Recaps

Chu Tiannan learned that his teacher had prepared a safeguard beneath the Pacific seabed and resolved to keep others away from it. He then headed deeper into the East Cang Continent to learn Dragon Cloud Lock, while a group of six geniuses raced to claim a city on the West Ling Continent.

• Chu Tiannan grew uneasy at the thought that his deceased teacher had planned his path and prepared the Devour Dog as a safeguard.
• He decided to station his clone near the seabed to detect disturbances and prevent humans from approaching the dangerous area.
• After realizing his cultivation session had lasted half a month, Chu Tiannan checked his wristband and saw fewer than eight hundred million geniuses remained.
• Chu Tiannan planned to learn the Heavenly Sin Mirage Dragon's Dragon Cloud Lock before pursuing battle merits and flew deeper into the East Cang Continent.
• On the West Ling Continent, a group of six raced toward a city so they could defend themselves from beasts after nightfall, and the yellow-clad girl chose the nearest city on their map.

Chu Tiannan struggled to cross a forest filled with powerful Demon Beasts at night and decided to wait until daybreak before heading toward East Dragon City. As he hid in an unusually quiet area, he sensed a faint tremor above him.

• Chu Tiannan escaped packs of Star Domain Level Demon Beasts, aided by the Heavenly Sin Mirage Dragon when six Heavenly Wolves attacked him.
• The Devour Dog said the Virtual World Group had likely added the beasts to eliminate ordinary geniuses.
• Chu Tiannan decided to wait until dawn and identified East Dragon City as the nearest place to rest.
• While hiding in a strangely quiet stretch of forest, Chu Tiannan sensed a faint tremor above his head and looked up.

Chu Tiannan found a deadly wolf spider concealed above an ancient tree and fled through the forest to avoid fighting it. The wolf spider did not pursue him directly, but secretly sent a black thread after him.

• Chu Tiannan noticed the forest was unnaturally silent and decided to leave the area.
• He looked up and discovered bones hanging from the tree and a wolf spider watching him from a black web.
• Chu Tiannan fled at full speed, and the wolf spider quietly drew out a black thread in the direction he had gone.
• He traveled through the forest for over a million kilometers, reflecting that fighting a Star Domain Level wolf spider while restricted to Galaxy Level, Fifth Stage would be too dangerous.

Chu Tiannan fled a Star Domain Level wolf spider whose venomous forelegs and web attacks made it a deadly threat. After cutting through its webs, he stopped to face the spider and swung his sword at it.

• Chu Tiannan sat on a tree branch to rest and noticed a black thread attached to his calf.
• The wolf spider followed the thread and pounced, but Chu Tiannan dodged its strike.
• Chu Tiannan cut the tracking thread and ran through the ancient trees as the wolf spider pursued him with webs.
• Chu Tiannan recalled seeing human skulls and skeletons hanging from a tree, suggesting the spider had killed other victims.
• Chu Tiannan severed the wolf spider’s web attacks, leaped above an ancient tree, and swung his sword at it.

Chu Tiannan wounded the wolf spider with Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving but was trapped in its web. As the spider lunged to kill him, dozens of golden streaks pierced its body.

• Chu Tiannan dodged the wolf spider's charge and stabbed its vulnerable belly with Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving.
• Chu Tiannan used the Heavenly Sin Mirage Dragons to pin the spider's forelegs, then slashed open its belly.
• The wounded wolf spider hurled sticky strands of spider silk around Chu Tiannan and bound him in midair.
• Chu Tiannan mocked the spider as it charged at him, and dozens of golden streaks suddenly pierced through the creature's body.

Chu Tiannan killed a Star Domain Level wolf spider in the forest and gained Devour Points from its corpse. At daybreak, he headed toward East Dragon City, where he hoped to find safety from the Demon Beasts.

• Chu Tiannan used his Heavenly Sin Mirage Dragons to kill the wolf spider and free himself from its web.
• Chu Tiannan ordered the Heavenly Sin Mirage Dragons to devour the wolf spider and received 580,000 Devour Points.
• Devour Dog explained that the wolf spider was worth less because it came from a virtual world.
• Chu Tiannan traveled through the forest until dawn, when the Demon Beasts became scarce.
• Chu Tiannan learned that people had to pay the city lord to live in a city and flew toward East Dragon City.

Chu Tiannan arrived at East Dragon City and learned that entry cost two origin stones, a currency he did not have. As night approached, he asked a fishman-like man in line if he could buy two stones with universe coins.

• Chu Tiannan joined the long queue outside East Dragon City and used the wait to comprehend the Dragon Cloud Lock inside the Bauhinia Star Beast.
• The armored guards demanded two origin stones from each person entering, despite another visitor noting that other cities charged only 1.5.
• Chu Tiannan asked Devour for information and learned that origin stones were condensed from Cosmic Qi and the power of laws, with cultivators producing about one per day.
• With darkness nearing and no origin stones, Chu Tiannan asked the fishman-like man ahead of him whether he could buy two with universe coins.

Chu Tiannan sought to buy origin stones with Universe Currency, but accepted one as a gift after learning how valuable they were in the Universe Genius Battle. After a group of red-clad competitors mocked him, he turned to confront their loudest taunter.

• Chu Tiannan asked a merman to sell him origin stones, and the merman gave him one while explaining their value.
• A red-dressed girl and other competitors mocked Chu Tiannan for not knowing about origin stones.
• Chu Tiannan ignored the insults as the red-clad young man with flame-shaped eyebrows continued taunting him.
• Chu Tiannan turned toward the young man and asked, “Say that again?”

Chu Tiannan confronted Huo Qishan and the Flame Kingdom youths who had mocked him, despite the merman’s warning about their power. After Chu Tiannan challenged them to fight, Huo Qishan was suddenly pierced by a flash of golden light.

• Huo Qishan and the other Flame Kingdom youths mocked Chu Tiannan and called him a bastard.
• The merman urged Chu Tiannan to enter the city and avoid a fight, warning that the youths came from the powerful Flame Kingdom.
• Chu Tiannan thanked the merman but walked up to Huo Qishan and challenged him and his companions to fight.
• Huo Qishan sneered at Chu Tiannan, but a streak of golden light suddenly pierced Huo Qishan’s body.

Chu Tiannan killed Huo Qishan with a surprise sword strike, then turned on the Flame Kingdom group. He left the group’s red-clad girl dead as well, declaring that none of them would qualify.

• Chu Tiannan pierced Huo Qishan’s heart before anyone saw him move.
• Chu Tiannan cut Huo Qishan apart and collected the raw stones that fell from his corpse.
• Chu Tiannan confronted the red-clad girl who had insulted him and said the Flame Kingdom group would not qualify.
• Chu Tiannan killed the red-clad girl with a single sword strike.

Chu Tiannan killed the remaining Flame Kingdom geniuses who confronted him, using his Chaos Phantom and Devour Abyss skill to consume them. He identified himself as a member of the Heaven Dou Universe Nation and waited for the Lava Universe Nation to seek revenge.

• Chu Tiannan beheaded the flame maiden and destroyed the origin stones she had left behind.
• Chu Tiannan challenged the two remaining flame youths to attack him together.
• Chu Tiannan summoned a Chaos Phantom and engulfed the two youths in Chaos Current.
• One of the youths threatened that the Lava Universe Nation would take revenge, and Chu Tiannan said he was from the Heaven Dou Universe Nation.
• Chu Tiannan dragged both youths into the deepest layer of the Chaos Abyss and devoured them.

After defeating the Flame Kingdom geniuses, Chu Tiannan earned the respect and fear of those nearby. He repaid Leo for helping him earlier, and Leo introduced himself as Chu Tiannan’s little brother.

• The Chaos Abyss disappeared after Chu Tiannan killed the Flame Kingdom geniuses, leaving him alone amid the fading currents.
• The nearby geniuses grew wary of Chu Tiannan, and he counted his gains at twenty-six Primal Stones.
• Chu Tiannan approached the frightened merman, Leo, and returned the favor by giving him ten Primal Stones.
• Leo revealed he was from the Mermaid Kingdom in the Sea King Cosmic Nation and knelt to greet Chu Tiannan as his big brother.

Chu Tiannan entered the city with Leo, who pledged himself to Chu Tiannan for protection. After choosing a secluded palace to spend the night, Chu Tiannan prepared to test cultivating with an origin stone.

• Leo asked Chu Tiannan to take him in as his younger brother, and Chu Tiannan agreed.
• Chu Tiannan and Leo paid four origin stones to the Holy Light Universe Country and entered the city.
• Chu Tiannan chose an inconspicuous palace near the city wall and told Leo they would travel to the central continent the next day.
• As night fell, the city gates closed and its energy shield held back the surrounding Demon Beasts.
• Chu Tiannan examined a glowing five-pointed stone and prepared to test the effects of cultivating with origin stones.

Chu Tiannan cultivated in the city safe zone after discovering that devouring raw stones greatly increased his cultivation and comprehension speed. He considered how reaching the Star God Level would transform his Cosmic Qi into Star God Power.

• The chapter described how the red moon and dangerous Demon Beasts made nighttime travel perilous, though slain beasts could yield raw stones.
• Chu Tiannan regretted forgetting to extract raw stones from the wolf spider before devouring its corpse.
• Chu Tiannan sat cross-legged in the safe-zone city and cultivated with Cosmic Qi transformed by his chaos energy.
• Chu Tiannan realized that devouring raw stones had greatly accelerated his cultivation and comprehension, but that experts had limits on how many they could consume.
• Chu Tiannan clenched his fist and said that reaching the Star God Level would transform his Cosmic Qi into Star God Power.

Chu Tiannan continued striving toward the Star God Level, though his focus on returning to the Origin World had weakened as his family and other concerns took on greater importance. After devouring a Primal Stone, he strengthened his body and condensed excess Cosmic Qi into a more powerful pentagonal Primal Stone.

• Chu Tiannan reaffirmed that reaching the Star God Level was necessary to fulfill his determination and promises.
• Chu Tiannan reflected that he might someday take his family to explore the Origin World, leaving that distant goal for later.
• Chu Tiannan devoured another Primal Stone and used Chaos to withstand its immense energy.
• Cosmic Qi surged through Chu Tiannan and remodeled his body as he grew stronger.
• Chu Tiannan gathered the excess Cosmic Qi in his palm and formed a pentagonal Primal Stone more potent than the one he had consumed.

Chu Tiannan condensed a second Primal Stone and learned he would need many more to prepare for the Bauhinia Star Beast. He tested whether the Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving could benefit from devouring a Primal Stone, and its delayed reaction began just as he was about to try another.

• Chu Tiannan condensed a second, more stable Primal Stone, and Devour Dog told him he would need far more for both his fusion and the Bauhinia Star Beast.
• Chu Tiannan worried he could not gather enough during the Universe Genius Battle, but Devour Dog said the Virtual World Group could supply Primal Stones in the real Metaverse.
• Chu Tiannan ordered the Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving to devour a Primal Stone to see if it would gain Devour Points or stronger attributes.
• The Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving showed no immediate effect, but it began to change just as Chu Tiannan considered feeding it another stone.

Chu Tiannan discovered that Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving could absorb Primal Stones to increase its attack attributes. After feeding it ten stones, he left with the sword’s attack power raised by ten percent, giving him a stronger chance against Star Domain Level opponents.

• Chu Tiannan saw no immediate change after Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving devoured its first five-pointed Primal Stone.
• Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving glowed and pulsed as it conveyed its delight in absorbing the stone, and Chu Tiannan sensed its attack attributes had increased by one percent.
• Chu Tiannan fed Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving nine more Primal Stones, which it swallowed at once.
• Chu Tiannan confirmed that Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving’s attack attributes had increased by ten percent, giving him the strength to contend with newly advanced Star Domain Level experts without using his own soul will.

Chu Tiannan discovered that fusing Primal Stones had transformed Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving into a Light Weapon and that further upgrades demanded exponentially more stones. He left the hall under the dark red moonlight, troubled by the immense cost and a feeling that the night would not be peaceful.

• Chu Tiannan fused ten Primal Stones into Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving, turning it into a Chaos Light Weapon divine artifact that glowed bronze even outside combat.
• Chu Tiannan found that raising the weapon's attack boost from ten to eleven percent required five more Primal Stones.
• Chu Tiannan calculated that each later increase would require many more stones and worried about upgrading his other divine artifacts, his own gear, and the Bauhinia Star Beast's.
• Devour Dog teased Chu Tiannan that improving his combat power would not be easy, and Chu Tiannan decided he would find a way.
• Chu Tiannan went outside and gazed at the dark red moonlight, then felt that the night would not be peaceful.

Chu Tiannan learned from Leo about the Holy Light Imperial Clan’s control of East Dragon City and the powerful geniuses enforcing it. As he watched people curry favor with the clan, he questioned how the city’s residents could resist its growing influence.

• Chu Tiannan checked his ranking and saw that more than a hundred million geniuses had already been eliminated.
• Chu Tiannan reflected on surviving five dangerous nights during his seventeen days on the East Cang Continent.
• Leo gathered intelligence about East Dragon City and told Chu Tiannan that its lord belonged to the Holy Light Universe Country’s imperial clan.
• Chu Tiannan learned that more than ten Holy Light Imperial Clan geniuses lived in the city, including several Law Third Stage experts.
• Chu Tiannan learned that residents had to pay the clan one Primal Stone each day and saw people currying favor with the clan at the central palace.

Chu Tiannan reflected on the Holy Light Imperial Clan’s control of East Dragon City and planned how to grow stronger during Night Mode. Before the continents merged, he intended to train, master Dragon Cloud Lock, and search for Luo'er, Xian'er, and the others.

• Chu Tiannan learned that the Holy Light Imperial Clan had driven dissenters out of the city, where Star Domain Level Demon Beasts quickly devoured them.
• Chu Tiannan decided that Night Mode was a trial and that hiding in the city would not help him stand out in the Universe Genius Battle.
• Chu Tiannan planned to undergo serious training before the continents merged and to comprehend Dragon Cloud Lock.
• Chu Tiannan resolved to find Luo'er and search for Xian'er and the others before the continents merged.

Chu Tiannan learned that a Demon Beast Tide was approaching East Dragon City during Night Mode and joined the city’s defense. As the city prepared for the assault, he reached the wall to face his first major crisis since entering the East Cang Continent.

• Devour Dog warned Chu Tiannan that unusual fluctuations suggested a dangerous night ahead.
• Chu Tiannan saw crimson lights moving toward East Dragon City as the ground began to tremble.
• Leo told Chu Tiannan that a Demon Beast Tide was attacking the city.
• Chu Tiannan ordered Leo to hide in the palace, then rushed to the city wall.
• Chu Tiannan surveyed the chaos beyond the wall as the city’s defenders prepared to fight.

A massive Demon Beast tide surrounded East Dragon City under the blood moon, and the defenders prepared to resist it. Wu Tianfeng arrived and urged everyone to fight until dawn, though his imperial-clan companions warned that the city might fall.

• Nearly ten thousand people gathered on East Dragon City's walls as the Demon Beast tide approached.
• Chu Tiannan watched the vast tide and sensed the strength of the arriving geniuses.
• Wu Tianfeng, the city's lord and a Law Third Stage Peak expert, arrived with six young men in scale armor.
• Two Holy Light Imperial Clan geniuses warned Wu Tianfeng that the city could fall and suggested abandoning it for his safety.
• Wu Tianfeng told the defenders to use their full strength and hold out until dawn to avoid elimination.

Wu Tianfeng assured the cultivators that East Dragon City would protect them, but Chu Tiannan and the Holy Light Imperial Clan remained wary as powerful Demon Beasts gathered beyond the barrier. When Wu Tianfeng ordered everyone to prepare for battle, a major fight was about to begin.

• Wu Tianfeng warned that the Holy Light Universe Country would protect those who had paid for entry and threatened anyone who caused trouble.
• East Dragon City's barrier annihilated Demon Beasts that attacked it, prompting many cultivators to believe the city was safe.
• Chu Tiannan and the Holy Light Imperial Clan watched the approaching Demon Beast tide without celebrating.
• Chu Tiannan sensed several Demon Beasts with auras far stronger than ordinary star domain level creatures and readied the Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving.
• Wu Tianfeng drew his clear-wind longsword and ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

Wu Tianfeng warned the cultivators that Star Domain Level Demon Beasts were attacking and forced them to accept the Holy Light Clan’s command. A hideous humanoid beast tore through East Dragon City’s defensive barrier, leaving the city breached.

• Wu Tianfeng called everyone to prepare for battle as several powerful Demon Beasts approached.
• Another Law Third Stage expert said the Holy Light Clan would keep everyone safe if they obeyed its orders.
• Cultivators and geniuses agreed to follow the Holy Light Imperial Clan, fearing they would be targeted if they refused.
• Dozens of powerful giant beasts surged from the beast tide and charged East Dragon City.
• A black humanoid beast smashed through the defensive barrier, breaching East Dragon City.

Wu Tianfeng killed the beast that breached East Dragon City's defenses and rallied the geniuses to follow the Holy Light Imperial Clan. Wu Man took charge of another section and planned to use independent geniuses as expendable defenders, intending to make them the clan’s stone slaves.

• Wu Tianfeng killed the humanoid beast with one sword strike after it tore open East Dragon City's defensive barrier.
• Wu Tianfeng and allied geniuses urged the crowd to follow the Holy Light Imperial Clan, while Chu Tiannan noticed other powerful figures among the gathered geniuses.
• Wu Man took command of a section of the city wall, where his two Holy Light Imperial Clan companions joined him.
• Wu Man proposed sending disobedient outsiders to the front lines to weaken them and eventually force them to become the clan’s stone slaves.