Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ming killed Zhu Feng and the gathered disciples of the Upper Three Sects after they tried to execute him, then entered the Blacksmith Association seeking its leader. He left the association’s blacksmiths watching him warily.

• Jiang Ming asked Zhu Feng whether Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong were inside the Blacksmith Association, and Zhu Feng ordered his soldiers to execute him.
• Jiang Ming used Dimensional Slash to cut down the soldiers and Spatial Disintegration to erase Zhu Feng.
• Gu Zhen, Tang Min, and Yu Xiaowei recognized Jiang Ming and fled with the sect disciples, but Jiang Ming killed the Clear Sky Sect, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan disciples with three waves of sword energy.
• Jiang Ming forced Gu Zhen to reveal Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong’s whereabouts, but Gu Zhen refused and threatened him, so Jiang Ming made him explode with Soul Power.
• Jiang Ming entered the Blacksmith Association and asked the wary blacksmiths who was in charge.

Jiang Ming demanded Ning Fengzhi’s whereabouts from the Blacksmith Association, but Lou Gao and the blacksmiths refused to tell him. Jiang Ming began killing them in groups of ten, and the survivors finally begged to reveal what they knew.

• Jiang Ming asked Lou Gao where Ning Fengzhi had gone, but Lou Gao refused to disclose his whereabouts.
• The blacksmiths condemned Jiang Ming for killing the guards and demanded that he leave the association.
• Jiang Ming threatened to kill ten people every three counts unless someone revealed Ning Fengzhi’s destination.
• Jiang Ming killed Silong and nine other blacksmiths with the Void Blade, then killed another ten, including Lou Gao.
• The surviving blacksmiths panicked and pleaded to tell Jiang Ming what they knew about Ning Fengzhi.

Jiang Ming learned that the Star Luo Emperor’s representative would test hidden weapons in Moonwheel City, while Xu Heng became a spirit master and was presented to the Third Prince, Third Princess, and Lord Zhu. The chapter ended with Dai Mubai examining Xu Heng’s unusual Attack Reversal ability.

• Jiang Ming killed the blacksmiths who challenged him, then forced a middle-aged blacksmith to reveal that the hidden-weapon test would take place in Moonwheel City.
• Xu Heng absorbed a four-hundred-year soul ring and became a spirit master.
• The City Lord invited Xu Heng to a banquet for the Zhu Clan’s prominent figure and introduced him to Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Lord Zhu.
• Xu Heng displayed his hourglass Martial Soul and explained that his soul skill could reverse attacks against others by one second.
• Dai Mubai sensed a strange distortion from Xu Heng’s Martial Soul and questioned its limits.

Xu Heng earned an invitation to Star Luo Royal Academy, but Zhu Zhuyou urged him to cut ties with his ordinary family in exchange for money. Dai Mubai sensed that Xu Heng’s Martial Soul resembled Jiang Ming’s, while Zhu Zhuqing dismissed the comparison and Dai Mubai warned Zhu Zhuyou to avoid Jiang Ming.

• Xu Heng explained that his Soul Ring came from an Illusory Demon Butterfly, and Dai Mubai invited him to join Star Luo Royal Academy.
• Zhu Zhuyou asked whether Xu Heng’s family members were ordinary people, then pressed him to sever his ties with them.
• Xu Heng asked Zhu Zhuyou for more money, accepted his instructions, and left the banquet.
• Zhu Zhuqing criticized Zhu Zhuyou’s cruel teasing, while he said Xu Heng needed to prove his loyalty.
• Dai Mubai said Xu Heng’s Martial Soul reminded him of Jiang Ming, and Zhu Zhuqing insisted no one could compare to him.
• Dai Mubai warned Zhu Zhuyou to flee if he ever encountered Jiang Ming, while the City Lord tried to recall where he had heard the name.

Jiang Ming arrived in Moonwheel City and discovered that Xu Youyou, Xu Jianghe, and three others had been executed after being accused of stealing from the City Lord's honored guest. He took their bodies from the city wall, then faced soldiers sent to capture him.

• Jiang Ming overheard townspeople discussing Xu Youyou and Xu Jianghe's deaths and Xu Heng's supposed confession.
• Jiang Ming recognized that the accusations against the Xu family had been staged and released a chilling aura that scattered the crowd.
• Jiang Ming removed the five corpses from the city wall and stored them in his Soul Tool.
• Townspeople recognized Jiang Ming and warned him that the City Lord's Mansion and the Star Luo Empire were too powerful to oppose.
• Thirty soldiers arrived, and their officer ordered Jiang Ming to kneel and return to the City Lord's Mansion.

Jiang Ming killed a Moonwheel City officer and thirty soldiers, then buried five corpses before setting his sights on the Zhu Clan and Xu Heng. At the City Lord's Mansion, Xu Heng displayed his hourglass Martial Soul to Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong, whose suspicions prompted him to test Xu Heng's ability.

• Jiang Ming erased the officer and thirty soldiers with a sword strike, then left Moonwheel City for his old training grove.
• Jiang Ming used Spatial Disintegration to dispose of five corpses and vowed to deal with the Zhu Clan heirs and Xu Heng.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, where Dai Mubai introduced Zhu Zhuyou and Xu Heng.
• Xu Heng revealed his hourglass Martial Soul and explained that his soul skill could reverse attacks against other people, but not attacks aimed at himself.
• Gu Rong released his nine soul rings and ordered Dai Mubai to attack him with his weakest soul skill while Xu Heng tried to reverse it.

Xu Heng revealed that Jiang Ming had once traveled with Dugu Bo, then confessed to murdering relatives and pledging loyalty to Dai Mubai. As the group ordered the evidence concealed, a guard disintegrated into silver light and Jiang Ming appeared, inviting them to ask him directly.

• Bone Douluo suspected Xu Heng had a martial soul like Jiang Ming's, and Xu Heng recalled meeting Jiang Ming alongside a snake-scented Title Douluo in Star Luo Imperial City.
• Dai Mubai recognized the description as Dugu Bo and beat Xu Heng for hiding that Jiang Ming had learned swordsmanship at the Xu Family hall.
• Zhu Zhuqing kicked Zhu Zhuyou aside when he tried to intervene and warned him that even the Star Luo Emperor had to kneel before Jiang Ming.
• Xu Heng confessed that he had killed relatives, pledged allegiance, and hung corpses from the city gates, prompting Zhu Zhuqing to order the clues removed.
• A guard entered to report an intruder, began disintegrating into silver light, and Jiang Ming told the group to ask him directly.

Jiang Ming arrived as Zhu Zhuqing attacked Zhu Zhuyou, then revealed that he had destroyed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and showed Ning Fengzhi its fall. He turned to Xu Heng and seized him, condemning him for betraying his family, while Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong were left grieving and enraged.

• Jiang Ming entered the Back Garden, and Zhu Zhuqing attacked Zhu Zhuyou before Jiang Ming froze her with Space Imprisonment.
• Jiang Ming told Bone Douluo and Ning Fengzhi that Chen Xin, Ning Rongrong, and the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were gone, and that he had destroyed them.
• Jiang Ming showed Ning Fengzhi a Space Image of the sect's destruction, including Chen Xin and Ning Rongrong's deaths, leaving Ning Fengzhi devastated.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong confronted Jiang Ming over the massacre, but Jiang Ming told them to wait while he dealt with Xu Heng.
• Xu Heng blamed Zhu Zhuyou for forcing him to betray his family, but Jiang Ming dismissed his excuse, pulled him close with Space Shift, and accused him of looking down on ordinary people and helping wipe out his clan.

Jiang Ming extracted Xu Heng’s martial soul origin and awakened the power of time, then used his time and space abilities to trap Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong and punish Zhu Zhuyou. He left the others frozen in fear as Zhu Zhuyou suffered on the back-garden floor.

• Jiang Ming accused Zhu Zhuyou of masterminding the plot and extracted Xu Heng’s martial soul origin, then absorbed it.
• Jiang Ming revealed his Sands of Time martial soul and used Time Reversal to return Gu Rong and Ning Fengzhi to their starting point.
• Jiang Ming declared his command of time and space, while Zhu Zhuyou threatened him with the power of the Star Luo Empire.
• Jiang Ming used Spatial Stripping on Zhu Zhuyou, leaving him in agony as Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai, Ning Fengzhi, and Gu Rong watched without intervening.

Jiang Ming overwhelmed Ning Fengzhi’s defenders and offered Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing a chance to survive by killing Ning Fengzhi. Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing attacked him, leaving Ning Fengzhi under threat.

• Ning Fengzhi boosted Gu Rong, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing as Gu Rong summoned his Bone Transformation Divine Dragon and Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing formed the Hell White Tiger to attack Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming used Space Shift to put the Hell White Tiger in the dragon’s path, then cut Gu Rong out of his transformed state with the Void Blade.
• Jiang Ming struck Ning Fengzhi with a distant slap, critically injuring him, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing pleaded to live.
• Jiang Ming spared Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing on the condition that they kill Ning Fengzhi, and Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing rushed to attack him.
• Dai Mubai fired a White Tiger Intense Light Wave at Ning Fengzhi’s legs as Ning Fengzhi protested their betrayal.

Jiang Ming helped Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing defeat Ning Fengzhi and trapped Gu Rong as Ning Fengzhi died. Gu Rong tried to save himself by revealing he knew of a god’s inheritance, but Jiang Ming’s blade kept descending.

• Jiang Ming redirected Gu Rong’s bone needles with Spatial Shift, killing the wounded Zhu Zhuyou.
• Jiang Ming restrained Gu Rong while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing killed Ning Fengzhi.
• Jiang Ming spared Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, then ordered Dai Mubai to drag the dying Xu Heng to a grove outside the city.
• Gu Rong condemned Dai Mubai for abandoning the Star Luo Empire and then obeying Jiang Ming.
• Jiang Ming raised his sword to kill Gu Rong, who pleaded for his life by claiming to know of a god’s inheritance.

Jiang Ming agreed to follow Gu Rong to the Far North to investigate the Space God’s inheritance, but first he tested the limits of Xu Heng’s Time Martial Soul. The Time Hourglass shattered and transformed into a huge golden clock, leaving its power unclear.

• Gu Rong told Jiang Ming that a Divine Miracle in the Far North held the Space God’s inheritance, and Jiang Ming agreed to go after warning Gu Rong not to deceive him.
• Jiang Ming and Gu Rong went to the woods outside the city, while Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing brought the badly injured Xu Heng there and feared what might happen if Jiang Ming died.
• Jiang Ming revealed that he had reduced the corpses in the clearing to atoms and said he would test the current limits of the Time Martial Soul he had just obtained.
• Jiang Ming summoned the Time Hourglass and tried to use Time Reversal, but the hourglass cracked and shattered.
• The golden grains transformed into a huge pale-golden clock, while Gu Rong watched with growing suspicion.

Jiang Ming reversed time to resurrect Xu Youyou and four others who had been dead for four days, then gave Xu Youyou his Void Blade so she could punish Xu Heng. Xu Youyou began her revenge by cutting off Xu Heng’s right leg.

• Jiang Ming combined Time Power and Silver Space Power to turn back the clock four days and restore the five victims to life.
• Xu Youyou, Xu Jianghe, and the others awoke, remembered Xu Heng killing them, and realized Jiang Ming had resurrected them.
• Jiang Ming offered Xu Heng’s fate to the victims and lent Xu Youyou the Void Blade.
• Xu Youyou walked up to Xu Heng and severed his right leg, saying the strike was for Fourth Junior Brother.

Xu Youyou executed Xu Heng for his crimes, then Jiang Ming returned the Void Blade and told her and the others to leave Moonwheel City for Nuoding City. In the Far North, Jiang Ming found Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan under attack by powerful scorpions and appeared in front of Hu Liena as a poisonous stinger struck toward her.

• Xu Youyou severed Xu Heng's leg and hands, stabbed his heart, and beheaded him to avenge her family.
• Xu Youyou returned the Void Blade to Jiang Ming, who told her to go to Nuoding City with the others.
• Bone Douluo flew north with Jiang Ming, openly acknowledging their mutual awareness of Bone Douluo's hostile intentions.
• Jiang Ming noticed a battle in the blizzard and recognized Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan fighting emerald-green scorpions.
• The scorpions badly injured Yan and cornered Hu Liena, but Jiang Ming appeared in front of her as a giant scorpion's stinger lunged at her.

Jiang Ming rescued Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan from a Green Demon Scorpion swarm, then learned they had spent three years training in the Far North. Bone Douluo arrived with Jiang Ming as his target, but an immense chill swept over the area before he could act.

• Jiang Ming caught and broke a Giant Scorpion’s tail hook, then slaughtered the two fifty-thousand-year Giant Scorpions and drove the remaining swarm away.
• Jiang Ming questioned Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan, who explained that they had come to the Far North to train and had been chased after Xie Yue killed a Green Demon Scorpion.
• Xie Yue revealed that he had reached level sixty-two, while Hu Liena and Yan remained at level sixty; Jiang Ming said he was nearing his seventh Soul Ring.
• Bone Douluo appeared and questioned why Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan were familiar with Jiang Ming; they taunted him about the destruction of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• A soul-freezing wave of cold swept in from a distance as Bone Douluo stood facing Jiang Ming.

Jiang Ming faced Ice Empress and Ice Bear King after their arrival in the Far North, then stood his ground when Snow Empress appeared and warned Ice Empress that he was beyond her. Snow Empress proposed ending the dispute, but Jiang Ming insisted on testing her strength, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ice Empress and Ice Bear King emerged from the snowstorm, and Bone Douluo recognized them as ancient, powerful soul beasts.
• Jiang Ming taunted Ice Empress and raised his Void Blade, while Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue doubted that he could challenge her.
• Snow Empress arrived and told Ice Empress that she was no match for Jiang Ming, urging her sister to stand down.
• Snow Empress asked Jiang Ming to let the matter end, but he declared that he still wanted to test the foremost of the Three Kings of the Far North.

Jiang Ming faced Snow Empress’s three ultimate techniques and emerged unharmed, proving his strength to the gathered witnesses. Snow Empress then revealed that the Far North held several divine relics, including the Ice God’s inheritance and another exceptionally dangerous one.

• Snow Empress attacked Jiang Ming with her Emperor’s Palm, but he dispersed the blizzard with Space Compression.
• Snow Empress followed with her Emperor’s Sword, and Jiang Ming met it with the Void Sword, canceling both strikes.
• Snow Empress unleashed her domain and combined her palm and sword techniques, but Jiang Ming’s Spatial Domain and Space Power dismantled every attack.
• Snow Empress ended the battle, while Ice Empress, Hu Liena, Yan, Xie Yue, and Bone Douluo reacted to Jiang Ming’s overwhelming strength.
• Snow Empress told Jiang Ming about several god relics in the Far North, including the Ice God’s inheritance and a perilous other relic.

Jiang Ming followed Bone Douluo to the Space God’s ruined temple in the Far North and was drawn into a Subspace, where the dying Space Dragon King offered him the Space Godhood. The chapter ended with Jiang Ming questioning whether that Godhood was at the God King level while Bone Douluo remained prostrate and silent.

• Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Xiao Bai left after Jiang Ming warned that his battle with Snow Empress would kill Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan decided to return from the Far North, while Jiang Ming continued onward with Bone Douluo.
• Bone Douluo led Jiang Ming to a ruined temple beneath a glacier and identified it as the Space God’s inheritance ground.
• A spatial fluctuation transported Jiang Ming and Bone Douluo into a gray Subspace, where they encountered the decaying Space Dragon King.
• The Space Dragon King offered Jiang Ming his Space Godhood, and Jiang Ming asked whether it was at the God King level.

Jiang Ming mocked the Space Dragon King for lacking the spatial abilities he claimed to command, then rejected the Dragon King's offer of Godhood. The Space Dragon King flew into a rage and threatened to tear Jiang Ming apart.

• The Space Dragon King admitted that his remnant soul could pass on, at most, a First-Level God Godhood, and Jiang Ming expressed disappointment.
• Jiang Ming asked whether the Space Dragon King could use Dimensional Collapse, Spatial Reconstruction, and False World, True Realm, then explained the abilities himself.
• Bone Douluo and the Space Dragon King were stunned by Jiang Ming's explanations, while the Space Dragon King insisted that space did not work that way.
• Jiang Ming compared the Space Dragon King to Yu Xiaogang and challenged him to demonstrate Spatial Folding, but the Dragon King admitted he lacked divine power.
• The Space Dragon King offered Jiang Ming Godhood, but Jiang Ming rejected it and insulted him until the Dragon King threatened to tear him apart.

Jiang Ming killed Bone Douluo by redirecting the Space Dragon King's Dragon Breath, then fought the wounded Space Dragon King with his spatial and temporal powers. Their battle shattered Subspace's barrier and released the Space Dragon King's godly aura across the Far North.

• The Space Dragon King fired its Dragon Breath, and Jiang Ming shifted Bone Douluo into its path, killing him.
• Jiang Ming used Spatial Disintegration to break apart the Space Dragon King's Dragon Breath and survived its attack.
• The Space Dragon King distorted space around Jiang Ming, injuring him as Soul Beasts across the Far North fled in fear.
• Jiang Ming healed himself with Time Reversal, shifted above the Space Dragon King, and wounded it with his Void Blade.
• The Space Dragon King struck Jiang Ming with an unavoidable space-sealing attack, sending him into the spatial barrier and shattering it.