Chapter Summaries

After a month of cultivation in Chaos City, Luo Feng followed Lin Mo’s advice to hunt Chaos Beasts and improve his soul’s attunement to the universe. He ventured into the wilderness and killed an ape-like Chaos Beast, leaving its chaos true spirit floating above the dissolving corpse.

• Lin Mo told Luo Feng that his secluded cultivation had reached a bottleneck and explained how absorbing chaos true spirits could sharpen his perception of the laws.
• Luo Feng left Chaos City and read the stone tablet outlining the danger zones and the levels of Chaos Beasts outside the city.
• Luo Feng saw a wounded group of Genius Battle participants return with a dead companion, but he still chose to hunt in the wilderness.
• Luo Feng landed more than a thousand kilometers from Chaos City and cautiously searched the weeds for Chaos Beasts.
• Luo Feng used the Yan Shen Armament to kill an ape-like Chaos Beast with a surprise attack, and a chaos true spirit rose from its dissolving corpse.

After absorbing a Universe Level Chaos True Spirit, Luo Feng felt his soul’s alignment with the universe improve and proposed hunting a World Lord Level Chaos Beast. Lin Mo temporarily raised him to the peak of World Lord Level stage nine, but an overwhelming probe forced Lin Mo to withdraw the borrowed power, leaving Luo Feng to continue hunting in the inner region.

• Luo Feng absorbed a Universe Level Chaos True Spirit and noticed his soul had become more closely aligned with the universe.
• Luo Feng asked Lin Mo to raise him to World Lord Level so he could hunt a World Lord Level Chaos Beast, and Lin Mo agreed to take the risk.
• Lin Mo’s soul power temporarily lifted Luo Feng to the peak of World Lord Level stage nine, letting him perceive the laws of the universe with new clarity.
• An unexplained probing power entered Luo Feng’s sea of consciousness, so Lin Mo withdrew his power and Luo Feng fell back to Universe Level.
• Lin Mo warned Luo Feng that the borrowed power could not be used to farm resources, and Luo Feng gave up hunting World Lord Level Chaos Beasts and stayed in the inner region.

After eight months of hunting Chaos Beasts and cultivating, Luo Feng found that Chaos True Spirits barely improved his soul and decided to test his progress on the Heavenly Bridge. He returned to Chaos City and stepped onto the bridge to challenge its fourth floor.

• Luo Feng slaughtered more than a dozen Universe Level Chaos Beasts, absorbed their Chaos True Spirits, and found they offered almost no improvement to his soul.
• Babata reported that Bolan had cleared the third floor of the Universe Heavenly Bridge, and Luo Feng asked Lin Mo whether he should keep hunting or challenge the fourth floor.
• Lin Mo advised Luo Feng to attempt the fourth floor but stop there until he could unleash the fifth stage of the Yan Shen Armament.
• Luo Feng returned to Chaos City and connected to the Virtual Universe Network, where the gathered geniuses discussed his likely fourth-floor challenge.
• Rong Jun asked Luo Feng whether he was confident of clearing the fourth floor, and Luo Feng said he would do his best before stepping onto the Universe Heavenly Bridge.

Luo Feng challenged the fourth level of the Heavenly Bridge and defeated its Silver-Clad Man guardian in a clash between their Yan Shen Armaments. He cleared the level, ended the challenge, and returned to the Central Plaza.

• Luo Feng reached the end of the fourth level and chose to fight the Controller guardian.
• The Silver-Clad Man attacked with the Yan Shen Armament’s fourth layer, Great Skill Appears Clumsy, controlling 1,600 golden swords.
• Luo Feng unleashed the same technique with greater control, and the two fighters formed massive golden pillars for a head-on clash.
• Luo Feng’s golden pillar broke the guardian’s pillar and destroyed the Silver-Clad Man.
• Luo Feng cleared the fourth level, ended the challenge, and reappeared in the Central Plaza.

Luo Feng passed the fourth level of the Heavenly Bridge, then entered deep seclusion in Chaos City to consolidate his insights before using his Chaos Stele study opportunities. While he cultivated, his family grew and Earth established ties with the universe and began developing rapidly.

• Luo Feng announced that he had passed the fourth level of the Heavenly Bridge, and Guardian Bafen sent the news to the other qualified geniuses.
• Bolan learned that Luo Feng had surpassed his recent third-level achievement and reacted with shock and worry.
• Luo Feng chose to consolidate his insights through deep cultivation before using his four opportunities to study the Universe Chaos Stele.
• Luo Ping married in 2082 and had a child, and Luo Feng learned through the Virtual Universe Network that he had become a grandfather.
• Xu Xin secured a long-term agreement with the God Lord of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire in 2085, and Luo Feng funded the founding of Pinghai Limited Company with 5,000 Hunyuan Units.
• As Earth developed, Luo Hai left for the universe in 2089 after reaching Star Level, and the Mars terraforming project began in 2099.

During his tenth year in Chaos City, Luo Feng learned from Xu Xin that Hong and Thunder God had gone adventuring in the universe, the Fire Hammer Squad had reached the planetary level, and Wei Wen had refused his offer of resources. As Luo Feng prepared to resume studying the Chaos Stele, Long Yu King arrived in Chaos City and discussed the Genius Battle contestants with True Yan King and Tong Nan King.

• Luo Feng read Xu Xin's email about Hong and Thunder God leaving their Dojo positions to explore the universe together.
• Luo Feng learned that Xu Xin had helped the Fire Hammer Squad reach the planetary level, while Wei Wen had refused Luo Feng's cultivation resources to preserve their brotherhood.
• Luo Feng accepted his friends' choices, felt more peaceful, and prepared to end his seclusion and study the Chaos Stele.
• Long Yu King arrived in Chaos City and met with True Yan King and Tong Nan King.
• Tong Nan King said that nine Genius Battle contestants had stood out, with Luo Feng and Bolan clearing the fourth Heavenly Bridge level and seven others clearing the second.

After ten years of secluded cultivation, Luo Feng returned to study the Universe Chaos Stele, while Lin Mo eagerly joined him and focused on its deepest diagrams. The chapter left them studying separately, with Luo Feng progressing through the foundational material and Lin Mo probing the final three diagrams.

• True Yan King lamented that Luo Feng had chosen a different Chaos Stele, despite clearing four Heavenly Bridge floors in his first year, while Tong Nan King teased him.
• Long Yu King suggested that a powerful human Venerable might have secretly taken Luo Feng as a disciple because he had risen from Earth’s harsh environment.
• Luo Feng met Kandri and used one of his remaining study opportunities to enter the Universe Chaos Stele chamber for seven days.
• Lin Mo told Luo Feng that he was cultivating now to prepare for a future reversal of time and space.
• Luo Feng studied the first diagram with far greater efficiency than before, while Lin Mo skipped the first six diagrams and focused on the final three.

After ten years of cultivation and seven days studying the Chaos Stele, Luo Feng returned to the Heavenly Bridge to test his strength. Long Yu King, True Yan King, and Tong Nan King came to watch as he reached the fifth floor and chose to face a Fighter.

• Luo Feng left the Chaos Stele chamber after his seven-day study and returned to his Cultivation Residence, eager to test the results of his ten years of cultivation.
• Luo Feng entered the Virtual Universe and reached the Universe Heavenly Bridge, where Guardian Bafen noticed how much his control over space law had improved.
• Bafen informed Long Yu King that Luo Feng was challenging the Heavenly Bridge, prompting her to invite True Yan King and Tong Nan King to watch.
• Luo Feng passed the first four floors without obstruction and reached the fifth floor.
• Luo Feng chose Fighter as his opponent, and a black-armored figure wearing a silver mask appeared from the tornado.

Luo Feng fought the fifth-level Heavenly Bridge guardian with twin sabers, relying on brute force and relentless offense before switching to the Yan Shen Armament. He defeated the guardian and cleared the fifth level.

• Luo Feng summoned two fifth-order sabers and charged the black-armored guardian in a head-on clash.
• Luo Feng abandoned his usual Spirit Reader tactics and overwhelmed the guardian with savage, all-offense saber attacks.
• The injured guardian retreated to keep his distance, and Luo Feng chased him until he regained his composure and put away his sabers.
• Luo Feng summoned the Yan Shen Armament and destroyed the guardian with an enormous dark golden pillar.
• The guardian asked how Luo Feng could be a Spirit Reader before dissolving, and the system announced that Luo Feng had cleared the fifth level of the Universe Heavenly Bridge.

After Luo Feng cleared the fifth level of the Heavenly Bridge with a fierce close-combat fight, Long Yu King and the others were stunned to learn he was heading for the sixth. Lin Mo estimated Luo Feng had only a thirty-percent chance of clearing it, but encouraged him to try.

• Long Yu King and True Yan King marveled at Luo Feng’s fighting style, and Long Yu King received a recording of his fifth-level challenge from Guardian Bafen.
• Guardian Bafen told Long Yu King, True Yan King, and Tong Nan King that Luo Feng was continuing to the sixth level, so they stayed to watch.
• Luo Feng reached the sixth level, where Lin Mo estimated his chance of success at about thirty percent and said deeper mastery of the Yan Shen Armament’s fifth stage could improve it.
• Luo Feng explained that years of intense cultivation had left little time to master the fifth stage, and Lin Mo acknowledged his effort and urged him to challenge the level.

Luo Feng challenged the sixth level of the Heavenly Bridge and chose to fight a Spirit Reader Illusionist, relying on his powerful will and combat skill. He defeated the guardian with the fifth stage of the Yan Shen Armament, cleared the level, and ended his challenge.

• Luo Feng chose a Spirit Reader Illusionist as his opponent for the sixth level.
• The illusionist attacked Luo Feng’s consciousness, but Luo Feng broke free within a breath and charged into close combat.
• The illusionist’s space-time barrier repelled Luo Feng’s sabers, and its counterattack wounded him, prompting him to abandon defense and attack relentlessly.
• Luo Feng shattered the barrier, wore down the illusionist, then used the fifth stage of the Yan Shen Armament, Space Cutting, to defeat him.
• After receiving notice that he had cleared the sixth level, Luo Feng ended the challenge.

After Luo Feng passed the sixth floor of the Tongtian Bridge, Guardian Bafen praised his progress, while Luo Feng vowed to pass the seventh floor within twenty years. News of his achievement left his fellow geniuses stunned and Bolan despairing, while the Ganwu Country Lord hoped Luo Feng might eventually help repay part of his enormous debts.

• Long Yu King, True Yan King, and Tong Nan King left the Central Plaza after asking Guardian Bafen to keep their visit confidential.
• Luo Feng returned to the plaza, and Guardian Bafen praised him for passing the fifth and sixth floors after ten years of cultivation.
• Luo Feng told Bafen that he intended to pass the seventh floor within the remaining twenty years, then left the Tongtian Bridge Plane.
• Bafen sent news of Luo Feng's achievement to the cohort's strongest geniuses and the Virtual Universe Company higher-ups, leaving Bolan and the other young geniuses shocked.
• The Ganwu Country Lord celebrated Luo Feng's rise but worried that even a future King-level Immortal would repay only a small portion of his debts.

After reflecting on his battle on the sixth floor of the Heavenly Bridge, Luo Feng broke through from universe level to domain lord level. His Shadow Clan second clone emerged early without defects, and Luo Feng found that his affinity for space and time greatly improved his comprehension of those laws.

• Luo Feng spent a week analyzing his battle against the illusionist and refining his saber techniques and control of the fifth level of the Yan Shen Armament.
• When his breakthrough began, Lin Mo told Luo Feng to proceed, and Luo Feng released his suppression of his origin force.
• Luo Feng's internal world expanded as his Origin Core transformed, and the Golden Horned Beast advanced to domain lord level.
• The change in Luo Feng's internal world caused his Shadow Clan second clone to emerge early from its cocoon, complete and without defects.
• Luo Feng discovered that his new clone's affinity for space and time made the trajectories of the universe origin laws much clearer to him.

After thirty years of cultivation in Chaos City, Luo Feng had fully comprehended the first diagram of the Universe Chaos Stele, while other geniuses advanced on the Heavenly Bridge. With ten days left before departure, Venerable Nine Swords arrived, reviewed the survivors’ progress, and summoned them and the Immortals whose study periods had ended.

• In their thirteenth year in Chaos City, Rong Jun passed the third level of the Heavenly Bridge, and Wuka followed in their twenty-first year.
• In his fifteenth year, Luo Feng used two study opportunities to comprehend the first diagram of the Universe Chaos Stele, then returned to study it again when he reached a bottleneck in his twenty-third year.
• In their twenty-fifth year, Long Yun and Galesi passed the third level of the Heavenly Bridge, and the thirty-year term in Chaos City ended.
• Venerable Nine Swords arrived outside Chaos City and learned from Long Yu King that 816 of the original thousand geniuses remained alive, Luo Feng had not challenged the Heavenly Bridge in twenty years, and Bolan had passed the fifth level.
• Venerable Nine Swords summoned the surviving geniuses and Immortals whose study periods had ended, and Luo Feng and the others gathered in the sky above Chaos City to greet him.

After Venerable Nine Swords announced the geniuses’ departure from Chaos City, Lin Mo told Luo Feng that the Universe Overlord who killed him was Star Master Tianlong, a member of the Demon Race’s Eighteen Royal Clans. Luo Feng resolved to avenge his teachers and headed to the Universe Chaos Stele to use his final study opportunity before leaving.

• Venerable Nine Swords reprimanded the geniuses for their deaths, gave them ten days before departure, and ordered the Immortal Gods whose study time had ended to board the spaceship.
• As Luo Feng walked toward the City Lord’s residence, Lin Mo explained that a Venerable’s true fury could destroy even ordinary King-level Immortals.
• Lin Mo revealed that the Universe Overlord who killed him was Star Master Tianlong, from one of the Demon Race’s Eighteen Royal Clans, and Babata recorded the information.
• Luo Feng reflected on the powerful enemies inherited through his two teachers and vowed to avenge them.
• Luo Feng reached the chamber of the Universe Chaos Stele and prepared to spend his final study opportunity integrating his accumulated insights.

After using his final Chaos Stele contemplation session, Luo Feng returned to the Virtual Universe to challenge the Heavenly Bridge. He learned that Rong Jun had passed the fourth level and Bolan the sixth, then reached the seventh level and chose to fight its guardian.

• Luo Feng entered the City Lord's residence and spent a week contemplating the third diagram of the Universe Chaos Stele.
• Luo Feng returned to his Cultivation Residence and connected to the Virtual Universe Network to challenge the Heavenly Bridge.
• Bafen told Luo Feng that Rong Jun had cleared the fourth level and Bolan had cleared the sixth level.
• Luo Feng passed the first six levels and reached the seventh level of the Universe Heavenly Bridge.
• Luo Feng chose the fighter opponent and prepared to face the seventh-level guardian.

Luo Feng fought the seventh-level Heavenly Bridge guardian, whose fist techniques and mastery of space and time initially overwhelmed him. After exploiting the guardian’s weakness against multiple attackers, Luo Feng defeated him and continued toward the eighth level.

• The Blue-Clad Man appeared as the seventh-level guardian and met Luo Feng’s twin-blade assault with a punch, then struck him using a time-distorting attack.
• Luo Feng exchanged hundreds of attacks with the guardian and realized that his techniques focused on single targets and lacked wide-area attacks.
• Luo Feng created over a thousand clones with the Ten Thousand Line Flow secret technique and sent them to attack the guardian from all sides.
• Luo Feng concealed himself among the clones and severely wounded the guardian with a strike to his chest.
• The guardian admitted defeat, and Luo Feng eventually cut off his head to clear the seventh level.
• Luo Feng, still feeling in good condition, proceeded toward the eighth level.

Luo Feng challenged the Heavenly Bridge's eighth floor as a Mental Master Controller and defeated its guardian with the Yan Shen Armament's Sword World. He cleared the floor and continued his rise as Earth’s celebrated hero.

• Lin Mo warned Luo Feng that the eighth floor was a major hurdle, and Luo Feng chose to fight as a Mental Master Controller.
• Luo Feng and the Blue-Clad Man each unleashed the Yan Shen Armament's sixth-level Sword World, and their attacks initially clashed evenly.
• As the two fought a battle of attrition, Luo Feng's greater spiritual-force reserves outlasted the guardian's.
• Luo Feng crushed the Blue-Clad Man's Sword World, destroyed the guardian, and cleared the Heavenly Bridge's eighth floor.

After Luo Feng cleared the eighth level of the Universe Heavenly Bridge, the Virtual Universe Company learned of his remarkable progress and powerful figures sought to recruit him. As he prepared to leave the Initial Universe, Luo Feng rejected their invitations and enjoyed Babata's lively return to their old banter.

• Bafen was shocked by Luo Feng's consecutive clears of the seventh and eighth Heavenly Bridge levels and sent the recordings to the Virtual Universe Company's upper echelons.
• Bafen congratulated Luo Feng, who thanked him and returned to his residence to rest before leaving Chaos City.
• News of Luo Feng's achievement spread across Yuxiang Mountain, prompting Immortal Gods and several Elementary Universe Venerables to invite him to meals or offer to take him as a disciple.
• Luo Feng reviewed more than a thousand emails and politely refused every invitation, while Lin Mo showed no reaction.
• Babata protested Luo Feng's rejections, and Luo Feng teased him as their familiar banter returned after years of silence during cultivation.

After leaving Chaos City, Luo Feng learned that he had forgotten his wedding anniversary with Xu Xin, who had urgently summoned him to the Virtual Universe. Lin Mo explained that Xu Xin’s success at Pinghai Company had also earned her access to the Virtual Universe Company’s Apocalypse Secret Realm.

• Luo Feng sat apart from the other young geniuses aboard the spaceship and reflected on rejecting offers from powerful beings because he wanted a Universe Master as his teacher.
• Venerable Nine Swords announced the end of the cohort’s thirty years of cultivation in Chaos City and praised Luo Feng and Bolan for their achievements.
• The spaceship departed Chaos City, and Xu Xin called Luo Feng to urgently ask him to meet someone at the Wanyu Building in the Virtual Universe.
• Lin Mo told Luo Feng to check the date and reminded him that it was his wedding anniversary with Xu Xin.
• Lin Mo explained that Xu Xin had grown Pinghai Company’s net assets to 100,000 Hunyuan Units, making it a second-tier subsidiary and qualifying her for the Apocalypse Secret Realm.