Chapter Summaries

Chen Fei studied the Nether Heaven Defiant Calamity Art and discovered that simplifying it required seventy thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals. He weakened the Ninth-Order Grand Array around the hall to collect its crystals, then left and was recognized by Liao Chengwu.

• Chen Fei learned that the Nether Heaven Defiant Calamity Art could let him briefly Incarnate Rule, but the Panel required seventy thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals to simplify it.
• Chen Fei used the Time Subordinate Rules fragment to disrupt the Ninth-Order Grand Array and pry open its array cores, while Liao Chengwu and two other Peak-Stage Eighth-Order experts waited outside.
• Chen Fei collected tens of thousands of depleted Top-Grade Essence Crystals, leaving him with fewer than thirty thousand usable crystals.
• Chen Fei concealed his cultivation and emerged from the hall, where Guan Xilu asked him to join forces at another Ninth-Order Grand Array.
• Liao Chengwu questioned Chen Fei, identifying him as a Mid-Stage Creation Realm cultivator of the human race from the Profound Spirit Domain.

Chen Fei agreed to help Guan Xilu, Jin Degu, and Liao Chengwu break the Ninth-Order Grand Arrays, but rejected Guan Xilu’s attempt to control him with a soul-locking bracelet. When the three attacked, Chen Fei unleashed the Six-Legged Dragon Elephant and shattered Guan Xilu’s defensive treasure, leaving Guan Xilu gravely wounded.

• Liao Chengwu recognized Chen Fei and revealed his identity, prompting Guan Xilu, Jin Degu, and Liao Chengwu to consider forcing him to break the arrays.
• Chen Fei agreed to cooperate, but laughed when Guan Xilu offered him a bracelet that secretly specialized in locking souls.
• Chen Fei smashed the bracelet, and Guan Xilu responded by pressuring him with his aura as Jin Degu trapped him in a cage.
• Chen Fei summoned the Six-Legged Dragon Elephant and broke Jin Degu’s cage with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Chen Fei shattered Guan Xilu’s Mystic Sky Bracelet and struck him, blasting half of Guan Xilu’s body into Blood Mist.

Chen Fei killed Guan Xilu, Jin Degu, and Liao Chengwu after they attacked him, then learned from Liao Chengwu’s memories that the Night Race had a Ninth-Order Supreme guarding the Sky Wave Domain. He reached the mountainside and found the Kuang Clan gone, while a massive ship flew toward the Profound Spirit Domain.

• Chen Fei pursued and killed the grievously wounded Guan Xilu after Jin Degu and Liao Chengwu fled.
• Chen Fei trapped Jin Degu and Liao Chengwu with the Azure Heavens Domain and overwhelmed their combined defense.
• Liao Chengwu revealed that the Night Race had a Ninth-Order Supreme, but Chen Fei continued attacking and killed both men.
• Chen Fei collected the three spiritual essences and two Supreme Creation Mystic Treasures, then read the dead cultivators’ memories and confirmed the Night Race Supreme was guarding the Sky Wave Domain.
• Chen Fei reached the mountainside, found the Kuang Clan gone, and saw a massive ship flying toward the Profound Spirit Domain.

Chen Fei entered a Ninth-Order Grand Array and discovered a pill refined with the Nine Revolutions Reaching Heaven method, which could raise a Tier 8 Top-Grade Mystic Treasure beyond its usual limits. Meanwhile, the Night Race learned of Liao Chengwu’s death and began hunting his killer.

• Liao Wangjun reported Liao Chengwu’s death to Liao Xingfeng, who ordered him to identify the murderer and report back.
• Chen Fei examined the spoils from Guan Xilu, Jin Degu, and Liao Chengwu, learning that Liao Xingfeng had secretly reached the Ninth-Order Supreme Realm.
• Chen Fei studied the Ninth-Order Grand Array, froze one of its Nodes, and entered the palace complex with his Scattering Beans into Soldiers battle soldiers.
• Chen Fei found an alchemy furnace and caught a spiritual pill that tried to escape when he opened it.
• Chen Fei recognized that the pill contained refined Lower Realm Plane Origin and could enhance a Tier 8 Top-Grade Mystic Treasure into a Half-Step Reaching Heaven Mystic Treasure.

Chen Fei improved the Qian Yuan Sword, collected seeds that resembled Baka, and dismantled another Ninth-Order Grand Array for its Top-Grade Essence Crystals. He used his resources to simplify the Nether Heaven Defiant Calamity Art and strengthen his cultivation, bringing his origin to the threshold of the Limit Eighth-Order while considering whether his unusual cultivation method could conceal his rule from the Ninth-Order Supremes.

• Chen Fei fused a pill into the Qian Yuan Sword to raise it toward Half-Step Reaching Heaven Mystic Treasure, then recognized that a withered Spirit Herb resembled Baka and collected its seeds for him.
• Chen Fei extracted the Array Eyes from the Ninth-Order Grand Array, causing it to collapse and yielding more than forty thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals.
• Chen Fei spent seventy thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals to simplify the Nether Heaven Defiant Calamity Art into the Nine Heavens Underworld Devil Art, then absorbed spiritual essence to improve his cultivation and Hail Rule.
• Chen Fei condensed additional Rule Crystals, reconsidered making the Power Rule his core rule, and reasoned that outer-domain Ninth-Order experts might be driving a renewed conflict among Supremes.
• Chen Fei’s origin reached the threshold of the Limit Eighth-Order, and he wondered whether his powerful origin could conceal the rule he entered from the other Supremes.

Chen Fei advanced his cultivation and used his new insight into the Heavenly Dao to study powerful rules and choose the unoccupied Hail Rule for a future attempt to Incarnate Rule. He left the mountain without attempting the dangerous breakthrough and headed for an unoccupied peak to break its array and collect its Essence Crystals.

• Chen Fei raised the Nether Heaven Defiant Calamity Art to Great Perfection, condensed five Primary Rules, and brought the Mystic Womb True Understanding to perfection.
• Chen Fei entered Limit Circulation and saw the Heavenly Dao rules directly, learning the cultivation methods for the Life Rule and Chaos Rule as well as the fifth Subordinate Rule of Fate.
• Chen Fei observed that nine of the Ruin Realm's ten powerful rules had been cultivated by him, while powerful rules were occupied by seven Dao Ancestors and many other rules by outer-domain Ninth-Order experts.
• Chen Fei selected the unoccupied Hail Rule for his future Incarnate Rule attempt and chose not to attempt the Small Heaven Reaching Realm because he lacked enough High-Grade Essence Crystals to recover.
• Chen Fei used the Celestial Evolution Art to search for a useful peak, then headed toward an unoccupied mountain to break its array and take the Top-Grade Essence Crystals from its core.

Chen Fei simplified the Time Subordinate Rules to “still,” greatly shortening the time needed to cultivate them, and continued gathering Top-Grade Essence Crystals in the Secret Realm. As he worked on another grand array, five Peak-Stage Eighth-Order experts arrived to kill him.

• Chen Fei broke several unoccupied Ninth-Order Grand Arrays, collected Top-Grade Essence Crystals, and found a Medicine Field that could accelerate the growth of spirit plants.
• Chen Fei gathered enough crystals to simplify the Time Subordinate Rules, and the Panel changed them to “still.”
• Chen Fei tested his new comprehension and found he could deduce the Time Subordinate Rules faster, though he needed to focus solely on them to improve his cultivation speed.
• Chen Fei continued toward another grand array despite having achieved his original goals, seeking more crystals and materials.
• Yu Shizhong, Miu Yonghe, and three other Peak-Stage Eighth-Order experts arrived at the mountain, intending to kill Chen Fei over their suspicions about Ming Yan Yong and their hostility toward the human race.
• Chen Fei sensed the five experts approaching while he examined a Ninth-Order Grand Array, then turned to face them.

Chen Fei used the Time Rule to kill the Illusory Clan Old Ancestor when Yu Shizhong and four other Peak-Stage Eighth-Order experts tried to ambush him. The survivors fled, but Chen Fei intercepted them on the mountain path and slowed them with extreme cold.

• Yu Shizhong and four other Peak-Stage Eighth-Order experts surrounded Chen Fei, who refused to flee.
• Miu Yonghe and the others attacked, but Chen Fei used the fragments of the Time Subordinate Rules to stop them briefly.
• Chen Fei killed the Illusory Clan Old Ancestor with the Qian Yuan Sword, revealing his Peak-Stage Eighth-Order cultivation.
• Yu Shizhong, Miu Yonghe, and the other survivors fled down the mountain, but Chen Fei blocked their route after they broke through his Azure Heavens Domain.
• Chen Fei released extreme cold that enveloped Yu Shizhong and the other three and slowed their movements.

Chen Fei overwhelmed and killed Miu Yonghe, Yu Shizhong, and the other two Peak-Stage Eighth-Order cultivators despite their desperate counterattacks. After the four died, Chen Fei dragged a phantom resembling Yu Shizhong out from before the blocked mountain path.

• Yu Shizhong ordered Miu Yonghe and the others to scatter and drain Chen Fei's strength, but Chen Fei seized nearly all control of the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
• Chen Fei exploited flaws in Miu Yonghe's defenses and the others' combined attack, then killed Miu Yonghe with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• The Bi Clan Old Ancestor, the Yao Clan Old Ancestor, and Yu Shizhong burned their Essence, Qi, and Spirit Soul and charged Chen Fei in a desperate attempt to die with him.
• Chen Fei used Time Stasis to halt the three attackers and killed them all with one sword stroke.
• Chen Fei moved to the mountain path and forcibly dragged out a phantom that looked like the dead Yu Shizhong.

Chen Fei killed Yu Shizhong and the other Mo Clan powerhouses, then resumed breaking the Ninth-Order Grand Array and claimed a meditation cushion from the palace within. Meanwhile, Ge Shida used his future-oriented Time Subordinate Rules to enter another palace, as Chen Fei settled down to cultivate with his new treasure.

• Chen Fei caught Yu Shizhong despite his concealment Secret Art and killed him, then collected the spiritual essence and mystical treasures from the five fallen powerhouses.
• Chen Fei searched their Divine Soul Fragments but failed to recover any Ninth-Order cultivation techniques, then resumed breaking the Ninth-Order Grand Array.
• Other Eighth-Order cultivators sensed the deaths and realized the secret realm was not safe, while Ge Shida returned to breaking a different grand array.
• Ge Shida used his future Rule Fragments to pass through the grand array and enter its palace without triggering the formation.
• Chen Fei entered his palace, found a meditation cushion that focused the mind and calmed the breath, and began cultivating with his resources.

Chen Fei used the Secret Realm’s abundant resources to strengthen his cultivation and physique, then sensed a hidden irregularity in the Secret Realm’s rules. After surveying the realm from above, he vanished just as he neared the truth about it.

• Chen Fei cultivated the Primary Fate Rule, realized it explained how the Bronze Rune plundered talents, and continued cultivating without using the Time Subordinate Rules.
• Chen Fei consumed spiritual essence and Essence Crystal Spirit Materials, condensing eight rules and advancing Dragon Elephant Suppressing Heavens and the Mystic Womb True Understanding.
• Chen Fei broke a Ninth-Order Grand Array and found fewer than thirty thousand Top-Grade Essence Crystals inside.
• Chen Fei sensed something wrong with the Secret Realm, inspected its rules, and recalled that its inhabitants had disappeared before the Profound Spirit Domain races arrived.
• Chen Fei flew above the Secret Realm, surveyed its peaks and rules, and suddenly vanished.

Chen Fei saw through Yu Congzhang’s Ninth-Order Grand Array, broke it by freezing its unstable nodes, and confronted the figure controlling it. He learned that Yu Congzhang had sacrificed the Yu Clan in pursuit of the Ninth-Order, while Yu Congzhang remained trapped below that realm and sought to possess Chen Fei’s body.

• Chen Fei entered a Ninth-Order Grand Array, where thirty-six illusory Limit Eighth-Order experts attacked him.
• Chen Fei used Time Stasis on eight unstable array nodes, shattering the formation and revealing Yu Congzhang in a dark cave.
• Yu Congzhang struck Chen Fei’s divine soul with a flood of information, but Chen Fei endured the attack and learned the Secret Realm’s history and Yu Congzhang’s identity.
• Yu Congzhang questioned how Chen Fei had survived his Divine Soul Technique, and Chen Fei accused him of sacrificing his clansmen to break through to the Ninth-Order.
• Chen Fei learned that Yu Congzhang had secretly sacrificed some Yu Clan members, was imprisoned after being discovered, and had ultimately killed everyone in the Secret Realm.

Yu Congzhang revealed the curse that had driven him to sacrifice the Yu Clan, then attacked Chen Fei in hopes of breaking it. Chen Fei resisted Yu Congzhang’s techniques and shattered his body with the Qian Yuan Sword.

• Yu Congzhang’s history revealed that he had sacrificed the Yu Clan to overcome a Dao Ancestor’s curse, but remained trapped at Limit Eighth-Order.
• Yu Congzhang explained that he had lured Eighth-Order cultivators into the secret realm to harvest them and break the curse.
• Yu Congzhang’s Divine Soul Technique failed to harm Chen Fei, whose unusual abilities gave Yu Congzhang hope of escaping the curse.
• Yu Congzhang defended his choice to sacrifice his clansmen, and Chen Fei moved to attack him.
• Yu Congzhang unleashed chains and the Wailing of Lost Souls, but Chen Fei’s techniques and physique prevented the phantoms from stealing his Essence, Qi, and Spirit Soul.
• Chen Fei’s Qian Yuan Sword forced Yu Congzhang’s palms against his body and shattered him.

Chen Fei entered the Small Heaven Reaching Realm by touching the Hail Rule and gained temporary Ninth-Order power. He defeated Yu Congzhang, whose final struggle ended with his phantom unable to return to reality.

• Yu Congzhang revealed that he could briefly wield Ninth-Order power by burning the phantoms of Yu Clan members within him, then attacked Chen Fei with a Heaven Reaching Giant Palm.
• Chen Fei entered the Small Heaven Reaching Realm by letting his consciousness touch the Hail Rule, gaining power comparable to a newly advanced Ninth-Order expert.
• Yu Congzhang questioned Chen Fei's strength, and Chen Fei again attributed it to piling up resources before launching a counterattack.
• Chen Fei used Ninth-Order power to freeze Yu Congzhang in Time Stasis and cut him in two with the Qian Yuan Sword.
• Yu Congzhang's remaining phantom struggled to descend into reality, but failed as despair appeared in his eyes.

Chen Fei killed Yu Congzhang, ending the Yu Clan and the curse that had plagued it, but the Small Heaven Reaching Realm’s cost left Chen Fei’s cultivation rapidly declining. Ge Shida found him in the Secret Realm’s interlayer and attacked, while the Hidden Essence Bell failed to stop him.

• Chen Fei froze Yu Congzhang with Time Stasis and shattered the special Node that sustained the Yu Clan phantoms, causing Yu Congzhang to die and the Yu Clan’s curse to vanish.
• An unseen figure learned that the Yu Clan had perished, then turned his attention back to the outer-domain experts surrounding the Ruin Realm.
• The Eighth-Order experts in the Secret Realm sensed an unknown threat lift, and Ge Shida located and entered the Secret Realm’s interlayer.
• Chen Fei’s Aura fell from the Ninth-Order Supreme Realm as he gathered Yu Congzhang’s spiritual essence and considered studying his techniques.
• Ge Shida recognized Chen Fei as the junior who had escaped his cave abode and attacked him, seeking his treasure and the Secret Realm’s riches.
• The Hidden Essence Bell blocked Ge Shida briefly, but Ge Shida used a Time Subordinate Rules fragment to bypass it and reach for Chen Fei.

Chen Fei examined Yu Congzhang’s Divine Soul Fragments and obtained five incomplete cultivation methods while Ge Shida attacked the Hidden Origin Bell. After securing what he wanted, Chen Fei counterattacked Ge Shida with the Qian Yuan Sword, driving him back.

• Ge Shida used his Time Subordinate Rule of the future to attack Chen Fei, but Chen Fei blocked him, and their matching Rule Fragments neutralized each other.
• Ge Shida attacked Chen Fei again while Chen Fei examined Yu Congzhang’s Divine Soul Fragments and discovered five incomplete cultivation methods, including the Sacrificial Fiend Art.
• Ge Shida struck the Hidden Origin Bell three times, cracking it as it continued to reinforce its barrier.
• Chen Fei put away the Hidden Origin Bell and slashed at Ge Shida with the Qian Yuan Sword, forcing him to retreat.

Chen Fei recovered his strength and killed Ge Shida after breaking through his defenses with a sword empowered by a stored killing move. He then examined Ge Shida’s Divine Soul Fragments and discovered a Time Subordinate Rule Particle—Future.

• Chen Fei recovered from the Five Decays of Heaven and Man and drove Ge Shida back with a powerful sword strike.
• Ge Shida formed an absolute defense and tried to escape, but Chen Fei used the damaged Ninth-Order Grand Array to intercept him.
• Ge Shida burned his origin to strengthen his defense, but Chen Fei released a killing move from the Space Grid and fatally pierced him.
• Chen Fei extracted Ge Shida’s spiritual essence and examined his Divine Soul Fragments for insight into the Time Subordinate Rule.
• Chen Fei discovered a Time Subordinate Rule Particle—Future in Ge Shida’s fragments.

Chen Fei acquired the secret realm’s source and strengthened his cultivation before a Ninth-Rank expert arrived in a warship, carrying the missing Eighth-Rank experts from the Profound Spirit Domain. Another Ninth-Rank presence then appeared, leaving the secret realm facing two powerful arrivals.

• Chen Fei simplified the Future Time Subordinate Rule into the Fate Rule and used spiritual essence to cultivate new Rule Crystals, Dragon Elephant Suppressing Heavens, and Reaching Heaven Forging Treasure.
• Chen Fei used Reaching Heaven Forging Treasure to draw the Secret Realm Source from the realm’s core and stored it without immediately upgrading the Qian Yuan Sword or Hidden Essence Bell.
• Chen Fei returned to the secret realm’s surface and noticed that more than seventy percent of its Eighth-Rank experts had already left.
• A Ninth-Rank expert arrived aboard a warship and brought back the missing Eighth-Rank experts from the Profound Spirit Domain, who floated beneath it in fear.
• A black hole opened elsewhere, and a black mountain peak appeared as another Ninth-Rank aura spread across the secret realm.

Chen Fei watched the Bie Clan and Liang Clan claim the Profound Spirit Domain after competition drove them from the Ruin Realm’s core region. Kou Haixia and Fu Zhonggang agreed to rule the local races through tribute, and Fu Zhonggang demanded that the surviving Eighth-Order cultivators reveal their Mystic Treasures.

• Chen Fei saw the Bie Clan’s black mountain peak and the Liang Clan’s warship arrive in the Secret Realm, each carrying a Mid-Stage Ninth-Order expert.
• Kou Haixia and Fu Zhonggang agreed to split the Profound Spirit Domain and make its Eighth-Order races pay tribute to both clans.
• Kou Haixia destroyed dozens of mountain peaks with one strike, killing nearly forty Eighth-Order cultivators and scattering the rest.
• Kou Haixia and Fu Zhonggang divided the Secret Realm’s Top-Grade Essence Crystals and other loot, and Kou Haixia left for the black mountain peak.
• Fu Zhonggang ordered the surviving Eighth-Order cultivators to open their Mystic Treasures and reveal everything inside.

Fu Zhonggang’s Ninth-Order forces searched the Eighth-Order cultivators and seized their valuable treasures, then imposed future annual offerings on the Profound Spirit Domain. Chen Fei returned to Qiankun City and weighed the threat posed by the two Supreme Races as he considered how to strengthen himself.

• Fu Zhonggang ordered the Eighth-Order cultivators to open their Mystic Treasures, and Fu Mingtao and Fu Xianbing searched them for valuables.
• Chen Fei revealed only a small number of treasures, concealing most of his valuable resources in a Storage Bag within a Space Grid; Fu Xianbing took his Top-Grade Essence Crystals but left the rest.
• Fu Mingtao announced that the Eighth-Order races would have to make annual offerings, and the cultivators left the Secret Realm with their gains stripped away.
• Shi Ding An led the Xian Race and Chen Fei back to their cities, where Wan Xinjing and Wan Aili reported an anomaly in the firmament.
• Chen Fei considered the danger of the Ninth-Order Supreme Races and decided to borrow resources.