Chapter Summaries

After Shen Zhui escaped Cang Song and returned to the Wu'an Army, he learned that he would need to prove he could survive the battlefield before joining the next war. He began preparing to break through to the Venerable Level by absorbing his teacher Ciyun Venerable’s inheritance, but preserved her Twin Heart as a memento for Chanxin.

• Cang Song sensed a True God watching over Boundary Breaking City and abandoned his pursuit of Shen Zhui.
• Lu Yuanwei introduced Shen Zhui to the Wu'an Army’s Venerables and demoted Kong Yangzhou to school captain for disobeying orders and losing Yangzhou City.
• Cheng Jiao told Shen Zhui that the Sect Alliance had placed him ninth on its must-kill list, so he would need to prove he could protect himself before joining the battlefield.
• Shen Zhui decided to break through to the Venerable Level and absorbed energy from the Heart of the World left by Ciyun Venerable.
• Shen Zhui stopped the absorption before the Twin Heart vanished and placed it in Chanxin’s forehead as a memento of Ciyun Venerable.

Shen Zhui managed Lightning Hall’s military-camp logistics while waiting for Tan Lang to return with auctioned treasures and news from Great Xia Academy. After receiving three breakthrough treasures, Shen Zhui began his attempt to reach the Venerable realm and successfully formed seven Hearts of the World as the Great Thousand World’s blessing descended.

• After the ceasefire ended, Marquis Wu'an ordered Shen Zhui to guard the military camp with Lightning Hall’s nine Venerables while the army’s other Venerables left for battle.
• Shen Zhui organized the camp’s medical and engineering experts and supervised their preparations without interfering with their work.
• Tan Lang returned with 21,532 Fortune Coins’ worth of auction proceeds, three treasures for Shen Zhui’s breakthrough, and news that Great Xia Academy would provide a True God to protect him and a hundred Venerables to command.
• Shen Zhui activated the Time Sand, consumed all thirty Chaos Fruits, and used the Glazed Treasure Tree to accelerate his cultivation and comprehension.
• Shen Zhui formed seven Hearts of the World, completed his breakthrough, and felt the Great Thousand World’s blessing descend.

Shen Zhui broke through to the Venerable Realm as the Great Thousand World’s gift transformed his Cave Heaven into a vast, balanced world. After reaching Venerable Third Tier with seven matching clones, he prepared to explore fusing his seven kinds of rules.

• Shen Zhui immersed himself in the Origin Rules as his Cave Heaven expanded to ninety million li and its seven Hearts of the World stabilized.
• Shen Zhui used his seven great treasures to restore the barren Cave Heaven, bringing forth a sun, rivers, vegetation, mountains, thunder pools, and protection against demons.
• Chanxin explained that True Gods condensed divine bodies and controlled laws, then urged Shen Zhui to strengthen his Hearts of the World.
• Shen Zhui absorbed World Stone energy until seven Star Rings formed around each Heart of the World, bringing him to Venerable Third Tier.
• Shen Zhui summoned his seven clones and raised each one to Venerable Third Tier through the Great Dao Divine Ability.
• Chanxin urged Shen Zhui to experiment with merging the rules held by his seven Hearts of the World.

Shen Zhui learned that fusing advanced rules was exceptionally difficult, but Chanxin gave him a fragment of the Six Harmonies Daoist Scripture to guide his efforts. Using the system’s Enlightenment Time, Shen Zhui successfully fused golden and lightning Rule Power, leaving him eager to continue.

• Chanxin explained the levels of rules and the extreme difficulty of fusing time-and-space rules, while Shen Zhui realized his Sacred Word Divine Ability and Yinglong Avatar gave him some foundation in those paths.
• Chanxin revealed that Shen Zhui’s master had prepared a fragment of the Six Harmonies Daoist Scripture, whose Fusion Chapter had helped Lu Yuanwei master a second advanced rule.
• Shen Zhui studied the Jade Plate and gained insight into countless combinations of the seven basic rules, but found the material too extensive to navigate on his own.
• Shen Zhui used Merit Points to exchange for Enlightenment Time, then resumed studying the Jade Plate.
• Shen Zhui fused golden and lightning Rule Power and confirmed that his attempt had succeeded.

Shen Zhui studied methods for fusing rules and discovered that three Gold-and-Lightning combinations could produce a higher-order rule. He began testing the method that suited him best, and the resulting power caused a stir among the Venerables guarding the Lightning Hall.

• Shen Zhui used Enlightenment Time to test fusing Gold and Lightning Rule Power, but his first attempt collapsed and annihilated both strands.
• Shen Zhui tried combinations of two, three, and four basic rules, then decided to focus on Gold and Lightning and search for a fusion method suited to him.
• Shen Zhui filtered the Star Gazing Jade’s methods and found three Gold-and-Lightning fusion methods that could produce a higher-order rule.
• Shen Zhui comprehended the second method and used Awakening Time to fuse Gold and Lightning Rule Power in his Cave Heaven World.
• The fusion gave off a sharp, oppressive aura that reached the nine Venerables in the Lightning Hall, and Fan Qie concealed the disturbance with the hall’s formation to prevent anyone from interrupting Shen Zhui.

Shen Zhui fused the Law of Lightning with the Law of Metal to form Western Extreme Geng Metal, a high-level rule, and began improving his mastery of it. Three days later, he learned that poison inflicted by the Heavenly Wolf King had left many Great Zhou Venerables injured and triggered a dispute over scarce treatment supplies, so he went to the Department of Engineering.

• Shen Zhui completed the fusion and formed a droplet of Western Extreme Geng Metal inside the Metal World Heart.
• Shen Zhui assessed the new rule’s combat limits and spent Merit Points to improve it rather than attempt another costly fusion.
• Three days later, Fan Qie told Shen Zhui that the Heavenly Wolf King had poisoned several Great Zhou Venerables with a high-level rule, while Ten Thousand Year Black Pearl needed to cure them was in short supply.
• Shen Zhui learned that the shortage had led wounded personnel to quarrel and fight inside the Department of Engineering.
• Shen Zhui set off with Fan Qie and the other Venerables to address the trouble.

Shen Zhui arrived at the Medical Hall to find dozens of Venerables driven mad by Heavenly Wolf Poison, with too few antidotes to treat them. Gongshu Bo and Zhou Changgong explained the crisis and asked Shen Zhui how to proceed.

• Gongshu Bo and Zhou Changgong struggled to contain seventy-two poisoned Venerables as the scarce antidotes could treat only ten.
• Shen Zhui heard that a Venerable had self-destructed and ordered Fan Qie to seal the Department of Engineering before entering with eight Venerables.
• Shen Zhui found twenty-five Venerables trapped and raving, while another thirty surrounded the Medical Hall and attacked one another.
• Gongshu Bo explained that Heavenly Wolf Poison drove its victims mad as their bodies rapidly deteriorated, and three had already died after the first ten received antidotes.
• Zhou Changgong told Shen Zhui that Wen Ruohai had been injured and warned that the remaining Venerables might soon lose their reason, then asked for his orders.

Shen Zhui confronted the poisoned reinforcements who had turned against the Wu'an Army and proved he could save them. After overpowering Yang Guang, he cleansed the Heavenly Wolf Poison from Dou Jianming, leaving the others with hope of treatment.

• Yang Guang and the other poisoned reinforcements demanded entry to the Medical Hall, blaming Gongshu Bo and Zhou Changgong for withholding the antidote.
• Shen Zhui ordered the barrier guarded, sent Gongshu Bo to consult Wen Ruohai, and told Zhou Changgong to press the Military Department and Transport Commissioner for antidotes and contact General Windwalk.
• Shen Zhui told the poisoned Venerables that a treasure could save them, but Yang Guang accused him of stalling and attacked him.
• Shen Zhui revealed his Venerable strength, shattered Yang Guang's attack, pinned him down with Golden Metal Power, and sealed his soul.
• Shen Zhui used the Merit Barrier on Dou Jianming and cleansed the Heavenly Wolf Poison from his soul.

Shen Zhui healed Dou Jianming with his secret treasure, but the enormous cost left him unable to cure the other poisoned generals immediately. After Wen Ruohai revealed that the Five Spirits Sealing Technique could delay the poison, Shen Zhui proposed sealing the patients and won their agreement to trust him.

• Shen Zhui healed Dou Jianming, who thanked him publicly, and the other poisoned generals gathered around begging for help.
• Shen Zhui realized that healing each person consumed twenty million Merit Points, so his treasure could not yet save the dozens of others.
• Wen Ruohai explained that the antidote would arrive too late for most patients, then suggested using the Law Enforcement Hall's divine statues to delay the poison with the Five Spirits Sealing Technique.
• Shen Zhui sent the Lightning Hall Venerables to obtain divine statues and told the poisoned generals they would need to accept the sealing.
• Yang Guang accused Shen Zhui of plotting against them, but Shen Zhui warned him and swore that he would use the technique only to save them.
• Dou Jianming and the others agreed that they were willing to believe Brother Shen.

Shen Zhui secured permission from Lu Yuanwei to take the poisoned Venerables to the battlefield, claiming Ciyun Venerable’s inheritance could cure them. On the way to the Critical Continent, he learned how the Venerable-level battle affected Great Zhou’s struggle for national fortune, and arrived at the battlefield facing the stakes of the coming conflict.

• Shen Zhui told Lu Yuanwei he could cure the wounded Venerables using Ciyun Venerable’s inheritance and asked to take them to the front.
• Lu Yuanwei approved Shen Zhui’s request, appointed Fan Qie to guard the camp, and sent Shen Zhui and the Venerables toward the battlefield.
• Shen Zhui used his Cave Heaven World to protect the group as they traveled through Spatial Turbulence, while the Tree of Life slowed the wounded Venerables’ deterioration.
• Dou Jianming explained the treasures and dangers of Spatial Turbulence and described the Critical Continent’s history as a battlefield.
• Shen Zhui considered how victories among soldiers, Venerables, and True Gods determined Great Zhou’s fortune and the Marquis’s chance to become King Zhao.
• Shen Zhui and Dou Jianming reached the Critical Continent, where the Venerable-level battle awaited.

Shen Zhui demonstrated that he could cure the Heavenly Wolf Poison, then joined the renewed battle on the Critical Continent. As the two armies clashed, he killed two Yin Yang Sword Sect Venerables and gained sixty million Merit Points.

• Shen Zhui used forty million Merit Points to cure General Huang of the Heavenly Wolf Poison, convincing the three marquises that his method worked.
• The marquises sent Shen Zhui to Lu Yuanwei, who ordered the assembled Venerables to prepare for battle.
• At the Hall of Judgment, Cang Song learned that Lu Yuanwei was absent from the opposing force and ordered an attack on its Venerables.
• Shen Zhui joined the hundred-person formation under an assumed identity as the armies advanced toward each other.
• The forces collided, and Shen Zhui charged two Third-tier Venerables from the Yin Yang Sword Sect.
• Shen Zhui's Celestial Pivot Dragon Vein Sword pierced both opponents' divine souls, earning him sixty million Merit Points.

Shen Zhui used the Heavenly Pivot Dragon Patterned Golden Sword to turn the Low-tier battlefield decisively in Great Zhou’s favor, earning enough Merit Points to consider awakening some sealed Venerables. As the Sect Alliance sent reinforcements to stop the rout, eight Fifth-tier Venerables descended before the pursuing troops.

• Li He’s brother self-detonated to wound the two Daoists attacking him, and Shen Zhui killed the short armored ambusher who then targeted Li He.
• Kong Yangzhou killed an enemy with a self-detonation, drew four Venerables after him, and Shen Zhui killed all four before continuing across the battlefield.
• Shen Zhui’s golden sword repeatedly killed Sect Alliance Venerables, helping Lan Chenguang and Great Zhou’s troops overwhelm the Low-tier battle zone.
• Cang Song ordered reinforcements after learning the Sect Alliance had suffered a large-scale rout, while Lu Yuanwei and the other High-tier Venerables recognized Shen Zhui’s impact.
• Shen Zhui saw that he had accumulated 450 million Merit Points and decided to wait for a chance to gain more before using them to awaken sealed Venerables.
• Eight Fifth-tier Venerables left the Mid-tier battlefield and descended before the pursuing Great Zhou forces.

Shen Zhui turned the Low-tier battlefield around by killing Abbess Huijue and then slaying seven Fifth-tier Venerables in an instant. As Great Zhou pursued the remaining Sect Alliance forces, Cang Song learned that all eight reinforcements had died.

• Eight Fifth-tier Venerables arrived to support the Sect Alliance, and Great Zhou’s generals formed groups to hold them off.
• Kong Yangzhou fought Abbess Huijue alone, but Shen Zhui appeared and killed her with one saber.
• Shen Zhui deployed his seven clones and killed seven Fifth-tier Venerables simultaneously.
• Shen Zhui urged Lan Chenguang, Xie Guangshan, and the other generals to eliminate the remaining Sect Alliance fighters, while the enemy ranks began to flee.
• A guard reported to Cang Song that all eight reinforcements had been killed, and Cang Song reacted with fury.

Shen Zhui used his Merit Barrier to cure dozens of Great Zhou’s poisoned Mid-tier Venerables, turning the battle against the Sect Alliance and forcing its army to retreat. Great Zhou celebrated a major victory, while Cang Song remained uneasy about Lu Yuanwei’s mysterious smile.

• Cang Song sent reinforcements to crush Great Zhou’s Mid-tier Venerables after learning that eight of his own had been killed.
• Lu Yuanwei committed the remaining fifty Great Zhou Mid-tier Venerables to battle, while Shen Zhui awakened forty-eight poisoned generals in the thunderclouds.
• The rescued generals joined the fighting, shifting the balance and helping Great Zhou kill several Sect Alliance experts.
• After two hours, the Sect Alliance retreated, leaving one hundred Low-tier and thirty-six Mid-tier Venerables dead.
• Lu Yuanwei led Great Zhou back to Windwalk Hall, where Lan Hai announced that the three armies had slain 142 enemies, including thirty-nine Mid-tier Venerables.

Great Zhou celebrated a decisive victory after Shen Zhui’s feats helped the three armies inflict severe losses on the Sect Alliance, while Kong Yangzhou received a promotion and aid for his injuries. The chapter ended with the Heavenly Wolf King discovering that his Variant Rule poison had killed only three people.

• Lan Hai and the other commanders celebrated the three armies’ victory, and the battle report credited Shen Zhui with killing thirty-seven enemies and saving sixty-nine Mid-tier Venerables from Heavenly Wolf Poison.
• Shen Zhui resolved to join mid- and high-tier battles to help decide the war before his planned visit to the capital, while victorious Venerables began breaking through to higher tiers.
• Kong Yangzhou told Shen Zhui about his battlefield kills, received a promotion to General An Guo from Lu Yuanwei, and accepted a Blood Origin Crystal Core from Shen Zhui to aid his recovery.
• Lu Yuanwei and the other commanders warned that the Sect Alliance might soon force a battle between High-tier Venerables and urged Great Zhou’s forces to prepare.
• King Cang Jin, the Heavenly Wolf King, and King Tianyao examined the results of the Heavenly Wolf King’s Variant Rule, and the Heavenly Wolf King was surprised that only three had died.

Shen Zhui helped Great Zhou devastate the Sect Alliance in a massive battle, and the alliance’s losses shifted the war’s fortune toward Great Zhou. As the fighting moved toward a high-tier clash, Shen Zhui chose to join it, while the Sect Alliance’s leader identified him as the cause of its defeat.

• King Tianyao deduced that Shen Zhui, who had broken through to the Venerable realm, had killed eight Fifth-tier Venerables.
• Shen Zhui disguised his aura as a Fifth-tier Venerable, and he and Lu Yuanwei led Great Zhou to inflict heavy casualties on the Sect Alliance.
• The Sect Alliance committed nearly all its low- and mid-tier Venerables to a thirteen-hour battle, but Shen Zhui and Great Zhou’s advanced-law experts helped drive the enemy into retreat.
• Shen Zhui observed fortune flowing toward Great Zhou as the Sect Alliance’s Venerables died, and Great Zhou’s leaders prepared for a high-tier battle.
• Lu Yuanwei asked whether Shen Zhui would join the high-tier battle, and Shen Zhui agreed despite the danger.
• The golden figure in Hall of Judgment told Cang Song, Yan Yi, and You Hai that Shen Zhui had cured the Heavenly Wolf King's poison and caused the Sect Alliance’s defeat.

King Tianyao ordered Shen Zhui and Lu Yuanwei killed before the high-tier battle, while Shen Zhui’s military merit rose to second place after his lifesaving deeds were revealed. With the battle approaching, Shen Zhui spent his remaining time preparing to strengthen his abilities and began studying Marquis Dingwu’s movement supreme skill, Five Elements Pierce the Void.

• King Tianyao ordered Cang Song, Yan Yi, and You Hai to eliminate Shen Zhui and Lu Yuanwei, even if the alliance lost the Venerable-level battle.
• The Military Merit Ranking placed Lu Yuanwei first and Shen Zhui second, prompting Venerables to reveal Shen Zhui’s role in saving sixty-nine people, dispelling Heaven Wolf Poison, and defeating powerful enemies.
• Shen Zhui reviewed his remaining 1.2 billion Merit Points and decided to strengthen Golden Metal Power and replace his outdated Wind Thunder Escape movement technique.
• Shen Zhui accessed the Department of Martial Transmission and tried to study the supreme skills of the three Marquises Wu, but Lan He warned him against skills that conflicted with his path.
• Shen Zhui studied Marquis Dingwu’s Five Elements Pierce the Void and learned how it combined seven rules to achieve True God-level speed.
• Shen Zhui exchanged Merit Points for one hundred million Merit Points’ worth of Enlightenment Time and began cultivating the movement skill.

Shen Zhui mastered the third level of Five Elements Pierce the Void, refined his equipment, and chose Electric Kunwu as his new blade. On the battlefield, he confronted Icecry and struck so quickly that the Sixth-tier Venerable was forced to abandon his body.

• Shen Zhui spent 300 million Merit Points to master the third level of Five Elements Pierce the Void, combining wind, metal, and lightning rules to reach speed rivaling a Ninth-tier Venerable.
• Shen Zhui reviewed his divine weapons, and Chanxin advised him to use Electric Kunwu; Shen Zhui summoned the lightning blade and chose it as his weapon.
• Cang Song, Yan Yi, and Youhai assigned targets to their forces as the Hall of Judgment and Windwalk Hall prepared for battle.
• Lu Yuanwei led Windwalk Hall into battle, while Cang Song and Yan Yi pursued their opposing commanders; Shen Zhui joined Venerable Bian Feng at the rear.
• Venerable Bian Feng told Shen Zhui to hold off Icecry, and Shen Zhui struck the Sixth-tier Venerable with the Heavenly Pivot Dragon Patterned Sword.
• Shen Zhui attacked again with Golden Metal Power and four-thousandfold amplification, forcing Icecry to destroy his physical body and escape as a soul.

Shen Zhui helped turn the battle by killing several advanced-rule Venerables, then joined four allies to trap and kill the Eighth-tier Nuka with his Thunder Blade. He collapsed from the attack as Nightmare Venerable rushed toward the group.

• Shen Zhui killed Icecry Venerable with a third strike, then helped Venerable Bian Feng kill the three Venerables besieging him.
• Shen Zhui used the Heavenly Pivot Dragon Patterned Golden Sword to disrupt the battlefield and slay more enemies, drawing Cang Song's attention and prompting him to send Nightmare, Shi Ye, and Tian Jue after Shen Zhui.
• Shen Zhui recruited Venerable Bian Feng, Silver Fire Venerable, and Weak Water Venerable to help Demon Eye Venerable trap and weaken Nuka.
• Shen Zhui used Awakening Time to disrupt Nuka's resistance, allowing Demon Eye Venerable to bind him with the Eye of the Demon Domain.
• Shen Zhui unleashed his nine-thousandfold-amplified Thunder Blade, Electric Kunwu, and used Time Reversal to hold Nuka long enough to kill him.
• Shen Zhui collapsed from exhaustion as Venerable Bian Feng and Silver Fire Venerable supported him, while Nightmare Venerable rushed toward them.

Shen Zhui recovered from killing Nuka and broke through to the Fourth-tier Venerable level, while his master Lu Yuanwei revealed a devastating Sacred Word ability and killed a Ninth-tier Venerable. The Sect Alliance’s morale collapsed further, and Shen Zhui was left eager to learn how his master’s sword had reached such power.

• Shen Zhui’s single strike killed Nuka, an Eighth-tier Venerable, and the victory sent Great Zhou’s morale soaring while shaking the Sect Alliance.
• Demon Eye Venerable gave Shen Zhui a Mysterious Turtle Pill, which restored his strength and helped him break through to the Fourth-tier Venerable level.
• Shen Zhui examined possible targets and saw his master Lu Yuanwei struggling against Zhijue, a Ninth-tier Venerable from Faming Temple.
• Lu Yuanwei used the Sacred Word Divine Ability Heaven Punishing Sword to kill Zhijue with a single strike.
• Shen Zhui marveled at Lu Yuanwei’s power, while Demon Eye Venerable warned him against challenging another Ninth-tier Venerable.