Chapter Summaries

After seven days of treatment, Ji Juechen survived his injuries and awakened with a new understanding of the rules. He fused the ninety-thousand-year Soul Bone and turned his attention toward the Empire’s core.

• Azure Sun Douluo used the Treatment Pod and his healing abilities to treat Ji Juechen for seven days as Jing Ziyan and the others waited.
• Azure Sun Douluo said Ji Juechen was out of danger but would have to awaken on his own.
• The Sword-toothed Golden-eyed Leopard left-arm Soul Bone glowed, and Ji Juechen’s fingers twitched as his Absolute Silence Sword Intent stirred.
• The Soul Bone merged into Ji Juechen’s left arm, and he opened his eyes and awakened.
• Ji Juechen tested his newly fused arm, then looked beyond the garden toward the Empire’s core.

After awakening from nirvana, Ji Juechen demonstrated to Jing Hongchen that he could perceive and manipulate the rules governing energy. Jing Hongchen left shaken, while the Sword Pavilion members realized their captain had become far more powerful and unpredictable.

• Jing Hongchen visited Ji Juechen and asked whether he could still perceive the battlefield and find weaknesses.
• Ji Juechen examined Jing Hongchen's damaged Soul Tool core fragment and identified a hidden point in its structure.
• Ji Juechen used Absolute Silence Sword Intent to correct the fragment's rules, stabilizing its energy and runes.
• Jing Hongchen reacted with shock and wariness, put away the fragment, and left General's Star Garden.
• Xiao Hongchen and the other Sword Pavilion members recognized that Ji Juechen's awakening had changed everything.

As the Seven Monsters of Shrek and Tang Sect elites repeatedly disrupted the Sun Moon Empire’s forces at Blood Blade Valley, the recovering Sword Pavilion members felt pressure to join the front. Ji Juechen watched the battlefield through his Eyes of Rules and briefly seemed to still its distant thunder, leaving an unknown storm brewing in the rear.

• Ji Juechen continued studying his Eyes of Rules while the Sword Pavilion members recovered and fused their soul bones in General's Star Garden.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Probe Sharing to direct the Seven Monsters of Shrek as they struck weak points in the Sun Moon Empire’s formations at Blood Blade Valley.
• The Seven Monsters destroyed a Soul Tool Cannon formation, breached a fortress shield, and helped ruin an energy supply point, while the Sun Moon Empire suffered heavy losses.
• Battle reports reached Dragon Scale Grand Camp, and Jing Ziyan, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Ye Guyi, Nana, and Jing Yu grew anxious about remaining in the rear.
• Ji Juechen observed the distant battle through his Eyes of Rules and tapped the air, making the rumbling seem to pause for an instant.

Ji Juechen revealed his ability to perceive and sever flaws in the rules governing the battlefield, then warned his companions not to join the fighting while they remained weak. Ju Zi visited the garden and realized that the wounded Ji Juechen was an incomprehensible force she could not easily control.

• Ji Juechen assessed the strengths of the Seven Monsters of Shrek and identified subtle flaws in the battlefield’s energy flows.
• Ji Juechen erased a marker from the sand table and told his companions to find and sever weaknesses rather than charge into the front lines.
• Ju Zi entered General's Star Garden to visit the wounded soldiers.
• Ji Juechen struggled to stand and greeted Ju Zi as she sensed the extraordinary insight behind his frail appearance.
• Ju Zi reconsidered her plans for Ji Juechen, recognizing that she could not fully understand or control him.

Ji Juechen explained that his near-death experience had given him a costly ability to sense the paths and weak points of energy and attacks. He began recovering while secretly tending to the fused Shattered System Core and learning to control his new power.

• Jing Ziyan asked Ji Juechen about the extraordinary power he had displayed after Ju Zi left.
• Ji Juechen explained that he could sense energy flows, attack paths, and structural weaknesses, but using the ability depleted his spiritual consciousness and Origin Will.
• Ji Juechen said he had sensed a weak point in the sand table and struck it with his sword intent, though attempting the same against a more complex target could injure him.
• Jing Ziyan urged the group to give Ji Juechen time to recover and complete their soul bone fusions so they could face what lay ahead together.
• Ji Juechen entered meditation to heal his injuries and secretly nurture his cracked gray sword heart fused with the Shattered System Core.

Ji Juechen used the system editor to analyze his fused Sword-toothed Golden-eyed Leopard left arm soul bone and refine its Fang Strike skill. He clarified the limits of his reconstructed abilities, but his power remained depleted and further development required caution.

• Ji Juechen checked his status and found that his Sword Heart and system fragments had a 17.3% fusion rate, while his Soul Power was recovering at Level 85.
• Ji Juechen analyzed the ninety-thousand-year Sword-toothed Golden-eyed Leopard left arm soul bone and learned its Fang Strike and Golden Eye Domain abilities.
• The editor proposed optimizing Fang Strike with an Annihilation attribute, and Ji Juechen carefully adjusted its energy circuits.
• Ji Juechen reviewed his abilities, including Combat Insight and Tactical Deduction, and learned that advanced functions consumed substantial energy and carried risks.
• Ji Juechen activated Combat Insight alongside Golden Eye Domain, then withdrew both abilities to conserve his strength.

Ji Juechen used his Combat Insight and Soul Skill/Soul Bone Editor to help Jing Yu integrate the violent power of her Earth Shaking Ape Right Arm Bone with her Mirror Martial Soul. After Jing Hongchen summoned him, Ji Juechen sensed hidden tensions around the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps headquarters as he headed toward its core.

• Jing Yu struggled to control the Earth Shaking Ape soul bone’s power until Ji Juechen identified the conflicting energy flows and guided her to contain them.
• Ji Juechen used the Soul Skill/Soul Bone Editor to devise a mirror-refraction method for resolving the soul bone’s remaining compatibility problems.
• Jing Yu followed Ji Juechen’s circulation model, clearing the blockages and integrating the soul bone’s strength into her defense with a rebounding force.
• A personal guard told Ji Juechen that Hall Master Hongchen had requested his presence, and Ji Juechen left the cultivation chamber.
• As Ji Juechen approached the Imperial Dragon Soul Engineer Corps headquarters’ core area, his Eye of Rules revealed power, calculation, vigilance, and faint fear in its Rule Lines.

Jing Hongchen assigned Ji Juechen and Sword Pavilion to the unsettled eastern border to sharpen his sword and prepare him for a future strike against Huo Yuhao. Ji Juechen accepted the mission and left ready to test his renewed sword intent.

• Jing Hongchen told Ji Juechen that the Empire needed a sword capable of tracking and killing Huo Yuhao and the Seven Monsters of Shrek.
• Ji Juechen explained how his sword heart sensed danger, enemies, and flaws by following the momentum of all things.
• Jing Hongchen ordered Ji Juechen to take Sword Pavilion to the eastern border and clear out enemy forces while recovering his strength.
• Jing Hongchen revealed that the Empire was preparing a Broken Blade plan against Huo Yuhao and wanted Ji Juechen to deliver its crucial strike.
• Ji Juechen accepted the mission, left Jing Hongchen's residence, and sensed his Absolute Silence Sword Intent parting the air as he looked toward the eastern border.

Ji Juechen led the Seven Heroes of Sword Pavilion to the eastern border to eliminate forces attacking the Empire’s outposts and supply routes. After identifying Black Wind Ravine as an enemy stronghold, the squad swiftly defeated its defenders and prepared to strike the next target.

• Seven days after leaving Dragon Scale Grand Camp, Ji Juechen and the six members of Sword Pavilion arrived at Iron Rock City to clear out border raiders.
• Ji Juechen used the Eye of Rules to identify Black Wind Ravine as a key enemy nest and assigned his teammates their roles in the assault.
• Jing Ziyan sealed the ravine’s escape routes, Nana silently eliminated hidden sentries, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen launched the attack with Jing Yu supporting them.
• The Seven Heroes of Sword Pavilion defeated the force in Black Wind Ravine and crippled its captives before Shi Han arrived with reinforcements.
• Ji Juechen told Shi Han to provide the next target as the squad’s victories began rapidly suppressing the eastern border attacks.

Ji Juechen and Sword Pavilion crushed the last organized resistance in the Eastern Territory and returned to Iron Rock City, where Ju Zi tasked them with the Broken Blade plan against Huo Yuhao. Ji Juechen accepted the mission to help target Huo Yuhao for the Empire’s ultimate Soul Tool, and Sword Pavilion was set to depart for the Western Front in three days.

• Ji Juechen and Sword Pavilion defeated the final resistance in Blackwater Marsh, stripping the two Soul Douluo leaders of their cultivation and capturing them.
• Shi Han told Ji Juechen that Ju Zi had arrived at Iron Rock City.
• Ju Zi praised Sword Pavilion’s victories and warned that the Empire’s greater threat lay on the Western Front.
• Ju Zi gave Ji Juechen the Broken Blade plan, assigning Sword Pavilion to locate Huo Yuhao and guide the Empire’s ultimate Soul Tool toward him.
• Ji Juechen accepted the mission, and Ju Zi set Sword Pavilion’s departure for the Ming Dou Mountain Range front in three days.

Ji Juechen used the Eye of Rules to read Huo Yuhao’s Mental Probe Sharing network and predict Star Luo ambushes, helping the Sun Moon Empire win a small-scale clash on the Western Front. He became the front’s strategic adviser and set his sights on finding the network’s source, Huo Yuhao.

• Marshal Ge Long briefed Ji Juechen and the Seven Heroes of Sword Pavilion on how Huo Yuhao’s Mental Probe Sharing network was undermining the Sun Moon Empire’s battlefield operations.
• Ji Juechen used the Eye of Rules to perceive the network and predicted an ambush on the Hound squad in Southeast Valley Seven.
• Ge Long redirected the Thunder squad and the Mountain Soul Engineer regiment, and Ji Juechen warned that Star Luo forces were waiting to intercept the flank.
• Ji Juechen spent the next half hour predicting enemy movements and guiding Sun Moon Empire forces to victory in a small-scale clash.
• Ge Long appointed Ji Juechen to provide strategic warnings and decision-making references, while Ji Juechen resolved to locate Huo Yuhao, the network’s source.

Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao met in a hidden contest of rule perception, sword intent, and spiritual power across the Western Front. Their clash ended in a draw, but both identified an opportunity and a likely breakthrough point for the next stage of the battle.

• Ji Juechen used the Eye of Rules to exploit weaknesses in Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Network, helping the Sun Moon Empire win several small-scale engagements.
• Huo Yuhao recognized Ji Juechen as the opponent disrupting his network and strengthened it with spiritual barriers, traps, and more complex information flows.
• Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao exchanged attacks through the network for two hours, each adapting to the other’s techniques.
• Ji Juechen found a powerful spiritual source point and struck it, while Huo Yuhao countered through the network, leaving both shaken before they stopped their attacks.
• Ji Juechen told Marshal Ge Long that the network would fluctuate within three hours and identified an area to exploit.
• Huo Yuhao ordered his companions to reduce detection and defend Eastern Sector Three, predicting Ji Juechen would target it.

Ji Juechen guided Marshal Ge Long’s strike force through Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Network to install the Hive core in Grief of Ghosts. Ma Xiaotao’s attack was deflected by Jing Ziyan, leaving the core intact as both sides’ top fighters faced off above the rift.

• Marshal Ge Long sent Lei Bao and three hundred Soul Engineers into Grief of Ghosts to install the Hive core during the Spirit Network’s three-hour fluctuation.
• Ji Juechen used his perception of the Rule Veins to guide the force through gaps and warn Lei Bao of Huo Yuhao’s mental attacks and scans.
• Huo Yuhao focused his Spiritual Power on the rift, but the strike force evaded his attacks by using Mirror Reflectors and hiding against the cliffs.
• Lei Bao reported that the Hive core was installed with ten minutes left in the window.
• Ma Xiaotao fired at the Hive core, but Jing Ziyan diverted her arrow, and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen confronted her as she tried to escape.
• Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao sensed each other across the battlefield as the rift valley gambit ended with the Hive core intact and their contest unresolved.

Ji Juechen and the Sun Moon Empire used the Hive to disrupt Star Luo’s offensive, but Huo Yuhao’s feints concealed an attack that cut off Outpost West-17’s communications. Ji Juechen suspected the blackout was also creating an opening for hidden forces to move, leaving the Western Front facing a deeper strategic threat.

• Ge Long praised Ji Juechen and the Hive for containing Star Luo’s offensive, while Ji Juechen warned that Huo Yuhao would target the system.
• Huo Yuhao sent Star Luo forces into widespread tactical feints, and Ji Juechen identified apparent attacks on Ghost Cry Ravine and Falling Eagle Plain.
• Ji Juechen spotted a concealed strike aimed at Outpost West-17 and ordered the post to raise its alert and the Sword Pavilion to reinforce it.
• Star Luo forces attacked West-17 before help arrived, cutting its repeater connection to the Command Center.
• Ji Juechen acknowledged Huo Yuhao had won the round and warned Ge Long that the communication blackout might let hidden forces deploy unnoticed.

Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao uncovered the Holy Spirit Cult’s growing role in the war and agreed to limit their direct conflict while keeping their forces opposed. They left the meeting prepared for the Cult’s coming threat, with their fragile ceasefire short of a true peace.

• Jing Ziyan, Xiao Hongchen, Jing Yu, Ji Juechen, and Nana examined Outpost West-17 and found signs that the Holy Spirit Cult had supported the attack alongside Shrek.
• Ji Juechen sensed the Holy Spirit Cult spreading through the war and learned that Huo Yuhao had invited him to meet.
• Huo Yuhao warned Ji Juechen that the Cult was expanding its reach and could seize power if Xu Tianran died.
• Ji Juechen agreed to keep the Western Front conflict from escalating while insisting that the Hive remain active.
• Ji Juechen and Huo Yuhao joined their Spiritual Power and Sword Intent in a pact to temporarily restrain hostilities and oppose the Holy Spirit Cult.

Empress Ju Zi arrived at the Western Front and ordered Ji Juechen to lead an elite strike against the Star Luo Empire’s Bedrock Fortress. Ji Juechen agreed, breaking the fragile balance with Huo Yuhao and setting up a direct confrontation over the fortress.

• Ju Zi arrived at the Western Front and questioned Marshal Ge Long and Ji Juechen about the lull in fighting.
• Ju Zi identified Bedrock Fortress as the target and gave Ji Juechen a secret map, ordering him to find a weakness in its defenses.
• Ji Juechen warned that an assault could cause heavy losses and provoke Huo Yuhao’s full retaliation.
• Ji Juechen used the Eye of Rules to consider the risks and told Ju Zi that his sword could breach Bedrock.
• Ju Zi ordered Ge Long to prioritize resources for Ji Juechen and the Sword Pavilion, and Ji Juechen left to prepare the attack.

Empress Ju Zi’s decree sent the Western Front toward renewed conflict as Ji Juechen planned a tactical assault on Bedrock Fortress. He challenged Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Network, and both sides prepared for a dangerous contest under the Pact of Ceasefire.

• Ji Juechen studied Bedrock Fortress with the Eye of Rules and concluded that a direct assault would cause unacceptable losses.
• Ji Juechen identified three energy nodes and proposed lightning raids while the main force feinted at the fortress.
• Ji Juechen assigned Jing Ziyan, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Jing Yu, and Nana to attack the three nodes at the hour of the ox.
• Ji Juechen sensed Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Network watching the Western Front and recognized Huo Yuhao’s will answering from its core.
• Ji Juechen sent an Absolute Silence Sword Intent toward Bedrock Fortress as a challenge, and Huo Yuhao’s network resolutely accepted it.

Jing Ziyan, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ji Juechen launched coordinated attacks on Rockfort Fortress’s three outer nodes, forcing Huo Yuhao to respond with targeted defenses. As the attackers damaged the nodes, Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen began a perilous clash of spiritual power and perception at Node Three.

• Jing Ziyan cloaked Node One in purple mist while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen blasted Node Two with ice, fire, and Soul Tool cannon fire.
• Ji Juechen identified hidden sentries at Node Three, and Nana eliminated them while Jing Yu shielded their group from spiritual detection.
• Ji Juechen severed a key energy line in Node Three’s defense shield and led Jing Yu and Nana inside to destroy the node’s core.
• Huo Yuhao recognized the three-pronged assault and adapted his spiritual power to contain the mist, deflect the attack on Node Two, and counter Ji Juechen at Node Three.
• Ji Juechen resisted Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Thorn by tracing its source with his Eye of Rules, setting the two experts against each other in a silent duel.

Ju Zi used the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps and a full-scale offensive to capture Bedrock Fortress and turn the Western Front in the Sun Moon Empire’s favor. She then sent Ji Juechen to govern the eastern territories while placing the other Sword Pavilion members under her direct command, leaving Ji to depart alone.

• Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen badly wounded each other in a clash of spiritual power and sword intent.
• Ju Zi sent the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps into battle, forcing the Seven Monsters of Shrek to retreat as the Sun Moon Empire launched an all-out Western Front offensive.
• The Sun Moon Empire captured Bedrock Fortress before dawn, shifting the strategic balance on the Western Front.
• Ju Zi appointed Ji Juechen Governor-General of the eastern provinces and ordered him to leave the battlefield to recover while governing the former Heaven Dou Empire lands.
• Ju Zi placed Jing Ziyan, Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, Jing Yu, and Nana under the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps; Ji Juechen and the others accepted her orders.
• Ji Juechen left the Command Center alone to begin his journey east.

Huo Yuhao left the western front to infiltrate the Sun Moon Empire’s Imperial Palace and assassinate Xu Tianran, hoping to disrupt the empire’s advance. In the Eastern Territory, Ji Juechen refined his sword heart amid the scars and renewal of the land as Huo Yuhao reached the palace’s outer defenses.

• Huo Yuhao proposed targeting Xu Tianran in the Imperial Palace to throw the Sun Moon Empire into chaos, and Beibei accepted the plan with warnings to retreat if necessary.
• Huo Yuhao departed the Star Luo camp at night, using concealment and the Simulation Soul Skill to approach the Imperial Capital.
• Ji Juechen wandered the war-scarred Eastern Territory, absorbing the land’s sorrow, hope, and signs of renewal into his sword intent.
• Ji Juechen watched an old plum tree bloom among the ruins and sensed a new trace of life within his Absolute Silence Sword Intent.
• Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Imperial Palace’s outer defenses and waited for an opening to strike.