Chapter Summaries

Dongguan attempted the Universe Heavenly Bridge for the first time and rapidly cleared its first fourteen floors by studying and adapting to his opponents’ techniques. He reached the fifteenth floor as Guardian Bafen informed Luo Feng and Zhang Gui of his progress.

• Dongguan arrived at the Tongtian Bridge Plane, met Guardian Bafen, and learned that the Universe Heavenly Bridge had thirty floors.
• Zhang Gui attempted the Long Xing Heavenly Bridge while Luo Feng waited with Dongguan; Guardian Bafen told Dongguan that Zhang Gui had cleared the eighth floor on his previous attempt.
• Dongguan began his first attempt on the Universe Heavenly Bridge, chose different opponent styles on the early floors, and defeated them while earning first-attempt bonus points.
• Dongguan cleared the tenth through twelfth floors, studying the opponents’ use of time and space laws, then defeated the Thirteenth Floor opponent by adapting the Doomsday technique.
• After Guardian Bafen reported that Dongguan had passed the Thirteenth Floor, Dongguan cleared the Fourteenth Floor and advanced to face the opponent on the Fifteenth Floor.

Dongguan passed the sixteenth floor of the Heavenly Bridge by defeating a golden-armored opponent with his light-time fusion law, then began the seventeenth-floor challenge. As Immortals gathered to watch, his opponent unleashed a vastly stronger attack, and the chapter ended with Dongguan facing it.

• Dongguan reflected on his shortcomings in space-law comprehension, then challenged and passed the sixteenth floor using his light-time fusion law to break through ten layers of his opponent’s space-time domain.
• Guardian Bafen summoned over a hundred Immortals to watch Dongguan’s progress, and they reacted with astonishment when they learned he had cleared the sixteenth floor on his first attempt.
• True Yan King explained to Luo Feng and Zhang Gui that the seventeenth floor lay in the middle layer of a neutron star, and identified Dongguan’s technique as the light-time fusion law.
• Dongguan faced a golden-clad opponent on the seventeenth floor, who unleashed Primordial Beginning with immense gravitational force, while Dongguan transformed into a Beast God and rode the turbulent space-time currents.

Dongguan passed the seventeenth floor of the Heavenly Bridge after discovering a way to exploit gaps in his opponent’s gravitational domain, then failed his attempt at the eighteenth. His achievement drew August Venerable’s praise and prompted a faction in the Desolate Universe Country to investigate his origins and connection to Meiya.

• August Venerable arrived at the Tongtian Bridge Plane and watched Dongguan battle the seventeenth-floor guardian, while other observers doubted Dongguan could win.
• Dongguan analyzed the guardian’s 10,081 gravitational sources, found openings in their arrangement, and killed him with a surprise attack to pass the seventeenth floor.
• Dongguan reached the eighteenth floor and tried his own Grand Primordial technique, but the guardian overwhelmed him and killed him.
• August Venerable praised Dongguan’s performance and said he looked forward to the day Dongguan could stand beside him as a powerhouse.
• A faction in the Desolate Universe Country investigated Dongguan’s background, learned of his connections to Luo Feng and Meiya, and reported the discovery to its superiors.

Dongguan planned to cultivate laws, improve his soul amplitude, and develop secret arts, then consulted August Venerable about manuals and training. He began absorbing Chaos True Spirits outside Chaos City while studying the Initial Universe’s secret patterns.

• Dongguan reviewed his cultivation priorities, decided to practice the Formless Soul-Refining Secret Manual, and browsed manuals and information about King Mieye Kuiwu in the Virtual Universe.
• August Venerable advised Dongguan to save Chaos Stele manuals for later, offered filtered spatial secret arts from the tower, and arranged opponents to help him improve his secret arts.
• Dongguan went beyond Chaos City and killed thousands of chaos beasts, absorbing the Chaos True Spirits released from their bodies.
• Dongguan considered whether chaos beasts could inspire life created by his Light Lord Clone’s Dark Lord form, then opened his Secret Pattern Eye to record deeper patterns while his Light Lord studied secret arts under time acceleration.

Dongguan studied the Initial Universe’s manifested laws and recorded their secret patterns while training against opponents chosen by August Venerable. The Chaos City Lord suspected Dongguan possessed a Light Lord clone and began reversing time on Earth to investigate the planet’s secrets.

• Dongguan examined the secret patterns around a spatial rift and copied them with his Secret Pattern Eye.
• Dongguan defeated sixteen opponents in the Virtual Universe, then fought a Space-Time Demon Beast as August Venerable watched and prepared more challenges.
• The Chaos City Lord summoned August Venerable and asked about Dongguan’s background, recent progress, and identity.
• The Chaos City Lord explained that Dongguan might have a Light Lord clone, whose innate ability could account for his rapid cultivation.
• The Chaos City Lord began reversing time around Earth while August Venerable watched the events unfold through a Virtual Universe screen.

Chaos City Lord reversed time to investigate Earth’s secrets but stopped when the strain became too great, then asked Giant Axe Founder to examine them. Meanwhile, Dongguan studied Chaos Beasts in the Initial Universe and was summoned to meet Chaos City Lord, while Giant Axe postponed the Earth investigation to visit a hidden site in the Tilted Peak Realm.

• Chaos City Lord retraced Earth’s history and learned that Dongguan knew about the Reincarnation Passage, but he found no secret at Earth’s formation and stopped when further investigation threatened to consume too much of his divine body.
• Dongguan examined Chaos Beasts, observed their secret patterns and ability to absorb chaotic currents, then received an email summoning him to Chaos City.
• Chaos City Lord asked Giant Axe Founder to investigate Earth, and Giant Axe explained that he was preparing to help Lord Youhou explore a hidden site in the Tilted Peak Realm.
• Lord Youhou revealed that the site might contain traces left by an ancient axe specialist, and warned that Lord Anyong was nearby.
• Chaos City Lord told Giant Axe Founder and Lord Youhou about Dongguan and Earth, but agreed to postpone investigating Earth until Giant Axe returned from the site.

Dongguan met with the Chaos City Lord, who questioned him about his Light Lord clone and Earth’s secrets. Dongguan agreed to share what he knew only if Luo Feng was present, and the Chaos City Lord summoned Luo Feng.

• Dongguan entered the City Lord’s Mansion, leaving Hanlei astonished when he learned Dongguan had been summoned to the Inner Mansion.
• The Chaos City Lord questioned Dongguan about whether he was human and how he had obtained the soulless Light Lord as a clone.
• Dongguan explained that he had failed to possess the Light Lord and had instead received the clone after resonating with a Primordial Embryo Stone.
• The Chaos City Lord asked Dongguan about Earth’s secrets, and Dongguan said he would share what he knew if Luo Feng joined them.
• The Chaos City Lord agreed to summon Luo Feng, who received the message while studying the Seven Transformations of the Derivative God.

Dongguan revealed his suspicions about Earth’s unusual qualities and its connection to the Yan God Race to Luo Feng and Chaos City Lord. Chaos City Lord agreed to protect Earth’s secrets for twenty epochs, giving Dongguan and Luo Feng time to grow strong enough to safeguard it.

• Dongguan asked Chaos City Lord about Primordial Embryo Stones, and Chaos City Lord explained their rarity before telling him to call him martial uncle.
• At Chaos City Lord’s request, Dongguan told Luo Feng about his unusual birth, his suspicions about Earth, and his belief that Earthlings had exceptional souls and comprehension.
• Dongguan revealed that Earth seemed connected to the Yan God Race, and Chaos City Lord reassured Luo Feng that those ties alone did not threaten humanity.
• Dongguan asked Chaos City Lord to keep Earth’s secrets private for twenty epochs, then began explaining the connection through the Origin Continent, but the universe’s rules blocked his words.
• Chaos City Lord agreed to protect Earth and its secrets until two hundred thousand years later, urging Dongguan and Luo Feng to reach Universe Venerable strength within that time.

Dongguan warned Luo Feng that Earth’s secret could put their promise from the Chaos City Lord at risk, then examined Luo Feng’s Black Metal Plate and offered to help locate its counterparts. Hong cleared the Illusion Sea’s twenty-first layer at Universe Level, while King Huozhen returned from prison and set out to pursue clues to the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron.

• Dongguan cautioned Luo Feng to grow stronger in case the Human Race broke its promise over Earth, and he studied Luo Feng’s Black Metal Plate, agreeing to examine any other plates Luo Feng found.
• The Chaos City Lord considered Luo Feng’s Black Metal Plate an individual inheritance and decided to nurture Luo Feng rather than seize it.
• After Ji Qing rejected him for the sake of her cultivation, Hong challenged the Illusion Sea and cleared its twenty-first layer, drawing the attention of the Giant Axe Arena’s highest ranks.
• A hundred and fifty years passed as Dongguan and Luo Feng continued cultivating, while the Giant Axe Founder investigated a secret location in the Universe Ocean.
• King Huozhen questioned King Mieye about Dongguan and the Qiong Luo Race, failed again to imprint the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron’s Cauldron Pearl, and took King Mieye to pursue clues in the Wulong Starfield and Outer Domain Battlefield.

King Huozhen received the supplies he had requested and was asked by Demon Candle King to report Luo Feng’s whereabouts if he encountered him on the Outer Domain Battlefield. Dongguan returned to Chaos City after gathering secret patterns, created a pinnacle technique in the Virtual Universe, and named it “Collection in the Well” before preparing to leave the Initial Universe.

• Yinge King handed King Huozhen a World Ring, and Demon Candle King asked him to send word if he learned Luo Feng’s whereabouts.
• King Huozhen later searched battlefield intelligence for valuable targets and studied records of Luo Feng and other members of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire.
• Dongguan returned to Chaos City after accumulating secret patterns and planned to change how he used his Human Main Body and Light Lord Clone while cultivating.
• Dongguan defeated a World Tree opponent in the Virtual Universe by combining Yin-Yang, Years, and Grand Primordial into a pinnacle technique.
• August Venerable praised Dongguan’s achievement and discussed his plans to leave the Initial Universe for the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• Dongguan named his collection of techniques “Collection in the Well,” explaining that each wider world was like a larger well to enter and eventually escape.

Dongguan returned to study the Universe Chaos Stele after years of strengthening his law comprehension, soul, and secret-pattern collections. During his study, he unexpectedly discovered a method to fuse all six complete Light-Time Beast God diagrams, gaining a new Venerable-level secret art, then focused again on the Chaos Stele.

• Dongguan arrived at the City Lord's Mansion for his second Chaos Stele study session in over five hundred years, and Venerable Kandri noticed his strengthened aura.
• Dongguan used the seven-hundred-day session to study the Chaos Stele while his consciousness also refined his law universe, soul cultivation, and secret-pattern collections.
• As Dongguan studied the seventh diagram, his six complete Light-Time Beast God secret pattern diagrams fused into a new large diagram and then returned to their original forms.
• Dongguan realized that the fusion had revealed a fifth-stage method of the Eight Methods of Pursuing the World and a new Universe Venerable-level secret art.
• Dongguan resisted the urge to test the secret art and returned his attention to the Chaos Stele's first six diagrams.

Dongguan comprehended Time Acceleration and gained recognition from the Time Origin Law, drawing attention across Chaos City. After another three hundred years of cultivation, he told Luo Feng and Zhang Gui that he planned to leave Chaos City, then went to challenge the Heavenly Bridge.

• Dongguan created the escape secret art Long Rainbow after studying the Chaos Stele, then spent three hundred years cultivating and using ten more Chaos Stele sessions.
• Dongguan completed one of the three major parts of the Time Law and gained recognition from the Time Origin Law, astonishing cultivators across Chaos City.
• Dongguan’s Light Lord Clone revealed that he had fully comprehended Time Acceleration and tested its tremendous speed and energy cost.
• Three hundred years later, Zhang Gui reported clearing the twelfth Heavenly Bridge layer, and Luo Feng said he had become the Chaos City Lord’s direct disciple.
• Dongguan told Luo Feng and Zhang Gui that he had used all his Chaos Stele sessions and intended to leave Chaos City; at Luo Feng’s suggestion, the three went to challenge the Heavenly Bridge.

Dongguan cleared levels 18, 19, and 20 of the Universe Heavenly Bridge, defeating increasingly powerful opponents with his mastery of time and space and a fusion-law technique. He reached level 21, where he faced a black-robed warrior, while Luo Feng and Guardian Bafen discussed the significance of Dongguan’s progress.

• Dongguan defeated the level 18 Controller by combining his gravity sources into a black hole, then Guardian Bafen explained that level 20 required strength in both time and space or another trump card.
• Dongguan cleared level 19 by using time acceleration to restrain the warrior guardian and collapsing his gravity sources into a black hole before finishing him with his saber.
• Dongguan defeated the level 20 Controller by using the fusion-law move Long Rainbow to evade the guardian’s black holes and strike him down.
• Guardian Bafen, Luo Feng, and Zhang Gui reacted to Dongguan’s clear, and Bafen said he could likely clear the World Lord Level Original Tongtian Mountain.
• Dongguan continued to level 21, where he chose equal emphasis and faced a black-robed warrior as Luo Feng said he viewed the Alien Race as trials to hone himself.

Dongguan failed to pass the Universe Heavenly Bridge’s 21st level, then challenged the World Lord Level Original Tongtian Mountain. He defeated its guardians at the foot, halfway up, and summit, leaving Chaos City after conquering the mountain.

• Dongguan challenged the Universe Heavenly Bridge’s 21st level with his Space-Time Fusion Law, but the guardian stopped him with a Time Stop attack.
• Guardian Bafen explained the unusual equal-weight path of the Universe Heavenly Bridge’s 21st level while Luo Feng chose to challenge the Nine Universes Heavenly Bridge.
• Dongguan reached the World Lord Level Original Tongtian Mountain and defeated the Snake Woman, apeman, and minotaur at its foot.
• Dongguan won the battle halfway up the mountain and continued to the summit.
• Dongguan used Thousand-Leaf Grass and his Fusion Law to defeat the three summit guardians, passing the World Lord Level Original Tongtian Mountain.

Dongguan completed his final studies of the Chaos Stele, comprehending Time Deceleration but not teleportation, and prepared to leave Chaos City for the Outer Domain Battlefield. Before departing, he met Luo Feng and Zhang Gui, gave Zhang Gui a billion points and a warning, and told August Venerable he planned to visit the Space Tower to improve his space-law comprehension.

• Dongguan reviewed his combat system, purchased cultivation manuals and equipment, and spent fifty years studying the seventh and eighth volumes of Origin of the Universe.
• After two hundred more years in Chaos City, Dongguan used his three remaining Chaos Stele study sessions, failed to comprehend teleportation, and mastered Time Deceleration.
• Dongguan met Luo Feng and Zhang Gui, learned their plans, and transferred Zhang Gui a billion points while warning him never to become a soul slave.
• Dongguan left Chaos City aboard a spaceship and told August Venerable he planned to visit the Dry Witch Universe Country, the Guchen Universe Country, and August Planet before heading to the Outer Domain Battlefield.
• August Venerable told Dongguan that Zhang Yu had reached Domain Lord peak and was developing a potion to break through to World Lord; Dongguan said he planned to study at the Space Tower to advance his space law.

King Huozhen learned that Dongguan was connected to the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron and survived King Feiliu’s ambush, then returned to plotting against him. Dongguan sensed King Huozhen’s interest in meeting, while King Ganzhen felt an unexplained warning and grew wary.

• King Huozhen attacked King Chixin for the Machine Race’s wealth, then paused to hear information about a spaceship and the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron.
• King Feiliu arrived and rescued King Chixin; after King Chixin revealed Dongguan’s identity, she struck King Huozhen with God-Slaying Annihilation Light, but King Mieye escaped with him.
• King Huozhen recovered after losing 71% of his divine body and identified Dongguan as the peerless genius he had been seeking, then considered how to deal with him.
• Dongguan returned to the Primal Universe, learned that King Huozhen wanted to meet him, and used the Eye of Cause and Effect to reveal a black-and-red causal line.
• King Ganzhen felt a sudden palpitation linked to Dongguan and became wary, while King Huozhen agreed to meet Dongguan and hinted at a threat if he refused.

Dongguan rejected King Huozhen’s offer to settle their grievances because he distrusted him, refused to reveal the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron, and still wanted vengeance. After returning to August Planet, Dongguan heard reports about his family’s growth and learned that family members had been hunted for bloodline potions; he warned Zhang Yu not to return to Earth yet.

• Dongguan met King Huozhen in the Virtual Universe, and Huozhen’s offer of money for an oath led him to suspect Dongguan had the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron.
• King Huozhen proposed borrowing the cauldron and returning its pearl, promising witnesses and a resurrection quota for Dongguan’s father, but Dongguan denied possessing it and teleported away.
• Aboard the Qiongluo Ship, Dongguan decided he could not trust Huozhen or forgive him for the deaths of his parents and clanspeople.
• At August Planet, Zhang Yu reported that Dongguan’s family had grown to more than thirty thousand members, including over three hundred Universe Levels and two World Lords.
• Zhang Yu and Youyue reported problems facing the family, including members being captured in the Chaotic Star Domain for bloodline potions.
• Zhang Yu said she wanted to return to Earth, but Dongguan told her to wait because the trip might be unsafe after his meeting with Huozhen.

Dongguan gave Youyue and Zhang Yu biological factories, secret-pattern materials, and Formless Runes to help Guanjie Company expand beyond its current limits. He then visited August Venerable and learned that his teacher had expanded the Space Tower to 899 floors, while August Venerable remained troubled by his own stalled cultivation.

• Youyue reported that Guanjie Company had grown across Guchen Universe Country but faced technological and competitive restrictions.
• Dongguan brought Youyue and Zhang Yu into his World Ring and showed them 512 biological factories capable of producing runes.
• Dongguan gave them secret-pattern displays and Formless Runes, and told Youyue to expand Guanjie Company throughout all 1,008 Human Territory Universe Countries.
• Dongguan told Youyue and Zhang Yu that he would head to the Outer Domain Battlefield after visiting August Venerable.
• Dongguan discovered that August Venerable had raised the Space Tower from 682 to 899 floors to help him seek inspiration for Space Law.
• After Dongguan left for the Secret Art Tower, August Venerable reflected on his long failure to advance his cultivation.

Dongguan studied the Space Tower in August City and gained recognition from the Space Origin Law, joining his existing recognition of the Light and Time Origin Laws. After hiding the new marks, he returned to the Heaven and Earth Flower’s Divine Kingdom and considered his next steps, including confronting King Huozhen and visiting Earth.

• Dongguan met Blood-Killing Marquis, who apologized for the past and gave him the imprisoned Yan Jianxiao; Dongguan erased Yan Jianxiao’s soul.
• Dongguan climbed the Space Tower, studied its secret patterns, and spent a year working toward mastery of the Space Law.
• On the 899th floor, Dongguan gained recognition from the Space Origin Law, and the three marks of Light, Time, and Space appeared on his forehead.
• Dongguan checked news about his company, family, and the Donghua Starfield, then concealed the Time and Space marks and sensed an unexplained change in his abilities.
• Dongguan visited Cang in the Heaven and Earth Flower’s Divine Kingdom, examined the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron, and considered breaking through to Immortal before confronting King Huozhen.
• Dongguan decided to visit Earth and left with the Heaven and Earth Flower, while Cang wished him a safe journey.

Dongguan returned to Earth and learned that Yang Bei had died after entering a deadly fake inheritance trial in Yanliu World. While investigating the underground palace, Dongguan discovered he could control space-time within a limited area and successfully reversed time to find Yang Bei’s final moments.

• Dongguan found Yang Bei’s gravestone in Northern Border City and learned from Lu Gang that Yang Bei had vanished during a Universe Trainee Mercenary Assessment more than three hundred years earlier.
• Dongguan gave Lu Gang a space ring of resources and traveled to Yanliu World to investigate Yang Bei’s disappearance.
• Dongguan discovered that Yang Bei had failed a deceptive inheritance trial designed to overwrite participants’ memories, then been killed by a laser cannon.
• Dongguan cleared the underground palace’s trials and experimented with controlling space-time through his world projection.
• Dongguan reversed time within a small area and saw Yang Bei fall into the palace more than three hundred years earlier.