Chapter Summaries

The Human Race weakened and sealed the Lord of Ashen Soul before the Machine Race Father God could arrive, turning his capture into a chance to demand a ransom. The Chaos City Lord contacted Giant Axe to negotiate with the Mechanical Race Father God.

• The Mechanical Race Father God rushed toward the Primal Star as the Lord of Ashen Soul asked to be ransomed, and the Lord of Flint began beating him.
• The Lord of Ashen Soul relayed the Mechanical Race Father God's offer of one Peak Supreme Treasure, but the Lord Peng Gong struck him with Falling Star and reduced his divine power further.
• The Chaos City Lord ordered the five Universe Masters to weaken the Lord of Ashen Soul below ten percent divine power, and the Lord of Ice Peak sealed him inside the Ice Mountain Palace.
• The Human Race experts escaped through the Vortex Passage and returned to Human Territory using Divine Kingdom Teleportation.
• The Chaos City Lord decided Giant Axe should negotiate with the Mechanical Race Father God, then contacted him.

The Human Race prepared to exchange the captured Lord of Ashen Soul for Supreme Treasures, and Giant Axe met the Mechanical Race Father God to begin negotiations. The chapter ended with Giant Axe showing the captive Universe Master bound inside the Ice Mountain Palace.

• The Mechanical Race Father God arrived at the Primal Star with ten Universe Masters but found Lord of Ashen Soul and the humans gone.
• The Chaos City Lord distributed two of Lord of Ashen Soul's Supreme Treasures to Lord Peng Gong and put the soul attack treasure in the race treasury.
• Yang Hao returned Yuxiang to the Human Race and agreed to stay away from the Primal Star.
• The Chaos City Lord summoned Giant Axe and told him how the humans had captured Lord of Ashen Soul; Giant Axe took the Ice Mountain Palace to negotiate with the Mechanical Race Father God.
• Giant Axe confronted the Mechanical Race Father God in a barren region and showed him Lord of Ashen Soul imprisoned inside the palace.

Giant Axe traded the imprisoned Lord of Ashen Soul to the Mechanical Race Father God for a Peak Soul-type Supreme Treasure and a Peak Domain-type Supreme Treasure. Back in the Initial Universe, the Chaos City Lord began deciding how to distribute the treasures’ value among humanity’s Universe Masters.

• Giant Axe rejected the Mechanical Race Father God's initial offer and insisted on two valuable Peak Supreme Treasures for the Lord of Ashen Soul.
• The Mechanical Race Father God agreed to provide a Peak Soul-type Supreme Treasure and a Peak Domain-type Supreme Treasure in exchange for the imprisoned Lord of Ashen Soul.
• Giant Axe verified the treasures, released the weakened Lord of Ashen Soul, and returned to the Initial Universe with the payment.
• Giant Axe gave both treasures to the Chaos City Lord and warned that humanity's Universe Masters should stop competing for Primal Star treasures as it closed.
• Giant Axe told the Chaos City Lord he planned to explore the Universe Boat using newly acquired map information, then departed.
• The Chaos City Lord valued the treasures at 43,000 Supreme Treasure Points and struggled to divide them among five Universe Masters and the Qian Wu Country Lord.

The Chaos City Lord distributed the battle’s Supreme Treasure Points, giving Yang Hao a substantial share and warning him to cultivate rather than attract danger. Yang Hao decided to avoid returning to the Primal Star and focus on developing his strength, beginning with secret techniques.

• The Chaos City Lord proposed a reward split that gave Lord Peng Gong forty percent, Yang Hao and the Lord of Ice Peak fifteen percent each, and Lord Long Xing, the Lord of Flint, and the Chaos City Lord ten percent each.
• Everyone accepted the distribution, and the Chaos City Lord handed out the Supreme Treasure Points and assigned the Lord of Ice Peak the Lord of Ashen Soul’s remaining treasures as payment for using the Ice Peak Palace.
• The Chaos City Lord warned Yang Hao not to flaunt powerful treasures and urged him to cultivate, explaining that the Human Race could not keep protecting him as its Universe Masters ventured into the Universe Ocean.
• Yang Hao decided not to return to the Primal Star, noting that his accumulated wealth could buy several Top-tier Supreme Treasures but that using them might attract powerful enemies.
• Yang Hao chose to focus on cultivation and begin creating an Ultimate Universe Overlord Secret Technique rather than attempt the much harder path to becoming a Universe Master.

Yang Hao received the third turn of Hunyuan Ten Turns from the restarted check-in system, raising his life gene multiplier to 6,000, then spent ten thousand epochs creating and testing his Ultimate Universe Overlord Secret Technique, Star Shard. The system granted him another Universe Strongest-level check-in reward, and Yang Hao checked in to claim it.

• The restarted check-in system awarded Yang Hao the third turn of Hunyuan Ten Turns, which he cultivated for a thousand epochs and used to raise his life gene multiplier to 6,000 and his divine body to ten kilometers.
• Yang Hao used treasures to replenish his divine power after his enlarged divine body left him short of energy.
• After ten thousand epochs of work, Yang Hao combined and refined his Natural Disaster moves into the Ultimate Universe Overlord Secret Technique Star Shard.
• Yang Hao tested Star Shard on an isolated black hole, destroying it with one strike and discovering that the resulting space-time tsunami could help him comprehend the time law.
• The system upgraded a check-in reward to Universe Strongest level after Yang Hao created Star Shard and went over ten thousand epochs without checking in, and Yang Hao checked in to claim it.

Yang Hao received a clone slot and Salamander Whale blood from the system, chose to gestate a Salamander Whale clone, and returned to his divine kingdom. He surveyed the kingdom and considered the limits on its inhabitants before beginning the clone gestation.

• The system rewarded Yang Hao with a clone slot and Salamander Whale blood, and explained that the Salamander Whale had a vast divine body, high life gene multiplier, and clear comprehension of space-time laws.
• Yang Hao weighed the Salamander Whale against a World Tree and a Nine Nether Clone, then chose the Salamander Whale for its combat potential and talent for comprehending the time law.
• Yang Hao used Divine Kingdom Teleportation to travel to his divine kingdom in the Qian Wu Universe Country.
• Yang Hao inspected the eight-light-year-wide divine kingdom, noting its immense palace, continents, oceans, and small population.
• Yang Hao reflected that his divine kingdom's inhabitants faced cultivation limits tied to his strength and that adding more would be wasteful.

Yang Hao successfully began incubating a salamander whale clone, which would take a thousand eras to complete. While browsing the Virtual Universe, he discovered the extraordinarily lucky Li Hao and decided to take him as a disciple.

• Yang Hao used his Clone technique to incubate a salamander whale from its blood, and the process succeeded.
• Yang Hao watched the egg grow to a thousand kilometers across and learned the clone would take a thousand eras to incubate and emerge at the Universe Overlord level.
• Yang Hao learned about Sitting Mountain Guest’s Mountain Sea Realm and considered whether its exceptionally talented genius could become the Star Tower’s master.
• Yang Hao investigated Li Hao’s background and discovered that he had obtained an Army Master Level Immortal God’s inheritance while still at the Planetary Level.
• Yang Hao decided to take Li Hao as his disciple, hoping some of Li Hao’s extraordinary luck would rub off on him.

Li Hao’s extraordinary luck and talent caught the attention of Yang Hao, the Qian Wu Country Lord, who invited him to become a Nominal Disciple. As Li Hao traveled to Chaos City, he learned that he had thirty years to clear the seventh level of the Tongtian Bridge to become Yang Hao’s Personal Disciple.

• Li Hao’s King-level teacher discovered that the greataxe Li Hao had found was a Heavy Treasure, entrusted it to his own Venerable teacher, and split the proceeds with Li Hao.
• After receiving a share of the proceeds, Li Hao’s teacher bought cultivation treasures, advanced his law comprehension, and reached Peak King.
• Yang Hao reviewed Li Hao’s record, including his first-place finish in the Strongest Battle, and decided to take him as a Nominal Disciple before another powerful expert could claim him.
• Li Hao received Yang Hao’s invitation aboard the spaceship to Chaos City and forwarded it to his King-level teacher.
• Li Hao’s teacher explained that Li Hao needed to clear the seventh level of the Tongtian Bridge within thirty years to become Yang Hao’s Personal Disciple.

After clearing the eighth level of the Tongtian Bridge, Li Hao became Yang Hao’s second formal disciple and was tasked with collecting Blood Luo Crystals and becoming a Blood Warrior. Sixty years into the Blood Luo World mission, he had fused with two crystals, was struggling to fuse with a third, and had made rapid progress comprehending the fire laws.

• Li Hao cleared the eighth level of the Tongtian Bridge after thirty years in Chaos City, drawing the attention of Virtual Universe Company powerhouses.
• Yang Hao accepted Li Hao as his second formal disciple and instructed him to focus on cultivation, undertake missions, and pursue Blood Luo Crystals.
• Yang Hao told Li Hao that becoming a Blood Warrior or Black Warrior would earn him increasingly valuable rewards, and asked Huiyun to guide him.
• Yang Hao observed that Huiyun had reached the pinnacle of King Rank, while his Salamander Whale clone’s egg had grown to nearly ten thousand kilometers across.
• After sixty years in Blood Luo World, Li Hao had fused with two Blood Luo Crystals and struggled against the killing intent of the third.
• Li Hao had comprehended thirty-eight mysteries of the fire law and resolved to become a Blood Warrior.

Li Hao completed his Blood Luo World mission after collecting ten thousand Blood Luo Crystals, then advanced to Domain Lord and began a high-points mission with a squad of Immortals. The chapter ended when Yang Hao discovered that Li Hao’s emergency token had shattered and realized his disciple was in trouble.

• Li Hao prepared for Blood Luo World by bringing an E9-class laser cannon, a mechanical guard, an auxiliary plant lifeform, and the Fire Meteor for protection.
• Li Hao spent thirty years collecting ten thousand Blood Luo Crystals, killing a nearby World Lord with the laser cannon when one unexpectedly appeared.
• Li Hao submitted his mission after 110 years, and Yang Hao decided to wait until Li Hao reached World Lord level before rewarding him.
• Li Hao reached Domain Lord level and was assigned as an Inspector in the Qian Wu Universe Country, alarming the officials who had to deal with him.
• Li Hao met the Immortal squad assigned to his highest-points mission and instructed King Zhou Shu to capture their target alive.
• Yang Hao discovered that Li Hao’s token had shattered and received an email indicating that Li Hao was in trouble.

Yang Hao arrived to find Huiyun fighting an Immortal Level Zerg Queen that had tried to assassinate and enslave Li Hao. He protected Huiyun and defeated the Zerg forces, but the queen self-destructed before he could uncover who had arranged the attack.

• Huiyun and Li Hao sent Yang Hao emergency messages, and he used Divine Kingdom Teleportation to reach them.
• Huiyun explained that King Zhou Shu had seized Li Hao and revealed a Zerg Mother Nest; she killed Li Hao to stop the queen from enslaving him, then fought the queen and her tens of thousands of Zerg Warriors.
• Yang Hao contained the battlefield with the Ten Thousand Skies Sea, killing many Zerg Warriors and shielding Huiyun.
• Yang Hao tried to enslave the Zerg Queen with Ten Thousand Thoughts Control, but her soul defenses made the attack ineffective.
• The Zerg Queen self-destructed, and Yang Hao protected Huiyun from the blast while noting that the assassination attempt had many suspicious points.

After Zerg assassins killed Li Hao and nearly subjected him to Soul Enslavement, the Chaos City Lord used Reverse Time and Space to resurrect him. The Chaos City Lord revealed that a traitor had arranged attacks on humanity’s top geniuses, while Yang Hao blamed Undying Venerable for failing to prevent the infiltration.

• Yang Hao told the Chaos City Lord that Zerg assassins had targeted Li Hao, and Huiyun explained how she had killed him to save him from Soul Enslavement.
• The Chaos City Lord arrived, warned that the assassination plot was extremely serious, and used Reverse Time and Space to resurrect Li Hao.
• Li Hao returned to life, remembered his death, and thanked the Chaos City Lord.
• The Chaos City Lord revealed that Venerable Geng Shi had betrayed humanity and that eight of its ten highest-ranked geniuses had been attacked, with six assassinations succeeding.
• The Chaos City Lord said Venerable Geng Shi had fled Human Territory and that Undying Venerable was responsible for counterintelligence screening; Yang Hao criticized Undying Venerable and called for his replacement.

After learning of the assassination of Human Race geniuses, Yang Hao discussed the Giant Axe Meeting with the Chaos City Lord and decided to keep his strength hidden. He then considered improving his disciples by having them possess special lifeforms, but Huiyun objected that her immortal soul could no longer possess another body.

• The Chaos City Lord announced that he would convene a Giant Axe Meeting to address the slaughter of Human Race geniuses.
• Yang Hao revealed that his life gene multiplier had reached 6,000 and said he would wait for the meeting’s outcome rather than claim a place there.
• Huiyun returned Li Hao’s soul Heavy Treasure, and Yang Hao urged Li Hao to be cautious while showing his talent to the Human Race.
• Yang Hao decided he could improve his disciples by finding hostile special lifeforms for them to possess, while avoiding targets who had no quarrel with the Human Race.
• Yang Hao asked Huiyun whether she would possess a special lifeform, and Huiyun replied that her soul had fused with her immortal divine power, making possession impossible.

Yang Hao offered Huiyun the Soul Trembler as a way to possess a Special Lifeform, but warned that it would return her to the World Lord level and make advancing to immortality difficult. After the Human Race reassigned Li Hao’s training and punished the Undying Venerable for the assassination plot, Yang Hao promised the Chaos City Lord a way to strike the Zerg and began planning reforms in the Qian Wu Universe Country.

• Yang Hao explained that the Soul Trembler could separate Huiyun’s soul from her Immortal Divine Power, reducing her strength to the World Lord level, and gave her time to consider the dangerous path.
• Yang Hao agreed to have Li Hao advance to the World Lord level and travel to Chaos City, where the Chaos City Lord would give him a top-tier palace-type Heavy Treasure.
• The Chaos City Lord reported that the Undying Venerable would lose his post, contribute twenty supreme treasure points, and compensate those affected by the assassination operation.
• The Chaos City Lord said the investigation indicated that Venerable Geng Shi had joined the Zerg camp, and Yang Hao claimed he might have a way to inflict a major loss on the Zerg.
• Yang Hao decided to begin sweeping reforms in the Qian Wu Universe Country by abolishing slave trading.

Yang Hao used his increased authority to ban slave companies and slavery throughout the Qian Wu Universe Country within ten years, ordering officials and troops to enforce the decree and care for those freed. Qian Ming and Huiyun led the shutdowns, while former slaves began receiving aid and citizenship.

• The horned Military Department magnate warned slave company executives that Yang Hao’s order was genuine and that defying it would bring severe consequences.
• Yang Hao ordered all slave companies and slavery in the Qian Wu Universe Country abolished within ten years, assigning Qian Ming, Huiyun, and the Eighteen Divine Generals to enforce the ban.
• Yang Hao ordered officials to take responsibility for the former slaves, recruiting the talented and settling ordinary civilians.
• Qian Ming told an Immortal God that his slave company would be closed and its slave galaxies taken over for compensation, and the Immortal accepted the terms.
• Qian Ming’s forces arrived at a slave planet as an enforcer whipped a boy’s mother for shielding him, then announced the takeover and declared the former slaves citizens of the Qian Wu Universe Country.
• Staff and intelligent robots began distributing intelligent assistants, medical care, and food to the planet’s new citizens.

Yang Hao reorganized the Qian Wu Dojo and Secret Realm to broaden cultivation access and recruit more geniuses across the Qian Wu Universe Country. After a thousand eras of development, his Salamander Whale clone finally finished gestating.

• Yang Hao divided the Qian Wu Dojo into an open Outer Hall and a selective, closed-campus Inner Hall, with the most exceptional students advancing to the Qian Wu Secret Realm.
• Yang Hao planned to improve the Qian Wu Secret Realm with richer universe origin aura, tiered instruction, trials, and a larger staff of powerful teachers, including more than a dozen King-level Immortals.
• Yang Hao ordered ten Genius Search Teams to seek talent in remote regions and isolated native planets throughout the Universe Country.
• Qian Ming, Huiyun, the Eighteen Divine Generals, and the Three Hundred Kings and Marquises began carrying out Yang Hao's plans as the Universe Country expanded its dojo network.
• After a thousand eras, Yang Hao's Salamander Whale clone finished gestating.

Yang Hao's Salamander Whale clone emerged after a thousand eras of nurturing, revealing an enormous body with a life gene level of 9,999 times. Its three innate secret techniques gave it control over space-time, immense short-term combat power, and a means of escape, while Yang Hao planned to develop its combat techniques and equip it with Supreme Treasures.

• Yang Hao watched the 2.88-million-kilometer egg crack open and reveal his Salamander Whale clone, whose body measured 4.88 million kilometers long.
• Yang Hao examined the clone and discovered its 9,999-times life gene level and vast reserves of divine power.
• The Salamander Whale clone demonstrated its power of space-time, which could rival an ordinary Universe Master's Control of Space-Time when fueled by burning divine power, and discovered it could resurrect beings up to the Immortal God level.
• Yang Hao learned that Extreme Cosmos Sorrow could increase the clone's attack power more than tenfold while rapidly consuming its divine power.
• Yang Hao learned that Eight-Winged Trace could split the clone into eight fleeing bodies, leaving one-eighth of its divine power if any survived.
• Yang Hao concluded that the clone needed its own combat secret techniques and Supreme Treasures, and planned to create Universe Overlord ultimate secret techniques for it.

Yang Hao tested the Salamander Whale clone’s immense strength and costly innate technique, then revealed the clone to the Chaos City Lord. The Chaos City Lord recognized the clone as a tremendous new asset to the Human Race.

• Yang Hao tested the Salamander Whale clone’s attacks and found that Extreme Cosmos Sorrow increased its power roughly twelvefold while rapidly consuming divine power.
• Yang Hao decided to conserve Extreme Cosmos Sorrow and considered waiting for the Giant Axe Founder to return before pursuing his next plan.
• The Lord of Void Gold stopped the Undying Venerable from confronting Yang Hao, warning that the Qian Wu Country Lord’s strength might rival his.
• Yang Hao invited the Chaos City Lord to the Qian Wu Secret Realm and brought him into his divine kingdom.
• Yang Hao revealed that the enormous Salamander Whale was his clone, and the Chaos City Lord celebrated its potential Universe Master-level strength.

Yang Hao discussed using his Salamander Whale avatar to infiltrate the Zerg Alliance and arranged to have it examined and trained in the Giant Axe Founder's Miniature Universe. After gaining Universe Master-level comprehension, he kept the avatar hidden while overseeing progress on the Qian Wu Dojos.

• Yang Hao told the Chaos City Lord that he planned to use his Salamander Whale avatar as a spy in the Zerg Alliance, and they agreed to wait for the Giant Axe Founder to return before testing and training it in his Miniature Universe.
• Yang Hao received a Universe Master-level check-in reward that raised his comprehension, then decided to keep the avatar in his Divine Kingdom until it could cultivate secret techniques and make a powerful debut.
• Yang Hao asked Qian Ming about the Qian Wu Dojo construction, and Qian Ming reported that the project was on schedule to finish in two hundred eras.
• Qian Ming reported that the Qian Wu Dojo program had improved Qian Wu's results in the Genius Battle and Strongest Battle, including producing a top-three finisher and three top-ten finishers.

Giant Axe returned to the Primal Universe and brought Yang Hao and his Salamander Whale avatar to his miniature universe, where Yang Hao began a million epochs of accelerated cultivation. Yang Hao chose a warhammer for the avatar and aimed to develop peak Universe Master-level secret techniques before infiltrating the Zerg alliance.

• The Chaos City Lord told Giant Axe about Qian Wu's new avatar and asked him to examine the Salamander Whale avatar for the Zerg infiltration plan.
• Giant Axe visited Yang Hao in the Qian Wu Secret Realm and inspected the enormous Salamander Whale avatar.
• Giant Axe created a special space in his miniature universe, accelerated its time ten thousandfold, and granted Yang Hao a million epochs to cultivate.
• Yang Hao decided his human main body would develop a peak Universe Master-level secret technique and chose a warhammer for the Salamander Whale avatar to avoid resembling his main body's fighting style.
• The Salamander Whale avatar bound a warhammer supreme treasure and began developing a peak Universe Master-level warhammer attack technique.