Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu restrained the Human Race cultivator’s lingering consciousness and separated it from the Beast Soul to question them. After they confessed what they knew, Jiang Liu obtained answers to some of his questions.

• The Human Race cultivator’s lingering consciousness begged Jiang Liu to stop tightening the cage and offered to pay any price.
• Jiang Liu paused the Power of Time-Space Rule and asked why the cultivator had appeared there.
• The lingering consciousness and the Beast Soul realized Jiang Liu did not seem to belong to their era.
• Jiang Liu split the Beast Soul and the lingering consciousness into separate cages.
• Jiang Liu questioned them, and both confessed what they knew, leaving him with answers to some of his questions.

Jiang Liu learned from Tang Ya’s memories that cultivators who broke through in the mountain hollow became trapped and driven to fight, leaving nearly everyone dead. He suspected the space had been designed as a trap but still did not know who created it or why, and wondered whether he would have to break through the barrier to escape.

• Tang Ya’s memories revealed that rumors of a space where cultivators could rapidly break through drew Supreme God Realm cultivators from across the Three Realms.
• As more cultivators arrived and tried to claim the space, the Human, Devil, and Divine Races joined forces against the Beast Race, whose members fought together and gained the upper hand.
• After breaking through, many cultivators and beasts became unable to control their murderous intent, and a mysterious force prevented them from leaving the space.
• Tang Ya avoided breaking through while beginning the Soul Splitting Technique, but the other survivors noticed his unusual strength and ambushed him, leaving only a strand of his consciousness in the Beast Soul.
• Jiang Liu concluded that someone may have created the space to trap and kill the races’ strongest fighters, then wondered whether he would have to shatter the barrier to escape.

Jiang Liu investigated the mysteries of Mountain Hollow Space and secretly watched Tang Ya merge with the Beast Soul and disappear. He followed Tang Ya to discover what he was hiding and continued seeking the secrets of the space.

• Jiang Liu considered the corpses and unexplained disappearances in Mountain Hollow Space, then left the remnant consciousness behind to search the area.
• Tang Ya recovered, merged with the Beast Soul, concealed his aura, and flew into a hidden corner.
• Jiang Liu watched Tang Ya from afar, revealing that he had used a consciousness clone to fool him.
• Jiang Liu decided to follow Tang Ya while continuing to investigate the force that might prevent cultivators from leaving the space.

Tang Ya hid in a concealed cave and revealed that he had deceived Jiang Liu about what happened after the battle. After failing to advance beyond the second stage of rules, he decided to cultivate a Devil Race technique and devour Divine Souls so he could grow stronger and seek revenge on Jiang Liu.

• Tang Ya sealed the cave entrance and concealed it with a barrier array.
• Tang Ya absorbed the Beast Soul’s remaining Soul Force and advanced to the second stage of rules, but could not grow any stronger.
• Tang Ya realized Jiang Liu’s attack had ruined his plan to use the Beast Soul to reach the Four Stages of Rule.
• Tang Ya examined the divine weapons and belongings he had collected from the battlefield and acknowledged that he had lied to Jiang Liu about later events.
• Tang Ya chose to cultivate the Devil Race’s Divine Soul-devouring technique and planned to use his newfound strength to take revenge on Jiang Liu.

Tang Ya switched to a Devil Race cultivation technique and prepared to devour the Soul Force from a divine artifact, despite suffering a painful backlash. Jiang Liu arrived outside the mountain cave, discovered Tang Ya had concealed it with a flawless formation, and decided to investigate what lay inside.

• Tang Ya seized a saber-shaped divine artifact and used Divine Soul Power to destroy the divine soul inside it, releasing scattered Soul Force.
• Tang Ya circulated the Devil Race cultivation technique, which clashed with his original technique and caused his aura to turn black and his strength to plummet.
• Tang Ya endured the pain and completed the first step of switching techniques, then began drawing black energy toward the scattered Soul Force to attempt his first devouring.
• Jiang Liu arrived at the mountain cave and realized a formation concealed it so completely that he could not sense it.
• Jiang Liu recognized Tang Ya's formidable cultivation and formation skills and decided to investigate the cave.

Tang Ya frantically absorbed scattered soul force inside a concealed mountain cave while Jiang Liu searched for him outside. Jiang Liu forced his way through the Concealment Formation, exposing Tang Ya and leaving the two facing one another.

• Tang Ya shattered divine artifacts and absorbed their scattered soul force, while stronger artifact spirits began forming in the cave.
• Jiang Liu searched the mountain, then drew the Godslayer Blade when he could not locate Tang Ya or detect the formation.
• Jiang Liu used the blade’s Power of Rule to strike the hidden space, confirming that Tang Ya was inside despite the formation withstanding his attack.
• Jiang Liu pressed his suppressive aura against the formation and cut through it with the Godslayer Blade.
• Tang Ya appeared before Jiang Liu, shocked.

Jiang Liu broke through the Concealment Formation and saved Tang Ya from the Artifact Spirits, then began absorbing the scattered Soul Force and spirits. Tang Ya stopped resisting as Jiang Liu prepared to deal with him after finishing, while the reason Tang Ya had hidden the dead cultivators’ possessions—and why he had not moved any corpses—became clear.

• Jiang Liu broke through the Concealment Formation, absorbed the scattered Soul Force, and prevented the fully formed Artifact Spirits from escaping or attacking Tang Ya.
• The formation sealed itself again, and Tang Ya was stunned by Jiang Liu’s devouring aura and his breakthrough to the Four Stages of Rule.
• Tang Ya stopped absorbing Soul Force and destroying divine artifacts after realizing Jiang Liu had found him.
• Jiang Liu continued devouring the scattered Soul Force and Artifact Spirits, intending to deal with Tang Ya afterward.
• Jiang Liu realized Tang Ya had secretly stored the dead cultivators’ weapons and Space Pouches, while Tang Ya recalled that moving corpses had triggered violent tremors and a threatening consciousness.

Jiang Liu collected the divine artifacts and Space Pouches, then interrogated Tang Ya about the Concealment Formation. When Jiang Liu asked whether Tang Ya had sensed anything unusual, Tang Ya’s divine soul exploded and struck Jiang Liu with pain in his Divine Sea.

• Jiang Liu devoured the remaining artifact spirits after they re-formed and could no longer serve as divine artifact spirits.
• Jiang Liu gathered all the divine artifacts and Space Pouches into his System Space, astonishing Tang Ya.
• Jiang Liu decided to use Tang Ya to test whether the Concealment Formation could hide his actions, and he subdued him with an illusion.
• Tang Ya explained how to set up and break the Concealment Formation, revealed the treasure sustaining it, and recounted how he had come there.
• Jiang Liu asked whether Tang Ya had sensed anything unusual, and Tang Ya’s divine soul exploded, causing Jiang Liu a sharp pain in his Divine Sea.

Jiang Liu fought an unknown Devil Race soul consciousness that erupted from Tang Ya’s shattered divine soul and threatened to seize control of his body. As the Heavenly Evolution Codex weakened the intruder, Jiang Liu realized it might belong to the Lord of Karma.

• Black radiance burst from Tang Ya’s shattered divine soul and attacked Jiang Liu’s Spiritual Avatar in his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to restrain and refine the black radiance, restoring his Spiritual Avatar at the cost of much of his Divine Sea water.
• A faint human figure emerged within the black radiance and stopped the Heavenly Evolution Codex from drawing it away.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the hidden consciousness surpassed the Four Stages of Rule and concluded that its master was likely the Lord of Karma.

Jiang Liu fought the Lord of Karma’s black radiance inside his Spirit Sea Space while the Heavenly Evolution Codex weakened it. As the Data Panel remained silent, Jiang Liu pieced together a possible conflict among the Lords of Karma, Tianming, and Rules, and waited for the fading consciousness to reveal more.

• Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to replenish his soul and drain the black radiance while his Spiritual Avatar repeatedly rose to fight it.
• Jiang Liu realized the Data Panel had gone silent since he entered the mountain hollow and wondered whether it was hiding from the Lord of Karma.
• Jiang Liu connected the three Divine Halls’ presence in the Battlefield Space to a possible struggle among their masters over the space.
• Jiang Liu suspected the Lords of Tianming and Rules had severely injured the Lord of Karma and that their conflict might explain the Lord of Rules’ disappearance.
• Jiang Liu watched the black radiance dim and waited to learn more about the Lords of Tianming and Rules from the Lord of Karma’s consciousness.

Jiang Liu battered the Lord of Karma’s remnant consciousness while using divine artifacts to replenish his Divine Sea, then broke the enemy’s human form with a trap. The remnant consciousness was scattered, leaving Jiang Liu ready to investigate its secrets.

• Jiang Liu watched the Lord of Karma’s black Soul Force explode and absorbed the scattered energy into his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu crushed the Divine Soul inside a divine artifact and used its Soul Force to replenish his Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu surrounded the weakened black light with pale blue streaks to overwhelm it quickly.
• The Lord of Karma’s remnant consciousness shattered one streak and tried to devour Jiang Liu’s Divine Soul Power.
• Jiang Liu’s trap made the black light shriek and lose its human form, and he prepared to investigate its secrets.

Jiang Liu fought Lord of Karma's Spirit Soul Consciousness in his Divine Soul Space, using the Soul Force from shattered divine artifacts to sustain his attacks. After the black radiance seemingly dissipated, Jiang Liu discovered it had assimilated into his Divine Sea and suspected it was attempting to seize his Divine Soul.

• Jiang Liu kept attacking the Spirit Soul Consciousness and shattered divine artifacts to replenish his Divine Soul's Soul Force.
• The black radiance shrank to less than half its former size, but Jiang Liu continued attacking because he suspected it was hiding a final strike.
• The Spirit Soul Consciousness exploded and its black radiance scattered through the Divine Soul Space before seemingly dissolving into the Divine Sea.
• Jiang Liu searched the Divine Sea and found that the absorbed black radiance had changed into pale-blue light with the fluctuations of his Power of Time-Space Rule.
• Jiang Liu realized Lord of Karma's Spirit Soul Consciousness might be assimilating his Soul Force to devour his Divine Soul and seize his Divine Sea Space.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Lord of Karma’s black radiance had secretly remained in his Divine Sea and was nourishing a hidden Spirit Soul Consciousness. He refined the sea to expose and destroy the fragments, while a severely wounded figure elsewhere wondered whether the Lord of Karma’s arrangements had succeeded.

• Jiang Liu realized the Lord of Karma’s black radiance could have lain dormant in his Divine Sea and seized control of it.
• Jiang Liu used the Heavenly Evolution Codex to refine his entire Spirit Sea Space again, exposing hidden black radiance and its concealed consciousnesses.
• Jiang Liu suspected the Lord of Karma had arranged for Tang Ya to obtain a weakened Soul Splitting Technique and become a source of nourishment for his Spirit Soul Consciousness.
• A severely wounded figure appeared in a distant stretch of void and wondered whether the earlier arrangements had succeeded.

The Lord of Karma calculated the progress of his Spirit Soul Nurturing Scheme but found only a blank, leaving him unsure whether it had failed. Gravely injured and unable to prepare another scheme, he questioned how the Lord of Tianming and the Lord of Rules had joined forces against him and wondered whether the anomaly in his divination was connected.

• The Lord of Karma used the Karma Laws to calculate his Spirit Soul Nurturing Scheme, but Black Mist obscured him and the result was blank.
• The Lord of Karma realized his spirit soul should have reached the stage for rebirth, but his injuries and the danger of discovery left him no time to set up another scheme.
• The Lord of Karma recalled that the Lord of Tianming and the Lord of Rules had ambushed him together, despite their deeper hatred for each other.
• The Lord of Karma questioned whether the two Lords had evaded his calculations or planned their alliance in advance, and wondered whether the anomaly in his divination had caused it.

Lord of Karma reflected on why Lord of Rules and Lord of Tianming had joined forces against him, despite the God Lords’ competing interests and mutual hostility. He remained hidden in the void, unsettled by a change he sensed there.

• Lord of Karma concealed himself with the Karma Laws after escaping Lord of Rules and Lord of Tianming’s attack.
• Lord of Karma questioned how the two God Lords had coordinated and considered whether they had communicated beforehand or another God Lord had intervened.
• Lord of Karma recalled that only eight God Lord positions existed, that their Origin Lights recorded their survival, and that the empty center of the divine hall showed no Supreme God Lord had been born.
• Lord of Karma noted that the eight God Lords fought to seize power and strengthen themselves by defeating rivals and absorbing their divine power and souls.
• Lord of Karma stared into the pitch-black void and felt that something there had changed.

Jiang Liu refined Lord of Karma’s Soul Force and strengthened his Divine Sea, but learned nothing from the Soul Force about the other divine lords. He discovered a hidden attacker in the Mountain Hollow Space and found that their pure black radiance resembled one he had encountered in the void.

• Jiang Liu absorbed Lord of Karma’s refined Soul Force, expanding and strengthening his Divine Sea, but found no information in it.
• Jiang Liu realized that someone besides Lord of Karma had caused the anomaly in the Mountain Hollow Space and had devoured the bones there.
• After detecting the hidden person using his control over the Battlefield Space Shard, Jiang Liu attacked with the Godslayer Blade and Divine Strike.
• The hidden person blocked Jiang Liu’s attack with pitch-black radiance and tried to use the blade to seize control of him.
• Jiang Liu used the Mountain Hollow Space to suppress the black radiance and recognized that it resembled radiance he had encountered in the void.

Jiang Liu sensed and drove away the black radiance lurking in the Mountain Hollow Space, then suspected that its master was hiding nearby. The chapter revealed that the attacker was Void God Lord, who had been seeking Karma God Lord’s hidden Divine Soul Consciousness and now feared Jiang Liu would expose him.

• Jiang Liu watched the black radiance retreat from the Godslayer Blade and suspected its master was a powerful wielder of the Rule of Darkness.
• Jiang Liu sensed that the Mountain Hollow Space was slipping from his control and wondered why the hidden attacker had fled instead of fighting him.
• Void God Lord watched Jiang Liu from the darkness and was revealed as one of the Eight Great Divine Lords, searching for Karma God Lord’s Divine Soul Consciousness.
• Void God Lord devoured the bones of the Supreme God Realm experts, then struck at Karma God Lord’s Divine Soul Consciousness and drew Jiang Liu’s attention.
• Void God Lord regretted staying after Jiang Liu arrived and worried that Karma God Lord would target him if his secret attack were uncovered.

Jiang Liu confronted the Void God Lord in Mountain Hollow Space, and the Void God Lord attacked to kill him before his presence could be exposed. Jiang Liu used the battlefield space to trap him briefly and wounded his Spirit Soul Consciousness with the Godslayer Blade.

• The Void God Lord suspected Jiang Liu had recognized his identity and decided to end the fight quickly.
• The Void God Lord darkened Mountain Hollow Space and sent his Void Laws toward Jiang Liu.
• Jiang Liu retreated and used the Power of Time-Space Rule to resist, but the Void God Lord overwhelmed him.
• Jiang Liu imprisoned the Void God Lord for an instant with the Battlefield Space Shard and struck him with the Godslayer Blade.
• The strike split the Void God Lord's Spirit Soul Consciousness between different spaces, leaving him dazed.

Jiang Liu pursued the wounded Void God Lord after splitting his Spirit Soul Consciousness across different spaces and periods of time. Void God Lord tried to escape through the darkness, and Jiang Liu launched another attack as an explosion erupted ahead.

• Jiang Liu realized his slash had divided Void God Lord's Spirit Soul Consciousness between different spaces and periods of time.
• Jiang Liu advanced toward the injured half of Void God Lord's Spirit Soul Consciousness while the other half remained trapped elsewhere.
• Void God Lord used Void Laws to hide himself and stabilize his injuries, though his strength had fallen.
• Void God Lord sent strands of Void Laws surging toward the distant darkness as he tried to escape.
• Jiang Liu pursued with Phantom Stomp and struck forward with the Godslayer Blade, but an explosion rang out before his blade light arrived.

Jiang Liu watched the mysterious Spirit Soul Consciousness destroy itself, erasing its traces and leaving him without information about the Three Hall Masters. He prepared to leave, newly confident after reaching the Four Stages of Rule, but remained puzzled by the Battlefield Space’s suppression of power and its hidden secrets.

• Jiang Liu saw a pale-blue blade radiance open the explosion site, draw in its matter, and close the space after the Spirit Soul Consciousness had self-destructed.
• Jiang Liu realized the Spirit Soul Consciousness had erased all traces of itself and denied him a chance to learn more about the Three Hall Masters.
• Jiang Liu considered how little he knew about the Three Hall Masters, since neither the Lord of Karma nor the vanished consciousness had provided clear information.
• Jiang Liu decided he could face the Battlefield Space Consciousness and the Divine Soul of the Rule Statue, while the Sky Devouring Cat kept the Battlefield Monster occupied.
• Jiang Liu reflected on reaching the Four Stages of Rule and on his experience fighting opponents with greater combat power.
• Jiang Liu wondered why the Battlefield Space suppressed the Power of Rule and concluded that the Three Hall Masters and the vanished consciousness must have come there for a reason.