Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei and the Black Tortoise Formation fought through the Black Demon horde to reach the Devouring Yuan Clan relic, suffering catastrophic losses as the Qiankun Cauldron nearly shattered. When the formation entered the relic, it exploded and scattered the cultivators, leaving Chen Fei stranded in a desert beside a torn cauldron as new figures appeared.

• Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Demons ambushed the formation, killing many cultivators from the Black Stone Domain while the Qiankun Cauldron protected the Human Race.
• When the formation reached the relic’s ten-mile boundary, its power faltered, and a counterattack killed thousands before Heaven Opening Realm cultivators reinforced it.
• The Heaven Opening Realm cultivators drove the formation through the final mile, draining and killing many Dao Integration Realm cultivators as the Qiankun Cauldron cracked.
• Du Ruiyuan put away the nearly shattered Qiankun Cauldron, and the Heaven Opening Realm cultivators swept the formation into the relic.
• The relic’s space violently reversed and shattered the Black Tortoise Formation, scattering Chen Fei and the other cultivators; Chen Fei landed in a desert beside a torn cauldron and concealed his trembling Bronze Shards.
• A bell rang, and several figures appeared in ripples dozens of miles away from Chen Fei.

Chen Fei encountered Kun Yu and three Black Demons inside the relic, where he discovered that killing the Black Demons earned the relic’s favor. He killed Kun Yu as well and absorbed his spiritual essence, while the relic’s purpose remained unclear.

• Kun Yu fled from the Black Demons and ordered Chen Fei to stop them, expecting Chen Fei to take the risk.
• Chen Fei restrained Kun Yu and the three Black Demons with Space Binding Kill, then destroyed the first Black Demon and found that it could no longer revive.
• After Chen Fei killed a second Black Demon, a cauldron-like chime sounded and the relic’s space felt more favorable to him.
• Chen Fei destroyed the last Black Demon, then killed Kun Yu and absorbed his spiritual essence to gain cultivation insights.

Chen Fei investigated the relic’s strange reactions to killing Black Demons and was transported to a forest with two Dao Integration Realm Late Stage cultivators and a Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Demon. He killed the two cultivators, then let the relic’s power carry away the Black Demon along with a battle weapon.

• Chen Fei used See God Unending in the desert and found that it slightly increased the relic’s goodwill toward him.
• The relic transported Chen Fei to a forest where Banshu of the Qiu Clan and Wukan of the Wumeng Tribe faced a Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Demon.
• Banshu and Wukan threatened Chen Fei, but he revealed his strength, restrained them with Space Binding Kill, and used Soul Devour to read their memories.
• Chen Fei learned that Black Demons were transported away when they won and suspected that the relic’s spirituality had fallen into chaos.
• Chen Fei kicked the Black Demon away, while the Space Barrier crushed Banshu and Wukan into blood mist.
• The relic’s power swept away the Black Demon and a battle weapon that Chen Fei sent after it.

Chen Fei explored the relic forest, learned that a blazing sphere of light might be its ultimate treasure, and concluded that the relic's corrupted spirituality was sending reinforcements into battles. After killing a Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Mist and gaining a trace of the relic's goodwill, he left Fan Xie stunned by his strength.

• Chen Fei sent a battle soldier into the space above the relic, where Black Mist swarmed and destroyed it, and he glimpsed a blazing sphere of light overhead.
• Chen Fei absorbed Banshu's and Wukan's spiritual essences, strengthening his Rule Fragments, then found no way out through the violent Space Crack.
• Fan Xie of the Wumeng Tribe and a Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Mist appeared in the forest as reinforcements; Chen Fei immobilized Fan Xie and threw him into a crater.
• Chen Fei fought and killed the Black Mist with his kick and the Qian Yuan Sword, earning another trace of the relic's goodwill.
• Fan Xie realized Chen Fei had concealed his realm and could fight across ranks.

Chen Fei killed Fan Xie and then slew You Tu during the ruin’s fourth round of battles, absorbing their spiritual essence to strengthen himself. After You Tu’s death, the ruin transported Chen Fei to a gathering of cultivators around a projected Bronze Cauldron.

• Chen Fei killed Fan Xie, absorbed his spiritual essence, and learned that Fan Xie belonged to a powerful Wumeng Tribe clan and cultivated Nine Heavens Star Slaughter.
• As the ruin’s fourth round began, Chen Fei was transferred to a mountain peak with You Tu and two Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Demons.
• You Tu attacked Chen Fei, but Chen Fei broke through his sand technique and killed him with the Qian Yuan Sword in two moves.
• Chen Fei absorbed You Tu’s spiritual essence, and the two Black Demons were teleported away after You Tu died.
• The ruin transported Chen Fei to a gathering of Dao Integration Realm and Heaven Opening Realm cultivators separated by Space Barriers, where a projected Bronze Cauldron stood.

Chen Fei and the surviving cultivators discovered that killing Black Devils earned Contribution Value that could be exchanged for the shattered Bronze Cauldron’s vast stock of treasures. Though the offerings included more than a thousand Rule Crystals and several hundred portions of Plane Origin, Chen Fei lacked the Contribution Value—and the permission to skip basic items—to obtain them.

• Chen Fei saw that fewer than half of the Human Race’s Dao Integration Realm cultivators remained, while only four of its Peak Dao Integration Realm cultivators were present.
• The shattered Bronze Cauldron gathered the cultivators and announced that they could exchange rewards for killing Black Devils.
• Chen Fei inspected the offerings and found more than a thousand Rule Crystals, several hundred portions of Plane Origin, and numerous rare treasures.
• The Bronze Cauldron assigned Contribution Value according to the Black Devils’ realms, with Heaven Opening Realm Black Devils worth at least one hundred points.
• Chen Fei learned that a Rule Crystal cost thirty points, but he lacked enough Contribution Value and could not bypass the basic exchange items.

Chen Fei exploited the Bronze Cauldron’s Black Demon trials to earn enough Contribution Value to exchange for the Empty Art, which he merged into the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art. The improved art let him combine his Space Subordinate Rule Fragments into a power resembling Heaven Suppressing.

• Chen Fei found the Empty Art among the Bronze Cauldron’s exchange options and realized it could cultivate the Space Subordinate Rule [Void], which he still lacked.
• The Bronze Cauldron sent Chen Fei back to the mountain peak, where he killed an Early Stage Dao Integration Realm Black Demon and learned he could return to the Exchange Space after each kill.
• Chen Fei feigned difficulty against successive Late Stage Dao Integration Realm Black Demons, killing them in measured bouts to raise his Contribution Value safely.
• After reaching sixty-one Contribution Value, Chen Fei exchanged for the Empty Art and read it while fighting more Late Stage Dao Integration Realm Black Demons.
• Chen Fei merged the Empty Art into the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art, strengthening it and enabling him to combine his five Space Subordinate Rule Fragments.

Chen Fei continued killing black demons and planned to use Rule Crystals to reach the Peak Dao Integration Realm, while other cultivators struggled through the ruin’s endless battles. The Heaven Opening Realm cultivators began attacking the ruin’s barriers, and Chen Fei left the Exchange Space holding a Rule Crystal.

• Chen Fei killed a black demon and calculated that two Rule Crystals could provide the fragments he needed to take control of a Subordinate Rule and reach the Peak Dao Integration Realm.
• Black demons gradually regained their undying traits, and Dao Integration Realm cultivators began dying as battles against enemies of their own rank wore them down.
• The Heaven Opening Realm cultivators failed to find flaws in the ruin’s barriers and began attacking them directly, disregarding the danger to the cultivators inside.
• Chen Fei killed another black demon, returned to the Exchange Space, and selected a Rule Crystal from the Bronze Cauldron’s phantom.

Chen Fei burned a Rule Crystal to rapidly strengthen his cultivation, advancing Heaven Suppressing to the Perfection Realm and gaining a physique powerful enough to overwhelm Peak Dao Integration Realm opponents. He began killing Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Mist demons for Contribution Value and entered the Exchange Space to obtain more Rule Crystals.

• Chen Fei saw that the Human Race had lost another powerful Human Emperor Venerable and noted that fewer than four hundred Dao Integration Realm cultivators remained.
• Chen Fei crushed and burned a Rule Crystal, raising his Space Subordinate Rule fragments and advancing the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art and Heaven Suppressing.
• Chen Fei tested his new strength by killing a Dao Integration Realm Late Stage Black Mist demon with a single palm strike.
• Chen Fei used spatial force to swiftly kill another Late Stage Black Mist demon, then fought a Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Mist demon with his fists.
• Chen Fei killed two Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Mist demons in less than a quarter of an hour and appeared in the Exchange Space to look at the Rule Crystals.

Chen Fei used a Rule Crystal to master Space Subordinate Rule [Great] and break through to the Emperor Venerable Realm. As he continued cultivating, he effortlessly repelled and seized the Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Mist demon.

• Chen Fei returned to the mountain peak space and shattered the Rule Crystal, using its insights to bring the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art to Great Perfection.
• Chen Fei gathered 108 Rule Fragments into a complete Space Subordinate Rule [Great] and became the human race's new Emperor Venerable.
• Chen Fei continued cultivating Space Subordinate Rule [Small] and Space Subordinate Rule [Solid] while the Black Mist demon destroyed his nine battle soldiers and attacked him.
• Chen Fei used distorted space to keep the Black Mist demon from reaching him, then opened his eyes and grabbed it by the neck.
• Chen Fei scattered the Black Mist demon's power and flung it through mountain ridges into the ground.

Chen Fei used the escalating Black Mist attacks to gain Rule Crystals and advance his grasp of space, discovering that the Black Mist was weakening the Bronze Cauldron’s power. He left the chapter with two Rule Crystals secretly obtained through the Bronze Cauldron’s exchange transmission.

• Chen Fei sensed that the Bronze Cauldron’s spirituality was losing control of the Space Barrier as the Black Mist appeared more frequently and grew stronger.
• Chen Fei killed two Peak Dao Integration Realm Black Mist and exchanged their Contribution Value for Rule Crystals.
• Chen Fei used a Rule Crystal to increase his space-rule fragments, fused all five Space Subordinate Rules into an incomplete Space Main Rule, and sensed that the opposing force was the Black Mist.
• Chen Fei entered the Second Level, Minor Heaven Opening Realm and studied the weakened transmission power while requesting an exchange from the Bronze Cauldron.
• Chen Fei lightly touched the transmission power with the Desolate Universe God Slaughter Art and received two Rule Crystals instead of one.

Chen Fei exploited the Bronze Cauldron’s failing exchanges to cultivate with Rule Crystals while sensing that its spirituality was nearing collapse and Spirit Devouring Worms were approaching. As stronger Black Demons emerged, he faced two at once and began fighting them directly.

• Chen Fei confirmed he could exploit the Bronze Cauldron’s exchange transmissions, but his current Space Rule control was insufficient to obtain an extra Rule Crystal.
• He used Rule Crystals to absorb insights and sensed the Bronze Cauldron’s deterioration accelerating, along with the faint aura of a Spirit Devouring Worm.
• Chen Fei altered a transmission so that two Black Demons appeared, then continued cultivating while their strength and ability to break his Space Barriers grew.
• After his Rule Crystal’s energy dispersed, Chen Fei sensed the Bronze Cauldron’s condition, rushed toward the two Black Demons, kicked one into the ground, and drove both palms into the other’s chest.

Chen Fei grew stronger by killing Black Fiends and extracting Rule Crystals, but the Bronze Cauldron’s spirituality shattered, unleashing its power and spiritual essence before the relic began to dissipate. As Spirit Devouring Worms surged toward the survivors, Liao Xia ordered a weakened Black Tortoise Formation to meet them, placing the Human Race and other selected clans at the front with Chen Fei.

• Chen Fei killed the Black Fiends, gained more Space and Power Rule fragments, and exchanged Contribution Value for five Rule Crystals.
• The Bronze Cauldron’s spirituality cracked and shattered, filling the Exchange Space with its final power and a flood of World Vital Energy and spiritual essence.
• The relic began to dissipate, and Chen Fei sensed the Spirit Devouring Worms approaching from the other half of the relic.
• Liao Xia ordered the Wumeng Tribe and Xuan Clan to help form the Black Tortoise Formation against the Spirit Devouring Worms.
• Wu Shirui sent the Human Race and several other clans to the front while the Wumeng Tribe retreated toward the center.
• Chen Fei joined the front line with nine Dao Integration Realm battle soldiers, surprising Jiang Chengji and the nearby cultivators as the Spirit Devouring Worms arrived.

Chen Fei used Dao Integration Realm Early Stage battle soldiers to shield the Human Race from the Spirit Devouring Worms, keeping all three hundred Human Race cultivators alive as the Black Tortoise Formation endured the swarm. After the Bronze Cauldron’s eruption was contained and its treasures were about to be divided, a white streak appeared and split the cauldron in two.

• The Spirit Devouring Worms struck the Black Tortoise Formation, forcing the Black Stone Domain cultivators to defend without killing the worms.
• Chen Fei sent battle soldiers to intercept attacks and protect Human Race cultivators whenever the formation’s shield faltered.
• Chen Fei used Low-grade Spirit Crystals to replenish his battle soldiers, and the Human Race suffered no casualties while other races lost hundreds of cultivators.
• As the spiritual essence faded, dozens of Heaven Opening Realm cultivators contained the Bronze Cauldron’s final eruption.
• A soul-tearing shriek sounded, and a streak of white light split the Bronze Cauldron in two.

The Spirit Devouring Worms scattered the Bronze Cauldron’s treasures by throwing the surrounding space into chaos, trapping the Black Stone Domain cultivators in Space Turbulence. Chen Fei guided the Human Race toward safety while covertly drawing a resonant Bronze Shard closer to himself.

• Liao Xia and the other Heaven Opening Realm cultivators clashed with the Spirit Devouring Worms, but the worms formed a spatial formation that engulfed the region and scattered the Bronze Cauldron’s treasures.
• Chen Fei used the five battle soldiers’ self-destruction to gather the Human Race cultivators, then offered to guide them through the Space Turbulence.
• Qiu Gongzhi accepted Chen Fei’s offer, and Chen Fei led the Human Race around the spatial currents while keeping them away from the Heaven Opening Realm battles.
• Several other races escaped the Space Turbulence as Chen Fei continued guiding the Human Race toward its edge.
• Chen Fei sensed a Bronze Shard resembling an ear of the Bronze Cauldron and used the Space Turbulence to send it gradually toward the Human Race.

Chen Fei led the surviving Human Race cultivators out of the Space Turbulence while secretly recovering another piece of the Bronze Cauldron. After the battle ended, Liao Xia offered the Black Stone Domain cultivators a chance to become his servants by climbing his Heavenly Ladder, and many considered the offer.

• Chen Fei used spatial power to retrieve the Bronze Cauldron ear and hid it with the two Bronze Shards in his Jade Box.
• Chen Fei led the Human Race cultivators out of the Space Turbulence, where Qiu Gongzhi brought them before the Wumeng Tribe experts.
• Lu Ji eyed the Human Race and resolved to exterminate them, while Qiu Gongzhi feared his weakened people could no longer resist the Abyss Clan.
• Chen Fei sensed that his Rule Fragments and physique had grown closer to the threshold of a seventh-order Rule Body.
• The Spirit Devouring Worms withdrew after the Heaven Opening Realm battle subsided, and the spatial currents calmed.
• Liao Xia conjured a golden Heavenly Ladder and offered to take in anyone who could climb it as his servant, stirring interest among the Dao Integration Realm cultivators.

Chen Fei watched Liao Xia select a servant through the deadly Heavenly Ladder, where Lu Fan of the Abyss Clan succeeded and became his disciple. The surviving Human Race gathered in Hanyun City, facing near-destruction, while Chen Fei began cultivating.

• An Ice Clan Dao Integration Realm Late Stage cultivator failed to climb the Heavenly Ladder and was killed by Liao Xia, and several Peak Dao Integration Realm cultivators then died at the eightieth stair.
• Lu Fan revealed three Subordinate Rules, climbed all ninety-nine steps, and became Liao Xia's servant as the Abyss Clan celebrated.
• The Heaven Opening Realm cultivators departed, and Wu Shirui ordered the Black Stone Domain cultivators to remain within the domain while the Wumeng Tribe and Xuan Clan paused their war.
• Lu Ji planned to destroy the Human Race, while Qiu Gongzhi led the Human Race cultivators to gather everyone in Hanyun City.
• Eight days later, the Human Race reached Hanyun City with only about thirty percent of its former Dao Integration Realm cultivators remaining, and Chen Fei began cultivating with Rule Crystals.

Chen Fei advanced his Space and Power Rule comprehension with Rule Crystals, reaching the threshold for the seventh-order Heaven Opening Body. As he began a dangerous breakthrough, Yu Wuheng investigated a possible Heaven Opening Realm burial site that might aid the human race.

• Chen Fei used a Rule Crystal over a day, completing Space Subordinate Rule [Small] and increasing his progress in Space Subordinate Rule [Solid] and Space Subordinate Rule [Void].
• Chen Fei's Power Rule fragments reached ninety-eight, bringing his physique to the peak attainable at the sixth order.
• Qiu Gongzhi and the other Human Emperor Venerables continued trying to heal thirteen severely injured Emperor Venerables inside the Qiankun Cauldron, while scouts monitored the area around Hanyun City.
• Yu Wuheng deciphered a jade slip pointing to a suspected Heaven Opening Realm burial site, then summoned several Sun Moon Realm cultivators instead of heading there alone.
• Chen Fei's Power Rule fragments reached one hundred, and his body began radiating intense heat as he faced the breakthrough into the seventh-order Heaven Opening Body.

Chen Fei advanced his Heaven Suppressing and Space Subordinate Rules while investigating a Bronze Cauldron Ear, as Yu Wuheng defied Qiu Gongzhi’s order and explored a suspected Heaven Opening Realm burial site. The chapter left Chen Fei seeing the embryonic form of a Rule Crystal inside the Bronze Cauldron.

• Chen Fei reached the Seventh Order Heaven Opening Body and condensed the Solid Space Subordinate Rule while cultivating with Rule Crystals.
• Yu Wuheng told Qiu Gongzhi about a suspected Heaven Opening Realm burial site, but Qiu Gongzhi ordered him not to go.
• Yu Wuheng decided to investigate the site alone, but returned to Hanyun City severely injured and terrified.
• Chen Fei exhausted all five Rule Crystals, nearing Great Perfection in Sixth Order Heaven Suppressing before hitting a bottleneck.
• Chen Fei studied the Bronze Cauldron Ear for three days, then used his Bronze Runes to form a radiant cauldron and saw an embryonic Rule Crystal within it.

Chen Fei used the damaged cauldron ear to accelerate his cultivation, discovering it could provide spiritual essence far faster if he released it directly instead of waiting for Rule Crystals. Meanwhile, the Abyss Clan prepared to frame the human race for colluding with the Xuan Clan, leaving Hanyun City under mounting threat.

• Chen Fei refined the cauldron ear’s runes into his Origin Point Space and used them to increase the cauldron’s absorption of World Vital Energy.
• Chen Fei changed the cauldron’s function to release gathered spiritual essence, then cultivated with it and ten thousand Low-grade Spirit Crystals, increasing his rate to one Space Subordinate Rule Fragment per day.
• Yu Wuheng recovered from his injuries in Hanyun City and concluded that only a Peak Dao Integration Realm cultivator might safely explore the suspected Heaven Opening Realm burial site.
• Lu Yan and Sang Che prepared false evidence accusing the human race of colluding with the Xuan Clan so the Wumeng Tribe would move against them.
• Qiu Gongzhi watched uneasily over Hanyun City as dark clouds gathered, while Chen Fei continued cultivating in his chamber.