Recaps

Qin Ze used the Shelter Space to heal, temper his bones, and break through to peak level five while fighting the fifth prince. He transformed into the six-armed Desolate God again, leaving the fifth prince stunned by his rapid advancement.

• Qin Ze survived the fifth prince’s holy-light and feather attacks, then countered with Blue Flame · Thunder Burial and a Fire Element assault.
• Gong Shangyu appeared beside the white human head and used her violin’s First movement, Hell Elegy, to restrain Qin Ze and wound him with holy light.
• While injured, Qin Ze taunted the fifth prince, opened the Shelter Space, and accelerated time so the Bone-Tempering Group and Meditation Group could help him recover and advance.
• Qin Ze emerged healed at peak level five after three days inside the Shelter Space, though only seconds had passed outside.
• The fifth prince denied that Qin Ze could have advanced so quickly, and Qin Ze spread Divine Markings and became the six-armed Desolate God again.

Qin Ze defeated the fifth prince, but the prince revived as a six-winged angel alongside Gong Shangyu and unleashed a devastating judgment attack. Qin Ze survived behind a transformed Black Tortoise and emerged from the blast, demanding that the music continue as he prepared to fight again.

• Qin Ze and Gong Shangyu attacked the fifth prince, and Qin Ze cleaved the prince and his enormous eyeball in two.
• Holy light restored the fifth prince, who transformed into a six-winged angel with Gong Shangyu on his shoulder.
• Gong Shangyu’s violin music killed ordinary people across the royal capital while the angel prepared his final judgment against Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze activated Three-Second Real Man and formed a black tortoise surrounded by blue flames and golden lightning to withstand the angel’s beam.
• Qin Ze emerged from the holy light, raised his bone sword, and told Gong Shangyu to keep the music playing.

Qin Ze killed the six-winged angel and survived the battle, then spoke with Yao Yuan and Zhan Li amid the destruction of the royal capital. The chapter ended with a soldier reporting that the fighting on the northern front had stopped.

• Qin Ze broke through the six-winged angel's barriers and cut him in two, recovering 270 points of Source of the World.
• Qin Ze absorbed the golden feather left by the angel, replenished his Desolate God Bloodline, and used a Source Crystal to recover.
• Qin Ze surveyed the ruined royal capital and told Yao Yuan that he would return to Penglai City in a couple of days, promising him a gift.
• Qin Ze found Zhan Li unconscious after the Shelter Space disappeared, woke him, and joked with him about the battle and his imperial bloodline.
• A soldier found Qin Ze and Zhan Li and reported to Zhan Li that there was no more fighting on the northern front.

Three days after the royal capital battle, Qin Ze recovered, left for Torch City, and began traveling toward the Myriad Races Black Market to buy Source Crystals and Soul Orbs. On the way, he hitched a ride on a mountain turtle and met a white-haired woman and her companion, whose anger at his glance ended the chapter.

• Qin Ze learned that Zhan Li had become regent emperor while Xuan Ling withdrew after the battle, and Zhan Li complained that ruling was boring.
• Qin Ze decided to head to the Myriad Races Black Market to replenish Source Crystals and buy Soul Orbs for the Five Heavenly Kings.
• Qin Ze boarded a flying boat to Torch City, exchanged messages with Zhan Li, and learned that reaching the black market would require walking or finding a ride.
• Qin Ze passed through Torch City under his old fake identity and hitched a ride on a mountain turtle heading toward the black market.
• A white-haired man and woman landed on the turtle to hitch a ride, and the woman angrily confronted Qin Ze after catching his sympathetic glance.

Qin Ze shared a meal with the strange siblings Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen, then learned that they were headed to the Myriad Races Black Market and that Zi Yue was a Spirit Clan member. The chapter ended with Qin Ze sleeping in the Abyss while his clones watched the siblings.

• Qin Ze teased Zi Yue as she repeatedly sneaked looks at him, while Zi Liangchen kept quiet and meditated.
• Qin Ze cooked red-braised pork, and Zi Yue ate the meal before discovering she could not afford the hundred-crystal bill.
• Zi Yue introduced herself as Zi Yue, named her companion Zi Liangchen, and said they were going to the Myriad Races Black Market.
• Zi Yue claimed to be a Spirit Clan research scholar and gave Qin Ze an old book about the races, which contained no information about the Spirit Clan.
• Qin Ze told his clones to watch Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen, then settled down to sleep.

Qin Ze, Zi Yue, and Zi Liangchen encountered a crashing passenger vessel and a bone eagle Abyss Puppet on their way through the Abyss. After Zi Liangchen and Zi Yue controlled the creature and took Qin Ze along toward the Myriad Races Black Market, Qin Ze sensed a connection between it and his Desolate God Bloodline, and the bone eagle abruptly stopped.

• Qin Ze shared breakfast with Zi Yue, who ate the congee despite claiming that cultivators should cast aside their desires.
• A passenger vessel crashed near the mountain turtle as a huge bone eagle Abyss Puppet emerged from the clouds.
• Zi Yue offered to take Qin Ze to the Myriad Races Black Market for two hundred crystals, and he counted breakfast toward the fare she owed him.
• Zi Liangchen calmed the bone eagle, and Zi Yue led Qin Ze onto its back before directing it toward the Myriad Races Black Market.
• Qin Ze sensed a faint connection between the bone eagle and his Desolate God Bloodline, activated the Blood-red Divine Markings in his right eye, and caused the creature to stop.

Qin Ze discovered he could control the Abyss Puppet before he and Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen clashed with Cloud Clan forces over it. As they fled toward the Myriad Races Black Market, spatial ripples swallowed all three, and the Cloud Clan identified the phenomenon as the appearance of the Ancient Battlefield.

• Qin Ze realized he could see through the Abyss Puppet's eye and control its movements, while Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen struggled to command it.
• Zi Liangchen said a god had created the Abyss Puppet, and Zi Yue guessed it was a means of transportation.
• Cloud Clan warriors demanded that Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen surrender the Abyss Puppet as Cloud Clan property, but Zi Liangchen repelled them and Zi Yue rammed their patrol vessel with it.
• Zi Liangchen sensed unusual spatial fluctuations, but Zi Yue, Qin Ze, and then Zi Liangchen vanished as ripples spread across the sky.
• Cloud Clan vessels arrived and the captain recognized the desolate world reflected in the ripples as the Ancient Battlefield, ordering headquarters to organize an exploration team.

Qin Ze crossed an ancient battlefield filled with reassembling undead and reached a ruined tower, where he rescued Zi Yue. After finding nothing on the tower’s lower floors, he discovered a book titled Chronicle of Time on the top floor.

• Qin Ze entered a mist-shrouded ancient battlefield and found that its ruined weapons and armor concealed undead Spirits.
• Qin Ze’s fire dismantled the undead armor without harming the Spirits, so he used Azure Dragon Meditation to summon a mental dragon that devoured them as he crossed the battlefield.
• Qin Ze reached a ruined tower and heard Zi Yue calling for help inside.
• Qin Ze drove away the undead surrounding Zi Yue, and she told him the battlefield was said to have been the site of a war between gods.
• Qin Ze and Zi Yue climbed the tower together, finding its lower floors empty before Qin Ze discovered a book titled Chronicle of Time at the top.

Qin Ze and Zi Yue found the Chronicle of Time on the tower’s top floor, and Qin Ze discovered that his Desolate God Bloodline let him open and read it. The diary revealed that the book belonged to the Desolate God and mentioned treasure buried beneath the square tower, as Qin Ze continued reading through increasingly resistant pages.

• Qin Ze used a Little Azure Dragon to check the top floor for traps, then Zi Yue sent tiny treants to inspect it as well.
• Zi Yue tried and failed to open the Chronicle of Time, but Qin Ze opened it after his Desolate God Bloodline connected with the book.
• Qin Ze read the diary and learned that its owner had entered the Land of the Gods through the Star Gate and named himself the Desolate God.
• Qin Ze discovered that the Desolate God had buried his old belongings beneath a square tower, likely the tower they were standing in.
• Qin Ze continued reading the diary’s entries about the Land of the Gods and its inhabitants, overcoming the growing resistance of the pages.

Qin Ze read a diary entry suggesting that the Abyss had once been the Land of the Gods, then searched the Ancient Battlefield for the Desolate God’s buried treasure. He found a small chest containing clothes, two Source Crystals, and a jade slip, but no Martial Artifact.

• Qin Ze inferred from the diary that the Abyss might have once been the Land of the Gods, before the gods vanished and exotic beasts spread through it.
• Qin Ze and Zi Yue left the tower, learned they might have to wait for a rift or Zi Yue’s brother to escape, and agreed to avoid the Cloud Clan.
• Qin Ze used his Divine Markings to detect a residual aura behind the tower and secretly dug up a buried chest.
• Qin Ze opened the chest and found a folded set of clothes, two Source Crystals, and a jade slip instead of a high-grade Martial Artifact.

Qin Ze learned the Desolate God's Source Cultivation Art and found that it could improve both his Source of Life and Desolate God Bloodline. While he waited with Zi Yue for Zi Liangchen, Cloud Clan soldiers attacked the tower, and Qin Ze fought back as their flying ships prepared to fire.

• Qin Ze received the Source Cultivation Art and two Source Crystals from the Desolate God's inheritance, then memorized the art as the jade slip crumbled.
• Qin Ze began cultivating the art with a new group, increasing his Source of Life and making slight progress in his Desolate God Bloodline.
• Qin Ze and Zi Yue waited for Zi Liangchen and ate instant noodles while they discussed food from Qin Ze's world.
• Cloud Clan soldiers fought undead outside the tower, but three flying ships arrived and destroyed the undead with cannon fire.
• Qin Ze struck the Cloud Clan soldiers with a blue fire dragon, scattering them, as the flying ships turned their cannons toward the tower.

Qin Ze activated ancient formations to defend Zi Yue from the Cloud Clan, then controlled the Abyss Puppet to attack their reinforcements. The puppet regenerated after being badly damaged, revealing its extraordinary resilience.

• Qin Ze activated the square tower’s defensive formation, which deflected the Cloud Clan’s artillery shells.
• Qin Ze triggered the plaza’s killing formation, destroying one flying vessel and forcing the others and the soldiers to retreat.
• The formations ran out of entropy stones, and Zi Yue said her brother Zi Liangchen was on his way.
• As Advanced Martial Artists arrived, Qin Ze took control of the Abyss Puppet and smashed a flying vessel.
• The Abyss Puppet regenerated its shattered body after the Advanced Martial Artists attacked it, and Qin Ze recognized it as a powerful war machine.

Qin Ze, Zi Yue, and Zi Liangchen escaped the Ancient Battlefield after Zi Liangchen regained control of the rampaging Abyss Puppet, then continued toward the Myriad Races Black Market. Qin Ze later checked the chat group and learned that the ninth key had appeared.

• The Abyss Puppet fought off the Cloud Clan's Advanced Martial Artists until Zi Liangchen appeared through a spatial rift and took control of it.
• Zi Liangchen carried Qin Ze and Zi Yue out of the Ancient Battlefield, and they escaped the pursuing martial artists.
• Zi Liangchen explained that Ancient Battlefields were rare abodes of gods revealed by spatial storms, while Qin Ze reflected on the Desolate God's ruined home.
• As the Abyss Puppet flew toward the Myriad Races Black Market, Qin Ze checked the chat group and saw Yao Yuan announce that the ninth key had appeared.

Qin Ze learned that the ninth key had appeared and the group planned to gather in Snow City for the coming Hunt Otherworld, while Yao Yuan discussed the gods and the Ancient Battlefield with him. Qin Ze continued toward the Myriad Races Black Market with Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen, but when Zi Liangchen announced their arrival, Qin Ze saw only a basin below.

• Qin Ze reflected on the ninth key, the Star Gate, and the mystery of how the Desolate God had reached the Land of the Gods.
• Yao Yuan told the group that a new key had appeared and proposed that everyone help the newcomer pass the upcoming Hunt Otherworld assessment; several members agreed to meet in Snow City.
• Qin Ze decided to hurry on his journey and told his clones to cultivate, then spoke with Yao Yuan about the Ancient Battlefield and the two Spirit Clan travelers accompanying him.
• Yao Yuan explained that the Ancient Clan Alliance had suppressed information about the Ancient Battlefield, Abyss Puppets, and Void Beasts, and advised Qin Ze to befriend the Spirit Clan travelers.
• Qin Ze fed Zi Yue seafood-flavored noodles and gave her happy water as they continued their journey through the Abyss.
• Zi Liangchen announced they had arrived at the Myriad Races Black Market, but Qin Ze looked down and saw only a basin.

Qin Ze entered the Myriad Races Black Market with Zi Liangchen and Zi Yue, where he learned that the city was lawless and dangerous. After surveying the city and placing wards throughout it, he returned to the hotel, while a group of strangers watched footage of his arrival.

• Zi Yue used a silver token to open a spatial gate into the Myriad Races Black Market and explained how visitors could obtain entry passes.
• Zi Yue led Qin Ze and Zi Liangchen to a hotel, where the staff gave them rooms without payment or identity registration.
• Qin Ze and Zi Yue watched three men kill and rob a stranger in the street, and Zi Yue warned Qin Ze that murder and robbery were common in the city.
• Qin Ze used the Shelter Space to travel through the city and place wards, witnessing seven killings in an hour before returning to the hotel.
• A cyborg showed three companions footage of Qin Ze and the others arriving, announcing that the Spirit Clan had arrived.

Qin Ze accompanied Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen to the Central Auction House, where Zi Yue arranged to sell a bottle of green liquid. While browsing the auction catalog, Qin Ze passed on a male fox spirit and agreed to buy a battle-damaged sailing ship after Captain Hook and the clones urged him to.

• The blonde woman negotiated with the cyborg, agreeing that the Intellect Clan would receive forty percent of the spoils.
• Qin Ze, Zi Yue, and Zi Liangchen went to the Central Auction House, where Zi Yue handed the manager a bottle of green liquid to sell.
• Qin Ze browsed the auction catalog and learned from Zi Liangchen that the fox spirit listed for sale was male.
• Qin Ze found a battle-damaged sailing ship in the catalog, and Captain Hook pleaded with him to buy it.
• Qin Ze agreed to buy the ship.

Qin Ze arranged to buy two thousand A-rank Soul Orbs and watched Zi Yue secure an ancient sailing battleship at auction. The chapter left him with the supplies and transportation he needed for the Circus, though the auction was still underway.

• Qin Ze learned that high-level Soul Orbs were costly and arranged to buy two thousand unpurified A-rank Soul Orbs for six hundred high-grade crystals.
• Zi Yue asked the manager to give Qin Ze an auction key and revealed that she wanted the ancient sailing battleship.
• The auction sold the fox spirit to a burly man from another race for ninety high-grade crystals.
• Zi Yue waited until bidding on the battleship reached twelve hundred high-grade crystals, then won it for thirteen hundred.

Qin Ze bought a ship and two thousand Soul Orbs at the Myriad Races Black Market, then parted ways with Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen. After inspecting the ship, he reunited with the Five Heavenly Kings and gave them the Soul Orbs to help them break through before they considered robbing the auction house vault.

• Zi Yue gave Qin Ze a bottle of Life Essence, and the auction manager delivered his two thousand Soul Orbs and the ship’s identity token.
• Qin Ze cooked a meal for Zi Yue, then said goodbye to her and Zi Liangchen as they left the black market.
• Qin Ze inspected his new ship, found its cannons operational, and told Captain Hook to wait for him in Snow City.
• Qin Ze joined the Five Heavenly Kings at their base, where Thousand Faces proposed robbing the Central Auction House vault.
• Qin Ze postponed the vault discussion and distributed the Soul Orbs so the Five Heavenly Kings could break through first.

After the Five Heavenly Kings broke through, Qin Ze and his companions prepared to raid the vault and escape before the Ancient Race could respond. As their operation began, four Ancient Race experts watched the city and noticed a thick fog spreading across their balcony.

• Brother Devour swallowed hundreds of Soul Orbs and broke through from level five to level seven, while Dharma King and the others reached the peak of level six.
• Qin Ze and the Five Heavenly Kings planned the vault raid, assigning Thousand Faces to take the ship outside, Mist Lord to cover their escape, and Qin Ze to loot the vault.
• Thousand Faces left the hideout to prepare the ship while Qin Ze and the other four waited for nightfall.
• Four Ancient Race Advanced Martial Artists discussed two Spirit Clan members heading toward the vault and considered using them to approach the Spirit Clan.
• Mist Lord's thick white fog appeared on the Ancient Race experts' balcony.

Qin Ze and the Four Heavenly Kings moved to raid the Central Auction House vault under the cover of the Fog of War, but found someone already fighting its guards. Qin Ze looted Soul Orbs and Martial Artifacts until a familiar girl appeared and claimed the crystal ball he was trying to reach.

• The fog blanketed the city, disrupted the cyborg's mechanical birds, and cut off contact with the vault guards, so the red-eyed man went to investigate alone.
• Qin Ze and the Four Heavenly Kings prepared to storm the vault, but found its gate already destroyed and a visitor fighting the two Level Seven Martial Artists.
• Qin Ze slipped into the vault under Shelter Space and discovered its treasures were protected by a large formation divided into smaller barriers.
• Qin Ze broke the barriers over the Soul Orbs and Martial Artifacts, collecting the Soul Orbs and at least thirty Martial Artifacts.
• Qin Ze struggled to break the stronger formation protecting a crystal ball before a familiar girl appeared and said it was hers.

Qin Ze escaped the vault with Zi Yue and was caught in a battle between Zi Liangchen and a red-eyed Ancient Race expert. After the blonde woman and her allies joined the fight, Zi Liangchen was badly burned, and she demanded the siblings surrender or die.

• Qin Ze and Zi Yue took items from the vault before a red-eyed Ancient Race expert confronted them, while Zi Liangchen arrived with two unconscious guards.
• Qin Ze fled the vault as the red-eyed man focused on the Zi siblings, but a pillar of red light summoned a blazing attack that forced him back inside.
• A blonde woman, a Cloud Clan member, and a cyborg entered the vault while Zi Liangchen fought the red-eyed man and Zi Yue supported her brother.
• The Cloud Clan member's arrow rain and the red-eyed man's shadow claw pressured Zi Liangchen, who used Space Rend to swallow both attacks.
• A jet of golden flame struck Zi Liangchen and burned him before Zi Yue extinguished the fire, and the blonde woman ordered the siblings to surrender or die.

Qin Ze revealed that he had powerful allies hidden nearby, and they trapped the blonde woman and her companions in a battle around the ruined vault. The enemy regrouped to fight in pairs, while Brother Devour pushed through the cyborg’s barrage without retreating.

• The blonde woman’s group attacked Zi Liangchen and Zi Yue, and the red-eyed man moved to kill Qin Ze.
• Qin Ze introduced himself as a towering expert, then Dharma King’s lightning and Brother Devour’s ambush broke the standoff.
• Zi Liangchen and Brother Devour cornered the blonde woman, who unleashed a fiery blast that destroyed the vault but failed to kill them.
• Mechanical mosquitoes, blood blades, and arrows attacked Qin Ze’s group, while Brother Devour shielded them and Dharma King and Giant Overlord arrived to block the enemy’s escape.
• The blonde woman’s group split into pairs to fight the allies, and Qin Ze sent Brother Devour forward as the cyborg bombarded him.

Qin Ze entered the battle and joined Brother Devour against the cyborg, while Giant Overlord and Dharma King turned the fight against their opponents. Qin Ze’s enchanted greatsword struck the cyborg and left him in a crater, but the outcome remained unclear.

• Brother Devour endured the cyborg’s gunfire and battered him until his alloy shield shattered, but the cyborg countered with wings and lightsabers.
• Dharma King held off the blond beauty with electric attacks while Giant Overlord tricked the red-eyed man into striking, then smashed him away with his bone club.
• Zi Yue restored Zi Liangchen and the three heavenly kings with green light as Qin Ze left her to break the stalemate.
• The cyborg overwhelmed Brother Devour with lightsaber strikes and cannon fire, but Qin Ze appeared behind him with a flaming, lightning-wreathed greatsword.
• Brother Devour interrupted the cyborg’s finishing move, and Qin Ze’s greatsword struck the cyborg, engulfing him in flames and lightning and leaving a crater beneath him.

Qin Ze and his allies escaped the ruined city with the stolen treasure, leaving their pursuers behind. Aboard the Flying Circus Man, Zi Yue asked Qin Ze to take her and Zi Liangchen somewhere.

• Qin Ze, Zi Liangchen, Dharma King, Giant Overlord, and Brother Devour overwhelmed their pursuers with a barrage of attacks and escaped through a spatial gate.
• Brother Devour reflected the red-eyed man's and the blonde woman's attacks, giving Qin Ze and the others time to leave as the city was devastated.
• The cyborg and his allies found him alive in a crater and discussed the strange strength and retained consciousness of the contaminated fighters.
• Aboard the Flying Circus Man, Qin Ze celebrated the successful vault robbery and planned to distribute the forty-seven Martial Artifacts among his clones.
• Zi Yue thanked Qin Ze and asked him to take her and Zi Liangchen somewhere.

Qin Ze agreed to help Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen find the Land of Origin, where the sleeping Goddess of Life was said to be. As the Flying Circus Man set off, their pursuers discovered that the Abyss Puppet’s trail was a decoy and prepared to hunt them down.

• Zi Yue offered Qin Ze two bottles of Life Essence and explained that she and Zi Liangchen were Spirit Clan descendants seeking the Land of Origin with a crystal-ball star map.
• Zi Yue said the Spirit Clan worshipped the sleeping Goddess of Life and that the other Ancient Races worshipped their own ancient gods; she also denied that her clan had taken part in Ying’s affair.
• Qin Ze agreed to take Zi Yue and Zi Liangchen to investigate the Land of Origin, deciding he had enough time before the Hunt Otherworld opened.
• Zi Liangchen flew away in the Abyss Puppet, then returned through a spatial gate, while Qin Ze ordered the Flying Circus Man to depart.
• The cyborg and the others followed the Abyss Puppet’s false trail, realized the crystal ball had been tampered with, and decided to prepare before pursuing the group.