Chapter Summaries

Li Xin outfitted his family with cultivation resources, then practiced the Illusion God Weapon and discovered that understanding Time Acceleration greatly enhanced its power. He left the chapter newly able to make his illusion swords fly thirty percent faster and ready to study Illusory Light Marquis's time techniques.

• Li Xin gave his parents Nutrient Pods, Bloodline Evolution Agents, Cloud-Touching Vines, inheritances, spaceships, and puppets, assuring Li Houming that the gifts would not hinder his cultivation.
• Li Xin planned to have his Machine Race Clone consume the Yunmo Star Ship and possibly a Machine Race Immortal's corpse so it could advance to F-class.
• Li Xin practiced the Illusion God Weapon and quickly mastered forming nine illusion swords with its first-level technique.
• Li Xin sparred with an opponent in the Virtual Universe's Killing Field and realized the opponent used the Time Law to control illusion swords faster.
• Li Xin studied the weapon's patterns and grasped the basics of Time Acceleration, increasing his illusion swords' flight speed by thirty percent.
• Li Xin decided to study the time-related secret techniques left by Illusory Light Marquis.

Li Xin spent two years cultivating secret arts and laws, tempering his will, and developing Earth and his servants. He entered the human universe-wide battle platform to test his progress, where his first opponent appeared to be Ai Chen.

• Li Xin studied the Time Acceleration and Holy Light Flight Method secret arts while cultivating on Earth.
• Over two years, Abedo's consciousness pressure and Li Xin's Hundred Refinements Spirit-Tempering Method raised Li Xin's will to Domain Lord fourth order, while Abedo advanced to the World Lord Level.
• Li Xin discovered that the Star-Swallowing Willow and Star Devourer Bamboo could grow on Eternal Energy, while the Sky Star Battle Armor still preferred metals.
• Mona reported that energy production had expanded across tens of thousands of planets, China was establishing a foothold in the universe, and Earth's other countries had been relocated to other life-bearing planets.
• Li Xin entered the universe-wide battle platform and invited opponents from Star Level Nine to Universe Level 9 who had comprehended the Law of Light.
• A Star Level Nine Mengluo Wing Race Valkyrie accepted, and Li Xin recognized her avatar as Ai Chen.

Li Xin, fighting as Dugu Qiubai, defeated Ai Chen in his first Universe Decisive Battle after countering her time-based finishing move. Ai Chen befriended him and watched him continue battling, then promised to challenge him again once she grew stronger.

• Ai Chen and Li Xin recognized each other as their first opponents on the Universe Decisive Battle Platform and began their fight.
• Ai Chen used her light domain, twin Aurora Sacred Swords, and Time Stop to slow Li Xin and launch her Tenfold Absolute Slash.
• Li Xin used Time Acceleration to cancel Ai Chen’s time deceleration, escaped her slash, and defeated her with Heaven-Splitting Form.
• Ai Chen reflected on her weaknesses and sent Li Xin a friend request, then entered his spectator stands when he did not respond.
• Li Xin fought for an entire day before accepting Ai Chen’s request, and Ai Chen called him to say she would challenge him again.

Li Xin and Ai Chen exchanged insights into the Law of Light and the Time Law, helping both of them progress and turning their rivalry into friendship. After Ai Chen told the Silver Light Marquis about Li Xin, he returned to Black Dragon Island and accepted Helen’s invitation to visit a new wine hall with her and Bu Luoxin.

• Li Xin and Ai Chen shared their real names and agreed to exchange their understanding of the Law of Light and the Time Law.
• Ai Chen visited Li Xin’s training room, and they demonstrated their law domains and exchanged insights for a day and a night.
• Ai Chen left, promising to challenge Li Xin again, and Li Xin agreed to face her.
• Ai Chen told the Silver Light Marquis that she had met Li Xin and gained new insight into the Time-Light Stillness Secret Art.
• Li Xin returned to Black Dragon Island, where Helen invited him and Bu Luoxin to visit the newly opened Exotic Fruit Wine Hall, and he accepted.

Li Xin learned about the unexplored Time Realm and asked Bu Luoxin to arrange his entry into the upcoming Universe Mercenary assessment. After she agreed, Ming Yu set out to confront Li Xin for rejecting his invitation, only to find that Li Xin had already left the Virtual Universe.

• Helen thanked Li Xin for their business partnership, while Bu Luoxin hinted that she wanted his support too.
• Bu Luoxin told Li Xin about the dangerous Time Realm assessment, scheduled to begin in three days on Yinglong Star.
• Two messengers summoned Li Xin to meet Ming Yu, but Li Xin refused and had them thrown out of the room.
• Li Xin asked Bu Luoxin to help him enter the assessment despite registration being closed, and she agreed to call in a favor.
• Ming Yu grew angry over Li Xin's refusal and went to confront him, but Li Xin had already logged out of the Virtual Universe.

Li Xin upgraded Eternal Divine Brain No. 1 and tested his Mechanical Evolution talent on an E9-class Machine Race Spaceship, discovering it could surpass ordinary E9-class technology. He left the Machine Race Clone to guard the Mechanical World and saw a path for continually advancing his spaceship technology.

• Li Xin traveled to the concealed Nirvana Continent and entered his World Ring, where Black Iron welcomed him to the Mechanical World.
• Li Xin upgraded Eternal Divine Brain No. 1 to Universe Level, gaining stronger calculation abilities, another energy source, and Eternal Divine Brain No. 4.
• Li Xin left the Machine Race Clone to protect Eternal Divine Brain No. 1 and manufacture E9-class spaceships.
• Li Xin used Mechanical Evolution on an E9-class Machine Race Spaceship, boosting its capabilities by 150 percent and making it rival an F-class spaceship.
• Li Xin realized he could study each evolved spaceship and repeat the process to steadily improve his technology.

Li Xin enhanced the remaining Machine Race Spaceships and traveled to Yinglong Star for the Apprentice Mercenary Assessment. After Ke Jie confronted him over his friendship with Bu Luoxin, Li Xin used the Seven-Colored Illusion-Annihilation Bell to control him, and the chapter ended as several assessment participants withdrew.

• Li Xin decided to focus on enhancing Machine Race Spaceships and building funds, then enhanced the remaining five E9-class ships and left the hidden World Ring.
• Li Xin arrived on Yinglong Star and met Bu Luoxin, whose friendly greeting drew whispers from the people around them.
• Ke Jie confronted Li Xin over his closeness to Bu Luoxin, but Li Xin used the Seven-Colored Illusion-Annihilation Bell to leave Ke Jie blank-eyed and muttering that Luo Erfu was trash.
• Bu Luoxin explained that Ke Jie served Luo Erfu, a Universe Level 9 core disciple of the White Tiger Tower, and Li Xin said he was not afraid of him.
• The assessment staff gave participants one last chance to withdraw, and several people from Ke Jie's group chose to leave.

Li Xin searched the Time Realm’s outskirts for a lifeform suitable to become his clone, using Lemon and mechanical puppets to explore dangerous areas. In the Windmist Mountain Range, he found a huge herd of Time-Mist Horned Beasts and fled when they launched a powerful combined attack.

• Li Xin parted ways with Bu Luoxin and sent Lemon and the other Lemon Race slaves to search the outskirts with mechanical puppets.
• A time storm trapped Lemon, and Li Xin rescued him with a branch of the Star-Swallowing Willow before fleeing from a herd of storm two-headed bulls.
• Li Xin learned from Lemon that the storm had distorted his perception of time and ordered the group to use their mechanical puppets for rescue if another time storm struck.
• Lemon found a herd of Time-Mist Horned Beasts gathered in a valley, and Li Xin went ahead alone to investigate.
• The Time-Mist Horned Beasts unleashed a combined attack of time-accelerating cyan storms, so Li Xin accelerated time eightfold and fled.

Li Xin slaughtered a vast herd of Time-Mist Horned Beasts, collected the ripe time-mist fruits, and gave ten to Lemon and his companions. As he entered the Time Realm’s central region, the Blood Oath Squad recognized him as the target of Luo Erfu’s bounty and moved to attack.

• Li Xin used his Golden Illusion Swords and Seven-Colored Illusion-Annihilation to kill thousands of Time-Mist Horned Beasts and disrupt the fifteen Universe Level beasts’ attack.
• Li Xin killed the two Universe Level 9 leaders, then pursued and slaughtered the fleeing beasts.
• Li Xin found the Time-Mist Fruit Tree, picked its fruits, and gave ten to Lemon and the others to help them reach Universe Level.
• After searching the outer regions for over half a year without finding a suitable temporal life-form, Li Xin headed toward the central region.
• Lemon warned Li Xin that people and a herd of Wind-Winged Two-Headed Horses were approaching despite the group moving aside.
• The Blood Oath Squad recognized Li Xin as the target of Luo Erfu’s billion-Universe-Coin bounty and became eager to claim it.

Li Xin killed the Blood Oath Squad and learned that Luo Erfu had put a bounty on his head, then continued through the Time Realm, killing those who attacked him. Meanwhile, Bu Luoxin fled a vast swarm of Time-Eating Beasts while other trial participants waited for her to be cornered so they could seize her treasure.

• Buchanan tried to trick Li Xin into facing the Wind-Winged Two-Headed Horses, but Li Xin killed the Blood Oath Squad and scattered the pursuing beasts with his Star Annihilation Circle.
• Li Xin used an illusion to interrogate the sole survivor and learned that Luo Erfu had offered a billion Universe Coins for his head, then killed the captive.
• Lemon and the others collected the battlefield’s valuables while Li Xin continued killing anyone who attacked him in the Time Realm.
• Bu Luoxin and her group fled more than a hundred thousand Time-Eating Beasts, while thousands of nearby trial participants eyed the stone aboard her fighter craft.
• Bu Luoxin refused to surrender the treasure despite messages from the royal family and powerful organizations, as her guard warned that the beasts would surround them in less than three minutes.

Li Xin arrived to save Bu Luoxin from over a hundred thousand Time-Eating Beasts and revealed the power of his newly advanced plant lifeforms and equipment. After he slaughtered the beasts, the onlookers who had considered claiming the bounty on him backed down or fled.

• Bu Luoxin feared losing her treasure and worried that Li Xin would not risk coming to her rescue.
• Li Xin appeared, told Bu Luoxin to protect herself, and dismissed the bounty hunters and onlookers as clowns.
• Li Xin unleashed his ninefold Light Domain and ordered Star-Swallowing Willow and Star Devourer Bamboo to attack the Time-Eating Beasts.
• Li Xin used his Universe Level Sky Star Battle Armor, twelvefold Time Acceleration, and Heaven-Splitting Form to kill two Universe Level 9 beasts in one strike.
• Li Xin and his plant lifeforms wiped out the remaining Time-Eating Beasts, leaving the onlookers stunned and driving some of them to flee.

Li Xin rescued Bu Luoxin from the Time-Eating Beasts, then killed seventy-seven onlookers whose hatred or killing intent he sensed. Bu Luoxin offered him the treasure she had risked her life to obtain, but members of the imperial family protested as the chapter ended.

• Li Xin and his plant life forms slaughtered most of the Time-Eating Beasts, saving Bu Luoxin.
• Li Xin sensed hostility among the onlookers and killed seventy-seven people, while the rest fled or mocked the dead.
• Bu Luoxin checked the messages and calls demanding that she return the treasure and felt disgusted by the people who had ignored her peril.
• Li Xin told Bu Luoxin the danger was over, and she thanked him for saving her life.
• Bu Luoxin offered Li Xin the treasure, but members of the imperial family tried to stop her, citing orders from powerful figures who wanted it returned.

Bu Luoxin gave Li Xin the enormous stone treasure after he rescued her, and he discovered it held a faint trace of life. As he traveled with Bu Luoxin to collect Timeglow Crystals, Li Xin fed the stone eternal energy until it stopped absorbing energy and began emitting a temporal storm.

• Bu Luoxin drove off the imperial family members who challenged her and gave the stone treasure to Li Xin, explaining that its value had brought her trouble.
• Li Xin detected a trace of life inside the stone and stored it in his World Ring, then agreed to travel with Bu Luoxin to collect Timeglow Crystals.
• The onlookers abandoned thoughts of taking the treasure and shared recordings of Li Xin's power through the Virtual Universe, drawing the attention of factions and powerful treasure seekers across the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
• While collecting Timeglow Crystals with Bu Luoxin, Li Xin examined the stone and realized it might be an unborn living being.
• Li Xin fed the stone eternal energy from the Eternal Divine Furnace, strengthening its life trace and intensifying the time-law power around it until it stopped absorbing energy.

Li Xin found and merged with a newly born Time-Origin Phoenix, gaining its Time Reversal talent and inheriting the memories of its predecessors. After spending a day absorbing those memories, he discovered the clone’s four powerful talents.

• Li Xin recognized the lifeform emerging from the stone as a Time-Origin Phoenix, a rare time-type special lifeform.
• The newborn Time-Origin Phoenix attacked Li Xin, but he trapped it in an illusion and merged Eternal Divine Brain No. 3 into it.
• The merge succeeded and gave Li Xin the Time Reversal talent, while the Phoenix’s ancestral memories overwhelmed him.
• Li Xin rested for a day as Bu Luoxin waited with him, then absorbed the inherited information.
• Li Xin learned that the Time-Origin Phoenix possessed Time Reversal, Time Stop, Ultimate Sublimation, and Convergence of All Things.

Li Xin discovered that Convergence of All Things let him study the Illusion God Weapon’s secret patterns far more quickly, while the Lord of Ice Peak watched his past and decided he qualified to become his third disciple. After helping Bu Luoxin gather Time-Limit Crystals, Li Xin left her powerful gifts in repayment for the Time-Origin Phoenix, then departed the Time Realm.

• Li Xin used Convergence of All Things on his Illusion God Weapon and found that it greatly accelerated his study of its first two levels.
• The Lord of Ice Peak reviewed Li Xin’s past in the Time Realm, learned he had possessed the Time-Origin Phoenix while retaining his human body, and decided to take him as a disciple.
• Li Xin thanked Bu Luoxin by continuing to help her and her royal family gather Time-Limit Crystals and other treasures.
• After Bu Luoxin had collected enough crystals, Li Xin gave her a World Ring containing powerful mechanical puppets and weapons, warning her not to reveal them.
• Li Xin left on his Holy Light Compass, while Bu Luoxin was astonished by the value of his gifts.

After becoming an official mercenary, Li Xin was summoned by the powerful Lord of Ice Peak, who revealed that Li Xin had acquired the Time-Origin Phoenix meant for his disciple. The Lord of Ice Peak offered to accept Li Xin as a nominal disciple, leaving Li Xin relieved that his Eternal Divine Brain remained concealed.

• Bu Luoxin felt grateful that she had helped Li Xin and given him the precious treasure, though she believed their worlds were too different for her to pursue him.
• Li Xin turned in his Time-Limit Crystal and became an official mercenary; staff member Xia Yuan told him that Time World Lord Luo wanted to meet him, but Li Xin hurried away.
• As Li Xin traveled toward the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, an unknown force transported his spaceship and him to a strange region of space.
• The Lord of Ice Peak appeared before Li Xin, whose will allowed him to remain clear-minded despite the overwhelming fear the powerful figure inspired.
• The Lord of Ice Peak said Li Xin had taken over the Time-Origin Phoenix intended for his disciple and offered to make him a nominal disciple.
• Li Xin realized the Lord of Ice Peak believed he had obtained the phoenix through body possession and had not detected the Eternal Divine Brain.

Li Xin confirmed that the mysterious expert was the human Universe Master Lord of Ice Peak and accepted him as a nominal disciple, with the genius battle set as his first trial for personal discipleship. Back aboard his spaceship, Li Xin used the experience of facing death to raise his willpower to the Domain Lord limit and began cultivating the third layer of the Seven-Colored Illusion-Annihilation Bell.

• Li Xin questioned the stranger about his identity and learned that he was the Virtual Universe Company's Lord of Ice Peak, a Universe Master.
• Li Xin recognized the Lord of Ice Peak, accepted him as his master, and vowed to take first place in the upcoming genius battle to become a personal disciple.
• The Lord of Ice Peak gave Li Xin a soul-defense treasure and an Identity Token, upgraded his Galaxy Bank account, and warned him to keep their relationship secret.
• After Li Xin returned to his spaceship, the Lord of Ice Peak told Venerable Shi Yuan to watch over him and prevent an Alien Race assassination without helping him.
• Li Xin used the near-death experience to raise his willpower to the Domain Lord limit and formed the red, orange, and yellow layers of the Seven-Colored Illusion-Annihilation Bell.

Buluo’s ship entered the Solar System from a wormhole, and Xuanjin’s Mechanical Puppets captured him before he could escape. Luo Feng learned that Buluo had already sent information to Nuolan Mountain, while Li Xin examined a soul-protecting bell and found its patterns overwhelming.

• Buluo discovered Li Xin’s energy pyramids and the Solar System’s Mechanical Puppets, then ordered Akatu to send a report to Nuolan Mountain.
• Xuanjin and twenty C9-rank Mechanical Puppets boarded Buluo’s ship, killed his subordinates, and captured him alive.
• Xuanjin brought Buluo to Luo Feng, who enslaved him and learned that he had transmitted information about the Solar System to Nuolan Mountain.
• Xuanjin reported the intrusion to Li Xin, while Babata reassured Luo Feng that Nuolan Mountain could not threaten Li Xin.
• Li Xin examined his ancient soul-protecting bell and used Convergence of All Things on it, but the soul patterns overwhelmed his consciousness and forced him to stop.

Li Xin selected three Time-Origin Phoenix inheritance techniques and bought the treasures needed to cultivate the first two realms of Time Realm. As he practiced time law through the Phoenix, he made rapid progress, then learned that Nuolan Mountain had sent Buluo to the Solar System and went to investigate the clan through the Virtual Universe.

• Li Xin chose Heaven-Splitting Wings, Time Realm, and Time-Origin Tower, then bought the treasures for Time Realm’s first two realms for 1.1 million Hunyuan units.
• Li Xin used the Time-Origin Phoenix to study time law and quickly advanced his Time Acceleration technique to minor mastery of the third level.
• Xuanjin urgently reported to Li Xin’s Machine Race Clone that Buluo had arrived in the Solar System and sent his findings back to Nuolan Mountain.
• Li Xin confirmed that Buluo had discovered nothing about Earth and entered the Virtual Universe to purchase intelligence on Nuolan Mountain.

Li Xin traveled to Sacred Dragon Star to sell five upgraded E9-class Mechanical Spaceships and then planned to eliminate Nuolan Mountain. After learning that Nuolan Mountain was heading to the same planet, Li Xin went to wait for him, and Nuolan Mountain recognized the owner of Earth as a possible source of an Immortal's inheritance.

• Li Xin learned that Nuolan Mountain was secluded on Nuolan Star and changed course to sell his spaceships before confronting him.
• Nuolan Mountain heard about the Milky Way Galaxy and ordered his disciples to investigate while he prepared for an operation.
• Li Xin sold the five E9-class Mechanical Spaceships for twenty-two thousand hunyuan units and declined the Virtual Universe Company's invitation to contact him.
• The Universe Galaxy Bank informed Li Xin that Nuolan Mountain was heading to Sacred Dragon Star, so Li Xin went to wait at the docking port.
• Nuolan Mountain arrived, saw Li Xin, and concluded that capturing him could lead to an Immortal-level treasure trove.