Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing admitted to Cang Badao that he had killed Yue Yun and the eight peak Law Forgers, then proved Yue Yun’s betrayal and explained the Dark Demonic King’s plot. After clearing up the matter, Xu Qing agreed to forge artifacts for the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation, and Young Master Wenshu arrived the next day with payment, materials, and instructions for the first artifact.

• Xu Qing welcomed Cang Badao, Young Master Wenshu, and their companion, then admitted he had killed Yue Yun and the eight peak Law Forgers.
• Xu Qing explained that a disciple of the Dark Demonic King had manipulated Yue Yun and the Law Forgers, and showed Cang Badao a recording proving Yue Yun’s betrayal.
• Cang Badao accepted Xu Qing’s account and asked him to forge artifacts for the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation, agreeing to pay ten thousand top-grade Law Stones for each successful artifact.
• Xu Qing reflected on the growing danger in Cangzhou Prefecture Capital and recalled how Kaya and the others had slain the powerful Mist Oddity threatening the Brotherhood.
• Young Master Wenshu returned the next day with the agreed payment, additional Law Stones, materials, and instructions for forging the Myriad Spirits Needle.

Xu Qing used the Omni-Codex to repair a failed True Myriad Spirits Needle and gave the flawless artifact to Young Master Wenshu for inspection. As Cangzhou’s leaders worried over the coming invasion of irrational demons, devils, and ghosts, Young Master Wenshu brought the needle to Cang Badao, who was delighted to see it.

• Young Master Wenshu told Xu Qing that he was responsible for forging the 108 True Myriad Spirits Needles needed for the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation.
• Xu Qing gave True Person Yun Shang a Heaven Bridge Pill, which helped him master another Martial Path Law, then assigned him to forge a True Myriad Spirits Needle.
• Ye Langtian explained that the collapse of the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom’s Imperial Dragon Qi had allowed irrational demons, devils, and ghosts to revive and gather around Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• After True Person Yun Shang’s forging failed, Xu Qing recorded the defective needle and used the Omni-Codex to repair its errors and make it flawless.
• Young Master Wenshu inspected Xu Qing’s True Myriad Spirits Needle and brought it to Cang Badao, who reacted with delight as Cangzhou’s leaders discussed the looming crisis.

Xu Qing mastered thirty-six laws and advanced from a Great Venerable to a Great Accomplishment Venerable. A blood moon then drew Linyun Street into a Ghostly Domain, where Xu Qing destroyed tens of thousands of corpse wraiths, but more continued to pour from the moon.

• Cang Badao approved Master Ouyezi to forge the remaining 107 True Myriad Spirits Needles, and Xu Qing handed the work to True Person Yun Shang after receiving the materials and payment.
• Xu Qing mastered the Law of Heaven and Earth and continued cultivating while upgrading and delivering the forged needles to Young Master Wenshu.
• After mastering enough laws to reach thirty-six, Xu Qing broke through from a Great Venerable to a Great Accomplishment Venerable.
• A second blood-red moon appeared and cast Linyun Street into a Ghostly Domain, so Xu Qing raised his twelve-layered Law Domain to protect the weapon shop.
• Corpse wraiths poured from the blood moon, and Xu Qing used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to destroy tens of thousands, but more kept falling from the sky.

Xu Qing destroyed the Blood Moon Ghostly Oddity with his upgraded Talisman to Exorcise Evil, but everyone on Linyun Street had already died. He moved You Jia Weapon Shop to the Yan Yun Sect and, after a year of training, reached the pinnacle of the Great Accomplishment Venerable, one law short of becoming a Mighty Venerable.

• Xu Qing used the Eye of Law to identify the blood moon as the source of the Lawful Domain and destroyed it with his LV30 Talisman to Exorcise Evil.
• Xu Qing devoured the Blood Moon Ghostly Oddity, mastered nine new laws, and discovered that everyone on Linyun Street had died.
• Cang Badao and his companions arrived and asked Xu Qing to finish forging the True Myriad Spirits Needles while they prepared the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation.
• Xu Qing moved to the Yan Yun Sect and reopened You Jia Weapon Shop there, offering the sect a ten percent discount.
• Over the next year, Xu Qing mastered twenty-six laws and twelve law techniques, bringing his total to seventy-one laws and leaving him one law short of becoming a Mighty Venerable.

Xu Qing advanced to the Mighty Venerable level as the Great Zhou formed a weaker State Protection Great Formation to protect the Nine Provinces. A terrifying Law-powered aberration called the Angler attacked Cangzhou Prefecture Capital, and Xu Qing realized he needed to reach the Fourth Realm to protect himself.

• Xu Qing upgraded a failed True Myriad Spirits Needle and sent it to Young Master Wenshu while learning that Cangzhou Prefecture Capital remained stable.
• Zhou Di ordered True Immortal Daoist, Hong Ding Tian, and Xiao Yin to establish the State Protection Great Formation after the Imperial Dragon Qi vanished.
• Xu Qing grasped seventy-three laws and broke through to the Mighty Venerable level as the formation helped clear Cangzhou Prefecture Capital of demons, monsters, evil spirits, and anomalies.
• The Angler shattered the formation's protection and hooked people, including Third Realm experts; Xu Qing repelled a hook with LV30 items containing Law power but could not escape the prefecture capital.
• Cang Badao and the other experts drove the Angler away after seven days, though many people were taken, and Cang Badao explained that the aberration fished for living beings through the workings of Law.

Xu Qing learned of the Forbidden Existence that had erased the Great Zhou Martial Kingdom’s Ancestral Dragon and ordered Wang Miao to abandon his plans to rule Qing Province and stay by his side. He cultivated until he mastered 108 Laws, reaching their limit and sensing the power of Rules beyond them.

• Xu Qing spent a year cultivating, mastered 100 Laws, and forged 36 True Myriad Spirits Needles for Cang Badao.
• Wang Miao told Xu Qing he had entered the Fourth Realm and planned to unify Qing Province and become an Ancestral Dragon; Xu Qing warned him of the Ancestral Dragon of Great Zhou’s mysterious death and ordered him to return.
• Wang Miao returned to Cang Province, and Xu Qing instructed him to remain at his side while promising to help him take revenge.
• Xu Qing discovered that the Rat Snake had reached LV40 and become a Level One King Beast in Yong Province, then allowed it to keep hunting King Beasts there.
• Ye Langtian continued growing stronger by fighting, devouring origins and Laws, and passing trials in Ghostly Oddity: Desolate Village.
• Four months later, Xu Qing mastered 108 Laws, reached their flawless limit, and sensed the power of Rules beyond Laws.

Xu Qing stabilized his breakthrough into the Ultimate Venerable realm and learned from Wang Miao how Laws and Laws of Regulation governed advancement into the Fourth Realm. He obtained Wang Miao’s copied Dark Demonic Art to study, hoping it would help him break through.

• Xu Qing’s breakthrough resonated with the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital’s Dao Bell, which rang seven times and exposed hidden Demonic Evils for the city’s factions to hunt.
• After emerging from seclusion, Xu Qing asked Wang Miao about entering the Fourth Realm, and Wang Miao explained the need to master Laws, a suitable Law Product, and 108 Laws of Regulation.
• Wang Miao explained that some incomplete Laws of Regulation were created by Fourth Realm beings to cultivate living beings as provisions, and described the Dark Demonic Art’s path toward the Fourth Realm.
• Xu Qing asked Wang Miao to copy the six-layer Dark Demonic Art because Ye Langtian could not yet provide the Devouring Demonic Art’s fourth-layer secret method.
• Three days later, Wang Miao presented Xu Qing with a Law Script jade slip containing the Dark Demonic Art’s nine Law Talismans.

Xu Qing used the Omni-Codex to cultivate the Dark Demonic Art, seeking the experience needed to reach the Fourth Realm and grasp the Darkness Law. After months of training and Wang Miao’s help, the formation artifacts were completed, the Dark Demonic Dragon remained nearby, and Xu Qing prepared to upgrade the art before the formation’s deployment.

• Xu Qing recorded the Dark Demonic Art and raised it to LV31 by meditating with a top-grade Law Stone, but he found that reaching the next stages required far more experience.
• Xu Qing had Wang Miao envelop him in the Darkness Law, increasing his cultivation speed, and chose to focus on the Dark Demonic Art rather than the Cycle Law or Devouring Demonic Art.
• Cang Badao and his allies repelled a Dark Demonic Dragon that had attacked the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital, but the law-driven creature lurked nearby afterward.
• Xu Qing upgraded the final True Myriad Spirits Needle, and True Person Yun Shang delivered it to Cang Badao, who announced that the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation would begin in three days.
• After True Person Yun Shang relayed Cang Badao’s message, Xu Qing saw that the Dark Demonic Art had accumulated 75 trillion experience points and ordered the Omni-Codex to upgrade it.

Xu Qing broke through into the Fourth Realm, mastered the Darkness Law, and upgraded his most-used equipment to LV40. He then went to the Marquis's Mansion to observe the arrangement of the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation.

• Xu Qing raised the Dark Demonic Art to LV40, entered the Law Realm, and mastered one percent of the Darkness Law.
• The Cangzhou Dao Bell rang nine times for Xu Qing's breakthrough, alarming the capital and prompting its factions to hunt demons and other hidden threats.
• Xu Qing upgraded twelve of his weapons and pieces of equipment to LV40, giving them the power of laws.
• Xu Qing calculated that his accelerated cultivation could earn 8.67 trillion experience points per day, then headed to the Marquis's Mansion with Wang Miao, True Person Yun Shang, Kaya, and the others.
• Young Master Wenshu welcomed Xu Qing and led him into the rear courtyard, where 108 towering pagodas had been erected for the formation.

Xu Qing witnessed Cang Badao and Cangzhou’s leading experts begin establishing the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation to protect the prefecture capital. As the Four Symbols Guardian Beasts were summoned and prepared to take their positions, the Fourth Realm Demon Dark Demon Dragon appeared and attacked.

• Xu Qing realized that the Ultimate Venerables of Cangzhou were stationed atop the pagodas to help establish the formation.
• Cang Badao explained the formation’s purpose and began its construction with the leaders of Cangzhou’s five major sects and academy.
• The six Formation Masters and one hundred and two Ultimate Venerables activated the formation through the pagodas, formation artifacts, and Cangzhou Dao Bell.
• The formation gathered the people’s power and summoned the Eastern Azure Dragon, Western White Tiger, Southern Vermilion Bird, and Northern Black Tortoise.
• As the Four Symbols Guardian Beasts prepared to take their positions, Dark Demon Dragon emerged from hiding and charged toward the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.

Xu Qing sent Wang Miao to stop the Dark Demonic Dragon from destroying Cangzhou Prefecture Capital and disrupting the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation. Wang Miao gained the upper hand with Xu Qing’s Level 20 Black Dragon Cauldron, and Xu Qing summoned the LV40 Rat Snake to intercept the fleeing dragon.

• Cang Badao and the other defenders used formations to hold back the Dark Demonic Dragon, but they could not stop it from advancing toward Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• Xu Qing gave Wang Miao the Level 20 Black Dragon Cauldron and ordered him to fight the dragon.
• Wang Miao blocked the Dark Demonic Dragon and used the cauldron to wound and suppress it.
• The injured Dark Demonic Dragon tried to flee, so Xu Qing called the LV40 Rat Snake from Yongzhou to devour it.
• The LV40 Rat Snake used Space Travel to appear outside Cangzhou Prefecture Capital and block the dragon’s escape.

The LV40 rat snake and Wang Miao killed the dark demonic dragon, allowing Xu Qing to upgrade the rat snake to LV42 while the defenders completed the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation. The formation protected Cangzhou Prefecture Capital from the Angler’s hooks, but an enormous severed hand struck its barrier as the true crisis began.

• The LV40 rat snake ambushed the dark demonic dragon, then joined Wang Miao in defeating and devouring it.
• Xu Qing used the Omni-Codex to upgrade the rat snake from LV40 to LV42, increasing its size and power.
• Cang Badao, Golden Cicada, Guang Lingzi, Ye Qiu Ming, Daoist Cang Xian, Deng Chun Qiu, and the Ultimate Venerables completed the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation around Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• Wang Miao warned that the formation’s completion would attract more threats, and Cang Badao and the others prepared for battle.
• The Fourth Realm Anomaly: The Angler dragged Cangzhou Prefecture Capital into its space and sent threads and hooks toward it, but the city’s two formations blocked them.
• An enormous ancient severed hand descended from the sky and slammed into the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation.

Golden Cicada revealed that the attacking severed hand was an Ancient War Corpse as Fourth Realm anomalies and demons besieged Cangzhou Prefecture Capital. With the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation shielding the city, its defenders fought the invaders, and the battle spread into a full-scale war.

• Golden Cicada explained that the severed hand was an Ancient War Corpse, then fought it using his Great Luo Buddha Hand and Buddha Kingdom.
• The Angler struck the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation, and Deng Chun Qiu went out to battle it with the Spring and Autumn Brush and Book.
• A Demon Tree emerged outside the city, and Guang Lingzi attacked it with Purple Heaven Divine Fire while fighting its puppet tree-men.
• Cang Badao fought the ghostly aggregation called Void, while Ye Qiu Ming faced the Fallen Angel and Daoist Cang Xian battled the Hellish Evil Dragon.
• The armies of Cangzhou Prefecture Capital charged out to fight the surrounding Demonic Evils and Ghostly Oddities, beginning a full-scale battle.

As Cangzhou Prefecture Capital gained ground, a Mandala Flower and a fragment of the Ancient Battlefield threatened to overwhelm its defenders. Xu Qing diverted the battlefield fragment with a sword strike, but Ancient War Corpses still fell toward the city.

• A Fourth Realm Ghostly Oddity, the Mandala Flower, released parasitic seeds and attacked, and Wang Miao confronted it with the Black Dragon Cauldron.
• A fragment of the Ancient Battlefield appeared through a spatial rift, and evil power revived its dead as Ancient War Corpses.
• Cang Badao and the others attacked the rift to prevent the fragment from falling on Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• Xu Qing used his Copper Coin Sword and combined three Laws to alter the fragment’s course through the turbulent void.
• The redirected fragment shook loose at least ten Ancient War Corpses, which began falling toward Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.

Xu Qing destroyed and devoured all nine Ancient War Corpses that fell from the Ancient Battlefield, increasing his mastery of several Laws. As Cang Badao was badly wounded by the Angler and the Anomaly attacked the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation, Xu Qing drove back its fishing rod with his Law Sword.

• A mountain-sized severed leg attacked Cangzhou Prefecture Capital, and the LV42 Rat Snake stopped it while nine Ancient War Corpses fell from a spatial rift.
• The headless Ancient War Corpse revived and cracked the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation, but Xu Qing blocked its axe, destroyed it with Three Swords Combined, and devoured its remains.
• Xu Qing used his Twelve Layered Law Domain and devouring abilities to suppress and consume the other eight Ancient War Corpses, raising his mastery of several Laws.
• After refining all nine corpses, Xu Qing observed that none had possessed a Law Body, while his strength had increased considerably.
• Cang Badao escaped the Angler's Space grievously wounded, and the Angler sent its fishing rod toward the formation.
• Xu Qing summoned his Level 20 Law Sword and knocked the Angler's fishing rod away.

Xu Qing defeated the Fourth Realm Anomalies and Demonic Evils threatening Cangzhou Prefecture Capital, securing victory after three days of battle. Afterward, he realized that the Law of Strangeness he had gained was beginning to influence him, and he considered the danger of becoming an anomaly.

• Xu Qing restrained the Angler's fishing lines, causing it to sever them and flee, then destroyed the severed hand that Golden Cicada had been fighting and devoured it.
• Xu Qing helped Ye Qiu Ming, Daoist Cang Xian, Deng Chun Qiu, and Guang Lingzi defeat the remaining Fourth Realm Demonic Evils and Ghostly Oddities, then devoured them to strengthen himself.
• Xu Qing suppressed and devoured the Mandala Flower, while the LV42 Rat Snake defeated and swallowed the last Ancient War Corpse.
• Xu Qing ordered the survivors to clear the battlefield, and three days later Cangzhou Prefecture Capital celebrated victory over the invasion.
• Xu Qing stabilized his cultivation and realized that his ten-percent Law of Strangeness was subtly transforming him toward becoming an anomaly.

After consolidating his cultivation, Xu Qing learned that Cangzhou had survived the invasion and received an offer to become Lord of Cangzhou. He declined the title and nominated Wang Miao instead, leaving the sect leaders stunned and uneasy.

• Xu Qing reflected on the risks of his divine ability and decided to rely on cultivation rather than use it unless necessary.
• Cang Badao and the other leaders came to report victory, but Wang Miao initially barred them from disturbing Xu Qing.
• Xu Qing invited the leaders into the hall, where they thanked him for saving Cangzhou and proposed making him Lord of Cangzhou.
• Cang Badao reluctantly supported the proposal, but Xu Qing said he had no interest in the position.
• Xu Qing nominated Wang Miao as Lord of Cangzhou, then coldly questioned the leaders when their reaction showed displeasure.

Xu Qing installed Wang Miao as Lord of Cangzhou, seized control of the province’s resources, and discovered that low-grade Law Stones vastly accelerated his cultivation. As the Nine Vassal States took shape, Cang Badao secretly resolved to kill Wang Miao and contacted the Fengdu Ghost King.

• Xu Qing dismissed Cang Badao’s objections and ordered Golden Cicada and the others to establish Wang Miao as Lord of Cangzhou.
• Over the following month, Wang Miao gained control of Cangzhou while Xu Qing collected inheritances from the province’s major forces.
• Xu Qing advanced the Dark Demonic Art to LV42 and mastered twenty percent of the Darkness Law.
• Xu Qing tested a low-grade Law Stone and found that it let him cultivate the Dark Demonic Art one hundred times faster than a top-grade Law Stone.
• As forces rose across the other provinces and the Nine Vassal States took shape, Cang Badao decided to kill Wang Miao and contacted the Fengdu Ghost King.

Wang Miao exposed Cang Badao’s plot with the Fengdu Ghost King to seize control of Cangzhou, prompting Xu Qing to intervene. Xu Qing captured Cang Badao, then rebuked Golden Cicada and the others for allowing him to flee.

• Wang Miao told Xu Qing that Cang Badao had conspired with the Fengdu Ghost King to eliminate him, and showed him a recording of their bargain.
• Xu Qing ordered Wang Miao to summon the experts and assembled the leaders of Cangzhou’s major forces in the main hall.
• Wang Miao displayed the recording, and Cang Badao denied it before fleeing when the crowd turned against him.
• Xu Qing bound Cang Badao with his Law Chains and brought him crashing down, despite his attempt to draw on the Myriad Spirits Four Symbols Great Formation.
• Xu Qing scolded Golden Cicada and the others for failing to stop Cang Badao from escaping.

Wang Miao executed Cang Badao, purged his bloodline, and consolidated control of Cangzhou while the Fengdu Ghost King shifted his attention to other prefectures. After two years of secluded cultivation, Xu Qing mastered the complete Darkness Law and began condensing the Darkness Law Body.

• Xu Qing ordered Cang Badao's body and soul annihilated, and Wang Miao killed him with the Black Dragon Cauldron.
• Wang Miao wiped out Cang Badao's bloodline, seized the Marquis's Mansion's forces, and led a cleansing of Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• The Fengdu Ghost King learned of Cang Badao's death and decided to pursue schemes in other prefectures.
• Xu Qing raised the Dark Demonic Art to LV46 and resolved to form a Darkness Law Body rather than combine multiple Laws.
• After two years of cultivation, Xu Qing upgraded the Dark Demonic Art to LV50, mastered 100% of the Darkness Law, and began transforming his body.