Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu considered whether to continue cultivating as a martial artist or follow the ancient Qi Refiner path, weighing their different strengths against his desire to help his women advance. He began examining four corpses in hopes of learning more before choosing his future path.

• Jiang Liu used vital energy to grasp the corpses of three cultivators from different races and an exotic beast so he could compare them.
• Jiang Liu reflected that his breakthrough into the Realm of Rules came through his own comprehension of time and space, leaving him uncertain whether to follow the martial artists' path or the Qi Refiners' path.
• Jiang Liu considered the Qi Refiners' superior combat strength and the possibility that the Data Panel supported their cultivation methods.
• Jiang Liu worried that choosing the Qi Refiner path could prevent him from helping his women, who cultivated as Human Race martial artists, pursue eternal life.
• Jiang Liu decided to examine the four corpses first, hoping to discover something useful before making his choice.

Jiang Liu explored the corpse-filled mountain hollow, seeking Qi Refiner cultivation manuals to help strengthen the Human Race against the coming apocalypse. As the corpses rapidly vanished, a hidden Wandering Soul appeared and Jiang Liu prepared to fight it.

• Jiang Liu found that four corpses he had pulled close were too rotten to investigate, while the hollow's lingering auras made the place feel dangerous.
• Jiang Liu considered how Qi Refiner cultivation methods could provide a foundation for techniques better suited to the Human Race than divine manuals.
• The corpses throughout the hollow began decaying and disappearing at an astonishing speed, deepening Jiang Liu's unease.
• A hidden Wandering Soul attacked, and Jiang Liu's primordial-energy barrier blocked its first strike as two-colored light revealed its form.
• Jiang Liu suspected the Wandering Soul had caused the corpses to rot and drew the Phantom Sound Flute, ready to fight.

Jiang Liu tested his newly strengthened body against a Wandering Soul by playing God Fills the World. His fused essence and mental power trapped the creature in an illusion, and he prepared to finish it before it could grow stronger.

• Jiang Liu used the Power of Time-Space Rule to expose the Wandering Soul and hold it in place.
• Jiang Liu played God Fills the World on the Phantom Sound Flute to test his mental power against the Wandering Soul.
• Jiang Liu discovered that his essence and mental power had completely fused after his body was strengthened again.
• The flute melody trapped the Wandering Soul in an illusion without Jiang Liu needing to use the Power of Rule to attack.
• Jiang Liu watched the Wandering Soul succumb to the illusion as a two-colored radiance appeared.

Jiang Liu struck the Wandering Soul with the Power of Time-Space Rule, waking it and forcing it to retreat as its strength rapidly increased. He wondered how it was growing stronger in the ravine, while remaining confident that his control of the Battlefield Space Shard would let him deal with it.

• Jiang Liu used the Power of Time-Space Rule to wound the Wandering Soul and break it free of its illusion.
• The Wandering Soul erupted with black aura, then decided to withdraw and build its strength before fighting Jiang Liu again.
• Jiang Liu noticed the Wandering Soul acted with more intelligence than other soul bodies and puzzled over its sudden growth.
• Jiang Liu reasoned that the Wandering Soul could not exceed the Divine Realm inside the Battlefield Space Shard, which he controlled.
• Jiang Liu wondered how the Wandering Soul was gaining strength because he had sensed no scattered Soul Force in the ravine.

Jiang Liu faced a Wandering Soul whose strength was rapidly rising as scattered Soul Force emerged throughout the battlefield. He drew the Soul Force toward himself for cultivation, leaving the Wandering Soul startled as Jiang Liu’s aura grew stronger.

• The Wandering Soul attacked Jiang Liu with black chaotic auras, but his elemental-energy barrier blocked them easily.
• The Wandering Soul’s strength continued to increase as scattered Soul Force surged into its body, though it feared its soul body might burst.
• Jiang Liu deduced that the dead cultivators’ missing souls were connected to the scattered Soul Force appearing in the battlefield.
• Jiang Liu formed a net of the Power of Rule and used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to draw the scattered Soul Force toward himself.
• The Wandering Soul refined the Soul Force it had already absorbed, then saw the remaining strands surge toward Jiang Liu as his aura grew stronger.

Jiang Liu cultivated with the scattered Soul Force, rapidly strengthening his Divine Sea, while the wandering soul wrongly believed it could use his Devil Race techniques to control him. As Jiang Liu’s power continued to grow, the chapter left him immersed in a strange two-colored vision.

• The wandering soul decided Jiang Liu must be secretly cultivating Devil Race techniques and planned to use that knowledge to control him.
• The narration revealed Jiang Liu had already cultivated techniques from all three races and could have annihilated the wandering soul, but kept it alive to learn what happened there.
• Jiang Liu absorbed the scattered Soul Force and circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex as his Divine Sea expanded.
• Jiang Liu realized the scattered Soul Force was purer and more powerful than the force refined from Grievance Souls.
• Two-colored light spread from Jiang Liu, showing figures aging into ashes and others vanishing as they tried to emerge from the river of space-time.

Jiang Liu’s Power of Rule began taking tangible form, putting him on the path toward the Four Stages of Rule and potentially extraordinary strength. Meanwhile, the Three Rule Lords ordered an early, larger War of Rules, forcing hidden forces and Supreme God Realm cultivators to prepare for battle.

• Jiang Liu’s Power of Rule manifested figures of those he had devoured and refined, showing that he had begun advancing toward the Four Stages of Rule.
• The Three Rule Lords feared the time, space, and life rules being secretly cultivated by rivals, and sought to preserve their balance while pursuing the secret of eternal life from Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai.
• The Three Rule Lords sent orders throughout the void, announcing that the War of Rules would begin early and require twice as many participants.
• Hidden alliances and Supreme God Realm cultivators were found and compelled to join the war, while cultivators across the void returned to their forces to prepare.
• The Three Great Power Alliance faced the greatest burden because it had the most people and therefore had to send the most Supreme God Realm cultivators into battle.

The Three Rule Lords ordered the Three Great Power Alliance factions to send equal numbers of fighters to the upcoming War of Rules, disrupting Bai Ye’s plans and threatening the Holy Wang Pavilion’s survival. Zhao Hao considered recruiting mid-tier and hidden factions, while Bai Ye suspected the battle might be the final War of Rules.

• Bai Ye convened an emergency meeting after receiving the Three Rule Lords’ orders and realized the Holy Master Pavilion would suffer heavy losses.
• Bai Ye reflected on his efforts to recruit allies and cannon fodder, then suspected the Three Rule Lords had changed the battle’s scale because something had shifted in the Ancient Battlefield.
• Zhao Hao worried that the weak Holy Wang Pavilion would have to provide as many participants as the other alliance factions despite its depleted strength.
• Zhao Hao considered recruiting mid-tier and hidden factions but recognized that concealing the identities of dual Power of Rule cultivators would be difficult.
• Zhao Hao kept secret that he had a technique to conceal dual Power of Rule and had ignored the Three Rule Lords’ orders to hunt cultivators like Jiang Liu.

Zhang Cheng realized the Three Rule Lords were nearing the end of their lives and suspected they had launched the War of Rules to seek a path to the next realm. He secretly warned Zhao Hao, and the two pavilion masters prepared to delay the war as much as possible.

• Zhang Cheng used his life-force-detecting cultivation art to learn that the Three Rule Lords' life force was draining unusually fast.
• Zhang Cheng suspected the Three Rule Lords wanted the War of Rules to obtain the secret of breaking through to the next realm, and he decided to delay the conflict.
• Zhang Cheng sent a secret message to Zhao Hao through a messenger using the Dark Light Rule.
• Zhao Hao received Zhang Cheng's warning and assigned the Holy Wang Pavilion's forces to delay the War of Rules.
• Zhang Cheng looked toward the distant void and considered that the War of Rules might bring about the Three Rule Lords' deaths.

The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord reflected on how Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai had drawn the Three Rule Lords into the War of Rules, which accelerated their loss of life force while gradually increasing their strength. Despite suspecting a trap, the Rule Lords continued the battles in hopes of attaining eternal life.

• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord meditated on a life-filled starstone saturated with the Power of Space Rule.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord sensed that his life force was draining faster than before.
• The Three Rule Lords had agreed to Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai's demands after envying their apparent immortality and hoping to advance further.
• The Three Rule Lords held repeated Wars of Rules, sending Supreme God Realm martial artists to fight while battling each other in a blood-colored environment.
• The Three Rule Lords realized that the battles accelerated their own loss of life force, but their strength grew, so they kept holding the War of Rules.

The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord realized that his life force and control over the Power of Space Rule were failing, so he and the other two Rule Lords decided to bring forward the War of Rules. He feared that a change in the Battlefield Space had caused their decline, but they could not investigate it before the Ancient Battlefield passage opened.

• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord concluded that his vitality was draining faster than expected and that he might die within a few years.
• He, the Holy Master of the Human Realm, and the Nether Realm Ghost Lord agreed to bring forward the War of Rules and increase its scale.
• Supreme God Realm warriors received the Three Rule Lords’ orders and prepared to fight rather than risk having their souls destroyed for disobedience.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord considered investigating the Battlefield Space, but the passage could not be opened immediately and their senses and vision had always been restricted inside it.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord suspected that his fellow Rule Lords were also losing control of their Power of Rule and feared the Three Great Power Alliance of the Void would attack if their weakness became known.

The Nether Realm Ghost Lord considered Ming Bai’s Blood Demon Great Art and its role in draining the life force of the three Supreme God Realm warriors. Confident that he could obtain the secret art and control the Bloodfall, he eagerly awaited entering the Battlefield Space.

• The Nether Realm Ghost Lord recognized that Ming Bai practiced the ancient Blood Demon Great Art and wanted to learn its cultivation method.
• He realized the Blood Demon Great Art was accelerating the depletion of his life force and that of the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord and the Human Race Holy Master.
• He suspected Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren had been losing control of their conditions, while the restrictions of the Battlefield Space remained unexplained to him.
• He decided that obtaining the Blood Demon Great Art would help him overcome his lifespan limit and control the Bloodfall.
• He looked forward to entering the Battlefield Space, confident he would obtain the secret art.

The Holy Master of the Human Realm worried that the early War of Rules would end badly, as he suspected Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai had trapped the three rulers while their life forces drained away. He hoped Yunzhi Shangren would provide something substantial, unaware that this hope would never come true.

• The Holy Master of the Human Realm suspected Yunzhi Shangren was a Human martial practitioner cultivating a Devil Race technique and feared that he and Ming Bai would harm them.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm recalled learning that only the three earliest entrants to the Battlefield Space suffered accelerated life-force loss.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm believed the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord had demanded an early War of Rules because his condition had grown critical, while the Nether Realm Ghost Lord seemed unaffected by his own life-force loss.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm recognized that Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren had likely trapped the three rulers, but felt they could not abandon the War after investing so much.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm hoped Yunzhi Shangren would bring something substantial, though he did not know that hope would never be fulfilled.

While evolving the Power of Time-Space Rule, Jiang Liu became trapped in an unknown spacetime surrounded by hostile human and beastly silhouettes. He realized he needed to fully fuse the Powers of Time and Space to reach the Four Stages of Rule, but the silhouettes began attacking before he found a way out.

• Jiang Liu discovered that his deduction of the Power of Time-Space Rule had trapped him in an unknown spacetime filled with powerful human and beastly silhouettes.
• Jiang Liu observed blue and white rays emerging from his body and realized that the Powers of Time and Space had not truly fused.
• Jiang Liu understood that fusing two Powers of Rule was necessary to reach the Four Stages of Rule and considered why the Three Rule Lords barred Supreme God Realm warriors from cultivating multiple Powers.
• The blue Power of Time Rule chased the white Power of Space Rule as if trying to devour it.
• The human and beastly silhouettes roared and cried out, and Jiang Liu realized they could now attack him.

Jiang Liu fought the human and beastly shadows in the illusory space and suspected the aura guiding them was connected to the master of the Divine Hall of Rules. Determined to break through to the Four Stages of Rule, he destroyed the shadows and sensed that his two-colored Power of Rule had merged.

• Jiang Liu realized the human and beastly shadows' attacks were being guided by an abnormal aura that resembled the aura of the Heavenly Evolution Codex.
• He suspected the aura belonged to the missing master of the Divine Hall of Rules, whose recognition was supposedly needed to reach the Four Stages of Rule.
• Jiang Liu resolved to break through that day and attacked the shadows with his white and blue Power of Rule, choosing to force a breakthrough by slaughter.
• His attacks shattered the illusory space and struck the shadows, which fell silent before exploding together.
• Jiang Liu sensed something come undone within him and detected the familiar aura in a shadow that had not fully dissipated.
• As Jiang Liu reached out to cover the remaining shadow, he unknowingly completed the merger of his two-colored Power of Rule.

Jiang Liu fused a small cluster of Time-Space Rule Power and realized the Hall Master of Rules had made his breakthrough unusually easy. He returned to the mountain hollow to absorb Soul Force, while the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue rushed to investigate the Divine Hall of Rules and the Sky Devouring Cat continued devouring the Battlefield Monster’s energy.

• Jiang Liu escaped the illusory space after a figure resembling the Hall Master of Rules appeared and helped him fuse his Power of Time-Space Rule.
• Jiang Liu returned to the mountain hollow and realized that fusing all his Power of Rule could soon let him break through to the Four Stages of Rule.
• Jiang Liu circulated the Heavenly Evolution Codex and drew in the scattered Soul Force as the Devil Race Wandering Soul grew frantic.
• The Divine Hall of Rules erupted with light, prompting the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue to leave the Sky Devouring Cat and investigate.
• The Sky Devouring Cat kept devouring the Battlefield Monster’s violent resentful aura, while Jiang Liu still did not know how to complete his breakthrough.

The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue found its master's contingency measure had restored the Divine Statue of Rules and its own strength. It drove the hidden Grievance Souls from the Divine Hall of Rules, suspected the measure had been triggered by Jiang Liu, and waited for him while searching for its master's message.

• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue sensed its master's aura in the Divine Hall of Rules and found the Divine Statue of Rules restored to its former radiance.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue drew on the Divine Nature to recover its strength and force hidden Grievance Souls out of the walls.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue sealed the hall's entrance to prevent the self-aware Grievance Souls from escaping.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue suspected Jiang Liu's disappearance had triggered its master's contingency measure, reasoning that Jiang Liu was likely its master's incarnation.
• The Divine Soul of the Rule Statue entered the Divine Statue of Rules to wait for Jiang Liu and search for the information its master had left behind.

Jiang Liu absorbed the remaining scattered Soul Force in the mountain hollow, strengthening his soul and fully fusing his Time-Space Rule power. He broke through to the Four Stages of Rule and discovered that he could move through space while leaving a timed image behind, leaving him confident he could withstand the Three Rule Lords.

• Jiang Liu ignored the Devil Race Wandering Soul's pleas and absorbed the scattered Soul Force, while the Wandering Soul retreated to avoid his aura.
• Jiang Liu saw that his Spiritual Avatar had become perfectly clear and refined, marking his soul's advance to a new realm.
• Jiang Liu's Heavenly Evolution Codex fused his white and blue Power of Rule into pale-blue Power of Time-Space Rule.
• Jiang Liu tested his fused power by moving dozens of meters while leaving an image behind at his original position for three seconds.
• Jiang Liu confirmed that he had reached the Four Stages of Rule and concluded that he could face the Three Rule Lords without being at a disadvantage.

Jiang Liu captured and interrogated the hidden Devil Race Wandering Soul, but learned that it knew nothing about the Mountain Hollow Space. After destroying it, he remained concerned that something in the space was obstructing his control and suspected the imprisoned Beast Soul was hiding something.

• Jiang Liu used his strengthened Divine Sense to find the Devil Race Wandering Soul and trapped it in a pale-blue cage.
• Jiang Liu extracted the Wandering Soul's Soul Force, forcing it to confess inside his Divine Soul Space.
• The Wandering Soul said it had known nothing beyond waking to find Jiang Liu, so Jiang Liu shattered it and absorbed its remaining Soul Force.
• Jiang Liu studied the tranquil space, still searching for what was interfering with his control over it.
• Jiang Liu turned his attention to the imprisoned Beast Soul, suspecting it was concealing something.

Jiang Liu trapped and destroyed the beast soul, revealing the Human Race cultivator’s hidden consciousness inside it. He tightened his cage around the consciousness to make it confess what had happened in the Mountain Hollow Space.

• Jiang Liu examined the beast soul and decided its Soul Splitting Technique was no longer useful to him.
• Jiang Liu tightened his Power of Time-Space Rule around the beast soul, which first attacked him and then begged for mercy.
• Jiang Liu compressed the beast soul until it exploded, then trapped its scattered Soul Force in a pale-blue cage.
• The Human Race cultivator’s hidden consciousness revealed itself and asked Jiang Liu to spare its life.
• Jiang Liu tightened the cage further to pressure the consciousness into confessing about the deaths in the Mountain Hollow Space.