Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuezhou and the others investigated how Zhu Liangping’s red deer had transformed into a Ferocious Beast, but found no evidence of outside interference. Gao Tingsheng was offered the chance to replace Luo Burang at the A6 Laboratory, then proposed dissecting the deer while it was still evolving.

• Zhang Xuezhou confirmed that the transformed red deer remained under his mental control, while he and Zhu Liangping worried about how it had become a Ferocious Beast.
• Zhu Liangping and Li Yingbo reviewed the surveillance footage and contacted Gao Tingsheng, finding no sign that he had visited the factory or interfered with the deer.
• Gao Tingsheng arrived, complained that he had received no experimental materials, and was told he could try taking over the A6 Laboratory from Luo Burang.
• After hearing that Luo Burang supported the replacement, Gao Tingsheng eagerly proposed dissecting the red deer during its transformation.
• Li Yingbo prepared to refuse the dissection, but Zhang Xuezhou whispered to him and calmed his reaction.

Gao Tingsheng dissected an evolving red deer while researchers investigated what had triggered its transformation. Zhang Xuezhou found Soul Jade beneath the laboratory floor and suspected Qinmeng's Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder had enlightened the deer, leaving him to consider the being's possible new ability.

• Gao Tingsheng dissected the anesthetized red deer as Luo Burang, Zhang Xuezhou, and other researchers watched its organs and Resistance Layer.
• The red deer's stomach thrashed violently, breaking through its anesthesia and forcing the laboratory staff to increase the dose.
• Luo Burang, Zhu Liangping, and Li Yingbo discussed the deer's extreme appetite and possible causes of its evolution.
• Zhang Xuezhou recognized undigested particles in the deer's stomach as likely poisonous grass fruit connected to Zhou Yueyan's earlier experiment.
• Zhang Xuezhou noticed damage to the laboratory floor, pried up the stones, and discovered that they were Soul Jade.
• Zhang Xuezhou suspected Qinmeng's Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder had enlightened the red deer and considered what new ability the being might possess.

Zhang Xuezhou and Luo Burang prepared for Qinmeng's Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder, who was using Ferocious Beasts to expose and eliminate powerful opponents. After warning Li Yingbo and urging the Scarlet Alliance State to investigate its Aberrant Beast facilities, they hurried to the dissection lab when Gao Tingsheng discovered the source of a Ferocious Beast's evolution.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Luo Burang concluded that they should hide their powerful fighters, rely on firearms and explosives, and pause the North Rehe experiments while they searched for the enemy's weakness.
• Zhang Xuezhou warned Li Yingbo that the red deer could become a Ferocious Beast within two days and advised him to prepare to fight it with firearms.
• Li Yingbo investigated the Aberrant Beast factories and research institutes in Western Capital City and Wangjing City, then discovered that some had concealed information.
• Gao Tingsheng identified the source of the Ferocious Beast's evolution, and Li Yingbo and Zhang Xuezhou rushed to the makeshift dissection laboratory.

Zhang Xuezhou waited at the Aberrant Beast factory for the Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder while researchers studied the red deer’s unusual evolutionary core. The expected attack never reached Western Capital City; instead, Ren Yisheng reported that Nagesi and his group had been killed in a devastating area strike in the Thousand Islands Alliance.

• Gao Tingsheng, Li Yingbo, and Zhang Xuezhou examined a hard core in the red deer’s stomach that resembled a Sequence Lock but seemed to trigger transformation through feeding.
• Zuo Denggao had Gao Tingsheng stitch a controllable detonator into the red deer’s belly, and the animal recovered rapidly after surgery.
• Zhang Xuezhou stayed at the Aberrant Beast factory to wait for the Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder, while Luo Burang warned him to stay safe.
• Nagesi messaged Zhang Xuezhou about unifying the Thousand Islands Alliance, but their conversation abruptly ended when Nagesi became unreachable.
• Ren Yisheng told Zhang Xuezhou that Nagesi and all twenty-two members of his group had been killed, along with nearly a thousand security-force members within five hundred meters.

After Nagesi’s group was annihilated by Mengtesi Badun, Zhang Xuezhou and the others discussed how to survive and defeat the Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder. Huang Daoxian sensed their refuge was no longer safe and sent everyone scattering as the battle royale began.

• Cameras broadcast Mengtesi Badun’s slaughter of Nagesi’s team, demonstrating the terrifying power of a domain.
• Huang Daoxian, Zhang Hao, Zhang Huang, Ren Yisheng, Zhou Rihui, and Zhang Xuezhou discussed finding a moment when their enemy was vulnerable and taking his World Origin.
• The group discussed Grian’s public popularity and Huang Daoxian explained how Karmic Fortune could make a ruler’s actions succeed.
• Huang Daoxian sensed that their underground refuge was being traced, warned everyone to scatter, and ran out through the emergency exit.

Zhang Xuezhou and Li Yingbo monitored a growing Ferocious Beast crisis while waiting for the Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder to arrive. The crisis in Binzhou City ended in disaster when the white-haired old man appeared atop the leopard cat.

• Zhang Xuezhou, Li Yingbo, and Song Fengying coordinated surveillance in Western Capital City as the Thousand Islands Alliance's Sequence Holders scattered and searched for Badun.
• Li Yingbo received word that a leopard cat Ferocious Beast had escaped from Zhao De's research institute in Binzhou City, and Bai Nianjia ordered a strike force to kill it.
• Zhao De's team and Bai Nianjia's flying squadron pursued the leopard cat as it fled toward the suburbs, while the surveillance team watched the confused confrontation.
• The Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder arrived, destroying all eight aircraft and disabling the pursuing vehicles.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw the white-haired old man in a green robe atop the leopard cat as the radiance of the World Origin around him faded.

Zhang Xuezhou and Li Yingbo tracked Qinmeng's Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder as he headed for Lin Capital City, then decided to test whether explosives could stop him. They detonated ten tons of explosives at the Aberrant Beast factory, but the chapter ended before they knew whether he had survived.

• Qinmeng's Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder slaughtered the pursuit team and rode toward Lin Capital City.
• Zhang Xuezhou and Li Yingbo debated using explosives at the Lin Jing Aberrant Beast factory, while Song Fengying arranged surveillance and confirmed that people would be evacuated.
• Song Fengying tracked the white-haired old man as he rode the leopard cat and used a visual display to look up information.
• Li Yingbo coordinated with Zhang Yan and ordered the explosives detonated as the old man entered the factory and looked toward the brown eared pheasant.
• The blast blacked out the factory cameras and sent a fireball skyward, prompting Zhang Xuezhou to leap to his feet.

Zhang Xuezhou pursued the injured Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder and realized that attacks could force the World Origin’s power to leak out. He tried to seize the Origin using the Five-Colored Divine Stone, but the attempt failed, and the enraged man fled toward the Qinmeng Continent.

• Zhang Xuezhou watched surveillance footage and concluded that the Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder could be injured, and that his recovery depended on the leaking World Origin.
• After learning that the man was heading toward Lin Capital City, Zhang Xuezhou flew after him while Li Yingbo relayed reports of attacks by Zhang Yan’s forces.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw that the man avoided counterattacking because using his power caused the World Origin to leak, and he recognized an opportunity to weaken him.
• Zhang Xuezhou rushed in and presented the Five-Colored Divine Stone, but the domains collided and shattered before he could seize the World Origin.
• The Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder sent a streak of multicolored light into a distant mountain, then threatened Zhang Xuezhou and fled toward the Qinmeng Continent; Zhang Xuezhou pursued him.

Li Yingbo assessed the widespread damage from the Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder and coordinated aid while considering whether Zhang Xuezhou’s fortune had helped them. He established real-time contact with Mengtesi Badun, who had been swept up among the beings from Fire Meteor in Qinmeng.

• Li Yingbo and Zhu Bufan discussed the freezing disaster, Zhang Xuezhou’s absence, and whether his nonaggressive fortune had helped events unfold favorably.
• Li Yingbo reported heavy casualties across three Thousand Islands Alliance locations and learned that Nagesi had resurrected through Immortality and begun communicating.
• Li Yingbo urged others to help Nagesi unify the Thousand Islands Alliance as his reputation rose and people in the British Alliance State called for his return.
• Li Yingbo messaged Mengtesi Badun and discovered that Luo Gaogao had established a real-time communications link between them.
• Li Yingbo learned that Mengtesi Badun had ended up among the beings from Fire Meteor in Qinmeng while Hu Yu mistook him for an opponent of the Qinmeng Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder.

Zhang Xuezhou fled across the Scarlet Alliance State with the white-haired old man in pursuit, hoping to reach Mengtesi Badun and the Fire Meteor beings. The old man could not understand how Zhang Xuezhou had taken the World Origin, and his pursuit grew more furious.

• Zhang Xuezhou received Li Yingbo’s message about Mengtesi Badun and flew toward the coast to find him and the Fire Meteor beings.
• The white-haired old man chased Zhang Xuezhou for nearly three thousand li and threatened to kill him for exposing his identity and taking the Origin.
• Zhang Xuezhou examined the three clusters of World Origin within Huangdao's Three Palaces but found them difficult to refine and poorly suited to his abilities.
• The white-haired old man realized he could neither reclaim the Origin nor make it change within Zhang Xuezhou, contrary to everything he knew.
• The white-haired old man grew increasingly enraged as he pursued Zhang Xuezhou, wondering why the World Origin had chosen him and what Tiger Saint had given him.

Zhang Xuezhou used Qinmeng’s temporary communications network and explosive ambushes to evade the white-haired elder pursuing him. He reached the abandoned subway tunnel where Mengtesi Badun and the others were gathered, but a creature named Hundred Eyes guarded the entrance.

• Zhang Xuezhou contacted Li Yingbo, who helped narrow down his location and explained how to find Mengtesi Badun.
• Zhang Xuezhou evaded the white-haired elder by changing direction in flight, though his Gene Power ran low and he switched to Law Power.
• An explosion at Mengtesi Badun’s underground lab slowed the white-haired elder and gave Zhang Xuezhou a chance to hide and recover.
• Zhang Xuezhou learned that Mengtesi Badun had withdrawn from the contest and was waiting near Hundred Eyes’ underground tunnel.
• Zhang Xuezhou spotted the red flag marking the meeting point, called out to Hu Yu, and flew into the subway tunnel guarded by Hundred Eyes.

The Fire Meteor cultivators bickered over leadership until Hu Yu and Hu Hao invoked the Tiger Saint Lineage’s formidable senior and Wind and Thunder Saber. Zhang Xuezhou raced through the tunnel, then the cultivators mistook the pursuing white tiger for the owner of the World Origin and attacked it together.

• Seven Spiders and the other Fire Meteor cultivators argued over who should lead their alliance and decide its battle strategy.
• Hu Yu and Hu Hao boasted that their Tiger Saint Lineage senior could wield the Wind and Thunder Saber and the Five-Colored Divine Stone.
• Zhang Xuezhou raced through the tunnel after warning Hu Yu that a white-haired man was pursuing him, while the other cultivators refused to help.
• Hu Yu and Hu Hao prepared to face the pursuer as a mass of five-colored light approached through the tunnel.
• The cultivators identified the light as the World Origin and launched attacks at the huge white tiger they saw beneath it.

The enormous white tiger trapped the cultivators with his freezing power, but Hu Yu and the others escaped while Hu Hao begged for his life. The tiger recruited Hu Hao to help kill the Wind and Thunder Saber’s wielder, Zhang Xuezhou, and resumed his pursuit after losing his chance to catch him.

• The enormous white tiger attacked the cultivators, killing Old Devil Xixumi and freezing Seven Spiders’ Ferocious Beast spiders as the group’s attacks failed.
• Golden Lion Baqi dragged Hu Yu away while Hu Hao remained immobilized by the tiger’s bloodline suppression.
• The tiger questioned Hu Hao about Tiger Saint’s special envoy, and Hu Hao revealed that the envoy carried the Wind and Thunder Saber and the Five-Colored Divine Stone.
• Hu Hao promised to gather information and obey the tiger, who offered to help him establish a new Tiger Devil Aristocratic Clan if he helped kill Zhang Xuezhou.
• The tiger realized Zhang Xuezhou had escaped and turned his attention to another target he needed to eliminate.

Zhang Xuezhou escaped the white-haired old man after exhausting his Gene Sequence power and Law Power, then hid in a mountain valley to recover. As he used the Grain Avoidance Instruction, he sensed the Origin within Huangdao's Three Palaces subtly changing.

• Zhang Xuezhou reflected on the chase and considered using blinding light and smoke to escape pursuit in the future.
• Zhang Xuezhou landed in a secluded valley, drank water, and realized his body was nearly depleted.
• Li Yingbo contacted Zhang Xuezhou and told him he was still thirty-six hundred li from the nearest airport.
• Li Yingbo reported that Mengtesi Badun had recovered surveillance drives and spotted Hu Hao with a giant white tiger.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Grain Avoidance Instruction to restore his body and sensed the Origin in Huangdao's Three Palaces slowly transforming.

Zhang Xuezhou discovered that refining the World Origin had changed his body and increased his speed, though he could not tell whether it carried hidden dangers. He flew toward Boduo Airport while coordinating with Li Yingbo and learning about Nagesi’s survival and Huang Daoxian’s disappearance.

• Zhang Xuezhou realized the Origin had altered his body without restoring his Law Power or Gene Sequence power, and he resolved to undergo tests after returning home.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Grain Avoidance Instruction to recover some strength, then flew away from the Qinmeng Continent with his Red Gold Cloud Wings moving faster than before.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Li Yingbo that he was heading for Boduo Airport, and Li Yingbo confirmed that Grian had arranged for the airport to be cleared for his arrival.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked about contacting Huangdao, but Li Yingbo said Huangdao had fled without a communicator and could not be reached.
• Li Yingbo told Zhang Xuezhou that Nagesi had returned to life with part of one hand missing and had sent more than 850 messages.

Zhang Xuezhou coordinated with Nagesi on a return to the British Alliance State and instructed Grian to prepare explosives against the coming threat. Grian mobilized the Aomeijia Alliance’s leaders to carry out Zhang’s orders while hiding the preparations and presenting the alliance as peaceful.

• Nagesi contacted Zhang Xuezhou, agreed to hand over satellite and communications control, and planned to return to the British Alliance State to pursue his fortunes.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Grian to plant explosives throughout the Fala Region and send Li Yingbo detailed, high-resolution photographs of the sites.
• After Zhang Xuezhou departed for Saint Louis Airport, Grian worried that more Fire Meteor cultivators could devastate the Aomeijia Alliance.
• Grian ordered his son Anthony and the lineage heads responsible for military production to supervise the explosives and transport as much as possible.
• Grian told Daniel to manage online messages promoting peace and prosperity and publicize his wedding, while keeping the preparations secret.

Zhang Xuezhou arranged a Karmic Fortune Sacrifice for Nagesi, who hoped it would help him advance despite his injuries and the danger facing the British Alliance State. As Nagesi performed the rite, he saw a blood-red vision and the head of someone he had killed long ago.

• Nagesi showed Zhang Xuezhou his injured left hand and asked whether he could proceed with the sacrifice.
• Zhang Xuezhou explained that waiting forty-nine days would be safer, but agreed to try the rite immediately when Nagesi insisted.
• Nagesi asked to reach the Tenth Sequence, then the Ninth, but Zhang Xuezhou signaled him to draw blood and repeat a declaration of surrender.
• The Fortune-Extracting Flags moved as Nagesi recited, and he fell into a vision of a blood-red world.
• A human head appeared in the vision, reminding Nagesi of the first person he had beheaded over the No. 1 Sinkhole.

Zhang Xuezhou encountered Xuanming during a sacrifice and destroyed the Fortune Form Xuanming sent to attack him. Xuanming withdrew after revealing that Huangdao’s accumulated Karmic Fortune was hidden in a treasure, and Zhang Xuezhou recognized the jade ruler on Xuanming’s shell.

• Xuanming confronted Zhang Xuezhou over using him as a shield to take Liao Meng’s Principle and attacked him with a golden Fortune Form.
• Zhang Xuezhou split into countless dragonfish phantoms and evaded Xuanming’s attacks while the sacrifice drained Xuanming’s Fortune Form.
• Xuanming’s golden turtle Fortune Form collapsed, leaving him unable to believe that Zhang Xuezhou had defeated him.
• Zhang Xuezhou offered to compensate Xuanming with four Karmic Fortune Pearls, but Xuanming accused Huangdao of conspiring against him and revealed where Huangdao’s Karmic Fortune was hidden.
• Zhang Xuezhou noticed a jade ruler on Xuanming’s shell and recalled a sealed treasure.

After defeating Xuanming’s Karmic Fortune avatar, Zhang Xuezhou found that he could refine the World Origin in Huangdao’s Three Palaces far more easily. The sacrifice also transformed Nagesi, who gained the power of a domain and placed his hopes for reaching a higher Sequence on Zhang Xuezhou.

• Zhang Xuezhou recalled that the Tongtian Jade Ruler was in their possession and that Huang Daoxian had kept its role as a source and store of Karmic Fortune hidden.
• Zhang Xuezhou felt the formation’s Karmic Fortune cleanse him, then found the Grain Avoidance Instruction refining the World Origin in Huangdao’s Three Palaces at greatly increased speed.
• Nagesi awakened the power of a domain during the sacrifice and celebrated his transformation with Zhang Xuezhou.
• Zhang Xuezhou recognized that Nagesi’s experience had opened another path toward higher Gene Sequences.
• Nagesi concluded that Zhang Xuezhou would not harm Li Yingbo and entrusted his hopes of reaching the highest Sequence to him.

Nagesi revealed that his domain could drive weaker enemies into a killing frenzy, and Zhang Xuezhou asked about rare materials recovered from the No. 1 Sinkhole. Zhang took a Magic Stone that seemed to improve his recovery, while he and Nagesi prepared to coordinate their forces for a future attack on the white-haired elder in Qinmeng.

• Nagesi described his domain’s ability to stimulate opponents’ Qi and Blood and make them kill indiscriminately, then vowed to take revenge for his death and the loss of his team.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked whether Nagesi had rare materials from the No. 1 Sinkhole, and Nagesi brought out its relics, including a dragon-tooth dagger and a pale blue Magic Stone.
• Nagesi explained that mages used Magic Stones to recover Law Power, and Zhang Xuezhou sensed that the stone improved his affinity with nature and took it to study.
• Zhang Xuezhou urged Nagesi to set explosives in the wasteland and keep forces stationed there so they could seize an opportunity to act.
• Nagesi agreed to coordinate with Zhang Xuezhou and privately hoped that killing the old monster in Qinmeng would give their group the World Origin, which he might eventually outlast others to fuse with.