Chapter Summaries

Hu Yanbo arrived in the Dark Corrosion Cavern and rescued Marquis Rock from Blood Fang King, unveiling the soul-destroying Void Lotus technique. Blood Fang King fled, and Hu Yanbo left with Marquis Rock to reach Radiance.

• Hu Yanbo appeared just as Blood Fang King was about to strike Marquis Rock and wounded him with nine spatial blades.
• Blood Fang King healed his physical injuries and charged again, confident Hu Yanbo could not seriously harm him.
• Hu Yanbo created the Void Lotus technique and used it to erase nearly five percent of Blood Fang King's soul.
• Terrified by the soul damage, Blood Fang King burned his divine power and fled.
• Hu Yanbo chose not to pursue Blood Fang King and asked Marquis Rock to take him to Radiance.
• Marquis Rock agreed, and the two vanished from the battlefield.

Hu Yanbo brought Marquis Rock to safety and learned that Marquis Glorious Light had fallen into a deep slumber after Blood Fang King gravely damaged his divine body. Reflecting on his own helplessness, Hu Yanbo resolved to pursue strength independently, awaken Glory, and eventually seek the Outer Domain Battlefield and the path to Universe Venerable.

• Hu Yanbo followed Marquis Rock's directions to a quiet asteroid belt and checked for threats before settling on a large asteroid.
• Marquis Rock asked how she should address Hu Yanbo after witnessing his King-level strength, and he told her to call him Hu Yanbo or Brother Yanbo, though she insisted on calling him Lord Hu Yanbo.
• Marquis Rock revealed that Blood Fang King had annihilated much of Marquis Glorious Light's divine body, leaving him slumbering, and showed him Glory's figure from her World Ring.
• Hu Yanbo reflected on the limits of King Rank and his helplessness before stronger foes, then resolved to awaken Glory, seek life-and-death battles, and later venture to the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Hu Yanbo rejected his former dependence on the Prepayment System and Luo Feng, resolving to pursue strength on his own and protect those he cared about.

Hu Yanbo used rare treasures to stabilize and revive Marquis Glorious Light, while Marquis Rock was astonished by Hu Yanbo’s strength, generosity, and apparent epiphany. After Glorious Light began recovering, Hu Yanbo gave Marquis Rock treasures to repair her Divine Body, and she chose to save them instead.

• Marquis Rock noticed a profound change in Hu Yanbo’s aura as he silently watched the injured Marquis Glorious Light.
• Hu Yanbo took Purple Marrow Essence, Three-Turn Soul-Gathering Grass, Void Soul Crystal, and other rare treasures from his World Ring and used them to treat Glorious Light.
• Glorious Light’s Divine Body and soul stabilized, and he awoke briefly before Hu Yanbo told him to keep absorbing the treasures.
• Hu Yanbo gave Marquis Rock additional treasures to restore her Divine Body, but she asked to keep them unused and take them with her.
• Hu Yanbo let Marquis Rock decide how to use the treasures, and she stored them carefully while reflecting on Glorious Light’s good fortune.

Hu Yanbo healed Marquis Glorious Light and asked why Blood Fang King had pursued him and Marquis Rock so relentlessly. Marquis Glorious Light discovered that their earlier guess about revenge was wrong and began revealing the real reason, but the chapter ended before he named it.

• Hu Yanbo used rare treasures to restore Marquis Glorious Light, who was astonished by Hu Yanbo's immense strength and new treasures.
• Marquis Rock envied how easily Marquis Glorious Light addressed Hu Yanbo by name.
• Hu Yanbo asked why Blood Fang King had hunted Marquis Glorious Light and Marquis Rock despite the cost.
• Marquis Rock guessed that they had killed a close blood relative of Blood Fang King while fighting demon Immortal Army Lords.
• Marquis Glorious Light inspected the spoils in his World Ring and warned that the real reason for Blood Fang King's pursuit was that one of his descendants had been carrying something.

Hu Yanbo discovered that the dark silver crystal Marquis Glorious Light had recovered was an Inheritance Crystal for the Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy, though it could not grant its inheritance for another 20 epochs. He saw a chance to trade it through his teacher Yuan Huang for a Divine General Inheritance, leaving him excited by the prospect of gaining power without risking his life.

• Marquis Glorious Light brought out the dark silver crystal, and Hu Yanbo activated it with his divine power.
• The crystal revealed mysterious writing as space around it warped, so Hu Yanbo searched the Virtual Universe for a translation.
• Hu Yanbo learned that the crystal held the inheritance of the unique Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy and could next grant it in about 20 epochs.
• Hu Yanbo realized he might trade the crystal through Yuan Huang for a chance to receive a Divine General Inheritance.
• Hu Yanbo concluded that the find could help him grow stronger while avoiding the dangerous repayment plan he had considered.

Hu Yanbo explained the Inheritance Crystal’s immense value to Marquis Glorious Light and Marquis Rock, who willingly gave it to him after he saved their lives. In return, he promised to arrange and pay for their cultivation in Chaos City, then turned part of his attention toward Yuan Huang’s palace.

• Hu Yanbo explained the Inheritance Crystal’s value, and Marquis Glorious Light and Marquis Rock were astonished by its worth.
• Marquis Glorious Light and Marquis Rock insisted Hu Yanbo take the crystal, saying they could not protect it and owed him their lives.
• Hu Yanbo accepted the dark silver Inheritance Crystal and promised to arrange and pay for the two Marquises to cultivate in Chaos City.
• Marquis Glorious Light and Marquis Rock eagerly accepted the opportunity, while Hu Yanbo privately reflected that Chaos City could strengthen their cultivation.
• Hu Yanbo said he would contact the relevant department about their places and directed part of his consciousness toward Yuan Huang’s palace.

Hu Yanbo visited Yuan Huang to report finding an Inheritance Crystal, but Yuan Huang recognized that Hu Yanbo had gained the space origin’s recognition and praised his extraordinary progress. Yuan Huang reflected that Hu Yanbo’s potential could eventually make him a Universe Venerable, and Hu Yanbo remained respectful and humble.

• Hu Yanbo arrived at Yuan Huang’s palace on Glory Sacred Mountain and requested an audience.
• Hu Yanbo told Yuan Huang he had obtained an Inheritance Crystal of the Rift-Splitting Divine Envoy in the Nether God Secret Realm.
• Yuan Huang examined Hu Yanbo and discovered that his will and consciousness had strengthened and that he had gained the space origin’s recognition for Teleportation.
• Yuan Huang praised Hu Yanbo’s rapid advancement, noting that other Human Race Universe Masters might have sought him as a disciple if Yuan Huang had hesitated.
• Hu Yanbo credited his progress to Yuan Huang’s Abyssal Seal and maintained his humility, while Yuan Huang concluded that his disciple could one day become a Universe Venerable.

Yuan Huang offered Hu Yanbo thirty billion points or a Divine General Inheritance opportunity, and Hu Yanbo chose the inheritance opening in two thousand years. Hu Yanbo realized his teacher had likely spent a valuable favor to secure the slot and resolved to repay him as he continued training in the Nether God Secret Realm.

• Yuan Huang explained that Hu Yanbo’s rare Sky-Splitting Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal could be sold for thirty billion points or exchanged for a Divine General Inheritance opportunity.
• Hu Yanbo chose the inheritance opportunity, and Yuan Huang arranged the best suitable slot opening in two thousand years by calling in a favor.
• Yuan Huang told Hu Yanbo to train in the secret realm and promised to notify him when the inheritance approached.
• Hu Yanbo returned to his true body in the Nether God Secret Realm and continued talking with Marquis Glorious Light and their companion while reflecting on Yuan Huang’s support.
• Hu Yanbo wondered whether his Prepayment System could help Yuan Huang advance, then set the idea aside and focused on growing stronger.

Hu Yanbo took Marquis Glorious Light and Marquis Rock aboard the Yunmo Star Ship and headed for the Nether God Secret Realm’s exit, unaware that Blood Fang King had summoned Blade Mantis King to hunt him. Blade Mantis King identified Hu Yanbo from Blood Fang King’s description and pursued him through a spatial rift.

• Hu Yanbo boarded the Yunmo Star Ship with Marquis Glorious Light and Marquis Rock and set course for the secret realm’s exit.
• Blood Fang King hid near the Dark Corrosion Cavern and contacted Blade Mantis King, hoping to get revenge on Hu Yanbo.
• Blade Mantis King arrived with a dark-green expert, and Blood Fang King described Hu Yanbo and his black lotus soul attack.
• Blade Mantis King recognized Hu Yanbo’s appearance but said it did not matter that he was absent from the Human Race’s roster of King Rank experts.
• Blade Mantis King tore open a spatial rift, and he, the dark-green expert, and Blood Fang King entered it to pursue Hu Yanbo.

Hu Yanbo stayed in the Nether God Secret Realm to hone his techniques and tested his evolving Void Lotus against increasingly powerful opponents. After several centuries of trials, he believed he could defeat ordinary Initial King immortals and considered venturing deeper into the realm.

• Hu Yanbo chose to remain in the Nether God Secret Realm for several hundred years to master his strength and refine the Void Lotus.
• Hu Yanbo killed a demon High-level Marquis with one Void Lotus strike, saving three Human Army Lords who had been near defeat.
• Hu Yanbo spent several hundred years fighting enemies of various factions and reviewing each battle to improve his techniques.
• Hu Yanbo concluded that his Void Lotus had grown close to the limits of a top-tier secret technique and could destroy Marquis-level opponents with ease.
• Hu Yanbo considered entering the realm's more dangerous depths to test himself against an Initial King immortal.

Hu Yanbo attacked Azure Crocodile King with his soul technique, expecting to kill the Initial King through repeated strikes. Azure Crocodile King recognized him from Blade Mantis King's bounty and stalled until Blade Mantis King arrived and trapped Hu Yanbo.

• Hu Yanbo found Azure Crocodile King harvesting ghost soul crystals and attacked it with Void Lotus.
• Azure Crocodile King recognized Hu Yanbo from Blade Mantis King's bounty notice and secretly requested reinforcements.
• Azure Crocodile King focused on evading and defending while Hu Yanbo pursued it with Teleportation and repeated soul attacks.
• Blade Mantis King arrived with another figure, froze the space, and told Hu Yanbo, "Human King... found you."

Hu Yanbo wounded Azure Crocodile King and recognized his new opponent as Blade Mantis King, a King Rank limit powerhouse who had come seeking the Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal. Realizing that his mercy toward Blood Fang King had exposed him to pursuit, Hu Yanbo chose to fight and secretly called for help from Human Race King Rank powerhouses in the Nether God Secret Realm.

• Hu Yanbo shattered his black lotus into spatial blades and used them to grievously wound Azure Crocodile King with a soul attack.
• Hu Yanbo retreated while identifying the upright mantis as Blade Mantis King of the Blade Chi Clan, a King Rank limit powerhouse.
• Blade Mantis King asked Hu Yanbo for his name and whether he carried the Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal.
• Hu Yanbo realized that sparing Blood Fang King had led to Blade Mantis King's pursuit and regretted underestimating the dangers of King Rank combat.
• Hu Yanbo resolved to fight and sent requests for aid to Human Race King Rank powerhouses throughout the Nether God Secret Realm.

Hu Yanbo fought Blade Mantis King, whose attacks repeatedly shattered Hu Yanbo’s Divine Body while he burned his Divine Power. Under the pressure, Hu Yanbo transformed Void Lotus into a Peak Secret Technique that struck through Blade Mantis King’s defenses, and the Prepayment System confirmed that Hu Yanbo had completed a fight to the death.

• Blade Mantis King questioned Hu Yanbo about the Divine Envoy Inheritance Crystal, then attacked him with a space-cutting blade strike.
• Hu Yanbo countered with Void Lotus, briefly disrupting Blade Mantis King’s soul, but Blade Mantis King suppressed the attack and began burning his Divine Power.
• Blade Mantis King charged Hu Yanbo repeatedly, while Mo Lao King maintained the Space Lockdown and Hu Yanbo’s G9-Class Metal Battle Armor absorbed much of the damage.
• As his Divine Body weakened, Hu Yanbo realized Blade Mantis King’s soul defenses briefly faltered during his attacks and refined Void Lotus through each collision.
• Hu Yanbo’s transformed Void Lotus bloomed inside Blade Mantis King’s Divine Body, annihilated one percent of his soul, and forced him to retreat from his attack.
• The Prepayment System confirmed Hu Yanbo had completed the fight-to-the-death condition and made one prepayment available.

Hu Yanbo used an advance on the first stage of the Void Evolution Divine General Inheritance to gain a soul-amplitude technique, then advanced his Space Law comprehension while fighting Blade Mantis King and Mo Lao King. After turning Mo Lao King’s chains against Blade Mantis King and breaking his attack, Hu Yanbo prepared to strike back.

• Hu Yanbo secured an advance on the first stage of the Void Evolution Divine General Inheritance and began gaining its soul-amplitude method.
• Hu Yanbo used his new abilities to evade Blade Mantis King’s lethal thrust, prompting Blade Mantis King to call Mo Lao King into the fight.
• Hu Yanbo advanced his Peak King Space Law comprehension and continued dodging both Kings’ attacks while absorbing the inheritance.
• Hu Yanbo used nine Silver Space Blades to seize control of Mo Lao King’s chains and redirect them toward Blade Mantis King.
• Blade Mantis King slashed the chains aside, leaving himself briefly off balance as Hu Yanbo declared that it was his turn.

Hu Yanbo used his control over the sealed space and his Void Divine Power to kill Azure Crocodile King and incapacitate Mo Lao King. Blade Mantis King, unable to fight or escape, chose self-destruction and vowed that the Demon Race would avenge him.

• Hu Yanbo sent Void Divine Power into Azure Crocodile King and annihilated his soul.
• Hu Yanbo struck Mo Lao King with Soul Annihilation, destroying more than half of his divine body and leaving him unconscious.
• Mo Lao King lifted the Space Lockdown and called for Blade Mantis King, but Hu Yanbo maintained the Sealing and struck him again.
• Blade Mantis King realized Hu Yanbo had trapped them, declared that the Demon Race would seek revenge, and self-destructed.

Hu Yanbo escaped Blade Mantis King’s self-detonation after defeating the two Demon Race experts, and the arriving Human Race rescuers found him holding the incapacitated Mo Lao King. After Hu Yanbo explained his victory, they bestowed on him the title Soul Annihilation King, marking his rise as a feared ultimate King Rank expert.

• Blade Mantis King detonated himself, but Hu Yanbo teleported beyond the blast and took the sleeping Mo Lao King with him.
• Blade Mantis King’s final warning about the human called “Bo” reached Demon Race experts, who feared that he and Mo Lao King had been killed.
• Human Peak King and ultimate King Rank experts arrived, saw the destruction, and found Hu Yanbo unharmed with Mo Lao King in his hand.
• Hu Yanbo thanked the rescuers and said he had made a breakthrough, adding that Blade Mantis King would have been enslaved if he had not detonated himself.
• Blood Blade King and the other experts named Hu Yanbo Soul Annihilation King, and Hu Yanbo accepted the title.

Yuan Huang was astonished by Hu Yanbo’s rapid rise, and Lord Huang Jian instructed him to nurture his disciple as a potential future Universe Venerable or greater. The Hongmeng Alliance’s Venerables watched the fragmentary battle recording and agreed to invite Hu Yanbo as a three-star member.

• Yuan Huang learned that Hu Yanbo had killed Blade Mantis King, captured King Mo Lao, and earned the title Soul Annihilation King.
• Lord Huang Jian praised Hu Yanbo’s potential and told Yuan Huang to guide and nurture him.
• Venerable Yezheng informed the assembled Venerables that Hu Yanbo had forced an ultimate Demon Race King to his death.
• The Venerables watched a brief recording that ended with the Demon cursing Hu Yanbo before a burst of white light obscured the battle.
• The Venerables agreed that Hu Yanbo qualified for immediate three-star Hongmeng Alliance membership.

Hu Yanbo hurried to hunt down Demon Hand King before news of his strength reached him, while considering how to make the most of King Mo Lao despite the enormous cost of reviving him. He began devising a new soul-enslavement technique and ended with a sudden idea for using the sleeping Peak King expert.

• Hu Yanbo used Divine Kingdom Teleportation to reach a secluded location near Demon Hand Star, then flew toward Demon Hand King's hiding place aboard the Yunmo Star Ship.
• Hu Yanbo realized that reviving King Mo Lao would cost far more than the roughly 26 billion Hunyuan Units he had gained from the battle.
• Hu Yanbo considered leaving King Mo Lao to recover naturally, but rejected waiting hundreds of millions of years and resolved to research a powerful Soul Enslavement Secret Art.
• Hu Yanbo compared the Black Lotus's soul-destroying power with Illusionists' subtle methods of control and concluded that he could develop another way to suppress an opponent's will.
• Hu Yanbo suddenly had a new idea for putting the sleeping King Mo Lao to use.