Chapter Summaries

Xu Wuyi helped the Dongjiang Battle Group clear seven rifts, using his power of Order to immobilize and preserve thousands of Star Beasts while the group harvested their materials and sealed each opening. After finishing the last rift in a snowfield, Xu Wuyi returned to Linjiang City to rest.

• Qiao Tongyu used a controlled beast tide to draw out six Grand Commanders, and Xu Wuyi immobilized the battlefield and dismantled the Star Beasts’ life laws so the battle group could harvest them intact.
• Xu Wuyi and Qiao Tongyu failed to lure the seventh Grand Commander from the rift, so the battle group compressed and sealed the opening instead.
• Xu Wuyi joined the Dongjiang Battle Group in repeating the same strategy at six more rifts, defeating the Star Beasts and helping the group seal each opening.
• Xu Wuyi neutralized a psychic-type Grand Commander’s illusions with his Order field, then continued clearing rifts with the battle group.
• Xu Wuyi and Qiao Tongyu finished clearing the last rift in a northern snowfield, and Xu Wuyi returned to Linjiang City to rest.

After resting in Linjiang, Xu Wuyi refined his new rule technique, Gravity Reversal, and learned that battle groups across the Federation wanted to recruit him to clear their rifts. He agreed to consider their invitations after recovering and strengthening himself, then turned his thoughts to the Grandmaster realm’s third step, Divine Intent.

• Xu Wuyi reflected on his combat experience and practiced creating the rule Gravity Reversal, which inverted gravity within its range.
• Qiao Zhiyao visited Xu Wuyi with soup, and he told her he planned to rest and digest his recent gains.
• After five quiet days, Qiao Tongyu showed Xu Wuyi invitations from battle groups across the Federation seeking his help with their rifts.
• Xu Wuyi told Qiao Tongyu he would consider the invitations when he was ready, and Qiao Tongyu warned that some rifts might involve Beast Kings.
• Back at his apartment, Xu Wuyi considered the Grandmaster realm’s third step, Divine Intent, and remembered that physical strength would be crucial.

Xu Wuyi used ten thousand repetitions of the Basic Body Tempering Method to gain a True Enlightenment, then spent a month developing a body-tempering art that used the power of order and unwavering persistence. After realizing the will behind his method, he created and named the perfected martial art Diligence.

• Xu Wuyi chose the Basic Body Tempering Method as the foundation for creating his own body-tempering method rather than altering the Hundred Refinements Furnace.
• Xu Wuyi practiced the Basic Body Tempering Method ten thousand times in one day and gained a True Enlightenment into the survival-driven origins of foundational martial arts.
• Xu Wuyi used the power of order to establish a rule in his body that made every effective practice session produce tangible progress, though maintaining it consumed Heart Image power.
• Over the following month, Xu Wuyi refined his method and realized that his own determination to walk the path was the will it had been missing.
• After thirty-six rounds of practice, Xu Wuyi's Martial Dao Diligence Record recorded his self-created martial art as perfected, and he named it Diligence.

After Fang Xiaoxiao told Xu Wuyi that Zhou Bin and Li Zhaowen had been detained by the Song Family, Xu Wuyi traveled to Xingjing and learned from Luo Jing that an unknown witness may have lured the investigators into a trap. Xu Wuyi concluded that someone was trying to provoke a conflict between the Song Family and the Inspection Department, and set out to confront the Song Family.

• Xu Wuyi continued cultivating his self-created Body Tempering Method, Diligence, and improved his physical strength while limiting himself to about two thousand repetitions a day because of the Heart Image power it consumed.
• Anna forwarded Xu Wuyi a message from Fang Xiaoxiao, who reported that Song Qingwu had detained Zhou Bin and Li Zhaowen after they went to investigate him.
• Xu Wuyi retrieved his Captain Meng identity card and mask, told Qiao Tongyu he would be away, and traveled from Linjiang to Xingjing.
• Xu Wuyi returned to the Inspection Department and met with Luo Jing, who showed him a report linking Song Qingwu to suspicious clues and the disappearance of Zhou Bin and Li Zhaowen.
• Xu Wuyi and Luo Jing suspected that an unknown witness had lured the investigators to the Song Family to create conflict, and Luo Jing told Xu Wuyi the Inspection Department would support him.
• Xu Wuyi left Luo Jing's office to go to the Song Family and find out why Zhou Bin and Li Zhaowen had been detained.

Xu Wuyi went to the Song Family to recover Zhou Bin and Li Zhaowen and learned that Song Qingwu had lured him there to reveal a murder and corruption case involving Zheng Mingchuan and Grandmaster Fan Chongguang. After receiving leads on the suspected killer, Xu Wuyi left to investigate, while the Song Family warned that Zheng Mingchuan might be amassing wealth for someone else.

• Xu Wuyi went to the Song Residence, revealed his identity to Song Qingwu, and found Zhou Bin and Li Zhaowen unharmed.
• Zhou Bin and Li Zhaowen explained that a likely false witness had lured them into the Song Family's hands so Song Qingwu could draw Xu Wuyi there.
• Song Qingwu admitted that he had known about merchant Lin Quan's murder and named Zheng Mingchuan as the person who ordered it; Song Yi identified Fan Chongguang as Zheng Mingchuan's powerful protector.
• Song Qingwu gave Xu Wuyi a file on Lu Sheng, the suspected Xiantian Martial Master who carried out the murder, and reported his visits to a private sanatorium connected to Zheng Mingchuan.
• Song Qingwu said Zhou Bin and Li Zhaowen had already been sent back to the Inspection Department, then warned Xu Wuyi that Zheng Mingchuan might be amassing wealth for someone else.

After uncovering Red Mountain Sanatorium as Lu Sheng’s secret fund-transfer operation, Xu Wuyi waited in HH City for the Xiantian Martial Master to appear. Five days later, he detected an unfamiliar Xiantian aura heading toward the city center and set off after it.

• Xu Wuyi left Song Residence, and Song Yi told Song Xingxian to train harder so he could compete for the Green Sprout Plan while the Song Family prepared to take over Zhou Family businesses.
• Song Yi ordered Song Qingwu to abandon his official identity and return to work for the Song Family.
• Xu Wuyi traveled to HH City and entered Red Mountain Sanatorium, where he learned from Lin Zhiyuan that it moved funds and from Cheng Song that Lu Sheng owned the operation.
• Xu Wuyi questioned Cheng Song about Lu Sheng, then erased the memories of both Cheng Song and the finance staff who had spoken with him.
• Xu Wuyi searched HH City for Lu Sheng and asked Anna to investigate the sanatorium’s financial records, then waited for five days while monitoring the area.
• Xu Wuyi detected an unfamiliar Xiantian Martial Artist moving toward the city center and drove after the aura.

Xu Wuyi captured Lu Sheng and used a rule that forced the truth to uncover Lu Sheng’s role in Zheng Mingchuan’s schemes and Lin Quan’s murder, as well as Zheng Jingxuan’s whereabouts. The Inspection Department found Zheng Jingxuan living under the name Lin Yuan at Heavenly Pool City Martial Arts Academy and confronted him.

• Xu Wuyi captured Lu Sheng, took him to an abandoned factory, and created a Truth rule that forced him to answer questions honestly.
• Lu Sheng confessed that Zheng Mingchuan used him to move and launder money, much of which funded Zheng Jingxuan’s cultivation.
• Lu Sheng revealed that Zheng Jingxuan killed Lin Wan’er, that he murdered her father Lin Quan on Zheng Mingchuan’s orders, and that Zheng Jingxuan was hiding as Lin Yuan in Heavenly Pool City.
• Xu Wuyi handed Lu Sheng over to the Inspection Department and sent Zhou Bin an order to arrest Zheng Jingxuan.
• Zhou Bin and his team arrived at Heavenly Pool City Martial Arts Academy, identified Zheng Jingxuan during sparring, and told him the Inspection Department needed him for an investigation.

Zheng Jingxuan was arrested, confessed to killing Lin Wan'er, and revealed his real identity, while Lu Sheng’s confession implicated Zheng Mingchuan in Lin Quan’s murder. Xu Wuyi confronted Zheng Mingchuan with the evidence and demanded accountability, leaving him to choose whether to confess and protect his son from bearing the murder charge.

• Zhou Bin and the Inspection Department arrested Zheng Jingxuan at the academy and transported him to Xingjing for questioning.
• After reading Lu Sheng’s testimony, Zheng Jingxuan confessed to accidentally killing Lin Wan'er and signed a statement under his real name.
• Fang Xiaoxiao sent Zheng Jingxuan’s testimony and interrogation footage to Grandmaster Xu, while Zhou Bin said the evidence implicated Zheng Mingchuan and Lu Sheng.
• Zheng Mingchuan learned of his son’s arrest and began calling contacts, but Xu Wuyi appeared in his office and showed him Zheng Jingxuan’s confession.
• Xu Wuyi told Zheng Mingchuan that Lu Sheng had confessed to killing Lin Quan on his orders and to other dealings, then warned that refusing to confess could leave Zheng Jingxuan bearing the charge of ordering the murder.

Zheng Mingchuan confessed to his crimes, and the case exposed a web of corruption and intensified conflict between the Song Family and the South Lake Zhou Family. As Xu Wuyi prepared to leave Xingjing, Fan Chongguang confronted him about Zheng Mingchuan, tested his domain, and challenged him to a spar.

• Zheng Mingchuan confessed that he had ordered Lu Sheng to kill Lin Quan, diverted money through businessmen, and used the funds to support Zheng Jingxuan and build Red Mountain Sanatorium.
• Zhou Bin told Xu Wuyi that Zheng Jingxuan had been detained and that the evidence was sufficient to close the case.
• Luo Jing reported that Zheng Mingchuan's downfall had shaken Xingjing's officials and implicated Fan Chongguang and the South Lake Zhou Family; Xu Wuyi said he would not interfere in the Song and Zhou families' conflict unless someone broke the law.
• Xu Wuyi resumed his martial training, completed twelve hundred repetitions, and planned to leave Xingjing for the Northern Region.
• Fan Chongguang visited Xu Wuyi, acknowledged Zheng Mingchuan's guilt, and asked who had pushed his downfall; Xu Wuyi explained the Song Family's role and his own principles.
• Fan Chongguang tested Xu Wuyi's Order Force against his domain, then invited him to spar, and Xu Wuyi agreed.

Xu Wuyi sparred with Fan Chongguang, who recognized the strength of his Lawbreaker Order and agreed to stop intervening in Zheng Mingchuan’s case. Xu then traveled to the Northern Plains and met the Ice River Battle Regiment, where Tang Jingyao briefed him on the Ice Abyss rift.

• Xu Wuyi used Lawbreaker to suppress Fan Chongguang’s mental powers, then proved his physical strength in their sparring match.
• Fan Chongguang ended the fight, agreed not to interfere in Zheng Mingchuan’s affairs, and warned Xu Wuyi to be cautious around Song Yi.
• Fan Chongguang shared his past and a thirteen-year-old jar of wine with Xu Wuyi, then urged him to keep following his path.
• Xu Wuyi left Xingjing for Frost City and traveled to the Ice River Battle Regiment’s headquarters, where he met Liang Sixian, Tang Shaoxuan, and commander Tang Jingyao.
• Tang Jingyao described the Ice Abyss rift as a vast Star Realm fragment with at least five thousand Star Beasts, around ten great commanders, and a possible hidden Beast King Tier creature.

Xu Wuyi joined the Ice River Battle Regiment to clear the Ice Abyss Rift and effortlessly killed more than six thousand Star Beasts, including twelve Grand Commanders. As he and Tang Shaoxuan sensed an immense force stirring inside the rift, the threat of a powerful Beast King emerged.

• Tang Jingyao briefed Xu Wuyi on the Ice Abyss Rift, and Xu Wuyi agreed to help clear it once the battle regiment had prepared.
• Liang Sixian urged Xu Wuyi to prioritize his safety and discussed his cultivation path and the need to retreat when necessary.
• Xu Wuyi and Tang Shaoxuan traveled to the rift, where Xu Wuyi sensed twelve Grand Commanders and over six thousand ordinary Star Beasts.
• Tang Jingyao began the operation, and Star Beasts poured from the rift as the battle regiment's forces held the defensive line.
• Xu Wuyi used the power of order to freeze and kill all the Star Beasts, leaving their corpses intact.
• Xu Wuyi and Tang Shaoxuan sensed an immense energy surge within the rift, stronger than the twelve Grand Commanders combined, signaling a powerful Beast King.

Xu Wuyi and Tang Shaoxuan fought the mid-tier Beast King Frost Dragon after it emerged from the Ice Abyss Rift. The Frost Dragon escaped through the rift, leaving Xu Wuyi and the battle corps alive, and Xu Wuyi planned to deal with the Northern Plains’ remaining smaller rifts.

• The Frost Dragon forced its way through the Ice Abyss Rift and attacked the fighters with freezing breath.
• Xu Wuyi met the Frost Dragon’s attacks head-on, using his physical strength and Order Force to withstand its claws and break down its frost energy.
• Tang Shaoxuan struck the Frost Dragon from behind while Xu Wuyi damaged its defenses and drove it back.
• The wounded Frost Dragon burned its life essence, reopened the rift, and escaped before Xu Wuyi could safely pursue it.
• Xu Wuyi told Tang Shaoxuan that he had created his own Body Tempering Method, then returned to camp as Tang Jingyao thanked the two grandmasters.
• Xu Wuyi reflected on his strength and planned to close the Northern Plains’ smaller rifts before returning to Linjiang.

After clearing three Northern Plains rifts, Xu Wuyi reflected on Liang Sixian’s warning and developed a new spear technique, Annihilation, to complement Lawbreaker and Bloodbreaker. He honed it through practice and battles across the Federation, but his journey to the Southern Region was interrupted by a highest-level emergency call from Feng Zhuohua.

• Xu Wuyi recovered from the Ice Abyss battle, agreed to clear three more Northern Plains rifts, and received Liang Sixian’s warning not to rely on a single fighting style.
• Xu Wuyi cleared the three rifts over ten days, then traveled to Xingjing and began devising a spear technique capable of directly destroying its target.
• After eight days of experimentation, Xu Wuyi formed Annihilation by creating a vortex of order power that made a training dummy vanish, then practiced the technique until he could release it within a second.
• Xu Wuyi accepted invitations from battle groups nationwide and decisively cleared rifts in the Western Desert and Eastern Sea.
• As Xu Wuyi prepared to leave for the Southern Region at the end of February, his terminal received a highest-level emergency call, and Feng Zhuohua appeared on the projection with a grave expression.

Xu Wuyi joined Grandmasters Lu Zhenshan and Luo Qingluan for a secret ambush against Feathered Human Kings Darkwing and Frostfeather. After testing their abilities together, the three accepted the mission despite intelligence changes and prepared to leave when Darkwing's arrival moved up.

• Feng Zhuohua summoned Xu Wuyi to Xingjing and briefed him on the plan to ambush reinforcements heading for the sealed Confinement Star Realm.
• Xu Wuyi met Lu Zhenshan and Luo Qingluan, learned that Darkwing and Frostfeather were approaching, and discussed the plan to attack them separately.
• Xu Wuyi demonstrated Lawbreaker and his powerful body in sparring matches with Lu Zhenshan and Luo Qingluan, impressing both Grandmasters.
• Feng Zhuohua reported that Darkwing would arrive six hours early, Frostfeather's route had changed, and two more Feathered Human Kings might be approaching.
• Lu Zhenshan, Luo Qingluan, and Xu Wuyi chose to continue the risky operation and set out for the northern front.

Xu Wuyi, Lu Zhenshan, and Luo Qingluan ambushed and killed the Feathered Human King Darkwing in under three minutes, then escaped before the stronger Bloodwing arrived. They returned to Federation territory, where Feng Zhuohua praised the victory and explained that Grandmaster Liu had been on standby.

• Xu Wuyi, Lu Zhenshan, and Luo Qingluan traveled to the Star Realm and set an ambush for Darkwing.
• Xu Wuyi suppressed Darkwing’s shadow laws with Lawbreaker, and the three Grandmasters overwhelmed him in battle.
• Xu Wuyi killed Darkwing with two strikes of Annihilation, ending the fight in less than three minutes.
• Feng Zhuohua warned the group that Bloodwing was approaching, so the three withdrew and boarded their transport plane before he arrived.
• Feng Zhuohua met the three at the military airport and said the Federation would publicize the victory while keeping the operation’s details confidential.
• Feng Zhuohua told the group that Grandmaster Liu had been standing by in case Bloodwing caught them.

Xu Wuyi’s victory over Darkwing prompted a failed Feathered Human revenge raid, after which the Federation invited him to examine a captured, modified insectoid mother nest. Using the power of Order, Xu Wuyi implanted a command in its control module, and the nest began to awaken.

• The Federation celebrated Xu Wuyi, Lu Zhenshan, and Luo Qingluan’s three-minute killing of Darkwing, while Liu Yunshan ordered the northern front to avoid direct clashes with the Feathered Humans.
• Bloodwing led seven Feathered Human king-level powerhouses toward the Federation’s northern front, but Feng Zhuohua’s forces detected them and ambushed them at Northern Front Base Three, injuring one and driving the attackers away without Federation losses.
• Feng Zhuohua told Xu Wuyi that the military and research institute wanted him to test his Rules of Order on a captured mother nest modified to produce Xiantian-level insectoids, and Xu Wuyi agreed to visit.
• Xu Wuyi arrived at the Federation Biological Research Academy, where Chen Yuanshan explained that researchers had been unable to activate the dormant mother nest or its implanted control module.
• Xu Wuyi used the power of Order to analyze the control module and inscribed the command “Obey my commands,” causing the mother nest to tremble, brighten, and release a surge of biological energy.

Xu Wuyi took control of the Brood Nest, helped Chen Yuanshan’s researchers develop a limited way to communicate with it, and then traveled to Flaming Sun City to assist the Southern Region battle group with three dangerous rifts. He prepared to begin clearing Heat Valley the next morning.

• Xu Wuyi commanded the Brood Nest to produce an insectoid, demonstrated his control to Chen Yuanshan, and explained that it could recover the insectoid for reuse.
• Xu Wuyi agreed to help Chen Yuanshan study the Brood Nest for several days, and the researchers discovered biological signals that could trigger limited responses from it.
• Xu Wuyi left the research institute and flew to Flaming Sun City, where Zhao Yan escorted him to meet Zheng Qiancheng and the Southern Region battle group’s officers.
• Zheng Qiancheng briefed Xu Wuyi on the Heat Valley, Dense Forest, and Abyss rifts, including the possibility of a Beast King behind Abyss.
• Xu Wuyi agreed to begin with Heat Valley the next morning, rested at the camp, and practiced the Basic Body Tempering Method before Zhao Yan arrived to take him to breakfast.

Xu Wuyi cleared the Heat Valley and Forest rifts with his Order Force before defeating the Star Beasts in the Abyss Rift. There, he reunited with his former university rival Li Hao and discovered a wounded Beast King was hiding deep underground as the battle group began the cleanup.

• Zheng Qiancheng took Xu Wuyi to Heat Valley, where Xu Wuyi sensed eight Grand Commander Level beasts and thousands of ordinary Star Beasts before killing them all with Order Force.
• Xu Wuyi and Zheng Qiancheng traveled to the Forest Rift, where Xu Wuyi killed roughly five thousand ordinary Star Beasts and eleven Grand Commanders, and the battle group recovered their bodies.
• At the Abyss Rift, Xu Wuyi sensed more than six thousand ordinary Star Beasts, thirteen Grand Commanders, and a weakened Beast King hiding deep in the caves.
• Xu Wuyi reunited with Li Hao, his former university rival, who revealed that he had reached Life Energy Level thirty-nine but remained stuck just short of Xiantian.
• Xu Wuyi killed the Abyss Rift's Star Beasts but chose not to pursue the wounded Beast King, then told Zheng Qiancheng that the bodies were underground.
• Li Hao reflected on the gap between himself and Xu Wuyi, while Xu Wuyi encouraged him to keep training and pursue the Xiantian threshold.

Xu Wuyi spent months refining his cultivation and helping Chen Yuanshan’s team advance the Brood Nest project before gaining a new understanding of Order and forming his domain. He tested its capabilities and later used it to improve the Brood Nest’s control module, leaving the research team with faster responses and more precise insectoid control to study.

• Xu Wuyi followed a steady routine of body tempering, Heart Image cultivation, and reading Grandmasters’ notes while his strength and understanding of Order grew.
• Chen Yuanshan’s team learned to produce several types of Insectoid Race creatures, and Xu Wuyi helped them research the Brood Nest’s biological signals.
• During Qin, Xu Wuyi experienced an Epiphany, understood how a domain embodied a law, and formed his domain.
• Xu Wuyi tested his domain’s range and effects, discovering that it enhanced Lawbreaker and Annihilation and allowed him to alter local laws.
• At the research institute, Xu Wuyi used his domain and Order Force to optimize the Brood Nest’s control module, improving response speed by nearly forty percent and adding six command types.
• Chen Yuanshan’s researchers recorded the improved results as Xu Wuyi left the institute, considering how the technology might strengthen the Federation’s military.

After stabilizing his domain, Xu Wuyi agreed to travel to Great Liang as a Federation envoy to deter the Goatfolk invasion and support the newly formed council. He arrived near Great Liang’s capital and saw that the city was tense and under heavy guard.

• Xu Wuyi studied his domain’s range and its combinations with Lawbreaker and Annihilation, then registered his domain with the Federation.
• Qin Qinghe told Xu Wuyi that Great Liang’s imperial family had fallen in a civil war, Zhou Chen had fled, and the Goatfolk had invaded three provinces.
• Xu Wuyi agreed to travel to Great Liang and learned that the council needed a Grandmaster to deter the three Goatfolk Kings.
• Xu Wuyi reviewed information about Great Liang’s leaders and the Goatfolk, prepared his Prairie Fire Long Spear, and departed from Xingjing by military aircraft.
• Xu Wuyi’s aircraft passed through two Star Realm passages and landed at the Federation’s temporary liaison point outside Great Liang’s capital, where a young official was waiting.