Chapter Summaries

Luo Yuan’s group watched a Ninth Prince’s squad provoke a herd of Single-Horned Iron Rhinos, then seized horns from the corpses when a larger herd drove the humans away. As they fled the rhinos, Xiao Ba warned that another human squad was closing in to attack them.

• Luo Yuan identified twenty-one Single-Horned Iron Rhinos approaching Demon Moon Lake, and his group discussed separating them to collect their horns.
• A black-clad squad led by a Ninth Prince attacked the rhinos and killed several, but more than fifty adult males charged out of the nearby forest and pursued them.
• Luo Yuan’s group rushed to the rhino corpses and collected horns while the herd chased the black-clad squad away.
• Xiao Ba warned Luo Yuan that another human squad was approaching, so Luo Yuan’s group fled into the nearby mountain forest.

Luo Yuan’s team traveled across Thunder World toward Wind Thunder Canyon, the dangerous source of the wind horn stones needed for their mercenary assessment. After reaching the canyon, they found a hidden passage and discovered a wind horn stone near its opening.

• Luo Yuan’s team scared off a rival group, then chose a route toward Wind Thunder Canyon.
• Luo Yuan, Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, and their companions crossed Thunder World for fifty-one days and reached the canyon.
• Luo Yuan detected participants hiding nearby and led his team into a concealed cave connected to the canyon wall.
• Hong found a smooth stone with a blue coating, and Thunder God identified it as a wind horn stone.

Luo Yuan's team gathered four wind horn stones in Wind Thunder Canyon, then entered a newly opened World within a World. He detected something valuable underground and told the team to start digging.

• Luo Yuan's team used the Cloud-Touching Vine to snatch wind horn stones from the fierce winds and collected four over nine days.
• As Luo Yuan's team prepared to leave Wind Thunder Canyon, Thunder World shook and a spatial rift opened in the mountains.
• The Star Level adventurers recognized the rift as an entrance to a World within a World and rushed inside, while Luo Yuan's team waited before following.
• Luo Yuan led his team through the vast, quiet world, explaining that they would have to search for treasures as they traveled.
• Luo Yuan detected something valuable 4,800 meters underground and told the others to start digging.

Luo Yuan’s group searched the World within a World for Thunder Stones while major factions gathered to claim its treasures. After the factions agreed to send nearly two million Star Level Nine adventurers into Thunder World, Ming Yu warned Luo Yuan about the powerful forces waiting outside.

• Luo Yuan found Thunder Stones buried deep underground and persuaded Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, and their servants to collect them instead of Universe Crystals.
• Representatives of the major factions gathered in the Virtual Universe and agreed to send large numbers of Star Level Nine adventurers into Thunder World under the guise of taking the Apprentice Mercenary Assessment.
• Ming Yu contacted Luo Yuan and explained that the factions planned to send nearly two million adventurers into Thunder World to seize its treasures.
• Ming Yu warned Luo Yuan that more than a hundred Domain Lords and nearly ten World Lords waited on Canglan Star, making it dangerous for him to leave Thunder World with any treasure.

Luo Yuan’s group headed toward the core region of the World within a World while avoiding ambushes and discussing their agreement with Ming Yu. When a squad surrounded them, Luo Yuan killed all thirty attackers with a single strike.

• Luo Yuan agreed to give Ming Yu any treasures that would interest him in exchange for the Domain Lord’s backing.
• Luo Yuan, Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, and their companions discussed the risks of Ming Yu betraying them and decided to keep a low profile as they traveled toward the core region.
• Over six days, Luo Yuan’s group survived twenty-one ambushes by using Babata’s scans to detect attackers.
• Luo Yuan spotted a squad of thirty fighters surrounding his group near the core region.
• Luo Yuan used the disguised Crimson Chaos Copper Mother Fragment to kill the twenty-nine Star Level Nine fighters and their prince leader in one attack.

Luo Yuan’s team reached the core region of the World within a World and joined North Dragon City’s camp after learning that the five major factions were gathering adventurers around a castle at the center. They expected the factions to fight over the treasure within seven days, as the outside army advanced.

• Luo Yuan’s team plundered ambushers over several days, accumulating more than 190,000 cubic meters of universe crystals before reaching the core region.
• Luo Yuan’s group found the core region littered with corpses and excavated pits as they cautiously approached its center.
• Luo Yuan and the others discovered over a thousand adventurers being recruited by the major factions and decided to join a temporary camp.
• Luo Yuan’s group joined North Dragon City’s eighteenth formation and learned that the five camps surrounded a blue castle at the World within a World’s center.
• Luo Yuan predicted the factions would likely begin fighting for the castle within seven days, when the outside army reached the core region.

Brolin arrived with over six hundred Black Dragon Mountain followers and used C2-grade Laser Guns to force the other factions to yield the treasure. At the Thunder Castle, a bodyguard was killed by its defenses, but the gates opened and a mysterious voice welcomed the adventurers after waiting more than ten million years.

• Brolin and his Black Dragon Mountain forces arrived, and he announced that he would claim the treasure and kill anyone who opposed him.
• Brolin killed the Hundred Tiger Tower leader with a C2-grade Laser Gun and warned the factions that the weapons could kill Universe Level Second Order experts.
• Luo Yuan chose to follow the other factions toward the castle with Luo Feng and their group of fourteen.
• Brolin ordered Sangbi to open the castle, but its lightning defenses killed Sangbi and left his Alloy Battle Suit behind.
• The castle gates opened by themselves, its lightning vanished, and its lights came on as a voice welcomed everyone and said it had waited more than ten million years.

The castle’s intelligent keeper revealed that the World within a World’s treasures could be exchanged for thunder stones, and the adventurers rushed to collect them. Luo Yuan used his prepared stones to acquire nearly all the listed treasures, leaving the exchange and the keeper’s questions about his foreknowledge unresolved.

• The white-bearded old man displayed 312 treasures and explained that adventurers could exchange thunder stones for them.
• Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God questioned Luo Yuan after realizing he had anticipated the thunder-stone exchange, but he did not explain how.
• The five factions departed in teams to search for thunder stones while Luo Yuan’s group stayed behind.
• Luo Yuan showed the keeper a thunder stone and entered the castle to exchange for every treasure except the top-ranked inheritance crystal balls and the ten lowest-ranked types.
• Luo Yuan produced a mountain of thunder stones, and Lord Mist handed him a Space Ring containing the requested treasures.

After redeeming the Castle’s treasures, Luo Yuan and his companions tried to leave the World within a World unnoticed, but Brolin ordered a thousand-person Star Level Nine team to hunt them down. Luo Yuan spotted the pursuers and led his group on a sharp turn to evade them.

• Luo Yuan left the Castle with the treasures and told Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, and their companions to escape the World within a World quietly.
• Brolin learned that many Castle treasures had been redeemed and ordered Katu Luo to track a suspicious fourteen-person team and kill them if they had the treasures.
• Brolin received a report that the Sixth Brigade had killed six teams and collected about 2.59 million Thunder Stones, then urged the other brigades to seize more.
• Luo Yuan and his thirteen companions flew away from the allied forces’ encampment as a thousand-person Star Level Nine team followed them.
• Luo Yuan sensed the pursuit, warned his companions, and led them to accelerate and turn left.

Luo Yuan used a concealed C9 spaceship and its laser cannons to destroy the thousand soldiers pursuing his group, then brought his companions toward the allied camp. They reached the camp’s patrol line, where Luo Yuan identified them as serving Lord Ming Yu of Three Axe Mountain.

• A thousand Star Level Nine soldiers pursued Luo Yuan’s fourteen-person group, and Luo Yuan summoned a C9 spaceship to shield them from their attacks.
• Luo Yuan ordered Xiao Ba to fire the spaceship’s laser cannons, which killed all one thousand pursuers.
• Luo Yuan promised Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng that they would share the treasures they had found, then flew the spaceship away from the core region.
• Brolin learned that the fourteen had a spaceship and ordered his seven battalions to kill them if they found them.
• Luo Yuan’s group hid the spaceship and flew to the allied camp, where a patrol stopped them and Luo Yuan said they served Lord Ming Yu of Three Axe Mountain.

Luo Yuan and his thirteen companions returned to the allied camp and joined Three Axe Mountain’s forces, where they waited for the armies to depart. After the treasure exchange ended, Three Axe Mountain’s army set out toward Thunder World, with the group flying among its ranks.

• Luo Yuan’s group entered the hostile allied camp, and Brolin ordered his bodyguard to keep watch on them.
• Luo Yuan and his companions joined the Three Axe Mountain camp, where Ben Di welcomed them as fellow subordinates of Ming Yu.
• The group waited in camp, learned that the treasure exchange had ended, and received a warning that fighting might occur outside the allied camp.
• Three Axe Mountain’s commander ordered nearly eighty thousand soldiers to move out, and Luo Yuan’s group flew with the army toward Thunder World.

Brolin ambushed the Three Axe Mountain army with Railguns, Laser Guns, and elite troops to seize its treasures. Luo Yuan survived the attack and prepared to face the contingent sent after him.

• Brolin pursued the Three Axe Mountain army and ordered his men to bombard it, kill twelve priority targets, and seize their belongings.
• Luo Yuan warned his group about a large-scale scan and gave Tier 5 Force Battle Suits to Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God.
• Three D6-grade Railguns struck the packed army, killing thousands, and twelve Laser Guns killed eleven targets while Luo Yuan resisted the twelfth beam.
• Brolin's forces descended from their spaceship and attacked the disordered Three Axe Mountain army as its soldiers fought back.
• After learning Luo Yuan had survived, Brolin ordered a contingent to kill him and take his treasures.

Luo Yuan and his companions escaped the World within a World and returned to Canglan Star with their wealth. At Ming Yu’s manor, Luo Yuan revealed that they had obtained the Fifth-Order Force Weapon, the Ice Soul Blade.

• Luo Yuan led his companions aboard their spaceship and used its Laser Cannon to destroy the pursuing Star Level Nine troops.
• Three days later, Luo Yuan’s group left the World within a World, joined Three Axe Mountain’s surviving army, and traveled through the Thunder World to its exit.
• Luo Yuan and his companions emerged on Canglan Star and waited with the other survivors until Ming Yu came to collect them.
• Ming Yu brought Luo Yuan’s group to his manor and asked what they had gained in the World within a World.
• Luo Yuan showed Ming Yu the Ice Soul Blade, a Fifth-Order Force Weapon whose aura froze the manor and seemed to chill space itself.

Ming Yu rewarded Luo Yuan with territory and 20 billion Universe Coins, then ordered the Nolan Mountain Family destroyed. On the journey back to Earth, Luo Yuan divided the spoils with his brothers and persuaded Old Man Mist to hand over his secret techniques and consider Thunder God as an inheritor.

• Ming Yu offered Luo Yuan half the ownership of nearly a hundred thousand inhabited planets and transferred 20 billion Universe Coins as payment for the Ice Soul Blade.
• Luo Yuan asked Ming Yu to wipe out the Nolan Mountain Family, and Ming Yu ordered Kaluolan to carry out the destruction.
• Luo Yuan's group of eight passed the apprentice mercenary assessment and left Canglan Star for Earth.
• Aboard the spaceship, Luo Yuan divided the money and treasures among himself, Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God.
• Luo Yuan revealed that one of the Auxiliary Optical Computers held Old Man Mist and demanded his thunder and space secret techniques.
• Old Man Mist agreed to cooperate after Luo Yuan promised him an inheritor, protection, and the possibility of gaining a physical body.

Luo Yuan arranged to sell two hundred of his dangerous treasures through the Universe Galaxy Bank using his teacher’s five-star account. A month later, he handed the goods over at the bank on Qiu Long Star, completing the consignment.

• Lord Mist gave Luo Yuan and the others the Thunder Secret Technique and the Inheritance Crystal Ball containing the Space Secret Technique, then became Thunder God’s auxiliary intelligent life-form and teacher.
• Luo Yuan told Hong that he would sell the treasures they did not need and kept his method secret.
• Luo Yuan used his teacher’s five-star account in the Virtual Universe to consign two hundred treasures through the Universe Galaxy Bank.
• A month later, Luo Yuan arrived at the bank in Qiu Long City and handed the treasures to a Domain Lord, who confirmed the goods and declared the transaction successful.

After receiving a transfer of over 71 trillion Universe Coins, Luo Yuan explored the privileges and opportunities his new 3-star bank status offered. He told Jiang Fang about his wealth and plans for his assets, including training promising talents from Earth on his 100,000 Life Planets.

• Luo Yuan entered the Virtual Universe and reunited with Jiang Fang, who explained that she had passed her former duties to her students.
• Luo Yuan checked his emails and learned that a transfer of 71.98 trillion Universe Coins had made him a 3-star customer of the Universe Galaxy Bank.
• Luo Yuan read that his new status qualified him to attend the Ganwu Auction, scheduled for two years later, and considered going.
• Luo Yuan told Jiang Fang that his fortune could buy over a hundred galaxies and that a Domain Lord had given him 100,000 Life Planets.
• Luo Yuan proposed that Jiang Fang help manage the assets and build a team to develop talent from Earth.

On the journey back to Earth, Luo Yuan bound and rapidly strengthened a Cloud-Touching Vine, then assembled an intimidating set of fifth-order equipment. His simulated World Lord presence frightened his slaves and amused Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God aboard the spaceship.

• Luo Yuan and his companions bought ten Universe Level Nine slaves, a Galaxy Defense System, and cultivation resources before departing Qiu Long Star for Earth.
• Luo Yuan bound the Planetary Level Cloud-Touching Vine and fed it Wood Bud Crystals, raising it to Star Level Seven or Eight in less than a month.
• Luo Yuan opened the stone box containing the Life Fruit, inhaled its potent vitality, then closed it and planned to feed the fruit to the vine after reaching Earth.
• Luo Yuan made the Cloud-Touching Vine cover his body and equipped a fifth-order battle suit, weapons, and a gray cape that projected World Lord aura and psychic intimidation.
• Luo Yuan's slaves knelt in fear at his presence, while Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God joked about his imposing appearance and the treasures he had acquired.

Luo Yuan returned to Earth and used a Life Fruit to evolve Moyun, whose transformation succeeded and produced a powerful Universe Level Second Rank Cloud-Touching Vine Battle Suit. He kept Moyun concealed as inner armor beneath his Tier 5 Force Battle Suit.

• Luo Yuan and his companions reached the Solar System and returned to Earth, where Luo Yuan sent his servants and slaves to explore Ancient Civilization Ruins.
• Luo Yuan reunited with Jiang Fang at his palace.
• Luo Yuan took Moyun into the Wilderness Zone and gave the Cloud-Touching Vine a Life Fruit to trigger its evolution.
• Moyun transformed into a Universe Level Second Rank Cloud-Touching Vine, forming a dark-crimson Battle Suit around Luo Yuan.
• Luo Yuan made Moyun his inner armor and put his Tier 5 Force Battle Suit over it.

Luo Yuan and his companions explored a Machine Race spaceship discovered beneath Bermuda and found its defenses and weapons were extraordinarily powerful. Babata gained control of the vessel, leaving Luo Yuan and the others inside with its capabilities revealed.

• Telita reported finding a Machine Race spaceship in an ancient ruin, and Luo Yuan summoned Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God to investigate.
• The four found a huge silver-white pyramid spaceship beneath Bermuda, which Luo Feng and Luo Yuan identified as an expensive E-class vessel.
• Luo Yuan sent Telita into the spaceship with an intelligence chip, and Babata used it to infiltrate the ship and disable the entrance defenses.
• Luo Yuan, Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God entered the vessel and followed its rising spiral passage to the central control room.
• Babata inspected the spaceship and reported that its shield could withstand E9-class attacks and that it carried three Star Annihilator Cannons and nine E3 Laser Cannons.

After discovering an intact E9-class Machine Race ship, Luo Yuan kept it hidden and invited Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God to attend the Ganwu Auction using funds he lent them. The four arrived at the auction and saw that roughly a hundred thousand World Lords were waiting to enter.

• Luo Yuan and Babata recognized the Machine Race ship's immense value and agreed it should not be exposed, while Luo Yuan chose to keep it as a trump card.
• Luo Yuan stored the ship, left Telita and the others to continue exploring the Ancient Civilization Ruins, and returned to his peaceful routine with his friends.
• On the eve of the Ganwu Auction, Luo Yuan offered Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God 10 Hunyuan Units each so they could qualify as 3-star Customers.
• Luo Yuan, Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God entered the Virtual Universe and traveled to the auction's Hanging City with their invitations.
• As they waited in line, Luo Yuan explained that the crowds likely included around a hundred thousand World Lords, shocking the others.