Chapter Summaries

Dongguan fought through Star Tower’s Forbidden Spaces, defeated and captured many hostile Immortals, and joined Luo Feng’s group after a large gathering formed. The factions entered another Forbidden Space, where more than a thousand King-level Immortals had assembled.

• Dongguan defeated the ocean guardian, entered the next spaces, and spotted Sealing Stars drifting through the void.
• Dongguan attacked six Demon Race Immortals in an ocean world, captured several with the Cloudmist World, and fought off a larger group of Zerg and Machine Race Immortals.
• After the survivors gathered and fled, Dongguan used Space Lockdown and pursued them until a new group of nearly a hundred Immortals arrived.
• Dongguan recognized Luo Feng and Heaven Array King among the Human Faction, while the other factions learned that he had killed over twenty King-level Immortals.
• The gathered Immortals passed through an exit into another Forbidden Space, where more than a thousand King-level Immortals had assembled.

Dongguan and Seven Sword King agreed to join forces against rival factions when the Sealing Star appeared, while Dongguan warned Luo Feng to beware of Heaven Array King. As the battle erupted, Dongguan attacked Skull Needle King and forced Nan Cheng into the fight, while the Machine Race launched its planned assault on Seven Sword King.

• Dongguan identified Nan Cheng and Mysterious Tomb King as potential rivals for the Sealing Star, then exchanged a pact with Seven Sword King to clear out other factions before competing between themselves.
• More than a hundred thousand Immortals gathered as the Sealing Star rose, and Dongguan noticed Luo Feng, Heaven Array King, and other King Rank Limit fighters had formed an alliance.
• Dongguan warned Luo Feng to be careful of Heaven Array King, while Heaven Array King tried to persuade Luo Feng that cooperating with Dongguan would make him cannon fodder.
• When the Sealing Star broke free, the Immortals rushed to attack and claim it, and Dongguan flew away from the main struggle after warning Luo Feng.
• Fatefall King led the Machine Race and allied Immortals in a planned hunt for Seven Sword King, while Dongguan struck Skull Needle King and forced Nan Cheng to reveal her Zerg Mother Nest.
• Seven Sword King blocked the Machine Race's disintegration ray with an Ancient Golden Pool as battles raged around him, the Sealing Star, and Dongguan's mist-covered clash with Nan Cheng.

Dongguan used the Cloudmist World to capture Nan Cheng and seize the Sealing Star while the other Immortals fought to stop him. He left the gathered King Ranks trapped in a deadly space-time domain as he successfully claimed the star.

• Dongguan prepared simulated divine power while stalking Nan Cheng inside the Cloudmist World, and Tower Dragon King suspected that Illusory Mist King was the vanished Insect-Hunting King.
• Tower Dragon King abandoned the Sealing Star, and myriad exits opened after enough Immortals had been killed or injured.
• Dongguan emerged with Nan Cheng sealed in amber, along with Skull Needle King and several Zerg Warriors, then raced to the Sealing Star as the other experts attacked him.
• Dongguan spread the Cloudmist World and used Control of Space-Time, trapping and turning many King Ranks into amber statues while their attacks failed to reach him.
• Dongguan imprinted his divine power on the Sealing Star and successfully claimed ownership.

Dongguan captured thousands of Immortals in the Star Tower while the Human Race’s leaders debated Earth’s ownership and decided to protect it for twenty epochs. Luo Feng learned about the Earth Lineage and prepared to attempt to claim the Star Tower, while Dongguan left the Star Tower and headed toward King Huozhen.

• Dongguan used the Sealing Star to capture nearly a thousand Immortals, while the rest fled or detonated themselves; Fatefall King also self-destructed after Dongguan sealed him.
• At the Giant Axe Meeting, Giant Axe Founder ruled that Earth would remain under its current ownership for twenty epochs, and the Human Race decided Dongguan should be rewarded for his victory.
• Puti told Luo Feng about the Star Tower and the Earth Lineage, then explained that Luo Feng had to pass the final trial of life and death to become the Star Tower’s master.
• Chaos City Lord told Luo Feng that Earth could be leased, but Luo Feng insisted that Earth should always belong to the Earthlings; Luo Feng then asked Dongguan to look after Earth if he fell.
• Dongguan left the Star Tower through Divine Kingdom Teleportation, and King Huozhen declared that he had been waiting for him.

Dongguan tracked King Huozhen to the Fifth Battlefield and attacked him, but King Huozhen self-destructed before Dongguan could capture him. Dongguan discovered King Huozhen had clones and resolved to pursue him later, then left the Outer Domain Battlefield for the Ancestral God School.

• Dongguan traced the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron Pearl to King Huozhen's residence in Chaos City, then used his causal techniques to locate King Huozhen on the Fifth Battlefield.
• Dongguan teleported to King Huozhen's palace and attacked, but King Huozhen's soul attack failed to harm him.
• King Huozhen self-destructed, destroying the Azure Palace and Void Continent, while Dongguan survived behind the Sealing Star.
• Dongguan found that King Huozhen had clones, identified one as Zuiqian King, and realized King Huozhen had helped arrange the earlier encirclement and assassination attempt.
• Dongguan decided to leave the Outer Domain Battlefield and go to the Ancestral God School after dealing with King Huozhen.

Dongguan was summoned by Lord Huang Jian, who accused him of crimes and demanded the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron for King Huozhen. After Dongguan refused to submit, Lord Huang Jian attacked him, but You Hou intervened and claimed authority over Dongguan as a member of the Virtual Universe Company.

• King Niexin summoned Dongguan to Lord Huang Jian, who intended to obtain the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron for King Huozhen.
• Lord Huang Jian accused Dongguan of harming the Human Race, attacking a fellow human, and disrespecting the strong, while Dongguan challenged each charge.
• Lord Huang Jian restrained Dongguan and demanded that he hand over the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron, then ordered Nine Abyss Venerable to retrieve it.
• Dongguan mocked Lord Huang Jian, who crushed him with pressure and shattered his body in the Virtual Universe.
• You Hou broke through the frozen space-time, restored Dongguan, and declared that the Universe Mercenary Alliance could not decide what happened to him.

Dongguan left Lord Huang Jian’s palace with Lord Youhou, learned that the Virtual Universe Company would not stop him from pursuing revenge, and received the chance to claim a reward. He chose Beast God Blood and planned to collect it in Chaos City, while the Chaos City Lord and Lord Youhou discussed whether to take him as a disciple.

• Lord Huang Jian decided to wait because the Wood and Grass Cauldron Pearl remained in his hands, while King Huozhen lamented that he had not become a Venerable.
• Lord Youhou confirmed that Dongguan had become an Immortal, explained that his battlefield feat earned a reward, and advised him to stop visiting the Outer Domain Battlefield except in decisive battles or special circumstances.
• Dongguan told Lord Youhou about Lord Huang Jian’s accusations, and Lord Youhou condemned them and said Dongguan could pursue King Huozhen privately without using the Virtual Universe Company’s forces.
• Dongguan asked for fifty drops of Beast God Blood, and Lord Youhou agreed to provide them along with the Beast God Blood exchanged for Dongguan’s mission points.
• Dongguan chose to collect the Beast God Blood in Chaos City, while the Chaos City Lord asked Lord Youhou whether he intended to take Dongguan as a disciple and Lord Youhou declined.

Dongguan reunited with Zhang Gui in Chaos City, gave him a supreme treasure spear, and taught him about the Space Law before preparing his own equipment and cultivation materials. Unable to retrieve the Wood and Grass Cauldron Pearl from its owner's guarded estate, Dongguan left Chaos City after three months of cultivation.

• Dongguan met Zhang Gui in Chaos City and gave him a flaming spear that contained a Secret Art tied to the Flame Law and Space Law.
• Dongguan teleported Zhang Gui to a rooftop and instructed him in the Space Law.
• Dongguan contributed the Throatflame Sword and other unused treasures, then exchanged points for Darkvault Armor and a Suimo Blade.
• Dongguan had the incomplete Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron appraised and decided not to contribute it, then exchanged for materials to cultivate the fourth layer of the Wishful Body.
• Dongguan visited the guarded estate where the Wood and Grass Cauldron Pearl was kept, but left without obtaining it.
• After cultivating for about three months and meeting Zhang Gui once more, Dongguan left Chaos City.

Dongguan secured Guanjie Company's leadership and his family before pursuing King Huozhen's last clone, Si. He captured Si in a Divine Kingdom, prompting King Huozhen to ask Nine Abyss Venerable for help tracking him down.

• Dongguan secretly visited Youyue, learned that the Universe Mercenary Alliance and other factions were undermining Guanjie Company, and gave her new rune products and factories while ordering her to scale back operations and leave with him.
• Dongguan told Youyue and Zhang Yu he had become immortal, then met August Venerable, who warned that he could not stop Lord Huang Jian's pressure but promised to protect Dongguan's family.
• Dongguan left Youyue and Zhang Yu on August Planet under the protection of August Venerable and the plant lifeforms Illusion-Light and Thousand Leaves.
• Dongguan traveled to King Huozhen's Divine Kingdom and used Control of Space-Time, a sealing treasure, and his fusion form to capture Si before he could self-destruct.
• King Huozhen told Nine Abyss Venerable that his clone had been captured in a soul slave's Divine Kingdom in Human Territory, and Nine Abyss Venerable agreed to pursue Dongguan with him.

Dongguan captured King Huozhen’s Death clone and enslaved him before Nine Abyss Venerable could intervene, provoking a battle between the two. Dongguan wounded the powerful Venerable with his annihilation attacks, and Nine Abyss Venerable began fighting him in earnest.

• Dongguan weakened King Huozhen’s captured Death clone until it fell unconscious, then began trying to enslave him.
• Nine Abyss Venerable caught up with Dongguan’s spaceship, while King Huozhen tried to persuade him to kill his soul and then self-destructed.
• Nine Abyss Venerable confronted Dongguan over enslaving a fellow human, and Dongguan challenged him to battle.
• Nine Abyss Venerable used the Nine Abyss Realm to restrict Dongguan, but Dongguan broke through the dark domain with Long Rainbow and injured him with annihilation power.
• Nine Abyss Venerable took Dongguan seriously, concealed himself among the vortices, and attacked him as an equal.

Dongguan outmaneuvered Nine Abyss Venerable, weakened him, and sealed him inside the Sealing Star. He rejected Lord Huang Jian’s summons and began negotiating Nine Abyss Venerable’s release, insisting that the Wood and Grass Cauldron Pearl alone was not enough.

• Dongguan endured Nine Abyss Venerable’s attacks in the Dark Universe, then escaped and used Lifeless Light and the Sealing Star to weaken and seal him in the Original Universe.
• Dongguan left to avoid Lord Huang Jian, reflected on his need to grow stronger, and considered how to protect himself while keeping Nine Abyss Venerable captive.
• Lord Huang Jian reviewed the battle and agreed to talk with Dongguan through the Virtual Universe.
• Dongguan chatted with True Yan King, Tong Nan King, and Jianhuang King in his Hongmeng City villa before King Niexin delivered Lord Huang Jian’s summons.
• Dongguan refused to attend and offered to release Nine Abyss Venerable in exchange for reasonable terms; he rejected the Wood and Grass Cauldron Pearl as insufficient compensation.
• Dongguan confirmed to Jianhuang King that Nine Abyss Venerable was sealed and awaiting a deal.

Dongguan accepted Lord Huang Jian’s offer and released Nine Abyss Venerable, ending their feud through Chaos City Lord’s mediation. He established a palace on Thunder Island’s mountainside and left Human Territory, while Nine Abyss Venerable teleported away into Zerg Territory.

• Dongguan gave Nine Abyss Venerable three days to secure acceptable terms, and Chaos City Lord later relayed Lord Huang Jian’s offer of the Wood and Grass Cauldron Pearl and five supreme treasure points.
• Dongguan accepted the offer, agreed to release Nine Abyss Venerable, and told Chaos City Lord that he planned to leave Human Territory.
• Chaos City Lord granted Dongguan a mountainside palace on Thunder Island and asked about Luo Feng’s disappearance from the Virtual Universe; Dongguan recounted what he knew from the Star Tower.
• Dongguan established his palace, arranged precautions for Immortal Donghua and his mother, and sent messages to Qiong, Zhang Yu, Youyue, and others.
• Dongguan released Nine Abyss Venerable, who teleported away after warning that they would meet again; Dongguan hid an immortal crystal on the planet and left as well.
• Nine Abyss Venerable sensed that he had arrived in Zerg Territory.

Dongguan claimed the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron, enslaved King Huozhen, and learned from Abis that his progress with the Formless Soul-Refining Secret Manual could be extraordinary. He brought his allies and captives to his Divine Kingdom to cultivate, then prepared to send his light lord clone out with new equipment and the Beast God Inheritance Token.

• King Mieye delivered the Wood and Grass Cauldron Pearl, and Dongguan restored the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron and made himself its master.
• Dongguan ordered King Huozhen to release Abis, then used her soul power to improve his cultivation of the Formless Soul-Refining Secret Manual.
• Abis explained the Formless Training Camp and said Dongguan had a chance to cultivate a formless soul beyond ninety percent completion.
• Dongguan took Abis and King Huozhen to his Divine Kingdom, where he assigned King Huozhen to study the cauldron and King Lianxin to continue trying to enslave Nan Cheng.
• Dongguan prepared his light lord clone with the Suimo Blade, Darkvault Armor, Nine Abyss Realm, Ethereal Boat, and Beast God Inheritance Token.

Dongguan expanded the Guanjie Talisman Company’s plans and traveled to the Ancestral God Secret Realm to seek help with his cultivation and research. After arriving at Purple Thorn Island, he waited to meet the Guardian Beast God and studied the Beast God sculptures.

• Dongguan ignored criticism of his Venerable-level residence and went down Thunder Island to expand the Rune business, leaving Youyue in charge of operations.
• Nine Swords Venerable told Blood Wing Venerable that Dongguan had defeated Nine Abyss Venerable and taken his Supreme Treasures, shifting the Venerables’ doubts toward Dongguan’s character.
• Dongguan traveled through the Dark Universe aboard the Ethereal Boat, considering how to advance his Time Law, Beast God studies, and research into consciousness.
• Dongguan reached the Ancestral God Secret Realm and followed a Feicang Venerable through the Five-Colored Aurora Lake to Purple Thorn Island.
• A human servant told Dongguan that the Guardian Beast God would receive him within ten years at most, and Dongguan studied the Beast God sculptures while waiting.

Dongguan became a Purple Thorn Island inheritor and entered the Inheritance Land to test his Light-Time Fusion Law understanding. After the inheritance rated him at the first layer, he corrected gaps in his foundation and advanced to the second layer, where he continued studying and gained insight for his Consciousness Probe.

• The Purple Thorn Island Lord granted Dongguan access to Glory World, the Inheritance Land, the Treasure Land, and the Secret Realm Land.
• Dongguan built a residence, released King Mieye to guard it, and headed to the Inheritance Land.
• The inheritance rated Dongguan at the first layer and revealed that gaps in his Secret Pattern Flow foundation had held back his progress.
• Dongguan studied the first-layer inheritance for more than ten days and then received the second-layer inheritance.
• After three more months of cultivation, Dongguan was rated at the second layer again and gained insight into developing the Consciousness Probe.

A thousand years after Dongguan’s new buildings appeared on Purple Thorn Island, he observed civilizations developing in his Divine Kingdom and reached another limit in his soul cultivation. Unable to make further progress toward becoming a Venerable through seclusion, he sent his Light Lord Clone to Zerg Territory.

• Dongguan explored Earthstar World and found that the Snake-people had developed the earliest civilization, with rudimentary writing, priestly techniques, and worship linked to his energy ocean.
• Dongguan decided to let Earthstar World develop freely and considered introducing outside life into some of his other Star Worlds.
• Dongguan reviewed a thousand years of cultivation, including his progress in the Light-Time Fusion Law and his soul training with Nan Cheng, and found that his Soul Amplitude had reached 99.44 times and his Formless Soul 44%.
• Dongguan decided to leave seclusion and travel to Zerg Territory because his comprehension of the Time Law remained short of the final step to becoming a Venerable.
• Dongguan sent his Light Lord Clone toward Zerg Territory with the Suimo Blade, Darkvault Armor, and Sealing Star, leaving the Ethereal Boat and Nine Abyss Realm behind.

Dongguan entered Zerg Territory, researched its inhabitants and missions, and learned that Zerg Mother Emperor Meiya had grown much stronger. Using his newly expanded Eye of Cause and Effect, he traced connections to Zerg Mother Emperors and chose to hunt World Lord-level targets instead.

• Dongguan reviewed information about Zerg Territory and found that other races, including humans, lived among the Zerg Mother Emperors’ domains.
• Dongguan checked the Calamity Star Zone and Netherworld Hall’s missions, then passed over assignments involving the Calamity Mistress as too dangerous.
• Dongguan learned that Meiya had gained power in a Cosmic Secret Realm and had become a priority target for Zerg investigations and hunting missions.
• Dongguan discovered that his Light Lord Clone could use the Eye of Cause and Effect after his breakthrough, but passed over the trail leading to Meiya in the Zerg Queen’s Miniature Universe.
• Dongguan decided to hunt World Lord Level Zerg Mother Emperors and directed his biological spaceship toward a location on the Star Map.

Dongguan infiltrated Wenno Star disguised as the Domain Lord Weite, hoping to approach its Zerg Mother Emperor during a celebration while learning about life among the Insect People. When the celebration ended, the real Weite was selected by the Zerg Warriors, giving Dongguan a chance to follow him toward the Mother Emperor.

• Dongguan arrived on Wenno Star disguised as Weite and met Mokesun, who helped him settle into life on the planet.
• Dongguan learned about the Insect People’s dependence on the Zerg Mother Emperors and waited for the celebration to begin.
• Multicolored clouds and strange fluctuations marked the start of the celebration, and Dongguan located their source on an isolated island.
• Zerg Warriors selected Insect People over three days, and they took the real Weite from his home on the final day.
• Dongguan followed the Zerg Warriors invisibly, bypassing Wenno Star’s detection methods.

Wenna experimented with insectoid genes to develop new Zerg troops, but Dongguan secretly captured her and had King Lianxin enslave her. Wenna submitted to Dongguan, who planned to use her in his cultivation.

• Wenna extracted genes from insectoids and used fertilized egg cells to begin creating new Zerg Warriors.
• Dongguan watched Wenna's experiments from inside the Zerg Mother Nest, then revealed himself and subdued her.
• Dongguan took Wenna, the Zerg Mother Nest, its warriors, and the Soul Slaves away from Wenno Star and teleported to his Divine Kingdom.
• King Lianxin volunteered to enslave Wenna and succeeded, after which Dongguan released her from the space-time seal.
• Wenna greeted Dongguan and the others, then agreed to cooperate with Dongguan's cultivation.

Dongguan created Shadow Mother Emperors that could produce Insect Soldiers, then began deploying them in a Cosmic Secret Realm to attract Zerg Mother Emperors while pursuing his Formless Soul cultivation. The plan was underway, but the Shadow Mother Emperors’ limitations and the risk of discovery remained.

• Dongguan found that Wenna could no longer significantly improve his Formless Soul and ordered her to contact other Zerg Mother Emperors without asking for their locations.
• Dongguan created a Shadow Mother Emperor using his Dark Lord avatar and instructed her to produce Zerg Warriors, while Nan Cheng warned that she could not convincingly infiltrate the Zerg.
• Nan Cheng reported that many World Lord Zerg Mother Emperors had shown interest in Wenna’s plan, but few Immortals had come, so Dongguan planned to use the Shadow Mother Emperor to attract stronger targets.
• Dongguan revealed that he had captured more than twenty World Lord Zerg Mother Emperors but wanted to target Immortals, despite the greater risk of exposure.
• A silver-armored Immortal deployed Shadow Zerg Mother Nests across a Cosmic Secret Realm, where their worker bees established subsidiary nests and gathered resources.