Chapter Summaries

Jiang Liu appeared from the Human Realm with power in the Four Stages of Rule and struck down the attackers threatening its barrier. His arrival alarmed the Three Rule Lords, and the Holy Master of the Human Realm moved to attack him to deny any connection between them.

• Zhao Hao watched the Human Realm’s barrier weaken and suspected the Three Rule Lords planned to use captured martial artists for a blood sacrifice.
• A burst of intimidating power erupted from the barrier, and pale-blue blades struck down the attackers, forcing the others to retreat.
• Bai Ye and Zhang Cheng realized the newcomer had reached the Four Stages of Rule, while Zhao Hao recognized him as Jiang Liu and felt relieved they had once formed good karma.
• The Three Rule Lords reacted tensely to the Human Race powerhouse, and the Netherworld Master accused the Holy Master of the Human Realm of hiding his plans.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm hurried to the barrier and attacked Jiang Liu to prove he had no connection to him.

Jiang Liu emerged as a Rule Four Stages warrior and blocked the Holy Master of the Human Realm from attacking the Human Realm. The Netherworld Master and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord suspected Jiang Liu came from the depths of the void, while the Holy Master demanded to know his origins.

• The Netherworld Master and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord suspected that Jiang Liu had emerged from the depths of the void and wondered whether he could help them reach a higher realm.
• Jiang Liu's pale-blue blade ray cleaved apart the Holy Master of the Human Realm's attack, and the clash forced nearby martial artists to retreat.
• The martial artists recognized how a Lord of Rules could command the Power of Rule in the surrounding void, while the injured Golden Giant tried to recover before the Human Realm's defenses failed.
• Jiang Liu flew through the Human Realm's boundary wall and confronted the Holy Master, whom he knew had caused the Human Realm's decline.
• The Holy Master asked Jiang Liu where he came from, suspecting he had emerged from the depths of the void.

Jiang Liu fought the Holy Master of the Human Realm and found that the Heavenly Evolution Codex dispersed incoming Rule Power, giving him an advantage in a prolonged battle. The Holy Master grew wary of Jiang Liu and suspected he was behind the Human Realm’s renewed suppression, while Jiang Liu remained unaware of the full conspiracy.

• Jiang Liu repelled the Holy Master’s attack and realized the Heavenly Evolution Codex could disperse the surrounding Rule Power, strengthening his confidence in defending the Human Realm’s boundary wall.
• The Holy Master used the Time Rule to strike unexpectedly, but Jiang Liu detected the attack and blocked it with the Godslayer Blade.
• Jiang Liu wielded both Time and Space Rules as he attacked, forcing the Holy Master to consider drawing the Netherworld Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord into the fight.
• The Holy Master suspected the Human Realm Core had recovered and wondered whether Jiang Liu had caused the changes to the Human Realm and its Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Liu continued fighting without knowing the Holy Master had colluded with foreign enemies or that he could have planned his approach differently.

Jiang Liu used the Power of Time-Space Rule to ambush and wound the Holy Master of the Human Realm, forcing him to retreat. The Netherworld Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord reassessed Jiang Liu’s abilities as the watching martial artists began to consider opposing the Three Rule Lords.

• Jiang Liu used a false blade, spatial traversal, and temporal stagnation to strike the Holy Master of the Human Realm and force him back.
• Jiang Liu judged that he could not pursue the Holy Master because the Netherworld Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord might join the fight, and he reflected on the limits of his time-space abilities.
• The Netherworld Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord recognized Jiang Liu’s skill and reconsidered whether cultivating two types of Rule Power could be useful, but remained focused on reaching Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren.
• The Supreme God Realm martial artists were astonished by the Holy Master’s retreat, while Zhao Hao, Zhang Cheng, Bai Ye, and leaders of minor forces began to contemplate resisting the Three Rule Lords.

The Three Rule Lords prepared a united assault to break through the Human Realm’s boundary wall, while Jiang Liu joined forces with the Golden Giant to defend it. As the Human Realm’s people rallied behind him, their faith gathered at the boundary wall.

• The Netherworld Master and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord confirmed that the Holy Master of the Human Realm was unharmed, and the Three Rule Lords resolved to breach the Human Realm together.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm ordered Zhao Hao to gather the Human Race, the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord summoned the divine race under Zhang Cheng, and the Netherworld Master rallied the Devil Race through his Skull Scepter.
• Jiang Liu realized the Three Rule Lords were preparing an all-out attack and returned behind the boundary wall to defend the Human Realm.
• Jiang Liu used his pale-blue Power of Rule to steady the injured Golden Giant, then had it teach him to control the Human Realm Space.
• Human Race martial practitioners emerged and gathered faith power toward the boundary wall as Jiang Liu and the Golden Giant prepared to resist the coming assault.

The Holy Master of the Human Realm led the Human Race's Supreme God Realm experts in attacking the boundary wall to drain Jiang Liu's Power of Rule. As the Divine Realm and Devil Race joined the assault, the Golden Giant stabilized the barrier, while Netherworld Master launched a deadly attack.

• The Holy Master of the Human Realm ordered the Human Race's Supreme God Realm experts to attack the boundary wall, though many secretly held back and hoped the Three Rule Lords would fall.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm sensed the barrier weakening and believed Jiang Liu's Power of Rule was being depleted.
• Jiang Liu replenished his power with the Heaven Heavenly Evolution Codex, but the strain made his aura unstable as the protective light dimmed.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord and Netherworld Master led their forces toward the boundary wall and ordered attacks from all sides, increasing the pressure on Jiang Liu.
• The Golden Giant released a powerful aura that stopped the boundary's protective light from weakening further.
• Netherworld Master swung the Skull Scepter, sending faint radiance through the attackers' ranks that reduced tiny Void Creatures to dust and turned some Devil Race martial practitioners into skeletons.

Jiang Liu defended the Human Realm Space as the Netherworld Master’s bone monster collapsed after one strike. The Netherworld Master recognized Jiang Liu as the person who had destroyed his teleportation passage and Soaring Sky Altar, then halted the assault to seek information about the Battlefield Space from him.

• The Netherworld Master assembled a bone monster from fallen Demon Martial Practitioners, but it disintegrated before its Bone Blade could hit the Human Realm’s boundary wall.
• The Netherworld Master realized Jiang Liu had advanced from the second to the fourth stage of Rule and was the person who had destroyed his teleportation passage and Soaring Sky Altar.
• The Netherworld Master concluded that capturing Jiang Liu could reveal how to reach the Battlefield Space, so he told the Holy Master of the Human Realm and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord to stop attacking.
• The Holy Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord recalled their forces to their ships, easing the pressure on the Human Realm Space.
• Jiang Liu used the pause to recover and continued waiting for the people from Heaven's Mandate Pavilion.

The Three Rule Lords discussed the Netherworld Master's discovery that the person inside the Human Realm's boundary wall had entered the Battlefield Space before and could reveal a way back. They agreed to stop the blood sacrifice and consider capturing him, but the Holy Master of the Human Realm worried about confronting him without help.

• The Holy Master of the Human Realm attacked the Netherworld Master in anger, but the Netherworld Master blocked him and said he had found a more reliable way to reach the Battlefield Space.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord intervened, and the Holy Master of the Human Realm agreed to hear the Netherworld Master out.
• The Netherworld Master revealed that the person inside the Human Realm's boundary wall was the same person who had entered the Battlefield Space through the Human Race's battlefield passage.
• The Netherworld Master explained that he had recognized the person's aura through the Soaring Sky Altar and Soaring Sky Mirror, and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord realized the new coordinate depended on that person.
• The Three Rule Lords considered stopping their attack and capturing the person, while the Holy Master of the Human Realm worried he would have to face him alone if the boundary wall remained intact.

The Netherworld Master persuaded the Holy Master of the Human Realm and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord to seek the Battlefield Space’s coordinates from Jiang Liu through negotiation rather than immediately attacking the Human Realm. The Holy Master approached Jiang Liu to begin talks, while Jiang Liu replenished his Power of Rule and waited for Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion.

• The Netherworld Master proposed negotiating with Jiang Liu for the Battlefield Space’s coordinates or using the threat of continued attacks to pressure him.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord considered that Jiang Liu’s determination to protect the Human Realm made negotiation more promising than breaching its boundary wall.
• The three Rule Lords agreed that the Holy Master of the Human Realm would negotiate first and resort to coercion if Jiang Liu refused.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm left the star stone and approached the Human Realm’s boundary wall.
• Jiang Liu replenished his Power of Rule by circulating the Heavenly Evolution Codex and continued waiting for Heaven’s Mandate Pavilion to arrive.

The Holy Master of the Human Realm met with Jiang Liu’s agreement to negotiate over the Battlefield Space’s coordinates and the Secret of Eternal Life. The three Rule Lords debated where to hold the talks but had not settled on a location when the Netherworld Master proposed a way to preserve their advantage.

• The Holy Master of the Human Realm approached the Human Realm barrier and asked Jiang Liu to negotiate instead of continuing their fight.
• Jiang Liu agreed to talk, and the Holy Master of the Human Realm returned to the Starstone to confer with the Netherworld Master and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord.
• The three Rule Lords considered where to negotiate, weighing the risk of entering the Human Realm against the strength they would lose near its barrier.
• The Netherworld Master suggested they could maintain their advantage even if the negotiations took place near the Human Realm.

The Netherworld Master revealed that he had cultivated the Life Rule to Harmony of Life and Death, surprising the Holy Master of the Human Realm and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord. He hoped the display would help negotiations for the Battlefield Space's coordinates proceed peacefully.

• The Netherworld Master sensed that the Holy Master of the Human Realm and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord had mistaken his willingness to negotiate for something else, but he chose not to correct them.
• The Netherworld Master used his Skull Scepter to envelop the two rulers in the Power of Life.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord realized that the Netherworld Master's Life Rule had reached Harmony of Life and Death.
• The Netherworld Master revealed his strength to protect himself and help the negotiations proceed smoothly.
• The Netherworld Master hoped the pair would give him the Battlefield Space's coordinates, or he would test his power against them.

The Holy Master of the Human Realm met Jiang Liu to negotiate for the coordinates of Battlefield Space, while Jiang Liu used the talks to buy time and test their intentions. After Jiang Liu demanded that the surrounding forces withdraw, the Holy Master agreed, leaving Jiang Liu wary that the Three Lords of Rules had found a way to counter Human Realm Space’s suppressive force.

• The Netherworld Master and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord stayed outside Human Realm Space while the Holy Master of the Human Realm went to meet Jiang Liu alone.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm asked Jiang Liu for the coordinates of Battlefield Space and offered something in exchange.
• Jiang Liu demanded that the martial artists and flying ships surrounding Human Realm Space withdraw before negotiations continued.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm agreed and ordered the Lords of the Void to pull back the ships.
• Jiang Liu watched the forces withdraw and suspected the Three Lords of Rules had gained a new means of dealing with Human Realm Space’s suppression.

Jiang Liu demanded a thousand palm-sized Star Source Stones in exchange for the coordinates of Battlefield Space, prompting the Three Rule Lords to pool their star stones. The Holy Master of the Human Realm took their offering back to Jiang Liu, while the Netherworld Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord doubted he would reveal the coordinates so easily.

• Jiang Liu told the Holy Master of the Human Realm that he wanted a thousand palm-sized Star Source Stones as his next condition.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm found he could not meet the demand alone and consulted the Netherworld Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord.
• The three Rule Lords discovered that together they held fewer than five hundred palm-sized Star Source Stones, so they considered substituting other kinds of star stones.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord and Netherworld Master agreed to provide their star stones, and the Holy Master of the Human Realm collected their Space Pouches.
• The Netherworld Master questioned whether Jiang Liu would reveal the coordinates after receiving the stones, and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord doubted that he would.

Jiang Liu accepted the Three Rule Lords’ offer of other star stones in place of Star Source Stones, then demanded a further thousand Star Enlightenment Stones and a thousand Star Perception Stones. The Holy Master of the Human Realm was left visibly troubled by the enormous new demand.

• The Holy Master of the Human Realm asked Jiang Liu whether other star stones could replace the scarce Star Source Stones.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm gave Jiang Liu three Space Pouches and explained the star stones inside, including their uses and value.
• Jiang Liu discovered that the Star Enlightenment Stones and Star Perception Stones could strengthen his comprehension of the Power of Time-Space Rule.
• Jiang Liu agreed to accept the substitute star stones, then demanded a thousand Star Enlightenment Stones and a thousand Star Perception Stones.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm reacted uneasily to Jiang Liu’s new demand.

The Holy Master of the Human Realm struggled to negotiate with Jiang Liu, who demanded large quantities of Star Enlightenment Stones and Star Perception Stones in exchange for Battlefield Space coordinates. The Holy Master returned to consult the Netherworld Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord after Jiang Liu refused to lower his demand and threatened to end negotiations.

• The Holy Master of the Human Realm decided that obtaining the Secret of Eternal Life from Ming Bai and Yunzhi Shangren was safer than trusting the Netherworld Master to slow his dwindling life force.
• The Holy Master told Jiang Liu that gathering the requested Star Stones was impossible and asked him to reduce the amount or choose another condition.
• Jiang Liu rejected further negotiation and planned to win over the void forces, including Zhao Hao of the Holy Wang Pavilion, to help collect the Star Stones.
• The Holy Master returned to the Netherworld Master and Divine Realm Heavenly Lord, who asked what harsh condition Jiang Liu had proposed.

The Netherworld Master proposed threatening the Human Realm’s population to force Jiang Liu to accept his demand, while the Holy Master of the Human Realm weighed the plan against the shifting balance of power. The Holy Master withheld his response and waited to see whether the Netherworld Master could carry it out.

• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord asked the Holy Master of the Human Realm whether Jiang Liu’s demand for a thousand Star Enlightenment Stones and a thousand Star Perception Stones could still be negotiated.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm said Jiang Liu had made clear that they should start a war if they could not meet his demand.
• The Netherworld Master claimed he could endanger the Human Realm’s warriors without breaching its boundary wall and force Jiang Liu to comply.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm considered whether the Netherworld Master’s claim meant the balance of strength among the three leaders had shifted.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm did not declare his position and waited to see whether the Netherworld Master could threaten the Human Race.

The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord, the Netherworld Master, and the Holy Master of the Human Realm renewed their alliance by forming the Three Realms Concord Curse Talisman. From afar, Zhao Hao recognized the talisman and realized the three Rule Lords had resorted to it because Jiang Liu had driven them into a corner.

• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord pledged his support for the Netherworld Master's plan, and the Holy Master of the Human Realm reluctantly agreed to join them.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord cut a piece of space from the void and divided it into 108 fragments.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord arranged the fragments into the Three Realms Concord Curse Talisman, and the three Rule Lords pressed their hands onto it.
• The talisman linked the three Rule Lords and bound them to work together, preventing them from betraying the alliance.
• Zhao Hao felt the talisman's power from afar and recalled that it trapped wronged souls and punished anyone who broke the agreement.

The Netherworld Master explained a secret Devil Race technique that required the Holy Master of the Human Realm and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord to help target the Human Realm. As they began carrying out the plan, Jiang Liu sensed a dangerous ritual, and the Human Realm's boundary wall erupted in white light and lightning as a hazy figure emerged beneath it.

• The Netherworld Master revealed that his secret technique required the Three Rule Lords' cooperation and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord's Three Realms Concord Curse Talisman had supplied a crucial link.
• The Netherworld Master left, the Holy Master of the Human Realm returned to the boundary wall, and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord spread his Power of Space Rule through the void.
• Jiang Liu watched the distant void and sensed a formation of white lights releasing powerful resentful energy.
• The Holy Master of the Human Realm reappeared before Jiang Liu without approaching or offering anything.
• The Human Realm's boundary wall blazed with white light and lightning as a hazy figure emerged from beneath it.

Jiang Liu discovered that the Netherworld Master had secretly spread Black Mist through the Human Realm and realized the Three Rule Lords were using the Human Race to force him to submit. He broke past the Holy Master of the Human Realm and attacked the Netherworld Master, but the Netherworld Master believed his plan was already more than halfway complete.

• Jiang Liu spotted the Netherworld Master hiding nearby and learned that Black Mist was spreading through the Human Realm.
• Jiang Liu ordered the Golden Giant to stop the Black Mist and moved to attack the Netherworld Master, but the Holy Master of the Human Realm blocked him with a blue curtain wall.
• Jiang Liu used his Time-Space Rule to deceive the Holy Master and cross through space, then struck at the Netherworld Master with the Godslayer Blade.
• The Netherworld Master blocked Jiang Liu's attack with his Skull Scepter and revealed that he had used the Demonic Sealing Heaven Art to turn the Power of Life into the Power of Death and spread Black Mist through the Human Realm.
• The Netherworld Master believed that keeping Jiang Liu occupied would force him to compromise before the Human Realm's Heavenly Dao could eliminate the Black Mist.

Jiang Liu fought the Netherworld Master and the Divine Realm Heavenly Lord, using his mastery of spatial power to launch a powerful attack. He failed to injure the Heavenly Lord before the Netherworld Master and the Holy Master of the Human Realm arrived, leaving him facing all three opponents.

• Jiang Liu sent the Netherworld Master flying with a slash, and the Netherworld Master used life force to resist the Human Realm's suppression.
• The Divine Realm Heavenly Lord ambushed Jiang Liu with a halo, but a Void Creature blocked the attack and Jiang Liu dodged.
• Jiang Liu realized the Heavenly Lord's spatial abilities could conceal the Netherworld Master's movements and might have helped him spread Black Mist through the Human Realm.
• Jiang Liu attacked the Heavenly Lord with the Godslayer Blade and Phantom Stomp, but the Heavenly Lord used his spatial ring to block the strike and retreated unharmed.
• The Netherworld Master and the Holy Master of the Human Realm rushed toward Jiang Liu, leaving him to face all three opponents.