Chapter Summaries

Dongguan broke through to become a Universe Master, and Original Ancestor explained how his own suppression had deepened his law comprehension. After discussing Dongguan’s study of world architecture and his resolve to understand and master his own power, Original Ancestor invited him to plan his future path and choose a title.

• Chaos City Lord confirmed that Dongguan had become a Universe Master and credited his accumulated understanding for the breakthrough.
• Original Ancestor appeared and brought Dongguan into a mysterious darkness, where he explained his suppression and how the Primal Stars had affected the place holding him.
• Dongguan told Original Ancestor about studying world architecture on the Primal Stars and argued that true strength meant fully understanding and mastering one’s power.
• Original Ancestor warned Dongguan that some things demanded reverence, while Dongguan insisted that the unknown had to be explored.
• Original Ancestor offered to guide Dongguan and asked whether he wanted the title Insect Hunter Lord.
• Dongguan recognized that choosing a title expressed his aspirations and that his path had to align with his disposition.

Dongguan explained his ambition to witness the universe and everything beyond it, then discussed cultivation paths and his incomplete understanding of the Space Law with Original Ancestor. Original Ancestor suggested Dongguan might be following a path he had not yet recognized and sent him to the Virtual Universe, where Giant Axe and the others were waiting.

• Dongguan described his aspiration to explore the universe and surpass every limit, and Original Ancestor wished him success in transcending reincarnation.
• Dongguan explained the paths of laws and divine power to become a Universe Strongest One and shared his knowledge of Secret Pattern Flow with Original Ancestor.
• Original Ancestor suggested Secret Pattern Flow might not suit Dongguan and hinted that Dongguan's own path was already beneath his feet.
• Dongguan demonstrated his Space Law Secret Arts, and Original Ancestor said his talent was not poor but left the reason unexplained.
• Original Ancestor gave Dongguan information about the Virtual Universe, where Giant Axe and the others were waiting.

Dongguan attended the Human Race’s gathering as its nineteenth Universe Master, accepted a special gift from Giant Axe Founder, and helped decide the Human Race’s participation in the Star Divine Palace. The palace was set to open in ten years, and the Human Race finalized its entrants and auctioned its remaining slots.

• Dongguan arrived at the gathering, exchanged a silent stare with Lord Huang Jian, and sat with the Virtual Universe Company’s Universe Masters.
• Giant Axe Founder welcomed Dongguan as the Human Race’s nineteenth Universe Master and offered him a gift worth a top-tier supreme treasure.
• Dongguan privately requested a particular gift for his future advancement, and Giant Axe Founder agreed after hearing that he had discussed it with Original Ancestor.
• Giant Axe Founder announced that the Star Divine Palace would open in ten years, and the Universe Masters chose which bodies would enter.
• The powers named their Universe Venerable entrants, while Chaos City Lord explained that Luo Feng had declined the invitation during secluded cultivation.
• The Human Race allocated 1,205 keys to its own entrants and decided to auction the remaining 2,066 slots through the Hongmeng Alliance.

After Dongguan became Skywatching Master, news of his rise reached allies and enemies across the universe. While Luo Feng investigated the 64 Statues and Zhang Gui considered an opportunity to gain a clone, Dongguan focused on improving his genes and secret arts.

• The Human Race announced that Insect Hunter Venerable had become Skywatching Master, while Luo Feng sensed that the 64 Statues concealed the secret he sought.
• The Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor and Sitting Mountain Guest discussed Luo Feng’s prospects, and Sitting Mountain Guest declared that his disciple would not be weaker than anyone.
• Zhang Gui learned that his father had become a Universe Master and received an opportunity to possess a fire-attributed Special Lifeform with clones.
• Chen Feng, Miantai, and Xuyue learned that Dongguan had become Skywatching Master and reaffirmed their plan to seek resources and opportunities to become Immortals.
• Leitia discovered that the human Universe Master was Dongguan, the former Insect Hunter Venerable who had abducted a Zerg Universe Venerable.
• Dongguan studied a drop of Giant Axe Founder’s blood to improve his genes and planned to spend ten years training in his Divine Kingdom.

A young Earthstar man defended a declining Star Association base while Aisi weighed offers from rival alliances, and Dongguan discovered that Faith Crystals were draining Earthstar’s intelligent beings. As the Star Divine Palace neared its opening, Dongguan decided to intervene.

• A young Earthstar man rallied the base’s defenders and arranged for Aisi, a Zerg Mother Emperor, to be put to sleep after she warned that the Mother River Alliance and Treebirth Alliance had joined forces.
• The young man read how the Star Association had risen through machinery, dominated the Origin Source Continent, and then declined amid internal conflict and rival alliances.
• Aisi rejected recruitment offers from the Treebirth Alliance, Void Alliance, and Mother River Alliance while considering how their conflict might affect Earthstar World.
• Dongguan condensed a Faith Crystal and recognized that producing such crystals depleted the convictions of Earthstar’s intelligent beings.
• Dongguan decided to act when the Star Divine Palace opened, planning to send his human main body while his Light Lord clone remained in his Divine Kingdom.

Dongguan appeared before Domain Lord Mo Heng and intervened in Earthstar World’s worsening faith crisis by transporting its people to the Origin Continent. Mo Heng and the Zerg Mother Emperor Aisi realized the teleportation restrictions had been lifted, leaving Aisi worried about her future there.

• Domain Lord Mo Heng heard reports about the Vortex Passage handover and void exploration before learning that the next Faith Debate was about to begin.
• Mo Heng reflected on how the collapse of the star faith and the forces from Beyond the Domain had worsened divisions among Earthstar World’s factions.
• Dongguan appeared, criticized Mo Heng’s rule, and declared that he would intervene, then vanished after Mo Heng asked how to cooperate.
• Mo Heng found himself on the Origin Continent beside his subordinate and asked how many people had been transported there.
• The Zerg Mother Emperor Aisi recognized Earthstar World figures, contacted the other factions, and realized the teleportation restrictions had been lifted.

Dongguan reshaped Earthstar World by removing beings at Planetary Level and above, prompting its people to build a society around technology and the Sacred Number 10081. He secretly revived a poisoned youth to observe the new era, while powerful beings gathered near the Star Divine Palace on Planet 81.

• Earthstar World’s people discovered that beings at Planetary Level and above had vanished, and those who later broke through were swallowed by vortices.
• Dongguan encouraged the people to treat mathematics and 10081 as sacred, and they founded the Sacred Number Sect to study numbers and machinery.
• Dongguan sent a wisp of divine power to revive a youth who had died from a toxin found in a powerful being’s ruins.
• The youth awoke with lost memories and discovered that his Spiritual Force had advanced to Apprentice Tier 4, while Dongguan watched through a hidden Divine Power Clone.
• Powerful beings descended through Vortex Passages onto Planet 81 and claimed territories around the Star Divine Palace without approaching it closely.

Experts from across the universe gathered on Primal Star 81 as the Star Divine Palace prepared to open. When it sent out a pillar of light, every being carrying a key was teleported away, including Dongguan and Lord Youhou.

• Giant Axe Founder, Empress, and Meng Cha confronted Demon Ancestor as factions competed for positions around the Star Divine Palace.
• Chaos City Lord, Lord Long Xing, Lord Youhou, and Dongguan discussed which hidden experts and major factions might have come to Primal Star 81.
• The Starry Sky Beast Alliance arrived without the Old Beast God, and Golden Horn Lord led its experts to find a place to stay.
• Dongguan noticed Lightway Master’s arrival, while Giant Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord also reacted to him.
• The Star Divine Palace released a pillar of light, and its keys enveloped Dongguan, Lord Youhou, and the other key holders in teleportation fluctuations.

Dongguan discovered that the Star Divine Palace’s world was the Star Banner and found a hidden gate at its center. After passing through a corridor of murals, he reached the World Heart and met a phantom who identified him as the twenty-sixth Inheritance Heir.

• Dongguan learned that Little Stick was the Star Banner’s flagpole and that the world around him was the banner itself.
• Dongguan followed the flagpole’s resonance underground and uncovered a bronze gate by drilling into the world’s center.
• Dongguan inserted the flagpole into the gate, entered the passage beyond, and recorded the corridor’s murals.
• Dongguan reached a great hall with a throne and spheres, where a phantom called him the twenty-sixth Inheritance Heir.
• Dongguan recognized the phantom as a member of a Star Species.

Dongguan and the other Inheritance Heirs learned that the Star Divine Palace held the Second Star Demon Race’s inheritance and heard about the race’s history from its artifact spirit. The artifact spirit then directed the heirs to ascend the Thrones, while more entrants continued to arrive.

• The Star Divine Palace’s artifact spirit explained that anyone carrying a Star Banner could receive part of the Second Star Demon Race’s inheritance, but the amount depended on their abilities.
• The artifact spirit told Dongguan and the others that the First Star Demon Race had a Progenitor, while the Second Star Demon Race had twenty-three True Gods, including Sunfall True God.
• The artifact spirit explained that surpassing True God required braving reincarnation, and said the inheritance did not include methods for reaching higher levels.
• The artifact spirit stopped answering questions and instructed the Inheritance Heirs to ascend the Thrones and receive the inheritance.
• The eightieth Inheritance Heir reached the Underground Palace, and the eighty-first was later directed onto a Throne as well.

Dongguan sat on the throne and began refining the Star Banner, discovering that its world was a vast Divine Kingdom whose restrictions and power he could gradually learn to control. He started studying the first layer of the Star Demon Race's inheritance while experimenting with new approaches to comprehension.

• Dongguan connected the flagpole to the throne and sensed the Star Banner's world, which stretched more than a light-year across and seemed like a vast, unwieldy body.
• The artifact spirit explained that the Star Banner was made chiefly from a Universe Venerable's Divine Kingdom and that mastering its power required comprehending the inheritance's layers.
• Dongguan connected his consciousness to one of the 10,080 small spheres and learned that the first ten inheritance layers formed an initial threshold for controlling the world.
• Dongguan began comprehending the first layer and considered whether to rely less on Secret Pattern Flow as he explored other cultivation methods.
• Dongguan used his records of consciousness structures and his Comprehension Amplitude research to develop a new approach, while continuing to fall just short in the Space Law.

As the Star Divine Palace inheritance began, the Machine Race and Crystal Race planned retaliation against humanity and the Prison Race for excluding them. Giant Axe Founder explained the inheritance’s linked worlds, and Dongguan discovered that Yan Emperor’s world neighbored his own.

• Giant Axe Founder accelerated the Human Race powerhouses’ time in his Miniature Universe while other factions used their own means to prepare for the inheritance.
• Mechanical Race Father God resurrected Tianchang Venerable, told him to call the newly ascended Insect Hunter Venerable Skywatching Master, and ordered him to join the Machine Race’s planned attack on humanity.
• Mechanical Race Father God and Crystal Race Sacred Lord chose humanity and the Prison Race as targets for retaliation after their factions were excluded from the Star Divine Palace.
• Giant Axe Founder revealed that inheritors who completed the first layer could enter neighboring worlds and that interaction between their owners could cause the worlds to connect.
• Dongguan checked the nine spheres beside his own and saw that one belonged to Yan Emperor, making everyone who noticed the label react with alarm.

Venerable Tuijin reflected on Giant Axe Founder’s arrival and the inheritance while Yan Emperor struggled with his studies and resentment toward Sitting Mountain Guest and humanity. When Dongguan challenged him in the inheritance world, Yan Emperor failed to overpower him and returned to studying, determined to catch up.

• Giant Axe Founder entered Venerable Tuijin’s world to study the inheritance, and Venerable Tuijin accepted his presence despite the artifact spirit’s warning.
• Venerable Tuijin considered the neighboring worlds, his reliance on Giant Axe Founder, and Skywatching Master’s rapid progress through the inheritance.
• Yan Emperor brooded over his slow comprehension, Sitting Mountain Guest’s refusal to help him, and the Tribulation Armor he had surrendered.
• Dongguan’s will entered Yan Emperor’s world, and the two Universe Masters clashed across the world with their wills.
• Dongguan recognized Yan Emperor’s weak control and concentrated consciousness, while Yan Emperor sensed Dongguan’s pity and erupted in anger.
• Yan Emperor realized he could not defeat Dongguan, returned to the Underground Palace, and resolved to fully comprehend a layer so he could strike back.

Dongguan completed the first nine layers of the Star Divine Palace inheritance while Yan Emperor repeatedly disrupted his study. When their worlds connected, Dongguan fought Yan Emperor and improved his secret arts in battle, leaving the two evenly matched as the clash continued.

• Dongguan comprehended the first eight layers of the inheritance, using confrontations with other Universe Venerables to learn how to apply its information.
• Yan Emperor repeatedly descended into Dongguan’s world and disrupted his study, but Dongguan completed the ninth layer after twelve years.
• Dongguan and Yan Emperor’s worlds connected, and Yan Emperor declared that Dongguan would lose his chance to study the inheritance.
• Dongguan hurled his black spear at Yan Emperor and followed with a sword strike, forcing Yan Emperor to abandon his attempt to seize the spear and fight back.
• Dongguan and Yan Emperor battled with their secret arts and supreme treasures, while Dongguan’s techniques gradually improved and the two remained evenly matched.

Giant Axe Founder completed the tenth level of the Star Divine Palace inheritance, learned about its gravity-based origins and the World Beasts, and entered a hall where he met the Zerg Queen. He selected no book yet, choosing to prioritize further inheritance comprehension as the Zerg Queen remained ahead of him.

• Giant Axe Founder fully comprehended the tenth level and used its power to shape the world into a giant and a battleaxe before restoring it.
• The artifact spirit explained that the Star Divine Palace was founded on the Earth-Space Beast God's Divine Kingdom and had been created to fight the World Beasts.
• The artifact spirit told Giant Axe Founder that he was the second to complete ten levels and urged him to connect to the great sphere of light for more inheritances.
• Giant Axe Founder entered a magnificent palace, found the Zerg Queen in the first seat, and took the second seat.
• Giant Axe Founder reviewed the available inheritances, including the General Explanations and Sunfall Essays, but chose to focus on progressing through the Star Divine Palace inheritance.

Dongguan fought Yan Emperor and used a newly developed secret art that seeded an expanding black-and-white explosion inside Yan Emperor’s divine body. Yan Emperor escaped the blast, and Dongguan named the move “Fission” before turning to the apparently ownerless world.

• Dongguan and Yan Emperor continued their battle, and Yan Emperor’s fury pushed his nearly Strongest-level secret art to greater power.
• Dongguan switched between spear and sword attacks, exploited Yan Emperor’s reliance on instinct, and planted a black sphere inside his divine body.
• The sphere burst into an expanding black-and-white explosion that consumed Yan Emperor’s divine power, but Yan Emperor escaped the connecting world through the blast.
• Dongguan explained how his secret art combined several powers and could reach peak Tier 6 strength, though it required demanding conditions and was difficult to control.
• Dongguan named the secret art “Fission” and turned toward the world after Yan Emperor fled.

Dongguan chose to occupy Yan Emperor’s former inheritance position with a divine power clone, then connected the worlds and comprehended the Tenth Layer. Yan Emperor waited outside the Star Divine Palace for another inheritance selection, while Dongguan entered the Virtual Space in twelfth place.

• The Artifact Spirit offered Dongguan the choice to select a replacement heir or occupy Yan Emperor’s position himself, and Dongguan chose to occupy it with a divine power clone.
• Dongguan went to Yan Emperor’s connected world and began comprehending the inheritance from the First Layer while his clone remained in the original position.
• Yan Emperor appeared outside the Star Divine Palace, waited for another Token to emerge, and sent avatars toward different Space Vortexes while controlling the Primal Star’s space-time.
• A Universe Venerable of the Yan God Race delivered resources to restore Yan Emperor’s damaged Divine Body, and Yan Emperor remained resentful toward Dongguan.
• Dongguan comprehended the Tenth Layer, entered the Virtual Space, and confirmed that he ranked twelfth.

Dongguan entered the Star Divine Palace inheritance and exchanged for Life Gene, a record on the divine power path and life genes. After discussing his plans with Chaos City Lord, he returned his attention to comprehending the palace’s inheritance.

• Chaos City Lord told Dongguan that the Zerg Queen led the rankings with thirteen levels comprehended, while Giant Axe Founder, Sitting Mountain Guest, and Northern Border Alliance Leader had each comprehended twelve.
• Dongguan searched the inheritance pillar for cause-and-effect records, then chose Life Gene after confirming that Giant Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord had not exchanged for it.
• Dongguan received Life Gene’s research methods and diagrams, and decided to combine its orthodox approach with his own faster, unorthodox methods.
• Chaos City Lord questioned Dongguan about pursuing the divine power path, and Dongguan explained that he intended to study it without abandoning the law path.
• Chaos City Lord advised Dongguan to focus on the Star Divine Palace inheritance and save further exchanges for every ten levels he fully comprehended.

Dongguan questioned the Artifact Spirit about the Star Demon Race’s open approach to sharing inheritances, then changed his appearance with the Bai Yu Pearl and resumed comprehending the inheritance. On the Primal Star, Yan Emperor was approached by the Machine Race, which offered to cooperate against humanity and Dongguan.

• Dongguan learned that comprehending ten levels would let him log into the Virtual Space again and choose another inheritance, while the Artifact Spirit dismissed concerns about inheritances leaking.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that the Star Demon Race had shared its Secret Arts openly and encouraged others to find flaws in them so its powerhouses could improve their arts.
• Dongguan used the Bai Yu Pearl to become Bai Yu Master, and the Artifact Spirit warned that Sitting Mountain Guest might recognize the method and promised Dongguan a gift if he comprehended 126 levels.
• Dongguan returned to comprehension, while the nine worlds beside Emperor’s remained disconnected after Desire Emperor’s defeat and a Space Gate remained in the Underground Palace.
• On the Primal Star, Yan Emperor waited for another opportunity and angrily questioned a Machine Race Mechanical Puppet about its visit.
• The Machine Race proposed cooperating with Yan Emperor against humanity and Skywatching Master, and Yan Emperor did not reject the offer outright.

Dongguan explained to Chaos City Lord that his two base points let him make faster progress through the inheritance, while he concealed the full extent of his advancement. Chaos City Lord then summoned the Universe Masters to report a Machine Race invasion, and revealed that enemy Universe Masters had appeared inside Jinlan Universe Country.

• Dongguan explained that the inheritance grew more complex after the tenth layer and that his two base points gave him an advantage.
• Dongguan developed a new Comprehension Amplitude mode to improve his study speed.
• Chaos City Lord summoned Dongguan and the other Universe Masters to the Virtual Universe for a private meeting.
• Chaos City Lord announced that the Machine Race had invaded and Mechanical Race Father God had arrived outside the Primal Secret Region.
• The Universe Masters offered to join the defense, and Chaos City Lord told Dongguan that enemy Universe Masters had appeared inside Jinlan Universe Country.