Chapter Summaries

Chen Du borrowed the Return to the Ruins One, a powerful annihilation machine, from the Star Domain Lord and carried it back to Blue Star through reincarnation. He ordered it to destroy the Kema People, then learned its mission was complete and prepared to return to the Cosmic Genius Battle.

• Chen Du asked the Star Domain Lord for a weapon capable of destroying a civilization, and the Star Domain Lord agreed to send one because the Kema People were outside the Azure Human Alliance.
• A week later, Chen Du received and bound the Return to the Ruins One, a combat machine capable of reaching the middle stage of the Eleventh Tier.
• Chen Du killed himself, took the robot with him through Hundred-Lifetime Reincarnation, and returned to Mount Tai on Blue Star.
• Chen Du ordered the Return to the Ruins One to destroy the Kema fleet and civilization, and it flew into space to carry out the command.
• The Return to the Ruins One destroyed the Kema fleet and homeworld, while Imhotep and the other Kema leaders failed to identify or resist their attacker.
• Chen Du sensed that the mission was complete and prepared to return to the Cosmic Genius Battle.

Chen Du sent a second clone into the tier-eleven Divine Prison Realm, where it took over the body of Qin Dong, a weak new jailer in the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty's prison. After awakening three talents tied to the world's opposing forces, Chen Du began learning the realm's Martial Dao system, leaving himself at the start of a long climb from the Body Tempering Realm.

• Chen Du created a second clone at Mount Tai so it could explore a new world while his other selves advanced elsewhere.
• The clone entered the Divine Prison Realm, a dangerous tier-eleven world ruled by the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty.
• Chen Du awoke in the body of Qin Dong, a frail jailer whose body had barely entered the First Realm.
• The world's rules awakened Heaven's Way of Righteousness, Heaven's Way of Evil, and Heaven's Way's Gift in Chen Du.
• Chen Du reviewed the world's eleven Martial Dao realms and recognized that Qin Dong had yet to establish himself in the Body Tempering Realm.

Chen Du learned that both righteous and evil deeds earned tokens he could exchange for strength, then began working as a jailer in the Divine Prison. After discovering the first level’s prisoners and accumulated power, he decided to lie low and grow stronger while investigating the prison’s rules.

• Chen Du realized that his three talents let him earn rewards from Heaven's Way through either good or evil deeds.
• Old Zhou warned Chen Du that the Divine Prison was ancient, dangerous, and full of prisoners whose power could kill careless jailers.
• Chen Du questioned how the prison’s rules related to Heaven’s Way’s rules and resolved to learn more.
• Chen Du patrolled the first level with Old Zhou and sensed the immense power left by prisoners, formations, and guards.
• Chen Du spotted a pair of golden eyes watching the patrol and continued on, choosing to take his time and grow stronger.

Chen Du secretly gathered Dao resonance from the first floor of the Divine Prison and discovered that it could yield powerful cultivation arts. After obtaining four ninth-tier arts with lower-grade second-level laws, he returned to his room while golden pupils watched him from the darkness.

• Chen Du listened as the young jailers warned one another about the monsters imprisoned on the first floor and the dangers of their baleful qi.
• At night, Chen Du used his abilities on a corridor wall and condensed the ninth-tier Dragon-Tiger Netherworld Prison Art, which contained the Netherworld Prison Soul Lock law.
• Over the next few nights, Chen Du found three strong sources of Dao resonance and obtained the Netherworld Prison Dragon Python Art, the Prison-Suppressing Qi-Breaking Scripture, and the Resentful Soul Spirit-Devouring Art.
• Chen Du realized the Divine Prison held many more cultivation arts beyond the outer first floor, while golden vertical pupils repeatedly watched him in the dark.

Chen Du executed the prisoners on the roster and received a five-hundred-year wisp of black qi from the only prisoner who had truly been wronged. He used the accumulated qi to claim three treasures from Heaven's Way's Gift, then spent three years struggling to study and refine them.

• Old Zhou ordered Chen Du to execute the prisoners on the roster with the Divine Prison Blade.
• Chen Du executed the prisoners, gaining white qi from them, until he killed the calm Ninth Realm young man and received a five-hundred-year wisp of black qi.
• Chen Du fed the white and black qi to Heaven's Way's Gift, which produced a Ninth-Tier pill, a law-bearing blade, and a Prison-Splitting cultivation technique.
• Chen Du spent three years studying Prison-Splitting and its law while slowly refining the pill, but made little progress with any of the three treasures.

Chen Du learned that Shen Xing had been framed and executed for defending a wrongly accused commander, then built him a grave in the Divine Prison. As more prisoners arrived, Chen Du used the prison’s Dao resonance to gain three powerful Ninth Tier arts, leaving him with six such arts from the first level alone.

• Old Zhou told Chen Du that Shen Xing had been a respected Northern Border deputy general who was framed after pleading for an old commander's innocence.
• Chen Du realized the Divine Prison held the wrongfully accused alongside the guilty and saw their growing numbers as opportunities to test his talents.
• Chen Du carved Shen Xing's name into a secluded wall, made a grave for him, and offered illusory incense and Qin Dong's liquor.
• Chen Du activated Become a Sage on the Spot at an old execution platform and acquired the Ninth Tier Xingtian Prison-Suppressing Art.
• Chen Du used Dao resonance from an abandoned formation and a sealed cell to acquire the Ninth Tier Nine Serenities Prison-Cage Scripture and Nether Breath Soul-Devouring Record.
• Chen Du arranged the three new arts with his existing ones and noted that he had gained six Ninth Tier arts from the Divine Prison's first level.

Chen Du spent months executing prisoners and cultivating in the Divine Prison, greatly advancing his laws and techniques. After Old Zhou told him that the Ninth Realm physician Gu Changqing had been imprisoned for saving a condemned man, Chen Du decided he wanted to meet him.

• Chen Du used the qi gained from executions to obtain a Ninth Tier pill and concentrated insights that strengthened his six Ninth Tier techniques.
• After a year of patrols and cultivation, Chen Du advanced several laws, including his Tianshi Law, Law of Anger, Law of Sorrow, and Soul Devouring Law.
• Chen Du continued exploiting the Divine Prison’s formations and executions to deepen his cultivation.
• Old Zhou told Chen Du that Gu Changqing, a Ninth Realm physician famed for treating the poor and stopping a plague, had been imprisoned for treating an exiled official accused of treason.
• Chen Du looked toward Gu Changqing’s cell and decided he wanted to meet him, believing a man who had saved so many people should not be left in prison.

Chen Du visited the imprisoned physician Gu Changqing and offered him food and a chance to leave, while deciding to build up his strength against the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty. Months later, Chen Du prepared to descend into the Divine Prison’s lower levels after Old Zhou said they had orders to open the second and third levels.

• Chen Du visited Gu Changqing’s cell, left him food and wine, and gave his name as Qin Dong when Gu asked.
• Chen Du returned daily for eleven days until Gu Changqing opened his eyes and asked what he wanted.
• Gu Changqing explained that he had lost hope after saving many people but being unable to prevent the Northern Border famine, and asked Chen Du to kill him.
• Chen Du refused to kill or force Gu Changqing to leave, telling him he could go whenever he wished.
• After several months, Old Zhou told Chen Du to accompany the staff as they opened the Divine Prison’s second and third levels.

Chen Du followed Old Zhou to the deepest part of the Divine Prison’s third level and executed Tu Wanshan, a Tenth Realm prisoner who recounted how he had turned from a physician and righteous cultivator into a mass murderer. The execution gave Chen Du two thousand years of Black Qi, which he chose to save, but Tu Wanshan’s story left him questioning whether his own choices had been right.

• Chen Du followed Old Zhou through the increasingly oppressive second and third levels of the Divine Prison, where the dense Dao Resonance made him anticipate stronger gains.
• Old Zhou introduced Tu Wanshan as a Tenth Realm, First Martial Law Realm prisoner sentenced to death for slaughtering three cities.
• Tu Wanshan told Chen Du how his family’s ruin and his revenge led him from medicine and the righteous path to demonic cultivation and mass murder.
• Chen Du beheaded Tu Wanshan and gained an estimated two thousand years of Black Qi, which he decided to keep for future use.
• Back in his stone room, Chen Du compared Tu Wanshan’s path with Gu Changqing’s and questioned whether his own choices had been right.

Chen Du used a thousand years of insight and a Ninth Tier pill to raise his Soul Devouring Law to the fifth Domain layer and his Law of Anger to the fourth, then compiled two new Martial Canon volumes and created a powerful combined technique. Old Zhou summoned him to attend to a new prisoner, whom Chen Du found in an unusually comfortable cell.

• Chen Du absorbed a predecessor’s thousand years of insight into the Soul Devouring Law and used a Ninth Tier pill to advance it to the fifth Domain layer and the Law of Anger to the fourth.
• Chen Du reviewed his progress across several laws and recognized that he still had a long way to go before reaching the Tenth Realm.
• Chen Du completed the Martial Canon: Eighth-Tier Chapter and Martial Canon: Ninth-Tier Chapter by combining his insights into laws and cultivation techniques.
• Chen Du created a technique called Soul Devouring’s Wrath, which used anger to burn a divine soul and Soul Devouring to consume what remained.
• Old Zhou brought Chen Du to meet a new prisoner, a plump middle-aged man sitting angrily in a lavishly furnished cell.

Chen Du learned of Prince Duan Zhao Xuan’s crimes and the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty’s corruption, then secretly cultivated on the Divine Prison’s third level. There, he obtained a Tenth-Tier technique containing a Lower First-Level Law and looked toward exploring deeper levels.

• Chen Du heard that Prince Duan Zhao Xuan had plotted rebellion but was given luxurious quarters and would likely be released, and he memorized the prince’s cell location.
• Old Zhou told Chen Du that Chancellor Wei Changgeng dominated the court, sold offices, and diverted relief and construction funds while silencing those who opposed him.
• Chen Du tested Soul Devouring’s Wrath during a night patrol, and Old Zhou later entrusted him with the keys to the Divine Prison’s third level.
• Chen Du went alone to an abandoned cavern on the third level and used Become a Saint on the Spot and The World as a Book to condense a new technique.
• Chen Du obtained the Tenth-Tier Netherworld Prison Soul Devouring Spirit Suppression Scripture, which fused six Lower Second-Level Laws into a Lower First-Level Law.

Over decades in the Divine Prison, Chen Du accumulated nearly 300,000 years of Qi, took on more of Old Zhou’s duties, and secretly freed Gu Changqing instead of executing him. The chapter ended with Old Zhou dying after a long decline.

• Chen Du spent three years executing prisoners and accumulated approximately 290,000 years of White Qi and 8,900 years of Black Qi.
• Old Zhou grew frail and handed Chen Du the keys to more areas of the third level.
• When Gu Changqing’s execution order arrived, Chen Du knocked him unconscious, smuggled him out of the Divine Prison, and sent him south with supplies and money.
• Gu Changqing thanked Chen Du, who gained six hundred years of White Qi for sparing him.
• Thirty years later, Chen Du found Old Zhou dead and covered him with a blanket, placing his tobacco pipe beside him.

After decades as a jailer in the Divine Prison, Chen Du combined ten-thousand-year law insights with a Tenth Tier divine sword and broke through to the Tenth Realm. He returned to his patrol, ready to face the stronger prisoners deeper in the eighteen-level prison.

• Chen Du and the other jailers buried Old Zhou on a sunny slope behind the Divine Prison.
• After accumulating execution rewards over thirty years, Chen Du used Heaven's Way's Gift to gain ten-thousand-year law insights and a Tenth Tier divine sword.
• Chen Du used Divine Revelation Reading to merge six laws into the Lower First-Level Netherworld Prison Soul Devouring Spirit Suppression Law and reach the First Martial Law Realm.
• Chen Du's breakthrough aura briefly alarmed a fourth-level guardian, who could not trace its source and assumed a senior had advanced.
• Chen Du returned to Old Zhou's stone house, reflected on the talents that had enabled his breakthrough, and set out to patrol toward the deeper levels.

Chen Du took charge of the fourth and fifth prison levels, where he secretly assessed the powerful prisoners and Divine Prison Bureau wardens. When Demon Spirit Sect spy Li Han tried to seize his soul, Chen Du’s overwhelming power shattered the technique and left Li Han gravely injured.

• Chen Du volunteered to transfer to the fourth and fifth levels, then led two frightened young jailers into the gloomy fourth level and surveyed its tenth-realm prisoners.
• Chen Du worked quietly on the lower levels while secretly monitoring the wardens, and he noticed Li Han watching him suspiciously.
• Li Han, a Demon Spirit Sect spy, decided to turn Chen Du into a puppet to gain eyes in the prison’s upper levels.
• Li Han followed Chen Du on the stone steps and attacked him with the Soul-Seizing Secret Art.
• Chen Du’s power destroyed Li Han’s soul technique, and Li Han collapsed with severe soul damage as Chen Du turned to face him.

Chen Du learned that the Demon Spirit Sect had infiltrated the Divine Prison Bureau to rescue prisoners held in its depths, then left the prison as bait for the forces watching him. When more than a dozen attackers struck, an unseen power erased them, leaving the Ninth Realm commander to fear that he had unleashed someone extraordinary.

• Chen Du secretly crushed Li Han’s soul with law suppression, and the Ninth Realm commander arrested the babbling spy without discovering who had harmed him.
• The interrogation revealed that Li Han had mapped the Divine Prison for the Demon Spirit Sect, which planned to free followers of demonic path figures imprisoned deep inside.
• Chen Du considered the danger posed by the many forces interested in the prison and obtained leave to visit his family.
• The Divine Prison Bureau’s Ninth Realm commander followed Chen Du, using him as bait while other forces trailed him from the woods, rocks, and road.
• More than a dozen demonic path, demonic beast, and other cultivators attacked Chen Du, but a terrifying pressure ground them to dust.
• The commander found Chen Du unconscious and the attackers’ remains gone, then feared the unknown power behind the attack.

After executing Helian Feng, Chen Du learned the Calamity Light law and developed Soul Devouring's Wrath into its third layer, then spent twenty years cultivating in the Divine Prison. The chapter ends as he begins working through the law of anger.

• Chen Du executed Helian Feng, a Tenth Realm prisoner who had once led the Helian Family and fought the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty.
• Chen Du used the fifth layer's accumulated Dao resonance to create the Supreme Void Netherworld Prison Calamity Light Scripture and began comprehending its Calamity Light law.
• Chen Du combined his laws to develop Soul Devouring's Wrath into its second layer, Heaven-Splitting, and then its third layer, Return to the Void.
• Over the next twenty years, Chen Du continued patrolling, executing prisoners, supervising young jailers, and cultivating, accumulating more than three million white qi and over a hundred thousand black qi.
• Chen Du began working through the law of anger.

Chen Du advanced his laws and perfected the fourth layer of Soul Devouring's Wrath before learning that Wei Changgeng had seized power in the Heavenly Dragon Divine Dynasty and begun purging his enemies. As the Divine Prison's jailers discussed the killings, Chen Du returned to studying the Law of Calamity Light, preparing for the chaos he expected to come.

• Chen Du raised the Law of Anger to the ninth-level domain, cultivated the Netherworld Prison Soul-Devouring Spirit-Suppressing Law to the first-level domain, and deduced Soul Devouring's Wrath to its fourth layer, Divine Fall.
• Chen Du continued studying the Law of Calamity Light and advanced it to the first-level domain several months later.
• Chen Du read a court bulletin reporting that Wei Changgeng had killed Emperor Zhao Long, enthroned eight-year-old Zhao Huan, and purged members of the Zhao Clan in the Capital.
• Divine Prison jailers discussed Wei Changgeng's executions and the safety of their workplace, while Chen Du listened and remembered the victims.
• Chen Du returned to his stone room and continued studying the Law of Calamity Light so he would be better prepared for the coming chaos.

The Divine Prison filled with officials and military officers accused in Wei Changgeng’s purges, including Prince Duan Zhao Xuan, whom Chen Du treated as an ordinary prisoner. When nearly a hundred more prisoners arrived, Chen Du noticed that several lacked Suppression Marks and wore fake shackles.

• Officials and officers accused in the Shen Du treason case were crowded into the Divine Prison, where some protested their innocence.
• Imperial guards brought Prince Duan Zhao Xuan into the prison, and he recognized Chen Du and demanded to be released.
• Chen Du reminded Zhao Xuan that he was only a prisoner now, then left him to curse behind the bars.
• Days later, nearly a hundred prisoners arrived at once, and Chen Du used his Spiritual Power to inspect them.
• Chen Du spotted seven or eight prisoners without Suppression Marks whose shackles were made of ordinary refined iron.

Chen Du stopped a demonic cultivator from exploiting a breach in the Divine Prison and killing the jailers. After the commander sealed the entrance, Chen Du secretly gained thirty thousand years of white qi.

• Chen Du recognized that several prisoners had disguised themselves and suspected they had infiltrated the Divine Prison.
• Three prisoners self-detonated at the entrance, disrupting the prison’s suppressive power and allowing a Late Stage Tenth Realm demonic cultivator to charge inside.
• The demonic cultivator began attacking cells while Chen Du realized the intruder’s plan could trigger a chain reaction across the prison’s floors.
• Chen Du used Soul Devouring's Wrath, fourth layer, to destroy the demonic cultivator before he could continue his rampage.
• The commander found the intruder reduced to bloody mist, ordered the entrance sealed, and began checking everyone again.
• Chen Du helped clean the corridor and secretly received thirty thousand years of white qi.

Chen Du used ten thousand years of insights to advance his laws and Soul Devouring's Wrath, then spent decades cultivating in the Divine Prison while concealing his strength. After Wei Changgeng fell and Zhao Zheng seized the throne, political purges filled the prison with new inmates, giving Chen Du another hunting ground as he approached the Eleventh Realm.

• Chen Du absorbed insights into the Netherworld Prison Soul-Devouring Spirit-Suppressing Law and the Calamity Light Law, reaching the sixth and fourth levels and creating the first-level Wrath Devouring Law.
• Chen Du combined four laws into the fifth layer of Soul Devouring's Wrath, powerful enough to shatter the body, soul, and laws of a Tenth Realm Peak Stage opponent.
• Over nearly a hundred years, Chen Du secretly reached the Tenth Realm Peak Stage, killed Zhao Xuan by poisoning his meals, and earned access to the Divine Prison's eighth floor.
• Jing Prince Zhao Zheng marched south, Wei Changgeng's forces collapsed, and Wei Changgeng died by poisoned wine after being surrounded in his residence.
• Zhao Zheng took control of the Capital, purged Wei Changgeng's followers, and moved against the vassal rulers, plunging the realm into chaos.
• The Divine Prison filled with Wei Changgeng's former subordinates and other officials, while Chen Du continued his work and looked toward the Eleventh Realm.