Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu secured the secret passage with a powerful formation and followed a surge of Heaven and Earth Essence deep underground. He discovered a vast underground ruin marked with the Saint Heaven Sect’s inscription and suspected it was the sect’s true headquarters.

• Jiang Liu activated the Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams Formation and tested its powerful attack, which drew in essence to replenish its energy.
• Jiang Liu left the passage and followed unusually dense Heaven and Earth Essence deeper underground.
• Jiang Liu reached a vast underground space where the essence was so dense that it obscured the surroundings.
• Jiang Liu created a light, found the remains of a collapsed stone gate, and recognized part of the Saint Heaven Sect’s inscription.
• Jiang Liu suspected that the underground ruin was the Saint Heaven Sect’s true headquarters.

Jiang Liu searched the Saint Heaven Sect’s headquarters and fought off a growing swarm of flying ants. He discovered that the ants were devouring their dead to grow stronger, and a tremendous buzzing sounded in the distance.

• Jiang Liu entered the Saint Heaven Sect headquarters to investigate who had hunted the sect and whether the Demon God had entered through the Secret Passage.
• A swarm of Beast King Realm flying ants attacked Jiang Liu, and his essence shield killed them as they collided with him.
• Jiang Liu moved deeper into the ruins, intending to exterminate the ants before they could threaten the Human Realm.
• Jiang Liu found signs that the ants had gnawed through the ruins, while some ants devouring their dead broke through to the Beast Emperor Realm.
• Jiang Liu reached the sect plaza, where a tremendous buzzing sounded from the distance.

Jiang Liu battled a massive Flying Ant Swarm in the underground plaza, using his Phantom Soul Flute to make the ants attack one another. As the swarm adapted and its Saint Realm members formed organized ranks, he switched to Essence blades, while the swarm’s leader and generals remained unseen.

• Jiang Liu heard a huge swarm approaching and realized that the deeper parts of the nest held increasingly powerful flying ants, including Saint Realm individuals.
• Jiang Liu played the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation on his Phantom Soul Flute, causing the flying ants to slaughter one another across the plaza.
• After half an hour, stronger waves of flying ants arrived, and Jiang Liu struggled to maintain his flute attack as his spiritual power dwindled.
• The Saint Realm flying ants organized into formations that resisted the flute music and reduced the number of ants attacking each other.
• Jiang Liu stopped playing and attacked the formations with Essence blades, while the flying ants dodged and their leader and generals remained hidden.

Jiang Liu slaughtered the Saint Realm worker ants and examined the ruins of the destroyed Saint Heaven Sect. The Ant Queen then arrived with a group of flying ants and ordered them to attack, leaving Jiang Liu facing a more organized threat.

• Jiang Liu killed the Saint Realm worker ants after their formation fell apart and they lost their guides.
• Jiang Liu surveyed the ruined underground city and reflected on how the Saint Heaven Sect had been destroyed.
• Jiang Liu sensed the approaching Flying Ant Swarm and recognized the Ant Queen’s aura as nearing the Divine Realm.
• The Ant Queen’s Saint Realm flying ants stopped short, spread into smaller groups, and sprayed streams of mist at Jiang Liu after her shriek.

Jiang Liu killed the mutated Ant Queen and wiped out the Flying Ant Swarm. He found a Spirit-Binding Grand Formation containing liquid Heaven and Earth Essence, chose not to risk damaging it, and continued searching elsewhere.

• Jiang Liu used Phantom Stomp to halt the fleeing Ant Queen, then killed her with a single strike of the Godslayer Blade.
• The Flying Ants attacked Jiang Liu with corrosive mist, but he protected himself with an essence shield and killed every last one.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex to replenish his energy and mental power after the battle.
• Jiang Liu found a profound Spirit-Binding Grand Formation trapping liquid Heaven and Earth Essence near what he believed was a passage to the Human Realm Core.
• Jiang Liu decided not to disturb the formation and flew into another area to continue searching.

Jiang Liu searched the ruins of the Saint Heaven Sect and found no clues to its destruction, while worrying that other mutated Flying Ant Swarms might threaten the Human Realm. He concluded the sect had likely discovered the Secret Passage before it was destroyed, but could not determine who had found its hiding place or why.

• Jiang Liu examined the transformed Flying Ants and feared that other swarms might escape into the Human Realm and cause a major calamity.
• Jiang Liu searched the remains of the Saint Heaven Sect's central hall and found no useful clues.
• Jiang Liu continued through the underground ruins, where the Flying Ants and dense Heaven and Earth Essence had erased traces, and noticed there were no bodies or bones.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Secret Passage had existed before the Saint Heaven Sect was destroyed and that the sect had likely hidden nearby after discovering it.
• Jiang Liu wondered how the sect's persecutor had found its concealed refuge, since entering through the Yin-Yang Fish Array would not have been easy.

Jiang Liu connected the Saint Heaven Sect’s destruction, Insect Valley, the Moon Devouring Clan, and the Flying Ant Swarm to a likely Devil Race conspiracy against the Human Race. He found a faint formation fluctuation beside the Flying Ant nest and approached it, hoping to uncover who had raised the swarm.

• Jiang Liu reasoned that the person behind the Saint Heaven Sect’s destruction may also have cultivated the Soul-Devouring Insects and used Insect Valley to bring them into the Nether Realm.
• Jiang Liu considered how the God Race, Devil Race, and Human Race had related to one another, and concluded that the wars and secret passage pointed to a conspiracy targeting humanity.
• Jiang Liu inferred that someone from the Devil Race had likely targeted the Saint Heaven Sect, noting that the corpses in the Secret Passage had disappeared and could have been used as resources or turned into Battle Puppets.
• Jiang Liu searched the area with his Divine Sense and found a small, cocoon-like cave that appeared to be the Flying Ant Clan’s nest.
• Jiang Liu sensed a faint formation fluctuation near the nest and suspected that someone had deliberately raised and mutated the Flying Ants.

Jiang Liu recovered a black array stone at the Flying Ant nest and recognized the Demon God's true-body Dark Light Rule in it, strengthening his suspicion that the Demon God was behind the Flying Ant Swarm and the destruction of the Saint Heaven Sect. After destroying the nest and finding the Human Realm Core’s protective array intact, he left for the Yin-Yang Fish Array.

• Jiang Liu used the Power of Time-Space Rule to pull a black stone from the Flying Ant nest and suppress it when it tried to flee.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Demon God’s true-body Dark Light Rule in the stone and concluded that the Demon God had likely set up the array to nurture the Flying Ants.
• Jiang Liu considered whether the Demon God might be one of the Three Rule Lords, then rejected the idea because the Demon God had previously used the Ice Rule.
• Jiang Liu resolved to confront the Demon God and learn why the Human Race and God Race had gone to war.
• Jiang Liu cleaved the Flying Ant nest apart, confirmed the array protecting the Human Realm Core remained intact, and flew toward the Yin-Yang Fish Array.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Yin-Yang Fish Array had activated and suspected it was connected to the looming crisis he had sensed. After checking the Secret Passage, he set off for Cloud City to investigate whether its Yin-Yang Fish Array had changed as well.

• Jiang Liu saw that the Yin-Yang Fish Array’s central eyes had opened when viewed from outside and sensed that its transformation was connected to an impending crisis.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the array likely predated the Secret Passage and that its creator had intended it to detect the crisis.
• Jiang Liu entered the array and felt watched, but could not perceive its changes from within.
• Jiang Liu checked the Secret Passage and confirmed that the Devil God had entered it, raised Soul-Devouring Insects there, and targeted the Saint Heaven Sect.
• Jiang Liu left the array and traveled toward Cloud City using the Power of Space Rule while practicing his control of the Power of Rule.

Jiang Liu used the Power of Space Rule to reach Cloud City and reflected on the dangers and limits of spatial travel. At the cliff, he discovered traces of the Demon God beneath the Yin-Yang Fish Arrays and found that the array had returned to its original state, leaving him wondering whether it was warning him.

• Jiang Liu crossed great distances using the Power of Space Rule and compared it with the Data Panel's Fixed-Point Shuttle, noting that both required a sense of direction.
• Jiang Liu considered whether his understanding of direction could help him face the impending world-ending crisis, but he still did not know what it was.
• Jiang Liu returned to the cliff in the Cloud City Mountains and sensed traces of the Demon God beneath the Yin-Yang Fish Arrays.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Demon God might be using Yin-Yang Fish Arrays to pursue a hidden goal or evade the calamity, and decided to search the overseas seafloor for another array.
• Jiang Liu realized that the Yin-Yang Fish Array retained no one's aura and that the cliff he had once filled in had returned to its former appearance.
• Jiang Liu saw the Yin-Yang Fish Array turning in the forest below and wondered whether it was warning him.

Jiang Liu entered the Yin-Yang Fish Array and discovered that it had restored itself and linked to other arrays, teleporting him beneath the sea. Trapped there as the seabed began to shake, he wondered whether the disturbance was why the array had brought him there.

• Jiang Liu set a shuttle point above the Yin-Yang Fish Array and plunged inside.
• Jiang Liu realized the earlier landscape had been an illusion and used his Divine Sense to inspect the restored array.
• Jiang Liu found that the Yin-Yang Illusion Formation had returned, but the Devil Race's Gathering Qi Formation and the Demon God's avatar had not.
• Jiang Liu tried to leave, but the array bounced him back and he heard waves beyond it, realizing he had been teleported away from the Cloud City Mountains.
• Jiang Liu sensed the seabed beneath him tremble and wondered whether the disturbance had caused the array to bring him there.

Jiang Liu realized the Yin-Yang Fish Arrays were linked by a single formation with three souls, explaining how he had been teleported between them and why a familiar presence watched him. He remained trapped beneath the sea as he suspected a vast force lay behind the arrays.

• Jiang Liu woke when the underwater Yin-Yang Fish Array changed and decided he needed to escape, though he feared he might not find the array again.
• Jiang Liu sensed the same watcher he had felt near the Secret Passage and reasoned that the watcher was likely the array’s Formation Spirit.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the three Yin-Yang Fish Arrays shared one formation and three souls, allowing them to connect and teleport between locations.
• Jiang Liu marveled at the creator’s mastery of formations, souls, and power, and suspected that more than one person stood behind the arrays.

Jiang Liu reasoned that the Yin-Yang Fish Array had been created by Human Race martial artists who had escaped the Human Realm and might cultivate dual rules. After the array teleported him beneath the seabed, a man in white far from the Human Realm noticed its unexpected activity and sought to divine the cause.

• Jiang Liu concluded that the Yin-Yang Fish Array had been set up to monitor changes in the Human Realm and that its creators were likely powerful Human Race martial artists who had escaped the Three Rule Lords’ notice.
• Jiang Liu suspected the array recognized his dual rules and had therefore treated him as one of its own rather than attacking him.
• Violent movement rumbled beneath the seabed, but the Yin-Yang Fish Array remained steady and its Formation Spirit did not appear.
• A dim star stone showed Jiang Liu being teleported beneath the lake, and a man in white said the Yin-Yang Fish Array had revealed itself earlier than expected.
• The man in white wondered whether an unforeseen change had occurred and scattered bamboo sticks into the sky to divine what was happening.

Zhuge Cheng discovered that someone had triggered the Yin-Yang Fish’s teleportation and divined that the situation affecting the Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion’s plans had changed. After reassuring Huangfu Hao and the others that the overall situation remained intact, he left to investigate.

• Zhuge Cheng used the Heaven Calculation Tokens to divine after a change appeared at the Yin-Yang Fish.
• Huangfu Hao and the Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion members gathered and asked Zhuge Cheng what had happened.
• Zhuge Cheng revealed that a Supreme God Realm martial artist who cultivated dual Rules had triggered the Yin-Yang Fish’s teleportation but had shown it no hostility.
• Zhuge Cheng said the divination showed that circumstances had changed, though the general situation remained the same.
• Huangfu Hao agreed to let Zhuge Cheng investigate, and Zhuge Cheng took the Heaven Calculation Tokens and flew into the void.

Zhuge Cheng discovered that a new Time-Space Rule cultivator had stirred the Yin-Yang Fish Array, so he traveled from Heaven's Mandate Pavilion to the Human Realm to investigate. He arrived at the ruined array and found traces of demonic energy, suggesting the Devil Race might be connected to its destruction.

• Huangfu Hao suspected Zhuge Cheng had uncovered a danger involving the Yin-Yang Fish Array, but he let him leave without explaining his suspicions to the others.
• Zhuge Cheng used a bamboo slip to reveal Jiang Liu and realized another martial artist cultivating the Time-Space Rule had appeared in the Human Realm.
• Zhuge Cheng activated a Yin-Yang Fish phantom and used it to travel directly to the array in the Cloud City Mountains.
• The array's sudden radiance frightened the exotic beasts and drew the attention of martial artists exploring the mountains.
• Zhuge Cheng found the area destroyed and discovered that demonic energy had once been present there.

Zhuge Cheng found traces of the Devil Race at the central Yin-Yang Fish Array and left after suppressing several intruders who approached it. Jiang Liu sensed a catastrophic disturbance beneath the sea and wondered whether it foreshadowed the coming world-ending crisis.

• Zhuge Cheng found evidence that a Devil Race member had once been at the central Yin-Yang Fish Array and repaired the formation.
• Zhuge Cheng used his Divine Sense to stop several martial practitioners from reaching the array, then teleported away.
• Jiang Liu felt tremors shaking the seabed and cautiously sent his Divine Sense beyond the Yin-Yang Fish Array.
• Jiang Liu saw violent currents, flying rocks, and sea beasts torn apart by the chaos beneath the sea.
• Jiang Liu wondered whether the disaster was a warning of the inexplicable world-ending crisis.

Jiang Liu realized the Yin-Yang Fish Array’s creator might return and prepared to face him, but attacked the arriving figure before learning his identity. His assault disrupted the teleportation, leaving Zhuge Cheng trapped in the void space as Jiang Liu wondered whether he would die there.

• Jiang Liu concluded that the array’s creator might have a way to escape the coming catastrophe and grew wary of his possible return.
• The Yin-Yang Fish Array activated, and Jiang Liu recognized that it was teleporting someone to him.
• Jiang Liu attacked the forming phantom with the Godslayer Blade, but the array’s white light blocked his strikes.
• Zhuge Cheng, still trapped in the void space and unable to control his body, relied on the array to defend himself.
• Jiang Liu’s Phantom Stomp shook the array and appeared to halt the teleportation, leaving Zhuge Cheng stuck in the void.

Jiang Liu attacked Zhuge Cheng, who was trapped in the Yin-Yang Fish Array’s teleportation void, and discovered that his time-space blade strike arrived before his suppressive force. Zhuge Cheng briefly regained his freedom of movement before being pinned again, while the array’s Formation Spirit struggled to find a way to save him.

• Jiang Liu decided to exploit Zhuge Cheng’s predicament and considered the advantages of learning from the creator of the Yin-Yang Fish Array.
• Zhuge Cheng grew anxious as he realized the array’s teleportation had a flaw and feared Jiang Liu’s attacks would overwhelm its defenses.
• The Yin-Yang Fish Array’s Formation Spirit, one-third of the original spirit, tried in vain to rescue Zhuge Cheng from the teleportation void.
• Jiang Liu attacked Zhuge Cheng with the Godslayer Blade and the Power of Time-Space Rule, but his blade ray passed through the phantom.
• Zhuge Cheng moved again and tried to escape, but Jiang Liu’s Phantom Stomp arrived afterward and pinned him in place once more.

Jiang Liu wounded Zhuge Cheng by sending the Godslayer Blade through the void, but Zhuge Cheng recovered his severed arm and prepared to fight. As Zhuge Cheng began using the Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slip, Jiang Liu struck at it, and the chapter ended with the bamboo slip flying back toward Zhuge Cheng.

• Jiang Liu combined two Powers of Rule Light with the Godslayer Blade and used Divine Strike to reach Zhuge Cheng’s true body, severing one of his arms.
• Zhuge Cheng emerged from the teleportation space, and his severed arm’s ejection disrupted the Yin-Yang Fish Array until he stabilized it with origin energy.
• Zhuge Cheng reattached his arm, though it had not fully recovered, and released his momentum toward Jiang Liu.
• Zhuge Cheng raised the Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slip to draw a pattern, but Jiang Liu’s blade aura struck it and sent it flying toward him.

Jiang Liu fought Zhuge Cheng inside the Yin-Yang Fish Array, where Zhuge Cheng used spirit attacks and the array’s power to gain the advantage. Zhuge Cheng restrained Jiang Liu and examined him, still showing no intent to kill him.

• Zhuge Cheng hurled Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slips at Jiang Liu and attacked his Divine Sea with the Mind Control Rule.
• Jiang Liu resisted the spirit attack and dodged the bamboo slips, but the rotating Yin-Yang Fish Array pulled him downward.
• Zhuge Cheng launched a small Yin-Yang Fish pattern, and Jiang Liu destroyed it with Divine Strike.
• Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slips trapped Jiang Liu as Zhuge Cheng closed in.
• Zhuge Cheng examined the restrained Jiang Liu and wondered how someone so young had cultivated such strength.