Chapter Summaries

After reaching the Quasi-Saint realm, Song Ankang tried to comprehend the Devouring Rule but found it beyond his current abilities. He resumed cultivation and sought ways to strengthen his essence, energy, spirit, and comprehension so he could try again.

• Song Ankang crossed the one-hundred-point threshold, becoming a Quasi-Saint whose essence, energy, spirit, and true-body stars were strengthened by contact with countless Rules.
• Song Ankang reached toward the Devouring Rule, his chosen path to the Upper Three Ranks, but could only sense its immense and terrifying power.
• After months of observation brought no progress in comprehension, Song Ankang resolved to improve his cultivation and comprehension before trying again.
• Song Ankang consumed Flying Cloud Pills and comprehension-enhancing pills while using the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to raise his abilities.
• Song Ankang sought Saint Pills and Saint Medicine and repeatedly cast the Sea Absorbing Sacred Heart Curse, hoping its connection to the Devouring Rule would aid his comprehension.

After years of stalled progress, Song Ankang combined an Enlightenment Pill with the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique to raise his comprehension and essence, qi, and spirit enough to contact the Path of Devouring Comprehension. He endured a severe backlash afterward, but gained a start on the Devouring Rule, reaching one ten-thousandth comprehension.

• Song Ankang’s essence, qi, and spirit reached 120 points and his comprehension reached 126 after years of taking Saint Pills and Saint Medicine, but their effects weakened.
• Song Ankang used an Enlightenment Pill together with the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique, raising his comprehension and essence, qi, and spirit to around 216 points.
• Song Ankang contacted the Path of Devouring Comprehension and began comprehending its rules, transforming his essence, qi, and spirit and true body star.
• When the effects ended, Song Ankang suffered a severe backlash that dropped his comprehension and essence, qi, and spirit below 100 points.
• Song Ankang found that his comprehension of the Devouring Rule had reached one ten-thousandth.

Song Ankang used Enlightenment Pills and the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique to rapidly comprehend the Devouring Rule, becoming one of the strongest Quasi-Saints. After exhausting his pills, he continued cultivating more slowly while seeking additional Enlightenment Pills and aiming to become a Saint.

• Song Ankang comprehended one ten-thousandth of the Devouring Rule, and feedback from the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance greatly improved his comprehension and essence, qi, and spirit.
• He used the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique with Enlightenment Pills repeatedly, but each session yielded less progress as comprehending the Devouring Rule grew harder.
• After consuming all his Enlightenment Pills, Song Ankang had comprehended one-thousandth of the Devouring Rule, raised his comprehension and essence, qi, and spirit to around 165 points, and increased his overall strength more than a thousandfold.
• Song Ankang judged that he could contend with weaker Third-Rank Saints and escape danger with Size As You Wish, but he still could not control Rule Power without reaching one percent comprehension.
• With no Enlightenment Pills left, Song Ankang continued cultivating with the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique alone while searching for more pills and prioritizing a breakthrough into the Upper Three Ranks.

Song Ankang traveled to Blood City to bid for Enlightenment Pills at Blood Futu’s grand auction, hoping to speed up his comprehension of the Devouring Rule. After Poseidon won the Sea Emperor’s Trident, Song Ankang made a hefty bid on the pills.

• Song Ankang learned that Blood Futu’s thousand-year auction would offer ten Enlightenment Pills and sent his Celestial Immortal avatar to Blood City.
• Song Ankang arrived in Blood City, assessed its defenses, and attended the auction after resting at an inn arranged by his Heavenly Servants.
• Poseidon won the Sea Emperor’s Trident for one billion and eighty million High-grade Immortal Stones.
• Song Ankang immediately bid six hundred million High-grade Immortal Stones for the ten Enlightenment Pills.

Song Ankang won ten Enlightenment Pills at auction, then enslaved Poseidon and learned that Athena Divine Palace held many more. With Athena away, Song Ankang set out to infiltrate the palace’s resource storehouse, studying Poseidon’s formation blueprints along the way.

• Song Ankang outbid Poseidon and won ten Enlightenment Pills for 1.3 billion High-grade Immortal Stones.
• Poseidon followed Song Ankang out of Blood City, but Song Ankang defeated and enslaved him with the Startling Eye Tribulation and Imperial Order.
• Poseidon handed over nearly three billion High-grade Immortal Stones’ worth of treasures, including six Enlightenment Pills, and revealed that Athena Divine Palace held at least twenty more.
• Song Ankang learned that Athena was away on a secret-realm expedition and decided to raid the palace’s resource storehouse.
• Song Ankang studied Poseidon’s Saint Formation Group blueprints as he traveled toward Athena Divine Palace through the Western Regions Sand Sea.

Song Ankang infiltrated the Athena Divine Palace and looted its resource vault, escaping with treasures worth tens of billions of High-grade Immortal Stones. After Athena’s search failed, he began using the haul to strengthen his true body and reflected on how scarce Enlightenment Pills were.

• Song Ankang traveled with Poseidon to the western region and secretly entered the Athena Divine Palace after preparing a way to escape.
• Song Ankang infiltrated the resource vault by hiding on a Quasi-Saint and bypassed its formations.
• Song Ankang stole most of the vault’s treasures and resources, leaving behind items whose tracking marks he could not remove, then fled toward the Central Plains.
• Athena returned to the palace and spent years searching for the thief, but Song Ankang’s precautions concealed his whereabouts.
• Song Ankang began sending resources to his true body, including thirty Enlightenment Pills, and noted that the pills had greatly advanced his Devouring Rule comprehension.

Song Ankang used Enlightenment Pills, the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique, and the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to advance his Devouring Rule comprehension and refine his cultivation. After the pills ran out, he reached 189 points in comprehension, essence, qi, and spirit, but his progress slowed as he searched for more Enlightenment Pills.

• Song Ankang combined the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique, Enlightenment Pills, and the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance to improve his Devouring Rule comprehension and refine his true body star, essence, qi, and spirit.
• Song Ankang focused on easier branch rules of the Devouring Rule as the core rules proved difficult to comprehend.
• Over several years, Song Ankang used up his Enlightenment Pills, reaching 189 points in comprehension, essence, qi, and spirit and about twenty-six ten-thousandths of the Devouring Rule.
• Song Ankang searched for more Enlightenment Pills, but the Treasure Supplier had few because they were rare and in high demand.
• Song Ankang refused to switch to a minor rule for an easier breakthrough because doing so would harm his future prospects.

Song Ankang’s progress in comprehending the Devouring Rule slowed after he ran out of Enlightenment Pills, while City Smasher discovered the Central Plains Merchant Alliance’s expansion and began a purge across the Chaos Plain. To protect his forces and keep the conflict away from the Human Race, Song Ankang decided to strike Blood Futu’s headquarters, Blood City, and face City Smasher.

• Song Ankang used other auxiliary Saint Pills and Saint Medicine to advance his comprehension and cultivation, but after years of effort his comprehension of the Devouring Rule reached only thirty-six-thousandths and his comprehension and essence, energy, and spirit reached around 198 points.
• A heavenly servant’s final message revealed that City Smasher had killed it after it tried to steal ten Enlightenment Pills and had learned of the Central Plains Merchant Alliance’s growing presence in the Chaos Plain.
• City Smasher mobilized Blood Futu to hunt the alliance’s cultivators and enslaved Heavenly Immortals, and threatened to purge its forces from other regions as well.
• The Ghost Rat Race told Song Ankang that the Nether Race would not intervene and wanted the alliance handed over, convincing him that war with City Smasher was unavoidable.
• Song Ankang chose to fight City Smasher at Blood City rather than let the conflict reach the Human Race, planning to send an incarnation to test his strength against the Saint.

Song Ankang’s strongest avatar plundered Blood City’s treasuries, then fought City Smasher, a First-Rank Saint, to a standstill. As the battle continued, City Smasher wondered whether Song Ankang was an extraordinary Quasi-Saint from a powerful faction.

• Song Ankang sent his strongest avatar to Blood City, where it used its knowledge of the city’s formations to raid several treasuries and take treasures worth more than five billion High-grade Immortal Stones.
• City Smasher pursued Song Ankang and was shaken by the avatar’s soul attacks before blocking them with its Saint Artifact and meeting the Rose Thorn Sword with the Man-Slaying Axe.
• Song Ankang and City Smasher exchanged attacks, with Song Ankang’s immense strength countering City Smasher’s physical power while his essence, qi, and spirit struggled against the Saint’s Rule-enhanced attacks.
• Song Ankang realized the gap between drawing upon Rules and controlling them, while City Smasher was shocked that a Quasi-Saint could withstand its attacks and wondered if he belonged to a powerful faction.

Song Ankang overwhelmed City Smasher in a battle between a Quasi-Saint and a Third-Rank Saint, revealing greater strength when City Smasher tried to flee. City Smasher escaped toward Blood City, but Song Ankang pursued and continued battering its Saint Avatar.

• Song Ankang matched City Smasher’s Rule Power with Size As You Wish and used his superior combat experience to gain the advantage.
• Song Ankang and City Smasher fought for dozens of hours in the Seventh Heaven, while Blood Futu cultivators in Blood City waited and speculated about the battle.
• Song Ankang assessed that his combat power already rivaled a Third-Rank Saint, though weaknesses in his immortal energy and immortal soul still held him back.
• City Smasher tried to retreat, but Song Ankang unleashed more power, knocked away the Man-Slaying Axe, and wounded City Smasher with the Rose Thorn Sword.
• City Smasher used a secret trump-card technique to flee toward Blood City, but Song Ankang chased it and kept attacking its weakening Saint Avatar.

Song Ankang defeated City Smasher’s Saint Avatar and drove its wounded true body into hiding, then used the avatar to bring Chaos Plain under his control. With the region and the Central Plains Merchant Alliance supporting him, he settled into peaceful cultivation while his servants gathered resources for him.

• Blood City’s formations and the Three Step Soul Chasing Needle helped Song Ankang send Imperial Orders into City Smasher, but City Smasher destroyed most of its Immortal Soul and fled with its true body star.
• Song Ankang failed to locate City Smasher’s true body, but concluded that its avatar and his own strength gave him Saint-level combat power and that City Smasher would take over ten thousand years to recover.
• Song Ankang concealed that he had enslaved City Smasher’s Saint Avatar and told witnesses that City Smasher had lost and would no longer pursue its robbed treasure vault.
• With City Smasher’s Saint Avatar’s help, Song Ankang subdued Chaos Plain’s Half-Saints and Quasi-Saints and spent over a year reorganizing the region under his rule.
• Song Ankang returned to Kyoto to cultivate in peace while City Smasher’s Saint Avatar gathered resources and treasures for him from Blood City.

Song Ankang used the Chaos Plain’s booming trade to secure resources and cultivate the Devouring Rule, while a thousand years of peace transformed the Human Race and the Song Clan. The chapter leaves the Human Race established as a Sixth Grade Immortal Race and the Song Clan a vast power in the Central Plains.

• Song Ankang learned the scale of the Chaos Plain’s trade and expanded its prosperity through orderly commerce, earning immense fees and tax revenue.
• Song Ankang continued comprehending the Devouring Rule with scarce Enlightenment Pills and other supporting medicines as a thousand years passed.
• Song Xia led the Human Race into the Sixth Grade Immortal Race, renamed Xia Kingdom as Song Kingdom, and refused to rename the Human Race after the Song Clan.
• The Human Race expanded under the Central Plains Merchant Alliance’s protection, surpassing one hundred thousand Seventh Grade Divine Beings, while the Song Clan produced over ten thousand Sixth Grade True Immortals.
• Song’s Workshop, Tang’s Trading Company, the Central Plains Merchant Alliance, and the Chaos Plain all grew substantially, with three percent of the continent’s resources and treasures passing through the Chaos Plain.
• Song Ankang’s Bedside Companions and children advanced in cultivation, while the Song Clan’s descendants exceeded ten billion and continued multiplying.

Song Ankang tested the Life Comprehension Pill and Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique, which sacrificed lifespan to sharply boost his comprehension and essence, energy, and spirit. Their combined effects raised him to 400 points and made the Devouring Rule astonishingly clear, though the terrible side effects remained to come.

• Song Ankang reflected on the Song Clan’s growth to more than ten billion descendants and his progress toward comprehending the Devouring Rule.
• Song Ankang revealed that he had created the Life Comprehension Pill and improved the Heaven-Stealing Forbidden Technique into the Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique.
• With Quasi-Saints guarding him, Song Ankang consumed a Life Comprehension Pill and used the Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique to test their effects.
• The combined techniques cost Song Ankang ten thousand years of lifespan while raising his essence, energy, and spirit to 400 points.
• Song Ankang found that the Devouring Rule had become exceptionally clear and easy to comprehend.

Song Ankang used successive Life Comprehension Pills and the Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique to raise his aptitude and comprehend the Devouring Rule, despite losing a hundred thousand years of lifespan. He broke through to sainthood through the Devouring Rule, and Xuanhuang Continent’s factions began investigating the newly emerged Evil Lord.

• Song Ankang’s comprehension of the Devouring Rule rose to ninety-eight thousandths as the effects of the Life Comprehension Pill and the Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique neared their end.
• Song Ankang took another Life Comprehension Pill and used the Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique again, pushing his aptitude and essence, energy, and spirit beyond five hundred points while sacrificing a hundred thousand years of lifespan.
• Song Ankang overcame the final barrier in comprehending the Devouring Rule and attained sainthood through it.
• The manifestation of the Devouring Rule shook Xuanhuang Continent, and cultivators recognized that an Evil Lord had emerged.
• The major races and factions feared the new Evil Lord’s power and began investigating his identity, while the Jade Fragrance Pavilion considered recruiting him.

Song Ankang safely broke through to become a Third-Rank Saint, gaining immense power and a lifespan exceeding one million years through the Devouring Rule. He considered how his rule, Saint abilities, and true-body star could protect the Human Race and extend his loved ones’ lives.

• Song Ankang’s prepared Saint Formation Group concealed his location as the Life Comprehension Pill and Heaven-Stealing Terror Technique propelled his breakthrough.
• Song Ankang shattered the heavenly chasm and became a Third-Rank Saint, gaining the power to wield rules and a lifespan of over one million years.
• Song Ankang’s Devouring Rule gave him a powerful combination of combat strength and lifespan, unlike the weaker Longevity Rule.
• Song Ankang’s Saint Body, Saint Qi, Saint Soul, and true-body star transformed, with his star growing to one hundred quadrillion square kilometers.
• Song Ankang realized he could transform part of his true-body star to shelter relatives and friends whose lifespans were nearing their limits.

Song Ankang reached Level 1 Saint after comprehending the Devouring Rule beyond one percent and spent years mastering his newfound strength. He also advanced his martial arts into Lesser Divine Abilities, gaining powerful techniques with severe side effects that he could turn to his advantage.

• Song Ankang learned that Third-Rank Saints could shelter living beings inside their original stars, but doing so consumed energy and slowed their cultivation.
• Song Ankang reached Level 1 Saint with the Devouring Rule and estimated his combat power could match Level 50 Saints who cultivated Lesser Dao Rules.
• Song Ankang spent several years stabilizing his cultivation and adapting to his increased strength.
• Song Ankang transformed the Myriad Tribulations Seven Injuries Fist into the Myriad Tribulations Indestructible Body and gained the Myriad Tribulations Destruction Fist.
• Song Ankang transformed the Myriad Tribulations Boy Cultivation Technique into the Myriad Tribulations Profound Sun Technique and the Myriad Tribulations Sacred Heart Art into the Myriad Tribulations Heaven and Earth Art.

Song Ankang reviewed the fifteen Divine Abilities he had transformed and mastered, which let him overpower ordinary level-forty Saints. He turned next to improving his seven Quasi-Saint Artifacts, aiming to raise his strength further while focusing on quality over quantity.

• Song Ankang’s three Myriad Tribulations abilities formed a Divine Ability Compendium and evolved his star into the Myriad Tribulations Minor World.
• Song Ankang’s Spirit Control and Imperial Order evolved into the Heaven-Enslaving Scripture and Heaven Enslaving Token, while his other abilities and techniques also underwent major transformations.
• Song Ankang organized his fifteen principal Divine Abilities by their offensive, defensive, escape, and supportive roles, and relied on them to overpower ordinary level-forty Saints.
• Song Ankang decided to enhance his seven established Quasi-Saint Artifacts rather than collect many more techniques and weapons.

Song Ankang sent a Saint avatar into Witch Race territory to enslave Saints and gather resources for upgrading his Quasi-Saint Artifacts. He easily enslaved Saint Mingjiang, gaining an insider’s view of the Witch Race’s immense strength and setting up further infiltrations.

• Song Ankang sent a powerful Saint avatar carrying nearly all his Quasi-Saint Artifacts toward the Witch Race’s territory.
• Using information from his planted agents, Song Ankang chose Saint Mingjiang, whose weak soul defenses made him a suitable target.
• Song Ankang infiltrated Mingjiang’s residence formation and attacked while Mingjiang was focused on cultivating.
• Song Ankang’s Devouring Rule and soul techniques overwhelmed Mingjiang’s defenses, and the Heaven Enslaving Tokens enslaved both Mingjiang and his main body.
• Song Ankang learned that the Witch Race had over ten thousand Third-Rank Saints and twelve Second-Rank Dao Masters known as the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

With Saint Mingjiang’s help, Song Ankang enslaved Saint Juyue and gained immense wealth from his Witch Race servants. He then arranged to upgrade two defensive Quasi-Saint Artifacts through the Treasure Supplier.

• Song Ankang and Saint Mingjiang exploited Saint Juyue’s slow-charging soul defense, broke through it, and enslaved him with the Three Step Soul Chasing Needle.
• Song Ankang considered targeting Saint Zhuhuo, an Earthfire Rule expert and artifact refinement master, while prioritizing wealthy Witch Race saints who lacked combat strength.
• Song Ankang assessed the fortunes of Saint Mingjiang, Saint Juyue, and Saint Zhuhuo, finding their combined wealth exceeded two hundred million Low-grade Saint Stones.
• Song Ankang contacted the Treasure Supplier and requested that two Quasi-Saint Artifacts be upgraded, providing the Lotus Crown, the Treasure Nullifying Armor, and six Rule Stones.

Song Ankang arranged for the Myriad Manifestation Tower to upgrade his Quasi-Saint Artifacts, using his growing wealth and revealing a cover story about his junior’s Devouring Rule. Meanwhile, he expanded his force of enslaved Witch Race Saints to one hundred and directed the Treasure Supplier to enhance his artifacts as powerfully as possible.

• The Treasure Supplier inferred that Ten-Mile Slope Sword God was connected to the newly descended Evil Lord and agreed to upgrade his Quasi-Saint Artifacts, even allowing him to buy on credit.
• Song Ankang entrusted the Treasure Supplier with all seven Quasi-Saint Artifacts and a two-hundred-million-Low-grade-Saint-Stone deposit, then used other Saint Artifacts while his own were being upgraded.
• With help from Saint Mingjiang, Saint Juyue, and Saint Zhuhuo, Song Ankang enslaved another Witch Race support-type Saint and continued capturing Saints across the Witch Race.
• Song Ankang’s Saint Servants grew to one hundred, and their contributions brought his wealth to nearly twenty billion Low-grade Saint Stones.
• Song Ankang sent the Treasure Supplier more than one billion Low-grade Saint Stones and instructed it to maximize the artifacts’ power, regardless of side effects, while tailoring them to his abilities.