Chapter Summaries

Cao Bing fought the white-robed guardian on the fourth level of the Tongtian Bridge and was defeated just short of victory. Afterward, his attempt inspired other geniuses to challenge the bridge, while the chapter contrasted his progress in the Cosmic Chaos Tablet with Bolan’s.

• Cao Bing used Eight Directions Shadow Capture, Slow-motion Intent, and Brocade Floss to pressure the white-robed man, but the guardian’s swordsmanship kept him on the defensive.
• Cao Bing unleashed Flower Floss—Turn, wounding the white-robed man, but was beheaded and failed to pass the fourth level.
• Cao Bing reflected on the battle after leaving the Tongtian Bridge plane and resolved to absorb what he had learned.
• Bafen spread the news that Cao Bing had passed the third level and narrowly lost on the fourth, prompting Rong Jun, Long Yun, and Bolan to challenge the bridge without success.
• The chapter explained that Bolan’s ambition to master both Time and Space Laws hindered his progress, while Cao Bing’s innate Time and Space attributes helped him catch up in three years.

King Lou Gu urged King Kuanglan to stop delaying and take Cao Bing as her disciple, then directed Cao Bing to seek her out after he passed the third Tongtian Bridge level. The chapter ended with Cao Bing unsure about asking to become the disciple of someone he had never met.

• King Luyu and King Lou Gu pressed King Kuanglan to act before Cao Bing attracted the attention of a Venerable, and the one-eyed man warned her not to keep sinking into her grief.
• King Kuanglan agreed and vanished, while King Lou Gu left to encourage Cao Bing.
• Cao Bing finished reflecting on his battle and learned that passing the third Tongtian Bridge level earned him 4,000 points, a chance to study the Cosmic Chaos Tablet, and an opportunity to attend an Immortal's lecture.
• King Lou Gu visited Cao Bing in the virtual world, startling him with a glance before revealing his identity.
• King Lou Gu told Cao Bing to visit King Kuanglan's dojo and sincerely ask to become her disciple, then departed before Cao Bing could ask him to stay.

Cao Bing visited King Kuanglan at King Lou Gu’s recommendation, hoping to become her disciple. King Kuanglan gave him a three-year test: master her offensive secret technique to the beginner level, and she would accept him.

• Cao Bing searched for information about King Kuanglan, brought her two jars of wine from the Penglai Immortal Realm, and went to her residence in Chaos City.
• King Kuanglan let Cao Bing into her home, where he saw her wine collection and awkwardly blurted out that she was beautiful.
• King Kuanglan recognized Cao Bing’s beginner-level mastery of Brocade Floss and set him a three-year test to learn her offensive secret technique.
• King Kuanglan demonstrated the technique with a pale blue ribbon, sending Cao Bing flying out of her courtyard while ensuring he could remember the move.
• Cao Bing thanked King Kuanglan for her instruction, vowed to meet her test, and left without receiving a reply.

Cao Bing sought to master King Kuanglan’s secret method, Gathering Space, and used one of his remaining opportunities to study the Cosmic Chaos Tablet. After seven days of study, he returned to his residence to consolidate his gains while the competition among Chaos City’s geniuses continued.

• King Luyu learned that King Kuanglan had set Cao Bing three years to master Gathering Space, and King Kuanglan challenged the three men to fight her in the Virtual Space arena.
• Cao Bing decided to study the Cosmic Chaos Tablet to help him understand Gathering Space and went to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Guardian Kandri let Cao Bing enter the tablet chamber, where Cao Bing gained new insights into the diagrams and resolved many questions about the Time Law and Space Law.
• After seven days, Guardian Kandri called Cao Bing out of the chamber, and Cao Bing returned to his residence to enter seclusion and absorb what he had learned.
• The Tongtian Bridge challenges in Chaos City gradually subsided, but the geniuses continued to compete and waited for the next challenger to pass.

After struggling with questions about the origin of Space Law, Cao Bing visited King Kuanglan and demonstrated that he had mastered Gathering Space. King Kuanglan accepted him as her disciple and promised to guide him through an avatar in the Virtual Universe.

• Cao Bing spent three years studying Space Law and gained an initial grasp of King Kuanglan's Gathering Space technique.
• Cao Bing became trapped in questions about the nature of space and nearly went astray in cultivation before breaking free.
• With the three-year deadline approaching, Cao Bing brought two jars of wine to King Kuanglan's residence.
• Cao Bing demonstrated Gathering Space by concentrating the mass of nearby space into a powerful finger strike, which King Kuanglan stopped and dispelled.
• King Kuanglan accepted Cao Bing as her disciple and promised to leave an avatar of consciousness in the Virtual Universe to answer his cultivation questions.

Cao Bing received guidance from King Kuanglan and learned how dangerous it was to pursue the essence of laws before mastering a law thread. After Luo Feng and the other geniuses challenged the Tongtian Bridge, Cao Bing passed its fourth level, reigniting the trainees’ competitive drive.

• King Kuanglan answered Cao Bing’s cultivation questions and warned him that pursuing the essence of laws before gaining the law origin’s recognition could destroy him.
• Cao Bing left King Kuanglan’s courtyard and learned that Luo Feng had emerged from seclusion and passed three Tongtian Bridge levels.
• Rong Jun passed the second level but fell at the third, while Bolan passed the fourth and Wuka narrowly passed the second.
• Galexi, Jiang Mo, Long Yun, and Ai Chen failed to pass the second level, and other trainees achieved less notable results.
• Cao Bing passed the fourth level of the Tongtian Bridge, as supervisor Bafen announced his result to the trainees.

After losing to the fifth-level Tongtian Bridge guardian, Cao Bing teamed up with Hong and Lei Shen to hunt Chaos Beasts and help them obtain Chaos True Spirits. He lured a vast beast tide toward them and began wiping it out with his Scattered Lotus formation.

• Cao Bing failed to pass the fifth level of the Tongtian Bridge, and Rong Jun and the others returned to cultivation after hearing the news.
• Cao Bing contacted Hong, then brought Hong and Lei Shen to hunt Chaos Beasts outside Chaos City.
• Cao Bing told Hong and Lei Shen that he had already killed hundreds of Domain Lord-level Chaos Beasts, leaving them astonished.
• Cao Bing released his aura and attracted tens of thousands of Chaos Beasts toward the group.
• Cao Bing split into sixty-four figures and used Scattered Lotus—Extreme Shadow String Kill Formation to kill the charging Chaos Beasts and produce Chaos True Spirits.

Cao Bing helped Hong and Lei Shen transform their souls three times by hunting Cosmic-level Chaos Beasts, then returned to the Domain Lord-level zone. There, Bolan witnessed Cao Bing fighting a Chaos Beast pack and realized how greatly he had underestimated him.

• Cao Bing wiped out tens of thousands of Cosmic-level Chaos Beasts so Hong and Lei Shen could absorb their Chaos True Spirits.
• Over the next month, Hong and Lei Shen transformed their souls three times, while Cao Bing recorded their reactions.
• Hong and Lei Shen returned to Chaos City, and Cao Bing had Xiao Xing pilot the spacecraft to the Domain Lord-level zone.
• Bolan watched a lone Chaos Beast near a pack of seven as Cao Bing attacked the pack, killing its strongest member and disabling two others.
• Bolan forced himself to notice Cao Bing and realized Cao Bing's actual combat ability far surpassed what he had shown in the virtual world.

Cao Bing exterminated a pack of seven Domain Lord-level Chaos Beasts while Bolan watched and questioned his own chosen path. Cao Bing left with the Chaos True Spirits, unaware that his display had shaken Bolan.

• Bolan watched Cao Bing kill a Domain Lord Level One Chaos Beast and realized Cao Bing might have surpassed him in combat.
• Bolan reflected that his pursuit of an unsuitable spacetime path had slowed his progress and began doubting his choices.
• Cao Bing used his secret techniques to evade the three remaining Chaos Beasts, then unleashed Meteor Shower to cripple them and killed the last survivor.
• Cao Bing sensed Bolan nearby, but Bolan quietly left before Cao Bing could speak to him.
• Cao Bing collected the Chaos True Spirits and departed as a pack gathered at the crater, then guessed that his display had shaken Bolan.

Cao Bing completed his eighth soul transformation and spent thirty years cultivating in Chaos City as Bolan and the other trainees advanced through the Tongtian Bridge. Less than a month before Cao Bing was due to leave, King Kuanglan gave him a powerful insight into the laws of time and space and reminded him to use his remaining chance to study a Chaos Tablet.

• Cao Bing absorbed Chaos True Spirits for a year, completed his eighth soul transformation, and returned to Chaos City to cultivate in seclusion.
• Lei Shen passed the first Tongtian Bridge level and became a Marquis Immortal’s disciple, while Bolan later switched to the Wind God Chaos Tablet branch.
• Bolan, Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Hong, Wuka, and the other trainees passed progressively higher Tongtian Bridge levels over the following years, and Bolan became a Universe Country Lord’s disciple.
• After thirty years in Chaos City, Cao Bing’s four clones cultivated together when King Kuanglan appeared before him.
• King Kuanglan pressed a finger to Cao Bing’s brow, gave him an immense insight into the Space and Time Laws, and reminded him to use his remaining chance to study a Chaos Tablet.

Cao Bing returned to the City Lord's Mansion for his seventh chance to study the Cosmic Chaos Tablet, where he focused on the deeper Snow Mountain Diagram. After seven days, he left Chaos City determined to consolidate his insights and challenge the seventh level of the Tongtian Bridge before his thirty years were up.

• Cao Bing woke two days after King Kuanglan departed and decided to use his remaining chance to study the Chaos Tablet.
• Cao Bing met Rong Jun and Bolan at the City Lord's Mansion, and he and Bolan vowed not to lose to each other.
• Cao Bing entered the chamber and studied the Snow Mountain Diagram for seven days, becoming deeply immersed in its mysteries.
• Kandri summoned everyone out, and Cao Bing left the chamber reluctantly, believing it might be his last visit to Chaos City.
• Cao Bing planned to consolidate his insights and challenge the seventh level of the Tongtian Bridge before his thirty years ended.

Cao Bing defeated the seventh-level gatekeeper of the Tongtian Bridge by using his mastery of the Space and Time Laws, then was swiftly defeated by the eighth-level gatekeeper. After Bafen praised his achievement, Cao Bing returned to Chaos City and continued cultivating with the other students before their departure.

• Cao Bing faced the woman in white for the third time on the seventh level and used a flaw he had found in her Space and Time Law technique to defeat her.
• The Tongtian Bridge announced Cao Bing had passed the seventh level, and the woman in white vanished.
• Cao Bing challenged the eighth-level gatekeeper, who defeated him with a single sword strike before he could see her move.
• Bafen congratulated Cao Bing for passing the first seven levels in thirty years and encouraged him to keep developing his talent.
• Cao Bing returned to his courtyard in Chaos City, where he and the other students continued cultivating before their departure.

After Cao Bing passed the seventh level of the Tongtian Bridge, King Kuanglan’s companions discussed the effort she had spent teaching him the Gathering Space secret technique. Cao Bing then left Chaos City with the other trainees, rejoined his brothers, and heard Nine Sword Venerable praise the batch’s strongest performers.

• King Luyu, King Lou Gu, the one-eyed man, and Bruch discussed Cao Bing’s achievement and the mental strain King Kuanglan had endured to impart her secret technique to him.
• Cao Bing left his courtyard and flew to the fish-shaped Biological Spaceship, where he reunited with Hong, Lei Shen, and Luo Feng.
• Cao Bing and his brothers discussed their Tongtian Bridge results and the trainees’ achievements across the different zones.
• Nine Sword Venerable addressed the 810 trainees and praised Bolan, Cao Bing, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun for their performance.

Cao Bing seized the journey through the Universe Channel to absorb a vast number of Time Law fragments, and Nine Sword Venerable helped calm the dangerous fluctuations they caused. At the Virtual Universe Company headquarters, the trainees boarded separate ships for their next destinations, leaving Cao Bing, Luo Feng, Rong Jun, Hong, and Lei Shen to part ways for now.

• Cao Bing used Slow-motion Intent during the passage through the Universe Channel to memorize far more of the Time Law than he had before.
• Nine Sword Venerable calmed the dense Time Law fluctuations within Cao Bing and advised him to sort out the Laws as soon as possible.
• The trainees arrived at the Virtual Universe Company headquarters and rested briefly in the egg-shaped hall before boarding their assigned ships.
• Cao Bing, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun boarded a gray spacecraft as Taichu Zone trainees, while Hong and Lei Shen boarded an obsidian-like ship as Doomsday Zone trainees.
• Lei Shen, Cao Bing, Luo Feng, and the others exchanged farewells and resolved to grow strong enough to meet again across the universe.

After ten years of cultivation, Cao Bing had grown much stronger in the Stellar Transformation world, though its laws remained difficult to comprehend. The leaders of the overseas cultivation world gathered at Leishan Residence so Yan Xu could use all eight Jade Swords to search for the ninth, while Cao Bing hoped Qin Yu would reach the NiYang Realm before Jiang Li’s cousin arrived.

• Cao Bing advanced his Stellar Transformation technique to the early Planetary level, reached the fifth cosmic level as a Martial Artist, and developed his Space Domain to around its fifth level.
• The overseas factions gathered at Leishan Residence after Qin Yu’s Star Pavilion rose to become a major power, and Yida urged Yan Xu to search for the ninth Jade Sword.
• Cao Bing led the leaders to Leishan Residence’s dueling ground, where Azure Dragon recognized the site of his past battle with Cao Bing and feared an attack.
• Cao Bing handed his Jade Sword to Yan Xu, while privately hoping the search would secure Qin Yu entry to the NiYang Realm before Jiang Li’s cousin arrived.

True Lord Yan Xu led the group toward the ninth Jade Sword, bringing Qin Yu and Jiang Li back to the Qin Dynasty and into the Wildlands. The Jade Swords scattered when Yan Xu’s secret art failed, leaving the group to pursue them separately.

• True Lord Yan Xu sent the eight Jade Swords flying north, and the group followed them.
• Cao Bing teased Qin Yu and Jiang Li about their relationship while the group traveled for more than a month toward Qianlong Continent.
• Qin Yu said he wondered how his father and family were doing, and Cao Bing urged him to visit home and joked about Jiang Li meeting his parents.
• The group crossed into the Wildlands and followed Yan Xu’s secret art until the Jade Swords scattered in the strange environment.
• Yan Xu said his secret art had failed, and the others hurried to retrieve their swords.

Cao Bing and Qin Yu left the search for the ninth Jade Sword to return to the Qin Dynasty, where Qin Yu reunited with Jiang Li and headed for the imperial palace. Cao Bing went to find Uncle Chen and, while walking through the capital, gained a new insight into cultivating his state of mind.

• True Lord Yan Xu proposed that the cultivators search the area for the ninth Jade Sword after his secret technique failed, and the others agreed to continue looking.
• Qin Yu told Cao Bing he wanted to return to the Qin Dynasty, and Cao Bing agreed before warning the other cultivators not to cause trouble there.
• Cao Bing and Qin Yu flew toward the capital with Jiang Li, Sui Ye, Sha E, Hei Yu, and Hou Fei, while Qin Yu eagerly introduced the city to Jiang Li.
• Qin Yu took Jiang Li, Hei Yu, and Hou Fei to the imperial palace, while Cao Bing concealed his companions' auras and went to see Uncle Chen.
• Cao Bing strolled through the capital and realized that observing ordinary life could also deepen his state of mind.

Cao Bing returned to the Qin Dynasty and found Uncle Chen living in the lavish Marquis Wu’s Residence that Qin De had built for him. After reuniting with Uncle Chen, Cao Bing was formally welcomed by the residence’s guards and servants.

• Cao Bing arrived at Marquis Wu’s Residence and learned that its master was Lord Cao Bing, while Uncle Chen managed the household.
• Cao Bing entered the residence and immobilized its guards and servants when they tried to stop him.
• Cao Bing called for Uncle Chen, who rushed over, wept with joy, and welcomed his return.
• Cao Bing protected Uncle Chen with Star Primal Energy and asked Sui Ye to release the immobilized people.
• The guards and servants knelt and greeted Cao Bing as Lord Marquis Wu.

Cao Bing returned to Marquis Wu’s Residence, strengthened Uncle Chen and his family, and accepted a Qin Dynasty title after meeting Qin Yu’s family. He resumed cultivating to prepare for the dangers awaiting him at the Nine Sword Immortal Mansion.

• Qin Yu’s family gathered at the palace, where Qin Zheng and the others teased Jiang Li about becoming Qin Yu’s wife.
• Cao Bing talked with Uncle Chen, then ordered Sui Ye to send five thousand demon cultivators to patrol the Wildlands’ edges.
• Cao Bing raised Uncle Chen to late Xiantian, strengthened his body to Planet Level 9, and equipped him with High-grade Spirit Artifacts.
• Cao Bing gave Uncle Chen’s children and grandchildren cultivation pills and welcomed Qin De’s family for a banquet.
• Qin Zheng bestowed the title of Coequal Prince on Cao Bing, who accepted it for Qin Yu’s sake and returned to cultivating after the family departed.

Cao Bing continued to pursue insight into space at Zichen Star’s polar forbidden land while his factions explored the Wildlands. After Azure Dragon’s forces were wiped out near the black city, the overseas leaders gathered at a Deep Cave and decided to send subordinates inside as probes.

• Cao Bing reflected on his years traveling through the Qin Dynasty and decided he had gained little from continuing his mortal journey.
• Cao Bing’s Time Seal Clone used a D3-class spacecraft to study spatial rifts in Zichen Star’s western hemisphere and advanced his understanding of space to the ninth level.
• Sui Feng reported that Azure Dragon, Yida, and True Lord Yan Xu’s forces had suffered heavy losses beneath a black city, including the total destruction of Azure Dragon’s ten-thousand-strong force.
• Cao Bing sent a Time Seal Clone to join the leaders gathered at a Deep Cave in the Wildlands.
• Yida proposed that each faction send one thousand people into the Deep Cave to test it, and Cao Bing and Qin Yu agreed while noting they had brought no followers.