Chapter Summaries

Ji Haoyuan defeated Kong Feng'er in their spar, then learned that her elder brother, the undefeated Young Heavenly Monarch, would soon return. Meanwhile, Saint Monarch Qiye warned the gathered Mahayana figures that the Divine Ruins would likely awaken soon, recalling the catastrophe that had once nearly destroyed the Myriad Laws Sacred Land.

• Ji Haoyuan struck Kong Feng'er with a powerful punch, overcame her Five-Colored Radiant Garment, and sent her flying a hundred miles away.
• Kong Feng'er challenged Ji Haoyuan to spar with her elder brother when he returned, and Ji Haoyuan agreed.
• Gu Yuechan, Tang Bufan, Lu Yuanshan, and the others told Ji Haoyuan that Kong Feng'er's elder brother had defeated many Void Refinement Divine Monarchs and was known as the Young Heavenly Monarch.
• Saint Monarch Qiye told the gathered Mahayana figures that the Divine Ruins were more than ninety percent likely to awaken soon.
• The Saint Monarchs grew grave as they recalled that the previous awakening of the Divine Ruins had nearly wiped out the Myriad Laws Sacred Land.

After hearing that Ji Haoyuan had overwhelmed several Seven-Colored Peacock Clan cultivators, Kong Daoxuan arranged to challenge him in half a month. Ji Haoyuan accepted the challenge and received a precious gift, while cultivators from across the sacred lands gathered to anticipate their match.

• Kong Feng'er told Kong Daoxuan that Ji Haoyuan had easily defeated her, Kong Changtian, Kong Baiming, and the others, and Kong Daoxuan said he would challenge Ji Haoyuan in half a month.
• Kong Daoxuan asked Kong Feng'er to send Ji Haoyuan a visiting card on his behalf.
• At Ganyang Peak, Ji Haoyuan extinguished the powerful attacks hidden in Kong Daoxuan's visiting card and received the Young Heavenly Monarch's apology.
• Kong Baiming delivered a precious sun-and-moon spiritual bamboo shoot from Kong Daoxuan, and Ji Haoyuan agreed to meet him at the Myriad Laws Sacred Land in half a month.
• News of the coming match spread, and cultivators from other sacred lands flocked to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land to watch.

At the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, Ji Haoyuan faced the Young Heavenly Monarch Kong Daoxuan in a highly anticipated spar. Both revealed formidable domains and clashed with their seals, leaving the battle underway.

• Crowds gathered at the Technique Practice Stage, where most spectators favored Kong Daoxuan despite Ji Haoyuan’s earlier victories.
• Kong Daoxuan entered the stage, and spectators sensed his aura was nearing the Dao Integration Realm.
• Ji Haoyuan arrived with a harmonious Dao aura that surprised the crowd and prompted betting pools to adjust their odds.
• Kong Daoxuan and Ji Haoyuan greeted each other respectfully and began their spar.
• Kong Daoxuan manifested the Glassy Seven-Colored Pure Land while Ji Haoyuan summoned the Mysterious Thunder Firmament Secret Treasury.
• Kong Daoxuan struck with the Seven-Colored Treasure Vase Seal, and Ji Haoyuan countered with the Divine Firmament Purple Thunder Seal; their attacks collided in a burst of light.

Ji Haoyuan and Kong Daoxuan fought with increasingly powerful divine abilities, culminating in Ji Haoyuan’s Grand Yin-Yang Five Elements Divine Light breaking Kong Daoxuan’s Sevenfold Star Realm. The seven Great Stars shattered, leaving the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Ji Haoyuan unleashed the Thunder Kui Ox Transformation and clashed repeatedly with Kong Daoxuan.
• Ji Haoyuan cracked Kong Daoxuan’s Glassy Seven-Colored Pure Land, prompting Kong Daoxuan to use his Seven-Hued Treasure Fan.
• Ji Haoyuan blocked the fan’s seven-colored winds with a black-and-white Yin-Yang Fish diagram.
• Kong Daoxuan summoned seven Great Stars with his Sevenfold Star Realm and challenged Ji Haoyuan to break it.
• Ji Haoyuan transformed his Yin-Yang Fish into a black dragon and white python wrapped in five-colored rosy clouds.
• Ji Haoyuan’s black dragon and white python struck Kong Daoxuan’s seven Great Stars, which began to crack and shatter.

After Ji Haoyuan defeated Kong Daoxuan, the Myriad Laws Sacred Land leaders summoned their disciples and revealed that the Divine Ruins would soon awaken, threatening to reshape the Lower Realm. They announced a dangerous Trial Star Tower to help cultivators grow stronger, warning that death inside it could be permanent.

• Ji Haoyuan defeated Kong Daoxuan, and the two exchanged courteous words before messages summoned them away.
• Luo Changsheng told Ji Haoyuan and the others that the Divine Ruins would soon awaken and could change the entire Lower Realm.
• Saint Monarch Lingyuan explained that the Divine Ruins were remnants of an ancient divine war and could unleash altered heavenly rules and terrifying creatures.
• Saint Monarch Lingyuan announced that the sect would open cultivation resources and join other powers in establishing an eighty-one-level Trial Star Tower.
• Saint Monarch Lingyuan warned that the tower’s life-preserving item could fail, could be used only once, and would not prevent permanent death inside the tower.

Lu Yuanshan told Ji Haoyuan and other cultivators that the Divine Ruins had caused the Myriad Laws Sacred Land’s fall and urged them to join forces against the dangers of its revival. After months of cultivation and the Trial Star Tower’s appearance, Ji Haoyuan entered the tower as its record reached the eightieth floor and encountered a sixth-rank wolf-shaped Demon Beast.

• Lu Yuanshan invited Ji Haoyuan, Gu Yuechan, and other cultivators to Cloud Void Grotto-Heaven and explained that the Divine Ruins had caused the Myriad Laws Sacred Land’s decline.
• Lu Yuanshan warned that the Divine Ruins could unleash dangerous beings and grotesque scenes, and he proposed that the group join forces.
• Ji Haoyuan told Bai Lu and the others about the Divine Ruins, while Bai Lu confirmed that joining forces was wise and said Taixu Bai remained in critical seclusion.
• Ji Haoyuan entered the Myriad Laws Diagram for several months as cultivators across the Central Divine Continent explored the Trial Star Tower and its record climbed past the seventieth floor.
• Ji Haoyuan arrived at the Trial Star Tower as Kong Daoxuan emerged and the record stood at eighty floors, then encountered a sixth-rank wolf-shaped Demon Beast beside a lake.

Ji Haoyuan advanced through the Trial Star Tower, reaching its eightieth floor, where he faced three dangerous Star Sea species that had defeated Kong Daoxuan. As the creatures overwhelmed the floor, Ji Haoyuan vanished in a bubble-like ripple, and an unseen force began eroding them.

• Ji Haoyuan defeated the sixth-rank Wolf Demon and rapidly advanced through the tower, overcoming increasingly powerful opponents until he reached the eightieth floor.
• Ji Haoyuan encountered a hundred Crimson Flame Void Beasts, which could travel through the void and wield spatial abilities.
• Hollow God Vines created illusions showing numerous possible deaths for Ji Haoyuan.
• A swarm of Sky Devouring Ants appeared, and Ji Haoyuan realized the three species explained Kong Daoxuan's defeat on this floor.
• The three kinds of creatures surged toward Ji Haoyuan, but he vanished like a bubble, while an unseen force began eroding them.

Ji Haoyuan entered the Trial Star Tower’s final layer and survived three Heavenly Lord-level attacks by drawing on his innate Dao rhythm laws, Illusory Bubble, and Sun Star Sword. He passed the tower’s test and found himself before a stone stele bearing his reward.

• Ji Haoyuan erased the Sky Devouring Ant, Crimson Flame Void Beast, and Hollow God Vine with Illusory Bubble, then entered the final layer of the Trial Star Tower.
• A beast-clawed palm sealed off escape and struck Ji Haoyuan with Dao Integration Realm laws, but he endured the Heavenly Lord-level attack using his Innate Thunder Firmament Pure Yang Body’s Dao rhythm laws.
• The giant palm attacked again, and Ji Haoyuan evaded it by transforming into an Illusory Bubble with the aid of his innate Dao rhythm laws.
• As deadly black mist spread across the starry sky, Ji Haoyuan wielded the Sun Star Sword and Dragon-Snake Yin-Yang Transformation to escape into deeper space and survive the third attack.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to find himself before a stone stele and realized that enduring three Heavenly Lord-level attacks had completed the Trial Star Tower’s test.

Ji Haoyuan obtained the Dao Merging Monument after clearing the Trial Star Tower and felt ready to approach Dao Integration. He returned to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land and asked Tianxuzi to lend him a seventh-tier Dojo Spiritual Peak for his breakthrough.

• Ji Haoyuan absorbed the Dao Merging Monument, which brought him one step from Dao Integration, and then left the tower.
• Trial Star Towers across the world announced that someone had cleared all eighty-one floors, but Ji Haoyuan's name remained undisclosed at his request.
• Ji Haoyuan returned to the Myriad Laws Sacred Land and asked Lu Yuanshan to take him to see Tianxuzi.
• Tianxuzi welcomed Ji Haoyuan and offered to help with his concerns or needs.
• Ji Haoyuan asked to borrow a seventh-tier Dojo Spiritual Peak for his breakthrough, and Tianxuzi was astonished by how quickly he had reached this stage.

Ji Haoyuan secluded himself on Tianxuzi’s seventh-tier Spiritual Peak for ten years, while the Divine Ruins began sending beings into the Lower Realm. After entire worlds were destroyed, Mahayana cultivators gathered to confront the spreading calamity.

• Tianxuzi gave Ji Haoyuan a token to a seventh-tier Spiritual Peak and promised to conceal his impending breakthrough to the Dao Integration Realm.
• Ji Haoyuan entered seclusion for ten years, during which Kong Daoxuan and another unknown person cleared the Trial Star Tower.
• Five deathly figures emerged into the starry sky, and Mahayana Saint Monarchs across the Lower Realm sensed that the Divine Ruins had revived.
• The figures destroyed a small-to-medium world, killing all its inhabitants and extinguishing its world will.
• Nearly twenty more figures entered the starry sky, while Mahayana cultivators from Sacred Lands, Saint Sects, and powerful clans gathered and learned that seven small worlds and three small-to-medium worlds had been destroyed.

As worlds fell to calamity and demonic entities, the Mahayana cultivators and Heavenly Monarchs discussed how to locate the Divine Ruins' people and protect their affiliated worlds. Feng Tianjun then targeted Ji Haoyuan by proposing that he guard the dangerous, distant Quicksand World.

• A Night Moon Elf Clan Mahayana cultivator asked whether the Mirror of Heaven Observation could locate those who had emerged from the Divine Ruins, and a True Dragon Mahayana cultivator said they would have to wait for them to reveal themselves.
• More medium-small and small worlds became lands of death, while demonic entities appeared and several Starry Sky Power Clan cultivators and their followers went missing.
• Heavenly Monarchs gathered at the Dao Palace Ancestral Court after medium worlds affiliated with the Central Divine Continent were attacked, and a Tianxuan Sacred Land Heavenly Monarch proposed stationing cultivators in those worlds.
• Feng Tianjun suggested sending Ji Haoyuan to guard the distant, dangerous Quicksand World, making his hostility toward Taixu Bai's disciple apparent.

Ji Haoyuan began integrating four supreme Great Daos, risking annihilation to pursue immense power and freedom from the world's constraints. Tianxuzi sensed the extraordinary disturbance and began concealing Ji Haoyuan's Dao Integration from the sect and the outside world.

• Beihe Heavenly Monarch and Kunyangzi recognized Feng Tianjun's proposal to send Ji Haoyuan to the Quicksand World as deliberate targeting, and Kunyangzi warned Feng Tianjun about Taixu Bai's past guidance.
• Ji Haoyuan prepared to merge the Dao of Pure Yang, the Dao of Thunder, the Dao of Yin-Yang Five Elements, and the Dao of Illusion and Reality, along with several matching minor Daos.
• Ji Haoyuan began Dao Integration in his Cave Mansion, with the process carrying a risk of total destruction despite his refined Dao Merging Monument and confidence in his chances.
• Tianxuzi sensed the immense disturbance, realized Nanhua had begun Dao Integration with extraordinary Daos, and placed restrictions around Ji Haoyuan's Dojo Spiritual Peak to conceal it.

Ji Haoyuan attempted a perilous Dao Integration breakthrough, seeking to control and fuse four supreme Daos rather than balance them. A stone tablet and its Order Divine Chains began assimilating the four Dao chains, while Tianxuzi sensed the extraordinary scale of the breakthrough from outside.

• Ji Haoyuan realized Tianxuzi had concealed the disturbance from his breakthrough and hoped to keep his abilities hidden as the Divine Ruins revived.
• Ji Haoyuan's body transformed into Dao-rhyme spiritual light as the laws of his four Daos—Void and Reality, Pure Yang, lightning, and Yin-Yang Five Elements—clashed within him.
• Ji Haoyuan rejected the safer option of balancing the four Daos and pursued his goal of controlling and fusing them all as main Daos.
• A stone tablet emerged from Ji Haoyuan's Dao-rhyme spiritual light and sent Order Divine Chains to restrain the four Dao chains and reflect their images.
• The tablet's reflections weakened the four Dao chains as they struggled, and Tianxuzi sensed from outside that Ji Haoyuan was integrating multiple powerful Daos.

Ji Haoyuan subdued the four Dao chains, entered the Dao Integration Realm, and became a Heavenly Lord, but the Lower Realm was already suffering a disastrous transformation of its laws. After Tianxuzi explained the worsening effects and summoned him to a meeting, Ji Haoyuan left to join the other Heavenly Lords and chief disciples.

• Ji Haoyuan merged the Dao Merging Monument and four Dao chains into his Dao essence, overcame an internal Heavenly Tribulation, and received a gift from the Dao laws.
• Ji Haoyuan attained the Dao Integration Realm and became a Heavenly Lord as strange phenomena began appearing throughout the world, tied to the revival of the Divine Ruins.
• Three years later, altered laws tainted Spiritual Energy, caused cultivation to regress, shortened lifespans, and made cultivation treasures dangerous across the Lower Realm.
• Ji Haoyuan emerged from seclusion and learned from Tianxuzi that the disaster threatened cultivators below Void Refinement and might eventually affect them both.
• Tianxuzi told Ji Haoyuan that the Sect Leader had summoned all Heavenly Lords and the chief disciples of the major heavenly abodes to discuss the crisis.

Ji Haoyuan arrived at Heavenly Monarch Hall after breaking through to the Dao Integration Realm, and Luo Changsheng rewarded him before revealing that envoys from the Divine Ruins had come to the Central Divine Continent. The envoys wanted the cultivators to submit and settle in the Divine Ruins, promising a way to keep cultivating despite the changes in the Lower Realm.

• Tianxuzi accompanied Ji Haoyuan to Heavenly Monarch Hall, where the Heavenly Monarchs realized Ji Haoyuan had reached the Dao Integration Realm and congratulated him.
• Luo Changsheng praised Ji Haoyuan and gave him a token to choose a treasure and cultivation resources from the sacred land’s Treasury Pavilion.
• Luo Changsheng told the assembly that envoys from the Divine Ruins had arrived in the Central Divine Continent.
• Luo Changsheng explained that the Divine Ruins’ grotesque creatures were weapons shaped by its power of rules, while its envoys were living beings.
• Luo Changsheng revealed that the envoys wanted the Central Divine Continent’s cultivators to submit and settle in the Divine Ruins, offering them a method to continue cultivating.

Luo Changsheng rejected submitting to Divine Ruins, while Ji Haoyuan went to Myriad Laws Sacred Land’s Treasury Pavilion to choose a treasure with Elder Fang. Elder Fang caught the Eight Desolations God Annihilation Banner for him, a mystic treasure capable of dissolving a Dao Integration Heavenly Monarch’s Primordial Spirit.

• Luo Changsheng said that submitting to Divine Ruins was impossible and that the others would have to wait and see what happened next.
• Several days later, Divine Ruins’ envoys went to Dongyue Sacred Land, which had only one Mahayana cultivator guarding it.
• Ji Haoyuan presented Luo Changsheng’s token to Elder Fang at the Treasury Pavilion and treated him with respect as a senior.
• Elder Fang took Ji Haoyuan into a void-like treasury filled with rare treasures and offered to draw them over for him to inspect.
• Elder Fang used a net of Dao principle runes to catch the Eight Desolations God Annihilation Banner and explained its power to Ji Haoyuan.

Ji Haoyuan selected the Five Thunder Golden Seal and the Dao Severing Heaven Breaking Hammer from the Treasury Pavilion. Afterward, the Heavenly Monarch Hall gave him a map of the seventh-rank Spiritual Peaks in the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, reflecting his elevated status as a Dao Integration cultivator.

• Ji Haoyuan turned down the Eight Desolations God Annihilation Banner because it did not suit his Dao.
• Ji Haoyuan considered but rejected the Yellow Heaven Six Harmonies Mirror and the Qi-Gathering Treasure Pill Bottle, along with several other treasures.
• Ji Haoyuan chose the Five Thunder Golden Seal after Elder Fang explained its lightning powers, compatibility with Ji Haoyuan, and potential to regain its former rank as a Profound Heaven Treasure.
• Ji Haoyuan selected the strength-path divine ability Dao Severing Heaven Breaking Hammer, which suited his physical Dao of Pure Yang.
• A representative from the Heavenly Monarch Hall gave Ji Haoyuan a map showing the seventh-rank Spiritual Peaks in the Myriad Laws Sacred Land.

Ji Haoyuan and the other Heavenly Monarchs learned that Dongyue Sacred Land intended to join the Divine Ruins, prompting the Mahayana powers to agree to destroy it. Myriad Laws Sacred Land prepared to send a major force into the starry sky, while some Heavenly Monarchs stayed behind to guard the sect.

• Ji Haoyuan chose Illusory Cloud Peak and relocated his Cave Mansion without incident.
• Luo Changsheng announced that the Mahayanas had agreed to completely destroy Dongyue Sacred Land and leave no survivors.
• Luo Changsheng ordered most of Myriad Laws Sacred Land’s forces to join him and Lingyuan in intercepting Dongyue Sacred Land’s cultivators.
• Lingyuan warned that the Divine Ruins, demonic forces, and hidden enemies might join the conflict, and told those guarding the sect to kill any intruders without restraint.
• Luo Changsheng entrusted the sect’s defense to Big Dipper, Nanhua, Tianxuzi, Mortal Dust, and Longwu, then prepared to depart with the others.

The Eastern Peak Sacred Master pretended to join Divine Ruins to obtain a cultivation method, then revealed the ruse as allied forces surrounded its leaders. He trapped the Divine Ruins cultivators in mountains held in his palm and began crushing them.

• The Eastern Peak Sacred Master met Divine Ruins leaders in space and received an incomplete scripture in exchange for joining them.
• When the leaders withheld the lower portion of the scripture, the Eastern Peak Sacred Master declared that it was time to send them on their way.
• Mahayana cultivators and Heavenly Lords from the Central Divine Continent and several clans arrived to confront Divine Ruins.
• The Divine Ruins leaders discovered that the Eastern Peak Sacred Master had vanished and that they were standing on mountains in his palm.
• The Eastern Peak Sacred Master crushed two Divine Ruins cultivators and revealed that he had feigned submission to lure them out and strike first.

The Eastern Peak Sacred Master revealed his strength and led the factions into battle against the Divine Ruins as chaos spread across the Central Divine Continent. As the sacred lands came under siege, Saint Monarch Beidou explained that the attackers were artificial manifestations whose arrival depended on loopholes in the world’s contaminated rules.

• The Eastern Peak Sacred Master urged the gathered Great Vehicle cultivators to attack the Divine Ruins cultivators and keep them from escaping.
• Strange statues, corrupting gales, and hidden demonic beings appeared across the Central Divine Continent, throwing it into chaos.
• Unknown Great Vehicle cultivators and Heavenly Monarchs manifested outside the sacred lands and blocked their gates.
• At the Myriad Laws Sacred Land, Ji Haoyuan, Tianxuzi, Fanchen Heavenly Monarch, and Longwu faced the attackers until Saint Monarch Beidou arrived.
• Saint Monarch Beidou explained that the attackers were constructs with empty realms, brought into the world through loopholes in its contaminated rules at great cost.