Chapter Summaries

After stabilizing his power through three years of secluded cultivation, the Demon God prepared to attack Bai Ming and Bai Mang. He gathered the Nether Realm’s races and ordered them to assemble before heading to the Northern Continent, while also summoning the beast races as cannon fodder.

• The Demon God completed his cultivation and resolved to seek revenge on Bai Ming and Bai Mang.
• He united the Nether Realm’s races under his rule and restored order in the Central Continent, while forbidding war between the Devil Race and beast races.
• The Demon God summoned the race leaders and ordered them to gather their forces at the base the next day to march to the Northern Continent.
• He went to the Sky Beast Mountain Range, sent an order to the recovering Nether Colossus, and left as the mountains began to tremble.

The Devil God led the Devil Race’s elites and the beast clans toward the Northern Continent, while Jiang Liu arrived in the Nether Realm and discovered their destination. After questioning a Devil Race scout, Jiang Liu suspected the Devil God was heading for the Nether River Lord’s territory.

• The Devil God ordered the Devil Race’s gathered experts to board starships and set out for the Northern Continent, and the Nether Colossus led the beast clans after them.
• Jiang Liu arrived in the Nether Realm and saw the beast clans flying toward the Northern Continent without opposition from the Devil Race.
• Jiang Liu sensed Heaven and Earth Essence in a furtive Devil Race member and followed him toward a concealed mountain location.
• Jiang Liu captured the man and searched his sea of consciousness, learning that the beast clans and Devil Race elites were traveling under the Devil God’s command.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Devil God was likely heading for the only place in the Northern Continent worth such a large expedition.

Jiang Liu hid in the Yellow Springs Mountains to witness the Demon God’s expected clash with the Nether River Lord and learn how Supreme God Realm experts wield the rules. The Demon God arrived with a fleet, revealed a scepter bearing the Demon God Hall’s aura, and opened a fissure in the Nether River’s land.

• Jiang Liu learned that Rì Yuè Honored One’s whereabouts remained unknown, killed the God-Demon Hybrid, and traveled to the Yellow Springs Mountains.
• Jiang Liu hid in the mountains and waited for the Demon God, hoping to observe a battle between Supreme God Realm experts.
• Two days later, the Demon God arrived with elite Devils and beasts and surrounded the land where the Nether River flowed.
• The Demon God revealed a scepter topped with a Palace Lantern, and Jiang Liu suspected the Demon God had a grudge against the Hall Master of Demon God as well as the Nether River Lord.
• The Demon God waved the scepter, causing the land to rumble and a massive fissure to open.

The Demon God forced the Devil Race and beast race to fight the skeletons emerging from the rift, while using the Palace Lantern to halt their advance. Below, the Nether River Lord sent more skeletons toward the surface, and Bai Ming confronted Bai Mang over his failure to deal with Bai Tong.

• The Demon God used Dark Primal Qi to restrain the Palace Lantern as powerful auras emerged from the rift, frightening the Devil Race and beast race.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Nether River Lord and the Hall Master of Demon God and wondered whether they would join forces against the Demon God.
• The Demon God threatened to execute anyone who retreated, and the Nether Demon Lord struck down the first skeleton to emerge.
• The Devil Race attacked the skeletons while the beast race held back, and the Demon God used the Palace Lantern to turn emerging skeletons blue before destroying them.
• The Nether River boiled as the Nether River Lord sent ranks of skeletons toward the rift, while Bai Mang took the Palace Lantern and Bai Ming challenged him about his plan to deal with Bai Tong.

The Demon God and the beast race fought the evolving skeletons until the Nether River surged through the mountain range, sweeping away Demon Martial Practitioners. As the river continued to boil, a gigantic head began to rise from its waters.

• Bai Mang reclaimed the Palace Lantern from the Demon God, while the Demon God built a Dark Primal Qi barrier to destroy the skeletons climbing from the fissure.
• The beast race joined the Demon Martial Practitioners in fighting the skeletons, which proved stronger and more intelligent than those seen before.
• The Nether River surged over the battlefield, and its corrosive waters swept away Demon Martial Practitioners who could not escape.
• The Demon God found that even his Dark Light Rule could not stop the river, while Jiang Liu sensed that its waters were more powerful than before.
• A gigantic head rose from the seething Nether River.

The Demon God and the Nether River Lord exchanged attacks, while Jiang Liu watched and tried to understand their laws. He deduced that the Nether River Lord wielded the law of life as its power turned Demon Martial Practitioners into White Bones, but he still did not know how to master it.

• The Demon God attacked the emerging Nether River Lord with black light, and the Nether River Lord blocked it with a similar ray.
• The Demon God and Nether River Lord traded black-light attacks as Jiang Liu, the Nether Demon Lord, and the Nether Colossus each gained insights from watching them.
• The Nether River Lord spread his black light through the Nether River, and the water swept up Demon Martial Practitioners and rapidly turned them into White Bones.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Nether River Lord's black light draining vitality and guessed that his law was the law of life.
• The Demon God surrounded himself with black light from his scepter to guard against the Nether River Lord's attacks.

The Hall Master of Demon God appeared with the Soul-Seizing Lamp and secretly used its blue radiance to drain the life from Demon Martial Practitioners and Magic Beasts. Jiang Liu recognized the lamp and realized the Hall Master of Demon God had mastered the Time Rule.

• The Nether River Lord blocked the Demon God's attack, then submerged in the Nether River rather than continue fighting while Bai Mang watched.
• The Hall Master of Demon God appeared with a Palace Lantern and spread its blue radiance across the battlefield unnoticed.
• Jiang Liu recognized the Hall Master of Demon God and deduced that both he and the Palace Lantern were clones after his own Soul-Seizing Lamp awakened.
• The Hall Master of Demon God's blue light enveloped Demon Martial Practitioners and Magic Beasts, rapidly draining their auras and withering their bodies.
• Jiang Liu realized that the Hall Master of Demon God was using the Time Rule.

Jiang Liu recognized that the Hall Master of Demon God used the Time Rule to drain primal qi, and the Hall Master clashed with the Demon God while the Nether River Lord exploited the battle to grow its White Bones. The Demon Martial Practitioners and Magic Beasts were overwhelmed as the two powerful opponents continued fighting.

• Jiang Liu realized the Hall Master of Demon God's Time Rule rapidly depleted the primal qi of its targets, causing survivors to flee in terror.
• The Hall Master of Demon God attacked the Demon God with the Soul-Seizing Lamp, and the Demon God blocked the blue light with his scepter.
• The clash tore open Void Rifts, and the Nether River Lord stopped the spreading Void Force with its black Life Rule light.
• The Nether River Lord sent out White Bones to pursue the fleeing Demon Martial Practitioners and Magic Beasts, seeking to strengthen them with more prey.
• The White Bones overwhelmed the Devil Race and the Magic Beasts while the Demon God and the Hall Master of Demon God continued their destructive battle.

Jiang Liu watched the Hall Master of Demon God fight the Demon God and considered the rules and hidden motives governing the Hall Master’s conflict with the Nether River Lord. The Hall Master then unleashed a powerful Time Rule attack that drained the Demon God’s life force, forcing him to flee.

• Jiang Liu observed the Hall Master of Demon God’s clone battle the Demon God and suspected the Hall Master was concealing his true strength to avoid provoking the Nether River Lord.
• Jiang Liu noticed that the Nether River Lord seemed to draw his power from the Nether River, whose water level and concentration had fallen.
• The Hall Master of Demon God declared that he had had enough and returned to the Demon God Hall, where a presence infused his clone outside.
• The Hall Master of Demon God’s clone sent blue light from the Soul-Seizing Lamp past the Demon God’s defenses and struck him with the Time Rule.
• The attack drained much of the Demon God’s life force, and the injured Demon God fled without regard for his subordinates.

After the Hall Master of Demon God defeated the Demon God, the Nether River Lord and the Hall Master maintained their wary standoff before withdrawing. Jiang Liu realized that the two ancient rivals were bound by mutual life-and-death restraint, and the Hall Master could not kill the Nether River Lord without endangering himself.

• The fleeing Demon Martial Practitioners and Magic Beasts scattered after sensing the Demon God's retreat, while White Bone dragged those left behind into the Nether River.
• The Nether River Lord watched the Hall Master of Demon God warily and wondered whether Bai Mang's sudden strength came from deeper comprehension of the laws.
• The Hall Master of Demon God recognized that he and Bai Ming both wanted to devour the other, but killing Bai Ming would likely bring about his own downfall.
• The Hall Master of Demon God sensed an approaching danger to the Nether Realm and spared the Demon God, then vanished with his clone as the Nether River Lord continued devouring its spoils.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Hall Master of Demon God had not killed the Nether River Lord because their fates were mutually bound.

After escaping the battle between the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord, Jiang Liu returned to the Moon Devouring Clan's settlement to study the rules he had witnessed. As he meditated, he realized rules were a further evolution of elemental energy, and his aura began to change.

• Jiang Liu left the chaotic battlefield after gaining insights into rules and flew to the Moon Devouring Clan's settlement.
• Jiang Liu found the settlement deserted and climbed into the tree where the Devouring Insects had lived.
• Jiang Liu chose to comprehend rules in the Nether Realm, avoiding the God Realm and the Human Realm because he feared drawing dangerous attention or bringing a crisis upon others.
• Jiang Liu replayed the battle in his mind and studied how the fighters used rules and transformed elemental energy.
• Jiang Liu realized that rules were elemental energy evolved beyond its current forms, and his aura changed as enlightenment came to him.

Jiang Liu tried to imitate the Demon God's Dark Light Rule, but his attempt failed and destroyed his treehouse. While studying primordial energy again, he unexpectedly sensed the Time Rule and continued pursuing it; an hour later, a powerful pressure shattered the tree beneath him as figures began to appear in the dust.

• Jiang Liu's uncontrolled primordial energy leaked out, but the martial artists flying toward the Dark River largely ignored him.
• Jiang Liu imitated the Demon God's Dark Light Rule, but the incompatible energies clashed and blasted a hole through his treehouse.
• Jiang Liu realized his imitation was not the Power of Rule and resumed studying a new way to use primordial energy.
• Jiang Liu sensed traces of the Time Rule in the mutated energy and began studying it instead.
• An hour later, Jiang Liu's aura released an invisible pressure that snapped the great tree, and martial artists of various races began appearing in the dust.

Jiang Liu discovered that his strange power was the embryonic Time-Space Rule, not the Time Rule, and found that the completed Heavenly Evolution Codex infused his Primal Qi with its Power of Rule. He tested the transformed energy with a saber strike, but something went wrong and he fell from midair.

• Jiang Liu emerged from his meditation in The Pit and found the giant tree gone and the nearby trees aged as if centuries had passed.
• Jiang Liu used the Data Panel and learned that the embryonic form of the Time-Space Rule was evolving.
• Jiang Liu realized the Heavenly Evolution Codex had completed and sensed traces of the Time-Space Rule within his Primal Qi.
• Jiang Liu drew in Dark Primal Qi, formed a Primal Qi saber, and attacked while using Phantom Stomp.
• Jiang Liu felt his imposing aura freeze and plummeted from midair.

Jiang Liu discovered that he could not yet control the Power of Time-Space Rule within his body. As five unknown Supreme God Realm experts appeared in the Nether Realm and attacked the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord, Jiang Liu stayed back to observe their battle.

• Jiang Liu realized he could no longer summon the Power of Rule, despite still sensing it within his body, and concluded his strength was not yet sufficient to wield it.
• Five unfamiliar Supreme God Realm experts appeared in the Nether Realm, and Jiang Liu sensed their hostility toward the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord.
• Jiang Liu abandoned his plan to leave so he could watch the clash and learn more about the Power of Rule, while keeping his distance from the fighters.
• The Nether River erupted as white-bone warriors and flying Magic Beast bones attacked the five experts, who blocked the attacks and countered.
• The Nether River Lord emerged from the water and immediately attacked the five experts.

Jiang Liu watched the Nether River Lord and the Hall Master of Demon God fight five envoys of the Holy Master Pavilion, whose master Bai Yu had demanded their submission. After Bai He healed three wounded men and both sides prepared to continue fighting, the confrontation remained unresolved.

• The Nether River Lord cast a vast black web, and the five men scattered to evade it.
• The Hall Master of Demon God ambushed the fleeing men with blue beams, piercing three and leaving them afflicted by his Power of Time Rule.
• Bai He threatened the Hall Master of Demon God with Bai Yu’s retaliation, while the Hall Master challenged him to summon Bai Yu in person.
• Bai He invoked the Holy Master Pavilion and used a white light to heal the three wounded men, weakening himself in the process.
• The Nether River Lord tightened his black web as the White Bones assembled below, and both sides watched each other while Jiang Liu observed from afar.

Jiang Liu reasoned that the powerful Holy Master Pavilion was likely hidden in the void and had anticipated the calamity threatening the Three Realms. Meanwhile, the Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord fought Bai He and the other four Pavilion experts, with White Bone aiding them.

• Jiang Liu considered where the Holy Master Pavilion could be hiding and concluded that the void was the likeliest place.
• Jiang Liu suspected the Pavilion had foreseen the coming calamity, though he could not tell whether it had hidden in the void to escape it or for another reason.
• The Hall Master of Demon God and the Nether River Lord continued battling Bai He and the other four experts, aided by squads of White Bone, and maintained a slight advantage.
• Bai He and the others unleashed their Powers of Rule in desperation after realizing their mission could end in failure.
• Void Rifts spread Void Force across the battlefield, and the White Bone disintegrated when struck by it, so the Nether River Lord tried to keep the force away from them.

Jiang Liu watched the Holy Master Pavilion and the Nether River Lord’s forces battle in the void, hoping to capture a survivor and learn the Pavilion’s hidden coordinates. As his sense of an approaching crisis in the Three Realms intensified, the Nether River Lord began drawing in the weakened White Bone, prompting the other fighters to retreat.

• Jiang Liu realized the Holy Master Pavilion’s people had cultivated with the Void Force and guessed their stronghold was hidden in the void.
• The seven fighters clashed and separated, all injured, while the Nether River Lord’s White Bone forces suffered heavy losses.
• Jiang Liu focused on the three injured Holy Master Pavilion members, hoping to capture one and learn the Pavilion’s coordinates and more about the Power of Rule.
• Jiang Liu sensed that a life-and-death crisis threatened the Three Realms and resolved to reach the Supreme God Realm before it arrived.
• The seven fighters resumed their battle, and Jiang Liu found that watching them helped him understand the Power of Rule.
• The Nether River Lord drew the remaining White Bone toward its enormous mouth as its aura rose, and the other fighters slowly moved away from it.

As the Nether River Lord absorbed the approaching skeletons and grew stronger, the Hall Master of Demon God fought desperately to keep the Holy Master Pavilion members at bay. With his Soul-Seizing Lamp fading, he began drawing on the Demon God Hall, alarming Bai He and the others.

• The first skeleton to reach the Nether River Lord vanished in black light, and the Nether River Lord's aura grew more profound as more skeletons approached.
• The Holy Master Pavilion members and the Hall Master of Demon God fought fiercely while Jiang Liu watched from a distance and wondered about the Nether River Lord's cultivation.
• The Hall Master of Demon God used his Soul-Seizing Lamp to strengthen his blade attacks, but its blue light began to fade as his avatar's Power of Rule ran low.
• Bai He and the others avoided the Hall Master of Demon God's attacks, intending to wear him down.
• The Hall Master of Demon God circulated his cultivation technique, causing the Demon God Hall and the surrounding mountains to tremble.
• Bai He angrily warned Bai Mang that moving the Demon God Hall could bring about a greater disaster.

Bai He and the other four Holy Master Pavilion experts used a Five Elements Foundation Formation to interrupt the Hall Master of Demon God's attack and halt the Nether River Lord's advancement. As both sides weakened, Jiang Liu reflected on the different stages of Power of Rule and wondered whether the master of the Holy Master Pavilion had mastered it fully.

• Bai He and the other four gathered and formed a five-colored figure that stomped into the Nether River, stopping its turmoil and interrupting the Nether River Lord's evolution of his Power of Rule.
• The Hall Master of Demon God stopped circulating his energy and suffered backlash, while the five Holy Master Pavilion experts and their formation also weakened and the figure dispersed.
• Jiang Liu recognized the formation as a powerful use of the basic Five Elements Foundation Formation and realized that its effects could change depending on the users' strength.
• Jiang Liu discerned that the Nether River Lord had only just entered the doorway of rules, while the Hall Master of Demon God had advanced further along the Path of Rules.
• Jiang Liu considered whether the master of the Holy Master Pavilion had mastered the true Power of Rule and began organizing his understanding of its stages.

Jiang Liu analyzed the three stages of Rule Comprehension and concluded that a rudimentary rule was necessary to reach the Supreme God Realm. He considered whether he needed to kill the Nether River Lord and the insect beast to advance, but dismissed the idea of approaching the Divine Realm Guardian before the battle’s atmosphere suddenly changed.

• Jiang Liu divided rule comprehension into three stages and judged the Holy Master Pavilion’s master likely to have mastered the Power of Rule completely.
• Jiang Liu concluded that even long-serving Third-Tier Divine Realm experts could not reach the Supreme God Realm without comprehending a rudimentary form of rules.
• Jiang Liu recalled that the Divine Realm Guardian’s Power of Rule had burdened and frightened him, and wondered whether each kind of rule could be held by only one martial artist.
• Jiang Liu considered killing the Nether River Lord and the insect beast to advance, but recognized that he could not find the insect beast or safely approach the Divine Realm Guardian.
• Jiang Liu dismissed the idea, and the atmosphere of the battle suddenly changed.