Chapter Summaries

After killing Zeng Gang, Chen Fei discovered that a broken Bronze Fragment had given the Ice Clan cultivator an Emperor Lord Realm physique, and he fused it into himself before separating it into a second, distinct Bronze Rune. As Chen Fei weighed the danger of pursuing more enemies, the Ghoul Clan Emperor Lord Kou Fen finally caught sight of him.

• Chen Fei pursued faint traces and intercepted the Ice Clan Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage cultivator Zeng Gang.
• Zeng Gang broke free of Chen Fei's Space Binding Kill and feigned retreat to draw him close before launching a forbidden-art attack.
• Chen Fei overpowered Zeng Gang's Emperor Lord Realm physique with his own strength and killed him.
• Chen Fei read Zeng Gang's Divine Soul Fragments and found a broken Bronze Fragment that had strengthened Zeng Gang's physique.
• Chen Fei fused the Bronze Fragment into himself, then separated it into a second segment of Bronze Rune with a different function from the first.
• Kou Fen finally caught up and spotted Chen Fei from a thousand li away.

Chen Fei prepared to face Kou Fen, a Weird Clan Emperor Lord, after studying the power of the second Bronze Rune. Kou Fen attacked first, but Chen Fei’s Killing God State let him evade the strike and unleash an aura that reminded Kou Fen of his clan’s ancestor.

• Chen Fei examined the two Bronze Fragments and understood that the second rune could plunder and strengthen physiques, though only from sufficiently strong targets.
• Chen Fei put the fragments and Zeng Gang’s Dao artifact away, then waited for Kou Fen, whom he had deliberately allowed to track him.
• Kou Fen recognized Chen Fei and, despite his shock at Chen Fei’s rapid advancement and strength, resolved to kill him.
• Kou Fen rushed within a hundred li and swung his Broken Flame Blade, sending a vast blade light down at Chen Fei.
• Chen Fei ignited his Rule Fragments, entered the Killing God State, and stepped free of Kou Fen’s mind-lock as the blade carved a canyon through the mountains.
• Kou Fen saw Chen Fei’s unsettling aura and was reminded of the old ancestor of his clan.

Chen Fei fought Kou Fen, a Dao Fusion Realm Peak expert, and revealed that his strength could overwhelm even Kou Fen’s secret art. When Kou Fen tried to flee, Chen Fei used spatial force to stop him.

• Chen Fei tested Space Binding Kill on Kou Fen, but Kou Fen burned through the spatial chains and attacked with the Broken Flame Blade.
• Chen Fei blocked Kou Fen’s fierce slash with the Qian Yuan Sword and remained unharmed.
• Kou Fen used Boundless Severance, but Chen Fei’s Suppressing Heavens absorbed part of its power, and Kou Fen was driven back and injured.
• Realizing he might die, Kou Fen turned and fled, but Chen Fei’s spatial force halted him.

Chen Fei fought Kou Fen, who discovered that Chen Fei’s Suppressing Heavens technique could borrow an opponent’s power and responded by defending completely. As Kou Fen waited for Chen Fei’s Secret Art to fade, Chen Fei revealed a second layer of power and reached the Small Sky Opening Realm.

• Chen Fei pressed Kou Fen with concentrated sword strikes, forcing Kou Fen to abandon attacking and defend while looking for a chance to escape.
• Kou Fen noticed that Chen Fei’s attacks seemed to draw strength from his own power and changed how he circulated his elemental energy and rules to prevent Chen Fei from borrowing it.
• Kou Fen confirmed that his defensive adjustment weakened Chen Fei’s aura, then resolved to endure until Chen Fei’s Secret Art expired and considered taking his technique and treasure.
• Chen Fei recognized Kou Fen’s counter and judged that his current power would have to wear Kou Fen down before the Small Sky Opening Realm’s limited duration ended.
• Chen Fei ignited four additional Rule Fragments in his divine soul and unleashed a second layer of power, reaching the Small Sky Opening Realm’s second layer.

Chen Fei used a second Small Sky Opening Realm to kill Kou Fen, becoming the first Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage cultivator to slay an Emperor Lord in the Black Stone Domain. After absorbing Kou Fen’s spiritual essence and memories, Chen Fei let the fleeing Ao An escape, while Kou Fen’s death shook the Weird Clan.

• Chen Fei combined another set of Subordinate Rule Fragments with the Killing God Small Sky Opening Realm and unleashed a new surge of power.
• Kou Fen used Jade and Stone Burn Together to block Chen Fei’s sword, but the clash exhausted his strength, and Chen Fei killed him with a second strike.
• Chen Fei extracted Kou Fen’s spiritual essence, gaining a Bronze Fragment that raised his Power Rule fragments from forty-eight to forty-nine and increased his comprehension.
• Ao An sensed Kou Fen’s death and fled toward the Ice Clan’s territory, while Chen Fei chose not to pursue him because his Small Sky Opening Realm power had run out.
• Chen Fei used God-Devouring to read Kou Fen’s memories, and Kou Fen’s Soul Tablet shattered in the Weird Clan’s territory, shaking the clan.

After the losses inflicted on the Ice Clan and Ghoul Clan, Chen Fei reunited with Aurora City's survivors and counted the spoils he had taken from Kou Fen and other enemies. He gained a vast supply of resources, a secret contact method for a human traitor, and Kou Fen's powerful spiritual essence, which might help someone break through to Dao Fusion Realm Peak.

• Chen Fei arrived in Pianyi City, where Aurora City's Dao Fusion Realm cultivators discussed the mysterious expert who had caused the Ice Clan and Ghoul Clan to suffer heavy losses.
• Chen Fei visited the newly built Aurora City and reunited with Qu Qingsheng and the others.
• Chen Fei tallied the Dao Artifacts, Essence Crystals, and Spiritual Materials he had taken from the fallen cultivators.
• Chen Fei examined Kou Fen's Broken Flame Blade and collected the abundant wealth stored inside it.
• Chen Fei absorbed the Four Profound Domain Art into the Desolate Universe Killing God Art and recovered a contact method for one human traitor from Kou Fen's memory fragments.
• Chen Fei examined Kou Fen's spiritual essence, which retained enough power to potentially help a Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage cultivator reach Dao Fusion Realm Peak.

Chen Fei used a Dao Fusion Realm Peak spiritual essence to strengthen his cultivation, then spent a month advancing his sub-rules and physique. He lured out and captured human traitor Yan Yishun, but a vast voice suddenly proclaimed that the Heavenly Dao was unfair across the Black Stone Domain.

• Chen Fei shattered the spiritual essence, raising his Rule Fragments to ninety, restoring the Desolate Universe Killing God Art to Great Perfection, and advancing Suppressing Heavens.
• Chen Fei resumed cultivating with Low-Grade Essence Crystals and trained Suppressing Heavens alongside the major and minor Space Sub-Rules.
• After a month of cultivation, Chen Fei reached 110 Rule Fragments and decided to investigate human traitors without involving Weng Zongfang and the others.
• Chen Fei left a contact mark outside New Aurora City, waited for someone to respond, and captured the masked Yan Yishun with spatial force.
• Chen Fei read Yan Yishun's memories and learned that he was a true traitor responsible for the deaths of five human Dao Fusion Realm cultivators.
• As Chen Fei moved to kill Yan Yishun, a vast voice rang through the Black Stone Domain, declaring, "The Heavenly Dao is unfair!"

Chen Fei witnessed a Heaven Sealing Finger destroy the Devouring Origin Clan’s hidden handiwork, transforming Black Stone Domain and causing its Heaven and Earth Essence Qi to decline. As the domain became sealed and strange beings emerged, local races contracted their defenses while Tier 7 experts entered seeking the Devouring Origin Clan’s remaining opportunities.

• A Heaven Sealing Finger struck across Black Stone Domain, shattered a gray beam of light, and left the domain dim and strange as its Heaven and Earth Essence Qi began to thin.
• Chen Fei tightened his spatial restraint and killed Yan Yishun, then returned to New Aurora City with Yan Yishun’s spiritual essence and Dao artifact.
• Wizard Rui recognized the destroyed handiwork as a remnant of the Devouring Origin Clan and ordered the Wu Meng Clan to contract its defenses against the changes.
• The Xuan Clan also contracted its defenses as strange living beings emerged from Space Rifts throughout Black Stone Domain.
• Tier 7 experts from surrounding races entered the sealed domain, hoping to find opportunities among the Devouring Origin Clan’s ruins.

After black-misted figures attacked Aurora City and siphoned away its residents’ power, Weng Zongfang subdued them by disrupting the rules in the area. You Yi of the Ancient Arc Tribe then offered an alliance and the Faith Method in exchange for half the city’s faith, while Chen Fei connected the attackers to the Black God and wondered about the Bronze Fragment.

• Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou led Aurora City’s cultivators outside to confront dozens of black-misted figures approaching the city.
• The figures’ ripples siphoned power from Aurora City’s residents, but Chen Fei used Suppressing Heavens to keep his own power from draining away.
• The cultivators attacked the figures, which reappeared until Weng Zongfang disrupted the local rule fluctuations for fifteen minutes and stopped them returning.
• You Yi appeared and offered help against the Black Demons in exchange for an alliance with the Ancient Arc Tribe and half the city’s faith.
• Chen Fei recognized the figures’ aura as resembling the Black God’s and wondered whether the Bronze Fragment was connected to the Ancient Arc Tribe.

As Heaven and Earth Essence Qi grew thinner and more sluggish, Aurora City's cultivators considered using the Faith Method to survive the worsening crisis. Weng Zongfang returned from scouting with a captive black demon and grim news: the demons were growing stronger as the Essence Qi deteriorated.

• You Yi urged the human cultivators to adopt the Faith Method, warning that the black fiends would overrun them if they waited too long, then vanished while unseen observers deterred Weng Zongfang from capturing him.
• Weng Zongfang gathered the city's Faith Method manuals, and Chen Fei discovered that the Black God's version could let a more advanced practitioner steal another cultivator's Faith Power and alter their beliefs.
• Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou tested the available Faith Method and found that its power could stir sluggish Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, but their results were too weak to rely on without a better method.
• Weng Zongfang left Aurora City to investigate and returned with an imprisoned black demon, reporting that demons had appeared within three thousand li and grew stronger as Heaven and Earth Essence Qi thinned and became sluggish.

Chen Fei learned how Faith Power could weaken Black Demons, but Aurora City lacked enough of it to defend itself and its leaders considered allying with the Ancient Arc Tribe. Seeking answers, Chen Fei abducted You Yi and used God-Devouring to extract his memories, finally discovering what had happened to the Black Stone Domain.

• Weng Zongfang tested a Black Demon and found its contaminating power rapidly worsened wounds, while Faith Power could wear it down.
• Tang Yunshou and Weng Zongfang discussed the Black Demon's resemblance to the Heart Strange Realm and the danger of using their own minds and spirits against it.
• Aurora City's cultivators realized they lacked enough Faith Power to resist the Black Demons, and Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou began leaning toward an alliance with the Ancient Arc Tribe.
• Chen Fei returned to his courtyard, told Qu Qingsheng and the others to stay there, then secretly left Aurora City to investigate.
• Chen Fei used the Azure Heavens Domain to seize You Yi and cast God-Devouring on him, learning from his memories what had happened to the Black Stone Domain.

Chen Fei learned from You Yi’s memories how the Devouring Origin Clan’s hidden refuge became corrupted by the Heart Strange Realm and was exposed, bringing its descendants and Black Demons into the Black Stone Domain. As the Black Stone Domain’s Heaven and Earth Essence Qi began to mutate and Black Demons threatened its inhabitants, Chen Fei began studying the Faith Method.

• Chen Fei learned that the Devouring Origin Clan had forged the Heaven Origin Cauldron to try to reach the Ninth Order, but Ninth-Order Supremes destroyed the clan and left its descendants hidden in a sealed space beneath the Black Stone Domain.
• Chen Fei discovered that the hidden space had been corrupted over hundreds of thousands of years by the Heart Strange Realm, causing diseases, mutations, and the emergence of Black Demons.
• The Devouring Origin Clan’s descendants adopted the Faith Method to make up for the diminished Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and to fight the Black Demons, while later generations sought escape rather than revenge.
• Chen Fei suspected that Black God had escaped from the Devouring Origin Space and reached the Endless Sea after being gravely injured.
• The Spirit Devouring Worms exposed the Devouring Origin Space, and a Heaven Sealing Finger opened it, releasing its descendants and Black Demons into the Black Stone Domain.
• Chen Fei realized the Black Stone Domain’s Heaven and Earth Essence Qi would be polluted and its inhabitants would face aggressive Black Demons, so he began reading the Faith Method in You Yi’s memories.

Chen Fei used You Yi’s memories to complete Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage and removed its faith-stealing flaw before returning to Aurora City. He began cultivating the simplified technique, while planning to seize faith from the Ancient Arc Tribe.

• Chen Fei read You Yi’s memories, learned that the Ancient Arc Tribe planned to use black devils to weaken Aurora City before annexing it, and killed You Yi.
• Chen Fei fused the Faith Methods he knew to complete Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage, removing its ability to strip Faith Power from other cultivators who practiced it.
• Chen Fei considered the Ancient Arc Tribe’s plans, the black devils, and why he could no longer form a Xuanyuan Sword projection before returning to Aurora City.
• Chen Fei simplified Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage into Divine Soul Scroll and chose to cultivate a version with a back door, intending to rob faith from the Ancient Arc Tribe.
• Chen Fei drew the technique’s foundational totems into a Divine Statue and used You Yi’s spiritual essence to gain insights and increase his Proficiency.

Chen Fei gave Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou the Faith Method Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage, which offered Aurora City a way to resist the black demons without yielding to the Ancient Arc Tribe. After the method spread among Aurora City's Dao Fusion Realm cultivators, Chen Fei continued cultivating, relying on his Panel to correct any distortions caused by Faith Power.

• Chen Fei cultivated Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage until he reached its first revolution, then brought the method to Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou.
• Tang Yunshou and Weng Zongfang studied the Jade Slip and recognized Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage as an extraordinary Faith Method.
• Chen Fei explained that he had obtained the method from Black God in the Endless Sea, and Weng Zongfang declared that Aurora City could ignore the Ancient Arc Tribe's demands.
• Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou began studying the method, then passed it on to Aurora City's Dao Fusion Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei returned to his Cultivation Room and used ten thousand Low-Grade Essence Crystals to cultivate Suppressing Heavens, the Space Sub-Rule, and Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage.

Chen Fei advanced his cultivation of Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage while Aurora City rejected the Ancient Arc Tribe’s demand for half its Faith Power. When Black Demons approached the city, Chen Fei headed for the Ancient Arc Tribe to retaliate, leaving off as he watched their settlement from a nearby peak.

• The Ancient Arc Tribe debated You Yi’s disappearance and decided to pressure Aurora City for its Faith Power, threatening to draw Black Demons there if the city refused.
• You Zhu visited Aurora City, but Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou declined to surrender half their Faith Power after Chen Fei had taught them Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage.
• Weng Zongfang warned Aurora City’s cultivators to use Faith Power to lure away any Black Demons, and Chen Fei returned to cultivation.
• Chen Fei advanced Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage to the Proficient Realm, forming a third halo behind his Divine Statue.
• When hundreds of Black Demons approached Aurora City, Chen Fei left the city and traveled toward the Ancient Arc Tribe to retaliate.
• Chen Fei reached a peak overlooking the basin where the Ancient Arc Tribe lived.

Chen Fei infiltrated the Ancient Arc Tribe’s basin and killed You Wei and several other cultivators, absorbing their spiritual essence and Faith Power. As the Bronze Runes resonated in the Devouring Origin Space, Chen Fei suspected a treasure related to the Heaven Origin Cauldron was nearby, then continued attacking the tribe as You Bing and the remaining cultivators confronted him.

• Chen Fei bypassed the basin’s warning formation and used spatial power to kill You Wei, then absorbed spiritual essence and Faith Power from the dead cultivators.
• The Faith Power filled Chen Fei’s Divine Statue, whose halos suppressed the believers’ murmuring thoughts, while the Bronze Runes faintly resonated.
• Chen Fei considered whether the Bronze Fragment came from the Heaven Origin Cauldron and whether a similar supreme treasure existed in the original Devouring Origin Space.
• Chen Fei continued using Space Binding Kill to slay three Dao Fusion Realm Middle Stage cultivators as You Bing sensed the deaths.
• You Bing flew out and confronted the masked Chen Fei while the Ancient Arc Tribe’s remaining Dao Fusion Realm cultivators surged into the sky.

Chen Fei attacked the Ancient Arc Tribe, killing fifteen Dao Fusion Realm cultivators before escaping the formation and drawing You Bing away. After You Bing used Faith Power and pursued him, Chen Fei revealed his overwhelming strength and killed him, while You Tu and You Zhu headed back toward the tribe.

• Chen Fei teleported behind the Ancient Arc Tribe's gathered cultivators and killed five before evading their counterattack.
• You Bing ordered the survivors to form an array, but Chen Fei killed ten more cultivators and flew away.
• You Bing pursued Chen Fei while You Tu and You Zhu recalled their forces and returned to defend the tribe.
• You Bing used Faith Power against Chen Fei, but Chen Fei countered it and stopped to face him.
• Chen Fei unleashed his power and killed You Bing with the Qian Yuan Sword.

Chen Fei killed You Bing, absorbed his power and memories, and returned safely to Aurora City after the Black Demon threat passed. You Bing’s memories revealed a cultivation method for the fifth Space Sub-Rule, Void, which Chen Fei could pursue as he prioritized advancing toward Dao Fusion Realm Peak.

• Chen Fei beheaded You Bing, absorbed his spiritual essence, and advanced his Faith Method and Divine Statue by several revolutions.
• Chen Fei learned from You Bing’s memories about the Devouring Origin Clan’s methods for cultivating all five Space Sub-Rules, including Void.
• You Tu and You Zhu returned to the Ancient Arc Tribe and discovered that You Bing’s Soul Tablet had shattered.
• Chen Fei returned to Aurora City, where the Black Demons had been lured away and the city had suffered no losses.
• Chen Fei inspected the sixteen spiritual essences and Dao Artifacts he had collected, finding few useful resources among them.

Chen Fei cultivated the Ancient Origin Art while dozens of Sky Opening Realm experts battled Black Demons at the Devouring Origin Clan Ruins. After the Wu Meng Clan summoned every Dao Fusion Realm cultivator to Meng City, Chen Fei and the others joined a force marching toward the ruins, where they encountered a vast horde of Black Demons.

• Chen Fei fused the Ancient Origin Art into the Desolate Universe Killing God Art and continued cultivating with Dao Fusion Realm spiritual essence.
• Forty-nine Sky Opening Realm experts failed to break through the Black Demons defending the Devouring Origin Clan Ruins, so they ordered the Wu Meng Clan, the Xuan Clan, and the Devouring Origin Clan descendants to gather reinforcements.
• Black Demons across the Black Stone Domain began converging on the ruins, while a Wu Meng Clan token summoned Aurora City's Dao Fusion Realm cultivators to Meng City.
• Weng Zongfang and Tang Yunshou sent Aurora City's Dao Fusion Realm cultivators toward Meng City, leaving the city's lower-realm residents behind.
• Chen Fei and the others reached Meng City before the deadline, then joined the experts who marched toward the ruins and encountered densely packed Black Demons.

Chen Fei joined tens of thousands of Dao Fusion Realm cultivators in the Black Tortoise Formation as they advanced through the Black Demons toward the ruins. The formation pushed through the first twenty li, but the demons began sharing damage, and the advance slowed as the cultivators suffered mounting injuries.

• Chen Fei entered the Black Tortoise Formation while hiding his strength at the Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage, after using spiritual essence to improve his cultivation, Suppressing Heavens, and Ten Thousand Spirits Paying Homage.
• Tens of thousands of Dao Fusion Realm cultivators formed the Black Tortoise Celestial Phenomenon and advanced toward the ruins under the watch of dozens of Sky Opening Realm powerhouses.
• The formation swept through the vanguard of Black Demons, but after advancing twenty li, it slowed as the demons linked together and shared damage.
• Chen Fei watched from behind the vanguard as the formation's outer ranks took the heaviest blows and several human Emperor Venerates grew increasingly injured.
• After advancing another ten li, the formation rotated its wounded outer cultivators, while weaker Dao Fusion Realm cultivators continued to endure shared damage and the Sky Opening Realm powerhouses conserved their strength.
• The formation reached thirty li from its starting point after nearly thirty minutes, while Black Demons continued pouring from the ruins and showed no sign of diminishing.