Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu broke free of Zhuge Cheng’s Mind Control Rule with help from the Data Panel and injured him again, prompting them to stop fighting before the Yin-Yang Fish Array was damaged. Zhuge Cheng began trying to win Jiang Liu over, while Jiang Liu stayed wary and considered asking him about the array.

• Jiang Liu escaped Zhuge Cheng’s control and used a hidden Ice Blade to reopen Zhuge Cheng’s injured arm.
• Jiang Liu attacked with the Godslayer Blade, and Zhuge Cheng blocked the blows with Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slips as the Yin-Yang Fish Array trembled.
• Zhuge Cheng called for them to stop fighting, and Jiang Liu put away his blade while remaining cautious.
• Jiang Liu realized the Yin-Yang Fish Array could conceal auras and teleport people, and wondered whether Zhuge Cheng would teach him its secrets.
• Zhuge Cheng complimented Jiang Liu and began trying to win him over.

Zhuge Cheng tried to recruit Jiang Liu into Heaven's Mandate Pavilion by promising that it could protect him from the War of Rules. Jiang Liu pretended to consider the offer so he could learn about Zhuge Cheng's force and the Human Realm's past, while remaining wary of any binding contract.

• Jiang Liu suspected Zhuge Cheng was flattering him because he wanted something, and demanded to know his purpose.
• Zhuge Cheng asked whether Jiang Liu knew about the War of Rules and offered to help him avoid becoming cannon fodder.
• Jiang Liu considered accepting so he could learn about Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and the Human Realm's history, but worried about being bound by a spiritual contract.
• Zhuge Cheng revealed that his force was called Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and promised Jiang Liu could evade the war by joining and entering its Dim Starstone.
• Jiang Liu asked what he would have to do to join, still convinced Zhuge Cheng's offer came with a catch.

Zhuge Cheng tried to recruit Jiang Liu into the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion through a mysterious oath-mark, but Jiang Liu questioned the benefits and remained wary. Zhuge Cheng offered him a precious Star Source Stone, leaving Jiang Liu suspicious about what the man wanted in return.

• Zhuge Cheng summoned a rune-covered mark and told Jiang Liu to place his hand on it and swear not to betray the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.
• Jiang Liu sensed something suspicious about the mark and asked what benefits joining the faction would bring beyond avoiding the War of Rules.
• Zhuge Cheng considered Jiang Liu's youth and cultivation, then offered him a Star Source Stone as a joining benefit.
• Jiang Liu took the stone, sensed its pure and abundant Power of Rule, and grew more cautious about Zhuge Cheng's motives.

Zhuge Cheng tried to recruit Jiang Liu into Heaven's Mandate Pavilion by offering resources and protection, while hiding that the Star Source Stone was the only benefit he could actually provide. Jiang Liu saw through the deception and planned to use Zhuge Cheng's desire to recruit him to learn about the Yin-Yang Fish Great Bell, the Human Realm's calamity, and the Three Realms' secrets.

• Zhuge Cheng gave Jiang Liu a Star Source Stone and hoped the gift would bind him to Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.
• Zhuge Cheng explained that the Human Realm lacked Divine Nature, preventing it from producing the Power of Rule, and said the surviving experts had left partly to avoid the Three Rule Lords.
• Zhuge Cheng promised Jiang Liu future cultivation resources and protection in the void, though he privately knew Heaven's Mandate Pavilion could not guarantee either.
• Jiang Liu recognized Zhuge Cheng's promises as empty and decided to ask him for answers about the Yin-Yang Fish Great Bell, the Human Realm's calamity, and the war between the Human Race and the God Race.

Jiang Liu decided to join Heaven's Mandate Pavilion temporarily, but tried to bargain for more information and resources from Zhuge Cheng. As Heavenly Dao approached and sent Jiang Liu a message about trouble outside, Jiang Liu's aura surged and he grew enraged.

• Jiang Liu decided to join Heaven's Mandate Pavilion temporarily while remaining wary that Zhuge Cheng might tamper with his imprint.
• Jiang Liu tried to obtain more information or items from Zhuge Cheng, who worried that the growing commotion outside would overwhelm the Yin-Yang Fish Array.
• Jiang Liu sensed Heavenly Dao approaching and suspected someone from the Void Faction Alliance or Devil Race had been causing trouble in the Human Realm.
• Heavenly Dao sent a strand of consciousness into Jiang Liu's Divine Sea, and Jiang Liu's momentum surged as he became furious.
• Zhuge Cheng began mobilizing the Yin-Yang Fish Array to investigate the disturbance outside.

Jiang Liu escaped the Yin-Yang Fish Array and found a cataclysm unfolding at sea, reminiscent of the disaster that had crippled the Human Realm. After splitting a sea dragon with the Godslayer Blade, he realized it contained a fragment of someone’s Divine Soul.

• Zhuge Cheng used the Yin-Yang Fish Array to observe the chaos outside and recognized it as resembling the cataclysm that had once devastated the Human Realm.
• Jiang Liu passed through the Yin-Yang Fish Array, layered origin energy barriers around himself, and flew through the raging sea to the surface.
• Jiang Liu saw the Heavenly Dao battling a black light and was attacked by a Divine Realm sea dragon.
• Jiang Liu cut the sea dragon in two with the Godslayer Blade, and a distant scream revealed that it contained a fragment of someone’s Divine Soul.

Jiang Liu learned that the attack on the Heaven Dao and the storm stemmed from a hidden cause tied to the Human Realm, and he moved to help resolve the crisis. Beneath the sea, Zhuge Cheng recognized the disaster and realized the Yin-Yang Fish Array had warned of it, while fearing the damage could erase the Human Realm’s newly recovered vitality.

• Jiang Liu captured information from the fading divine soul of the sea dragon he had cleaved apart and learned that the Human Realm’s troubles and the storm shared a cause.
• Jiang Liu decided to help the Heaven Dao first and swiftly headed toward the high skies.
• Zhuge Cheng left the Yin-Yang Fish Array and saw a disaster resembling the human calamity he had survived before.
• Zhuge Cheng recalled creating the three Yin-Yang Fish Arrays to monitor the Human Realm and predict the true catastrophe, and he realized the arrays had activated to warn of this disaster.
• Zhuge Cheng sensed that the storm had dealt the Human Realm a severe blow and feared its recovered vitality and martial cultivation might disappear.

Jiang Liu discovered that the person attacking the Heavenly Dao held a status in the Human Realm comparable to or greater than its own, but he drew the Godslayer Blade and prepared to fight. The Heavenly Dao resisted more fiercely as it realized its attacker could suppress it but could not truly kill it, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Jiang Liu sensed that the attacker was not suppressed by Human Realm Space and suspected his status exceeded the Heavenly Dao's.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Godslayer Blade, gathered the Power of Rule on it, and prepared to attack despite the pressure.
• The attacker intensified his assault on the Golden Giant after recognizing Jiang Liu as a dangerous dual-rule martial artist.
• The attacker tried to shame the Golden Giant for being subdued by a slave, but the Heavenly Dao continued fighting and began counterattacking.
• The attacker recalled that he had unleashed the heavenly disaster to seize control of the Human Realm, but found the newly changed Heavenly Dao blocking him.

Jiang Liu discovered that his spiritual attacks could weaken the mysterious figure, whose divine soul had been damaged after Jiang Liu destroyed its fragment in a sea dragon. As the Golden Giant kept attacking the figure, Jiang Liu realized his control of the Heavenly Dao had also caused the Human Realm’s Heaven and Earth Essence to transform, triggering the current natural-disaster crisis.

• Jiang Liu’s earlier control of the Heavenly Dao and breakthrough to the Supreme God Realm had caused the Human Realm’s essence to transform and awakened the mysterious figure.
• Jiang Liu attacked the figure with the Godslayer Blade, but his strike passed through it and continued toward the Golden Giant.
• Jiang Liu used the Phantom Soul Flute to play the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation, and the figure faltered under the spiritual attack.
• Jiang Liu realized the figure’s divine soul was incomplete because he had destroyed its fragment within a sea dragon.
• The Golden Giant struck the weakened figure and sent it flying, then launched another attack with its golden greatsword.

Jiang Liu’s xiao music and the Golden Giant’s attacks drove the Human Realm Core’s consciousness toward unconsciousness as it weighed whether to summon its true body. The chapter explained the Human Realm’s three great rulers and ended with four walls of light trapping the figure.

• Jiang Liu intensified his mental-force attacks while the Golden Giant struck the struggling figure, pushing it toward a controlled coma.
• The figure recalled its agreement with the Human Realm Core: if it dealt with the other two rulers, it could gain a physical body of its own.
• The chapter identified the Heavenly Dao, the Essence Spirit, and the Human Realm Core as the Human Realm’s three great rulers, and explained their conditions and roles.
• The Human Realm Core’s consciousness realized that Jiang Liu had disrupted its plan to take control of the New Heavenly Dao.
• Four invisible walls of light appeared and trapped the figure as it began to fall asleep.

Jiang Liu learned from the Golden Giant that the trapped consciousness was the Human Realm Core, whose mutation was causing upheaval across the Human Realm. He restrained his anger after realizing he could neither destroy nor restore it, while Zhuge Cheng’s Mind Control Rule quietly helped calm him.

• Jiang Liu observed the violent sea, gathering storm clouds, and chaotic vital energy, and suspected the trapped consciousness was behind the Human Realm’s mutation.
• The Golden Giant recovered enough to tell Jiang Liu that the consciousness was the Human Realm Core, an existence whose presence suppressed Human Race martial artists.
• Jiang Liu realized the Human Realm Core had caused the current crisis but that destroying it would destroy the Human Realm, while restoring it was beyond his power.
• Jiang Liu’s fury subsided without his noticing that Zhuge Cheng’s Mind Control Rule had influenced his emotions and prevented the situation from spiraling into chaos.

Zhuge Cheng’s Celestial Calculation Art showed him Jiang Liu fighting the Human Realm Core, but his deduction was distorted by Jiang Liu’s hidden aura and Zhuge Cheng’s Mind Control Rule. As Jiang Liu struggled to find the Human Realm Core’s true form without harming its fragile consciousness body, Zhuge Cheng offered to reveal what he knew.

• Zhuge Cheng deduced that Jiang Liu’s Soul-Searching Technique had destroyed the consciousness body and awakened the Human Realm Core, which then fought Jiang Liu and destroyed the Human Realm Space.
• Zhuge Cheng sensed a change in Jiang Liu and became wary, unaware that his calculation had been distorted by Jiang Liu’s Data Panel.
• Jiang Liu seized the Phantom Sound Space and tried to shrink it with the Space Rule while weighing the danger of using the Soul-Searching Technique on the fragile consciousness body.
• Zhuge Cheng approached Jiang Liu in a newly respectful manner and recognized that he was trying to locate the consciousness body’s true form.
• Zhuge Cheng told Jiang Liu that he knew something about where the true form was, and Jiang Liu eagerly listened.

Jiang Liu weighed the danger of confronting the Human Realm Core and decided to seek it out to stop the Human Realm's worsening turmoil. Zhuge Cheng agreed to lead him to its location, though he remained worried about Jiang Liu's decision.

• Jiang Liu studied Zhuge Cheng's changed attitude and considered what secret Zhuge Cheng might have learned about him.
• Jiang Liu judged that the Human Realm Core could not be underestimated, despite having defeated one of its incarnated bodies of consciousness.
• Jiang Liu considered the Human Realm's growing crisis and the demon god's unexplained interest in the realm.
• Jiang Liu asked Zhuge Cheng to lead him to the Human Realm Core.
• Zhuge Cheng realized Jiang Liu already knew the mastermind's identity, suppressed his concern, and flew ahead.

Jiang Liu sent the injured Golden Giant back to stabilize the Human Realm, then followed Zhuge Cheng toward the Human Realm Core. At the open sea, Zhuge Cheng asked whether Jiang Liu was certain he wanted to proceed, leaving Jiang Liu weighing the danger to the already troubled Human Realm.

• Jiang Liu sent the Golden Giant back to the Human Realm and stored the consciousness body in his System Space.
• Jiang Liu followed Zhuge Cheng, whose suspicions about Jiang Liu’s true strength grew as they traveled.
• Jiang Liu wondered why Zhuge Cheng was leading him overseas to find the Human Realm Core and considered the risks of confronting it.
• Jiang Liu and Zhuge Cheng reached the turbulent open sea, where Zhuge Cheng stopped and asked whether Jiang Liu was certain he wanted to find the Human Realm Core.
• Jiang Liu hesitated as he considered how a battle with the Human Realm Core might affect the Human Realm.

Jiang Liu agreed to let Zhuge Cheng lead him to the Human Realm Core, determined to seek it out without starting a fight unless it attacked first. Zhuge Cheng used his Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slips and Mind Control Rule to reach the Core, but it remained asleep as his power ran low.

• Zhuge Cheng secretly used the Mind Control Rule to steady Jiang Liu, while hoping Jiang Liu would lose to the Human Realm Core without being killed.
• Jiang Liu considered the consequences of fighting and decided he still had to find the Human Realm Core to resolve the Human Realm’s problems.
• Zhuge Cheng assembled a key from Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slips and plunged it into the sea, revealing the hidden dwelling of the Human Realm Core.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Core’s familiar aura and grew wary of a possible alliance between it and Zhuge Cheng.
• Zhuge Cheng sent Mind Control Rule light into the seabed to wake the injured, sleeping Human Realm Core, but it did not stir as his energy dwindled.

Zhuge Cheng awakened the Human Realm Core, but it struck him down as Jiang Liu watched and assessed the danger. When the Core rose from the sea, Jiang Liu sensed that its strength and Power of Rule were beyond his understanding and detected an unexpected trace of Nether Realm aura.

• Jiang Liu suspected Zhuge Cheng was only displaying his Power of Rule, while Zhuge Cheng struggled to maintain his rules as the Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slip key drained him.
• Zhuge Cheng sensed the Human Realm Core responding, and the sea and sky began to calm.
• The Human Realm Core attacked from beneath the sea, severely wounding Zhuge Cheng and forcing him to use the Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slip to draw in Power of Rule.
• Jiang Liu hovered over the raging waves and prepared for the Core, suspecting Zhuge Cheng intended to benefit from their conflict.
• The Human Realm Core rose from the sea, releasing unknown Power of Rule that opened spatial rifts and left Jiang Liu unable to discern its strength or aspect.
• Jiang Liu detected Nether Realm aura on the Human Realm Core and connected it to the Core's earlier abnormal behavior.

Jiang Liu faced the Human Realm Core and realized its Rule Three Realm strength far surpassed his own, leaving him unable to resist its pressure. The Core demanded to know what he had done to its consciousness body, while Jiang Liu endured the suppression and assessed the gap between their abilities.

• Jiang Liu sensed that the Human Realm Core was stronger than Zhao Hao and recognized that its aura had reached the Rule Three Realm.
• The Human Realm Core questioned Jiang Liu, and its Mind Control Rule disrupted Zhuge Cheng, who fled while the Core focused on Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu used the Power of Rule Light to clear the Core’s influence and grew more wary of Zhuge Cheng’s behavior.
• The Human Realm Core demanded to know what Jiang Liu had done to its consciousness body and suppressed him until his Divine Body neared its limit.
• Jiang Liu resisted the pressure and reflected on the Core’s mastery of the Power of Rule and how its strength might compare with the Three Rule Lords.

Jiang Liu endured the Human Realm Core’s suppression and advanced to the second stage of the Rule Realm. He then prepared a decisive strike with the Godslayer Blade, which he brought down on the Human Realm Core.

• The Human Realm Core crushed Jiang Liu with its immense pressure, but the strain helped him gain greater mastery over the Power of Rule.
• Zhuge Cheng realized Jiang Liu had reached the second stage of the Rule Realm and could no longer be sure he could defeat him.
• Jiang Liu sensed that he could still traverse away if necessary, endured the pressure, and stabilized his Power of Rule and primal qi.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Godslayer Blade, gathered Heaven and Earth Essence and Primal Qi Storms, and poured two glimmers of power into the blade.
• The Human Realm Core allowed Jiang Liu to prepare his attack, and Jiang Liu cleaved a brilliant blade ray down toward it.

Jiang Liu fought the Human Realm Core and quickly improved his use of the Power of Rule, turning Phantom Stomp into a means of spatial suppression. The Human Realm Core broke free and sent its Power of Rule through the Godslayer Blade into Jiang Liu's body.

• Jiang Liu dodged the Human Realm Core's attack but was struck by its fist wind and used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to resist its invading Power of Rule.
• Jiang Liu broke through the Human Realm Core's spatial restraint with a blade strike and counterattacked using Phantom Stomp infused with the Power of Space Rule.
• Zhuge Cheng watched Jiang Liu's rapid progress and hoped the Human Realm Core would defeat him, giving Zhuge Cheng a chance to control him.
• The Human Realm Core shattered Jiang Liu's spatial suppression, appeared before him, and struck his Godslayer Blade, transmitting its Power of Rule into his body.

Jiang Liu fought the Human Realm Core, using its overwhelming attacks to improve his control of the Power of Rule while the Data Panel protected his Divine Sea. The Human Realm Core detected the foreign power within him and began treating him as a serious opponent, but it mistakenly assumed the power came from a stored opportunity.

• Jiang Liu used his Power of Space Rule and Godslayer Blade to break the Human Realm Core’s spatial lockdown, though his strike did not injure it.
• The Human Realm Core vanished, fired a beam of light at Jiang Liu, then appeared beside him and struck him with enough force to damage his meridians and invade his Divine Sea.
• The Data Panel purged the invading Power of Rule from Jiang Liu’s Divine Sea, alerting the Human Realm Core to the presence of an unfamiliar power.
• The Human Realm Core decided the foreign power was a limited resource Jiang Liu had stored after a fortuitous opportunity and intensified its attacks.
• Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to refine the foreign Power of Rule in his body and barely resolved the crisis without realizing the Human Realm Core had noticed the power.