Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo and Li Mengxue arrived at Great Xia Academy with Liu Xuanyuan’s help and settled into a private villa with a powerful Cultivation Chamber. Chen Mo received Zhang Wuji’s token and explored the academy’s resources, planning to study its Cultivation Methods and martial skills.

• Liu Xuanyuan guided Chen Mo’s and Li Mengxue’s families around Great Xia City for three days before Great Xia Academy began.
• Liu Xuanyuan drove Chen Mo and Li Mengxue to the academy and brought them to a villa with a high-Spiritual-Energy Cultivation Chamber.
• Liu Xuanyuan gave Chen Mo Zhang Wuji’s personal token, which let him access the academy’s cultivation facilities and Scripture Repository.
• Chen Mo toured Great Xia Academy and learned how students earned credits through missions, tests, and gathering resources in Abyss Rifts.
• Chen Mo used Zhang Wuji’s token to log into the academy’s official website and browse Cultivation Methods and martial skills.

After a month at Great Xia Academy, Chen Mo found that his cultivation and research progress had slowed, so he decided to leave and hunt Fierce Beasts for resources. He returned to the Chen Family Villa and proposed a family outing, while Meng Xue and Liu Xuanyuan remained in seclusion.

• Chen Mo closed the Scripture Repository exchange page after running out of credits and decided to leave the Academy.
• Chen Mo reviewed his System Panel, noting his improved Breathing Technique and blade technique, his healed soul injury, and the difficulty of advancing his perfected Space Law.
• Chen Mo left the Cultivation Chamber without disturbing Meng Xue or Liu Xuanyuan, who were still in seclusion.
• Chen Mo returned to the Chen Family Villa and found Mother Chen taking half a day off after a month of cultivation.
• Chen Mo suggested that the family go out for fun the next day, and Mother Chen agreed, saying they could invite Uncle and Auntie if Meng Xue remained in seclusion.

Chen Mo prepared to leave Great Xia City to gather cultivation resources, then accepted Zhang Wuji’s mission to investigate an unexplored Abyss Rift. He reached the remote area by spaceship and approached cautiously, unsure what dangers awaited inside.

• Chen Mo told his family he planned to leave for an Abyss Rift, and Chen Wan'er cried before accepting his decision and asking him to return safely.
• After spending two more days with his family, Chen Mo said goodbye and left Great Xia City.
• At the Teleportation Array, Chen Mo received Zhang Wuji’s offer to take a well-paid Great Xia Academy mission and agreed.
• Chen Mo read that an unknown Abyss Rift northwest of Great Xia Academy contained King Grade Fierce Beasts and was recommended for Martial Emperors of Rank Seven or above, or a Martial Saint.
• Chen Mo chose to investigate the Rift, traveled by spaceship for three hours, and stopped short of the destination to assess the situation cautiously.

Chen Mo investigated a strange Abyss Rift whose blood-maddened Fierce Beasts fought without reason and carried violent energy. He watched a five-person Great Xia Academy team kill two King Grade Fierce Beasts and begin testing the area, then decided to follow them into the Rift.

• Chen Mo found that his Spiritual Perception could not penetrate the blackish-purple Vortex Gate and saw Fierce Beasts emerging in a frenzy, slaughtering and devouring one another.
• Chen Mo traveled through Void Space to approach the Rift and watched two King Grade Fierce Beasts emerge and fight.
• Chen Mo sensed five young Martial Emperors from Great Xia Academy approaching and stayed hidden as they engaged the two King Grade Fierce Beasts.
• The five Academy members coordinated their attacks and killed the King Grade Fierce Beasts, then discovered that the creatures' Beast Cores and meat contained strange, violent energy.
• The Academy team collected samples and used instruments to test the area while Chen Mo decided to follow them into the Abyss Rift.

Chen Mo entered the Abyss Rift unseen, discovered an altar emitting a mind-corrupting aura, and secretly saved the captain from its effects. After the captain escaped, Chen Mo closed the Vortex Gate and began analyzing the altar, leaving the captain shocked to find the gate had vanished.

• The captain insisted on entering the Vortex Gate first, and Chen Mo secretly marked him and the four team members with Spiritual Marks.
• Chen Mo passed through the gate unseen and sensed four unusual locations, then investigated the nearest one and found an altar with a blood-red and black Crystal Ball.
• The altar’s aura drove the captain toward a frenzy as Fierce Beasts surrounded him, so Chen Mo used Space Law to shield him from the aura.
• The captain regained his senses and escaped to the gate while Chen Mo monitored him, then Chen Mo closed the Vortex Gate and examined the altar’s array.
• The captain returned to his team and urged them to report the danger, but a team member pointed out that the Vortex Gate had vanished.

Chen Mo discovered that an ominous aura was leaking from a damaged sealing formation beneath an Altar in the Abyss Rift. When two energy-bodied shadows arrived to inspect the formation, he followed them and began considering a technological alternative to creating a clone.

• The captain realized the Vortex Gate had vanished and sent his four team members to search within a ten-kilometer radius.
• Chen Mo traced the Altar’s energy to a powerful underground sealing formation and found that a small tear was releasing the aura that drove the fierce beasts berserk.
• Chen Mo prepared to repair the formation, but stopped when two energy-bodied shadows appeared and inspected it at their master’s command.
• Chen Mo followed the shadows through Void Space, suspecting their master was the Beast God.
• Chen Mo recalled that the Beast God’s cruel, incomplete clone method was unusable and decided he could instead build a robot and control it with his Spiritual Imprint.

Chen Mo tracked two black shadows through the Abyss Rift and discovered that energy attacks could harm them. When their robed Master arrived through a teleportation array, Chen Mo sprang his prepared ambush and restrained all three.

• Chen Mo followed the two black shadows to the exit and learned that its teleportation gate had disappeared.
• Chen Mo attacked the shadows with Golden Spheres and found that energy attacks injured them.
• Chen Mo continued bombarding the weakened shadows from within Void Space as they fled deeper into the Abyss Rift.
• The two shadows reached a Space Teleportation Array, and their black-robed Master appeared with a staff bearing a blood-red sphere.
• Chen Mo made his move and restrained the two shadows and their Master before the shadows could report what had happened.

Chen Mo destroyed the fox monster’s servants and waited in hiding for their master to appear. The fox monster created Black Baleful Intent, a First-rank Martial Emperor, and sent him through the Teleportation Array, while Chen Mo let him search the area and moved to study a sealing formation.

• Chen Mo shattered the space around the black shadows and black-robed man, absorbed their energy, and realized the black-robed man had been a clone.
• The fox monster realized its servants had been killed and suspected an ambush near the Teleportation Array.
• The fox monster summoned and fused black shadows, empowered the resulting figure, named him Black Baleful Intent, and ordered him to kill the humans beyond the array.
• Black Baleful Intent crossed the Teleportation Array and searched for the promised ambush, but Chen Mo saw through his concealment and remained hidden.
• Chen Mo left the area and began analyzing an underground sealing formation, hoping Black Baleful Intent would report that the area was safe and bring his master.

Chen Mo followed Black Baleful Intent from the Abyss Rift to its master’s palace and discovered that the fox-faced monster was behind the black shadows. The fox monster sent Black Baleful Intent back to guard the Rift’s three formations, which were vital to its plan.

• Black Baleful Intent searched the Abyss Rift, found no one, and returned through the Teleportation Array while Chen Mo followed unseen in Void Space.
• Black Baleful Intent slapped another black shadow that questioned him, then continued toward the palace with Chen Mo close behind.
• Chen Mo entered the palace through its formation nodes and identified a fox-faced, winged monster as Black Baleful Intent’s master.
• Black Baleful Intent reported finding no one in the Rift, and the fox monster ordered him to return, open a teleportation gate, and eliminate anyone who entered.

Chen Mo secretly followed Black Heart as the fox monster investigated his unease and contacted Blood Demon for advice. Black Heart arranged to meet her in two hours to share the gains from Lord Beast God's plan, while Chen Mo continued watching him.

• Black Heart left the palace to investigate his sense that someone was watching him, and Chen Mo followed unseen.
• Black Heart contacted Blood Demon and asked how someone could evade a Martial Saint's senses.
• Blood Demon suggested that the watcher might be hiding in Void Space, but Black Heart persuaded her to join his plan by offering half the gains.
• Blood Demon agreed to meet Black Heart in two hours and asked him to bring his demonic soldiers.
• Black Heart returned to the palace, and Chen Mo tracked his movement through its spatial fluctuations.

Chen Mo killed Blackheart, stripped the Beast God's divine power from his soul, and searched his memories, uncovering Blackheart's long history of slaughter and a soul-manipulation technique. He sealed Blackheart's soul in a Space Stone and prepared to investigate the dangerous demon scythe before the Blood Demon arrived.

• Chen Mo found thousands of human specimens in Blackheart's palace and decided to kill him before the Blood Demon arrived.
• Chen Mo imprisoned Blackheart, destroyed his body, and struck his Sea of Consciousness with a spiritual sword, stopping him from self-destructing.
• Chen Mo imprisoned Blackheart's soul, stripped away the Beast God's divine power, and learned a method for planting Spiritual Marks before searching Blackheart's memories.
• Chen Mo discovered Blackheart had served the Abyss Church and slaughtered people for two hundred years, then found a soul-absorbing technique in his memories.
• Chen Mo sealed Blackheart's soul inside a Space Stone and turned his attention to the demon scythe as the Blood Demon's arrival drew near.

Chen Mo erased the magic scythe’s evil consciousness, plundered Black Heart Old Ghost’s inheritance, and prepared to meet Blood Demon in disguise. Blood Demon arrived with three thousand Grandmaster-level subordinates and claimed he could revive from a single drop of blood, complicating Chen Mo’s plan to deal with him.

• Chen Mo overcame the magic scythe’s attempts to corrupt him and erased its consciousness, reducing it from a Heaven-grade High-rank weapon to a Heaven-grade Mid-rank weapon.
• Chen Mo decided to forge a long saber and eventually refine the Human Emperor Flag using the souls of the Abyss Cultists.
• Chen Mo plundered Black Heart Old Ghost’s useful resources, destroyed the summoned black shadows, and gained enough cultivation materials to advance two or three minor realms.
• With ten minutes before Blood Demon’s arrival, Chen Mo transformed into Black Heart Old Ghost and prepared for the encounter.
• Blood Demon arrived with three thousand Grandmaster-level subordinates, and Chen Mo learned that Blood Demon believed he could revive as long as a drop of blood remained.

Chen Mo killed the Blood Demon and his followers, destroyed the Blood Pool and Soul Locking Formation that enabled their revival, and eliminated the Blood Demon and Black Heart’s remaining companions. He returned to the Abyss Rift but decided to strengthen himself before confronting the bizarre beings sealed by its three formations.

• Chen Mo imprisoned the Blood Demon and his men, killed the Blood Demon’s forces, and sealed the souls of the Blood Demon and three powerful subordinates for later punishment.
• Chen Mo destroyed Black Heart’s palace and other buildings, then reinforced the three formations at the Abyss Rift.
• Chen Mo traveled to the Blood Demon’s lair, killed its millions of beastlike followers, and destroyed the revived blood people and their Blood Pool.
• Chen Mo looted the lair, studied and destroyed the Soul Locking Formation, then impersonated the Blood Demon and Black Heart to kill their three remaining companions.
• Chen Mo returned to the Abyss Rift and chose to use his looted resources to grow stronger before clearing out what the formations sealed.

Chen Mo sealed the Abyss Rift, used its Fierce Beasts and his spoils to strengthen himself, and advanced his laws and cultivation. He ended at the eighth rank of Martial Emperor with a Law Domain that greatly amplified his power.

• Chen Mo sealed the Abyss Rift’s exits and Teleportation Array, then killed the frenzied Fierce Beasts and collected their Beast Cores.
• Chen Mo spent his General Proficiency Points to raise Space Law to the Supreme Realm, develop Time Law, advance his Domain to a Major Accomplishment Law Domain, and perfect his blade technique.
• Chen Mo used Space-Time Law to purify and absorb his Beast Cores and heavenly treasures, breaking through seven times to reach the eighth rank of Martial Emperor.
• Chen Mo checked his System Panel and found that his Law Domain amplified his Space Law and helped him draw upon other laws, while his Space Law’s progress now depended on his comprehension of Time Law.

After breaking through, Chen Mo dismantled the first formation and discovered that it had sealed a mysterious thumb bone surrounded by eerie energy. He absorbed the energy’s useful components but stopped studying the bone’s evil-god script, wary that its owner might still be alive and notice him.

• Chen Mo used the Space Law and Time Law to destroy the first formation, and a bone surrounded by black energy attacked him before he restrained it with Space Imprisonment.
• Chen Mo separated the black energy into three kinds of particles, discovering that the ghostlike particles could strengthen mental power but might cause mental disorder when absorbed in the wrong proportions.
• Chen Mo broke down and recombined the energy into a form he could safely absorb, gaining enough power to nearly break through again.
• Chen Mo examined the exposed thumb bone and recognized its patterns as Divine Script associated with an evil god.
• Chen Mo’s study of the script stirred violent impulses and warned him of danger, so he stopped before the bone’s possible owner could notice him.
• Chen Mo extracted and absorbed some of the bone’s blood-red power, then banished its remaining divine power into the Void Space.

Chen Mo broke through to the ninth-grade Martial Emperor realm, then released and subdued a remnant will of a Gods and Devils. After searching its soul, he discovered that the three sealed remains could reunite and revive the being at Martial Venerable strength.

• Chen Mo sealed the bone from the first formation and absorbed its residual energy, breaking through to the ninth-grade Martial Emperor realm.
• Chen Mo destroyed the second formation, imprisoned the remnant will that emerged, and absorbed most of its energy.
• The remnant will offered to become Chen Mo's servant, but Chen Mo used Soul Searching instead of accepting its contract.
• Chen Mo searched the remnant will's memories and learned that the bone, the remnant will, and the heart sealed by the third formation belonged to the same Gods and Devils.
• Chen Mo discovered that unsealing all three remains would revive the Gods and Devils with at least Martial Venerable strength.

Chen Mo absorbed the lingering God or Devil remnant and broke through to Telekinetic Martial Saint by fusing his spiritual power with Space Law. After an attempt to create a Small World injured his Middle Dantian, he entered the third formation to prepare to absorb the God or Devil heart sealed there.

• Chen Mo refined the remnant's soul energy, reached six million spiritual power, and realized he needed to fuse it with Space Law to break through.
• Chen Mo merged the Space Law seed into his Dharma manifestation and became a Telekinetic Martial Saint, with ten million spiritual power and greatly enhanced spatial abilities.
• Chen Mo tried to create a Small World in his Middle Dantian, but stopped when his body cracked it and injured him.
• Chen Mo entered the third formation through a spatial Rift and reinforced its seals with additional formations and Space Barriers.
• Chen Mo reached the center of the formation, where a rune-bound black box containing the God or Devil heart remained sealed.

Chen Mo cautiously absorbed the black mist surrounding a sealed bronze box inside the Abyss Rift. Outside, Zhang Wuji suspected Chen Mo was trapped in the vanished rift and called Situ Kong for help locating and reopening it.

• Chen Mo identified the bronze box’s sealing runes and slowly absorbed its black mist without disturbing the chains or formation.
• Zhang Wuji questioned Xiao Li and the other rescued students, then suspected Chen Mo had entered the Abyss Rift after failing to contact him.
• Zhang Wuji sent the five students back and searched the area for the vanished entrance.
• Zhang Wuji called Situ Kong and asked him to use his Space Law to find an opening and check whether Chen Mo was inside.
• Situ Kong scolded Zhang Wuji and said he was coming, while Zhang Wuji continued searching the area inch by inch.

Situ Kong found the hidden entrance to the Abyss Rift and discovered it was sealed by advanced formations, prompting Zhang Wuji to call Li Kaishan for help. Inside the rift, Chen Mo absorbed energy from the bronze box until its captive stopped releasing black mist, and he decided it was only pretending to be dormant.

• Zhang Wuji searched for the entrance until Situ Kong arrived and began sensing the area with Space Law.
• Situ Kong found the hidden entrance and realized advanced formations sealed it from within.
• Situ Kong asked Zhang Wuji to contact Formation Martial Saint Li Kaishan, who agreed to come help undo the formations.
• Chen Mo provoked the bronze box's captive into releasing black mist and absorbed enough energy to raise his Dantian's True Essence to sixty percent.
• The captive stopped releasing black mist, but Chen Mo sensed it was pretending to be dormant and believed the box still held more energy.

Chen Mo opened a small gap in the sealing formation and began absorbing the black qi from the conscious being trapped inside the bronze box. The being tried to tempt and then attack him, but Chen Mo deceived its perception and continued weakening it without opening the box.

• Chen Mo tested the bronze box, then opened a small gap in its sealing formation and absorbed the black qi that escaped.
• The being inside called itself a great God or Devil and offered Chen Mo power, but he saw through its temptation and mocked it.
• The God or Devil released more black qi in anger, while Chen Mo absorbed over half of it and discovered it was not assimilating him.
• The God or Devil sent out its Spiritual Perception, and Chen Mo misled it with a small space before severing its perception and causing it pain.
• The God or Devil violently rammed the gap and poured out more black qi, but Chen Mo kept absorbing it rather than opening the box.