Chapter Summaries

Dongguan resurrected Yang Bei after he was killed in the Underground Palace, concealed the resurrection by altering Yang Bei’s memories, and learned that the act had earned him recognition from the Primal Universe’s origin at a severe cost. He arrived at the Third Battlefield as a World Lord General and received a message from his third senior brother, King Withered Bones, just as squads began seeking recruits.

• Dongguan reversed time and space to resurrect Yang Bei, suffering heavy injuries and discovering the Primal Universe’s origin had recognized him.
• Dongguan arranged a false inheritance in Yang Bei’s memories, then left the Underground Palace while Yang Bei woke believing he had received a legacy.
• Dongguan traveled to Luniao Star, waited to join the Outer Domain Battlefield, and planned to disguise his World Lord abilities as those of an Immortal.
• The military classified Dongguan as a World Lord General and sent him with the other recruits to Base 089 on the Third Battlefield.
• King Withered Bones contacted Dongguan about the Skull Society’s four-star promotion mission, and Dongguan went to meet him before joining a squad.

Dongguan learned the Skull Society’s four-star advancement requirements and accepted King Withered Bones’s offer to join Green Armor’s squad on the Third Battlefield. After waiting at Camp 089, Dongguan met Green Armor, a Marquis Immortal, and left with him.

• King Withered Bones explained that Dongguan needed to kill ten Army Lord Immortals or one Marquis Immortal alone to complete the four-star advancement mission, and described the five-star requirement.
• King Withered Bones contacted Green Armor and asked him to take Dongguan along; Green Armor agreed after realizing Dongguan was likely a World Lord.
• King Withered Bones explained that Green Armor had inferred Dongguan’s rank from the difference between World Lord and Immortal military merit quotas.
• At Camp 089, Captain Si Wan tried to recruit Dongguan, but Dongguan said he was waiting for someone and refused.
• Green Armor arrived after more than ten days, and Dongguan left with him for the spaceship hall, surprising Si Wan and his squadmate.

Dongguan joined Greenwood Marquis’s squad and traveled to the Gathering-Scattering Nebula, learning about its dangers and the limits of his Eye of Cause and Effect. The squad detected a Demon Race team and began discussing a battle plan.

• Dongguan met Greenwood Marquis’s four teammates, resisted Snake Woman’s poison, and joined the squad as Soul Chaser.
• The squad introduced themselves and tested Dongguan in the Virtual Universe, where he proved stronger than the Army Lord Immortals in combat.
• Greenwood Marquis explained the Gathering-Scattering Nebula’s regions, hazards, and approaching great destruction as the spaceship traveled through it.
• Dongguan confirmed that Immortals could sense his Eye of Cause and Effect and sometimes identify him as its user.
• Greenwood Marquis detected four Blood Leopard Tribe members from the Demon Race, and the squad began planning their attack.

Dongguan and his human companions ambushed a Demon Race squad in the Gathering-Scattering Nebula, where Dongguan tested his techniques against the Immortals. After Second self-destructed and the blood leopard leader fled with Fourth, Dongguan received his first military merits and emerged from the space interlayer as the humans continued their pursuit.

• The blood leopard leader's squad detected an enemy attack, and six humans struck their Biological Spaceship before surrounding the four Demon Race Immortals.
• Dongguan fought Second, studying the Immortal Divine Body while Yao, Yanshi, Black Shadow, Snake Woman, and Greenwood Marquis battled the other blood leopards.
• Snake Woman's potion combined with Black Shadow's Mechanical Puppets to weaken Fourth's divine body, prompting the blood leopard leader to fear the same effect and consider escape.
• Dongguan unleashed his Thousand-Leaf Grass and the move "Years, sever all!" against Second, who self-destructed and dragged Dongguan into the space interlayer.
• Dongguan survived the explosion, received one hundred million military merits, and returned as the blood leopard leader fled with Fourth while Greenwood Marquis and the others pursued.

Dongguan helped Greenwood Marquis’s squad defeat the Blood Leopard leader, whose self-detonation sent Dongguan into the Space Interlayer. He later tracked down Blood Leopard Third and Blood Leopard Fourth, sealed them, and left all 108 Blood Leopard elites who had entered the Outer Domain Battlefield dead.

• Blood Leopard Third trapped Yao and Yanshi in his Black Swamp, but Dongguan arrived and stopped the Blood Leopard leader from killing Yao.
• Dongguan used his World Projection to prevent Blood Leopard Third from escaping while the Blood Leopard leader stayed behind to cover his retreat.
• Dongguan fought the Blood Leopard leader with his Years technique, and Greenwood Marquis, Black Shadow, and the others joined the battle, trapping and weakening the Marquis Immortal.
• The Blood Leopard leader self-detonated after realizing he could not escape; Dongguan’s control of Space-Time protected him from most of the blast.
• Blood Leopard Third and Blood Leopard Fourth regrouped far from the battlefield, but Dongguan appeared and sealed both Immortals with Space-Time.

Dongguan’s team continued hunting Immortals across several battlefields while he developed his simulated divine body with Yao’s help. After a Machine Race battle, Greenwood Marquis decided the team would return to base because Black Shadow had made a breakthrough and needed to transform his divine body.

• Greenwood Marquis reviewed the team’s battle and explained their detector defenses, while Yao agreed to help Dongguan study Immortal Divine Bodies for payment.
• After recovering, the team killed more Marquis Immortals, advancing Greenwood Marquis’s and Dongguan’s Skull Society promotion missions as Dongguan’s military merits climbed past four hundred million.
• Qianyun King repeatedly arrived too late to catch Greenwood Marquis’s team and ordered his subordinates to report their location directly to him.
• In the Blood Sand Star Belt, Dongguan and the team breached a Machine Race spaceship, disrupted its Mechanical Puppets, and killed its Marquis Immortal after Black Shadow prevented its self-destruction.
• Greenwood Marquis announced that the team would return to base because Black Shadow had made a breakthrough and needed to transform his divine body.

Dongguan used the squad’s temporary rest at Base 089 to experiment with a Simulated Divine Body while monitoring military news about the runes developed by Guanjie Company. After half a year, Yanshi told him that Greenwood Marquis’s squad was ready to return to the battlefield.

• Greenwood Marquis’s squad reached Base 089, where Dongguan checked that he had earned over 900 million military merits and was close to meeting his quota.
• Dongguan examined captured Immortals and experimented with combining his Human Main Body and Light Lord Clone to create a Simulated Divine Body, noticing a possible new glazed-crystal form.
• During the squad’s six-month rest, Dongguan heard that Guanjie Company’s runes had entered the military exchange system and considered developing Teleportation Runes.
• Black Shadow completed his breakthrough in Law Comprehension but remained in seclusion while his divine body transformed.
• Yanshi told Dongguan that Greenwood Marquis’s squad was ready to depart, and Dongguan left the dining hall with him.

Dongguan agreed to help Greenwood Marquis’s squad hunt the Yan God Race after learning of their grudge and Black Shadow’s origins. The squad tracked the enemy to a ruined base, while the Yan God Race’s King Jintu was revealed to have been enslaved by a Zerg Mother Emperor.

• Dongguan said he intended to leave the squad after meeting his military merit quota, but agreed to join its final hunt against the Yan God Race.
• The Yan God Race’s King Jintu and his companions discussed moving to the Gathering-Scattering Nebula before a Zerg force attacked their hall.
• Greenwood Marquis explained that Black Shadow was an intelligent assistant who had become immortal, and Black Shadow revealed that his modified rune equipment could let him hold off King Jintu.
• Greenwood Marquis’s squad found the Yan God Race’s base in ruins, and Dongguan used his tracking ability to guide them toward the enemy.
• The Zerg Mother Emperor revealed that King Jintu had been enslaved, while his companion Caolixing had escaped and likely reported the news.

Dongguan and his allies killed Caolixing, allowing Dongguan to reach the military-merit quota needed to regain his freedom. They then pursued King Jintu, whose master Meiya recognized Dongguan and ordered him to keep flying, until the two groups finally faced each other.

• Dongguan and his team attacked Caolixing, and Dongguan weakened him until the others helped destroy his body; Caolixing self-destructed before Dongguan could seal him.
• Dongguan gathered enough military merits to apply for his freedom and took Caolixing’s silver armor as a study item.
• The team detected King Jintu’s spaceship, but he fled after Meiya warned him to avoid unknown enemies; Dongguan used his insight to guide the pursuit.
• Meiya recognized the white-robed youth in King Jintu’s vision and ordered him to keep flying, despite the pursuing ship remaining within detection range.
• The ships finally met, and Black Shadow released his mechanical puppets as King Jintu emerged in golden armor.

Dongguan left Greenwood Marquis’s team after demonstrating his simulated divine body, which let him pass as an Immortal and fight at roughly the Marquis threshold. He chose to keep fighting independently and ambushed King Jintu near Xuanming Continent, where a deadly battle began.

• Black Shadow’s Mechanical Puppets restrained King Jintu, and Dongguan’s Lifeless Light runes destroyed eight percent of his divine power before the team withdrew.
• Meiya concluded that Greenwood Marquis’s team lacked a King Rank Limit fighter and sent a Thousand-Eyed Heart Race King to pursue them, but he lost their trail.
• Dongguan revealed his simulated Immortal form to Greenwood Marquis’s team and sparred with him, demonstrating power near the Marquis threshold.
• Dongguan parted from the team, chose to continue fighting alone, and reviewed military merit exchanges before Qiong warned him they were approaching King Jintu.
• Dongguan destroyed King Jintu’s spaceship and attacked him in the void outside Xuanming Continent as Meiya and her servants prepared to intervene.

Dongguan fought King Jintu, revealed his ability to control space-time, and captured him before battling the Zerg Mother Emperor Meiya’s forces. He left after failing to capture Meiya, then returned to his spaceship to study King Jintu’s undying divine body.

• Dongguan wore down King Jintu with the Life-Slaying Blade’s power while Meiya ordered him to keep fighting.
• Meiya deployed her Zerg forces, but Dongguan used teleportation and space-time sealing to capture King Jintu in a World Ring.
• Dongguan attacked Meiya’s Zerg Mother Nest, but her bodyguards blocked his strikes and her servant used Space Lockdown to prevent his escape.
• Dongguan sealed a Thousand-Eyed Heart Race servant, but it burned divine power to break free, while Dongguan wounded a High King rock lifeform.
• Meiya let Dongguan leave, and he returned to his spaceship with King Jintu so he could study the captive’s undying divine body.

Dongguan completed a World Lord-level technique that let him burn simulated divine power and went to the Gathering-Scattering Nebula to test it. After receiving a distress call, he found two human squads fighting Starlight Race immortals and chose to rescue the hard-pressed Army Lord immortals first.

• Dongguan developed a second-stage simulated divine body that burned prepared simulated divine power for a hundredfold boost, with limited uses and a temporary cost to his soul amplitude.
• Dongguan left Camp Base No. 089 and traveled to the Gathering-Scattering Nebula to test his new technique against enemies.
• Dongguan received a distress call reporting a Starlight Race squad led by a Peak Marquis and flew toward the battle.
• Marquis Lieqiu restrained a Yanpoluo Marquis while another Starlight Race Marquis and three Army Lords overwhelmed four human Army Lord immortals.
• Dongguan discovered both battlefields and decided to save the endangered Army Lord immortals before confronting the restrained Yanpoluo Marquis.

Dongguan rescued a human team and defeated Marquis Lieqiu with his Light Lord Clone, though Lieqiu self-detonated before Dongguan could capture him. After collecting the spoils, Dongguan set off for the Inner Domain.

• Luo Fan prepared to self-detonate if Marquis Lieqiu attacked him again, while Lieqiu grew wary of the human team's possible reinforcements.
• Dongguan appeared near the Starlight Race Marquis, sealed him after reducing his divine body, and stored him in his World Ring.
• The human Immortals reunited with their captain and learned that Soul Chaser had killed Marquis Lieqiu and saved them.
• Dongguan intercepted Marquis Lieqiu, overcame his thread and time-based attacks, and repeatedly shattered his divine body with saber strikes.
• Marquis Lieqiu self-detonated when his strength fell below half, but Dongguan froze space-time and limited the blast before gathering the spoils.
• Dongguan vanished and headed for the Inner Domain.

After a century of hunting Marquises and fighting Kings, Dongguan improved his strength and completed the final sliver of a Light-Time Secret Pattern Diagram, bringing his combined body amplitude to ninety-six times. He decided to capture the Zerg Mother Emperor Meiya, who sensed his coming and began making preparations.

• Dongguan spent a hundred years killing Marquises and battling Kings, learning that his Light Lord Clone could suppress a High King but could not reliably kill an Initial King before reinforcements arrived.
• Dongguan discovered that four-star and five-star Skull Society missions were scarce and unavailable to him, then considered selling his stored Immortals and pursuing Kings for greater rewards.
• Dongguan completed the last sliver of a Light-Time Secret Pattern Diagram, raising his gene multiplier to nine times and his combined body amplitude to ninety-six times.
• Dongguan assessed his secret arts and plans for strengthening simulated divine power, and decided to capture a Zerg Mother Emperor to study.
• Dongguan followed a causal line toward Zerg Mother Emperor Meiya, who sensed that he might come for her and began preparing cautiously.

Dongguan pursued a Zerg Mother Emperor into the Wind and Water Forbidden Zone but abandoned the chase and posted a bounty for sightings of others. After learning that the Insect-Hunting King had killed Ganlandena and targeted many Zerg Mother Emperors, Meiya fled the battlefield, leaving Dongguan without another target.

• Dongguan traveled to the Wind and Water Forbidden Zone, decided its hazards made pursuing the nearby Zerg Mother Emperor impractical, and posted a bounty for information about Immortal Zerg Mother Emperors.
• Meiya reviewed footage of Ganlandena's battles with the Insect-Hunting King and learned that he had killed her after repeated attacks on Zerg Mother Emperors.
• Meiya concluded that the Insect-Hunting King was a specialized threat to the Zerg and decided to leave the battlefield for her race's territory.
• Meiya used Divine Kingdom Teleportation to escape, and Dongguan watched her Causal Line shift away and remarked that this target had run too.

The Hongmeng Alliance admitted Dongguan after reviewing footage of him killing a Zerg Mother Emperor, while the footage’s disclosure raised the danger he faced from the Zerg. Dongguan joined the alliance but began considering leaving the Outer Domain Battlefield before his identity and reputation drew greater threats.

• Venerable Yezheng and Nine Abyss Venerable presented footage of Dongguan killing a Zerg Mother Emperor, and the Hongmeng Alliance approved his admission.
• King Huozhen learned that Dongguan was the Insect-Hunting King and worried that Dongguan might eventually target him.
• Dongguan reflected on his rapid progress in soul amplitude and formless soul cultivation, then met with August Venerable in the Virtual Universe.
• August Venerable warned Dongguan that the Zerg might send powerful fighters after him because his identity had been exposed, and Dongguan said he feared no one below a Venerable.
• Dongguan defeated his four-thousandth training opponent and accepted an invitation to join the Hongmeng Alliance as a One Star member.
• After the envoys left, Dongguan considered leaving the Outer Domain Battlefield before the leaked news spread further.

Dongguan explored Hongmeng City with King Xiaoye, learned about Universe Treasure Hall, and discussed the unusual properties of Yan God Race armor. After receiving a warning about the Great Destruction, he joined Netherworld Hall under King Withered Bones and gained expanded intelligence access and a private room for missions.

• Dongguan toured Hongmeng City with King Xiaoye and learned about its residents, factions, and shops.
• Dongguan explained that golden armor could be resized once if its Yan God Race owner’s divine body changed shape.
• Greenwood Marquis and Black Shadow noticed a planet’s color had changed in the Gathering-Scattering Nebula and warned Yanshi that it signaled the approaching Great Destruction.
• Yao sent Dongguan an email about the Great Destruction while Dongguan left King Xiaoye and teleported to Netherworld Hall.
• Dongguan joined Netherworld Hall, and King Withered Bones explained his new access, mission rules, and private room.

Dongguan explored his new Netherworld Hall private space, examined its missions and treasury, and obtained Blood Luo Crystals. After fusing three crystals, he discovered that Blood Luo Power doubled his strength, but it raised his fused gene multiplier only to 9,982, just short of 10,000.

• Dongguan inspected his private floating island and learned about Netherworld Hall's ranks, missions, and treasury.
• Dongguan exchanged his remaining five-star mission points for nine Blood Luo Crystals and decided not to seek more from Luo Feng.
• Dongguan fused three Blood Luo Crystals, gained a chest pattern, and found that Blood Luo Power doubled his Human Main Body's strength.
• Dongguan activated Blood Luo Power while fused with the Light Lord Clone, raising his gene multiplier from 8,991 to 9,982 before it stopped short of 10,000.

Dongguan absorbed Blood Luo Crystals to strengthen his genes, enduring painful gene tempering and using the experience to record a Life Gene book. After absorbing ten crystals, his body exploded when the protective force failed, and he weighed whether to use Beast God Blood to pursue perfect genes.

• Dongguan absorbed six Blood Luo Crystals in his separate bodies, then fused them and successfully absorbed a seventh.
• After the seventh crystal triggered agonizing gene tempering in his winged human state, Dongguan recorded the process in Life Gene and learned that twenty-three years had passed.
• Dongguan absorbed an eighth crystal, obtained two drops of Beast God Blood and a hundred more Blood Luo Crystals, and recorded the Gold-Space Beast God Secret Pattern Diagrams.
• Dongguan absorbed a ninth crystal and endured nearly fifty years of further tempering before absorbing the tenth.
• Dongguan's human main body exploded after the tenth crystal and reformed as a Blood Luo Crystal, so he decided to fuse with the Beast God Blood despite falling just short of perfect genes.

Dongguan learned that the Gathering-Scattering Nebula was nearing its great destruction and decided to go there. Meanwhile, Zuiqian King persuaded the Machine Race, Zerg, and Demon Race leaders to cooperate in an operation targeting the Insect-Hunting King, setting the stage for a wider conflict with humanity.

• Dongguan failed to fuse with another Blood Luo Crystal, then fused successfully with two more before a third failed and his body exploded; he recovered after expelling three crystals.
• Dongguan read Luo Feng’s message and learned that Luo Feng had left Chaos City earlier than expected.
• After reading Yao’s warning about the Gathering-Scattering Nebula, Dongguan checked its predicted destruction date and decided to arrive early.
• Zuiqian King told Beihui, Void Scorn King, and Tiger Soul King that the Insect-Hunting King would likely appear at the Gathering-Scattering Nebula.
• Zuiqian King secured agreement from the three leaders to cooperate in hunting the Insect-Hunting King, and the gathered alliance experts prepared for a faction operation against humanity.