Chapter Summaries

After ending his seclusion, Chen Mo reunited with his family and discussed his upcoming journey and their plans to train in the Abyss Rifts. He went to Li Mengxue’s villa to spend time with her while their mothers discussed preparations.

• Chen Mo reunited with Chen Wan'er, praised her cultivation, and gave her a sweet medicinal pill.
• Chen Mo told his parents he would not return to Great Xia Academy with them because Elder Guo had assigned him matters to handle on a long trip.
• Father Chen and Mother Chen said they planned to team up with Li Yuntao’s family and train in the Abyss Rifts after returning to Great Xia City.
• Father Chen hurried off to discuss preparations with Li Yuntao, eager to test his Martial King strength.
• Chen Mo went with Mother Chen and Chen Wan'er to Li Mengxue’s villa, where their mothers left the couple alone.

Chen Mo arrived in Tianyang City to hunt down hidden threats and discovered seven criminal dens, where he rescued captives and gathered evidence by extracting the criminals' souls. After learning that Zhang Wuji had been ambushed but survived, Chen Mo vowed to settle the debt when he reached the Outer Realm and promised the wronged souls he would bring their tormentors to justice.

• Chen Mo left Dragon Capital alone and traveled to Tianyang City, where Elder Guo informed him that Zhang Wuji had been gravely injured in an ambush but would return alive.
• Chen Mo suspected the Abyss Church and foreign countries had retaliated for his recent killings, and he asked Elder Guo to notify him when Zhang Wuji returned.
• Chen Mo searched Tianyang City with his Spiritual Perception and found seven underground criminal dens, including two near the city center.
• Chen Mo saved a captive, pulled more than a thousand criminals' souls into the Human Emperor Flag, and moved their corpses and the other captives into his dantian Small World.
• Chen Mo drew the wronged souls' resentment into the Human Emperor Flag and promised to capture everyone responsible and avenge them.

After uncovering the seven criminal dens’ connection to the Wang Family and their extensive crimes, Chen Mo captured thousands of those involved and rescued the victims. With Elder Guo arranging the cleanup, Chen Mo prepared to judge the criminals’ souls in the Human Emperor Flag.

• Chen Mo searched the criminals’ souls, discovered that the seven dens formed one operation, destroyed their basements, and sent evidence to Elder Guo.
• Chen Mo captured Wang Tianba, learned of his crimes and accomplices, then seized the Wang Family members and rescued people held in its residence.
• Elder Guo authorized Chen Mo to capture everyone involved, and Chen Mo arrested several thousand members of Lineages, officials, and gangs.
• Chen Mo investigated Tianyang City’s remaining officials, treated the rescued victims, and handed them over with the criminals’ corpses to the city’s person in charge.
• Chen Mo prepared to judge the sinful souls held in the Human Emperor Flag.

Chen Mo restored the wronged souls' sanity and strength, then gave them the chance to avenge themselves on the criminals who had killed them. He kept the criminals' souls alive whenever they neared destruction, leaving them trapped in endless torment as the wronged souls continued their revenge.

• Chen Mo used the Laws of Justice and Darkness to restore the wronged souls' sanity and empower them.
• Chen Mo told the wronged souls that their captured enemies were waiting and gave them permission to take revenge.
• The wronged souls tore at the chained criminals' souls while the criminals begged for mercy.
• Some criminals cursed the wronged souls and accused Chen Mo of using them to ease his conscience, but Chen Mo blocked their words from his own ears.
• Chen Mo repeatedly restored criminals' souls when they were close to being extinguished, prompting them to curse him and beg to die.

Chen Mo tracked the Wang Family remnants after arresting their criminal relatives in Tianyang City. He found Wang Wenqing negotiating with the Abyss Church over blood-based Immortal Brew, then confronted the group in the Abyss Rift.

• Chen Mo finished arranging the arrests and compensation for the victims, kept several treasures, and left Tianyang City.
• Chen Mo used a bloodline tracking law to locate Wang Family members, including several hiding in Tianyang City's Abyss Rift.
• Wang Wenqing and his clansmen met Helmsman Liang, who served them food made from Martial Artists and offered them Immortal Brew brewed with a Grandmaster's blood essence.
• Helmsman Liang proposed obtaining a Martial King's blood essence to make stronger Immortal Brew, and Wang Wenqing agreed to cooperate in exchange for a share.
• Chen Mo emerged through a spatial rift at their table, and Wang Wenqing, Helmsman Liang, and the others drew their weapons.

Chen Mo discovered that Wang Wenqing, Helmsman Liang, and their allies had tortured and eaten more than two thousand Martial Artists in collusion with the Abyss Church. He began torturing them and summoned their victims’ wronged souls with the Human Emperor Flag.

• Chen Mo suppressed the banquet guests with his Momentum and sealed their mouths when they begged for mercy.
• Chen Mo searched their memories and learned that Wang Wenqing and the others had preyed on Martial Artists, killing, eating, and experimenting on them.
• Wang Wenqing invoked the Wang Family’s power, while Helmsman Liang threatened Chen Mo with the Azure Sky Martial Saint’s backing.
• Chen Mo used Space Law to cut apart the two men and vowed to seek out the Azure Sky Martial Saint after dealing with them.
• Chen Mo summoned the victims’ wronged souls, and black mist from throughout the Abyss Church stronghold gathered toward the Human Emperor Flag.

Chen Mo summoned the wronged souls and let them take revenge on the beasts who had harmed them. He kept the beasts alive and helpless as the souls tortured them, leaving them trapped in unendurable pain.

• Chen Mo fused the wronged souls into a mass of black mist, which thanked him for summoning them and asked to take revenge.
• Chen Mo released the wronged souls to attack the helpless beasts and used the Space Law to force the beasts to swallow their own filth.
• The wronged souls scratched the beasts, while Chen Mo stopped their wounds from bleeding and prevented them from healing.
• Chen Mo increased the beastmen’s nerve sensitivity tenfold and confined them in a small space as they writhed in pain.
• Chen Mo revived the beasts when they fainted and sealed those who tried to kill themselves, while the wronged souls celebrated their revenge.

Chen Mo healed the 137 survivors of the Abyss Church’s torture, reported the Azure Sky Martial Saint, and destroyed the church’s stronghold. After handing the victims over to Tianyang City’s authorities, he traveled to another city to pursue the remaining Wang Family members.

• Chen Mo found 137 survivors, punished the captured beasts, and brought the victims into his Dantian Small World.
• Chen Mo healed the victims’ injuries, restored missing body parts, soothed their psychological trauma, and improved their martial arts aptitude.
• Chen Mo asked Elder Guo to alert the Outer Realm’s experts and issue a bounty for the Azure Sky Martial Saint.
• Chen Mo destroyed the Abyss Church’s stronghold and cleared dangerous or promising Fierce Beasts from the nearby Abyss Rifts.
• Chen Mo returned the victims to Tianyang City’s authorities, declined the Tianyang City Lord’s invitation, and traveled to another city by following the Wang Family members’ markings.

Chen Mo traveled across Great Xia Nation, using Soul Searching to uncover and eliminate criminals, traitors, and Abyss Cultists while stopping a citywide sacrifice and a summoning ritual. After more than a month, he completed the cleanup and gained treasures and secrets from those he captured.

• Chen Mo reached Fuming City, searched two Wang Family members' souls, and captured the criminals and Abyss Cultists implicated in their memories.
• Chen Mo cleared out more than ten cities in a day, suppressing resistance and killing two Martial Saints who had advanced through Abyss Church methods.
• Chen Mo stopped a city lord and the Abyss Church from sacrificing an entire city to summon the Southern Barbarian King.
• Chen Mo used the Space-Time Law to destroy a summoning formation in the Southern Abyss Rift and save its innocent victims.
• Chen Mo spent more than a month clearing criminals, traitors, and Abyss Cultists across Great Xia Nation, gaining treasures and learning secrets along the way.

The Beast God learned that the Space Passage to the Great Xia Nation had been destroyed and that most Abyss Church personnel there were unreachable. Hungry after awakening, he ordered Black Eagle to arrange Summoning Formations so his avatar could descend and consume at least 50 million people, while Black Eagle chose the Country of India for his own plans.

• The Beast God summoned Black Eagle and learned that the Space Passage to the Great Xia Nation had been destroyed and 70% of the Abyss Church's core personnel there could no longer be contacted.
• The Beast God concluded that a Martial God of the Great Xia Nation had destroyed the passage and told Black Eagle not to pursue the matter.
• The Beast God ordered Black Eagle to arrange Summoning Formations in human kingdoms and secure the flesh and blood of at least 50 million people for his feeding.
• Black Eagle sent Hunter Eagle King and other subordinates to contact Abyss Church members and establish Summoning Formations in multiple countries.
• Black Eagle decided not to enter the Great Xia Nation and studied a map before choosing the Country of India for his own plan.

After purging the Abyss Cultists and their collaborators from Great Xia, Chen Mo upgraded the Human Emperor Flag and considered how to provide it with a Spirit of the Artifact. He chose not to bind the vengeful souls to the flag, leaving them in his Dantian Small World until he could learn about reincarnation.

• Chen Mo finished his month-long sweep of Great Xia, capturing irredeemable criminals and collaborators for punishment in the Human Emperor Flag.
• Chen Mo moved the prisoners and souls into his Dantian Small World, then fused the Human Emperor Flag with precious materials to raise it to a mid-rank Divine Artifact.
• Chen Mo asked the vengeful souls to merge into a single Spirit of the Artifact, and many volunteered.
• Chen Mo worried that making the vengeful souls part of the flag would prevent them from reincarnating, so he decided to let them choose after he learned more about reincarnation.
• Chen Mo returned the criminals to the Human Emperor Flag, where the lightning-and-fire punishment continued under the vengeful souls' watch.

After completing the Human Emperor Flag’s refinement, Chen Mo discovered it had awakened a consciousness and nurtured it into a Spirit of the Artifact. The flag became a high-grade Divine Artifact, chose the name Little Emperor, and explained the powers it could use independently.

• Chen Mo sensed that the newly refined Human Emperor Flag had developed a faint consciousness and carefully communicated with it.
• Chen Mo gave the flag a portion of his soul to nourish its consciousness, which grew into a Spirit of the Artifact and advanced the flag into a high-grade Divine Artifact.
• The Spirit of the Artifact thanked Chen Mo and promised to protect him, and Chen Mo named it Little Emperor.
• Little Emperor explained that it could use only part of its powers on its own, including siphoning souls up to Martial King level and manipulating time within the flag.
• Chen Mo felt reassured by Little Emperor’s limits but remained cautious about the Human Emperor Flag’s potentially dangerous soul-siphoning abilities.

After the Human Emperor Flag evolved, Chen Mo discovered its space had expanded to a hundred kilometers, but a new lightning tribulation forced him to face it alongside Little Emperor. The eighth strike badly damaged the flag and injured Chen Mo, leaving them to recover before the final tribulation.

• Little Emperor told Chen Mo that the Human Emperor Flag's space now extended a hundred kilometers in every direction, and Chen Mo absorbed the flag into his body.
• As Chen Mo tried to return home, he realized a lightning tribulation had locked onto him and moved to a desolate mountain range with Little Emperor.
• Chen Mo and Little Emperor prepared to face the tribulation, with Chen Mo using the Pangu Visualization Method to restore his soul and promising to repair the flag.
• Little Emperor endured the first seven lightning strikes while Chen Mo repaired damage to the Human Emperor Flag with True Essence and Laws.
• The eighth strike carried the Destruction Law, severely damaging the flag and injuring Little Emperor and Chen Mo.
• The Human Emperor Flag absorbed Chen Mo's blood and partially recovered, and Chen Mo told Little Emperor to prepare for the final lightning strike.

Chen Mo and the Human Emperor Flag faced the ninth lightning tribulation, and Chen Mo devised a way to channel its lightning into the ground. The plan kept them alive, but both were badly damaged, and Little Emperor fell into slumber.

• Little Emperor urged Chen Mo to escape and flew away from him, but Chen Mo trapped the Human Emperor Flag with the Space Law and explained his lightning-rod plan.
• Little Emperor lengthened the Human Emperor Flag’s pole and drove it into the ground while Chen Mo arranged a formation to guide the lightning underground.
• The ninth lightning bolt shattered the Human Emperor Flag’s barrier and struck both the flag and Chen Mo as the tribulation descended.
• Chen Mo activated the formation and diverted most of the lightning into the ground, surviving with severe injuries while the Human Emperor Flag endured the strike.
• Little Emperor weakly told Chen Mo it was fine, then fell into slumber as the flag shrank; Chen Mo could not move before it dropped to the ground.

After surviving a destructive lightning tribulation, Chen Mo hid underground and studied the lightning and Destruction Law while treating his injuries. He comprehended the Destruction Law and Lightning Law, absorbed the forces ravaging his body, and remained underground.

• Chen Mo discovered that the tribulation lightning had badly damaged his body, soul, and Human Emperor Flag, and that he could not heal while the Destruction Law remained inside him.
• Chen Mo used illusion formations and a short Space Shuttle to hide one hundred meters underground, then set up a Space Barrier and a gate to Void Space.
• Chen Mo isolated and broke down the lightning in his body, identified destruction particles, and studied how they destroyed other particles.
• After several hours of research, Chen Mo comprehended the Destruction Law and spent ten million General Proficiency Points to raise it to Minor Accomplishment.
• Chen Mo used his new understanding to absorb the lightning and Destruction Law in his body, and also comprehended the Lightning Law.

After surviving the lightning tribulation, Chen Mo comprehended the Lightning Law and Destruction Law, then recovered from his injuries in a hidden cave. He found that he had advanced by a minor realm and that the battered Human Emperor Flag and Little Emperor were recovering.

• Chen Mo raised both the Lightning Law and Destruction Law to Minor Accomplishment and reflected on how the lightning rods and formations had saved him from the final tribulation bolt.
• Chen Mo hid in a cave deep beneath a mountain, set up protective formations and Space Barriers, and spent three days healing without interruption.
• After recovering, Chen Mo discovered that absorbing lightning from himself and the Human Emperor Flag had raised him by a minor realm.
• Chen Mo examined the damaged Human Emperor Flag and learned from Little Emperor that it was recovering after the residual lightning had been absorbed.
• Chen Mo found that half the criminals imprisoned in the Human Emperor Flag had perished in the tribulation, while the wronged souls he had moved to his Small World had survived.

Chen Mo repaired one-fifth of the Human Emperor Flag with refined ores, restoring some of its strength while learning that its internal space still needed Space Stones. He ordered Little Emperor to extract the criminals’ souls and let the vengeful souls torment them without allowing them to die, then returned home.

• Chen Mo melted and refined his remaining ores, and Little Emperor absorbed the metal to repair one-fifth of its true body.
• Little Emperor said it could now wield one-third of its strength, but its internal space had shrunk to sixty percent and needed Space Stones.
• Chen Mo told Little Emperor to extract the criminals’ souls and send the vengeful souls to punish them, while keeping every soul alive.
• Little Emperor set an automatic program to prevent the criminals’ souls from dying and began to recover its energy.
• Chen Mo tore open a spatial Rift and went home.

Chen Mo returned home after more than a month away and reassured Mother Chen that his mission was complete. He left to pick up Wan'er, then asked Chen Ying to check whether his family had faced any danger.

• Chen Mo reunited with Mother Chen, who checked him for injuries and asked about his mission.
• Chen Mo told Mother Chen that his mission was finished and that he still needed to report to Elder Guo in the Dragon Capital.
• Mother Chen explained that the two families had formed a team to hunt Fierce Beasts in the Abyss Rift, while she stayed home to care for Wan'er.
• Mother Chen scolded Chen Mo for not contacting home, and he explained that his missions had required communications to be cut off.
• Mother Chen sent Chen Mo to pick up Wan'er, and he agreed to spend time with her after their month apart.
• Chen Mo entered Void Space and asked Chen Ying whether his parents and in-laws had encountered danger or been bullied by powerful experts.

Chen Mo reunited with Chen Ying, praised his protection of the family, and gave him insights into several Laws to strengthen him for future work. Chen Mo then spoke with Elder Guo about the nationwide purge and requested ores as his reward before waiting to pick up Chen Wan'er from kindergarten.

• Chen Ying reported that he had secretly protected Chen Mo's family, completed his cultivation-method switch, and reached strength comparable to his body's former peak.
• Chen Mo warned Chen Ying not to grow arrogant or reveal himself, then shared his insights into the Darkness, Lightning, and Destruction Laws.
• Chen Ying thanked Chen Mo and promised to improve his strength for the work Chen Mo would need him to do.
• Chen Mo called Elder Guo, confirmed he was back in Great Xia City, and agreed to visit Dragon Capital in a few days.
• Chen Mo requested ores from the National Treasury as his reward for the nationwide purge, then hurried to the kindergarten entrance as Chen Wan'er's school day ended.

Chen Mo returned after more than a month away and picked up his younger sister, Chen Wan'er, from school. They went home together, where Chen Wan'er eagerly joined their mother in the kitchen as dinner was being prepared.

• Chen Mo waited outside the school gate and sensed Chen Wan'er among the children leaving class.
• Chen Wan'er spotted Chen Mo, and he used Sound Transmission to tell her to follow her teacher rather than run out.
• After her teacher released her, Chen Wan'er rushed to Chen Mo, who hugged her and apologized for arriving late.
• Chen Mo carried Chen Wan'er home on foot after putting his car away because the school road was congested.
• Chen Wan'er hurried to the kitchen, where her mother had prepared dinner, and went to wash her hands.