Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei guarded Cliff Grinding Mountain while the war between the Human Race and the Ice Clan and Ghoul Clan intensified. Five enemy Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage cultivators ambushed him, but he escaped their encirclement and struck three of them with his Space Grid killing move.

• Chen Fei arrived at Cliff Grinding Mountain and deployed 108 battle soldiers to scout for enemies while he cultivated.
• The Human Race and the Ice Clan and Ghoul Clan clashed near Aurora City, suffering heavy losses as both sides tested each other.
• Chen Fei’s battle soldiers killed more than a dozen enemy scouts near Cliff Grinding Mountain, prompting the enemy to stop sending them.
• Lou Yu, Ding Yong, and three other Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage cultivators set out to assassinate Chen Fei, believing he was guarding Cliff Grinding Mountain alone.
• Chen Fei sensed their approach, prepared a formation to conceal the battle, then evaded their opening attacks and sent his Space Grid killing move through three of the attackers.

Chen Fei killed three of the five cultivators who ambushed him, trapped the remaining two in the Azure Heavens Domain, and tested whether his copied Bronze Rune could seize talent. The test succeeded, improving his aptitude and confirming that he could gain talent without relying on the Bronze Fragment.

• Chen Fei used a killing move stored in the Space Grid to kill two Weird Clan cultivators and grievously injure Lou Yu.
• Jian Meng and Ding Yong fled, but Chen Fei dragged them into the Azure Heavens Domain before cutting down Lou Yu.
• Chen Fei activated the Bronze Rune and drew spiritual light from the three Weird Clan cultivators’ Blood Mist into the vertical eye between his brows.
• After the talent-seizing improved his divine soul, Chen Fei found that he could generate ideas about techniques more readily than before.
• Chen Fei concluded that his aptitude had risen to roughly Hua Zhicun’s level, though it remained below Kuang Xingfeng’s.

Chen Fei killed the five foreign-race Dao Fusion Realm assassins and absorbed part of their aptitudes, then concealed the evidence at Cliff Grinding Mountain. As the Ice Clan and Weird Clan debated whether to send stronger forces, Sun Guangyuan considered a reward for killing Chen Fei, while Chen Fei examined his spoils.

• Chen Fei entered the Azure Heavens Domain and used Suppressing Heavens to absorb some of Jian Meng and Ding Yong’s attack power.
• Chen Fei used the Space Sub-Rule to separate Jian Meng and Ding Yong’s attacks, then killed Jian Meng and Ding Yong and absorbed part of their aptitudes.
• Chen Fei returned to Cliff Grinding Mountain, erased traces of the five assassins, and decided to keep his strength hidden while waiting for more attackers.
• The Ice Clan and Weird Clan learned that Lou Yu and the other four had died, but hesitated to send a Dao Fusion Realm Middle Stage cultivator into human territory.
• Sun Guangyuan learned that killing Chen Fei would earn a Nirvana Fruit and decided to wait for a suitable opportunity.
• Chen Fei found that his aptitude had improved and began inspecting the items taken from the five Dao artifacts.

After plundering the talents and resources of five Dao Fusion Realm cultivators, Chen Fei used Low-Grade Essence Crystals to accelerate his cultivation and discovered how much his comprehension had improved. He settled into cultivation with the prospect of advancing rapidly, while the war around Aurora City and the other besieged human cities remained deadlocked.

• Chen Fei stored the Low-Grade Essence Crystals and Spiritual Materials taken from the five Dao Artifacts, and fed five portions of Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage spiritual essence to the Hidden Essence Bell.
• Chen Fei set up a Gathering Yuan Formation in the karst cave and shattered Low-Grade Essence Crystals to produce inspiration for cultivation.
• Chen Fei found that his plundered talent had increased his comprehension and raised his cultivation speed with one thousand Low-Grade Essence Crystals to about one and a half times its usual rate.
• Chen Fei shattered another thousand Low-Grade Essence Crystals and cultivated Tier 5 Suppressing Heavens, Desolate Night Slaughter God Sword, and the Space Rule at more than triple his normal speed.
• Chen Fei calculated that sufficient resources could let him reach the Great Perfection Realm in his techniques and advance to Dao Fusion Realm Middle Stage within a few years.
• Chen Fei immersed himself in cultivation as the fighting around Aurora City and three other human cities remained at a stalemate.

After months guarding Cliff Grinding Mountain, Chen Fei learned that a Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage expert from the Weird Clan was coming for him, so Aurora City arranged for him to leave secretly. The ambush struck before he reached the city, but a Chen Fei lookalike was still running a thousand li away.

• Chen Fei cultivated at Cliff Grinding Mountain for three months, increasing his Space Rule Fragments from six to seventeen and his Power Rule Fragments from six to eleven.
• Qin Yunfang warned Chen Fei that a Weird Clan Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage expert was approaching and ordered him to return to Aurora City in secret rather than serve as bait.
• Qin Yunfang used a Wooden Figure that copied Chen Fei's appearance and Aura, then sent Chen Fei away on foot with Yuan Bizheng.
• As Chen Fei and Yuan Bizheng traveled toward Aurora City, an overwhelming force descended, killing Yuan Bizheng and shattering the body beside him.
• A thousand li away, two figures continued sprinting, and one had Chen Fei's features.

Chen Fei evaded an attempted assassination by a Dao Fusion Realm Middle Stage cultivator and returned safely to Aurora City. After reuniting with his companions and learning of their progress, he entered the city’s Black Market in disguise.

• Chen Fei used manifested battle soldiers as decoys, discovered an unseen Dao Fusion Realm Middle Stage attacker had destroyed them, and continued toward Aurora City with Yuan Bizheng.
• Sun Guangyuan concealed his traces after failing to kill Chen Fei and resolved that Chen Fei could not be allowed to keep growing stronger.
• Chen Fei and Yuan Bizheng returned safely to Aurora City, where Yuan Bizheng departed to report to the City Lord Manor.
• Chen Fei reunited with Qu Qingsheng and the others, learned that Chi Shuqing and Tong Linyun had reached the Mountain Sea Realm, and reassured his companions.
• Chen Fei entered seclusion at Aurora Mountain, then changed his appearance and Aura before slipping into Aurora City’s Black Market.

Chen Fei sold a Dao Artifact and sixth-rank Spiritual Materials at Aurora City's Black Market to replenish his Low-Grade Essence Crystals, then resumed cultivation. A month later, the Ice Clan and Weird Clan began issuing challenges against the besieged human cities, seeking to kill human Dao Fusion Realm cultivators.

• Chen Fei visited Aurora City's Black Market and sold the Demon Bone Sword for thirty-eight thousand Low-Grade Essence Crystals.
• Chen Fei sold dozens of sixth-rank Spiritual Materials for more than twenty thousand Low-Grade Essence Crystals and left the market with one hundred and forty thousand in total.
• Qin Yunfang told Chen Fei that a traitor had warned the Weird Clan Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage expert away, but the humans had found a traitor; he also told Chen Fei to stop guarding Cliff Grinding Mountain.
• Chen Fei spent the next month cultivating on Aurora Mountain, using two thousand Low-Grade Essence Crystals each day.
• The Ice Clan and Weird Clan began issuing challenges across the besieged cities, aiming to kill human Dao Fusion Realm cultivators and weaken the Qiankun Cauldron.

After exhausting his Essence Crystals, Chen Fei left seclusion with his Desolate Universe Rifting God Sword and Space Sub-Rule cultivation greatly advanced. He visited Aurora City's Black Market and traded Rose Moon Wood for an Armor Clan inheritance art related to the Space Sub-Rule.

• Chen Fei spent more than two months cultivating, raising his Space Sub-Rule Fragments from seventeen to twenty and pushing the Desolate Universe Rifting God Sword beyond halfway through the Proficient Realm.
• Chen Fei emerged from seclusion after exhausting his 140,000 Low-Grade Essence Crystals and changed his appearance and aura before leaving the Cultivation Room.
• Chen Fei entered the increasingly lively Black Market and found an Inheritance Stone containing a Tier 6 High-Grade Armor Clan technique related to a Space Sub-Rule.
• Chen Fei exchanged a section of Rose Moon Wood for the Inheritance Stone without bargaining.

Chen Fei learned the Armor Clan’s Violent Misty Yuan Skill, fused it into his sword technique, and cultivated the Space Sub-Rule Small. As the Weird Clan’s Si Sheng killed two human Dao Fusion Realm cultivators and Aurora City continued refusing challenges on Chen Fei’s behalf, Chen Fei remained in seclusion until someone sent him a message.

• Chen Fei bought and read an Armor Clan inheritance at the Black Market, discovered it cultivated the Space Sub-Rule Small, and fused it into the Desolate Universe Rifting God Sword.
• Chen Fei returned to his Cultivation Room, learned that Aurora City had refused challenges issued to him by the Ice Clan and Weird Clan, and began cultivating the new Sub-Rule.
• Chen Fei condensed seven pieces of the Space Sub-Rule Small, simplified its cultivation into gathering Source Point Space, and cultivated it for fourteen days.
• Chen Fei returned to the Black Market for more Essence Crystals and learned that Si Sheng, an Early Stage Dao Fusion Realm member of the Weird Clan, had killed two human cultivators in two battles.
• Chen Fei continued cultivating and noticed that his divine soul and Source Point Space grew faster after he began practicing the Space Sub-Rule Small.
• Someone sent Chen Fei a message outside his Cultivation Room half a month after he entered seclusion.

Qin Yunfang told Chen Fei that the Weird Clan prodigy Si Sheng had killed five human Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage cultivators and proposed a duel while restricting himself to five Rule Fragments. Chen Fei accepted the challenge, and Aurora City prepared resources for him before announcing their life-and-death duel for one month later.

• Qin Yunfang told Chen Fei that Si Sheng had won five duels and killed five human cultivators.
• Qin Yunfang explained that Si Sheng had offered to seal his realm and use at most five Rule Fragments to duel Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei claimed to have mastered four Space Sub-Rule Fragments and asked about the duel's stakes.
• After viewing Si Sheng's previous fights, Chen Fei agreed to accept the challenge and asked whether the stakes could be raised.
• Qin Yunfang returned with a Rule Crystal and two portions of Tier 6 Middle-Grade Spirit Material for Chen Fei.
• Aurora City announced that Chen Fei would fight Si Sheng in a life-and-death duel one month later.

Chen Fei accepted a duel with the Weird Clan prodigy Si Sheng and spent the month before the fight using rare spirit materials and a Rule Crystal to strengthen his abilities. As the armies gathered outside Aurora City, Si Sheng appeared and demanded that Chen Fei come out to fight.

• The human race and the Weird Clan set strict rules for Chen Fei and Si Sheng's duel, while Chen Fei's decision to accept it stirred worry across Aurora City.
• Chen Fei spent five days digesting two portions of Tier 6 Middle-Grade Spirit Material, strengthening his divine soul by more than ten percent.
• Chen Fei crushed the Rule Crystal and cultivated for twenty days, advancing the Desolate Universe Rifting God Sword to the Perfection Realm and raising his Space Sub-Rule Fragments to thirty and Power Rule Fragments to eighteen.
• With five days remaining, Chen Fei continued cultivating with Low-Grade Essence Crystals.
• The human, Ice Clan, and Weird Clan armies gathered outside Aurora City, and Si Sheng appeared before his formation and called for Chen Fei to come out and accept his death.

Chen Fei faced Si Sheng in the agreed duel after Si Sheng sealed his cultivation to five Rule Fragments, then used a forbidden art to unleash overwhelming power without apparent harm. Chen Fei weathered Si Sheng’s assault with precise control of the Space Sub-Rule and stood against him as an equal, revealing that he had come for more than one opponent.

• Si Sheng taunted Chen Fei before the duel, and Chen Fei arrived and calmly told him to seal his cultivation.
• Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou inspected Si Sheng and confirmed that he had suppressed his realm to five Rule Fragments.
• Si Sheng used a forbidden art that greatly amplified his power without damaging his origin, alarming the human cultivators.
• Si Sheng attacked Chen Fei with a sword strike and a barrage of blows, but Chen Fei redirected the force through space and stopped retreating after nine steps.
• Chen Fei told Si Sheng that his strength did not match his words and made clear that defeating Si Sheng alone would not be enough to repay the deaths of five human cultivators.

Chen Fei turned Si Sheng’s seemingly decisive Heavenly Dog Eats the Moon attack into an opening, killing him with a sudden sword strike and absorbing part of his talent. As Chen Fei headed back toward Aurora City, Kou Fen challenged him to fight more Weird Clan cultivators for Rule Crystals, and Chen Fei questioned whether Kou Fen could afford the price.

• Si Sheng unleashed Heavenly Dog Eats the Moon, but Chen Fei dodged it by manipulating space and pierced Si Sheng’s chest with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei followed with an upward slash that beheaded Si Sheng, then extinguished his vitality and absorbed his spiritual essence and talent.
• The human forces cheered as Chen Fei collected Si Sheng’s Sun Piercing Sword and flew toward Aurora City.
• Kou Fen tried to stop Chen Fei, but Weng Zongfang blocked his aura, and Kou Fen offered one Rule Crystal for each Weird Clan Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage cultivator Chen Fei defeated.
• Chen Fei stopped and asked Kou Fen whether he had enough Rule Crystals to pay for the challenge.

Chen Fei demanded Rule Crystals and Spiritual Materials to keep dueling the Weird Clan, then faced Wu Luo, a seasoned Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage cultivator. Wu Luo’s stronger hammer strikes drove Chen Fei back, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Kou Fen offered Spiritual Materials when Chen Fei asked for Rule Crystals, but Chen Fei rejected the offer and headed back toward Aurora City.
• Chen Fei demanded a Rule Crystal and three portions of Spiritual Materials for each Weird Clan cultivator he defeated, and Kou Fen summoned Wu Luo to duel him.
• Chen Fei negotiated an additional three portions of Spiritual Materials to fight Wu Luo, while Kou Fen promised Wu Luo a Rule Crystal and ten portions if he won.
• Wu Luo ambushed Chen Fei as the wager took effect, but Chen Fei evaded the attack without injury.
• Wu Luo attacked with his Serpent Spear Hammer, and Chen Fei used the Space Sub-Rule to resist before being driven back by Wu Luo’s successive strikes.

Chen Fei appeared close to defeat against Wu Luo, then used a sudden surge in his Space Sub-Rule to kill him with the Qian Yuan Sword. Afterward, Chen Fei absorbed part of Wu Luo’s talent, treated his injuries, and pretended to gain further insight, leaving Kou Fen wary of his growing threat.

• Wu Luo steadily overwhelmed Chen Fei with accumulating force until his hammer broke Chen Fei’s defense and gravely wounded him.
• Wu Luo pulled Chen Fei toward him for a killing blow, but Chen Fei shook off the force and attacked with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei expanded space around his sword, overcame Wu Luo’s suppression, and pierced and split Wu Luo’s body, killing him.
• Weng Zongfang gave Chen Fei a Jade Bottle, and Chen Fei extracted Wu Luo’s spiritual essence and absorbed part of his talent with the Bronze Rune.
• Chen Fei swallowed the healing medicine and feigned a breakthrough in his Space Sub-Rule, while Kou Fen recognized him as a growing danger.

Chen Fei refused to continue dueling after killing Wu Luo, but Kou Fen and Ao An lured him back with a formation and rewards. With six Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage cultivators waiting inside, Chen Fei considered whether to enter the Ice Corridor.

• Chen Fei selected Earth Soul Bamboo, Literature Sea Tree, Red Iron Soil, and a Rule Crystal from the offered spirit materials, then headed toward Aurora City.
• Kou Fen questioned Chen Fei as he left, but Chen Fei said he wanted to return and cultivate rather than keep fighting.
• Ao An opened the Mystic Return Formation, placing spirit materials inside and sending six Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage cultivators to challenge Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei asked Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou whether the Ice Corridor concealed a trap, and they confirmed it only sealed off a section of space.
• Chen Fei studied the formation and considered that he might be able to kill only the six cultivators inside.

Chen Fei entered the Ice Corridor and began fighting the Ice Clan and Weird Clan cultivators waiting inside, using his mastery of the Space Rule to turn their attacks against them. After killing Yan Ce and You Xia, he confronted Chai Qi and broke through the Weird Clan cultivator’s defense.

• Chen Fei entered the Ice Corridor despite the danger, while Kou Fen and Ao An watched for a chance to kill him.
• Yan Ce attacked Chen Fei, but Chen Fei used the Space Rule to redirect Yan Ce’s force and killed him in two moves.
• You Xia trapped Chen Fei in an iceberg, but Chen Fei escaped by collapsing space and killed You Xia.
• Chen Fei fused sixty battle soldiers into himself and charged Chai Qi, whose shield and left arm shattered under Chen Fei’s sword strike.
• Chen Fei drove the Qian Yuan Sword into Chai Qi’s head.

Chen Fei entered the Ice Corridor’s Dark Curtain to fight Xi Xiao and used his mastery of the Space Sub-Rule to track and counter the Ice Clan cultivator. He overwhelmed Xi Xiao, leaving half of his body shattered.

• Chen Fei killed Chai Qi with one sword strike, seized his spiritual essence, and absorbed his talent.
• Dao Fusion Realm cultivators watching outside the Ice Corridor marveled at Chen Fei’s Space Sub-Rule comprehension, while Kou Fen and Ao An regretted their plan to target him.
• Chen Fei entered the pitch-black corridor and tracked Xi Xiao despite the darkness obscuring sight and perception.
• Xi Xiao used a forbidden technique and a shadow decoy to attack Chen Fei from behind, but Chen Fei expanded the space between them and blocked the Shadow Sword.
• Chen Fei controlled the surrounding space to keep Xi Xiao within reach, struck through the Shadow Sword, and shattered half of Xi Xiao’s body.

Chen Fei killed Xi Xiao, then used his understanding of formations from the human Emperor Lord inheritances to break through Duan Jia’s defenses and kill him. As the Ice Corridor’s final barrier opened, strange murmurs filled the passage, but the last Weird Clan cultivator was nowhere to be seen.

• Chen Fei trapped Xi Xiao in fragmented space, killed him, and seized his spiritual essence and talent.
• Chen Fei saw Duan Jia preparing layers of formations ahead, while the human cultivators outside Aurora City worried that the defenses would wear him down.
• Chen Fei entered Duan Jia’s first formation and broke through the layers by exploiting flaws he understood through the Emperor Lord inheritances.
• Chen Fei reached Duan Jia, pierced his forehead with the Qian Yuan Sword, and killed him before plundering his talent.
• The final barrier began to disappear as ghostly sounds and deranged murmurs surged through the Ice Corridor, but the last Weird Clan Dao Fusion Realm cultivator remained unseen.

Si Di sacrificed himself to connect the Ice Corridor to the Ruin Realm’s Heart Strange Realm, hoping its power would kill Chen Fei. Chen Fei’s defenses withstood the contamination, leaving Si Di to weaken as he watched his plan fail.

• Chen Fei sensed the Ice Corridor’s Heaven and Earth Essence Qi turning gray and realized the Heart Strange Realm’s power was entering through a Space Fold.
• Outside Aurora City, the human Dao Fusion Realm cultivators saw Si Di sacrifice himself to open a crack into the Heart Strange Realm after judging that he could not defeat Chen Fei.
• Si Di appeared before Chen Fei as black-gray mist and sent the Heart Strange Realm’s power surging through the shrinking Ice Corridor.
• Chen Fei’s sword essence could barely damage the mist, so he relied on Indestructible Divine Sense Undying and the Eternal Night Dharma Idol to resist its corrosion.
• Si Di watched for Chen Fei’s defenses to fail, but the Eternal Night Dharma Idol remained stable while Si Di himself began to weaken toward death.