Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu agreed to let the Shockwave Sea Alliance expand on its own, without his help, and arranged to meet the Long Wave Sword God in two days. After Yu Chenghai delivered the Neutral Continent’s reply, Jiang Liu expected the Long Wave Sword God to attend.

• Jiang Liu gave Yu Chenghai a coordinate and told him to invite the Long Wave Sword God to meet there in two days, as agreed thirty years earlier.
• Yu Chenghai asked for permission to expand the Shockwave Sea Alliance’s territory, and Jiang Liu approved the plan but refused to help them.
• Jiang Liu returned to Star Cloud Enclosure and found Yunkong, Gongsun Haoyue, and the others copying and organizing cultivation manuals and secret texts.
• The next day, Yu Chenghai approached Xingyun Island, where the Unicorn Divine Ox stopped him before Jiang Liu ordered the beast to return to the seabed.
• Yu Chenghai reported that the Neutral Continent had passed Jiang Liu’s message to the Long Wave Sword God, who had not replied yet.

Jiang Liu hid in the void to wait for Long Wave Sword God, while a Devil Race starship approached the God Realm. He discovered that the Demon God had arrived aboard it as a separated soul avatar, leaving the reason for the visit unclear.

• Jiang Liu spent the night with the women, then left the Star Cloud Enclosure early while they returned to cultivate in the Heaven-Veiling Grand Formation.
• Jiang Liu crossed the God Realm's barrier and confirmed that the Divine Realm Guardian did not detect his Supreme God Realm breakthrough, likely because the Data Panel concealed his aura.
• Jiang Liu reached the agreed coordinates, merged with the void, and waited patiently for Long Wave Sword God.
• A Devil Race Divine Artifact Starship flew toward the God Realm as Long Wave Sword God left through its barrier, wary of the Divine Realm Guardian who had restrained him.
• The starship's approach jolted Jiang Liu from his concealment, and he recognized its passenger as a separated soul avatar of the Demon God.

Jiang Liu ambushed the Demon God Avatar, destroyed his Divine Artifact Starship, and used the Power of Rule to overwhelm him. Jiang Liu kept attacking to test whether the avatar was connected to the Demon God's main body, while another figure appeared near the battlefield.

• Jiang Liu used the Godslayer Blade to cleave the Demon God's Divine Artifact Starship in two.
• The Demon God escaped the wreckage and tried to attack Jiang Liu, but Jiang Liu struck again from concealment and the Demon God blocked the blow with a white bone.
• Jiang Liu discovered that the Power of Rule enhanced the Godslayer Blade and concealed his aura, leaving the Demon God unable to retaliate effectively.
• Jiang Liu continued attacking the wounded Demon God Avatar to test whether it was connected to the main body.
• A figure appeared near the battlefield.

Jiang Liu battled the Demon God Avatar in the void, forcing it to flee before catching up with it. Long Wave Sword God discovered Jiang Liu’s identity and watched as the chase continued.

• Long Wave Sword God watched the black light lose ground against the white light and wondered whether Jiang Liu was inside it.
• The Demon God realized his Power of Rule was running low while Jiang Liu’s power kept replenishing and growing.
• The Demon God fled into the void, but Jiang Liu used the Space Rule to catch up and pursue him.
• The Demon God stopped to recover, preparing to fight Jiang Liu to the death if necessary.
• Long Wave Sword God recognized Jiang Liu in the white light and reflected on his own repeated loss of freedom under Tian Lan’s control.

Long Wave Sword God realized that he needed to pursue the Supreme God Realm after witnessing its overwhelming power, while Jiang Liu continued to pursue and attack the Demon God. The Demon God found himself badly wounded and forced to stop fleeing, fearing that Jiang Liu’s Time Rule and blade could kill him.

• Long Wave Sword God stayed behind as Jiang Liu chased the black light, and he resolved to cultivate toward the Supreme God Realm.
• Jiang Liu caught up with the Demon God, who asked why he was being pursued and realized his earlier Divine Sense had drawn Jiang Liu’s attention.
• The Demon God reflected on his recent rise to power, his escape from control, and his suspicion that Tian Lan knew who was watching him.
• Jiang Liu attacked without answering, and the Demon God retreated while using the Dark Light Rule to defend himself.
• Jiang Liu’s Godslayer Blade repeatedly cut through the Demon God’s defenses, and its Time Rule worsened one wound until the Demon God stopped fleeing in fear.

Jiang Liu used his Time Rule and Godslayer Blade to overwhelm the Demon God Avatar, whose Power of Rule ran out and whose body was nearly destroyed. After revealing his identity, Jiang Liu left the defeated avatar wondering why he had been hunted.

• Jiang Liu continued slashing at the Demon God Avatar, and his Time Rule inflicted wounds that could not heal.
• The Demon God Avatar's aura weakened, and the black radiance from the White Bone faded as his Power of Rule was exhausted.
• Jiang Liu struck the retreating Demon God Avatar, severed the arm holding the White Bone, and caused half his body to wither.
• Jiang Liu withdrew his blade and revealed himself to the Demon God Avatar, who recognized the youngster he had once dismissed.
• Jiang Liu asked whether the Demon God Avatar wondered why he had pursued him, and the helpless avatar nodded.

Jiang Liu revealed that the Demon God Avatar was itself an avatar, then drained its Soul Force and destroyed its body. The distant Demon God sensed its death and feared it would expose him to the Three Rule Lords during the approaching War of Rules, while Jiang Liu examined the avatar’s memories.

• Jiang Liu told the Demon God Avatar that it was an avatar, and the Demon God Avatar searched its memories before accepting the truth.
• The Demon God Avatar asked whether Jiang Liu had seen its true body and tried to end its own life.
• Jiang Liu froze the Demon God Avatar, extracted its Soul Force, and burned its body to ash.
• The distant Demon God sensed the avatar’s death and worried that he would be discovered by the Three Rule Lords when the War of Rules began.
• Jiang Liu examined the Demon God Avatar’s memories and uncovered more about the Nether Realm and the Demon God’s secrets.

Jiang Liu analyzed the Demon God Avatar’s memories and considered the threats posed by the Demon God and the Three Realms’ factions. He met the Long Wave Sword God, discovered Tian Lan’s control over him still remained, and offered to remove it.

• Jiang Liu reviewed the Demon God Avatar’s memories and concluded that dealing with the Demon God was more urgent than dealing with Zhao Hao.
• Jiang Liu considered the Three Realms’ factions and wondered why the beast race had not joined the War of Rules.
• Jiang Liu assessed his strength and suspected he had only just entered the Path of Rules, despite his growing command of its power.
• Jiang Liu used his speed to appear before the Long Wave Sword God, who was astonished by his traversal.
• The Long Wave Sword God explained in writing that Tian Lan’s control over him had weakened but remained, and Jiang Liu offered to try to remove it.

Jiang Liu removed Tian Lan’s control over the Long Wave Sword God and captured the consciousness Tian Lan had placed inside him. After devouring it, Jiang Liu gained information about the Mind Control Rule and Tian Lan’s reasons for controlling the Long Wave Sword God.

• The Long Wave Sword God agreed to cooperate as Jiang Liu prepared to remove Tian Lan’s control.
• Jiang Liu told the Long Wave Sword God to circulate his cultivation method while he waited for Tian Lan’s aura to appear.
• An unusual aura emerged from the Long Wave Sword God, and Tian Lan’s Power of Rules began influencing Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu trapped and extracted the translucent consciousness from the Long Wave Sword God, freeing him from Tian Lan’s control.
• Jiang Liu devoured the consciousness and learned how Tian Lan had controlled the Long Wave Sword God and why he had done so.

Jiang Liu watched Long Wave Sword God attempt to use his newly awakened rule rudiments to break through to the Supreme God Realm, but the attempt failed. Long Wave Sword God recovered his fighting spirit and went to Jiang Liu, while Jiang Liu remained aware that breaking through carried dangers beyond what Long Wave Sword God understood.

• After refining Tian Lan’s fragment of rule consciousness, Jiang Liu noticed faint Power of Rule Light surrounding Long Wave Sword God and realized he had begun to comprehend rule rudiments.
• Jiang Liu watched as Long Wave Sword God tried to grasp the Power of Rule at once and break through to the Supreme God Realm.
• Long Wave Sword God’s burst of Power of Rule Light faded, and his breakthrough failed, leaving him dejected.
• Long Wave Sword God regained his confidence, resolving to learn more about the Power of Rule and try again when another opportunity came.
• Jiang Liu refrained from forcing the scattered rule light into Long Wave Sword God, and Long Wave Sword God moved beside him with his strength improved despite the failure.

Jiang Liu chose to remain in the void rather than return to the God Realm, while Long Wave Sword God prepared to face Tian Lan again. After Jiang Liu explained the Power of Rule, Long Wave Sword God left confident that he might resist Tian Lan’s Mind Control Rule and turn it against him.

• Long Wave Sword God asked Jiang Liu when he planned to return to the God Realm, but Jiang Liu said he would keep cultivating in the void and avoid confronting Tian Lan for now.
• Jiang Liu warned Long Wave Sword God that Tian Lan might control him again when he returned to the God Realm.
• Long Wave Sword God asked Jiang Liu about the Power of Rule, and Jiang Liu explained its forms, origins, and uses in detail.
• Long Wave Sword God left believing he could resist Tian Lan’s Mind Control Rule and perhaps control Tian Lan in return, despite still being a Third-Tier Divine Realm expert.

Jiang Liu returned to the Human Realm to investigate a sealed Secret Passage and discovered that the realm’s Heaven and Earth Essence had grown denser and higher in quality. He met with Yuchi Yue at the Hall of Governmental Affairs and summoned its other members, leaving the cause of the change unexplained.

• Jiang Liu checked himself for signs of Tian Lan’s Mind Control Rule, then traveled to the Human Realm Imperial Palace.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the primal energy in Qian City and the imperial palace had become much denser, and confirmed that the Human Realm’s Heaven and Earth Essence had improved.
• Jiang Liu went to the Hall of Governmental Affairs, where Yuchi Yue greeted him and he congratulated her on reaching the first rank of the Saint Realm.
• Yuchi Yue reported routine matters to Jiang Liu, then summoned the other members of the Hall of Governmental Affairs.

Jiang Liu reorganized the Wind Hall and discussed the Human Realm’s surging Heaven and Earth Essence with his officials, then gave them Human Race cultivation techniques, including Divine Grade ones. The officials learned that Yun Kong was thriving in the God Realm and looked ahead to the Human Realm’s improved cultivation prospects.

• Jiang Liu gave Lin Chi a public role equal to the Hall of Governmental Affairs and assigned the Wind Hall to monitor the dynasty’s martial artists.
• Qin Bailian reported that Heaven and Earth Essence had begun surging from famous rivers and mountains about ten days earlier, and Jiang Liu suspected the change was linked to his control over the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Liu allowed Jianghu forces to cultivate freely as long as they obeyed the Holy Dynasty’s laws.
• Jiang Liu gave Meteor a Space Pouch of Human Race cultivation techniques, including Divine Grade techniques, and ordered him to place them in the Technique Repository.
• Jiang Liu told Yun Yue and the others that Yun Kong had reached the second stage of the Saint Realm in the God Realm, prompting them to anticipate their own progress as the Human Realm’s cultivation environment improved.

Jiang Liu’s recovered Human Race manuals astonished the officials, who began planning how to sort and restrict access to them. He then found the Heavenly Dao unresponsive inside the Human Realm and discovered that its Consciousness Sea Space was unusually vast and was extracting emotions from his Divine Sense.

• Jiang Liu left the Hall of Governmental Affairs after ordering the officials to handle the cultivation manuals he had brought back.
• Qin Bailian and the others counted more than a thousand manuals covering cultivation, artifact refinement, formations, and other subjects, and discussed carefully controlling access to them.
• Jiang Liu flew to the Human Realm’s boundary wall and found the Golden Giant sitting motionless instead of greeting him.
• Jiang Liu sent his Divine Sense toward the Golden Giant, and it was suddenly pulled into a golden space with no discernible aura.
• Jiang Liu realized the Golden Giant’s Consciousness Sea Space was nearly as vast as his own and was gradually extracting emotions from his Divine Sense.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Golden Giant, the Human Realm's Heavenly Dao, had been ambushed and sealed, leaving it unconscious and without primal qi. He used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to draw out a strand of black Primal Qi, but the attacker’s identity and motive remained unknown.

• Jiang Liu tried to awaken the Golden Giant through their spiritual bond, but it did not respond, and he severed his Divine Sense connection when it began to feel assimilated.
• Jiang Liu inspected the Golden Giant and realized that its primal qi had vanished, suggesting its strength had been sealed.
• Jiang Liu decided to use the Heavenly Evolution Codex to absorb the force affecting the Golden Giant.
• Jiang Liu drew out a thin strand of black Primal Qi hidden within the Heaven and Earth Essence and recognized it as the culprit behind the Golden Giant’s condition.
• Jiang Liu considered whether the Nether Demon Lord could be responsible, but concluded that he lacked the strength to ambush the Golden Giant and found no clear lead.

Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to draw Dark Primal Qi and hidden black rays of the Power of Rule out of the Golden Giant, gradually restoring its strength. The Golden Giant awakened at the Second-Order Divine Realm, while Jiang Liu contained the extracted black motes and considered who had attacked it.

• Jiang Liu carefully circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex to extract Dark Primal Qi from the Golden Giant without draining it too forcefully.
• The Golden Giant trembled and briefly stirred, then went still as Jiang Liu continued drawing out its hidden power.
• Jiang Liu discovered that black rays of the Power of Rule had been concealed by the Dark Primal Qi and were responsible for the Golden Giant's condition.
• Jiang Liu suspected a Demon Martial Practitioner from either the Nether Realm or the Three Great Power Alliance and continued removing the remaining black rays.
• The Golden Giant's Primal Qi stabilized and rose to the Second-Order Divine Realm, and it opened its eyes as Jiang Liu covered the trapped black motes with a white sphere of light.

Jiang Liu trapped the black Power of Rule that had attacked the Golden Giant, hoping to learn about its owner and identify the mastermind. The struggle revealed a loophole in his Time-Space Rule, and he ended with the black sphere secured in his hand.

• Jiang Liu enclosed the scattered black Lights of Rule with his Divine Sense after they tried to flee.
• Jiang Liu clashed with the black rule-transformed saber and drove it back, then stopped its attempt to escape by scattering.
• Jiang Liu compressed the black lights inside a sphere of Time-Space Rule, and the black sphere nearly cracked its rules’ intersection point in a desperate collision.
• Jiang Liu repaired the damaged intersection, exhausted the black sphere’s resistance, and shrank it to thumb-size.
• Jiang Liu recognized that his Time-Space Rule had a loophole and held the captured black sphere wrapped in white light.

Jiang Liu questioned the Golden Giant about the ambush and the Human Realm’s surging Heaven and Earth Essence, but learned that the Giant knew nothing about its cause. At the Yin-Yang Fish, Jiang Liu discovered a transformed space filled with dense Essence and began investigating how it had triggered the revival.

• The Golden Giant recovered his strength, told Jiang Liu he did not know who had ambushed him, and could not explain the Human Realm’s growing Heaven and Earth Essence.
• Jiang Liu ordered the Golden Giant to guard the Human Realm and flew to the mountain range where he had found the Yin-Yang Fish.
• Jiang Liu noticed the Yin-Yang Fish’s eyes seemed alive and passed through it, finding that the space beneath his array had changed and filled with dense Heaven and Earth Essence.
• Jiang Liu realized the Essence’s revival likely originated beneath the Yin-Yang Fish and wondered how it had spread to the famous rivers and mountains.

Jiang Liu discovered that the passage held only Divine Race skeletons and that its conditions had changed, so he began sealing it against intruders. After setting up a Sealing Formation and a Stabilizing Formation, he sensed an unusually dense concentration of qi outside the Mist Grand Formation.

• Jiang Liu entered the passage and found it bright, filled with Heaven and Earth Essence, and missing all the Demon Martial Practitioners’ skeletons.
• Jiang Liu suspected someone had collected the Demon Race’s skeletons and decided the passage could no longer be left open.
• Jiang Liu used Power of Rule and Divine Race skeletons to refine formation materials, then spent three hours setting up a powerful Sealing Formation.
• Jiang Liu set up a Stabilizing Formation behind the Sealing Formation and sat down to recover before continuing.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex and sensed that the qi was especially dense in one area outside the Mist Grand Formation.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Dark Light Rule on the Mist Grand Formation’s materials came from the Demon God, and he suspected the Demon God had used two rules to evade the Three Rule Lords’ control. He began replacing the old rule and preparing a new formation to seal the Secret Passage, while the identity of the Gods’ leader and the Demon God’s motives remained uncertain.

• Jiang Liu restored his Power of Rule Light, then refined the Mist Grand Formation’s materials and found Dark Light Rule left on them.
• Jiang Liu replaced the Dark Light Rule with his own Power of Time-Space Rule so that only he could control the formation.
• Jiang Liu recognized the Dark Light Rule as sharing its source with the Demon God Avatar and reasoned that the Demon God’s true body had also cultivated it.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Demon God had likely laid the Mist Grand Formation and led the Devil Race in the ancient war, but he could not determine who had led the God Race.
• Jiang Liu began laying down the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation to guard and seal the Secret Passage.