Recaps

Dongguan and the other soldiers entered the second-floor endurance trial, where they had to survive attacks from a Secret Pattern Diagram and regenerating rock giants. Dongguan tested the attacks while conserving his divine power, and the duty-bound observer took special notice of him and Jueyuan.

• Jueyuan told Dongguan that he had reached the second floor after winning a fight against another soldier on the first floor, and Dongguan thanked him.
• A space-time vibration sent Dongguan, Jueyuan, and the other soldiers into their Small Worlds for the trial.
• Dongguan assessed the trial's emphasis on endurance and decided to conserve his divine power rather than use Divine Power Burning.
• Dongguan summoned his inner armor, Bloodfang Army armor, Azure Light Ghost, and sword, then deliberately took several attacks to measure their strength.
• The observer in God King Valley recalled that Dengsha had reported the Southern Army soldier Zehui and noted that Jueyuan was also on the list.

Dongguan used the trials’ attacks against one another, bringing their patterns closer to a self-sustaining cycle while conserving his divine power. His performance revealed that he had gained insight into the source of laws, leaving the four commanders astonished and debating which origin great dao he had touched.

• The Soul Screeches and Rock Giant Hands repeatedly caught the first group of five soldiers off guard, forcing them to burn more divine power and take attacks head-on.
• Dongguan guided the ancient Secret Pattern Diagram’s streaks of light into the Rock Giant’s attacks, gradually turning the trials’ variables into predictable constants and nearly eliminating his divine power expenditure.
• Dongguan observed that his three groupmates were struggling, while Jueyuan continued to hold on by burning divine power and rarely getting caught.
• The Two-Faced One-Eyed Exotic Beasts woke the other three commanders and showed them Dongguan’s performance on the screen.
• The commanders recognized that Dongguan had gained some insight into the source of laws, and the Blood-Armored Burly Man suspected it was connected to the origin great daos of cause and effect and immeasurability.

Dongguan used his understanding of the constant change origin to crack the Small World’s trials and recover his divine power while the commanders watched. He hoped to gain control of the Small World, though he sensed there was not enough time to fully achieve that goal.

• The Burly Man questioned the Two-Faced One-Eyed Exotic Beasts about Dengsha General’s request to track Dongguan, then ordered them to keep watching while he contacted Dengsha.
• The Yinjia Woman realized Dongguan was trying to crack the second-floor trial, and the commanders discussed his nerve and his connection to Dengsha General.
• A weakened soldier from the first batch was overwhelmed by the rock giant and the ancient Secret Pattern Diagram and died, while Dongguan watched from his Small World.
• Dongguan reentered the constant quantity network and used the constant change origin to interfere with the Small World’s trials.
• Dongguan absorbed energy from the rock giant through his Azure Greatsword, recovering the divine power he had spent as the other soldiers continued to weaken.

Dengsha General and the commanders learned that Dongguan came from the Universe Ocean and left his fate to the God King’s decision. Dongguan and the other survivors reached Wu Qi Tower’s third layer, where forty soldiers gathered and began a deadly trial.

• Dengsha General arrived at God King Valley’s third floor, and the commanders discussed Dongguan’s origins and agreed to let the God King decide how Jin World should treat him.
• Dongguan and three other survivors joined three soldiers who had passed earlier, bringing the number of people on the third layer to seven.
• Dongguan assessed the other survivors and remained in unusually good condition after strengthening his divine body and gaining insights in the second layer.
• Over roughly two and a half months, more batches arrived until forty soldiers gathered on the grassland.
• Wu Qi Tower’s voice warned that the first three layers held mortal danger, then began the third-layer trial.

Dongguan watched the soldiers battle for survival in Wu Qi Tower’s third layer while the enormous eye unleashed an escalating Will Impact. Confident he faced no danger, he studied the eye’s secret technique as the fight continued around him.

• Gold Fiend weakened a three-horned, scaled exotic beast and sent it toward Flying Rabbit, who killed it and collected its Mechanical Flow Treasure and other items.
• A silver-armored soldier attacked Flying Rabbit, while other soldiers in poor condition fled and Gold Fiend joined two others to form Gold Wood Thunder Fiend.
• The enormous eye poured down golden light, imposing a Will Impact that halted the fighting before some soldiers resumed attacking.
• Dongguan observed that the eye’s power resembled a simplified Divine Eye Secret Technique and began comprehending it as fewer than thirty soldiers remained.

Dongguan studied True God flesh and his unstable overlimit flesh, finding that his research into life had diverged from Luo Feng’s path toward matter. Troubled by how unconscious limit-transcending matter might acquire consciousness, he decided to visit Earth to investigate the origins of life.

• Dongguan analyzed samples from Jin World and theorized that a True God’s miniature universe was its actual body.
• Comparing his research with Luo Feng’s, Dongguan realized his own path had shifted from studying life toward studying matter.
• Dongguan examined overlimit flesh that exceeded 10,081 times the gene level but could not sustain itself without constant external support.
• Dongguan questioned whether studying World Beast genes could truly let him reach the hundred-thousand-times gene level.
• Dongguan recalled theories about the origins of life on Earth and wondered how unconscious limit-transcending matter could gain consciousness.
• Dongguan decided to visit Earth to investigate the origin of life.

Dongguan investigated the origins of life on Earth and other planets, then gave an eye to a piece of limit-transcending flesh so it could perceive the world. In Jin World, he endured the Sky Giant Eye’s will pressure until a body exploded, leaving fifteen soldiers and a new insight about eyes and will.

• Dongguan reversed time and space around Earth to study the birth of life, while Luo Feng watched and pondered Dongguan’s words about life’s origin.
• Dongguan classified Aboriginal Planets as Native or Pseudo-Native and concluded that Earth’s life evolved there despite the planet’s history of outside influence and modification.
• In his Divine Kingdom, Dongguan formed an eye on the transparent flesh and gave it the ability to perceive light; the eye showed a flicker of animation.
• In the third layer of Wu Qi Tower, Dongguan held the Sky Giant Eye’s will pressure until one body exploded and the pressure vanished, leaving fifteen soldiers wary of him.
• Dongguan looked up at the Sky Giant Eye and realized that eyes were channels for transmitting will.

Dongguan used his advantage in resisting the Sky Giant Eye’s will pressure to collect the soldiers’ treasures while deciding who would survive the trial. After sharing a method to resist the pressure, he continued toward the remaining soldiers, racing against the growing impact.

• The Four Great Commanders of God King Valley and Dengsha General watched Dongguan’s progress and discussed his strength as an outsider.
• When the will pressure left only twenty soldiers, Dongguan began moving freely and could choose who would be eliminated.
• Gold Fiend offered his treasures as a ransom, and Dongguan took them without killing him.
• Dongguan collected treasures from the other soldiers, who surrendered their possessions to avoid becoming his targets.
• A soldier unable to withstand the pressure was annihilated by the Sky Giant Eye, and Dongguan took the scattered treasures.
• Dongguan transmitted a method for resisting the Sky Giant Eye’s pressure to all the soldiers, then continued toward his next target.

Dongguan endured the Third Layer’s trial and taught the soldiers ways to resist the giant eye’s Will Impact while probing the eye’s nature. The trial ended with fifteen soldiers advancing to the next layer, and Dongguan began to suspect his path was rooted in perception.

• Dongguan collected Jueyuan’s treasures, and Jueyuan told him they were still friends.
• As the soldiers struggled against the giant eye’s Will Impact, Dongguan shared new techniques he had learned while studying it.
• Three soldiers died when purple beams descended, and Dongguan sensed a hollowness in the eye with his Spirit Eye.
• Dongguan realized perception might be his core strength and connected the eye’s nature to his difficulty completing the Rhino Emperor Game’s 10,081st configuration.
• A soldier burned through his divine power while trying to break through his will and vanished, leaving fifteen soldiers alive.
• The giant eye disappeared, and fifteen pillars of light carried the remaining soldiers to the next layer.

Dongguan and the other surviving soldiers chose among four reward passages on Wu Qi Tower’s fourth layer. Dongguan entered the divine power True God Path and advanced through its first test, while the commanders watched and discussed his prospects.

• The aged voice explained the four passages and warned the soldiers that they could choose only one, with their gains determining whether they could enter the fifth layer.
• Dongguan chose the black passage, the divine power True God Path, and the other fourteen soldiers followed with their own choices; nine chose a True God Path.
• The Four Great Commanders and the Southern Army General observed the choices and discussed Dongguan’s progress and the difficulty of reaching the God King’s required divine power level.
• Dongguan studied Life Structure Diagrams in the passage, completed the diagram on a wooden door, and was enveloped in blue-green light as he entered the next stage.

Dongguan struggled to break through the 60,000-times life gene bottleneck in Wu Qi Tower and ultimately transformed his human main body, while his Light Lord Clone could not follow. He left the passage aware that his breakthrough remained incomplete and that he still lacked the insight needed to advance safely.

• Dongguan replenished his divine power, studied the life structure diagrams beyond the first wooden door, and passed through the second wooden door into diagrams ranging up to 60,000 times.
• In Dongguan Divine Kingdom, Dongguan used more than nine thousand thinking avatars and accelerated time to research his life gene structure, gradually reaching 59,999 times.
• After thousands of years stuck at the final diagram, Dongguan replicated it piece by piece in his mental space and gained a holistic insight that let his human main body transform to 60,000 times and grow nearly a hundred million kilometers tall.
• Dongguan's Light Lord Clone failed to break through because it was an energy lifeform, remaining at 59,999 times with a divine body nearly a million kilometers tall.
• Dongguan recognized that his main body's breakthrough lacked true insight and might pose hidden dangers if he advanced to True God, then walked toward the wooden door at the end of the passage.

Dongguan reached the fifth level of Wu Qi Tower, where a white-robed man challenged him to a saber duel. He began adapting his techniques to counter the opponent’s powerful attacks.

• Dongguan completed the fourth layer and was teleported directly to the fifth level, skipping the passage beyond the fourth layer.
• Dengsha General deduced that Dongguan had reached sixty thousand times his life gene multiplier, and the commanders watched to see how far he would advance.
• A white-robed man told Dongguan that he had to defeat him using saber techniques to enter the sixth level.
• Dongguan drew a silver saber and countered the white-robed man’s Light Law attack with an improvised technique, but his first slash was weaker than the opponent’s.
• Dongguan used Light-Time Fusion and then imitated the opponent’s thunder and light saber strikes, managing to withstand the white-robed man’s second attack.

Dongguan fought the white-robed man in Wu Qi Tower and honed his secret art, “Years,” until he broke through to defeat him. The observers questioned Dongguan’s origins and potential as he prepared to enter the next floor.

• Dongguan fought the white-robed man through hundreds of saber exchanges, gradually matching his techniques and refining his own.
• Dongguan realized how deeply he needed a truly even battle and used the fight to sharpen “Years” to Peak Seventh Order.
• The Four Great Commanders and Dengsha General discussed Dongguan’s extraordinary comprehension and wondered whether he was a hidden prodigy from the Origin Continent.
• A black-lit figure on Wu Qi Tower’s ninth floor wondered whether Dongguan could inherit the Lie Yuan Technique.
• Dongguan’s “Years” broke through during the white-robed man’s 450th slash, wearing him down until he conceded and vanished.
• Dongguan put away his black saber and waited to enter the next floor, reflecting that the test had measured mastery of laws rather than weapon choice.

Dongguan faced the Thousand-Eyed Exotic Beast on the sixth layer of Wu Qi Tower, where he had to survive its overwhelming blade array. He exploited his movement technique and the beast’s ultimate attack to land a strike and pass, then was transported to the seventh layer.

• The Thousand-Eyed Exotic Beast formed a thousand black war blades and drove Dongguan back with their Tier 10 power.
• Dongguan used his layered defenses and Yin-Yang movement technique to evade the blades while gradually closing in.
• The Thousand-Eyed Exotic Beast linked the blades together to resist Dongguan’s interference, then activated Thousand-Eyed Heart Light as Dongguan altered the ground beneath him.
• Dongguan’s prepared deflection turned the blade array toward the Thousand-Eyed Exotic Beast, and he struck the beast and tore away a piece of its skin.
• The Thousand-Eyed Exotic Beast declared Dongguan had passed, and a pillar of light transported him to the seventh layer.

Lord Mu Lan discovered that the Azure Pattern Stone Pillar could transport him after it consumed his divine power, and he decided to inform humanity in hopes of trading the discovery for information about Jin World. Giant Axe Founder began arranging a response, then learned of Dongguan’s actions.

• Lord Mu Lan examined the Azure Pattern Stone Pillar and found a circular pattern that appeared to be a node.
• Lord Mu Lan poured divine power into the pattern, severed his arm to escape its suction, and was engulfed by azure light.
• Lord Mu Lan reappeared as the pillar’s mark faded, then decided to report the discovery to humanity and seek information about Jin World.
• Giant Axe Founder received Lord Mu Lan’s message and judged that the discovery might open a new region of Universe Boat.
• Giant Axe Founder chose to pursue exploration of the pillar region alongside Jin World and connected to the Virtual Universe to contact the others.
• Giant Axe Founder learned about some of Dongguan’s actions after connecting to the Virtual Universe.

Dongguan and Giant Axe Founder tested whether a token could interfere with Yin Tuo’s soul enslavement, revealing that a false soul command could make a soul slave hesitate. After completing his efforts to reclaim his soul slaves, Dongguan prepared to advance to the fifth level of Wu Qi Tower.

• Yin Tuo entered Giant Axe Miniature Universe and was bound by chains as Giant Axe Founder and Dongguan observed him.
• Giant Axe Founder used a token to issue a command that made Yin Tuo hesitate, while Dongguan ordered him not to resist.
• Dongguan loosened Yin Tuo’s restraints and told him to struggle, then tested whether another command would interrupt his resistance.
• Yin Tuo realized that he still felt an urge to resist, and the chains tightened as Giant Axe Founder’s miniature universe sealed him again.
• Dongguan explained that Yin Tuo was his last soul slave and that he was trying to reclaim his share of soul power before a trial concerning willpower.
• Dongguan finished reclaiming his soul slaves and decided to head to the fifth level after his main body had studied the fourth layer’s final image for two thousand years.

Giant Axe Founder revealed the Human Race’s discovery of the Hyperspace Domain in Universe Boat, a space that could aid the creation of space-based secret arts but consumed enormous energy. After the meeting, Dongguan shared details of the Title Mission with Luo Feng, who had also applied to attempt it.

• Giant Axe Founder told the Universe Masters about the Hyperspace Domain and asked Luo Feng to look for related information in the Duan Donghe Inheritance.
• The Universe Masters learned how Giant Axe Founder and Lord Mu Lan had explored the damaged Bluestone Space and discussed its uses and costs.
• Giant Axe Founder invited the Universe Masters to explore the Hyperspace Domain when they were not exploring Pu World.
• Dongguan told Luo Feng that he had applied for the Title Mission, and Luo Feng said he had applied too.
• Dongguan shared information about the Title Mission’s first layer, while privately accepting that pursuing the Lie Yuan Technique could still carry a risk of death.

Dongguan endured the escalating will impact on Wu Qi Tower’s seventh layer while recording the Divine Eye Secret Technique and developing ways to resist it. As the sixth volume began to appear and the pressure exceeded his will’s strength, he turned to the True Explanation of Comprehension for help.

• Dongguan reached the seventh layer, resisted the eye’s will impact, and began recording the first volume of the Divine Eye Secret Technique.
• As the impact strengthened, Dongguan recorded the second volume while his avatar in the Primal Universe studied and practiced the technique under Time Acceleration.
• The commanders watching the screen discussed how far Dongguan might endure, and Dengsha General withheld the secret of Dongguan’s formless soul.
• Dongguan recorded the fourth volume and realized the accelerating impact might prevent him from reaching the sixth volume, as Luo Feng had in the original work.
• When the sixth volume began appearing and the impact exceeded his limit, Dongguan opened the True Explanation of Comprehension in his mental space.

Dongguan endured the Divine Eye Secret Technique’s Will Impact while studying the True Explanation of Comprehension and finally found a way to last longer by focusing on Hunyuan Vision. His willpower began to approach a breakthrough as the seventh volume appeared.

• Dengsha General told the Stout Male Commander that His Majesty the God King had likely left all nine volumes of the Divine Eye Secret Technique in Wu Qi Tower.
• The Black Mist Commander sensed that Dongguan seemed hollow as he continued enduring the Will Impact.
• Dongguan reflected on how he had solved all 10,080 Rhino Emperor Game configurations but had not yet constructed his own game.
• After completing the sixth volume, Dongguan realized he could endure longer by using Hunyuan Vision to create an information impact that diluted the Will Impact.
• Dongguan focused solely on Hunyuan Vision, and his willpower began to approach a breakthrough.

Dongguan recorded the seventh through ninth layers of the Divine Eye Secret Technique after briefly entering a dangerous state of heightened perception. On the Eighth Layer, he learned that mastering the secret technique revealed in the void was the final challenge of the Title Mission, with failure erasing his memories and ejecting him from Wu Qi Tower.

• The commanders saw the ninth layer of the Divine Eye Secret Technique appear and wondered why Dongguan had not been teleported, while the God King of Jin watched with anticipation that he might obtain the Lie Yuan Technique.
• Dongguan broke free from his transcendent perception before it overwhelmed him, recorded the seventh, eighth, and ninth volumes, and was transported to the Eighth Layer.
• Dongguan recovered from his dazed state, reflected on the danger of dissolving into the Dao, and resolved to keep cultivating despite having experienced the state.
• Dongguan read that mastering the secret technique in the void was the final Title Mission challenge, while failure would erase his memories and send him out of Wu Qi Tower.
• Dongguan began studying the star-like characters spread across the void.

Dongguan entered the Scroll World after imprinting a character from the Lie Yuan Technique and met the Secret Technique Spirit, who explained the Na Yin Secret Technique. After memorizing one scroll, Dongguan questioned the spirit about its existence and what would happen if the technique gained an owner.

• Dongguan imprinted a character in his mental space and was pulled into the Scroll World in less than ten minutes.
• Dongguan entered a purple-glowing palace, where the Secret Technique Spirit appeared and revealed four scrolls containing the Na Yin Secret Technique.
• Dongguan memorized the visible characters on one scroll but chose to speak with the Secret Technique Spirit instead of immediately attempting the secret technique.
• The Secret Technique Spirit warned Dongguan that failure would erase his memories, while success would make the spirit disappear.
• Dongguan asked whether the Secret Technique Spirit was afraid of disappearing and whether it counted as a living being.

Dongguan practiced the Na Yin Secret Technique in the Eighth Layer of Wu Qi Tower while his Will Impact advanced into the second tier. He failed at the end of that stage without entering the third, leaving the Secret Technique Spirit and the God King of Pu uncertain about what had happened and how to treat him.

• After discussing the meaning of life with the Secret Technique Spirit, Dongguan began practicing the Na Yin Secret Technique.
• Dongguan’s Light Lord Clone practiced alongside his original body as his Divine Kingdom continued expanding.
• Nearly a thousand years later, the God King of Pu observed Dongguan’s Will Impact reach the second tier.
• Dongguan failed at the very end of the second stage and opened his eyes without leaving the Secret Technique Space.
• The Secret Technique Spirit wondered whether Dongguan could reach the third tier, while the God King of Pu considered what to do with the outsider.

Yuan noticed that the Lie Yuan Technique had mistakenly expelled Dongguan and gave him another chance to try the inheritance. Meanwhile, Wuyin and his counterpart continued sealing Tamos, while Dongguan recovered his erased memories and resumed recording the technique in Wu Qi Tower as the God King of Pu watched.

• Yuan traced the Lie Yuan Technique’s mistaken judgment to Dongguan’s opportunity involving a Hunyuan Bloodline and allowed him to attempt the inheritance again.
• Wuyin and his bald, white-robed counterpart repaired the ring containing Tamos and added secret patterns to it.
• Tamos speculated about Wuyin’s motives and kept a hidden contingency for his resurrection.
• Dongguan recovered his erased Scroll World memories from his mental space and continued recording the Lie Yuan Technique in Wu Qi Tower.
• The God King of Pu watched Dongguan persist and decided to wait before acting.

Dongguan reached the Ninth Layer of Wu Qi Tower despite failing the Eighth Layer, where the virtual consciousness of the God King of Jin demanded an oath of allegiance. Dongguan insisted the oath be an exchange rather than servitude, and the God King of Jin invited him to state his demands.

• Dongguan recalled refusing to enter the Scroll World after failing the Eighth Layer, then arriving on the Ninth Layer when a pillar of light appeared.
• The God King of Jin explained that Dongguan had not passed the Eighth Layer or earned a title, but had been brought there so they could meet.
• The God King of Jin revealed that outsiders had to swear an oath to guarantee their allegiance, while natives of Jin World were naturally loyal to him.
• Dongguan asked what he would receive, and the God King of Jin warned that he could kill him before his clones or body could react.
• Dongguan said he would swear only as part of an exchange, not as a servant, and the God King of Jin told him to state his demands.

Dongguan negotiated with the God King of Jin over the price of a Soul Oath, seeking the rights and support he believed should come with his responsibility to fight the World Beast Calamity. The God King refused to grant him a title without meeting its requirements, and Dongguan was transported out before learning what else he could offer.

• Dongguan asked for the treatment an outsider would normally receive, arguing that a Soul Oath should come with corresponding rights.
• The God King of Jin explained that Dongguan could not receive a title without meeting one of three requirements, and Dongguan admitted he could not solve 10,081 Rhino Emperor Game boards in succession.
• Dongguan asked what oath the God King wanted, and the God King required him to do everything in his power to kill three peak beings if he became a God King.
• Dongguan asked what the God King could offer, but a pillar of light transported him out of Wu Qi Tower before the God King finished answering.
• The guards saw Dongguan emerge and then watched five figures arrive, but they received no notification that he had completed the title mission.