Chapter Summaries

After alien races learned that Jiang Zhe had gained Recognition of the Law of Thunder Source, they began plotting against him, while he secretly demonstrated his strength in Illusionary Sea. The chapter left Jiang Zhe and Luo Feng preparing for dangerous Cultivation Missions, with Jiang Zhe selecting the Ruined Ancient God's Temple.

• The Insect Mother Nest learned of Jiang Zhe's Recognition of the Law of Thunder Source and planned to target him, but a King Immortal guarded his hometown in the Solar System.
• Jiang Zhe explained heart cultivation to Luo Feng and urged him to follow the path best suited to himself.
• Jiang Zhe cleared the tenth island in Illusionary Sea, then deliberately failed at the eleventh while the administrator watched and reported his progress.
• Jiang Zhe and Luo Feng drank together, recalled their promise, and vowed to survive and carry the Earth Lineage forward.
• Jiang Zhe accepted a Dangerous Level Cultivation Mission despite its 78.2% death rate and chose NO.16, Ruined Ancient God's Temple.

Jiang Zhe accepted the Ruined Ancient God's Temple Cultivation Mission and traveled toward the Ancient God World, hoping to uncover the secrets of Ancient God's Blood. After receiving detailed guidance and restricted equipment, he set off for a Satellite City of Bear King City to obtain identification and qualify for the mission.

• Jiang Zhe studied the Ruined Ancient God's Temple, chose a Martial God Race disguise and permitted weapons, and accepted its Cultivation Mission.
• Jiang Zhe learned that the mission involved earning a Thirty King City Hero Badge and potentially qualifying to drink Ancient God's Blood at the Holy City Grand Sacrifice.
• Jiang Zhe mastered the Ancient God Language and departed three days later, while Bermington saw him onto the Virtual Universe Corporation's spacecraft.
• Yorkson explained the Ancient God World's regions and supplied Jiang Zhe with the equipment he was allowed to carry.
• Yorkson told Jiang Zhe to travel in a battered spacecraft to a Satellite City of Bear King City, where Jiang Zhe would need legal identification and Royal City Entry Qualification.

Jiang Zhe and Oriana lured a pirate gang into attacking their cargo ship, and Jiang Zhe spared its leader, Hayden, after using the Hunyuan Parasol to force enlightenment and convert him into a fanatic. Jiang Zhe then asked Hayden how to obtain the Thirty King City Hero Badge.

• Oriana woke Jiang Zhe and reported that they were twenty-nine hours from Tianwu City, so Jiang Zhe switched to a cargo ship to attract pirates and learn about the city.
• Hayden and the Cosmic Wild Dog Gang attacked the cargo ship, but Jiang Zhe’s thunderous voice and Thunder Domain killed every pirate except Hayden.
• Jiang Zhe learned that Hayden worked with Tianwu City’s Minister of Commercial Taxes and recruited him to serve in exchange for payment.
• Jiang Zhe used the Hunyuan Parasol’s Light of Enlightenment to make Hayden comprehend a Thunder Domain and become his fanatic believer.
• Jiang Zhe ordered Hayden to return to normal and asked how to obtain the Thirty King City Hero Badge.

Jiang Zhe learned that the Thirty King City Badge required its owner’s blood to resonate at the Holy City Grand Sacrifice, and uncovered that the sacrifice was a blood harvest for the Ancient God World’s nobles. After Oriana confirmed Ancient God’s Blood could raise Psychic Power Amplitude, Jiang Zhe enslaved Tianwu City Lord Kolen Kyle, who revealed that Drake had traded for only a waste byproduct.

• Hayden told Jiang Zhe that earning the Thirty King City Badge required winning one hundred arena battles in each of thirty royal cities and surviving a Sanctuary Level hunt in the Holy City Arena.
• Hayden showed Drake the Hunyuan Parasol, and the Illuminator turned Drake into a servant who helped Jiang Zhe enter Tianwu City through the Silver Key Gate.
• Drake explained that each Thirty King City Badge was forged using its owner’s blood, while Oriana analyzed a badge and discovered a mysterious substance in Ancient God Race blood.
• Drake traded the Hunyuan Parasol to Tianwu City Lord Kolen Kyle for Ancient God's Blood, and Oriana confirmed it increased Psychic Power Amplitude up to a hundredfold and that the Holy City Grand Sacrifice was a blood sacrifice.
• Jiang Zhe’s group opened the Silver Key Gate into Kolen Kyle’s mansion and enslaved him, after which Kolen Kyle revealed that Drake had received only a byproduct made through waste utilization.

Kolen explained how Ancient God's Blood protected its drinkers on the dangerous Pilgrim's Path and revealed a shortcut for Jiang Zhe to qualify for the Holy City Grand Sacrifice. When the Kael Family sent Lio and Dalo to deliver a family token, Kolen warned Jiang Zhe that they might threaten him, but Jiang Zhe prepared to test his Black Hole Evolution.

• Kolen told Jiang Zhe that Ancient God's Blood granted a temporary Risk Avoidance Effect on the Pilgrim's Path, and Jiang Zhe realized it was central to completing his Cultivation Mission.
• Kolen explained that the Kael Family could use a Family Token and thirty captured Hero Badges to secure participation in the Holy City Grand Sacrifice, and he offered to arrange a token for Jiang Zhe.
• Jiang Zhe agreed to stay at the City Lord's Mansion while Kolen requested the token from his family.
• More than two months later, Lio arrived in Tianwu City with Enshrined Expert Dalo and pressured him to undermine Kolen's interests.
• Kolen recognized Lio as his sworn enemy and warned Hayden that the visitor might bring Sanctuary Level power capable of endangering Jiang Zhe.
• Jiang Zhe overheard the warning through the Hunyuan Parasol and decided to test his Black Hole Evolution against the incoming threat.

Jiang Zhe defeated and killed Dalo during the Kael family's test, then subdued and forcibly converted Lio. After discovering that converted people continuously produced Essence of Source, he realized he could accelerate the enhancement of his Life Gene Level.

• Jiang Zhe completed the second layer of the Mystic Crystal Nine Refinement Body and followed Hayden to the City Lord's Mansion training ground.
• Lio mocked Kolen and Jiang Zhe, but Kolen used his Spatial Law and Earth Domain to silence Lio and Dalo.
• Dalo attacked Jiang Zhe, but Jiang Zhe resisted his Soul Attack and Wood Cones before killing him and crushing his life core.
• Lio accused Jiang Zhe and Kolen of colluding with an Outer Realm Demon, but Kolen blocked his warning from reaching the city.
• Jiang Zhe captured Lio, accepted the Hunyuan Parasol from Kolen, and used The Illuminator to convert Lio, leaving him with reduced intelligence.
• Jiang Zhe observed Essence of Source flowing from the converted people into his Blood Red Banner and realized it could nourish his Life Blueprint.

Jiang Zhe completed the Life Blueprint’s Life Evolution, gained a tenfold life gene level, and evolved his Super Strength into Divine Power. As he traveled toward the Ancient God Arena, Oriana reached the Realm Lord Level, and Jiang Zhe had her test Master of Matter on a Mechanical Race Immortal Spirit corpse.

• Jiang Zhe completed Life Evolution, forging a ten-star Life Force Field and raising his life gene level to ten times that of an ordinary human.
• Jiang Zhe activated the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade’s First Layer restriction and learned its Annihilation secret technique.
• Jiang Zhe ordered Anna and Kolen to set out for the Ancient God Arena aboard the faster spacecraft.
• Oriana broke through to the Realm Lord Level, reaching an eighty-eight-times life gene level and gaining a one-hundred-million-kilometer Inner World.
• Jiang Zhe gave Oriana the Mechanical Race Immortal Spirit corpse and told her to devour it with Master of Matter.

Jiang Zhe entered the Ancient God Arena, gathered essence blood and hunted hundreds of participants while Oriana investigated the continent and revealed how she could increase her gene multiplier. After stopping his hunt, Jiang Zhe used his accumulated Essence of Source to begin raising his Life Gene Level to 22 Times.

• Jiang Zhe studied the Ancient God World’s central continent and learned from Kolen that a god presided over each Millennial Grand Sacrifice there.
• Oriana explained that she could increase her Life Gene Multiplier only by assimilating a living Mechanical Race Immortal after reaching Immortality, and said a corpse would help her approach the Realm Lord Fourth Stage.
• Oriana created a vial of Ancient God Race Essence Blood, which Jiang Zhe drank to disguise his Life Aura, and Kolen guided him through registration for the Ancient God Arena.
• Jiang Zhe sent Oriana to investigate unusual areas and hunt locations, while he targeted Domain Lord participants and cultivated the Life Blueprint.
• Over four months, Jiang Zhe killed 745 participants, drew the attention of a Realm Lord inspector, and decided to stop hunting after collecting enough Essence of Source.
• Jiang Zhe began condensing his twenty-second star, triggering a Life Force Field and the start of his Life Evolution.

Jiang Zhe awakened the Ascension Innate Arcane Technique, gaining a permanent Azure energy giant form with powerful combat abilities. While continuing to hunt in the Ancient God Arena, he learned that an Immortal Spirit wanted to meet him and accept him as a disciple after he killed a thousand Sanctuary Level participants.

• A Flame Immortal Spirit ordered his inspector not to intervene in Jiang Zhe’s killings and said he would verify Jiang Zhe’s identity after a thousand Sanctuary Level victims.
• Jiang Zhe reached the third stage of Life Blueprint, gained Ascension, and discovered that it let him transform into an energy life form with a crystal Life Core.
• Jiang Zhe tested his Azure giant form, then returned to human form and left the area without testing its full combat amplification.
• Thirty-four days before the Holy City Grand Sacrifice, Jiang Zhe and Oriana noticed that a Domain Lord’s corpse had decayed unnaturally fast, suggesting the sacrifice’s treasures were being produced.
• A golden-robed Realm Lord found Jiang Zhe, learned he had killed 802 Sanctuary Level participants, and offered to take him to meet a god if he reached a thousand.
• After the Realm Lord left, Jiang Zhe told Oriana to keep pursuing both available paths.

Jiang Zhe used Oriana’s particles to trace Ancient God Race Essence Blood to an Immortal’s guarded cave, then disguised himself as Scott Daddarich and met the High God. The chapter ended with the High God taking Scott’s World Ring and discovering the Purple-Gold Puppets inside.

• Oriana traced the special particles through the refining process to an Essence Blood production site beneath Ancient God Peak, where an Immortal overseer was stationed.
• Jiang Zhe and Oriana decided to gamble rather than abandon their plan to obtain Ancient God’s Blood, while Jiang Zhe continued killing Domain Lord Level Participants to conceal their operation.
• Sanctuary Level Participants identified Scott Daddarich as a Puppet Master and plotted to seize his inheritance, but Scott’s Brass Puppet defeated twenty-four Sanctuary Level Peak Participants.
• The High God ordered the Inspectors to protect Scott and bring him to the mountain, and Jiang Zhe arrived there disguised as Scott.
• Jiang Zhe fabricated a story about finding the Puppet Master inheritance, and the High God seized Scott’s World Ring to inspect its Purple-Gold Puppets.

Jiang Zhe tricked the gaunt old man into taking the Hunyuan Parasol and then ambushed him with Oriana. Oriana and her mechanical army defeated the immortal, and she killed him with a third blade.

• The gaunt old man failed to claim the Mechanical Puppets, so Jiang Zhe offered him the Hunyuan Parasol and a brass female puppet.
• Jiang Zhe activated the Hunyuan Parasol’s Abyss technique, briefly freezing the gaunt old man while Oriana attacked with the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade.
• The gaunt old man shattered Abyss and struck Scott with a soul attack, but Oriana continued fighting and wounded him with a blade that spread Blood Poison.
• Oriana used her World Projection to suppress the gaunt old man’s Law Domain and struck him again, further damaging his divine body and soul.
• The gaunt old man sent a group message to the inspectors and tried to escape, but Oriana commanded nearly a thousand mechanical puppets to destroy his weapon and blast him through the mountain.
• Oriana caught up with the weakened gaunt old man and killed him with her third blade, reducing him to ash.

Jiang Zhe and Oriana stole the Ancient God's Blood hidden inside the cave's stalactites and escaped the Ancient God Arena. After drinking a measured portion, Jiang Zhe increased his Psychic Power Amplitude to 3,509 Times before exhaustion overcame him.

• Oriana harvested 8,024 stalactites while her avatars fought off the Realm Lords who arrived at the cave.
• Jiang Zhe escaped the Ancient God Arena through the Silver Key Gate and reunited with Oriana in Tianwu City Lord's Manor.
• Oriana opened a stalactite and identified its golden liquid as naturally formed Ancient God's Blood, a likely Venerable Level treasure.
• Jiang Zhe drank thirty milliliters of Ancient God's Blood and endured its transformation of his soul.
• Jiang Zhe's Psychic Power Amplitude rose to 3,509 Times, after which he fell asleep.

After thirteen years of secluded cultivation in the Ancient God World, Jiang Zhe awoke from a long Coiled Dragon Technique dream with greatly strengthened will and extensive Source Law insights. He chose to keep exploring the Ancient God World and investigate the source of Ancient God's Blood rather than return to the Primal Secret Realm.

• Oriana calculated that Jiang Zhe and she had collected 15,648 portions of Ancient God's Blood, while the Ancient God Race's searches for the Outer Realm Demons eventually ended without finding them.
• Jiang Zhe spent years in a dream as Yaolong, a powerful Special Life Form, and gained insights into the Thunder, Light, Wind, and Time Source Laws before waking in his thirteenth year in the Ancient God World.
• Jiang Zhe asked Oriana to search for Yaolong and Venerable Qian Guang, but she found no information on either and cautioned that his dreams could not alter the past or predict the future.
• After studying in the Virtual Universe for half a year, Jiang Zhe finished digesting his dream's gains and reported that he had comprehended all 108 mysteries of the Time Law and made progress toward the fifth picture of the Cosmic Chaos Monument.
• When Oriana asked whether they should return to the Primal Secret Realm, Jiang Zhe decided to explore the Ancient God World further, investigate the origin of Ancient God's Blood, and seek F-grade treasures on the Pilgrim's Path.

Jiang Zhe learned that the Puppet Master inheritance was real but incomplete, and discovered the history behind the Ancient God Race and the Virtual Universe Corporation’s harvest of Ancient God’s Blood. After arranging to sell the blood and choosing the Thunder and Time fusion path, he departed with Oriana for the Pilgrim’s Path.

• Jiang Zhe decided the Puppet Master inheritance could suit Oriana and asked the Holy Spirit King for information about it.
• The Holy Spirit King assessed Jiang Zhe’s progress, taught him about the Fourth Picture, and told him a powerful future master would soon meet him.
• The Holy Spirit King explained that the company would buy thirty percent of Jiang Zhe’s Ancient God’s Blood at a reduced price and the remaining seventy percent at the standard price.
• Jiang Zhe read the Puppet Master Secret Teachings and learned that the Ancient God Race’s leader had betrayed humanity, leading to the destruction of their civilization and the loss of the core inheritance.
• Jiang Zhe learned that the Virtual Universe Corporation harvested Ancient God’s Blood while hoping the Ancient God Race would uncover the world’s hidden secret.
• Jiang Zhe withdrew from the Virtual Universe and prepared with Oriana to travel to the Pilgrim’s Path.

Jiang Zhe entered Temple Ruin Point No. 1023 to retrieve Heaven's Blessing Gold and let Oriana study the ruins' puppets. After fighting through the temple's defenses, he reached the top-floor hall, where the target awaited.

• Jiang Zhe entered the Red Zone on foot after Oriana warned him about its unstable space-time, and he dodged a temple fragment moving at sub-light speed.
• Oriana guided Jiang Zhe to Temple Ruin Point No. 1023, where she identified Heaven's Blessing Gold as the resource they sought.
• Jiang Zhe flew directly toward the temple's top floor, drawing fire from its awakened puppet guards, and evaded their energy beams.
• Oriana fought through the top-floor guards while Jiang Zhe gathered their remains, and she analyzed a puppet core but could not decipher its secrets.
• Jiang Zhe and Oriana prepared to enter the temple hall and take the Heaven's Blessing Gold.

Jiang Zhe and Oriana raided Ancient God Race temple ruins for valuable treasures, but were forced to retreat after Oriana encountered an Immortal-level puppet. They paused the hunt so Oriana could digest their haul and reach the Realm Lord Ninth Stage.

• Jiang Zhe entered Temple Ruin Point No. 1023, where a Heaven's Blessing Gold puppet attacked him and destroyed his Ascension-form Divine Body before Oriana rescued him and defeated it.
• Oriana retrieved the puppet's Heaven's Grace Gold Mother core and explained its value, then harvested part of the temple's renewable Heaven's Blessing Gold for her advancement.
• Jiang Zhe and Oriana visited more temple ruins, collecting G-Rank treasures and F-Rank resources, including the Source of a Thousand Radiance and Heavy Foundation Stone Mother.
• At Temple Ruin Point No. 921, an Immortal-level puppet overwhelmed Oriana amid waves of puppets, forcing her and Jiang Zhe to flee.
• Jiang Zhe counted eighteen G-Rank Puppet Cores and learned that Oriana needed about eight years to digest their associated F-Rank treasures and reach the Realm Lord Ninth Stage, so he suspended the treasure hunt.

Jiang Zhe completed his new soul-defense technique and learned that Oriana could extract mysterious Blood Pearls from G-Rank Puppet Cores. Using one to disguise herself, she bypassed the guardians at a temple ruin and took its dormant Guardian Puppet Core and surrounding sand.

• Jiang Zhe finished learning the Mystic Crystal Nine Refinement Body and Nine-Refinement Fist, so Holy Spirit King gave him their complete techniques along with Black Hole Devour.
• Jiang Zhe replaced his Void Tower with Black Hole Devour, then learned that Oriana had reached Realm Lord Ninth Stage and discovered an unknown blood-red substance in G-Rank Puppet Cores.
• Oriana extracted eighteen Blood Pearls from G-Rank Puppet Cores, and Jiang Zhe asked her to use one to disguise herself as a puppet and bypass the temple guardians.
• Oriana successfully crossed Temple Ruin Point No. 921 without waking its sand beast puppets, entered the central keep, and removed the dormant Sand Crocodile Puppet's core.
• Jiang Zhe took most of the surrounding F-Rank Heavy Sand and G-Rank Heavy Sand Grit, then set off with Oriana for another ruin point.

Jiang Zhe and Oriana gathered 101 Blood Pearls and fused them into an Ancient God Blood Crystal, which boosted Jiang Zhe’s Psychic Power and revealed the layout and legacy of the Ancient God temples. After years of searching, they assembled a second crystal and set course for the Ruined Ancient God's Temple.

• Jiang Zhe and Oriana swept through Temple Ruin Points, collecting Blood Pearls while testing the growing strength of the Guardian Puppets and avoiding unstable space-time deeper in the region.
• At Temple Ruin Point No. 944, Oriana defeated a Treant Puppet and extracted its Nether Luo Ancient Tree Core, providing the 101st Blood Pearl.
• Jiang Zhe fused the 101 drops into a Crimson Orb, which raised his Psychic Power Amplitude from 3,509 times to 4,509 times while he wore it.
• Jiang Zhe learned that the Crimson Orb was an Ancient God Blood Crystal, usable only by those with Ancient God Race bloodlines and key to entering the Ancient God Hall and its core legacy.
• In the thirty-third year, Jiang Zhe and Oriana began exploring ruin points below 700, and in the thirty-fifth year they completed a second Ancient God Blood Crystal.
• Jiang Zhe and Oriana boarded their spacecraft and headed toward the Ruined Ancient God's Temple.

Jiang Zhe and Oriana found the Ancient God World’s major temples stripped of their strongest puppets, then obtained a disappointing beginner Puppet Master legacy from the Ancient God Hall. As they prepared to leave, the Blood Crystal opened a vortex, and a mysterious woman invited Jiang Zhe to meet her.

• Oriana explored a puppet-filled continent, defeated a Violent Bear puppet, and discovered its core contained crimson blood threads she could digest.
• Jiang Zhe and Oriana searched the nearby God-King and Saint King Halls, found them empty of powerful puppets, and concluded the Virtual Universe Corporation had removed the valuable ones.
• Jiang Zhe used the Ancient God Blood Crystal to receive the Puppet Master Beginner Legacy, but he and Oriana found that it lacked the key to creating intelligent puppets.
• Jiang Zhe decided to report the findings to Teacher Holy Spirit King and leave the Ancient God World.
• The Blood Crystal shattered into a ring-shaped vortex, and a mysterious female voice invited Jiang Zhe to come inside and meet her.

Jiang Zhe entered the blood-red Vortex Channel and met the mysterious Bloodshadow, who revealed that she was a living supreme treasure behind the Ancient God World and offered him a chance to cooperate. She led him to a pool of potent Ancient God's Blood, and Jiang Zhe began soaking in it to strengthen his soul.

• Jiang Zhe sent Oriana away with the Hunyuan Parasol, entered the Vortex Channel, and prepared to destroy his body if the encounter turned dangerous.
• Bloodshadow appeared and claimed to be the founder of the Ancient God Race, the creator of its treasures, and a living treasure seeking a path back to the Upper Realm.
• Bloodshadow said Jiang Zhe could become her collaborator or master after reaching the Realm Lord Level with sufficient willpower, then led him to a pool of complete Ancient God's Blood.
• Jiang Zhe learned the blood could increase Soul Amplification by ten to thirty times, while Oriana found that its components resembled the Ancient God's Blood he had already consumed.
• Jiang Zhe entered the pool and endured its pleasurable effects as the blood mist transformed his soul and increased his Psychic Power Amplitude.