Chapter Summaries

Chu Tiannan awakened in the Metaverse’s East Cang Continent and learned the rules for the Universe Genius Battle. The contest began with contestants capped at Galaxy Level, Fifth Stage, and Chu Tiannan prepared to fight for the Virtual World Group’s recognition.

• Chu Tiannan emerged from a maintenance pod and learned from Devour Dog that he was in the Metaverse’s East Cang Continent.
• Chu Tiannan tested his strength by destroying a towering tree with a punch and found that his power was capped at Galaxy Level, Fifth Stage.
• Chu Tiannan asked Devour Dog to check the battle’s requirements, but Devour Dog told him the Universe Genius Battle would start in ten seconds.
• The Virtual World Group sent Chu Tiannan the contest rules, explaining that a billion geniuses would fight across four continents and that defeat meant elimination.
• Chu Tiannan learned that victors would claim defeated contestants’ battle merits, while defeated contestants would be sent back to their starting locations.

The 73,192,371st Universe Genius Battle began, and the rules set out a five-phase selection ending with the final candidates inside the shrinking safe zone. Chu Tiannan found himself free to leave his protected area and decided to cultivate his Bauhinia Star Beast clone before pursuing a higher ranking.

• Chu Tiannan read the Virtual World Group’s rules, which explained that the continents would connect after one month and cosmic lightning would eliminate geniuses outside the safe zone by the fourth phase.
• Chu Tiannan, a youth with a demonic sword, a white-robed young man, a savage with a stone staff, a woman beneath the Divine Light Domain, and other competitors anticipated the battle as the countdown continued.
• The countdown reached zero, and the 73,192,371st Universe Genius Battle officially began.
• The protective zones disappeared, allowing the geniuses to move freely as a battle involving up to one billion competitors began.
• Chu Tiannan saw that his ranking was above eight hundred million and chose to cultivate his Bauhinia Star Beast clone’s Cosmic Level.

Chu Tiannan planned to strengthen his Bauhinia Star Beast clone during the lull before the four continents connected. After dodging a surprise attack, he trapped the attacker and left him begging for mercy.

• Chu Tiannan resolved to raise his Bauhinia Star Beast clone from the first to the ninth stage of star domain level.
• A fat young Controller attacked Chu Tiannan with flying knives, but Chu Tiannan dodged the strike.
• The fat young man saw that Chu Tiannan had escaped and tried to flee.
• Chu Tiannan used a golden thread to pull the fat young man back and slam him into the ground.
• The fat young man tearfully begged Chu Tiannan to spare him.

Chu Tiannan defeated a fat young man who tried to kill him after pretending to surrender, then considered how to improve his physical strength and make himself more complete. The battle continued amid a rapidly shrinking field of geniuses.

• The fat young man begged Chu Tiannan for mercy and offered half his battle merits, then launched a concealed throwing knife when Chu Tiannan approached.
• Chu Tiannan blocked the knife with an invisible defensive barrier and killed the fat young man.
• Chu Tiannan checked his wristband and saw that more than fifty million geniuses had died since the competition began.
• Chu Tiannan reasoned that strong souls and wills helped contestants sense opponents, and focused on improving his physical strength through the Bauhinia Star Beast.
• Chu Tiannan leaped above an ancient tree and resolved to make himself as perfect as possible.

The Bauhinia Star Beast reached Star Domain Level Third Stage while reflecting on Earth’s rapid growth under Shen Tianwu and the Thunder Emperor. He set aside his thoughts of Earth and prepared to resume cultivating, still driven by his mission to revive his loved ones, when bubbles rose from the seabed.

• The Bauhinia Star Beast assessed his cultivation and found that reaching Star Domain Level Fourth Stage would be difficult.
• Devour Dog reminded him that his progress was impressive for only a hundred years of cultivation.
• The Bauhinia Star Beast reflected that Shen Tianwu and the Thunder Emperor had reached Galaxy Level, Fifth Stage, and become Three-Star Knights.
• He considered how Chu Tiannan’s achievements had helped Earth and the Solar System prosper and attract migrants.
• The Bauhinia Star Beast decided to focus on cultivation and his mission to revive his loved ones.
• Bubbles suddenly rose from the seabed as he was about to resume cultivating.

Chu Tiannan's Bauhinia Star Beast avatar returned to the mysterious world beneath the seabed, hoping to discover what had saved her decades earlier. After tracing the powerful bubbles to their source, she found nothing in the darkness.

• The Bauhinia Star Beast remembered that a mysterious creature beneath the seabed had saved her during a battle decades earlier.
• Now at the Star Domain Level Third Stage, the Bauhinia Star Beast entered the underwater world to investigate and hoped she might devour its inhabitant.
• A bubble of powerful Cosmic Qi nearly forced the Bauhinia Star Beast back out and stirred up a dangerous deep-sea vortex.
• The Bauhinia Star Beast dodged the bubbles and followed them through the ocean depths toward their source.
• At the source, the Bauhinia Star Beast looked into the darkness and found nothing.

The Bauhinia Star Beast sent a clone into the darkness beneath the seabed to investigate the source of the dangerous bubbles. The clone sensed a strange bond ahead but found only a mountain wall blocking the way, then turned back.

• The Bauhinia Star Beast split into two clones and sent one deeper into the darkness while the other stayed behind to cultivate.
• The exploring clone flew for over a hundred kilometers through the darkness, finding only bubbles that grew more frequent and powerful.
• As the clone continued toward Earth's core, it felt tremors and a growing sense of closeness to something ahead.
• The clone reached a dark mountain wall where bubbles emerged from cracks, found no way through, and turned back.

Chu Tiannan realized the bubbles came from two caves that seemed to breathe and sent the Bauhinia Star Beast clone inside. The cave stirred a strange feeling of kinship in the beast before an unseen force expelled it.

• The Bauhinia Star Beast clone reconsidered the bubbles and suspected they came from a breathing creature.
• Chu Tiannan returned to the rock wall and found two caves releasing powerful bursts of bubbles.
• Chu Tiannan guided the Bauhinia Star Beast into a cave, where the temperature rose and the beast sensed something familiar.
• The Bauhinia Star Beast felt an excited tremor of kinship from deep within its soul.
• The Bauhinia Star Beast struck a soft unseen barrier, then a surge of force shot it back out of the cave.

Chu Tiannan explored the deep sea through his Bauhinia Star Beast clone and discovered that the two caves were the nostrils of a colossal creature. The creature noticed the clone and destroyed it with a roar.

• The Bauhinia Star Beast was hurled back into the icy depths after entering one of the caves.
• The bubbles and breathing stopped, and the Life Core in Chu Tiannan's Bauhinia Star Beast body began to hum.
• The Bauhinia Star Beast saw a pair of enormous dark golden eyes open above the caves.
• Chu Tiannan realized the caves were the creature's nostrils and that its body dwarfed his hundred-zhang clone.
• The colossus roared at the Bauhinia Star Beast and blew it to pieces.

Chu Tiannan’s Bauhinia Star Beast clone disturbed a mysterious creature sleeping in Earth’s deep sea and was overwhelmed by its power. The Devour Dog explained that Chu Tiannan’s teacher had sealed the creature for him, but refused to reveal its identity until Chu Tiannan reached Star God Level.

• The mysterious creature roared, unleashing a shock wave that destroyed the Bauhinia Star Beast clone and injured Chu Tiannan through their shared connection.
• Chu Tiannan angrily confronted the Devour Dog and described the creature’s destructive power.
• The Devour Dog said the creature was still asleep and had been sealed by Chu Tiannan’s teacher.
• The Devour Dog revealed that the creature was a species connected to the Law of Chaos, but said he could explain more only when Chu Tiannan reached Star God Level.

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.