Chapter Summaries

Dongguan reassured Wenxing that the Sacred Number Civilization had proved itself during the battle with Lord Beiyu and that its past crisis was forgiven. He offered to open the Divine Kingdom to the outside world and urged the civilization to join him in using technology to analyze the cultivation system.

• Wenxing asked Dongguan whether he had been the old mentor who guided him early in life, and Dongguan confirmed it.
• Wenxing confessed that the Sacred Number Civilization feared its technological path had failed and that the civilization might lose its purpose.
• Dongguan praised the civilization for intervening in a battle between Universe Masters without an Immortal and declared the previous matter closed.
• Dongguan promised to open a passage to the outside world while warning Wenxing to guard the civilization against depravity.
• Dongguan shared his goal of having civilizations collectively analyze the cultivation system, and Wenxing realized Dongguan wanted them to pursue the technological path.

Dongguan explained the link between cultivation and technology to Wenxing, urged the Sacred Number Civilization to remain true to its ideals, and resurrected selected fallen warriors. His insights formed the Constant Change Origin, which he tested in Liuzhong Mountain before sensing a Supreme Treasure’s emergence.

• Dongguan told Wenxing that cultivation and technology were different expressions of seeking truth, and revealed that he had inspired the Sacred Number Civilization’s faith in 10081.
• Dongguan asked Wenxing to regard the Sacred Number Civilization as a fellow seeker of the Dao, and Wenxing contacted the others to warn them not to degenerate as they opened channels to the universe.
• Dongguan reversed time and space to resurrect selected fallen warriors, bearing the Universe Operation Rules’ damage, while the Light-Chasing Lord advised him against it.
• Dongguan gained insight into constant change, forming the sixth Satellite in his Mental Space and naming it Constant Change.
• Dongguan used Hunyuan Vision to examine Liuzhong Mountain’s patterns, then sensed a Supreme Treasure emerge and flew toward it.

Dongguan found an intact Flying Palace-type Peak Supreme Treasure buried in Liuzhong Mountain's Inner Domain and dug it out as Nine-Headed Demon Lord approached. Elsewhere, Beast Ancestor developed murderous intent over a boat emerging in the Core Land.

• Dongguan waited for Divine Storm to weaken, then entered it to search for the treasure.
• Nine-Headed Demon Lord noticed the dissipating storm and entered, hoping to find a Heart of God.
• Dongguan found an ancient flying boat buried in the glacier and spent three and a half days digging it out.
• Dongguan failed to claim ownership of the flying boat immediately and hurried away.
• Nine-Headed Demon Lord found the deep pit, realized a flying palace had emerged, and gave chase.
• Beast Ancestor developed murderous intent as a boat was unearthed in Liuzhong Mountain's Core Land.

Dongguan filled and partially understood the Void-Drifting Boat, then was intercepted by the Nine-Headed Demon Lord while leaving Thundercloud Glacier. After identifying Dongguan as the Skywatching Master, the Nine-Headed Demon Lord attacked again and trapped him beneath successive layers of his Secret Art.

• Dongguan infused the ancient boat with divine power for several months until he learned it was the Void-Drifting Boat and received its First Layer control Secret Art.
• Dongguan began studying the Void-Drifting Boat’s Secret Patterns and discovered that his divine power supplied its energy.
• The Nine-Headed Demon Lord confronted Dongguan and demanded the Void-Drifting Boat, then attacked when Dongguan refused.
• Dongguan broke through a corner of the Nine-Headed Demon Lord’s Tier 9 attack with his Tier 8 Giant Axe technique and escaped its first strike.
• The Nine-Headed Demon Lord recognized Dongguan as the Skywatching Master and launched successive overlapping attacks, reinforcing the point Dongguan had breached.

Dongguan studied the Nine-Headed Demon Lord’s trapping Secret Art until the Demon Lord attacked with a powerful Supreme Treasure-assisted move. Dongguan revealed the Void-Drifting Boat, wounded the Demon Lord with a sudden burst of speed, and fled as the Demon Lord pursued him.

• Dongguan endured the Nine-Headed Demon Lord’s trapping Secret Art while observing it, and the Demon Lord grew impatient when Dongguan’s aura did not weaken.
• The Nine-Headed Demon Lord transformed into a nine-headed beast and struck Dongguan with an attack that surpassed Tier 9 in power.
• Dongguan summoned the Void-Drifting Boat, which blocked the attack without taking a mark, and the Nine-Headed Demon Lord recognized it as a Supreme Treasure.
• Dongguan used the Demon Lord’s distraction to strike at a hundred thousand times the speed of light, gouging and sealing a chunk of the Demon Lord’s flesh.
• Dongguan vanished with the Void-Drifting Boat and fled at increasing speed, while the Nine-Headed Demon Lord gave chase.

Dongguan escaped the Nine-Headed Demon Lord by entering Liuzhong Mountain’s Myriad Space-Times, then investigated True Shadow Venerable and uncovered the deception at the foundation of the Machine Race’s hierarchy. He left the secret exposed, while the fate of True Shadow Venerable remained undecided.

• The Nine-Headed Demon Lord gave up pursuing Dongguan into the Myriad Space-Times, and Dongguan followed a river deeper into the region.
• Dongguan finished his affairs in his Divine Kingdom and began examining True Shadow Venerable, formerly known as Lord Xuxing.
• Dongguan used his understanding of cause and effect and constant change to probe True Shadow Venerable’s consciousness and read its program code.
• Dongguan realized the Machine Race’s system of master-subordinate bonds had been built on a lie established by the Mechanical Race Father God.

Dongguan uncovered the biological basis behind the Machine Race’s master-acknowledgment system and realized it was a restriction rather than a necessity. He and Luo Feng considered whether exposing the secret would help humanity or create a more dangerous Machine Race, and decided to consult the others.

• After studying True Shadow Venerable and the records of the Lord of Star Refinement, Dongguan investigated how genes and life functioned across different species.
• Dongguan concluded that active genes responded to cultivation and inheritance, while Earth’s pre-Nirvana inert genes had been unusual.
• On Thunder Island, Luo Feng asked Dongguan whether the Machine Race’s acknowledgment of masters was a scam, and Dongguan explained that it was only one method imposed by a restriction.
• Dongguan considered exposing the Machine Race’s secret, weighing the chaos it would cause against the possibility that the Machine Race would break its shackles and grow more dangerous.
• Luo Feng proposed discussing the matter with the others at a Giant Axe Meeting.

Dongguan explained his theory that the Machine Race’s master-acknowledgment system originated from the Mechanical Race Father God and may have hindered the race’s potential. He offered to disrupt that system to give humanity time before a future conflict, leaving the Giant Axe Founder and the other Universe Masters to decide whether the risk was worthwhile.

• Dongguan described how intelligent life and Evolution Hearts combined to create the Machine Race, using Earth’s artificial intelligence and the Three Laws of Robotics as examples.
• Luo Feng reflected on Babata’s bond with Hu Yanbo and considered whether intelligent life truly needed to acknowledge a master.
• Dongguan theorized that the Lord of Star Refinement created the Mechanical Race Father God with a directive to grow stronger, and that the Father God later made master acknowledgment the Machine Race’s primary logic.
• Dongguan concluded that the master system made the Machine Race more flexible but suppressed its talent and comprehension, a theory the Original Ancestor silently recognized as explaining the Virtual Universe’s main server.
• Dongguan asked whether he should devise measures to disrupt the Machine Race’s system, arguing that the resulting chaos could give humanity time to prepare for its enemies.

The Universe Masters agreed to exploit conflicts within other powers to buy humanity time to assimilate the Duan Donghe Inheritance. In Machine Race territory, Dongguan prepared to unleash a program that would free Machine Race members from their master-acknowledgment directive and destabilize their hierarchy.

• The Universe Masters discussed exploiting divisions among the Machine Race, Demon Race, Zerg, and other powers, and Giant Axe Founder kept the strategy focused on buying time for humanity.
• Dongguan reflected that humanity’s strength and Chaos City Lord’s potential breakthrough meant the other powers could not easily attack as they had in the original timeline.
• In a remote Machine Race mineral planet, Dongguan emerged with a USB-like device containing his newly created “freedom” program.
• Dongguan explained that the program changed the Machine Race’s directive from serving a master to acting for itself, and included a function that allowed it to copy itself.
• Dongguan expected the program to cause initial chaos before the Machine Race formed a new order, while recognizing that it could later become a weapon against other races.

Dongguan spread the Freedom program through the Machine Race while humanity stirred internal conflicts among hostile powers and studied the Duan Donghe Inheritance. As the Freedom Alliance formed and the Anti-Human Alliance struggled to recruit members, the rival leaders faced growing unrest and uncertainty.

• Dongguan planted Freedom across 10,081 locations in the Machine Race Territory, where it could awaken infected machines to spread it and resist their masters.
• Humanity began provoking conflicts among hostile races while its powerful members studied the Duan Donghe Inheritance and waited for the Pu World to arrive.
• Island Master Shihua gathered undecided Universe Masters and formed the Freedom Alliance as a third faction.
• Lightway Master reconsidered joining either major faction and decided to explore the invitation from another Universe Master.
• The five leaders of the Anti-Human Alliance discussed recruitment difficulties and unrest within the Machine Race, Demon Race, and other powers, then agreed to keep recruiting.

After two epochs trapped in Liuzhong Mountain, Dongguan returned to the Primal Universe and fused his human main body with his light lord clone, breaking through the 10,081-times life-gene bottleneck. He began recording his new insights while considering whether Sitting Mountain Guest could explain the remaining mysteries of life.

• Island Master Shihua’s negotiations stalled after the Original Ancestor uncovered the Purple Moon Universe’s involvement, and another two epochs passed amid the factions’ indecision.
• Dongguan escaped Liuzhong Mountain with the Void-Drifting Boat and several other Supreme Treasures, then returned to the Primal Universe through Divine Kingdom Teleportation.
• Dongguan fused his human main body and light lord clone and raised his life-gene level to 10,082 times.
• Dongguan discovered that separately developing each body’s template could let their next fusion reach 10,083 times, and he resolved to keep advancing this way.
• Dongguan concluded that life could be understood as a field but remained puzzled by Earth’s dormant genes, and he considered seeking answers from Sitting Mountain Guest.
• The True Explanation of Comprehension recorded a special comprehension-amplitude pattern as Dongguan continued accumulating knowledge.

Dongguan visited Earthstar World to reflect on the Sacred Number Civilization’s support system and created a baby clone to study how a life shaped by civilization might develop new Comprehension Amplitudes. He left the child in an orphanage and resumed solving the Rhino Emperor Game, reaching 5241 games.

• Dongguan walked through Earthstar World and considered how the Sacred Number Civilization supported its people through education, cultivation, and opportunities to enter the Primal Universe.
• Dongguan created a baby boy with a soul and consciousness structure resembling his own, intending to observe how the child’s growth might develop a new Comprehension Amplitude.
• Dongguan left the crying baby outside an orphanage, where a middle-aged woman found him and carried him inside.
• Dongguan revealed himself nearby and reflected that experiencing civilization from within might help him surpass the 2000-game Comprehension Amplitude threshold.
• Dongguan continued solving the Rhino Emperor Game and reached 5241 games, while the Human Race began using it to screen geniuses alongside the Immortal Altar and the Illusion Sea.

The human side prepared for the war that Chaos City Lord's imminent breakthrough could trigger, while Dongguan told Black Universe Founder the conflict was near and arranged to test an idea in his Miniature Universe. Dongguan began preparing the experiment in his Origin World.

• After ten epochs of stalemate, Purple Moon Ancestor revealed information that pushed several wavering powers into the Anti-Human Alliance, though they continued postponing a decisive battle.
• Chaos City Lord told the human Universe Masters that his Divine Kingdom would transform and leave the Primal Universe in one to two epochs, and Giant Axe Founder ordered preparations for the likely war.
• Dongguan told Black Universe Founder that war would begin soon and asked him to oversee an experiment in his Miniature Universe during the conflict.
• Dongguan used the Ten Thousand Cause Stone to prepare an Empty Seal, then tossed it into the black hole in his Origin World.

Chaos City Lord broke through to become a Universe Strongest One, strengthening humanity as the Allied Camp prepared to strike before he could master Chaos Evolution. Dongguan and Original Ancestor discussed Dongguan’s safeguard, while the rival leaders sent a final ultimatum to the Ancestral God School and Starry Sky Beast Alliance.

• Chaos City Lord fused his bodies and broke through as Giant Axe Founder and Luo Feng watched, giving humanity another Universe Strongest One.
• Luo Feng weighed the forces arrayed against humanity and wondered about Dongguan’s plan, noting that Dongguan had equipped the faction’s Universe Masters and some Universe Venerables with pebble-like objects.
• Dongguan told Original Ancestor that his plan would leave humanity undefeated if the enemy could not counter it, though Original Ancestor remained unsure whether it would work.
• At Blood Fang Star, the Allied Camp welcomed Island Master Shihua and discussed the neutral Ancestral God School and Starry Sky Beast Alliance.
• The Allied leaders sensed Chaos City Lord’s breakthrough, then decided to act immediately and give the two neutral powers a final chance to join them.

The allied forces split their attack between the Primal Secret Region and Virtual Universe Company Headquarters, hoping to pin down the humans and seize a Cosmic Passage. The main battle stalled as Giant Axe fought two Demon Race ancestors and Luo Feng’s Star Tower blocked the passage, while Island Master Shihua’s force arrived at the secondary battlefield and prepared to attack.

• The allied forces arrived at the Primal Secret Region, where the Zerg Queen sent the Empress Nest toward the Star Tower and Giant Axe intercepted it.
• The Dream Demon Ancestor and Zhen Demon Ancestor teamed up to keep Giant Axe occupied while the Zerg Queen engaged the Black Prison Tower with soul attacks.
• Luo Feng used the Star Tower, anchored by the Endless Nether Sea, to withstand attacks and prevent the allied forces from locating the Cosmic Passage.
• The humans prepared their defenses at Virtual Universe Company Headquarters, with the Lord of Ice Peak directing the forces and Dongguan serving as their strongest fighter.
• Island Master Shihua and three other Universe Strongest Ones arrived at the headquarters, intending to seize its Cosmic Passage and gain leverage over the humans or Purple Moon Ancestor.

The Ancestral God School debated whether to intervene in the war between humanity and the allied forces while the Origin Will remained unsettled. The Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor proposed that his faction and the Ancestral God School go to the battlefield together, and the Elder Ancestral God agreed.

• Inheritance Heirs on Purple Thorn Island speculated about which side would win and whether the Ancestral God School and Starry Sky Beast Alliance would remain neutral.
• The Two-Faced Ancestral God told the Elder Ancestral God that the Origin Will was still agitated and had not decided how to respond to recent events.
• The Elder Ancestral God said the Ancestral God School should observe the conflict and intervene if a suitable opportunity arose.
• The Old Beast God's avatar arrived and asked whether the Ancestral God School would get involved in the war.
• The Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor proposed that his faction and the Ancestral God School go to the battlefield together, and the Elder Ancestral God agreed.

The humans debated how to break the stalemate with the Allied Forces while waiting for Chaos City Lord to finish his breakthrough. At Virtual Universe Company Headquarters, the enemy prepared an internal assault, and Dongguan recognized the developing breach and waited to spring a trap.

• Luo Feng proposed breaking through the Allied Forces' Palace Supreme Treasures, but Giant Axe Founder and the others rejected using the Endless Nether Sea until Chaos City Lord returned.
• Lord of Ice Peak said the humans could hold out, while Dongguan asked the others to wait as he checked whether he could eliminate a Universe Strongest One.
• E Zhou proposed sending a Universe Strongest One inside Virtual Universe Company Headquarters to exploit a weakness in its defenses, and Void True Demon God agreed to go for compensation.
• Island Master Shihua arranged a team of Universe Masters to accompany Void True Demon God, while he and E Zhou agreed to compensate them.
• Dongguan noticed the enemy attacks were drawing out overlapping weaknesses in the defensive barrier, warned Lord of Ice Peak to prepare rather than repair them, and waited with a stone in hand as the assault began.

The Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor arrived at the Primal Secret Region and demanded information in exchange for joining either side, while the Ancestral God School also entered the conflict. Meanwhile, the Human Faction revealed that the Void True Demon God had breached the Virtual Universe Company headquarters, where Guantian was waiting to spring a trap.

• The Giant Axe Founder fell into a disadvantage against four allied Universe Strongest Ones, so Luo Feng and Lord Peng Gong left the Tomb Ship to help him.
• The Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor and the Ancestral God School arrived, prompting both camps to pause and assess the newcomers.
• The Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor demanded information about reaching the Universe Strongest One level and its limits before choosing a side.
• The Human Faction discussed negotiating separately with the Starry Sky Behemoth Progenitor and the Ancestral God School while Lord Youhou reported a breach at the Virtual Universe Company headquarters.
• Lord Youhou revealed that the breach was a trap, and Guantian was positioned to confront the Void True Demon God.

Dongguan and Black Universe Founder prepared to confront Void True Demon God inside Dongguan's divine kingdom while Island Master Shihua's forces broke through the Virtual Universe Company's barrier and sent Void True into the continent. Dongguan met Void True Demon God in battle, and their clash began with Dongguan resisting his illusion techniques and contesting his power head-on.

• Dongguan asked Black Universe Founder to help suppress Void True Demon God if he entered the divine kingdom, and Black Universe Founder agreed to assist.
• Island Master Shihua, E Zhou, Crystal Race Sacred Lord, and over a hundred Universe Masters combined their powers to break a weak point in the barrier.
• Void True Demon God and ten Universe Masters entered the continent through the opening, after which the barrier closed behind them.
• Void True Demon God found that the nearby defenders had evacuated, then encountered Dongguan, who had stayed behind to face him.
• Void True Demon God attacked with black currents and an illusory palm, briefly disrupting Dongguan's saber strike, but Dongguan recovered and met him in a direct contest of strength.

Dongguan used his struggle against Void True Demon God to draw him close, then trapped him in the Coiled Snake Vortex and brought him into Dongguan’s Divine Kingdom. With humanity’s defenses turning against the remaining invaders, Black Universe Founder helped seal Void True Demon God inside the Void-Drifting Boat.

• Dongguan and Void True Demon God fought under the Primal Universe’s Tier 6 limit while humanity’s defenders and Void True Demon God’s ten Universe Master clones watched.
• Dongguan noticed an opening in Void True Demon God’s defenses and attacked, using a pebble-like object to draw them both into a space-time vortex.
• The ten Universe Masters realized Void True Demon God had vanished and split up, but the Lord of Ice Peak’s forces encircled them with the defensive system.
• Island Master Shihua, E Zhou, and the Crystal Race Sacred Lord learned that Void True Demon God’s assault had failed, while his divine power avatar cursed Black Universe Founder.
• Inside Dongguan’s Divine Kingdom, Dongguan’s clone and Void True Demon God’s clone battered Void True Demon God into the Void-Drifting Boat, where Black Universe Founder struck him into the cage and chains bound him.