Chapter Summaries

Jiang Che and Yan Juque teamed up to hunt True Beasts and found a hidden gorge containing a powerful target. Shen Yanjun and Shi Kong entered the same cave, where the two groups encountered a Purple-Striped Nether Flood Dragon whose markings hinted at King-level power.

• Yan Juque killed the two Shadowless Sect thieves, returned Jiang Che's True Core, and split their stolen True Cores with him.
• Jiang Che and Yan Juque formed a team, combined their maps, and hunted True Beasts together with complementary combat styles.
• Yan Juque's map revealed a top-grade elite True Beast hidden in a misty gorge, and Jiang Che and Yan Juque found the concealed entrance and entered the cave.
• Shen Yanjun teamed up with Shi Kong, who had visited the gorge ten years earlier, and the two quickly found the same entrance and went inside.
• Jiang Che and Yan Juque reached an underground Dark Lake, where a Purple-Striped Nether Flood Dragon emerged; Yan Juque realized its purple-and-gold markings suggested it was nearing King level.

Jiang Che and Yan Juque killed a Half-Step King Rank Nether Flood Dragon and divided the spoils, but Shen Yanjun and Shi Kong arrived and demanded its precious True Core. Yan Juque refused to hand it over, leaving both sides on the verge of a fight.

• Jiang Che and Yan Juque attacked the Nether Flood Dragon together, but its transformation to the Fourth Stage of Complete Truth turned the battle against them.
• Yan Juque used a sword-shaped jade talisman to wound the dragon, and Jiang Che widened the wound with his Prison-Suppressing Force Field before destroying its brain with Star-Burial spheres.
• Yan Juque extracted the dragon's purple-and-gold True Core and traded it to himself in exchange for True Cores, while Jiang Che accepted the deal.
• Shen Yanjun and Shi Kong entered the cavern and coveted the True Core, but Yan Juque refused Shen Yanjun's offer to buy it.
• Jiang Che warned Yan Juque that Shen Yanjun was his enemy, and Yan Juque drew his greatsword and threatened the newcomers if they did not back down.

Jiang Che and Yan Juque avoided a fight with Shen Yanjun and Shi Kong, but the two rivals soon turned on each other in their own schemes. Shi Kong was killed by the True Mother Cult's Left Protector, while Shen Yanjun escaped toward a group of righteous experts, and the Left Protector turned his attention to other targets.

• Shen Yanjun and Shi Kong abandoned their attempt to seize the Purple Gold True Core, and Jiang Che and Yan Juque hurried away from the cave.
• Shen Yanjun and Shi Kong separately planned to return for the True Core, but Shen Yanjun secretly followed Shi Kong as he turned back toward Jiang Che and Yan Juque.
• The Left Protector confronted Shi Kong, shattered his Law Domain, and crushed his head after Shi Kong tried to flee.
• Shen Yanjun fled the Left Protector with a True Essence Bomb and escaped toward a group hunting a True Beast.
• The Left Protector let Shen Yanjun go and studied portraits identifying Fang Zhenge, Yan Juque, and Jiang Che as targets.

Jiang Che and Yan Juque absorbed their True Cores, then parted ways so Yan Juque could seek his sect’s inheritance while Jiang Che hunted more beasts to temper his True Body. After reaching half conversion and slaughtering a herd of more than a hundred ox-like True Beasts, Jiang Che attracted their enormous Half-Step King Rank leader.

• Jiang Che and Yan Juque hid in a canyon cave and took turns absorbing their True Cores, restoring Yan Juque and pushing Jiang Che’s True Body conversion past forty percent.
• Yan Juque invited Jiang Che to explore a Haotian Sword Sect inheritance, but Jiang Che declined to hunt more True Beasts; they parted and went in different directions.
• Jiang Che hunted more True Beasts, discovered that his laws had grown stronger, and raised his True Body conversion to half.
• Jiang Che activated the Thunder Source Dharma Orb, Black Armor, and Titan Strength, then fought and killed a herd of more than a hundred ox-like True Beasts.
• As Jiang Che began gathering the herd’s True Cores, a gigantic purple-and-gold Giant Bull arrived, revealed itself as their leader, and fixed him with its killing intent.

Jiang Che defeated a Half-Step King-Level Giant Bull after a brutal battle, then refined its True Core along with more than a hundred ordinary True Cores. His True Body conversion reached ninety percent, leaving him confident he could finish tempering it in the secret realm.

• Jiang Che chose to fight the Giant Bull and used his Prison-Suppressing Force Field and powerful attacks, but the beast shattered the field and wounded him severely.
• Jiang Che endured the Giant Bull's assault, damaged its eye with Star-Burial, then broke its left foreleg with a precisely timed gravitational pull.
• Jiang Che killed the Giant Bull by detonating Star-Burial spheres inside its brain and recovered its purple-gold Half-Step King Rank True Core.
• Jiang Che dug out more than one hundred ordinary True Cores and refined them, raising his True Body conversion progress to sixty percent.
• Jiang Che refined the Half-Step King Rank True Core, strengthening his Law Seed and raising his True Body conversion progress to ninety percent.

Jiang Che hunted in the southern secret realm until his True Body refinement reached 95%, then encountered Daoist Jingxu of the True Mother Cult. Jiang Che destroyed Jingxu with a single punch, proving his strength could overwhelm a late Third Stage of Complete Truth expert.

• Jiang Che chose to explore the secret realm's south while Shen Yanjun joined Luo Xing's group to escape the Left Protector.
• Shen Yanjun's group found the Giant Bull and other True Beast corpses, and Luo Xing estimated that their killer was a powerful expert.
• Daoist Jingxu saw the battlefield, feared its unknown victor, and headed south, where he encountered Jiang Che and identified him as a Myriad Phenomena Dao Sect disciple.
• Jiang Che's hunting raised his True Body refinement to 95% before Daoist Jingxu attacked him with silver threads.
• Jiang Che suppressed Daoist Jingxu with his Prison-Suppressing Force Field, shattered his Eight Trigrams Domain and defensive artifact, then obliterated his upper body with a punch.

Jiang Che completed his first True Body tempering in the secret realm, then encountered Bai Han, the Haotian Sword Sect’s First Sword Seed, before escaping through the opened exit. At the entrance, he reunited with Suying and Luo Qinghan, but Fang Zhenge was still missing as the portal neared its closure.

• Jiang Che killed Daoist Jingxu, took his pills, True Cores, and portrait sheet, and discovered the True Mother Cult had identified him.
• Jiang Che hunted True Beasts and refined their cores until his True Body conversion reached 100%, completing its first tempering.
• Jiang Che tested his new strength by killing an Elite Level True Beast with one ordinary punch, then spotted Bai Han slaying a King Level True Beast and learned his identity.
• Jiang Che used Shadow Evasion to reach the exit safely and returned to the entrance of the Valley of Absolute Life.
• Jiang Che found Suying and Luo Qinghan waiting, but Fang Zhenge had not emerged; Suying said they could not reenter before the portal closed, and Jiang Che feared Fang had encountered the True Mother Cult.

After Jiang Che and his fellow disciples reported a True Mother Cult assassination plot, Daoist Wuwei warned them that Great Chu was facing a major war. Great Yan captured the Capital City and the emperor, prompting the Myriad Phenomena Dao Sect to enter its highest state of war readiness; Jiang Che later collected six thousand merit points and went to browse the Imperial Treasury.

• Fang Zhenge returned from the secret realm badly wounded and reported that a Fourth Stage of Complete Truth True Mother Cult attacker had nearly killed him, while Jiang Che revealed that he had killed another assassin and found a portrait list.
• Jiang Che presented the portrait to Daoist Wuwei, who praised him, promised to seek additional merit for the evidence, and gave Fang Zhenge a pill to treat his injuries.
• Daoist Wuwei told his disciples that Helian Zong had led a million troops toward the Capital City and warned them to prepare for a great battle.
• Jiang Che bought cultivation pills and secluded himself, but nine tolls of the sect bell summoned everyone to Taixu Peak, where Lei Wanjun announced that the Capital City had fallen, the emperor had been captured, and half of Great Chu’s northern lands were occupied.
• Lei Wanjun declared the sect at its highest state of war readiness, and Jiang Che resolved to strengthen himself as quickly as possible.
• The Divine Strategy Alliance awarded Jiang Che six thousand merit points for his secret-realm report and evidence, and he headed to the Imperial Treasury to see what he could exchange them for.

Jiang Che exchanged for a Sumeru Ring and a healing pill for Fang Zhenge, then went to the Alchemy Hall to collect the Taiyi Soul-Nourishing Pills. When Shen Yanjun tried to take the allocation, Jiang Che challenged him to a public duel at Xingdao Peak, wagering his future pill shares.

• Jiang Che spent 5,000 merit points on a Sumeru Ring and used it to store his bundle.
• Jiang Che exchanged his remaining merit points and pills for a Seven Treasures Heart-Protecting Pill, which he gave to Fang Zhenge.
• Fang Zhenge warned Jiang Che to avoid Shen Yanjun when he went to collect the Taiyi Soul-Nourishing Pills.
• At the Alchemy Hall, Shen Yanjun demanded Jiang Che's pill allocation, claiming he needed it more for the battlefield.
• Jiang Che challenged Shen Yanjun to a duel at the Xingdao Peak Martial Arts Arena, wagering the current and future pill allocations; Shen Yanjun accepted.

Jiang Che faced Shen Yanjun in a duel before a huge crowd at the Myriad Phenomena Dao Sect, despite warnings about the gap in their cultivation. He stunned the spectators by punching away Shen Yanjun’s opening sword strike, and the duel continued as Shen Yanjun activated his Heaven-Slashing Sword Domain.

• Fang Zhenge warned Jiang Che against the duel, but Jiang Che revealed that his True Body had reached Great Success and said he would withdraw if he could not win.
• At Xingdao Peak, Fang Zhenge told Luo Qinghan and Suying about Jiang Che’s progress, while Suying promised to protect him if necessary.
• The disciples and elders gathered to watch as Shen Yanjun arrived and unleashed the pressure of a Late Third Stage Complete Truth cultivator.
• After Elder Xiao Tieshan declared the duel underway, Shen Yanjun attacked Jiang Che with his Frost sword.
• Jiang Che met Shen Yanjun’s sword strike with a full-power punch and blasted it aside, forcing Shen Yanjun back and astonishing the crowd.
• Shen Yanjun recognized Jiang Che’s strength, then activated his Heaven-Slashing Sword Domain.

Jiang Che overwhelmed Shen Yanjun in the arena, enduring his Heaven-Slashing Sword Domain and shattering it with his vast reserves of Law Power. As Jiang Che held Shen Yanjun under crushing gravity and prepared to strike, a golden sword light suddenly slashed toward him.

• Shen Yanjun activated his Heaven-Slashing Sword Domain, but Jiang Che charged into it and proved his True Body had reached Great Success.
• Jiang Che's Star-Burial spheres destroyed Shen Yanjun's strongest sword strike, though Shen Yanjun's domain made him difficult to hit.
• Jiang Che flooded his Prison-Suppressing Force Field with Law Power and shattered Shen Yanjun's Heaven-Slashing Sword Domain.
• Jiang Che pinned the weakened Shen Yanjun under crushing gravity and prepared a powerful punch, but stopped short of killing him to avoid the consequences.
• A golden sword light suddenly streaked toward Jiang Che as he prepared to reduce the force of his punch.

Jiang Che defeated Shen Yanjun and became the Myriad Phenomena Dao Sect’s Third True Disciple, though Dao Child Ye Wuchen intervened to stop him from killing Shen. After the duel, Zhang Baishi learned of Jiang Che’s victory and hurried to Crimson Firmament Peak with pills to congratulate him.

• Jiang Che dodged Ye Wuchen’s sword strike after nearly killing Shen Yanjun with a punch, and Ye ordered him to spare his fellow disciple.
• Elder Xiao Tieshan declared Jiang Che the winner and named him the Third True Disciple, while Shen Yanjun fell to Fourth and left in disgrace.
• Bao Da, Song Yuan, Fang Zhenge, Luo Qinghan, and others congratulated Jiang Che, who remained humble and then left to recover.
• Li Yitong told Zhang Baishi that Jiang Che had crushed Shen Yanjun and taken his rank, leaving Zhang Baishi astonished.
• Zhang Baishi packed pills for Jiang Che, including Shen Yanjun’s share from their wager, and set off to deliver them personally.

After becoming the Third True Disciple, Jiang Che collected his pill rewards, strengthened ties with Elder Zhang Baishi, and returned Spirit Void Peak’s pills to Fang Zhenge. Daoist Wuwei granted him access to the peak’s treasury, where Jiang Che found a rare artifact that could teleport him away from a fatal attack.

• Jiang Che returned to Crimson Firmament Peak, congratulated his servants on his promotion, and warned them to keep a low profile.
• Elder Zhang Baishi delivered Jiang Che’s monthly Taiyi Soul-Nourishing Pills and Shen Yanjun’s wagered pill, then promised to refine future pills for him without charge.
• Jiang Che brought Spirit Void Peak’s pill allotment to Fang Zhenge, who thanked him for easing the pressure from Heaven-Slaying Peak.
• Daoist Wuwei praised Jiang Che’s victory and gave him a Purple Jade Token that let him choose one item from Spirit Void Peak’s exclusive treasury.
• Jiang Che entered the treasury alone and used Weapon Dissolution to inspect its defensive treasures.
• Jiang Che discovered that the Void Nether Evasion Jade could automatically teleport him to a nearby unoccupied safe area when he faced a fatal attack, with a thirty-day cooldown.

Jiang Che secured the Void Nether Evasion Jade but lacked a Soul Slot to use it, so he focused on strengthening his Divine Soul while advancing as a True Disciple. After three months of cultivation, he reached the peak of the Second Stage of Complete Truth and began exploring how to form a Law Domain, considering whether to combine law attributes rather than focus only on gravity.

• Jiang Che selected the Void Nether Evasion Jade from the treasure vault and realized he needed more Soul Slots to activate its life-saving ability.
• Jiang Che swallowed a Taiyi Soul-Nourishing Pill and cultivated to strengthen his Divine Soul, while Ye Wuchen comforted Shen Yanjun and gave him a Mystic Yang Crimson Blood Pill.
• A True Disciple Hall steward informed Jiang Che that his promotion to Third True Disciple and its benefits were complete, and Jiang Che spent his new contribution points on cultivation pills.
• Over three months, Jiang Che cultivated, harvested Law Power in the Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, and tempered his True Body until his True Essence, Divine Soul, laws, and True Body reached the peak of the Second Stage of Complete Truth.
• Jiang Che began studying how to form a Law Domain, considered a Gravity Domain as a fallback, and wondered whether combining different law attributes could be better.

Jiang Che discovered that energy from the Heart of the Black Abyss could suppress Law Power and spent half a month reproducing it to create an Anti-Law Domain. He successfully condensed the domain and named it [Domain of All Laws Returning to Silence].

• Jiang Che considered possible Law Domain approaches before finding inert energy in his Law Seed that could suppress Law Power, and traced its source to the Heart of the Black Abyss.
• Jiang Che probed the Heart of the Black Abyss, avoided Master of Hundred Arts's golden seal, and found more of the suppressive energy near it.
• Jiang Che compared the energy with the Reality Realm's aura and realized its absolute inertia could neutralize Law Power.
• Jiang Che spent half a month studying and imitating the energy until he created a substitute with 99.8% similarity.
• Jiang Che fused the substitute energy around his Law Seed with the aid of his Divine Soul and a golden ray from the Half-Step King Rank True Core, forming his Anti-Law Domain.
• Jiang Che named the completed domain [Domain of All Laws Returning to Silence].

Jiang Che broke through to the Third Stage of Complete Truth, gained a fourth Divine Soul Slot, and began cultivating True Arts to strengthen his talents. After accepting Yan Juque’s invitation to hunt True Beasts in a newly discovered location, Jiang Che met him at Falling Star Valley, where both revealed they had reached the peak of the Third Stage of Complete Truth.

• Jiang Che broke through to the Third Stage of Complete Truth, unlocked a fourth Divine Soul Slot, and installed the Void Nether Evasion Jade to gain its life-saving skill.
• Jiang Che visited the Myriad Laws Tower and borrowed twenty True Arts, then cultivated several to Perfection and fed newly gained talents into True Nine Li Weapon Lord.
• Jiang Che received a letter from Yan Juque inviting him to hunt True Beasts in a special location and agreed to meet at Falling Star Valley.
• Jiang Che cautiously scouted Falling Star Valley before approaching Yan Juque, confirming there were no hidden threats.
• Yan Juque explained that he had gained his sect’s core inheritance and reached the peak of the Third Stage of Complete Truth, and Jiang Che revealed that he had reached the same stage.

Jiang Che and Yan Juque hunted True Beasts in a hidden small secret realm, then fought a powerful King Level Golden-Scaled Heaven-Rending Hou. They killed the beast, but Yan Juque was left unconscious and gravely injured.

• Jiang Che revealed that he had reached the Third Stage of Complete Truth, and Yan Juque explained how his compass could split True Cores equally.
• Jiang Che and Yan Juque found the secret realm entrance, hunted its Elite Level True Beasts, and split and refined their True Cores.
• The two reached the basin and identified the Golden-Scaled Heaven-Rending Hou, a King Level True Beast at the Fourth Stage of Complete Truth.
• Jiang Che used his law-forbidding domain and Star-Burial spheres to wound the beast, while coordinating with Yan Juque to create an opening.
• Yan Juque used Heavenly Source Absolute Sword to stab the beast through its wound and destroy its heart, but the beast struck him unconscious before dying.
• Jiang Che suppressed the beast's attempted self-destruction with his domain, and its body crashed to the ground.

After killing the Golden-Scaled Heaven-Rending Hou, Jiang Che and Yan Juque refined its King Level True Core, and Jiang Che agreed to represent the injured Yan Juque in the Haotian Sword Sect tournament. They entered Yun Prefecture City, where Jiang Che treated a sick little girl and arranged for her and her father to get medical help.

• Jiang Che gave Yan Juque a life-saving pill, then extracted the Golden-Scaled Heaven-Rending Hou's True Core and split it with him to refine.
• Jiang Che noticed golden patterns emerging on his Law Seed and his second True Body tempering progress reaching forty percent, while Yan Juque explained his injuries would prevent him from competing in the upcoming sect tournament.
• Yan Juque asked Jiang Che to fight for the Sword Sect against Song Yushu, and Jiang Che accepted for the chance to gain True Body-tempering pills and study the Sword Stele.
• Jiang Che and Yan Juque traveled to Yun Prefecture City, where the city defense commander welcomed them after learning their identities.
• Jiang Che noticed a sick little girl in the crowd, used a small amount of Myriad Phenomena True Essence to stabilize her, and asked the commander to let her father take her into the city for treatment.

Yan Juque brought Jiang Che to the Haotian Sword Sect and proposed that he fight Song Yushu in the Two Sects Martial Tournament after Yan’s injury ruled him out. The sect elders debated the substitution but objected to relying on an outsider, leaving Jiang Che’s participation undecided.

• Yan Juque took Jiang Che to the Hall of Gold and Jade, where Jiang used the True Eye of Myriad Phenomena to win back Yan’s gambling losses.
• Yan Juque told casino patrons that Jiang would fight in his place in the upcoming Two Sects Martial Tournament and explained the event’s widespread betting.
• Yan Juque brought Jiang to the Haotian Sword Sect, then told Luo Xing that Jiang had replaced Shen Yanjun as the Myriad Phenomena Dao Sect’s Third True Disciple and would stand in for him.
• Yan Juque reported his injury and Jiang’s proposed participation to Su Wuming, who asked Jiang to meet the sect leadership the next morning.
• Su Wuming and the elders questioned Jiang about fighting for the Sword Sect, but several elders opposed using an outsider and suggested Qin Feng take Yan’s place.

The Haotian Sword Sect agreed to let Jiang Che replace Yan Juque in the Two Sects Martial Tournament, while Yun Prefecture discussed his chances against Song Yushu. As the tournament approached, Gu Qingxuan and Lin Qingyun learned that Jiang Che would compete and decided to watch, while Song Yushu received the support of local clan heirs.

• Luo Xing argued that Jiang Che should fight in Yan Juque's place, and Su Wuming persuaded the elders to approve the decision despite Qin Feng's objections.
• News of Jiang Che's appointment spread across Yun Prefecture, where many believed Song Yushu's Half-Step Fourth Stage cultivation gave him the advantage.
• Gu Qingxuan and Lin Qingyun heard that Jiang Che would fight Song Yushu, recognized his name from their past, and agreed to attend the tournament.
• Yan Juque persuaded Jiang Che to leave Heavenly Sword Peak with him, and they encountered Zhao Mingxuan and other young nobles who doubted Jiang Che could win.
• Zhao Mingxuan told the nobles that Song Yushu had grown even stronger, and they visited Song Yushu to pledge their support before the tournament.