Chapter Summaries

The Machine Race Father God attacked the Jinlan Secret Realm, using a space-crossing fluctuation to kill countless inhabitants and seize Calamity Mistress. Dongguan arrived to find the living beings across the realm slaughtered, and his anger toward the Machine Race began to rise.

• Dongguan left the Universe Masters to respond to the threat at the Jinlan Secret Realm while Giant Axe Founder remained at the inheritance.
• A young man and a Plain-Clothed Strongman at a space facility were caught in a strange fluctuation that reduced people across the secret realm to ash.
• The Machine Race Father God revealed himself at the secret realm's core and attacked Calamity Mistress, who tried to hold out until help arrived.
• Dongguan's Light Lord Clone confronted the devastation across the secret realm and found that its living beings had been wiped out.
• In the Primal Secret Region, Chaos City Lord, Lord Peng Gong, and Lord Huang Jian faced the Mechanical Race Father God and its Universe Masters, who called the attack retaliation.

Humanity and the Machine Race agreed to halt their retaliation at the conflict between Dongguan and Lord Xuxing, leaving Dongguan resentful of the attempt to bind him to a persistent rival. Inside a cauldron in the Jinlan Secret Realm, survivors grieved their powerlessness as the Desire Emperor approached a valuable treasure.

• The human Universe Masters discussed Dongguan’s clones and worried whether he could endure the fighting, while the Mechanical Race Father God justified his race’s attack as retaliation.
• Lord Qingdong warned that further escalation would benefit the Zerg and Demon races, and the Mechanical Race Father God declared the conflict would stop with Lord Xuxing and Dongguan.
• Dongguan received news of the agreement and realized the Machine Race intended to tie him to Lord Xuxing, a rival difficult to kill.
• The Dong Xuan World Lord lamented his weakness to Xia Lan, while Youyue and Zhang Yu discussed how far Dongguan had surpassed them.
• The Desire Emperor bypassed the defenses around the secret realm’s core and reached out to seize what he believed was an Origin Supreme Treasure.

Dongguan fought Yan Emperor and Lord Xuxing while the Light-Chasing Lord destroyed devices planted across the secret realm. After Dongguan detonated his Black Gourd and sacrificed his clone, he unleashed his accumulated Fission power against Lord Xuxing, whose fate remained unresolved.

• Dongguan stopped Yan Emperor from taking the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron long enough for Venerable Huozhen to escape with it.
• Yan Emperor and Lord Xuxing joined forces against Dongguan, while the Light-Chasing Lord destroyed the Mechanical Race devices at the coordinates Dongguan sent him.
• Lord Xuxing and Yan Emperor prepared to purge the secret realm, and Dongguan detonated his Black Gourd, destroying his clone in the explosion.
• Dongguan focused the remaining flames into a strike against Lord Xuxing and unleashed Fission power at the peak of the sixth order.

Dongguan survived the Mechanical Race Father God’s search and questioned whether risking his avatar to save others had been worthwhile. After the crisis ended, the human Universe Masters discussed the aftermath, their growing strength, unresolved internal disputes, and the Yan Emperor’s role, leaving retaliation and possible appeals to Luo Feng or Sitting Mountain Guest under consideration.

• Dongguan reformed his avatar and asked the Light-Chasing Lord whether he should have stayed out of the battle, then reflected on what he wanted to pursue.
• The Mechanical Race Father God withdrew, and the human Universe Masters relaxed after the Chaos City Lord confirmed he had left Human Territory.
• The Chaos City Lord rejected Lord Huang Jian’s proposal to exploit the Zerg’s vulnerability and argued that the humans should compensate the Skywatching Master for his losses and service.
• Lord Qingdong urged Lord Huang Jian to settle his grudge with Dongguan, but Lord Huang Jian refused, leaving their pride-driven conflict unresolved.
• The human Universe Masters discussed the Yan Emperor and the Desire Emperor, while the Chaos City Lord considered asking Luo Feng or Sitting Mountain Guest for help.

Lord Xuxing’s Virtual Form Clone was destroyed by Dongguan’s residual force, which then pursued his main body and repeatedly threatened his resurrection. Meanwhile, Dongguan resurrected the fallen lives of Jinlan Secret Realm, accepted the human race’s support, and prepared to shape future universe-wide selections.

• Mechanical Race Father God discovered that Dongguan’s residual force had destroyed Lord Xuxing’s main body and continued to threaten him whenever he tried to regain a body.
• Lord Xuxing and Mechanical Race Father God recognized the force as a cause-and-effect attack resembling Myriad-Heart Man’s, then agreed to keep the connection secret from other powers.
• Dongguan used Reverse Time and Space to resurrect the lives killed in Jinlan Secret Realm, despite Chaos City Lord’s warning that the effort meant little in the long run.
• Chaos City Lord offered Dongguan top-tier combat supreme treasures as compensation, and Dongguan accepted them while asking to take charge of universe-wide selections and gain greater authority over the Universe Countries.
• After Chaos City Lord left, Dongguan resolved to adjust the Genius Battle and Strongest Battle formats and personally meet the selected geniuses, beginning with experiments in Jinlan Universe Country.

Mechanical Race Father God stripped away Lord Xuxing’s memories and let the remaining consciousness survive the erasing power, creating Newborn, who accepted his old memories but began again as a different being. Meanwhile, Dongguan climbed the Star Divine Palace rankings as observers wondered what he was doing, and a new Universe Master appeared in fifty-seventh place.

• Lord Xuxing chose to have his memories removed because the erasing power would destroy him if he returned to a body as himself.
• Mechanical Race Father God repeatedly exposed backups of Lord Xuxing’s memories to the power until it weakened, then placed the newborn consciousness in a mechanical body.
• The newborn consciousness endured the remaining power, received Lord Xuxing’s memories, and learned that it was no longer the original Lord Xuxing.
• Mechanical Race Father God gave Newborn the Evolution Heart, and Newborn joined the Machine Race despite losing Lord Xuxing’s former abilities.
• Dongguan rose from twenty-fourth to twenty-third place in the Star Divine Palace, then advanced from level 12 to level 14 within a year, drawing the attention of powerful figures.
• A relatively unfamiliar, cold Universe Master appeared in fifty-seventh place with the number 10 beside his position.

Dongguan corrected the influence the aura had exerted on his consciousness and continued advancing through the inheritance while concealing his true ranking. After a hundred years, he had comprehended level 109, and the Artifact Spirit said it was time to enter the third stage.

• Dongguan examined his consciousness structure and barely shook off the aura’s influence, while his will advanced to the limit of a Universe Master.
• Dongguan asked the Artifact Spirit to conceal his rapid progress so he could keep his ranking unchanged.
• After the Star Divine Palace had been open for a hundred years, the heirs gathered in the Virtual Space and Northern Border Alliance Leader led the rankings at level 63.
• Dongguan fully comprehended level 109, astonishing the Artifact Spirit, while he realized his focused comprehension had slowed his progress in unrelated fields.
• Dongguan asked about the Artifact Spirit’s promised gift, and the Artifact Spirit said it would be given at level 126 before announcing that the third stage was about to begin.

Dongguan learned that the Star Divine Palace’s third stage would begin in eight years and last eighty years, then chose not to reveal his full strength as the ranked seats began transforming. The stage opened with the top-ranked figures disappearing into pillars of light and returning to find their seats changed, though the purpose remained unknown.

• Dongguan learned that the third stage would begin in eight years, last eighty years, and be followed by the Final Trial.
• Dongguan reviewed his progress through the inheritance levels and decided to keep his abilities hidden rather than rush to the front of the rankings.
• The Zerg Queen advanced to the 64th level and took first place, while the Giant Axe Founder reached the 63rd level and remained fourth.
• A pillar of light enveloped the Zerg Queen, who returned to find her seat gilded gold and its number gone.
• The Northern Border Alliance Leader, Sitting Mountain Guest, and Giant Axe Founder were each taken by a pillar of light in the following years, and their seats turned bright silver, then changed in turn.

Giant Axe Founder discussed the Machine Race’s invasion with the Human Race’s Universe Masters, confirmed that the race would compensate Dongguan for his losses, and asked about the powerful treasure he had used. Dongguan explained his Fission secret art and offered to teach it to the others, hoping they could help him improve it.

• Giant Axe Founder ended the discussion of his absence during the Machine Race’s invasion and accepted that Dongguan would pursue his own grudge against the Machine Race.
• Giant Axe Founder promised the race would compensate Dongguan for his war losses and asked about the Supreme Treasure he had detonated.
• Dongguan explained that his Fission secret art could unleash immense power under strict conditions, including a peak Tier 6 limit in the Primal Universe.
• Dongguan offered to teach Fission to the Human Race’s Universe Masters so they could help him improve it.
• Dongguan considered teaching the Divine Power Burning Secret Technique as well, since he had reached a bottleneck in developing its second layer.

Dongguan shared his Fission and Divine Power Burning secret arts with the human Universe Masters, who agreed to keep them secret and owe him a favor. Giant Axe Founder explained the Star Divine Palace’s Star Banners, and Dongguan chose a time-type higher-rank banner before returning to his studies.

• Dongguan showed the Universe Masters his Fission secret art and Divine Power Burning Secret Technique, prompting Original Ancestor to ask whether he had deciphered an innate secret technique.
• Giant Axe Founder ordered the secret arts kept from outsiders and arranged for everyone present to owe Dongguan a favor instead of awarding him supreme treasure points.
• Giant Axe Founder explained that the Star Divine Palace’s 10,080 tokens were Star Banners, with higher- and lower-rank banners that could combine into small star arrays.
• Giant Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord chose higher-rank banners of time and space, respectively, and Dongguan later chose a time banner when his turn came.
• Dongguan put away his banner and resumed studying level 114, aiming to comprehend the remaining levels before the fourth stage.

After decades of cultivation, Dongguan reached level 123 but still had three levels left to comprehend. The fourth stage began with a final trial, whose greatest possible reward was information about the source of the Great Tribulation.

• Dongguan spent years negotiating limited cooperation with Lord Minglian and eventually comprehended level 123 in the Underground Palace.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that the banners had been simplified to make the inheritance easier and that mastering all 126 levels would allow more flexible control.
• Lord Chi became the eightieth Inheritance Heir and received the upper Time Banner as the final banner was assigned.
• The Artifact Spirit announced that the first final trial would begin in ten years and that the participants could use the interval to comprehend and prepare.
• The Artifact Spirit said the trials offered no rewards beyond a chance to learn about the Great Tribulation's source and urged the participants to give up.

The Giant Axe Meeting discussed the Star Divine Palace’s final trial and the threat of World Beasts, agreeing that humanity should make every effort to face the trial. The Giant Axe Founder considered investigating the Dim Land, while the Chaos City Lord urged him to stay cautious.

• The Giant Axe Founder asked the Universe Masters what they thought of the final trial, and they reviewed what was known about the World Beast tribulation.
• Lord Youhou supported entering the trial, and the other Universe Masters agreed that its ten-year cost was worthwhile.
• Dongguan argued that humanity should prepare because the Original Ancestor might escape his confinement and World Beasts could threaten them in the future.
• The Original Ancestor watched unseen and reflected that even breaking through would not let him take possession of the Primal Universe’s origin.
• The Lord of Darkness speculated that the Star Divine Palace’s appearance might mean World Beasts would emerge in their Reincarnation Era.
• The Giant Axe Founder considered visiting the Dim Land, but agreed to first seek information about World Beasts in the final trial after the Chaos City Lord urged caution.

After ten years of preparation, Dongguan and the other Inheritance Heirs began the final trial, which revealed a World Beast and the Starry Sky Grand Formation. Dongguan led his 126-world cluster as the Artifact Spirit introduced the formation and its first opponent.

• Over ten years, Dongguan’s two identities commanded separate world clusters, while the factions organized themselves into eighty clusters and alliances.
• Dongguan stopped short of comprehending the 125th layer and reflected that he needed more time to master the final layers.
• The Artifact Spirit announced the final trial, and Dongguan connected his consciousness to his world while his Light Lord Clone controlled the Bai Yu Master avatar.
• Dongguan’s 126 worlds joined into a giant existence, and he recognized gravity-based control of space-time as a method tied to the Earth-Space Fusion Law.
• Dongguan coordinated with Jiu Feng Venerable and other faction leaders as the world clusters gathered into regions across the void.
• A First Order World Beast appeared, and the Artifact Spirit explained that the first trial layer would demonstrate the Starry Sky Grand Formation before the next layer began ten years later.

Sunfall True God used the Starry Sky Grand Formation to demonstrate how its 10,080 stars could counter a World Beast’s destructive power and defend against its soul attacks. Dongguan experienced the formation’s full power before Sunfall True God ended the demonstration and addressed those who would come after him.

• Sunfall True God appeared through a projection and drew the 10,080 powerhouses into the Starry Sky Grand Formation, while Dongguan’s consciousness entered the projection.
• Dongguan used the formation to strike the World Beast and learned that divine power could cancel out its destructive power, though the World Beast escaped by splitting into countless forms.
• Sunfall True God blocked the World Beast’s soul attack with a barrier of starlight and black holes, demonstrating a defense that protected against both material and soul attacks.
• Sunfall True God continued displaying the formation’s methods against the World Beast, and the observers realized the demonstration represented multiple World Beasts’ abilities.
• Sunfall True God used the formation’s full power to destroy every avatar and the World Beast’s true body, then ended the demonstration and turned to address those who came after him.

Dongguan considered Sunfall True God's warning about preserving his inheritance, then prepared for the next World Beast trial while continuing to comprehend the Starry Sky Grand Formation. The Black Universe Founder emerged from seclusion with deeper insight into light and darkness and set out to find his disciple.

• Sunfall True God urged the Inheritance Heirs to preserve his inheritance and entrust it to the Holy Land Universes if no one transcended reincarnation within three eras, then dissipated.
• The Artifact Spirit announced that the second trial would begin in ten years and require the Universe Strongest Ones to face a Tier 2 World Beast; it also explained the six tiers and the simulated World Beast King.
• Dongguan joined his consciousness to the 126 worlds and focused on comprehending the final layer, Separation of All Worlds.
• The Black Universe Founder emerged from seclusion in the Dark Universe, moved the Heavenly Mulberry Tree's continent out of it, and reflected on his new understanding of light and darkness.
• The Black Universe Founder decided to seek out his disciple to discuss Universe Architecture and went to ask around about the disciple's recent battles.

The factions tested their Starry Sky Grand Formation against a second-order World Beast, but internal distrust weakened their attacks and let the beast break the formation. They defeated it with Small Star Formations and promised to cooperate in the next trial, though their unity remained uncertain.

• The factions formed the Starry Sky Grand Formation and took turns attacking the World Beast, but many members secretly held back power.
• Northern Border Alliance Leader called for everyone to attack with full strength, yet the factions continued withholding power until the World Beast voluntarily split into incarnations.
• The World Beast's soul attack and red beams disrupted one world group, whose 126 powerful beings were swallowed into a Black Mist Cocoon, breaking the grand formation into Small Star Formations.
• The remaining factions formed Small Star Formations, coordinated their attacks, and drove the World Beast away from the cocoon before wearing it down and defeating it.
• The Universe Strongest Ones promised to unite during the next trial, though they were unsure whether they would keep that promise.

Dongguan completed the Small Star Formation inheritance, earned a set of Ten Thousand Cause Stones, and learned how they could be used to recreate the Star Divine Palace and Star Banners. The Artifact Spirit explained the treasures’ purpose against World Beasts and warned that Dongguan might not reach the later trials, while Dongguan privately suspected World Beasts were already fighting in the Dim Land.

• Dongguan completed all 126 levels of the inheritance and gained mastery of the Small Star Formation, a Tier 4 secret art that could reach Tier 5 power with 125 cooperating Universe Venerables.
• The Artifact Spirit rewarded Dongguan with 10,080 Ten Thousand Cause Stones, the final set left by its master, and opened all inheritances in the Virtual Space to him.
• The Artifact Spirit revealed that the Ten Thousand Cause Stones could regenerate and help recreate the Star Divine Palace and its Star Banners, using a living Universe Master's Divine Kingdom as the palace's main material.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that the Star Divine Palace and Star Banners were designed to fight lower-tier World Beasts, but could not stop a Tier 6 World Beast or the World Beast King.
• Dongguan joked that World Beasts might already be fighting in the Dim Land, then privately concluded that this was highly likely.

The Star Divine Palace closed after the powerful beings failed the fifth trial, and Dongguan reflected on Sitting Mountain Guest’s hidden strength and the World Beasts. Afterward, several factions reacted to what had happened, while Dongguan arrived in the Heiji Secret Realm and Black Universe Founder prepared to take his disciple to the Universe Ocean.

• The Star Divine Palace sank into Primal Star 81 after the powerful beings departed, and Dongguan kept the Ten Thousand Cause Stone while concluding that the fifth trial had been impossible to pass.
• Dongguan recalled that the powerful beings had passed the third and fourth trials, though Giant Axe Founder suspected Sitting Mountain Guest had secretly influenced their survival.
• The factions failed the fifth trial after Sitting Mountain Guest revealed only that the fifth-order World Beast wielded the Destruction origin, leaving them more wary of him.
• Black Universe Founder learned about the Star Divine Palace and prepared to take his disciple to the Universe Ocean when Dongguan entered his range of perception.
• The Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor grew more wary of Sitting Mountain Guest, while Luo Feng continued studying secret arts.
• The Three Ancestor Gods asked the origin will about World Beasts and received confirmation that they were real, but their later inquiry about the Dim Land drew no response.

Dongguan continued researching life genes and secret arts while considering how to use Snake’s aura and the Ten Thousand Cause Stone safely. After choosing three supreme treasures from Black Universe Founder, he prepared to enter the Universe Ocean in three days.

• Dongguan divided his research between life genes and secret arts, aiming to strengthen his combat ability before entering the Universe Ocean.
• Dongguan considered forging a treasure with the Ten Thousand Cause Stone and studied the risks of his Divine Kingdom’s devouring trait and Snake’s aura.
• Dongguan reflected on whether simulation could lead to a new path for his secret arts, but chose not to ask Original Ancestor for guidance.
• Dongguan met Black Universe Founder in the Heiji Secret Realm and chose a war blade, armor, and domain-type supreme treasure, giving up the flying palace.
• Black Universe Founder told Dongguan he would take him to the Universe Ocean in three days, and Dongguan entered the palace’s side hall to familiarize himself with the treasures.

Dongguan refined three Supreme Treasures and followed Black Universe Founder through the Toya Black Hole into the Universe Ocean. As Dongguan absorbed a wisp of chaos flow, an aura within him stirred.

• Dongguan refined the Tribulation-Shattering Blade, Force-Transforming Armor, and Blood Sand Map, then studied their Secret Patterns.
• Black Universe Founder gave Dongguan a map of his Universe Ocean explorations and required him to personally travel any routes before sharing their maps.
• Black Universe Founder and Dongguan entered the Toya Black Hole, where Dongguan tested the Force-Transforming Armor against its twisting force.
• The two passed through the black hole into the Universe Ocean, and Dongguan absorbed a wisp of chaos flow.
• Black Universe Founder was surprised, and Dongguan felt an aura inside him stir.