Chapter Summaries

Luo Zhongtian tried to kill Chu Tiannan after returning to the real world, but Chu Tiannan’s protective halo stopped him and the tournament teleported Luo Zhongtian away. He was then stripped of his position as eldest prince and sentenced to exile with his direct family.

• Luo Zhongtian decided to kill Chu Tiannan in the real world and struck at him with a spear.
• Chu Tiannan’s halo shattered Luo Zhongtian’s tier-five weapon and sent him flying.
• Luo Zhongtian prepared to use the Primordial Chaos God Slayer, but the tournament eliminated and teleported him away.
• Three divine generals delivered an imperial decree stripping Luo Zhongtian of his princely title and exiling him and his direct family to the frontier.
• Star Domain Level warriors seized Luo Zhongtian and dragged him away.

Chu Tiannan and his teammates celebrated qualifying for the Genius Qualification Battle, then returned to the virtual world for the next round. Chu Tiannan found himself surrounded by enemy markers and learned that he ranked 975642nd on the Doulong Star Battlefield.

• Chu Tiannan, Xian'er, Liu Ben, and Xian Yue shared their rankings, with Xian Yue placing first and all four advancing.
• The contestants were told that the Genius Qualification Battle would begin in half an hour.
• Chu Tiannan rallied his teammates, and they joined hands before being teleported back into the virtual world.
• Chu Tiannan saw a dense cluster of enemy markers on his wristband and learned that contestants had to defeat opponents to earn battle merits.
• Chu Tiannan checked his status and saw that he had 211 points and ranked 975642nd on the Doulong Star Battlefield.

Chu Tiannan entered a massive single-field qualifying battle and chose to cultivate while the other geniuses fought, aiming to master “Break” and give his Bauhinia Star Beast clone time to advance. A red-clad Controller attacked him by surprise, but Chu Tiannan appeared behind the attacker, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Chu Tiannan found that the top hundred geniuses from each of the original battlefields had been placed together, and he could not locate any of his teammates.
• Chu Tiannan observed intense fighting and saw the number of surviving geniuses rapidly fall.
• Chu Tiannan decided to cultivate in his starting area to master “Break” and give his Bauhinia Star Beast clone more time to break through.
• A red-clad young Controller launched a fireball at Chu Tiannan’s room, but received no combat merit notification.
• Chu Tiannan appeared behind the red-clad young man and asked if he was looking for him.

Chu Tiannan turned the red-robed young man's ambush against him and defeated him in the starting room. The Controller genius lost his qualification to compete among the geniuses.

• Chu Tiannan reappeared behind the red-robed young man, who realized his ambush had failed.
• The red-robed young man flooded the room with magma and sent a scarlet flame vortex at Chu Tiannan.
• Chu Tiannan drew the Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving and used the Law of Chaos to cleave the vortex in two.
• The red-robed young man admitted defeat, and Chu Tiannan told him he had lost because he underestimated his opponent.
• Chu Tiannan pressed his palm to the red-robed young man's forehead, and the Controller genius was eliminated from the competition.

Chu Tiannan settled in to cultivate after defeating an opponent and gaining battle merits, while the Luoshen Universe Country’s qualification battle began. The chapter ended with a mysterious girl in a yellow dress appearing on its battlefield, her enormous golden sword intimidating the other geniuses.

• Chu Tiannan learned that his house had been destroyed and decided to cultivate at someone else’s place.
• After his ranking rose, Chu Tiannan checked his new standing and collected 761 battle merits from his defeated opponent.
• Chu Tiannan told the Devour Dog to guard him during five months of seclusion and warned it about the Bauhinia Star Beast avatar’s impending breakthrough.
• The Luoshen Universe Country’s genius qualification battle began in a simulated version of the Luo God Clan’s ancient ruins, where participants discussed forming temporary teams.
• A girl in a yellow dress appeared among the contestants, drawing their attention and awe with her cold beauty and enormous golden sword.

Luo'er appeared at the qualifying round and thought fondly of Chu Tiannan, wondering whether he had advanced. After rejecting Heng Liuji's team invitation, she asked him for a favor.

• Luo'er watched the forest and thought about Chu Tiannan and their happy days together on Earth.
• Luo'er reasoned that Chu Tiannan's cunning would help him through the preliminary round.
• Heng Liuji approached Luo'er and invited her to join his team of experts.
• Luo'er refused to form a team but asked Heng Liuji to grant her a favor.

Luo'er instantly killed Heng Liuji, then attacked the other cosmic geniuses who tried to surround her. She left dozens of them dead after driving them to flee with her golden greatsword.

• Heng Liuji politely offered to help Luo'er, but she struck him with a golden palm and destroyed his virtual body.
• The surrounding geniuses recognized Heng Liuji as the prince of the Great Heng Realm and feared Luo'er's strength.
• Luo'er announced that she would take their battle merits, prompting thirty or forty geniuses to surround her.
• Luo'er drew her golden greatsword, and the geniuses fled when they felt its oppressive force.
• Luo'er sent sword energy after the fleeing geniuses and killed them one after another.

Luo'er left the teleportation array, determined to reunite with Chu Tiannan at the Universe Genius Battle. Meanwhile, Chu Tiannan completed his comprehension of the second stage of the cosmic laws and set his sights on reaching the top ten thousand before the remaining month and a half was over.

• Luo'er thought of Chu Tiannan and vowed to meet him at the Universe Genius Battle and give him a beating.
• Chu Tiannan used the Law of Chaos to expand and command the chaotic currents around him, forming a more powerful phantom of chaos.
• Devour Dog confirmed that Chu Tiannan had reached the second stage of the cosmic laws, where words became law and cultivators could unleash law skills.
• Chu Tiannan learned he had cultivated for four and a half months and had fallen outside the top two hundred thousand, with a month and a half remaining.
• Chu Tiannan slung Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving onto his back and declared that he would break into the top ten thousand.

Chu Tiannan left his room while worrying that the Bauhinia Star Beast’s breakthrough pains were affecting his combat ability. In the tournament’s starting area, he slaughtered a hundred experts who tried to take his battle merits.

• Chu Tiannan asked Devour Dog how to lessen the pain from the Bauhinia Star Beast’s breakthrough, but Devour Dog told him to endure it.
• A group of about a hundred tournament contestants surrounded Chu Tiannan and demanded his battle merits.
• Chu Tiannan refused to flee as the contestants launched a simultaneous attack.
• Chu Tiannan drew his sword and killed the surrounding contestants with a single strike.

Chu Tiannan suppressed the Emperor Claw Star Beast’s bloodlust after killing over a hundred opponents and advanced through the Doulong Star Battlefield. Elsewhere, a white-robed swordsman wondered about his teacher’s teachings, while a gray-cloaked young man searched for worthy rivals.

• Chu Tiannan used Chaos Power to suppress the Emperor Claw Star Beast’s bloodthirsty nature and reaffirmed his control over it.
• Chu Tiannan’s kills raised his Doulong Star Battlefield ranking to 149768, and he set off toward the horizon to find more opponents.
• A white-robed young man meditated among corpses whose wounds showed they had each been killed by one sword strike to the throat.
• The white-robed young man asked his teacher what the next step was, gazing beyond the sky with his blood-wheel, three-flowered pupils.
• A handsome young man in a gray cloak wondered why he had yet to meet a true genius and expected to find real opponents in the Universe Genius Battle.

Mo Liang slaughtered rival geniuses with his bloodthirsty chain sword while waiting for the qualification battle to end and the Universe Genius Battle to begin. In the city, Chu Tiannan deliberately walked into a street watched by powerful contestants, drawing the attention of a hunter seeking to improve his rank.

• Mo Liang killed multiple Martial Artists and Controllers with his chain sword, including a highly ranked Cosmic Laws expert who cursed him.
• Mo Liang grew bored and said he was eager to leave the battlefield and taste the geniuses from other divine kingdoms.
• As the qualification battle neared its end, surviving geniuses gathered in the city, where cold-war standoffs and daily deadly fights continued.
• A three-eyed genius ranked in the seventy thousands watched the street for easy targets and spotted Chu Tiannan walking openly through it.
• Chu Tiannan sensed at least ten powerful auras and smiled, calling the encounter a chance for business.

Chu Tiannan entered Dragon King Star City to find a better place to cultivate and learn whether his teammates were still fighting, while continuing to pursue battle merits. After surviving an ambush and eliminating his attacker, he was recognized by another hidden competitor who tried to flee.

• Chu Tiannan wandered through Dragon King Star City and sensed that someone was watching him.
• A three-eyed young man attacked Chu Tiannan with a Flame Bull Cannon, but Chu Tiannan kept the flames at bay and eliminated him.
• Chu Tiannan saw that his rank had risen to 43,567 after continuing to lure opponents into underestimating him and collect their battle merits.
• A thin young man recognized Chu Tiannan and tried to escape, but Chu Tiannan told him not to leave.

Chu Tiannan learned of a law inheritance in Dragon King Star City and followed the map toward it, killing the man who had revealed the secret to gain battle merits. In the virtual battlefield, he discovered that the Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving could consume the real souls and wills of simulated demon beasts.

• A lean man begged Chu Tiannan to spare him and offered secrets about powerful experts and a law inheritance.
• Chu Tiannan let the lean man leave, then used a golden light sword to kill him for his battle merits and followed the electronic map.
• Chu Tiannan encountered and killed a galaxy level eighth-stage demon beast in the mountain forest.
• The Dragon Scale Heaven-Deriving devoured the demon beast's soul, strengthening Chu Tiannan's soul, perception, and will.
• Chu Tiannan realized that the virtual demon beasts' bodies were simulated, but their souls and wills were real.

After hearing that contestants from the Galaxy Kingdom were in danger at the Chaotic Dragon Mausoleum, Chu Tiannan learned its location from a passing genius and raced to save them. Heavenly Sin’s upgrade was nearly complete, but he left before it was finished.

• While bathing, Chu Tiannan overheard travelers say a law inheritance had been activated and that Sea Demon’s group was targeting the Galaxy Kingdom contestants.
• Chu Tiannan attacked three young geniuses traveling toward the inheritance, killing two and demanding the surviving flame-covered man reveal the destination.
• The survivor told Chu Tiannan they were heading to the Chaotic Dragon Mausoleum, and Chu Tiannan killed him after getting the information.
• Chu Tiannan asked Devour Dog about Heavenly Sin’s upgrade, learned it was almost finished, and flew toward the mausoleum to save the others.

Sea Demon pursued Liu Ben, Xian Yue, and the unconscious Xian'er through the Chaotic Dragon Mausoleum because he wanted to devour Xian'er's exceptional soul will. Liu Ben and Xian Yue fled with Xian'er, who remained afflicted by the Demon Gu and a powerful ocean law, and believed they had lost their pursuers.

• Sea Demon landed with his followers on Dragon Head Mountain and tracked the group toward a misty valley.
• One of Sea Demon's followers spoke confidently about tracking their prey, and Sea Demon struck him down, saying he wanted the woman.
• Sea Demon revealed that he sought Xian'er's powerful soul will and believed consuming it could make his own soul will invincible at the galaxy level.
• Liu Ben carried the unconscious Xian'er through the Forest Sea Rock territory while Xian Yue ran alongside them.
• Xian Yue said she could no longer sense the pursuers' auras, though Xian'er remained weak and affected by demonic markings and ocean law.

Xian Yue and Liu Ben hid the badly injured Xian'er in a cave, where Xian Yue used water laws to treat her. Xian'er briefly asked whether Brother Tiannan was coming before falling unconscious again, while Liu Ben fought someone outside.

• Liu Ben found a mountainside cave and brought Xian Yue and Xian'er inside to hide.
• Xian Yue began healing Xian'er while Liu Ben guarded the entrance.
• Xian Yue recalled that Sea Demon had interrupted Xian'er's water-law inheritance and severely injured her, forcing the sisters and Liu Ben to flee without the Still Water Pavilion.
• Xian'er briefly regained consciousness and asked whether Brother Tiannan had arrived, and Xian Yue reassured her that he was coming.
• A fight broke out outside the cave as Liu Ben shouted that he would not let anyone enter.

Liu Ben defended the cave and the girl inside from Wu Tian and four other Glacier Kingdom experts seeking a water law inheritance. After Wu Tian hurled Liu Ben into the air, Liu Ben struck back with the Thunder Hammer and blocked the cave entrance, leaving Wu Tian enraged and ready to attack again.

• Wu Tian offered to spare Liu Ben and his companions if they handed over the girl and the water law inheritance, but Liu Ben refused to let him enter the cave.
• Wu Tian used his willpower to lift Liu Ben into the air and throw him away from the entrance.
• Wu Tian approached the cave, declaring that the inheritance would make him invincible among Controllers.
• Liu Ben launched a surprise attack with the Thunder Hammer, striking Wu Tian and the others with silver lightning dragons.
• Liu Ben slammed the Thunder Hammer into the cave entrance and warned Wu Tian he would not let him inside.
• Wu Tian vowed to deal with Liu Ben first.

Chu Tiannan sensed signs of battle in the Chaotic Dragon Mausoleum and hurried toward Forest Sea Rock, but he suppressed his Bauhinia Star Beast clone’s breakthrough with the Law of Chaos. At a cave in Forest Sea Rock, Wu Tian continued to beat Liu Ben, who refused to let him pass, and prepared to kill him.

• Chu Tiannan reached Dragon Head Mountain and sensed powerful auras and signs that someone had been injured.
• Chu Tiannan’s Bauhinia Star Beast clone broke through to the brink of a critical point, so he suppressed it with the Law of Chaos and continued toward Forest Sea Rock.
• Wu Tian repeatedly slammed Liu Ben into the ground while two companions mocked Liu Ben’s resolve and fighting ability.
• Wu Tian demanded that Liu Ben submit and let him pass, but Liu Ben refused despite his grave injuries.
• Wu Tian unleashed a surge of icy radiance toward Liu Ben with the intent to kill him.

Xian'er awakened her Ocean Law and saved Liu Ben from Wu Tian's attack, allowing Liu Ben and Xian Yue to escape. Wu Tian prepared to pursue them, but several red-haired young men confronted him.

• Wu Tian's icy attack was swallowed when Xian'er's Ocean Law burst from the sealed cave.
• Xian'er blasted Wu Tian's companions and cracked his ice barrier, then collapsed unconscious.
• Xian Yue took her sister and shouted for Liu Ben to run, and they escaped together.
• Wu Tian recovered with his companions and prepared to chase Liu Ben and Xian Yue.
• A blood-colored shadow struck Wu Tian's ice staff, and he saw several red-haired young men watching him from a rocky outcrop.

Sea Demon tracked Wu Tian’s group to Forest Sea Rock and proposed joining forces to capture the three fugitives. Wu Tian agreed to let Sea Demon take the girl in exchange for the water law inheritance, but a blue-skinned newcomer interrupted with his own demand for revenge against Chu Tiannan.

• Sea Demon found that his prey had escaped and mocked Wu Tian’s group for failing to capture them.
• Sea Demon intimidated the thin, small young man with his demonic power, but Wu Tian stepped in and drove it back.
• Sea Demon proposed that they cooperate, offering Wu Tian the water law inheritance in exchange for the girl.
• Wu Tian accepted Sea Demon’s offer because he wanted the law inheritance.
• A blue-skinned young man with blue antlers arrived and asked to use the three fugitives to lure out Chu Tiannan and avenge his younger brother.