Chapter Summaries

Ferid and the Grand Elder tried to secure Ye Feng’s loyalty to the Makarov Family by offering him marriage to Ferid’s daughter and a place as the Grand Elder’s disciple. Ye Feng agreed to meet the daughter but declined discipleship, explaining that his unusual cultivation required rare resources he had to seek himself.

• Ferid welcomed Ye Feng and proposed that he get to know Ferid’s daughter as a potential partner.
• The Grand Elder offered to take Ye Feng as his direct disciple and provide cultivation resources, while Ferid suggested Ye Feng could both marry his daughter and become the Grand Elder’s disciple.
• Ye Feng said he already had five wives, so Ferid offered to let his daughter become a concubine.
• Ye Feng proposed meeting Ferid’s daughter first and deciding based on whether they got along, and Ferid accepted.
• Ye Feng declined the Grand Elder’s offer, explaining that he already followed a school with unconventional methods and needed to search for planetary sources and Deity Transformation Realm Ōtsutsuki Law Crystals.

Ye Feng asked the Makarov Family for planetary sources and revealed that he needed far more than the Grand Elder expected. The Grand Elder realized Ye Feng might possess an innate small world, sealed the conference room, and stopped him from escaping.

• The Grand Elder gave Ye Feng ten planetary sources and offered to provide more.
• Ye Feng clarified that he needed five hundred planetary sources, shocking the Grand Elder, Ferid, and the others.
• The Grand Elder suspected Ye Feng had an innate small world and activated a barrier around the conference room.
• The Grand Elder asked Ye Feng whether he had a small world bound to him from birth.
• Ye Feng tried to break through the space and flee, but the Grand Elder locked it in place.

Ye Feng questioned the Grand Elder about his Companion Small World and learned how such worlds evolved into planets ruled by Universe Peak cultivators. Ferid explained that the Alliance’s families prevented other Small Worlds from fully developing to avoid disputes over territory and the loss of aging Planetary Rulers.

• The Grand Elder persuaded Ye Feng to stop trying to escape and said his Small World would be useless if taken from him.
• The Grand Elder explained that the Central Star Domain’s planets had evolved from Companion Small Worlds, whose owners reached Universe Peak before anyone could seize them.
• Ye Feng asked about breaking through the universe, and the Grand Elder said a cultivator had once opened a passage and vanished beyond it.
• Ferid told Ye Feng that the families barred other Small Worlds from fully developing because new Planetary Rulers would force the Alliance to redistribute territory and resources.
• Ferid explained that the last Faction War had cost the Alliance five Planetary Rulers, who had reached their lifespan limits after fighting.

Ye Feng agreed to become the Makarov Family's ally in exchange for resources and support, then used their Planetary Sources to strengthen his Divine Realm. After Saikeer invited him out, Ye Feng wondered whether Saikeer's sincere affection meant he was interested in him.

• The Grand Elder offered to take Ye Feng as his disciple and support his cultivation in exchange for his help against the Makarov Family's enemies, and Ye Feng agreed.
• Ferid told Ye Feng that the Makarov Family's Planetary Ruler had died and explained how the family's remaining trump cards deterred its enemies.
• Ferid gave Ye Feng twenty Planetary Sources, bringing his total to thirty, and Ye Feng absorbed them over five days.
• Ye Feng found that his Divine Realm had grown and its Law Force had become denser, though he remained in the early stage of the Deity Transformation Realm.
• Saikeer invited Ye Feng out, and Monica sensed that Saikeer was sincere, prompting Ye Feng to wonder whether Saikeer was interested in him.

Ye Feng accompanied Saikeer and Frey to a martial tournament where cultivators from different star regions would compete for prizes provided by the Hartell Family. There, Ye Feng met the Makarov Family’s representatives and suspected that Carlos Chris was Taker Star’s Planetary Ruler.

• Saikeer introduced Ye Feng to Frey, whose strange behavior made Ye Feng suspect the two shared a secret relationship.
• Saikeer explained that the great families held a martial tournament every hundred years to introduce new cultivators, encourage competition, and vie for prestige, and that the Hartell Family was providing this tournament’s prizes.
• Ye Feng joined Saikeer and Frey at the tournament manor, where four Makarov Family participants greeted Saikeer.
• Carlos Chris introduced himself as a complete Deity Transformation Realm cultivator from Taker Star, leading Ye Feng to suspect he was its Planetary Ruler.
• Feliya Diara introduced herself as a complete Deity Transformation Realm cultivator from Kapuli Planet and flirted with Saikeer, while Ye Feng thought she resembled the White Snake Sage.

Ye Feng clashed with Frey before joining Saikeer’s group on the trip to Planet Hartell for a tournament. When the Hartell Family blocked their spaceship from landing, Ye Feng suggested a plan that led Saikeer to destroy one of the ships occupying the grounds, leaving the Hartell representative unable to explain what happened.

• Frey accused Ye Feng of staring at Filiya, and Ye Feng retorted that Frey had no right to interfere.
• Saikeer explained that the tournament had separate divisions for deity transformation realm and nascent soul realm cultivators.
• After Saikeer’s group reached Planet Hartell, the Hartell Family claimed there was no room for their spaceship to land.
• Ye Feng whispered a suggestion to Saikeer, who went outside and destroyed an unmarked spaceship with a blast of purple light.
• Saikeer said the Makarov Family would pay for the damage, leaving the Hartell representative unable to admit that the destroyed ship belonged to his own family.

Ye Feng, Saikeer, and Frey reached Planet Hartell, where Saikeer used Ye Feng’s plan to make the Hartell Family lose a spaceship and then avoided their accommodations. At the tournament venue, they encountered Ophel Hartell, whose underhanded plans Saikeer claimed to have anticipated, though he refused to tell Ye Feng what he had prepared.

• Saikeer ordered his captain to land on a Hartell Family spaceship, and Ye Feng explained to Frey that the move had been his idea.
• Ophel Hartell dismissed the spaceship incident and told his subordinate to treat it as though it had never happened.
• Saikeer took the group to a Makarov Family property instead of the Hartell Family’s prepared accommodations.
• At the competition venue, Ophel greeted Saikeer, but Saikeer ignored his offered hand and Frey led the group inside.
• Ye Feng overheard Ophel’s subordinate proposing action against the Makarov group and Ophel saying they should experience the brutality of battle.
• Ye Feng warned Saikeer about the conversation, but Saikeer said he had prepared for Ophel’s tricks and kept the details secret.

Ye Feng explored the futuristic Arena with Saikeer and learned the Makarov Family lacked enough competitors because they had missed Hartell’s new entry rules. Eager to win the Holy Spirit Fruit, Ye Feng agreed to enter the Deity Transformation Realm competition using Saikeer’s Soul Devouring Stone, and they went to register.

• Ye Feng admired the Arena before Saikeer took the competitors to register and Ye Feng and Frey headed to Makarov’s spectator area.
• Saikeer returned after learning that each competition required at least four entrants, while Frey discovered Hartell had previously sent notice of the new rules.
• Saikeer told Ye Feng that the Deity Transformation Realm competition’s first prize included a planetary source and a Holy Spirit Fruit that could improve soul power.
• Ye Feng offered to compete, and Frey suggested that he use Saikeer’s Soul Devouring Stone to counter other competitors’ divine senses.
• Saikeer warned Ye Feng about the stone’s danger, then gave it to him, and they hurried off to register for the competition.

Ye Feng watched the Nascent Soul Realm melee begin and saw a coordinated team of nearly fifty overpower its opponents. The remaining cultivators finally resolved to unite against them, leaving the team facing the threat of a combined attack.

• Bulan Hartell welcomed the contestants and announced that the Nascent Soul Realm competition would determine sixteen finalists through a melee.
• Ye Feng and Carlos watched as a team of nearly fifty cultivators swept through their opponents, and Carlos said he would kill until enemies were terrified if he faced such a situation.
• Nearly a hundred cultivators attacked the team, but the better-coordinated group eliminated most of them while losing only a few members.
• The remaining cultivators hesitated to cooperate, allowing the team of forty to attack and eliminate more opponents.
• One cultivator urged everyone to work together to prevent a single family from taking all sixteen places, and the remaining fighters united against the team.

A forty-person team used a formation and coordinated attacks to fight off a much larger group, but was eventually eliminated by powerful combined spells. After the arena’s final sixteen were decided, Ye Feng, Carlos, and Filiya entered the Deity Transformation Realm contest, where an imposing fifty-person team drew everyone’s attention.

• A forty-person team formed a battle array, turned the fight around, and sent five attackers charging into the enemy ranks before they were eliminated.
• The remaining opponents finished charging their techniques and overwhelmed the thirty-five defenders with coordinated spells and attacks, eliminating the team.
• The surviving contestants continued fighting cautiously until the arena settled on its final sixteen, and Ye Feng waited for their battle to end.
• The host announced the Deity Transformation Realm contest, and Carlos led Ye Feng and Filiya into the arena while their companion prepared to withdraw as instructed by Saikeer.
• A powerful-looking team of fifty contestants released their auras without restraint, puzzling Ye Feng and the other competitors.

Ye Feng revealed his mastery of Space-Time Power when he rescued Carlos and Filiya from a deadly attack by the Pox team. Meanwhile, Frey-a watched Ye Feng’s interaction with Filiya and grew jealous, despite Saikeer defending him.

• The Pox team charged Ye Feng’s group, and Carlos dodged with Ye Feng and Filiya before warning Ye Feng to leave the Arena.
• When an enormous blade of light threatened Carlos and Filiya, Ye Feng used Space-Time Power to move them out of its path.
• Carlos and Filiya realized Ye Feng had saved them, and Ye Feng promised they would be safe with him.
• Filiya flirted with Ye Feng, while Frey-a watched from afar and complained to Saikeer about his behavior.
• Saikeer revealed that Frey-a was Ferid’s daughter and Ye Feng’s arranged fiancée, and he defended Ye Feng’s talent and worth.

Pox's team used space-time powers and a defensive formation to dominate the Arena, while Ye Feng intervened when they targeted another contestant. The Pox Family's Third Elder demanded to learn which family Ye Feng belonged to.

• Ye Feng told Carlos he would keep him from losing, while Carlos and Filiya said they could handle the rest.
• Pox's team used five space-time cultivators to kill contestants who were charging up their powers, then returned them to the team's formation to recover.
• The contestants joined forces and unleashed attacks, but they could not break Pox's team's defenses.
• When the five space-time cultivators attacked another group of contestants, Ye Feng killed one of them before the five could return to their team.
• The Pox Family's Third Elder saw Ye Feng and ordered someone to find out which family he belonged to.

Ye Feng used his Space-Time Power to protect the other competitors from the Pox Family team's ambushes, but the team's captain unleashed a devastating group attack that killed nearly fifty people. With the competition turning even more dangerous, Ye Feng prepared to send Carlos into the Pox Family formation to attack its members.

• The Third Elder learned that Ye Feng was close to Saikeer and ordered his subordinates to monitor him rather than provoke the Makarov Family.
• Ye Feng anticipated the Pox Family team's ambushes and blocked their four Space-Time Power users from striking their targets.
• The Pox Family captain gathered his team's power into a saber strike that killed nearly fifty competitors and injured dozens more.
• Ye Feng asked Carlos to prepare an explosive attack against the Pox Family team, and Carlos compressed Fire-Type Law Force into a fireball.
• After Carlos said the attack was ready, Ye Feng and Carlos vanished from their spot.

Ye Feng and Carlos disrupted Pox’s attack, forcing the team to retreat from the Arena. As the remaining contestants turned on Ye Feng, he left Carlos and Filiya to fight while he lounged and ate fruit, then let six attackers’ weapons pass through him.

• Ye Feng and Carlos appeared among the Pox team, left behind an expanding fireball, and vanished as it scattered the formation and killed several cultivators.
• The other contestants attacked the weakened Pox team, killing more than twenty members before the captain ordered a retreat from the Arena.
• With Pox gone, some contestants targeted Ye Feng, but he lounged and told Carlos and Filiya to handle the rest.
• Carlos fought off several opponents while Filiya used a brief lapse in an enemy’s attention to stab him, then dodged the other attackers.
• Six cultivators struck Ye Feng as Frey-a cried out, but their weapons passed through him without hitting anything solid.

Ye Feng used shadow techniques and evasive teleportation to survive the selection tournament’s chaotic group battles. The final sixteen were chosen, and the Nascent Soul Realm round began immediately, leaving Ye Feng suspicious of the Hartell Family.

• Ye Feng restrained six opponents with Shadow Possession Jutsu until Carlos cut down three, then Carlos and Filiya helped eliminate the rest.
• The remaining contestants formed five groups, and the largest group attacked the Carter and Lawston alliance while the Hartell Family targeted Ye Feng’s trio.
• Ye Feng repeatedly teleported his trio away from the Hartell Family and the allied families, steering them into fighting one another.
• The fighting ended with four Guzman Family members, six Hartell Family members, three Makaluosu Family members, and three contestants from other families remaining.
• The host announced the Nascent Soul Realm round of sixteen, and Carlos explained that the tournament rules offered no rest period.
• Staff directed Ye Feng’s trio to their families’ spectator areas, and Ye Feng suspected a conspiracy involving the Hartell Family.

Ye Feng learned that the Makarov Family had Holy Spirit Fruits and received a protective bracelet from Saikeer before entering the tournament’s round of sixteen. He faced Hartell Family contestant Soba, who raised a mysterious Formation around them as their match began.

• Saikeer told Ye Feng that the Makarov Family had Holy Spirit Fruits and pointed out powerful cultivators from the Hartell and Guzman Families.
• Saikeer warned Ye Feng that the Hartell Family might target his Space-Time Power and gave him a Flame Turtle Shell bracelet for protection.
• Ye Feng teased Saikeer about his relationship with Frey-a, and Saikeer changed the subject to the tournament matches.
• A Hartell Family cultivator won the championship, and Ye Feng was paired with Hartell contestant Soba in the round of sixteen.
• Soba activated a sphere that raised a Formation around himself and Ye Feng, but Ye Feng sensed no immediate restriction on his strength.

Ye Feng killed Soba after using airborne stones to spread shadows across the Arena, then advanced to the quarterfinals against Tuō'ěrběn of the Guzman Family. Tuō'ěrběn tried to recruit him before the match and then wounded him with a prepared attack, leaving Ye Feng eager to continue testing his strength.

• Ye Feng defeated Soba by extending his shadow across the Arena and strangling him, then destroyed Soba's soul.
• Ophir ordered a subordinate to match Ye Feng against the Guzman Family to reveal more of his abilities.
• In the round of sixteen, Carlos advanced, Filiya surrendered to a Guzman opponent, and three Guzman and three Hartell contestants moved on.
• Before their quarterfinal match, Tuō'ěrběn offered Ye Feng a place in the Guzman Family, but Ye Feng declined and traded threats with him.
• Tuō'ěrběn surrounded the Arena with light to block Ye Feng's Shadow Imitation Technique and wounded his calf with spikes, but Ye Feng escaped the following Sword Light with Space-Time Power.
• Ye Feng teleported behind Tuō'ěrběn to attack, but Tuō'ěrběn anticipated him, prompting Ye Feng to reappear at the other end of the Arena.

Ye Feng used his speed and abilities to counter Tuō'ěrběn, then summoned Susanoo after Tuō'ěrběn transformed. The chapter ended with Ye Feng immobilizing Tuō'ěrběn using his shadow.

• Ye Feng used Ōnoki's Ultra-Light Rock Technique to overcome the Arena's gravity and attacked Tuō'ěrběn at high speed.
• Tuō'ěrběn summoned tracking lightning, but Ye Feng deflected it and struck at him with the Super Heavy Rock Technique.
• Tuō'ěrběn transformed into a towering, muscular form, and Ye Feng summoned an eight-meter Susanoo.
• Ye Feng pierced Tuō'ěrběn with the Kusanagi Sword and then spun it to create a tornado across the Arena.
• Ye Feng used the tornado to destroy Tuō'ěrběn's light orbs, then appeared above him and immobilized him with shadow control.

Ye Feng defeated Tuō'ěrběn after using Susanoo to weaken his resistance, and Farouk conceded the match for the Guzman Family. The semifinals were set, leaving Ye Feng to face Tabang while Carlos faced Farouk, whose strength Saikeer warned was far beyond ordinary Deity Transformation Realm Complete cultivators.

• Ye Feng used Susanoo to repeatedly punch Tuō'ěrběn while his Shadow Imitation Technique restrained him, but Tuō'ěrběn refused to concede despite coughing up blood.
• Farouk conceded the match on the Guzman Family's behalf, and Ye Feng released Tuō'ěrběn before Farouk thanked him for showing mercy.
• Ye Feng learned that the quarterfinals had ended with himself, Farouk, Carlos, and Tabang advancing to the semifinals.
• The semifinal matchups were announced as Carlos against Farouk and Ye Feng against Tabang.
• Saikeer told Ye Feng that Farouk was the Guzman clan leader's exceptionally gifted, unacknowledged illegitimate son and warned that Ye Feng's early-stage cultivation put him at a disadvantage.

Ye Feng received Carlos’s one-use weapon before entering the Arena to face the ruthless Tabang. Tabang’s opening attack overwhelmed Ye Feng, who barely escaped being driven into the light barrier.

• Carlos conceded to Farouk after realizing the gap between their strength was too great.
• Saikeer told Ye Feng that Carlos had a one-use weapon capable of unleashing a strike near the Tribulation Transcendence Realm middle stage.
• Saikeer warned Ye Feng to take Carlos’s weapon because Tabang might use underhanded tactics, and Carlos passed Ye Feng the transforming ring.
• Ye Feng and Tabang began their match, and Tabang vanished before charging toward Ye Feng’s reappearance point.
• Ye Feng blocked Tabang’s saber with the Kusanagi Sword, was sent flying by the force, and used Space-Time Power to avoid the Arena’s barrier.