Ch. 364Stepping Into the World Lord Level

Zhang Junbao broke through to the World Lord Level as his balanced laws, Law Cores, and emerging World Power drew energy from the Universe Origin. He formed an immense, stable Internal World and gained a glimpse of the Origin Land, leaving him with greatly enhanced law-comprehension speed and plans to raise his Life Gene Level.

  • As Zhang Junbao began his breakthrough, the Chaos City Lord and Demon Lord Luan Shen watched his Life Core transform while discussing his nine Law Cores and balanced cultivation.
  • Zhang Junbao fused the Eight Great Fundamental Laws and began combining his Soul and Origin Force, but his Law Cores unexpectedly opened a channel to the Universe Origin and drew in divine power.
  • The Universe Origin power fused with Zhang Junbao's emerging World Power and carried his consciousness to the Origin Land, where he glimpsed its vast mysteries.
  • Zhang Junbao's Life Core became a billion-kilometer Internal World with eight law continents, a central taiji landmass, and seawater bearing the aura of the Fusion Law.
  • Zhang Junbao condensed an Origin Bead from his Spiritual Force, Origin Force, and World Power, then resolved to seek Special Lifeforms to improve his Life Gene Level.

Ch. 365An Old Acquaintance

Zhang Junbao reached World Lord level and discussed his Internal World and cultivation with Chaos City Lord and Demon Lord Luan Shen before setting out to temper himself. After learning about a specially arranged points mission, he met Ai Chen in Chaos City and revealed that he had already surpassed Domain Lord level.

  • Zhang Junbao told Chaos City Lord and Demon Lord Luan Shen that the Universe Origin had merged with his first World Power, strengthening his Life Core and stabilizing his Internal World.
  • Chaos City Lord explained how the Internal World reflected the Original Universe and developed into a God Kingdom and eventually a Miniature Universe, then allowed Zhang Junbao to leave Chaos City and seek experience.
  • Chaos City Lord and Demon Lord Luan Shen decided Zhang Junbao needed no additional treasures because he already possessed powerful Law Cores, a Domain-type Supreme Treasure, and soul defenses.
  • Zhang Junbao learned from Feitian that Earth had been fortified, Yanzhu King had completed Luo Feng's exam questions, and the company had assigned him a confidential, specially arranged points mission.
  • While walking through Chaos City, Zhang Junbao encountered Ai Chen, who had reached Domain Lord level, and revealed that he himself was already a World Lord.

Ch. 366Growing Danger

Zhang Junbao prepared to face the Outer Domain Battlefield and raised his original body's Life Gene Level to fifty times the norm by fusing it with his Extreme Yang Clone. After surviving the dangerous transformation, he prepared to begin his Virtual Universe Company mission.

  • Zhang Junbao told Ai Chen he planned to complete his assigned missions before heading to the Outer Domain Battlefield, and he gave her a valuable spot to cultivate on Earth.
  • Ai Chen resolved to keep advancing on the path to Immortality after her assistant told her the Earth cultivation spot was worth ten million Hunyuan Units.
  • Zhang Junbao reviewed the risks of his Clone Secret Technique and decided to use his stabilized Extreme Yang Clone to raise his original body's Life Gene Level.
  • Zhang Junbao's Life Core cracked during the gene fusion, but the Ancestral God Lingxi and the power of his Internal World helped repair it and complete the transformation.
  • Zhang Junbao reached a Life Gene Level fifty times the norm, tested his increased control over space-time, and told Feitian to notify the Virtual Universe Company that he was ready for his mission.

Ch. 367The Revenge Mission

Zhang Junbao prepared to leave for the Outer Domain Battlefield, receiving soul-defense and detection treasures from Venerable Guiyi and stocking supplies for his clones. Before departing, he was assigned a high-stakes mission to stop a Zerg-infiltrated organization from sacrificing more than one hundred billion people, and traveled toward the target region.

  • Zhang Junbao told Luo Feng, Hong, Thunder God, and Bolan he was heading to the Outer Domain Battlefield, and Hong shared that he and Ji Qing were cultivating together at the Giant Axe Arena.
  • Venerable Guiyi gave Zhang Junbao a Demon Soul Silkworm Cocoon from Chaos City Lord and two high-grade detectors, while warning him about assassination attempts and the dangers of the battlefield.
  • Zhang Junbao stocked up on materials for his Extreme Yang Clone and Cloud-Touching Vine, then received a linked Highest Points Mission targeting the Zerg-infiltrated Myriad Aspects Pavilion.
  • The mission required Zhang Junbao to kill the pavilion’s ninety-nine World Lord elders and offered him the choice of killing its Immortal Army Lord or saving more than one hundred billion people threatened by a Blood Demon Sacrifice.
  • With the sacrifice due to begin in three days, Zhang Junbao used Divine Kingdom Teleportation to reach an Immortal in the Youmo Universe Country.

Ch. 368The Trap

Zhang Junbao chose to stop the Blood Demon Sacrifice and save the hundred billion people in the Myriad Aspects Empire before pursuing the ninety-nine World Lords. When he arrived, Tuyile and the World Lords revealed their ambush and detonated themselves, engulfing Zhang Junbao and Ebonwood Marquis in a torrent of energy.

  • Zhang Junbao accepted Ebonwood Marquis's warning that he would not intervene against the mission targets and chose to head for the Blood Demon Sacrifice site.
  • Zhang Junbao and Ebonwood Marquis traveled aboard the Void Whale Spaceship, which smashed through Tuyile's Space Lockdown around the Myriad Aspects Empire.
  • Zhang Junbao began collecting the civilians into his World Ring, but the ring met resistance as Feitian warned him that all ninety-nine World Lords were present.
  • Tuyile and the World Lords surrounded Zhang Junbao and Ebonwood Marquis, revealing that they had laid a trap and deceived the Virtual Universe Company's intelligence agents.
  • Tuyile and the ninety-nine World Lords detonated themselves, and the resulting torrent of energy swallowed Ebonwood Marquis.

Ch. 369The Mantis Stalks the Cicada

Zhang Junbao survived a Zerg ambush by suppressing the blast from ninety-nine World Lords and Immortal Army Lord Tuyile while Ebonwood Marquis defended him from a combined Zerg attack. With a Zerg Mother Emperor restarting the Blood Demon Sacrifice against a hundred billion people, Zhang Junbao's Extreme Yang Clone swallowed the blood mist, and Zhang Junbao redirected the explosion toward the enemy passage.

  • Three King Rank experts at Virtual Universe Company Headquarters watched Zhang Junbao's mission and realized the explosion of ninety-nine World Lords and Immortal Army Lord Tuyile was a premeditated trap.
  • Zhang Junbao used the Zhou Heavenly Star Battle Formation, his World Projection, Divine Fire Armor, and Extreme Yang Clone to suppress the blast and shield the nearby planets.
  • A thousand Immortal Zerg Warriors attacked through a space-time passage, and Ebonwood Marquis blocked their strike as he recognized Mother Emperor Marquis Chanmu.
  • Marquis Chanmu restarted the Blood Demon Sacrifice and detonated its blood spheres while five thousand Immortal Zerg Warriors pinned down Ebonwood Marquis.
  • Zhang Junbao's Extreme Yang Clone used Treasure Devouring to swallow the blood mist, and Zhang Junbao redirected the controlled explosion toward the space-time passage.

Ch. 370The Oriole Behind

Zhang Junbao lured the Zerg Mother Emperor Marquis Chanmu into Venerable Guiyi’s trap and enslaved her, then recruited her and Isabella for an intelligence operation inside Zerg territory. The chapter ended with Zhang Junbao and Venerable Guiyi preparing to stage the battle so it appeared Ebonwood Marquis had driven Chanmu away and rescued him.

  • Marquis Chanmu sent thousands of Immortal Zerg Warriors and hundreds of thousands of World Lord Level Zerg Warriors against Zhang Junbao, but his Zhou Heavenly Star Battle Formation deflected their attacks.
  • Zhang Junbao’s taunts lured Marquis Chanmu through the space-time passage, where Venerable Guiyi trapped and compressed her along with the Zerg Warriors and Ebonwood Marquis.
  • Zhang Junbao enslaved Marquis Chanmu’s soul and ordered her to hide Isabella in her divine kingdom, then help Isabella enter the Mother Emperor Mystic Realm under a false story.
  • Marquis Chanmu revealed the human spies she controlled, including Kemosi, and Venerable Guiyi ordered an investigation into Alien Race infiltration of the company.
  • Zhang Junbao arranged for Marquis Chanmu and Isabella to use enslaved humans to access the Virtual Universe Network, while Demon Lord Luan Shen concealed Isabella’s soul enslavement.
  • Zhang Junbao and Venerable Guiyi planned to make it appear that Ebonwood Marquis had driven Marquis Chanmu back and saved Zhang Junbao.

Ch. 371The "Victim's" Trial

Venerable Guiyi revealed that Zhang Junbao’s apparent rescue from Marquis Chanmu had been part of a covert mission, and Ebonwood Marquis was rewarded and sworn to secrecy. Zhang Junbao then learned he had to put Youmo Universe Country’s three corrupt giants on trial, a test that would pit him against their powerful backing.

  • Venerable Guiyi released Ebonwood Marquis, who initially mistook him for an alien but accepted his identity after seeing him in the Virtual Universe Network.
  • Venerable Guiyi instructed Ebonwood Marquis to conceal the mission and portray himself as having driven Marquis Chanmu away, while Zhang Junbao gave him ten cubic kilometers of Locke Divine Water as a reward.
  • Zhang Junbao asked the Virtual Universe Company to reimburse him for the Locke Divine Water, and Venerable Guiyi assured him he would receive what he was owed.
  • Venerable Guiyi told Zhang Junbao that the three giants of Youmo Universe Country had enabled alien smuggling and corruption, and assigned him to put them on trial.
  • Venerable Guiyi explained that the three giants had powerful Universe Venerable teachers and that the trial would test Zhang Junbao’s ability to withstand pressure.

Ch. 372The Universe Country Lord's Invitation

Zhang Junbao reviewed the crimes of the three detained King-level Immortals and resolved to judge them without yielding to pressure from their powerful allies. On the eve of the judgment, he accepted an invitation from the Youmo Universe Country Lord and arrived at Youmo Star, where Yinjiu King welcomed him amid a show of force.

  • The Ebonwood Marquis brought Zhang Junbao to the Virtual Universe Company's Youmo Universe Country branch, where he learned the judgment would take place in ten days.
  • Zhang Junbao read evidence that Wanfu King, Black Duck King, and Blood Wolf King had smuggled goods, sold humans to Alien Races, suppressed geniuses, and leaked military secrets, and he declared their actions unforgivable.
  • During his secluded cultivation, Zhang Junbao received 138,915 messages, including threats and pleas from powerful figures, while messages from Earth, Hong, and Thunder God urged him to make his own decision.
  • On the ninth day, Zhang Junbao accepted the Youmo Universe Country Lord's banquet invitation and subdued an envoy with a glance before traveling to Youmo Star with the Ebonwood Marquis.
  • Yinjiu King welcomed Zhang Junbao before hundreds of thousands of assembled experts, and Zhang Junbao suspected the greeting was meant both to win him over and intimidate him before the judgment.

Ch. 373A Feast with No Good Intentions

Zhang Junbao rejected Youmo Country Lord’s attempt to influence the investigation of Black Duck King and left without accepting his offered treasure. He returned to Tiandu Star to prepare for the trial, where the Virtual Universe Company Headquarters’ envoys arrived with the three suspects.

  • Yinjiu King pleaded with Zhang Junbao to show leniency to Black Duck King, and Zhang Junbao promised to investigate impartially.
  • Youmo Country Lord invoked Black Duck King’s service to humanity and offered Zhang Junbao a Blood Dragon Cup, but Zhang Junbao refused to be swayed.
  • Zhang Junbao criticized Youmo Country Lord’s hospitality, warned that Black Duck King might not survive the trial, and left the palace with Ebonwood Marquis.
  • On the return trip, Zhang Junbao told Feitian that Youmo Country Lord could not threaten him within Virtual Universe Company rules and suspected the three giants of Youmo Universe Country had tacitly colluded with the Alien Races.
  • After returning to Tiandu Star, Zhang Junbao cultivated through the night, and Feitian told him the headquarters envoys had arrived with the three giants.

Ch. 374Revealing Killing Intent

Zhang Junbao arrived at the Judgment Sanctuary to preside over the trial of three King-level Immortals and faced pressure from their Universe Venerable teachers before reaching the throne. He condemned King Wanfu for smuggling goods to the Zerg and selling humans, then added attempted bribery to the charges as the trial began.

  • Ebonwood Marquis escorted Zhang Junbao to the Judgment Sanctuary, where King Xiezhi and a massive enforcement force stood ready to carry out the trial’s sentences.
  • King Xiezhi told Zhang Junbao to take the presiding seat, while the Youmo Country Lord, Venerable Jinyuan, and Ten Thousand Beasts Venerable appeared and imposed a ten-minute test of resolve.
  • Zhang Junbao endured the pressure, declared that the Illusion Sea had only twenty-one islands, and walked toward the throne while reading the charges against the prisoners.
  • Zhang Junbao accused King Wanfu of smuggling prohibited goods to the Zerg and selling three hundred and fifty billion humans, then sentenced him to death and ordered the execution of implicated subordinates.
  • King Wanfu denied deserving death and offered Zhang Junbao three hundred billion Hunyuan Units to spare him, so Zhang Junbao added attempted bribery to his crimes.

Ch. 375Reduced to Ashes

Zhang Junbao judged the traitors within the Virtual Universe Company, then withstood pressure from three Universe Venerables and ordered the guilty executed. After completing his training mission, he prepared to leave for the Outer Domain Battlefield to gain strength through war.

  • Zhang Junbao exposed Blood Wolf King's betrayal, and Blood Wolf King admitted his guilt and asked him to spare his coerced subordinates; Zhang Junbao sentenced him and the willing traitors to death and the coerced personnel to imprisonment.
  • Zhang Junbao accused Black Duck King of stealing resources and sending human geniuses to the Alien Race; Black Duck King attacked him, but Zhang Junbao struck him down and had him restrained.
  • Zhang Junbao resisted the pressure from Youmo Country Lord and the other Universe Venerables, reached the throne, and ordered the traitors executed; Xiezhi King carried out the sentences, killing Wanfu King, Blood Wolf King, Black Duck King, and thousands of other accomplices.
  • Youmo Country Lord, Venerable Jinyuan, and Ten Thousand Beasts Venerable left after the executions, while Xiezhi King reported that thousands more Immortals and billions of lower-level participants had been captured.
  • Ebonwood Marquis returned to headquarters to report Zhang Junbao's completed mission, and Zhang Junbao said he would head to the Outer Domain Battlefield for further training.

Ch. 376Fengdu Star

Zhang Junbao prepared to train on the Outer Domain Battlefield, assessing his treasures and making plans for his companions’ growth. He arrived at Fengdu Star, where his rare spaceship and World Lord aura stunned the guides.

  • Zhang Junbao received 1.1 billion points for his first mission and ten billion points, including resources, for his second mission.
  • Zhang Junbao reviewed his defenses and weapons, deciding that he still needed an offensive Heavy Treasure but should train without relying on one.
  • Zhang Junbao discussed the Cloud-Touching Vine’s potential and promised Feitian a top-grade Evolution Heart that could help her reach King Rank strength upon becoming Immortal.
  • Zhang Junbao set out for the Outer Domain Battlefield and arrived at Fengdu Star aboard the Void Whale Spaceship.
  • The Fengdu Star guides were astonished by Zhang Junbao’s Metal Lifeform-fused spaceship and his World Lord-level aura.

Ch. 377World Lord General

Zhang Junbao concealed his extraordinary seven-colored Law Mark while entering the Outer Domain Battlefield as a lone traveler under the codename Taiji. After meeting the curious Darkkin Elf Muxing, he received his military rating and was revealed to be a World Lord General.

  • Zhang Junbao disguised himself as an unacknowledged World Lord and asked the attendants where lone travelers gathered before entering the reception hall.
  • Muxing approached Zhang Junbao, sensed his unusual calm, and introduced herself; he gave his codename as Taiji and declined to discuss his past.
  • After several days, enough warriors gathered to depart, and Zhang Junbao and Muxing joined the group of World Lords.
  • An Immortal God explained the army's rules and announced that the World Lords would be rated according to their strength in the Virtual Universe.
  • Muxing was rated a World Lord General, and Zhang Junbao received the same rating, surprising the Immortal God and the assembled experts.

Ch. 378The Ninth Battlefield, a Meat Grinder

Zhang Junbao and Muxing discussed battlefield survival and their military merit quotas before learning they would be sent to the deadly Ninth Battlefield. The chapter ended as they and the other warriors were teleported toward Barracks Base No. 72.

  • Muxing tried to recruit Zhang Junbao as a teammate and explained that warriors could not leave the Outer Domain Battlefield until they fulfilled their military merit quotas.
  • Feitian described the quota ranges, and Muxing revealed her quota was four hundred million while Zhang Junbao's was the World Lord Level maximum of one billion.
  • The Immortal God announced that the warriors were headed to the Ninth Battlefield, whose death rate was said to be the highest among the eleven battlefields.
  • The Immortal God explained the battlefield's camps, Barracks Bases, and ban on attacking allies, then sent the warriors through a spatial passage to Barracks Base No. 72.

Ch. 379Blood God Squad

Zhang Junbao and Muxing joined Blood God’s squad, which hunted teams of Immortals on the Ninth Battlefield. The squad welcomed them after learning Zhang Junbao had a one-billion military merit quota and was a Treasure Refiner.

  • Zhang Junbao and Muxing arrived at Barracks Base No. 72 and learned that World Lord recruits had to join a unit before taking the battlefield.
  • Zhang Junbao demanded a squad with an Immortal God that had killed an Immortal Army Lord, then accepted Blood God’s invitation to hunt Immortal teams.
  • Muxing joined them after Blood God explained that his squad included another Immortal and six veteran World Lord Generals and had defeated more than five Immortal teams.
  • Blood God introduced Zhang Junbao and Muxing to his teammates, including former captain Wuerdi, Flame King, Meipulu, and Piaofeng.
  • Zhang Junbao revealed his one-billion military merit quota and offered his Treasure Refiner skills, prompting Piaofeng to ask him for training.

Ch. 380Preparations for the Hunt

Zhang Junbao joined the Blood God Squad as a Treasure Refiner, and the squad prepared to take him and Muxing on their first mission in the Outer Domain Battlefield. After Blood God assigned their roles and warned them to retreat from squads with four or more Immortal Gods, the ten-person squad headed for departure.

  • Zhang Junbao revealed that he could forge World Lord Level weapons, and Wuerdi and Blood God welcomed the value his skills would bring to the squad.
  • Zhang Junbao officially joined the Blood God Squad, bringing its roster to the standard ten members alongside Muxing.
  • Piaofeng described Blood God's careful leadership and warned the newcomers about the deadly battlefield and the larger racial campaigns that could erupt between the great races.
  • Blood God assigned Zhang Junbao to work with Meipulu and Muxing to work with Flame King, while ordering the squad to avoid targets with four or more Immortal Gods.
  • The squad reached the departure hall and prepared to set out against the aliens.

Ch. 381Target: Shattered Star Ring

The Blood God Squad left the Barracks Base and began its journey toward the Shattered Star Ring, where it hoped to hunt enemy squads and search for treasures. After evading an ambush near the base, the squad entered the Dark Universe, though Blood God and the others warned Zhang Junbao and Muxing to stay alert for enemy races.

  • Flame King explained why the squad used a cheap E-class spaceship with a heavily protected F9-class rest hall as bait for enemy Immortals.
  • Blood God led the squad out of the Barracks Base, and Zhang Junbao and the others marveled at the enormous, heavily fortified war base.
  • Blood God warned the squad about ambushes among the wreckage and described how large and small detectors helped them spot enemies.
  • Blood God revealed that the squad was heading to the Shattered Star Ring, an old battlefield where valuable treasures and enemy Immortal Army Lords might appear.
  • The Blood God Squad avoided a fight near the cleared shuttle zone and entered the Dark Universe, where Wuerdi cautioned them about the Zerg and their subordinate races.

Ch. 382Prey and Hunter

After entering the Shattered Star Ring, Blood God’s squad was ambushed by three Immortal Gods and ten World Lords from the Demon Race. The fight began with the enemy’s numerical advantage threatening the squad, while Zhang Junbao waited for a chance to help.

  • Blood God guided the squad into the Shattered Star Belt and warned them to avoid the dangerous core region while searching for a safe shelter.
  • Blood God assigned Zhang Junbao and Muxing to act as mobile reserves as the ship cautiously traveled through the debris field.
  • Sinaike, Baituo, and Yanling discovered Blood God’s ship and decided to attack without informing Kongshan, hoping to claim the spoils for themselves.
  • The Demon Race squad destroyed Blood God’s ship, but Meipulu’s shield and the F9-grade safe room protected the humans from the blast.
  • Blood God identified the attackers, and the two squads clashed; Sinaike used his Time Extension technique to evade Blood God, while Baituo gained the advantage over Wuerdi and Yanling’s group attacked the World Lords.

Ch. 383Who Is the Prey?

Yanling’s mud-transforming Innate Secret Technique pierced Meipulu’s shield and threatened the Blood God Squad, while Muxing’s illusion helped the squad gain control of the World Lord battle. The chapter ended with Zhang Junbao revealing he had rescued Flame King and Meipulu, then drawing Yanling’s attention.

  • Yanling’s corrosive attack weakened Meipulu’s shield, then pierced it and sent her and Flame King flying.
  • Kumu’s Dodder Vine trapped a Demon Race World Lord and absorbed his World Power, while Piaofeng and Jier fought the other enemies.
  • Muxing used an illusion to momentarily distract the ten Demon Race World Lords, allowing the Blood God Squad to seize the advantage.
  • Sinaike taunted Blood God as Yanling prepared to attack the squad, and Blood God warned that he would use a forbidden secret technique.
  • Zhang Junbao appeared holding the unharmed Flame King and Meipulu, revealing he had saved them, and Yanling turned his fury toward him.
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