Chapter Summaries

Zhang Junbao stood up to Shi Huo Venerable over Earth, using Hong’s new place in the Giant Axe Founder’s lineage to force Shi Huo into an awkward position. Venerable Guiyi arrived, punished Yanzhu King, and ordered Shi Huo to leave; afterward, Zhang Junbao realized Guiyi had come for more than a reunion.

• Zhang Junbao refused Shi Huo Venerable’s offer to buy Earth and challenged him to acknowledge Hong as his martial uncle.
• Shi Huo Venerable restrained himself from attacking Zhang Junbao while the Virtual Universe Network recorded the confrontation, then sent the accompanying Immortal Gods away.
• Zhang Junbao asked Bloodthirsty King to release the Earthlings and sent him and Dylan away; Venerable Guiyi arrived and promised to protect Zhang Junbao.
• Venerable Guiyi trapped Yanzhu King in an illusion of endless solitude, then rebuked Shi Huo Venerable and ordered him to leave Earth with his son.
• Shi Huo Venerable took Yanzhu King away after Guiyi said humanity’s upper echelons would decide Earth’s fate, and Zhang Junbao asked why Guiyi had really come.

Zhang Junbao rejected the Virtual Universe Company's terms for Earth and proposed turning the planet into a top-tier human secret realm instead. He enlisted Luo Feng, Hong, and Thunder God in a plan to force humanity's upper echelons to take them seriously, then entrusted the next step to Senior Brother Luanshen.

• Venerable Guiyi brought Zhang Junbao the Virtual Universe Company's two offers for Earth: sell it for 200 billion Hunyuan Units or let Earth Humans keep the land while the company took the oceans and airspace for up to 50 billion.
• Zhang Junbao revealed that he owned eight million tons of hao lei amethyst stone worth nearly a trillion Hunyuan Units, shocking Guiyi and the upper echelons watching their conversation live.
• Zhang Junbao told Hong, Luo Feng, and Thunder God that he would accept neither offer and instead planned to make Earth a top-tier secret realm of the Human Race.
• Zhang Junbao explained his plan to the three, who agreed to act immediately, and he called on Senior Brother Luanshen to handle the next step.

Zhang Junbao rallied Earth’s people to demonstrate their worth to humanity’s leaders after they refused to reconsider Earth’s fate. Thunder God, Luo Feng, and Hong displayed astonishing states of mind in the Illusion Sea, and Zhang Junbao prepared to make his own move when the leaders still rejected his appeal.

• Zhang Junbao told Venerable Guiyi that Earth’s people would make humanity’s leaders hear their voices, and Thunder God passed the fifteenth island of the Illusion Sea.
• Luo Feng passed the eighteenth island, though he blamed himself for failing to advance farther.
• Humanity’s leaders questioned Zhang Junbao about his strength, and the Chaos City Lord warned them not to drive his disciple into a corner.
• Hong declared his loyalty to Earth, passed the twentieth island, and failed at the twenty-first under Universe Venerable-level pressure.
• Venerable Guiyi told Zhang Junbao that humanity’s leaders would not change their decision, so Zhang Junbao appeared at the Illusion Sea entrance to propose a deal.

Zhang Junbao defended Earth before the Human Race's upper echelons and demonstrated mental cultivation on par with a Universe Venerable, but they still refused to return his home. He then went to challenge Tongtian Mountain, while Giant Axe Founder rebuked the leaders opposing him, confirming that the upper echelons were divided.

• Zhang Junbao told the Human Race's upper echelons that Earth was the Earth Lineage's irreplaceable home and broadcast the crisis to Earth, where its people learned of the struggle to protect their planet.
• Zhang Junbao passed the twenty-first Illusion Sea island with the help of his Extreme Yang Soul-Suppressing Armor, displaying mental cultivation at the Universe Venerable level.
• Chaos City Lord asked the upper echelons to reconsider taking Earth, but Venerable Guiyi told Zhang Junbao that they would not change their decision.
• Zhang Junbao concluded that some leaders had begun to support him and went to Tongtian Mountain to display more of his potential and gain bargaining power.
• Giant Axe Founder rebuked the leaders who refused to hear Zhang Junbao out, confirming that the Human Race's upper echelons were divided.

Giant Axe watched Zhang Junbao clear the Domain Lord Level Primal Heavenly Mountain, but the human upper echelons still refused to return Earth. Zhang Junbao then revealed that Senior Brother Luanshen had come to confront them, and Luanshen appeared before the assembled leaders to condemn how they treated their geniuses.

• Giant Axe saw Zhang Junbao’s determination to reclaim Earth and recognized that the human upper echelons valued Earth’s potential more than his wishes.
• Zhang Junbao used the Zhou Heavenly Star Battle Formation and Control of Space-Time to defeat the guardians and clear the Domain Lord Level Primal Heavenly Mountain.
• The human leaders praised Zhang Junbao’s achievement but continued to regard Earth as a treasure they should control, while Venerable Guiyi warned that his display of talent would not change their minds.
• Zhang Junbao told Venerable Guiyi not to resist as Senior Brother Luanshen appeared and sealed the space-time around them; Zhang Junbao denied colluding with an Alien Race and left the matter to Luanshen.
• Luanshen appeared in the human upper echelons’ meeting hall and challenged whether a race that treated its geniuses this way was worth protecting.

Demon Venerable Luanshen entered the Human Race's highest-level meeting, confronted Lord Huang Jian, and revealed that he had become a Universe Master. He then declared that Earth belonged to him, leaving the gathered leaders suspicious of his intentions.

• Demon Venerable Luanshen appeared in the Virtual Universe Network meeting and blocked Lord Huang Jian's attack with one finger.
• Chaos City Lord and the others recognized Luanshen as the Original Ancestor's disciple, while Giant Axe stopped the confrontation and recalled their past.
• Luanshen said he preferred to be called Demon Lord Luan Shen and revealed that he had advanced to Universe Master.
• Giant Axe and the other Universe Masters congratulated Demon Lord Luan Shen and Chaos City Lord on the Human Race's new Universe Master.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen rejected the celebration and declared that Earth was his.

Demon Lord Luan Shen claimed Earth and rejected the human leaders’ demand to take control of it, insisting that Zhang Junbao was his brother. He left the leaders facing his threat to destroy Earth unless they accepted his plan to auction settlement places.

• Lord Huang Jian accused Demon Lord Luan Shen and the Virtual Universe Company of trying to seize Earth, while Chaos City Lord suspected Luan Shen had helped Zhang Junbao return from the Purgatory Abyss.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen revealed that Zhang Junbao was his brother and argued that Earth could still benefit humanity while remaining under their control.
• Chaos City Lord decided to support Luan Shen and Zhang Junbao, despite the human leaders’ insistence that Earth must belong to the Human Race.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen proposed auctioning one billion places on Earth and warned that anyone who opposed him could try to take it by force.
• When the leaders hesitated, Luan Shen threatened to evacuate the Earthlings and destroy Earth, then leave with Zhang Junbao and the others if necessary.

Zhang Junbao negotiated with Chaos City Lord over Earth, proposing to auction places for its soul-nurturing benefits and share the proceeds among humanity’s powers. He revealed that Earth’s effect was not guaranteed to produce exceptional mental cultivation and hinted at a secret method that could become part of an even larger plan.

• Humanity’s leaders argued privately over Demon Lord Luan Shen’s demand, while he resolved to take Zhang Junbao away if the Virtual Universe Company refused to support him.
• Zhang Junbao told Chaos City Lord how he had survived the Eye of the Abyss and met Senior Brother Luanshen in the Chaotic God Demon Domain.
• Zhang Junbao proposed that the Virtual Universe Company auction places on Earth and outlined discounts and revenue shares for the human powers, Demon Lord Luan Shen, and the Earth Lineage.
• Chaos City Lord agreed that the Virtual Universe Company could handle the auction if humanity’s leaders reached an agreement.
• Zhang Junbao explained that Earth only increased the odds of strong mental cultivation, then revealed he had a secret method for improving it and suggested letting other powers believe it was an alien inheritance.

Zhang Junbao sought support for keeping control of Earth by offering gestation slots and access to his mental-state cultivation technique, while also rewarding trusted allies with opportunities at the Virtual Chaos Stele. At the human leadership meeting, Giant Axe settled the dispute by confirming Demon Lord Luan Shen’s control of Earth and approving Zhang Junbao’s slot proposal with a discount for two opposing powers.

• Chaos City Lord agreed to support Zhang Junbao’s plan to retain Earth and share its gestation slots and mental-state technique with the Human Race.
• Zhang Junbao reunited with Bolan, Rong Jun, and Wuka, revealed Earth’s secret, and granted them yearly access to the Virtual Chaos Stele in exchange for persuading their factions to support him.
• Zhang Junbao offered Earth gestation slots to the three geniuses and their factions, and Wuka promised to seek his imperial father’s backing.
• At the leadership meeting, Lord Huang Jian and Lord Peng Gong opposed Zhang Junbao’s proposal, while Demon Lord Luan Shen threatened them and Chaos City Lord defended Zhang Junbao.
• Giant Axe ruled that Earth would belong to Demon Lord Luan Shen and that its gestation slots would be handled as proposed, while the Universe Mercenary Alliance and Universe Galaxy Bank would receive a twenty percent discount.

Demon Lord Luan Shen agreed to rejoin the Human Race in exchange for Earth, then gave Earth back to Zhang Junbao. Zhang Junbao secured the planet and its birth-slot arrangements, revealing his plan to use Earth’s culture and mental-cultivation courses to make visiting geniuses identify with the Earth Lineage.

• Demon Lord Luan Shen accepted Giant Axe Founder’s settlement, and Giant Axe declared Earth a reward for his return to the Human Race.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen gave Earth to Zhang Junbao and warned that no one should bully him; Giant Axe arranged for Earth and the Milky Way Galaxy to be protected.
• Venerable Guiyi met Zhang Junbao on Earth, and Zhang Junbao thanked him with ten thousand Earth slots.
• Luo Feng told True Yan King that Zhang Junbao had given him ten thousand slots, and True Yan King accepted them for the Kahuns Race.
• Zhang Junbao and Venerable Guiyi discussed one billion conception slots and one hundred million mental-cultivation slots, along with strict secrecy, assessment, and Huaxia Language requirements.
• Zhang Junbao planned to use Heart Tempering in the Mortal World and Huaxia culture to shape alien geniuses into Earth Lineage members who would help protect Earth.

Zhang Junbao organized Earth’s recovery after its crisis, establishing plans to turn it into a secret realm where alien geniuses would cultivate their minds and compete with Earth’s people. Earth’s leaders pledged to defend their world and build its strength as the Earth Secret Realm Era began.

• Zhang Junbao, Hong, Thunder God, and Luo Feng discussed their Heart Tempering in the Mortal World technique, and Hong gave Zhang Junbao the completed illusion crystal.
• Zhang Junbao arranged for Venerable Tiehuo’s Illusion Tower to be transported to Earth and explained how it would test and cultivate the minds of alien geniuses.
• Zhang Junbao told Earth’s leaders that Earth’s crisis had ended, that Earth remained his, and that he intended to make it a top secret realm comparable to Chaos City.
• Zhang Junbao proposed that Earth’s leaders challenge visiting alien geniuses and earn points toward resources from a fund supported by Earth’s gestation income.
• Jia Yi, Mohanderson, Shi Jiang, and the other leaders vowed to protect Earth and help its people grow strong enough to face the universe’s races.

Zhang Junbao discovered an ancient Black Metal Plate that held a secret he could not access because it clashed with his Ancestral God inheritance, so he entrusted it to Luo Feng. He then told Luo Feng he planned to bargain with Shi Huo Venerable and make Yanzhu King beg for mercy.

• Zhang Junbao and Zhang Anzhong discussed Earth's need to cultivate and how Zhang Anzhong would guide the alien geniuses arriving on Earth.
• Zhang Anzhong showed Zhang Junbao a broken Black Metal Plate found among Earth's ancient artifacts, and Zhang Junbao recognized it as the object he had been seeking.
• Zhang Junbao tried to penetrate the Black Metal Plate but suffered a clash between its power and the Ancestral God Lingxi, realizing he could not learn the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual.
• Zhang Junbao gave the Black Metal Plate to Luo Feng and warned him to keep it secret, explaining that Luo Feng should uncover its secret himself.
• Zhang Junbao told Luo Feng he intended to plead for leniency for Yanzhu King as part of a deal with Shi Huo Venerable, promising to make Yanzhu King kneel and beg for mercy.
• Zhang Junbao entered the Virtual Universe Network, while Luo Feng began considering how to punish Yanzhu King.

Zhang Junbao offered to help Shi Huo Venerable’s son, Yanzhu King, improve his state of mind on Earth instead of serving his sentence in the Ninth Starfield. Shi Huo Venerable agreed to provide a soul-defense Advanced Heavy Treasure if Zhang Junbao fulfilled his promise.

• Shi Huo Venerable worried that Yanzhu King, whose real name was Cha Luo, would not endure a thousand eras in the Ninth Star Domain Prison.
• Zhang Junbao visited Shi Huo Venerable, praised Yanzhu King, and apologized for Luo Feng’s part in the dispute.
• Zhang Junbao proposed that Yanzhu King cultivate his state of mind on Earth for a thousand eras, with Hong helping persuade the Lord of Void Gold to approve the change.
• Zhang Junbao promised to raise Yanzhu King’s state of mind to true King-level within a thousand eras and said Earth’s training would make him filial.
• Zhang Junbao demanded a soul-defense Advanced Heavy Treasure as payment, and Shi Huo Venerable agreed if Yanzhu King reached the promised level.

Zhang Junbao secured Yanzhu King's release from the Ninth Starfield by proposing that Earth cultivate his state of mind, and Shi Huo Venerable agreed to send him there under strict restrictions. Yanzhu King arrived on Earth wearing a Spirit-Severing Crown and faced Luo Feng's extensive collection of open-ended questions as his first lesson.

• Earth publicized Zhang Junbao and Shi Huo Venerable's agreement to cooperate in educating Yanzhu King, while Giant Axe Founder and Chaos City Lord approved the plan.
• Shi Huo Venerable told Yanzhu King that Zhang Junbao and Hong had secured his release and that he would have to cultivate his state of mind on Earth for up to a thousand eras.
• Zhang Junbao agreed to train Yanzhu King, and Shi Huo Venerable explained that Lord of Void Gold had ordered him to wear a Spirit-Severing Crown that restricted his power.
• Shi Huo Venerable brought Yanzhu King to Earth's Heart-Nurturing Pavilion, then left despite Yanzhu King's desperate pleas.
• Luo Feng showed Zhang Junbao a World Ring filled with open-ended questions he had prepared for Yanzhu King's training.

Zhang Junbao gave Luo Feng a soul-defense Heavy Treasure and arranged for him to instruct Yanzhu King, then welcomed Demon Lord Luan Shen as a mentor in the fusion of laws. Their discussion of Earth’s ancient ideas led them to consider whether the two primal law factions came from an even deeper Chaos Law, and whether the Original Ancestor was suppressed after approaching it.

• Zhang Junbao gave Luo Feng the Golden Spirit Guardian and left Yanzhu King in his care until Yanzhu King reached the first realm of state of mind.
• Zhang Junbao arranged for Luo Feng to enslave and nurture the Zerg Mother Emperor in Shennongjia, while keeping Isabella hidden for his plans.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen praised Earth’s ancient writings and offered to guide Zhang Junbao in fusing laws, while leaving Space-Time Law and secret techniques to Chaos City Lord.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen explained that the Ten Great Laws had divided from two primal laws: a space faction and a time faction.
• Zhang Junbao proposed that the two primal laws might arise from Chaos Law, and Demon Lord Luan Shen wondered whether the Original Ancestor had been suppressed for approaching that taboo.

Demon Lord Luan Shen explained how he had fused the eight fundamental laws with space and time to become a top-tier Universe Master, while Zhang Junbao revealed that his own cultivation followed a different path rooted in the True Meaning of Taiji. After examining Zhang Junbao’s Space-Time Domain, Demon Lord Luan Shen concluded that it was not truly the power to control space-time.

• Demon Lord Luan Shen described the difficulty of fusing laws and explained how his split souls helped him fuse the eight fundamental laws separately with space and time.
• Zhang Junbao proposed that fundamental laws could be fused with one another, and Demon Lord Luan Shen said Teacher had once suggested the same possibility.
• Zhang Junbao revealed that he had gained the recognition of all Eight Great Fundamental Laws simultaneously, aided by the eight Law Cores from the Chaotic God Demon Domain.
• Zhang Junbao explained that his True Meaning of Taiji had led him to a domain that controlled space-time and that he could fuse and break down laws through the five elements.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen examined Zhang Junbao’s Space-Time Domain and told him that it was not the power to control space-time.

Zhang Junbao’s unusual Space-Time Domain led Demon Lord Luan Shen and Chaos City Lord to discover that his fusion of the Eight Great Fundamental Laws created a power unlike ordinary Control of Space-Time. Chaos City Lord suspected the unprecedented technique concealed mysteries they could not yet explain, leaving Zhang Junbao’s cultivation path unresolved.

• Demon Lord Luan Shen questioned Zhang Junbao about his domain, and Zhang Junbao explained how he fused the Eight Great Fundamental Laws to control time and space.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen recognized that Zhang Junbao’s method differed from conventional law fusion and agreed to consult Chaos City Lord despite their past grievances.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen brought Zhang Junbao to Chaos City, where Zhang Junbao demonstrated his strengthened Space-Time Domain to Chaos City Lord.
• Chaos City Lord sensed that Zhang Junbao’s domain resembled Control of Space-Time but used a different power, and he learned Zhang Junbao had fused nearly fifty percent of the Eight Great Fundamental Laws.
• Chaos City Lord and Demon Lord Luan Shen concluded that Zhang Junbao’s cultivation method was unprecedented and might contain mysteries beyond their understanding.

Zhang Junbao returned to Chaos City, where the Chaos City Lord, Demon Lord Luan Shen, and Giant Axe Founder examined his unprecedented Fusion Law. After Giant Axe agreed to study its secrets, Zhang Junbao began settling back into secluded cultivation and turned his attention to a mystery connected to Kedi.

• The Chaos City Lord approved Zhang Junbao's return to Chaos City, postponed his Highest Points Mission, and planned to guide him while he studied the Fusion Law with Demon Lord Luan Shen and Giant Axe Founder.
• Demon Lord Luan Shen and the Chaos City Lord argued over who should guide Zhang Junbao until Giant Axe Founder appeared and recognized that Rong Jun carried a trace of his bloodline.
• The Chaos City Lord showed Giant Axe Founder Zhang Junbao's Space-Time Domain, and Giant Axe decided to remain in Chaos City to investigate its unfamiliar yet familiar nature.
• Giant Axe Founder sent Zhang Junbao away from the Chaos Ruins, and Zhang Junbao returned to the Heaven-Questioning Residence to cultivate and examine the secret hidden in its rooftop inscription.
• Zhang Junbao recalled that Kedi had pursued the inscription's mystery and disappeared after entering an Alien Race's secret realm.

Zhang Junbao cultivated in Chaos City, investigated the secrets of the Initial Universe, and deciphered the law engraving on the Heaven-Questioning Residence. He discovered that Demon Lord Luan Shen had left the engraving that led Kedi to an Alien Race's secret realm, while Kedi's fate remained unknown.

• Zhang Junbao studied the Initial Universe's laws and wondered whether the Original Ancestor had only recently become a Universe Supreme Master when he was suppressed.
• Zhang Junbao used the Zhou Heavenly Star Battle Formation to study the Space-Time Fusion Law concealed in the four characters for "Universe School."
• Luo Feng, Wuka, Rong Jun, and Bolan arrived in Chaos City, and Wuka and Rong Jun joked about their former reputation as the "Five Tigers Who Defy the Strong."
• After more than a hundred years of study, Zhang Junbao recognized the engraving as Demon Lord Luan Shen's work and realized that its clues had sent Kedi to the Alien Race's secret realm.

Zhang Junbao prepared to infiltrate the Zerg through Isabella while reflecting on the Human Race’s effort to save the Original Ancestor. After discussing his rapid progress and independent path of Fusion Laws with the Chaos City Lord and Demon Lord Luan Shen, he began advancing to the World Lord realm under their protection.

• Zhang Junbao reasoned that the Chaos City Lord had allowed Kedi to pursue Demon Lord Luan Shen’s clues because he hoped they might lead to a way to save the Original Ancestor, despite the danger to human geniuses.
• Zhang Junbao confirmed that the coordinates left by Demon Lord Luan Shen pointed to the Zerg Secret Region and asked Isabella whether she could sense Mother Emperors hidden among the Human Race.
• Zhang Junbao planned to send Isabella back to the Zerg as a covert agent, told her to conceal her loyalty to him, and arranged resources and the Insect Gu Secret Technique to strengthen her.
• The Chaos City Lord told Zhang Junbao that he and Demon Lord Luan Shen could not guide his unique Fusion Laws and advised him to begin creating his own secret techniques at the World Lord Level.
• Zhang Junbao declared that advancing to the World Lord realm would be easy for him, and the Chaos City Lord and Demon Lord Luan Shen guarded him as his Life Core began transforming.