Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu and the Human Race Venerables negotiated an alliance with Empress Xi'e in exchange for escape and treasures, then joined her Heavenly Court forces to break the Demon Race’s blockade. Xi'e hinted that she had preserved her husband’s divine soul across time, leaving the method unexplained.

• A Five-Colored Halo erased a Sword Concealment Sect Dao Venerable, prompting Jiang Shu and the other Human Race Venerables to flee the battlefield.
• Empress Xi'e blocked their departure and explained that the Dragon Lord and Five Virtues Phoenix Lord had sealed the void with the Demon Race Imperial Palace.
• Xi'e offered the promised treasures, seeds of the Ancient Fusang Tree and Ruo Mu, and a guaranteed escape if the Venerables helped destroy the Imperial Palace; Jiang Shu negotiated further before agreeing to cooperate.
• Ao Qing and a Demon Venerable in five-colored robes used the Nine-Dragon Jade Bi and Imperial Palace to seal the void and trap the Human Race forces.
• Jiang Shu questioned Xi'e’s weakened Heavenly Court forces, and Xi'e challenged the Venerables to guess how she had preserved her husband’s divine soul across time.

Jiang Shu’s alliance of Human Race and Heavenly Court forces attacked the Demon Race Imperial Palace, where a Five Virtues Phoenix turned the Phoenix Lord’s legacy into a calamity that struck the Zhou Tian Starry Sky Grand Array. The Sword Concealment Sect Master opened a path through the defenses, but a Demon Venerable unleashed a Demon Lord-forged time sword against the Heavenly Court experts, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Jiang Shu led the allied forces toward the Demon Race Imperial Palace, where Ao Qing used the Nine-Dragon Jade Disc to block their advance.
• Mo Xuan and the Heavenly Court experts formed the Zhou Tian Starry Sky Grand Array, but a Five Virtues Phoenix drew on the Phoenix Lord’s power to summon tribulation lightning against them.
• The Sword Concealment Sect Master used an ancient sword to cleave the thunder beast and cut open the Imperial Palace’s defenses, allowing the Human Race and Heavenly Court forces to press forward.
• Ao Qing ordered the Demon Venerables to stop the attackers and use their prepared methods against the weakening Heavenly Court experts.
• A Demon Venerable pulled a mercury longsword from his chest and unleashed its Great Dao of Time against the Heavenly Court experts, prompting Mo Xuan, the Kui Ox, and others to raise barriers.

The allied forces used Temporal Severing of Passing Years to weaken the ancient Heavenly Court’s defenders, but a True Hou sacrificed itself to prevent a second strike. As the battle split into duels across the field, Xi'e arrived and ordered a breakthrough, prompting the weakened Heavenly Court Demon Venerables to charge forward and self-destruct.

• A Demon Venerable used Temporal Severing of Passing Years, aging many defenders, and said he could unleash the blade only once more before it broke and killed him.
• A True Hou sacrificed itself to curse the blade-wielder, giving Mo Xuan and the others an opening to attack the Nine-Dragon Jade Disc and the Demon Race Imperial Palace.
• Jiang Shu overpowered the White Tiger Demon Venerable, but Gold Horn intervened before Jiang Shu could finish him.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu fought Ao Qing, while Mo Xuan clashed with Demon Venerable Wudu using their respective non-Dragon methods.
• Xi'e appeared and ordered the forces to break through the defenses, and the depleted Heavenly Court Demon Venerables began self-destructing as they charged the enemy.

The Human and Demon Races fought desperately as Jiang Shu and Gold Horn clashed, while the Time Blade devastated the Heavenly Court’s forces. The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor summoned Xi'e and Di Yang from the River of Time, and the battlefield turned toward a new struggle to destroy it.

• Heavenly Court Demon Venerables repeatedly self-detonated against the barrier as Jiang Shu and Gold Horn began their third battle, trading strength with strength.
• The blade-wielding Demon Venerable unleashed the Time Blade, killing dozens of Early Stage Demon Venerables by aging them to death before he also died of old age.
• A profound gaze and the toll of a bell announced the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s intervention, and Xi'e drew a bright moon from the River of Time to regain a physical body.
• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor summoned Di Yang as well, prompting Ao Qing to lead the Demon Race experts in an assault on the River of Time.
• Xi'e pressed Ao Qing down with a falling moon while the old Taotie attacked the River of Time with its Devouring Great Dao, and Di Yang added Sun True Fire to Xi'e’s moonlight.

As the Heavenly Court and Demon Domain fought over the River of Time and the Immortal Embryo, Ba Snake urged Jiang Shu to exploit his otherworldly nature and draw down Heaven’s will. Jiang Shu accepted the gamble and began using the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu to connect the Fifth and Sixth Layers, with the Human Race guarding him.

• Demon Venerable Chaos emerged from the River of Time and joined the battle, while the Five Virtues Phoenix ordered the Phoenix Race Imperial Palace to attack it.
• Di Yang summoned the power left behind by Old Ancestor Fentian, weakening the Imperial Palace’s Five Elements attack as another historical powerhouse approached from the River of Life.
• Ba Snake told Jiang Shu that his Outer-Heaven Bloodline and Human Race destiny might let him use Heaven’s will to seize the Immortal Embryo, and Jiang Shu agreed to try.
• Jiang Shu shared Ba Snake’s plan with Dao Venerable Tai Wu, who promised the sect’s support and asked the Human Race experts to lend their strength.
• Jiang Shu ignited his destiny and unleashed the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu, whose roots spread through the void as its spatial aura rose toward the Peak Venerable realm.

Jiang Shu helped the Heavenly Court breach the blockade around the Nine-Dragon Jade Disc, then secretly brought the Five Decays Poison into the Demon Lords’ battlefield to force their conflict to escalate. The three Demon Lords continued fighting over the Immortal Embryo despite the danger, and Xi'e confronted Jiang Shu, accusing him of causing the poison’s arrival.

• Jiang Shu joined forces with the Human Race experts to open a path through the Nine-Dragon Jade Disc, allowing Xi'e and Di Yang to send treasures and two Dao Artifacts toward the battlefield.
• Jiang Shu persuaded the Human Race experts to wait and gamble on the Demon Lords’ battle rather than retreat, while the Heavenly Court and Demon Domain forces clashed around them.
• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor, the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord, and the Dragon Race's Dragon Lord resumed fighting over the Immortal Embryo as the battle among their forces grew more brutal.
• Jiang Shu used the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu to guide a flood of Five Decays Poison into the Ninth Layer, alarming all three Demon Lords.
• The three Demon Lords summoned their Great Daos and intensified their fight rather than abandon the Immortal Embryo, driving the other combatants to the edge of the Ninth Layer.
• Xi'e accused Jiang Shu of bringing the Five Decays Poison to force the Demon Lords into a desperate battle, and Jiang Shu calmly denied the accusation.

Jiang Shu used the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu and the Five Decays Poison to disrupt the battle among the Demon Lords, then hid the Human Race’s Dao Venerables in a concealed pocket dimension. The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor gravely wounded the Dragon Lord and Five Virtues Phoenix Lord with the Great Dao of Time, forcing them to retreat, and ordered the fighting to resume as he sought the Immortal Embryo.

• Ao Qing and the Heavenly Court Demon Venerable could not attack Jiang Shu because the Demon Lords’ battle made the void too dangerous to cross.
• Jiang Shu and the Human Race’s Dao Venerables concealed themselves in a pocket dimension with the Star Fighting Sect’s Night Lord’s curtain.
• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor shattered the Time Bell and used the River of Time and Five Decays Poison to grievously wound the Dragon Lord and Five Virtues Phoenix Lord.
• The Dragon Lord and Five Virtues Phoenix Lord withdrew rather than risk dying, while ordering their forces to stop the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor from claiming the Immortal Embryo.
• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor ordered his forces to kill the Demon Race powerhouses and continue the battle.

With the Immortal Embryo restored, the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor prepared to fuse with it, prompting Gold Horn to urge the Demon Race to cooperate with the Human Race against him. The Human experts found the hidden entrance to the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s refuge, and Jiang Shu entered its Return-to-Void Annihilation Grand Array using the Heavenly Profound Solar Crown.

• Gold Horn proposed that the Demon Race cooperate with the Human Race, and Ao Qing called for an alliance to stop the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor.
• Jiang Shu and the Human experts accepted the Demon Race’s offer, received coordinates to the fifth layer, and set off toward the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s hiding place.
• Ba Snake’s Remnant Soul guided the Human experts to the Golden Crow World’s remains, where Jiang Shu used the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu to locate and break open a concealed entrance.
• The Heavenly Puppet Sect’s leader sent Puppets into the breach and discovered lethal traps, while Ba Snake’s Remnant Soul identified the Return-to-Void Annihilation Grand Array within.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu and several experts activated the Heavenly Profound Solar Crown, allowing Jiang Shu to enter the array safely.

Jiang Shu and the Human Race Venerables broke through the Grand Array and attacked the Demon Race Heavenly Emperor’s palace, but Ba Snake warned that the underground seal hid a trap linked to the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s corpse. Jiang Shu poured Five Decays Poison into the sealed area to avert the danger, while the weakened Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor prepared to merge with the Immortal Embryo and be reborn.

• Jiang Shu followed Ba Snake’s guidance and shattered the unattended Grand Array, allowing the other experts to enter the Small World fragment.
• Jiang Shu told the Venerables that the Immortal Embryo was inside the Demon Race Heavenly Emperor’s palace, and they bombarded the palace with their attacks.
• The palace released swarms of Demon Race Puppets, which the Venerables destroyed before breaking through the palace and the seal beneath it.
• Ba Snake warned Jiang Shu that the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s original corpse could trigger Heavenly Dao Assimilation, and instructed him to use Five Decays Poison.
• Jiang Shu collected Five Decays Poison and poured it into the sealed area, causing a violent distortion of time that subsided without harming the Venerables.
• Inside the underground palace, the weakened Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor lamented his lost opportunity and prepared to merge with the Immortal Embryo so he could be reborn.

The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor began merging his soul with the Human infant Immortal Embryo while Human Race experts struggled through his spatial maze. Guided by the Ba Snake Remnant Soul, Jiang Shu went alone to retrieve a Beyond the Domain treasure that might break the maze and found the Forbidden Law Token, though its power had severely weakened him.

• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor merged his soul into the Human Race infant Immortal Embryo and focused on completing the fusion.
• The Human Race Venerables struggled to navigate the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s spatial maze, and Jiang Shu asked the Ba Snake Remnant Soul for guidance.
• The Ba Snake Remnant Soul told Jiang Shu that Beyond the Domain Dao essence might break the maze and warned that it could seal his Laws.
• Despite Dao Venerable Tai Wu and the others urging caution, Jiang Shu chose to seek the Dao essence alone while the Venerables continued exploring the maze.
• Jiang Shu followed the Ba Snake Remnant Soul’s directions to an underground palace, where the Dao essence weakened his power and he found the Forbidden Law Token on an altar.

Jiang Shu used the Forbidden Law Token to breach the Heavenly Emperor Palace’s spatial maze and reached the Immortal Embryo, but Ba Snake revealed that he had manipulated Jiang Shu to bring him there. Ba Snake entered the Immortal Embryo and began fighting the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor for control of its body, while Jiang Shu lay unconscious nearby.

• Jiang Shu persuaded the Human Race experts to withdraw, then used the Forbidden Law Token to pass through the collapsing spatial maze.
• Jiang Shu reached the palace and discovered the Golden Crow corpse and the Immortal Embryo, which held the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s consciousness.
• As Jiang Shu prepared to attack, Ba Snake took control of his body and revealed that he had guided Jiang Shu to the Immortal Embryo.
• Ba Snake entered the Immortal Embryo and challenged the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor to share its body or risk mutual destruction.
• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor and Ba Snake began battling inside the Immortal Embryo as Jiang Shu’s breathing steadied nearby.

Jiang Shu revealed that he had resisted Ba Snake’s influence and the Forbidden Law Token, then destroyed the Immortal Embryo to kill Ba Snake and the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor. As the Golden Crow corpse prepared to self-destruct, Jiang Shu invoked Two Worlds Travel to escape.

• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor and Ba Snake agreed to share the Immortal Embryo while planning to devour Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Shu rose with the Forbidden Law Token and seized the Immortal Embryo, revealing that his Outer-Heaven Bloodline had let him break free of Ba Snake’s control.
• Jiang Shu explained that he had noticed Ba Snake influencing his thoughts and had come to draw him out and eliminate him.
• Jiang Shu pierced and damaged the fragile Immortal Embryo, then tore off its arm despite Ba Snake’s protests.
• The Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor warned Jiang Shu to beware the Will of Heaven, while the Golden Crow corpse outside the formation began to swell with destructive power.
• Jiang Shu crushed the Immortal Embryo and the two Demon Lords, then invoked Two Worlds Travel as they tried to take him with them.

Jiang Shu escaped the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor’s final strike but was badly injured by the Great Dao of Time. While the Human and Demon Races assumed he had died and searched for the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor, Jiang Shu began recovering inside the Eternal Tower.

• Jiang Shu used Two Worlds Travel to escape as the Golden Crow’s body exploded with the aura of the Great Dao of Time.
• The Human Race and Demon Race withdrew from Myriad Gods Cave after temporarily joining forces to cross the void, and Ao Qing concluded that Jiang Shu was dead.
• Dao Venerable Tai Wu reassured the Human Race’s Dao Venerables that Jiang Shu had a way to survive, while Ao Qing urged Gold Horn to seize the chance to claim the Great Dao of Strength.
• Gold Horn secretly sensed that Jiang Shu had returned safely, then faced the attention of the White Tiger Demon Venerable and the Five Virtues Phoenix.
• News of Jiang Shu’s disappearance spread, and both races spent the following months searching for the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor.
• Jiang Shu appeared inside the Eternal Tower’s Eighth Layer, coughing and wounded from the Great Dao of Time, and began using the tower’s Dao rhythms to heal.

Jiang Shu removed the lingering time Dao Rhythms in the Eternal Tower, returned to Heavenly Bend Star, and reunited with Yu Tianming before taking her to the War Alliance. There, he sensed an unusual spatial disturbance just as Zhan Feng broke through to the Venerable Realm and emerged from seclusion.

• Jiang Shu used the Eternal Tower's time Dao Rhythms to purge the remnants on his body and recover to his peak condition.
• Jiang Shu returned to Heavenly Bend Star, found Yu Tianming managing the Nine Universes Chamber of Commerce, and gave her the Mysterious Jade Talisman.
• Jiang Shu took Yu Tianming to the War Alliance, where he sensed a trace of the Great Dao of Space and hurried toward it with her.
• Zhan Feng completed his breakthrough to the Venerable Realm and left his cultivation chamber to share the news.
• Zhan Feng sensed an ultimate threat as he stepped out of seclusion.

Jiang Shu reunited with Zhan Feng after Zhan Feng broke through to the Venerable Realm, and effortlessly suppressed Zhan Feng’s Starfall strike, impressing the War Alliance’s elders. After a celebratory banquet, Zhan Feng shared new intelligence suggesting that the Saint from the Saint’s Tomb had lived during the Doomsday Cult’s peak era.

• Jiang Shu surprised Zhan Feng by catching his full-power Starfall strike with one hand and revealed how much stronger he had become.
• Elder Lei, Venerable Duanyue, Zhan Jiuxiao, and other War Alliance experts arrived and praised Jiang Shu’s growth.
• Zhan Jiuxiao hosted a banquet to celebrate Zhan Feng’s breakthrough, where Jiang Shu drank spacetime Dao tea and impressed the Venerables with his aura.
• After the banquet, Zhan Feng asked whether Jiang Shu would challenge the Eternal Tower’s ninth floor, but Jiang Shu instead asked for news from his time in seclusion.
• Zhan Feng told Jiang Shu that the War Alliance had found a clue to the Saint’s identity: the Saint had lived during the Doomsday Cult’s most glorious era.

Jiang Shu revealed his breakthrough to the Venerable Realm, drawing attention from the major factions and expounding the Dao for the Nine Universes Chamber of Commerce. He accepted an Insectoid Venerable’s challenge and said he would answer it in three days.

• Jiang Shu learned that the Insectoid Clan and Mech Clan wanted to trade for the Black Stone, while Zhan Feng told him the War Alliance had protected his allies from Insectoid retaliation.
• Jiang Shu asked Zhan Feng to request a favor from the Alliance Leader, and the War Alliance announced that Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng had advanced to the Venerable Realm.
• The Mech God Kingdom discussed whether to eliminate Jiang Shu, while Insectoid guards discussed obtaining the Black Stone after hearing of his breakthrough.
• Jiang Shu expounded the Great Dao of Strength at a banquet on Heavenly Bend Star, benefiting the gathered cultivators.
• An Insectoid mid-stage Venerable challenged Jiang Shu, and Jiang Shu told the messenger he would answer the challenge in three days.

Jiang Shu faced a challenge from a mid-stage Insect Emperor Guard at the edge of Human Race Territory, while secretly using spatial treasures to restore the World Tree and Heaven-Connecting Jianmu. He gained the upper hand in their fierce battle and shattered one of the guard’s blade-arms, then unleashed the Law of Creation.

• Jiang Shu accepted the Insectoid Clan’s challenge and told Yu Tianming he was ready to face whoever came.
• Jiang Shu collected and consumed spatial treasures from Zhan Feng to nourish the World Tree and Heaven-Connecting Jianmu.
• Jiang Shu left Heavenly Bend Star and met the Insect Emperor Guard at the edge of Human Race Territory, where many observers gathered.
• Jiang Shu and the Insect Emperor Guard exchanged attacks using their Laws, while a mysterious vessel gathered battlefield data.
• Jiang Shu used his strength and the Desolate Star Halberd to break the guard’s right-side blade-arm, then unleashed the Law of Creation.

Jiang Shu defeated a Mid-stage Venerable Insect Emperor Guard while hiding most of his strength, then devoured its body to grow stronger. The Mech Clan challenged him next, and he accepted for a Venerable-level body; he arrived at the battlefield to find his mechanical opponent already waiting.

• Jiang Shu killed the Insect Emperor Guard, claimed its corpse as his spoils, and returned to the War Alliance ship.
• Jiang Shu healed his deliberately inflicted wounds in private and devoured the Insect Emperor Guard to strengthen his body and Great Dao of Strength.
• A shuttle transmitted its analysis of Jiang Shu to powerful figures in virtual space.
• Zhan Feng delivered a challenge from the Mech Clan, and Jiang Shu demanded a Venerable-level body as the stake.
• The Mech Clan agreed to Jiang Shu's terms, and he accepted the challenge as spectators gathered for the battle.
• Jiang Shu arrived at the battlefield and found a mechanical entity waiting for him.

Jiang Shu fought a Mech Clan Venerable whose machines and Laws challenged his strength and mastery of space. He overwhelmed its calculations and trapped it with collapsing Star Cores, leaving the battle poised to end with its death.

• The Mech Clan Venerable brought Jiang Shu a Starry Sky Giant Beast corpse as the agreed wager, and they began fighting before the watching Venerables.
• The Mech Clan Venerable deployed a production base and nano-machine insects on a planet, but Jiang Shu destroyed the planet and charged at it with the Pangu Splitting Heaven Axe.
• The Mech Clan Venerable countered with Law-imbued cannons and a powerful mechanical body, while Jiang Shu used spatial cracks to redirect its attacks and healed his own wounds with the Creation Great Dao.
• Jiang Shu distorted the battlefield's coordinates until the Mech Clan Venerable could no longer track him, then suppressed the machine's sixteen Star Cores.
• The Star Cores collapsed inward and trapped the Mech Clan Venerable in overwhelming gravity as Jiang Shu solidified the space around it.

Jiang Shu defeated the Mech Clan Venerable while hiding the full extent of his strength, then secretly recovered by devouring a Starry Sky Giant Beast. The Mech Clan analyzed his battle data and ordered further tests to discover his limits.

• The Mech Clan Venerable used the spacetime mass-energy conversion equation to escape Jiang Shu’s restraints, but Jiang Shu struck back with the Desolate Star Halberd and destroyed its body.
• Jiang Shu returned to the War Alliance ship, pretended to recover, and entered a sealed cultivation chamber to devour the flesh-and-blood mass he had obtained.
• The Mech Clan uploaded the Venerable’s consciousness and analyzed its battle data, concluding that Jiang Shu’s Space Law mastery and other abilities far exceeded those of an ordinary Early-stage Venerable.
• The First Mother Body ordered powerful experts to test Jiang Shu’s limits and continue collecting data.
• Jiang Shu finished devouring the Starry Sky Giant Beast and found that his physical body had grown stronger by five to ten percent.