Chapter Summaries

After Venerable Bi Xue became the second candidate to meet Duan Donghe's requirements, Luo Yuan continued solving the Rhino Emperor Game to protect his lead and secure the inheritance. The East Emperor Ancestor ordered his forces to redouble their efforts, while his experts recognized that powerful Universe Venerables had a major advantage.

• Duan Donghe left after Venerable Bi Xue pledged to continue solving the games, and the experts reacted to Bi Xue's success.
• Venerable Bi Xue took pride in becoming a candidate and eyed Luo Yuan, while Luo Yuan kept solving the game and aimed to finish six thousand endgames first.
• The East Emperor Holy Land Universe learned that Bi Xue had met the standard, and its experts discussed the requirements for different levels of strength.
• The East Emperor Ancestor appeared before the temple's experts and ordered their Universe Venerables and Immortal Gods to work harder to meet the Rhino Emperor Game's standard.
• The experts concluded that Quasi-Universe Masters had a strong advantage because their requirements were lower while their solving abilities rivaled those of Universe Masters.

Luo Yuan continued studying the Rhino Emperor Game as more experts qualified for Duan Donghe’s trial, including the first Strongest One in the Universe. The candidates debated what Duan Donghe sought in a successor while the number of qualified experts kept growing.

• After Luo Yuan spent eight hundred years studying the game, Duan Donghe announced that Xue You, an Immortal God of the Zerg from the Second Reincarnation Era, had met the requirement.
• More candidates qualified over the following years, including Lord Lu Chong from the East Emperor Holy Land Universe.
• After three thousand years, Duan Donghe announced that Tiebu Demon Lord of the First Reincarnation Era had qualified, making him the first Strongest One in the Universe to pass.
• The experts learned that Strongest Ones in the Universe needed to solve two thousand configurations, compared with one thousand for Universe Venerables and fifteen hundred for Universe Masters.
• As the number of candidates reached seventy, the experts discussed Duan Donghe’s selection criteria and noted that the East Emperor Holy Land Universe had nine qualified experts.

Humanity’s leaders worried that growing competition for the Duan Donghe Inheritance would reduce Luo Yuan’s chances, while the Giant Axe Founder urged them to trust him and focus on exploring the Universe Ocean. Luo Yuan continued studying the Rhino Emperor Game, stuck at the three-thousandth endgame and striving to break through its bottleneck.

• The Chaos City Lord told humanity’s leaders that seventy candidates had met Duan Donghe’s requirements and that Luo Yuan remained their only qualified candidate.
• The Giant Axe Founder urged the leaders not to disturb Luo Yuan and to keep building humanity’s reserves as they explored the Three Great Forbidden Lands.
• The Original Ancestor secretly watched Luo Yuan study the Rhino Emperor Game in his personal Plane and grew increasingly impressed with him.
• Luo Yuan reflected that he needed to solve six thousand endgames to become Duan Donghe’s sole inheritor, and that comparing the game with secret patterns had accelerated his progress.
• Luo Yuan remained unable to solve the three-thousandth endgame, recognizing it as a bottleneck that he had to overcome before making further progress.

After more than three thousand years, Duan Donghe announced that Luo Yuan had solved three thousand Rhino Emperor Game configurations, making him a Core Candidate and earning him stronger protection. The candidates learned the four ranks and the direct-inheritance threshold, then returned to their increasingly desperate efforts to solve more configurations.

• Duan Donghe appeared and congratulated Lord Hun Yuan of the Human Race, identifying Luo Yuan as the first Universe Master to solve three thousand configurations.
• Duan Donghe gave Luo Yuan a red crystal pillar that strengthened the protection around his golden Glazed Palace.
• Duan Donghe explained the four candidate ranks and said that solving six thousand configurations would grant the inheritance directly.
• The candidates learned that solving one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, and four thousand configurations established successive ranks, while Luo Yuan needed one thousand more to become an Inheritor.
• The candidates intensified their study of the Rhino Emperor Game as the number who met the requirements passed one hundred, while Luo Yuan continued working toward his next milestone.

After thousands of years in the Death Passage, Venerable Bi Xue became the first candidate besides Luo Yuan to reach the Rhino Emperor Game’s second level. The East Emperor Ancestor promised to support him, while Luo Yuan remained far ahead at the third level.

• Duan Donghe announced that 298 candidates had reached the first level and criticized the others for their lack of progress.
• Duan Donghe noticed Venerable Bi Xue had reached the second level, praised him, and gave him a Glazed Palace and crystalline pillar like Luo Yuan’s.
• Luo Yuan recognized Bi Xue’s strong will, peak Universe Venerable strength, and potential to become a Universe Master.
• The East Emperor Ancestor met Bi Xue’s avatar, praised his talent, and promised to nurture him if he continued meeting the inheritance’s requirements.
• Bi Xue became determined to pursue the Duan Donghe Inheritance as his chance to transform his fortunes.

Luo Yuan’s avatar broke through a willpower bottleneck while tempering itself near a Black Pattern Stone Pillar, reaching the peak of the Strongest One in the Universe level. After retreating to consolidate his strength, he turned his focus to the Rhino Emperor Game and the Secret Pattern Diagrams, which he could now study with greatly improved comprehension.

• Luo Yuan’s avatar approached a Black Pattern Stone Pillar and endured its overwhelming mental impact to temper his willpower.
• Luo Yuan pushed through his bottleneck and experienced a vision of a miniature universe forming as his willpower transformed.
• Luo Yuan reached the peak of the Strongest One in the Universe level and found he could withstand a time flow rate of two hundred thousand times normal.
• Luo Yuan retreated to consolidate his strength, noting that his improved willpower enhanced his reasoning and control over his avatars.
• Luo Yuan resumed studying the Rhino Emperor Game and Secret Pattern Diagrams, solving endgames faster as new insights came to him.

Luo Yuan solved all 3,500 Rhino Emperor Game endgames and became the leading candidate for Duan Donghe's inheritance, leaving the First Reincarnation Era factions and the Divine Eye Clan in despair. He stood on the verge of the fourth level, while most of his rivals had barely reached the second.

• Original Ancestor watched Luo Yuan solve 3,500 games in less than four thousand years, surpassing Original Ancestor's own record of 3,000.
• Luo Yuan studied the strongest secret techniques from the Three Great Forbidden Lands while researching the Rhino Emperor Game and developing his own technique.
• The experts in the Death Passage learned that Lord Shui Song had reached the second level, joining Lord Hun Yuan, Luo Yuan, and Venerable Bi Xue among the top candidates.
• Luo Yuan perfectly solved all 3,500 endgames, and Duan Donghe appeared amid freezing cyan energy to announce his achievement and form a cyan Glazed Palace.
• The Divine Eye Clan's Seventh True Master collapsed in despair, while the ancestor of the Beast-Evolving Lineage and other First Reincarnation Era experts mourned their dwindling hopes of survival.
• The experts recognized that Luo Yuan could become the Inheritor if he solved 4,000 games, while most First Reincarnation Era factions had not even reached the second level.

Duan Donghe praised Luo Yuan for reaching the third level of the Rhino Emperor Game and offered him the inheritance if he reached the fourth level within three epochs, threatening to sacrifice the other candidates. As the candidates anxiously continued their attempts, Luo Yuan studied both the game and its Secret Pattern Diagrams, steadily deepening his understanding.

• Duan Donghe appeared in white Battle Armor, praised Luo Yuan's progress, and revealed that he wanted him to inherit the Duan Donghe Lineage.
• Duan Donghe set a three-epoch deadline for Luo Yuan to reach the fourth level and said he would sacrifice the hundred thousand eliminated experts to celebrate.
• Duan Donghe vanished, and the other experts turned against Luo Yuan, though his Glazed Palaces protected him from their attacks.
• Lord Lu Chong and Lord Wu Liang reached the second level while the other candidates continued struggling with the Rhino Emperor Game.
• The Original Ancestor watched Luo Yuan's rapid progress and considered how Earth and Sitting Mountain Guest might have shaped his talent.
• Luo Yuan continued studying the Rhino Emperor Game and its Secret Pattern Diagrams, strengthening his foundation and understanding of the universe.

After the Rhino Emperor Game ended, Duan Donghe eliminated the candidates who had failed to reach the first tier and led the survivors into the true Inheritance Hall. He began to explain the inheritance’s requirements, and Luo Yuan suspected the seven Universe Strongest Ones were about to face trouble.

• Duan Donghe announced that Luo Yuan and Bi Xue were the only candidates to reach the third tier, and that the three-era trial had ended with Luo Yuan having solved 3,999 rounds.
• Duan Donghe killed the roughly ninety thousand candidates who had not reached the first tier, leaving three hundred survivors.
• Duan Donghe led the surviving candidates toward the true Inheritance Hall, while Luo Yuan stopped studying the game to focus on receiving the inheritance.
• Duan Donghe welcomed the candidates in the hall but warned that they had to meet further requirements before accessing his lineage’s inheritance.
• Luo Yuan glanced at the seven Universe Strongest Ones and suspected they were about to suffer because neither Holy Land had sent one to compete for the inheritance.

Duan Donghe explained that Strongest Ones in the Universe could inherit his lineage only if their existing Miniature Universes met its strict structural requirements. He rejected Tiebu Demon Lord’s ordinary design and turned to the Divine Eye Clan’s Second True Lord, who prepared to lie about his own universe.

• Duan Donghe warned the seven Strongest Ones in the Universe that he would kill anyone whose Miniature Universe failed to meet his lineage’s requirements.
• Duan Donghe explained that his inheritance included a distinctive method of constructing Miniature Universes, which could not be applied to universes that were already incompatible.
• The experts realized why no Strongest Ones in the Universe from the Two Great Holy Lands had entered, while Luo Yuan understood that their lost Miniature Universes disqualified them.
• Duan Donghe ordered Tiebu Demon Lord to describe his Miniature Universe, and Tiebu said he had created eight planar worlds corresponding to the eight Universe Origin Laws.
• Duan Donghe rejected Tiebu Demon Lord’s design as ordinary and asked the Divine Eye Clan’s Second True Lord to speak.
• The Second True Lord decided to fabricate an account of a superior Miniature Universe structure rather than reveal that his method resembled Tiebu’s.

Duan Donghe rejected all seven Strongest Ones in the Universe as unworthy of his lineage’s inheritance and declared that every Divine Eye Clan candidate must die. The Seventh True Master shielded the clan members inside Ice Cliff Fortress and demanded to know why Duan Donghe had singled them out.

• The Second True Lord of the Divine Eye Clan described an elaborate method for constructing his Miniature Universe, but Duan Donghe exposed his fabrication and dismissed him.
• Duan Donghe criticized the Miniature Universe methods of all seven Strongest Ones in the Universe and said none qualified for the inheritance.
• Luo Yuan listened to the explanations and gained insight into the principles behind Miniature Universe construction.
• Duan Donghe declared that all Divine Eye Clan candidates must die, alarming the twenty-eight clan experts among the candidates.
• The Seventh True Master brought the Divine Eye Clan experts into Ice Cliff Fortress and demanded an explanation from Duan Donghe.

Duan Donghe refused to give the Divine Eye Clan a chance at his inheritance and said he would eliminate them at a friend’s request. He revealed Thunder Robe Demon God as the friend, leaving the Divine Eye Clan furious and the other candidates shocked.

• Duan Donghe told the Divine Eye Clan that none of them qualified for his inheritance and that he would wipe them out because he had promised a friend.
• The Divine Eye Clan’s Second True Lord challenged Duan Donghe’s fairness, but Duan Donghe dismissed his objections and refused to spare them.
• The Second True Lord and Seventh True Master demanded to know who had asked for their deaths, and Duan Donghe opened a hidden passage to reveal the whole story.
• Thunder Robe Demon God emerged, and Luo Yuan recognized him as a low-profile strongest one in the universe from the Second Reincarnation Era.
• The Second True Lord and the other Divine Eye Clan candidates turned their fury on Thunder Robe Demon God and questioned how he could have persuaded Duan Donghe to kill them.

Thunder Robe Demon God revealed that he had arranged with Duan Donghe to bring the Tomb Ship to the Divine Eye Clan, both to facilitate the inheritance trials and to take revenge for Kongluo Demon God. Duan Donghe prepared to attack the Divine Eye Clan, while Second True Lord challenged him to break through Ice Cliff Fortress.

• Thunder Robe Demon God emerged and declared that he intended to kill the Divine Eye Clan candidates and deprive them of the inheritance.
• Thunder Robe Demon God explained that the Divine Eye Clan had killed Kongluo Demon God after seven True Masters ambushed them over a Supreme Supreme Treasure.
• Thunder Robe Demon God revealed that he had entered the Tomb Ship first, failed Duan Donghe's inheritance requirements, and made a deal to bring the ship to its present location in exchange for help taking revenge.
• Thunder Robe Demon God praised Luo Yuan as a worthy potential inheritor, and Luo Yuan modestly accepted the praise while the other experts reacted to his boastfulness.
• Thunder Robe Demon God asked Duan Donghe to wipe out the Divine Eye Clan, and Duan Donghe turned toward the terrified experts inside Ice Cliff Fortress.
• Second True Lord trusted Ice Cliff Fortress's Supreme Supreme Treasure defenses and challenged Duan Donghe to break through them.

Duan Donghe restrained Ice Cliff Fortress and dragged it into a deadly abyss, eliminating the Divine Eye Clan candidates inside. The surviving experts debated the Ancient Civilization’s power and Supreme Treasure classifications, while Luo Yuan considered how his own treasures compared.

• The Divine Eye Clan's Second True Lord drove Ice Cliff Fortress at Thunder Robe Demon God, but Duan Donghe bound it with golden restraints.
• Duan Donghe opened an abyss beneath the Inheritance Hall and sent golden rays to pull Ice Cliff Fortress inside despite the Second True Lord's efforts to escape.
• The abyss swallowed Ice Cliff Fortress and its Divine Eye Clan experts, then the floor closed, leaving the gathered candidates stunned.
• The surviving experts discussed whether the Divine Eye Clan had been killed or suppressed and questioned the meaning of Supreme Supreme Treasure.
• Luo Yuan reflected on Duan Donghe's Ancient Civilization and compared Ice Cliff Fortress with his Silver Wings and Star Tower.

Duan Donghe revealed that the Divine Eye Clan experts had been erased and gave their Supreme Treasures to Thunder Robe Demon God. He then warned the inheritance candidates that anyone who began the next stage could not withdraw and that failure would erase them and their alternate bodies.

• Duan Donghe sent three Divine Eye Clan treasures, including Ice Cliff Fortress and Illusion Heart Pearl, to Thunder Robe Demon God as his reward.
• The experts realized that Duan Donghe had erased the Divine Eye Clan's forces inside Ice Cliff Fortress, including its two True Lords, and feared his power.
• Thunder Robe Demon God accepted the treasures and began binding Ice Cliff Fortress and Illusion Heart Pearl.
• Duan Donghe warned the candidates that they could not abandon the coming inheritance and that he would erase anyone who failed, including their alternate bodies.

Duan Donghe gave the candidates one final chance to withdraw before leading the remaining powerhouses into the true inheritance world, where only one could survive and claim the complete inheritance. Outside the sealed Tomb Ship, Thunder Robe Demon God vowed to destroy the Divine Eye Clan.

• Duan Donghe warned that the Strongest Ones in the Universe and candidates with little chance of success could leave, and many powerhouses withdrew, including the Human Race's Primal Universe camp.
• Duan Donghe opened the Throne to reveal the gateway to the true inheritance world and told the remaining candidates that only one would inherit his complete lineage and leave alive.
• Duan Donghe announced that the Tomb Ship's entrance hatch would close, and the withdrawn candidates and outside factions evacuated before it sealed completely.
• The factions congratulated Thunder Robe Demon God for discovering the inheritance, and he declared that he would pursue revenge against the Divine Eye Clan until it was annihilated.

The Divine Eye Clan mourned the loss of two True Masters and its chance at the Duan Donghe inheritance, while humanity placed its hopes on Luo Yuan obtaining it. The chapter ended with Luo Yuan solemnly accepting the expectations of humanity’s leaders.

• Lord Wu Liang and the other survivors reported how Duan Donghe had dragged Ice Cliff Fortress into the Abyss, where two True Masters fell.
• The Divine Eye Clan’s leaders grieved their losses, blamed Thunder Robe Demon God, and vowed to focus on their clan’s survival and eventual revenge.
• Experts from the East Emperor Holy Land Universe and the Human Race encouraged their Candidates, who planned to send inheritance information to their races if they failed.
• Giant Axe Founder told Luo Yuan that humanity’s future and its chance to establish a Holy Land Universe rested on him obtaining the inheritance.
• Luo Yuan nodded solemnly as humanity’s leaders looked to him as their hope.

Duan Donghe led the 200 candidates into the ancient lineage’s self-sustaining Inheritance Space and explained how its gates would test their compatibility with the core inheritance. Luo Yuan was chosen to go first and selected a blade technique inheritance as his initial test.

• Duan Donghe brought the candidates into the Inheritance Space, whose entrance closed behind them.
• Duan Donghe explained that the space absorbed energy from the Universe Ocean and had endured across countless reincarnation eras.
• Duan Donghe revealed 820 gates of light containing basic inheritances and explained that only the most compatible candidate would survive to receive the core inheritance.
• Duan Donghe ordered Hunyuan to choose first, followed by Bi Xue and the other candidates in tier order.
• Luo Yuan inspected the gates, recognized categories including combat techniques and mechanical technology, and chose a blade technique inheritance.

Luo Yuan chose the Blade Inheritance and entered its inheritance space, where he received a vast collection of powerful blade techniques. As he finished studying them, three stars sent down pillars of light and three enormous icebergs appeared before him.

• Luo Yuan selected the Blade Inheritance, and the other candidates chose from the remaining inheritances according to their Rhino Emperor Game results.
• Duan Donghe sent all two hundred candidates into their chosen inheritance gates and reflected on his long wait for a new inheritor.
• Luo Yuan entered the Blade Inheritance space and received three hundred and sixty blade techniques integrating the Origin Laws.
• Luo Yuan studied the inheritance for two hours and realized its techniques could help him create ultimate arts suited to himself.
• Three stars appeared above Luo Yuan and shone pillars of light down toward him as three vast icebergs emerged from the chaotic airflow.

Luo Yuan studied the three Blade Mountains and their 360 blade techniques, seeking to create a blade technique that met Duan Donghe’s standards. After deepening his mastery of blade-law fusion, he began reshaping his Overlord Blade into secret patterns of his own.

• Luo Yuan learned that, as the first Candidate, he could study the three Blade Mountains and 360 blade manuals to create a technique worthy of becoming the next Duan Donghe.
• Luo Yuan found that the Blade Mountains’ shifting law patterns could not be accurately simulated in the Virtual Universe, so he focused on studying them directly.
• Luo Yuan spent half a year studying the manuals and Blade Mountains, while his original body spent nearly five thousand years studying in the Giant Axe Founder's Miniature Universe.
• Luo Yuan refined his Overlord Blade’s Heaven Opening, Earth-Splitting, and Annihilation moves, drawing on origin laws, blade techniques, and his prior study of Secret Pattern Diagrams.
• Luo Yuan practiced with the Chaos Divine Knife above the chaotic airflow, and luminous blade secret patterns began forming with each swing.