Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu confronted a powerful spirit dwelling in an ordinary-looking stone, which attacked his body and wounded his spirit after he tried to communicate with it. He recovered while the Stone of Tianming held back, and he prepared to subdue it.

• Jiang Liu crushed a mound, provoking an aura that charged at him, and his Divine Strike collided with it with enough force to shatter his shield and stagger him.
• Jiang Liu saw that the aura came from an unharmed stone and soothed the trembling Godslayer Blade after it was overpowered in the collision.
• Jiang Liu sent benevolent intent and Divine Sense toward the stone, but they were drawn into a vortex, so he severed the connection and suffered severe spiritual pain.
• The stone erupted with seven-colored radiance and rushed at Jiang Liu, who dodged its attack and retreated to a safer distance.
• Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to nourish his injured spirit while the stone stopped pursuing him, then resolved to subdue the Stone of Tianming.

Jiang Liu recovered from the stone’s attack and suspected the Data Panel had protected him, while he considered how the stone had entered the alternate space. After provoking it, he was pinned by its seven-colored light until a white light freed him, allowing him to retreat to safety.

• Jiang Liu recovered after the Data Panel expelled the foreign consciousness that had attacked his divine soul, and he sensed where the Data Panel was hiding.
• Jiang Liu suspected the stone might have entered the alternate space when the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue lost control, and realized Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai likely wanted him to retrieve it.
• Jiang Liu used Phantom Stomp to press his aura toward the stone, which answered with seven-colored light that overwhelmed his attack.
• The stone’s light pinned Jiang Liu in place, but a white light emerged from his body and restored his freedom.
• Jiang Liu used Nebula Shrunken Earth to retreat and watched the seemingly ordinary stone from a safe distance.

Jiang Liu tried to provoke the stone and exhaust its Soul Force, trusting the Data Panel to protect him, but its counterattack burned his Divine Sea and threatened his Spirit Soul. He remained trapped in an illusion, unaware that the stone’s attack was not what he believed it to be.

• Jiang Liu decided to use the Data Panel to control the stone, unaware that changes in his body and a strange light in his left eye socket were tied to it.
• Jiang Liu attacked the stone with Phantom Stomp and Divine Strike, hoping to draw out repeated strikes and exhaust its Soul Force.
• The stone blocked Jiang Liu’s attacks with seven-colored radiance and sent the radiance surging toward him.
• Jiang Liu’s body and Divine Sea seemed to burn, and he feared his Spirit Soul would wither if the water in his Divine Sea vanished.
• Jiang Liu wondered why the Data Panel had not protected him, while he remained unaware that he had fallen into an illusion.

Jiang Liu was trapped in an illusion that made him burn his own Divine Sea while the Data Panel prepared to abandon him. A prompt from the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue woke him, leaving him to consider the Rule Statue’s power and the Data Panel’s presence in his Divine Sea.

• Jiang Liu erupted with power to expel what he believed was foreign energy, unknowingly burning his Divine Sea in the illusion.
• The Data Panel appeared in his Divine Sea, judged that Jiang Liu would not survive, and began gathering the deep-blue light it had spread there so it could leave him.
• A flash of white light delivered a warning from the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue, and Jiang Liu woke from the illusion and expelled the foreign consciousness.
• Jiang Liu realized the Rule Statue’s soul could monitor the strange space and suppress the Data Panel, then looked at the figure above his Divine Sea and fell into deep thought.

Jiang Liu convinced the Data Panel to remain in his Divine Sea and received a soul-binding attack from it. He prepared to use the new ability against the stone and Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai.

• Jiang Liu sensed the Data Panel detaching from his Divine Sea and asked it to stay.
• The Data Panel halted its departure and used dark-blue light to soothe Jiang Liu’s weakening Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu asked the Data Panel for help dealing with the stone before him.
• The Data Panel expended its fundamental power to give Jiang Liu a soul attack that could bind an opponent regardless of their relative strength.
• Jiang Liu realized the ability could help him fight the stone, Yunzhi Shangren, and Ming Bai.

Jiang Liu used the newly acquired Soul Binding skill to trap the powerful stone that had drawn him into an illusion. He remained at a distance as the stone struggled and weakened, wary that it might still escape.

• Jiang Liu concluded that Soul Binding trapped an opponent's Divine Soul and that the Data Panel had expended considerable energy to use it.
• Jiang Liu realized the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue had detected his illusion because it had regained control of the strange space with his help.
• Jiang Liu fired two deep-blue rays infused with Time Rule, Space Rule, and his Divine Soul Power toward the stone, then felt the skill weaken his Divine Soul.
• The rays pursued the stone and wrapped around it, binding it tightly as it screamed and struggled.
• Jiang Liu stayed back and watched the bound stone weaken, fearing its strength and waiting before approaching.

Jiang Liu watched Soul Binding weaken the seven-colored stone while he recovered his depleted energy and Soul Force. The stone’s radiance faded, but its subjugation remained uncertain as Jiang Liu prepared to deal with it and whatever was happening in the Divine Hall of Rules.

• The stone erupted with divine-soul pressure and tried to control Jiang Liu, but the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue’s warning had saved him.
• Soul Binding entangled the stone for half an hour, weakening its divine-soul aura and seven-colored radiance along with its own deep-blue beams.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex to restore his essence energy and spiritual power while his Spiritual Avatar slowly recovered from severe Soul Force depletion.
• Jiang Liu suppressed his divine-soul injuries and began silently plotting how to deal with the now-plain stone.

Jiang Liu cautiously approached and seized the stone after the Data Panel’s Soul Binding trapped its Divine Soul. Through the stone’s memories, he learned it was named Tianming and had been transformed by mysterious seven-colored radiance, leaving Jiang Liu worried that he had interfered with a supreme expert’s hidden plan.

• Jiang Liu confirmed Soul Binding had rendered the stone unresponsive and used primeval qi to take hold of it, shrinking it to the size of an egg.
• Jiang Liu cautiously touched the stone with his Divine Sense, and the stone shared a vision of its past.
• The vision showed Tianming arriving as a black stone, being transformed by seven-colored radiance, and beginning a long search for the source of that power.
• Tianming sensed the same seven-colored radiance on a battlefield, but a powerful force moved it into the alternate space, where it remained to conceal itself and recover from injuries.
• Jiang Liu realized Tianming might be a hidden fallback plan of a supreme expert and feared that trapping its Divine Soul could draw that expert’s attention.

Jiang Liu considered the Stone of Tianming’s mysterious origins and suspected it was connected to the master of the Divine Hall of Rules and an ancient conflict involving karma. When he tossed the stone away to avoid being found, it transformed into a miniature Tianming Divine Hall.

• Jiang Liu concluded that the Stone of Tianming might be a hot potato and that Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai’s hoped-for treasure was nowhere in the alternate dimension.
• Jiang Liu recalled three auras in the stone’s vision and suspected that its owner, the master of the Divine Hall of Rules, and a force tied to karma had fought in ancient times.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Stone of Tianming had been hidden in the Divine Statue of Rules’ alternate dimension to keep karma from locating it.
• Jiang Liu tossed the Stone of Tianming away, but seven-colored radiance surrounded it and it expanded into a miniature Tianming Divine Hall.

Jiang Liu watched the Tianming Divine Hall battle the Divine Hall of Rules after the hall emerged from the Stone of Tianming, then hunted Grievance Souls to replenish his Soul Force. The battle continued to shift as Jiang Liu kept hunting.

• The Stone of Tianming transformed into the Tianming Divine Hall and broke free of Soul Binding, exposing its aura.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue attacked the Tianming Divine Hall, whose seven-colored light blocked the strike and triggered a violent clash.
• Jiang Liu wondered what had restored the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue's strength and focused on waiting to see which side would win.
• Jiang Liu began hunting and devouring the remaining Grievance Souls to replenish the Soul Force in his Divine Sea.
• As Jiang Liu continued hunting, the battle between the Tianming Divine Hall and the Divine Hall of Rules began to change.

Jiang Liu watched the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue overwhelm Tianming Divine Hall, but the battered hall remained intact despite repeated attacks. He sensed a fluctuation of divine soul energy from inside it, leaving its true nature uncertain.

• Jiang Liu searched the alternate dimension and found no other Grievance Soul, then kept his distance as Tianming Divine Hall and the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue fought.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue gained the advantage as Divine Hall of Rules continued supplying it with energy, while Tianming Divine Hall remained trapped beneath its seal.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue struck Tianming Divine Hall with a beam of white light, dimming its radiance and leaving it seemingly close to destruction.
• Jiang Liu questioned whether Tianming Divine Hall was a replica after seeing its small size and unusual durability.
• Tianming Divine Hall survived several more blows without losing any part of its shape, and Jiang Liu sensed a fluctuation of divine soul energy within it.

Jiang Liu watched the soul hidden inside the Tianming Divine Hall emerge and clash with the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue, while the collision shook the alternate space. Seeing the hidden figure wield a book resembling Tianming’s Codex, Jiang Liu began to doubt the truth about Tianming’s reported death.

• The soul concealed inside the Tianming Divine Hall revealed itself, and its seven-colored radiance collided evenly with the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue’s white light.
• Jiang Liu worried that the battle might destroy the alternate space but relaxed when he saw that the Data Panel’s traversal icon still shone.
• Jiang Liu wondered whether Tianming had left behind a soul to recover and reasoned that Tianming, Karma, and Rules might all have perished in their ancient battle.
• A sword-wielding figure and a book-wielding figure appeared fighting in the distance, and Jiang Liu recognized that the book’s aura resembled the Tianming Codex.
• Jiang Liu recalled Tianming’s reported death and began to suspect that the familiar codex meant the story of Tianming’s fate was not as it seemed.

Jiang Liu suspected that the Tianming phantom was connected to Tianming from the Human Realm, while the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue sealed the exit and fought Tianming and the Stone Soul. Jiang Liu searched for a way out and sensed that he had found the place to open it.

• Jiang Liu suspected a connection between the Tianming phantom and Tianming from the Human Realm because of the phantom's weapon and aura, and he reconsidered Tianming's death.
• The Tianming phantom used a seven-colored book against the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue, which struck the book away and unleashed a powerful attack.
• Jiang Liu left the battle and tried to escape, fearing the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue might turn on him once it no longer needed his help.
• Jiang Liu found that the exit had sealed shut and searched its location with his Divine Sense rather than reveal his spatial travel ability.
• The Stone Soul of the Stone of Tianming joined the battle, while the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue seemed to be delaying for time.
• Jiang Liu sensed the place where the sealed exit could be opened.

Jiang Liu escaped the strange dimension while the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue sealed it and prepared to defeat the phantom of Tianming and the Stone of Tianming. Jiang Liu emerged in an unfamiliar place, where the Data Panel showed no danger.

• Jiang Liu passed through the anomaly and left the strange dimension, sealing its entrance behind him.
• The phantom of Tianming and the Stone of Tianming realized they were trapped with the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue and were being worn down.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue revealed that Jiang Liu's destruction of the Grievance Souls had restored its control over the strange dimension.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue intensified its attack on the phantom of Tianming and the Stone of Tianming, then planned to deal with Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai.
• Jiang Liu arrived in an unfamiliar place and saw that the Data Panel showed no danger.

Jiang Liu returned to the Divine Hall of Rules and found it transformed, with the Divine Statue of Rules restraining the shadows trapped in its walls. He realized the hall held no secret to eternal life and suspected the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue had used the promise of restoring Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai as bait.

• Jiang Liu emerged into the bright, peaceful Divine Hall of Rules and recognized his own statue there.
• Jiang Liu saw that the attendants and prayer mats carried divine power that kept the shadowy figures in the walls from causing trouble.
• Jiang Liu found no clue to eternal life in the hall or the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue's other space, where he had discovered only the Stone of Tianming.
• Jiang Liu concluded that Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai could not regain human form and suspected the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue had dangled that hope to delay them.
• Jiang Liu realized that many people sent into the other space might have died there, and his heart tightened because he had returned alive.

Jiang Liu explored the Divine Hall of Rules while wondering why Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai had not attacked it. Outside, Ming Bai recovered his original body and freed himself from Bloodfall, but Yunzhi Shangren immediately attacked him as both struggled to stabilize their newly restored forms.

• Jiang Liu sensed unusual changes in the Grievance Souls within the Divine Hall of Rules and continued exploring while suspecting that someone had sealed the hall.
• Ming Bai recovered his original body from Bloodfall and realized that he had escaped its control, making Bloodfall his weapon.
• Yunzhi Shangren recognized that Ming Bai had returned to his own body and attacked before either of them could finish adapting to their restored forms.
• Yunzhi Shangren struck Ming Bai with a net of Powers of Rule, and Ming Bai countered by turning Bloodfall into countless blood threads.
• The Powers of Rule and blood threads destroyed each other, but Ming Bai realized that he was at a disadvantage.

Yunzhi Shangren tried to force Ming Bai to join him against the Divine Statue of Rules, but Ming Bai remained defiant despite his still-recovering strength and the dwindling power of the Bloodfall. Their renewed clash shook the Divine Hall of Rules and jolted Jiang Liu awake.

• Ming Bai recovered his resolve after Yunzhi Shangren’s attack and judged that his rival’s strength had likely reached its peak.
• Yunzhi Shangren decided to overpower Ming Bai and force him to join forces against the Divine Statue of Rules, which was close to taking control of the hall.
• Yunzhi Shangren attacked Ming Bai with palm shadows infused with the white mist surrounding the Divine Hall of Rules.
• Ming Bai sent the Bloodfall and its remaining Grievance Souls against Yunzhi Shangren, but his attack consumed more of the souls and weakened the Bloodfall.
• Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai clashed again, shaking the Divine Hall of Rules and waking Jiang Liu as he explored inside.

Jiang Liu realized Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren might have regained their bodies and feared they would threaten the Three Realms, so he hid beneath the Divine Statue of Rules. Meanwhile, the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue fought the Stone of Tianming and the Tianming phantom, aware that its struggle had left the two fiends free to recover.

• Jiang Liu sensed unfamiliar auras shaking the Divine Hall of Rules and suspected Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren had changed or regained their bodies.
• Jiang Liu feared the two would kill him and endanger the Three Realms, and resolved to prepare to rescue those he cared about if necessary.
• Jiang Liu concealed his aura and hid beneath the Divine Statue of Rules as impacts continued to shake the hall.
• The Grievance Souls appeared along the hall's walls, waiting for it to collapse and free them.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue continued attacking the Stone of Tianming and the Tianming phantom, recognizing that it had been unable to hinder Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren while they obtained their bodies.

The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue feigned urgency to make the Stone of Tianming and Tianming's phantom image spend their Soul Force faster, while secretly trying to kill Jiang Liu before he was discovered. Outside the alternate space, Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai's battle neared its climax as Jiang Liu sensed that something was wrong.

• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue abruptly intensified its attacks, and the Stone of Tianming and Tianming's phantom image guessed that events outside had forced it to hurry.
• The Stone of Tianming and Tianming's phantom image adopted a mobile delaying strategy, but their Soul Force rapidly dwindled as they tried to withstand the assault.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue secretly smiled, having feigned anxiety to lure them into exhausting themselves while Jiang Liu remained concealed beside its statue.
• Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai's battle outside the Divine Hall of Rules reached its climax, sending powerful shockwaves through the hall.
• Jiang Liu sensed the growing power of the battle outside and felt that something was wrong.

Jiang Liu hid a false Grievance Soul inside the wall of the Divine Hall of Rules while reflecting on the mystery of the Heavenly Evolution Codex and the schemes that had guided his growth. He suspected the Lord of Rules was connected to his cultivation technique and resolved to gather more energy for the Data Panel.

• Jiang Liu placed a teleportation point by the Divine Statue of Rules, while the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue noticed his actions but did not interfere.
• Jiang Liu created a phantom that imitated the aura of a Grievance Soul and sent it into the wall, where the trapped Grievance Souls accepted it as one of their own.
• Jiang Liu recalled that the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue had asked about the origin of his cultivation technique and said that someone it knew practiced the same one.
• Jiang Liu inferred that the person was likely the Lord of Rules and worried that the similarities between them pointed to a hidden scheme.
• Jiang Liu considered the coincidences that had helped him rise to the Supreme God Realm and decided to find more energy to charge the Data Panel.