Chapter Summaries

Yang Zheng and the other newcomers studied the Time Wheel Chaos Stele for seven days, and his progress in the time laws accelerated sharply. After leaving the meditation chamber, they learned that passing the Heavenly Bridge could earn them another chance to study the stele.

• Yang Zheng, Ai Chen, and the others waited for the Time Wheel meditation chamber to open, then entered under Lord Kandri's supervision.
• Yang Zheng immersed himself in the Time Wheel Chaos Stele, and the progress bar's guidance intensified as vivid colors appeared in his consciousness.
• Lord Kandri's call awakened the meditators when their seven days ended, and Yang Zheng and the others hurried out of the chamber.
• Yang Zheng saw that his time acceleration progress had reached 28%, while time stasis and time slowing had begun at 1% and 2%.
• The group grew excited after hearing that passing the Heavenly Bridge could earn another chance to study the stele, while Yang Zheng estimated he could clear at most its fifth level.

Yang Zheng entered the Time Wheel Heavenly Bridge while his fellow geniuses and Guardian Bafen watched. In Chaos City, King Night Ember and King Thunderclap argued over who would recruit Yang Zheng, then learned he had begun his challenge.

• Yang Zheng chose a Cultivation Residence near the City Lord's Manor and connected to the Virtual Universe to enter the Heavenly Bridge.
• Ai Chen and the other geniuses who chose the Time Wheel Chaos Stele told Yang Zheng they had failed to clear the first level.
• Guardian Bafen wished Yang Zheng success, and Yang Zheng stepped onto the Time Wheel Heavenly Bridge as Bafen notified interested observers.
• King Night Ember visited King Thunderclap and argued that Yang Zheng should become his student, while King Thunderclap refused to give him up.
• King Night Ember and King Thunderclap received the Virtual Universe emails and realized Yang Zheng had started challenging the Heavenly Bridge.

Yang Zheng entered the Heavenly Bridge and rapidly cleared its first four levels, drawing the attention of powerful Immortals and his fellow geniuses. He proceeded toward the fifth level as observers debated how far he could go.

• Yang Zheng chose to fight as a Mental Master Controller and swiftly passed the first level of the Heavenly Bridge.
• King Thunderclap and King Night Ember arrived at the island and learned that Yang Zheng had already cleared the second and third levels.
• Yang Zheng passed the fourth level after increasing his use of Law Comprehension, then flew toward the fifth.
• Guardian Bafen announced Yang Zheng’s progress, drawing nearly a hundred Immortal Gods to watch his attempt.
• True Yan King invited King Thunderclap to spar and drink, but King Thunderclap agreed to spar and declined the drinks.
• The King-level Immortals and watching geniuses discussed Yang Zheng’s strength as he continued into the fifth level.

Yang Zheng cleared the fifth level of the Heavenly Bridge, astonishing the observers and prompting Venerable Nine Swords to consider taking him as a disciple. Yang Zheng returned to the City Lord’s residence to study a Chaos Stele again, while Bolan prepared to attempt the Universe Heavenly Bridge.

• Yang Zheng defeated the fifth-level guardian, while Bolan watched and questioned his choice to cultivate both space and time.
• King Thunderclap and King Night Ember concluded that Yang Zheng’s talent would attract the Venerables, and Yang Zheng logged off without attempting the sixth level.
• Guardian Bafen comforted the gathered geniuses, and Bolan announced that he would attempt the Universe Heavenly Bridge.
• On Thunder Island, Venerable Nine Swords studied Rong Jun’s battle recording and received news that Yang Zheng had cleared the fifth level.
• Venerable Nine Swords found Yang Zheng heading to the City Lord’s residence to study a Chaos Stele again and decided to speak with him afterward.

Yang Zheng returned to study the Time Wheel Chaos Stele for a second time after clearing the fifth level of the Heavenly Bridge. Bolan reconsidered his cultivation path and switched to the Nine Universes Chaos Stele to focus on space law.

• Kandri advised Yang Zheng to cultivate more before using another Chaos Stele study opportunity, but Yang Zheng entered the chamber anyway.
• Rong Jun learned from Kandri that Yang Zheng had cleared the fifth level of the Heavenly Bridge, while Bolan had only cleared the second.
• Bolan's teacher told him his poor time-law understanding was holding back his space-law talent, and Bolan decided to switch to the Nine Universes Chaos Stele.
• Venerable Nine Swords approved of Bolan's decision, while the other geniuses focused on cultivation to avoid falling further behind Yang Zheng.

Yang Zheng’s fifth-level Heavenly Bridge challenge drew the Tian Shi Palace Lord’s attention, and the powerful time-law master invited him to become his disciple. Yang Zheng accepted and was brought to the Palace Lord’s summit residence on Thunder Island to meet him.

• The Tian Shi Palace Lord watched Yang Zheng’s Heavenly Bridge attempt and decided that Yang Zheng’s approach to the time law suited him.
• After completing another seven days at the Time Wheel Chaos Stele, Yang Zheng asked Kandri whether he could use all four remaining study opportunities at once, then left to check the Virtual Universe.
• Yang Zheng found over a hundred emails, including an offer from the Tian Shi Palace Lord, and accepted the invitation to become his disciple during a call with Venerable Nine Swords.
• Fengnis told Yang Zheng that the Tian Shi Palace Lord’s envoy had arrived, and the envoy brought him to Thunder Island.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord welcomed Yang Zheng at his palace on Thunder Island’s summit.

Yang Zheng became the Tian Shi Palace Lord’s named disciple after demonstrating time-law comprehension near the eighth level of the Heavenly Bridge, and his teacher gave him sixteen more chances to study the Time Wheel Chaos Stele. With twenty chances in total, Yang Zheng hurried to study, while Rong Jun searched Chaos City for insights to help him master the First Axe.

• The Tian Shi Palace Lord offered to make Yang Zheng his named disciple and promised to take him as a personal disciple if he reached the ninth Heavenly Bridge level within thirty years.
• Yang Zheng demonstrated his time-law comprehension, and the Tian Shi Palace Lord judged it to be near the eighth level.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord transferred sixteen Chaos Stele study chances to Yang Zheng and warned him not to attempt the Heavenly Bridge beyond the ninth level before becoming a World Lord.
• Yang Zheng counted twenty study chances and rushed to the City Lord’s residence to study the Chaos Stele.
• Rong Jun searched rooftop engravings for insights, then studied them to help him comprehend the First Axe of the Giant Axe Chaos Stele.

During his thirty years in Chaos City, Yang Zheng advanced his time-law comprehension and repeatedly climbed the Heavenly Bridge. With departure near, he went to attempt the ninth level of the Time Wheel Heavenly Bridge.

• Yang Zheng became the Tian Shi Palace Lord's disciple, and Luo Feng became True Yan King's disciple, prompting the geniuses to work harder.
• Over the years, Bolan, Yang Zheng, Luo Feng, Wuka, Long Yun, Galesi, Qian Shui, and Ai Chen reached new Heavenly Bridge levels.
• Venerable Nine Swords arrived and announced that the remaining geniuses had ten days before leaving Chaos City, noting that one fifth of their group had died.
• Yang Zheng reviewed his progress, including his time-law comprehension, which he believed was equivalent to the fifteenth Heavenly Bridge level.
• At the Tongtian Bridge Plane, Yang Zheng saw Luo Feng clear the sixth level before failing at the seventh, then entered the Time Wheel Heavenly Bridge to attempt his own challenge.

After Yang Zheng passed the ninth level of the Heavenly Bridge, the Chaos City Lord protected his family and provisionally designated him a Human Race Sequence Seed. His achievement alarmed Human Race veterans and alien powers, which began planning to target him.

• King-level Immortals arrived at the Tongtian Bridge Plane, but Guardian Bafen could not retrieve the sealed footage of Yang Zheng’s attempt.
• The Chaos City Lord judged Yang Zheng’s law comprehension to match the Heavenly Bridge’s fifteenth level, ordered Cang Yi to guard Yang Zheng’s homeworld, and provisionally named him a Human Race Sequence Seed.
• Yang Zheng logged off to study the Time Wheel Chaos Stele as news of his ninth-level pass unsettled the Primal Secret Region veterans Fito, Sima Yan, and Molo.
• Alien spies reported Yang Zheng’s achievement, and the Zerg placed him among their top ten must-eliminate targets while the Demon Race and Machine Race also began planning to target him.

After thirty years of cultivation in Chaos City, Yang Zheng left with the other young geniuses, but the universe's time origin law acknowledged him during their journey. Venerable Nine Swords realized Yang Zheng's time-law comprehension had reached an extraordinary level, while Yang Zheng was separated from the others.

• Yang Zheng completed his comprehension of time acceleration and learned that Bolan had cleared the seventh level of the Nine Universes Heavenly Bridge.
• Venerable Nine Swords summoned the young geniuses to depart Chaos City and praised their cohort's achievements.
• The spaceship entered the Original Universe, and Venerable Nine Swords began explaining how the geniuses would be divided among four secret regions.
• The time origin law descended on the spaceship, prompting Venerable Nine Swords to teleport everyone except Yang Zheng away.
• A Universe Master distorted spacetime around Yang Zheng's spaceship, and Venerable Nine Swords recognized that Yang Zheng had gained acknowledgment from the time origin law.

After Yang Zheng gained recognition from the time law, the Chaos City Lord brought him to his new residence in the Primal Secret Region and arranged for the Lord of Ice Seal to protect him when he reached the World Lord level. Yang Zheng settled into his estate and checked whether Universe Venerable Qian Wu had credited the ten billion points he had promised.

• The Chaos City Lord and the Lord of Ice Seal praised Yang Zheng's talent and arranged for the Lord of Ice Seal to watch over him when he reached the World Lord level.
• Yang Zheng received recognition from the law and reflected on how his training had advanced his mastery of Time Acceleration.
• The Chaos City Lord brought Yang Zheng to the Primal Secret Region and left him at his new palace.
• Yang Zheng met Fengnis and chose a courtyard in his estate as his residence.
• Yang Zheng entered the Virtual Universe Network to check whether Universe Venerable Qian Wu had credited his ten billion points.

Yang Zheng used his new investment points to buy a Space-Eating Flower and several time-related cultivation and combat techniques. After Universe Venerable Qian Wu delivered the books, Yang Zheng chose two volumes of the Stagnation Flow Codex to study.

• Yang Zheng applied for a Nutrient Pod and confirmed that Universe Venerable Qian Wu had transferred ten billion investment points.
• Yang Zheng chose a Space-Eating Flower and ordered the resources to evolve it into a 108-spatial-vein plant lifeform.
• Yang Zheng bought the first four volumes of Time Overview and the Stagnation Flow Codex, then sent the purchase links to Universe Venerable Qian Wu.
• Universe Venerable Qian Wu delivered the books that afternoon, while the physical goods remained in transit.
• Yang Zheng selected Stagnation Flow Shuttle and Stagnation Flow Blade from the Stagnation Flow Codex.

Yang Zheng mastered the fourth layer of the Stagnation Flow Blade and went to see the Tian Shi Palace Lord after receiving his message. He left with his teacher's promise to fund the evolution of his Space-Eating Flower into a Peak King plant auxiliary lifeform.

• Yang Zheng used the fourth-layer Stagnation Flow Blade to defeat waves of simulated enemies and planned to master the sixth layers of his blade and shuttle techniques before taking cultivation missions.
• Yang Zheng received an email from the Tian Shi Palace Lord and traveled from Yuxiang Mountain to Tian Shi Palace.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord asked Yang Zheng about his cultivation mission plans, and Yang Zheng explained his plan to raise a Space-Eating Flower with Universe Venerable Qian Wu's investment.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord offered to provide the resources needed to evolve Yang Zheng's plant auxiliary lifeform to Peak King and told him to bring it to Tian Shi Palace in Blood Luo World when he reached Universe Level ninth stage.

After completing three months of training, Yang Zheng bonded with his Space-Eating Flower and went to the Tian Shi Palace to become the Tian Shi Palace Lord’s thirty-third Personal Disciple. The Palace Lord gave him the soul-type Supreme Treasure Firefly for protection, and it merged into his sea of consciousness.

• Yang Zheng emerged from the Nutrient Pod with Universe Level ninth-stage physical strength and Spiritual Force, then received the Space-Eating Flower and its evolution resources from Fengnis.
• Yang Zheng imprinted the Space-Eating Flower’s consciousness core, named it Space-Eater, and prepared to leave the Primal Secret Region.
• King Blue Yin arrived on behalf of the Tian Shi Palace and escorted Yang Zheng to the Palace Lord.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord formally accepted Yang Zheng as his thirty-third Personal Disciple and warned him that the Alien Race would target him.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord bestowed the Soul-type Supreme Treasure Firefly, which Yang Zheng bound and which merged into his sea of consciousness.

Yang Zheng began tempering his weak willpower in the Ancient God Ruins while exploring the training missions available in the Virtual Universe. He discovered that the Suo Dream Realm was a desperate-level mission, and its dangers remained ahead of him.

• The Tian Shi Palace Lord warned Yang Zheng to destroy his soul rather than risk being enslaved and sent him to the Ancient God Ruins to strengthen his willpower before attempting the Suo Dream Realm.
• Yang Zheng descended into a baleful qi vortex beneath a vast swamp and began resisting its killing intent without the protection of [Fireflies].
• While training, Yang Zheng logged into the Virtual Universe and reviewed the five levels of training missions.
• Yang Zheng ignored a warning about desperate-level missions and found the Suo Dream Realm listed among them.

Yang Zheng learned that the Suo Dream Realm mission required him to survive in a dangerous dream world and obtain pure dream demon source, so he resolved to strengthen his willpower before the realm closed. He visited his family in the Virtual Universe, learned how Earth and his relatives were doing, and heard that Nuolan Shan had surrendered most of his assets as an apology.

• Yang Zheng read the Suo Dream Realm mission details and realized he had fifty years to raise his willpower from the first stage of the World Lord Level to the peak.
• Yang Zheng teleported to Black Dragon Mountain Island and reunited with Yang Jing and Yang Yi, teasing his sister before asking about his family.
• Yang Yi told Yang Zheng that he was learning finance from Luo Hua, their father was negotiating to buy an island as Earth's base, and their mother had become a teacher.
• Yang Yi told Yang Zheng that Nuolan Shan had surrendered ninety percent of his assets over twenty years earlier, and Yang Zheng concluded that the gesture was meant to save the man's life.

Yang Zheng completed forty-six years of will training in the Ancient God Ruins and reached the Peak World Lord level, earning the Tian Shi Palace Lord’s approval and an Inheritance Crystal for the Suo Dream Realm. As his spaceship traveled toward the realm, Yang Zheng began cultivating the fourth story of the Void Tower to strengthen his defenses before the inheritance trial.

• Yang Zheng endured the baleful qi’s killing intent for forty-six years until his will reached the Peak World Lord level.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord praised Yang Zheng, gave him his evolved auxiliary lifeform, and presented him with an Inheritance Crystal for the Suo Dream Realm.
• Yang Zheng learned that the Suo Dream Realm inheritance required exceptionally strong will and was best pursued before becoming an Immortal God.
• As his spaceship traveled toward the Suo Dream Realm, Yang Zheng reviewed his cultivation progress and decided to condense the fourth story of the Void Tower.

Yang Zheng entered the Suo Dream Realm and encountered Nini, a little girl whose dreamlike world concealed deadly threats. As the dream began to collapse, he promised to remember her before she vanished.

• Yang Zheng arrived at the Giant Axe Secret Realm and learned that reaching the Suo Dream Realm entrance required seven days of sublight travel through a Space Lockdown.
• Yang Zheng passed the entrance screening and entered the Suo Dream Realm, appearing on an endless grassland.
• Yang Zheng met Nini, who asked him to catch fish and play with her, while he recognized that the stream and its World Lord Level fish concealed a river of blood.
• Nini said she could not remember what her best friends looked like and asked whether Yang Zheng would remember her when she disappeared.
• Yang Zheng promised to remember Nini, and the dream dissolved into drifting light.

Yang Zheng entered a living forest in the Suo Dream Realm and discovered that its hostile plants and beasts could yield dream demon source. After he collected several pieces, an Immortal-level whale-like creature appeared above him, drawn to their aura.

• Yang Zheng entered the dense forest and realized that its ground and fallen leaves were living creatures.
• A branch attacked Yang Zheng, and he destroyed it before crushing the tide of living leaves with his Spiritual Force.
• Yang Zheng recognized the severed branch as dream demon source from the Suo Dream Realm.
• A school of eerie fish and several Eight-Legged Monster Birds attacked Yang Zheng, and his Stagnation Flow Shuttle secret technique killed them and produced nearly twenty pieces of dream demon source.
• An Immortal-level whale-like creature broke through the canopy and fixed its gaze on the dream demon source.

Yang Zheng fed the whale-like lifeform dream demon source and followed it to the Suo Dream Realm’s Inheritance Hall, where he passed a consciousness trial and received the Suo Dream Heart-Eroding Canon. He continued along the river of light’s stone path to undergo the inheritance’s next assessment and soul refinement.

• Yang Zheng realized the whale-like lifeform wanted dream demon source and fed it until it was satisfied.
• The whale-like lifeform carried Yang Zheng in a protective bubble through a strange space to the Inheritance Hall.
• Yang Zheng’s Inheritance Crystal transported him to a river of light, where an illusion tested his consciousness with news of Earth’s destruction and his loved ones’ deaths.
• Yang Zheng resisted the illusion, passed the preliminary trial, and learned that the inheritance combined soul-amplitude techniques with methods of Spirit Reader Controllers and Illusionists.
• Yang Zheng continued along the stone path as the river of light refined his soul for the next inheritance assessment.