Chapter Summaries

Dongguan pursued Exotic Crystal to recover what he had taken, and the two fought as Exotic Crystal tried to escape with the Infinite Great Serpent Statue. Dongguan held on and stalled him until Yifeiya arrived, leaving Exotic Crystal cornered while depleted.

• Dongguan continued pursuing Exotic Crystal and demanded that he return what he had taken.
• Exotic Crystal attacked Dongguan with the mirror panes’ tracking barrage, but Dongguan weakened the assault, survived it, and removed its mark.
• Dongguan drew energy from a Space-Time Crystal avatar to restore his strength and kept pursuing Exotic Crystal.
• Exotic Crystal’s repeated attacks drained both of them, but he could not shake Dongguan or prevent him from stalling for time.
• Yifeiya arrived, and the exhausted Exotic Crystal faced the jailer with a trace of deathly resolve.

Exotic Crystal’s death opened a seemingly endless array of Bronze Gates in the Dark World Cluster, allowing innate primal chaos lifeforms to invade the heart of the Cultivator Territory. Star Glow Lord rescued Dongguan and killed a Hunyuan Ancestor, but the Infinite Serpent Ancestor arrived and declared war.

• Exotic Crystal collapsed into the Infinite Great Serpent Statue, whose destruction revealed an expanding array of Bronze Gates.
• Yifeiya tried to flee with Dongguan toward the Dark Sacred Realm, but powerful innate primal chaos lifeforms emerged from the gates.
• Yifeiya and Dongguan began extinguishing their avatars, but a dreamlike figure seized Dongguan before his Space-Time Crystal revealed Star Glow Lord.
• Star Glow Lord trapped and killed the dreamlike Hunyuan Ancestor, while the Infinite Serpent Ancestor broke free and confronted him.
• The Infinite Serpent Ancestor opened the gates fully, poured more invaders into the Cultivator Territory, and attacked Star Glow Lord as the war began.

Tamos settled in the Infinite World and grew close to Zha Wulei while seeking a path to become a World-Level Hunyuan. Their protector Zena then fell, leaving Tamos and Zha Wulei without their backing.

• Tamos arrived at the Infinite World, where Zena asked Zha Wulei to show him around.
• Tamos and Zha Wulei traveled through the clan homeland, bonded, and became like brothers despite Tamos’s mixed-blood status.
• Tamos accumulated resources until he reached the perfection of a high-level Hunyuan lifeform, but he could not obtain the Source World essence needed to improve his chances of advancing.
• Tamos debated whether to pursue time, space, or both as his path to becoming a World-Level Hunyuan.
• Tamos learned that Zena had fallen and rushed to Zha Wulei’s residence, knowing they had lost their protector.

Tamos and Zha Wulei left the Infinite Great Serpent clan grounds after Zena’s fall and searched for opportunities, while Tamos eventually became a World-Level Hunyuan. As Tamos prepared to help Zha Wulei break through by taking essence from a Source World, he remembered the Infinity Chip and realized he was Dongguan inside a dream built from Tamos’s memories.

• Tamos drove away the high-level Hunyuan lifeforms harassing Zha Wulei and urged him not to lose hope over Zena’s fall.
• Tamos and Zha Wulei learned that Lord Gold Law had caused Zena’s fall, then left the clan grounds to seek opportunities in the Infinite Hunyuan Space.
• Tamos eventually reached World-Level Hunyuan Perfection, while Zha Wulei remained a high-level Hunyuan lifeform at Perfection.
• Tamos brought Zha Wulei to a Source World and prepared to gather its essence to help his brother break through.
• Tamos questioned how he had reached World-Level Hunyuan, remembered the Infinity Chip, and realized he was Dongguan before the dream shattered.

Dongguan awakened from Tamos's memories but was captured by Zha Wulei, who used him to strike the Dark Sacred Realm and destroy one of his bodies. Meanwhile, the cultivator Lords battled the Hunyuan forces across the Infinite Hunyuan Space as Star Glow Lord prepared to act across the Dark World Cluster.

• Dongguan realized he had awakened inside Tamos's memories and refused to accept Zha Wulei's claim that he was his brother.
• Zha Wulei subdued Dongguan and brought him to the Dark Sacred Realm, where he pierced its defenses and crushed Dongguan's body in Hunyuan City.
• Ge repaired Hunyuan City's barrier and recognized that Zha Wulei's attack had targeted Dongguan.
• The Infinite Serpent Ancestor and the Hunyuan forces fought the cultivator Lords, who faced multiple opponents across the battlefield.
• Moman Lord asked Star Glow Lord to address the battle, and Star Glow Lord spread space-time threads throughout the Dark World Cluster and launched an attack.

The Star Glow Lord attacked the Hunyuan forces and tried to trap the Infinite Serpent Ancestor, while Zha Wulei brought Dongguan to the Original Ancestor and threatened him. Facing the Annihilation Ancestor, Dongguan completed the Dongguan Dao through the Infinity Chip and rapidly advanced his cultivation in Liuyin City.

• The Star Glow Lord used space-time threads to weaken the Hunyuan Ancestors, while the Original Ancestor sheltered them inside his body.
• The Star Glow Lord urged the other lords to wound the Infinite Serpent Ancestor, then called for them to kill as many Hunyuan Ancestors as possible.
• Inside the Original Ancestor, Zha Wulei threatened to hand Dongguan to the Annihilation Ancestor unless he acknowledged his identity.
• The Annihilation Ancestor recognized Dongguan's Tamos bloodline and prepared to attack him, prompting Dongguan to use the Infinity Chip and perceive existence from nonexistence.
• Dongguan perfected the Dongguan Dao as the Annihilation Ancestor's black light struck him and began pursuing his other clones.
• In Liuyin City, Dongguan understood the Infinity Chip's connection to his clones and rapidly comprehended the Extreme Point Great Dao, reaching the ultimate realm.

Dongguan reached the Ultimate Realm in all Nine Origin Great Daos, claimed Lord of the Source World authority, and formed the Eye of the Supreme before the Infinity Chip began taking him away. As the Annihilation Ancestor’s black light descended toward multiple worlds, Dongguan left a record of his insights and moved to confront it.

• Dongguan combined the Nine Origin Great Daos into the Supreme Rule, gained Lord of the Source World authority, and crushed Tamos’s contingency power.
• Dongguan formed the Eye of the Supreme from his Dongguan Dao and the Nine Origin Great Daos, then studied how it could develop into a Hunyuan Dao.
• As the Infinity Chip activated, Dongguan decided to inscribe his insights on the Origin Ranking and preserve them in the Supreme Rule.
• Luo Feng saw annihilation black light descend over the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm and watched a familiar figure approach it.
• The Annihilation Ancestor faced Dongguan within Beginning, and Dongguan extended his palm toward the incoming black light.

Dongguan unleashed a devastating power of white light that threatened Annihilation Ancestor and swept across the battlefield, turning the battle in the Lords’ favor. As his body grew increasingly illusory, Dongguan entrusted two inheritances to Yuan and watched the fighting in what he believed might be his final moments.

• Dongguan burned away reality and struck Annihilation Ancestor with a spreading white light that multiplied as it touched living beings.
• Annihilation Ancestor dodged the attack, and Beginning expelled Dongguan and the other beings from within it as the white light devastated the battlefield.
• Star Glow Lord ordered the Lords to attack the wounded Hunyuan Ancestors, while Minghuang Lord intercepted Annihilation Ancestor.
• Dongguan asked Yuan whether his power made him a Lord, and Yuan said he had reached the essence but had not completed the transformation.
• Dongguan entrusted two inheritances to Yuan, then stayed to watch the battle and asked whether he had brought about the victory.

Dongguan helped the cultivator faction repel an invasion, then left the Origin Continent and headed for the Infinity Domain, leaving Luo Feng with questions and two inheritances in the Lords’ care. The chapter ended with the Endless Ancestor accusing the Infinite Serpent Ancestor of going too far.

• Dongguan’s intervention helped turn the battle outside the Dark Sacred Realm into a retreat for the Innate Primal Chaos Lifeforms, though the Infinite Serpent Ancestor escaped and the Annihilation Ancestor was only injured.
• Luo Feng found Dongguan’s cave abode empty, then met him on a barren mountain on the Origin Continent and learned that Dongguan had helped defend both worlds.
• Dongguan asked Luo Feng to protect something he had placed within the Origin Continent’s Supreme Rule, then vanished and promised to return.
• The Lords sensed Dongguan heading for the Infinity Domain, and Yuan offered the books “Rule Eye” and “Dongguan” to the treasury as inheritances.
• The Endless Ancestor confronted the situation in the Infinity Domain and angrily accused the Infinite Serpent Ancestor of going too far.

Dongguan woke in an empty city with nine other newcomers and learned that they had been brought to Infinity Space for a trial. After inspecting his unusual talents and the rules in his mind, he listened as the basketball-clad young man asked whether they could return home.

• A mysterious voice sealed a gamble with the consciousness who wanted to witness and participate in limitless wonders.
• Dongguan woke on a concrete square and recalled blurry memories of a life in the world of Swallowed Star.
• Dongguan observed the empty city and noticed signs referring to Ya City and Guning City.
• A projected man introduced Infinity Space and offered the newcomers three questions.
• Dongguan checked his panel, found the talents Comprehension adjustment and Eye of Observation, and decided to conceal how special he was.
• The basketball-clad young man asked what Infinity Space was and whether they could go home.

Dongguan and the other newcomers learned more about the Rookie Trial, talents, and supernatural tiers from the mysterious man, Si An. Si An vanished after inviting anyone who might surpass Tier 4 to join the Eternity Society, leaving the group to begin the trial.

• Dongguan asked what the newcomers needed to do, and Si An explained that the Rookie Trial mission would begin after he left and that temporary exchanges could provide valuable experience.
• Si An explained that everyone had talents that could guide future abilities, though pursuing a dream could sometimes matter more than following a talent.
• A middle-aged woman asked about tiers, and Si An described Tier 0 through Tier 4, including Life Law Transformation, Divine Will, and Domain.
• The young boy asked Si An's tier, and Si An said he was Tier 3 and working toward Tier 4 before inviting potential high-tier newcomers to the Eternity Society.
• Si An introduced himself by name and vanished, telling the newcomers he would see them in Infinity Space.

After Si An disappeared, Dongguan and the other newcomers introduced themselves and split up to explore the city. They discovered that zombies provided exchange points and learned that their tasks included surviving seven days and killing a Tier 3 target.

• Jiao Xin organized introductions, and the ten strangers agreed to cooperate while keeping their talents secret.
• Bai Zaixin split the group into three teams to explore the city, while four people stayed at the square to search the mall.
• Dongguan discovered the Task Panel and Exchange Panel, which listed survival and killing tasks and showed zero exchange points.
• Bai Zaixin drove into a zombie, and the group learned that killing one earned an exchange point that could buy full-body restoration.
• The northern team and the people at the square also encountered zombies, and everyone reunited to report that the zombies were weak and manageable.

Bai Zaixin analyzed the exchange options and organized the survivors into a temporary leadership structure before they chose how to explore. The group split into smaller parties, leaving Dongguan teamed with Xiao Mu as they continued trying to survive and develop.

• Bai Zaixin explained that Physique Enhancement gave linear gains at rising costs and advised saving points for later exchange options.
• Bai Zaixin became temporary leader, with the middle-aged leader and Jiao Xin as deputies, while the survivors formed three loose factions.
• Bai Zaixin presented acting together or splitting up as options, and Dongguan favored acting alone to gain exchange points and improve.
• Bai Zaixin proposed that everyone choose freely whether to work alone or in groups.
• Bai Zaixin went alone, Dongguan teamed up with Xiao Mu, Jiao Xin took Gu Han, and the middle-aged leader formed a five-person group with the construction worker and three others.

Dongguan and Bai Zaixin noticed that the zombies changed beneath a blood-red moon, becoming far stronger and more valuable to kill. By dawn, 10,000 new zombies had appeared, and Bai Zaixin realized the group would need to unite to survive the coming days.

• Dongguan reflected on his and Xiao Mu’s growing strength and worried that they were encountering too few targets to earn 100 exchange points.
• Under the blood-red moon, the remaining zombies transformed, and Bai Zaixin killed one that had become stronger and more alert.
• Bai Zaixin exchanged for a fifth physique enhancement and discovered that evolved zombies were worth 10 points instead of one.
• Bai Zaixin feared the zombies would keep growing stronger, reconsidered his decision to relinquish leadership, and resolved to unite the others.
• At dawn, 10,000 new zombies appeared across the city, each initially as weak as the first day’s zombies.

The group compared what they had learned about the growing zombie threat and discussed the supernatural paths unlocked at one hundred points. Bai Zaixin chose the random path, gained the Tiger Soul Blade ability, and revealed that combining paths would reduce the number of enhancements available.

• The ten survivors gathered in the square and shared information about the zombies, which had grown in number but not yet in strength.
• Bai Zaixin explained that reaching one hundred points unlocked seven supernatural paths, and suggested that the group divide their choices to learn more about them.
• Jiao Xin chose the Martial Way, the middle-aged leader chose the mind, and the others provisionally selected paths, with Dongguan assigned esper abilities.
• Bai Zaixin chose random and gained the Tiger Soul Blade, which let him shape other materials into a blade and release a short slash of blade energy.
• Bai Zaixin explained that the ability-selection option and its first enhancement cost more than enhancing Tiger Soul Blade, then left the square.
• The group realized that choosing a second path would likely mean one fewer enhancement, and that dual paths would grant fewer enhancements overall than a single path.

Dongguan defeated a massive Corpse Dweller, gained an altered Laser eye ability that revealed hidden structures and expanded his vision, and chose another physique enhancement over a second ability. That evening, the group reunited at the Square to share information and prepare for the likely arrival of second-evolution Corpse Dwellers.

• Dongguan defeated a three-meter-tall Corpse Dweller and checked his panel, finding 104 exchange points and access to ability loading.
• Dongguan selected Esper ability and received a mutated Laser eye that let him see through objects and perceive infrared and ultraviolet light.
• Dongguan suspected his Eye of observation talent had altered the ability and considered how his talents might guide his future system choices.
• Dongguan decided against a second ability draw and spent 64 points on his sixth physique enhancement before testing how his new vision could aid combat.
• At around five in the afternoon, the group of ten returned to the Square for their second night together.
• Wu Hao suggested that everyone share information about their supernatural abilities, as second-evolution Corpse Dwellers were likely to appear.

Dongguan and the others compared the abilities they had gained from the seven paths and prepared to study a captured zombie’s second evolution. As the blood-red moon rose, the huge zombie began transforming, broke out of its cage, and grew to five meters tall.

• Dongguan and the others exchanged information about their paths, finding that martial way and magic offered the most immediate combat power while cultivation of immortality and all things were better suited to later development.
• Bai Zaixin’s martial way knowledge and Tiger Soul Saber gave him multiple advantages, while Jiao Xin improved his combat skills through qi-and-blood training.
• The group prepared to observe 573 imprisoned zombies evolve at night, including one that had already undergone its first evolution.
• The moon turned a deeper shade of red, and Dongguan used his Laser Eye? ability to monitor the big guy as crimson light spread across its growing body.
• A red thread connected the transforming zombie to the blood-red moon, and the five-meter-tall big guy broke free of its cage before its transformation was complete.

Dongguan and his teammates fought the second-evolution gray giant while harvesting the other Corpse Dwellers, and Dongguan recognized that the giant had formed a Tier 2 system. Wu Hao and Bai Zaixin warned that hundreds of similar threats might exist and urged the group to kill as many as possible before a third evolution.

• The gray giant escaped its cage and charged toward the other imprisoned Corpse Dwellers, but Dongguan realized it showed intelligence and was developing a coordinated system that might mark it as Tier 2.
• Dongguan and his teammates harvested the first-evolution creatures for points while Bai Zaixin and Wu Hao tracked red lines falling from the sky onto the gray giant.
• Jiao Xin held the gray giant back as the others cleared most of the first-evolution creatures, and Bai Zaixin used his refined Tiger Soul Blades to arm the group.
• Luo He suggested leaving to grow stronger before fighting the gray giant, but Wu Hao and Dongguan said their count suggested hundreds of similar beings and warned the creatures could evolve again.
• Wu Hao said he and Bai Zaixin would need to divide up and search beyond the known areas of the city to kill as many threats as possible before the next day.

The group planned and fought together against a gray giant that had undergone its second evolution, testing their abilities and coordinating their roles. After killing it, they faced the reality that monsters were growing faster than they were and resolved to become stronger to survive.

• The taxi driver feared he would never reunite with his wife and child as Wu Hao and Xiao Mu discussed how monsters grew stronger at night.
• Jiao Xin used full-body restoration after the gray giant struck him, then joined the others to plan their attack.
• Dongguan revealed that his esper ability let him observe the gray giant’s physical condition, and the group assigned roles for the fight.
• Xiao Mu and Gu Han attacked as the main mages while Jiao Xin and Bai Zaixin kept the gray giant occupied, supported by Wu Hao, Dongguan, the construction worker, and the others.
• After nearly half an hour, Bai Zaixin drove his saber into the gray giant’s skull and the group killed it, earning him 100 exchange points.
• The group rested, recognized how dangerous the second-evolution creature had been, and resolved to grow stronger to survive.

Dongguan chose the Random ability and gained the Great Prophecy Technique, which stored the effects of actions for later release. After upgrading it to expand its range and storage capacity, he noticed his tier had risen from Tier 1 to Tier 1-Tier 2.

• Bai Zaixin said his tier had changed to Tier 1-Tier 2, while Dongguan’s remained Tier 1.
• Dongguan redeemed Ability Loading and chose Random, gaining the Great Prophecy Technique.
• Dongguan tested the technique and found that he could store an action’s cause within a limited area and release its effect later.
• Dongguan realized that he could store powerful forces for later strikes, but that revealing the technique would make it easier to counter.
• Dongguan spent 120 points to upgrade the Great Prophecy Technique, increasing its storage capacity to two causes and its range to about five meters.
• Dongguan noticed that his tier had changed from Tier 1 to Tier 1-Tier 2.