Chapter Summaries

After seven years receiving the Demon Sound Divine General Inheritance, Li Xin discovered how to strengthen his soul by revisiting earlier steps and reached the end of the second stage, earning its rewards. He then joined the Primal Secret Region Qualification Battle, which began with his scheduled match against Molo.

• Dickinson reported that phantom beasts blocked every route underground beneath Demon Sound Mountain, and Marquis Po Yu ordered him to keep watch.
• Li Xin realized he could return to earlier inheritance steps and absorb the mysterious substance left behind, strengthening his soul enough to reach step 6,666.
• Li Xin received a Golden Soul Fruit and the Qingfan Mother Stone Shield as second-stage rewards, then entered the Virtual Universe for the Qualification Battle.
• Li Xin reunited with Ai Chen and Luo Feng at the gathering of the seven Primal Secret Region members.
• The bald official explained the Qualification Battle rules and match order, then Li Xin and Molo entered their teleportation points for the first match.

Li Xin and Ai Chen dominated the Primal Secret Region Qualification Battle, retaining their member status, while Molo lost three matches and plotted against Luo Feng. Later, Bu Luoxin rose through the secret realms, and Li Xin struggled through the third stage of the Demon Sound Divine General’s inheritance before completing the 7,000th step.

• Li Xin killed Molo instantly with his World Sword, and Ai Chen then defeated Molo with Time Pause and a sword strike; Molo also lost to Luo Feng.
• Li Xin defeated Bolan with an exploding World Sword, and Ai Chen later beat Bolan despite his defenses against her time secret art.
• The Qualification Battle ended with Li Xin in first place and Ai Chen in second, preserving their Primal Secret Region Member status; Molo resolved to seek Marquis Po Yu’s help to deal with Luo Feng.
• Bu Luoxin advanced from the Apocalypse Secret Realm to the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, and Li Xin explained that her clones helped her comprehend fire and space laws.
• Li Xin endured the escalating soul pressure on Demon Sound Mountain and completed the 7,000th step of the Demon Sound Divine General’s inheritance.

Li Xin left the Demon Sound Divine General's inheritance and returned to Demon Sound Mountain, where he found Luo Feng and the others under attack. When Dickinson and two World Lord experts tried to kill him, Li Xin used three E9 Laser Guns to destroy them, while the fight around Luo Feng remained unresolved.

• Li Xin left the Inheritance Hall, escaped the Phantom Beasts with the Time-Origin Phoenix, and returned to the upper reaches of Demon Sound Mountain.
• Dickinson detected Li Xin's location and alerted Marquis Po Yu, who arranged a hunt for him.
• Molo and Kuli pursued Bolan, Luo Feng, Rong Jun, and Wuka as the four tried to resist their attackers.
• Dickinson and two World Lord experts arrived, exposed Li Xin observing the battle, and attacked him after Molo urged them to kill him.
• Li Xin evaded their attacks with the Luo Fu Disc, and his three E9 Laser Guns killed Dickinson and the two World Lord experts.

Li Xin pursued Molo and Kuli after killing their companions, but Marquis Po Yu arrived and stopped his E9 Laser Guns with her Time Law. After she revealed her grievance against the Virtual Universe Company and tried to attack Li Xin, a stronger Time Law shattered her domain and restrained her.

• Li Xin chased Molo and Kuli, then fired his charged E9 Laser Guns at them.
• Marquis Po Yu used Time Law to slow the beams, allowing Molo and Kuli to dodge and immobilizing Luo Feng, Bolan, Rong Jun, and Wuka.
• Marquis Po Yu accused Li Xin and the four others of capital offenses and declared that she would execute them.
• Li Xin confronted Marquis Po Yu about her sister's death and argued that she had abandoned the chance to earn contributions toward her resurrection.
• Marquis Po Yu rejected Li Xin's argument and tried to attack his soul, but a stronger Time Law shattered her domain and pinned her in place.

Dream Illusion King revealed herself and arrested Marquis Po Yu after exposing how she had manipulated Marquis Po Yu into confessing her crimes. Li Xin left Demon Sound Mountain with Luo Feng and the others, while King Blood Rain remained hidden and abandoned his plan to attack Li Xin.

• Dream Illusion King revealed that she had guided Marquis Po Yu into confessing and arrested her, along with Molo and Kuli.
• True Yan King arrived, heard Luo Feng’s account, and agreed to accompany Dream Illusion King as she took the prisoners away.
• Bolan reflected on how powerless he had felt during the shifting dangers, and Luo Feng realized Li Xin had helped lure Marquis Po Yu into a trap.
• Li Xin left Demon Sound Mountain with Luo Feng and the others, while the true mastermind behind the attacks remained unidentified.
• King Blood Rain watched Marquis Po Yu being escorted away and considered attacking Li Xin, but decided Rift Sky Venerable might intercept him and abandoned the attempt.

Li Xin left Demon Sound Mountain wary of an unseen mastermind, then entered Demon Iceberg to investigate Ai Chen’s route and seek its inheritance. After finding every inheritance palace occupied and no attacker appearing, he returned to the Primal Secret Region and resumed cultivation while remaining on guard.

• Li Xin sent Bolan and the others out later, emerged from Demon Sound Mountain, and waited for an ambush that never came despite Shi Yuan Venerable’s hidden protection.
• Li Xin accepted the Demon Mountain mission again and entered Demon Iceberg, following the Positioning Devices Ai Chen had left behind.
• Li Xin fought past the Ice Beasts and found that every Inheritance Palace was occupied, so he left Demon Iceberg less than two days after entering.
• Li Xin returned to the Primal Secret Region without drawing out the mastermind, and Shi Yuan Venerable warned him to stay under Luo Ke’s protection before departing.
• Li Xin reviewed his Demon Sound Divine General inheritance, organized his cultivation plans, and continued studying the Extreme Cosmos Chaos Stele.

Li Xin challenged the Tongtian Bridge after years of training and cleared its twelfth floor, though the thirteenth-floor opponent defeated him with the Illusion God Weapon’s ninth level. Bu Luoxin encouraged him to try the Universe Level Tongtian Mountain, and Li Xin arrived at the Primal Heavenly Mountain to face its first guardian.

• Bu Luoxin invited Li Xin to dinner, served him specialty dishes, and told him about the recent activity at the Tongtian Bridge.
• Li Xin returned to the Tongtian Bridge and defeated the eleventh-floor opponent with the Illusion God Weapon’s seventh level, empowered by his seven-thousandfold mental power amplitude.
• Li Xin cleared the twelfth floor by combining his mental power amplification, Time Beast God power, and Time Pause Secret Art with Pierce Through the Firmament.
• Li Xin was defeated on the thirteenth floor by an opponent who used the Illusion God Weapon’s ninth level, Immortal Can Also Be Defeated.
• Bu Luoxin suggested Li Xin challenge Tongtian Mountain, and he agreed before teleporting to the Tongtian Mountain Plane with the gathered spectators.
• Li Xin reached the Primal Heavenly Mountain and found a sleeping minotaur with a huge axe at its foot.

Li Xin cleared the Universe Level Original Tongtian Mountain, drawing attention from humanity’s rivals and from Marquis Silver Snow, who planned to persuade Hong to end his relationship with Ji Qing. Li Xin chose the dangerous Purgatory Abyss mission while waiting for Ai Chen, then learned that Hong wanted to meet him.

• Li Xin instantly defeated the gatekeepers at every stage and cleared the Universe Level Primal Heavenly Mountain, earning a reward of 100 million points payable at the World Lord Level.
• After the news spread, the Demon Race ordered Soul Wolf Venerable to arrange Li Xin’s assassination, and Soul Wolf instructed King Blood Rain to strike when an opportunity arose.
• Marquis Silver Snow investigated Li Xin and Hong, decided not to use force against Hong, and planned to meet him to gently persuade him to leave Ji Qing.
• Li Xin reviewed the Purgatory Abyss survival mission, decided to explore it while still at the Universe Level, and began preparing to enter.
• Mona told Li Xin that Hong had asked to meet him in Yuxiang Mountain’s public area.

Li Xin agreed to help Hong seek Phantom Spirit King’s approval to pursue Ji Qing and learned that promising to resurrect her younger sister might win her over. Li Xin, Hong, and Dream Illusion King arrived at Phantom Spirit King’s palace, where they faced her powerful illusion.

• Hong told Li Xin that Phantom Spirit King opposed his relationship with Ji Qing and asked Li Xin to buy him time.
• Li Xin explained Phantom Spirit King’s history and sent Hong information about her; Hong remained determined to pursue Ji Qing.
• Li Xin asked Dream Illusion King for help, and she said Phantom Spirit King might approve if Li Xin promised to resurrect her younger sister.
• Li Xin agreed to the promise, and Dream Illusion King arranged a meeting with Phantom Spirit King.
• Dream Illusion King took Li Xin and Hong to Phantom Spirit King’s palace, where Li Xin saw through the Charm Race women’s illusion and entered the hall.
• Phantom Spirit King opened her eyes, unleashing an illusion that transformed their surroundings into a paradise of desire.

Li Xin negotiated with Phantom Spirit King to secure her permission for Hong and Ji Qing to be together, promising future help resurrecting her younger sister. Phantom Spirit King agreed, and Hong and Ji Qing reunited while Li Xin left with his promise still to fulfill.

• Li Xin offered Phantom Spirit King a future loan of race contribution points to resurrect her younger sister in exchange for her not interfering with Hong and Ji Qing's relationship.
• Phantom Spirit King agreed not to obstruct the couple or expel Ji Qing, and Li Xin had their agreement authenticated through the Virtual Universe.
• Selina brought Ji Qing to the hall, where she rushed to embrace Hong after seeing him.
• Li Xin departed after telling Hong that he would ultimately be responsible for repaying the contribution points, and he thanked Dream Illusion King for helping arrange the meeting.

Li Xin prepared for the Purgatory Abyss by building a vast Zerg army, purchasing supplies, and strengthening his Time-Origin Phoenix before accepting the mission with Luo Ke and the others. He arrived on the abyss’s sixth layer, where his outsider aura drew an immediate attack from the local creatures.

• Li Xin had the Zerg Mother Emperor breed four types of Golden-Horned and Flame-Star Insect Beasts until he had one million of each, then stopped production.
• Li Xin bought survival supplies and the materials needed for the Time-Origin Phoenix to cultivate the fifth level of the Time Realm Secret Technique.
• Li Xin accepted the Purgatory Abyss mission and traveled with Luo Ke and the others to the teleportation point, where staff warned him that he could arrive on any layer and that his return token had a delay.
• Li Xin activated the token and arrived on the sixth layer of the Purgatory Abyss, on a mountainside surrounded by strange black trees.
• Li Xin killed the attacking Star Level trees with golden sword light and absorbed some of their Abyss aura.
• The slaughter alerted the other creatures on the mountain, and they charged toward Li Xin in a frenzy.

Li Xin slaughtered the demons drawn to him in the Purgatory Abyss, using the battle to train his Zerg Mother Emperor clone and strengthen his abyssal aura until the Abyss stopped targeting him. He discovered a berserk demon had resisted the Abyssal Will because of a rare treasure, the Abyssal Clarity Bell, and captured it for examination.

• Li Xin summoned his Zerg Mother Nest and an army of Zerg Warriors to fight the hundreds of thousands of demons charging at him.
• Li Xin and his Zerg Mother Emperor clone slaughtered more than a hundred thousand demons, and his abyssal aura concealed his Primal Universe aura from the Purgatory Abyss.
• Li Xin noticed a berserk demon retreating from battle to devour corpses and evolve from an upper demon to a demon prince.
• Li Xin captured the berserk demon with a large golden-horned insect beast and examined its soul.
• Mona identified the berserk demon’s green bell as the Abyssal Clarity Bell, a rare treasure that could preserve its user’s lucidity against illusions.

Li Xin learned from the enslaved Flame Demon that the Abyssal Will bestowed abyssal crystals on demons that pleased it through slaughter. He drew in vast waves of demons to test his Zerg army’s combined attacks, but after killing billions without earning a crystal, he prepared a million Golden-Horned Insect Beasts to train through direct combat.

• Li Xin enslaved the captured Flame Demon, healed it, and searched its memories to learn about abyssal crystals and how demons could earn them.
• Li Xin released forty thousand Golden-Horned Insect Beasts and used combined attacks to slaughter the demons drawn to their outsider auras.
• The Golden-Horned Insect Beasts absorbed abyssal aura and became accepted by the Abyssal Will, while the surviving demons fled.
• Li Xin released another four hundred thousand beasts, used their combined attacks to kill hundreds of millions more demons, and still did not receive an abyssal crystal.
• Li Xin summoned six hundred thousand large Golden-Horned Insect Beasts, bringing his army to one million, and decided to train its combat abilities.

Li Xin’s Zerg Legion slaughtered the Abyss Demons until ten Abyss Crystals formed, drawing powerful Demon Lords and Princes to the battlefield. Li Xin seized the crystals, but the Time-Origin Phoenix helped him escape, and the demons pursued them.

• Li Xin used the Zerg Legion to kill demons while Golden-Horned Insect Beasts collected their corpses for energy.
• The blood of the slaughter gathered into a vast vortex, and Li Xin recognized that Abyss Crystals were beginning to form.
• Immortal Level Demon Lords and World Lord Level Demon Princes arrived, and the ensuing battle accelerated the crystals’ formation.
• Ten Abyss Crystals emerged, and the gathered demons attacked Li Xin and the Zerg Legion together.
• Li Xin used psychic force to seize all ten crystals, but could not store them in his World Ring.
• The Time-Origin Phoenix slowed the attackers with Time Stop, carried Li Xin and the Zerg Warriors away, and fled as the Demon Lords pursued them.

Li Xin used the million small Flame-Star Insect Beasts to kill the Demon Bat King and Ramhead King, then drove off the surviving Immortal Level Demon Lords by revealing a stronger force of large Golden-Horned Insect Beasts. With the Abyss Crystals still attracting demons, he faced a new wave of attackers.

• The Demon Bat King chased Li Xin for the Abyss Crystals, but Li Xin's million small Flame-Star Insect Beasts killed him with a Soul Combined Attack.
• Li Xin unleashed an Energy Combined Attack and used Time Stop to prevent the Ramhead King from escaping, killing him in the resulting explosion.
• The Flame Demon Lord hesitated to keep fighting, while the Demon Ape King urged the others to attack Li Xin as his small Flame-Star Insect Beasts weakened.
• Li Xin replaced the small Flame-Star Insect Beasts with a million large Golden-Horned Insect Beasts, and the Bullhead King, Demon Ape King, and two other Demon Lords withdrew.
• Li Xin did not pursue the retreating Demon Lords, and demons drawn by the Abyss Crystals charged toward him.

Li Xin discovered that Abyss Crystals could increase the gene multiplier of humans and tested one on Kode, confirming the effect. Meanwhile, Luo Si Te arrived in the sixth layer of Hell, where he attacked Li Xin’s guards and recognized the Time-Origin Phoenix as an outsider.

• Li Xin flew to the top of the sixth layer of Hell, stationed Zerg Warriors to guard the Abyss Crystals, and learned that the crystals could increase a demon’s gene multiplier.
• Li Xin had Kode fuse with an Abyss Crystal, and Kode’s gene multiplier doubled after three hours of agony.
• Li Xin analyzed Kode’s blood and confirmed that Abyss Crystals could increase the gene multiplier of humans, and likely the Time-Origin Phoenix as well.
• Luo Si Te escaped the seventh layer after clashing with the God-Demon Hall over his Abyss Crystals and followed their scent to Li Xin’s camp in the sixth layer.
• Luo Si Te attacked the Golden-Horned Insect Beast carrying the crystals, but the Time-Origin Phoenix emerged and cut apart his giant hand of immortal divine power.
• Luo Si Te recognized the Time-Origin Phoenix as an outsider and focused on killing it to earn the Abyss’s favor.

Luo Si Te used spatial teleportation to evade the Zerg army’s energy combined attack, then battled the Time-Origin Phoenix. After exploiting the Phoenix’s need to protect the Golden-Horned Insect Beast carrying the Abyss Crystals, Luo Si Te was caught off guard when the Zerg Mother Emperor prepared a soul combined attack, forcing him to flee.

• The Zerg Mother Emperor gathered the energy of a million large Golden-Horned Insect Beasts, but Luo Si Te teleported beyond the attack’s range and escaped its explosion.
• The Time-Origin Phoenix fought Luo Si Te, using the Time-Origin Tower and Heaven-Splitting Wings to overpower him in close combat.
• Luo Si Te teleported toward the Golden-Horned Insect Beast carrying ten Abyss Crystals, then attacked the Time-Origin Phoenix when it rushed to protect the beast.
• Luo Si Te repeatedly targeted the Golden-Horned Insect Beast to draw out the Phoenix and annihilated three percent of the Sky Star Battle Armor’s Immortal Divine Power.
• The Zerg Mother Emperor secretly replaced the small Golden-Horned Insect Beasts with large ones, and the Zerg army began preparing a concealed soul combined attack.
• Luo Si Te detected the nearly completed soul attack and abandoned his plan to use the Abyss Crystals, deciding to flee.

Li Xin used Time Stop and the Zerg Mother Emperor’s soul attacks to defeat and enslave the Marquis Immortal demon Luo Si Te, then learned about the Demon God Hall from his memories. After discovering that the Hall collected abyss crystals from demons, Li Xin considered robbing its agents.

• Li Xin froze Luo Si Te with Time Stop, allowing the Zerg Mother Emperor’s soul attack to overwhelm him and leave him unconscious.
• The Zerg Mother Emperor imprisoned Luo Si Te, then used Myriad Slave Insect Venerable to enslave him.
• Li Xin gave Luo Si Te Life Divine Water to awaken him and viewed his memories, learning that the Purgatory Abyss had granted him Spatial Teleportation as an Innate Secret Technique.
• Li Xin learned that the Demon God Hall collected five abyss crystals from Demon Lords and hunted those who refused to pay.
• Li Xin worried that keeping Luo Si Te could attract the Demon God Hall, then considered robbing its agents for their abyss crystals.

Li Xin discovered that Luo Si Te could gain the Abyssal Will’s favor by killing outsiders, then used recycled Sharp Shadow Zerg to help him accumulate it. After analyzing Abyss Crystals and demon growth, Li Xin guarded seventy crystals until they stabilized and prepared to test their effect on his gene multiplier.

• Li Xin had Luo Si Te kill outsiders to confirm that doing so increased his favor with the Abyssal Will and made fusing with Abyss Crystals slightly easier.
• Li Xin arranged for Luo Si Te to kill Sharp Shadow Zerg while the Zerg Mother Emperor recycled their corpses and bred replacements.
• The Zerg Mother Emperor analyzed Abyss Crystals and found that they combined genes from multiple demons and carried a chaotic consciousness linked to the Abyssal Will.
• Li Xin learned that Abyss Demons grew through devouring and could reach the Invincible King level, but their bloodlines made advancement to the Venerable Level nearly impossible.
• Li Xin guarded the ten newly formed Abyss Crystals for three days, then collected them and hid with seventy crystals to test their effect on his gene multiplier.

Li Xin merged Abyss Crystals to increase his Gene Multiplier, then tested their effects on the Time-Origin Phoenix and Luo Si Te. He left the chapter with his own upgrades capped for now and Luo Si Te strengthened to a sixteenfold Gene Multiplier.

• Li Xin merged ten Abyss Crystals, raising his Gene Multiplier to thirteenfold before his human body's genes collapsed and the Time-Origin Phoenix restored him with a Time Reversal Mark.
• Li Xin merged fifty Abyss Crystals into the Time-Origin Phoenix, increasing its Gene Multiplier to 1,050, and learned that the Virtual Universe Company had no accessible information about the crystals.
• Li Xin successfully merged with twenty-two Time Gems but failed to merge with the twenty-third, then ended his month-long effort to supply Luo Si Te with Zerg Warriors to slaughter.
• Li Xin gave Luo Si Te ten Abyss Crystals and Life Divine Water, and Luo Si Te merged with nine more crystals, reaching a sixteenfold Gene Multiplier.
• Li Xin determined that the Abyssal Will's favor weakened its assaults on Luo Si Te, who declared that he could now defeat the foe who had hunted him before.