Chapter Summaries

Chu Ming survived Leng Wuya’s projection and earned Star Kingdom-grade prodigy status, gaining the authority to open Canggan’s Star Gate. After refining the Star Talisman, he opened the gate, chose Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu to accompany him, and left the Star Gate under the Nine Heavens Alliance’s control.

• Chu Ming used the fusion of seven laws to wound Leng Wuya’s projection and endured until the Heaven-Connecting Trial ended.
• Leng Wuya recognized Chu Ming as a Star Kingdom-grade prodigy, granted Canggan permission to open a Star Gate, and gave Chu Ming its control talisman.
• Chu Ming studied and refined the Star Talisman for three days, then opened the Star Gate and unleashed a surge of power that revitalized Canggan.
• Chu Ming invited Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu to accompany him into the starry sea and placed the Star Gate under the Nine Heavens Alliance’s regulation.
• Several months later, Chu Ming settled his affairs and bid farewell to Ji Wujiang, Tantai Xiu, and the others.

After entering the Ganwu Star Kingdom, Chu Ming traveled toward Ganwu Academy, adapted to its powerful laws, and deterred a hostile prodigy aboard the starship. A hundred Ganwu days after arriving at the academy, he selected a dangerous extermination mission that could earn him the Star Merits needed for a copy of Analysis of Law Origins.

• Leng Wuya granted Chu Ming entry to Ganwu Academy and warned him about the dangers of the Star Kingdom and the wider starry sea.
• Chu Ming, Tian Ancestor, and Ancestor Liu reached a Star Kingdom transmission hub, received temporary identity badges and directions, then boarded a vessel bound for Ganwu Academy.
• A blue-skinned young man disrupted Chu Ming's law meditation, so Chu Ming used a precise annihilation strike to frighten him into silence.
• During the voyage, Chu Ming adapted to the starsea's dense chaotic power and sensed unfamiliar interactions between the Void Law and his other six laws.
• A hundred Ganwu days after entering Ganwu Academy, Chu Ming chose a mission to eliminate a Void Insect Clan nest at the Crying Cage Abandoned Refined Gold Mine Star for 800 Star Merits.

Chu Ming accepted a reconnaissance mission to the abandoned Crying Cage mining planet, where he and his companions found and killed a mutated Insect King. After driving off Silver Edge's squad, Chu Ming returned to the academy with an enigmatic spatial fragment and exchanged his rewards for Analysis of Law Origins.

• Silver Edge used a covert trick to claim the dangerous extermination mission first, so Chu Ming accepted a lower-reward reconnaissance mission at the same planet and secretly set out ahead of Silver Edge's squad.
• Chu Ming, Tian Ancestor, Ancestor Liu's avatar, and Lei Shuo divided their forces around the mining planet, and Chu Ming led Lei Shuo into the insect nest.
• Chu Ming wounded the mutated Insect King, then killed it with a powerful spatially infused slash while Lei Shuo held off its guards.
• Silver Edge's squad tried to seize the Insect King's core and attack Chu Ming, but Chu Ming injured two of them and forced Silver Edge to retreat.
• Chu Ming recovered the insect core and an ancient spatially resonant fragment, cleared the nest, and completed both missions at the academy.
• Chu Ming used his star merits to obtain Analysis of Law Origins.

Chu Ming studied the Analysis of Law Origins and used the Primordial Immortal Palace to draw clues from the mysterious fragment, which pointed toward the Myriad Heavy Mountains. He entered the dangerous secret realm to investigate, where five hostile prodigies ambushed him over the treasure from the Insect King's nest.

• Chu Ming studied the Analysis of Law Origins for more than ten Ganwu days, improving his understanding and fusion of the seven laws.
• Chu Ming used the Primordial Immortal Palace to analyze the black-gray fragment and received incomplete clues about fragmented coordinates and the weight of laws.
• Qinghao of the Ancient Talisman Research Society demanded the fragment, but Chu Ming denied having it and invoked the Dao Academy's rules; Qinghao left with the Silver Edge Squad members.
• Chu Ming learned that the fragment's clues might lead to the Myriad Heavy Mountains, then paid five hundred Star Merit to enter the secret realm.
• Chu Ming endured the realm's crushing gravity and chaotic law currents as he traveled inward, adapting and replenishing his primordial energy.
• Five hostile prodigies ambushed Chu Ming and demanded the treasure from the Insect King's nest, and Chu Ming lunged toward one of them.

Chu Ming fought his way through the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains Secret Realm, survived repeated ambushes, and claimed a Law Sedimentation Pool, where he discovered a black jade that resonated with the black-gray fragment and the Return-to-Ruin Pearl. The chapter ended as ancient patterns awakened beneath him and an irresistible force began pulling him into the shaking platform.

• Chu Ming defeated the prodigies who ambushed him, then advanced through increasingly severe gravity and law turbulence while refining his combat skills and studying the black-gray fragment.
• Chu Ming reached the seven-hundredfold gravity region and found three groups fighting over a Law Sedimentation Pool; he declared the pool his and fought them.
• Chu Ming killed the stone-skinned giant and the two silver-armored swordsmen with Lei Shuo's help, while the three black-robed figures fled.
• Chu Ming cultivated by the pool for five Dry Witch Days, absorbing its chaotic energy and law crystals, but the tenth-level bottleneck remained.
• Chu Ming uncovered a heavy black jade whose patterns embodied the weight of laws and whose presence made the fragment and Return-to-Ruin Pearl resonate.
• [Primordial Immortal Palace] warned Chu Ming of danger beneath him as ancient patterns spread across the platform and an irresistible suction force began pulling him down.

Chu Ming survived the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains Secret Realm’s lethal gravity and defeated a group of ambushers before reaching its core, where a slumbering crystal-rock behemoth guarded the black stone stele he sought. The beast awoke and attacked the golden-robed youth and Elder Ku, leaving Chu Ming caught in the confrontation.

• Chu Ming used the black jade and Return-to-Ruin Pearl to escape a collapsing crystal platform, then continued deeper into the secret realm with Lei Shuo.
• At nearly nine hundredfold gravity, Chu Ming and Lei Shuo fought four cultivators who tried to seize his item; Chu Ming killed the two armored attackers, Lei Shuo defeated the red-robed woman, and the sinister banner wielder fled.
• Chu Ming recovered and followed the resonance of his black jade and fragment to a clearing, where a Sovereign-level crystal-rock behemoth lay over a broken black stone stele.
• A golden-robed youth and Elder Ku appeared using a Void-Breaking Talisman; after the youth attacked Chu Ming’s hiding place, the blast awakened the behemoth.
• The behemoth raised its gravity to twelve hundredfold and slammed its giant palm toward the golden-robed youth.

Chu Ming killed the beast guarding the stele, learned the weight of the laws, and deciphered clues about Nirvana Stardust as a means of perfecting the tenth layer. After leaving the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains Secret Realm, he began recovering at Myriad Laws Peak while monitoring the academy for signs that others were searching for the same substance.

• Chu Ming used the Return-to-Ruin Pearl to weaken the beast, then struck its vulnerable hind-leg joint with the Nirvana Blade Soul and survived its blow by using the stele for protection.
• Chu Ming absorbed the stele's inheritance and used its force field to pin the gold-robed young man and black-robed elder, then drove them away and took the beast's core.
• Chu Ming studied the stele's information and, with the Return-to-Ruin Pearl's response, deduced the properties and likely origins of Nirvana Stardust.
• Chu Ming detected that others were searching academy records for Nirvana Stardust and narrowed its possible locations to dark nebulae and ancient ruins steeped in destruction.
• Chu Ming left the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains Secret Realm and returned to Myriad Laws Peak, where Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu met him.
• Chu Ming began healing and reviewing the stele's clues, while Tian Ancestor monitored new academy missions for leads on Nirvana Stardust.

Chu Ming accepted the dangerous Dark Ember Nebula exploration mission after outbidding Helian Zheng’s Artifact Refining team with a valuable crystal fragment and a Law Contract. He set out with Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu, entered the nebula, and began navigating its spatial hazards while Helian Zheng’s team moved ahead.

• Chu Ming recognized that the Dark Ember Nebula’s Dark Ember Crystals might be Nirvana Stardust and accepted the exploration mission.
• At Myriad Phenomena Hall, Chu Ming secured the mission by offering a crystal-core fragment and a Law Contract, defeating Helian Zheng’s competing application.
• Chu Ming warned Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu about Helian Zheng’s hostility, prepared for departure, and traveled with them to Ashen Outpost.
• Chu Ming and his companions launched a Voidship into the Dark Ember Nebula and carefully navigated its Annihilation particles and unstable space.
• Chu Ming spotted Helian Zheng’s crimson Voidship passing ahead, then continued deeper into the nebula with Tian Ancestor reinforcing the shields and Ancestor Liu sensing hazards.
• Ancestor Liu detected a cluster of spatial rifts, and Chu Ming steered the Voidship aside as a black fissure opened and closed beside it.

Chu Ming found Nirvana Stardust in the Dark Ember Nebula after escaping Helian Zheng’s attacks and breaking a Mirage Beast’s illusion. He collected five wisps before awakening a presence within a shattered stellar core, and the chapter ended with the damaged Void Boat breaking through its attack as they fled.

• Chu Ming evaded Helian Zheng’s repeated ambushes by steering the Void Vessel into a dangerous energy tide belt, where a triggered storm drew out a Nebula Mirage Beast.
• Chu Ming broke the Mirage Beast’s illusion with the weight of laws and helped Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu damage Helian Zheng’s vessel, forcing his team to flee under the beast’s pursuit.
• Chu Ming followed a pure Nirvana ripple to a shattered stellar core and carefully collected five wisps of Nirvana Stardust.
• The stellar core stirred and triggered a spatial collapse, but Chu Ming used Nirvana saber intent to help the Void Boat escape with the stardust.
• A presence within the core attacked the fleeing vessel with a giant hand of Nirvana energy, and Chu Ming, Tian Ancestor, and Ancestor Liu forced their way through it, leaving the Void Boat badly damaged.

After escaping the Dark Ember Nebula, Chu Ming defeated Helian Zheng, submitted his survey mission, and sought the Myriad Laws Source Crystal. Unable to afford it, he accepted a dangerous emergency mission on the Black Nightmare Continent and entered the contaminated land with Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu.

• Chu Ming destroyed Helian Zheng's damaged Crimson Void Boat, crippled him, and seized the vessel before escaping the Dark Ember Nebula with Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu.
• Chu Ming returned to Ganwu Academy, submitted his survey data, and received eight hundred star merits while the Resource Hall Star Lord hinted that the Artifact Hall Star Lord was investigating Dark Ash Crystal records.
• At the Myriad Laws Pavilion, Chu Ming found he lacked the star merits to exchange for the Myriad Laws Source Crystal and clashed with Mo Kun, who also wanted it.
• Chu Ming accepted Star Lord Ao's emergency mission to suppress the Void Heretic Cult on the Black Nightmare Continent in exchange for a chance to reserve the crystal.
• Chu Ming, Tian Ancestor, and Ancestor Liu reached the Black Nightmare Continent, found a weak point above its black mountains, and entered through the dark-red mist.

Chu Ming destroyed three blood-sacrifice cores on the polluted continent and earned enough merit to obtain a Myriad Laws Source Crystal. Back at Ganwu Academy, he challenged an unfair reservation at the Meditation Pavilion and received the Futian Star Lord’s offer to cultivate in Shallow Bay for five days.

• Chu Ming, Tian Ancestor, and Ancestor Liu destroyed the first two blood-sacrifice cores and defeated the cult leader guarding the third, then helped purify the continent.
• Chu Ming exchanged Star Merits for a Myriad Laws Source Crystal and encountered Mo Kun, who watched him leave with the jade box.
• Chu Ming applied to rent a Grade A Law Tide Well, but Steward Wang Chu falsely marked the available well as under maintenance.
• Chu Ming filed an appeal through the arbitration system, which suspended Steward Wang Chu and restored Grade A Well No. 3 to vacant status.
• Chu Ming could not afford the well’s ten-day fee, so the Futian Star Lord offered him five days in the stable Shallow Bay area for thirty thousand Star Merits.

Chu Ming fused the Myriad Laws Source Crystal with Nirvana Stardust in a Tidewell, and an accident forced him to form the Return-to-Ruin Heavy Core. He left with his Law Domain perfected, drawing the attention of the Futian Star Lord and other Dao Academy prodigies as he returned to his residence to master his new power.

• Chu Ming accepted the Futian Star Lord’s permission to use Shallow Bay Number Nine for five days and began preparing to fuse the Myriad Laws Source Crystal and Nirvana Stardust.
• Chu Ming started the fusion, but an energy disturbance from a nearby black-robed prodigy disrupted his control and caused the powers to run wild.
• Chu Ming used the Return-to-Ruin Pearl to contain the chaos, while Lei Shuo attacked the black-robed prodigy’s platform and interrupted his energy devouring.
• Chu Ming used the clashing forces to form the Return-to-Ruin Heavy Core, comprehending the tenth law and bringing his Law Domain close to perfection.
• The Futian Star Lord sensed Chu Ming’s breakthrough, and Chu Ming spent the remainder of his rental period stabilizing the new Heavy Core.
• Chu Ming left the Quiet Cultivation Pavilion, rebuffed Ling Qianche’s attempt to probe him, and headed home to master his unstable force field.

After stabilizing his Returning Ruin Heavy Core, Chu Ming faced an investigation into Helian Zheng’s disappearance, then accepted a mission to reinforce the Seventh Frontline Fortress. He qualified to work on a core defensive node and began constructing its foundations.

• A powerful divine sense inspected Chu Ming, and he returned to Myriad Laws Peak to master the Returning Ruin Force Field.
• Tian Ancestor told Chu Ming that Mo Kun was courting a Law Enforcement Hall steward and that rumors about Helian Zheng’s missing team were spreading.
• Xing Lü and two Law Enforcement Hall Sovereigns questioned Chu Ming, took his void vessel for inspection, and ordered him to remain in the Dao Academy while the investigation continued.
• Chu Ming accepted an emergency recruitment mission and traveled to the Seventh Frontline Fortress to help build its defenses against the Void Devil Race.
• Star Lord Lu Mu recommended Chu Ming to Mo Yuan Star Lord, who assigned him ten defensive matrix foundations to complete within three hours.
• Chu Ming used the [Primordial Immortal Palace] and his laws to analyze the construction plans and began inscribing runes and connecting the foundations’ energy conduits.

Chu Ming repaired the Seventh Frontline Fortress, defeated Ling Qianche, and escorted a vital stabilizer component through a Void Devil ambush, earning the academy’s trust and access to the Void Spirit Secret Realm. The chapter ended with a mysterious Chaos Rune and a cryptic verse that Chu Ming could not yet understand.

• Chu Ming rapidly repaired damaged fortress nodes and impressed Star Lord Mo Yuan and Master Lu Mu by stabilizing the Li-position node with new energy-guiding runes.
• Chu Ming returned to the Dao Academy, refined his control of the Return-to-Ruin force field, and accepted Ling Qianche’s challenge.
• Chu Ming defeated Ling Qianche in the arena, rose to rank eighty-seventh, and received a challenge from Wu Wu, ranked thirty-ninth.
• Chu Ming was ordered to escort a Star Core Stabilizer component alone and defeated an ambush of Void Devil generals with the help of Lei Shuo before delivering it safely.
• The academy’s higher-ups gave Chu Ming permission to enter the outer region of the Void Spirit Secret Realm and left him a Chaos Rune with the verse, “All things are void; only the heart remains unchanged.”

Chu Ming studied the Void Spirit Secret Realm and trained his Return-to-Void Force Field while preparing to compete for one of five exploration slots. After helping repel a Devil Race assault on the Seventh Frontline Fortress, he rose to fifty-first place, and the academy announced the selection assessment with thirty Ganwu days remaining.

• Chu Ming searched the Myriad Scroll Secret Archive, learned that the Void Spirit Secret Realm would open in three months, and resolved to secure an entry slot.
• Chu Ming trained his Return-to-Void Force Field with Lei Shuo, Tian Ancestor, and Ancestor Liu while strengthening his Return-to-Ruin Heavy Core.
• Chu Ming completed work on ninety Void-Stabilizing Pillars at the Seventh Frontline Fortress and helped Lu Mu Star Lord repair a composite resonance restriction.
• Chu Ming used his Return-to-Void Blade Line to wound an Overlord-class void behemoth, disrupting the Devil Race assault until academy reinforcements arrived.
• Chu Ming received top-grade battle credit, rose to fifty-first in the academy rankings, and learned that five Void Spirit Secret Realm slots would be awarded by assessment.
• Chu Ming reviewed Tian Ancestor's list of major competitors as the secret realm selection approached.

Chu Ming placed second overall in the Dao Academy assessment and qualified to explore the Void Spirit Secret Realm. After entering the realm, he survived its reality-distorting effects and fought off a strange gaunt youth, whose escape left him wary of the unknown dangers ahead.

• Chu Ming defeated Thousand Illusions and Absolute Sword, then placed ninth in the combat power ranking.
• Chu Ming ranked second in the comprehension test and first in the examination of will, securing second place overall behind Star Calculation.
• The vice hall master announced that Chu Ming, Star Calculation, Lei Qing, Absolute Sword, and Tie Pan had qualified to explore the Void Spirit Secret Realm, and Jin Jiaohao glared at Chu Ming from sixth place.
• Thirty days later, Chu Ming and the other four qualifiers entered the secret realm through a gate opened by the vice hall master and four Star Lords.
• Chu Ming used the [Primordial Immortal Palace] and Return-to-Void Force Field to resist the realm's distortions and slow the draining of his power.
• Chu Ming cut down three bone spikes, wounded a gaunt youth who had ambushed him, and chose not to pursue when the youth escaped with a voiding art.

Chu Ming explored the Thought Ruins, defeated a powerful thought demon, and collected a cluster of Heart-Origin Crystals from Jin Jiaohao’s group. Suspecting that Jin Jiaohao was rushing toward something more valuable, Chu Ming followed him and discovered an ancient altar radiating a powerful, obscure resonance.

• Chu Ming followed the strongest pull into the Thought Ruins, using the Primordial Immortal Palace and his Return-to-Ruin powers to withstand attacks from thought demons.
• Chu Ming encountered Lei Qing and Absolute Sword, who were pursuing different destinations, and continued deeper while collecting Heart-Origin Crystals.
• Chu Ming entered a battle between Jin Jiaohao’s group and a powerful thought demon, then killed the demon with his blade intent and claimed the exposed Heart-Origin Crystals.
• Jin Jiaohao led his two allies away without contesting the crystals, and Chu Ming recovered before secretly tracking them through the Thought Ruins.
• Chu Ming followed Jin Jiaohao to a protected clearing and found an ancient three-tier altar emitting a faint black glow.

Chu Ming completed the Void Altar’s Sovereign’s Trial by living a mortal life that clarified his understanding of the void and the unchanging heart, then began condensing a Sovereign Void Heart. Three Golden Horn Clan prodigies attacked him during the process, and Lei Shuo and the incarnations of Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu moved to protect him.

• Chu Ming entered the Void Altar’s trial and spent decades as a frail villager, while Jin Jiaohao became a tyrant and died still clinging to his former identity.
• Chu Ming regained his memories and used his mortal experiences to deepen his understanding of the void and the unchanging heart.
• Chu Ming drew on his Heart Source Crystals and Chaos Rune to begin condensing a crimson-gold Sovereign Void Heart.
• Three Golden Horn Clan prodigies attacked Chu Ming as he condensed his Void Heart, and Lei Shuo blocked their attacks.
• The ghostly claw pierced through Lei Shuo’s defenses, and the incarnations of Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu appeared to shield Chu Ming.

Chu Ming condensed a supreme red-gold Void Heart, survived the Void Spirit Guardian’s trial, and returned from the Void Spirit Secret Realm with a Void Realm Crystal. At the Dao Inquiry Pavilion, his assessment revealed a newborn Sovereign Heart of Supreme Grade, earning him core-genius privileges and attracting powerful attention.

• Tian Ancestor and Ancestor Liu’s avatars fought the three ambushers while Chu Ming completed his Void Heart, which erased an incoming poisonous shuttle and awakened the Void Spirit Guardian.
• The Void Spirit Guardian punished the ambushers, then tested Chu Ming on the nature of void and reality; Chu Ming passed and received a Void Realm Crystal.
• Chu Ming returned to the Cosmic Arena, absorbed the crystal’s origin energy at Myriad Laws Peak, and stabilized his new Void Heart.
• At the Dao Inquiry Pavilion, the Myriad Laws Mirror assessed Chu Ming as Top Grade A, Supreme Grade, with a newborn red-gold Sovereign Heart source.
• The Radiant Star Lord entered Chu Ming into the Dao Academy’s core archives, while his identity token received new resource privileges, cultivation offers, and challenge applications.

Chu Ming joined Ironblood Star Fortress and tempered his Void Heart through increasingly dangerous battles against the Crystalhorn Clan. When his squad uncovered a plot to cripple the fortress fleet with a spatial annihilation minefield, he destroyed its deployment ship and earned Special-Class War Merit, then returned to cultivating his strengthened Void Heart.

• Chu Ming received orders to serve at Ironblood Star Fortress, where Barong assigned him to a patrol squad with Huo Si and Lina.
• Chu Ming used his perception to detect hidden threats, helped his squad survive missions against the Crystalhorn Clan, and endured severe injuries that tempered his Void Heart.
• During a high-risk reconnaissance mission in Silent Valley, Chu Ming detected a Crystalhorn Clan trap and identified the deployment ship powering a spatial annihilation minefield.
• Chu Ming rode Lei Shuo through enemy fire and destroyed the deployment ship, triggering a chain collapse that opened a route for Huo Si to send the warning to the fortress.
• Ironblood Star Fortress awarded Chu Ming Special-Class War Merit and five hundred thousand merit points, while his squad received collective First-Class Merit.
• Chu Ming spent most of his merit points on resources and repairs, then returned to meditation as the golden radiance around his Void Heart grew steadier.