Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei survived Si Di’s Heart Anomaly Realm attack and defeated the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan’s challenge, then returned to Aurora City with a fortune in spiritual materials. After his victory spread across the races, Weng Zongfang granted his request to study the clan’s remaining Emperor Venerable Legacies, with strict limits on cultivating other Subordinate Rules.

• Chen Fei withstood the Heart Anomaly Realm’s Power until Si Di vanished, lifting the Ice Corridor’s seals.
• Chen Fei collected dozens of Sixth Order High-grade Spiritual Materials and flew back to Aurora City, leaving Kou Fen before he could speak.
• Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou celebrated as Chen Fei’s victory over eight Dao Integration Realm cultivators raised the Human Race legion’s morale.
• News of Chen Fei’s feat spread through the Human Race’s cities and neighboring races, making his name widely known.
• Weng Zongfang gave Chen Fei the agreed spoils from Si Sheng’s death, and Chen Fei offered thirty-seven portions of spiritual material in exchange for Low-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Chen Fei requested access to the remaining Emperor Venerable Legacies, and Weng Zongfang granted permission to study them while warning him not to cultivate other Subordinate Rules before reaching the Peak Dao Integration Realm.

Chen Fei exchanged his spoils for spirit crystals and obtained the remaining fifty-two human Emperor Venerable legacies. After studying them, he began fusing them into the Desolate Universe God Splitting Sword, using the space rule as its foundation.

• Chen Fei gave Zhuo Mingyong his spiritual materials, Dao Artifacts, and other spoils to exchange for 2,370,000 low-grade spirit crystals.
• Zhuo Mingyong gave Chen Fei the remaining fifty-two Emperor Venerable legacies after confirming the human Emperor Venerables had approved his study of them.
• Chen Fei went to a cultivation chamber on Aurora Mountain instead of visiting Yuanchen Courtyard, then spent ten days reading all fifty-two legacies.
• Chen Fei began fusing the legacies into the Desolate Universe God Splitting Sword, choosing the space rule as the foundation.
• The fusion produced a new technique called the Desolate Universe God-Devouring Sword.

Chen Fei cultivated the newly created Desolate Universe God-Devouring Sword with a rule crystal, rapidly strengthening his cultivation and advancing to the peak of the early-stage Dao Integration Realm. As the Ice Clan, Abyss Clan, and their human collaborators waited for him to leave Aurora City so they could assassinate him, Chen Fei began breaking through to the mid-stage Dao Integration Realm.

• Chen Fei created the Desolate Universe God-Devouring Sword by combining twenty-four subordinate rules, giving his three divine abilities an essential enhancement and adding a God-Devouring characteristic to the God Slaying Sword.
• Chen Fei simplified the new method through the Desolate Universe God Splitting Sword, then used a rule crystal and his enhanced innate talent to accelerate his cultivation.
• The Ice Clan and Abyss Clan arranged assassination tasks through human traitors, who waited for Chen Fei to leave Aurora City while he cultivated undisturbed for twenty days.
• Chen Fei raised the Desolate Universe God-Devouring Sword to six-tenths of the Proficient Realm and increased his rule fragments from thirty to thirty-six, reaching the peak of the early-stage Dao Integration Realm.
• Chen Fei used the rule crystal to increase his power rule fragments from eighteen to twenty-six and began charging at the mid-stage Dao Integration Realm barrier.

Chen Fei broke through to the Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage and rapidly stabilized his cultivation, gaining Rule Fragments and improving his techniques. He fused his battle soldiers into nine Dao Integration Realm Early Stage soldiers, then merged them into himself, raising his Rule Fragment count to fifty-seven.

• Chen Fei merged his thirty-six Rule Fragments and expanded his Origin Point Space, completing most of his breakthrough to the Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage.
• Chen Fei used the insights from his breakthrough to stabilize his cultivation over three days, increasing his Rule Fragments to thirty-nine and improving his techniques.
• Chen Fei tested his strengthened divine abilities and fused twelve battle soldiers into one Dao Integration Realm Early Stage battle soldier.
• Chen Fei created nine Dao Integration Realm Early Stage battle soldiers and merged them into his true body, raising his Rule Fragment count to fifty-seven.

After two months of secluded cultivation, Chen Fei had greatly improved his techniques and physique while concealing his Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivation. The Wumeng Tribe then arrived in the Black Stone Domain, seized control, and ordered every race’s Dao Integration Realm cultivators to gather at its territory, leaving Chen Fei and the human race to prepare to go.

• Chen Fei used the Desolate Universe God-Devouring Sword’s forbidden technique, Godslaying, stored its sword light in the Space Grid, and healed from the backlash before continuing his cultivation.
• Over two months, Chen Fei advanced the Desolate Universe God-Devouring Sword into the Perfection Realm, increased his Rule Fragments and Power Rule fragments, and strengthened his physique to rival the Emperor Venerable Realm.
• Chen Fei concealed his true cultivation while the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan withdrew their armies from the human race’s four cities.
• The Wumeng Tribe arrived in the Black Stone Domain, occupied its central region, and exposed the Abyss Clan ancestor’s limited cultivation after its new Early Seventh Order Heaven Opening Realm expert challenged him.
• The Wumeng Tribe declared control over the Black Stone Domain and ordered all Dao Integration Realm cultivators to gather within ten days.
• Qin Yunfang told Chen Fei that the human race’s Dao Integration Realm cultivators would gather in Aurora City the next day and travel to the Wumeng Tribe together.

Chen Fei and the Human Race traveled with the Mountain Clan to Meng City after the Wumeng Tribe summoned every Dao Integration Realm cultivator in the Black Stone Domain. On the tenth day, nine figures appeared above the gathered cultivators after a terrifying pressure swept over them.

• Yu Wuheng's failed breakthrough after using three portions of Plane Origin left him at the Dao Integration Realm Late Stage, while Chen Fei received praise from Jiang Chengji for his recent battle.
• The Human Race teleported to Fengyue City, where its Emperor Venerables met with the Mountain Clan, then both races boarded a warship bound for Wumeng Tribe territory.
• Chen Fei cultivated during the five-day voyage, using ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Crystals each day to speed his progress.
• The Human Race and Mountain Clan arrived in Meng City, where they joined the other races of the Black Stone Domain as the Wumeng Tribe gathered them.
• On the tenth day, all the Dao Integration Realm cultivators assembled on Meng City's main peak, where a crushing pressure descended and nine figures appeared in the sky.

The Wumeng Tribe revealed nine Seventh Order Heaven Opening Realm cultivators and took control of Black Stone Domain, forcing its Dao Integration Realm cultivators to accept missions. Chen Fei was assigned to guard the northwest border, where he cultivated until Sun Guangyuan approached with the intent to assassinate him.

• Wen Chi announced that the Wumeng Tribe would rule Black Stone Domain and ordered its Dao Integration Realm cultivators to resist the Xuan Clan’s vassal races.
• Wen Chi promised breakthrough methods and materials in exchange for merit, then ordered the cultivators to accept tasks at the Mission Hall.
• Chen Fei learned that cultivators had to complete a task each year or lose a minor realm, and he chose to guard the border.
• Jiang Chengji warned Chen Fei to flee if he encountered danger, and Chen Fei left for his assigned post in the northwest.
• Chen Fei cultivated for two months in the Polo Mountain Range, advancing his techniques and accumulating Rule Fragments.
• Sun Guangyuan approached the Polo Mountain Range on a scouting mission, intending to kill Chen Fei for the assassination reward.

Sun Guangyuan ambushed Chen Fei, intent on killing him for the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan, but discovered that Chen Fei had concealed his true strength. Sun Guangyuan attacked again after realizing Chen Fei had reached the Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage and deciding to seize the treasure he believed had enabled the breakthrough.

• Sun Guangyuan approached Chen Fei under cover of the Shadow Rule and pursued him after Chen Fei sensed his presence and fled.
• Sun Guangyuan trapped Chen Fei with shadow chains and struck him with the Nether Blade, leaving him gravely wounded but alive.
• Chen Fei's battle soldier revealed itself as a decoy when Chen Fei's true body appeared and reclaimed the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Sun Guangyuan realized Chen Fei had reached the Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage and suspected he possessed a supreme treasure.
• Sun Guangyuan unleashed his Shadow Rule and attacked Chen Fei with the Nether Blade, while Chen Fei raised the Qian Yuan Sword to meet the blow.

Chen Fei killed Sun Guangyuan and used the God-Devouring trait to discover how he had contacted the Abyss Clan and Ice Clan. He then posed as a wounded target at Anhua Mountain, where three Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivators arrived to verify the informant’s report.

• Sun Guangyuan tried to flee and then fought desperately, but Chen Fei pierced his skull with the Qian Yuan Sword and killed him.
• Chen Fei used God-Devouring to inspect Sun Guangyuan’s soul and found his usual method of contacting the Abyss Clan and Ice Clan.
• Kou Fen ordered two Abyss Clan cultivators and one Ice Clan cultivator to investigate Chen Fei’s reported capture at Anhua Mountain.
• Chen Fei waited at Anhua Mountain wearing Sun Guangyuan’s mask, with the Qian Yuan Sword and a wounded battle soldier nearby as bait.
• Sui Luo, You Zhi, and Zhong Ye reached the area and sensed two people and a sword on Anhua Mountain.

Chen Fei lured three Ice Clan and Abyss Clan experts toward Anhua Mountain, but Zhong Ye sensed danger and warned the others to flee. Chen Fei caught up with them and trapped all three in his Sky Dome Domain.

• Zhong Ye sensed something concealed near Anhua Mountain, but Sui Luo and You Zhi confirmed that Chen Fei and a dying Human Race cultivator were the only ones nearby.
• Chen Fei showed himself and invited the three experts to inspect the dying man, while Zhong Ye continued trying to identify the source of his unease.
• Zhong Ye finally sensed that Chen Fei threatened all their lives and ordered the group to retreat.
• Chen Fei pursued the fleeing experts, and Zhong Ye, Sui Luo, and You Zhi each used forbidden arts and split up to escape.
• Chen Fei activated the Sky Dome Domain, drew all three pursuers into its dark space, and revealed his face.

Chen Fei revealed his identity and used his Space Rule and overwhelming strength to kill Zhong Ye, You Zhi, and Sui Luo. After reviewing their memories and collecting their possessions, he returned to his cultivation hollow, while Kou Fen learned that the three sent to Anhua Mountain had died.

• Chen Fei revealed himself to Sui Luo, Zhong Ye, and You Zhi, then attacked them with his Mid-stage Dao Integration Realm strength.
• Chen Fei used the Space Rule to isolate Zhong Ye and killed him with one punch, then killed You Zhi the same way.
• Sui Luo begged to become an informant, but Chen Fei refused and killed him after turning aside his desperate attack.
• Chen Fei absorbed the three spiritual essences, reviewed the trio's memories, and returned to his mountain hollow to sort through their Dao Artifacts.
• Cong Da told Kou Fen that Zhong Ye, You Zhi, and their Ice Clan companion had all died, leaving Kou Fen to wonder whether Chen Fei or the human informant had killed them.

After killing four mid-stage Dao Integration Realm cultivators, Chen Fei integrated fragments of their techniques into the Desolate Universe God-Devouring Sword and resumed cultivation. When the Xuan Clan vanguard approached, he joined the Black Stone Domain forces and prepared for battle.

• Chen Fei sorted the spoils from his kills, gaining spirit crystals, spiritual materials, and fragments of Zhong Ye, You Zhi, and Sui Luo's memories.
• Chen Fei integrated You Zhi's Space Subordinate Rule and Zhong Ye's Karma Subordinate Rule into the Desolate Universe God-Devouring Sword, then began cultivating again.
• Less than a month later, Chen Fei's token warned him that the Xuan Clan army was approaching, so he withdrew to rendezvous with the allied forces.
• Chen Fei joined Jiang Chengji and the other Dao Integration Realm cultivators above the gathered Sun Moon Realm legions, and Jiang Chengji warned him to prioritize survival.
• Wu Ze announced that anyone who retreated before battle would be slain and explained the rules for earning the right to withdraw from the engagement.
• The Xuan Clan vanguard appeared within sight of the assembled forces.

Chen Fei fought in the battle between the Black Stone Domain and the Xuan Clan’s subordinate races, initially pretending to trade blows with Sha He so they could both survive. After Sha He tried to lure him into an ambush and attack for real, Chen Fei killed him and then destroyed Sha Feng, who had witnessed the encounter.

• Wu Ze ordered the armies to charge, and thousands of Dao Integration Realm cultivators joined the battle between the Black Stone Domain and the Xuan Clan’s subordinate races.
• Chen Fei and Sha He exchanged hundreds of seemingly fierce but restrained blows, drifting away from the central battlefield.
• Sha He urged Chen Fei to move southeast, but Chen Fei refused because he sensed a Qing Clan Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivator nearby.
• Sha He revealed his true strength and attacked Chen Fei, who overpowered him with the Qian Yuan Sword and killed him.
• Sha Feng attacked Chen Fei in revenge, but Chen Fei stopped his blade and destroyed Sha Feng with a single slash.

Chen Fei returned to the Wumeng Tribe camp after defeating Sha Feng and another Qing Clan cultivator, then used his battle soldiers to protect the Human Race legion in the ongoing war. From the defeated cultivators’ memories, he learned that the Xuan Clan had eleven Heaven Opening Realm experts, and he found the Jing Juan Tu that had been offered as a reward for his assassination.

• Chen Fei extracted memories from Sha Feng and the other cultivator, collected their Dao Artifacts, and returned Sha He's spiritual essence to the Wumeng Tribe camp.
• As the battle across Black Stone Domain continued and casualties mounted, Chen Fei sent one hundred and eight peak Sun Moon Realm battle soldiers to reinforce the Human Race legion.
• Chen Fei's battle soldiers reduced Human Race casualties, while Wu Ze assessed Chen Fei and the Wumeng Tribe's view of Black Stone Domain's weakness.
• Chen Fei searched the two Dao Artifacts and learned from Sha Feng and the other's memories that the Xuan Clan had eleven Heaven Opening Realm experts, compared with the Wumeng Tribe's nine.
• Chen Fei found the Jing Juan Tu inside the Hidden Origin Bell, the reward the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan had promised Sun Guangyuan for assassinating him.

Chen Fei studied how Jing Juan Tu could help improve Scattering Beans into Soldiers, then was ordered to join a group of Black Stone Domain cultivators for a mission. They encountered Tu Ying, who held Wu Han’s crippled brother Wu He hostage and challenged Wu Han to a chess game using the lives of the selected cultivators.

• Chen Fei used Jing Juan Tu’s ideas while casting Scattering Beans into Soldiers, briefly exceeding the ability’s limit of one hundred and eight war soldiers before the new soldiers destabilized and vanished.
• Wu Han ordered Chen Fei and thirty-four other Black Stone Domain Dao Integration Realm cultivators to follow her away from the battlefield.
• Wu Han met Tu Ying, who revealed the captured Wu He had been crippled and demanded a game in exchange for his return.
• Tu Ying produced a top-grade Dao Artifact that became a giant chessboard and invited Wu Han to play, with Wu He’s freedom as the prize.
• Wu Han ordered the Black Stone Domain cultivators into the chessboard, warning that those who survived would be spared from warfare for a year.

Chen Fei entered the chessboard where Wu Han and Tu Ying controlled the Black Stone Domain and Xuan Clan cultivators as chess pieces. After defending against Wu Yue while concealing his true strength, Chen Fei exploited space to kill him just as the board was about to redeploy them.

• Wu Han forced thirty-five Black Stone Domain Dao Integration Realm cultivators to enter the chessboard, where Tu Ying and Wu Han controlled their movements and fought a deadly game.
• Chen Fei used the Space Rule to perceive the entire board and saw the Xuan Clan gaining the advantage as several Black Stone Domain cultivators died.
• The board matched Chen Fei against Wu Yue, whose control of the local force of heaven and earth weakened Chen Fei and empowered Wu Yue.
• Chen Fei used battle soldiers to discern Wu Yue’s true body and repeatedly defended against his attacks without revealing his full strength.
• When the chessboard began preparing to redeploy them, Chen Fei distorted space, appeared to attack from the front, and killed Wu Yue with a concealed blade from behind.

Chen Fei survived a chessboard battle against a Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivator, but Wu Han’s side lost the game to Tu Ying. A Heaven Opening Realm ancestor intervened to rescue Wu He, and Chen Fei watched the clash between the two powerful forces while wondering how a Peak Dao Integration Realm cultivator could advance to the Heaven Opening Realm.

• After killing Wu Yue, Chen Fei left the chessboard, but Wu Han ordered him back in until the game ended.
• Chen Fei faced Ou Zheng of the Tan Clan, evaded his attacks, and survived the battle despite suffering grave injuries.
• Chen Fei entered another fight against a Miao Tribe Dao Integration Realm Early Stage cultivator, but the chessboard ended the game and sent him out with four other wounded cultivators.
• Tu Ying declared that Wu Han could not save her elder brother, and Wu Han attacked Tu Ying, who reappeared unharmed after being struck.
• A Heaven Opening Realm ancestor descended to rescue Wu He, but a Heaven Opening Realm cultivator of the Xuan Clan countered the attack, and their clash sent Chen Fei flying more than a hundred miles away.

Wu Han pursued Tu Ying to rescue Wu He, forcing Chen Fei to join the fight despite his severe injuries. Tu Ying escaped with the Tan Clan after unleashing a soul-dissolving attack, while Wu Han turned her fury on Chen Fei for evading her attempt to use him as a shield.

• Wu Han ignored the agreement that survivors of the chessboard could avoid war for a year and led the Wumeng Tribe cultivators after Tu Ying.
• He Yan ordered Chen Fei to help hold off a Tan Clan cultivator, and Chen Fei intercepted the opponent while Wu Han fought Tu Ying.
• The Tan Clan cultivator used a forbidden technique and struck Chen Fei, while Tu Ying's strange smile alerted Wu Han to danger.
• Tu Ying released a light that dissolved living beings, and Wu Han tried to grab Chen Fei to shield herself, but Chen Fei expanded the space between them and escaped her grasp.
• Tu Ying vanished with the two Tan Clan cultivators, He Yan survived with the help of his Jade Talisman, and Wu Han glared furiously at Chen Fei.

Chen Fei killed He Yan and Wu Han after Wu Han blamed him for Tu Ying’s escape and tried to kill him. He plundered their talents and techniques, then returned to the Wumeng Tribe camp, where a military supervisor came to see him.

• Wu Han blamed Chen Fei for letting Tu Ying escape, and He Yan tried to slap him, so Chen Fei killed He Yan with one strike.
• Chen Fei recovered fully, dragged the fleeing Wu Han into the Sky Dome Domain, and fought her there.
• Chen Fei overpowered Wu Han despite her forbidden art, killed her, and used the Bronze Runes and God-Devouring to take her talent and inspect her cultivation techniques.
• Chen Fei returned to the Wumeng Tribe camp and learned that the Xuan Clan had secretly sabotaged one of the Wumeng Tribe’s arrangements.
• An hour later, the Wumeng Tribe’s military supervisor appeared before Chen Fei.

After the Wumeng Tribe investigated Wu Han’s death, Chen Fei concealed his role in her killing and collected the promised reward for surviving the chessboard mission. He studied the Wumeng Tribe’s exchange list and reflected on the breakthrough method he had learned from Wu Han’s cultivation art.

• Wu Ze questioned Chen Fei and the four other surviving Black Stone Domain cultivators about their pursuit of the Xuan Clan, but found no grounds to detain them.
• Chen Fei explained that his injuries had forced him to stop and regulate his breath, accounting for his late return.
• The Wumeng Tribe dismissed the five cultivators and gave each a jade plaque granting one year of warfare exemption or the option to exchange it for rewards.
• Chen Fei went to the military merit hall to maintain appearances while concealed observers continued watching him.
• Chen Fei reviewed the exchange list, then left without buying the Heaven Opening Realm secret or secret art because he had obtained them from Wu Han.
• Chen Fei considered the two Heaven Opening Realm breakthrough methods and noted that the second involved forging Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.