Chapter Summaries

The Spirit of the Chaos Divine Hall gathered the Eight Great Divine Lords and their forces around the hall to defend it from the Void Creature tide and a possible attack by the Void Overlord. The Divine Lords emerged and began arranging their defenses while their subordinates eyed the danger as a possible chance to rise in rank.

• The Spirit of the Divine Hall explained that it prioritized protecting the Chaos Divine Hall and awaiting the Chaos God's return, even if the Three Realms' airspace and its inhabitants were lost.
• The Spirit of the Divine Hall ordered the Eight Great Divine Lords to form a defensive formation around the hall, and they agreed after realizing they could not survive fighting the Void Creatures alone.
• The Eight Great Divine Lords' subordinates arrived at the hall, where some Divine Realm martial artists admired its power and others considered whether the Void Creature tide might create openings for advancement.
• The massive doors opened, and the Eight Great Divine Lords emerged beneath their rays of law light before the doors shut behind them.
• The Eight Great Divine Lords led their forces to deploy around the hall, preparing for the Void Creature tide and a possible attack by the Void Overlord.

With the War of Rules set to begin the next day, the Three Rule Lords forced the forces of the External Void Layer to send nearly all their warriors, raising fears that the conflict would be unusually brutal. Zhao Hao prepared the Holy Wang Pavilion and considered Jiang Liu’s possible role in the future, while Zhang Cheng planned to use the war to cripple the Holy Master Pavilion and possibly strike at a Rule Lord.

• The Three Rule Lords ordered the forces of the External Void Layer to mobilize more warriors than ever before and threatened to exterminate any force that refused.
• Zhao Hao gathered the Holy Wang Pavilion’s members and arranged for the coming War of Rules, suspecting it might be tied to a disaster threatening the Three Realms.
• Zhao Hao recalled his agreement with Zhang Cheng, wondered about Jiang Liu’s strength and whereabouts, and hoped the Holy Wang Pavilion could avoid being targeted by the other allied forces.
• Supreme God Realm warriors in the Holy Wang Pavilion feared that even those without the Power of Rule would have to fight in a more brutal War of Rules.
• Zhang Cheng convened the Holy Sky Pavilion’s leaders and welcomed the order to send all Supreme God Realm warriors, intending to use the war to cripple the Holy Master Pavilion and possibly bring down a Rule Lord.

Bai Ye met with the Holy Master Pavilion to revise their plans after the War of Rules was moved forward and relocated near the Human Realm. He suspected the Netherworld Master’s timing was connected to the Soaring Sky Mirror and hoped to use the coming conflict to kill him and seize the Human Realm’s starfield, but he could not work out the Three Rule Lords’ motives.

• Bai Ye gathered the Holy Master Pavilion on the Fallen Star Stone to revise their plans after the War of Rules was brought forward and its location changed.
• Bai Ye recalled that the Soaring Sky Mirror had recently shown signs of activity near the Human Realm, just before the Netherworld Master announced the War of Rules.
• Bai Ye suspected the Netherworld Master had a hidden reason for initiating the War and noticed that the Netherworld Master, the Human Race Holy Master, and the Heavenly Realm Hegemon were growing weaker.
• Bai Ye saw the Netherworld Master’s declining strength as an opportunity to kill him and take the Human Realm’s starfield.
• Bai Ye rejected the idea that the Netherworld Master would open the War of Rules inside the Human Realm, since the Human Race Holy Master could kill him there.
• Bai Ye remained unable to explain why the Soaring Sky Mirror had appeared or why the Three Rule Lords had summoned everyone near the Human Realm.

Zhuge Cheng left seclusion to attend Huangfu Hao’s rare meeting, concealing his lingering weakness after his injuries. He learned that a large number of martial artists were heading toward the Human Realm’s airspace, though what this meant remained unclear.

• Zhuge Cheng received Huangfu Hao’s summons and checked that his injuries were no longer serious before leaving his cave abode.
• Zhuge Cheng entered the Concealment Formation by using a Heaven Reckoning Bamboo Slip to inspect its operation.
• Huangfu Hao greeted Zhuge Cheng and secretly suspected that he had suffered serious injuries.
• Zhu Liantai announced that many martial artists had been spotted heading toward the Human Realm’s airspace.
• Zhuge Cheng asked what was happening, surprised that the meeting concerned the Human Realm rather than the Three Rule Lords’ search.

Huangfu Hao and Zhuge Cheng learned that the War of Rules was about to take place in the Human Realm, putting it at risk of destruction. Huangfu Hao agreed to rescue Human Race martial artists if the Human Realm Space shattered.

• Huangfu Hao told Heaven's Mandate Pavilion that the War of Rules was gathering in the Human Realm's airspace.
• Zhuge Cheng realized that the approaching Supreme God Realm experts and their battle could shatter the Human Realm Space.
• Zhuge Cheng asked Huangfu Hao what Heaven's Mandate Pavilion should do to help the Human Race.
• Huangfu Hao saw that those present were resolved to help and decided to rescue Human Race martial artists when the Human Realm Space shattered.

Huangfu Hao agreed to help the Human Race but insisted that the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion act only if its members could stay safe. After sending everyone to prepare, he questioned Zhuge Cheng about his recent trip and learned that Zhuge Cheng had encountered a Human Race warrior in the Human Realm who had reached the Rule Realm.

• The Heaven's Mandate Pavilion members were relieved when Huangfu Hao agreed to rescue the Human Race, though he warned them to prioritize their own safety.
• The members agreed to Huangfu Hao's condition and left to prepare for the dangerous operation.
• Huangfu Hao asked Zhuge Cheng whether anything had happened during his trip.
• Zhuge Cheng admitted he had suffered an injury but said he had merely overexerted himself.
• Zhuge Cheng told Huangfu Hao that he had encountered a Human Race warrior who had reached the Rule Realm, and Huangfu Hao asked whether the warrior had broken through in the Human Realm.

Huangfu Hao learned that Jiang Liu was a pure-blooded human who had broken through to the Realm of Rules without bearing the Three Rule Lords’ surveillance mark. After Zhuge Cheng revealed that he had brought Jiang Liu into Heaven's Mandate Pavilion, Huangfu Hao became excited about the new recruit, unaware that Jiang Liu had already reached the Four Stages of Rule.

• Zhuge Cheng told Huangfu Hao that a pure-blooded human warrior had broken through to the Realm of Rules in the Human Realm.
• Huangfu Hao worried that the warrior had been forced into the War of Rules, but Zhuge Cheng said he bore no trace of the Three Rule Lords’ surveillance.
• Huangfu Hao realized the warrior might know how to evade detection and hoped to learn the method to protect Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.
• Zhuge Cheng revealed that he had brought Jiang Liu into Heaven's Mandate Pavilion, delighting Huangfu Hao.
• Zhuge Cheng privately wondered whether Jiang Liu had reached the first or second stage of the Four Stages of Rule, while remaining unaware of his true strength.

Huangfu Hao learned that Jiang Liu had agreed to join the Heavenly Mandate Pavilion but had never completed its initiation ceremony. When Zhuge Cheng could neither contact nor locate Jiang Liu, he feared Jiang Liu’s Identity Jade Token had been destroyed; meanwhile, Jiang Liu emerged near the Pavilion’s Dim Starstone and headed there.

• Huangfu Hao questioned Zhuge Cheng about Jiang Liu’s absence, and Zhuge Cheng explained that Jiang Liu had not completed the initiation ceremony because events in the Human Realm had intervened.
• Huangfu Hao noticed inconsistencies in Zhuge Cheng’s account but asked him to contact Jiang Liu using his Identity Jade Token.
• Zhuge Cheng sent a message, but after an hour he could neither reach Jiang Liu nor track his location, leading him to suspect Jiang Liu’s token had been destroyed.
• Jiang Liu recovered inside the Chaos Space and discovered it had moved close to the Heavenly Mandate Pavilion’s Dim Starstone.
• Jiang Liu concealed the Chaos Space, left it, and flew toward the Dim Starstone to visit the Pavilion and ask Zhuge Cheng about the mysterious person.

Jiang Liu infiltrated Heaven's Mandate Pavilion to assess its defenses, but a hidden warning formation exposed him and brought its guards running. After he effortlessly knocked four Rule Two Realm experts aside, Huangfu Hao and Zhuge Cheng rushed to confront him, unaware of his purpose.

• Jiang Liu bypassed two warning formations near the Dim Starstone before a hidden third formation revealed his presence.
• Huangfu Hao and Zhuge Cheng received the warning and feared that the Three Rule Lords had sent an expert to capture them.
• Liu Yucheng reported that an unidentified intruder had reached the fourth warning formation, and Huangfu Hao ordered Heaven's Mandate Pavilion's members to gather.
• Jiang Liu tried to show the guards his identity token, but the four men attacked him, so he knocked them away with a restrained slash from a Rule Greatsword.
• Jiang Liu intended to find Zhuge Cheng and take control of Heaven's Mandate Pavilion without killing its members.

Jiang Liu confronted Liu Yucheng and the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion, demonstrating overwhelming strength as its members prepared to fight him. Zhuge Cheng stopped the shattered assault, and Jiang Liu faced him and the approaching Huangfu Hao.

• Liu Yucheng and three companions formed Zhuge Cheng's Four Symbols Combination Formation and prepared to attack Jiang Liu.
• More Rule Realm experts from the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion arrived, and Jiang Liu drew the Godslayer Blade as Liu Yucheng's group readied a full-power strike.
• The Heaven's Mandate Pavilion members attacked Jiang Liu together, but he casually blocked their blows and broke their united offensive with one strike.
• Zhuge Cheng shouted for the Pavilion members to stop, and Jiang Liu put away his blade and watched Zhuge Cheng and Huangfu Hao approach.

Jiang Liu arrived at Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and easily survived the pavilion members' attack, prompting Zhuge Cheng and Huangfu Hao to welcome him. He left the battle behind and began positioning himself to take personal control of the pavilion.

• Zhuge Cheng appeared and shouted for Heaven's Mandate Pavilion's fighters to stop attacking Jiang Liu.
• Zhuge Cheng teleported Huangfu Hao to the scene, and Huangfu Hao greeted Jiang Liu with an ingratiating welcome.
• Jiang Liu confirmed his identity and decided that he should personally control Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.
• Zhuge Cheng welcomed Jiang Liu and ordered the pavilion members to meet him and apologize.
• Huangfu Hao told the pavilion members that Jiang Liu had agreed to join Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.

Jiang Liu considered how Heaven's Mandate Pavilion could help him oppose the Three Rule Lords and listened as Huangfu Hao described the pavilion's strength. The chapter left Jiang Liu impressed by its eighty-one Rule Realm fighters and their mastery of two kinds of rule power.

• Jiang Liu accepted Heaven's Mandate Pavilion's apology and viewed its members as a force he could eventually lead against the Three Rule Lords.
• Jiang Liu reflected that the Three Rule Lords would likely launch another War of Rules, even though it had caused countless martial artists to die.
• Zhuge Cheng worried that Jiang Liu might regret agreeing to join Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.
• Huangfu Hao told Jiang Liu that the pavilion had twenty-three Rule Realm Two martial artists and fifty-six Rule Realm One martial artists.
• Huangfu Hao explained that every Heaven's Mandate Pavilion fighter cultivated two kinds of rule power, and Jiang Liu recognized their combat strength.

Jiang Liu learned that Heaven's Mandate Pavilion was being weakened by a severe lack of cultivation resources and questioned how advancement in the Rule Realm worked. Zhuge Cheng then revealed that the coming War of Rules would begin in or above the Human Realm, leaving Jiang Liu alarmed.

• Huangfu Hao explained that Heaven's Mandate Pavilion had few resources and had fallen far behind the Three Great Power Alliance in strength.
• Jiang Liu realized that his Heavenly Evolution Codex let him advance without the resources others needed, and wondered why Star Enlightenment Stones helped martial artists break through.
• Zhuge Cheng interrupted Jiang Liu and asked whether he knew where the War of Rules would begin.
• Zhuge Cheng said the War of Rules would begin in the Human Realm or its airspace, and Jiang Liu was shocked.

Jiang Liu learned that the Three Rule Lords had chosen the Human Realm as the site of the War of Rules and agreed to join the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion's rescue mission. He left the Three Rule Lords to himself as the others prepared to save the Human Race.

• Jiang Liu realized the Three Rule Lords were acting under Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai's orders and had chosen to start the War of Rules in the Human Realm.
• Huangfu Hao reassured Jiang Liu that the Three Rule Lords had only gathered near the Human Realm and had not yet begun the war.
• Jiang Liu wondered why the Heavenly Dao had not detected the gathering, then resolved to stop the war from reaching the Human Realm.
• Huangfu Hao explained the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion's rescue plan, and Jiang Liu was impressed by their loyalty to the Human Race.
• Jiang Liu agreed to join the rescue operation and said he would face the Three Rule Lords.

Jiang Liu agreed to help Heaven's Mandate Pavilion as it prepared for the War of Rules, which was set to begin the next day. As he worried that the Three Rule Lords might have found the Chaos Space, Huangfu Hao grew suspicious of Jiang Liu's motives, unaware that the war would actually begin inside the Human Realm Space.

• Jiang Liu agreed to assist Heaven's Mandate Pavilion, delighting Huangfu Hao and the others.
• Huangfu Hao said they would prepare to travel to the Human Realm's spatial region, and Jiang Liu asked when the War of Rules would begin.
• Huangfu Hao told Jiang Liu that the war would begin tomorrow, prompting Jiang Liu to worry that the Three Rule Lords had discovered the Chaos Space.
• Huangfu Hao mistook Jiang Liu's reaction for concern about the Human Realm and reassured him that its defenses could withstand an attack.
• Huangfu Hao suspected Jiang Liu might be joining Heaven's Mandate Pavilion to seize power, while Jiang Liu planned to return to the Human Realm and investigate.
• The narration revealed that the Three Rule Lords were gathering near the Human Realm's spatial region, but the War of Rules would begin inside the Human Realm Space.

The Three Rule Lords decided to conduct a blood sacrifice in the Human Realm to find a passage into the Battlefield Space, despite the Human Race Holy Master’s initial objections. Orders went out for the participating factions to capture Human Realm martial artists, leaving their leaders confused.

• The Netherworld Master proposed sacrificing Human Realm martial artists to locate and open a passage to the Battlefield Space, and the Holy Master of the Human Realm angrily objected.
• The Netherworld Master threatened to abandon the War of Rules, and the Holy Master of the Human Realm reluctantly accepted the sacrifice to preserve his chance of survival.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord supported the plan, and the Netherworld Master explained that the passages to the Battlefield Space had vanished and the Soaring Sky Mirror might reveal another one.
• The Three Rule Lords planned to take the gathered Supreme God Realm experts with them and use them to force Yunzhi Shangren and Ming Bai to reveal the Secret of Eternal Life.
• The Three Rule Lords issued orders for the participating factions to enter the Human Realm and capture martial artists, baffling the Void faction leaders.

Supreme God Realm outsiders gathered to attack the Human Realm, where the Golden Giant struggled to hold them back as the realm’s suppressive force intensified. Lin Chi confirmed the invasion and warned Qin Bailian to keep the Human Realm’s forces from acting rashly, leaving the defenders awaiting word from the Holy Lord.

• God and devil martial artists approaching the Human Realm found their Power of Rule sealed and retreated as the realm’s suppressive force weakened them.
• The Golden Giant received no reply from Jiang Liu and prepared to fight the outsiders, but realized many were unaffected by the Human Realm’s suppression.
• The Golden Giant unleashed the Human Realm’s radiance, slowing the attackers and suppressing human hybrids as well.
• Lin Chi sensed numerous powerful outsiders beyond the boundary wall and told Qin Bailian to keep everyone from acting rashly.
• Qin Bailian ordered the major cities to hold their positions while Lin Chi planned to contact the Holy Lord.

Han Bai sensed powerful Divine Realm experts gathering outside the Human Realm, and their arrival spread fear across the land as people prepared to hide. Meanwhile, Jiang Liu learned the War of Rules would begin in the Human Realm and used a travel point to return ahead of the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.

• Han Bai detected numerous powerful Divine Realm experts near the Human Realm's boundary wall and worried that Jiang Liu was absent.
• An explosion and multicolored beams of light frightened the approaching figures, while Saint Realm martial artists retreated and told their subordinates to hide.
• News of an external enemy spread through the Human Realm, but the Holy Dynasty's orders helped prevent panic from becoming chaos.
• Jiang Liu told Huangfu Hao he would return to the Human Realm ahead of the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion and left through the Dim Starstone's protective formation.
• Huangfu Hao and Zhuge Cheng arrived after Jiang Liu had vanished and marveled at how quickly he had traveled.

Huangfu Hao led the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion aboard its small Divine Artifact Starship toward the Human Realm to help rescue the Human Race. The whole pavilion set out despite expecting a deadly journey, while Huangfu Hao and Zhuge Cheng trusted in contingencies they had prepared there.

• Zhuge Cheng urged Huangfu Hao to hurry to the Human Realm, warning that powerful God Race and Devil Race experts near its airspace posed a threat.
• Huangfu Hao ordered the Heaven's Mandate Pavilion to gather and set out after Jiang Liu, whose strength eased his concerns about the mission.
• The pavilion assembled at its protective formation and boarded its only usable Divine Artifact Starship.
• Huangfu Hao launched the starship toward the Human Realm as the travelers reflected on their willingness to die defending the Human Race's legacy.
• Huangfu Hao and Zhuge Cheng watched the route ahead, confident that their preparations in the Human Realm could help them retreat safely.

Jiang Liu returned to the Human Realm and ordered the officials to keep the nation under control while civilians stayed out of the coming battle. At the boundary wall, the Golden Giant struggled to hold back the Supreme God Realm invaders, several of whom coveted the Human Realm’s Heavenly Dao, including Bai Ye.

• Jiang Liu materialized in the imperial palace, summoned the Hall of Governmental Affairs, and ordered everyone to stay out of the battle while maintaining strict control over the nation.
• Jiang Liu flew toward the Human Realm’s boundary wall, hoping to hold out until Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion arrived and planning to watch the Holy Master of the Human Realm.
• The Golden Giant told Jiang Liu that its attack had halted the invaders but had cost it dearly, and that it had temporarily raised its strength by drawing on the Heaven’s Dao Origin.
• You Mo and other Devil Race Supreme God Realm experts discussed devouring the weakened Golden Giant, while Bai Ye of the Holy Master Pavilion fixed his gaze on it.