Chapter Summaries

Li Xin and Ai Chen grew closer, and he brought her to Earth to meet his parents before taking her sightseeing in Kyoto Base City. Their hot pot outing reunited them with Fu Qidong and the former Black Water Squad, whose success had grown under the Li Family’s support.

• Ai Chen offered Li Xin her Time Pause technique and recommended the Void Tower and Time Acceleration to address his weaknesses.
• Li Xin and Ai Chen spent another day and night together, then traveled to Earth so Ai Chen could meet his parents.
• Li Meifang welcomed Ai Chen warmly, shared stories about Li Xin’s childhood, and asked when the couple would marry; Li Xin said they were not ready yet.
• Li Xin took Ai Chen shopping around Kyoto Base City, where she tried local foods and bought souvenirs.
• Li Xin and Ai Chen entered the A Song of Ice and Fire hot pot restaurant, where Ji Bochang praised Fu Qidong for leading the Black Water Squad to support the Li Family and build a successful business.

Li Xin and Ai Chen trained together, met Li Xin’s younger brothers, and prepared for the Genius Battle as registration opened. The chapter left Luo Feng defeated by Li Xin’s accelerated Golden Long Sword, despite his new Mosquito Race Clone and improved spatial-law abilities.

• Li Xin overheard Fu Qidong credit the Li Family with helping the Black Water Squad rise, but chose not to interfere.
• Ai Chen challenged Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng in the Virtual Universe and defeated all three.
• Li Xin warned Hong that the Genius Battle could affect his relationship with Ji Qing, and Hong declared that he would make the tournament his stage.
• On March 9, 2066, Li Xin and Ai Chen stopped their law-comprehension session to register for the Genius Battle after its announcement appeared over Black Dragon Island.
• Luo Feng challenged Li Xin in the Killing Space, but Li Xin’s time-accelerated Golden Long Sword shattered his phantom swords and killed both of his phantom bodies.

Li Xin sold one billion hunyuan units of Locke Divine Water to fund his preparations for the Genius Battle, attracting Venerable Star Sky’s attention until the Lord of Ice Peak blocked the investigation and arranged protection. After reviewing the competition rules, Li Xin and his companions prepared to fight in separate World Zones.

• Luo Feng stopped challenging Li Xin in the Killing Space and registered for the Genius Battle as registration opened.
• Li Xin sold one billion hunyuan units of Locke Divine Water to the Universe Galaxy Bank, and Venerable Star Sky investigated him to seek clues to a missing treasure.
• The Lord of Ice Peak intercepted Venerable Star Sky’s inquiry, warned Li Xin to focus on winning the Genius Battle, and ordered Venerable Shi Yuan to send a King-level Immortal to protect him.
• Venerable Star Sky encountered the Lord of Ice Peak’s higher authority and abandoned his investigation, while Li Xin decided not to sell more Locke Divine Water.
• Li Xin, Hong, Thunder God, and Ai Chen reviewed the Genius Battle’s rules and learned that the Qianwu Universe Country’s 822.5 billion participants would compete in World Zones before arena battles.
• Hong, Thunder God, and Li Xin revealed they had been assigned to different World Zones and vowed to advance through the first stage.

Li Xin entered World Zone 66 for the Genius Battle and began an overwhelming slaughter in Bloodsource City, killing anyone who attacked him. He flew toward a gathering of thirty thousand contestants who had joined forces to stop him.

• Bu Luoxin prepared to give her all in the Genius Battle, while Helen and Luo Hua’s investment department planned to support Li Xin through betting.
• Li Xin and his four companions were transported to World Zone 66 as the tournament began.
• Li Xin saw through Morse’s Light Domain concealment and killed him with a golden streak when Morse attacked, earning his first point.
• Li Xin decided to hunt openly rather than hide, reinforced his armor and soul defenses, and used his Spiritual Force to draw nearby contestants into attacking him.
• Li Xin killed the attackers with his Illusion God Weapon and continued through Bloodsource City, slaughtering contestants as he flew toward its center.
• Yous, Kuyisi, and the other contestants assembled a force of thirty thousand to ambush Li Xin, who continued flying straight toward them.

Li Xin slaughtered more than thirty thousand contestants in World Zone 66 while concealed by an illusory body, then emerged ranked 121st. As betting opened on his final placement, Helen and Li Xin’s four servants wagered on him taking first place.

• Yous, Kumas, and tens of thousands of contestants attacked Li Xin, but his illusory body let their strikes pass through while his golden streaks cut through the crowd.
• Li Xin killed Yous and Kumas, then trapped the remaining contestants by patrolling the perimeter and continued killing until all thirty thousand were dead.
• Li Houming and Li Meifang watched Li Xin’s ranking climb, while Helen saw the slaughter and decided he was an extraordinary genius.
• Li Xin checked his ranking, emerged from concealment, and resolved to keep fighting despite being ranked 121st.
• Bookmakers opened wagers on Li Xin’s final ranking, and Helen bet nearly all her savings on him taking first place in World Zone 66.
• Nuolan Mountain, Mitchell, Conrad, and Nick also prepared to bet on Li Xin using the funds he had transferred to them.

Li Xin’s allies placed their fortunes on him winning World Zone 66 before his odds could fall, while Li Xin continued hunting contestants to claim first place. Guided by Nuolan Mountain in Watchtower City, Li Xin found and killed the fifteenth-ranked Blood Blade.

• Nuolan Mountain and three others bet all their funds on Li Xin taking first place, securing odds of 1:2.5 before the betting pools lowered them.
• Li Xin remained dissatisfied with his eleventh-place standing after ten days of slaughter in Blood Source City and left to hunt in another city.
• In Watchtower City, Nuolan Mountain used real-world surveillance to tell Li Xin where Blood Blade, ranked fifteenth, was hiding.
• Li Xin attacked Blood Blade with the Star Annihilation Circle, accelerated his golden slash after Blood Blade dodged it, and killed him.

Li Xin reached first place in his world zone, while Ai Chen also secured first place and his friends celebrated their rankings and winnings. After the tournament ended, envoys from the Black Dragon Mountain Empire offered Li Xin five galaxies if he placed among the overall top thousand, and he questioned whether the reward was worth pursuing.

• Li Xin moved between cities, killed high-scoring competitors, and built a lead three times larger than the runner-up's before taking first place in his world zone.
• The Black Dragon Mountain God Lord celebrated Li Xin's victory and ordered generous rewards for Bu Luoxin, who had reached rank 888 in her zone.
• Ai Chen fought her way to first place in her zone as the Silver Light Marquis and Holy Light King marveled at her progress.
• The tournament countdown ended, and Li Xin, Ai Chen, Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng returned to Li Xin's manor; Ai Chen had placed first, Luo Feng second, Hong twenty-second, and Thunder God 222nd.
• Li Xin's friends said their bets on him had paid out, and Ai Chen and Luo Feng said he could win the overall tournament.
• Butashka congratulated Li Xin and offered him five galaxies if he made the overall top thousand; Li Xin questioned the value of the reward, leaving Butashka unable to answer.

Li Xin negotiated with the Black Dragon Mountain Empire for galaxies and received Black Dragon’s promise of two hundred if he reached the Genius Battle’s top thousand. After Li Xin’s World Zone victory, Bu Luoxin brought him intelligence on rival experts, and he explained his connection to her and the Time-Origin Phoenix to Ai Chen; they ended the chapter cultivating together.

• Li Xin asked the Black Dragon Mountain Empire for fifty to a hundred galaxies, explaining that he wanted to establish a Universe Country and expand his force.
• Black Dragon promised Li Xin two hundred galaxies if he reached the Genius Battle’s top thousand and offered the empire’s support.
• Butashka and Bu Luoxin visited Li Xin after he placed first in his World Zone; Bu Luoxin gave him information about experts from other Universe Countries.
• Ai Chen introduced herself to Bu Luoxin as Li Xin’s partner, and the two exchanged polite compliments while gripping each other’s hands tightly.
• Li Xin told Ai Chen about the Time-Origin Phoenix and his dealings with Bu Luoxin, then received his betting winnings as Ai Chen collected hers.
• Li Xin and Ai Chen logged off, spent a day and night together, and began Meng Luo Sky Wing Dual Cultivation.

Li Xin’s Time-Origin Phoenix reached Domain Lord Level, but Abedo and his crew disappeared inside an unknown spacetime anomaly in the Cangmang Galaxy. Li Xin chose to keep his operations running and focus on the approaching Genius Battle while waiting to learn whether Abedo’s disappearance was part of a plot against him.

• Li Xin completed half the remodeling of his Mechanical World, moved it into his body, and stored his accumulated spaceships inside it.
• Three years later, Star Pirates robbed two D-class spaceships, and Abedo pursued them in his E9-class ship before both groups were drawn into a strange spacetime domain and lost contact with headquarters.
• Li Xin’s Time-Origin Phoenix reached Domain Lord Level, with Eternal Divine Brain No. 3 serving as its Origin Core and improving his time-law comprehension.
• Mona reported that Abedo and his crew could not be contacted, and Li Xin concluded that they were trapped somewhere beyond communication rather than dead.
• Li Xin kept his personnel on their missions to test whether others would disappear, and planned to investigate Abedo’s fate after becoming the Lord of Ice Peak’s personal disciple.
• The ruler of Qianwu reviewed the thousand Genius Battle contestants, praised the prospects of Rong Jun, Li Xin, and Luo Feng, and learned that Li Xin had concealed much of his strength.

On the day the Genius Battle’s Trial Tower stage began, Li Xin and the Qianwu Universe Country’s contestants gathered with the other geniuses, while Ai Chen joined him from the Yimu Universe Country. The million contestants focused on Bolan as the predicted champion, and the leaders of the Universe Country teams discussed their bets on the tournament.

• Li Xin and Ai Chen prepared for the Genius Battle, with Ai Chen eager to test herself against Bolan.
• Li Xin, Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, and Bu Luoxin joined the thousand Qianwu Universe Country contestants after surviving the Reincarnation Battle.
• Lord Thirteen intimidated the Qianwu contestants, singled out Rong Jun and Li Xin as promising, and urged the group to prove his low expectations wrong.
• Ai Chen reunited with Li Xin, drawing attention from other contestants who knew of her strength and Meng Luo Sky Wing talent.
• Bolan arrived and became the focus of the million gathered geniuses, many of whom hoped to defeat him.
• Thirteen and other Immortal Level leaders discussed betting odds, while Sefula said he had wagered on Bolan to win for the glory of the Noah Universe Country.

Li Xin split his betting money between finishing first in points and clearing the first floor of the Seventh Trial Tower, then resisted Venerable Nine Swords’s soul influence at the tournament gathering. He rapidly cleared the first Trial Tower and entered the second, while Bolan discovered Li Xin had beaten him to the first tower’s finish.

• Mona showed Li Xin the betting odds, and he wagered 1.5 billion Hunyuan Units on finishing first in points and 1 billion on clearing the Seventh Trial Tower’s first floor.
• Blazing Sun King investigated the large bets on Li Xin and decided to monitor him after realizing his backer had wagered winnings and original capital across the major powers’ pools.
• Li Xin resisted the soul-bewitching power that brought the contestants to the Central Plaza, though Venerable Nine Swords noticed that he had remained lucid.
• Venerable Nine Swords explained the tournament’s Trial Tower and qualification rules, and Li Xin prepared with Ai Chen before entering the trial spaces the next day.
• Li Xin used his Illusion God Weapon to clear every floor of the first Trial Tower in under a minute and immediately entered the second tower.
• Bolan finished the first Trial Tower, saw that Li Xin had taken first place, and resolved to catch up.

Li Xin stunned the spectators by sweeping through six Trial Towers with the Illusion God Weapon and surviving the Sixth Trial Tower’s Zerg Mother Emperor. After resting, he entered the Seventh Trial Tower, where ten thousand law-wielding Blood-Haired Mammoths charged him.

• Sefula and the other Immortals watched Li Xin clear the early Trial Towers at astonishing speed and recognized that he could rival Bolan.
• Li Xin used the Illusion God Weapon’s Heaven-Splitting Form to sweep through the Fourth and Fifth Trial Towers and slaughter the Sixth Tower’s Zerg Warriors.
• Li Xin blocked the Zerg Mother Emperor’s soul attack with the Three-Colored Seven-Colored Illusion-Annihilation Bell, killed her, and rested before attempting the Seventh Trial Tower.
• Thirteen, the Qianwu Country Lord, Venerable Nine Swords, and others watched Li Xin’s progress, while Qianwu and Black Dragon praised him and spread news of his achievements.
• Li Xin entered the Seventh Trial Tower, where ten thousand Blood-Haired Mammoths with law comprehension charged toward him.