Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu emerged from seclusion with his strength greatly increased and reunited with his three senior brothers at Penglai Pavilion. After discussing cultivation and the Demon Race’s Flesh and Blood Grand Array, Thunder Zhen Dao Lord explained why the Human Race had to enter the Chaotic Demon Sea, and asked Jiang Shu what he had learned during his venture into the Demon Domain.

• Jiang Shu revealed himself to the Eight Great Sects’ camp, and word of his return and breakthrough spread quickly.
• Sea Light True Lord and As You Wish True Lord told Thunder Zhen Dao Lord that Jiang Shu was waiting at Penglai Pavilion.
• Jiang Shu reunited with Thunder Zhen Dao Lord, Sea Light True Lord, and As You Wish True Lord, and offered to protect his senior brothers when they advanced into the Ten Thousand Manifestations Realm.
• Thunder Zhen Dao Lord advised Jiang Shu to focus on the Great Dao of Space and pursue advancement into the Primal Chaos Realm before seeking the ultimate extreme of his Great Daos.
• Thunder Zhen Dao Lord warned that the Demon Race might be plotting something with the Flesh and Blood Grand Array, but said the Eight Great Sects had to enter the Chaotic Demon Sea.
• Thunder Zhen Dao Lord asked Jiang Shu what leads he had discovered while venturing deep into the Demon Domain.

Jiang Shu prepared to lead True Martial Sect experts into the Chaotic Demon Sea to investigate Demon Race activity and strengthen the sect’s standing. He met with Hu Yi, whose Fox-Human Clan controlled the sea’s intelligence network, and entrusted him with a new task after learning that contact with agents in the interior lands had been lost.

• Jiang Shu declined to reveal his secret travels between worlds and agreed with Thunder Zhen Dao Lord to lead an expedition through the Chaotic Demon Sea.
• The Sect Master authorized Jiang Shu to deploy sect experts and gave him a jade pendant that could tear open space in a life-or-death crisis.
• Three days later, Jiang Shu set out from Penglai Pavilion with more than ten Ten Thousand Manifestations Realm Dao Lords and explained what he knew about a Demon Race scouting party.
• Hu Yi worried that the Fox-Human Clan could not extend its intelligence network into the interior lands, but maintained that its control of the Chaotic Demon Sea remained strong.
• Jiang Shu arrived at Hu Yi’s secret chamber, forgave him for losing contact with the interior-land agents, and said he had another matter to entrust to him.

Jiang Shu used Hu Yi’s intelligence to locate a hidden Demon Race base on an island in the Chaotic Demon Sea and led the Human Race forces in an attack. He confronted the True Phoenix genius Zhen Huanglie, whose Nirvana Forbidden Technique was beginning to fail under Jiang Shu’s assault.

• Hu Yi gave Jiang Shu recent intelligence on Demon Race forces and pointed out an island where supply ships had been appearing; Jiang Shu rewarded him with an Earth Rank Treasure Artifact.
• Jiang Shu led Thunder Zhen Dao Lord and the other Human Race experts to the island, where they ambushed the Demon Race scouts and exposed the hidden base.
• Zhen Huanglie recognized Jiang Shu and challenged him, while the True Martial Sect experts and Demon Race forces began fighting across the island and nearby sea.
• Jiang Shu shattered Zhen Huanglie’s Red Firmament Sword, broke down his Nine Suns Burning Heaven attack, and trapped him with Return to Void Patterns.
• Zhen Huanglie invoked the True Phoenix Clan’s Nirvana Forbidden Technique, but Jiang Shu pinned the summoned Chaos Phoenix Claw and struck it with the Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe.

Jiang Shu defeated Zhen Huanglie and his Demon Race army, then led the Human Race forces to attack another major base in the Chaotic Demon Sea. At the Island of Ten Thousand Demons, he killed Ao Jin’s White Bone Rakshasa and wounded Ao Jin, who fled and unleashed the Ten Thousand Dragons Devouring Heaven Array; Jiang Shu saw through its weak point and prepared to break it.

• Jiang Shu devoured Zhen Huanglie’s Nirvana Fire and Phoenix inheritance, killed him, and destroyed the Phoenix Guards’ battle formation.
• The Human Race forces routed the Demon Race army, and Jiang Shu gathered intelligence from Huanglie’s soul fragments to locate more bases.
• Jiang Shu and his allies reached the Island of Ten Thousand Demons, broke its mirage and protective barriers, and confronted Ao Jin.
• Jiang Shu destroyed Ao Jin’s White Bone Rakshasa and pierced Ao Jin with the Desolate Star Halberd, but Ao Jin escaped into the sea using his severed tail and shattered Demon Core.
• Ao Jin summoned the Ten Thousand Dragons Devouring Heaven Array, and Jiang Shu identified its weak point as bone spikes and a tribulation illusion closed in.

Jiang Shu defeated Ao Jin and helped clear the Demon Race stronghold, then sent Elder Murong and the others back while he headed toward Panhai City alone. News of his victory spread across the Human Race, raising his fame and strengthening the influence of True Martial Sect as more cultivators prepared to join the war.

• Jiang Shu shattered Ao Jin's defenses, overcame his strange attacks, and drove the peak Demon Monarch to flee in a blood-colored dragon boat.
• Jiang Shu absorbed an ancient Dragon Race expert's remnant soul into the Desolate Star Halberd and accepted a blood-colored crystal cluster that appeared connected to the Demon Race's schemes.
• Jiang Shu ordered Elder Murong to return and alert the sect leaders, then stayed behind to pursue his own plans near Panhai City.
• Jiang Shu destroyed the remaining Demon Race formations and killed a Transformation Great Demon spying on the battlefield.
• Elder Murong's report spread Jiang Shu's victory across the Human Race, earning him the title of the foremost beneath Hun-Dong and boosting True Martial Sect's influence.
• Cultivators on the front lines praised Jiang Shu's achievements as newly advanced Nirvana Realm True Lords registered to join the war.

Jiang Shu’s victory over Ao Jin prompted the Eight Great Sects to launch an invasion of the Demon Domain before the Demon Race could complete its Flesh and Blood Grand Array. As the human fleet advanced toward Panhai City, the Demon Race activated defenses that unleashed poisonous miasma and sealed Demon Beasts, leaving the sect masters uneasy about what had happened in the city.

• The Dragon Race Venerable ordered every branch to make Jiang Shu the target of an offer to become young clan leader, while Huanglie’s father warned his forces to retreat three thousand miles if they encountered him.
• Jiang Shu considered using the undersea Dao Array to infiltrate Demon Race territory and escape midway through its transmission by advancing his comprehension of the Great Dao of Space.
• The Eight Great Sects’ leaders investigated Jiang Shu’s destruction of the City of Ten Thousand Demons, learned that the Demon Race was building a Flesh and Blood Grand Array, and resolved to attack swiftly.
• The True Martial Sect Master and Lu Chong rallied the disciples, and the human fleet set out across the Chaotic Demon Sea toward the Demon Domain.
• The Baize Demon Monarch detected the human fleet and activated a defensive Grand Array, while the Dragon Race’s imprisoned Primordial Demon Beasts began breaking free.
• Xiangliu Corpse-Rotting Miasma and Demon Beasts attacked the fleet, but the sects fought back with fire, sword arrays, divine thunder, and the Zhou Tian Star Array as the sect masters sensed trouble at Panhai City.

Jiang Shu broke Panhai City's Demon Race Grand Array and fought through its powerful defenses, defeating a Primordial Black Tortoise and an Azure Dragon Dharma Image. Though badly exhausted, he faced Bai Lie in a fierce duel, which ended with Bai Lie summoning countless Treasure Artifacts into a devastating attack.

• Jiang Shu destroyed the Grand Array's pivot, freed the Demon Beasts from its control, and helped the Human Race breach the mist around Panhai City.
• The Nine Nether Profound Ice Array unleashed a Primordial Black Tortoise, but Jiang Shu restrained and battered it while the Star Fighting Sect's Dao Lord protected the fleet.
• A Dragon Race Demon Monarch sent an Azure Dragon Dharma Image against Jiang Shu, who destroyed it with a counterattack using the Dragon Pearl's power.
• The Demon Race raised skeletal giants and deployed White Tiger Guards led by Bai Lie as the Eight Great Sects fought their way toward the city.
• Jiang Shu confronted Bai Lie despite his injuries and exhaustion, and the two clashed as Bai Lie gathered countless Treasure Artifacts into a concentrated attack against him.

Jiang Shu revealed that the Demon Race was building a continent-spanning Flesh and Blood Grand Array to raise its fortune, then proposed infiltrating the Demon Domain to find its other Array Eyes. The True Martial Sect elders warned that his fame and dragon disguise might not protect him from Demon Venerables, leaving his plan under debate.

• Jiang Shu showed the Sect Masters and elders evidence that thirty-six Flesh and Blood Furnaces had consumed three million Demon Beasts and could form a grand array across the Demon Race Continent.
• Jiang Shu proposed entering the Demon Domain alone to investigate three suspected Array Eyes before the Dao Venerables and Demon Venerables began fighting.
• Zi Ji Dao Venerable and the elders warned Jiang Shu that the Demon Race knew his aura, and several elders volunteered to go in his place.
• Jiang Shu claimed he could pass as a True Dragon because of his transformed body and pure Dragon Race bloodline.
• An elder cautioned that a Demon expert could recognize Jiang Shu through his reputation or a close inspection, and suggested a weaker Demon Monarch disguise might conceal him better.

Jiang Shu entered the Demon Domain to destroy its Earth Vein Array Eyes and received life-saving treasures from the Eight Great Sects before setting out. At the first Array Eye, he confronted a Half-Step Demon Venerable and crushed the coffin powering the array.

• Jiang Shu showed the sect leaders how the Demon Race was using Half-Demons, blood sacrifices, and nine coffins to refine the continent, then insisted on infiltrating the Demon Domain.
• Dao Venerable Cang Ming, Elder Tao, the Sect Master, and the other great sects gave Jiang Shu treasures to protect his life, and Zi Ji Dao Venerable set a one-month deadline for him to return.
• Jiang Shu disguised himself as a Black Dragon and entered the underground tunnels, where he witnessed Half-Demons being sacrificed and killed two Flood Dragon Guards to free a fox demon youth.
• Jiang Shu followed the Earth Vein to an Array Eye guarded by demon priests and a coffin carrying the aura of a Half-Step Demon Venerable, then destroyed the chains feeding it.
• Jiang Shu used a Substitute Puppet and the Heaven-Escaping Talisman to evade the demon elder’s attack, then unleashed the Heaven-Suppressing Sword Seed and crushed the coffin.

Jiang Shu destroyed the Demon Race’s Earth Vein arrays and gained power, but the Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable pursued him and nearly killed him. After escaping with his talisman and a death-substituting puppet, Jiang Shu remained wounded and hunted as the Demon Venerable closed in again.

• Jiang Shu absorbed the Earth Vein spiritual energy from the collapsed array, strengthening his Dao Embryo, before the Star Orbit Compass warned him that the Demon Race had reacted.
• The Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable attacked Jiang Shu, who countered with the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist and Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe before escaping through space with the Heaven-Escaping Talisman.
• Jiang Shu concealed himself, treated his injuries, and followed the Star Orbit Compass to a secondary array, where he discovered that the Demon Race used sacrifices of Half-Demons to sustain its formations.
• Jiang Shu destroyed and purified the blood array, but the Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable caught up and struck him with a Heavenly Flame Feather; Jiang Shu survived through the Sect Master's death-substituting puppet.
• Jiang Shu fled to a mountain ridge with damaged Sacred Embryos and a tracking mark on his soul, fearing that the Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable was about to catch him again.

Jiang Shu fought off a Blood Scale Demon Monarch, escaped the Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable, and destroyed an Array Eye before finding another guarded by Dragon Race essence blood. The Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable caught up as Jiang Shu reached the altar, leaving him poised to fight or flee again.

• Jiang Shu let the Blood Scale Demon Monarch stab him, turned the Grudge Souls against their master, and killed him while absorbing his Blood Qi.
• The Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable caught up, so Jiang Shu used the Heaven-Escaping Talisman to escape into the underground waterways.
• Jiang Shu discovered eighteen Demon Monarch Remnant Souls and a Mystic Ice Coffin, then destroyed the coffin's Ancient Dragon Corpse as the Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable attacked.
• Jiang Shu escaped through a crack in the Earth Vein and reached a Magma Lake, where he found an altar bearing a Reverse Scale containing Dragon Race origin power.
• The Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable descended behind Jiang Shu as he reached for the altar and challenged him for not running.

Jiang Shu survived his clash with the Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable and recovered underground with the help of Mystic Yellow Mother Qi, but the Demon Venerable kept hunting him across the True Flame Dao Vein. The chapter left Jiang Shu concealed deep in the earth's core, deciding he had to escape before he was discovered.

• Jiang Shu used Mystic Yellow Mother Qi and his Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe to wound the Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable before falling into the lava and sending word of his survival to Zi Ji Dao Venerable.
• Zi Ji Dao Venerable checked Jiang Shu's Life Lamp and confirmed that he was still alive, while Jiang Shu healed underground and gained a deeper understanding of the Great Dao of Fire and the Great Dao of Nirvana.
• Jiang Shu sensed Earth Core Source Power and moved deeper into the True Flame Dao Vein as the Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable searched for him.
• The Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable exposed Jiang Shu's location, tore the True Flame Dao Vein from the earth, and destroyed it when he failed to find him inside.
• Jiang Shu hid deep in the earth's core beneath the Demon Venerable's search and decided he had to leave immediately.

Jiang Shu escaped Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable, returned to the Deep Space Sea, and broke through to the peak of the Forget Form Realm. He then found a battlefield linked to the Wind Cloud Prodigies and the Mech Clan, where he destroyed a tracking beacon as something approached.

• Jiang Shu used Mystic Yellow Mother Qi to escape the Magma Lake, and Heavenly Flame Demon Venerable failed to track him before reporting his escape to the True Phoenix Clan.
• Jiang Shu returned to the Land of Return to Void, recovered, and cultivated until he reached the Forget Form Realm Peak, one step away from the Forget World Realm.
• Jiang Shu set out through the Deep Space Sea to find the Wind Cloud Prodigies and ask about their insights into Space Law.
• Jiang Shu discovered a Small World littered with Mech Clan wreckage and found evidence that Zhan Feng had fought mechanical beasts there and been injured.
• Jiang Shu recognized a tracking beacon hidden in a crystal, crushed it, and used Soul Law to erase the tracking mark on his soul, stopping the approaching presence.

Jiang Shu fought the Mech Mother in the Space Crevice, breaking through her defenses and forcing her to flee after her core was invaded by his Primordial Dao Rhyme. Seriously wounded, he joined Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun in preparing to break through a barrier and escape.

• The Mech Mother offered Jiang Shu a place in the Mech Clan, but he refused, and she attacked him and the wounded Zhan siblings with swarms of law-formed insects.
• The Mech Mother revealed that she had planted data traps in Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun’s wounds, while Jiang Shu used his Dao powers to resist her attacks and destroy her copied lightning technique.
• Jiang Shu shattered the Mech Mother’s defenses with the Great Dao of Primordial Beginning, then pierced her shield and corrupted her arm with law contamination.
• The Mech Mother fired compressed Space Law at Jiang Shu, but his Three Sacred Embryos invaded her core and forced her to transform into data and flee, warning that the Mech God Kingdom had marked his soul wavelength.
• Jiang Shu, Zhan Feng, and Zhan Yun regrouped despite their injuries, and Jiang Shu pointed out a barrier that the three of them could break with a combined strike.

Jiang Shu and the Zhan siblings escaped the Space Crevice, fought the Mech Mother’s forces, and learned that a rare opportunity for sanctification had appeared at the Eye of the Void. Jiang Shu chose not to pursue it and instead began discussing the Space Law with the siblings.

• Jiang Shu led Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun out of the Space Crevice and heard how they had discovered the Mech Clan refining prodigies into War Machines.
• Jiang Shu demonstrated his use of the Primordial Law and shared Primordial Qi with the Zhan siblings so they could attack the Mech Clan army.
• Zhan Yun and Zhan Feng fought through the mechanical soldiers, while the Mech Mother used spatial technology to suppress them and analyzed Jiang Shu’s Laws.
• Jiang Shu battled the Mech Mother, who withdrew after warning that the Mech God Kingdom would prepare weapons against him, and the mechanical soldiers self-destructed.
• A Communication Talisman announced an Opportunity for Sanctification at the Eye of the Void, but Jiang Shu refused to go and invited the Zhan siblings to discuss the Space Law.

Jiang Shu and the Wind Cloud siblings studied the Space Law at Mirror Abyss, where they witnessed a projection of the River of Time and manifested Law Chains. A transmission then revealed that many War Alliance prodigies had been killed at the Eye of the Void, and Jiang Shu suspected the black-robed man was behind the massacre.

• Jiang Shu and the Wind Cloud siblings discussed how the Mech Clan’s Space Locking Device rewrote spatial rules, deepening their understanding of space.
• Zhan Yun struck a spatial node with threads of axe light, and Jiang Shu realized that the Primordial Law could help him comprehend the Space Law.
• Jiang Shu led Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun to Mirror Abyss, where a vortex revealed a projection of the River of Time and drew them toward it.
• Jiang Shu recognized that space and time were interdependent, while the vortex revealed Law Chains that resembled the Mech Clan’s spatial network.
• A War Alliance transmission showed the corpses of numerous prodigies marked with the Mech God Kingdom’s emblem at the Eye of the Void.
• Zhan Yun blamed the Mech Mother for the killings, but Jiang Shu suspected the black-robed man had staged the massacre to draw the forces of the Cosmos into a trap.

After a massacre at the Eye of the Void, Jiang Shu and the Zhan siblings led hundreds of aggrieved geniuses to confront the Mech Mother, though evidence suggested the Mech Clan had been framed. The Mech Mother denied responsibility and offered to open the Eye of the Void so they could obtain its opportunity.

• Zhan Feng examined the War Alliance's Blood-Burning Transmission and concluded the massacre only imitated the Mech Clan's methods.
• Jiang Shu, Zhan Feng, and Zhan Yun traveled toward the Eye of the Void and met survivors who blamed the Mech Clan for the killings.
• Zhan Feng rallied several hundred geniuses, and the group went to the Mech Clan's stronghold to demand an explanation.
• The Mech Mother told her clan that Jiang Shu had reached the peak of the Tenth Realm and that she lacked confidence in defeating him one-on-one.
• Jiang Shu subdued a man who tried to incite the crowd, while the Mech Mother denied the evidence proved her clan's guilt and offered to break open the Eye of the Void.

The Mech Mother began dismantling the Eye of the Void’s mechanical array while Zhan Feng extracted Mech Origin Fluid from her, but a hidden second mechanism unleashed deadly Space-Devouring Insects and metal tentacles. As the Mech Mother briefly overrode the swarm’s control, the Heart of Space appeared inside the vortex, leaving the cultivators only thirty breaths to act before they had to retreat.

• Zhan Feng demanded compensation from the Mech Mother and secretly gave four drops of Mech Origin Fluid to Jiang Shu.
• Yu Tianming told Jiang Shu that the corpses in the Eye of the Void appeared to have been framed, and she identified crude modifications and traces of Nine Nether Underworld Qi.
• The Mech Mother began spatial deconstruction, triggering the array’s second mechanism, which unleashed Space-Devouring Insects and attacking metal tentacles.
• Jiang Shu protected the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance cultivators, stopped one genius from being fully mechanized, and warned the gathered fighters about the attacks.
• Zhan Yun spotted the Heart of Space inside the vortex, and the Mech Mother froze the insect swarm with an override that would last only thirty breaths.

Jiang Shu and the others fought to survive the Doomsday Cult’s trap at the Eye of the Void, sacrificing the Heart of Space and suffering heavy losses. After the black-robed phantom vanished, Ming Wuya arrived and demanded that they tell him the truth.

• The Heart of Space was revealed as a Soul Law prison that fed on the cultivators’ greed, and the black-robed Doomsday Cult phantom appeared.
• The phantom used nine Bronze Lamps to animate corpses and unleash a collapsing void and Soul Tide, while Jiang Shu, Zhan Feng, Zhan Yun, Yu Tianming, and the Mech Mother defended the survivors.
• The Mech Mother summoned the Mech God Kingdom’s projection, and Jiang Shu struck the Gray Mist face with the Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe, exposing the Bronze Lamps.
• The Mech Mother sacrificed her Steel City projection to protect Zhan Yun and attack the phantom, while Jiang Shu’s thunder-wrapped halberd pierced the Bronze Giant and helped destroy the Eye of the Void.
• The survivors emerged from the shattered Spatial Folds, and Ming Wuya arrived to demand the truth from Jiang Shu, the Wind Cloud Prodigies, and the Mech Mother.

Jiang Shu battled the Mech Mother after a Mech Virus transformed her into a deadly, data-copying weapon, while the other fighters retreated. He unveiled Primordial Tribulation Thunder and prepared to face her Brood Mother Protocol.

• Ming Wuya clashed with Zhan Feng, but Jiang Shu intervened, and Zhan Yun drove Ming Wuya away before explaining his rivalry with her deceased brother.
• The Mech Mother succumbed to a Mech Virus, mutated, and attacked the surrounding fighters with copied combat data and a Particle Cannon.
• Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun led the injured fighters away while Jiang Shu stayed behind to fight the Mech Mother.
• Jiang Shu countered her spatial attacks and destroyed part of her nanocluster, but she activated the Brood Mother Protocol and revealed Flesh Puppets modeled after him.
• Jiang Shu invoked Primordial Tribulation Thunder through the Desolate Star Halberd as the Flesh Puppets closed in.