Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei and the Black Tortoise Formation forced their way through the Black Demons to reach the Devouring Origin Clan ruins, losing nearly ten thousand Dao Fusion Realm cultivators and nearly shattering the Qiankun Cauldron. The formation then broke apart inside the ruins, scattering everyone; Chen Fei appeared in a desert near enormous Space Rifts and saw several figures emerge after a bell rang.

• Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demons killed cultivators in the formation, while the Qiankun Cauldron protected the human Sovereigns until it developed cracks.
• At the ten-li mark, the Black Tortoise Formation faltered, and the Black Demons inflicted heavy casualties before dozens of Sky Opening Realm cultivators strengthened it.
• The Sky Opening Realm cultivators drove the formation to the ruins, and Du Ruiyuan put away the nearly shattered Qiankun Cauldron.
• The Sky Opening Realm cultivators drained the formation's power to cross the final li, causing more than thirty percent of its Dao Fusion Realm cultivators to die.
• The Black Tortoise Formation entered the ruins, was torn apart by a violent Space Rule, and vanished with the cultivators inside it.
• Chen Fei appeared in a desert, sensed his Bronze Fragments resonating with the ruins, put them away, and saw several figures appear after a bell rang.

Chen Fei entered the ruins and discovered that he could bind and destroy Black Demons despite their amplified power. After the ruins seemed to reward him for killing them, he killed Kun Yu and absorbed his spiritual essence.

• Kun Yu fled from three Black Demons and tried to make Chen Fei fight them in his place.
• Chen Fei restrained Kun Yu and the Black Demons with Space Binding Kill, then destroyed one Black Demon and found its resurrection trait had vanished.
• After Chen Fei destroyed a second Black Demon, a cauldron chime sounded and he felt more attuned to the ruins.
• Chen Fei destroyed the third Black Demon, and another cauldron chime rang out.
• Chen Fei killed Kun Yu, absorbed his spiritual essence, and gained a slight increase in talent along with cultivation insights.

Chen Fei discovered that the ruins rewarded the killing of Black Demons, but their shifting spaces and increasingly powerful foes made their purpose unclear. After killing Ban Shu and Wu Kan, Chen Fei sent a battle soldier after the Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demon as the ruins swept it away.

• Chen Fei found that using Indestructible Divine Sense Undying slightly increased the ruins’ goodwill toward him before the desert shifted and placed him beside Ban Shu, Wu Kan, and a Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demon.
• Ban Shu and Wu Kan threatened Chen Fei and ordered him to stay still, but Chen Fei attacked and subdued them with his spatial power.
• Chen Fei read Ban Shu and Wu Kan’s memories and learned that the Black Demons vanished after killing a cultivator, while the ruins continued arranging fights against them.
• The Black Demon attacked Chen Fei, who kicked it into the ground as the ruins crushed Ban Shu and Wu Kan into Blood Mist.
• The ruins’ power swept the Black Demon away, and Chen Fei sent a battle soldier along with it.

Chen Fei explored the ruin’s strange transfer system and discovered that its spirituality was malfunctioning while a Light Cluster hung above a space filled with Black Demons. After arriving reinforcements appeared, he defeated a Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demon, leaving Fan Xie stunned by Chen Fei’s strength.

• Chen Fei sent a battle soldier into the space above the ruin, saw the Bright Sun-like Light Cluster and countless Black Demons, and lost the soldier to their attack.
• Chen Fei absorbed Ban Shu and Wu Kan’s spiritual essences, gained insights and Rule Fragments, and found no way out through the forest’s torn Space Rift.
• Fan Xie of the Wu Meng Clan and a Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demon appeared as reinforcements; Chen Fei restrained Fan Xie when he tried to speak.
• Chen Fei fought the Black Demon with his Space Sub-Rules, Black Lightning, and Faith Power, then killed it with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei sensed that the ruin’s goodwill toward him had increased, while Fan Xie watched in shock.

Chen Fei killed Fan Xie and then You Tu as the ruins forced Dao Fusion Realm cultivators into increasingly dangerous battles against Black Demons. After killing You Tu, Chen Fei was transported to a new gathering place, where hundreds of Dao Fusion Realm and Sky Opening Realm cultivators appeared around a projection of a shattered Bronze Cauldron.

• Chen Fei killed Fan Xie, absorbed his spiritual essence, and learned that Fan Xie came from a powerful Wu Meng Clan family and practiced Nine Heavens Star Kill.
• The ruins began assigning Black Demons above many cultivators’ realms, causing mass casualties among the Dao Fusion Realm fighters.
• Chen Fei was matched against You Tu and two Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demons, and You Tu attacked him first.
• Chen Fei shattered You Tu’s mountain and killed him with the Qian Yuan Sword, causing the Black Demons to be transposed away.
• After examining You Tu’s memories and absorbing his spiritual essence, Chen Fei was transported to a place containing a projection of a shattered Bronze Cauldron and hundreds of other cultivators.

After four rounds of matched slaughter, Chen Fei saw that the ruins had cost the Dao Fusion Realm cultivators thousands of lives and left the human race with fewer than five hundred. The shattered Bronze Cauldron revealed a vast exchange of treasures funded by killing Black Demons, but Chen Fei learned that he lacked the Contribution Points and could not skip the basic exchange items to obtain Rule Crystals.

• Chen Fei counted the depleted cultivators and realized the human race had lost more than half its Dao Fusion Realm fighters, while other races had also suffered severe casualties.
• The shattered Bronze Cauldron enveloped the gathered cultivators and revealed that Black Demons could be killed for exchange rewards.
• Chen Fei inspected the exchange list and saw more than a thousand Rule Crystals, hundreds of Plane Origins, and powerful treasures that drew the attention of the Sky Opening Realm cultivators.
• The Bronze Cauldron's rules assigned Contribution Points according to the rank of each Black Demon killed, with Sky Opening Realm Black Demons worth at least one hundred points.
• Chen Fei found that a Rule Crystal cost thirty Contribution Points and learned that exchanges had to begin with the most basic items, leaving him unable to obtain one yet.

Chen Fei studied the Bronze Cauldron’s exchange options and chose to earn Contribution Points for the Null Void Art, which contained the Space Sub-Rule he lacked. After merging it into the Desolate Universe Killing God Art, he gained a path toward combining all five Space Sub-Rule Fragments and approaching the power of Suppressing Heavens.

• Chen Fei found the Null Void Art among the exchange options and saw that it cost sixty Contribution Points, while he had only twenty-four.
• Chen Fei killed successive Black Demons and deliberately fought Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage enemies for several hundred moves at a time to keep their rank from rising too quickly.
• Chen Fei reached sixty-one Contribution Points, exchanged them for the Null Void Art, and read the inheritance while fighting more Black Demons.
• Chen Fei merged the Null Void Art into the Desolate Universe Killing God Art, sharply increasing the technique’s level and enabling his five Space Sub-Rule Fragments to fuse.

Chen Fei farmed Black Demons for Contribution Points and used the ruin’s Rule Crystals to advance his cultivation, while the endless battles wore down other Dao Fusion Realm cultivators. The Sky Opening Realm experts grew impatient and attacked the ruin’s barriers, and Chen Fei selected a Rule Crystal in the Exchange Space.

• Chen Fei killed a Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage Black Demon and assessed his progress toward Dao Fusion Realm Peak, deciding Rule Crystals could help him master a sub-rule.
• Black Demons gradually recovered their suppressed power, and many Dao Fusion Realm cultivators died as they endured repeated fights with too little time to recover.
• The Sky Opening Realm cultivators struggled to earn enough Contribution Points for Tier 7 treasures and worried that the Spirit Devouring Worms might reach the other half of the Bronze Cauldron first.
• Unable to find weaknesses in the ruin’s barriers, the Sky Opening Realm cultivators attacked them directly, disregarding the danger to the Black Demons and the Black Stone Domain’s Dao Fusion Realm cultivators.
• Chen Fei killed another Black Demon, entered the Exchange Space, and selected a Rule Crystal.

Chen Fei used a Rule Crystal to rapidly strengthen his cultivation, reaching Perfection in Suppressing Heavens and gaining a physique powerful enough to overpower Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demons. He began hunting those stronger Black Demons for Contribution Points and ended up in the Exchange Space to obtain more Rule Crystals.

• Chen Fei saw that the human race had lost another Emperor among the Dao Fusion Realm cultivators trapped in the ruins.
• Chen Fei crushed and burned a Rule Crystal while his combat soldiers held off a Black Demon, increasing his Space Sub-Rule fragments and advancing his cultivation techniques.
• Chen Fei reached Perfection in Suppressing Heavens, strengthening his physique beyond four sub-rules.
• Chen Fei killed a Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage Black Demon with a single palm strike, then quickly killed another with spatial force.
• Chen Fei fought Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demons, killed two within fifteen minutes, and entered the Exchange Space to look for Rule Crystals.

Chen Fei used a Rule Crystal to master the Space Sub-Rule and break through to Dao Fusion Realm Peak, becoming the human race’s new Emperor Lord. He finished cultivating as a Black Demon attacked and seized it with overwhelming strength.

• Chen Fei returned to the mountain peak space and shattered a Rule Crystal while nine battle soldiers prepared to delay the Black Demon.
• Chen Fei perfected the Desolate Universe Killing God Art, gathered 108 Rule Fragments, and condensed them into the Space Sub-Rule Large, becoming an Emperor Lord.
• While Chen Fei continued cultivating, the Black Demon destroyed the nine battle soldiers but could not cross the twisted space around him.
• Chen Fei opened his eyes, grabbed the Black Demon by the neck, and flung it through the peaks and into the ground.

After breaking through to the Dao Fusion Realm Peak, Chen Fei sensed that the Bronze Cauldron’s power was weakening and used his mastery of space to seize an opportunity. He fused his Space Sub-Rules into a flawed Space Crystal, entered the Second Level, Small Sky Opening Realm, and ended the chapter with two Rule Crystals in his sleeve.

• Chen Fei killed successive Dao Fusion Realm Peak Black Demons as they began appearing at increasingly short intervals, then exchanged for a Rule Crystal.
• Chen Fei used the Rule Crystal to increase his Void and Nothingness fragments and fused his five Space Sub-Rules into a flawed Space Crystal.
• Chen Fei sensed that the force consuming the Bronze Cauldron’s spirituality matched the Black Demons’ power.
• Chen Fei exchanged for another Rule Crystal and entered the Second Level, Small Sky Opening Realm while suppressing the change with Suppressing Heavens.
• Chen Fei brushed the Bronze Cauldron’s teleportation power with the Desolate Universe Killing God Art and obtained two Rule Crystals.

Chen Fei exploited the Bronze Cauldron’s failing spirituality to gain extra exchange items and continued cultivating while its collapse accelerated. As two increasingly powerful Black Demons appeared, he held them off until his cultivation ended, then attacked them directly.

• Chen Fei tried to use his remaining Contribution Points to obtain another Rule Crystal, but managed only to exchange one Exquisite Stone and receive an extra piece.
• Chen Fei used a Rule Crystal to cultivate and sensed that the Bronze Cauldron’s spirituality was collapsing faster, with the Aura of the Spirit Devouring Worms faintly appearing.
• Chen Fei killed an arriving Black Demon and used the spatial fluctuation to make a second Black Demon appear alongside the next one.
• Two Black Demons, each wielding the power of two sub-rules, tore through Chen Fei’s Space Barriers while he retreated and continued cultivating.
• After his cultivation ended, Chen Fei attacked the two Black Demons, kicking one into the ground and thrusting both hands into the other’s chest.

Chen Fei killed the two Black Demons and strengthened his Space and Power Rules, but the Bronze Cauldron’s spirituality shattered, unleashing its stored essence as the ruin fell apart. As the Spirit Devouring Worms approached, Liao Xia ordered the races of the Black Stone Domain to form a Black Tortoise Formation, with the human race placed at the front alongside Chen Fei and his nine battle soldiers.

• Chen Fei tore apart and killed the two Black Demons, gaining Rule fragments and five Rule Crystals through the Bronze Cauldron’s exchange.
• The Bronze Cauldron cracked and shattered as its spirituality collapsed, and dozens of Sky Opening Realm cultivators contained its final surge to preserve its treasures.
• Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and spiritual inspiration spread through the ruin as it began to disperse, revealing that the Spirit Devouring Worms had devoured the other half.
• Liao Xia ordered the Wu Meng Clan and Xuan Clan to form the Black Tortoise Formation against the approaching Spirit Devouring Worms, and Wizard Rui sent several races, including the humans, to the front.
• Chen Fei joined the front line and summoned nine Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage battle soldiers, shocking Jiang Chengji and the nearby cultivators as the Spirit Devouring Worms drew close.

Chen Fei used Dao Fusion Realm Early Stage soldier puppets to shield the human cultivators from the Spirit Devouring Worms, keeping all three hundred of them alive while other races suffered heavy losses. As the Bronze Cauldron’s final power was stopped and the cultivators prepared to divide its treasures, a white light split the cauldron in two.

• The Spirit Devouring Worm army struck the Black Tortoise Formation, forcing the cultivators to defend without killing the worms and risking their races’ destruction.
• Chen Fei sent his soldier puppets to block attacks at gaps in the formation, giving the human Dao Fusion Realm cultivators time to recover and avoid casualties.
• Chen Fei used Low-Grade Essence Crystals to repeatedly summon replacement puppets, while the human cultivators supplied more crystals and other races failed to imitate his tactic.
• After the human side survived the assault without losing anyone, the Sky Opening Realm cultivators stopped the Bronze Cauldron’s final burst of power.
• A soul-tearing shriek rang out, and a streak of white light split the Bronze Cauldron in two.

The Spirit Devouring Worms unleashed spatial chaos to scatter the Bronze Cauldron’s treasures, trapping the Black Stone Domain’s cultivators in a vast turbulence. Chen Fei guided the human cultivators toward safety while secretly drawing a resonant Bronze Cauldron fragment closer.

• The Spirit Devouring Worms formed a spatial array, and their power combined with the Bronze Cauldron’s source to throw the surrounding space into chaos.
• Chen Fei used the blast from five self-destructing battle soldiers to gather the human Dao Fusion Realm cultivators before the Black Tortoise Formation collapsed.
• Chen Fei offered to scout a route through the turbulence, and Qiu Gongzhi agreed; the human cultivators followed Chen Fei as he avoided dangerous currents and Sky Opening Realm cultivators.
• As other races escaped and fierce battles erupted over scattered treasures, Chen Fei led the humans toward the turbulence’s edge while avoiding the fighting.
• Chen Fei sensed a Cauldron Ear fragment resonating with the Bronze Rune in his Source Point Space and used the spatial turbulence to draw it toward the humans.

Chen Fei led the human cultivators out of the spatial turbulence as the Sky Opening Realm battle ended and the Spirit Devouring Worms departed. With the human race weakened and Lü Ji intent on destroying it, Liao Xia offered the Black Stone Domain cultivators a chance to become his servants by climbing the Ascending Heavenly Ladder.

• Chen Fei secretly took the Bronze Cauldron's Cauldron Ear and stored it with the other Bronze Fragments before leading the human Dao Fusion Realm cultivators out of the spatial turbulence.
• Qiu Gongzhi brought the surviving humans to the Wu Meng Clan's Sky Opening Realm cultivator, while Lü Ji watched the weakened human race and resolved to exterminate it.
• Chen Fei sensed that his Space Sub-Rule fragments and Power Rule fragments had increased, bringing his physique close to the barrier of a Tier 7 Rule Body.
• The Sky Opening Realm cultivators fought the Spirit Devouring Worms and each other over treasures until the worms withdrew and the spatial turbulence calmed.
• Liao Xia summoned an Ascending Heavenly Ladder and offered to take in as servants those Dao Fusion Realm cultivators who could climb it.

Liao Xia tested potential servants on the Ascending Heavenly Ladder, killing those who failed, while Lü Fan reached the top and became his disciple. After the powerful outsiders departed, the human race gathered in Han Yun City, where Chen Fei began cultivating amid devastating losses.

• An Ice Clan Dao Fusion Realm Late Stage cultivator failed to climb the Ascending Heavenly Ladder and died, and several Dao Fusion Realm Peak cultivators later exploded at the eightieth step.
• Lü Fan, a descendant of Lü Ji with three Subordinate Rules, climbed the ladder successfully and became Liao Xia's servant.
• Liao Xia and the other Sky Opening Realm cultivators left the Black Stone Domain, while the Wu Meng Clan and Xuan Clan withdrew to recuperate.
• Lü Ji plotted to destroy the human race, and Qiu Gongzhi led the human Dao Fusion Realms to gather everyone in Han Yun City.
• Eight days later, the human survivors reached Han Yun City, where only about thirty percent of their former Dao Fusion Realms remained and Chen Fei resumed cultivating.

Chen Fei rapidly consumed Rule Crystals, completed a second space sub-rule, and approached the barrier between his Tier 6 physique and the Tier 7 Sky Opening Body. As Chen Fei reached a critical breakthrough point, Yu Wuheng considered investigating a rumored Sky Opening Realm burial place to gain strength for the human race.

• Chen Fei used one Rule Crystal per day to accelerate his cultivation while Qiu Gongzhi and the other human sovereigns struggled to save the thirteen gravely injured sovereigns in the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Chen Fei completed Space Sub-Rule: Small, advanced Space Sub-Rule: Solid to eighty-three fragments, and began comprehending Space Sub-Rule: Void.
• Chen Fei's Power Rule Fragments reached ninety-eight, bringing his physique close to the Tier 7 Sky Opening Body barrier.
• Yu Wuheng found a Jade Slip pointing to a suspected Sky Opening Realm burial place and summoned several Sun Moon Realm cultivators instead of going there alone.
• Chen Fei's Power Rule Fragments reached one hundred, and his body began radiating intense heat as he faced the breakthrough that could either advance his physique or damage its origin.

Chen Fei advanced his Sky Opening Body and cultivated the Space Sub-Rule using the Rule Crystals, then investigated the Bronze Cauldron Ear. Meanwhile, Yu Wuheng defied Qiu Gongzhi’s order to avoid a suspected Sky Opening Realm burial site, returned gravely injured, and Chen Fei’s cauldron revealed the beginnings of a Rule Crystal.

• Chen Fei broke through to a Tier 7 Sky Opening Body and continued cultivating the Power and Space Sub-Rules with the Rule Crystals.
• Qiu Gongzhi warned Yu Wuheng not to investigate the suspected Sky Opening Realm burial site, fearing it could be a trap that endangered the human race.
• Yu Wuheng decided to go to the site anyway, hoping to find treasures that could help the human race and advance his cultivation.
• After using all five Rule Crystals, Chen Fei found Tier 6 Suppressing Heavens stalled just short of Great Perfection and studied the Bronze Cauldron Ear for three days.
• Yu Wuheng returned to Han Yun City gravely injured and terrified after escaping danger in the Secret Realm.
• Chen Fei activated the Bronze Rune, causing the Cauldron Ear to form a glowing Bronze Cauldron that drew in Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and revealed the embryonic form of a Rule Crystal.

Chen Fei discovered that the cauldron ear could accelerate his cultivation by converting absorbed spiritual opportunity into a usable form, bringing his progress toward completing the Space Sub-Rules within months. Meanwhile, Lü Yan and Sang Che prepared fabricated evidence to frame the human race and provoke the Wu Meng Clan into attacking Han Yun City.

• Chen Fei refined the cauldron ear, combined its runes with the Bronze Cauldron, and released spiritual opportunity instead of waiting for it to form Rule Crystals.
• Chen Fei cultivated with the cauldron ear's spiritual opportunity and ten thousand Low-Grade Essence Crystals, raising each Space Sub-Rule by one fragment in a day.
• Yu Wuheng recovered from his injuries in Han Yun City and reflected that the suspected burial site was too dangerous for the human race's leaders to investigate.
• Lü Yan and Sang Che planned to use fabricated evidence of the human race colluding with the Xuan Clan to persuade the Wu Meng Clan to intervene.
• Lü Yan and Sang Che revealed that they had lured Yu Wuheng to the suspected burial site to frame him and the human race, while Qiu Gongzhi watched anxiously over Han Yun City and Chen Fei continued cultivating.