Recaps

The Battlefield Monster fought the Sky Devouring Cat after realizing that changes in the Battlefield Space had left it with nowhere to escape. The cat swallowed its violent resentful aura, but struggled to control the growing amount as the battle became increasingly dangerous.

• After Jiang Liu took control of the Battlefield Space, its resentful auras thinned, and the Battlefield Monster realized it could not survive even if it escaped to the other half of the battlefield.
• Trapped by the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue and blocked by the Sky Devouring Cat, the Battlefield Monster drew out its origin resentful aura and attacked with all its strength.
• The Sky Devouring Cat cut apart the incoming black aura and swallowed it, growing stronger as the Battlefield Monster realized its attacks were fueling the cat.
• The Battlefield Monster continued pouring out violent resentful aura, while the Sky Devouring Cat secretly struggled to contain it, its aura becoming disordered and its belly swelling.
• As the Battlefield Monster unleashed more aura, the Sky Devouring Cat’s risk of losing control and bursting apart increased.

The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue saved the Sky Devouring Cat from the Battlefield Monster’s violent resentful aura, then destroyed the weakened monster and its trapped souls. After returning its remaining Divine Nature to the Divine Statue of Rules, it left the Battlefield Space Consciousness near a suspicious stretch of hills and ravines.

• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue severed the Battlefield Monster’s resentful aura before it could overwhelm the Sky Devouring Cat, which struggled to refine the aura already inside it.
• The Battlefield Monster lost its will to fight after its attack was interrupted, and the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue struck it with a net of white light.
• The Battlefield Monster exploded, releasing the souls it had devoured along with its own soul, and the white-light net swept them all away with Divine Nature.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue returned its remaining Divine Nature to the Divine Statue of Rules after the attack drained it and dimmed the Divine Hall of Rules.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness reached a stretch of hills and ravines and sensed that something was wrong.

Jiang Liu entered a hidden valley filled with the remains of powerful ancient beings and realized they could help him investigate how to advance beyond the Divine Realm. The Battlefield Space Consciousness searched nearby for him but failed to discover the valley, missing a chance to strengthen itself.

• Jiang Liu found a vast battlefield strewn with the bones of the Human, Demon, Divine, and Beast Races, whose lingering auras seemed stronger than those of the beings he knew.
• Jiang Liu suspected the remains belonged to the true ancients whose war had shattered the Battlefield Space, though the information he had obtained about its history seemed contradictory.
• Jiang Liu recognized the bones as valuable subjects for studying breakthroughs beyond the Divine Realm and approached a Demon Race cultivator's remains.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness searched the valleys for Jiang Liu, hoping to learn whether he had taken control of the shard, but it could not see the hidden valley.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness left without finding Jiang Liu, missing the opportunity to discover the valley and increase its strength.

Jiang Liu tested the corpse of a Devil Race warrior and realized its lingering aura belonged to a realm beyond the Divine Realm. He began using the corpse to study the Power of Rule, then struck at it with his own Time-Space Rule power.

• Jiang Liu's essence-formed hand was shattered by the Devil Race warrior's corpse, revealing the immense strength it had possessed in life.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the corpse and the other powerful remains in the hollow had likely reached beyond the Divine Realm.
• Jiang Liu wrapped himself in the Power of Time-Space Rule and gained new insights into it in the hollow's unusual environment.
• Jiang Liu sensed that ownerless Power of Rule still clung to the Devil Race warrior's corpse and wondered why no Wandering Souls had appeared there.
• Jiang Liu realized the hollow isolated consciousness probes and weakened his connection to the Battlefield Space Shard.
• Jiang Liu struck toward the Devil Race warrior's corpse with dual-colored radiance.

Jiang Liu examined the ancient corpses to learn about the Divine Realm, but a Devil Race corpse self-destructed rather than let him touch it. After a Human Race corpse allowed him to draw it close, Jiang Liu began investigating it and was suddenly confronted by a vision of a great melee.

• Jiang Liu pressed his Power of Rule against a Devil Race corpse, which exploded and scattered chaotic black aura rather than fall into his hands.
• Jiang Liu realized his body could endure the corpses’ auras and resisted a Devil Race cultivator’s attempt to lure his Divine Soul away.
• Jiang Liu reached past a Devil Race corpse and seized a Human Race corpse after its protective aura recognized him and relented.
• Jiang Liu reflected on how a powerful Divine Soul needed a strong body and considered the Battlefield Monster’s unstable assembled body.
• Jiang Liu extended his Divine Sense to investigate the Human Race corpse, but a gigantic scene of a great melee suddenly appeared before him.

Jiang Liu watched a lingering aura recreate the slaughter of powerful Three Races cultivators and concluded they had been lured into an illusion in the Battlefield Space Shard. He suspected the trap’s mastermind had been killed or thwarted when the Divine Hall of Rules appeared, and wondered whether the mastermind’s remains were among the skeletons devoured by the Battlefield Monster.

• Jiang Liu recognized the vision as a brief recreation of the ancient battle, preserved by the final obsession of a Human Race cultivator.
• Jiang Liu realized the Three Races cultivators had likely been trapped in an illusion and made to fight until they died.
• Jiang Liu deduced that the trap had targeted powerful cultivators seeking a breakthrough beyond the Divine Realm and had been laid by someone familiar with the Battlefield Space Shard.
• Jiang Liu concluded the battle predated the Divine Hall of Rules because the cultivators’ Power of Rule differed from that cultivated afterward.
• Jiang Liu speculated that the Divine Hall of Rules had disrupted the mastermind’s plan, perhaps killing him, and that his skeleton might be among those eaten by the Battlefield Monster.

Jiang Liu investigated the corpses left in the Battlefield Space Shard, reasoning that the creator of the vast illusion array had likely died after the battle over the Divine Hall of Rules. When he probed another Human Race cultivator’s corpse, a Beast Soul appeared in his Divine Sea, revealing an unexpected secret.

• Jiang Liu laid down the first Human Race cultivator’s corpse and used the clue it had preserved to investigate the illusion array’s creator.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the creator had probably never returned to the battlefield and was likely dead after the battle over the Divine Hall of Rules.
• The first Human Race cultivator’s corpse decayed into ashes after Jiang Liu examined it.
• Jiang Liu grabbed another Human Race cultivator’s corpse with a hand formed from essence, despite its aura resisting him.
• Jiang Liu probed the corpse with his Divine Sense, and a Beast Soul appeared above his Divine Sea.

Jiang Liu suspected that a Human cultivator had imprisoned a powerful Beast Soul inside his body while alive and investigated the cultivator to learn his Beast Soul cultivation method. He discovered the Essence circulation had no obvious irregularities, leaving the method's secrets unresolved.

• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Human cultivator had likely imprisoned the Beast Soul while alive, since the surrounding battlefield showed no signs that it had absorbed lingering souls.
• Jiang Liu considered why the weaker cultivator had sealed the powerful Beast Soul inside himself and suspected he had tried and failed to cultivate by devouring it.
• Jiang Liu decided to preserve the Beast Soul as an experimental subject and sealed it with a mental barrier.
• Jiang Liu examined the Human cultivator's body and found that the Essence circulation trajectory revealed no unusual features.

Jiang Liu examined a Human Race cultivator’s corpse and found that the man had imprisoned a Beast Soul without using it to cultivate. His investigation led him to compare martial artists and Qi Refiners, while his suspicions about the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue and the Heavenly Evolution Codex grew.

• Jiang Liu examined the corpse again and confirmed that the cultivator had no method for devouring members of the Beast Race.
• Jiang Liu studied the cultivator’s essence circulation and considered how Qi Refiners’ direct cultivation differed from the slower, safer path of martial artists.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Human Realm’s depleted Heaven and Earth Essence had led the Human Race to abandon Qi Refiners’ methods, but its recovery could allow those methods to flourish again.
• Jiang Liu recalled learning that the Heavenly Evolution Codex was an evolved Qi Refiner method and that its devouring effect matched his soul devouring.
• Jiang Liu remained wary of the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue after sensing the Heavenly Evolution Codex’s aura from it.
• Jiang Liu sensed no devouring aura in the corpse and wondered about the story behind the Beast Soul imprisoned within the cultivator.

Jiang Liu investigated the unusual Beast Soul that had emerged from the dead cultivator Ming and discovered that it shared Ming’s aura without appearing to be a contracted beast. He recalled an ancient method of permanently splitting a Divine Soul, suggesting the Beast Soul might be one of Ming’s independent soul fragments.

• Jiang Liu sensed that the Beast Soul was unharmed and carried a trace of the Human Race cultivator’s aura, though the cultivator showed no signs of having devoured it.
• Jiang Liu attacked the Beast Soul with two-colored Power of Rule, but its Soul Force barrier blocked the attack.
• The Beast Soul wondered how it had provoked Jiang Liu, explaining that it had remained trapped inside Ming’s corpse since Ming died.
• Jiang Liu sensed a cultivator-like Divine Soul fluctuation in the Beast Soul and ruled out the possibility that it was Ming’s contracted beast.
• Jiang Liu remembered an ancient record about martial artists permanently splitting their Divine Souls into separate entities that could survive independently.

Jiang Liu recognized that a dead Human Race cultivator had used an unusual Soul Splitting Technique to create a surviving Beast Soul, which he imprisoned for later study. He suspected someone had looted the Battlefield Space and decided to search the remaining corpses for clues about their cultivation methods and Power of Rule.

• Jiang Liu realized the Human Race cultivator's Beast Soul had survived its main soul's death through an unusual method of splitting divine souls.
• Jiang Liu concluded the trapped Beast Soul had grown weak from lacking replenishment, but kept it imprisoned in his Spirit Sea Space for later study.
• Jiang Liu found no manuals, valuables, weapons, or Space Pouches on the corpses and suspected someone had collected them after the battle.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the person behind the trap had likely hidden the collected belongings somewhere in the Battlefield Space.
• Jiang Liu turned to inspect the other corpses for cultivation methods and clues about their initially grasped Power of Rule.

Jiang Liu considered whether to continue cultivating as a martial artist or follow the ancient Qi Refiner path, weighing their different strengths against his desire to help his women advance. He began examining four corpses in hopes of learning more before choosing his future path.

• Jiang Liu used vital energy to grasp the corpses of three cultivators from different races and an exotic beast so he could compare them.
• Jiang Liu reflected that his breakthrough into the Realm of Rules came through his own comprehension of time and space, leaving him uncertain whether to follow the martial artists' path or the Qi Refiners' path.
• Jiang Liu considered the Qi Refiners' superior combat strength and the possibility that the Data Panel supported their cultivation methods.
• Jiang Liu worried that choosing the Qi Refiner path could prevent him from helping his women, who cultivated as Human Race martial artists, pursue eternal life.
• Jiang Liu decided to examine the four corpses first, hoping to discover something useful before making his choice.

Jiang Liu explored the corpse-filled mountain hollow, seeking Qi Refiner cultivation manuals to help strengthen the Human Race against the coming apocalypse. As the corpses rapidly vanished, a hidden Wandering Soul appeared and Jiang Liu prepared to fight it.

• Jiang Liu found that four corpses he had pulled close were too rotten to investigate, while the hollow's lingering auras made the place feel dangerous.
• Jiang Liu considered how Qi Refiner cultivation methods could provide a foundation for techniques better suited to the Human Race than divine manuals.
• The corpses throughout the hollow began decaying and disappearing at an astonishing speed, deepening Jiang Liu's unease.
• A hidden Wandering Soul attacked, and Jiang Liu's primordial-energy barrier blocked its first strike as two-colored light revealed its form.
• Jiang Liu suspected the Wandering Soul had caused the corpses to rot and drew the Phantom Sound Flute, ready to fight.

Jiang Liu tested his newly strengthened body against a Wandering Soul by playing God Fills the World. His fused essence and mental power trapped the creature in an illusion, and he prepared to finish it before it could grow stronger.

• Jiang Liu used the Power of Time-Space Rule to expose the Wandering Soul and hold it in place.
• Jiang Liu played God Fills the World on the Phantom Sound Flute to test his mental power against the Wandering Soul.
• Jiang Liu discovered that his essence and mental power had completely fused after his body was strengthened again.
• The flute melody trapped the Wandering Soul in an illusion without Jiang Liu needing to use the Power of Rule to attack.
• Jiang Liu watched the Wandering Soul succumb to the illusion as a two-colored radiance appeared.

Jiang Liu struck the Wandering Soul with the Power of Time-Space Rule, waking it and forcing it to retreat as its strength rapidly increased. He wondered how it was growing stronger in the ravine, while remaining confident that his control of the Battlefield Space Shard would let him deal with it.

• Jiang Liu used the Power of Time-Space Rule to wound the Wandering Soul and break it free of its illusion.
• The Wandering Soul erupted with black aura, then decided to withdraw and build its strength before fighting Jiang Liu again.
• Jiang Liu noticed the Wandering Soul acted with more intelligence than other soul bodies and puzzled over its sudden growth.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Wandering Soul could not exceed the Divine Realm inside the Battlefield Space Shard, which he controlled.
• Jiang Liu wondered how the Wandering Soul was gaining strength because he had sensed no scattered Soul Force in the ravine.

Jiang Liu faced a Wandering Soul whose strength was rapidly rising as scattered Soul Force emerged throughout the battlefield. He drew the Soul Force toward himself for cultivation, leaving the Wandering Soul startled as Jiang Liu’s aura grew stronger.

• The Wandering Soul attacked Jiang Liu with black chaotic auras, but his elemental-energy barrier blocked them easily.
• The Wandering Soul’s strength continued to increase as scattered Soul Force surged into its body, though it feared its soul body might burst.
• Jiang Liu deduced that the dead cultivators’ missing souls were connected to the scattered Soul Force appearing in the battlefield.
• Jiang Liu formed a net of the Power of Rule and used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to draw the scattered Soul Force toward himself.
• The Wandering Soul refined the Soul Force it had already absorbed, then saw the remaining strands surge toward Jiang Liu as his aura grew stronger.

Jiang Liu cultivated with the scattered Soul Force, rapidly strengthening his Divine Sea, while the wandering soul wrongly believed it could use his Devil Race techniques to control him. As Jiang Liu’s power continued to grow, the chapter left him immersed in a strange two-colored vision.

• The wandering soul decided Jiang Liu must be secretly cultivating Devil Race techniques and planned to use that knowledge to control him.
• The narration revealed Jiang Liu had already cultivated techniques from all three races and could have annihilated the wandering soul, but kept it alive to learn what happened there.
• Jiang Liu absorbed the scattered Soul Force and circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex as his Divine Sea expanded.
• Jiang Liu realized the scattered Soul Force was purer and more powerful than the force refined from Grievance Souls.
• Two-colored light spread from Jiang Liu, showing figures aging into ashes and others vanishing as they tried to emerge from the river of space-time.

Jiang Liu’s Power of Rule began taking tangible form, putting him on the path toward the Four Stages of Rule and potentially extraordinary strength. Meanwhile, the Three Rule Lords ordered an early, larger War of Rules, forcing hidden forces and Supreme God Realm cultivators to prepare for battle.

• Jiang Liu’s Power of Rule manifested figures of those he had devoured and refined, showing that he had begun advancing toward the Four Stages of Rule.
• The Three Rule Lords feared the time, space, and life rules being secretly cultivated by rivals, and sought to preserve their balance while pursuing the secret of eternal life from Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai.
• The Three Rule Lords sent orders throughout the void, announcing that the War of Rules would begin early and require twice as many participants.
• Hidden alliances and Supreme God Realm cultivators were found and compelled to join the war, while cultivators across the void returned to their forces to prepare.
• The Three Great Power Alliance faced the greatest burden because it had the most people and therefore had to send the most Supreme God Realm cultivators into battle.

The Three Rule Lords ordered the Three Great Power Alliance factions to send equal numbers of fighters to the upcoming War of Rules, disrupting Bai Ye’s plans and threatening the Holy Wang Pavilion’s survival. Zhao Hao considered recruiting mid-tier and hidden factions, while Bai Ye suspected the battle might be the final War of Rules.

• Bai Ye convened an emergency meeting after receiving the Three Rule Lords’ orders and realized the Holy Master Pavilion would suffer heavy losses.
• Bai Ye reflected on his efforts to recruit allies and cannon fodder, then suspected the Three Rule Lords had changed the battle’s scale because something had shifted in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Zhao Hao worried that the weak Holy Wang Pavilion would have to provide as many participants as the other alliance factions despite its depleted strength.
• Zhao Hao considered recruiting mid-tier and hidden factions but recognized that concealing the identities of dual Power of Rule cultivators would be difficult.
• Zhao Hao kept secret that he had a technique to conceal dual Power of Rule and had ignored the Three Rule Lords’ orders to hunt cultivators like Jiang Liu.

Zhang Cheng realized the Three Rule Lords were nearing the end of their lives and suspected they had launched the War of Rules to seek a path to the next realm. He secretly warned Zhao Hao, and the two pavilion masters prepared to delay the war as much as possible.

• Zhang Cheng used his life-force-detecting cultivation art to learn that the Three Rule Lords' life force was draining unusually fast.
• Zhang Cheng suspected the Three Rule Lords wanted the War of Rules to obtain the secret of breaking through to the next realm, and he decided to delay the conflict.
• Zhang Cheng sent a secret message to Zhao Hao through a messenger using the Dark Light Rule.
• Zhao Hao received Zhang Cheng's warning and assigned the Holy Wang Pavilion's forces to delay the War of Rules.
• Zhang Cheng looked toward the distant void and considered that the War of Rules might bring about the Three Rule Lords' deaths.

The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord reflected on how Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai had drawn the Three Rule Lords into the War of Rules, which accelerated their loss of life force while gradually increasing their strength. Despite suspecting a trap, the Rule Lords continued the battles in hopes of attaining eternal life.

• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord meditated on a life-filled starstone saturated with the Power of Space Rule.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord sensed that his life force was draining faster than before.
• The Three Rule Lords had agreed to Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai's demands after envying their apparent immortality and hoping to advance further.
• The Three Rule Lords held repeated Wars of Rules, sending Supreme God Realm martial artists to fight while battling each other in a blood-colored environment.
• The Three Rule Lords realized that the battles accelerated their own loss of life force, but their strength grew, so they kept holding the War of Rules.

The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord realized that his life force and control over the Power of Space Rule were failing, so he and the other two Rule Lords decided to bring forward the War of Rules. He feared that a change in the Battlefield Space had caused their decline, but they could not investigate it before the Ancient Battlefield passage opened.

• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord concluded that his vitality was draining faster than expected and that he might die within a few years.
• He, the Holy Master of the Human Realm, and the Nether Realm Ghost Lord agreed to bring forward the War of Rules and increase its scale.
• Supreme God Realm warriors received the Three Rule Lords’ orders and prepared to fight rather than risk having their souls destroyed for disobedience.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord considered investigating the Battlefield Space, but the passage could not be opened immediately and their senses and vision had always been restricted inside it.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord suspected that his fellow Rule Lords were also losing control of their Power of Rule and feared the Three Great Power Alliance of the Void would attack if their weakness became known.

The Nether Realm Ghost Lord considered Ming Bai’s Blood Demon Great Art and its role in draining the life force of the three Supreme God Realm warriors. Confident that he could obtain the secret art and control the Bloodfall, he eagerly awaited entering the Battlefield Space.

• The Nether Realm Ghost Lord recognized that Ming Bai practiced the ancient Blood Demon Great Art and wanted to learn its cultivation method.
• He realized the Blood Demon Great Art was accelerating the depletion of his life force and that of the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord and the Human Race Holy Master.
• He suspected Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren had been losing control of their conditions, while the restrictions of the Battlefield Space remained unexplained to him.
• He decided that obtaining the Blood Demon Great Art would help him overcome his lifespan limit and control the Bloodfall.
• He looked forward to entering the Battlefield Space, confident he would obtain the secret art.

The Holy Master of the Human Realm worried that the early War of Rules would end badly, as he suspected Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai had trapped the three rulers while their life forces drained away. He hoped Yunzhi Shangren would provide something substantial, unaware that this hope would never come true.

• The Holy Master of the Human Realm suspected Yunzhi Shangren was a Human martial practitioner cultivating a Devil Race technique and feared that he and Ming Bai would harm them.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm recalled learning that only the three earliest entrants to the Battlefield Space suffered accelerated life-force loss.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm believed the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord had demanded an early War of Rules because his condition had grown critical, while the Nether Realm Ghost Lord seemed unaffected by his own life-force loss.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm recognized that Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren had likely trapped the three rulers, but felt they could not abandon the War after investing so much.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm hoped Yunzhi Shangren would bring something substantial, though he did not know that hope would never be fulfilled.

While evolving the Power of Time-Space Rule, Jiang Liu became trapped in an unknown spacetime surrounded by hostile human and beastly silhouettes. He realized he needed to fully fuse the Powers of Time and Space to reach the Four Stages of Rule, but the silhouettes began attacking before he found a way out.

• Jiang Liu discovered that his deduction of the Power of Time-Space Rule had trapped him in an unknown spacetime filled with powerful human and beastly silhouettes.
• Jiang Liu observed blue and white rays emerging from his body and realized that the Powers of Time and Space had not truly fused.
• Jiang Liu understood that fusing two Powers of Rule was necessary to reach the Four Stages of Rule and considered why the Three Rule Lords barred Supreme God Realm warriors from cultivating multiple Powers.
• The blue Power of Time Rule chased the white Power of Space Rule as if trying to devour it.
• The human and beastly silhouettes roared and cried out, and Jiang Liu realized they could now attack him.