Chapter Summaries

Dongguan refused Yike’s request to track a fugitive in the Goldrock Race’s Cosmic Secret Realm after Yike dismissed his concerns about danger. Marquis Black Snow later told Yike that Dongguan was exceptionally capable and had recommended him partly so they could become friends, leaving Yike questioning his own pride as he prepared for the mission.

• Yike asked Dongguan to track Mitchell Wades, a fugitive hiding in the Goldrock Race’s Cosmic Secret Realm, and assured him that Immortals would handle the fighting.
• Dongguan warned Yike about the risk of an alien assassination, but Yike dismissed his concerns and told him to wait on Cangyun Star.
• Dongguan refused the commission and teleported away, while Yike proceeded with his original plan and considered the opportunity offered by the Goldrock Race.
• After receiving Dongguan’s email, Marquis Black Snow visited Yike and explained that he had recommended Dongguan for his tracking skill and to help them become friends.
• Marquis Black Snow pointed out that Dongguan had gained Origin Law recognition, prompting Yike to reconsider his arrogance and order stronger security for the mission.

Dongguan defeated Yike in the Virtual Universe, then agreed to help him find the fugitive Mitchell through a mercenary mission. After traveling to Cangyun Star, Dongguan inspected Mitchell’s former residence and learned that Mitchell had abandoned his family when he fled.

• Yike challenged Dongguan to a fight, but Dongguan broke Yike’s staff technique and won; Yike admitted his defeat and asked Dongguan to help locate Mitchell.
• Dongguan agreed on the condition that Yike submit the job through the Universe Mercenary Alliance, and Yike arranged a designated mission worth thirty million mercenary points.
• A shadowy informant gave an assassin base intelligence that Yike would soon hunt a fugitive in the Goldrock Secret Realm, prompting the base’s metal figure to consider hiring Zerg and hunters.
• Dongguan traveled to Cangyun Star, where Yike met him and led him to Mitchell’s former residence.
• Yike showed Dongguan Mitchell’s imprisoned family and explained that Mitchell had escaped without them; Dongguan agreed to inspect the residence before meeting Yike’s teacher and heading to the Goldrock Secret Realm.

Dongguan used karmic threads to track Mitchell to a hidden base inside a meteorite in the Goldrock Secret Realm, where Elder Li captured him and Yike ordered him killed. After returning to Moliduo Continent, Yike agreed to stay for three days, leaving Dongguan wary that danger might still be ahead.

• Black Snow Marquis reunited with Yike aboard the starship while four tracking experts debated where Mitchell might be hiding.
• Dongguan used Mitchell's son Fuller Wadesi and his Spirit Eye to point the search toward a region of the Goldrock Secret Realm.
• After three months of travel, Dongguan identified a meteorite as Mitchell's hiding place, and Elder Li tore it open and captured him.
• Yike ordered Elder Li to kill Mitchell and took the body to verify the mission's completion.
• Elder Li invited Yike to visit Moliduo Continent, and Yike accepted a three-day stay as Dongguan grew wary.

Dongguan exposed a Demon Killer Clan assassin disguised as Chatte, but the attack on Yike's ship revealed an immortal Zerg Mother Nest and forced Dongguan to flee with Yike while Black Snow Marquis fought to hold off the Zerg. The Zerg Mother Emperor Meiya suspected Dongguan possessed a Formless Soul and sent Immortal Zerg Warriors after him as Black Snow Marquis called for her teacher.

• Yike explained that he planned to enter the Goldrock Secret Realm's hidden site in three years, while Dongguan trained his clone until it reached Domain Lord.
• Dongguan recognized that the guard Chatte was an impostor, misdirected him to the Engine Room, and warned Yike and Black Snow Marquis through the Virtual Universe.
• The Demon Killer Clan assassin disguised as Weiduo attacked aboard the starship, and an immortal Zerg Mother Nest destroyed the vessel as it emerged into the Primal Universe.
• Dongguan pulled Yike from the wreckage and fled from the assassin, while Black Snow Marquis confronted the Zerg Mother Emperor Meiya and her warriors.
• Meiya's Soul Attack barely affected Dongguan, leading her to suspect he had a Formless Soul and send four Immortal Zerg Warriors after him.
• Black Snow Marquis continued fighting the Zerg and urged her teacher to arrive before she was overwhelmed.

Dongguan escaped the Zerg Mother Nest’s pursuit with the Illusion-Light Vine and stripped a Demon Killer Clan World Lord of his lifespan, while King Withered Bones rescued Black Snow Marquis and killed the Zerg Mother Emperor Meiya. Two years later, Dongguan’s Light Lord Clone reached Domain Lord peak, and Dongguan’s main body had grown powerful enough to rival a fifth-order World Lord.

• Dongguan used the Illusion-Light Vine to capture the Demon Killer Clan World Lord and teleport away from the approaching Immortal Zerg Warriors.
• Inside the Divine Kingdom, Dongguan repeatedly struck the captive with Years Slash the Heavenly Prodigies until the World Lord’s lifespan ran out and his skin remained intact.
• Meiya pursued Dongguan’s teleportation trail, but King Withered Bones arrived, blocked her escape, and killed her after she self-destructed to avoid capture.
• Two years later, Dongguan’s Light Lord Clone reached Domain Lord peak, while his human main body advanced through the third Beast God Diagram, a fivefold gene multiplier, and the second level of the Wishful Body.

Dongguan fused with his Light Lord clone, then broke through to World Lord and discovered new changes in his internal world, origin core, and clone abilities. He decided to postpone using Time Realm and learned that Yike had been waiting in his World Ring for several years.

• Dongguan fused with his clone, tested his increased strength, and found that it reached 495 times his Domain Lord Peak strength.
• Dongguan broke through to World Lord, creating a heavenly vault in his internal world and witnessing the Primal Universe's origin land as world power flowed into his world.
• Dongguan examined his transformed origin core and discovered that his mental space, spirit eye, and Eye of Cause and Effect had changed.
• Dongguan learned that his Light Lord clone could transform into a Dark Lord and use Shadow Body and Shadow Creation.
• Dongguan decided to save Time Realm for later and discovered that Yike was contacting him to ask when he could leave the World Ring.

Dongguan brought Yike to Copperflame Star before visiting the Universe Galaxy Bank to unlock the final tier of Dong Xuan World Lord’s account. He obtained coordinates and instructions for finding the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron, leaving the search for a future trip to the Dry Witch Universe Country.

• Dongguan released Yike from the World Ring and agreed to take him to his homeworld, Copperflame Star, before heading to Cangyun Star.
• Dongguan and Yike traveled to Copperflame Star, where Yike reflected on his race’s dependence on his success and resolved to investigate the suspected leak behind the Zerg attack.
• Yike left Dongguan at the Universe Galaxy Bank, then learned that an immortal might have colluded with alien races and vowed to continue the investigation.
• Dongguan unlocked the final tier of Dong Xuan World Lord’s account and transferred its balance of more than 2.8 billion Hunyuan Units.
• Dongguan decoded Dong Xuan World Lord’s message, learning the coordinates and annual ritual needed to find the Wood and Grass Divine Cauldron, as well as the risks involving its body and Cauldron Pearl.

Dongguan chose to study the space origin law alongside his fusion-law path, prompting August Venerable to demand that he prove his talent before continuing. He then accepted a mission to capture Lou Wuxing or drive him from the Eternal Sin Star System, and set out confident that he could succeed.

• Dongguan entered the Space Tower to study its space secret patterns, while Silverheart Marquis alerted August Venerable to his choice.
• August Venerable challenged Dongguan for dividing his attention and required him to reach the second level of the Eight Methods of Pursuing the World within a thousand years, or gain recognition from the time origin law, before returning to the Space Tower.
• Dongguan accepted August Venerable's condition and resolved to use Time Realm if needed to meet it.
• Dongguan reviewed Yike's designated mission to capture Lou Wuxing or expel him from the Eternal Sin Star System, which would also grant him three-star mercenary status and access to Virtual Universe Company point exchanges.
• Dongguan learned that Lou Wuxing was hiding under the Giant Axe Arena's protection and set out, confident he could defeat him.

Dongguan arrived at Wue Star to pursue Lou Wuxing, who had evaded justice for ages using a powerful Machine Race jammer. Lou refused Dongguan’s challenge and fled, leaving Dongguan to wait out the rules before beginning the search.

• At a banquet, Lou Wuxing rejected Immortal Mai Mie’s offer to enter Giant Axe Arena blood battles, choosing instead to keep avoiding the Virtual Universe Company.
• Dongguan and Immortal You Zhou met Immortal Mai Mie and Lou Wuxing on Wue Star, where Dongguan challenged Lou to a blood battle.
• Lou refused the challenge, so Dongguan invoked supplementary regulation 1728 and began a pursuit; Lou left Wue Star in an E9-class Machine Race spaceship.
• Immortal Mai Mie required Dongguan and You Zhou to stay on Wue Star for a month, and Dongguan read the system’s rules and learned how Lou’s jammer had thwarted previous searches.

Dongguan learned that Lou Wuxing had stolen patented technologies and secretly sold products, then discovered that his mother had left behind valuable, unpatented Xuanlan alloy formulas. After reading messages from his family and preparing for his mission, Dongguan found Lou Wuxing almost immediately, but Lou refused to surrender and Dongguan left to repeat the search later.

• Dongguan learned that Lou Wuxing had used stolen patent technologies to make and secretly sell products, causing the Virtual Universe Company major losses without betraying humanity.
• Qiong told Dongguan that his mother had developed three unpatented Xuanlan alloy formulas, including a potentially immensely valuable E9-class alloy, and had intended to keep them rather than sell them.
• Dongguan read Zhang Gui's and Zhang Yu's letters, replied to them, and considered gathering mission points before future Outer Domain Battlefield missions.
• Dongguan met Immortal You Zhou and Immortal Maimie before beginning another search for Lou Wuxing, with Virtual Universe synchronization enabled.
• Dongguan followed his karmic connection to Lou Wuxing and found him in an underground base on a nearby mineral planet within minutes of leaving Wue Star.
• Lou Wuxing refused to surrender, and Dongguan left, while Immortal You Zhou and Immortal Maimie could not explain how he had found him so quickly.

Dongguan negotiated a second-tier subsidiary with Dragon Ying Marquis, then completed his mission by defeating Lou Wuxing in one move. As Dongguan turned to his company and cultivation, Yike pursued an opportunity, and Luo Feng sensed that Fourth Brother had arrived at the Blood Luo Continent.

• Dongguan discussed the Virtual Universe Company's point exchange privileges with Dragon Ying Marquis and proposed a company built around his rune products and alloy formula.
• Dragon Ying Marquis agreed to acquire Dongguan's company as a second-tier subsidiary, with Dongguan contributing 49,000 Hunyuan Units and licensing the alloy formula to it.
• Lou Wuxing, abandoned by the Machine Race and unable to leave the sealed Eternal Sin Star System, gained the wood origin law's acknowledgment and challenged Dongguan.
• Dongguan defeated Lou Wuxing with one move, destroyed his body, and sealed his Life Core before leaving the Eternal Sin Star System.
• Burial Immortal and Immortal You Zhou watched the brief battle, while Yike continued exploring with his Goldrock Race teammates and resolved to seek an opportunity.
• Luo Feng sensed that Fourth Brother had arrived at the Blood Luo Continent.

Dongguan demonstrated his talismans to Dragon Ying Marquis, then struggled to find a representative for the Guanjie Talisman Company and ultimately hired Youyue. He left the company in her hands and began a long period of secluded cultivation in August City.

• Dongguan showed Dragon Ying Marquis his escape talismans and gifted her a rare soul-protecting altar token before she tested the other talismans.
• After Dragon Ying Marquis advised him to appoint a human representative, Dongguan asked Hai Ling, who declined because her ties to Sea Spirit Star could compromise her fairness.
• Yinie suggested recruiting through an open application process, and Dongguan agreed despite having already rejected Youyue as a marriage prospect.
• Youyue applied to manage the company, earned the highest interview score, and Dongguan appointed her as its representative.
• Dongguan left Youyue in charge of the Guanjie Talisman Company's Sea Spirit Star headquarters and began secluded cultivation, focusing on laws, secret patterns, and raising his cultivation.

Dongguan browsed the Virtual Universe Company and Skull Society treasuries, arranged to buy mission points, and received warnings from King Withered Bones about his cultivation and the dangers of Divine Kingdom Teleportation. He met Lord Youhou, who tested his willpower and granted him access privileges equal to a World Lord in the Primal Secret Region, while privately wondering whether Dongguan was a Pearl of the Vast Sea.

• Dongguan exchanged points for the Drifting Blood Manual, bought Tongxuan Silver Motherlode, and hired the Virtual Universe Company to upgrade his Qiongluo Ship.
• Dongguan arranged with Axe Peak to buy five hundred million one-star mission points in five installments of twenty-five hundred Hunyuan Units each.
• King Withered Bones advised Dongguan not to pursue the Space Origin Law too deeply before advancing his Time Law, and warned him that Zerg soldiers and Machine Race puppets could serve as teleportation coordinates.
• King Withered Bones brought Dongguan to meet Lord Youhou, who tested his willpower with baleful energy and praised him for having Marquis Level willpower.
• Lord Youhou granted Dongguan access privileges equal to those of a World Lord in the Primal Secret Region, then privately wondered whether Dongguan was a Pearl of the Vast Sea.

Over a hundred years, Dongguan cultivated the fusion laws, perfected his seventh-level secret art, and accepted Lord Aozushen’s guidance while deciding to visit the Dry Witch Universe Country before going to Chaos City. The chapter leaves him preparing to pursue a desperate-level mission, while Hong meets Ji Qing in the Prison Battlefield and considers joining him for the eighth task.

• Dongguan spent a century studying fusion laws, refining the Beast God Diagrams, and challenging the Aozushen Secret Art Tower, eventually reaching its 400th floor and completing the seventh level of “Four Laws for Treading the World.”
• Lord Aozushen named Dongguan his eighty-seventh direct disciple, gave him the associated secret arts, and offered to guide his Space Law studies without objecting to Dongguan’s decision to postpone them.
• Dongguan visited Lord Aozushen in person, explained that he planned to return to the Dry Witch Universe Country before cultivating in Chaos City, and received permission to use three thousand years there.
• Dongguan tested his improved “Yin-Yang Divides Dusk and Dawn” against a World Lord-level Daytime Ancestral God School, winning but recognizing that his secret art remained imperfect.
• Dongguan considered taking the desperate-level mission at Demon Mountain and hoped to enter the Primordial Secret Realm through the coming Qualification Battle.
• Hong met Ji Qing in the Prison Battlefield; Ji Qing proposed that they cooperate on the eighth task and asked whether Hong knew the secret behind its token.

Dongguan inspected the growth of Dis Company and Sea Spirit Star, then prepared to leave for Mou Xinmei aboard the upgraded Qiongluo Ship. In his Internal World, he discovered that his Light Lord Clone could transform universal energy and Universe Crystals into a golden sea, while the company still faced funding and staffing challenges.

• Dongguan discussed Dis Company's expansion, imitators, staffing shortages, and planned financing with Youyue, then agreed that she would become a shareholder.
• Dongguan visited Sea Spirit Star with Hai Ling, saw its prosperous development, and heard that young Erjie had passed the first-tier, seven-star Secret Pattern Master examination.
• Youyue asked Dongguan for a hug before they parted; he agreed, and she said they would be friends and business partners from then on.
• Dongguan left Sea Spirit Star and traveled through his Internal World, where his blue-robed Light Lord Clone formed a golden ocean from universal energy and Universe Crystals.
• Dongguan retrieved the upgraded Qiongluo Ship from the warehouse and prepared to depart for Mou Xinmei.

Dongguan reunited with his brothers and learned about their plans to enter dangerous missions and secret realms, while a search revealed that Hong’s partner was a disciple of Ji Qing King and that King Huozhen was tied to their past conflict. As Dongguan traveled through the Dark Universe, a hostile Immortal attacked his ship, and he drew his blade to face him.

• Dongguan and Yike discussed the Rock Race ceremony, their cultivation, and Dongguan’s progress in Space Law before Dongguan set off for Dry Witch.
• Dongguan reunited with his brothers, heard that Huan Ling had become a Domain Lord, and learned that Meng Ling and Guchen planned to enter dangerous missions and secret realms.
• Hong explained that he and Qian Shui had grown close, while Dongguan’s search revealed that she was a disciple of Ji Qing King and that King Huozhen had once clashed with him.
• Dongguan warned Zhang Gui not to involve himself in his father’s inherited responsibilities, while Zhang Gui insisted he was old enough to face the matter.
• A hostile Immortal forced Dongguan’s ship out of the Dark Universe, and Dongguan drew his blade and advanced to fight him.

Dongguan defeated the Immortal Tagu in the Dark Universe and assessed how his techniques and strength had developed. He changed course for the Heavenly Craft Starfield to meet Xiang Wan and pursue better weapons, while planning his next steps toward Immortality.

• Dongguan fought Tagu in the Dark Universe, using Blade Waterfall and his other techniques to break through Tagu’s defenses and steadily annihilate his divine power.
• Tagu called for help, but his teammate arrived too late, and Dongguan killed him and collected the spoils.
• Dongguan analyzed the battle, concluded that his Life-Slaying Blade only temporarily weakened an Immortal, and decided to upgrade his weapons.
• Dongguan asked Qiong about Thousand-Leaf Grass and chose to follow the optimal cultivation plan, accepting that its breakthrough would take another hundred-plus years.
• Dongguan ordered the Qiongluo Ship to change course for the Heavenly Craft Starfield, where he planned to pick up Xiang Wan and visit Yinjia.

Dongguan arrived on Heavenly Craft Star to seek equipment and met with Zhang Yu and Bo Yan, learning how commissions with master artificers worked. At Shi Mi Wen’s exchange meeting, eight masters gathered to discuss breaking through the F-class barrier, setting up the meeting’s central question.

• Dongguan and Zhang Yu discussed finding a master artificer, and Zhang Yu explained that masters chose commissions after reviewing a client’s materials and equipment plans.
• Dongguan reunited with Bo Yan, gave her more Hunyuan Units, and encouraged her to pursue becoming a master potion maker.
• Bo Yan told Dongguan that an exchange meeting hosted by eight masters would take place the next day in Shi Mi Wen.
• Dongguan and Zhang Yu attended the crowded exchange meeting, where the eight masters were introduced.
• The city lord announced that the meeting’s theme was how to break through the F-class barrier, prompting an uproar among the attendees.

Potion Master Palma, Artifact Forging Master Xiang Lianhun, and Secret Pattern Master Zhang Yu presented research into F-grade alloys and invited discussion. Dongguan demonstrated soul-related secret patterns that Zhang Yu could not reproduce, and the chapter left her offering to have the three masters forge him a complete set of equipment if he showed her another pattern she could not imitate.

• Palma explained that the masters had not broken the F-grade barrier, but shared findings that F-grade alloys formed through natural transformations linked to the Universe Origin Law.
• Palma presented research on Immortal Machine Race bodies, including the recorded breakthrough of a World Lord-level Machine Race member and experiments with metal alloys.
• Zhang Yu noticed Dongguan and challenged him to draw a secret pattern she could not imitate, offering equipment made by all three masters in return.
• Dongguan drew a soul secret pattern that caused pressure among the audience, and Zhang Yu failed to copy it.
• Zhang Yu recognized that Dongguan's pattern involved a soul secret technique and asked him to reveal more secret-pattern diagrams.

Dongguan tested whether he could reproduce a mysterious soul pattern, then reunited with Thunder God and sparred with him in the Virtual Universe. The group later reached Earth, where Thunder God and Dongguan discussed their missions, cultivation, and family.

• Immortal Ming Huo reproduced the soul secret pattern by sandwiching a golden plate between two silver plates and pulling the layers apart.
• Dongguan learned that the Formless Soul Refinement Canon had been created by the fallen Zerg mighty being Lord of Form, and Ming Di valued the eclosion gold at two hundred thousand Hunyuan Units.
• Thunder God arrived at Dongguan's residence, and the two caught up before testing their strength in a Virtual Universe training ground.
• Dongguan dismantled Thunder God's Sword World and explained how his mastery of time and space let him counter Thunder God's attacks.
• Dongguan, Thunder God, Ning Xue, and Dylan reached Earth and gathered at the Luo Family manor, where Thunder God asked Dongguan to visit his family and suggested they return to Earth together.