Recaps

Dongguan followed a causal link to a Heavenly Mulberry Race empire and retrieved the Skirt Armor, replacing it with a Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon. Tianchang Venerable arrived on the continent to study Heavenly Mulberry Tree bark and sensed an outsider’s teleportation.

• Dongguan reasoned that he could trace the Heavenly Mulberry Tree through karma and followed a causal line to a small world on Heavenly Mulberry Continent.
• Tianchang Venerable traveled toward Divine Ruins Valley carrying Heavenly Mulberry Tree bark, hoping to cultivate a weaker tree from it.
• Dongguan entered the Jinshang Empire’s palace treasury and found the Skirt Armor, which its World Lord inhabitants could not activate.
• Dongguan took the Skirt Armor and left an identical-looking Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon in its place.
• Tianchang Venerable sensed strong spatial fluctuations in the empire and concluded that an outsider capable of Teleportation had arrived.

Dongguan encountered Tianchang Venerable in Divine Ruins Valley, and the two fought before Tianchang Venerable fled into the Dark Universe. Dongguan pursued him into it, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Dongguan explored Divine Ruins Valley and studied his nearly complete Calamity-Flow Blacklight Set.
• Tianchang Venerable identified Dongguan as the Light Lord Clone and attacked him with the Eight Light Shuttle.
• Dongguan fought Tianchang Venerable using his Calamity-Flow Blacklight Battle Technique, and both exchanged more than a thousand blows.
• Tianchang Venerable tried to escape, but Dongguan kept pace and pursued him through the Congyun Secret Realm.
• Dongguan damaged Tianchang Venerable's armor and divine body, forcing him to burn divine power and flee into the Dark Universe.
• Dongguan accelerated to the speed of light and entered the Dark Universe after Tianchang Venerable.

Dongguan killed Tianchang Venerable after their fight drew the attention of Lord Hengxian, then escaped with the Calamity-Flow Blacklight Set. He searched the battlefield for the remaining treasures and found the Flowing Light Wings.

• Tianchang Venerable and Dongguan repeatedly fought across the Dark Universe and Original Universe as Tianchang Venerable called for reinforcements.
• Dongguan trapped Tianchang Venerable with Control of Space-Time and attacked him with the Sealing Star, whose Lifeless Light weakened them both.
• When Lord Hengxian arrived, Dongguan detonated the Sealing Star and killed Tianchang Venerable, then sent his own belongings and Tianchang Venerable's spoils away from the blast.
• Dongguan's clone met Venerable Huozhen in the Original Universe and entrusted him with the Calamity-Flow Blacklight Set while Dongguan searched for the other treasures.
• Dongguan followed cause and effect through the battlefield and found the Flowing Light Wings floating in the void.

Dongguan completed the eighth Gold-Space Secret Pattern Diagram, raising his human main body's gene multiplier and deciding to explore the Heiji Secret Realm. He arrived in the Black Sea and located the distant directions of the heavenly mulberry tree and the Helmet, then planned to summon Venerable Huozhen to help him travel there.

• Dongguan completed the eighth Gold-Space Secret Pattern Diagram and discovered that his human main body's gene multiplier had reached forty-five times, or 4,500 times with blood Luo power.
• Dongguan compared his human main body with his Light Lord clone and considered the difficulties of improving the clone's genes through research or resources.
• Dongguan decided his human main body was strong enough to enter the Heiji Secret Realm, where he could escape even if he encountered a Universe Master.
• Dongguan entered the Heiji Secret Realm's dark Black Sea and used heavenly mulberry bark and his vertical eye to locate the heavenly mulberry tree and the Helmet.
• Dongguan found both targets tens of millions of light-years away and decided to call Venerable Huozhen to help him travel faster.

Dongguan and Venerable Huozhen reached Aurora City, a universe black market in Lightway Master's polar domain, and arranged for Huozhen to represent them in future trades. After they left, Lightway Master learned that Dongguan was the human genius Insect-Hunting King, who possessed a Top-tier Supreme Treasure.

• Venerable Huozhen guided Dongguan through Heiji Secret Realm's black sea, and they escaped several black holes before finding a polar domain.
• Dongguan and Venerable Huozhen entered the domain and discovered Aurora City, a trading hub protected by Lightway Master.
• Dongguan had Venerable Huozhen leave a token so he could manage their future trading, then they departed the polar domain.
• Lightway Master investigated the two visitors and learned that Dongguan was Insect-Hunting King, a human genius with a Top-tier Supreme Treasure.

Dongguan pursued the Calamity-Flow Blacklight Set helmet through the Heiji Secret Realm, but Black Universe Founder lured him into a polar region and captured him. The chapter ended with Dongguan powerless inside Black Universe Founder’s universe-like phantom.

• Dongguan and Venerable Huozhen followed the helmet’s causal line, and Dongguan sent Huozhen away with his treasures after suspecting their route had been manipulated.
• Dongguan chose to keep the Flowing Light Wings for now, reasoning that their connection to Luo Feng’s Shi Wu Wings and the coming World Beast calamity made an exchange difficult.
• Black Universe Founder carried the helmet through the black sea while Dongguan pursued him, and he warned Dongguan to turn back.
• Dongguan discovered that the helmet and the Heavenly Mulberry Tree were both in a nearby polar region and entered it.
• Black Universe Founder appeared, overwhelmed Dongguan with his power, and drew him into the phantom universe behind him.

After Black Universe Founder captured Dongguan, Chaos City Lord arranged for Giant Axe Founder to negotiate his return at the cost of a Top-tier Supreme Treasure. Trapped and unable to act, Dongguan reflected on his choices, reaffirmed his determination to pursue the Dao, and began engraving the profound Secret Patterns he could perceive.

• Chaos City Lord learned that Black Universe Founder had captured Dongguan and said Giant Axe Founder would negotiate for his return, with Dongguan responsible for repaying the cost.
• Dongguan awoke immobilized in darkness, unable to sense his Divine Kingdom or the Universe Origin Law, and opened his Vertical Eye Between the Brows to study the Secret Patterns.
• Dongguan regretted growing arrogant but decided he would continue taking risks to pursue the Origin Continent and Hunyuan Space, accepting whatever consequences followed.
• Dongguan's resolve strengthened, and he broke through an important barrier in the first state of mind, improving his consciousness and potential for cultivating his soul and willpower.
• Dongguan recognized that his new insights could not free him immediately, so he began engraving the Secret Patterns into his Mental Space.

While waiting for Giant Axe Founder to negotiate for his release, Dongguan explored Earthstar World and intervened to shield a weak human settlement from a Foxman tribe. He then gained a first glimpse of how to move within the space trapping his main body, but held back as he continued studying it and awaited the negotiations.

• Dongguan surveyed Earthstar World’s peoples and decided not to help them advance, but he became interested in a technologically developing human tribe hidden in a canyon.
• Dongguan separated the canyon from the outside with a space barrier, preventing a Foxman scout from returning and protecting the humans from likely enslavement.
• Dongguan’s accumulated insight into the secret patterns gave him a limited ability to move within the dark space holding his main body.
• Dongguan returned to his Origin World and accelerated time for his Light Lord Clone as it deduced the space’s laws from his observations.
• Dongguan continued investigating the prison cautiously while Giant Axe Founder negotiated, aware that the outcome and the fate of his lost treasures remained uncertain.

Giant Axe Founder confronted Black Universe Founder and bargained for Dongguan’s release while Dongguan studied the secret patterns imprisoning him. Giant Axe Founder and Black Universe Founder were still haggling as Dongguan began working toward a way to escape.

• Giant Axe Founder arrived outside Black Universe Founder’s Miniature Universe and demanded that he release Dongguan.
• Black Universe Founder claimed Dongguan had provoked him and demanded compensation, while Giant Axe Founder warned that they could fight instead.
• Giant Axe Founder offered increasingly valuable treasures, and Black Universe Founder countered by threatening to trade Dongguan to the Zerg.
• Dongguan examined the secret patterns in his prison and realized they revealed paths connected to sources such as light and darkness.
• Dongguan used his knowledge of Secret Pattern Flow and his “Space-Time Origin Point” technique to consider creating a secret art that could unlock the dark space.

Dongguan broke through to become a Time Venerable while trapped in Black Universe Founder's dark space and prepared to escape once Black Universe Founder left his Miniature Universe. Meanwhile, the Zerg Queen arrived for the planned trade, only to learn it had been canceled and suspect that something unexpected had happened.

• Giant Axe Founder and Black Universe Founder failed to agree on a price for Dongguan, and Black Universe Founder decided to contact the Zerg and seek a better offer.
• Dongguan mastered the Time Law under accelerated study and converted his Light Lord Clone into Venerable-level divine power.
• Dongguan planned to continue studying until Black Universe Founder left his Miniature Universe, then self-destruct and return through his Divine Kingdom to escape.
• The Zerg Queen arrived at the appointed trade location, but Black Universe Founder told her the trade was canceled.
• The Zerg Queen suspected an unexpected change had disrupted the negotiations and wondered what had happened.

Dongguan broke out of Black Universe Founder's Miniature Universe during a battle between Giant Axe Founder and Black Universe Founder. He escaped into the Universe Ocean, where the two founders continued fighting.

• Dongguan realized he was being held beyond a Miniature Universe and used his Darkness Annihilation secret art to try to escape.
• As Dongguan's divine power burned away and the exit remained out of reach, Giant Axe Founder struck Black Universe Founder's Miniature Universe and opened a path through the darkness.
• Dongguan escaped along Giant Axe Founder's axe scar and entered the Universe Ocean.
• The clash between Giant Axe Founder and Black Universe Founder sent Dongguan tumbling away, and he struggled to move through the chaotic currents.
• Black Universe Founder had been heading to the transaction, while Giant Axe Founder followed him, hoping Dongguan could break free.

Giant Axe Founder rescued Dongguan from Black Universe Founder, who traded him a High-grade Supreme Treasure helmet to learn the secret art that had broken his technique. After seeing Dongguan demonstrate Darkness Annihilation, Black Universe Founder unexpectedly asked him to become his disciple.

• Giant Axe Founder struck Black Universe Founder's concealed universe and helped the trapped Dongguan escape, then protected him from Black Universe's attack.
• Black Universe Founder offered a High-grade Supreme Treasure helmet in exchange for meeting Dongguan, and Giant Axe Founder advised Dongguan to accept while he was there to protect him.
• Dongguan agreed to meet Black Universe Founder and demonstrated his self-created Secret Art, Darkness Annihilation.
• Black Universe Founder gave Dongguan the Calamity-Flow Blacklight Helmet, completing Dongguan's set of Supreme Treasures.
• Black Universe Founder asked Dongguan if he was willing to take him as his master, leaving Dongguan and Giant Axe Founder surprised.

Dongguan refused Black Universe Founder’s offer to take him as a disciple, and Giant Axe Founder took him away. Black Universe Founder reflected on Dongguan’s secret art and its possible connection to his own path, while the Zerg Queen wondered whether Dongguan had succeeded in becoming like Formless.

• Black Universe Founder offered to take Dongguan as his disciple, claiming their paths aligned and that his inheritance could help Dongguan become a Universe Strongest One.
• Dongguan rejected the offer, and Giant Axe Founder inspected Black Universe Founder’s communication token before taking Dongguan away.
• A purple sphere emerged from a ruined Miniature Universe and mocked Black Universe Founder, while the Zerg Queen noticed that Dongguan’s aura resembled Formless’s.
• Black Universe Founder returned to his Miniature Universe, drank his Black Universe Absolute Brew, and replayed Dongguan’s Darkness Annihilation secret art as he considered the prospect of progress and reincarnation.

On the journey back, Dongguan demonstrated secret arts for refining chaos flow and storing reserve divine power, impressing Giant Axe Founder. With Giant Axe Founder’s help, Dongguan completed his divine-body conversion and became a Top Universe Overlord before they headed into the Giant Axe Universe.

• Dongguan refined a wisp of chaos flow with a secret art, and Giant Axe Founder learned the method after watching his demonstration.
• Giant Axe Founder replenished Dongguan’s lost divine power with refined chaos flow, then helped him complete his divine-body conversion.
• Giant Axe Founder praised Dongguan’s secret arts and said they would be added to the Race Treasury, with Dongguan receiving contribution credit for exchanges.
• Dongguan reflected on when to visit the Yuan Ao Secret Realm and considered how he might prevent Giant Axe Founder’s future fall.
• Dongguan asked whether Giant Axe Founder had wanted him to accept Black Universe Founder as his teacher, and Giant Axe Founder explained that recruiting a Universe Strongest One benefited the race.
• Giant Axe Founder led Dongguan through the membrane wall and into the Giant Axe Universe.

Dongguan reviewed the Little Genius Battles, the Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapons, and the development of Guanjie Company while considering how to turn the weapons’ growing notoriety into a business. The chapter ended when Calamity Mistress reported that a branch of the Qiong Luo Race had migrated to Jinlan Universe Country, reminding Dongguan that it was time to resurrect his father.

• Calamity Mistress reported that the Little Genius Battles had produced fewer outstanding competitors, so Dongguan ordered them held less frequently and set new intervals for each level.
• Calamity Mistress described the Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapons’ wielders, including Prophet, Myriad-Heart Man, and Life-Taker, and warned that powerful figures had taken an interest in the weapons.
• Dongguan decided he might sell Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapons beyond Human Territory and let others study the cause-and-effect path.
• Calamity Mistress reported on Guanjie Company and then told Dongguan that the Zhang Family and a branch of the Qiong Luo Race were in Jinlan Universe Country.
• Dongguan remembered that it was time to resurrect his father.

Dongguan used his control of space-time to return to the past and reunite with his father, Dong Xuan World Lord, before bringing him to see his mother, World Lord Xia Lan. He left his parents together and went to talk with his uncle, while an observer noticed his apparent ability to resurrect the dead.

• Dongguan traveled back more than ten thousand years and found Dong Xuan World Lord, resolving to return his father to the present.
• Dong Xuan World Lord declined Dongguan’s suggestion that he become patriarch of the Qiong Luo Race, and Dongguan took him to see World Lord Xia Lan.
• Dongguan introduced himself to World Lord Xia Ji as his nephew, then left the residence with his uncle so his parents could be together.
• Dongguan reflected on his distant relationship with his parents and decided to help them improve their cultivation.
• A pedestrian watched Dongguan leave and wondered how he could reverse death through the Dao of Cause and Effect.

Dongguan reunited with August Venerable, discussed his rapid rise and his plans to explore many cultivation paths, and prepared to enter seclusion. After Dongguan teleported away, Black Universe Founder appeared and extracted information about his Divine Kingdom coordinates.

• August Venerable praised Dongguan for becoming a Universe Venerable and offered him a chance to receive guidance from Original Ancestor.
• Dongguan told August Venerable he planned to study several laws and fusion laws rather than focus on a single path.
• Dongguan reflected on the growing distance between himself and his old acquaintances, then told August Venerable he planned to enter seclusion and refine his secret arts.
• Dongguan teleported away using Divine Kingdom Teleportation.
• Black Universe Founder appeared at the spot where Dongguan had vanished and extracted information about his Divine Kingdom coordinates.

Black Universe Founder investigated Dongguan’s expanding Divine Kingdom by sending a Divine Power Avatar inside. Dongguan tested the combined water-and-fire attack of Miantai and Xuyue, then offered to help them recover and grow in exchange for assisting his cultivation.

• Black Universe Founder marveled at Dongguan’s expanding Divine Kingdom and sent a concealed Divine Power Avatar into it to investigate.
• Dongguan had Miantai of the Sun Clan and Xuyue of the Taiyin Clan demonstrate the secret art they used upon entering the Origin World.
• Miantai and Xuyue combined ice and fire into a white-light attack that reached the King Rank limit before dissipating.
• Dongguan sensed a water-fire transformation into space in their attack and considered how it might aid his Law comprehension.
• Dongguan promised to restore Miantai and Xuyue with energy and eventually let them experience the outside world if they assisted his cultivation.

Leitia was approached by Black Universe Founder, who tempted her with the chance to leave Dongguan’s Divine Kingdom, and she chose not to tell Dongguan after he disappeared. Meanwhile, Dongguan continued cultivating and assessing his progress toward mastering the Origin Laws, leaving his breakthrough and Leitia’s future uncertain.

• Leitia sent her Zerg warriors into a Star World while she remained in the Void World, frustrated by her restricted and uneventful life.
• Black Universe Founder appeared, cut off Leitia’s communications, and asked whether she wanted to leave.
• Leitia questioned Black Universe Founder, who identified himself and warned her not to tell her “father” before vanishing.
• Leitia restored her communications but agonized over the encounter and ultimately did not notify Dongguan.
• Dongguan reviewed his progress in secret-pattern cultivation, the Origin Laws, combat techniques, and soul defense, but remained unable to fully comprehend the Space Law.

Dongguan wondered whether his Eye of Cause and Effect had limits, then answered the Ancestral God's summons to the Ancestral God Palace. There, he countered Blood Domain Divine General's attempt to embarrass him, while his breakthrough to Universe Venerable remained unconfirmed to the other guards.

• Dongguan reflected on the limits of his Eye of Cause and Effect and received a summons from the Ancestral God.
• Dongguan arrived at Purple Thorn Island wearing his completed Calamity-Flow Blacklight Set and Flowing Light Wings.
• The Ancestral God summoned Dongguan to the palace, and inheritors reported that the Insect-Hunting King had appeared on Purple Thorn Island.
• Blood Domain Divine General pressured Dongguan outside the palace, but Dongguan's control over space-time made him stumble.
• The Ancestral God dismissed Blood Domain Divine General from guard duty and sentenced him to ten thousand epochs of confinement.
• Dongguan entered the Ancestral God Palace, leaving the guards uncertain whether he had broken through or relied on another means.

Dongguan accepted the Two-Faced Ancestral God's mission to eliminate Myriad-Heart Man, whose Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon had summoned something dangerous to the universe. He traveled to the Congyun Secret Realm and followed a bundle of cause-and-effect threads, but the golden toad had not yet identified the target.

• The Two-Faced Ancestral God congratulated Dongguan on reaching Universe Venerable and offered him a mission tied to his Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God explained that Myriad-Heart Man had used a demon weapon to draw forth an evil threat and promised at least 300 Glory Points for eliminating him.
• Dongguan accepted the mission and received a token for contacting the Two-Faced Ancestral God and a golden toad that would glow red near Myriad-Heart Man.
• Dongguan traveled to the Congyun Secret Realm and arrived near the Heavenly Mulberry Continent, where he had left a Divine Kingdom Teleportation coordinate.
• Dongguan used his vertical eye to trace a bundle of cause-and-effect threads and teleported in their direction while the golden toad remained dormant.

Dongguan tracked Myriad-Heart Man to a Lingwu Race planet and destroyed the enormous sphere concealing him, but Myriad-Heart Man escaped death by an unknown method. Dongguan recovered the Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon and began searching the scattered fragments for him.

• Dongguan entered Lingwu Race territory and flew beneath a planet’s surface, following the golden toad’s signal to a bluish-purple sphere.
• Dongguan pierced the sphere with his spear, then used his Life-Slaying Blade to destroy it despite its powerful defenses and rapid regeneration.
• Dongguan found Myriad-Heart Man’s true body among the scattered fragments and struck him, but Myriad-Heart Man disintegrated into ash, leaving behind the Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon.
• Dongguan reported that the mission was complete, but the Ancestral God told him Myriad-Heart Man was still alive.
• Dongguan detected 231 similar causal lines and began clearing the fragments on the planet to find Myriad-Heart Man.

Dongguan hunted down the beings created from Myriad-Heart Man’s fused victims while they scattered across the Primal Universe, space interlayer, and Dark Universe. When Lingwu Lord confronted him over the destruction of a Lingwu Life Planet, Dongguan refused to stop and the two began fighting.

• Dongguan destroyed a Lingwu Life Planet while killing one of the maddened beings, then pursued the survivors through the space interlayer and the Primal Universe.
• Dongguan killed the beings one by one and used their causal lines to track the remaining seventy-nine, prioritizing those heading toward Machine Race territory.
• Lingwu Lord learned that a powerful being had caused the deaths of tens of millions of Lingwu and set out to confront him.
• Dongguan caught and killed another target near Machine Race territory, but Lingwu Lord arrived and locked down space to prevent his teleportation.
• Dongguan demanded that Lingwu Lord lift the lockdown, then drew his sword and charged as Lingwu Lord attacked with the High-grade Supreme Treasure Tungsten Gold.

Myriad-Heart Man entered Machine Race territory while seeking time to complete his transformation, unaware that Island Master Shihua was following him. Dongguan and Lingwu Lord ended their fight and pursued Myriad-Heart Man, who then encountered a Machine Race Immortal as Island Master Shihua watched.

• Myriad-Heart Man transformed into a golden humanoid and entered Machine Race territory to find an Immortal who could help him complete his initial transformation.
• Island Master Shihua followed Myriad-Heart Man after recognizing him as the source of an unusual aura.
• Dongguan fought Lingwu Lord, then explained that Myriad-Heart Man was rejected by the Universe Origin and that Lingwu Lord had sheltered him.
• Lingwu Lord lifted his Space Lockdown, and Dongguan teleported after Myriad-Heart Man while Lingwu Lord offered to carry him.
• Myriad-Heart Man encountered a Machine Race Immortal above a mineral planet, and Island Master Shihua watched their convergence.

Dongguan hunted the Myriad-Heart Man’s clones while investigating their strange connection to cause and effect, as Island Master Shihua observed one of them grafting causal lines onto itself. Dongguan remained blocked by a sealed region and faced the arrival of the Machine Race Universe Master Lord Xuxing.

• Dongguan reported his situation to the Ancestral God School and Human Race, then sent his Light Lord Clone to hunt the Myriad-Heart Man’s other clones.
• Dongguan entered the Tenth Outer Domain Battlefield, killed a crazed clone he found imprisoned in an Alien Race Immortal’s World Ring, and continued hunting the remaining targets.
• Island Master Shihua observed a golden figure transfer the Machine Race Immortal’s causal lines onto itself, leaving the Immortal increasingly empty of cause and effect.
• Dongguan found the route to his target blocked by Island Master Shihua’s sealed space-time, while Lingwu Lord could not break through it.
• Dongguan learned that another clone had entered the Eighth Battlefield and detected Lord Xuxing approaching.