Chapter Summaries

Chen Ao and Luo Feng arrived in the Initial Universe with the other geniuses and began learning about Chaos City, a place where the laws governing the universe could be studied directly. The reception envoy explained the city’s rules and the opportunities awaiting them as their thirty-year stay began.

• Chen Ao stopped studying the Law of Wood after gaining its origin’s recognition in just over two years, then spent the remaining two months nurturing his Sunken Water Vine clone.
• Chen Ao and Luo Feng joined the arriving geniuses, while Chen Ao quietly disappeared into the crowd and left Luo Feng and Rong Jun unable to locate him.
• Venerable Nine Swords brought the geniuses into the Initial Universe and explained how its visible laws made it valuable for study.
• The geniuses landed in Chaos City, where the reception envoy showed them the experts studying across the city and the law-inscribed rooftops.
• The reception envoy explained how the geniuses could claim residences, forbade humans from killing one another, and stated that their stay would last a little over thirty years.

The geniuses learned about Chaos City’s treasures, chose Chaos Steles, and received their first seven days of study. Chen Ao studied the Green Shadow Chaos Stele, then chose a residence and waited before entering the Heavenly Bridge, planning to keep his performance just below Luo Feng’s.

• The Black-Robed Envoy explained that Chaos City’s 52 Chaos Steles offered paths to the pinnacle, and the geniuses chose which one to study.
• Wittesl and Leibo fought above Chaos City until the city lord crushed them with a palm of chaos energy and ordered them sent to separate prisons.
• Chen Ao studied the first two diagrams of the Green Shadow Chaos Stele during his seven-day opportunity, gaining insight into the space law.
• Kandri told the geniuses to find Cultivation Residences and apply to enter the Heavenly Bridge through the Virtual Universe.
• Chen Ao chose a residence suited to cultivating the law of water and waited, intending to do slightly worse than Luo Feng at the Heavenly Bridge.

Chen Ao challenged the Green Shadow Heavenly Bridge, cleared its first level by breaking an Illusionist’s illusion, then deliberately failed the second level to conceal his abilities. The Green Shadow Lineage’s Invincible Kings watched his recording and decided to contact him with advice, convinced he had chosen the wrong path.

• Luo Feng told Chen Ao that he had cleared the first Heavenly Bridge level and fought the guardian on the second.
• Chen Ao chose an Illusionist on the first level and shattered the illusion in three seconds, clearing the level without revealing his combat techniques.
• Chen Ao chose an Illusionist again on the second level, endured the harmless illusion for three minutes, then killed himself to end the challenge.
• Sword Ghost King, Muqi King, and Ke Jian King watched Chen Ao’s recording and were puzzled that he had chosen the path of illusions rather than the Green Shadow Lineage’s warrior or sword path.
• True Yan King praised Luo Feng’s challenge, while the Green Shadow Kings decided to contact Chen Ao and urge him to change paths.

Chen Ao studied the laws of water and space in Chaos City while the Green Shadow lineage’s masters worried that he had chosen the path of illusions. After earning the water origin law’s recognition without forming a mark, he began a twenty-five-year study of space essence.

• Several Universe Country Lords competed to take Rong Jun as their disciple, while Luo Feng and Chen Ao received the secret techniques and books they had chosen.
• Chen Ao studied the law of water and hunted Chaos Beasts, as the three Invincible Kings of the Green Shadow lineage debated how to guide him.
• Chen Ao cleared the second level of the Heavenly Bridge as an Illusionist by standing still, leaving the Green Shadow lineage’s masters puzzled and disappointed.
• After another year, Chen Ao nearly earned the water origin law’s recognition, but he stopped the process before a Law Mark formed.
• Chen Ao decided to spend twenty-five years studying the 108 aspects of space essence and bought Li Cheng’s foundational secret technique for 1,500 points.

Chen Ao rejected the Green Shadow Grandmasters’ efforts to recruit him as a disciple and continued studying the origin laws on his own. After thirty years in Chaos City, Venerable Nine Swords summoned the geniuses and scolded them for the deaths among their ranks.

• Luo Feng cleared the third level of the Heavenly Bridge, and Chen Ao followed by clearing the fourth level, astonishing the three Green Shadow Grandmasters.
• Muqi King, Sword Ghost King, and Ke Jian King agreed to let Chen Ao choose his own master and began giving lectures to attract him.
• After two years without attending any lectures, Chen Ao told Luo Feng he had never planned to take a master, while secretly aiming to become the Chaos City Lord’s disciple for protection and Supreme Treasures.
• Chen Ao continued studying the space law and making Heavenly Bridge attempts, rarely visiting the Chaos Stele, until his thirty years in Chaos City ended.
• Venerable Nine Swords summoned the eight hundred geniuses and rebuked them because nearly twenty percent had died in Chaos City.

After thirty years of cultivation in Chaos City, the geniuses prepared to leave for the Virtual Universe Company's secret regions. Luo Feng and Bolan cleared the sixth floor of the Heavenly Bridge while Rong Jun cleared the fifth, and the group arrived at the company's Universal Headquarters, where Luo Feng reunited with Xu Xin.

• Venerable Nine Swords ordered the geniuses to leave Chaos City in ten days and urged them to use their remaining time to study and challenge the Heavenly Bridge.
• Luo Feng reached the sixth floor of the Heavenly Bridge, matching Bolan, while Rong Jun cleared the fifth and Chen Ao remained at the fifth.
• True Yan King learned that Luo Feng had cleared the sixth floor, and Long Yu King congratulated him on having such a promising disciple.
• Venerable Nine Swords addressed the 816 young people and praised Bolan, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun before their spaceship left the Initial Universe.
• The group arrived at the Virtual Universe Company's Universal Headquarters, where Venerable Nine Swords said they would be assigned to four secret regions.
• Luo Feng reunited with Xu Xin after disembarking, while Chen Ao watched silently.

Chen Ao teased Luo Feng until he logged off, then settled into his Primal Region residence and used his guard Angke to arrange an honorary teacher. Chen Ao resumed studying the laws and planned to seek the Chaos City Lord as his teacher.

• Luo Feng asked Chen Ao to spar, but Chen Ao pretended that Luo Feng was bullying him until Luo Feng gave up and returned to the Taichu Zone.
• Luo Feng logged off as Chen Ao was about to call him the Child of Fortune, leaving Chen Ao to return to his room in the Primal Region.
• Chen Ao met his guard Angke and asked him to find a Marquis-level teacher who would not interfere with his cultivation.
• Angke arranged for the White Tiger Marquis to become Chen Ao’s teacher, and Chen Ao accepted the appointment, earning Angke’s gratitude.
• Chen Ao resumed comprehending the laws and planned to become the Chaos City Lord’s disciple.

Chen Ao planned to attract the Chaos City Lord’s attention by demonstrating Wood-Space Law fusion, but he lacked the points to buy the technique he needed. He selected the Purgatory Abyss mission to earn them, despite its 99% mortality rate.

• Chen Ao decided he needed to show signs of Wood-Space Law fusion while challenging the Tongtian Mountain to interest the Chaos City Lord.
• Chen Ao identified Six Divine Wood Swords as the technique he needed and found that its first volume cost ten million points.
• Chen Ao reviewed Universe Level trial missions and chose Purgatory Abyss because he could not realistically collect enough Blood Luo Crystals on the Blood Luo Continent.
• The Virtual Universe warned Chen Ao that Purgatory Abyss had a 99% mortality rate and that first-time participants had never survived, but he confirmed his selection.

Chen Ao entered the Purgatory Abyss to earn points, using his Q Skill to reach its thirtieth level and obtain fire li rock. After finding a cavern whose strange stench carried traces of laws, he killed a giant serpent and soaked himself in its blood to imitate its aura.

• Chen Ao rejected Angke's advice to choose a safer mission and traveled to the Purgatory Abyss under his protection.
• Chen Ao used his Q Skill to descend through the abyss, reaching the thirtieth level after about ten days and collecting a piece of fire li rock.
• Chen Ao began exploring the thirtieth level in search of valuable materials or other benefits.
• Chen Ao found a cavern filled with a strange, law-infused stench and discovered enormous serpents inside.
• Chen Ao killed a Domain Lord Level serpent and let its blood cover him, hoping to imitate its aura.

Chen Ao infiltrated the giant snakes’ lair and discovered that their blood nourished a Blood Tree whose roots seemed to improve life genes. As the Immortal Level snakes charged, he began cutting at the tree’s roots to claim them.

• Chen Ao soaked himself in giant snake blood and used its scent to sneak past the snakes deeper in the cave.
• Chen Ao discovered that blood from countless giant snakes flowed through vein-like channels into a Blood Tree in an enormous basin.
• Chen Ao avoided the Immortal Level snakes guarding the basin and traveled through space to approach the Blood Tree.
• Chen Ao recognized that the tree’s pulsing roots made his cells crave them and suspected they could improve life genes.
• As the giant snakes roared and charged, Chen Ao began cutting the Blood Tree’s roots with his sword.

Chen Ao escaped the cavern after battling Undying serpents and collected nine writhing roots, which enhanced his genes. He discovered that the roots could only raise his genetic multiplier to ten, leaving him disappointed by their limited value.

• Chen Ao used a weakened version of Strangulation to deflect an Undying serpent, then escaped the cavern through repeated spatial jumps.
• Chen Ao returned to the surface and resolved to value survival over chasing thrills.
• Chen Ao ate the writhing roots and found that they merged into his body without side effects.
• Chen Ao realized the roots stopped enhancing him after his genetic multiplier reached ten and concluded they were less valuable than Beast God's Blood.

Chen Ao explored the Purgatory Abyss and collected gene-enhancing treasures, then discussed them with Luo Feng and promised to share some. After gathering 143 items, Chen Ao found that his Gene Multiplier had risen to around 450, though his R Skill’s boost seemed to have weakened.

• Chen Ao reasoned that the Purgatory Abyss supplied humanity with renewable gene-enhancing treasures and continued exploring its thirtieth floor.
• Chen Ao spent more than a year exploring the abyss, while Luo Feng sought him out in the Virtual Universe to discuss the opportunities and dangers of their trials.
• Chen Ao and Luo Feng shared information about their respective treasures, and Chen Ao promised to give Luo Feng some of his easier-to-use items in return for Luo Feng’s offer of Blood Luo Crystals.
• Chen Ao returned to the abyss and reported exploring sixty-three species’ territories, finding forty-six openings, and collecting 143 items similar to Creeping Rootlets.
• Chen Ao decided to save some treasures for Luo Feng, Hong, and the others, and estimated that his Gene Multiplier had reached about 450.

Chen Ao completed the Purgatory Abyss mission and sold 110 special roots to the Virtual Universe Company for 5.5 million points. Still more than three million points short of his goal, he considered ways to earn the rest and settled on going to the Blood Luo World for Blood Luo Crystals.

• Chen Ao returned from the Purgatory Abyss, completed his mission with a fire li rock, and received one million points.
• Chen Ao offered 110 roots to the Virtual Universe Company and negotiated their price up to 50,000 points each.
• Chen Ao received 5.5 million points for the roots, bringing his account total to 6.5 million.
• Chen Ao considered missions and other ways to make up the points he still needed, but avoided options likely to draw attention.
• Chen Ao decided to go to the Blood Luo World to earn points by collecting Blood Luo Crystals.

Chen Ao joined Luo Feng in the Blood Luo World to hunt city lords for Blood Luo Crystals, killing Domain Lords with ease as Luo Feng’s Mosha Clan clone helped him reach their targets. After they discovered that their next target city was ruled by a World Lord, Chen Ao insisted they stick to the plan and attack.

• Chen Ao contacted Luo Feng and asked him to help hunt city lords for Blood Luo Crystals.
• Luo Feng brought Chen Ao to a city, where Chen Ao killed a fourth-level Domain Lord with a single sword strike.
• Chen Ao and Luo Feng traveled from city to city, killing about eight Domain Lords per day and collecting their Blood Luo Crystals.
• Luo Feng’s Mosha Clan clone discovered that their next target city was ruled by a World Lord and suggested they move on.
• Chen Ao insisted that they attack the World Lord, leaving Luo Feng stunned by his confidence.

Chen Ao and Luo Feng hunted World Lords and Domain Lords in the Blood Luo World, where Chen Ao revealed enough strength to kill a sixth-stage World Lord with ease. After collecting his Blood Luo Crystals and boosting his gene multiplier to about eight hundred times, Chen Ao left Luo Feng and returned to the Virtual Universe, where an official began giving him a highly classified briefing.

• Chen Ao killed a sixth-stage World Lord with a law-infused Sword Light, leaving Luo Feng astonished by his strength.
• Chen Ao dismissed the Blood Luo World’s World Lords as weak and claimed he could clear only the fifth level of the Heavenly Bridge, while Luo Feng doubted his modesty.
• Chen Ao and Luo Feng hunted nearly ten thousand Domain Lords and more than a hundred World Lords, gathering about fifteen thousand Blood Luo Crystals.
• Chen Ao took more than seven thousand crystals, fused with twelve, and raised his gene multiplier to roughly eight hundred times before telling Luo Feng to forget their time together and departing.
• Chen Ao returned to the Virtual Universe, received one hundred thousand points for obtaining a Blood Luo Crystal, and heard a woman begin a highest-classified briefing.

Chen Ao sold Blood Luo Crystals for seven million points and spent ten million on the first level of the Six Divine Wood Swords Secret Technique before withdrawing to cultivate. As the Universe Level Qualification Battle approached, Luo Feng, Rong Jun, and Wuka discussed Chen Ao’s long absence, while Luo Feng’s qualification prospects came up with Zhen Yan.

• Chen Ao sold seven thousand Blood Luo Crystals for seven million points, then spent ten million points on the first level of the Six Divine Wood Swords Secret Technique.
• Chen Ao returned to his manor, told Angke to handle his affairs, and devoted himself to comprehending the laws for more than forty years.
• Rong Jun asked Luo Feng about Chen Ao’s prolonged seclusion, and Wuka dismissed Chen Ao as someone with only a fifth-level Heavenly Bridge record.
• Luo Feng defended Chen Ao’s strength, then went to meet Zhen Yan after being summoned over his dispute with Molo.
• Zhen Yan asked whether Luo Feng could reach the Primal Region, and Luo Feng recognized that he would not have to compete against Chen Ao for a place.

Chen Ao entered the Primal Region's Universe Level Qualification Battle and unexpectedly placed second, while Molo, Bolan, and Kefeng fell to the bottom three. Luo Feng later won the remaining Primal Region slot and visited Chen Ao, who declined to join him in pursuing the Demon Sound Divine General Inheritance because he was focused on comprehending laws.

• Angke told Chen Ao the Qualification Battle was near, and Chen Ao realized he had not mastered the first level of the Wood-Space Beast God's Scale Armor Chapter and would have to compete.
• Chen Ao won several matches and placed second in the Primal Region Qualification Battle, while Molo, Bolan, and Kefeng finished in the bottom three.
• Bolan remarked that Chen Ao's strength exceeded the Heavenly Bridge's fifth floor, and Chen Ao said he had focused on comprehending laws instead of challenging the Heavenly Bridge.
• Krov the werewolf died during a level mission, and Luo Feng won the contest for the remaining Primal Region slot.
• Luo Feng visited Chen Ao and invited him to seek the Demon Sound Divine General Inheritance, but Chen Ao chose to keep studying laws and said he had fully comprehended one fundamental aspect of the Space Law.

Chen Ao chose to conceal his mastery of the law of wood, then challenged and passed the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain with three powerful strikes. The Chaos City Lord noticed his hidden potential and decided to meet him.

• A Zerg master added Chen Ao to the assassination list at rank 90 and marked Luo Feng as a priority target at rank 4.
• Chen Ao decided not to master the Scale Armor Chapter yet, preferring to keep his talent hidden despite the slight reduction in his chances of becoming the Chaos City Lord's disciple.
• Chen Ao entered the Tongtian Mountain Plane and defeated each group of guardians with a single strike, passing the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain.
• Humanity's Universe Overlords and Universe Masters received news of Chen Ao's achievement and searched for information about him.
• The Chaos City Lord reviewed Chen Ao's history and footage, recognized his use of the Wood Space fusion law, and decided to meet him.

After clearing the Universe Level Tongtian Mountain, Chen Ao received a summons from the Chaos City Lord and traveled to Chaos City for an audience. Along the way, Luo Feng broke through to Domain Lord Level, while Chen Ao remained uncertain about his own advancement.

• Chen Ao disconnected from the Virtual Universe and walked through the Primal Region, where he encountered Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng asked Chen Ao whether he should break through to Domain Lord Level, and Chen Ao advised him to advance if he was ready.
• Luo Feng broke through to Domain Lord Level and was assigned to his home region two days later.
• Chen Ao opened his emails and found Venerable Guiyi's message summoning him to meet the Chaos City Lord.
• Chen Ao arrived at Chaos City, met Venerable Guiyi, and followed him into the Chaos Ruins to see the Chaos City Lord.

Chen Ao met the Chaos City Lord and asked to become his direct disciple. The Chaos City Lord set him a fifty-year test to master the Scale Armor Chapter, and Chen Ao negotiated for points and a place to study.

• Chen Ao entered a desolate world filled with alien corpses and greeted the Chaos City Lord and Venerable Guiyi.
• The Chaos City Lord praised Chen Ao’s talent but warned him to respect the powerful, then required him to fully master the Scale Armor Chapter within fifty years to become his direct disciple.
• The Chaos City Lord offered Chen Ao twenty opportunities to study the Chaos Stele, but Chen Ao asked to exchange them for two billion points.
• The Chaos City Lord agreed to the exchange, and Chen Ao asked to stay in the Inner Mansion for fifty years to focus on comprehending laws.