Chapter Summaries

The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue recognized Jiang Liu’s contracted beast as a powerful Mutant Exotic Beast with a devouring ability and reflected on its unusual strength and growth. Reassured by the beast’s arrival, he resumed attacking Battlefield Space Consciousness, though less frantically.

• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue realized Jiang Liu’s contracted beast was a Mutant Exotic Beast and believed it had the potential to make Jiang Liu exceptionally powerful.
• He identified the beast’s special ability as devouring, which let it rapidly convert what it consumed into strength and break through without discomfort.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue recalled that Mutant Exotic Beasts were difficult to raise and often faced deadly hostility from other exotic beasts, but grew rapidly after reaching the Saint Realm.
• He recognized that Jiang Liu’s beast had already shown the strength to face the Battlefield Monster head-on, despite being weaker than it.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue raised his white-glowing longsword and attacked Battlefield Space Consciousness again, his confidence renewed by the beast’s arrival.

Jiang Liu sensed that the Battlefield Space was changing as the Sky Devouring Cat fought the Battlefield Monster, while six other shards of the Ancient Battlefield Space converged on the location. The Battlefield Space Consciousness intensified its assault on the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue and targeted Jiang Liu, who remained unaware of the danger as he flew higher to investigate the space.

• Jiang Liu noticed spatial wrinkles appearing as the Sky Devouring Cat battled the Battlefield Monster and wondered whether the Battlefield Space was changing or collapsing.
• Six other shards of the Ancient Battlefield Space, each with its own consciousness, approached after sensing that this shard's location had been exposed.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness focused on defeating the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue so it could capture Jiang Liu and deal with the Battlefield Monster.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness intensified its attacks on the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue, while Jiang Liu flew into the sky to examine the battlefield white mist and sense the space more closely.

Jiang Liu investigated the Battlefield Space and realized that its hidden landscapes formed a world sustained by the Divine Senses of the dead. With the Battlefield Monster and Battlefield Space Consciousness occupied by their conflict, he recognized this as his chance to seize control of the shard, though the chapter ended before he acted.

• Jiang Liu released his Divine Sense to explore the Battlefield Space and figure out how to take control of the shard.
• Jiang Liu realized the Battlefield Monster and Battlefield Space Consciousness were too occupied with one another to stop him.
• Jiang Liu learned that the Battlefield Space Consciousness had been scheming to seize the shard, but the restored Divine Soul of the Rule Statue had disrupted its plans.
• Jiang Liu discovered mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, and grasslands hidden beneath the white mist, as well as the lingering Divine Senses of the dead.
• Jiang Liu deduced that the Battlefield Space contained a mysterious power that could let someone break through to a higher level, and understood the Data Panel's instruction to seize control.

Jiang Liu sought to claim the Battlefield Space Shard and discovered that thoroughly investigating it was the first step toward control. As he began to form a connection with the shard, six other shard consciousnesses rushed toward its exposed location, unaware to him.

• Jiang Liu decided to take control of the Battlefield Space Shard and considered leaving his mark on it.
• The six other Battlefield Space consciousnesses learned the shard’s location and hurried toward it to claim it.
• Jiang Liu studied the shard’s self-sustaining energy, living beings, and consciousness while searching for a way to control it.
• Jiang Liu’s Divine Sense reached across the Battlefield Space as he probed it, unnoticed by the combatants.
• Jiang Liu felt a connection forming with the shard, and the Data Panel appeared with guidance on taking control by investigating it thoroughly.

Jiang Liu used the Data Panel’s method to imprint a two-colored pattern into the Battlefield Space Shard and take control of it. He gained a clear view of the battlefield, the ability to command its white mist, and control over the Battlefield Space Consciousness.

• Jiang Liu formed a two-colored pattern with the Power of Time-Space Rule, causing the Battlefield Space to tremble.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness became distracted by Jiang Liu’s pattern, allowing the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue to strike it with a larger white-light sword formation.
• The Sky Devouring Cat continued devouring the Battlefield Monster’s resentful aura, leaving the monster on the defensive and struggling to escape.
• Jiang Liu sent the pattern into a hidden location, strengthening his connection to the Battlefield Space Shard and bringing the Battlefield Space Consciousness under his control.

After Jiang Liu took control of the Battlefield Space Shard, the wounded Battlefield Space Consciousness rushed to find him, fearing he could control its existence. The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue followed, concerned that whoever controlled the battlefield could expel the Divine Hall of Rules and expose its location.

• The Battlefield Space Consciousness realized Jiang Liu had seized control of the Battlefield Space Shard and that its own consciousness was bound to it.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness abandoned its attempt to heal and spent origin soul force speeding toward Jiang Liu.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue watched the Battlefield Space Consciousness flee into the mist and wondered what had happened.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue followed, fearing the Divine Hall of Rules could be expelled and its location exposed.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue used the Divine Statue of Rules' divine nature to accelerate and catch up.

Jiang Liu was drawn into a mountain hollow where unusually potent white mist flooded into him and strengthened his body. As the Heavenly Evolution Codex refined the mist, a familiar aura emerged and the Data Panel appeared, leaving Jiang Liu focused on the changes within himself.

• Jiang Liu sensed that the white mist now entering his body was nourishing and strengthening him beyond what ordinary battlefield mist could do.
• He reasoned that ordinary white mist had gradually cultivated the Battlefield Monster's immense strength.
• Jiang Liu followed the dense mist into a mountain hollow, where he sensed a familiar aura within the thicker mist.
• The mist surged into Jiang Liu, and the Heavenly Evolution Codex began refining it and nourishing his body.
• A two-colored light of Space and Time Rule powers appeared above Jiang Liu, and the Data Panel revealed itself, but he was too occupied to notice.

Jiang Liu endured the white mist reforging his body, then discovered his control over the Power of Rule had improved and followed a familiar fused aura into a mountain hollow. The Battlefield Space Consciousness and the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue arrived at his former location but could not find him.

• Jiang Liu allowed the white mist to flow through him, strengthening and reforging his meridians and flesh as he circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex.
• Jiang Liu examined his Data Template and realized another five days had passed while he controlled the Battlefield Space Shard and his Third Stage of Rule advanced.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the white mist's strengthening had made his control over the Power of Rule smoother, bringing him closer to the Four Stages of Rule.
• Jiang Liu recognized a familiar fused aura in the blue-and-white radiance around his hands and connected it to the two-colored pattern he had drawn earlier.
• Jiang Liu entered the mountain hollow, which transformed into a different scene and shocked him.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness and the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue reached Jiang Liu's former location but could not detect his aura or find where he had gone.

The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue and the Battlefield Space Consciousness searched for Jiang Liu, each reacting differently to his disappearance. The Divine Soul went to support the Sky Devouring Cat, but held back when the cat attacked it, leaving the cat to continue fighting the Battlefield Monster.

• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue stayed calm because it sensed that Jiang Liu was not in danger, while remaining wary of the Battlefield Space Consciousness.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness spread its Source Power as white mist to search for Jiang Liu and determine whether he had taken control of the Battlefield Space Shard, but found no trace of him.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue headed to help the Sky Devouring Cat fight the Battlefield Monster, reasoning that Jiang Liu would return for his tamed beast.
• The Sky Devouring Cat fired Dark Primal Qi at the Divine Soul when it approached, so the Divine Soul retreated and sealed off the battlefield with its sword.
• The Sky Devouring Cat intensified its attacks, seeking to temper its strength and devour the Battlefield Monster's resentment before killing it.

The Battlefield Monster fought the Sky Devouring Cat after realizing that changes in the Battlefield Space had left it with nowhere to escape. The cat swallowed its violent resentful aura, but struggled to control the growing amount as the battle became increasingly dangerous.

• After Jiang Liu took control of the Battlefield Space, its resentful auras thinned, and the Battlefield Monster realized it could not survive even if it escaped to the other half of the battlefield.
• Trapped by the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue and blocked by the Sky Devouring Cat, the Battlefield Monster drew out its origin resentful aura and attacked with all its strength.
• The Sky Devouring Cat cut apart the incoming black aura and swallowed it, growing stronger as the Battlefield Monster realized its attacks were fueling the cat.
• The Battlefield Monster continued pouring out violent resentful aura, while the Sky Devouring Cat secretly struggled to contain it, its aura becoming disordered and its belly swelling.
• As the Battlefield Monster unleashed more aura, the Sky Devouring Cat’s risk of losing control and bursting apart increased.

The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue saved the Sky Devouring Cat from the Battlefield Monster’s violent resentful aura, then destroyed the weakened monster and its trapped souls. After returning its remaining Divine Nature to the Divine Statue of Rules, it left the Battlefield Space Consciousness near a suspicious stretch of hills and ravines.

• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue severed the Battlefield Monster’s resentful aura before it could overwhelm the Sky Devouring Cat, which struggled to refine the aura already inside it.
• The Battlefield Monster lost its will to fight after its attack was interrupted, and the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue struck it with a net of white light.
• The Battlefield Monster exploded, releasing the souls it had devoured along with its own soul, and the white-light net swept them all away with Divine Nature.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue returned its remaining Divine Nature to the Divine Statue of Rules after the attack drained it and dimmed the Divine Hall of Rules.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness reached a stretch of hills and ravines and sensed that something was wrong.

Jiang Liu entered a hidden valley filled with the remains of powerful ancient beings and realized they could help him investigate how to advance beyond the Divine Realm. The Battlefield Space Consciousness searched nearby for him but failed to discover the valley, missing a chance to strengthen itself.

• Jiang Liu found a vast battlefield strewn with the bones of the Human, Demon, Divine, and Beast Races, whose lingering auras seemed stronger than those of the beings he knew.
• Jiang Liu suspected the remains belonged to the true ancients whose war had shattered the Battlefield Space, though the information he had obtained about its history seemed contradictory.
• Jiang Liu recognized the bones as valuable subjects for studying breakthroughs beyond the Divine Realm and approached a Demon Race cultivator's remains.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness searched the valleys for Jiang Liu, hoping to learn whether he had taken control of the shard, but it could not see the hidden valley.
• The Battlefield Space Consciousness left without finding Jiang Liu, missing the opportunity to discover the valley and increase its strength.

Jiang Liu tested the corpse of a Devil Race warrior and realized its lingering aura belonged to a realm beyond the Divine Realm. He began using the corpse to study the Power of Rule, then struck at it with his own Time-Space Rule power.

• Jiang Liu's essence-formed hand was shattered by the Devil Race warrior's corpse, revealing the immense strength it had possessed in life.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the corpse and the other powerful remains in the hollow had likely reached beyond the Divine Realm.
• Jiang Liu wrapped himself in the Power of Time-Space Rule and gained new insights into it in the hollow's unusual environment.
• Jiang Liu sensed that ownerless Power of Rule still clung to the Devil Race warrior's corpse and wondered why no Wandering Souls had appeared there.
• Jiang Liu realized the hollow isolated consciousness probes and weakened his connection to the Battlefield Space Shard.
• Jiang Liu struck toward the Devil Race warrior's corpse with dual-colored radiance.

Jiang Liu examined the ancient corpses to learn about the Divine Realm, but a Devil Race corpse self-destructed rather than let him touch it. After a Human Race corpse allowed him to draw it close, Jiang Liu began investigating it and was suddenly confronted by a vision of a great melee.

• Jiang Liu pressed his Power of Rule against a Devil Race corpse, which exploded and scattered chaotic black aura rather than fall into his hands.
• Jiang Liu realized his body could endure the corpses’ auras and resisted a Devil Race cultivator’s attempt to lure his Divine Soul away.
• Jiang Liu reached past a Devil Race corpse and seized a Human Race corpse after its protective aura recognized him and relented.
• Jiang Liu reflected on how a powerful Divine Soul needed a strong body and considered the Battlefield Monster’s unstable assembled body.
• Jiang Liu extended his Divine Sense to investigate the Human Race corpse, but a gigantic scene of a great melee suddenly appeared before him.

Jiang Liu watched a lingering aura recreate the slaughter of powerful Three Races cultivators and concluded they had been lured into an illusion in the Battlefield Space Shard. He suspected the trap’s mastermind had been killed or thwarted when the Divine Hall of Rules appeared, and wondered whether the mastermind’s remains were among the skeletons devoured by the Battlefield Monster.

• Jiang Liu recognized the vision as a brief recreation of the ancient battle, preserved by the final obsession of a Human Race cultivator.
• Jiang Liu realized the Three Races cultivators had likely been trapped in an illusion and made to fight until they died.
• Jiang Liu deduced that the trap had targeted powerful cultivators seeking a breakthrough beyond the Divine Realm and had been laid by someone familiar with the Battlefield Space Shard.
• Jiang Liu concluded the battle predated the Divine Hall of Rules because the cultivators’ Power of Rule differed from that cultivated afterward.
• Jiang Liu speculated that the Divine Hall of Rules had disrupted the mastermind’s plan, perhaps killing him, and that his skeleton might be among those eaten by the Battlefield Monster.

Jiang Liu investigated the corpses left in the Battlefield Space Shard, reasoning that the creator of the vast illusion array had likely died after the battle over the Divine Hall of Rules. When he probed another Human Race cultivator’s corpse, a Beast Soul appeared in his Divine Sea, revealing an unexpected secret.

• Jiang Liu laid down the first Human Race cultivator’s corpse and used the clue it had preserved to investigate the illusion array’s creator.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the creator had probably never returned to the battlefield and was likely dead after the battle over the Divine Hall of Rules.
• The first Human Race cultivator’s corpse decayed into ashes after Jiang Liu examined it.
• Jiang Liu grabbed another Human Race cultivator’s corpse with a hand formed from essence, despite its aura resisting him.
• Jiang Liu probed the corpse with his Divine Sense, and a Beast Soul appeared above his Divine Sea.

Jiang Liu suspected that a Human cultivator had imprisoned a powerful Beast Soul inside his body while alive and investigated the cultivator to learn his Beast Soul cultivation method. He discovered the Essence circulation had no obvious irregularities, leaving the method's secrets unresolved.

• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Human cultivator had likely imprisoned the Beast Soul while alive, since the surrounding battlefield showed no signs that it had absorbed lingering souls.
• Jiang Liu considered why the weaker cultivator had sealed the powerful Beast Soul inside himself and suspected he had tried and failed to cultivate by devouring it.
• Jiang Liu decided to preserve the Beast Soul as an experimental subject and sealed it with a mental barrier.
• Jiang Liu examined the Human cultivator's body and found that the Essence circulation trajectory revealed no unusual features.

Jiang Liu examined a Human Race cultivator’s corpse and found that the man had imprisoned a Beast Soul without using it to cultivate. His investigation led him to compare martial artists and Qi Refiners, while his suspicions about the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue and the Heavenly Evolution Codex grew.

• Jiang Liu examined the corpse again and confirmed that the cultivator had no method for devouring members of the Beast Race.
• Jiang Liu studied the cultivator’s essence circulation and considered how Qi Refiners’ direct cultivation differed from the slower, safer path of martial artists.
• Jiang Liu concluded that the Human Realm’s depleted Heaven and Earth Essence had led the Human Race to abandon Qi Refiners’ methods, but its recovery could allow those methods to flourish again.
• Jiang Liu recalled learning that the Heavenly Evolution Codex was an evolved Qi Refiner method and that its devouring effect matched his soul devouring.
• Jiang Liu remained wary of the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue after sensing the Heavenly Evolution Codex’s aura from it.
• Jiang Liu sensed no devouring aura in the corpse and wondered about the story behind the Beast Soul imprisoned within the cultivator.

Jiang Liu investigated the unusual Beast Soul that had emerged from the dead cultivator Ming and discovered that it shared Ming’s aura without appearing to be a contracted beast. He recalled an ancient method of permanently splitting a Divine Soul, suggesting the Beast Soul might be one of Ming’s independent soul fragments.

• Jiang Liu sensed that the Beast Soul was unharmed and carried a trace of the Human Race cultivator’s aura, though the cultivator showed no signs of having devoured it.
• Jiang Liu attacked the Beast Soul with two-colored Power of Rule, but its Soul Force barrier blocked the attack.
• The Beast Soul wondered how it had provoked Jiang Liu, explaining that it had remained trapped inside Ming’s corpse since Ming died.
• Jiang Liu sensed a cultivator-like Divine Soul fluctuation in the Beast Soul and ruled out the possibility that it was Ming’s contracted beast.
• Jiang Liu remembered an ancient record about martial artists permanently splitting their Divine Souls into separate entities that could survive independently.

Jiang Liu recognized that a dead Human Race cultivator had used an unusual Soul Splitting Technique to create a surviving Beast Soul, which he imprisoned for later study. He suspected someone had looted the Battlefield Space and decided to search the remaining corpses for clues about their cultivation methods and Power of Rule.

• Jiang Liu realized the Human Race cultivator's Beast Soul had survived its main soul's death through an unusual method of splitting divine souls.
• Jiang Liu concluded the trapped Beast Soul had grown weak from lacking replenishment, but kept it imprisoned in his Spirit Sea Space for later study.
• Jiang Liu found no manuals, valuables, weapons, or Space Pouches on the corpses and suspected someone had collected them after the battle.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the person behind the trap had likely hidden the collected belongings somewhere in the Battlefield Space.
• Jiang Liu turned to inspect the other corpses for cultivation methods and clues about their initially grasped Power of Rule.