Chapter Summaries

Li Che visited Manhu, a Lord of Laws and master artifact refiner, hoping to learn the Jin World’s crafting methods. Manhu gave him a complete artifact-refining inheritance and agreed to teach him regularly before the tribe’s upcoming war.

• Li Che flew across his residential district and found Manhu forging armor outside his palace.
• Li Che showed Manhu the God King’s artifact-refining guide and learned that its methods required him to become a True God.
• Manhu offered to teach Li Che his own artifact-refining methods and demonstrated a powerful palace-type treasure.
• Manhu pressed a crystal containing Manhu's Artifact Refining Compendium to Li Che’s forehead, transferring the unrestricted inheritance.
• Li Che asked to study with Manhu, and they agreed that Li Che would visit for guidance every few hundred years until the tribe went to war.

Li Che reviewed his new duties as Chief Director of the Giant Axe Life-and-Death Battle and examined a thousand eras of rule violations. He left the rules unchanged, assigned Mo Alanni to watch for promising warriors, and studied rare materials for Heavy Treasure refining.

• Mo Alanni gave Li Che records of sixty-two serious challenges to the arena's rules over the past thousand eras.
• After reading about the participants' hardships, Li Che ordered that the existing rules remain in force and that violators receive the strictest punishment.
• Li Che asked Mo Alanni to report promising Domain Lord Level and World Lord Level Giant Axe Warriors.
• Li Che studied the Human Race's Special Materials Store and Manhu's Artifact Refining Compendium to prepare for refining Heavy Treasures.

Li Che studied artifact refining in Jin World and made rapid progress, while his human body continued cultivating in the Primal Universe. After five thousand years, his human body reached a gene level of 6,800 times the base level, but he knew he still needed to pursue the divine power path.

• Li Che researched how heavy treasures and supreme treasures were formed and learned that they could be nurtured by the Primal Universe, found in the Universe Ocean, or refined by powerful experts.
• Li Che decided to study artifact refining before his mother returned, using Manhu's compendium, Jin World's abundant materials, and Manhu's instruction.
• After more than two thousand years of study, Li Che refined an ordinary heavy treasure weapon, then later crafted ordinary heavy treasure armor.
• Li Che's human body spent five thousand years studying laws and secret techniques while serving as Giant Axe Life-and-Death Battle Universe-Wide Director without needing to handle any matters.
• Li Che's human body reached a gene level of 6,800 times the base level and gained a twelvefold enhancement from the Infinite Land, but he recognized that he still needed to advance along the divine power path.

After more than five thousand years studying artifact forging, Li Che successfully forged the Spirit Evolution Jade Armor, an ordinary heavy treasure armor. Venerable Fu praised his efficient use of materials, and Li Che turned to the Virtual Universe to learn more about the Human Race’s forging capabilities.

• Li Che used the Manhu Divine Furnace to forge armor from materials purchased for four supreme treasure points while Army Lord Mo Alanni and Venerable Fu watched.
• Li Che completed 1,081 plates and named the resulting heavy treasure armor the Spirit Evolution Jade Armor.
• Venerable Fu praised Li Che for producing armor worth around ten supreme treasure points from the materials.
• Li Che reflected that his forging skills still fell far short of Sitting Mountain Guest’s and saw Venerable Fu off.
• Li Che entered the Virtual Universe to investigate the Human Race’s artifact forging capabilities.

Li Che tested the basic abilities of his Spirit Evolution Jade Armor, then told the Lord of Void Gold he had obtained an artifact-refining inheritance from a Universe Master named Lord Manhu. After examining the inheritance, the Lord of Void Gold recognized its great value and promised that humanity would assess it and offer Li Che a suitable price.

• Li Che examined the Spirit Evolution Jade Armor while Army Lord Mo Alanni marveled at its capabilities.
• Li Che contacted the Lord of Void Gold and said he had obtained a complete Universe Master inheritance from Lord Manhu, an expert in artifact refining.
• Li Che explained that Lord Manhu's inheritance covered methods for refining Peak Supreme Treasures, prompting the Lord of Void Gold to travel to him.
• Li Che handed the Lord of Void Gold a memory crystal containing the inheritance and asked him to be careful when passing it on.
• The Lord of Void Gold read the inheritance, praised its systematic methods, and said he and the Chaos City Lord would assess its value and compensate Li Che.

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.