Chapter Summaries

Dongguan used the Sealing Star as the base for a powerful rune, killed Sword Venerable, and forced Yuan Dark Lord and Cetian Venerable to retreat. After studying the Inner Starry Sky through a wormhole, he enslaved Yuan Dark Lord and gained a new ally for his plans.

• Dongguan inscribed secret patterns onto the Sealing Star, turning it into a half-finished rune that could serve as a trump card.
• Dongguan killed Sword Venerable, took his armor and longsword, and demanded that Yuan Dark Lord and Cetian Venerable surrender their Supreme Treasures and cooperate.
• Yuan Dark Lord and Cetian Venerable escaped Dongguan's attack and decided to seek help from others, while Dongguan opened a wormhole and studied the fusion-law patterns of the Inner Starry Sky.
• Dongguan's trap caused a star to explode while Yuan Dark Lord and Cetian Venerable were absorbing its energy, killing Cetian Venerable and nearly destroying Yuan Dark Lord.
• Dongguan enslaved Yuan Dark Lord, restored part of his divine body, and decided that his new servant would let him pursue his plans more aggressively.

Dongguan traveled toward the boundary of the Desperate Land Starry Sky with Yuan Dark Lord while cultivating the eight fusion laws. At the boundary, he discovered a vast secret pattern diagram and recorded it, while his progress toward completing all 64 Beast God Secret Pattern Diagrams remained unfinished.

• Yuan Dark Lord told Dongguan that escaping the deadly land might be possible and explained his concern for the Yuan Dark Clan.
• Dongguan said he would test a way to leave and promised Yuan Dark Lord he could return to his clan after helping with the experiments.
• Dongguan and Yuan Dark Lord traveled toward the deadly land’s boundary, a journey expected to take more than four hundred years.
• After more than five hundred years, Dongguan completed another breakthrough and absorbed universal energy before asking how far they were from the boundary.
• Dongguan examined the boundary’s secret patterns, recognized the eight fusion laws, and recorded the pattern in his mental space.

Dongguan discovered that a hidden space-time technique made the Desperate Land’s boundary loop back on itself, then opened a wormhole that let Yuan Dark Lord escape. Dongguan stayed behind to explore the inner starry region and followed a Huisuo Giant Beast through a wormhole, hoping to find Starry Sky Divine Mountain.

• Dongguan noticed the Desperate Land’s boundary and explained to Yuan Dark Lord how hidden space angles caused travelers to turn back without realizing it.
• Dongguan used Control of Space-Time to open a wormhole and sent Yuan Dark Lord and their divine power clones outside the Desperate Land.
• Dongguan gave Yuan Dark Lord his supreme treasures and sent him out again so he could use Divine Kingdom Teleportation to reach their agreed coordinates.
• After Yuan Dark Lord escaped, Dongguan stayed behind to explore the inner starry region and search for Starry Sky Divine Mountain.
• Dongguan spotted a Huisuo Giant Beast entering a wormhole and followed it inside.

Dongguan secretly studied Starry Sky Divine Mountain’s secret patterns and captured Starry Sky Behemoths for two hundred years, strengthening his Beast God diagrams but failing to reach Venerable. After the Starry Sky Beast Alliance discovered the intruder and sent a Golden Horned Beast to draw him out, Dongguan headed to its location to pursue his research.

• Dongguan concealed himself near Starry Sky Divine Mountain and studied its fusion-law secret patterns while seeking living Starry Sky Behemoths for genetic samples.
• Flame Star Lord told the Universe Masters that the Progenitor had discovered an outsider operating on the mountain’s outskirts and ordered them to expel the intruder.
• Over two hundred years, Dongguan captured Immortal Starry Sky Behemoths, perfected more Beast God diagrams, and raised his gene multiplier to forty-twofold without breaking through to Venerable.
• Dongguan received an alert that a Golden Horned Beast was at coordinate point 5692 and set out, hoping to complete his eighth Gold-Space Beast God diagram.
• A Golden Horned Beast waited at coordinate point 5692 after a Universe Master ordered it to lure out the rumored outsider.

Dongguan withdrew from Starry Sky Divine Mountain after sensing danger, then returned to his Divine Kingdom to cultivate while his Light Lord Clone traveled to Congyun Secret Realm in search of another Calamity-Flow Blacklight Set component. He arrived at Heavenly Mulberry Continent and teleported toward the component’s location, leaving its identity unknown.

• Xuanmie Lord ended the Immortal Golden Horned Beast’s mission, while Sitting Mountain Guest and the Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor watched Dongguan approach and then self-detonate after sensing danger.
• Sitting Mountain Guest told the Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor that Dongguan was connected to his future disciple, and privately took interest in Dongguan’s study of cause and effect.
• Dongguan’s Human Main Body returned to the Divine Kingdom, where he began cultivating the Eighth Picture of the Gold-Space Secret Pattern Diagram and planned to improve his Formless Soul.
• Dongguan’s Light Lord Clone traveled to Congyun Secret Realm in the Heart-Locking Hall and followed cause and effect to Heavenly Mulberry Continent.
• Dongguan reviewed the history of the fallen Heavenly Mulberry Tree and its valuable fruits, then teleported toward the Calamity-Flow Blacklight Set component without knowing whether it was skirt armor or a helmet.

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.