Recaps

Jiang Liu began cultivating the Art of Evasion after the fleeing Void Creatures left him without targets for the other techniques. He discovered that spatial stepping could help him use it, but his current range and preparation time remained far from what the technique’s diagram required.

• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Fivefold Chaos Techniques’ defense and control might weaken against stronger opponents, then watched the Void Creatures flee after his strike failed to defeat them.
• With no creatures nearby to practice the Art of Control on, Jiang Liu turned to the Art of Evasion and tried following its diagram through his body, but the Chaotic Power of Rule became disordered.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the diagram required him to travel a great distance in a single step, something his ordinary movement could not achieve.
• Jiang Liu tried using spatial crossing and emerged more than thirty zhang away, realizing that the Art of Evasion let him step through space without first setting coordinates and return to counterattack.
• Jiang Liu found that his spatial step still had too little range and required too much preparation to meet the technique’s demands.

Jiang Liu advanced his mastery of the Art of Evasion and returned to the Winter Rest Palace with his Chaotic Power of Rule fully transformed. He discovered that mastering four of the Fivefold Chaos Techniques had greatly increased his control over the Chaos Space.

• Jiang Liu cultivated the Art of Evasion, vanishing and reappearing more than forty zhang away with little disturbance.
• Jiang Liu concluded that his current strength limited how far he could travel with the technique, then shuttled back to the Winter Rest Palace.
• The women sensed Jiang Liu's changed aura and felt the dense qi drawn toward him from the Chaos Space.
• Jiang Liu realized his Power of Time-Space Rule had transformed completely into Chaotic Power of Rule, which had stirred a reaction from the Chaos Space.
• Jiang Liu found that he could perceive everything in the Chaos Space with a single thought and connected his improved control to mastering four of the Fivefold Chaos Techniques.

Jiang Liu gained new insight into the Chaos Space and began studying the Control Incantation, realizing that mastering its power over all living things would be exceptionally difficult. After he finished cultivating, Cuier approached him with what seemed to be good news.

• Jiang Liu sensed the Chaos Space and guided energy to help Gongsun Haoyue and the other women cultivate.
• Jiang Liu cultivated the Chaos Sutra and felt the Chaotic Power of Rule in his body increase slightly.
• Jiang Liu studied the Control Incantation and concluded that controlling living beings was its hardest challenge.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Control Incantation's energy through Winter Rest Palace and rose from cultivation.
• Cuier greeted Jiang Liu with apparent good news, then grew bashful when he asked what she wanted to say.

Jiang Liu learned that Cuier, Xiao He, and Zheng Yunshang were being harmed by the dense qi in Winter Rest Palace and advised them to live and cultivate elsewhere. He left them to choose whether to return to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation or find another place in the Chaos Space.

• Cuier asked Jiang Liu to speak with Murong Yin and Feng Yue about letting her and Xiao He return to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation.
• Jiang Liu realized that the dense qi in Winter Rest Palace was harming the two Martial Practitioners and making it difficult for Zheng Yunshang to maintain her Grandmaster Realm strength.
• Jiang Liu agreed to raise the issue with their mistresses, and Murong Yin and Feng Yue came over after the women finished cultivating.
• Jiang Liu explained the danger of remaining in Winter Rest Palace and reassured Zheng Yunshang that he was not sending her away.
• Jiang Liu offered the women a choice between the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation and another place in the Chaos Space.

Murong Yin and Feng Yue chose to return to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation to improve their cultivation, despite worrying that the others would grow closer to Jiang Liu. Jiang Liu agreed and offered to build a spatial teleportation array linking the formation to Winter Rest Palace, leaving the women delighted and Jiang Liu preparing the materials.

• Murong Yin and Feng Yue weighed their slower cultivation progress against the advantages of staying near Jiang Liu and the other women.
• Murong Yin decided to move back to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation, and Feng Yue followed her choice.
• Jiang Liu agreed, explaining he could visit them instantly and could build a spatial teleportation array between the formation and Winter Rest Palace.
• The women excitedly asked whether Jiang Liu could really build the array, and Feng Yue playfully reproached him for not mentioning it sooner.
• Jiang Liu left to prepare the materials for the array while the women gave him resentful looks.

Jiang Liu returned the women to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation and headed into the Inner Void Layer to cultivate the Fivefold Chaos Techniques among the Void Creatures. As he began training, the former Three Rule Lords also entered the Inner Void Layer seeking a breakthrough.

• Jiang Liu took the women back to the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation and later arranged a spatial teleportation formation connecting it to Winter Rest Palace.
• Jiang Liu decided to spend most of his cultivation time in the void, where he could develop the Chaotic Power of Rule and practice the Fivefold Chaos Techniques.
• Jiang Liu traveled toward the Inner Void Layer, avoiding the Central Void Zone because of its powerful God Lord Realm Void Creatures.
• Jiang Liu entered the Inner Void Layer, found a swarm of Void Creatures suited to his cultivation, and set the area as his new fixed teleportation location.
• Jiang Liu began cultivating the Fivefold Chaos Techniques by using the Control Incantation on the attacking Void Creatures.
• The former Three Rule Lords entered the Inner Void Layer to search for an opportunity to break through.

After five years of cultivation in the Inner Void Layer, Jiang Liu had greatly improved his Fivefold Chaos Techniques and gained new ways to fight and survive stronger Void Creatures. He avoided the Chaos Divine Hall and headed away from it, unwilling to approach before reaching the God Lord Realm.

• Jiang Liu reflected on the declining battles and the relative calm in the Inner Void Layer, which had allowed him to cultivate undisturbed for years.
• Jiang Liu found that his Chaotic Power of Rule had grown and that his Art of Attack, Art of Defense, and Art of Control had reached perfection, while his Art of Evasion had greatly improved.
• Jiang Liu successfully cultivated the Control Incantation, allowing him to control weaker opponents and sometimes affect God Lord Realm First-Level Void Creatures nearby.
• Jiang Liu looked toward the Chaos Divine Hall but decided not to visit until he had reached the God Lord Realm.
• Jiang Liu concealed his aura and headed away from the Chaos Divine Hall.

Jiang Liu continued cultivating the Fivefold Chaos Techniques while besieged by several races of Void Creatures in the Inner Void Layer. After driving off the weaker creatures and sensing more intelligent beings hidden nearby, he was attacked by a strange Void Creature whose unfamiliar power blocked his strike.

• Jiang Liu faced a growing swarm of Void Creatures, including more than seven or eight at the First Level of the God Lord Realm, and chose to cultivate the Art of Evasion instead of leaving.
• Jiang Liu used the Fivefold Chaos Techniques to evade the creatures’ attacks and improve his coordination, then struck down the Void Creatures below the God Lord Realm with the Godslayer Blade.
• The Void Creatures unleashed multicolored law-light, and their leaders ordered the weaker creatures to scatter after the ensuing shockwaves killed many of them.
• Jiang Liu sensed intelligent Void Creatures concealing an unfamiliar power in the darkness, distinct from the pressure of the Void Overlord.
• Jiang Liu dodged another wave of law-light and attacked one of the God Lord Realm Void Creatures, but it blocked his blade as a strange cry and black law-light appeared beside him.

Jiang Liu faced a powerful, concealed Void Creature that wielded the Void Law and realized it had reached the second level of the God Lord Realm. As black-feathered creatures gathered around him and more powerful enemies lurked in the darkness, he remained ready to escape with the Control Incantation and Fixed-Point Shuttle.

• Jiang Liu recognized that the concealed enemy's Void Law focused on emptiness and suspected it was unrelated to the Void Overlord, though a stronger Void Creature might have driven the Void Nether Kuns away before.
• Jiang Liu's two strands of Chaotic Power of Rule were shattered, while first-level God Lord Realm Void Creatures moved to surround him.
• Jiang Liu spotted a huge black bird above him and noticed that the other Void Creatures were slowly turning black under its influence.
• Jiang Liu detected several other powerful Void Creatures hidden nearby through his Control Incantation.
• Another, even more powerful black radiance shot toward Jiang Liu, confirming that the hidden Void Creature had reached the second level of the God Lord Realm.

Jiang Liu tested the Fivefold Chaos Techniques against powerful God Lord Realm Void Creatures and discovered that their defensive and controlling arts could block attacks stronger than he expected. He chose to keep fighting alongside the Godslayer Blade, hoping battle would help its Artifact Spirit grow.

• Jiang Liu evaded a Void Law attack and struck a First Order God Lord Realm Void Creature, but his Godslayer Blade failed to kill it.
• Jiang Liu realized the Godslayer Blade was struggling against stronger enemies and considered upgrading it, but its Artifact Spirit had not reached the required realm.
• The Godslayer Blade's Artifact Spirit urged Jiang Liu to continue fighting so it could grow through battle.
• Several Void Creatures attacked Jiang Liu with multicolored and black law light, and he used the Arts of Defense and Control to withstand their assault unharmed.
• Jiang Liu decided to keep fighting, raised the Godslayer Blade, and sent two gray blade lights into the void.

Jiang Liu fought the Void Creatures with the Godslayer Blade and discovered that its power could injure and kill God Lord Realm opponents. As the blade’s aura weakened the void-freezing effect, he regained the ability to use the Art of Evasion and continued his counterattack against the surrounding creatures.

• Jiang Liu’s Chaotic Power of Rule injured a bull-shaped Void Creature, and he realized the Godslayer Blade’s divine soul had empowered his attack.
• The Black Giant Bird Void Creature vanished into the void as the others launched a coordinated assault on Jiang Liu.
• The Godslayer Blade broke through the frozen void, letting Jiang Liu cleave a first-stage God Lord Realm Void Creature in two.
• Jiang Liu endured attacks and spreading black light while his Arts of Defense and Control protected him.
• Jiang Liu counterattacked with the Godslayer Blade as the void-freezing sensation faded and he regained the ability to use the Art of Evasion.

Jiang Liu fought the Void Creatures, using the Fivefold Chaos Techniques to kill more first-level Divine Lord opponents as the Void Rifts disrupted the battle. As a second-level Black Giant Bird attacked, Jiang Liu chose to confront its Void Laws head-on, while concealed Void Creatures approached in formation.

• A Void Rift disrupted a first-level Divine Lord Void Creature's attack, allowing Jiang Liu to kill it with the Godslayer Blade.
• Jiang Liu realized he had killed more than eight first-level Divine Lord Void Creatures and sensed that the Godslayer Blade's divine soul was slowly transforming.
• Spatial Stasis returned around Jiang Liu as several aura-concealing Void Creatures approached in formation.
• The Black Giant Bird unleashed black radiance and intensified the surrounding Void Rifts, and Jiang Liu decided to meet its attack instead of evading it.
• Jiang Liu shifted aside and slashed at the Black Giant Bird, which was surprised that he had dodged its attack.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Black Giant Bird had trapped him in a crafted space and defeated it after it invaded his Divine Sea. A powerful consciousness emerged from a Void Rift and engaged five hidden Black Giant Birds, leaving Jiang Liu to watch the battle unfold.

• Jiang Liu realized the Black Giant Bird had created the surrounding space and Void Rifts to conceal an encirclement.
• Jiang Liu struck the Black Giant Bird with the Godslayer Blade, but its sonic attack briefly distracted him and it invaded his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu's soul avatar killed the Black Giant Bird with a blade transformed from the Chaos Divine Axe Spirit, and the bird's body emerged from the void as its aura weakened.
• The other Void Creatures tried to keep the Black Giant Bird's body from entering the Void Rifts, then dragged it away when a powerful consciousness emerged from a rift.
• The consciousness drew out and suppressed five hidden Black Giant Birds, and Jiang Liu stayed to observe their battle despite his blurred perception.

Jiang Liu entered the Void Rift to investigate a powerful consciousness battling the Corrupted Void Creatures and discovered that its emergence had changed the void. He followed a chill-filled aura toward the core, where he sensed the Void Overlord and suspected it might have created the consciousness.

• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Corrupted Void Creatures had known about the consciousness and prepared to fight it.
• As eight Void Creatures attacked the consciousness, Jiang Liu entered the Void Rift to investigate while avoiding notice.
• A chill-filled aura struck Jiang Liu, but his Art of Defense and Art of Control repelled it, and he followed its traces.
• Jiang Liu noticed that the Void Rift had become sturdier and colder, and he suspected the consciousness had caused the changes.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Void Overlord near the core region, stopped pursuing the aura, and prepared to use the Fixed-Point Shuttle.

Jiang Liu realized the Void Overlord had created the consciousness to fight the Corrupted Void Creatures, while reflecting on the dangers facing humanity in the Void. The Void Overlord secretly sent someone to follow Jiang Liu, suspecting he might be connected to the Chaos God.

• Jiang Liu learned that the Void consciousness had been created by the Void Overlord to exterminate the Corrupted Void Creatures.
• Jiang Liu considered how the conflict among Void Creatures might give humanity room to survive, but concluded that humanity needed a Divine Lord capable of uniting it.
• The Void Overlord awoke after sensing Jiang Liu and secretly sent someone to track his movements instead of attacking him.
• The Void Overlord suspected that Jiang Liu or Star Lord of Destruction might be the Chaos God's successor reborn through another body.
• Jiang Liu retreated through the Void's interlayer unaware that the Void Overlord was tracking him, as sounds of battle rang out nearby.

Jiang Liu was ambushed by God Lord Tianming near the Chaos Divine Hall and escaped to Xingyun Island using his traversal coordinates. The Void Overlord learned of Jiang Liu’s mysterious escape and made him his top priority, while Yu Chenghai and the others arrived to find Jiang Liu engulfed in destructive seven-colored radiance.

• Jiang Liu reached the area around the Chaos Divine Hall and was struck by God Lord Tianming’s seven-colored Tianming Law as he emerged from a Void Rift.
• Jiang Liu used Xingyun Island’s traversal coordinates to escape, leaving God Lord Tianming surprised that he had failed to capture him.
• The consciousness following Jiang Liu reported his escape to the Void Overlord, who made Jiang Liu and the secret of his escape his highest priority.
• Jiang Liu appeared above Xingyun Island, fell into the sea, and was engulfed by seven-colored radiance that ravaged his body and froze and melted the surrounding water.
• Yu Chenghai, Ge Qingsong, and Feng Dashan arrived from Tranquil Sea Island and recognized a familiar aura inside the glowing sphere, wondering if Jiang Liu was within it.

Jiang Liu endured the third-realm God Lord Tianming’s Law, which ravaged his body and drove out his Chaotic Power of Rule. He used the Soul-Seizing Lamp to halt the Law’s erosion, gaining time to find a way to deal with it.

• Ge Qingsong and Feng Dashan recognized Jiang Liu’s aura and ordered everyone to withdraw from the dangerous area.
• Jiang Liu struggled beneath the sea as the Tianming Law battered his body and forced out his Chaotic Power of Rule.
• Jiang Liu activated the Chaos Sutra to replenish his dwindling power but found he could only delay the Law’s advance.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Soul-Seizing Lamp and ordered it to draw out the Tianming Law.
• The Soul-Seizing Lamp enveloped Jiang Liu in multicolored radiance, halting the Law’s erosion despite causing him intense pain.

Jiang Liu used the Soul-Seizing Lamp and his Chaotic Power of Rule to draw the Tianming Laws out of his body and help the lamp devour them. As the lamp grew stronger and Jiang Liu recovered, he saw a possible opportunity to advance, while the lamp began to change.

• The Tianming Laws inside Jiang Liu attacked the Soul-Seizing Lamp, which shielded him and restrained them with its multicolored radiance.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Chaos Sutra as his Chaotic Power of Rule drove the Tianming Laws from within while the Soul-Seizing Lamp drew them out.
• The Soul-Seizing Lamp's soul began devouring the Tianming Laws, and its power grew as the ravaged surroundings started to recover.
• Jiang Liu's Chaotic Power of Rule reclaimed ground and repaired his body while he checked his cultivation progress and considered the requirements for reaching the God Lord Realm.
• As Jiang Liu wondered whether he had found an opportunity to break through, the Soul-Seizing Lamp began to change.

Jiang Liu began breaking through to the God Lord Realm as the Power of Rule entered his body and healed his injuries. As the power turned transparent and changed his body, he checked his Divine Sea and was even more astonished by what he saw.

• The Soul-Seizing Lamp evolved, turning from deep blue toward white as rainbow-colored light enveloped the area.
• Jiang Liu let the Power of Rule enter his body, beginning his breakthrough to the God Lord Realm.
• Jiang Liu used the Chaos Sutra to absorb the Power of Rule, which healed his injuries and grew stronger within him.
• Jiang Liu noticed the Power of Rule turning transparent and his meridians and bones becoming visible.
• Jiang Liu entered his Divine Sea to inspect the change and was even more astonished by what he saw.

Jiang Liu forced the Chaotic Power of Rule in his Divine Sea to continue transforming into Law Power as he advanced toward the God Lord Realm. The transformation had gained control of his Divine Sea, but he still needed to strengthen his body and fill it with Chaos Law Power to complete the breakthrough.

• Jiang Liu recognized that one strand of Chaotic Power of Rule was evolving toward Law Power while the original strand resisted it.
• Jiang Liu used his Spiritual Avatar and Chaos Divine Axe to strike the resistant strand, weakening it and helping the evolving strand absorb it.
• Jiang Liu assessed his injuries and confirmed that his body could bear God Lord Realm Law Power, while his Spiritual Power had already reached the God Lord Realm.
• Jiang Liu spread his Divine Sense over ten li and saw that the evolving strand had taken control of his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu concluded that he still had to transform the Chaotic Power of Rule throughout his body, fill it with Chaos Law Power, and master that power before completing his breakthrough.

Jiang Liu used his breakthrough to the first stage of the God Lord Realm to purge hidden corruption and strengthen his body, hoping to prepare for the coming calamity. As his Chaotic Power of Rule transformed into Law Power, mysterious runes appeared, and a powerful aura erupted from the deep sea.

• Jiang Liu purged corrupted blood, flesh, and bone from his body during his breakthrough, seeking strength enough to withstand God Lord Tianming's attacks.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the approaching calamity could threaten the entire void and expose the Chaos Space, prompting him to risk further strengthening his body.
• Mysterious runes appeared on Jiang Liu's bones, strengthening him and accelerating the transformation of his Chaotic Power of Rule into Law Power.
• Yu Chenghai and the others waited above the deep sea but kept their distance from Jiang Liu's overwhelming aura.
• Tian Lan watched Jiang Liu from the God Realm's boundary wall, terrified as it realized he might be breaking through to the God Lord Realm.
• A powerful aura and intense gray light burst from the deep sea, drawing several gazes toward the God Realm.

Jiang Liu broke through to the God Lord Realm in the Divine Sea, but the aura he released drew the attention of powerful figures across the void. God Lord Tianming set out for the God Realm, while the Void Overlord remained watchful and a concealed figure slowly approached.

• God Lord Tianming sensed Jiang Liu's breakthrough and realized his Chaotic Power of Rule could threaten his pursuit of the Chaos God Position.
• God Lord Tianming tracked Jiang Liu's exposed aura and left his battle against the Void Creatures, angering the Chaos Divine Hall.
• The Rule God Lord, the Karma God Lord, and the Void God Lord noticed God Lord Tianming's departure but stayed to avoid the Chaos Divine Hall's wrath.
• The Void Overlord sensed Jiang Liu's breakthrough and continued to wait for the truth about Jiang Liu's connection to the Chaos God to emerge.
• A figure concealed in a pitch-black void interlayer began moving slowly toward the God Realm.
• In the Divine Sea, Jiang Liu radiated gray light as newly formed white runes tried to hide his aura but failed to conceal it completely.

Jiang Liu broke through to the God Lord Realm and tested the power of his Chaos Law before God Lord Tianming arrived to demand the Chaos God’s belongings. Jiang Liu’s attack failed to harm Tianming, and he prepared to fight while the Data Panel underwent an unusual upgrade.

• Jiang Liu discovered that the Fivefold Chaos Techniques had helped him adapt to Law Power, and he demonstrated the destructive strength of his new Chaos Law.
• Jiang Liu appeared above the sea and warned Yu Chenghai and the others to retreat as God Lord Tianming approached.
• Jiang Liu attacked Tianming with the Chaos Divine Axe, but Tianming effortlessly scattered his strike and demanded everything related to the Chaos God.
• Jiang Liu recognized that his Data Panel was upgrading and wondered whether the change was connected to the consciousness he had controlled earlier.
• Jiang Liu gathered gray rays of light around himself as he prepared to face Tianming.

Jiang Liu tested his strength against God Lord Tianming, who tried to seize the Chaos Sutra with the Tianming Codex. Jiang Liu survived Tianming’s attack but realized the gap between them remained enormous.

• God Lord Tianming trapped Jiang Liu in ice and suppressed him with the Tianming Law, but Jiang Liu circulated the Chaos Sutra despite the pressure.
• God Lord Tianming summoned the Tianming Codex and formed a Dao character to attack Jiang Liu, seeking to obtain the Chaos Sutra.
• Jiang Liu used the Chaos Divine Axe to break the ice and clash with the Dao character, leaving him severely wounded as spatial rifts tore through the area.
• Jiang Liu realized God Lord Tianming had held back and that even this reduced attack had nearly killed him.

God Lord Tianming recognized Jiang Liu’s strength and coveted his Chaos Sutra, Chaos Divine Axe, and fragment of the Chaos Space, so he attacked with a stronger page of the Tianming Codex. Jiang Liu’s Ancestral Bone Runes appeared and stopped the attack, leaving God Lord Tianming to wonder whether some force in the void was influencing events.

• God Lord Tianming realized Jiang Liu’s body had been tempered to an extraordinary level and resolved to seize his inheritances.
• God Lord Tianming concluded that Jiang Liu possessed a fragment of the Chaos Space and grew more eager to claim it and the Chaos Sutra.
• God Lord Tianming opened the next page of the Tianming Codex and unleashed a powerful attack against Jiang Liu.
• Mysterious runes appeared around Jiang Liu and blocked the surging green light.
• God Lord Tianming recognized the runes as the rare Ancestral Bone Runes and wondered whether a force in the void was guiding events.