Chapter Summaries

Fang Mo mastered the Desolate Heaven Finger, returned from the space-time river, and began igniting his fire of laws to enter Void Comprehension. After breaking free of a heart tribulation, he left Galaxy City as his heavenly tribulation gathered, and the city’s powerful figures followed.

• Fang Mo refined the Tyrant Heaven Emperor’s Primordial Spirit and origin laws, then formed and tested the Desolate Heaven Finger, which shook the space-time river.
• Fang Mo returned to his dojo and ignited the fire of laws within his Dantian, preparing to achieve Void Comprehension after passing the heavenly tribulation.
• Fang Mo experienced a heart-tribulation illusion of returning to the antique market, recognized the deception, and broke free.
• A vast thundercloud vortex gathered over Galaxy City, frightening residents as they feared Fang Mo’s tribulation would destroy the city.
• Fang Mo vanished from the city, causing the vortex to dissipate; True Lord Yuchen and others followed the Tianli Sect True Lords into the void.

Fang Mo prepared to cross his Void Comprehension tribulation while Tianli Sect faced threats from rival factions, the Mechanical Empire, and sea beasts. As the tribulation began, more than twenty Heavenly Venerates confronted Tianli Sect in the Yin Ruins and demanded the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art.

• Dangyun Heavenly Venerate warned everyone to stay beyond a hundred thousand li from Fang Mo's tribulation site, while Yu Chen and Purple Zenith watched from the boundary.
• Qingshui reported that Heavenly Venerates had entered Red Rock Continent's void space and sea beasts were approaching the coast, prompting Yunhe to order increased surveillance for the Mechanical Empire.
• More than twenty Heavenly Venerates gathered outside Tianli Sect's Sacred Mountain in the Yin Ruins, led by Lie Jiuyou, Jian Buxu, and Red Crane Heavenly Venerate.
• Jian Buxu and Red Crane Heavenly Venerate demanded the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art and threatened Tianli Sect if it refused.
• Lie Jiuyou urged Xinghe to surrender the art, using Fang Mo's tribulation and the threats from the Mechanical Empire and exotic beasts as leverage.
• Xinghe accused Lie Jiuyou of threatening Tianli Sect, then rose as a star river appeared above him while Mu Cangming stood with the phantom of a massive sword behind him.

Tianli Sect confronted the Heavenly Venerates who had come to pressure it for the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art, and its strength forced several factions to withdraw. When Lie Jiuyou and the remaining leaders tried to retreat, Xinghe and Mu Cangming launched an attack that shattered their alliance formation.

• Xinghe, Mu Cangming, and the six Heavenly Venerates of Tianli Sect threatened the assembled sects with war, and Mu Cangming refused to yield over the sealing formation.
• Purple Moon, Snow Maiden, Daoist Lingxu, and several other Heavenly Venerates withdrew rather than fight Tianli Sect.
• Xinghe, Mu Cangming, and the Sacred Mountain revealed three Void Comprehension-level battle beasts, alarming Lie Jiuyou and the other remaining leaders.
• Lie Jiuyou ordered a withdrawal, but Star River Heavenly Venerate attacked, and Mu Cangming joined him with the other Heavenly Venerates and beasts.
• The three battle beasts struck Lie Jiuyou's group, sending its leaders flying and breaking their alliance formation.

The Tianli Sect’s Heavenly Venerates overwhelmed Lie Jiuyou and the allied sects after revealing their formidable strength. As the battle turned deadly, a gaunt old man appeared and ordered everyone to stop.

• Ziyue Heavenly Venerate, Snow Maiden, and the other observers realized the Tianli Sect’s strength had surged, while Jian Buxu suspected Xinghe and the others had hunted Void Insight beings in the Sea of Fog.
• Lie Jiuyou and the other Heavenly Venerates tried to retreat, but Xinghe blocked them and the Tianli Sect’s forces surrounded them.
• Mu Cangming and Xinghe attacked the allied sects, overpowering Jian Buxu, Lie Jiuyou, Red Crane, and Eagle Mountain.
• Xuanqing Heavenly Venerate struck down a retreating Heavenly Venerate, whom Lie Jiuyou identified as Junior Brother Empty Mountain.
• Three figures emerged to deflect Xinghe’s Reversing Galaxy, then a gaunt old man appeared, broke up the attack, and ordered the battle to stop.

Xinghe rejected Guiyun Heavenly Venerate’s apology as more ancient Heavenly Venerates emerged to challenge Tianli Sect. He revealed that Tianli Sect’s Heavenly Venerates each had a battle beast, shocking the assembled factions and leaving the confrontation on the brink of battle.

• Guiyun Heavenly Venerate arrived, rebuked Lie Jiuyou and the others, and apologized to Xinghe for their actions.
• Xinghe refused to let Guiyun’s group leave, and his starry aura revealed he was close to breaking through to the fifth realm.
• Withered Sword Heavenly Venerate and Flame Phoenix Heavenly Venerate appeared to back Guiyun and challenge Xinghe.
• Xinghe called on Tianli Sect to reveal its foundation, and Xuanqing and the other Heavenly Venerates summoned Dongxu-level battle beasts.
• The opposing Heavenly Venerates cried out in alarm and retreated at the sight of Tianli Sect’s battle beasts.

Xinghe forced the gathered sects to pay compensation after the Tianli Sect revealed its eight Void Comprehension war beasts. When Flame Phoenix attacked the Nine Heavens Divine Pillars and was killed by their blood-red lightning, Xinghe offered the others a way to avoid payment, then turned his attention to the Mechanical Empire.

• Guiyun Heavenly Venerate conceded defeat, and Xinghe demanded one Void Comprehension spirit treasure from every person present.
• Flame Phoenix demanded the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art and threatened to break the seal, but Xinghe refused to yield.
• Flame Phoenix sent her fire phoenix into the Nine Heavens Divine Pillars, which answered with blood-red lightning that pierced and destroyed her.
• Guiyun Heavenly Venerate agreed to pay compensation and asked Xinghe to lower the amount, but Xinghe refused and offered an alternative condition.
• Xinghe looked toward the Mechanical Empire's camp as he prepared to state his condition.

The Mechanical Empire was surrounded by more than twenty Heavenly Venerates while Fang Mo prepared to face his tribulation at Desolate Rock Mountain Range. As the thunder dragon took shape, the Tianli Sect’s camp remained uncertain about the whereabouts of other powerful arrivals and the Mechanical Empire’s intentions.

• The Purple-Wing Blade Emperor ordered the Mechanical Empire’s forces back to their base as he realized the other sects might target them.
• Lie Jiuyou and more than twenty Heavenly Venerates surrounded the Mechanical Empire’s base, and Lie Jiuyou threatened to destroy anyone who came out.
• The Purple-Wing Blade Emperor refused to let the seven War Emperors break through, choosing to wait and hope the Governor did not act rashly.
• At Desolate Rock Mountain Range, True Monarch Ziji noticed that many Heavenly Venerates had not arrived, while Qingshui reported that radar had detected only seven Void Comprehension experts entering Red Rock Continent.
• Fang Mo stood ready beneath the tribulation vortex as the gathered Heavenly Venerates and True Lords assessed his formidable aura.
• A massive thunder dragon emerged from the vortex, signaling the start of Fang Mo’s tribulation.

Fang Mo endured the opening strikes of his Void Insight tribulation, revealing the Myriad Forms Great Dao Diagram and enough power to shock the watching Heavenly Venerables. As news of the Tianli Sect’s victory in the Yin Ruins spread, a mysterious armored figure located Fang Mo in the Desolate Rock Mountain Range before disappearing.

• Fang Mo’s Myriad Forms Great Dao Diagram absorbed and refined much of the first thunder dragon, while Fang Mo endured the remaining lightning and tempered his body and soul.
• Two hidden figures received news that the Yin Ruins operation had failed, the Tianli Sect had formed eight Void Insight battle beasts, and several sects had been subdued as the Yin Ruins were sealed.
• The Heavenly Venerables learned of the Tianli Sect’s scheme and watched as a second thunder dragon struck Fang Mo’s diagram.
• Fang Mo split the rapidly arriving third tribulation bolt with a single saber strike, then ordered his diagram to refine the lightning.
• A dark-gold armored figure found Fang Mo undergoing his tribulation in the Desolate Rock Mountain Range, activated a silver disc that promptly shattered, and vanished into the forest.

As Fang Mo endured the fourth through eighth lightning tribulation bolts, he shattered them with his body and grew stronger, while the ninth bolt gathered overhead. Just before it fell, an evil aberration attacked him through the void, and Fang Mo prepared to face it.

• True Monarch Qingshui reported a spatial positioning signal from the Mechanical Empire and a massive sea beast landfall, so Yunhe sent the others to their posts and stayed at the tribulation ground.
• The fourth lightning bolt destroyed Fang Mo’s Myriad Forms Great Dao Diagram, but he shattered the thunder dragon with a punch and had the Ancestral Dragon phantom devour the scattered lightning.
• Fang Mo faced the fifth through eighth bolts head-on, repairing his damaged body with lightning energy as the flame of laws in his Dantian grew stronger.
• After Fang Mo survived eight bolts, the ninth gathered in the thunderclouds while he knelt wounded in the crater.
• A gigantic claw belonging to an evil aberration tore through the void and lunged at Fang Mo, who greeted the attacker with a cold smile.

Dangyun, Fu Ye, and Han Shan fought off powerful exotic beasts while Fang Mo absorbed lightning during his tribulation. The White Phoenix revealed her allegiance to Fang Mo and battled Red Thunder, as hidden Heavenly Venerates recognized Fang Mo’s value; the ninth lightning tribulation was ready to begin.

• Dangyun blocked the Black Flood Dragon’s lightning attack, while Fu Ye and Han Shan fought a Flame Eagle and a two-winged demonic dragon.
• A giant tiger called Red Thunder emerged, and True Lord experts retreated as hidden Heavenly Venerates watched from the void.
• Red Thunder attacked Fang Mo, but the White Phoenix intercepted its strike and revealed that Fang Mo was her Master.
• The White Phoenix and Red Thunder clashed, while the Heavenly Venerates concluded that Fang Mo must survive and discussed the value of his cultivation art.
• The ninth lightning tribulation gathered into a vortex, where a seven-colored thunder dragon began to emerge.

Fang Mo faced the ninth tribulation lightning as the Heavenly Venerates battled the strange beasts attacking him. The Tianli Sect’s war beasts turned the battle in their favor, and Black Flood Dragon was left fighting Dangyun Heavenly Venerate and Xuanqing Heavenly Venerate as the strange beasts began to fall.

• Fang Mo charged the enormous thunder dragon with the Ancestral Dragon’s power, and the ninth tribulation lightning engulfed him.
• Five more Void Comprehension strange beasts appeared, and the Heavenly Venerates fought them while Xinghe’s sword array failed to stop an eight-legged beast.
• Xinghe and the other Heavenly Venerates summoned their war beasts, giving the Tianli Sect’s side the advantage in the battle against ten strange beasts.
• Purple Moon recognized that the Myriad Transformations Origin Return Art had shifted the balance of power, while more strange beasts were slain or driven back.
• Black Flood Dragon tried to flee, but Dangyun Heavenly Venerate and Xuanqing Heavenly Venerate attacked him and blocked his escape.

A Sacred Venerate emerged during the battle and effortlessly shattered Dangyun Heavenly Venerate’s attack before overpowering Xinghe Heavenly Venerate. Mu Cangming and Xinghe joined forces with the Tianli Sword and managed to wound the Sacred Venerate, who responded with murderous intent.

• A pale hand emerged from a rift and shattered Dangyun Heavenly Venerate’s colossal sword, revealing a white-haired figure whom White Phoenix identified as a Sacred Venerate.
• The Sacred Venerate turned toward the tribulation site and declared that he wanted the Divine Lord origin, so Xinghe attacked to stop him.
• The Sacred Venerate broke Xinghe’s Star River Sword Domain and blasted him backward with a single strike.
• Mu Cangming appeared with the Tianli Sword, and he and Xinghe combined their power to resist the Sacred Venerate’s attacks.
• Several streams of energy poured into the Tianli Sword, allowing Mu Cangming and Xinghe to shatter the Sacred Venerate’s gigantic finger and wound him.
• The wounded Sacred Venerate glared at Mu Cangming and Xinghe and vowed to kill them.

Six Heavenly Venerates joined Tianli Sect’s fight against the aberrations and held off the Saint Venerate while Fang Mo completed his tribulation. Fang Mo awakened and defeated the Sacred Envoy in battle, revealing it as a gigantic black dragon.

• Ziyue, Snow Maiden, Lingxu, Mu Cangming, Xinghe, and other Heavenly Venerates rallied allies to fight beside Tianli Sect.
• Seven Heavenly Venerates combined their attacks to repel the Saint Venerate, who ordered the aberrant beasts to attack the lightning tribulation zone.
• Fang Mo absorbed the final lightning bolt, recovered under golden rain, and emerged from the vanished tribulation domain.
• The Sacred Envoy ambushed Fang Mo, but the Heaven-Mixing Bell blocked its first strike before Fang Mo counterattacked with the Undying Dragon Soul Spear.
• Fang Mo shattered the Sacred Envoy’s bone blade and sent it crashing into a distant mountain, revealing its true body as a gigantic black dragon.

The Sacred Venerate revealed a monstrous true form and overwhelmed the Heavenly Venerates with power that erased space and trapped them in a domain. As the group faced despair, Mu Cangming rallied them to combine their wills through the Tianli Sword and break the spatial layers.

• Fang Mo wounded and drove back the Sacred Envoy with two spear strikes, giving Xinghe and the others hope.
• The Sacred Venerate unleashed dark energy that blasted away the Heavenly Venerates’ attacks and transformed into a grotesque, tentacled creature.
• The Sacred Venerate erased part of space with a single attack, wounding Xinghe despite his escape.
• The Sacred Venerate trapped the Heavenly Venerates in a domain that severed their connection to heaven and earth and blocked their combined attacks.
• Mu Cangming used the Tianli Sword to rouse the group, and the Heavenly Venerates joined their wills to it until its sword light shattered the layers of space.

Fang Mo revealed that he had feigned weakness during his tribulation to lure out the aberrations, then used a primordial Ancestral Dragon to kill the Holy Envoy. The Saint Sovereign overwhelmed the wounded Heavenly Venerables and began draining Stone Dragon’s power, leaving Stone Dragon to unleash a desperate explosion.

• Mu Cangming and the others joined forces against the Saint Sovereign, while White Phoenix clashed with the wounded black dragon transformed from the Holy Envoy.
• A primordial Ancestral Dragon appeared, crushed the black dragon, and devoured its Primordial Spirit after Fang Mo pinned it with a spear.
• Fang Mo revealed that he had hidden his strength and deliberately acted weak to lure out the aberrations, then watched the Holy Envoy’s death weaken their forces.
• The Saint Sovereign shattered the Heavenly Venerables’ defenses and severely wounded them before launching a surprise attack on Stone Dragon.
• The Saint Sovereign trapped Stone Dragon in its space-time domain and drained his power, so Stone Dragon burned his laws and Primordial Spirit in a desperate explosion.

After Stone Dragon Heavenly Venerate sacrificed himself, the surviving Heavenly Venerates learned that the wounded Holy Venerate had survived and joined forces to attack it. Just as their assault seemed to weaken the aberration, it began draining Flame Eagle’s energy to recover.

• Stone Dragon Heavenly Venerate’s self-destruction damaged the Holy Venerate but failed to kill it.
• The Holy Venerate reappeared, and the Heavenly Venerates attacked together to avenge Stone Dragon.
• The Holy Venerate repeatedly repelled their attacks, but each clash worsened its wounds and weakened its aura.
• The Holy Venerate appeared beside Flame Eagle and began draining its energy, prompting Han Shan to rush in and stop it.

Fang Mo summoned the Ancestral Dragon Blade and shattered the Sacred Venerate’s absolute domain with its first form, forcing the wounded enemy and its beasts to flee. The strike left Fang Mo nearly drained as the Sacred Venerate escaped alive.

• The Sacred Venerate’s recovering absolute domain repelled the Heavenly Venerates’ attacks while it drained the Flame Eagle.
• Fang Mo arrived and struck the domain with the Undying Dragon Soul Spear, cracking it but failing to break it.
• Fang Mo drew the Ancestral Dragon Blade, which drained his vitality and energy as its emergence froze heaven and earth.
• Fang Mo used Ancestral Dragon Blade—First Form, Dragon Skeleton: Prison Suppression, destroying the Sacred Venerate’s domain and blasting its body apart.
• The Sacred Venerate re-formed in weakened condition and fled with the strange beasts.
• The Ancestral Dragon Blade dissipated, and Fang Mo collapsed to one knee, utterly drained.

Yunhe and the other True Lords watched the battle while beast tides attacked the Red Rock Continent, until the Mechanical Empire arrived with thirty-five Level 7 War Emperors. Mu Lei advanced toward the battlefield, but a world-destroying slash, a warning that the attack was a trap, and approaching strange beasts left him facing a rapidly worsening situation.

• Yunhe saw warnings of beast tides across the Red Rock Continent and detected intense void fluctuations in Zone 1227.
• A beast-shaped starship emerged from the void, carrying thirty-five Level 7 War Emperors, and Mu Lei ordered his forces to advance toward the battlefield.
• The War Emperors killed two True Lords, while Yunhe and the others fled and failed to send messages through the battlefield's chaotic energy.
• Mu Lei learned that Fang Mo's tribulation had ended and that the Tianli Sect and Heavenly Venerables were fighting a powerful strange beast, then vowed to seize the opportunity.
• A dragon roar and a devastating slash produced stellar-level energy readings, making Mu Lei realize the threat could destroy his starship and War Emperors.
• Mu Lei received Silard's warning that the Tianli Sect had prepared a trap, as radar detected five approaching Void Comprehension-level strange beasts, including one beyond that realm.

Mu Lei ordered the Mechanical Empire fleet and its War Emperors to attack a group of fleeing mutant beasts, hoping to capture the wounded Sacred Venerable. After the beasts and pursuing Celestial Venerables overwhelmed the fleet’s forces, Mu Lei ordered a retreat, leaving the Celestial Venerables watching.

• Mu Lei saw the mutant beasts and their Celestial Venerable pursuers approaching and ordered the fleet to fire and the War Emperors to attack.
• The Sacred Venerable and the other mutant beasts evaded the first artillery barrage, and the Sacred Venerable wounded ten War Emperors with a single strike.
• The Sacred Venerable, Eightclaw, Black Flood Dragon, and Red Thunder fought through the War Emperors as the battlefield descended into chaos.
• The arriving Celestial Venerables joined the fight, while artillery blasts badly injured the Sacred Venerable and the fleeing mutant beasts.
• Mu Lei ordered the Mechanical Empire to retreat after more than ten War Emperors were wounded and at least three had fallen; the Celestial Venerables did not pursue.

After Fang Mo drove off the Saint Venerate with a devastating slash, the wounded Heavenly Venerates regrouped and began recovering while watching for further attacks. The Mechanical Empire retreated toward Furnace Fortress, where Mu Lei ordered an investigation before deciding what to do next.

• Xuanqing ordered Yunhe to monitor the Mechanical Empire as the Heavenly Venerates returned to the battlefield.
• Fang Mo recovered from using the Ancestral Dragon Blade while Han Shan, Fu Ye, and White Phoenix guarded him; he learned that Xinghe and the Sect Master had suffered serious injuries from burning their origins.
• Xuanqing and the other Heavenly Venerates returned and joined the injured fighters in recovery, recognizing the danger posed by the Saint Realm.
• Mu Lei received a casualty report stating that three Level Seven War Emperors had died and others had been wounded.
• Mu Lei agreed that the Mechanical Empire should not act rashly, ordered a full investigation into the battle, and sent the fleet toward Furnace Fortress.