Chapter Summaries

After studying the Heaven Opening Realm breakthrough method contained in Wu Han’s memories, Chen Fei fused her damaged cultivation art into the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art. He activated its God Slaughter state using four Earth Water Fire Wind Rule Fragments, and destructive power surged through his body.

• Chen Fei concluded that fusing four Subordinate Rules with Earth Water Fire Wind characteristics could open the path to the Heaven Opening Realm, and that his panel could merge them.
• Chen Fei destroyed Wu Han and He Yan’s Dao Artifacts and suspicious items, then returned to camp with their remaining wealth and Wu Han’s cultivation method.
• Chen Fei fused Nine Heavens Star Slaughter into the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art, gaining the God Slaughter state that could combine four Rule Fragments.
• Chen Fei used his jade tablet to claim a year exempt from warfare, waited until he was sure he was no longer being watched, and prepared to test the new state.
• Chen Fei fused his Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind Rule Fragments and activated the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art, unleashing destructive power that Heaven Suppressing contained as black lightning coursed across his body.

Chen Fei tested the God Slaughter state, which ignited his Earth Water Fire Wind Rule Fragments and greatly improved his connection to World Vital Energy. He chose to keep prioritizing the Space Rule while using the state to cultivate, and discovered that it dramatically accelerated his progress in the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art and Heaven Suppressing.

• Chen Fei concluded that the God Slaughter state could greatly strengthen him but consumed Earth Water Fire Wind Rule Fragments, so he decided to prioritize mastering the Space Subordinate Rule while cultivating the other rules through the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art.
• Chen Fei restored his consumed Rule Fragments, ignited them again, and used Heaven Suppressing to restrain the destructive power and control the state.
• Chen Fei found that the state made him far more attuned to World Vital Energy, but his Rule Fragments would run out after about half an hour even with careful control.
• Chen Fei cultivated in the state and found that, without Spirit Crystals, his progress matched what he had gained from shattering ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Crystals.
• Chen Fei shattered ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Crystals and discovered that one day of cultivation now produced about a month’s worth of progress, speeding his path toward the Perfection and Great Perfection realms.

Chen Fei spent a month cultivating, restoring his technique and transforming his physique through Heaven Suppressing. As the Wumeng Tribe and Xuan Clan continued fighting, he sensed danger building until Spirit Devouring Worms forced both armies to retreat.

• Chen Fei cultivated for a month, raising his Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind Rule Fragments and restoring the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art to the Perfection Realm.
• Chen Fei’s Heaven Suppressing reached the Proficient Realm, transforming his physique and greatly increasing its strength.
• Wu Ze learned that the five Dao Integration Realm cultivators from the Black Stone Domain had stayed in their rooms, but he still suspected them over Wu Han’s death.
• Chen Fei left seclusion, spoke with Jiang Chengji about the war, and found no clear explanation for See God Unending’s growing fluctuations.
• A Wumeng Tribe Heaven Opening Realm expert announced that Spirit Devouring Worms were crossing the Black Stone Domain and ordered the Dao Integration Realm and Sun Moon Realm cultivators to retreat.

Chen Fei learned that Spirit Devouring Worms were passing through the Black Stone Domain, forcing the Xuan Clan and Wumeng Tribe to suspend their war and scatter their forces. Back in Aurora City, he wondered whether the Yuan Chen Sword Sect should return to the safer Endless Sea, but Qu Qingsheng and the others chose to remain in the Void Return Realm and pursue greater martial heights.

• Chen Fei recalled the Spirit Devouring Worms’ devastating abilities as the Wumeng Tribe warned that scavenger cultivators would follow behind them.
• The Black Stone Domain’s Dao Integration Realm and Sun Moon Realm cultivators dispersed to relocate their people, while Chen Fei and the Human Race returned to Aurora City.
• Chen Fei visited Feng Xiupu and the others and explained that Spirit Devouring Worms, not the end of the war, had prompted the Human Race’s sudden return.
• Chen Fei asked whether Qu Qingsheng and the others wanted to return to the Endless Sea, but they said they would rather stay in the Void Return Realm and continue pursuing martial cultivation.
• Chen Fei decided not to bring the other Yuan Chen Sword Sect members to Aurora City, since staying near him would not necessarily keep them safe.

Chen Fei learned that the Spirit Devouring Worms had split into swarms and were searching the Black Stone Domain, then studied their records and received Zhuo Mingyong’s Shadow Binding Kill technique. After half a month of cultivation and chaos across the domain, the Spirit Devouring Worms surged toward Aurora City.

• Weng Zongfang told Aurora City’s Dao Integration Realm cultivators that the Spirit Devouring Worms had divided into more than a hundred clusters, and ordered them to prepare to evacuate.
• Chen Fei searched the City Lord Mansion treasury for records, and Zhuo Mingyong gave him a jade slip containing his Shadow Binding Kill technique.
• Chen Fei read about the Black Stone Domain’s possible past as territory of a powerful race, then fused Shadow Binding Kill’s control method into the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art.
• Chen Fei cultivated for half a month as Spirit Devouring Worms and scavengers drove races from their cities and attacked others.
• A bell rang through Aurora City as Spirit Devouring Worms surged toward it.

As Aurora City evacuated ahead of the Spirit Devouring Worms, Chen Fei detected the swarm forcing its way through the Teleportation Array and warned everyone to shut it down. Weng Zongfang sealed the Space Rift, but the evacuation’s route to Hanyun City had been compromised.

• Weng Zongfang ordered Aurora City’s residents evacuated to Hanyun City, and Chen Fei gathered his assigned district’s residents into the Hidden Origin Bell.
• Chen Fei met Yu Dingshan at the Teleportation Hall as Dao Integration Realm cultivators gathered to use the array.
• Chen Fei sensed something forcing its way through the Space Rift and demanded that the Teleportation Array be shut down.
• Yu Wuheng blocked Chen Fei’s strike, but their clash disrupted the array and revealed a Spirit Devouring Worm pushing through its barrier.
• The cultivators began sealing the array’s barrier, and Weng Zongfang closed the Space Rift with his power.

Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou evacuated Aurora City’s Dao Integration cultivators after the Spirit Devouring Worms detected their teleportation arrays and pursued their warships. As Chen Fei fled toward Pianyi City, three scavengers ambushed him, but he subdued them and discovered a Spirit Devouring Worm living inside Xing Gong.

• Weng Zongfang shut down Aurora City’s Teleportation Arrays and led the Dao Integration cultivators away by warship when the Spirit Devouring Worms began tracking the arrays.
• The Spirit Devouring Worms pursued the crowded warships, so Tang Yunshou ordered the cultivators to scatter and Yu Dingshan told Chen Fei to meet at Pianyi City.
• Chen Fei flew toward safety while Tang Yunshou stayed behind to give the other Human Race cultivators more time to escape.
• Xing Gong and two other scavengers intercepted Chen Fei and attacked him, but Chen Fei trapped them with Space Binding Kill.
• Xing Gong warned Chen Fei not to kill them, then revealed a Spirit Devouring Worm emerging from his chest.

Chen Fei killed Xing Gong and two other scavengers, then used the Spirit Devouring Worm larvae they carried to deepen his grasp of the Space Rule without being marked by the swarm. He continued toward Pianyi City, but sensed a battle nearby and arrived too late to save a Human Race cultivator from an Abyss Clan opponent.

• Xing Gong threatened Chen Fei with retaliation from the Spirit Devouring Worm swarm, but Chen Fei trapped the three scavengers in the Sky Dome Domain and crushed them.
• Chen Fei blocked the death marks from the Spirit Devouring Worm larvae with the Power Rule Fragment, then absorbed their talents and gained a clearer sense of the Space Rule.
• Chen Fei searched the scavengers' fragmented memories, confirmed that See God Unending detected no mark on him, and changed course to avoid the swarm.
• Chen Fei continued toward Pianyi City and reflected on his rapid cultivation progress while carrying Aurora City residents in the Hidden Origin Bell.
• Chen Fei sensed a Dao Integration Realm battle between a Human Race cultivator and an Abyss Clan cultivator, but the human's aura vanished before he reached the scene.

Chen Fei confronted Zhao Tan, an Abyss Clan Dao Integration Realm Late Stage cultivator who had massacred humans trapped in a Dao Artifact. After Chen Fei easily broke Zhao Tan’s attack, Zhao Tan tried to flee, but Chen Fei caught up and struck him with the Qian Yuan Sword, leaving him bewildered and despairing.

• Zhao Tan killed a Human Race Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivator and began killing the more than two hundred thousand humans trapped in the cultivator’s Dao Artifact.
• Zhao Tan sensed Chen Fei approaching, hid the Dao Artifact, and rushed to kill the human prodigy.
• Chen Fei met Zhao Tan head-on and shattered his palm attack with a single strike.
• Zhao Tan recognized Chen Fei’s overwhelming strength and tried to flee, but Chen Fei trapped him with Space Chains and caught up.
• Chen Fei ignited the Earth Water Fire Wind rules and struck Zhao Tan with the Qian Yuan Sword, while Zhao Tan answered with a forbidden saber art and a desperate attack.

Chen Fei killed Zhao Tan, an Abyss Clan Dao Integration Realm Late Stage cultivator, in one move and learned that the Abyss Clan and Ice Clan were hunting Aurora City's cultivators. After rescuing the humans trapped in Zhao Tan's Dao Artifact, Chen Fei flew off to pursue the clans' planned attack.

• Zhao Tan asked how Chen Fei had defeated him, then crumbled to ashes as he foresaw the danger Chen Fei posed to the Abyss Clan.
• Chen Fei extracted Zhao Tan's spiritual essence and read his soul fragments, learning an Abyss Clan cultivation art based on a Reincarnation Subordinate Rule that could restore its user's condition.
• Chen Fei merged the cultivation art into the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art and took Zhao Tan's Piyun Saber and a human-forged sword-shaped Dao Artifact.
• Chen Fei gathered the remains of the humans Zhao Tan had killed and put more than two hundred thousand people inside the Dao Artifact to sleep so they could forget the ordeal.
• Chen Fei learned that the Abyss Clan and Ice Clan were hunting Aurora City's Dao Integration Realm cultivators, then flew toward their location.

Chen Fei adapted the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan’s anchoring technique and began flying toward a signal three thousand miles away to hunt their cultivators. On the way, he shattered the spiritual essences he had collected to strengthen himself, reaching a target less than two thousand miles away.

• Chen Fei combined Heaven Suppressing, See God Unending, the Earth Water Fire Wind Rule Fragments, and an Abyss Clan cultivation art to successfully imitate the clans’ anchoring signal.
• Chen Fei decided to hunt the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan cultivators and flew toward a signal he sensed three thousand miles away.
• Chen Fei shattered eight Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage spiritual essences while flying, increasing his soul’s Rule Fragments from sixty-two to sixty-four.
• Chen Fei shattered two Dao Integration Realm Late Stage spiritual essences, raising his soul’s Rule Fragments to sixty-five and his physique’s Power Rule Fragments to thirty-nine.
• Chen Fei reached less than two thousand miles from the anchoring mark he had sensed.

Chen Fei pursued Hu Mang by imitating the Abyss Clan’s anchoring mark and using a spatial rift to close the distance. He caught up with the Ice Clan cultivator and froze him in midair, leaving Hu Mang trapped before him.

• Hu Mang noticed that the approaching Abyss Clan mark resonated differently, suspected its owner was injured, and fled.
• Chen Fei followed Hu Mang and used the power of Earth Water Fire Wind and his space Rule Fragment to travel through a Space Rift for more than a thousand miles.
• Hu Mang sensed Chen Fei’s sudden arrival and realized the pursuer was not an Abyss Clan cultivator.
• Hu Mang recognized Chen Fei, activated a forbidden technique, and tried to flee toward a nearby Ice Clan cultivator.
• Chen Fei used spatial force to immobilize Hu Mang, then appeared directly in front of him.

Chen Fei killed Hu Mang and several Ice Clan and Abyss Clan cultivators while hunting for a way to save the humans. As the Spirit Devouring Worm swarm closed in, he drew a scavenger squad after him and turned on Gan Ni when she tried to attack him.

• Chen Fei killed Hu Mang, plundered his talent and soul insights, then transferred toward three Ice Clan cultivators who attacked him.
• Chen Fei restrained two Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivators with Space Binding Kill, killed Lu Miao with the Qian Yuan Sword, and then killed the other two.
• Chen Fei killed two Abyss Clan cultivators, but See God Unending warned that the Spirit Devouring Worms had drawn closer while he hunted.
• Chen Fei fled from the worm swarm as the scavenger squad led by Ran Bin and Ran Lou pursued him, intending to extract his soul for cultivation.
• Gan Ni struck Chen Fei with beams that froze him, but Chen Fei recovered and shattered her head with a palm; a Spirit Devouring Worm then emerged from her neck.

Chen Fei trapped Gan Ni, Ran Bin, Ran Lou, and the other scavengers inside the Sky Dome Domain, then faced the two leaders in battle. He easily blocked their combined attack and shattered their Spirit Devouring Worm soul projection, while Ran Bin and Ran Lou continued fighting.

• Chen Fei brought Gan Ni, Ran Bin, Ran Lou, and the other scavengers into the Sky Dome Domain to prevent them from marking him.
• Chen Fei restrained Gan Ni with Space Binding Kill as Ran Bin and Ran Lou attacked him.
• Ran Bin and Ran Lou broke Chen Fei’s expanded space and struck together, but Chen Fei blocked their combined blades without moving.
• Chen Fei confirmed that the brothers’ Space Subordinate Rule was one he had not learned, then ignited his Earth Water Fire Wind Rule Fragments.
• Ran Bin and Ran Lou used forbidden arts and unleashed a Spirit Devouring Worm celestial form’s Divine Soul attack, but Chen Fei dispelled it with a strike of the Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei killed Ran Bin and Ran Lou after foiling their escape, then eliminated four more scavengers trapped in his Sky Dome Domain. He obtained the Profound Void Heaven Shaking Art and the Spirit Devouring Worms’ Space Rule talent, then headed southeast while cultivating from the gathered spiritual essences.

• Ran Bin and Ran Lou burned their flesh and blood to escape, but Chen Fei used the Sky Dome Domain to block them and killed them with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei absorbed spiritual light from the brothers’ souls and read their soul fragments to find the Profound Void Heaven Shaking Art.
• Gan Ni and three other scavengers tried to break through the Sky Dome Domain, but Chen Fei bound and killed all four, along with their Spirit Devouring Worms.
• Chen Fei plundered the Spirit Devouring Worms’ Space Rule talent and fused the incomplete Profound Void Heaven Shaking Art into his cultivation art.
• Chen Fei collected the six Dao Artifacts, left the Sky Dome Domain, and flew southeast while using the spiritual essences to accelerate his cultivation.

After using spiritual essence to strengthen his cultivation and spatial abilities, Chen Fei continued through the Black Stone Domain and rescued Xin Zhaoxian and Yue Chaobin from You Wen. He left the two Human Race cultivators to escape while taking the Abyss Clan attacker away.

• Chen Fei used eleven portions of spiritual essence, raising his soul's Rule Fragments to sixty-nine and advancing the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art to fifty percent of the Perfection Realm.
• Chen Fei gained a fragment of the Space Subordinate Rule [Void] and considered how to obtain the fifth Space Subordinate Rule and eventually grasp the Space Main Rule.
• Chen Fei examined Ran Bin and Ran Lou's Bone Soul Blade, Bone Spirit Blade, and soul-cultivation secret art, then continued traveling through space.
• Chen Fei sensed You Wen attacking Xin Zhaoxian and Yue Chaobin and altered his aura before intervening.
• Chen Fei overwhelmed You Wen with immense force and whisked him away, leaving Xin Zhaoxian and Yue Chaobin alive.
• Yue Chaobin urged Xin Zhaoxian to leave, and the two set off, hoping to identify the Human Race senior who had saved them.

Chen Fei crossed the battlefield, killed You Wen, and learned that Human Race cultivators were under siege. As Kou Fen searched for the unknown killer decimating the Abyss Clan, Chen Fei continued hunting enemy cultivators and raised his Rule Fragments to seventy-one.

• Chen Fei seized You Wen across a thousand miles, killed him, and found that ordinary Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivators could no longer improve his aptitude.
• Chen Fei read You Wen's soul fragments, learned that Human Race cultivators were being besieged to the east, and headed toward them.
• Kou Fen killed a Human Race cultivator and erased Aurora City residents from a Dao Artifact, then noticed Abyss Clan Soul Tablets shattering in growing numbers.
• Kou Fen tracked the deaths across the region and realized an unknown force was killing Abyss Clan cultivators, not scavengers parasitized by Spirit Devouring Worms.
• Chen Fei killed an Ice Clan Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivator and continued cultivating, bringing his Rule Fragments from sixty-nine to seventy-one.

Chen Fei continued hunting Abyss Clan and Ice Clan cultivators while Kou Fen ordered the Abyss Clan to retreat and joined forces with Ao An to investigate the killings. After killing more cultivators, Chen Fei gathered his seventy-second Rule Fragment and began preparing to break through to the Dao Integration Realm Late Stage.

• Chen Fei collected a mid-grade Dao Artifact and moved across the region as Kou Fen searched for the expert killing Abyss Clan cultivators.
• Kou Fen discovered that several Abyss Clan cultivators had died and ordered his Dao Integration Realm members to abandon the hunt for the Human Race and retreat.
• Kou Fen stayed behind to track the killer, then met Ao An, who reported losses among the Ice Clan and agreed to order a retreat.
• Two more Ice Clan cultivators died as Chen Fei crushed mid-stage Dao Integration Realm spiritual essence and condensed his seventy-second Rule Fragment.
• Chen Fei activated the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art, causing his seventy-two Rule Fragments to tremble as he began his breakthrough.

Chen Fei broke through to the Dao Integration Realm Late Stage and discovered that his combat power had reached the Emperor Venerable Realm. As he continued hunting the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan cultivators, Zong Yan fled with news of Chen Fei’s strength, but Chen Fei appeared in his path.

• Chen Fei fused his seventy-two Rule Fragments, broke through to the Dao Integration Realm Late Stage, and used spiritual essence to nearly stabilize his cultivation.
• Chen Fei sensed that the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan cultivators were scattering, then chose to keep hunting them before they escaped.
• Chen Fei activated the God Slaughter state and realized his combat power had entered the Emperor Venerable Realm.
• Kou Fen and Ao An sensed a distant fluctuation, and Kou Fen hurried toward the death of an Abyss Clan Dao Integration Realm cultivator.
• Chen Fei pursued Zong Yan, who had witnessed him kill an Abyss Clan cultivator and fled to report his strength.
• Chen Fei emerged from a Space Rift and blocked Zong Yan’s escape.

Chen Fei killed Zong Yan with Space Binding Kill and learned from his memories that the Abyss Clan was withdrawing. He continued hunting the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan cultivators as they scattered, while his cultivation advanced toward the Peak Dao Integration Realm.

• Zong Yan fled after seeing Chen Fei's cultivation, but Chen Fei trapped him with Space Binding Kill and killed him.
• Chen Fei absorbed Zong Yan's spiritual essence, read his memories of Kou Fen, and condensed his seventy-third Rule Fragment as Space Subordinate Rule [Great].
• Kou Fen discovered Zong Yan's Soul Tablet had shattered and resolved to intercept Chen Fei to protect the Abyss Clan's remaining cultivators.
• Ao An found that another Ice Clan Dao Integration Realm cultivator had died, then flew to protect the nearest members of his clan.
• Chen Fei lost the Spirit Devouring Worm and continued hunting as the clans withdrew; his Rule Fragments reached eighty-three, while the anchoring mark became less useful for locating targets.