Chapter Summaries

Yang Zheng explored Tamu Star, purchased cultivation supplies and security forces, then spent the journey back to Earth training in the Virtual Universe’s Killing Field. He began testing himself against an opponent who had just acquired the Light Domain.

• Yang Zheng rode the Ecological Stream to Qianling District and bought cultivation resources, weapons, and battle suits.
• Twenty days later, Yang Zheng received the Stellar Defense System and its fleet of twenty-two transport ships, which Babata took control of.
• Yang Zheng received 200 Universe Level slaves, bringing his total to 202, and ordered Babata to return to Earth.
• During the journey, Yang Zheng mastered the Shadowless Light and Shadow Basic Chapter, advanced his other techniques, and sought to comprehend the Light Domain.
• Yang Zheng configured a Killing Field opponent with the Light Domain, and the opponent spread a black domain across an abandoned city.

Jia Yi learned that Yang Zheng had been missing in secluded training for nearly three months while a potential disaster-level beast tide gathered in the southeastern waters. As Luo Feng trained on Earth, a mysterious giant monster appeared at the New York Frontline Base and swallowed the entire base.

• Wang Jiu told Jia Yi that Yang Zheng had been away in secluded training for nearly three months and that nobody knew where he was.
• Jia Yi learned that King-level monsters were gathering in the southeastern waters and ordered frontline forces to prepare for a possible disaster-level beast tide.
• Luo Feng trained under 2700g of gravity, reached planetary level third-tier Spiritual Force, and received a message from Councilor Deng.
• A mysterious lion-like monster appeared before the New York Frontline Base and ignored its laser attacks.
• The monster lifted the military base into the air, shrank it, swallowed it, and roared its arrival.

As the Golden Horned Beast devastated War Bases across the world, Luo Feng learned that Yang Zheng had left behind weapons capable of killing it. With humanity preparing a desperate hydrogen-bomb strike, Luo Feng declared that he could kill the Devouring Beast himself.

• Luo Feng attended an emergency War God Palace meeting where the United States president showed the Golden Horned Beast swallowing War Bases and killing more than two hundred thousand people.
• Luo Feng learned from Babata No. 2 that Yang Zheng had left a B6-grade laser cannon and three repaired Flowing Silver Guards that could kill a Star Level One Golden Horned Beast.
• Luo Feng gathered his family and told them to shelter in the modified Gravity Room if danger came.
• Jia Yi told Luo Feng that the Golden Horned Beast had destroyed North American War Bases, was attacking Europe, and would soon threaten Asia as monster hordes surged inland.
• Luo Feng joined the emergency meeting on a hydrogen-bomb strike and announced that he was confident he could kill the Devouring Beast.

Luo Feng revealed that Yang Zheng had obtained a B6-grade Laser Cannon, and Earth’s leaders prepared a final attack on the Devouring Beast. As the operation approached, Wang Jiu left to fight while Yang Zheng’s guard robot protected his family, and Luo Feng sped toward the Southeast Base to confront the monster hordes.

• Luo Feng told Earth’s leaders that Yang Zheng had retrieved a B6-grade Laser Cannon from Ancient Civilization Ruin No. 12, and they decided to pair it with ultra-high-yield nuclear weapons for a single decisive attack.
• Wang Jiu prepared to leave his family and fight, but Yang Zheng’s female Flowing Silver Guard gave him a wood bud crystal and plant spirit, prompting him to return inside and prepare to break through to the Planetary Level.
• The female Flowing Silver Guard sent a safe containing twenty black boxes toward Huaxia Country’s central government building.
• Jia Yi urgently asked Luo Feng to reinforce the East Sea Base, where six King-level monsters had appeared.
• Luo Feng flew toward the Southeast Base on the Sky-Escaping Shuttle, intent on attacking the monster hordes while the killing-blow plan was still being prepared.

Humanity’s nuclear and laser attack badly wounded the Golden Horned Beast but failed to kill it, and the Flowing Silver Guards protected the Laser Cannon from its retaliation. The beast summoned the aquatic monsters to invade inland, and world leaders announced a catastrophe more terrible than the Great Nirvana.

• Smart Fighter Jets dropped nuclear weapons on the Devouring Beast, then a concealed Laser Cannon pierced its head as a high-yield hydrogen bomb exploded against its belly.
• The Golden Horned Beast regenerated underground and escaped the blast, leaving humanity’s leaders believing the attack had failed.
• Hong rallied the leaders, and two Flowing Silver Guards fought off the beast long enough to preserve the Laser Cannon.
• The wounded Golden Horned Beast fled into the ocean and summoned aquatic monsters, including two Beast Emperors, to launch an invasion inland.
• World leaders made the catastrophe public as soldiers and fighters battled the advancing monster hordes along the waterways and frontline bases.

As the Devouring Beast’s attacks brought humanity to the brink, Hong and Thunder God sacrificed themselves to grievously wound it, but both fell into a deep sleep. With base cities still falling and no time to wait for reinforcements, Luo Feng resolved to risk his life and gathered five Planetary Level experts to join him in an attack on the beast.

• A King-level Blood-Eyed Sparrow attacked a frontline base, and Wang arrived to engage it.
• Hong and Thunder God called a meeting and decided to fight the Devouring Beast, which had helped destroy eight base cities and kill nearly a billion people.
• On October 16, 2059, Hong and Thunder God unleashed a life-burning combined attack that grievously injured the Golden Horned Beast, then fell into a deep sleep.
• Luo Feng rejected Babata No. 2’s warning to wait for Yang Zheng and the others, choosing instead to gamble his life against the Devouring Beast.
• More than fifty Planetary Level Councilors offered to sacrifice their souls, and Babata No. 2 selected Mohanderson, Ister, Tripathi Singh, Jia Yi, and Sokolov to join Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng and the five chosen experts said farewell to their families and friends, then plunged into the ocean to attack the Devouring Beast.

Yang Zheng returned to Earth and interrupted Luo Feng and five other leaders as they began a sacrificial technique to stop the Devouring Beast. The beast and Luo Feng’s life signatures vanished, and although the world believed both had died, the sea monsters retreated after the Devouring Beast’s corpse was found.

• Yang Zheng arrived at Earth, saw the global monster war, and hurried to the Pacific Ocean after confirming Huaxia Country’s base cities were intact.
• Luo Feng and Mohanderson, Ister, Tripathi Singh, Jia Yi, and Sokolov prepared to use the Six-Pointed Star sacrificial technique when Yang Zheng arrived with a purple-eyed brawny man.
• Yang Zheng told the six that the catastrophe was over and said he would bring matters to a conclusion; the five other men’s life signatures then vanished, and the Devouring Beast destroyed their fighter jet and remains.
• Luo Feng and the Devouring Beast’s life signatures weakened and disappeared, leaving people around the world to believe both had died.
• Planetary Level experts found the Devouring Beast’s corpse, and the sea monsters attacking humanity retreated, prompting worldwide celebration.

Yang Zheng arranged for Luo Feng and four other heroes to fake their deaths while their families stayed under secret protection, and he urged Luo Feng to consider possessing the Golden Horned Beast to gain a clone. Luo Feng delayed his decision until after his children were born, while the chaos caused by humanity’s losses left the Limit Martial Hall vulnerable to schemers.

• Yang Zheng told Jia Yi and the others to disappear temporarily, promised to guard their families, and gave them Pure Wood Liquid to cultivate with.
• In Virtual Space, Yang Zheng urged Luo Feng to possess the Golden Horned Beast and explained that its innate clone ability could let him create an Earthling Clone; Babata objected to Yang Zheng revealing the plan.
• Luo Feng chose to wait until Xu Xin’s children were born, then agreed to let people believe he was dead so they could expose anyone coveting his inheritance.
• Luo Feng returned home in secret, while Jia Yi and the other four cultivated with Yang Zheng’s resources and Yang Zheng resumed his own cultivation.
• After the battle left eight Base Cities destroyed and more than a billion people dead, the Limit Martial Hall and Thunder Dojo lost their leaders, and their fighters resolved to purge anyone plotting against them under Yang Zheng’s protection.

Atkin and Sago Nehru pursued the treasures Luo Feng had left behind, while Luo Hua lured Sago into revealing his threat. Luo Feng appeared alive and killed Sago, leaving the family safe as he declared the deception was over.

• Atkin learned that a woman had disappeared and ordered an investigation into who had taken her, while plotting to claim Luo Feng's legacy.
• Sago Nehru and another man bypassed the Luo family's security and confronted Luo Hua, demanding the family's treasures.
• Luo Hua told Sago he could have the wood bud crystals and silver-figure control method only with Luo Feng's permission.
• Luo Feng appeared in the living room, revealed he was alive, and killed Sago Nehru with a strike of spiritual power.
• Luo Hua asked why Luo Feng had stopped acting, and Luo Feng said the people who would reveal themselves had already done so.

Luo Feng’s return and the reappearance of Mohanderson and Ister sparked excitement worldwide, while their attack on Atkin exposed the conspirators who had endangered their families. At a War God Palace meeting, the members unanimously sentenced Atkin and the other captured criminals to death, and the public executions brought the world’s unrest to a halt.

• Atkin learned Luo Feng had returned and killed Sago Nehru, then panicked that Luo Feng would discover he had sent Nehru to his home.
• Mohanderson confronted Atkin in Washington Base City, and Ister stopped him from killing Atkin before the two heroes beat him.
• News and videos of Luo Feng, Mohanderson, and Ister returning spread around the world, exciting the public and unsettling those in power.
• The War God Palace summoned its members to a meeting, where Yang Zheng presented Atkin and other prisoners along with evidence of their crimes.
• The War God Palace members unanimously voted to execute the prisoners, and the sentences were carried out in a worldwide broadcast.
• The public executions exposed the criminals and stopped the world’s turbulent schemes, ushering in a period of peace.

Yang Zheng and Luo Feng attended the Qianwu Auction in a VIP box and witnessed the sale of three Life Ancient Tree Leaves. The auction began with a warm-up lot that sold for 420 hunyuan units.

• Yang Zheng reminded Luo Feng that the Qianwu Auction was the next day, and Luo Feng agreed to attend.
• Yang Zheng and Luo Feng used their invitations to teleport to the auction and entered a private box with Hu Yanbo’s five-star account.
• Babata explained that more than a million World Lords were attending and that the Qianwu Universe Country likely had several million World Lords.
• Old Barto opened the Qianwu Auction and introduced three Life Ancient Tree Leaves as the warm-up lot.
• Bidders raised the price of the Life Ancient Tree Leaves to 420 hunyuan units, and the three leaves sold for that amount.

At the Qianwu Auction, Yang Zheng and Luo Feng searched for useful treasures while Babata guided their purchases. Luo Feng bought a Dark Cloud Shuttle, and Yang Zheng won an Azure Glow Shuttle for 1.73 trillion Universe Coins.

• Old Barto opened the auction and began selling the first batch of items as Yang Zheng browsed the listings.
• Babata told Luo Feng he would watch for suitable treasures and resources for the Golden Horned Beast, while explaining why he had agreed to let Luo Feng possess it.
• Luo Feng bought three units of lanke fruit for a total of 545 billion Universe Coins.
• Babata identified the Dark Cloud Shuttle as a suitable weapon for Luo Feng and the Azure Glow Shuttle as a suitable weapon for Yang Zheng.
• Luo Feng won the Dark Cloud Shuttle for 830 billion Universe Coins, and Yang Zheng won the Azure Glow Shuttle for 1.73 trillion Universe Coins.

On the final day of the Qianwu Auction, Yang Zheng bought several powerful items and arranged to collect them on Biyan Star before returning to Earth. Luo Feng decided to possess the Golden Horned Beast after the New Year, while Yang Zheng set off with his purchases for Earth.

• Yang Zheng bought twelve Life Fruits, a D9-class Machine Race battlesuit, and a D4-class Laser Gun during the auction finale.
• After the auction ended, Yang Zheng chose Biyan Star as the delivery location for his purchases.
• Luo Feng told Yang Zheng he planned to possess the Golden Horned Beast after the New Year, and Yang Zheng agreed to handle the trip to Biyan Star.
• Yang Zheng collected the auction goods from Virtual Universe Company staff on Biyan Star and stored them in his Space Ring.
• Yang Zheng ordered his spaceship back to Earth, and it entered the Dark Universe.

Yang Zheng refined the Azure Glow Shuttle, spent the Spring Festival with his family, and helped Luo Feng complete the Golden Horned Beast Possession on Mars. As Luo Feng absorbed the inherited memories, Yang Zheng prepared Babata for the universe-wide Genius Battle and the Nuolan Shan Family Exploration Fleet arrived near Earth.

• Yang Zheng finished nurturing the Azure Glow Shuttle and reflected on the coming universe-wide Genius Battle.
• Yang Zheng celebrated the Spring Festival with his family and considered when to give his sister treasures.
• Yang Zheng received Luo Feng’s message and flew to Mars, where Luo Feng completed the Possession of the Golden Horned Beast.
• Yang Zheng told Babata to train Luo Feng for the Genius Battle and oversee the Solar System’s Stellar Defense System.
• The Nuolan Shan Family Exploration Fleet emerged from space near Earth.

Yang Zheng manifested his Light Domain, then used a Nutrient Pod to advance his physical strength and spiritual force to Star Level. The breakthrough increased his brain domain width from 45 to 60, leaving him uncertain about the cause but aware that his Spirit Reader talent had surged.

• Yang Zheng manifested his Light Domain and reviewed his progress in secret techniques and cultivation.
• Yang Zheng decided to advance to Star Level before beginning the Light and Shadow Chapter of Shadowless Light and Shadow.
• Yang Zheng entered an E-class Nutrient Pod, where his nine miniature planets fused into a star in both his dantian and sea of consciousness.
• Yang Zheng emerged from the Nutrient Pod and tested his brain domain width, which had risen from 45 to 60.
• Yang Zheng wondered whether his sudden increase in Spirit Reader talent was a blessing or a curse, but recognized its immediate benefits.

Luo Feng returned to his Earthling body and learned that Yang Zheng had reached the Light Domain, prompting Babata to urge him to cultivate his Golden Horned Beast body. After Hong and Thunder God awoke from their two-year sleep, they joined Yang Zheng and Luo Feng to discuss reclaiming humanity’s lost territory.

• Luo Feng changed back into his Earthling body, and Babata told him Yang Zheng had comprehended the Light Domain.
• Babata urged Luo Feng to raise his Golden Horned Beast’s cultivation by devouring the prepared metals, while Luo Feng chose to visit his newborn sons first.
• Hong and Thunder God awoke after two years of sleep, and news of their recovery spread across the world.
• Yang Zheng and Luo Feng visited Hong and Thunder God, who thanked them for protecting humanity from extinction.
• Hong and Thunder God decided that the four strongest people on Earth should reclaim humanity’s lost territory, since only the Thunder Dragon Emperor remained among the monster emperors.