Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu defeated the Mech Mother, whose final message named the Doomsday Cult, then entered the Eye of the Void and passed a trial of Space Law. He claimed the Heart of Space and gained a new understanding of space as an extension of himself.

• Jiang Shu destroyed the Mech Mother's Puppets and fought through her Dimension Blade, Space-Time Labyrinth, and summoned Steel City.
• Jiang Shu shattered the Mech Mother's defenses with his great arts and destroyed her core and battle database, while she sent him an encrypted message naming the Doomsday Cult.
• Jiang Shu purified the remains, collected valuable fragments, and invited the Zhan siblings and the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance to accompany him toward the Eye of the Void.
• Jiang Shu entered the Eye of the Void and faced a mirror image in a trial of Space Law, learning that space was the trace of the Dao.
• The Heart of Space flew to Jiang Shu and fused into his dantian, granting him a view of parallel time-spaces and making the surrounding space feel like an extension of his limbs.

After obtaining the Heart of Space, Jiang Shu studied the Space Law in seclusion and developed powerful new techniques. He emerged to learn that Ming Wuya had publicly accused him and the Wind Cloud Prodigies of conspiring with the Mech Mother to slaughter geniuses, leaving the outside world in turmoil.

• Jiang Shu used the Heart of Space to remove a tracking mark from Zhan Feng’s wounds, then escaped the Eye of the Void with the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance aboard Qing Yang’s Void-Breaking Boat.
• Jiang Shu entered seclusion in the Abyss of Silence and studied Venerable Luo’s Space Essays alongside the Great Void Heart Sutra.
• Jiang Shu learned to form stable Spatial Folds, project himself through multiple spatial layers, and compress space enough to slow the movement of matter.
• Yu Tianming told Jiang Shu that a Venerable had sent him a Memory Crystal showing Ming Wuya accusing Jiang Shu and the Wind Cloud Prodigies of joining the Mech Mother in killing over a thousand geniuses.
• Jiang Shu recognized that Ming Wuya’s apparently genuine footage had been manipulated through spatial distortion and learned that the accusation had thrown the outside world into chaos.

Jiang Shu remained in the Abyss of Silence while accusations over the Eye of the Void spread and the major factions demanded answers. As the Mech God Kingdom uncovered the Doomsday Cult’s involvement and sent protection for him, a War Alliance elder arrived and asked to inspect Jiang Shu’s soul, leaving the Wind Cloud Prodigies alarmed.

• Zhan Feng told Jiang Shu that Venerables and dissenters within the War Alliance were pressuring the alliance to leave the Deep Space Sea and prove its innocence, but Jiang Shu refused to abandon his seclusion.
• Jin Yao accused Jiang Shu of killing Golden Crow geniuses, while Mo Tianji questioned Ming Wuya’s evidence and Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun defended Jiang Shu; Zhan Feng then wounded Jin Yao with a single axe strike.
• The Mech God Kingdom learned that the Doomsday Cult had been involved, activated the Truth Protocol, and dispatched disguised mechanical warriors to find and protect Jiang Shu.
• Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun brought the War Alliance’s Seventh Elder’s avatar to Jiang Shu, where Zhan Tianqiong asked to inspect the soul in Jiang Shu’s sea of consciousness.
• Zhan Yun objected to the request, recognizing that a search could expose Jiang Shu’s memories or destroy his sea of consciousness, while Jiang Shu and Yu Tianming reacted with unease.

Jiang Shu gained Zhan Tianqiong’s support after revealing that the Doomsday Cult might be behind the plot against him, then discovered Ming Wuya’s tracking mark on Zhan Feng. Ming Wuya led a coalition toward Mirror Abyss to hunt Jiang Shu, and the chapter left them entering its dangerous, shifting space.

• Jiang Shu allowed Zhan Tianqiong to inspect the outer layer of his sea of consciousness, and Zhan Tianqiong found no murderous resentment.
• Jiang Shu revealed the black-robed phantom and the Doomsday Cult, prompting Zhan Tianqiong to give him a War Alliance Beacon Order and promise to delay the outside forces.
• Jiang Shu removed Ming Wuya’s tracking mark from Zhan Feng and warned that their location had already been exposed.
• Ming Wuya gathered the other races and directed them toward Mirror Abyss, while concealing his suspicions about the mark’s changed spatial signal.
• Three days later, Ming Wuya’s mark reappeared, and the coalition followed him into Mirror Abyss, where a Space Fragment killed a genius and the mark throbbed more intensely as they advanced.

Jiang Shu confronted Ming Wuya and the gathered prodigies in Mirror Abyss, exposing inconsistencies in the accusation that he had conspired with the Mech Mother. After Ming Wuya attacked and Jiang Shu swiftly overwhelmed him, most of the crowd withdrew, but Jiang Shu killed Jin Yao in a single strike as he tried to leave.

• Ming Wuya led the prodigies to Jiang Shu in the Core of Ten Thousand Mirrors and accused him of conspiring with the Mech Mother to slaughter other races’ geniuses.
• Jiang Shu showed the Mech Mother’s final memory and challenged Ming Wuya’s account, prompting the Sea Demon Princess and other prodigies to question the accusation.
• Ming Wuya attacked Jiang Shu, but Jiang Shu folded space to turn the Nine Nether Prison spear phantoms against him and bound him with a gray net of Primordial Dao Rhyme.
• Jiang Shu offered the crowd a chance to leave, and the Sea Demon Princess withdrew while Jin Yao also tried to depart.
• Jiang Shu struck Jin Yao down in one blow, killing him before he could finish his threat.

Jiang Shu defeated Ming Wuya in Mirror Abyss, but Ming Wuya escaped after revealing his ties to the Doomsday Cult. Mo Qiye pledged himself to Jiang Shu, divined a dangerous destination in the Shattered Void Abyss, and helped the group expose the conspiracy as they prepared to pursue the threat.

• Jiang Shu used Mirror Abyss’s reflections to wound Ming Wuya and drive him out of his Yellow Spring Body, but Ming Wuya vanished after sending a distress signal.
• Mo Qiye identified Ming Wuya as a member of the Doomsday Cult, pledged himself to Jiang Shu, and injured himself while divining that the threat lay southeast in the Shattered Void Abyss.
• Jiang Shu gave Mo Qiye a Nine-Turn Soul Returning Pill and brought him through a Spatial Portal to Zhan Feng and the others.
• Zhan Yun reported that Ming Wuya’s followers were attacking the group while other races searched for them, and Mo Qiye offered a recording of Ming Wuya using the Doomsday Cult’s secret art.
• Jiang Shu explained Mo Qiye’s divination, and the Wind Cloud Prodigies realized that Star Pavilion’s divination could reveal nothing about him.

Jiang Shu and the Wind Cloud Prodigies traveled toward Ming Wuya through a region where living space had formed a deadly array. They encountered a newly born Space Law lifeform that was learning from its opponents and had already displayed power close to the Venerable Realm.

• Mo Qiye’s divination backlash alarmed the War Alliance, the Heavenly Craftsman Race, and the Star Pavilion, whose leaders recognized signs of an old catastrophe returning.
• Jiang Shu sensed that the space near Ming Wuya was alive and led the group through unstable spatial barriers toward the danger.
• Jiang Shu spotted a concealed spatial killing array, warned Zhan Feng away from a collapsing trap, and learned from an injured Golden Crow Clan cultivator that a space-born thing had been hunting them.
• A Space Lifeform emerged, reflected Zhan Feng’s attack, and began imitating his Great Dao of Strength; Jiang Shu recognized that it was learning and warned that it was near the Venerable Realm.
• Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng tried to trap the Space Lifeform, but it used Spatial Imprisonment and attacked Zhan Feng before Jiang Shu shattered the sealed domain with his Desolate Star Halberd.

Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng defeated a powerful space lifeform and uncovered clues that the Doomsday Cult might be tampering with the dead geniuses’ corpses. After a month of cultivating Space Law in the Mirror Abyss, Jiang Shu left the closing Deep Space Sea as its acknowledged greatest winner.

• Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng trapped and shattered the space lifeform, and Jiang Shu’s Desolate Star Halberd absorbed its scattered essence.
• Jiang Shu found the Doomsday Cult’s mark and saw a vision of corpses whose Dao Rhymes were gathered into a black shadow.
• Jiang Shu warned Zhan Yun that the cult might have tampered with the dead geniuses’ bodies, and she agreed to have the War Alliance monitor them.
• Jiang Shu cultivated in the Mirror Abyss for a month, improving his Space Law and learning to sustain a mirror clone for ten breaths.
• Yu Tianming told Jiang Shu that the Deep Space Sea was closing, and he joined the other cultivators in leaving.
• The gathered cultivators recognized Jiang Shu as the greatest winner of the Deep Space Sea trial because he had obtained the Heart of Space.

Jiang Shu returned to the Eternal Tower, received a lavish new residence and learned that more genius corpses had vanished, then confronted the black-robed man, who tried to recruit him into the Doomsday Cult. Jiang Shu rejected him, unaware that the Spirit of Space had appeared after he left.

• Venerable Luo welcomed Jiang Shu back, warned him that the Doomsday Cult was dangerous, and granted him an independent cave abode with core elder-level resources.
• At his new residence, Jiang Shu heard from Zhan Feng that three more corpses had disappeared, including a Peerless Genius known for exceptional fortune.
• Jiang Shu sensed the black-robed man near the teahouse and went inside to meet him.
• The black-robed man claimed he had not wanted to involve Jiang Shu and offered him powerful resources and knowledge if he joined the Doomsday Cult.
• Jiang Shu rejected the offer and left, while the Spirit of Space appeared beside the black-robed man.

Ming Wuya sought refuge with the Doomsday Cult’s Holy Envoy, who began remaking his body so he could gain strength and evade recognition. Meanwhile, Jiang Shu entered the Eternal Tower’s Eighth Layer and faced a far stronger Replica, whose counterattack blasted him into a planet’s core.

• The Spirit of Space rejected the possibility of befriending Jiang Shu and left to devour space and perfect itself.
• Ming Wuya arrived badly injured and asked the man in black, the Holy Envoy, to save him; the Holy Envoy removed a seed Jiang Shu had planted on him.
• The Holy Envoy gave Ming Wuya the cult’s Myriad Forms Alteration method and began transforming him in a blood pool, explaining that the cult hoped to use and eventually sacrifice the Spirit of Space.
• After recovering from his gains in the Deep Space Sea, Jiang Shu entered the Eighth Layer of the Eternal Tower and encountered its Replica, which wielded Space Law with far greater combat power.
• Jiang Shu traded powerful attacks with the Replica, but its Space Mirror and fused Laws absorbed and returned Humanity's Supreme Fist, sending him crashing into a planet’s core.

Jiang Shu defeated the Eternal Tower Replica by exploiting a flaw in its fused Laws and glimpsed the Time Law as he cleared the Eighth Layer. Later, Yu Tianming reported the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance’s expansion to Venerable Luo, who rejected a bid for Jiang Shu’s Space Crystals unless it included the Time Hourglass.

• Jiang Shu discovered that the Replica’s spatial ripples briefly lagged when its three Laws fused, then used Primordial Dao Rhyme and his Three Sacred Embryos to disrupt its Law structure and defeat it.
• Jiang Shu absorbed the Replica’s legacy, sensed past, present, and future at once, and cleared the Eighth Layer of the Eternal Tower.
• Yu Tianming visited Venerable Luo and reported that the Merchant Alliance’s shops in the Luo Heaven Realm had been officially handed over with the War Alliance Seventh Elder’s guarantee.
• Yu Tianming told Venerable Luo that Bei Jue wanted to buy Jiang Shu’s Space Crystals, and Venerable Luo demanded the Time Hourglass in exchange.

Jiang Shu revealed that he had passed the Eighth Layer of the Eternal Tower, earning the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance’s celebration and appointment as its Young Alliance Leader. After Venerable Luo discovered that someone had secretly monitored them and leaked the news, the celebration began, and Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun arrived with a Chaos Monument as a gift.

• Jiang Shu returned from seclusion and told Venerable Luo and Yu Tianming that he had passed the Eighth Layer of the Eternal Tower.
• Venerable Luo ordered a celebration, summoned the Inner Area elders and disciples, and sent Yu Tianming to invite Northern Underworld and Bei Jue.
• Jiang Shu explained that he had exploited a brief Space Lag in the Replica’s fused Laws, and Venerable Luo named him Young Alliance Leader and presented him with a Bronze Token.
• Yu Tianming returned with news that the breakthrough had already spread, and Venerable Luo found and crushed a Sumeru in a Mustard Seed hidden in the hall.
• At the celebration on the Alliance’s Inner Area outpost, Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun congratulated Jiang Shu, and Zhan Yun presented him with a Chaos Monument from the War Alliance.

Jiang Shu hosted a banquet, shared his cultivation insights with junior disciples, and considered how to build alliances against the Doomsday Cult. After Bei Ye and other Merchant Alliance geniuses visited, Zhan Feng’s Bronze Battle Axe suddenly revealed an ominous vision of nine blood-scarred stars.

• Jiang Shu reunited with Zhan Feng and Bei Jue, who gave him Sand of Time and invited him to visit the Ethereal Star Alliance.
• At the banquet, Zhan Feng stopped Jin Lie from turning the gathering into a negotiation, and Jiang Shu demonstrated his mastery of space through a toast.
• Jiang Shu taught the junior disciples on the Star Gazing Platform, helping a female disciple advance her understanding of the Law of Water.
• Yu Tianming advised Jiang Shu that Bei Jue was worthy of trust, and Jiang Shu resolved to gather allies against the Doomsday Cult.
• Bei Ye arrived with a precious congratulatory pill, and the Ancient Monster of the Merchant Alliance appeared to accept Jiang Shu’s leadership.
• After the visitors departed, Zhan Feng’s Bronze Battle Axe lit up and projected nine stars marked with blood-red battle scars.

Jiang Shu visited the War Alliance and learned from Zhan Jiuxiao that the Doomsday Cult was tied to an ancient cosmic extinction and had taken a special interest in him. After Zhan Jiuxiao sent him to rest ahead of a welcoming banquet, Jiang Shu sensed a black shadow passing the Bronze Bells’ Law array as his Desolate Star Halberd reacted.

• Zhan Yun and Zhan Feng brought Jiang Shu along the Nine Battles Ancient Path, where its relics recorded his battle memories and the War Soul Bell rang seven times for his arrival.
• Elder Chi Yan received the group and guided them through the War Alliance’s training grounds to meet Vice Alliance Leader Zhan Jiuxiao.
• Zhan Jiuxiao thanked Jiang Shu for helping uncover a Doomsday Cult plot involving curse marks planted in the burial grounds of seventy-two Secret Realms.
• Zhan Jiuxiao showed Jiang Shu evidence of an ancient Great Extinction and explained that the Doomsday Cult’s Silver White Eyes accelerated the Cosmos’s destruction and had taken a special interest in Jiang Shu.
• Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun escorted Jiang Shu to a side hall to rest before a welcoming banquet, where Zi Ling arrived to attend him.
• Jiang Shu’s Desolate Star Halberd shook violently as a black shadow swept past the Law array formed by the Bronze Bells.

Jiang Shu witnessed disturbing signs of hidden turmoil within the War Alliance, then attended a grand feast where Zhan Jiuxiao appointed him a War Alliance Outer Elder. The appointment formally tied the War Alliance to Jiang Shu and the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance, while the feast displayed the faction’s immense resources and influence.

• Jiang Shu saw the War God Scroll bleed and briefly take on the appearance of the Mech Mother before the Heart of Space warned him of danger.
• The next morning, nine War Alliance Grand Elders appeared, and Zi Ling identified Elder Qing Ya as the one who had once suppressed the Asura War Venerable.
• Jiang Shu attended the feast with Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun, where he noticed a Gray Mist figure called the War Cave Gravedigger and Doomsday Cult-like marks reflected in Zhan Jiuxiao’s wine.
• Zhan Jiuxiao praised Jiang Shu’s deeds and appointed him a War Alliance Outer Elder, giving him a Star Token and declaring the Alliance’s support.
• Jiang Shu accepted the appointment as the feast continued, observing the War Alliance’s extraordinary delicacies, performances, and vast resources.

After becoming a War Alliance Outer Elder, Jiang Shu refused offers to join its core leadership and learned he would be allowed into the Battle Soul Ancient Path Secret Realm. A terrifying clash shook the War Alliance that night, and the next morning Jiang Shu grew suspicious when Zi Ling was absent and another maid replaced her.

• At the banquet, War Alliance powerhouses offered Jiang Shu authority and access to the Void Source Sea, but he politely declined and affirmed his ties to the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance.
• Zhan Jiuxiao accepted Jiang Shu's decision, and Jiang Shu moved into a luxurious Guest Hall in the War Alliance's core region.
• Zhan Feng told Jiang Shu he could enter the Battle Soul Ancient Path Secret Realm in three days to study the intent and insights of ancient fighters.
• A sinister pressure and a brief, devastating battle erupted near the nine crimson stars, then vanished in less than ten breaths.
• The next morning, Liu Yue arrived in Zi Ling's place and said Zi Ling had been sent on an urgent task; Jiang Shu suspected the battle had targeted a high-ranking War Alliance figure.

Jiang Shu remained in the War Alliance despite its growing turmoil, keeping his escape plans ready while investigating the cause of the martial law. Zhan Feng blamed a minor Ancestral Land disturbance and promised the Battle Soul Ancient Path would open after a delay, but Jiang Shu suspected the truth was far more dangerous as the crackdown intensified.

• Jiang Shu decided to stay in the War Alliance until the danger became clearer, while preparing ways to escape and contact Venerable Luo.
• Over the next two days, patrols increased, the Grand Elders and Zhan Jiuxiao disappeared from view, and Liu Yue grew evasive about Zi Ling and the disturbance.
• Zhan Feng visited Jiang Shu and said an unstable energy field at the Ancestral Land had prompted martial law and delayed the Battle Soul Ancient Path.
• Jiang Shu recognized that Zhan Feng seemed unaware of the true danger and suspected the War Alliance was concealing a much more serious crisis.
• The martial law continued to tighten over the following days, with even more heavily armed patrols in the core region.

Jiang Shu watched the War Alliance recover from the crisis before the Battle Soul Ancient Path opened and the selected fighters entered. He arrived in the ancient battlefield, a desolate realm filled with deadly remnants of war.

• Jiang Shu sensed lingering traces of the disturbance while Liu Yue evaded his questions about Zhan Feng and the Ancestral Land.
• The oppressive aura over the War Alliance faded, and disciples discussed the upcoming Battle Soul Ancient Path as Zhan Feng and other trial participants gathered.
• At noon, the nine crimson stars awakened an ancient Altar, and a colossal gate formed as a voice announced the Ancient Path’s opening and its three-month limit.
• Zhan Feng, Zhan Yun, Yu Sha, and Jiang Shu entered the blood-red gate with the other participants.
• Jiang Shu emerged in a ruined battlefield of blood crystals, broken terrain, chaotic Laws, and deadly spatial hazards.

Jiang Shu and the War Alliance disciples entered a primordial battlefield imprint on the Battle Soul Ancient Path, where a battle between Human Race warriors and the Ancient Barbarian Race turned hostile toward the intruders. As both the Man with Broken Saber and the Ancient Barbarian Demon Venerable targeted them, Jiang Shu launched a counterattack.

• Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun warned the group about the dangerous Law turbulence and helped form a defensive battle formation while Jiang Shu used his Heart of Space to shield himself.
• The Law turbulence revealed a battlefield scene where the Man with Broken Saber led Human Race warriors against an Ancient Barbarian Demon Venerable and its army.
• The Man with Broken Saber wounded the Demon Venerable, and the awakened battle imprint's hostility triggered an affiliated-force man to go berserk and attack a War Alliance disciple.
• The Demon Venerable and the Man with Broken Saber turned their attacks on the trial participants, prompting Jiang Shu to raise the Desolate Star Halberd and warn everyone to defend themselves.
• Jiang Shu unleashed the Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe, striking at the Ancient Barbarian soldiers charging at the front.

Jiang Shu discovered that the Ancient Barbarian Soldiers could only be killed by striking the spiritual source in their cores, but the enemies grew more coordinated as the battle dragged on. After the Demon Venerable nearly struck down the wounded geniuses, Jiang Shu wounded it while Zhan Feng restrained the Man with Broken Saber, giving Zhan Yun a chance to lead the survivors toward the spatial node.

• Jiang Shu realized the Ancient Barbarian Soldiers were animated by residual Laws and Killing Intent, and Zhan Feng destroyed one by attacking its spiritual source.
• The Man with Broken Saber wounded Zhan Feng, while the affiliated-faction geniuses and Zhan Yun’s group suffered mounting casualties against the reviving enemies.
• Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng agreed to open a path so Zhan Yun could evacuate everyone still able to move toward the spatial node.
• Jiang Shu deflected the Demon Venerable’s hammer strike with Mirror Flower Water Moon, then stabbed its slowed core Killing Intent beneath its ribs.
• Zhan Feng bound the Man with Broken Saber using War Blood Baleful Attraction, and Zhan Yun led the survivors toward the spatial node as the restraint began to weaken.