Recaps

Li Che's mother, Man Yu, returned from hunting with a True God beast for him to consume and an Innate Lord of Laws sealed in a Supreme Treasure. After Li Che explained that he planned to explore both spacetime and light-time laws, Man Yu challenged him to kill the captive on his own to establish himself on the path of fusion laws.

• Li Che found Man Yu and his siblings waiting outside his palace with the corpse of a True God beast she had hunted for him to eat over several eras.
• Man Yu said the feast would help Li Che reach the standard gene level and prepare for the divine power path, while his brothers discussed their chances of surviving the coming war and joining the army.
• Man Yu warned Li Che's three older siblings that war between the Four Directions Tribes and the beasts was imminent and that they should prepare for military missions.
• Man Yu gave Li Che a light-time Innate Lord of Laws sealed in a crystal sphere, explaining that she had captured it shortly after it was born.
• Li Che told Man Yu that he intended to explore both spacetime and light-time, and she said he would need to kill the captive without relying on treasures to gain a firm footing in fusion laws.

Li Che considered how the Jin World’s isolated miniature universe drove its factions into war and watched the captured Light-Time Beast God recover inside Man Yu’s Sealing Supreme Treasure. He began studying the creature’s laws, anticipating rapid progress in mastering the Light-Time Fusion Law.

• Li Che concluded that the Jin World’s leaders used wars to consume powerful warriors because the fallen God King’s world could no longer exchange matter and energy with the outside.
• Li Che’s mother and older siblings prepared for the coming conflict after discussing it with him.
• Li Che sat atop a colossal tree and observed the Light-Time Beast God, whose body had recovered to roughly seventy percent while sealed.
• Li Che adjusted the creature’s posture with the Sealing Supreme Treasure and admired its perfect body and innate mastery of the Light-Time Fusion Law.
• The Light-Time Beast God threatened Li Che, who silenced its will with the treasure and returned to studying its laws.

Li Che transformed his Little Starry Clone into a Universe Venerable, revealing his breakthrough to Purple Kou Venerable and gaining powerful Beast God Inheritor privileges. An Ancestral God summoned him to the Ancestral God Palace, where he arrived with Purple Kou Venerable, wondering what had drawn the Ancestral God's attention.

• Li Che deliberately began transforming his starlight divine body into a Universe Venerable body, prompting Purple Kou Venerable to appear.
• Li Che confirmed that he had become a Universe Venerable, and Purple Kou Venerable congratulated him and explained his new privileges in the Ancestral God Religion.
• An Ancestral God sent word through the Five-Colored Aurora Lake, ordering Purple Kou Venerable to bring Li Che to the Ancestral God Palace.
• Purple Kou Venerable used Instantaneous Movement to take Li Che to the Ancestral God Palace, and Li Che entered it, curious about the summons.

Li Che met the Two-Faced Ancestral God, who revealed that the Primal Universe valued Li Che’s unusual power and welcomed him into the Ancestral God Religion. Li Che accepted a powerful origin-type supreme treasure and agreed to future duties, while the religion promised access to its secret techniques.

• Li Che entered the Ancestral God Palace and greeted the Two-Faced Ancestral God, who recognized him as both Origin Light Venerable and Guixu Venerable.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God explained that the will of the original universe had observed Li Che’s breakthrough and recognized his explosive power beyond perfect genes.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God gave Li Che the Universe’s Gift, an origin-type supreme treasure that would greatly accelerate his divine-body transformation.
• Li Che accepted the treasure and agreed to become a Guardian Beast God and later a Guardian Divine Lord when he reached Universe Master level.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God promised Li Che access to secret techniques from past Light-Time Beast Gods and Guardian Beast Gods.

The Two-Faced Ancestral God granted Li Che access to the Light Beast God Palace’s cultivation hall and secret techniques. Li Che then went to the Giant Axe Universe, where the Giant Axe Founder placed him in a region with ten-thousandfold time acceleration to cultivate.

• The Two-Faced Ancestral God brought Li Che to the Light Beast God Palace and explained that the Light-Time Beast God was away on its shift.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God gave Li Che permission to cultivate in the palace’s side hall, receive the Beast God Inheritance, and study secret techniques from past Beast Gods and Guardian Divine Lords.
• Li Che told the Lord of Void Gold that he intended to cultivate in the Giant Axe Universe, and the Lord of Void Gold took him to meet the Giant Axe Founder.
• Li Che agreed to use time acceleration in the Giant Axe Founder’s Miniature Universe, where the flow of time was one ten-thousandth that of the Primal Universe.
• The Giant Axe Founder created a palace for Li Che in the accelerated region and mentioned that Ancestor Tree Venerable was cultivating in another such region.
• After the Giant Axe Founder’s avatar disappeared, Li Che sat down to cultivate.

Li Che explored Giant Axe Founder's Miniature Universe and discussed the path to becoming a Universe Master with Ancestor Tree Venerable. Their conversation ended with plans to spread Li Che's artifact-refining inheritance among the Human Race and search for talented refiners.

• Li Che sensed the differences between a True God's Miniature Universe and the Primal Universe and considered the power he would gain by reaching True God through the divine power path.
• Ancestor Tree Venerable arrived and praised Li Che as another Quasi-Universe Master of the Human Race.
• Ancestor Tree Venerable lamented that he had spent countless eras stuck at the Top Universe Overlord level and encouraged Li Che to pursue becoming a Universe Master.
• Ancestor Tree Venerable praised Lord Manhu's artifact-refining inheritance, and Li Che asked how the Human Race would use it.
• Ancestor Tree Venerable explained that Giant Axe Founder planned to simplify the inheritance's basic sections and distribute them to Immortals to find artifact-refining talent.

Li Che spent long periods cultivating across the Giant Axe Universe, the Ancestral God Religion, and Jin World, advancing his Beast God Inheritance and fusion-law techniques. After completing the sixth inheritance layer, he tried to begin the seventh but discovered he had not mastered the beast god heart.

• Li Che's clones studied the light-time fusion law, space origin law, and Beast God Inheritance while his Starry Clone coordinated their research in accelerated time.
• Li Che completed the fourth and fifth Beast God Inheritance layers and created corresponding Universe Venerable ultimate secret techniques for "Origin Light" as his gene level rose to nine thousand times the baseline.
• A long war in Jin World ended, and Li Che learned that one of his older brothers and Manhu's father had died; Man Yu told her children that the war had been a selection process for the God King.
• Man Yu and Li Che's tenth brother left to join the army, while Li Che's older sister departed to fight an exotic beast power.
• In the eighth epoch, Li Che merged a time-law technique into "Guixu," elevating it to the standard of a Universe Master peak secret technique.
• In the tenth epoch, Li Che completed the sixth Beast God Inheritance layer and created the sixth "Origin Light" move, then attempted the seventh layer and found he had not mastered the beast god heart.

After 150,000 years of accelerated cultivation, Li Che revealed to Lord Luhai that he was truly a Time Venerable and had made major progress in his techniques. He asked his senior brother to assess his combat strength, and Lord Luhai prepared to test whether Li Che could protect himself.

• Li Che spent 150,000 years serving as Chief Director of the Giant Axe Life-and-Death Battles without needing to intervene, while his secret techniques grew substantially stronger.
• Li Che traveled to Luhai, Lord Luhai’s Cosmic Secret Realm, and praised his senior brother’s domain.
• Lord Luhai asked about Li Che’s accelerated cultivation, and Li Che revealed his Time Venerable aura, shocking him.
• Li Che explained that he had concealed his time-law identity and used the Divine Spirit Veil to disguise himself as a Space Venerable.
• Li Che told Lord Luhai that their teacher had allowed him to reveal his power if he could protect himself, then asked for guidance on his combat strength.
• Lord Luhai rose to test whether Li Che could defend himself.

Li Che tested his strength against Lord Luhai in a battle inside the Lü Hai Secret Realm, enduring his senior brother’s domain-enhanced attacks before unveiling his own secret technique. He left Lord Luhai injured and revealed a gene level of roughly two thousand times the baseline, while privately recognizing that his true gene level exceeded 9,700 times.

• Lord Luhai created a light-year-wide battlefield and used the Domain-type Supreme Treasure Lü Hai to suppress Li Che and attack him with a wave-shaped fist.
• Li Che endured Lord Luhai’s initial blow with his Darklight Armor, then blocked a stronger hammer strike with Yalie without weakening his divine body.
• Li Che unleashed his secret technique, Guixu, and sent Lord Luhai flying despite Lü Hai and his armor reducing the strike’s power.
• Lord Luhai lost 2% of his divine body and marveled when Li Che said the attack had used roughly two-thousandfold gene-level strength.
• Li Che privately reflected that rare treasures from his mother had raised his gene level above 9,700 times the baseline.

Li Che’s sparring match with Lord Luhai showed that his strength rivaled a Top Universe Overlord, and Li Che judged that his full power could approach a Universe Master’s. Lord Luhai invited him to explore the Primal Stars when they opened, while the two also discussed Li Che’s donated artifact-refining inheritance.

• Li Che ended his sparring match with Lord Luhai after assessing his abilities, and Lord Luhai praised Li Che’s strength while warning him about exceptionally powerful special lifeforms.
• Li Che considered the limits of his combat power, his need for better weapons and armor, and his desire to test himself against other races’ Top Universe Overlords.
• Lord Luhai told Li Che that the Primal Stars would appear in about a hundred eras and invited him to team up there, and Li Che agreed to go.
• Lord Luhai praised Li Che’s artifact-refining texts and said their race would distribute simplified versions and nurture talented refiners.

Li Che met with the Lord of Void Gold to learn how humanity had used Manhu's Artifact Refining Compendium. The race had begun distributing portions of the legacy and planned to use a simplified version to identify promising Immortal God artifact refiners.

• The Lord of Void Gold praised Li Che's strength after watching his battle with Lord Luhai, who conceded that Li Che was one of humanity's Top Universe Overlords.
• The Lord of Void Gold showed Li Che and Lord Luhai the legacy offered through the Human Race's contribution store, which included methods for refining Heavy Treasures and Supreme Treasures.
• The Lord of Void Gold said more than thirty percent of humanity's Universe Venerables and Universe Overlords had purchased the legacy, and four Venerables had refined Top-Tier Heavy Treasure weapons or armor, while one had made a set.
• The Lord of Void Gold told Li Che that humanity planned to share the legacy with trusted Hongmeng Alliance member races and subordinate races, while remaining cautious of others.
• The Lord of Void Gold presented a simplified Immortal-stage legacy that the five great powers planned to make available to every Immortal God in Human Territory to identify artifact refining talent.

The Five Major Powers distributed the first stage of a valuable artifact-refining inheritance to every human Immortal God, setting them on a path that resembled a tournament selection. Hu Yanbo decided to pursue a treasure on the Nine Souls Continent before returning to study the inheritance.

• The Five Major Powers offered every human Immortal God the Nameless Artifact-Refining Inheritance for 1,000 Hunyuan Units, and its secret techniques proved capable of producing high-grade divine weapons.
• Hu Yanbo and his servants studied the inheritance aboard the Yunmo Star Ship and were astonished by its depth and value.
• Babata explained that mastering the first stage would grant access to the second, while later portions required joining one of the Five Major Powers.
• Iron Sword Marquis and the others concluded that the inheritance was a preliminary selection for an artifact-refining tournament organized by the Five Major Powers.
• Hu Yanbo resolved to make one last trip to the Nine Souls Continent to seize a treasure, then return to Meteorite Star and study the inheritance.

The Zerg Queen and Sitting Mountain Guest learned that the Human Race was distributing Manhu's artifact-refining inheritance. After examining the inheritance, Sitting Mountain Guest fell silent and trembled, leaving Puti uncertain about what he had recognized.

• The Human Race distributed Manhu's simplified artifact-refining manual to hundreds of millions of Immortal Gods.
• A Four-Armed Mantis reported the inheritance to the Zerg Queen, who decided the Zerg would take no immediate action and might later enslave experts in artifact refining.
• Puti presented Sitting Mountain Guest with a portion of the inheritance, saying it seemed to come from an ancient civilization and resembled his teacher's methods.
• Sitting Mountain Guest absorbed the inheritance's information and remained silent for days.
• Puti saw Sitting Mountain Guest sigh with sorrow and helplessness as his hands trembled.

The Human Race’s artifact-refining inheritance spread widely, drawing Immortal Gods into study and prompting the race to support their work with affordable simulated materials. Li Che guided Void Gold Lineage disciples and explained that the inheritance could eventually raise the Human Race’s treasure-making abilities, though realizing its full potential would take thousands of eras.

• Immortal Gods across the Human Race studied the three stages of Manhu’s Artifact Refining Compendium and practiced in the Virtual Universe’s simulated refining facility.
• King Canghun, having mastered the first two stages, attempted to forge King-level divine weapons while Li Che guided the Void Gold Lineage’s second-generation disciples.
• King Yongbo described the immense demand for basic materials, and Li Che noted that the Human Race was keeping their prices low to encourage artifact refining.
• Li Che said the inheritance might eventually produce refiners capable of forging Supreme Treasures, though he had not heard of any Venerable succeeding yet.
• Li Che predicted that, after thousands of eras, many Venerables could learn to forge top-tier Heavy Treasure sets and improve the Human Race’s equipment.

Li Che met Shi Huo Venerable to review the Universe Artifact-Refining Tournament’s progress and the talented Immortals it had uncovered. Shi Huo remained optimistic about developing human artifact refiners, while the pair acknowledged that hostile races had begun stealing the tournament’s basic inheritance.

• Li Che met Shi Huo Venerable in the Mother Ancestor Universe Country after more than four eras of the tournament and reviewed the inheritor rankings with him.
• Shi Huo showed Li Che Army Lord Qian Shang, an unaffiliated Immortal who had nearly completed the first two stages of the inheritance.
• Li Che searched for Hu Yanbo and learned that he was struggling with the first stage despite having received it.
• Shi Huo said he had personally recruited four young talents, including a Marquis who joined after seeing a Venerable refine a Heavy Treasure.
• Li Che and Shi Huo discussed plans for future artifact-refining competitions and the risk that hostile races were obtaining the tournament’s basic inheritance.

Ten eras after Lord Manhu's Artifact Refining Inheritance spread through humanity, it improved equipment and revealed new Venerable talents, including one who refined a Supreme Treasure. Li Che learned that Venerable Tipu wanted to meet him, suspecting Tipu’s teacher, Sitting Mountain Guest, had recognized something familiar in the inheritance.

• Humanity’s Immortal Gods and workshops used the inheritance to refine better equipment, while Universe Venerables began studying artifact refining themselves.
• Several Venerables discovered talent, and Venerable Tipu successfully refined a Supreme Treasure.
• Li Che continued recruiting talented unaffiliated Immortals while his clones trained in the Giant Axe Universe, and his secret technique Origin Light reached the level of a Universe Master's ultimate secret technique.
• Li Che and Shi Huo Venerable received news of Tipu’s achievement, and Shi Huo explained that Tipu was a powerful, low-profile Snake-People Universe Overlord.
• Li Che recognized that Venerable Tipu was a clone of Universe Master Puti, whose teacher was Sitting Mountain Guest.
• Tipu emailed Li Che asking to meet, and Li Che suspected Sitting Mountain Guest had recognized something familiar in the artifact refining inheritance.

Li Che met Venerable Tipu, a Snake-Person Universe Overlord who was secretly an outsider and an intermediary for Sitting Mountain Guest. Tipu revealed that Sitting Mountain Guest wanted to meet Li Che about his ancient civilization inheritance.

• Li Che researched Venerable Tipu and suspected that the unambitious Snake-Person was a spy who had escaped the scrutiny of humanity’s strongest beings.
• Venerable Tipu arrived in a Supreme Treasure palace, and Li Che invited him into the Guixu Fortress to talk.
• Li Che questioned Tipu about his rapid skill in crafting Ordinary Supreme Treasures and asked why he had come.
• Tipu concealed their conversation from the Virtual Universe and said an ancient inheritance had helped him contact a powerful being of another race.
• Tipu revealed that the being interested in Li Che’s inheritance was Sitting Mountain Guest.

Li Che accepted Sitting Mountain Guest’s invitation and sought the Ancestral God’s advice before traveling to meet him. After preparing his human main body with powerful protective treasures and revealing the aura of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, Li Che headed for Sitting Mountain Guest’s territory.

• Li Che accepted Venerable Tipu’s invitation on Sitting Mountain Guest’s behalf and obtained the destination’s star coordinates.
• Li Che’s Starry Clone requested an audience with the Two-Faced Ancestral God to learn about Sitting Mountain Guest.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God explained Sitting Mountain Guest’s ties to the Yan God Race and warned Li Che to use strong soul protection.
• Li Che drew on Li Che of the Mountain Sea Realm’s legacy, including the aura of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, and prepared Rain Afterglow and Quyang Tower.
• Li Che entered Quyang Tower and used Instantaneous Movement to travel toward Sitting Mountain Guest’s territory.

Sitting Mountain Guest reflected on the Jin Kingdom inheritance and the fate of its people before meeting Li Che to learn where the Human Race had obtained it. When Li Che revealed the aura of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, Sitting Mountain Guest was shaken by its familiarity.

• Puti told Sitting Mountain Guest that Guixu Venerable was coming, and Sitting Mountain Guest waited for him in his remote domain.
• Sitting Mountain Guest recalled that the artifact refining inheritance came from the Jin Kingdom and grieved over the Eternal True Gods who had died under the supreme rule.
• Li Che arrived aboard the Quyang Tower, and Sitting Mountain Guest shielded their meeting from the Virtual Universe before asking about the inheritance.
• Li Che agreed to show Sitting Mountain Guest the inheritance's origin and released the aura of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, leaving Sitting Mountain Guest's thoughts in disarray.

Li Che used a fabricated story about inheriting Jin Kingdom techniques to convince Sitting Mountain Guest that he belonged to an ancient lineage. Sitting Mountain Guest offered him a chance to join that lineage.

• Sitting Mountain Guest reviewed Li Che’s past and found no clear explanation for his sudden rise in strength or his knowledge of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual.
• Li Che offered Sitting Mountain Guest a copy of Manhu’s Artifact Refining Compendium in exchange for a Supreme Treasure.
• Sitting Mountain Guest considered probing Li Che’s memories, but the Will of the Original Universe appeared and forced him to stop.
• Li Che handed over the Memory Crystal, and Sitting Mountain Guest examined its artifact-refining methods.
• Li Che vaguely described his inheritance and invented a story about an ancient civilization whose expert had perished after leaving its territory.
• Sitting Mountain Guest accepted Li Che as an inheritor and offered him an opportunity to join his lineage.

Li Che accepted Sitting Mountain Guest’s invitation to join the Jin Lineage after hearing about the destruction of the Jin Kingdom and Sitting Mountain Guest’s quest for revenge. Sitting Mountain Guest took him to an enormous Cosmic Secret Realm and set his first trial.

• Li Che recalled how the Food Kingdom destroyed the Jin Kingdom, leaving Sitting Mountain Guest as its sole survivor, and decided he had reason to join his lineage.
• Sitting Mountain Guest invited Li Che to join, believing his unusual ability and potential might help with his plans.
• Li Che accepted after Sitting Mountain Guest said he would not demand anything from him on behalf of the Human Race.
• Sitting Mountain Guest used Instantaneous Movement to take Li Che to an unfamiliar Cosmic Secret Realm filled with his servants.
• Sitting Mountain Guest ordered Li Che to destroy the divine bodies of three Top Universe Overlords with gene levels above eight thousandfold, without using Supreme Treasures.

Sitting Mountain Guest summoned three powerful special lifeforms and ordered them to test Li Che by killing him without a Supreme Treasure Palace. Li Che fought off their coordinated attacks and revealed his overwhelming strength, leaving the test ongoing.

• Sitting Mountain Guest summoned Darkborn Demon Lord, Esha Star Lord, and Dark Annihilation Demon Lord, then ordered them to kill Li Che.
• Sitting Mountain Guest left Li Che to face the three Top Universe Overlords without using a Supreme Treasure Palace.
• Darkborn Demon Lord struck Li Che with a High-grade Supreme Treasure weapon, but Li Che withstood the blow and introduced himself as Guixu Venerable of the Human Race.
• Li Che removed his damaged Darklight Armor and used Origin Light to send Darkborn Demon Lord flying.
• Esha Star Lord froze the surrounding spacetime as Dark Annihilation Demon Lord attacked, but Li Che emerged unscathed and prepared to continue the fight.

Li Che fought three of Sitting Mountain Guest’s Special Lifeform servants and revealed secret techniques powerful enough to overwhelm them. His sudden surge of strength left Sitting Mountain Guest stunned, as Li Che’s power exceeded the known gene-level limit without drawing any response from the Primal Universe.

• Li Che used his Light-Time Beast God Phantom and the secret technique Guixu to suppress Dark Annihilation Demon Lord and the other two Special Lifeforms.
• Sitting Mountain Guest and Puti watched the battle, and Puti recognized that Li Che’s secret techniques surpassed those of top human Universe Overlords.
• Li Che struck Esha Star Lord with Guixu and destroyed two percent of its divine body in one blow.
• Puti judged that Li Che’s new combat power approached that of a Second-Order Universe Master, while Sitting Mountain Guest realized Li Che’s strength had exceeded the theoretical gene-level limit.

Li Che defeated Sitting Mountain Guest’s three special-lifeform Universe Overlords after summoning his Little Starry Clone to replenish his divine power. Sitting Mountain Guest was satisfied with Li Che’s strength and offered him the identity of the North Prison Lord and everything that belonged to him.

• Li Che used his full strength, including “Guixu” and “Origin Light,” to battle the three special-lifeform Universe Overlords commanded by Sitting Mountain Guest.
• Li Che summoned his Little Starry Clone to replenish his divine power and continued fighting as the Cosmic Secret Realm shook around them.
• Li Che killed the Dark Annihilation Demon Lord, the Esha Star Lord, and the Darkborn Demon Lord in succession, consuming over 40% of his Little Starry Clone’s divine body.
• Sitting Mountain Guest gathered the fallen Overlords’ Supreme Treasures and explained that the three were his servants with clones of their own.
• Li Che asked whether Sitting Mountain Guest was satisfied, and Sitting Mountain Guest offered him the identity of the North Prison Lord and everything that belonged to him.

Sitting Mountain Guest brought Li Che to the North Prison Secret Realm and revealed that he had created the North Prison Lord identity. Li Che accepted the identity and its associated treasures, transforming into the featureless, deep-blue figure.

• Sitting Mountain Guest carried Li Che into a hidden, frozen Cosmic Secret Realm centered on the North Prison.
• Li Che recognized the North Prison as the Flying Palace-type Supreme Treasure associated with the infamous North Prison Lord.
• Sitting Mountain Guest appeared as the North Prison Lord, explained that the identity had been a false one he created, and revealed his true form.
• Sitting Mountain Guest offered Li Che the North Prison Lord identity, its Supreme Treasures, and the North Prison Secret Realm.
• Li Che imprinted the deep-blue icy flame and transformed into the North Prison Lord, then received weapons, armor, and other items from Sitting Mountain Guest.