Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Sun Moon Empire's Imperial Palace and assassinated Xu Tianran after Ye Xishui persuaded Long Xiaoyao to let him pass. Ye Xishui revealed the truth behind her past before dying in Long Xiaoyao's arms, while he broke through the barrier to godhood and Huo Yuhao escaped into the chaos.

• Huo Yuhao entered the palace's Forbidden Zone, where Long Xiaoyao stopped him and attacked.
• Ye Xishui intervened and let Huo Yuhao pass, and Huo Yuhao killed Xu Tianran in his bedchamber.
• Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui confronted Huo Yuhao as he fled, and their combined attack severely wounded him.
• Ye Xishui revealed that her family had forced her to marry Zhong Liwu and that Zhong Liwu had cursed her; Huo Yuhao used Electrolux's Divine Light Power to purify her.
• Ye Xishui gave her remaining power to Long Xiaoyao and died, prompting him to break through the barrier to godhood.
• Huo Yuhao slipped away as Long Xiaoyao mourned Ye Xishui and the Imperial Palace descended into chaos.

Long Xiaoyao passed his cultivation to Huo Yuhao, honoring Muen’s legacy and Ye Xishui’s final wish before dying beside her. Huo Yuhao reached Level 98 and left the ruined palace as the Sun Moon Empire entered an uncertain new era, while Ji Juechen sensed a ripple of fate from afar.

• Long Xiaoyao told Huo Yuhao he would not stop him and explained that he would pass on his power to repay Muen and fulfill Ye Xishui’s wish for purification.
• Long Xiaoyao transferred his Soul Power and understanding of the rules into Huo Yuhao, guiding him through successive breakthroughs.
• Huo Yuhao reached Level 98 as Long Xiaoyao’s life faded away.
• Long Xiaoyao died embracing Ye Xishui, and Huo Yuhao bowed to them before leaving the imperial palace ruins.
• Ji Juechen sensed a ripple of fate in the western sky from an unnamed mountain in the Eastern Territory.

After Huo Yuhao killed Xu Tianran and left the Sun Moon Empire in turmoil, Ju Zi swiftly took control as regent. Far from court and war, Ji Juechen lived among villagers and found a new way to temper his sword through ordinary work and their Health Cultivation Fist.

• Huo Yuhao's assassination of Xu Tianran and the deaths of Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao threw the Sun Moon Empire into chaos, while the Star Luo Empire gained a chance to regroup.
• Ju Zi issued an edict naming herself regent until the imperial heir could rule, and her loyal forces secured a smooth transfer of power.
• Ji Juechen lived incognito as Chen in Xibian Village, where he chopped wood, carried water, and helped with farm work without using Soul Power.
• Ji Juechen joined the villagers' Health Cultivation Fist and sensed its harmony with Heaven and Earth through the Eye of Rules.
• The villagers' routine helped Ji Juechen balance his life radiance with his Absolute Silence Sword Origin, and he resolved to refine his sword through Worldly Life.

In Xibian Village, Ji Juechen deepened his understanding of life and death through ordinary labor and refined his sword path. Meanwhile, Ju Zi sought Kong Mingde’s help against Huo Yuhao, drawing the Silver Moon Douluo toward the growing conflict as Ji Juechen sensed his awakening from afar.

• Ji Juechen practiced ordinary village tasks and perceived the cycles of life and death through his Eye of Rules.
• Ji Juechen split a withered tree along the principle of its deathly stillness, realizing that annihilation could return things to their original simplicity.
• After Huo Yuhao’s Rank 98 breakthrough undermined the Sun Moon Empire’s offensives, Ju Zi decided to seek help from Kong Mingde.
• Kong Mingde sensed Huo Yuhao’s power and agreed to receive Ju Zi, who wished to discuss the empire’s survival.
• Ji Juechen sensed a powerful silver aura awakening in the west, then returned to tying up his firewood.

Kong Mingde arrived at the Sun Moon Empire’s western front and used the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield to interfere with Huo Yuhao’s Eternal Frost Domain, stalling his advance. In Xibian Village, Ji Juechen sensed their clash and continued on his quiet path as his Absolute Silence Heart Sword grew more solid.

• After a Sun Moon Empire assault team vanished in Huo Yuhao’s icefield, Ju Zi introduced Kong Mingde as the commander of western-front operations against him.
• Kong Mingde studied the attack records and ordered Space Anchor arrays and Element Disruptors deployed around the icefield.
• Kong Mingde activated the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, disrupting Huo Yuhao’s control over his Eternal Frost Domain.
• Huo Yuhao met Kong Mingde’s rule-interference with his domain, and their distant clash stalled his offensive.
• In Xibian Village, Ji Juechen sensed the clash, returned a roof tile to its place, and found that his Absolute Silence Heart Sword had grown more solid.

Huo Yuhao and Kong Mingde fought a precise contest of rules as Kong Mingde’s Soul Tools tried to dismantle the Eternal Frost Domain and Huo Yuhao adapted its structure to resist. Observing their clash, Ji Juechen gained insight into his sword path and discovered a way to reflect the world’s fundamental Rule Veins.

• Kong Mingde used the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield and Soul Tool arrays to analyze and interfere with Huo Yuhao’s Eternal Frost Domain.
• Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power and the Law of Ice to reconstruct the domain’s rules and defend it from Kong Mingde’s targeted attacks.
• Kong Mingde condensed the shield’s radiance into silver shuttles that struck at weak Rule Nodes, but Huo Yuhao’s Absolute Zero Walls and ice crystal runes wore them down.
• In Xibian Village, Ji Juechen observed the distant clash through his Eye of Rules and reflected on how destruction could lead to renewal and reconstruction.
• Ji Juechen drew a finger through the air, briefly revealing the world’s underlying Rule Veins and drawing a wisp of origin energy into himself.

Kong Mingde used Rule Reflection to uncover parts of Huo Yuhao’s power and withdrew to prepare specialized Soul Tools. In the Eastern Territory, Ji Juechen developed a precise way to interfere with life’s rule threads, then received Ju Zi’s edict ordering him to the Western Front, leaving his decision uncertain.

• Kong Mingde bypassed Huo Yuhao’s domain with Rule Reflection and learned about his spiritual power, the Ice Empress and Snow Empress, and traces of another plane.
• Kong Mingde ordered his army to hold its defensive formation and suspended attacks while he planned countermeasures against Huo Yuhao.
• Ji Juechen used his new reflective insight and Sword Intent to weaken a foxtail grass by precisely disrupting one of its life-sustaining rule threads.
• Old Man Lin told Ji Juechen that an imperial envoy had arrived with an edict from the regent.
• The envoy read Ju Zi’s order directing Ji Juechen to leave for the Western Front and serve under Kong Mingde, while Ji Juechen remained silent over whether to comply.

Ji Juechen accepted Ju Zi’s edict and set out for the Western Front, where he would join the fight against Huo Yuhao. His arrival threatened to intensify the stalemate between Huo Yuhao and Kong Mingde, while Huo Yuhao began preparing to break it.

• Ji Juechen considered the risks and opportunities of Ju Zi’s order, then accepted the edict to go west.
• Ji Juechen refused the carriage, bid farewell to Old Man Lin and the villagers, and left for the Western Front on foot.
• Kong Mingde continued designing Soul Tools to counter Huo Yuhao and regarded Ji Juechen as a useful variable for testing his research.
• Beibei told Huo Yuhao that Ju Zi had transferred Ji Juechen to the Western Front, and Huo Yuhao welcomed the prospect of facing him again.
• Huo Yuhao felt renewed urgency and began advancing several plans to break the deadlock.

Ji Juechen met Kong Mingde in his workshop and assessed the adaptive nature of Huo Yuhao’s domain. Kong Mingde assigned him to watch Shrek’s other six Monsters, leaving Ji Juechen to observe the war while continuing to temper his Dao.

• Kong Mingde summoned Ji Juechen to his workshop and asked for his assessment of Huo Yuhao’s domain.
• Ji Juechen said the domain adapted to circumstances and would be difficult to overcome without breaking its foundation or finding its variable.
• Kong Mingde explained that Shrek’s other six Monsters had disrupted the Sun Moon Empire’s flanks and supplies.
• Kong Mingde ordered Ji Juechen to find and stop the six Monsters while the army focused on Huo Yuhao.
• Ji Juechen accepted the assignment and left the workshop to watch the battlefield from a narrower front.

Huo Yuhao planned to exploit Kong Mingde’s focus on their rules contest by sending Shrek’s Six Monsters to destroy a Sun Moon Empire Soul Tool energy hub. Ji Juechen sensed their covert gathering and moved to investigate, leaving his role in the raid unresolved.

• Ji Juechen monitored the battlefield and studied the movements and abilities of Shrek’s Six Monsters and the Hongchen siblings.
• He sensed the six Shrek companions quietly converging and infiltrated toward them to discover their target.
• Huo Yuhao identified a poorly guarded energy hub supplying a third of the Sun Moon Empire’s Western Front Soul Tool formations.
• Huo Yuhao proposed feinting against Kong Mingde while the six companions raided and destroyed the hub.
• Beibei, Xu Sanshi, He Caitou, and the others agreed to the dangerous mission and began preparing as Huo Yuhao readied his Eternal Frost Domain to support them.

Ji Juechen witnessed the suffering of civilians in a war-ravaged town and developed a new Thought of Protection within his sword path. After using his sword intent to stop rogue soldiers without injuring them, he left the town to continue his journey as the continent’s final storm drew nearer.

• Ji Juechen entered a border town and observed the fear, poverty, and grief of civilians caught in the war.
• The suffering led Ji Juechen to wonder whether his sword could protect as well as cut, and his Absolute Silence Heart Sword began to absorb the meaning of protection.
• Rogue soldiers attacked the townspeople, and Ji Juechen used his sword intent to erase their intent of violence and render them unconscious.
• Ji Juechen saw the townspeople and a calm infant, strengthening his Thought of Protection before he quietly left the town.

Ji Juechen’s new Sword Intent of protection awakened the budding Golden Eye Domain within his soul bone. Meanwhile, Ju Zi grew suspicious of the Holy Spirit Cult’s secret preparations, as tensions threatened to break the stalemate.

• Ji Juechen blended the idea of protection into his Absolute Silence Sword Intent, deepening its power.
• Ji Juechen guided the sharpness of his left arm soul bone into a faint force field, forming the budding Golden Eye Domain.
• Ju Zi learned that the Holy Spirit Cult was recalling Evil Soul Masters, reinforcing its strongholds, and resisting her orders.
• Ju Zi ordered a trusted subordinate to monitor the Holy Spirit Cult and investigate its recent deployments.
• Ji Juechen ended his meditation as the force field faded, sensing that his sword path had broadened.
• Ju Zi resolved to wait for an opportunity to eliminate the Holy Spirit Cult, while the continental stalemate neared collapse.

The Holy Spirit Cult launched a coup across the Sun Moon Empire while its main forces remained tied down on the Western Front. Ju Zi and Kong Mingde responded to the crisis, as Huo Yuhao and Ji Juechen waited amid the empire’s growing turmoil.

• Ju Zi saw reports of the Holy Spirit Cult attacking military sites and the Imperial Capital, recognized its attempt to seize power, and ordered the capital’s defenses into action.
• Ju Zi kept the Western Front army in place rather than risk an advance by Huo Yuhao while the capital came under attack.
• Kong Mingde detected the empire’s Soul Tool Network collapsing, ordered Ge Long to hold the line, and flew back toward the Imperial Capital.
• Huo Yuhao drew in his Ice Blue Domain and watched the empire’s internal conflict unfold.
• Ji Juechen sensed the dark upheaval spreading through the empire’s rear but remained in place, waiting for a reason to draw his sword.

The Holy Spirit Cult launched a decapitation strike against Regent Ju Zi during its assault on the Imperial City, but Kong Mingde arrived and used the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield to destroy the attackers. Ju Zi ordered a counterattack, while Ji Juechen returned his focus to the Western Front.

• The Holy Spirit Cult's undead and Evil Soul Masters pressed the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Corps as Ju Zi directed the Imperial City's defenses.
• Three Holy Spirit Cult elders attacked Ju Zi, and the Rank 98 elder's Soul Devouring Underworld Abyss threatened to overwhelm her guards.
• Kong Mingde arrived beneath a silver moon and dispelled the elder's attack with the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Kong Mingde's All Laws Return to Silence purified two elders and crippled the Rank 98 elder, then swept away Evil Soul Masters and Undead Creatures.
• Ju Zi ordered the imperial defenders to counterattack and purge the rebels.
• Ji Juechen sensed the Holy Spirit Cult's defeat from the Western Front and returned to tempering his sword path.

Ji Juechen abandoned his observation of the war and entered the Eastern Third Defense Zone to protect the soldiers caught in Huo Yuhao’s advancing Eternal Frost Domain. After holding back the attack long enough for some to retreat, he was struck by Huo Yuhao and left injured as Silver Moon approached.

• Ji Juechen saw the Sun Moon Empire’s defenses collapse under Huo Yuhao’s Eternal Frost Domain and decided that protecting ordinary people meant he could no longer remain on the sidelines.
• Ji Juechen rushed to the Eastern Third Defense Zone and used Absolute Silence Sword Intent to cut through the ice tide and Shrek’s attacks, creating openings for soldiers to escape.
• Ji Juechen fought as he retreated, using precise sword strikes to defend the collapsing line, though the domain continued to advance.
• Huo Yuhao sent a deep-blue beam at Ji Juechen, who met it with his sword intent but was blasted into frozen ruins and injured.
• Ji Juechen sensed Silver Moon returning from the Imperial Capital, rose to his feet, and resolved to keep protecting others.

Ji Juechen endured Huo Yuhao’s attack and completed his Absolute Silence Sword Domain as Kong Mingde returned to the Western Front. The attackers retreated, leaving Ji Juechen weakened but with a domain of his own.

• Ji Juechen survived Huo Yuhao’s strike, and the pressure strengthened his Thought of Protection and Absolute Silence Heart Sword.
• Ji Juechen fused his sword intent, protective will, and Golden Eye Insight to complete the Absolute Silence Sword Domain.
• Kong Mingde returned and used the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield to halt the expansion of Huo Yuhao’s Eternal Frost Domain.
• Huo Yuhao ordered the Shrek and Star Luo Empire forces to retreat after their attack had severely damaged the Sun Moon Empire’s Western Front army.
• Kong Mingde stabilized the imperial defenses while Ji Juechen dispersed his domain and remained standing despite his exhaustion.

Huo Yuhao ambushed the wounded Kong Mingde on the Western Front and nearly killed him, but Kong Mingde burned his essence blood to unleash Rule Reversal and injure Huo Yuhao in return. Huo Yuhao ordered the allied forces to retreat, leaving Kong Mingde near death and Ji Juechen with a heightened understanding of power.

• Kong Mingde returned from the Imperial Capital battle badly injured, and Huo Yuhao seized the chance to attack him with Ice Meteors and a Soul Impact.
• Huo Yuhao shattered Kong Mingde's Thousand Prism Mirror Wall with Peerless Ice and followed with an Ice Empress Sting.
• Kong Mingde burned his essence blood to activate Rule Reversal, destroying the lingering power of Huo Yuhao's attacks and injuring them both.
• Ge Long and the imperial soldiers rescued the gravely wounded Kong Mingde as Huo Yuhao withdrew the Eternal Frost Domain and ordered the allied forces to retreat.
• Ji Juechen watched Kong Mingde being carried away and felt his understanding of power and desire to reach the pinnacle deepen.

The Sun Moon Empire called a ceasefire after its devastating losses, while Huo Yuhao prepared to inherit the God of Emotion through his fated battle with Di Tian. As Ji Juechen continued refining his sword in the mortal world, a greater storm gathered in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• Regent Ju Zi shifted the Sun Moon Empire to strategic defense and sent envoys to negotiate a ceasefire after the Western Front defeat.
• Huo Yuhao reached the peak of Rank 99 and formed his third Soul Core with Xuan Zi's sacrifice, preparing to claim the God of Emotion's God Position.
• Huo Yuhao entrusted Beibei and the others with the peace negotiations and focused on preparing for his life-or-death battle with Di Tian.
• Ji Juechen continued Mortal World Heart Refining and sensed a powerful force of emotion gathering to the south.

Huo Yuhao defeated Di Tian by using the Divine Artifact Morning Dew Saber to wound his Dragon God Claw, though the effort left him severely weakened. After witnessing the battle through the Eye of Rules, Ji Juechen decided to challenge the newly ascended God of Emotion with his strongest sword strike.

• Di Tian overwhelmed Huo Yuhao with Dragon God Claw—Annihilation and prepared to finish him.
• Huo Yuhao used the Morning Dew Saber to break the Dragon God Claw’s power and deeply wound Di Tian.
• Di Tian retreated into the Lake of Life to recover, acknowledging his defeat.
• Huo Yuhao nearly collapsed after the battle, having spent almost all his strength.
• Ji Juechen witnessed the battle through the Eye of Rules and resolved to challenge Huo Yuhao to test his sword and Dao.

After ascending to godhood, Huo Yuhao encountered Ji Juechen, who asked to test his ultimate sword against a god. Huo Yuhao accepted and led Ji Juechen above the clouds for their Dao contest.

• Huo Yuhao recovered from his battle with Di Tian while stabilizing his newly attained God Position.
• Ji Juechen approached Huo Yuhao and congratulated him on ascending to godhood.
• Ji Juechen asked Huo Yuhao to judge his strongest sword by facing it as the God of Emotion.
• Huo Yuhao accepted Ji Juechen's request and flew toward the open sky above the clouds.
• Ji Juechen followed Huo Yuhao to the place where he would deliver his sword strike.