Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fan rescued the Zixiao Sect and executed the disciples who had betrayed it, despite Yu Xiu’s hesitation. Zixiao Zhenren arrived and reunited with Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu, acknowledging that Mao Gong had paid the price for his betrayal.

• Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu learned Jiang Fan was the disciple of Zixiao Zhenren, a hall master of Mystic Heaven Holy Land, and thanked their former benefactor.
• Mao Gong and the other defectors begged Jiang Fan for mercy, but he killed them with a rain of sword lights.
• Jiang Fan warned Yu Xiu that a sect leader could not afford to be softhearted toward people who betrayed their allies.
• Zixiao Zhenren arrived with Lin Qingxue, Su Xin, and the sleeping Jiang Ming, and Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu thanked him for saving them.
• Zixiao Zhenren recalled guiding Yu Xiu, Yuan Pu, and Mao Gong decades earlier, then said Mao Gong had to bear the consequences of choosing betrayal.

After Zixiao Zhenren rescued the Zixiao Sect from the Skyfire Sect, he revealed why he had left Mystic Heaven Holy Land and warned that his group might face the Four Great Holy Lands. The Zixiao Sect leaders pledged to stand by him, and Zixiao Zhenren gathered Jiang Fan, Su Xin, and Lin Qingxue to plan their next move.

• Yuan Pu worried that the Skyfire Sect would seek revenge for Chi Lie's death, and Zixiao Zhenren said Jiang Fan would deal with them if they returned.
• Zixiao Zhenren announced that his group would stay at the Zixiao Sect for a while, then explained that he had left Mystic Heaven Holy Land after Jiang Ming's transformation and clash with the Holy Masters.
• Zixiao Zhenren warned Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu that sheltering him and Jiang Ming could bring disaster, but both men vowed to stand by him.
• Zixiao Zhenren settled the group in a quiet rear-mountain courtyard and told Jiang Fan, Su Xin, and Lin Qingxue that the Four Great Holy Lands might attack, so they needed to plan their next move.

Zixiao Zhenren explained why the Four Great Holy Lands had not yet attacked and laid out a plan for Jiang Fan, Su Xin, and Lin Qingxue to grow stronger. He then revealed that a mysterious outsider had emerged from a Spatial Rift forty years ago and killed many of Zixiao Hall’s disciples.

• Zixiao Zhenren warned Jiang Fan that the Four Great Holy Lands had powerful hidden elders and that attacking the Holy Masters at the Enthronement Ceremony would have been reckless.
• Zixiao Zhenren said the injured Holy Masters would likely avoid a direct confrontation for now, giving their group a brief chance to prepare for an eventual invasion.
• Zixiao Zhenren told Su Xin to cultivate at the Cold Pool, instructed Lin Qingxue to study Cangming’s inheritance with the Void Transformation Method, and offered Jiang Fan laws, hidden inheritances, and a demonic beast Secret Realm for training.
• Jiang Fan asked what had caused Zixiao Hall’s disciples to perish forty years earlier.
• Zixiao Zhenren recounted how a Spatial Rift in the Western Region suddenly widened during an expedition, and Su Xin revealed that a powerful outsider had emerged from it and slaughtered their fellow disciples.

Zixiao Zhenren revealed that Xuan Wuji had arranged for Zixiao Hall’s disciples to die in a battle against a powerful outsider, then explained that Zixiao Hall’s inheritance came from the world sealed by the Heaven Sect. Jiang Fan wondered whether someone besides him had crossed through the seal.

• Zixiao Zhenren recounted how a silver-armored stranger overwhelmed him and killed nearly all of Zixiao Hall’s disciples, leaving Su Xin crippled.
• Zixiao Zhenren revealed that Xuan Wuji had known a Spatial Rift would open and sent Zixiao Hall’s disciples there to die.
• After asking Su Xin and Lin Qingxue to leave, Zixiao Zhenren changed his mind and revealed that the Heaven Sect seal enclosed another world.
• Zixiao Zhenren said Zixiao Hall’s inheritance came from that sealed world, prompting Jiang Fan to ask whether he or someone else had emerged through the seal.

Zixiao Zhenren revealed that Mystic Heaven Holy Land’s founding Holy Master had come from the Heaven Sect Sealed World and that the later Holy Master had purged his disciples and suppressed their inheritance. Jiang Fan realized the founder might be the Old Man Riding a Bull, while Zixiao Zhenren prepared the Ancient Time Jade to help him train against the coming crisis.

• Zixiao Zhenren explained how the founding Holy Master raised Mystic Heaven Holy Land to power, then vanished and left his inheritance to his disciple.
• Zixiao Zhenren revealed that the second Holy Master purged the founder’s geniuses, suppressed his methods, and sealed the world they came from.
• Zixiao Zhenren explained that Zixiao Hall survived because its founder was the second Holy Master’s brother, but its lineage was nearly destroyed forty years earlier.
• Zixiao Zhenren described the founding Holy Master as a man who liked to ride a bull, and Jiang Fan suspected he was the Old Man Riding a Bull who had given him the Martial Arts Space.
• Zixiao Zhenren brought out the Ancient Time Jade and activated its formation to create a special cultivation barrier with altered time flow.

Jiang Fan cultivated inside Zixiao Sect’s time barrier, advancing his Space Law to Return to Truth and making major progress in Time Law and other laws. After sixty days inside, he remained at the peak of the Saint Realm but believed his combat strength was nearing that of an ordinary mid-stage Emperor Realm expert.

• Zixiao Zhenren completed a barrier where ten days passed inside for every day outside, and Zixiao Sect sealed itself to cultivate.
• Jiang Fan studied the Void Heart and comprehended Space Law until it reached Return to Truth, forming an Absolute Territory where he controlled the laws.
• Jiang Fan used the Time Hourglass to deepen his Time Law comprehension and demonstrated Time Reversal by restoring a falling leaf to a tree.
• Jiang Fan exhausted the Time Hourglass before fully reaching Return to Truth in Time Law, then turned to comprehending other laws.
• After sixty days inside the barrier, Jiang Fan assessed his progress in Space, Time, Water, Thunder, and Life and Death laws and judged his combat strength near that of an ordinary mid-stage Emperor Realm expert.

Jiang Fan emerged from cultivation to find Skyfire Sect demanding answers about Chi Lie’s disappearance. He admitted to Chi Yan and Chi Feng that he had killed Chi Lie, and the elders challenged whether he was capable of it.

• Jiang Fan learned that only six days had passed outside while he cultivated for two months, and Yuan Pu reported that Skyfire Sect had returned with two elders and dozens of disciples.
• Jiang Fan and Yuan Pu went to the mountain gate, where Jiang Fan asked Yuan Pu to address him as a fellow daoist.
• Chi Feng and Chi Yan accused Zixiao Sect of killing Chi Lie and threatened to destroy the sect, while Chi Yan attacked its Mountain Protection Array.
• Jiang Fan passed through the barrier and confronted the Skyfire Sect group, then declared that he had killed Chi Lie.
• Chi Feng and Chi Yan doubted Jiang Fan, asking whether someone like him could have killed Chi Lie.

Jiang Fan revealed that he had killed Chi Lie for coveting the Zixiao Sect’s blessed land and Spirit Spring, then used overwhelming spatial power to annihilate Skyfire Sect elders Chi Yan and Chi Feng. As the remaining Skyfire Sect disciples fled, Jiang Fan trapped them all within a spatial domain.

• Jiang Fan admitted killing Chi Lie and warned Chi Feng, Chi Yan, and the Skyfire Sect disciples to leave or die.
• Chi Yan attacked Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan erased him by collapsing space around him.
• Chi Feng begged Jiang Fan to spare the Skyfire Sect and offered an alliance, but Jiang Fan rejected the bargain and annihilated Chi Feng and nearby disciples.
• The surviving Skyfire Sect disciples fled in every direction, and Jiang Fan used spatial power to trap them in a vast area.

Jiang Fan demonstrated the devastating power of his Space Law by annihilating the Skyfire Sect forces that attacked Zixiao Sect. Determined to stop the harassment for good, he set off to deal with Skyfire Sect despite Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu's warnings.

• Jiang Fan used his Return to Truth Space Law to erase every Skyfire Sect disciple and elder who had come to attack Zixiao Sect.
• Jiang Fan reflected on how his attacks altered the essence and structure of space, noting that the technique demanded precise control.
• Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu thanked Jiang Fan for saving Zixiao Sect, and Jiang Fan said he was tired of Skyfire Sect's repeated harassment.
• Jiang Fan announced that he would deal with Skyfire Sect, while Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu warned him about its powerful experts and Mountain Protection Array.
• Jiang Fan used Spatial Shuttle to leave for Skyfire Sect, and Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu feared the sect was in serious trouble.

The Skyfire Sect debated who killed Chi Lie and planned an investigation before taking revenge on the Zixiao Sect. After the soul lamps of two more elders and over thirty disciples went out, Sect Master Chi Liao ordered a large force to destroy the Zixiao Sect and leave no survivors.

• Skyfire Sect elders argued over whether the Zixiao Sect had killed Chi Lie, while the Grand Elder urged caution and further investigation.
• Sect Master Chi Liao revealed that he had secretly sent Elders Chi Yan and Chi Feng with sect elites to investigate the Zixiao Sect.
• A Servant Disciple reported that Chi Yan, Chi Feng, and more than thirty disciples had died, prompting the elders to demand retaliation.
• Sect Master Chi Liao ordered the Grand Elder, Second Elder, Seventh Elder, and Eighth Elder to lead one hundred Core Disciples to retrieve the bodies and raze the Zixiao Sect, leaving no one alive.

Jiang Fan confronted the Skyfire Sect after it threatened to destroy the Zixiao Sect, then revealed that he had killed the sect’s elders who attacked it. After Jiang Fan demonstrated overwhelming power and gave his name, Chi Liao recognized him as a prodigy from Mystic Heaven Holy Land and tried to placate him while secretly contacting Yuanchu Holy Land.

• Jiang Fan appeared in the Skyfire Sect’s hall and declared that he belonged to the Zixiao Sect.
• Jiang Fan admitted killing Chi Lie, Chi Yan, and Chi Feng because they had attacked the Zixiao Sect.
• The Skyfire Sect’s Second Elder attacked Jiang Fan, but Jiang Fan annihilated him with a casual finger tap.
• Jiang Fan told Chi Liao that his name was Jiang Fan, and the Grand Elder recognized him as a prodigy from Mystic Heaven Holy Land.
• Chi Liao and the other elders apologized and praised Jiang Fan while Chi Liao secretly reached for a Communication Jade Talisman to contact Yuanchu Holy Land.

Jiang Fan stopped Chi Liao from calling for help and condemned the Skyfire Sect for its crimes. After the sect’s leaders attacked him, he annihilated its elders and disciples, leaving the Skyfire Sect destroyed.

• Jiang Fan seized Chi Liao’s Communication Jade Talisman and revealed that his divine sense had covered the entire Skyfire Sect.
• Jiang Fan condemned Chi Lie, Chi Yan, Chi Feng, and the Skyfire Sect, then declared that the sect would be executed.
• Chi Liao activated the Burn Heaven Boil Sea array, but Jiang Fan’s Return to Void technique swallowed the attacks and compressed Chi Liao until he was annihilated.
• Jiang Fan killed the Grand Elder, the Seventh Elder, and the other elders by tearing and collapsing space.
• Jiang Fan used Omni-Directional Lock to trap the Skyfire Sect’s disciples and silently annihilate them.

Jiang Fan destroyed the Skyfire Sect in less than half a day, then returned to Zixiao Sect with a Time Sand Crystal from its hidden treasure vault. Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu learned that a time barrier made his trip take only about half an hour inside the sect.

• Jiang Fan sensed a hidden entrance beneath the Skyfire Sect ruins, raided its Treasure Pavilion, and took the Time Sand Crystal sealed behind formations.
• Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu worried that Jiang Fan might be in danger and decided to ask Zixiao Zhenren about his plans.
• Jiang Fan returned through a spatial ripple and told Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu that the Skyfire Sect had already been destroyed.
• Jiang Fan explained that Zixiao Zhenren's barrier made ten days inside pass as one day outside, leaving Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu to realize his trip had taken only about half an hour inside.

Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu confirmed that Jiang Fan had destroyed the Skyfire Sect and that time flowed differently within their sealed sect, prompting them to order intensive cultivation. Jiang Fan comprehended Time Return to Truth, tested its powers, and concluded that he could rival late Emperor Realm cultivators despite remaining at the peak of the Saint Realm.

• Yu Xiu and Yuan Pu verified through their contacts that the Skyfire Sect had been destroyed, confirming Jiang Fan's report.
• Yuan Pu realized that the destruction had occurred an hour earlier outside, validating Jiang Fan's claim that one day inside equaled ten days outside.
• Yu Xiu ordered the sect to keep its Mountain Protection Array active and sent all disciples into cultivation to seize the time advantage.
• Jiang Fan studied the Time Crystal and comprehended Time Return to Truth by experiencing the flow of the past, present, and future.
• Jiang Fan formed layered time domains and tested his new ability by reversing events in the quiet chamber and restoring a weathered Spirit Stone.
• Jiang Fan assessed that his Time and Space Return to Truth powers let him rival late Emperor Realm cultivators and hold his own briefly against someone at the peak Emperor Realm.

Jiang Fan asked Zixiao Zhenren for permission to enter a Secret Realm and train after advancing the Space Law and Time Law to Return to Truth. Zixiao warned him about the realm’s dangers and time limit, and Jiang Fan entered, arriving in a strange world beneath three suns.

• Jiang Fan told Zixiao Zhenren that he had advanced the Space Law and Time Law to Return to Truth and needed real combat experience.
• Zixiao Zhenren showed Jiang Fan the Secret Realm entrance and warned him that the realm might belong to another world, held powerful demonic beasts, and had a different flow of time.
• Zixiao Zhenren gave Jiang Fan a one-use World-Breaking Talisman and told him not to remain in the Secret Realm for more than three months.
• Jiang Fan entered the vortex and used his control of space to withstand its tearing force.
• Jiang Fan emerged beneath three suns, surveyed the vast landscape, and sensed that the Secret Realm’s spatial structure was different.

Jiang Fan explored a strange realm where unstable space made using the Space Law more difficult, then fought and killed a spatially resistant Thunder Leopard. After discovering that he could still refine demonic beasts’ spiritual energy, he headed deeper into the jungle to hunt and seek a breakthrough to the Emperor Realm.

• Jiang Fan tested the Space Law and found that spatial distortions disrupted how it manifested and operated.
• A Thunder Leopard ambushed Jiang Fan, but its spatial horn weakened his Space Solidification and blocked his first Spatial Rift.
• Jiang Fan condensed the Space Law into a black dot that pierced the Thunder Leopard’s shield and killed it.
• Jiang Fan absorbed the Thunder Leopard’s spiritual energy and judged that it was around the middle stage of the Saint Realm.
• Jiang Fan decided to hunt demonic beasts to build his cultivation before pursuing an Emperor Realm breakthrough, then swept into the jungle searching for prey.

Jiang Fan hunted demonic beasts in the Myriad Worlds Overlap Realm and rescued two Cultivators from a giant bear. After learning they came from the Lingxiao Realm, he discovered that the secret realm was an interlayer where different worlds overlapped, prompting him to wonder whether the Old Man Riding a Bull had crossed over through a similar space.

• Jiang Fan killed numerous demonic beasts and absorbed their spiritual power, loosening the barrier to his peak Saint Realm cultivation.
• While washing beside a river, Jiang Fan saw Luo Shan and Yun Li fighting a Dark Gold Giant Bear, but initially chose not to intervene.
• Two crocodile-like demonic beasts attacked Jiang Fan, and he crushed them with Space Return to Void, prompting Luo Shan and Yun Li to ask for his help.
• Jiang Fan froze and shattered the Dark Gold Giant Bear before it could kill Luo Shan and Yun Li.
• Luo Shan and Yun Li introduced themselves as Cultivators from the Lingxiao Realm, and Jiang Fan told them he came from the Mystic Heaven Realm.
• Luo Shan explained that the Myriad Worlds Overlap Realm was an interlayer formed where different worlds touched, leading Jiang Fan to consider whether the Old Man Riding a Bull had crossed through such a space.

Jiang Fan learned that the Myriad Worlds War Realm was an abandoned battlefield between similar realms and that cultivators entered it to seek Law Source Liquid, which could help them fuse different laws. He thanked Luo Shan and Yun Li for the information and began planning how to use the opportunity.

• Jiang Fan realized the realm was formed from multiple similar worlds overlapping and asked Luo Shan and Yun Li about its secrets.
• Luo Shan explained that the realm had once hosted battles over ascension opportunities before the Upper Realm changed its path and sealed it away.
• Yun Li and Luo Shan described how weakened seals and collisions between realms created unstable new entrances to the abandoned War Realm.
• Luo Shan told Jiang Fan that cultivators sought Law Source Liquid near the Law Source Pool because it could help them find common ground between different laws.
• Jiang Fan thanked Luo Shan and Yun Li for explaining the realm and its opportunities.

Jiang Fan joined Yun Li and Luo Shan on their journey toward the Law Source Pool and learned the Lingxiao Realm’s language from their memories. As the three entered a mist-filled valley and were surrounded by Saint Realm Mist-Hidden Beasts, Jiang Fan refused to retreat.

• Yun Li invited Jiang Fan to travel with her and Luo Shan toward the Law Source Pool, and he agreed.
• Jiang Fan asked to read the pair’s language memories; after they trusted him and consented, he quickly learned the Lingxiao Realm’s language.
• Jiang Fan told Yun Li and Luo Shan to call him by his name and revealed that he was only a little over thirty, astonishing them.
• The three traveled deeper into the Folded Domain and entered a purple-gold mist-shrouded valley.
• Dozens of Saint Realm Mist-Hidden Beasts surrounded them, and Jiang Fan told Yun Li and Luo Shan that the beasts posed no real threat.

Jiang Fan effortlessly wiped out the Mist-Hidden Beast pack in the valley and absorbed its spiritual energy to break through from the peak of the Saint Realm into the Emperor Realm. Luo Shan and Yun Li congratulated him, amazed by his strength and his mastery of both the Time Law and Space Law.

• Jiang Fan killed the Mist-Hidden Wolf and three Mist-Hidden Leopards with his spatial abilities, then destroyed the rest of the beast pack with Omni-Directional Lock and Return to Void.
• Luo Shan and Yun Li watched Jiang Fan defeat dozens of Mist-Hidden Beasts without their help.
• Jiang Fan drew in the beasts' scattered spiritual energy, prompting Yun Li and Luo Shan to guard him as he attempted a breakthrough.
• Jiang Fan revealed signs of cultivating both the Time Law and Space Law as he challenged the peak Saint Realm barrier.
• Jiang Fan shattered the barrier and entered the Emperor Realm, then accepted congratulations from Luo Shan and Yun Li.