Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu was caught in the activation of the Four Symbols Illusion Formation and transported through a passage to the Ancient Battlefield. Others who sensed his departure believed he would not return, while Zhuge Cheng’s divination showed Jiang Liu as dead.

• As the formation repaired itself, its Rule Power killed the remaining exotic beasts and scattered their remains and the Iron Blood Army’s corpses toward the formation core.
• A dazzling light enveloped Jiang Liu, who left a traversal coordinate before vanishing from the formation.
• The Four Divine Beasts’ souls watched Jiang Liu disappear, while the Holy Master of the Human Realm and a Devil Race figure realized the passage had been activated.
• A tall figure in a distant void reacted with surprise that the Human Race’s passage still worked, then dismissed the matter.
• Zhao Hao realized Jiang Liu had entered the Ancient Battlefield alone, severed his connection to him, and returned to cultivating.
• Zhuge Cheng’s Celestial Calculation Art showed a blank result for Jiang Liu, leading him to conclude that Jiang Liu was dead and suspect a method left by the Three Rule Lords.

Jiang Liu entered the Ancient Battlefield and found himself in a vast expanse of white mist, whose unusually rich energy and Power of Rule he could cultivate with. He cautiously explored the empty battlefield, unaware that something within him was absorbing the mist, and wondered why he could find no remains or other traces of battle.

• Jiang Liu entered the Ancient Battlefield after leaving behind a transit point as the passage activated.
• Jiang Liu examined the white mist and discovered its energy and Power of Rule were far more abundant than in the Three Realms.
• Jiang Liu absorbed some of the mist and found that its Power of Rule quickly nourished and strengthened his own.
• Jiang Liu began cautiously exploring on foot while the Heavenly Evolution Codex quietly drew in the surrounding mist.
• Jiang Liu realized that the battlefield contained nothing but white mist and the stench of blood, with no corpses or other remains.

Jiang Liu explored the white fog of the Ancient Battlefield while the Data Panel absorbed its energy, then encountered a powerful insect feeding on the dead warriors. After his elemental-energy blade barely harmed it, the insect flew back toward him.

• Jiang Liu discovered that the Data Panel was dormant and charging by absorbing energy from the white fog, so he explored cautiously with the traversal function still available.
• Jiang Liu followed the sound of dripping and found that the fog had thickened, while the scent of blood strengthened and raised his suspicions about the missing corpses.
• Jiang Liu heard insects approaching and reinforced his elemental-energy shields after one nearly bit through them.
• Jiang Liu formed an elemental-energy blade because he could not use his Godslayer Blade and struck an insect that had been gnawing at his shield.
• Jiang Liu saw the insect return almost unharmed and realized how dangerous it was.

Jiang Liu fought off a swarm of powerful insects in the white mist, using God Fills the World and an essence-energy barrier to survive. He recognized them as likely the same species as the Sacred Insects from the Moon Devouring Clan and resolved to investigate their origins.

• Jiang Liu found that the insects’ defenses were too strong for ordinary attacks and used the Phantom Sound Flute to hold them off while the Data Panel charged.
• The white mist blocked and weakened Jiang Liu’s flute song, so the Xiao Sound Illusion Formation only slightly slowed the first insect.
• A vast swarm arrived, and Jiang Liu switched to God Fills the World, causing some insects to attack their own kind.
• Jiang Liu played God Fills the World while reinforcing his barrier against the swarm, whose mostly First-Tier and Second-Tier Divine Realm insects could not break through immediately.
• Jiang Liu recognized several insects as the same species as the Sacred Insects raised by the Devouring Insects and considered investigating their origins and links to the Moon Devouring Clan and a Supreme God Realm insect that used the Space Rule.

Jiang Liu fought an organized swarm of holy insects as their Supreme God Realm insect king countered his illusions and directed their attacks. After his weapons and Origin Energy began to fail, the Data Panel finished charging and appeared before him.

• As the white mist dissipated, more holy insects arrived, and Jiang Liu sensed a Supreme God Realm insect king among them.
• The insect king used the Power of Rule controlling the mind to break through Jiang Liu’s illusion and coordinate the swarm’s attacks.
• Jiang Liu replaced the Phantom Sound Flute with an Origin Energy great blade when God Fills the World stopped affecting the insects.
• After fighting for a long time, Jiang Liu’s great blade exploded, and his Origin Energy ran dry.
• Just as Jiang Liu considered retreating, a deep-blue light screen appeared before him.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Data Panel had awarded him a Divine Skill that ignored defenses and attacked the divine soul, then tested the Godslayer Blade against the Insect King. He left the Sky Devouring Cat to devour the Sacred Insects and pursued the wounded Insect King to test the new skill.

• Jiang Liu found that the Data Panel's first completed charge had granted him an unnamed Divine Skill that could bypass defenses and strike an opponent's divine soul.
• Jiang Liu summoned the Sky Devouring Cat, which frightened the Sacred Insects and began devouring them, including a Second-Order Divine Realm Sacred Insect.
• Jiang Liu decided to test his strength against the Insect King, whose presence had left him close to defeat before the Data Panel charged.
• Jiang Liu used the Godslayer Blade to strike the Insect King with Divine Strike, breaking through its defenses and apparently wounding it.
• Jiang Liu used Nebula Shrunken Earth to pursue the Insect King while leaving the Sky Devouring Cat to continue devouring the Sacred Insects.

Jiang Liu pursued the Insect King, but his attacks drew out a terrifying creature hidden beneath the white mist. As the creature attacked him, the Sacred Insects fled toward the Sky Devouring Cat, whose aura was nearing a breakthrough.

• The Insect King called the Sacred Insects to gather around it and block Jiang Liu's blade with streams of white light.
• Jiang Liu dodged the Sacred Insects' counterattack, then absorbed the white mist to replenish his origin energy.
• The Sacred Insects tried to thicken the dispersing mist, but Jiang Liu noticed their behavior and sensed danger.
• A huge body covered in festering wounds burst from the mist, and Jiang Liu's blade barely slowed its charge.
• The creature attacked Jiang Liu with waves of spatial compression while the Sacred Insects escorted the Insect King away.
• The Sacred Insects fled toward the Sky Devouring Cat, whose aura had grown powerful enough to suggest an imminent breakthrough.

Jiang Liu escaped the enormous body's attacks and used a Divine Skill to destroy its divine soul, then named the skill Soul Slayer. As the Battlefield Space changed and its white mist began to vanish, the Insect King realized Jiang Liu had slain the being its clan feared and grew more afraid of the Sky Devouring Cat.

• The enormous body used the Space Rule and wind attacks to trap Jiang Liu, who recognized its mastery and killing intent.
• Jiang Liu unleashed a Divine Skill that annihilated the enormous body's divine soul and caused its body to collapse into pieces.
• Jiang Liu checked his status, saw that the Divine Skill had a 90-day cooldown, and named it Soul Slayer.
• Jiang Liu inspected the fragments and inferred that the body had been assembled from Realm of Rules martial artists whose lingering traces had left it with complicated emotions.
• The Battlefield Space began changing as its white mist vanished, and the Insect King realized Jiang Liu had destroyed the being its clan feared and became more afraid of the Sky Devouring Cat.

The Sky Devouring Cat devoured the Sacred Insects and began preparing for another breakthrough, while Jiang Liu examined the stitched monster left behind by the War of Rules. After placing the cat in the System Space, Jiang Liu approached the Sacred Insect Queen to learn about the Ancient Battlefield.

• The Sky Devouring Cat stopped attacking the Sacred Insects as its aura surged, and the survivors fled while it prepared to break through.
• Jiang Liu examined the stitched monster and the cracked battlefield, concluding that the monster had been assembled from Supreme God Realm martial practitioners killed in the War of Rules.
• The Sky Devouring Cat asked Jiang Liu for help through their mental bond, and he put it into the System Space to break through safely.
• Jiang Liu sensed the Sacred Insect Queen nearby and headed toward her, intent on learning about the Ancient Battlefield.
• Jiang Liu used space movement to appear before the Sacred Insect Queen and released his Divine Sense toward her.

Jiang Liu communicated peacefully with the Sacred Insect Queen and learned about the vast battlefield, the dangers beyond its outer region, and a strange structure that blocked battlefield anomalies. After the insects withdrew, he realized the returning white fog no longer suppressed Divine Sense, possibly because the Data Panel had consumed its power, while the dripping sound had also disappeared.

• The Sacred Insect Queen sensed Jiang Liu's benevolent Divine Sense and ordered the Sacred Insects to hold their fire.
• Jiang Liu communicated with the insect queen and learned that this area was only the battlefield's outer region, beyond which lay a vast and far more dangerous space.
• The insect queen told Jiang Liu that a strange structure blocked battlefield anomalies, and that activity inside it increased during battles between the three races.
• The insect queen explained that white fog appeared after those battles, while the Battlefield Fiend slept beneath it and the Sacred Insects became active.
• The Sacred Insect Queen led the Sacred Insects into the fog and left Jiang Liu alone.
• Jiang Liu realized that the white fog no longer suppressed Divine Sense and wondered whether the Data Panel had consumed its power; he also noticed the dripping sound had vanished.

Jiang Liu wondered where the souls of the warriors who died in the War of Rules had gone and concluded that the Three Rule Lords had expanded the wars to seek a way to overcome their limited lifespans. He flew toward the building hidden in the white mist, where he suspected the Three Rule Lords fought.

• Jiang Liu reasoned that the battlefield's dead warriors had been consumed by the Sacred Insects, yet their souls had not inhabited the insects and had vanished except for the soul inside the Battlefield Fiend.
• Jiang Liu considered the feared building in the white mist and questioned whether it held clues to the missing souls and the truth behind the War of Rules.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Three Rule Lords had expanded the wars as their lifespans neared their ends, while the Divine Realm Guardian and Nether Realm's demon god had limited their domains' growth to resist them.
• Jiang Liu inferred that the approaching crisis might make this the final War of Rules and that the Divine Realm and Nether Realm had become less prepared to face the danger.
• Jiang Liu flew toward the place the Sacred Insect Queen had indicated, believing it was where the Three Rule Lords fought.

Jiang Liu tried to reach a mysterious building in the white mist, where a hidden creature attacked him and the water-droplet sounds returned. He cleared a path with the Godslayer Blade and continued toward the building, hoping to uncover the battlefield’s secrets.

• Jiang Liu felt an intense pressure crush his vital energy shield and retreated from the white mist.
• The Sacred Insect Queen revealed that it had lured Jiang Liu toward the dangerous building, then fled when an even more frightening presence awakened below.
• Jiang Liu suspected the water-droplet sounds were connected to the Sacred Insect clan and decided to investigate the building for answers about the War of Rules.
• Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to absorb the white mist, then struck it with the Godslayer Blade and heard an unknown creature cry out in pain.
• Jiang Liu saw the building’s faint outline and decided to keep cutting through the mist and attacking whatever was hidden within it.

Jiang Liu fought through a mutated Flying Ant Swarm hidden in the white mist and weakened its barrier. He pushed toward the mysterious building, which he suspected had gathered the souls of dead Supreme God Realm martial artists.

• Jiang Liu guessed that the mysterious building collected the souls of warriors who had died on the battlefield.
• Jiang Liu attacked the white mist with the Godslayer Blade and discovered that the hidden creatures were mutated flying ants.
• Jiang Liu found that the flying ants had immense pressure but weak defenses, and he killed them in large numbers.
• As the Flying Ant Swarm’s defensive pressure faded, Jiang Liu flew past its former barrier toward the mysterious building.
• The remaining flying ants cried out and tried to hold Jiang Liu back as he approached the building.

Jiang Liu approached the mysterious great hall and discovered that it unleashed powerful Rules to control and obstruct him. With his vision, hearing, and Divine Sense sealed, he wondered whether countless warriors of the Realm of Rules were inside.

• Jiang Liu entered the dense white fog, stabilized himself with Nebula Shrunken Earth, and spotted a vast great hall ahead.
• Jiang Liu sensed blood and resentment around the hall, then resisted its Mind Control Rule when his Divine Sea trembled.
• Jiang Liu decided to press on, but the hall attacked him with Gravity and Space Rules, sending him flying backward.
• The hall sealed Jiang Liu's vision with the Light Rule and then blocked his hearing and Divine Sense with the Sound Rule.
• Jiang Liu realized he was effectively blind and deaf, and wondered whether countless warriors of the Realm of Rules were inside the hall.

Jiang Liu escaped the divine hall’s assault and realized it might absorb the Powers of Rule cultivated by Supreme God Realm warriors it killed. After his control of the Space Rule improved, he prepared to use Ice Blades as a distraction and leap toward the hall.

• Jiang Liu retreated beyond the hall’s reach, regaining his hearing and vision as the flying ants stopped attacking him.
• Jiang Liu suspected the hall had absorbed the Powers of Rule of Supreme God Realm warriors killed inside it.
• Jiang Liu experimented with the Space Rule, effortlessly leaping to a strange beast and killing it while sealing its blood inside its body.
• Jiang Liu planned to distract the hall with Ice Blades before spatially leaping closer, while white mist slowly shifted beneath him.
• Jiang Liu sent dozens of Ice Blades flying toward the distant hall.

Jiang Liu was injured by a powerful monster’s sonic attack and fled into the dense white fog to hide from it. A human-looking black shadow arrived afterward, tracked his scent, and entered the fog at the same spot.

• A strange cry from beneath the white fog knocked Jiang Liu’s Ice Blades aside and injured him with its shock wave.
• The Sacred Insect Queen and the Sacred Insects fainted, and the insects began dying from the attack.
• Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to suppress the injuries and realized the hidden monster was far stronger than the Battlefield Fiend.
• As the monster’s aura approached, Jiang Liu left a teleportation point and plunged into the dense white fog to conceal himself.
• A human-looking black shadow searched Jiang Liu’s former position by scent, glanced fearfully toward a distant structure, and entered the fog where Jiang Liu had gone.

Jiang Liu crossed the white fog and approached the mysterious building without being attacked, while the dripping sound drove away the Battlefield Monster pursuing him. He suspected that concealing his hostility kept the building from attacking and continued toward it, determined to uncover its connection to the War of Rules and eternal life.

• Jiang Liu entered the dense white fog, where his Divine Sense failed and he could barely see.
• The Battlefield Monster prepared to attack Jiang Liu but fled when it heard dripping water, then lost track of him.
• Following the dripping sound, Jiang Liu crossed the warning line and reached the area around the mysterious building without being attacked.
• Jiang Liu concealed his hostility with the Heavenly Evolution Codex and suspected that his earlier hostility had provoked the building's attacks.
• Jiang Liu connected the building to the Three Rule Lords' pursuit of eternal life and walked toward it to learn the truth.

Jiang Liu approached a mysterious structure and discovered that the nearby Bloodfall was a suspended waterfall of Supreme God Realm warriors’ blood, imprisoning their resentful consciousnesses. He continued toward the structure, wary of the unknown power sustaining Bloodfall and the possibility that even the Three Rule Lords could not destroy it.

• Jiang Liu focused his mind to resist the powerful resentments around the mysterious structure and continued approaching it.
• Jiang Liu realized the sound of rushing water came from blood, not water, and saw a red waterfall filled with the blood of dead martial warriors.
• Jiang Liu watched the trapped phantoms repeatedly try and fail to escape Bloodfall, and concluded that shattering it might free their consciousnesses.
• Jiang Liu sensed an unknown, formidable presence behind Bloodfall and reasoned that even the Three Rule Lords had likely been unable to break it.
• Jiang Liu left Bloodfall behind and continued toward the increasingly clear mysterious structure.

Jiang Liu approached a divine hall built from martial artists’ bodies and sensed the resentful spirits sealed within its walls. He suspected the hall predated the War of Rules and wondered whether its master had influenced the Three Rule Lords, but the chapter leaves the bodies’ origin unresolved as he considers whether they belonged to ancient Qi Refiners.

• Jiang Liu sensed powerful resentment around the divine hall and realized that its walls sealed the souls of martial artists.
• Jiang Liu advanced carefully, keeping his mind calm so the hall would not detect him and attack.
• Jiang Liu discovered that the hall’s walls were made from martial artists’ bodies, whose lack of Three Realms elemental energy suggested they had not died in the War of Rules.
• Jiang Liu suspected the divine hall had existed before the War of Rules and that the Three Rule Lords might have started the conflict after discovering it.
• Jiang Liu sensed a hidden consciousness watching him, but it gradually withdrew as he approached without hostility.
• Jiang Liu examined the bodies’ traces of qi and wondered whether they belonged to Qi Refiners from an earlier age.

Jiang Liu was forced into the Divine Hall of Rules, where a sealed Divine Soul tried to seize his body. Cut off from the battle outside, he found that his traversal ability still worked and prepared to explore the hall and face the threat.

• Jiang Liu suspected the hall's master was an ancient Qi Refiner who had orchestrated the War of Rules and watched him from the roof.
• The hall's doors opened, and the Bloodfall struck Jiang Liu from behind, sending him inside before blocking the entrance as the doors shut.
• Jiang Liu sensed a powerful martial artist's aura in a manic laugh and extended his Divine Sense toward it, only for it to be struck back.
• A consciousness revealed that it had waited for years to find a body to possess, and Jiang Liu realized its Divine Soul had survived from the previous War of Rules.
• Jiang Liu discovered that the hall had cut him off from the outside and that his Divine Sense could not leave, but the traversal icon remained lit, so he prepared to investigate.