Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lan explained that he had kept watch over Qin Yu through an imprint in the Jiang Lan Realm and warned him that marrying Jiang Li would be difficult because many factions wanted the benefits of her Life Soul Tear. Qin Yu learned that Jiang Li’s father had announced an open selection for her husband, but Jiang Lan had delayed setting a date while Qin Yu grew stronger.

• Jiang Lan praised Cao Bing for exceeding his expectations, while Cao Bing humbly credited the Jiang Lan Realm for his progress.
• Qin Yu was shocked to learn Jiang Lan had monitored him through an imprint hidden in the Jiang Lan Realm, and Jiang Lan explained how it worked.
• Jiang Lan warned Qin Yu that many powerful factions would oppose his marriage to Jiang Li because her Life Soul Tear could help someone reach the God King realm.
• Qin Yu asked about Jiang Li, and Jiang Lan revealed that the Northern Pole Saint Emperor had announced an open selection for her husband.
• Jiang Lan reassured Qin Yu that he had kept delaying the selection and would continue doing so until Qin Yu was strong enough to contend with his rivals.

Jiang Lan warned Qin Yu that his chances of marrying Li'er were slim because powerful clans and influential rivals stood in his way. He explained that the eight great divine clans held a Divine Realm war every six billion years, originally to reduce the realm’s growing population.

• Qin Yu questioned Jiang Lan’s doubts about his chances, while keeping the full extent of his abilities secret without Cao Bing’s permission.
• Jiang Lan said Qin Yu’s strength was impressive but insufficient against the eight great divine clans and named four influential men as his greatest rivals for Li'er.
• Jiang Lan began explaining the eight great divine clans and listed their names and territories to show the rivals’ influence.
• Jiang Lan revealed that the clans had established a war every six billion years to reduce the Divine Realm’s population.
• Cao Bing reasoned that ascenders and native descendants would cause the Divine Realm to become overcrowded without population-reduction measures.

Jiang Lan explained the factions among the eight divine clans and revealed the origins and titles of the Divine Realm’s three Heavenly Venerables. The chapter left Qin Yu and Cao Bing aware that the Zhou Family and the mysterious Heavenly Venerable Piaoyu wield influence far beyond ordinary Divine Kings.

• Jiang Lan explained that repeated Divine Realm wars had created grudges among the eight divine clans and divided them into factions.
• Jiang Lan said the Duanmu Clan, Tang Clan, and Mu Clan opposed the Jiang Family and Shentu Clan, while the Huangfu Clan and Putai Family remained neutral and the Zhou Family stayed apart.
• Jiang Lan revealed that the Zhou Family controlled tribulations through Lei Fa City and had a Heavenly Venerable among its ranks.
• Jiang Lan explained that the other two Heavenly Venerables included one whose identity was secret and one who arose from the Ascender faction after a massive war.
• Jiang Lan named the three as the Lei Fa Heavenly Venerable, the Carefree Heavenly Venerable, and the Heavenly Venerable Piaoyu, whom he believed held the highest status.

Jiang Lan told Qin Yu about three of his four strongest rivals for Jiang Li, while Cao Bing’s remarks made Qin Yu view Marquis Kui Yin as an enemy. The chapter left Qin Yu facing rivals with powerful clans and political backing, as Jiang Lan praised Duanmu Yu and described his offer to Northern Pole Snowy City.

• Jiang Lan named Marquis Kui Yin, master of Kui Marquis Hall and a longtime elder of the Jiang Family, as the weakest rival pursuing Jiang Li.
• Cao Bing pointed out the vast age and seniority gap between Marquis Kui Yin and Jiang Li, and Qin Yu silently added Marquis Kui Yin to his enemies.
• Jiang Lan introduced Shentu Fan, an Upper Heavenly God whose Shentu Clan supported the Jiang Family, and explained that the families’ close ties made it hard for Jiang Fan to refuse his suit.
• Jiang Lan named Duanmu Yu, a powerful and well-liked member of the opposing Duanmu Clan, and recounted his famous failed romance.
• Jiang Lan said Duanmu Yu had offered twenty cities under Southern Pole Mirror Light City’s command to Northern Pole Snowy City if he married Jiang Li.

Jiang Lan explained that Duanmu Yu, Shentu Fan, and Zhou Xian were Jiang Li’s strongest suitors, with Zhou Xian posing the greatest threat because Lei Fa Heavenly Venerable backed him. Qin Yu declared that he would still fight for Jiang Li, and Cao Bing promised to support him.

• Qin Yu and Cao Bing were shocked that Duanmu Yu could give away twenty cities, and Jiang Lan explained that the decision had the approval of the Southern Pole Saint Emperor and several God Kings.
• Jiang Lan named Zhou Xian as Qin Yu’s strongest rival because Lei Fa City and Lei Fa Heavenly Venerable backed him.
• Qin Yu considered the threat posed by a Heavenly Venerable, then firmly declared that he would still draw his sword against one to pursue Jiang Li.
• Jiang Lan praised Qin Yu’s resolve and said he would help him oppose Jiang Li’s marriage to Zhou Xian.
• Cao Bing promised to do everything in his power to help Qin Yu, and Jiang Lan welcomed his support.

Qin Yu asked Jiang Lan to take him to see Jiang Li, and Jiang Lan brought him to Snowy City while Cao Bing stayed behind. Cao Bing then hosted Huangfu Yu, who agreed to provide the natural treasures Cao Bing needed for artifact refinement.

• Qin Yu asked Jiang Lan to arrange a meeting with Jiang Li, and Jiang Lan took him to Snowy City after Cao Bing declined to go along.
• Cao Bing noticed Huangfu Yu outside and invited the Eastern Pole Saint Emperor in for tea and conversation.
• Cao Bing offered Huangfu Yu rare wine from the Devouring Starry Sky World, and Huangfu Yu eagerly drank it.
• Cao Bing told Huangfu Yu that he needed natural treasures for artifact refinement, and Huangfu Yu readily promised to provide them.

Huangfu Yu tried to arrange a marriage between Cao Bing and Huangfu Jing, but Cao Bing refused and agreed instead to provide Xuanjin Mountain with Heavenly Divine Artifacts. After a thousand years outside and thirteen million years in his inner universe, Cao Bing had forged millions of powerful weapons and brought his craft close to the level needed to create Primordial Spirit Treasures.

• Huangfu Yu proposed that Cao Bing marry Huangfu Jing, but Cao Bing cut him off and refused to discuss it.
• Huangfu Yu asked Cao Bing to supply Heavenly Divine Artifacts, and Cao Bing agreed to provide a batch every hundred years.
• Cao Bing entered seclusion to improve his artifact-refining skills, aiming to reach the level required to forge Primordial Spirit Treasures.
• During thirteen million years in his inner universe, Cao Bing forged more than six million weapons, including five High-grade Heavenly Divine Artifacts that nearly matched the Remnant Snow Divine Spear.

Cao Bing decided to enter the Universe Sea despite Chaos City Lord and Lord Ice Peak warning that he was too valuable to the Human Race to risk. The chapter explained the Universe Sea’s dangers and the ancient powers living there, leaving Cao Bing set on his journey.

• Cao Bing told Chaos City Lord and Lord Ice Peak that he had decided to enter the Universe Sea.
• Lord Ice Peak argued that Cao Bing had no need to risk the journey because he could become a Universe Master in the Original Universe and already possessed many supreme treasures.
• Chaos City Lord and Lord Ice Peak feared for Cao Bing because his treasure forging and teleportation formations had transformed the Human Race, making him nearly indispensable.
• The chapter described how Universe Strongest beings could unleash their full power in the Universe Sea, where deadly regions could destroy even powerful experts and their avatars.
• The chapter explained that the Universe Sea also held Universe Masters and Universe Strongest beings who had survived earlier cycles of the Original Universe.

Cao Bing insisted on entering the Universe Sea despite the Human Race’s opposition, seeking opportunities to strengthen himself and find the divine smoke needed to advance Evil Skull Peak. Chaos City Lord and the others agreed to accompany him and supervise him at first, and Cao Bing set out with them through the Tuo Ya Black Hole.

• Cao Bing decided to enter the Universe Sea to seek the remaining divine smoke, powerful inheritances, and opportunities to improve his strength.
• Chaos City Lord and the other Human Race Universe Masters failed to change Cao Bing’s mind, but required Chaos City Lord to accompany him and restrict his actions until he learned the region.
• Cao Bing planned to send only one avatar, relying on his internal universe and Two-World Passage to protect his treasures if danger threatened.
• Cao Bing and the others chose the Tuo Ya Black Hole as their route out of the Original Universe because its exit was near at least nine Natural Wormholes.
• Cao Bing and the others entered the Tuo Ya Black Hole to travel toward the Universe Sea.

Chaos City Lord took Cao Bing into the Universe Sea and taught him how to navigate its dangerous, poorly mapped reaches. They followed a marked route to a ruined small universe, whose shattered membrane wall showed that its owner had fallen.

• Chaos City Lord warned Cao Bing that teleporting in unmapped regions could leave travelers lost, then sent him the human race’s map of the Universe Sea.
• Chaos City Lord led Cao Bing through the Tuo Ya Black Hole and out through a tear in the Original Universe’s membrane wall.
• Chaos City Lord identified thirty-nine Natural Wormholes, and Cao Bing confirmed their route used Natural Wormhole Number Fifteen.
• Cao Bing traveled with Chaos City Lord through the Universe Sea for two days and reached a ruined small universe roughly one hundred million light-years across.
• Cao Bing saw the small universe’s shattered membrane wall and recognized that its Universe Strongest owner had fallen.

Chaos City Lord explained the reincarnation eras and the dangers of Qingfeng Realm as he led Cao Bing into the Universe Sea. They reached the Human Race and Hong Alliance gathering place, where Cao Bing reunited with Lord Qing Dong.

• Chaos City Lord explained that only the two Holy Lands and beings from the three surviving Universe Eras remained in the Universe Sea, with the First Reincarnation Era strongest and most desperate.
• Chaos City Lord showed Cao Bing Qingfeng Realm and described its outer, inner, and core regions as increasingly dangerous.
• Chaos City Lord led Cao Bing through the Universe Sea to an 8.2-light-year celestial mountain rock used as a Human Race and Hong Alliance gathering place.
• Chaos City Lord brought Cao Bing to the canyon temple, where Lord Tao Lao, Lord Zuo Guang, and Cao Bing's acquaintance Lord Qing Dong welcomed them.

Cao Bing explored the Universe Sea through a disguised avatar, after a dangerous spatial zone nearly destroyed it. He headed for the Universe Boat to seek an ancient inheritance hidden in Abyss No. 9.

• Cao Bing's avatar escaped a spatial slaughter zone in the Universe Boat with less than 10% of its divine body remaining.
• Cao Bing kept one avatar near Qingfeng Realm while sending another, disguised as Hou Fei, into the Universe Boat to avoid the Mechanical Race, Insect Race, and Demon Race.
• Cao Bing prepared the forged weapons Phantom and Five Elements Rock Armor and resolved to avoid powerful enemies while seeking opportunities.
• Cao Bing set his sights on the glacier in Abyss No. 9, where he knew an ancient great being had left behind a precious inheritance.

Cao Bing weighed the Glacier Ruins and the Tomb Ship against their dangers and uncertainties, then chose the Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space as his target. Its will-tempering effects could greatly strengthen his Blade Heart and, through it, his combat power.

• Cao Bing judged the Glacier Ruins too dangerous and difficult to locate, despite their appeal.
• Cao Bing considered the Tomb Ship’s vast inheritance but rejected it because its appearance was unpredictable and its trials could kill even the strongest experts.
• Cao Bing identified the Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space as a comparatively safe region where he could cultivate and temper his will.
• Cao Bing recognized that the pillars’ will assaults would be especially valuable to him because his Blade Heart turned will into combat strength.

After reaching the Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space, Cao Bing, disguised as Spirit Ape Lord, gathered information from Negative Electricity Lord about the region’s powerful inhabitants. He learned about its three overlords and remained poised to establish himself in the dangerous area.

• Cao Bing reached the Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space after 150 years of travel and six attacks, which earned his Spirit Ape Lord alias a growing reputation.
• Cao Bing spotted Negative Electricity Lord, caught up with him, and asked for information about the area.
• Negative Electricity Lord cautiously explained that Bei Chi Star Lord, Blood Orchid Ancestor, and Rampaging Demon God were the region’s three strongest beings.
• Negative Electricity Lord described Bei Chi Star Lord as approachable, warned that Blood Orchid Ancestor’s territory was deadly, and said Rampaging Demon God was a dangerously unpredictable killer.

Cao Bing let Negative Electricity Lord leave and traveled to Pillar No. 2 in the Black Pattern Stone Pillar Space to cultivate under its intense will-tempering pressure. He reached the Universe Strongest zone, where his Blade Heart began to improve, but found that Bei Chi Star Lord still stood far beyond him.

• Cao Bing released Negative Electricity Lord rather than risk drawing other powerful experts into a fight.
• Cao Bing flew to Pillar No. 2, where Bei Chi Star Lord resided, seeking a peaceful place to cultivate.
• Cao Bing approached the Black Pattern Stone Pillars and resisted their powerful will pressure with ease.
• Universe Masters in the Pillar No. 2 region noticed Cao Bing entering the Universe Strongest zone and discussed his unusual will.
• Cao Bing stopped at the limit of his ability, felt his Blade Heart improving, and recognized the gap between himself and Bei Chi Star Lord.

Cao Bing answered Luo Feng’s distress call as eight Universe Masters pursued him on an Original Star. Cao Bing ambushed the pursuers and struck down Lord Tongling, while Luo Feng prepared to face Lord Huiying and enter the Universe Sea.

• Cao Bing’s avatar in the Original Universe received Luo Feng’s distress call and rushed to help him.
• Luo Feng fled eight Universe Masters from the Demon Race, Mechanical Race, Insect Race, and their allies, using Wu Clan’s Wings and the Calamity Armor to evade them.
• Cao Bing contacted Luo Feng, told him to face Lord Huiying, and urged him to demonstrate his strength before entering the Universe Sea.
• Cao Bing attacked Lord Tongling with Myriad Laws Severed, cleaving his body in two.

Cao Bing ambushed Lord Tongling and split him in two, then fought off a group of Universe Masters while Luo Feng turned the tables on Lord Huiying. Lord Tongling recovered enough to consider retreating, shaken by Cao Bing’s Blade Heart and unable to fight for tens of thousands of years.

• Cao Bing cleaved Lord Tongling in two, but Lord of Burning Fire and Lord Black Olive led the others in to stop him from striking again.
• Cao Bing wielded Evil Skull Peak and the Purple Gold Bell to battle the surrounding Universe Masters, while Luo Feng counterattacked and badly wounded Lord Huiying.
• Lord of Burning Fire and Lord Black Olive realized Cao Bing had grown far stronger and could withstand their attacks despite facing six Universe Masters at once.
• Lord Tongling recalled how Cao Bing’s Blade Heart had severed the connection between his will, soul, and body, leaving him helpless until he slowly recovered.
• Lord Tongling decided he had no reason to seek revenge and considered retreating, knowing his will would take tens of thousands of years to heal.

Cao Bing held off the allied Universe Masters while Luo Feng revealed that he had become a Universe Master by defeating Lord Huiying. Lord Ice Peak arrived, forcing the enemy alliance to retreat and leaving the Human Race celebrating the rise of two new Universe Masters.

• Lord Deer Lion urged Lord Tongling to help kill Cao Bing, but Lord Tongling refused and chose to target Luo Feng instead.
• Luo Feng struck Lord Huiying and destroyed eight percent of his divine body, revealing his strength as a Universe Master.
• Lord Ice Peak arrived and celebrated Luo Feng's breakthrough, then confronted Lord Deer Lion and the other enemy Universe Masters.
• Lord Deer Lion abandoned his plan to kill Luo Feng and withdrew with Lord Huiying, and the other allied Universe Masters followed.
• Lord Ice Peak praised Cao Bing for holding off seven Universe Masters, while Cao Bing said the Original Universe had given him an advantage.

Cao Bing recalled that Luo Feng’s mission to the Yuan Ao Secret Realm would lead to Great Axe Founder’s death, and decided to interfere with the Silk Thread Map if he could. In the secret realm, Luo Feng confronted Lord Yuan Ao and his Black Divine Wood, drawing powerful factions into a struggle over the strange object.

• Cao Bing remembered that the Silk Thread Map was a trap that would lead Great Axe Founder to the World Beasts, and resolved to set out early and hinder Luo Feng from collecting too many fragments.
• Luo Feng searched the Yuan Ao Secret Realm, defeated powerful experts along the way, and found his target, Lord Yuan Ao.
• Lord Yuan Ao used the Black Divine Wood to turn the battle against Luo Feng, forcing Luo Feng to retreat and call for support.
• The Human Race, Ancestral God Cult, and numerous other factions sent powerful experts to the secret realm, but they came to seize the Black Divine Wood rather than aid Luo Feng.

Cao Bing arrived as Black Universe Founder and the assembled factions attacked Lord Tan Ao for the Black Divine Wood. Lord Tan Ao revealed and scattered the Silk Thread Map before dying, while Cao Bing ensured several map fragments were destroyed in the blast.

• Cao Bing joined Luo Feng after Black Universe Founder began fighting Lord Tan Ao.
• Black Universe Founder and more than ten Universe Masters overwhelmed Lord Tan Ao, who revealed the Silk Thread Map of the Qingfeng Realm.
• Black Universe Founder tried to claim the map, but the Universe Masters—including Cao Bing—turned against him.
• Lord Tan Ao tore the map into pieces and scattered them before fleeing, and Black Universe Founder pursued him for the Black Divine Wood.
• Lord Tan Ao self-destructed, and Cao Bing made several Silk Thread Map fragments perish in the blast.