Chapter Summaries

Yang Zheng refused Ta Ya’s invitation to team up and prepared for the dangerous Cosmic Secret Realm expedition by buying high-end detection equipment and a million Mechanical Puppets. He then departed for the Glory Secret Realm’s gathering point, where explorers would await a Universe Venerable escort into the realm.

• Yang Zheng rejected Ta Ya’s invitation and registered for the secret realm expedition.
• He returned to the Virtual Universe and reviewed the dangers of exploring unstable secret realms before choosing his equipment.
• Yang Zheng bought a high-precision detector for twenty-five billion points and one million Mechanical Puppets for another billion points.
• Half a month later, Yang Zheng collected his purchases and flew toward the Glory Secret Realm’s gathering point.
• The chapter explained that explorers would enter the secret realm with a Universe Venerable escort, while their return location would depend on the realm’s spatial stability.

Yang Zheng joined the explorers assembling to enter the Crystal Wall Secret Realm and plunged through its turbulent outer Energy Torrent Belt. He emerged into an unfamiliar world and wondered where he had ended up.

• Yang Zheng arrived at the Assembly Star and waited in the explorers' plaza until the expedition gathered.
• Venerable Han Fu led the assembled explorers to a barren planet facing the Crystal Wall Secret Realm.
• Venerable Han Fu opened a temporary breach, and the explorers rushed through before it closed.
• Yang Zheng entered the raging Energy Torrent Belt, where violent energy drained his world power as he struggled onward.
• Yang Zheng emerged from the torrent into a strange, muted-color world and wondered where he had ended up.

Yang Zheng explored the Crystal Wall Secret Realm, surviving dangerous regions with help from his scanner and the Space-Eating Flower. A spatial vortex trapped his ship, but after the Space-Eating Flower stabilized the void, he discovered it was a natural spatial passage.

• Yang Zheng scanned a desolate starfield and traveled through the secret realm while avoiding deadly celestial hazards, including a lava waterfall and an electric hurricane.
• In his fourth year of exploration, Yang Zheng escaped a region of destructive energies and dragging force when the Space-Eating Flower devoured the energy and transferred him through space.
• Yang Zheng checked his exploration tally and found he had earned 72.38 million points toward his ten-trillion-point quota.
• A million-kilometer spatial vortex trapped Yang Zheng's spaceship, but the Space-Eating Flower anchored and stabilized the surrounding space.
• Yang Zheng examined the scanner readings and realized the vortex was a natural spatial passage.

Yang Zheng explored a natural spatial passage into the Spiral Ring Star Continent, mapped its vast territory, and earned one billion exploration points. When his scanners detected an anomaly, he found a Rock-Breath Spiral, a material for supreme treasures, but Mechanical Puppets began disappearing as they approached it.

• Yang Zheng sent more than a thousand Mechanical Puppets through the natural spatial passage to investigate the other side, then piloted his spaceship through after they returned.
• Yang Zheng spent five years mapping the Spiral Ring Star Continent and recorded its Mutant Beasts, including an Immortal God-level creature and a pinnacle King Rank Tentacle Monster.
• Yang Zheng uploaded his findings to the Virtual Universe Exploration System and received one billion exploration points, far less than the resources he had spent.
• Yang Zheng followed a scanner signal beneath a fractured part of the continent and dispatched Mechanical Puppets into the darkness.
• Yang Zheng identified a peculiar spiral-patterned stone as a Rock-Breath Spiral, but more than a dozen Mechanical Puppets lost contact when they touched it.

Yang Zheng obtained a rock-breath spiral after the Space-Eating Flower killed the creature guarding it, then ordered his ship to search the Spiral Ring Star Continent for more. Elsewhere, a Crystal Race Immortal God escaped a deadly star domain into the Dark Universe, but a pursuer named King Rinlight vowed to catch him.

• Yang Zheng watched an enormous two-headed stone beast attack his exploration Mechanical Puppets near the rock-breath spiral.
• Yang Zheng sent the Space-Eating Flower to kill the beast, then recovered the rock-breath spiral and received exploration points and Hunyuan Units.
• Yang Zheng disabled Virtual Universe synchronization and ordered his spaceship to patrol the Spiral Ring Star Continent for more valuable materials.
• A Crystal Race Immortal God escaped a deadly star domain after being trapped there for two thousand years and entered the Dark Universe aboard his spaceship.
• A figure in a lava-like ship appeared where the Crystal Race ship had emerged and declared that King Rinlight could not escape.

King Rinlight fled King Shadowbone through a dangerous return to the Original Universe, while Yang Zheng discovered a crystal on the Spiral Ring Star Continent. The crystal’s sudden energy alert signaled that a new threat was approaching.

• King Rinlight escaped the Dark Universe into the Original Universe, and King Shadowbone followed him rather than abandon the chase.
• King Rinlight emerged near the Spiral Ring Star Continent and headed for it to avoid using Divine Kingdom Teleportation while King Shadowbone pursued him.
• Yang Zheng found an altar-like stone carving on the Blood-Colored Wasteland, where five mutant beasts attacked him.
• A giant flower-shaped phantom annihilated the five beasts, and Yang Zheng took the starlit crystal from the altar.
• Yang Zheng entered his spaceship after its scanner detected two powerful energy signatures nearby.

Yang Zheng arrived at Tentacle Abyss as King Rinlight fought a peak King Rank Tentacle Monster and destroyed his divine body in a desperate explosion. After a mysterious statue appeared, Yang Zheng seized the chance to claim it and annihilated the monster with his Azure Hooks, leaving the statue within reach.

• Yang Zheng detected a battle between King Rinlight and the Tentacle Monster at Tentacle Abyss and teleported there.
• The Tentacle Monster trapped King Rinlight, who detonated his remaining divine body to break free and was completely annihilated.
• A mysterious statue appeared, and Yang Zheng recognized it as a treasure and declared it was his.
• Yang Zheng severed the Tentacle Monster's grasping limbs and trapped it in a vast net formed by nine Azure Hooks.
• Yang Zheng locked down space and time and bound the monster in a dream, then destroyed it with the Azure Hook net.

Yang Zheng defeated the Tentacle Monster, took a mysterious statue, and found no explanation for it even after consulting the Tian Shi Palace Lord. He left the continent wary of other arrivals, while King Shadowbone escaped and brooded over the treasures he had lost.

• Yang Zheng examined the strange statue, found that it resisted investigation, and stored it in his Space Ring.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord could not identify the statue and suggested it might be a remnant from before a great destruction.
• Yang Zheng searched the Space Interlayer, recovered King Rinlight’s World Ring, and found only a few valuables inside.
• King Shadowbone hid underground for more than half a year after witnessing Yang Zheng’s strength, then fled into the Dark Universe.
• King Shadowbone lamented that Yang Zheng had taken the supreme treasure Azure Hook and the statue.

Yang Zheng amassed treasures worth more than 11.8 trillion Hunyuan Units in the Crystal Wall Secret Realm, then discovered six delayed emails from Tian Shi Palace Lord. Meanwhile, six Prison Race King Rank experts arrived at the Spiral Ring Star Continent to hunt the unknown expert King Shadowbone had reported.

• King Shadowbone sent a high-priority Blood Hunt message claiming an unknown peak King Rank expert possessed a strange statue and an Azure Hook, drawing greedy Prison Race experts toward the coordinates.
• Yang Zheng collected illusion-bright flowing sand after enduring its illusion, adding it to the treasures he had gathered over two years.
• Yang Zheng tallied his haul at more than 11.8 trillion points, excluding the unknown crystal and strange statue.
• Yang Zheng noticed six emails from Tian Shi Palace Lord that he had missed while immersed in the quicksand illusion and connected to the Virtual Universe to read them.
• Six Prison Race King Rank experts, led by two peak King Rank brothers, entered the Spiral Ring Star Continent together while an unseen observer watched nearby.

Yang Zheng learned that Prison Race Kings were heading to the Crystal Wall Secret Realm and was sent back to the Spiral Ring Star Continent to confront them while concealing his identity. After the Bloodslaughter Six Brothers ambushed him, Yang Zheng answered their demand for his treasures with an attack.

• Yang Zheng reviewed intelligence about Prison Race Kings gathering in the Crystal Wall Secret Realm and asked the Tian Shi Palace Lord whether a Universe Venerable might intervene.
• The Tian Shi Palace Lord judged such intervention unlikely, warned Yang Zheng to hide his identity, and transported him back to the secret realm.
• Yang Zheng traveled to the Ring Mountain Range, unaware that the Bloodslaughter Six Brothers had tracked him with their concealed scanner.
• Obsidian King ordered the Prison Race Kings to attack, and they trapped Yang Zheng with four Space Lockdowns.
• Lava King demanded Yang Zheng surrender his treasures, but Yang Zheng attacked with a swift blue-green streak of light.

Yang Zheng used the Azure Hooks and Time Stop to overwhelm the Prison Race’s Bloodslaughter Six Brothers, killing Obsidian King and driving Lava King to self-destruct. The blast annihilated Lava King, Shadow Thorn King, and the unconscious High King, leaving the void in ruins.

• Yang Zheng pierced Lava King with an Azure Hook, then annihilated most of a High King’s divine body with another strike.
• Yang Zheng froze the five remaining Prison Race Kings with Time Stop, crippled the High Kings and Shadow Thorn King, and faced Obsidian King’s desperate attack.
• Yang Zheng combined the nine Azure Hooks into a scythe and struck Obsidian King three times, reducing him to less than a tenth of his strength.
• Yang Zheng killed Obsidian King with another scythe strike, while Lava King broke free of Time Stop and fled.
• Yang Zheng trapped Lava King in an Azure Hook net and cut away much of his divine body, but Lava King self-destructed and annihilated himself, Shadow Thorn King, and the unconscious High King.

After wiping out a Prison Race ambush, Yang Zheng installed a stolen scanner and began hunting their forces across the Spiral Ring Star Continent. He lured reinforcements toward a fleeing High King and killed King Yanling, then considered the limits of his techniques against stronger groups.

• Yang Zheng collected the weapons, World Rings, and wreckage left after six Prison Race experts died, then replenished his strength by vaporizing Universe Crystal Mountain ranges.
• Yang Zheng installed the Prison Race spaceship’s precise scanner, detected a High King’s vessel, and pursued it while allowing its distress signal to draw reinforcements.
• King Yanling rushed to the High King’s coordinates, and Yang Zheng trapped him with space lockdown before striking with Cosmic Severance Return Flow.
• Yang Zheng used Time Stop and Suo Dream Reincarnation to trap King Yanling in a strangling net, but King Yanling detonated himself before Yang Zheng could finish him.
• Yang Zheng gathered the remains and assessed the risks of fighting multiple Ultimate Kings or enemies with precious treasures, then sensed someone else approaching.

Yang Zheng slaughtered Prison Race Kings on the Spiral Ring Star Continent until the survivors fled, while a Machine Race squad and its Demon Race pursuers entered a natural spatial passage. As Yang Zheng continued hunting, the strange Statue he had collected suddenly came to life and escaped its rings.

• Yang Zheng killed three Initial Kings who approached his spaceship and collected their weapons and World Rings.
• Yang Zheng's hunt killed more than twenty Prison Race Kings, prompting the faction to warn its members to flee the Spiral Ring Continent.
• A Machine Race squad fleeing Darkwing King and twelve Demon Race spaceships entered a natural spatial passage, and the Demon Race fleet followed.
• Yang Zheng continued searching for treasures and hunting, unconcerned that his attacks had been discovered.
• The strange Statue inside a Space Ring suddenly trembled, ejected itself from the ring, broke through its World Ring, and hovered in midair.

Yang Zheng witnessed the statue activate the Blood Prison Field, trapping everyone on the Spiral Ring Star Continent and announcing a deadly contest for a Supreme Treasure. After discovering that he led the Slaughter Ranking, Yang Zheng embraced the slaughter and set off as powerful beings across the universe noticed the palace projection.

• The statue triggered a continent-wide lockdown, and the blood-colored barrier swallowed Prison Race ships trying to escape.
• A message announced that entry was permitted but exit forbidden, and that the Slaughter Ranking's first-place winner would receive the Blood Prison Palace while the top three earned inheritances.
• A palace projection appeared above the continent and transformed into a stele displaying the Slaughter Ranking, with Azure Universe King in first place at 388 points.
• Yang Zheng realized his past kills had earned him the top ranking, declared that he would slaughter for points, and flew off with his nine Azure Hooks.
• The palace projection's immense aura reached across spatial barriers and alerted the universe's most powerful beings.

The Lord of Ice Peak tested the Blood Prison Field around the Spiral Ring Star Continent and discovered that outside attacks were redirected into the surrounding space, lowering the barrier’s entry limit. After he deliberately reduced it further, rival races’ Universe Masters arrived and agreed to let their King-level elites compete for the treasure and inheritance.

• The Lord of Ice Peak struck the Blood Prison Field and deciphered its rule that attacks damaged the surrounding starry space while lowering the entry limit.
• The Lord of Ice Peak deliberately struck the barrier again with force limited to the Universe Venerable threshold, reducing access to a level that even an Invincible King might not enter.
• A Prison Race Universe Master and Universe Masters from the Demon, Zerg, Crystal, and Machine races arrived in their flying palaces.
• The Lord of Ice Peak shared the barrier’s rules, and the Universe Masters agreed to let their King-level elites compete rather than risk destroying the Supreme Treasure.
• The Lord of Ice Peak insisted that human King Ranks be allowed to enter and questioned the report of an Invincible King called Azure Universe King.

The Universe Masters promised free resurrection to King-level Immortals who entered the Spiral Ring Star Continent, drawing more fighters into its brutal contest for treasure and inheritance. Yang Zheng continued dominating the Blood Prison Field, and the chapter ended as he pursued Darkwing King after revealing his high-grade treasure.

• The Lord of Ice Seal regretted not lowering the secret realm's entry threshold further, while the Universe Masters' resurrection promise sent King-level Immortals rushing to the Spiral Ring Star Continent.
• Seven Sword King returned to humanity's core territory, and the Human Race's five major powers each assigned an entry slot to a King-level Immortal at the king rank limit.
• Venerable Nine Swords gave King Long Yu the slot from his command and privately wondered why it had gone to her instead of a stronger contender.
• Yang Zheng slaughtered a squad of Prison Race King-level Immortals, collected their spoils, and planned to claim the top three rankings once human fighters arrived.
• Yang Zheng attacked Darkwing King's Demon Race squad and killed nine High Kings with the Azure Hooks, prompting Darkwing King to flee using his high-grade bone wings.
• Yang Zheng recognized the bone wings as a high-grade treasure and combined the Azure Hooks into a scythe to pursue Darkwing King.

Yang Zheng killed Darkwing King with repeated Azure Hook Scythe attacks, then pursued two fleeing Demon Race Peak Kings. Seven Sword King killed the demons first, and Yang Zheng met him before the two human fighters went their separate ways.

• Yang Zheng weakened Darkwing King with successive secret techniques until Darkwing King detonated his remaining divine body, and Yang Zheng survived the blast.
• Yang Zheng collected Darkwing King’s Bone Wing Heavy Treasure and pursued two Demon Race Peak Kings who had escaped the battle.
• Seven Sword King intercepted and killed the two demons before Yang Zheng arrived.
• Yang Zheng and Seven Sword King recognized each other, briefly spoke, and parted ways as Seven Sword King flew off toward his own target.
• Yang Zheng wondered how the other Human Race King Rank fighters were faring, including King Long Yu.

Yang Zheng teamed up with King Long Yu, using her superior detector and his strength to hunt King Rank experts and secure the Human Race's top three places on the Slaughter Ranking. After ten years, the Blood Prison Field ended suddenly, and Yang Zheng found himself in the Blood Prison Palace with its promised Supreme Treasure and an ancient necklace.

• Yang Zheng realized that warnings about his hunting methods and advanced detectors had made it difficult to catch enemies, so he invited King Long Yu to team up.
• Yang Zheng and King Long Yu hunted a Machine Race squad, with Long Yu killing its members while Yang Zheng occasionally used Time Stop.
• Over the next four or five years, King Long Yu's score rose until she claimed third place, putting three Human Race experts atop the Slaughter Ranking.
• Nearly ten years into the Blood Prison Field, a spatial force pulled Yang Zheng and King Long Yu from their spaceship without warning.
• Yang Zheng found himself in the Blood Prison Palace beside the promised Supreme Treasure and an ancient necklace.

Yang Zheng began claiming the Blood Prison Palace while King Long Yu obtained a crystalline longsword. When the Blood Prison Killing Field ended, the Chaos City Lord stopped the other races from attacking the Spiral Ring Star Continent and departed with the human survivors, while Azure Universe King and a Palace Supreme Treasure remained missing.

• Yang Zheng stored the strange necklace in a Space Ring and began refining the Blood Prison Palace, while King Long Yu received a crystalline longsword.
• The blood-colored barrier vanished, and Lord Wanming, Lord Yunyu, and the Machine Race attacked the Spiral Ring Star Continent.
• The Lord of Ice Peak shielded the continent with the Ice Mountain Palace, and the other races prepared to join the fight.
• The Chaos City Lord arrived with the Thousand Treasure River, blasted back the three attackers, and declared that hostilities must cease.
• The Lord of Ice Peak evacuated the surviving King-level Immortals, and the Chaos City Lord departed with the human survivors.
• The other Universe Masters searched the continent but found neither Azure Universe King nor the missing Palace Supreme Treasure.

After refining the Blood Prison Palace, Yang Zheng was transported to a dangerous Mist Valley, where he encountered Ta Li and Ta Ya and learned that native humans might live there. Elsewhere in the valley, a space-fold disaster erupted around a Jade Cloud Flower as Zha Long reached for it.

• Yang Zheng arrived in the Mist Valley, assessed his suppressed powers and scanners, and reviewed the Blood Prison Palace, Bone Wings, and wealth he had gained.
• Yang Zheng traveled through the mist for half a month, avoided deadly space folds, and found Ta Li and Ta Ya fighting a bone-armored mutant beast.
• Yang Zheng killed the beast, learned from Ta Li that native humans might be active in the valley, and agreed to follow the sisters deeper into it.
• Zha Ke and Zha Long approached a Jade Cloud Flower with their team, hoping it would extend their mother's life.
• As Zha Long reached for the flower, space folded violently around it and spread through the crevice with a powerful suction force.