Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu and Bei Jue set aside their factions’ conflict while they investigated who had attacked Bei Ye and tried to provoke a war. After Jiang Shu left, rumors spread that he had defeated Bei Jue and that she wanted a Marriage Alliance with him.

• Bei Jue told Jiang Shu that the Ethereal Star Alliance had not injured Bei Ye and proposed cooperation, offering to cover Bei Ye’s recovery costs and even suggesting a Marriage Alliance.
• Jiang Shu declined the Marriage Alliance, agreed to consult the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance’s elders, and urged both sides to investigate the real culprit.
• Bei Jue ordered Bei Lu not to target the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance and warned him that he was no match for Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Shu told the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance to investigate the attack and the schemes praising him, and its members set out to gather information.
• Rumors spread that Bei Jue had lost to Jiang Shu and that she had fallen in love with him at first sight and wanted a Marriage Alliance.

Bei Jue suspected the Doomsday Cult had resurfaced, and Venerable Luo explained its threat and the opportunity it presented to the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance. A black-robed emissary later invited Jiang Shu to join the cult, but Jiang Shu distrusted the offer and remained determined to keep his freedom.

• Bei Lu blamed Jiang Shu for the rumors about Bei Jue, but Bei Jue defended Jiang Shu and recalled a mysterious faction that might have spread them.
• Bei Jue contacted Jiang Shu, and Venerable Luo identified the Doomsday Cult as a powerful organization whose appearances heralded calamity and upheaval.
• Venerable Luo discussed Bei Jue's possible marriage alliance with Jiang Shu, praised his performance against the Eighth Layer, and encouraged him to meet young challengers near the Eternal Tower.
• Jiang Shu entered the Merchant Tower and met a black-robed figure who explained the Doomsday Cult's beliefs and offered him a chance to join.
• The emissary claimed the cult could reveal Jiang Shu's future and help him control his destiny, but Jiang Shu suspected the invitation came with a price.

Jiang Shu repelled the Ice Monarch’s challenge with one blow and established his standing among the geniuses gathering near the Eternal Tower. Later, Bei Jue visited him and explained that the Doomsday Cult had a powerful but obscured history, leaving its current aims uncertain.

• A black-robed Doomsday Cult member threatened Jiang Shu and vanished after warning that those who refused to join the cult would become its enemies.
• Jiang Shu confronted the Ice Monarch, shattered his palm with one strike, and warned the gathered geniuses not to challenge him; no one stepped forward.
• A muscular man and his sister heard of Jiang Shu’s strength and decided to bring him gifts and seek a sparring match.
• As geniuses gathered near the Eternal Tower, battles intensified and some factions lost their footholds in the Inner Area.
• Bei Jue apologized for the Ice Monarch’s attack, told Jiang Shu that searches had found no other sign of the Doomsday Cult, and described its revered, mysterious past.

Jiang Shu learned that the War Alliance’s Wind Cloud Prodigies, Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun, had come to meet him and challenge his strength. After refusing their recruitment, he agreed to spar with them and headed to the Grand Arena, drawing the attention of other geniuses.

• Yu Tianming told Jiang Shu and Bei Jue that Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun had arrived, and Bei Jue explained that the siblings were famed as invincible Law of Force cultivators.
• Bei Jue left to cultivate, while Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun met Jiang Shu and praised his strength and insight into their cultivation paths.
• Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun invited Jiang Shu to join the War Alliance, but Jiang Shu declined because he was satisfied with the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance.
• Zhan Feng asked Jiang Shu to spar, and Jiang Shu accepted before the three flew toward the Grand Arena.
• Other geniuses recognized the Wind Cloud Prodigies and Jiang Shu, debated how the fight might go, and gathered at the arena to watch.

Jiang Shu battled Zhan Feng in a contest of physical strength, enduring the War Alliance’s Nine Styles of Heaven Opening while studying Zhan Feng’s use of the Law of Force. Jiang Shu countered Zhan Feng’s sixth style and struck him down before the seventh style could fully unfold, though Zhan Feng’s axe left a deep wound on Jiang Shu’s cheek.

• Zhan Feng challenged Jiang Shu to a contest of strength and opened with a blow from his Bronze Battle Axe, which Jiang Shu met with Chaos Thunder.
• Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng transformed into towering Law Manifestations and exchanged attacks that shattered space and stunned the watching geniuses.
• Zhan Feng unleashed the Nine Styles of Heaven Opening, and Jiang Shu countered its opening styles with his Laws and the Primal Chaos Thunder Pool.
• Jiang Shu studied how Zhan Feng used Blood Qi and the human body’s hidden treasures to amplify the Law of Force, then fought on against the fourth and fifth styles.
• Jiang Shu used the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist to shatter Zhan Feng’s time-fold phantoms during the sixth style, Reincarnation.
• As Zhan Feng began the seventh style, Jiang Shu charged in; Zhan Feng cut Jiang Shu’s cheek with his axe, but Jiang Shu struck Zhan Feng in the chest and sent him flying through several spatial barriers.

Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng fought to a draw, then agreed to join forces through the War Alliance. Back at the Eternal Tower base, Venerable Luo praised Jiang Shu and presented him with the dangerous Desolate Star Halberd, explaining its ancient origins.

• Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng unleashed their strongest attacks, wounded each other, and ended their spar without deciding a victor.
• Zhan Yun stopped the battle before the two damaged their sources, and Zhan Feng invited Jiang Shu to join the War Alliance; Jiang Shu accepted.
• Spectators circulated recordings of the battle, drawing praise from reclusive Venerables who noted the danger of Jiang Shu's Devouring Law merging with desolate Death Qi.
• Venerable Luo congratulated Jiang Shu and explained that Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun had inherited extraordinary talents from their Born Divine Being father.
• Venerable Luo presented Jiang Shu with the Desolate Star Halberd, warning that the ancient weapon could bring disaster if he could not control it.

Jiang Shu received the Desolate Star Halberd and the Cosmos Desolation Scripture from Venerable Luo, then visited Zhan Feng and sparred with Zhan Yun. The chapter ended as Jiang Shu effortlessly absorbed Zhan Yun’s opening axe strike with the halberd.

• Jiang Shu accepted the Desolate Star Halberd and the Cosmos Desolation Scripture from Venerable Luo, resisting the weapon’s Artifact Spirit and Demonic Qi.
• Venerable Luo warned Jiang Shu to cultivate the Law of Desolation carefully and not mistake the Artifact Spirit’s apparent submission for surrender.
• Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun discussed their coming departure for the Chaos Star Domain and Jiang Shu’s visit to their camp.
• Jiang Shu met Zhan Feng, shared a meal with the Wind Cloud Prodigies, and asked to spar after revealing the Desolate Star Halberd.
• Zhan Yun attacked Jiang Shu with her Bronze Battle Axe, and Jiang Shu’s halberd swallowed her probing strike without effort.

Jiang Shu sparred with Zhan Yun, then shared what he knew about the Deep Space Sea and learned from a Doomsday Cult emissary that its rumored great opportunity was fake. He returned to the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance, where preparations for the selection continued and he learned Bei Ye had gone home to recover.

• Jiang Shu and Zhan Yun fought, and Jiang Shu used a powerful technique that compressed space through the resonance of his apertures before explaining how he had developed it.
• Jiang Shu told Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun that he wanted to exchange information about the Deep Space Sea after hearing rumors of an opportunity there.
• A black-robed Doomsday Cult emissary told Jiang Shu that the rumored great opportunity was fabricated, offered him a map marking other opportunities, and invited him to join the cult.
• Jiang Shu tested the Wind Cloud Prodigies with scattered details about the Deep Space Sea and left without telling them the rumored opportunity was fake.
• Jiang Shu returned to the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance, where its members discussed the selection and welcomed him back.
• Yu Tianming told Jiang Shu that Bei Ye had awakened with a damaged foundation, returned to his clan to recuperate, and promised to repay Jiang Shu.

Jiang Shu and the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance arrived at the Chaos Star Domain for the Deep Space Sea selection, where they encountered rival Ancient Monsters and learned more about the Ten Thousand Dao Stele Forest. The chapter ended with the alliance approaching the selection amid a gathering of powerful competitors, while Jiang Shu remained determined to make his name.

• Jiang Shu sensed a hostile watcher aboard the alliance ship, while the hidden figure evaded his gaze and said to enjoy himself for a few more days.
• Venerable Luo led the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance to the Chaos Star Domain, where Jiang Shu and Yu Tianming learned about the Ten Thousand Dao Stele Forest and its sealed Order Chains.
• Venerable Luo recalled his own Deep Space Sea selection and promised the young geniuses that he would share what he knew about the place.
• Jiang Shu rallied the alliance's young people by declaring that the selection would be their chance to make their names.
• Sword Madman attacked Jiang Shu with a sword strike, then apologized and said he looked forward to meeting him in the finals.
• Yu Tianming told Jiang Shu that many Ancient Monsters had appeared, including some who could contend with the Wind Cloud Prodigies, and wondered what opportunity awaited in the Deep Space Sea.

Jiang Shu entered the Deep Space Sea selection arena and survived the brutal preliminary round, advancing among the final one thousand contestants. The survivors were transported to a strange new world of ocean, Astral Wind, flames, and thunder.

• Peerless Geniuses and Ancient Monsters discussed Jiang Shu’s reputation, while some doubted his strength and others hoped to recruit him or avoid making him an enemy.
• Venerable Luo deflected another Venerable’s attempts to learn about Jiang Shu and recruit him from the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance.
• One hundred thousand contestants began fighting in the selection arena as Jiang Shu sat calmly at its center, untouched by the battle.
• When contestants moved to join forces against him, Jiang Shu released the pressure of his thirteen Order Chains of Law, forcing many to retreat or withdraw.
• After the arena dwindled to exactly one thousand survivors, an ancient array transported them to a new world with an ocean, Astral Wind, towering flames, and distant thunder.

Jiang Shu explored the Secret Realm, fought off an Ancient Monster who ambushed him, and continued searching through the fog for a safe place. He reached a massive Abyss, where a wounded prodigy from the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance joined him.

• The invisible barrier shattered, and the prodigies crossed the sea to search the islands for opportunities.
• Jiang Shu avoided a crowded island, then caught a tracking arrow and confronted the Ancient Monster who had shot it.
• Jiang Shu overwhelmed the woman with his attacks, severely injured her, and made her flee after she tried to explain her interest in him.
• Jiang Shu continued searching for areas with thinner fog and reached a massive Abyss where other prodigies had gathered.
• A wounded prodigy from the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance arrived, and Jiang Shu gave him Precious Medicine to recover.

Jiang Shu investigated an Abyss said to contain a powerful Law Source, where a strange lifeform had defeated an Ancient Monster. A slovenly prodigy revealed that the creature could be weakened by feeding it Law-comprehending geniuses, leaving the gathered prodigies facing the prospect of becoming its prey.

• Jiang Shu questioned two Peerless Geniuses about the Abyss and learned that a strange lifeform had swallowed an Ancient Monster after only two clashes.
• The gathered prodigies tried to pressure Jiang Shu into descending first, but his killing intent silenced them, and several chose to explore the Abyss themselves.
• Jiang Shu refused to rush into the Abyss and continued assessing the danger while a Nine Universes Merchant Alliance prodigy recovered nearby.
• A slovenly prodigy arrived, sensed that someone had died in the Abyss, and used a vast eye to investigate the strange lifeform, suffering an injury in the process.
• The slovenly prodigy explained that the creature weakened after acting and could be made to sleep or seal itself by offering Law-comprehending prodigies as blood food.

Jiang Shu uncovered the scruffy youth’s scheme to use a slaughter among the prodigies to weaken the Primordial Centipede and obtain the opportunity in the Abyss. With the others fleeing and the centipede attacking, Jiang Shu questioned whether the centipede itself was the true opportunity.

• The scruffy youth urged the prodigies to feed bloody flesh to the Abyss, claiming a highly ranked Law Source lay within, and the gathered cultivators began slaughtering one another.
• A Peerless Genius escaped the Abyss and described a centipede covered in heads, prompting Jiang Shu to recognize it as the Primordial Centipede from the Doomsday Cult’s records.
• The Primordial Centipede emerged, suppressed the cultivators’ Laws and teleportation, and devoured those unable to escape.
• Jiang Shu realized the scruffy youth had manipulated the prodigies into fighting so their souls would weaken the centipede’s connection to the Primordial Law.
• A group escaped through a precious star artifact, the Star Beast prodigy fled, and the Primordial Centipede turned on Jiang Shu and the scruffy youth.
• The scruffy youth proposed that Jiang Shu search the Abyss while he held off the centipede, but Jiang Shu challenged him, asking whether the centipede itself was the opportunity.

Jiang Shu battled the slovenly youth and the Primordial Centipede above the Abyss, driving the youth into retreat and mortally wounding the beast. He reached the centipede’s Law Source, but its Primordial Law began corroding him as he fought to break through the darkness and claim it.

• The slovenly youth attacked Jiang Shu, who countered with the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist while the Primordial Centipede joined the fight.
• Jiang Shu struck the slovenly youth hard, but the centipede’s attacks turned the battle into a chaotic struggle that forced the other prodigies to flee.
• The youth mutated and attacked Jiang Shu, who shattered his arm with repeated punches as the centipede formed Blood Spears from space fragments.
• The slovenly youth fled after crushing a jade pendant, and Jiang Shu turned his attention to the weakened Primordial Centipede.
• Jiang Shu unleashed a powerful attack with the Desolate Star Halberd, pierced the centipede’s skull, and used the halberd’s Black Hole to seize its origin.
• Jiang Shu rushed toward the exposed Law Source as the centipede covered the world in darkness, and he resisted the Primordial Law’s corrosion with the Law of Force.

Jiang Shu absorbed the Primordial Law in the Abyss, survived the Primordial Centipede’s final attacks, and emerged greatly strengthened. Outside, a conspiracy blamed him and Jian Changge for slaughtering prodigies, and Jiang Shu was confronted by hostile figures who accused him of the massacre.

• Jiang Shu entered the Abyss to recover and absorbed the Primordial Law, merging it with the Devouring Law to create a Taiji vortex and a hazy Dao Embryo.
• The Primordial Centipede’s remnants attacked Jiang Shu, but he shattered their assaults and used the Desolate Star Halberd to consume the lingering resentment.
• A Lamp-Holding Envoy ordered a subordinate to spread a memory projection and strengthen the accusation that Jiang Shu and Jian Changge had killed more than a hundred prodigies.
• After half a month of cultivation, Jiang Shu emerged with the Primordial Law integrated into his body and the Devouring Sky Mirror displaying Primordial Divine Script.
• Jiang Shu returned to the Abyss’s edge and was caught in a formation as thirteen Bronze War Puppets and several powerful figures confronted him.
• A Mech Clan expert and others accused Jiang Shu of conspiring with Jian Changge to slaughter geniuses, and Jiang Shu realized he had been framed.

Jiang Shu fought off the Mech Clan and the Sword Pavilion, killing one Sword Pavilion disciple before Jian Changge and Zhan Feng arrived. The Mother Body emerged as the battle widened, and the chapter ended with the Secret Realm nearing collapse under the fighters’ destructive power.

• The Mech Clan and the Seven Sons of the Sword Pavilion attacked Jiang Shu with formations, weapons, and sword puppets, but he dismantled their assaults with the Primordial Law.
• Jiang Shu crushed one Sword Pavilion disciple with a palm and challenged the onlookers to name the man’s grandfather; the remaining six disciples unleashed a vast Sword Dao Domain, which Jiang Shu broke with the Demonic Halberd.
• Jian Changge appeared and severed the six disciples’ Life-Bound connections, while Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun arrived to defend their War Alliance brother.
• The Mech Clan summoned its Ancestral Artifact, revealing a Mother Body that invited Jiang Shu to abandon his flesh and join mechanical ascension; Jiang Shu answered with an axe strike.
• Zhan Feng fought Jian Changge, Bei Jue joined Jiang Shu’s side, and other geniuses entered the battle as Jiang Shu’s Thunder War Generals fought off attackers.
• Observers warned that the fighters’ destruction had grown so great that the Secret Realm could no longer hold together.

Jiang Shu survived the chaotic teleportation from the Abyss and arrived in Return to Void, a region of the Deep Space Sea rich in Space Law fragments. He began absorbing its Space Dao Rhyme to improve his understanding of the Great Dao of Space.

• The prodigies’ Teleportation Tokens activated amid the battle, and Jiang Shu used his Three Sacred Embryos and Gray Mist Flow to survive the Mech Mother’s Singularity Bomb as the group was transported.
• Jiang Shu traveled through folded spacetime, saw Bei Jue and the Zhan siblings on separate trajectories, and watched the siblings fall toward the Southwest Star Domain.
• Jiang Shu arrived in Return to Void and recognized its dense Space Law fragments as the resource he needed to strengthen his Law Sources.
• A hidden Peerless Genius spotted Jiang Shu and fled, while Jiang Shu summoned the Primal Chaos Thunder Pool to absorb Space Dao Rhyme and cultivate the Great Void Heart Sutra.

Jiang Shu defeated waves of attackers in the Land of Return to Void and obtained the Return to Void Heaven-Robbing Technique, which he evolved into halberd arts. He left the Land of Return to Void with his new power, while his true nemesis remained distant and the Deep Space Sea’s other opportunities lay beyond his reach.

• Jiang Shu refined the Chaos Lightning Pool into a Thunder Seal as his cultivation neared the late Tenth Realm, then defeated the Mech Clan attackers who tracked him to the Land of Return to Void.
• Jiang Shu used his halberd to overcome the woman’s Star Burial Secret Art and crushed the mechanical leader’s Civilization Spark, reaching the late Tenth Realm.
• A Bronze Coffin shattered and sent Jiang Shu a Jade Slip containing the Return to Void Heaven-Robbing Technique, which he transformed into halberd arts.
• Jiang Shu slew successive attackers, including a sword cultivator, nine Xiangliu, and seven assassins, while his halberd gained Return to Void Patterns.
• Jiang Shu defeated a heavily armored Starry Sky Giant Beast and erased another enemy with the awakened Return to Void Heaven-Robbing Halberd, though the giant beast escaped using its father’s protection.
• Jiang Shu reflected that he was still far from becoming a Venerable and turned his attention to the Land of Becoming a Saint.

Jiang Shu returned from the Return to Void Land to the Chaotic Demon Sea after advancing to the Myriad Manifestations Realm Late Stage. He learned that the Human Race and Demon Race were locked in a major war, found the Human Race’s hidden forces, and headed toward the main army while the Eight Great Sects continued searching for him.

• Jiang Shu suppressed the Desolate Star Halberd’s demonic nature, devoured the soul anchor within the Great Severing Demon Bone, and left the Return to Void Land.
• Jiang Shu arrived in the Chaotic Demon Sea and discovered that a Sword Concealment Sect Dao Venerable had cut away an island to create a safe shipping route.
• Jiang Shu killed a Demon Race scout and learned that Human and Demon Venerables had clashed before the Human Race advanced into the Chaotic Demon Sea.
• Jiang Shu met Wu Wang and an elite Human Race force, learned the main army’s coordinates, and set off to find it.
• The True Martial Sect’s Sect Master asked Zi Ji Dao Venerable where Jiang Shu had gone, as the Eight Great Sects remained worried about his disappearance.

Jiang Shu returned to True Martial Sect after surviving his ordeal in the Demon Domain, astonishing Zi Ji Dao Venerable and the Sect Master with his Ten Thousand Manifestations Late Stage cultivation. He learned that the Demon Race had halted the Human Race's advance with a blood-fueled ancient array, then received a complete Great Dao of Desolation inheritance from Dao Venerable Cang Ming before leaving to perfect his Great Daos.

• Jiang Shu appeared before Zi Ji Dao Venerable and the Sect Master, who were relieved to see him and amazed by his Ten Thousand Manifestations Late Stage cultivation.
• Jiang Shu explained that he had endured severe injuries and pursuit in the Demon Domain, defeated his pursuers, and recovered after obtaining an opportunity.
• Zi Ji Dao Venerable and the Sect Master told Jiang Shu that the Demon Race had deployed an ancient blood-fueled array, forcing the Human Race to withdraw beyond the barrier.
• The Sect Master said the Fox-Human Clan had helped the Human Race sweep through the Chaotic Demon Sea and that its clansmen were under True Martial Sect's protection.
• Dao Venerable Cang Ming welcomed Jiang Shu and gave him a complete Great Dao of Desolation cultivation method and inheritance.
• Jiang Shu left to perfect his Great Daos after Zi Ji Dao Venerable and the Sect Master urged him to meet with his fellow disciples later.