Chapter Summaries

Dongguan reviewed his combat techniques, cultivation, and Spirit Eye abilities, then investigated whether his mental space had an undiscovered use. After learning how his mother’s mental space aided her potion research, he inscribed secret patterns into his own mental space and triggered a change.

• Dongguan considered combining Lightforging Battle Art and Heavenly Blade, and assessed how Light Control and Flow of Time had contributed to his final slash against Niris.
• Dongguan reviewed his law comprehension, secret arts, body, and Spirit Eye abilities, concluding that his mental space might have a purpose beyond storing information.
• Qiong explained that Dongguan’s mother, Domain Lord Xia Lan, had used her mental space to simulate materials and conduct experiments while developing potions.
• Qiong described how mental spaces could complement other Spirit Eye abilities and said no one in the Qiong Luo Race had awakened both a mental space and the Eye of Cause and Effect before.
• Dongguan used his Secret Pattern Eye to examine the Kras Tree, then actively inscribed its secret patterns into his mental space, causing a change.

Dongguan discovered that recording secret patterns and Secret Arts in his Mental Space greatly improved his comprehension and cultivation, then broke through to Cosmic Level Third Order after years of practice. He agreed to fight Tute for a Sea Light Tear, unaware that Tute wanted to use his winnings to redeem Eternal Time.

• Dongguan experimented with engraving laws and Secret Arts into his Mental Space, improving his affinities, soul memory, and ability to cultivate them.
• Nihemo drafted proposals to popularize technology and explore the outside world, hoping to challenge the Light Lords’ prohibitions and stagnant traditions.
• After more than sixteen years of cultivation, Dongguan used the Blood Token’s signal to learn the date, reached Cosmic Level Third Order, and planned a year of rest before advancing to Tier 4.
• Dongguan met Tute in the Light Void Realm, where Tute proposed a staged wager for his Sea Light Tear.
• Dongguan rejected Tute’s initial terms and negotiated a single match: Tute wagered the Sea Light Tear against Dongguan’s 20,000 points.
• Tute accepted the wager and secretly hoped to win enough points to redeem Eternal Time.

Dongguan defeated Tute in a virtual duel to win the Sea Light Tear, revealing how much his combat skills had advanced during years of secluded cultivation. After collecting the tear on Island 23, he learned that many contestants had grown stronger and that Niris remained undefeated.

• Tute used his Mountain and River Scroll to mark Dongguan and counter his speed, forcing Dongguan to fight him head-on.
• Dongguan unleashed his Lightforged Blade World, then repeatedly used his speed-based finishing move to break through Tute’s defenses and kill him.
• Tute questioned how Dongguan could use his finishing move repeatedly, then logged off and invited him to collect the Sea Light Tear on Island 23.
• Dongguan reviewed the rising number of formal challenges and considered climbing the rankings, but decided to collect the tear first.
• Tute handed Dongguan the Sea Light Tear and said he was stronger in reality because he had reached Domain Lord level while Dongguan remained at Cosmic Level Third Order.
• Tute told Dongguan that many contestants had advanced, Niris had won every challenge, and the rankings had changed during Dongguan’s years in seclusion.

Dongguan used the Eye of Cause and Effect to find Sea Light Tears, then chose to cultivate the Sea Light Art beneath the sea to improve his ability to collect and fuse them. After inscribing the art into his Mental Space and deleting older techniques to make room, he discovered that clearing certain recordings had strengthened his mastery of Time Law and revealed an affinity for Darkness; he then broke through to Cosmic Level Fifth Order and continued pursuing the Sea Light Art's tenth layer.

• Dongguan examined the Sea Light Tear's secret patterns and learned from Qiong that his Eye of Cause and Effect could seek treasures.
• Dongguan followed causal threads through the sea and caught a second Sea Light Tear, but judged the month-long search too inefficient and decided to cultivate the Sea Light Art in deeper water.
• After nearly twenty-six years in the Sacred Land, Dongguan reached the Sea Light Art's ninth layer and agreed to inscribe the art into his Mental Space despite his doubts.
• Dongguan deleted older techniques to make room for the Sea Light Art, and removing Flow of Time and Light Control made his understanding of Time Law clearer while revealing his ability to wield Darkness.
• Dongguan completed the ninth-layer inscription, broke through to Cosmic Level Fifth Order, and resolved to pursue the tenth layer before leaving the Sacred Land.

Dongguan completed the tenth layer of the Sea Light Art, gaining extraordinary speed and the ability to perceive the Golden Ocean. While investigating a hidden cavern beneath Island 1, he found an azure lake that drew him into an illusion of a vast bird flying beyond light, and the Sea Light Art patterns in his Mental Space began to change.

• Dongguan collected Sea Light Tears, fused with them, and eventually completed the tenth layer of the Sea Light Art after three more years of searching.
• Dongguan discovered an impassable barrier at the ocean floor and measured his sustained underwater speed at 10081 kilometers per second.
• After inscribing the tenth layer, Dongguan perceived the Golden Ocean's full shape and sensed its islands, other cultivators, and thousands of Sea Light Tears.
• Dongguan followed a strange causal thread to a cavern beneath Island 1 and used an exploration robot to discover an azure lake that produced Sea Light Tears.
• Dongguan set aside his Blood Token and Immortal Crystals before returning to the cavern, where the lake pulled him into an illusion of a gigantic bird flying beyond light.
• As Dongguan watched the bird, the Sea Light Art patterns in his Mental Space began shifting into a more ordered design.

Dongguan emerged from the azure lake transformed, having advanced to universe level sixth order and acquired a Beast God Inheritance Token. After returning to Island 91, he planned his eventual escape from the Sacred Land and learned he needed to conceal the changes to his appearance and aura before anyone became suspicious.

• Nihemo sensed someone had cultivated the Sea Light Art to the tenth layer and anticipated finding a highly compatible servant.
• Dongguan discovered his strength and gene multiplier had increased, found a Beast God Inheritance Token beneath a giant egg, and stored both the token and egg in his World Ring.
• Dongguan returned to Island 91 after ten days, where he found he could transform into a taller, winged form with greatly increased attributes, and learned he could no longer absorb Sea Light Tears.
• Dongguan decided to leave the secret realm after escaping the Sacred Land, then returned to his villa and submitted a challenge application to move to a higher-ranked island.
• Qiong warned Dongguan that his altered appearance and bearing could arouse suspicion, and advised him to master the eighth layer of Body Transformation to conceal most of the changes.

Dongguan and Niris fought their final Virtual Space challenge, and Niris won after Dongguan’s Beast God Intent Realm failed to work as expected. The hundred cultivators left the Secret Realm and arrived at the square, where Nihemo and the Origin World Lord awaited them.

• On the final day in the Virtual Space, Dongguan and Niris fought for first place, using their Light Law Secret Arts and Niris’s Eternal Time to counter each other.
• Niris’s Light Body and Dongguan’s attempted Beast God Intent Realm left both combatants gravely injured, and Dongguan conceded before his body vanished.
• Back in the hall, Niris celebrated his return to first place while Dongguan redeemed Eternal Time and had Qiong record it.
• Dongguan returned to reality and reflected on the valuable opportunities he had gained in the Secret Realm, then joined the others on Island 1.
• The white-robed Emissary led all 100 cultivators through the gate and told them to follow His Highness Nihemo’s arrangements.
• The cultivators arrived at the selection square, where Nihemo and the Origin World Lord waited for them.

Nihemo appointed the survivors of the Life-and-Death Selection as his subordinates and sent them toward the Void Battlefield, while Dongguan planned to use a trip home to escape. Nihemo assigned Ze to accompany Dongguan to Revered Light City, and later revealed that Niris’s family had not experienced the hundred years he had spent in the Sacred Land.

• Nihemo named the survivors his direct subordinates, and Ze announced their rankings and the rules for earning slave slots and joining the Ever-Advancing Army.
• Nihemo made Niris a soul slave and offered Dongguan a future slot, while Dongguan concealed his desire to escape.
• Nihemo warned that the Real Person Society had appeared near Revered Light City and ordered Ze to accompany Dongguan there and investigate.
• Ze dismissed the group with instructions to reach the Void Battlefield within a year, then told Dongguan they would leave for Revered Light City the next day.
• Niris learned the truth about the Light and Dark Lords and received the Dark Volume of the Light and Dark Codex from Nihemo.
• Nihemo allowed Niris to visit his family and revealed that, despite Niris’s hundred years in the Sacred Land, no time had passed for them.

Dongguan returned to Revered Light City with Ze, attended a banquet, and discovered that the body buried as Meng Jin might not be his. After revisiting Kabu Village and leaving Yana a blade manual, Dongguan was forced to return with Ze, who was assigned to protect him until he went to Void City within a year.

• Ze brought Dongguan to Revered Light City, where the city’s leaders reported to him while the Gu Family hosted a banquet for Dongguan.
• Dongguan apologized to the Meng Family Ancestor and asked to see Meng Jin’s remains, while Gewo revealed that Bai Cong had belonged to the Real Person Society and escaped after exposure.
• At the Meng family tomb, Dongguan found that the corpse resembled Meng Jin but showed signs of alteration, and his Eye of Cause and Effect suggested Meng Jin might still be alive.
• Dongguan revisited Kabu Village and gave Yana a light-attribute blade manual before leaving without revealing himself.
• Ze caught up with Dongguan, explained that he had been assigned to protect him, and took him back to Revered Light City, reminding him to reach Void City within a year.

Dongguan failed to escape the Underground Cavern and followed Ze to Void City, where he discovered that Profound Level soldiers had to receive implanted Slave Chips before entering the Void Battlefield. He refused the implantation and tried to leave, but Ze stopped him and offered to seek permission for him to use an external Communicator instead.

• Dongguan fled from a Shadow Monster in the Underground Cavern, concluded he could not escape through it, and decided to go to the Void Battlefield.
• Ze waited for Dongguan at the cavern entrance and escorted him to Void City aboard a spaceship.
• Dongguan registered with the Ever-Advancing Army under Light Lord Nihemo and learned that Profound Level soldiers had to receive implanted Communication Chips.
• After Qiong identified the chips as Slave Chips, Dongguan refused the implantation and argued that he should return to the continent to pursue a breakthrough instead.
• Dongguan tried to fly out of Void City, but Ze used World Power to bring him back and said he might arrange for Dongguan to enter the Void Battlefield with an external Communicator.

Dongguan chose to seek a breakthrough through life-and-death challenges rather than ask Nihemo to intervene, and Xing Gui agreed to send him to the Vanguard Camp. Bu Ji escorted him across the void to Base 9, where his preparation for the Void Battlefield began.

• Xing Gui refused Ze's request to make an exception for Dongguan, while Bu Ji suggested sending Dongguan to the Vanguard Camp and was ordered to go there himself.
• Ze tested Dongguan's loyalty by offering him the choices of contacting Nihemo or spending a year challenging cultivators, and Dongguan chose to go alone.
• Ze received word that Xing Gui had agreed to let Dongguan join the Vanguard Camp, and Dongguan accepted despite learning it was known as the Suicide Camp.
• Xing Gui assigned Bu Ji to escort Dongguan, and Ze saw them off as they left Void City.
• During the week-long journey, Bu Ji explained the Void Battlefield and gave Dongguan an External Communicator, then brought him to Base 9.

Dongguan received his first vanguard battalion mission and prepared to investigate behemoth-shaped Dark Beasts with Bu Ji’s squad. Elsewhere, a raiding force learned that Nihemo would arrive at Base 9 and considered an attack to capture or kill him, while preparing to withdraw before the Divine Venerable awakened.

• Dongguan connected to the Void Network, where Bu Ji summoned him and his squadmates Du Nan, Xiao, and Yingxin to discuss their mission.
• Bu Ji told the squad to investigate whether World Level behemoths had appeared in the 9R8821 Region, and they prepared plans for the dangerous assignment.
• Dongguan ended the squad’s discussion, and the next day the members departed Base 9 aboard Bu Ji’s spaceship.
• A raiding force led by the Purple-Armored Man defeated a transport convoy, then decided to divide its spoils and scatter after its location was exposed.
• The Purple-Armored Man learned that the Real Person Society wanted help attacking Base 9 to capture or kill Nihemo, and he ordered his forces to withdraw while they considered the plan.

Dongguan's squad killed a Domain Lord dark giant beast, then learned that an outside force had hijacked a military supply transport and was being hunted across the surrounding regions. Hoping the outsiders could provide a way out of the Cosmic Secret Realm, Dongguan supported searching for them, and Bu Ji decided the squad would rest while remaining alert for a chance to find them.

• Bu Ji and Dongguan's squad killed a Tier 4 dark giant beast in the 9R8822 Region.
• Dongguan considered escaping the Cosmic Secret Realm but concluded he would need to find a travel point or return to the Light and Dark Continent.
• Du Nan reported that a supply transport had been hijacked and the Vanguard Camp had assigned the squad a mandatory search mission.
• Bu Ji explained that an outside force with advanced detectors and World Level members had been active in the region for years.
• Dongguan urged the squad to search for the outsiders, and Bu Ji decided they would rest and pursue them if they found an opportunity.

Dongguan lured a squad of outsiders into an ambush, but their fight with Bu Ji’s team turned dangerous when the enemies unleashed hidden power. Dongguan revealed his mastery of the Time Origin Law and disappeared underground, leaving the battle at a stalemate.

• The Blue-Armored Man’s squad spotted Dongguan holding a damaged Laser Cannon and pursued him, while Dongguan warned Bu Ji’s team to relocate.
• The Blue-Armored Man’s spaceship fired on Bu Ji’s ship, and the two crews exchanged cannon shots before the outsiders landed and confronted them.
• Bu Ji’s team fought the attackers, but the Blue-Armored Man shed his armor and nearly killed Bu Ji until Yingxin intervened.
• A Black-Armored Man shed his armor and wounded Du Nan and Xiao with poisoned blades, while Yingxin joined their fight.
• Dongguan fought two Black-Armored Men, then vanished into a deep hole after displaying the Time Origin Law; the Blue-Armored Man sent a teammate to assist the remaining attackers.

Dongguan infiltrated the Noren Family spaceship and learned that escaping the Light and Dark Continent required finding a wormhole inside a dark storm, while he planned to capture the Blue-Armored Man and return toward Base 9. Meanwhile, Nihemo broke through to World Lord and sent his five-eyed avatar out to assess the situation.

• Dongguan escaped the Blue-Armored Man's detection, sent Qiong to breach the D-class spaceship, and learned that the Illusion-Light Vine and Dry Leaf Grass had reached World Lord ninth stage.
• Dongguan infiltrated the spaceship, restrained and hypnotized a black-armored man, and obtained information from the ship's database and the man's memories.
• Dongguan learned that the Noren Family team had entered through a wormhole in a dark storm, that escape required finding another such wormhole, and that Immortals might arrive if outsiders lingered near one.
• Dongguan planned to capture the Blue-Armored Man for the coordinates of an Immortal's Divine Kingdom and considered returning toward Base 9 to avoid the search for visitors from beyond.
• Nihemo absorbed the golden seawater beneath the Kras Tree, broke through to World Lord, and sent his five-eyed avatar out to investigate while he continued cultivating.

Dongguan helped Bu Ji defeat the Blue-Armored Man and reunited with the squad, which returned to Base No. 9 to submit mission evidence and celebrate. There, Dongguan recognized Meng Jin among people from the Real Person Society and considered how he might use the encounter.

• Bu Ji unleashed Thunder Domain Kill against the Blue-Armored Man, but Dongguan ambushed the enemy with his saber and vines, allowing Bu Ji to strike as well.
• Dongguan and Bu Ji defeated the Blue-Armored Man, and Dongguan went on to help Xiao, Du Nan, and Yingxin overcome the black-armored men.
• The squad found the enemy spaceship gone, submitted captured corpses and armor fragments as mission evidence, and returned to Base No. 9.
• Bu Ji turned in the squad's two missions, and the team celebrated together at the mission center's tavern.
• After his teammates left, Dongguan confronted a Three-Eyed Youth who denied knowing the squad, then recognized him as Meng Jin using the Eye of Cause and Effect.
• Dongguan realized the people with Meng Jin appeared to belong to the Real Person Society and considered whether he could take advantage of their presence.

Dongguan used his invisible Thousand-Leaf Clone to uncover the Real Person Society’s plan to attack Base No. 9 when Nihemo arrived, then had Qiong analyze how to exploit their inside agent. Meanwhile, Nihemo discovered that the Sea Light Source Water and Primordial Embryo Stone were missing, and Omken arrived in Void City to learn about the Void Battlefield from Xing Gui.

• At Base No. 9, Meng Jin, Lie Ya, and their captain discussed the Real Person Society’s planned attack on Nihemo, their expected allies from Beyond the Domain, and the danger of the Divine Venerable’s awakening.
• Dongguan listened in through an invisible Illusion-Light Vine and Thousand-Leaf Clone, then asked Qiong to organize the information and simulate his plans.
• The Purple-Armored Man learned that his forces had suffered heavy losses and identified Dongguan, who possessed an E-Level Laser Cannon, as a target at Base No. 9.
• Nihemo found that the Sea Light Source Water had fallen and the Primordial Embryo Stone was missing, and he wondered whether Dongguan could have reached the cavern.
• Omken introduced himself to Xing Gui as Nihemo’s special envoy, then asked him to explain the Void Battlefield as Ze departed.

Dongguan explored body and soul cultivation manuals while preparing for a Vanguard Camp garrison mission, and Nihemo revealed his mastery of time while struggling to win support for his proposal. After failing to locate the wormhole near a Dark Storm, Dongguan decided to return to camp and seek a route to the Far Zone.

• Dongguan asked Qiong about body-amplitude and soul-amplitude manuals, learned about his parents’ cultivation, and resolved to resume Spiritual Force cultivation.
• Bu Ji assigned Dongguan’s squad to garrison Sector 9T9989 for three months, and Dongguan planned to investigate a nearby Dark Storm.
• Nihemo learned that his proposal had been rejected again, demonstrated his comprehension of Time Law to Weiya, and remained suspicious that Dongguan had taken the Primordial Embryo Stone.
• Dongguan tested the Dark Storm’s surroundings but could not locate the wormhole, and Qiong warned that entering the storm would be too dangerous without the Wood God Shield.
• Dongguan decided to use a freely chosen Vanguard Camp mission in a 9Z sector near a Travel Point to reach the Far Zone, and returned to camp after the garrison term ended.

Dongguan uncovered the Real Person Society’s preparations in Base 9 and was summoned by General Xing Gui, where he resisted Omken’s attempt to enslave him and exposed Xing Gui as an insider. After escaping their pursuit, Dongguan’s betrayal enraged Nihemo, who set out for the Void Battlefield despite Ze’s warning.

• Dongguan learned that a naturally formed Spatial Passage near the Far Zone was being used to transport Nolun Legion troops and planned to leave his squad during a garrison mission.
• After a new Void City arrived at Base 9, Omken used Level One Clearance to order Dongguan to meet him, and Bu Ji went to fetch Dongguan.
• Dongguan resisted Omken’s Soul Enslavement, identified Xing Gui as a Real Person Society insider, and fought him with the Illusion-Light Vine.
• Omken and Xing Gui pursued the notebook Dongguan threw, which recorded Real Person Society members throughout Base 9, while Dongguan escaped in disguise.
• Nihemo learned that Guan had betrayed him and set off for the Void Battlefield with Ze and Niris.

The Real Person Society launched coordinated attacks across Base 9, including an attempt to kill the Immortal God Lunduo, while Dongguan struggled to escape pursuit. Dongguan got through a Spatial Passage into the Far Zone and headed toward a dark storm, hoping it would lead to freedom.

• Feiluo and more than a hundred Peak World Lords trapped Lunduo in a blood-colored array and attacked him to weaken the Light Lords.
• The Noren Family fleet waited for the fighting to cause heavy losses, then moved toward Base 9 to seize its resources.
• Xing Gui chased Omken and suspected that Omken was a Light Lord clone whose Origin Core needed to be found and destroyed.
• Meng Jin's team headed for Base 9's underground core, while Dongguan secretly saved Bu Ji from four attacking Domain Lords.
• Nihemo, Ze, and Niris discovered that a robot impersonating Dongguan had tricked them, and Nihemo set out to pursue him.
• Dongguan escaped through a Spatial Passage in the Qiongluo Ship and chose a nearby dark storm as his next route toward the travel point.