Chapter Summaries

Cao Bing returned to Earth as the Nuolanshan Family’s invasion loomed, while Hong and Lei Shen trained to defend the planet. Luo Feng reached Star level and bought Earth under the protection of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, but Cao Bing knew the Nuolanshan ancestor would still pursue its wealth and prepared to kill any invaders who came down to the surface.

• Cao Bing reached Star level 1 and learned that Hong had reached Star level 2 and Lei Shen Star level 3, while Luo Feng was cultivating in preparation for his breakthrough.
• Cao Bing returned to Earth, where Hong and Lei Shen welcomed him briefly before resuming their cultivation.
• Luo Feng reached Star level, claimed the first portion of his inheritance, and bought Earth, placing it under the Black Dragon Mountain Empire’s laws.
• Cao Bing remained wary because he believed the Nuolanshan ancestor would keep pursuing Earth’s wealth despite its new legal protection.
• Cao Bing resolved to wait for Nuolanshan Family members to leave their ships and enter Earth, then kill them one by one.

The Nuolanshan Family fleet left Earth, but a hidden elite squad remained behind to search for its wealth. Cao Bing ambushed the squad and joined Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen in battle as the Nuolanshan survivors attacked.

• The Nuolanshan Family fleet hovered over Earth, then departed after an hour, briefly relieving Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen, and humanity.
• Cao Bing discovered a spacecraft carrying 48 Nuolanshan Family Star-level experts and attacked as they emerged, killing the Level 7 members and badly injuring many Level 8 fighters.
• Tuo Leiwu identified Cao Bing and ordered his surviving squad to attack him, while Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen arrived and challenged the squad’s presence on Earth.
• Tuo Leiwu denied the squad’s ties to the Nuolanshan Family and sent two Level 8 fighters after Luo Feng and his companions.
• Tuo Leiwu and the other captains attacked Cao Bing, who redirected two captains toward Luo Feng’s group so they could fight stronger opponents.

Cao Bing and Luo Feng’s group fought the Nuolanshan Family squad in the Pacific Ocean, and Cao Bing slaughtered the squad’s remaining warriors. Tuo Leiwu fled but was killed by Cao Bing’s improved Starlight, while Alman escaped in the opposite direction toward an unknown danger.

• Cao Bing overpowered Tuo Leiwu and Alman while Luo Feng’s group fought two Nuolanshan squad captains, and neither side could quickly decide the battle.
• Tuo Leiwu activated a secret technique and fought Cao Bing alongside Alman as the Star Level 8 warriors provided support.
• After Hong pierced one squad captain’s throat, Cao Bing used Shadow String Kill to annihilate the remaining Star Level 8 warriors.
• Tuo Leiwu and Alman fled in opposite directions, and Cao Bing pursued Tuo Leiwu while sensing a massive body lying in ambush along Alman’s route.
• Cao Bing unleashed his improved Starlight, which shattered Tuo Leiwu’s Force Weapon and Combat Suit before killing him.

Cao Bing, Luo Feng, and their allies wiped out the Nuolanshan Family squad, while the Golden Horned Beast killed Alman before he could report back. After learning the squad had gone silent, Nuolanshan ordered Deni Nuolanshan and Bakaruo to investigate personally.

• Cao Bing annihilated Tuo Leiwu, and Luo Feng killed the remaining squad leader with a psychic weapon.
• The Golden Horned Beast killed Alman with a fragment of Yin Mo Star before he could contact the fleet.
• Luo Feng, Cao Bing, Lei Shen, and Hong regrouped and discussed how difficult the Nuolanshan Family fighters had been to defeat.
• Pula reported to Nuolanshan that Tuo Leiwu and the elite squad had not responded to repeated calls.
• Nuolanshan concluded that the squad was dead and ordered Deni Nuolanshan and Bakaruo to make the trip personally.

After a month of intense training in the Slaughter Arena, Cao Bing faced a mysterious white-clad swordswoman whose technique repeatedly pierced his defenses and neutralized his Starlight. The duel continued as Cao Bing prepared to test her against four Starlight attacks.

• Luo Feng and the others trained relentlessly in the Slaughter Arena after defeating the Nuolanshan Family's elite squad.
• Cao Bing accepted a duel invitation from a silent woman in a white Combat Suit.
• The woman used simple but precise swordsmanship to penetrate Cao Bing's defenses and wound him repeatedly.
• Cao Bing unleashed Starlight, but the woman split its twelve streaks with a single sword thrust.
• Cao Bing asked how she had countered Starlight, then prepared to attack with four Starlights when she charged again.

Cao Bing fought a woman in white with a ninth-level Wind Domain in the Slaughter Arena, but she defeated him despite suffering severe injuries. He then joined Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen at their tavern, where he learned they had also struggled against a female Martial Artist.

• Cao Bing used four phantom bodies and simultaneous Starlight attacks against the woman in white, but her Wind Nether technique deflected and suppressed them.
• Cao Bing unleashed Starburst to disperse the white storm, only for the woman in white to pierce his true body's head and win the duel.
• Cao Bing left the match and reflected that the Genius Battle would be difficult if the universe held many ninth-level Domain experts.
• Cao Bing went to the tavern and found Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen gathered there, looking gloomy.
• Luo Feng said he had at least cut off the female Martial Artist's arm, while Lei Shen had failed to touch her; Lei Shen challenged Luo Feng to fight without spiritual force.

Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen compared their duel results while a powerful group assessed their abilities. Ming Yu, a Level 2 Cosmic Mercenary and Domain Lord, summoned the four and questioned why they had spent so long in the Slaughter Arena.

• Cao Bing said he had lost to a white-clad woman, while Hong had defeated his opponent and Lei Shen questioned whether someone was deliberately targeting them.
• The white-clad woman told the burly man that Cao Bing was very strong, and the other fighters reported that Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen were talented as well.
• After reviewing the battle recordings, the burly man concluded that Cao Bing was a genius.
• A server invited Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen to a meditation room, where they met the Level 2 Cosmic Mercenary Ming Yu.
• Ming Yu said he had observed the four for over a month and asked why they had spent so long in the Slaughter Arena.

Ming Yu explained that true breakthroughs required real life-and-death battles and introduced bloodline evolution agents to the four Earthlings. He offered them free potions if they joined the Virtual Universe Company, but the Genius Battle mattered more to them.

• Ming Yu warned Hong, Lei Shen, Luo Feng, and Cao Bing that prolonged training in the Slaughter Arena could not replace real life-and-death battles.
• Ming Yu showed the group a chart ranking human bloodlines and revealed that Earth humans had ninth-rank bloodlines, though he marveled that all four had reached Star level and comprehended domains.
• Ming Yu explained how Bloodline Evolution Potions could improve their bloodline foundations and make future cultivation easier.
• Ming Yu offered free evolution potions to the four if they joined the Virtual Universe Company, assigning them different talent ranks and potion types.
• Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen, and Cao Bing remained reluctant to join because the Genius Battle was more important to them than the potions.

Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen refused the Virtual Universe Company's full membership and chose a life-and-death adventure instead. After buying Bloodline Evolution Elixirs and traveling to White Orchid Star, Cao Bing injected one and endured excruciating pain as it transformed his cells.

• Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen refused full membership, bought Bloodline Evolution Elixirs as external members, and agreed to take the trainee universe mercenary assessment in Thunder World.
• Cao Bing spent his fortune on three elixirs, while Luo Feng and the others each bought one; Ming Yu reported their decision to Man Luo.
• Cao Bing and the others prepared for the adventure, with Cao Bing bringing twenty Star Level 9 Mental Masters despite Lei Shen's objections.
• A D5-class spacecraft escorted by three Cosmic level experts delivered the elixirs to White Orchid Star, and Cao Bing and the others went to separate training rooms.
• Cao Bing injected an elixir and endured an hour of intense pain as his cells were destroyed and remade, then realized he still had two more doses to use.

Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen entered Thunder World to take the Universe Mercenary Alliance's probationary examination and began searching for One-Horned Iron Rhinos. After finding a herd of more than forty, Cao Bing proposed attacking it in an ambush.

• Cao Bing explained that his guards would stay back unless the group faced extreme danger, then entered Thunder World with Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen.
• The group landed in Longsuo Forest, where Thunder World's immense gravity caused Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen to crash to the ground.
• Cao Bing asked Babata to search for One-Horned Iron Rhinos, and the group headed toward Wind-Thunder Canyon with their slaves divided between the team and a support group.
• After traveling hundreds of kilometers and fighting other creatures, Cao Bing's team found a herd of more than forty One-Horned Iron Rhinos.
• Cao Bing agreed to attack the herd, reasoning that a successful ambush could overcome their superior numbers.

Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen, and their slaves ambushed a herd of One-Horned Iron Rhinos in Thunder World. When a ten-man squad arrived to claim the surviving rhinos, its powerhouse Pu Lu attacked Luo Feng’s slaves and overwhelmed them.

• Cao Bing and the others used stealth to approach the One-Horned Iron Rhino herd and killed many of the beasts in their opening attack.
• The remaining rhinos charged, and Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Hong, Lei Shen, and the slaves fought them down.
• Babata warned that a ten-man squad was approaching, so Luo Feng ordered his two subordinates to withdraw and keep watch.
• The squad arrived, and its arrogant white-horned leader dismissed Tie Nanhe’s warning and ordered Pu Lu to kill him.
• Pu Lu struck Tie Nanhe away, then fought Ao Gu and Tie Nanhe together, overpowering both slaves.

Cao Bing overwhelmed Pu Lu’s group, while Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen finished off the One-Horned Iron Rhinos and joined the battle. The white-horned Fifth Prince of Jiaxi Universe Country was left exposed, and Babata revealed that he could not contact his father for help from the World Master’s world.

• Cao Bing defeated two One-Horned Iron Rhinos, then struck Pu Lu and severed one of his arms despite the elderly Mental Master’s attempt to intervene.
• Cao Bing attacked again, forcing Pu Lu to defend the white-horned youth while the elderly Mental Master supported him.
• The youth ordered his seven guards to attack Cao Bing, but Tie Nanhe, Ao Gu, and Cao Bing’s servants held them back with superior equipment.
• Luo Feng, Hong, and Lei Shen finished killing the remaining One-Horned Iron Rhinos, then Luo Feng and Hong joined the fight against the guards.
• Lei Shen cornered the white-horned youth, who threatened him with his status as the Fifth Prince of Jiaxi Universe Country.
• Babata said Jiaxi was only a low-level universe country and explained that the youth could not contact his father in time, plunging the squad into despair.

Cao Bing and his companions wiped out the Jiaoxi Empire prince’s squad, then traveled through Thunder World toward Wind-Thunder Canyon to obtain Wind Horn Stones. They settled into a hiding place to collect stones from the storms, while Cao Bing remained focused on cultivation and the treasures hidden elsewhere in Thunder World.

• Cao Bing killed Pu Lu and the elderly Mental Master with his blade and a binding spirit artifact, and Lei Shen, Hong, and Luo Feng helped eliminate the remaining enemies.
• Cao Bing and his companions collected their spoils and left, having secured One-Horned Iron Rhino horns but still needing Wind Horn Stones for the assessment.
• A fast, strange bird attacked the group during their journey and took one of Lei Shen’s legs, but Cao Bing’s medicine restored him, and the group later ate the bird.
• Cao Bing and his companions reached Wind-Thunder Canyon, where storms made collecting Wind Horn Stones dangerous and squads could also ambush one another.
• Babata found the group a hiding place, and over several days Luo Feng, the others, and Cao Bing’s Mental Master guards captured only one cluster of Wind Horn Stones.
• Lei Shen grew impatient with waiting, while Cao Bing pretended to gather stones and concentrated on cultivation, caring more about the Life Fruit and Star Heart than the mercenary assessment.

Cao Bing and the others entered the newly revealed World within a World, where Babata began locating treasure deposits. After finding Cosmic Crystals, Cao Bing devised a faster way to excavate them and split the group into teams to search more efficiently.

• A black entrance appeared in the mountains, and Babata identified it as a passage into a World within a World.
• Cao Bing said he had heard rumors of the treasure, then sent his slaves ahead to check the entrance before the group entered.
• Cao Bing urged Babata to search for unusual treasures, and Babata quickly found a deposit of Cosmic Crystals.
• Cao Bing used his Space Ring to remove and dump large quantities of soil, showing the others how to excavate faster.
• Cao Bing proposed dividing the group into five teams, with Babata guiding them between excavation sites, and the others agreed.

Cao Bing uncovered Thunder Stone deposits and spent eight days gathering Cosmic Crystals and Thunder Stones with his group. He then entered the World within a World’s blood-soaked core region to scout, where he saw the five major factions gathered before a dark-blue castle alongside the ninth prince, Broly.

• Cao Bing reasoned that the Thunder Stones Babata had dismissed might be valuable and persuaded him to reveal the two deposits.
• Cao Bing’s group excavated more than 160,000 Thunder Stones from the larger deposit and continued digging for eight days, collecting over 236,000 cubic meters of Cosmic Crystals and more than 500,000 Thunder Stones.
• After Ming Yu reported that over two million Star Level 9 troops were moving toward Thunder World, Cao Bing and his group split up to keep searching while Cao Bing, Lei Shen, and five Mental Masters headed for the core region.
• Cao Bing encountered repeated attacks in the core region and killed the squads that ambushed him.
• Cao Bing saw the camps of North Dragon City, Black Cloud Association, Hundred Tiger Tower, Ice Sea Divine Kingdom, and Black Dragon Mountain Holy Land gathered before a dark-blue castle, with Broly standing at their front.

Broly learned that the castle’s treasures could only be exchanged for Thunder Stones, while Cao Bing and Lei Shen used the new information to help Luo Feng’s group gather stones and prepare to obtain a Life Fruit. Cao Bing reached the allied camp under Ming Yu’s name and entered the castle in disguise to make an exchange.

• Broly discovered that the castle’s treasures required Thunder Stones and reluctantly sent his forces to search for them.
• Cao Bing told Lei Shen to send Luo Feng’s group the Thunder Stone distribution map and arranged to use Ming Yu’s name to approach the castle.
• Hong relayed Lei Shen’s message to Luo Feng, and Luo Feng’s group gathered more than one million Thunder Stones in a day.
• Cao Bing took eight hundred thousand Thunder Stones alone to the allied camp, where he entered under Ming Yu’s name.
• Cao Bing disguised his appearance and build, then entered the castle among the major factions’ decoy visitors.

Cao Bing exchanged 800,000 Thunder Stones for a Life Fruit and delivered it to Luo Feng, who fed it to the Moyun Vine. Cao Bing and Hong then set out to ambush Broly’s squads while the others gathered Thunder Stones and waited for the vine to advance.

• Cao Bing exchanged 800,000 Thunder Stones for a Life Fruit in the ancient castle, and the Intelligent Lifeform handed it over after a brief argument.
• Cao Bing left the castle and reunited with Luo Feng without drawing attention from the allied army.
• Luo Feng fed the Life Fruit to the Moyun Vine, while Cao Bing left him, Lei Shen, Tie Nanhe, and Ao Gu to wait for it to grow.
• Cao Bing sent the other guards out in groups of five to search for Thunder Stones and went with Hong to hunt Broly’s subordinates.
• Cao Bing and Hong targeted Broly’s squads to weaken the Ninth Prince’s forces and seize their Thunder Stones.

Hong and Cao Bing ambushed the Ninth Prince Broly’s forces with a Gravity Formation and an Illusion Formation, killing their pursuers and taking their Thunder Stones. After repeated attacks over two days, Broly’s forces began to recognize the danger, forcing Hong and Cao Bing to leave.

• Hong lured more than sixty of Broly’s subordinates into Cao Bing’s formations, where the two killed the squad and took its Thunder Stones.
• Cao Bing replaced an energy-depleted Cosmic Crystal while Hong helped restore the battlefield and they discussed the formation’s energy use.
• Using the same ambush strategy, Hong and Cao Bing attacked Broly’s forces six times over two days, killing more than five hundred people and taking seventy thousand Thunder Stones.
• Broly realized his forces were being ambushed, so Hong and Cao Bing decided they could no longer stay.

Cao Bing and Hong learned that the outside factions’ Martial Artist reinforcements had arrived, making the World within a World more dangerous and leaving Luo Feng’s group with fewer safe places to gather Thunder Stones. After White Tiger Tower killed Cao Bing’s slaves, the Earthlings joined forces to hunt White Tiger Tower and the Nuolanshan Family, beginning with underground ambushes.

• Cao Bing exchanged Thunder Stones for another Life Fruit and learned that a Martial Artist army of more than three thousand had arrived.
• The outside factions’ two million Star Level 9 soldiers swept through the World within a World, driving small adventurer teams out and squeezing Luo Feng’s group into the fringe regions.
• Cao Bing received word that White Tiger Tower had killed nine of his slaves, including an entire squad, and decided to target White Tiger Tower and the Nuolanshan Family.
• Cao Bing, Hong, Luo Feng, and their companions reunited and abandoned scattered mining to hunt the two factions.
• Hong and Luo Feng used their Moyun Vines to ambush enemy forces from underground, killing captains and taking their Space Rings and Thunder Stones.

Cao Bing and his companions survived six weeks of assassinations and faction warfare, collecting many treasures before the final castle treasure was claimed and the armies prepared to leave. As the Three Axe Mountain forces withdrew, three D6-class Orbital Cannons annihilated thousands of their members, and Cao Bing sensed another attack locking onto him.

• Cao Bing's group exploited formations, Voidless techniques, and Moyun Vines to ambush Martial Artists while the major factions descended into increasingly bloody battles.
• Cao Bing collected the Star Heart, five sets of Lightning Secret Arts, and more than sixty stolen treasures, then sold his remaining Thunder Stones for Cosmic Crystals.
• After the castle's final treasure was exchanged, the Three Axe Mountain forces began withdrawing from the World within a World.
• Cao Bing warned Hong, Luo Feng, and the others to be careful, and Luo Feng reported that Babata had detected a large-scale scanning system.
• Three D6-class Orbital Cannons fired from the sky, erasing several thousand Three Axe Mountain Martial Artists in their impact zones.
• Cao Bing activated his Slow-motion Intent, summoned his High-grade Spirit Artifact armor and shield, and maximized his Star Primal Energy and Gene Primal Energy as another threat locked onto him.