her.

Ye Liang entered Cosmic Star’s fiery Planet Core to search for healing herbs, but a Scale Fish swallowed him as he stepped into the flames. He emerged unharmed with a herb and realized the herbs grew beneath the rocks.

• The referee explained that advisers had to find burn-healing herbs in the sea of fire to earn points.
• Ye Liang questioned the easy task, and a Scale Fish killed an adviser before the referee warned that even Eighth Stage cultivators were prey to it.
• Ye Liang stepped into the flames and the Scale Fish dragged him underground, leaving Mo Wu unable to find a way to reach him.
• The Scale Fish burst back out at the starting point, struck the referee, and shattered as Ye Liang emerged from inside it with a healing herb.
• Ye Liang reassured Mo Wu that he was unharmed and said the herbs grew beneath the rocks.

Ye Liang completed his herb-gathering mission and accepted the referee’s offer to retrieve a valuable Herb King for Supreme Wuji. Beneath the sea of fire, he found the plant guarded by a gigantic Scale Fish, and the chapter ended as his Earth Release dragon struck it.

• Ye Liang gathered enough herbs to exceed his quota, and the referee awarded him extra points.
• The referee told Ye Liang about the Herb King beneath the sea of fire and its hundreds of powerful Scale Fish guards, and Ye Liang agreed to retrieve it for Supreme Wuji.
• Mo Wu worried about Ye Liang but let him go, while a red-haired team leader secretly sent a message on his communicator.
• Ye Liang entered the underground sea of fire, used Water Release and Ice Release to withstand the heat, and found the Herb King.
• A giant Scale Fish emerged beneath the Herb King and attacked Ye Liang, who answered with an Earth Release dragon.

Ye Liang used Earth Release to track Tatsumi and discovered that beads had let Tatsumi’s group reach the underground herbs. He lured the giant fish toward Tatsumi, but Tatsumi fled with his herbs after the fish swallowed one of his attendants, leaving Ye Liang’s plan in disarray.

• The giant fish attacked Ye Liang and drove off the scale fish he had been using for transport, so he escaped through the rock with Earth Release.
• Ye Liang spotted Tatsumi and his attendants harvesting herbs underground with beads that warded off the fire and opened passages through rock.
• Ye Liang lured the giant fish toward Tatsumi by sending fire dragons at the Herb King, then followed the fish to Tatsumi’s group.
• The giant fish swallowed an attendant and his herbs as Tatsumi’s group prepared to leave.
• Tatsumi fled with his packed herbs, and Ye Liang watched in disbelief as the giant fish pursued them.

Ye Liang fought Tatsumi, whose Light Energy Law let him move at the speed of light and regenerate after being crushed. Ye Liang struck Tatsumi with an Otsutsuki clan technique and then trapped him in a growing mass of rocks with Planetary Devastation.

• Ye Liang pursued Tatsumi, shattered the sphere he used to escape, and wounded him with a surprise attack.
• Tatsumi revealed his Light Energy Law and used his speed to injure Ye Liang, who protected himself with Armor Law.
• Ye Liang used Shinra Tensei and Banshō Ten'in to crush Tatsumi, but Tatsumi reassembled himself from light and attacked Ye Liang with light spheres.
• Ye Liang hid underground, then emerged through flames and struck Tatsumi with Dragon God and Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• Ye Liang used Planetary Devastation to lift Tatsumi into the sky with the surrounding rocks.

Ye Liang defeated Tatsumi in a fierce battle, then returned with the Herb King and claimed he had encountered an extinct Scale Fish Leader. The referee retrieved the herb and flew off to report the discovery, while Ye Liang worried that Tatsumi's death might draw attention.

• Tatsumi used the Wings of Light to overwhelm Ye Liang, but Ye Liang summoned Susanoo and fought back with Indra's Arrow.
• Tatsumi blocked Indra's Arrow, but Ye Liang appeared behind him and killed him with a demonic blade before taking his spatial pouch.
• Ye Liang emerged from underground pretending to be injured and accused the referee of failing to warn him about the Scale Fish Leader.
• The referee drilled underground to investigate, then returned with the Herb King and promised Ye Liang a reward for discovering the supposedly extinct creature.
• Mo Wu checked that Ye Liang was unharmed, while the referee flew away and Ye Liang worried that Tatsumi's death would cause trouble.

After Tatsumi was found dead, suspicion fell on the vanished Kaguya, and Ye Liang joined the search while concealing his connection to her. The Cosmic Grand Competition was suspended, and a red-haired man secretly reported to Will that Ye Liang might be linked to both Kaguya and Tatsumi’s death.

• The Unicorn King angrily rejected Cosmic Star’s theory that Tatsumi’s death was a crime of passion, then vowed that no one could harm his son.
• Ye Liang returned to Mo Wu and the others without finding Kaguya and insisted that he needed to learn what she had endured.
• Mo Wu stopped the red-haired captain from questioning Ye Liang about Kaguya and warned Ye Liang to hide their connection.
• Cosmic Star suspended the Cosmic Grand Competition after Tatsumi’s death, while the search for Kaguya continued without success.
• After Scar denied rumors about Ye Liang and Kaguya, the red-haired man secretly told Will that Ye Liang was connected to Kaguya and might be involved in Tatsumi’s death.