Chapter Summaries

Chen Ao used his authority to spread the news that Luo Feng had become the Chaos City Lord’s personal disciple, then released videos making it look as though Luo Feng had mastered the Path of the Beast God with extraordinary speed. The chapter left Luo Feng bewildered as the rumors praised him while making him a target of attention.

• Chen Ao calculated that he had only about five thousand years left to cultivate and divided his Law Comprehension work between his Sunken Water Vine and human body.
• Chen Ao spread word that Luo Feng had been accepted as the Chaos City Lord’s personal disciple.
• True Yan King questioned Luo Feng about the rumor and showed him a video that seemed to depict him practicing the Gold-Space Path of the Beast God.
• Luo Feng recognized the person in the video as Chen Ao, but True Yan King struggled to believe that Chen Ao was behind it.
• Babata showed Luo Feng a second video in which the same figure claimed to be Luo Feng and boasted about his cultivation and future prospects.
• Luo Feng realized the videos were making people regard him as an arrogant but unprecedented genius and worried that Chen Ao’s stunt would get him killed.

Chen Ao explained to the Chaos City Lord and Luo Feng that he had publicized Luo Feng’s achievements to push him through greater trials. Luo Feng accepted the challenge of growing stronger and reclaiming Earth, while Chen Ao left the Chaos City Lord convinced to watch Luo Feng more closely.

• The Chaos City Lord deleted the videos, but people continued praising Luo Feng’s talent and achievements.
• Chen Ao told the Chaos City Lord that Luo Feng needed trials and predicted that he would become a Strongest One in the universe.
• The Chaos City Lord agreed to pay closer attention to Luo Feng and questioned whether Chen Ao had made his claims to avoid leaving Chaos City for training.
• Luo Feng confronted Chen Ao about releasing the videos, and Chen Ao said fame and alien attacks would help Luo Feng grow stronger.
• Chen Ao urged Luo Feng to prepare for dangerous trials and reclaim Earth, and Luo Feng vowed to keep advancing without fear.

Chen Ao continued cultivating among the Ancestral God Religion’s inheritors and agreed to join a group of Thorn Ring Alliance King Ranks on an expedition to the Nine Nether Sea. The group set out with Venerable Ziruò accompanying them and agreed not to fight among themselves.

• Chen Ao created his first Universe Overlord-level secret technique after three hundred years of cultivation, while steadily advancing through the third stage of the beast god inheritance.
• An alien Venerable invited Chen Ao to explore a newly formed secret realm, but Chen Ao refused because he suspected the invitation was a trap.
• Several Thorn Ring Alliance King Ranks invited Chen Ao to the Nine Nether Sea, where he hoped to find seawater for his clone plans.
• King Lǜbo told Chen Ao that Venerable Ziruò would accompany their group, and Chen Ao agreed to join after asking whether they would harm him.
• Chen Ao, Venerable Ziruò, King Lǜbo, and the other King Ranks set out together and agreed to forbid fighting among themselves.

Chen Ao’s party traveled through the Ancestral God Secret Realm to the Nine Nether Sea, where the inheritors began searching for treasures. Chen Ao stayed with Venerable Ziruò’s group, secretly using their journey to seek a way into the sea.

• Chen Ao reassured the Thorn Ring Alliance that he did not want to kill the races along their route, and Venerable Ziruò led the group through their territories without incident.
• After about seventeen days, Venerable Ziruò brought the party to the Nine Nether Sea, where several King Ranks chose to search alone and Chen Ao joined the group of five who stayed together.
• Venerable Ziruò explained that divine-power surges could uncover treasures, while Chen Ao quietly followed the group toward the sea eye.
• The group discussed the dangers of approaching the World Trees and Ten Thousand Star Vine, then cautiously moved closer to the vine’s territory in hopes of finding treasures.

Chen Ao and his companions raced to claim a powerful treasure near the Ten Thousand Star Vine, but Venerable Ziruò tried to keep it for himself. The vine appeared and used its temporal abilities to undo his escape, leaving everyone in danger.

• The group spotted an axe-like treasure, and Venerable Ziruò offered to retrieve it because he was the fastest.
• Chen Ao supported Venerable Ziruò, while the five King Rank experts feared he would take the treasure and abandon them.
• Venerable Ziruò reached the treasure, discovered it was an Ordinary Supreme Treasure, and prepared to teleport away as the others caught up.
• The Ten Thousand Star Vine appeared and used Time Stop and Time Reversal, returning Venerable Ziruò to the spot beneath its vine and terrifying the group.

Chen Ao survived the Ten Thousand Star Vine’s attacks by blocking their shock waves, then entered the Nine Nether Sea’s interior. There, he encountered a patrol of its inhabitants, who mistook him for an alien and planned to take him to the fifth prince.

• The Ten Thousand Star Vine killed Venerable Ziruò and five King Rank fighters, leaving their treasures amid the debris.
• Chen Ao blocked the first shock wave with the Wood-Hidden Sword’s fourth strike and collected the surviving treasures.
• The Ten Thousand Star Vine sent a second shock wave, which Chen Ao endured with the Wood-Hidden Sword’s secret patterns and his Supreme Treasure Armor.
• Chen Ao reflected on the gap between his Secret Techniques and Luo Feng’s, then plunged into the Sea Eye of the Nine Nether Sea.
• A patrol of Undying and World Lords found Chen Ao inside the Nine Nether Sea and called him an alien, intending to take him to the fifth prince.

The Fifth Prince met Chen Ao after he fell into the Nine Nether World and learned that he was a Core Member of the Ancestral God Religion. Believing Chen Ao’s explanation for his arrival, the Fifth Prince befriended him and offered to show him around.

• The Fifth Prince teleported to Chen Ao’s location and questioned the alien who had fallen into his territory.
• Chen Ao claimed that he and the Fifth Prince were on the same side because both belonged to the Guardian Divine Lord’s lineage, then showed his Ancestral God Religion token.
• The Fifth Prince accepted Chen Ao as a Core Member and introduced himself, and the two became friends.
• Chen Ao said the Ten Thousand Star Vine had knocked him into the Nine Nether World while he was looking for treasures.
• Chen Ao told the Fifth Prince about his Ten-Thousand-Wood Vine form and six-thousand-fold genetic level, and the Fifth Prince invited him to sample local specialties.

Chen Ao spent over a year befriending the Fifth Prince in the Nine Nether World and secretly collected seawater from the prince’s younger brother’s Imperial Sea. After his teammates called him back, Chen Ao left for Purple Thorn Island, with the Fifth Prince hoping he would visit again.

• The Fifth Prince complained to Chen Ao about being confined to the Nine Nether World and asked him for a fight.
• Chen Ao agreed to spar and killed the Fifth Prince with a single vine strike, after which the Fifth Prince re-formed and admitted he was no match for him.
• Chen Ao pretended to touch the blood-colored Imperial Sea and secretly collected seawater for his Nether Sea Clone.
• After spending over a year in the Nine Nether World, Chen Ao told the Fifth Prince that his teammates were calling him back to Purple Thorn Island.
• The Fifth Prince escorted Chen Ao to the sea eye, and they promised to keep in touch through the Glory World.

After leaving the Nine Nether World with the seawater he had secretly obtained, Chen Ao joined three King Rank fighters on their return journey. In the eighth region, Venerable Gray Sea Stone demanded a Supreme Treasure as a toll and threatened the group, leaving Chen Ao preparing to face him.

• Chen Ao wondered how to deliver the seawater to his human self and decided to wait until he could build connections with humans.
• Chen Ao showed the three surviving King Rank fighters a recording of Venerable Ziruò's death and the treasures he had collected, then agreed to return with them.
• The four King Rank fighters traveled together through several regions, drawing interest from local races but facing no attacks.
• In the eighth region, Venerable Gray Sea Stone of the Lihai Stone Race demanded a Supreme Treasure as a toll and threatened to kill the group when they refused.
• The three King Rank fighters asked Chen Ao to stop Venerable Gray Sea Stone, and Chen Ao warned the Venerable to back off before the Venerable threatened them again.

Chen Ao defeated Venerable Gray Sea Stone after baiting him with the Wood-Hidden Sword, then refused to attack the Gray Sea Stone Clan. He and the three King Ranks prepared to return to Purple Thorn Island.

• Chen Ao struck Venerable Gray Sea Stone with the Fourth Sword, destroying ten percent of his divine body and revealing his formidable strength.
• Chen Ao offered to let Venerable Gray Sea Stone retreat, but the Venerable grew greedy for Chen Ao’s High-grade Supreme Treasure and charged again.
• Chen Ao and Venerable Gray Sea Stone exchanged sword and hammer blows until Venerable Gray Sea Stone had only ten percent of his strength left.
• Chen Ao unleashed the Wood-Hidden Sword’s second layer of secret patterns and annihilated Venerable Gray Sea Stone’s remaining divine body.
• Chen Ao collected Venerable Gray Sea Stone’s war hammers, then declined the King Ranks’ suggestion to wipe out the Gray Sea Stone Clan.
• Chen Ao and the three King Ranks set out to return to Purple Thorn Island.

Chen Ao was surrounded by ten Venerables who wanted to steal his Supreme Treasures, but he stayed behind to let three King Ranks escape and then fought back with his Domain Supreme Treasure. The Ancestral Gods watched without rescuing him, leaving Chen Ao to face the attackers and learn the universe’s cruelty.

• Chen Ao sensed powerful auras surrounding him and told the three King Ranks to flee while he held off the approaching Venerables.
• The three King Ranks escaped, and Venerable Uzi revealed that ten Venerables had followed Chen Ao to seize his Supreme Treasures.
• The Venerables charged Chen Ao, who activated Woodland Realm, Highlander's Blood, and Infinite Sword Dao as the Ancestral Gods watched from afar without intervening.
• Chen Ao used the domain’s suppression and his enhanced speed to charge an Intermediate Venerable while the attackers rushed to kill him before the Ancestral God could arrive.

Chen Ao revealed his full strength and slaughtered six Intermediate Venerables before forcing four High Venerables to self-destruct. After collecting their Supreme Treasures, he left everyone on Purple Thorn Island stunned by his Universe Overlord-level combat power.

• Chen Ao activated his buffs and used the Wood-Hidden Sword to kill an Intermediate Venerable with one strike.
• Chen Ao killed five more Intermediate Venerables in less than a second, while four High Venerables failed to hit him.
• Chen Ao pursued the four High Venerables and fought them, gaining insight into creating a Universe Overlord Peak Secret Technique.
• The four High Venerables weakened as Chen Ao healed with his W Skill, then self-destructed rather than be defeated.
• Chen Ao collected the fallen Supreme Treasures, and the observers on Purple Thorn Island fell silent.

After Chen Ao’s battle demonstrated combat strength rivaling a Universe Overlord, the Ancestral God Religion decided to invest even more heavily in him. Chen Ao told Two-Faced Ancestral God that he was close to creating a Universe Overlord Peak Secret Technique and had nearly comprehended the third-level inheritance.

• Chen Ao reunited with his three King Rank teammates after defeating ten Venerables, and they escorted him to Purple Thorn Island.
• Venerable Purple Rain and Insect-Chasing King reacted to Chen Ao’s strength and decided to leave the Ancestral God Religion to pursue further breakthroughs.
• The Three Ancestor Gods and the Ancestral God Religion’s Universe Masters agreed to provide Chen Ao with more resources, including wood-attribute energy crystals and future cultivation in the Origin Land.
• Two-Faced Ancestral God summoned Chen Ao, who said he believed he could create a Universe Overlord Peak Secret Technique and had comprehended about eighty or ninety percent of the third-level inheritance.

After creating two Universe Overlord Peak Secret Techniques, Chen Ao received permission to cultivate in the Origin Land for a thousand years. Before going, he returned his deceased teammates’ treasures and shares to their races, winning widespread admiration while privately viewing the gesture as an investment in his reputation.

• Chen Ao created the Fifth Sword as a Universe Overlord Peak Secret Technique and raised the Fourth Sword to the same level.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God invited Chen Ao to cultivate in the Origin Land for a thousand years, and Chen Ao asked to go later so he could settle something first.
• Chen Ao told the Two-Faced Ancestral God he intended to return Venerable Ziruò’s and the King Ranks’ recovered treasures to their races, and the Ancestral God supported him.
• Chen Ao returned the recovered treasures and offered to exchange the deceased teammates’ shares of an offensive Supreme Treasure for items their races needed.
• The aliens praised Chen Ao’s generosity, while Chen Ao privately grinned and called himself the universe’s number one hypocrite.

After Chen Ao’s reputation and Supreme Treasure drew widespread admiration, jealous inheritors challenged him in the Glory World, convinced his law comprehension was weak. He accepted more than three million challenges and won every match with his fifth sword strike or stronger techniques.

• Several aliens mocked Chen Ao and challenged him to wager inheritance points in the Glory World.
• Chen Ao accepted everyone’s challenges at once and asked Dao Die King how many inheritance points he had.
• Dao Die King wagered thirteen inheritance points, and Chen Ao defeated him with a single sword strike.
• Chen Ao continued defeating challengers with one strike, while later opponents reduced their wagers after learning his strength.
• Over more than half a year and three million battles, Chen Ao won every match, including against the strongest challengers.

After defeating his challengers, Chen Ao entered the Origin Land to study the fusion of water, wood, and space laws. He emerged after a thousand years feeling close to creating an ultimate secret technique, impressing the Ancestral Gods.

• Chen Ao's victory earned him praise from the aliens, while the major powers decided not to recruit or oppose him.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God confirmed Chen Ao had mastered the third layer of the Beast God Inheritance and advised him to enter the Origin Land after completing it.
• After several decades, Chen Ao finished the third layer and chose to pursue fusion laws in the Origin Land instead of rushing into the fourth layer.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God opened the Origin Land for Chen Ao, who focused on the water-wood-space fusion law.
• A thousand years later, Chen Ao returned and said he felt close to creating an ultimate secret technique, delighting both Ancestral Gods.

Chen Ao advanced his secret techniques and enlarged his divine body with the Ancestral God Religion’s support, earning a valuable supreme treasure. The Two-Faced Ancestral God urged him to keep progressing through the Beast God Inheritance toward becoming a Universe Venerable.

• The Two-Faced Ancestral God arranged for the Ancestral God Religion to gather treasures so Chen Ao could enlarge his divine body while creating secret techniques.
• Chen Ao absorbed the resources with W-Skill Meditation and reached over a hundred million kilometers in size after two thousand years, prompting the Ancestral God Religion to stop supplying further resources.
• Chen Ao told the Two-Faced Ancestral God that he had created the seventh and Eighth Sword, offensive and defensive Universe Overlord Ultimate Secret Techniques.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God gave Chen Ao the Wooden Ladder Palace, a High-grade Palace Supreme Treasure worth three hundred supreme treasure points.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God told Chen Ao to comprehend the fourth layer of the Beast God Inheritance so he could become a Universe Venerable.

Chen Ao traded his inheritance points for Supreme Treasure points to acquire better equipment, alarming the Ancestral Gods because the scheme could strengthen hostile inheritors. The other Ancestral Gods excused him and agreed to give him 758 Supreme Treasure points, leaving Chen Ao delighted with his supposed foolishness.

• Chen Ao exchanged his High-grade Supreme Treasure armor and eighty Supreme Treasure points for top-tier armor, then decided he needed a High-grade Domain Supreme Treasure.
• Chen Ao traded inheritance points to friends and other experts for their treasures, earning forty Supreme Treasure points in fewer than ten days.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God summoned Chen Ao and scolded him because circulating millions of inheritance points could create powerful experts hostile to the Ancestral God Religion.
• The Elder Ancestral God and Tianzhi defended Chen Ao, and the Three Ancestral Gods agreed to exchange his remaining inheritance points for 758 Supreme Treasure points.
• Chen Ao thanked the Ancestral Gods and privately concluded that acting like a fool had worked in his favor.

Luo Feng mastered the first layer of the Beast God Path far sooner than expected and became the Chaos City Lord’s thirty-third personal disciple. He planned to venture to the Outer Domain Battlefield and vowed to catch up with Chen Ao, who chose to remain in Chaos City.

• Golden Axe Venerable told the Chaos City Lord that Luo Feng was progressing rapidly and was close to mastering the first volume.
• The Chaos City Lord learned Chen Ao had mastered the second layer of the Gold-Space Beast God Path and heard why he wanted to keep comprehending laws as a World Lord.
• Luo Feng demonstrated Sky Rend, and the Chaos City Lord accepted him as his thirty-third personal disciple.
• Luo Feng asked Chen Ao about his progress, and Chen Ao said he had perfected the first layer and begun understanding the second.
• Luo Feng invited Chen Ao to team up on the Outer Domain Battlefield, but Chen Ao declined and challenged Luo Feng to kill a King Rank expert through his own strength.

Chen Ao joined an expedition to the distant Heguang Secret Realm to seek a Heguang Tree for a clone and study its time-based secret technique. After the group survived a dangerous storm and reached the realm, Chen Ao set off alone to search for a fragment of a Heguang Tree.

• Chen Ao learned that Luo Feng would head to the Outer Domain Battlefield in three hundred years and undergo life-and-death inheritance about two thousand years later, giving him roughly three thousand years to prepare his plan.
• Chen Ao gathered his Supreme Treasures and joined a team of inheritors, including the organizer Aotan Star Master, bound for the Heguang Secret Realm.
• The team traveled for eight years and survived a Benevolent Light Storm with the help of Aotan Star Master's Palace Supreme Treasure.
• After arriving, the inheritors split up, with the Universe Overlords searching alone and the High Venerables forming teams.
• Chen Ao teleported away alone, intending to find a Heguang Tree fragment in the deepest part of the secret realm.