Chapter Summaries

Dongguan used his control of space-time to return to the past and reunite with his father, Dong Xuan World Lord, before bringing him to see his mother, World Lord Xia Lan. He left his parents together and went to talk with his uncle, while an observer noticed his apparent ability to resurrect the dead.

• Dongguan traveled back more than ten thousand years and found Dong Xuan World Lord, resolving to return his father to the present.
• Dong Xuan World Lord declined Dongguan’s suggestion that he become patriarch of the Qiong Luo Race, and Dongguan took him to see World Lord Xia Lan.
• Dongguan introduced himself to World Lord Xia Ji as his nephew, then left the residence with his uncle so his parents could be together.
• Dongguan reflected on his distant relationship with his parents and decided to help them improve their cultivation.
• A pedestrian watched Dongguan leave and wondered how he could reverse death through the Dao of Cause and Effect.

Dongguan reunited with August Venerable, discussed his rapid rise and his plans to explore many cultivation paths, and prepared to enter seclusion. After Dongguan teleported away, Black Universe Founder appeared and extracted information about his Divine Kingdom coordinates.

• August Venerable praised Dongguan for becoming a Universe Venerable and offered him a chance to receive guidance from Original Ancestor.
• Dongguan told August Venerable he planned to study several laws and fusion laws rather than focus on a single path.
• Dongguan reflected on the growing distance between himself and his old acquaintances, then told August Venerable he planned to enter seclusion and refine his secret arts.
• Dongguan teleported away using Divine Kingdom Teleportation.
• Black Universe Founder appeared at the spot where Dongguan had vanished and extracted information about his Divine Kingdom coordinates.

Black Universe Founder investigated Dongguan’s expanding Divine Kingdom by sending a Divine Power Avatar inside. Dongguan tested the combined water-and-fire attack of Miantai and Xuyue, then offered to help them recover and grow in exchange for assisting his cultivation.

• Black Universe Founder marveled at Dongguan’s expanding Divine Kingdom and sent a concealed Divine Power Avatar into it to investigate.
• Dongguan had Miantai of the Sun Clan and Xuyue of the Taiyin Clan demonstrate the secret art they used upon entering the Origin World.
• Miantai and Xuyue combined ice and fire into a white-light attack that reached the King Rank limit before dissipating.
• Dongguan sensed a water-fire transformation into space in their attack and considered how it might aid his Law comprehension.
• Dongguan promised to restore Miantai and Xuyue with energy and eventually let them experience the outside world if they assisted his cultivation.

Leitia was approached by Black Universe Founder, who tempted her with the chance to leave Dongguan’s Divine Kingdom, and she chose not to tell Dongguan after he disappeared. Meanwhile, Dongguan continued cultivating and assessing his progress toward mastering the Origin Laws, leaving his breakthrough and Leitia’s future uncertain.

• Leitia sent her Zerg warriors into a Star World while she remained in the Void World, frustrated by her restricted and uneventful life.
• Black Universe Founder appeared, cut off Leitia’s communications, and asked whether she wanted to leave.
• Leitia questioned Black Universe Founder, who identified himself and warned her not to tell her “father” before vanishing.
• Leitia restored her communications but agonized over the encounter and ultimately did not notify Dongguan.
• Dongguan reviewed his progress in secret-pattern cultivation, the Origin Laws, combat techniques, and soul defense, but remained unable to fully comprehend the Space Law.

Dongguan wondered whether his Eye of Cause and Effect had limits, then answered the Ancestral God's summons to the Ancestral God Palace. There, he countered Blood Domain Divine General's attempt to embarrass him, while his breakthrough to Universe Venerable remained unconfirmed to the other guards.

• Dongguan reflected on the limits of his Eye of Cause and Effect and received a summons from the Ancestral God.
• Dongguan arrived at Purple Thorn Island wearing his completed Calamity-Flow Blacklight Set and Flowing Light Wings.
• The Ancestral God summoned Dongguan to the palace, and inheritors reported that the Insect-Hunting King had appeared on Purple Thorn Island.
• Blood Domain Divine General pressured Dongguan outside the palace, but Dongguan's control over space-time made him stumble.
• The Ancestral God dismissed Blood Domain Divine General from guard duty and sentenced him to ten thousand epochs of confinement.
• Dongguan entered the Ancestral God Palace, leaving the guards uncertain whether he had broken through or relied on another means.

Dongguan accepted the Two-Faced Ancestral God's mission to eliminate Myriad-Heart Man, whose Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon had summoned something dangerous to the universe. He traveled to the Congyun Secret Realm and followed a bundle of cause-and-effect threads, but the golden toad had not yet identified the target.

• The Two-Faced Ancestral God congratulated Dongguan on reaching Universe Venerable and offered him a mission tied to his Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God explained that Myriad-Heart Man had used a demon weapon to draw forth an evil threat and promised at least 300 Glory Points for eliminating him.
• Dongguan accepted the mission and received a token for contacting the Two-Faced Ancestral God and a golden toad that would glow red near Myriad-Heart Man.
• Dongguan traveled to the Congyun Secret Realm and arrived near the Heavenly Mulberry Continent, where he had left a Divine Kingdom Teleportation coordinate.
• Dongguan used his vertical eye to trace a bundle of cause-and-effect threads and teleported in their direction while the golden toad remained dormant.

Dongguan tracked Myriad-Heart Man to a Lingwu Race planet and destroyed the enormous sphere concealing him, but Myriad-Heart Man escaped death by an unknown method. Dongguan recovered the Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon and began searching the scattered fragments for him.

• Dongguan entered Lingwu Race territory and flew beneath a planet’s surface, following the golden toad’s signal to a bluish-purple sphere.
• Dongguan pierced the sphere with his spear, then used his Life-Slaying Blade to destroy it despite its powerful defenses and rapid regeneration.
• Dongguan found Myriad-Heart Man’s true body among the scattered fragments and struck him, but Myriad-Heart Man disintegrated into ash, leaving behind the Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon.
• Dongguan reported that the mission was complete, but the Ancestral God told him Myriad-Heart Man was still alive.
• Dongguan detected 231 similar causal lines and began clearing the fragments on the planet to find Myriad-Heart Man.

Dongguan hunted down the beings created from Myriad-Heart Man’s fused victims while they scattered across the Primal Universe, space interlayer, and Dark Universe. When Lingwu Lord confronted him over the destruction of a Lingwu Life Planet, Dongguan refused to stop and the two began fighting.

• Dongguan destroyed a Lingwu Life Planet while killing one of the maddened beings, then pursued the survivors through the space interlayer and the Primal Universe.
• Dongguan killed the beings one by one and used their causal lines to track the remaining seventy-nine, prioritizing those heading toward Machine Race territory.
• Lingwu Lord learned that a powerful being had caused the deaths of tens of millions of Lingwu and set out to confront him.
• Dongguan caught and killed another target near Machine Race territory, but Lingwu Lord arrived and locked down space to prevent his teleportation.
• Dongguan demanded that Lingwu Lord lift the lockdown, then drew his sword and charged as Lingwu Lord attacked with the High-grade Supreme Treasure Tungsten Gold.

Myriad-Heart Man entered Machine Race territory while seeking time to complete his transformation, unaware that Island Master Shihua was following him. Dongguan and Lingwu Lord ended their fight and pursued Myriad-Heart Man, who then encountered a Machine Race Immortal as Island Master Shihua watched.

• Myriad-Heart Man transformed into a golden humanoid and entered Machine Race territory to find an Immortal who could help him complete his initial transformation.
• Island Master Shihua followed Myriad-Heart Man after recognizing him as the source of an unusual aura.
• Dongguan fought Lingwu Lord, then explained that Myriad-Heart Man was rejected by the Universe Origin and that Lingwu Lord had sheltered him.
• Lingwu Lord lifted his Space Lockdown, and Dongguan teleported after Myriad-Heart Man while Lingwu Lord offered to carry him.
• Myriad-Heart Man encountered a Machine Race Immortal above a mineral planet, and Island Master Shihua watched their convergence.

Dongguan hunted the Myriad-Heart Man’s clones while investigating their strange connection to cause and effect, as Island Master Shihua observed one of them grafting causal lines onto itself. Dongguan remained blocked by a sealed region and faced the arrival of the Machine Race Universe Master Lord Xuxing.

• Dongguan reported his situation to the Ancestral God School and Human Race, then sent his Light Lord Clone to hunt the Myriad-Heart Man’s other clones.
• Dongguan entered the Tenth Outer Domain Battlefield, killed a crazed clone he found imprisoned in an Alien Race Immortal’s World Ring, and continued hunting the remaining targets.
• Island Master Shihua observed a golden figure transfer the Machine Race Immortal’s causal lines onto itself, leaving the Immortal increasingly empty of cause and effect.
• Dongguan found the route to his target blocked by Island Master Shihua’s sealed space-time, while Lingwu Lord could not break through it.
• Dongguan learned that another clone had entered the Eighth Battlefield and detected Lord Xuxing approaching.

Dongguan faced an attempted ambush by Lord Xuxing and Lingwu Lord while investigating a barrier that triggered the universe origin's rejection. The Lord of Ice Peak and Ancestral God School members arrived, but even the Lord of the Nine Nethers could not break the barrier, which Island Master Shihua revealed he had created; then the Machine Race's Father God appeared.

• Dongguan discovered the Golden Toad's red light had surged and confronted Lord Xuxing, who denied creating the barrier and attacked him with the Vastbillow Realm.
• Lord Xuxing persuaded Lingwu Lord to join him against Dongguan, and Dongguan prepared to fight while considering the strength of his Supreme Treasures and future improvements.
• The Lord of Ice Peak arrived to support Dongguan, followed by the Lord of the Nine Nethers and the Lord of Dark Python, ending the Machine Race's chance to attack.
• The Lord of the Nine Nethers struck the barrier with his seawater attack but failed to break it, and the Lord of Dark Python called out Island Master Shihua.
• Island Master Shihua appeared, reinforced the barrier, and declared that only an eighth-tier attack could break it; a Black Sphere then appeared, and Lord Xuxing addressed it as Father God.

Dongguan hunted Myriad-Heart Man’s clones but discovered they had scattered across the universe, while Island Master Shihua seized a Machine Race Immortal’s Divine Kingdom. Dongguan found the stolen Divine Kingdom and began destroying it, then realized it could serve as artifact-refining material.

• Dongguan killed another of Myriad-Heart Man’s clones, then sensed the remaining clones teleporting to distant locations and suspected Myriad-Heart Man had become an Immortal.
• Island Master Shihua intercepted a Machine Race Immortal’s Divine Kingdom Teleportation and captured him, leaving him unable to sense his Divine Kingdom.
• The Mechanical Race Father God restored the Machine Race Immortal’s awareness, and the Immortal revealed that his Divine Kingdom had been seized.
• Dongguan learned the Divine Kingdom’s coordinates, found it in a Spatial Rift, and slashed it until its origin began to fade.
• Dongguan considered preserving the Divine Kingdom as a source of water-origin material for artifact refining.

Island Master Shihua tried to take the golden humanoid into his Miniature Universe, but the Primal Universe Origin erased him as soon as he crossed the passage. Dongguan’s Light Lord Clone met Myriad-Heart Man, who recounted his past and spoke of a Great Being as strange murmurs began to reach Dongguan.

• Island Master Shihua questioned the golden humanoid, then tried to carry him through a Cosmic Passage into his Miniature Universe.
• The Primal Universe Origin erased the golden humanoid, and Island Master Shihua realized he had been deceived.
• Dongguan’s Light Lord Clone arrived at the eleventh remote location and found the calm, red-haired Myriad-Heart Man.
• Myriad-Heart Man recounted how he escaped life as an arena servant, took a Psychic’s identity, and later became known for wielding a Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon.
• Myriad-Heart Man described gaining the Clone Secret Technique and meeting a Great Being who let him create more clones.
• Myriad-Heart Man murmured words meaning roughly “Eternity,” “snake,” and “infinity,” which seemed to appear beside Dongguan’s ears as if a towering being were about to manifest.

Dongguan resisted the phantom’s attempt to alter his consciousness, but Myriad-Heart Man’s intervention left him overwhelmed and forced to sleep. As the Ancestral God School mobilized the universe to capture him, the Machine Race Father God, Zerg Queen, and Dream Demon Ancestor formed a plan to hunt him down, fearing his Formless Soul and the secrets behind his Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapons.

• A phantom’s oppressive force threatened to reshape Dongguan’s consciousness, but the True Explanation of Comprehension recorded and prevented the permanent changes.
• Myriad-Heart Man attacked Dongguan to buy time, and Dongguan struck him down as his own will began to transform.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God ordered a universe-wide hunt for Dongguan and planned to have captured targets destroyed together.
• The Lord of Ice Peak took the unconscious Dongguan away after the Mechanical Race Father God abandoned his move against them.
• The Mechanical Race Father God told the Zerg Queen and Dream Demon Ancestor that Dongguan had the strength of a Top Universe Overlord and might possess a true Formless Soul.
• The three rulers discussed Myriad-Heart Man’s connection to Dongguan and the Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapons, then resolved to find and kill Dongguan.

Dongguan recovered after encountering Myriad-Heart Man’s mysterious influence, and the Human Race discussed the being and the bounty on Myriad-Heart Man. After receiving partial mission rewards, Dongguan considered his next steps and decided to seek Beast God Inheritances on Purple Thorn Island.

• Dongguan told the Giant Axe Founder and the other Universe Masters about Myriad-Heart Man and the mysterious being whose phantom had altered his consciousness and helped his will break through.
• Lord Youhou questioned why they could discuss a being beyond Universe Strongest Ones without the Universe Origin censoring them, and Lord Long Xing explained that Dongguan had shared no concrete information.
• The Giant Axe Founder said the Human Race would pursue the Ancestral God School’s bounty, while Dongguan explained that Myriad-Heart Man’s rise had involved the Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon and a Clone Secret Technique.
• Dongguan gave Myriad-Heart Man’s damaged Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon to the Human Race, and the Chaos City Lord took it to be studied in Chaos City.
• Dongguan received 150 Glory Points after failing the mission and concluded that he had enough points for two inheritance opportunities.
• Dongguan decided to go to Purple Thorn Island to receive a Beast God Inheritance and later attempt to comprehend the fifth layer.

Dongguan received another inheritance, then investigated the hidden locations of Myriad-Heart Man’s clones and set out for the Wuhua Secret Realm. There, Luo Feng approached Sky Wolf’s palace, ready to test his newly created secret art if attacked.

• Dongguan learned that capturing Myriad-Heart Man’s targets alive could earn Glory Points and inheritance opportunities, then chose to receive an inheritance before hunting them.
• In the Wuhua Secret Realm, Myriad-Heart Man possessed a Qingdou Bandit and hid within its Internal World while preparing to avoid detection.
• After completing his inheritance, Dongguan used his causal vision to track the targets and noticed that the number of causal lines did not match the points shown on the universe map.
• Dongguan waited through successive map refreshes and identified four hidden targets, including ones in the direction of the Wuhua Secret Realm.
• Dongguan left a Divine Power Clone on Purple Thorn Island and used Divine Kingdom Teleportation to head for the Wuhua Secret Realm.
• Luo Feng reached Sky Wolf’s palace in the Ice Prison and prepared to test his secret art if Sky Wolf attacked him.

Dongguan captured the bloody alien and the Qingdou Bandit Venerable, took Ice Prison, and exposed Beifa's attempt to seize a Venerable's cause and effect. Beifa escaped through a Divine Kingdom, while Dongguan pursued his investigation and learned that the Void True Demon God was rational.

• The Purple-Dou Kou Venerable watched the Qingdou Bandit Venerable fight the bloody alien while Beifa tried to approach her, but she vanished when she sensed someone arriving.
• Dongguan sealed the bloody alien and the Qingdou Bandit Venerable in amber, took Ice Prison, and released the Venerable before teleporting away.
• Talasha found Dongguan on an Ice Prison Star and asked about Beifa, but the Purple-Dou Kou Venerable stopped her from attacking.
• Beifa escaped into a Divine Kingdom, where he reflected on his plans to become a Universe Master and the danger Dongguan posed to his cause-and-effect concealment.
• On a planet in the Jinlan Universe Country, a red-haired human offered the Void True Demon God a meeting with the creator of a Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon, and the Void True Demon God recognized that he was rational.

The Lord of Sky Wolf demanded that Venerable Purple-Dou Kou and Venerable Qingdou Bandit release his imprisoned kin, but learned that Venerable Insect Hunter had seized the Ice Prison. After Dongguan freed Luo Feng, he warned him that a Nine Nether Sea clone might suit him better than a World Tree clone, leaving Luo Feng interested in investigating the option before deciding.

• The Lord of Sky Wolf confronted Venerable Purple-Dou Kou and Venerable Qingdou Bandit, who explained that Venerable Insect Hunter had taken the Ice Prison.
• Luo Feng learned from his teacher that Dongguan had seized the Ice Prison and contacted him through the Virtual Universe.
• The Ice Prison expelled Luo Feng, and he met Dongguan on a barren planet.
• Luo Feng asked Dongguan for a World Tree leaf, but Dongguan learned that Luo Feng's Internal World was a trillion kilometers across and cautioned that a World Tree clone might hinder his path.
• Dongguan described the Lord of the Nine Nethers' sea and its World Lord-level inhabitants as a possible source for Luo Feng's third clone.
• Luo Feng thanked Dongguan and decided to visit the Nine Nether Sea before choosing between it and a World Tree clone.

Dongguan captured all 10,085 clones of Myriad-Heart Man, then pursued forging Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapons and strengthening his laws. While Void True Demon God watched him inside an illusion realm with Black Universe Founder, Dongguan completed his comprehension of the earth origin law and began to awaken from the illusion.

• Dongguan learned from the Two-Faced Ancestral God that Myriad-Heart Man had 10,085 clones, and his captured clone was worth ten glory points.
• Dongguan followed the remaining frenzied clones, captured the last of Myriad-Heart Man’s 10,085 clones, and earned over fifty thousand glory points.
• Dongguan forged Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapons, then sought inheritances to improve his law comprehension and crafting skills.
• Across the Primal Stars and a thousand epochs, Dongguan collected materials, forged weapons, comprehended laws, and tested his creations in battle.
• Void True Demon God and Black Universe Founder watched Dongguan’s experiences through an illusion realm; Black Universe Founder realized Dongguan had seen through it, while Void True Demon God planned to release him once he had left behind his secret patterns.
• After comprehending the earth origin law inside the illusion realm, Dongguan recognized it was time to wake from the dream.

Dongguan escaped Void True Demon God’s illusion and completed two more Fusion Laws before turning to the Ancestral God School. Meanwhile, Myriad-Heart Man’s sudden breakthrough transformed nearly two thousand Universe Venerables, whose attempted escape left fewer than a thousand captured beneath the Five-Colored Aurora Lake.

• Void True Demon God let Dongguan leave after he shared the Cause-and-Effect Secret Patterns, and Black Universe Founder refused to pursue him as a disciple.
• Dongguan completed the Fire-Space and Thunder Time Fusion Laws, gained two new forms, and raised his Gene Multiplier to 6,200 times.
• Void True Demon God studied Dongguan’s Cause-and-Effect Demon Weapon and considered how cause and effect might connect to illusion techniques and merging with the Dao.
• Myriad-Heart Man caught Pei Feng Venerable, but Pei Feng Venerable detonated over half his divine power and escaped through Divine Kingdom Teleportation.
• Myriad-Heart Man triggered a breakthrough among nearly two thousand Universe Venerables, who gathered into a giant-snake formation and tried to escape the Ancestral God Palace.
• The Three Ancestor Gods struck the formation with the Five-Colored Aurora Lake; nearly half escaped, while fewer than a thousand were captured and the others pursued them.