Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu and the other forces entered the Abyssal Star Vortex and joined their experts to open a passage into the Saint’s Tomb. He crossed into the tomb and found a seemingly complete world of floating mountains, suspended rivers, and strange vegetation.

• Entropy scanned Jiang Shu, Zhan Feng, and Zhan Yun before silently leaving them.
• Elder Lei briefed the exploration teams, warning that the passage would remain stable for at most half a month and ordering everyone to follow their squad and retreat from major dangers.
• The experts of the War Alliance and other races combined their powers to stabilize a passage through the distorted space surrounding the tomb.
• Jiang Shu, Zhan Feng, Zhan Yun, and the other explorers rushed through the portal as it began to falter.
• Jiang Shu entered the Saint’s Tomb and saw a twilight world filled with floating landmasses, upside-down mountains, suspended rivers, and unusual glowing trees.

Jiang Shu and the Human Race team explored the decaying Small World left by a Saint, finding treasures amid unstable laws and dangerous creatures. When Jiang Shu detected a hidden spatial node in a mountain, he approached it with two disciples, but a sudden collapse of gravity dragged them toward a spinning Space Crack.

• Venerable Lieyang explained that the ruins were a nearly complete Small World collapsing after its sustaining power ran out, and Venerable Hanyue warned that its treasures could also trigger dangerous reactions.
• The Human Race team split into three groups and agreed to regroup at Dragonhead Peak after three hours, while Jiang Shu and Yu Sha traveled together under Venerable Duanyue's protection.
• Jiang Shu's group crossed hazardous terrain, defeated metallic flying ants, and gathered opportunities as they explored the Small World.
• Jiang Shu sensed a hidden spatial node within a mountainside and persuaded Venerable Duanyue to let him investigate its edge with two disciples.
• A patch of gravity suddenly failed, pulling the two disciples toward a spinning Space Crack, and Venerable Duanyue struck out with a powerful suppressing force.

Jiang Shu helped Venerable Duanyue defeat a spatial beast and uncovered a tiny sapling that resonated with the Dao, then secretly stored it in his ring. Its removal triggered the Saint's Tomb's collapse, which halted when a mysterious figure appeared.

• Jiang Shu sensed a spatial beast ambushing Venerable Duanyue and used the Shattering Heaven Gloves to create a fault line that disrupted its attack.
• Venerable Duanyue bound the beast with Earth Law while Jiang Shu struck it with the Desolate Star Halberd, splitting open a hidden space in the mountain.
• Jiang Shu found a tiny sapling whose Dao resonance stirred his Laws and secretly stored it in his ring, causing the hidden space to collapse.
• The Saint's Tomb began collapsing, and Venerable Duanyue shielded nearby War Alliance disciples as the world buckled around them.
• A mysterious figure of Chaos light appeared and halted the Spatial Storm, drawing the reverence of the gathered factions.

The Saint’s remnant shadow gave a final Dao transmission that advanced the understanding of everyone present before vanishing and triggering the world’s complete collapse. Jiang Shu followed the Heart of Space Fragment and Creation Law Fire Seed to a strange stone near a Spatial Vortex, where Entropy and the Insect Emperor Guard were already competing for control.

• The Saint’s remnant shadow recounted the origins and struggles of existence, deepening the Laws and cultivation of Zhan Feng, Zhan Yun, Entropy, and the others.
• The remnant shadow noticed Jiang Shu and then dissolved, after which the world’s barriers and landmasses began collapsing rapidly.
• Entropy warned everyone that the world would disappear and its coordinates would soon be exposed, prompting the factions to fight over newly revealed relics and energy sources.
• Jiang Shu sensed a powerful attraction toward the world’s destructive edge, and Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun helped him advance while Venerable Duanyue and Yu Sha followed.
• Jiang Shu found Entropy and the Insect Emperor Guard guarding separate platforms near a Spatial Vortex, with a black stone that drew the Creation Law Fire Seed’s intense yearning between them.

Jiang Shu and the Insectoid and Mech Clans fought over a trembling Black Stone connected to the Great Dao of space as the collapsing world threatened to tear it away. After Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun arrived, Jiang Shu launched a desperate strike at the Insect Emperor Guard, leaving the clash and the stone’s fate unresolved.

• The Insect Emperor Guard and Entropy claimed the Black Stone as Jiang Shu sensed its connection to space and time, and the stone began shaking loose from the collapsing core.
• The Insect Emperor Guard charged for the stone, Entropy intercepted it, and Venerable Duanyue and Yu Sha helped create an opening for Jiang Shu.
• The Insect Emperor Guard struck Jiang Shu’s Desolate Star Halberd and sent him flying, then clashed with Entropy as the Void-Sealing Disc shattered.
• Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun arrived, and Jiang Shu asked Zhan Feng to hold the Insect Emperor Guard back while he gathered his strength.
• Jiang Shu unleashed the Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe and charged the Insect Emperor Guard, which concentrated its power to meet his attack.

Jiang Shu killed the Insect Emperor Guard with the Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe, then survived Entropy’s ambush long enough to seize the Black Stone. As the ruined world collapsed, his allies gathered to escort him and the other survivors toward a failing Space Crack.

• Jiang Shu’s Pan Wu Splitting Heaven Axe pierced the Insect Emperor Guard’s armor and killed it, while the explosion badly wounded Jiang Shu and scattered the fighters.
• Entropy attacked Jiang Shu from behind as he flew toward the Black Stone, and Jiang Shu took a near-fatal wound but grabbed the stone.
• Zhan Feng, Zhan Yun, Venerable Duanyue, and Yu Sha blocked Entropy and helped Jiang Shu retreat; Jiang Shu placed the Black Stone in his spatial ring, triggering the world’s collapse.
• Entropy abandoned pursuit, marked the War Alliance coordinates as a priority, and escaped through a weak point in the world barrier.
• Zhan Feng and Venerable Duanyue escorted Zhan Yun, who carried Jiang Shu, and Yu Sha toward Dragonhead Peak, where Venerable Lieyang and Venerable Hanyue led the survivors to a barely maintained Space Crack.

The War Alliance survivors escaped the Saint's Tomb, but Jiang Shu suffered a severe Mech Clan poison that resisted treatment. As the Star Shuttle headed home, the Mech Clan launched a data assault to seize control, leaving the vessel to fight its way through a rule-tide reflux.

• The War Alliance team returned to the Star Shuttle after the gateway to the Saint's Tomb collapsed, and Venerable Hanyue found that Mech Clan poison was corroding Jiang Shu's wound.
• Elder Lei ordered the wounded treated, while Zhan Feng recounted the Saint's inheritance and warned that it seemed deliberately arranged to draw them in.
• The Mech Clan attacked the Star Shuttle's systems with a Law-level data intrusion, and Elder Tie, Venerable Lieyang, and Venerable Hanyue joined the defense.
• Elder Lei ordered the Star Shuttle to charge through a rule-tide reflux, which tore apart the invading data streams and ended the attack.
• Elder Lei ordered the Star Shuttle to maintain maximum alert and head at full speed toward the War Alliance Ancestral Land.

Jiang Shu returned to the War Alliance badly injured, where its Grand Elder and Zhan Jiuxiao removed the poison left by Entropy. After Jiang Shu revealed the World Tree Sapling and Black Stone he obtained in the Saint’s Tomb, the Grand Elder identified the sapling as a World Seed and urged him to use the stone to break through into the Venerable Realm.

• Zhan Feng warned the disciples not to covet Jiang Shu’s opportunity, while Zhan Yun, Yu Sha, and other Battle Soul Ancient Path geniuses guarded him.
• Jiang Shu reached the War Alliance’s Ancestral Land, where the Grand Elder and Zhan Jiuxiao joined forces to purge the Law toxins from his wound.
• Jiang Shu recounted his experience in the Saint’s Tomb and showed the Grand Elder and Zhan Jiuxiao the sapling and Black Stone.
• The Grand Elder identified the sapling as a World Seed, a rare foundation for becoming a Saint.
• The Grand Elder said the Black Stone contained an exceptionally pure Space Origin Dao and urged Jiang Shu to refine it and break through to the Venerable Realm.

Jiang Shu absorbed the power of the mysterious Black Stone and broke through to the Primal Chaos Realm, becoming a Venerable. After leaving the Eternal Tower, he tested his new mastery of space in a distant wasteland, compressing a starship wreck and teleporting it across a million miles.

• Jiang Shu used the Black Stone’s Space Origin to merge his insights into a newborn spatial world and transform his body and soul.
• The Black Stone’s primordial Chaos Dao Patterns imprinted themselves on Jiang Shu, and he broke through the barrier into the Primal Chaos Realm.
• Jiang Shu sensed the Eternal Tower’s spatial rules, healed his hidden injuries, and formed a deeper connection with the Shattering Heaven Gloves and the transformed stone.
• Jiang Shu left the Eternal Tower and traveled through the starry void, concealing his Venerable presence from those below his realm.
• Jiang Shu reached a desolate rocky planet and compressed a mountain-sized starship wreck into a metal sphere through spatial pressure.
• Jiang Shu teleported the metal sphere a million miles to a nearby giant rock.

Jiang Shu consolidated his breakthrough into the Primal Chaos Realm, tested his control of spatial power, and began nurturing the World Tree Sapling. Meanwhile, the Human Race’s counteroffensive against the Demon Race advanced, though its leaders remained wary of the dangers ahead.

• Jiang Shu reflected on his new realm and planned to return to the Vast Desolate Domain, move Xuanxing’s Star Gate into the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance, and visit his family.
• Jiang Shu practiced the Space Law in an asteroid belt, controlled a boulder with a spatial field, and devastated a dead planet by attacking its Star Core.
• Jiang Shu returned to the Eternal Tower and spent several days consolidating his cultivation and exploring his embryonic inner world.
• Jiang Shu infused the withered World Tree Sapling with Dao essence, causing it to revive faintly and resonate with the laws within him.
• At the True Martial Sect encampment in Abyssal City, reports announced Human Race victories, while the Sect Master and Zi Ji Dao Venerable remained concerned about the risks of the counteroffensive.

Zi Ji Dao Venerable and the Sect Master concluded that the stalled advance at three Demon Race strongholds concealed a larger plan and sent Lu Chong to investigate while they discussed Jiang Shu’s disappearance. After consolidating his new Venerable Realm power in the Eternal Tower, Jiang Shu emerged and traveled to Heavenly Bend Star, a Nine Universes Merchant Alliance hub linking the Outer Area and inner Star Ruins Realm.

• Zi Ji Dao Venerable reported that the Chaotic Swamp, Thousand Streams Ravine, and Desolate Silent Sand Sea had unusual defenses and that the army’s advance had stalled.
• The Sect Master and Zi Ji Dao Venerable agreed to investigate the three regions cautiously, and the Sect Master ordered Lu Chong to lead the disciples there.
• The Sect Master asked about Jiang Shu, and Zi Ji Dao Venerable said he was alive but could not be contacted or located.
• Jiang Shu consolidated his early-stage Venerable Realm cultivation within the Eighth Layer of the Eternal Tower, refining his control over space and nurturing the World Tree Sapling.
• Jiang Shu left the tower, crossed the Cosmos using the Space Law, and arrived at Heavenly Bend Star, a transfer hub for the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance.

Jiang Shu returned to the Nine Universes Merchant Alliance and revealed that he had reached the Venerable Realm, prompting Venerable Luo and Yu Tianming to celebrate. After sharing his experiences and receiving a protective talisman, Jiang Shu set out for the Eternal Tower, where Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun arrived to congratulate him.

• Jiang Shu appeared at Venerable Luo’s Myriad Stars Pavilion and revealed his breakthrough to the Venerable Realm.
• Venerable Luo celebrated Jiang Shu’s advancement, and Yu Tianming arrived to congratulate him.
• Jiang Shu recounted his experiences at the Saint’s Tomb while withholding the Black Stone’s secret, then shared Law insights that helped Yu Tianming deepen her cultivation.
• Jiang Shu contacted Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun, who said they were traveling to meet him at the Eternal Tower.
• Venerable Luo gave Jiang Shu a protective Mysterious Jade Talisman, and Jiang Shu left resources and cultivation advice for Yu Tianming before departing.
• Several days later, Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun arrived and congratulated Jiang Shu, who noticed that Zhan Feng’s Law of Force had advanced.

After celebrating Jiang Shu’s breakthrough to the Venerable Realm, he returned to the Vast Desolate Domain and cautiously headed toward the Human Race front line. At the True Martial Sect’s command tent, the Sect Master asked how long Lu Chong had been missing, and Zi Ji Dao Venerable answered that it had been five days.

• Zhan Feng and Zhan Yun congratulated Jiang Shu on reaching the Venerable Realm and celebrated with him over Myriad Stars Brew.
• The three discussed the Saint’s Tomb, and Jiang Shu resolved to keep his breakthrough secret while he refined the Black Stone and studied the World Tree.
• Jiang Shu left for the Vast Desolate Domain using Two Worlds Travel and cautiously checked the valley where Old Ancestor Fentian had once pursued him.
• After finding no sign of Old Ancestor Fentian, Jiang Shu sensed the Human Race front line and rushed toward it across the wilderness.
• At the True Martial Sect’s command tent, the Sect Master asked how long Lu Chong had been gone, and Zi Ji Dao Venerable said it had been exactly five days.

Lu Chong and Liu Qingyan were trapped in the Desolate Silent Sand Sea by a White Tiger Demon Monarch, which had already killed Elder Wan Jianming. As Lu Chong sacrificed himself to save Liu Qingyan, an unseen figure disrupted the White Tiger’s attack and protected her, leaving the Demon Monarch alarmed and searching for the intruder.

• The Sect Master received Lu Chong’s bloodstained distress talisman and ordered powerful experts to rescue those trapped in the perilous locations.
• In the Desolate Silent Sand Sea, Lu Chong and the wounded Liu Qingyan faced a White Tiger Demon Monarch after it killed Elder Wan Jianming.
• Lu Chong used the spatial-transference treasure to send Liu Qingyan away and ignited his Dao Fire to buy her time.
• The White Tiger imprisoned the area and sent five Space Cracks toward Lu Chong, but an unseen force erased the attack and briefly checked the Demon Monarch.
• Lu Chong’s suppressed self-detonation erupted, while an invisible barrier shielded Liu Qingyan from the blast.
• The White Tiger realized someone had appeared beside it unseen and demanded to know who was there.

Jiang Shu appeared on the battlefield and rescued Lu Chong from the White Tiger Demon Monarch, revealing that he had reached the Primal Chaos Realm and mastered the Great Dao of Space. He gave Lu Chong a pill and turned to finish off the wounded demon.

• The White Tiger Demon Monarch searched for the hidden intruder while Lu Chong's uncontrolled self-destruction surged toward Liu Qingyan.
• Jiang Shu appeared behind the White Tiger Demon Monarch and froze the crimson energy before it could reach Liu Qingyan.
• The White Tiger Demon Monarch attacked Jiang Shu with five spatial rifts, but Jiang Shu shattered them with Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist and crushed its foreclaw.
• Lu Chong recognized Jiang Shu as Tai Xuan Dao Lord and realized he had become a Dao Venerable.
• Jiang Shu gave Lu Chong a precious pill and said he would kill the White Tiger Demon Monarch before they caught up.

Jiang Shu killed the White Tiger Demon Monarch, rescued Lu Chong and Liu Qingyan, and learned that the Human Race’s apparent victories concealed the strain of fighting in the Demon Domain. He reached the battle at Cracked Stone City and discovered three Demon Venerables defending it, including a powerful Golden Horned Demon Antelope.

• Jiang Shu crushed the fleeing White Tiger Demon Monarch and completely erased its body and soul.
• Jiang Shu healed Lu Chong, stabilized Liu Qingyan, gathered the remains of fallen Dao One Sect disciples, and took them away from the Desolate Silent Sand Sea.
• Lu Chong told Jiang Shu that the Human Race had advanced across the Demon Domain but was weakened by the need to resist its demon qi.
• Jiang Shu and Lu Chong arrived near Cracked Stone City, where the Human Race allied army was attacking a heavily fortified city defended by three Demon Venerables.
• The Golden Horned Demon Antelope disrupted the Human Race Dao Venerables’ combined attacks with its overwhelming will, while a True Martial Sect Elder lamented the army’s losses.

Jiang Shu appeared above Cracked Stone City and shattered its supposedly impenetrable barrier with a single palm strike, leaving the Golden Horned Demon Antelope facing him. Elsewhere, the Human Race learned that Lu Chong was in danger, as the antelope unleashed a counterattack against Jiang Shu.

• The Human Race elders described how the three Demon Venerables and Cracked Stone City's barrier had stalled their assault, while Lu Chong warned Jiang Shu about the Golden Horned Demon Antelope.
• Jiang Shu used his mastery of space to appear over Cracked Stone City without triggering its defenses.
• Jiang Shu pressed down with one palm and cracked the city barrier, combining several powerful Great Daos to dismantle it.
• The Azure Wind Demon Eagle and One-Horned Venom Python tried to reinforce the barrier, but it collapsed completely, exposing Cracked Stone City.
• A messenger reported that Lu Chong had encountered danger in the Desolate Silent Sand Sea, and the female elder sensed a great disturbance outside.
• The Golden Horned Demon Antelope activated its horns and sent crushing shockwaves toward Jiang Shu.

Jiang Shu broke Cracked Stone City’s barrier and calmly repelled the Demon Venerables’ attacks. The Golden Horned Demon Antelope’s ultimate killing art failed against his precise use of the Space Law, leaving the Demon Venerables’ assault thwarted.

• Jiang Shu annihilated the dark-red barrier over Cracked Stone City, and spatial fragments swept through the city, killing Demon soldiers and injuring powerful defenders.
• The Golden Horned Demon Antelope’s domain-suppressing attack missed Jiang Shu and destroyed a distant stone peak.
• The Azure Wind Demon Eagle and One-Horned Venom Python attacked Jiang Shu together, but he folded space to stop the eagle and redirect the python’s poison onto it.
• The Golden Horned Demon Antelope teleported close to Jiang Shu and fired its Annihilation Golden Radiance at him.
• Jiang Shu touched the beam with one finger and used the Space Law to disperse its core, neutralizing the killing art.

Jiang Shu arrived at Cracked Stone City, easily defeated two Demon Venerables, and faced the remaining Golden Horned Demon Antelope. As the Antelope charged with its strongest attack, Jiang Shu prepared to meet it head-on with the Great Dao of Strength.

• Jiang Shu tore open two Space Cracks, which swallowed the Azure Wind Demon Eagle and the One-Horned Venom Python along with part of the Altar.
• The Human Race forces recognized Jiang Shu as Tai Xuan Dao Venerable and rallied as the Demon forces recoiled in fear.
• The Golden Horned Demon Antelope challenged Jiang Shu, declaring that its stronger inner world would secure its victory.
• Jiang Shu insulted the Antelope's bloodline and standing, provoking it to launch a full-force, life-risking charge.
• Jiang Shu refused to dodge and gathered the Great Dao of Strength into his fist as the Antelope's attack struck the edge of his force field.

Jiang Shu killed the Golden Horned Demon Antelope with a single punch, ending the Demon Race’s last remaining Venerable threat on the battlefield. The Human Race celebrated his return while Jiang Shu’s collapsing inner world began a slow recovery.

• Jiang Shu used the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist to overcome the Golden Horned Demon Antelope’s life-burning attack and erase him completely.
• The Demon Race soldiers recognized Jiang Shu and fled in panic, throwing Cracked Stone City into chaos.
• Lu Chong hailed Jiang Shu as the Human Race allied forces erupted into cheers and renewed confidence.
• The allied elders discussed whether Jiang Shu could reach the Return to Void Realm and transcend as an Immortal.
• Jiang Shu ignored the battlefield’s cheers and rout as the World Tree slowly restored his collapsing inner world.