Chapter Summaries

Chu Ming escaped the Shepherd Base with the Puppet Dao Heart and was swept into the Myriad Thunder Starfield, where he sought Nine Heavens Thunder Souls. After repairing the Thunderclap Clan’s ancient lightning puppet, he faced the Thunder Prison Ancient Dragon and offered to treat its unstable lightning power in exchange for Thunder Souls and a wisp of its origin breath.

• Chu Ming took the Puppet Dao Heart from the Shepherd Base, then escaped its destruction with Xuan Zhong, Bai Shuo, and Ink Feather through a spatial storm.
• Chu Ming’s group reached the Myriad Thunder Starfield, and Chu Ming sent Xuan Zhong, Bai Shuo, and Ink Feather to shelter while he searched for Nine Heavens Thunder Souls.
• Chu Ming collected a Nine Heavens Thunder Soul and persuaded Lei Wu to bring him to the Thunderclap Clan’s temple by offering to repair their failing Thunder God puppet.
• Chu Ming repaired and strengthened the ancient lightning puppet with a Nine Heavens Thunder Soul, awakening it and earning the Thunderclap Clan’s gratitude.
• The Thunder Prison Ancient Dragon attacked the temple, but Chu Ming blocked its lightning breath with a Chaos Lightning Diagram and offered to purify its unstable power in exchange for Thunder Souls and a wisp of its origin lightning breath.

After the Origin Nebula’s singularity erupted, Chu Ming gained a few fragments of Void Star Marrow Essence but damaged the Nirvana Blade Soul. The Puppet Dao Heart then guided him to the Ancient Graveyard, where he entered with Bai Shuo and Ink Feather and encountered its Guardian Spirit.

• Chu Ming discovered a secret star map pointing to the Origin Nebula and traveled there aboard the damaged Lone Falcon.
• Chu Ming and his companions hid near the nebula’s singularity, where he deepened his understanding of chaos as rival factions gathered.
• When the singularity erupted, Chu Ming and Lancelot fought over Void Star Marrow Essence before joining forces to stop the Shepherds from detonating the remnants.
• Chu Ming seized a few fragments of the essence, but the clash damaged his Nirvana Blade Soul; the Puppet Dao Heart then pointed toward the Ancient Graveyard.
• Chu Ming took Bai Shuo and Ink Feather into the Graveyard, navigated its hostile battlefield remnants, and faced a giant Guardian Spirit that ordered the intruders to die.

Chu Ming forged a new Perfect Dao Heart Realm puppet from Lei Shuo’s remains and learned that the Shepherd served a hidden force seeking to sacrifice civilizations to create the Boat of the Other Bank. After Leng Wuya sent him to investigate Ironblood Star Fortress, Chu Ming arrived with Bai Shuo, Ink Feather, and the reborn Lei Shuo, where the guards appeared mentally controlled.

• Chu Ming used the Puppet Dao Heart’s aura to make the graveyard guardian withdraw, then reached the core and found the Primordial Mother Qi.
• The lingering will within the Puppet Dao Heart tried to seize Chu Ming, but he defeated it while fusing his materials with the Primordial Mother Qi to forge a new Lei Shuo.
• An ancient remnant warned Chu Ming that the Shepherd was a puppet serving the World-Devouring Black Hand, which planned to sacrifice civilizations and forge the Boat of the Other Bank.
• Chu Ming sent the warning to Leng Wuya, who ordered him to cut off other communications and investigate Ironblood Star Fortress with the Gray Fin team.
• Chu Ming and his companions approached Ironblood Star Fortress, detected interference and signs of mental control, and docked under inspector cover.
• A hollow-eyed guard welcomed Chu Ming and said the Fortress Lord was waiting in the main hall.

Chu Ming uncovered a Shepherd-backed sacrificial ritual hidden within the World Purification Operation, rescued the Grayfin squad, and reforged the Nirvana Blade Soul. After receiving an urgent call to the Void Corridor, he set off toward the battle that would decide countless worlds’ fate.

• Chu Ming discovered that Ge Duo and the Ironblood Star Fortress guards were under the Shepherd’s influence, then ordered Ink Feather and Bai Shuo to locate the missing Grayfin squad and prepare for trouble.
• Ink Feather found the Grayfin squad being drained beneath the energy core, and Ge Duo exposed himself as a traitor before Lei Shuo destroyed the attackers and led the group into the lower fortress.
• Lei Shuo killed the Shepherd’s mid Dao Heart realm infiltrator, while Chu Ming freed the Grayfin squad and learned from the infiltrator’s memories that the World Purification Operation was a vast sacrificial ritual already underway.
• Chu Ming ordered Ink Feather to warn Leng Wuya and Bai Shuo to secure the fortress, then reforged the damaged Nirvana Blade Soul into a Dao Heart supreme treasure using Void Star Marrow Essence, Thunderclap, and Primordial Source Mother Qi.
• A message announced that the World Purification Operation’s final phase had begun in the deepest reaches of the Void Corridor, and Chu Ming set out with Lei Shuo for the battlefield.

Chu Ming entered the battlefield at the Void Corridor, uncovered a vast sacrificial formation, and joined True Lord Startrack and Layman Return to Dust after helping their squad survive an ambush. The group reached Fractured Canyon to search for Void Star Marrow and other relics, where Lei Shuo destroyed a pack of Void Predators.

• Chu Ming stored the Lone Falcon and its unconscious crew, then entered the battlefield with the new Lei Shuo and sensed a dark-red formation consuming the battlefield’s deaths and energy.
• Chu Ming avoided the central fighting, defeated a Shepherd patrol, and discovered a fragment resonating with Void Star Marrow.
• Chu Ming rescued Startrack’s squad from Shepherd creatures and war puppets, then agreed to travel with Startrack and Return to Dust.
• Startrack identified the fragment’s coordinates as pointing to Fractured Canyon, and Lei Shuo defeated a swarm of Soul-Devouring Demon Bats and their priest.
• Chu Ming and the squad entered Fractured Canyon, where Return to Dust and Lei Shuo destroyed a group of Void Predators as Startrack guided them through the unstable space.

Chu Ming and his companions stole Void Star Marrow from a Shepherd outpost, then followed clues to an ancient Weapon-Refining Pool hidden beneath the Metal Graveyard. They entered the ruins and fought its contaminated weapon spirits as an approaching energy tide threatened the canyon.

• Chu Ming used his Chaos Dao Heart and Nirvana Blade Soul to break the outpost shield, allowing Startrack True Lord to seize pure Void Star Marrow while a late Dao Heart realm priest pursued them.
• Startrack True Lord divided the recovered marrow among the group, and Chu Ming used his portion to strengthen the Nirvana Blade Soul before they found a jade slip pointing to an ancient Weapon-Refining Pool.
• Startrack True Lord located the ruins beneath the Metal Graveyard and warned that its contaminated restrictions and an approaching energy tide made their time limited.
• Chu Ming used the Nirvana Blade Soul's resonance to lead the group safely through a weak point in the restriction and into the Weapon-Refining Pool.
• Contaminated weapon spirits attacked inside the ruins, and Dustreturn Recluse and the new "Lei Shuo" met the attackers while Chu Ming focused on a swift needle-shaped spirit.

Chu Ming captured a seed of Chaos Dao Fire in the Law Furnace and escaped a Shepherd High Priest with his companions. After discovering a likely Return-to-Void Iron Core in the Dead Silence Zone, the group prepared to enter the dangerous region to seek it.

• Chu Ming tested the Nirvana Blade Soul by defeating a ghostly weapon spirit with his developing Return-to-Void Creation Slash, then joined the others in clearing the weapon-refining pool.
• Startrack True Lord collected Myriad-Refined Gold Essence, which Chu Ming used to strengthen the Nirvana Blade Soul, and Chu Ming studied half of the Heart Refining Method inheritance.
• The group fled the collapsing ruins as an energy tide arrived, then traveled through the Law Furnace while avoiding law storms and Shepherd forces.
• Chu Ming sensed and captured a fleeting seed of Chaos Dao Fire with help from the new "Thunderclap," but a Shepherd High Priest attacked them.
• Chu Ming, Dustreturn Recluse, Startrack True Lord, and the new "Lei Shuo" fought while retreating into a spatial fold, where Startrack detected a possible Return-to-Void Iron Core in the Dead Silence Zone.
• Startrack proposed using a formation to breach the zone's Nirvana Storms, with Dustreturn Recluse clearing the way and Chu Ming resisting the dead-silence intent.

Chu Ming and his companions entered the Dead Silence Zone, defeated its guardian, and claimed the Return-to-Void Iron Core before discovering an ancient stone stele. As Chu Ming studied it and formed the framework for Chaos Tribulation Light, Shepherd's priests attacked, and Chu Ming prepared to follow Startrack True Lord toward a Battlefield Singularity.

• Startrack True Lord opened a passage through the Annihilation Storm, and Chu Ming, Dustreturn Recluse, and the new "Lei Shuo" entered the Dead Silence Zone.
• The group found the Return-to-Void Iron Core and fought the perfected Daoheart Realm Shadow of Nothingness; Chu Ming's Chaos Dao Fire-powered slash weakened it, allowing Dustreturn Recluse and the new "Lei Shuo" to destroy it.
• Chu Ming took the Return-to-Void Iron Core, and the group escaped as the Dead Silence Zone collapsed; afterward, Chu Ming sensed an ancient stone stele in the depths.
• Chu Ming studied the stone stele while his companions stood guard, stabilizing his Dao Heart and forming the framework of a new secret art, Chaos Tribulation Light.
• Shepherd's high priest and two late-stage priests broke through Startrack True Lord's concealment array and attacked the group while Chu Ming was meditating.
• Chu Ming rose with his Dao Heart strengthened, and Startrack True Lord offered to lead him to a Battlefield Singularity; as they prepared to go, the high priest unleashed a death ray.

Chu Ming used the singularity’s eruption to forge the prototype of [Chaos Tribulation Light] and advance the Nirvana Blade Soul before entering an ancient refuge with his injured companions. There he restored the new Thunderclap and the blade with Origin Great Dao Source Fluid, then discovered records of a civilization destroyed by the Eye of Darkness.

• Startrack True Lord tracked the singularity’s imminent eruption while Dustreturn Recluse fought off the Shepherd High Priest and two priests, buying Chu Ming time to prepare.
• Chu Ming guided the singularity’s energy into the Nirvana Blade Soul, forming [Chaos Tribulation Light] and advancing the blade to a late Dao Heart realm heavy treasure.
• The Shepherd High Priest attacked Chu Ming during the breakthrough, but Chu Ming’s incomplete [Chaos Tribulation Light] destroyed the gemstone on the priest’s staff and drove him back.
• Chu Ming led the unconscious Startrack True Lord, wounded Dustreturn Recluse, and the new Thunderclap through a hidden entrance into an ancient refuge, where his Chaos Dao Heart opened a sealed chamber.
• Chu Ming used two drops of Origin Great Dao Source Fluid to repair and strengthen the new Thunderclap and the Nirvana Blade Soul, saving the final drop for later.
• The refuge’s stone platform projected its final records, showing a dark-red formation and the Eye of Darkness as twisted shadows consumed stars and living beings.

Chu Ming investigated the Dark Eye of All Things, discovered the Shepherd’s immense defenses, and fought his way back to the ancient shelter with a new secret art. The shelter collapsed under attack, leaving Chu Ming, Lei Shuo, Dustreturn Recluse, and Startrack True Lord fleeing through a chaotic spatial passage while still pursued.

• Chu Ming left Startrack True Lord and Dustreturn Recluse in the refuge and stealthily approached the Dark Eye of All Things with the new Lei Shuo.
• Chu Ming saw the Dark Eye, three Shepherd High Priests, and their forces, but a High Priest detected his presence and sent pursuers after him.
• Chu Ming killed a mid-stage priest and used Chaos Tribulation Light to grievously wound a late-stage priest before escaping back to the refuge.
• Chu Ming shared his reconnaissance with Startrack True Lord and Dustreturn Recluse, but the Shepherds found and destroyed the shelter entrance.
• Chu Ming and his companions fled the encirclement through a torn spatial fold, emerging in a different region while the enemy’s lock-on remained.

Chu Ming and his companions escaped their pursuers through a wreckage field, where Chu Ming killed a late-stage Shepherd priest and learned of an attack planned against Bedrock Fortress. They fought through the Falling Star Turbulence Zone and the fortress’s outer battlefield, then reached its command room with urgent intelligence for Commander-in-Chief Xuanji.

• Chu Ming split from Dustreturn Recluse and Startrack True Lord in the wreckage field, lured a red-robed Shepherd priest into an ambush, and killed him with Return-to-Void Creation Slash.
• Chu Ming discovered from the priest’s crystal core that the Ripper unit planned to attack Bedrock Fortress in three days during the Dark Hour, and Startrack True Lord deduced a route to the fortress.
• Chu Ming, Dustreturn Recluse, Startrack True Lord, and the new "Lei Shuo" evaded their pursuers and crossed the Falling Star Turbulence Zone, damaging the shadow guards’ warship to escape.
• The group fought through Shepherd forces outside Bedrock Fortress, broke through the defensive line, and entered the fortress.
• Startrack True Lord urged the group to take the urgent intelligence to Commander-in-Chief Xuanji, and a fortress commander led them to the central command room.

Chu Ming helped Bedrock Fortress repel the Shepherds’ Ripper assault, awakened the defensive [Chaos Shield], and earned a place in Operation Broken Spine. The counterattack force advanced toward the Eye of Myriad Things’ Return-to-Void, where Chu Ming began clearing the Shepherd patrols.

• Startrack True Lord relayed Chu Ming’s intelligence about the imminent Ripper attack, and King Xuanji placed Bedrock Fortress on maximum alert.
• Chu Ming, Dustreturn Recluse, and the new Lei Shuo defended the Wutu sector as the Shepherds attacked during the Darkened Hour.
• Chu Ming used the newly formed [Chaos Shield] to withstand a perfect Grand High Priest’s strike, while reinforcements arrived and helped Bedrock Fortress drive the Rippers away.
• King Xuanji selected Chu Ming, Startrack True Lord, and Dustreturn Recluse for Operation Broken Spine, a mission to damage a secondary node of the Eye of Myriad Things’ Return-to-Void.
• General Bedrock led the counterattack force toward the Eye, and Chu Ming used the Nirvana Blade Soul to destroy a psychic insect swarm with little effort.

Chu Ming helped complete Operation Broken Spine, then followed Leng Wuya’s summons to Nirvana Star Abyss, where he fought off the Star Abyss Remnant Clan. Leng Wuya rescued him from the remnants and greeted him, with the reason for the summons still unclear.

• Chu Ming used his Chaos Dao Heart, Dao Fire, and Nirvana Blade Soul to damage an energy conduit, while the new "Lei Shuo" disrupted another conduit to protect the retreating Star Kingdom force.
• Separated from the main force, Chu Ming defeated a late-stage Shepherd priest and forced him to flee before repairing the damaged new "Lei Shuo" and returning to Star Kingdom-controlled territory.
• King Xuanji commended Chu Ming after Operation Broken Spine, and Chu Ming later received Leng Wuya’s message urging him to rendezvous at Nirvana Star Abyss over a threat tied to the World-Devouring Black Hand.
• Chu Ming entered Nirvana Star Abyss, adapted his Chaos Dao Heart to its erosive environment, and encountered a group of Star Abyss Remnant Clan members.
• Leng Wuya appeared and shattered the attacking remnants with his sword intent before turning to greet Chu Ming.

Chu Ming joined Leng Wuya and Mo Yuan in an expedition toward the First Guardian’s ruins in the Star Abyss, where his Chaos Dao Heart resonated with the Nirvana Origin. After surviving an ambush and finding an ancient stele that aided his understanding of Chaos Tribulation Light, he began trying to forge the secret art amid the ruins’ perilous Nirvana energy.

• Leng Wuya brought Chu Ming to Mo Yuan, who tested Chu Ming with a torrent of Nirvana energy; Chu Ming dissolved it with his nascent Chaos Shield and earned permission to join the exploration.
• Chu Ming, Leng Wuya, and Mo Yuan found a weak point in the Myriad Nirvana Sinking Grand Array and crossed it, where Void Demon Eyes ambushed them.
• Chu Ming traced the Demon Eye leader’s mental attack back to its primary eye and destroyed it with a single strike, driving off the remaining Void Demon Eyes.
• Mo Yuan discovered an ancient stele whose insights helped Chu Ming fill gaps in the framework of Chaos Tribulation Light.
• Chu Ming attempted to fuse the power of Return to Ruin with his Chaos Dao Fire, but the energies clashed; Leng Wuya advised him to concentrate them, while Mo Yuan supplied Star Abyss Annihilation Origin to help stabilize the process.
• Chu Ming resumed his dangerous deductions, compressing the two powers into a single point, but repeated explosions and backlashes threatened his progress.

Chu Ming stabilized the Chaos Tribulation Light Needle and used it to cripple a powerful Void Demon Eye and shatter a vast Demon Eye army formation. The Ruin Gate appeared, but Mo Yuan and Leng Wuya failed to gain its recognition as rival forces closed in.

• Chu Ming forged the conflicting powers of Return to Ruin and creation into a stable Chaos Tribulation Light Needle, then used it to cripple a late Dao Realm Void Demon Eye and destroy two other attackers.
• Chu Ming discovered an ancient imprint in the crippled Demon Eye that resonated with the Chaos Dao Fire and sealed it for further investigation.
• Leng Wuya and Mo Yuan challenged Chu Ming to break through the Demon Eye army formation, while the new "Lei Shuo" defended him against its attacks.
• Chu Ming found a weak point in the formation and shattered its core hub with the Chaos Tribulation Light Needle, causing the army to collapse; he then began repairing the new "Lei Shuo."
• The Ruin Gate manifested after the battle, but Mo Yuan’s annihilation power and Leng Wuya’s sword-heart intent failed to open it as other forces approached.

Chu Ming passed the relic gate’s Dao Heart trial, entered an ocean of ancient Chaos Dao marks, and broke through to the middle stage of the Dao Heart realm by embracing his mirrored self’s techniques. He perfected [Chaos Tribulation Light] and fused with the Chaos Thunder Source, while Leng Wuya and Mo Yuan defended him; after Chu Ming emerged, he annihilated three attackers and crippled a late-stage elder.

• Chu Ming opened the relic gate with his Chaos Dao Heart, then crippled Viktor when the Star Remains Plunderers’ leader tried to steal the Chaos light.
• Chu Ming, Leng Wuya, and Mo Yuan entered the ocean of Dao marks, where Chu Ming absorbed its insights and fought a mirror that copied his abilities.
• Chu Ming embraced the mirror’s Chaos Tribulation Light, reached the middle stage of the Dao Heart realm, perfected [Chaos Tribulation Light], and discovered the Chaos Thunder Source.
• Chu Ming began fusing with the Chaos Thunder Source as Leng Wuya and Mo Yuan held off a temporary alliance of the Void Demon Eye and the Star Remains Plunderers.
• Chu Ming completed the fusion and transformed his technique, then erased three mid-stage attackers and severed a late-stage elder’s left arm with one needle of chaotic light.

Chu Ming survived the Eye of the Void’s projection and learned that the Star Kingdom’s Purification Operation might conceal a threat from beyond the realm. He and Mo Yuan entered the Star Abyss with the Star Abyss Secret Key, where they reached an ancient platform and faced three guardians as one aimed a deadly beam at Chu Ming.

• Chu Ming destroyed the Eye of the Void projection’s giant palm with Chaos Tribulation Light, forcing the projection to vanish after it warned him about an enemy beyond the realm and began to mention Purification.
• Leng Wuya suspected that the Star Kingdom’s leaders had endangered their forces through the Purification Operation, while Mo Yuan recalled that the Star Abyss had once been a fortress against enemies from beyond the universe.
• Chu Ming sent Leng Wuya back to investigate possible traitors, then accepted the Star Abyss Secret Key from Mo Yuan and set out with him toward the Final Slumbering Ground.
• Chu Ming used his Chaos Dao Heart and the key to find a safe route through a spacetime fault zone and reach a stable platform guarded by three ancient constructs.
• The Star Abyss Guardians rejected the pair’s chaotic energy, and one aimed a destructive beam at Chu Ming, who simulated the guardians’ energy frequency with a halo of chaotic light.

Chu Ming passed the guardian ruins’ three inheritance trials, advanced to the late Dao Heart Realm, and received the Realm Map, which revealed the hostile Dark Nether Star Kingdom near the Ganwu Star Kingdom. After a warning that the Supreme Council had branded him a traitor, he returned to Bedrock Fortress, where Marshal Thunder Halberd challenged him to prove his cultivation was genuine.

• Chu Ming and Mo Yuan crossed the Heartstill Corridor and used Chu Ming’s Chaos Thunder Source to stabilize a bridge across the Abyss of Nothingness, reaching the Sleeping Place.
• Chu Ming passed the trials of heart, soul, and Dao, accepted his own painful memories, tempered his divine soul, and established his own evolving Chaos Dao.
• The Chaos Dao Master’s inheritance raised Chu Ming to the late Dao Heart Realm, formed a Chaos Dao Seed, and placed the Realm Map in his consciousness, revealing the Dark Nether Star Kingdom’s location.
• Leng Wuya’s talisman warned Chu Ming that the Supreme Council had accused him of colluding with the Shepherd and sent the Sword of Judgment after him.
• Chu Ming and Mo Yuan returned to Bedrock Fortress, where officials questioned Chu Ming’s rapid advancement and Marshal Thunder Halberd demanded a one-move test.

Chu Ming exposed Elder Tianshu’s treason by surviving a staged ambush and tracing its control link, then led the defense of Canggan Great World against the Dark Nether Star Kingdom. After crippling the Star-Eroding Beast and delaying Netherbone Marquis’s forces with traps and harassment, Chu Ming faced Netherbone Marquis’s growing threat.

• Chu Ming shattered Marshal Thunder Halberd’s Dao weapon projection with a casual point, earning King Xuanji’s public backing and Thunder Halberd’s submission.
• Chu Ming, King Xuanji, Leng Wuya, and Mo Yuan identified Elder Tianshu as a suspected traitor and agreed to use his likely dangerous assignment to gather proof.
• At the court deliberation, Chu Ming accepted Elder Tianshu’s mission to investigate the Eye of Myriad Things’ Return-to-Void, then traced the Star-Burial Sea ambush’s control link and recorded evidence of Tianshu’s collusion with Dark Nether.
• King Xuanji and Leng Wuya purged Tianshu’s faction, but a warning revealed that Netherbone Marquis had attacked Canggan Great World using the leaked border deployment map, so Chu Ming took command of reinforcements.
• At Ironwall Pass, Chu Ming pierced the Star-Eroding Beast’s energy-eroding field and severely wounded it, while the Chaos Thunder Guard attacked the disordered Dark Nether vanguard.
• Chu Ming rallied Ironwall Pass’s defenders and used formations, traps, and ambushes to slow Netherbone Marquis’s advance, but Netherbone Marquis’s patience ran out.

Chu Ming defeated Netherbone Marquis and helped secure a victory at Ironwall Pass, then learned that the Star Kingdom Merchant had aided the enemy. After overcoming Marquis Lieshan’s challenge and advancing his cultivation, Chu Ming earned the title of Marquis Canggan.

• Chu Ming and the new "Lei Shuo" fought Netherbone Marquis, and Chu Ming wounded him badly enough to force the Dark Nether army to retreat.
• Leng Wuya and the Star Kingdom fleet arrived, and their forces joined the defenders to rout the Dark Nether vanguard.
• While inspecting prisoners, Chu Ming heard a captive mention the Star Kingdom Merchant’s aid to the enemy and resolved to remember the name.
• Yuheng Elder, Tianquan Elder, and Marquis Lieshan challenged Chu Ming’s proposed elevation, so Chu Ming accepted Marquis Lieshan’s test.
• Chu Ming absorbed Marquis Lieshan’s Mountain Sundering with his Chaos vortex, broke through to the peak of the late stage, and won Marquis Lieshan’s support.
• King Xuanji conferred the title and authority of Marquis Canggan on Chu Ming at a ceremony in Bedrock Fortress.