Chapter Summaries

After his cultivation art reached Great Perfection, Chen Fei tracked down and killed Zeng Gang, an Ice Clan cultivator with an Emperor Venerable Realm physique, and took the Bronze Shard behind that strength. He then studied the shard as Kou Fen finally caught up with him.

• Chen Fei’s Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art reached Great Perfection, strengthening his perception, combat control, and physique.
• Chen Fei followed faint traces and confronted Zeng Gang, who broke free from Space Binding Kill and pretended to flee before launching a powerful ambush.
• Chen Fei overpowered Zeng Gang in a contest of physical strength, killed him, and extracted the broken Bronze Shard from his Dao Artifact.
• Chen Fei fused the shard into his body, extracted it again, and found that its Bronze Runes differed from the earlier section while his abyss-like energy increased.
• Kou Fen caught sight of Chen Fei a thousand miles away and recognized the figure he had been pursuing.

Chen Fei examined the second Bronze Shard and learned that its runes strengthened the physical body by plundering spiritual essence. He then faced the pursuing Kou Fen, and after dodging the Emperor Venerable’s opening strike, Chen Fei’s transformed aura reminded Kou Fen of the Abyss Clan’s ancestor.

• Chen Fei stored the second Bronze Shard’s runes in Origin Point Space and learned that they could strengthen his physique by plundering spiritual essence.
• Chen Fei deliberately left traces for Kou Fen to follow, then waited for the Abyss Clan Emperor Venerable to arrive.
• Kou Fen recognized Chen Fei and resolved to kill him after realizing how far his cultivation and combat strength had advanced.
• Kou Fen attacked Chen Fei with his Severing Flame Saber, carving a vast canyon into the mountains when Chen Fei evaded the strike.
• Chen Fei ignited his Rule Fragments and entered the God Slaughter state, causing Kou Fen to sense an aura reminiscent of the Abyss Clan’s ancestor.

Chen Fei fought Kou Fen, a Peak Dao Integration Realm cultivator, and revealed that his strength could match and surpass his opponent’s. After Kou Fen fled, Chen Fei used spatial force to halt him, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Kou Fen closed in on Chen Fei, and Chen Fei tested Space Binding Kill, which Kou Fen broke with his flames.
• Kou Fen struck Chen Fei with the Severing Flame Saber, but Chen Fei blocked the blow without retreating or suffering injury.
• Chen Fei counterattacked, and Kou Fen activated Boundless Slash, but Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Sword still overwhelmed him and injured him.
• Kou Fen realized Chen Fei had been waiting to fight him and fled, abandoning his pride.
• Chen Fei used spatial force to stop Kou Fen’s escape, halting him despite his flames burning through the spatial chains.

Chen Fei fought Kou Fen, who discovered that Chen Fei’s Heaven Suppressing art borrowed an opponent’s power and responded by defending without counterattacking. As Kou Fen waited for Chen Fei’s Minor Heaven Opening Realm power to fade, Chen Fei ignited four more Rule Fragments and entered the Second Layer, Minor Heaven Opening Realm.

• Chen Fei cornered Kou Fen with the Space Binding Kill and struck him with the Qian Yuan Sword, forcing Kou Fen to defend while looking for a chance to escape.
• Kou Fen realized Chen Fei was borrowing and refining the power of his attacks, so he changed his technique to prevent Chen Fei from drawing on it.
• Kou Fen remained on the defensive, hoping Chen Fei’s Minor Heaven Opening Realm power would expire before his own injuries became fatal.
• Chen Fei revealed that he had more power in reserve and ignited four additional Rule Fragments in his soul.
• Chen Fei’s strength surged as he entered the Second Layer, Minor Heaven Opening Realm.

Chen Fei used the God Slaughter Lesser Heaven Opening Realm to kill Kou Fen, becoming the first Dao Integration Realm Late Stage cultivator in the Black Stone Domain to slay an Emperor Venerable. After absorbing Kou Fen’s spiritual essence and reading his memories, Chen Fei chose not to pursue the fleeing Ao An, while Kou Fen’s death stirred upheaval in Abyss Clan territory.

• Chen Fei combined his God Slaughter power with additional Rule Fragments, driving his aura beyond the level Kou Fen had thought possible.
• Kou Fen unleashed a forbidden art of mutual destruction, but Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Sword overwhelmed the Severing Flame Saber and left Kou Fen too weak to fight back.
• Chen Fei told Kou Fen that his secret art was God Slaughter, then killed him with a final sword strike and extracted his spiritual essence.
• Ao An sensed the tremor of Kou Fen’s death, recognized his aura, and fled toward Ice Clan territory.
• Chen Fei used two Bronze Runes to absorb Kou Fen’s spiritual essence, improving his talent and physique, then read Kou Fen’s memories with God Devourer.
• Chen Fei decided not to pursue Ao An because the Rule Fragments powering his Lesser Heaven Opening Realm had burned away, and Kou Fen’s Soul Tablet shattered in Abyss Clan territory.

After the ambush at Aurora City devastated the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan, Chen Fei reunited with the Human Race survivors and assessed the immense spoils he had taken from his enemies. He uncovered a contact method for one Human Race traitor, gained the Four Profound Domain Technique, and prepared to use Kou Fen’s spiritual essence.

• The Human Race cultivators gathered in Pianyi City and discussed the mysterious expert whose intervention had saved many of them and killed Kou Fen.
• Chen Fei visited Qu Qingsheng and the others in the newly built Aurora City, then secluded himself to examine his spoils.
• Chen Fei sorted the Dao Artifacts, Spirit Crystals, and spiritual materials taken from the Ice Clan and Abyss Clan, including Kou Fen’s Severing Flame Saber.
• Chen Fei extracted Abyss Clan secrets and a contact method for one Human Race traitor from Kou Fen’s memory fragments.
• Chen Fei integrated Kou Fen’s Four Profound Domain Technique into the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art and examined Kou Fen’s spiritual essence.

Chen Fei used a Peak Dao Integration Realm spiritual essence to improve his cultivation, then spent a month advancing his Rules and strength. After leaving seclusion to expose human traitors, he caught Yan Yishun and confirmed that he had caused the deaths of five human Dao Integration Realm cultivators, just as a mysterious voice rang across Black Stone Domain.

• Chen Fei shattered the Peak Dao Integration Realm spiritual essence, raising his Rule Fragments to ninety, restoring the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art to Great Perfection, and advancing Heaven Suppressing.
• Chen Fei chose not to hunt Spirit Devouring Worm scavengers, wary that their deaths could draw a powerful Spirit Devouring Worm to him.
• After a month of cultivation, Chen Fei's Rule Fragments reached one hundred and ten, and he went to a mountain outside New Aurora City to lure out human traitors.
• Yan Yishun approached the contact mark, but Chen Fei froze him with spatial force and read his divine soul, confirming that he was a genuine traitor responsible for five human Dao Integration Realm deaths.
• As Chen Fei prepared to kill Yan Yishun, a tremendous voice swept through Black Stone Domain's living beings, crying, "Heavenly Dao is unjust!"

Chen Fei witnessed a Heaven Sealing Finger destroy the Devouring Yuan Clan’s hidden arrangements, transforming the Black Stone Domain and trapping everyone inside. As World Vital Energy declined and strange creatures emerged, the Wumeng Tribe and Xuan Clan contracted their defenses while Seventh Order experts entered the domain to seek the exposed ruins.

• A vast suction force seized Chen Fei before the Heaven Sealing Finger darkened the sky and shattered the gray pillar of light, changing the Black Stone Domain.
• Yan Yishun recognized Chen Fei, but Chen Fei tightened his spatial restraints and killed him, then returned to New Aurora City as World Vital Energy began to thin.
• Wu Shirui identified the upheaval as the destruction of the Devouring Yuan Clan’s hidden handiwork and ordered the Wumeng Tribe to contract its defenses.
• Strange creatures emerged from Space Rifts, and the Xuan Clan also prepared to withstand their arrival as the Black Stone Domain remained sealed.
• Seventh Order experts from surrounding races entered the Black Stone Domain to search the newly exposed Devouring Yuan Clan ruins.

As the Black Stone Domain changed, Black Mist creatures attacked Aurora City and siphoned power from its inhabitants, but Weng Zongfang suppressed their return using rules. You Yi of the Gu Hu Tribe offered to teach the Human Race the method of faith in exchange for an alliance and half the city's faith, leaving Chen Fei wondering whether the tribe was connected to Black God and the Bronze Shard.

• Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou led Aurora City's cultivators to investigate strange Black Mist figures approaching the city, and Chen Fei recognized their aura as similar to Black God's.
• The figures siphoned Essence, Qi, Spirit, Soul, and elemental energy from Aurora City's residents, so the city's Dao Integration Realm cultivators attacked and seemingly destroyed them.
• The figures reappeared after the attacks, but Weng Zongfang disrupted the rules around them until their lingering rule tremors ceased and they did not return.
• You Yi appeared and offered help against the Black Demons, then demanded an alliance between the Human Race and the Gu Hu Tribe in exchange for teaching them the method of faith and claiming half the city's faith.
• Chen Fei wondered whether the Gu Hu Tribe's method of faith was connected to Black God and whether the Bronze Shard was connected to the same place.

Aurora City's Human Race cultivators examined faith cultivation as World Vital Energy continued to weaken, and Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou tested the available methods. Weng Zongfang returned from scouting with a captured black demon, revealing that the demons were growing stronger as the energy declined.

• You Yi offered to teach the Human Race a faith method, but Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou hesitated over its cost and let him leave.
• Weng Zongfang gathered Aurora City's faith manuals, and Chen Fei discovered that the Black God's method let more accomplished practitioners absorb others' Faith Power and potentially alter their beliefs.
• Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou cultivated the faith method, making the surrounding World Vital Energy sluggish, but their resulting Faith Power remained weak.
• Weng Zongfang left Aurora City to investigate the black demons while Tang Yunshou stayed behind to defend the city.
• Weng Zongfang returned with a restrained black demon and reported that demons were numerous near the former gray pillar of light and growing stronger as World Vital Energy weakened.

Weng Zongfang discovered that Faith Power could weaken the black demons, but Aurora City lacked enough faith to defend itself and began considering an alliance with the Gu Hu Tribe. Chen Fei secretly abducted You Yi and used Soul Devour to learn what had happened in the Black Stone Domain.

• Weng Zongfang tested a black demon and found that Faith Power wore away at it, while attacks using the mind and divine soul risked severe contamination.
• Tang Yunshou and the other cultivators worried that Aurora City could not produce enough Faith Power, and Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou began leaning toward an alliance with the Gu Hu Tribe.
• Chen Fei returned to his courtyard, told Qu Qingsheng and the others to stay there, and left Aurora City to investigate on his own.
• Chen Fei found You Yi waiting north of Aurora City and learned that You Yi planned to destroy or annex the city if it refused the Gu Hu Tribe's alliance.
• Chen Fei used the Sky Dome Domain to capture You Yi, then began using Soul Devour to search his memories and uncover what had happened in the Black Stone Domain.

Chen Fei pieced together the Devouring Yuan Clan’s history and learned how its hidden space beneath the Black Stone Domain had been corrupted by the Heart Anomaly Realm, releasing Black Demons and contaminated World Vital Energy. With the Black Stone Domain now sealed and threatened by powerful Black Demons, Chen Fei began studying the faith method in You Yi’s memories.

• Chen Fei learned that the Devouring Yuan Clan had forged the Heavenly Origin Cauldron to reach the Ninth Order, but the Supreme Races destroyed the clan and left its descendants hidden beneath the Black Stone Domain.
• Chen Fei discovered that the Devouring Yuan Space had endured hundreds of thousands of years of exposure to the Heart Anomaly Realm, causing mutations, Black Demons, and an irreversible change to its World Vital Energy.
• Chen Fei learned that the space’s descendants had adopted faith cultivation to survive and fight Black Demons, and that some had attempted to escape into the outside world.
• Chen Fei connected the Black God from the Endless Sea to a possible escapee from the Devouring Yuan Space and concluded that the Heaven Sealing Finger had opened the space while erasing the clan’s remaining contingencies.
• Chen Fei realized that the Black Stone Domain’s World Vital Energy would now be contaminated and that powerful Black Demons threatened its inhabitants.
• Chen Fei began reading the faith method recorded in You Yi’s memories.

Chen Fei extracted the Gu Hu Tribe’s plan from You Yi, completed Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor by fusing faith techniques, and simplified the cultivation method. He began raising its proficiency with You Yi’s spiritual essence, while intending to seize the Gu Hu Tribe’s faith for himself.

• Chen Fei used God Devouring on You Yi and learned that the Gu Hu Tribe planned to lure Black Demons against Aurora City, then pose as saviors and take over the city.
• Chen Fei killed You Yi and fused the faith techniques he knew, completing Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor and removing its ability to steal other cultivators’ Faith Power.
• Chen Fei examined You Yi’s Dao Artifact and reflected on the Xuanyuan Sword projection from his previous life, which he could no longer condense in the Void Return Realm.
• Chen Fei returned to Aurora City and simplified Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor into Divine Soul Scroll, planning to cultivate his own version with a backdoor and take faith from the Gu Hu Tribe.
• Chen Fei began drawing the technique’s foundational totem with Divine Soul Power and used You Yi’s spiritual essence to gain comprehension and raise his proficiency.

Chen Fei gave Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou the faith-based technique Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor, which offered Aurora City a way to resist the Black Demons without yielding to the Gu Hu Tribe. As the technique spread among Aurora City's cultivators, Chen Fei resumed cultivating and relied on his panel to correct any distortions caused by Faith Power.

• Chen Fei reached the first transformation of Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor and brought its jade slip to Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou.
• Tang Yunshou and Weng Zongfang recognized the technique's value, and Chen Fei explained that he had obtained it from the Black God in the Endless Sea.
• Weng Zongfang declared that Aurora City no longer needed to heed the Gu Hu Tribe's demands, while Chen Fei declined a reward and received Tang Yunshou's warning to stay back if fighting began.
• After verifying the technique, Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou began teaching it to Aurora City's Dao Integration Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei shattered ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Crystals and cultivated Heaven Suppressing, the Space Subordinate Rule, and Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor, trusting his panel to correct errors in his insights.

Chen Fei advanced his cultivation of Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor as the Gu Hu Tribe pressured Aurora City to surrender half its Faith Power. When hundreds of black demons approached the city, Chen Fei left to surprise the Gu Hu Tribe at its territory.

• The Gu Hu Tribe debated You Yi's unexplained death and decided to demand Aurora City's Faith Power again, threatening to send black demons if the city refused.
• You Zhu offered Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou protection in exchange for half of Aurora City's Faith Power, but they refused to agree.
• Weng Zongfang told Aurora City's cultivators to use Faith Power to lure away black demons, while Chen Fei cultivated Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor into the Proficient Realm.
• Several hundred black demons approached Aurora City, and its Dao Integration Realm cultivators moved to lure them away.
• Chen Fei left Aurora City and reached a peak overlooking the Gu Hu Tribe's basin to launch a surprise attack.

Chen Fei infiltrated the Gu Hu Tribe’s basin and killed its cultivators, including You Wei, while gathering spiritual essence and Faith Power. After sensing a faint resonance from his Bronze Runes and considering what might lie in the Devouring Yuan Space, he continued attacking until You Bing and the tribe’s remaining cultivators confronted him.

• Chen Fei slipped past the basin’s warning formation by exploiting its weakness with his Space Subordinate Rules.
• Chen Fei killed You Wei and several other Gu Hu Tribe cultivators, then absorbed their spiritual essence and Faith Power.
• Chen Fei’s Bronze Runes faintly resonated as he considered whether a treasure related to the Heavenly Origin Cauldron lay in the Devouring Yuan Space.
• Chen Fei continued killing three Dao Integration Realm Mid-stage cultivators despite You Bing’s aura surging from the basin.
• You Bing flew out, saw the masked intruder, and led the Gu Hu Tribe’s cultivators into the sky against Chen Fei.

Chen Fei ambushed the Gu Hu Tribe, killing fifteen Dao Integration Realm cultivators before escaping and drawing You Bing into pursuit. He revealed overwhelming strength in their duel and beheaded You Bing, leaving the tribe’s leaders racing back to respond.

• Chen Fei traversed behind the Gu Hu Tribe’s forces and killed five cultivators before their attacks forced him to move again.
• You Bing ordered the survivors to form a defensive formation, but Chen Fei killed ten more cultivators and then flew away.
• You Bing pursued Chen Fei alone while You Tu and You Zhu returned with dozens of cultivators after receiving his warning.
• You Bing attacked Chen Fei with Faith Power, but Chen Fei countered it and continued fleeing until he turned to face his pursuer.
• You Bing charged with the Thousand Cloud Saber, but Chen Fei unleashed his power, shattered You Bing’s defense, and cut off his head.

Chen Fei killed You Bing, returned to Aurora City, and found a cultivation method for the fifth Space Subordinate Rule [Void] in You Bing’s memories. The method brought him closer to pursuing the complete Space Rule, though the Devouring Yuan Clan had struggled to combine all five Space Subordinate Rules.

• Chen Fei killed You Bing, absorbed his essence and Faith Power, and advanced his divine statue from the third turn to the beginning of the sixth turn.
• Chen Fei learned from You Bing’s soul fragments that You Tu and You Zhu had returned to the Gu Hu Tribe, then withdrew because his Second Level, Minor Heaven Opening Realm power could no longer be sustained.
• You Tu and You Zhu discovered You Bing’s Soul Tablet had shattered and feared that the mysterious attacker might continue targeting the Gu Hu Tribe.
• Chen Fei returned to Aurora City, confirmed the city had escaped the black fiend attack, and reassured Qu Qingsheng and the others that he was safe.
• Chen Fei examined the sixteen spiritual essences and learned from You Bing’s memories that the Devouring Yuan Clan had possessed a method for cultivating Space Subordinate Rule [Void] and pursuing the complete Space Rule.

Chen Fei cultivated while Heaven Opening Realm experts fought to capture a Devouring Yuan Clan ruin guarded by powerful black fiends. The Wumeng Tribe summoned all Dao Integration Realm cultivators in the Black Stone Domain to Meng City, where they gathered before setting out toward the black fiend horde.

• Chen Fei merged the Ancient Yuan Art into the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art and continued cultivating.
• Forty-nine Heaven Opening Realm experts failed to break through the black fiends guarding the Devouring Yuan Clan ruin, then ordered the races of the Black Stone Domain to send reinforcements.
• A ripple from the ruin summoned black fiends across the Black Stone Domain, and the Wumeng Tribe's token summoned Dao Integration Realm cultivators to Meng City.
• Tang Yunshou reported that black fiends were moving toward one destination and had grown less aggressive, so Aurora City's Dao Integration Realm cultivators left the residents behind and traveled to Meng City.
• After the cultivators gathered in Meng City, the experts set out, and a day later Chen Fei saw a vast horde of black fiends ahead.

Chen Fei joined tens of thousands of Dao Integration Realm cultivators in a Black Tortoise Formation to push through the black fiends toward the ruins. The formation advanced thirty miles but slowed as the fiends linked together and shared damage, while the Heaven Opening Realm powerhouses saved their strength for the ruins.

• Chen Fei used the spiritual essence of sixteen Gu Hu Tribe cultivators to advance his cultivation, bringing Myriad Spirits Ascending to the Ancestor to Great Perfection Realm and strengthening Heaven Suppressing.
• Tens of thousands of Dao Integration Realm cultivators formed a Black Tortoise celestial manifestation and began advancing into the black fiends under the command of the Heaven Opening Realm powerhouses.
• The Black Tortoise Formation drove through the fiends for twenty miles before their numbers and ability to share damage slowed its progress.
• Chen Fei remained behind the vanguard and supplied power to the formation as cultivators on its perimeter suffered injuries and rotated out.
• The formation advanced another ten miles, but its pace dwindled as black fiends continued streaming from the ruins.