Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu continued accepting wagers and defeating foreign Venerables, while Gold Horn agreed to fight the White Tiger Demon Venerable. After eight victories, Jiang Shu faced a new challenger who revealed himself as a Human Race Venerable named Fen Wu.

• Jiang Shu accepted more challenges after telling Zhan Feng he needed a few days to recover from his fight with the Mech Clan.
• Gold Horn accepted the White Tiger Demon Venerable’s challenge and arranged for their battle to take place before the other Demon Venerables.
• Jiang Shu defeated an Ancient Realm Giant Spirit by evading its attacks until it conceded and handed over its stakes.
• Jiang Shu’s eight consecutive victories earned him the reputation of the strongest early-stage Venerable, but no one among the watching experts stepped forward to challenge him.
• Fen Wu revealed himself as a Human Race Venerable, presented a collection of corpses as his stake, and summoned a battle spear to begin fighting Jiang Shu.

Jiang Shu battled Fen Wu, who revealed himself as a Late-stage Venerable of the Underworld Race, while Insectoid Clan and Mech Clan forces joined the fight to capture and kill him. As three Late-stage Venerables attacked, Jiang Shu revealed that he had reached the Mid-stage Venerable Realm and challenged them to fight again.

• Jiang Shu and Fen Wu exchanged hundreds of blows before Fen Wu’s injuries strengthened his Destruction Dao and pushed Jiang Shu back.
• Zhan Feng revealed that no Human Race Venerable was connected to Fen Wu, who transformed into an Underworld Race powerhouse and exposed his Late-stage Venerable cultivation.
• Fen Wu tried to seize Jiang Shu, but an Insectoid Clan fleet arrived; a Mech Clan Venerable emerged, and both forces joined Fen Wu in targeting Jiang Shu.
• Fen Wu unleashed a destructive halo that wiped out nearly half of the Insectoid Clan and Mech Clan forces, then joined the two Venerables in attacking Jiang Shu.
• Jiang Shu shattered Fen Wu’s ghost claw with a punch and revealed his Mid-stage Venerable cultivation before calling for another fight.

Jiang Shu revealed his Mid-stage Venerable cultivation and fought off Fen Wu and the Insectoid and Mech Clan Venerables, then used the Great Dao of Space to bring War Alliance reinforcements to the battlefield. With Elder Lei, Zhan Jiuxiao, and the other Venerables joining the fight, the three factions were surrounded, though Fen Wu continued resisting.

• Jiang Shu revealed his Mid-stage Venerable realm and battered the Insectoid and Mech Clan forces while attacking Fen Wu and the other two Venerables.
• When the three enemies tried to escape, Jiang Shu used the power of the World Tree and Heaven-Connecting Jianmu to seal space and open a Spatial Channel for the War Alliance.
• Jiang Shu used the Divine Firmament Dragon Claw to unleash a lightning attack as the War Alliance reinforcements arrived and joined the battle.
• Elder Lei and Zhan Jiuxiao helped turn the fight against the Insectoid and Mech Clan Venerables, while Zhan Jiuxiao trapped Fen Wu with Spacetime Lockdown.
• Fen Wu broke the lockdown with the aid of an external object and endured repeated attacks as the War Alliance encircled the three factions.

After Fen Wu escaped through a Saint-level intervention, Jiang Shu helped the Human Race capture the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan Venerables and returned to War Alliance headquarters. The War Alliance prepared to negotiate their release in exchange for information about the Black Stone and valuable territories.

• Fen Wu transmitted spatial coordinates, but a Saint-level force swept him away before the Human Race could capture him.
• Jiang Shu sealed the space while the Human Race defeated the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan Venerables, who surrendered and were taken prisoner.
• Jiang Shu suspected the factions had attacked him because of the Black Stone he had taken from the Saint's Tomb, then returned to the warship and offered to teach Zhan Feng his lightning technique.
• The warship traveled safely back to War Alliance headquarters, where Zhan Feng told Jiang Shu that the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan were negotiating for their prisoners.
• The War Alliance demanded information about the Black Stone, mining zones, and resource-rich uninhabited planets in exchange for the two Venerables.

Jiang Shu led the War Alliance’s negotiations with the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan over captured Venerables, but the talks stalled when both envoys refused to explain the Black Stone. The story then shifted to the Demon Domain, where Demon Venerables gathered to watch Gold Horn face the White Tiger Demon Venerable.

• Jiang Shu joined Zhan Jiuxiao and the War Alliance Venerables to meet envoys from the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan.
• The envoys agreed to negotiate for the return of their captured Venerables, and Jiang Shu demanded resource rights as compensation.
• Jiang Shu revealed a Black Stone and demanded to know its identity and origin, causing both envoys to fall silent and Zhan Jiuxiao to suspend negotiations.
• Jiang Shu wondered whether the Black Stone that had helped him advance to Venerable was a blessing or a curse, while Zhan Jiuxiao ordered everyone to wait for the envoys’ response.
• In the Demon Domain, Ao Qing insisted Gold Horn would win against the White Tiger Demon Venerable as Demon Venerables gathered to watch.

The Demon Race and Human Race paused their war to search for the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor, while Gold Horn and the White Tiger Demon Venerable fought to test their growing strength. Gold Horn unveiled a nameless art of his own that wielded a radically different Law of the Great Dao of Strength, and the assembled experts watched its clash with the White Tiger’s ultimate strike.

• Ao Qing and Feng Yuan Demon Venerable discussed the search for the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor as the Demon Race and Human Race temporarily slowed their war.
• The White Tiger Demon Venerable arrived at the Demon Race Imperial Palace and challenged Gold Horn to a battle.
• Gold Horn and the White Tiger Demon Venerable exchanged powerful attacks, including the White Tiger Seven Killings.
• The White Tiger Demon Venerable unleashed Heaven Swallowing Earth Annihilation, Seven Limits, while Gold Horn revealed a nameless great art he had created himself.
• Gold Horn’s art collided with the White Tiger Demon Venerable’s final move, and the gathered Demon Venerables sensed a new Law of the Great Dao of Strength.

Gold Horn defeated the White Tiger Demon Venerable but spared him, while Jiang Shu’s hidden influence helped preserve disorder in the Demon Domain for the Human Race’s benefit. Back in the Star Ruins Realm, Jiang Shu and Zhan Jiuxiao pressured the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan envoys to continue negotiating over the Black Stone, though its mysteries remained unclear.

• Gold Horn used a new Strength Great Dao technique to overwhelm the White Tiger Demon Venerable and seize him by the throat, but chose to spare him and let him live with the defeat.
• Gold Horn returned to Ao Qing and said he would cultivate on the insights from their battle; Jiang Shu’s hidden consciousness had guided his choice to keep the Demon Domain divided.
• At the War Alliance’s Ancestral Land, Zhan Jiuxiao asked the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan envoys for their decisions, while Jiang Shu rejected their proposed compensation for the Black Stone.
• Zhan Jiuxiao warned that the War Alliance could bring other Hegemonic Forces into the matter through the Doomsday Cult, prompting both envoys to request more time to consult their clans under Human Race supervision.
• After the envoys left, Jiang Shu told Zhan Jiuxiao that he had fused the Black Stone into his body as the foundation for becoming a Venerable but still could not discern its mysteries.

Jiang Shu entered the Eternal Tower’s Ninth Layer and fought a Replica whose strength and mastery of Laws were more than twice his own. He discovered ways to counter its attacks but remained in danger as the battle continued.

• Jiang Shu left Zhan Jiuxiao and entered the Eternal Tower, using his understanding of time and space to reach the gate to the Ninth Layer.
• Jiang Shu entered a desolate star system, where a powerful Replica appeared and attacked with the Pangu Splitting Heaven Axe.
• Jiang Shu met the Replica’s blow with his Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist, but was overwhelmed in close combat and sent crashing through a planet.
• Jiang Shu recovered with the Ba Snake Secret Art, survived the Replica’s thunder spear, and found a flaw in its attack.
• Jiang Shu adapted by using his knowledge of himself to counter the Replica, then continued fighting and resolved to reach the Ninth Layer.

Jiang Shu defeated the Time Replica in the Eternal Tower's Ninth Layer and returned to the War Alliance, where his achievement spread across the Human Race. The Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan then revealed that the Black Stone Jiang Shu had absorbed might be a key to a Minor Universe, tied to the Doomsday Cult's ancient attempt to destroy the Cosmos.

• Jiang Shu severed the Replica's connection to time, cleared the Ninth Layer, and gained a deeper grasp of the Time Law.
• Jiang Shu returned to the War Alliance headquarters and told Zhan Feng that only one layer remained before he could clear the Eternal Tower completely.
• News of Jiang Shu's Ninth Layer victory spread, and the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan agreed to share the Black Stone's secret with the Human Race.
• The Mech Divine Envoy explained that the Doomsday Cult had searched the Saint's Tomb and that the Black Stone might be a key to a Minor Universe.
• The Mech Divine Envoy revealed that the Mech Clan had discovered a pseudo-independent universe beyond the Cosmos, in a stretch of nothingness.

The Human Race War Alliance agreed to explore the Pseudo Universe with the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan after confirming the Black Stone was likely its key. Jiang Shu discovered a trace of Dao essence linked to the Forbidden Law Token, then joined Zhan Jiuxiao and the Human Venerables as they prepared to depart for negotiations and the coming opening.

• The Mech Divine Envoy explained that the Pseudo Universe preserved the prehistoric cosmos's Laws and that the Black Stone was probably its key; the Insectoid Clan urged the Human Race to join the expedition.
• Zhan Jiuxiao agreed to cooperate, but required the Human Race to inspect the Pseudo Universe before handing over the Black Stone or Dao Patterns or releasing the two Late-stage Venerables; the envoys agreed, and the Mech Clan predicted it would open in thirteen days.
• Jiang Shu returned to the Eternal Tower and discovered Dao essence within himself that was connected to the Forbidden Law Token, then began cultivating it.
• After half a month, Jiang Shu returned to the War Alliance and joined Zhan Jiuxiao and the Human Venerables as they prepared to negotiate with the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan.

Jiang Shu and the Human Race Venerables met the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan in a dark-zone Star City to prepare for entering a Pseudo Universe. After two days, the Mech Mother coordinated their power to open a gate, whose destination was being calculated as the chapter ended.

• Zhan Jiuxiao brought Jiang Shu and the Human Race Venerables to a pirate Star City, where the Mech Clan and Insectoid Clan had gathered.
• The Mech Mother explained the Pseudo Universe and negotiated rules for sharing benefits, while silencing an insulting Insectoid Clan envoy.
• Jiang Shu's Dao Patterns reacted at his residence, strengthening his suspicion that they were the key to opening the Pseudo Universe.
• After two days, the Mech Mother mobilized the Star City and coordinated thirty Venerables to create a gate of light toward the wandering Pseudo Universe.
• The Mech Mother calculated the gate's destination until its chaotic energy began to stabilize.

Jiang Shu and the Human Race, Insectoid Clan, and Mech Clan opened the gate to the Pseudo Universe and entered, where they found altered Laws and a human colonial planet called Cangyu Star. After learning that powerful Supremes or Overlords might exist in this universe, the factions debated how to investigate the planet, and Zhan Jiuxiao opposed the Insectoid Clan’s proposal to devour it.

• The Mech Mother stabilized the light gate, and Jiang Shu used a Dao Pattern to open it to the Pseudo Universe.
• Jiang Shu and the other experts entered and felt the Pseudo Universe’s Laws assimilating them; the Mech Divine Envoy measured the Laws as 94.63 percent similar to those outside.
• The Mech Divine Envoy’s scouts found a life-bearing world, and the experts traveled to Cangyu Star, a technologically modified human colony cut off from the Human Race main network for sixty-seven years.
• The Mech Divine Envoy found that the Human Race occupied one-tenth of the known universe and that its strongest reported figures, Supremes or Overlords, might rival Saints.
• The Insectoid Clan proposed devouring Cangyu Star and using an insect calamity to hide their arrival, but Zhan Jiuxiao and the War Alliance rejected the plan because the planet’s inhabitants were Human Race.

Jiang Shu met Huang Xuesheng, the Venerable governor of the freezing Cangyu Star, and offered resources and technology to restore the planet’s environment. As Huang Xuesheng recounted how Cangyu Star lost contact with the Federation, Jiang Shu learned that the planet had found no clues in the void and lacked the energy for extended exploration.

• War Alliance powerhouses agreed to seize control of a colonial planet by force and turn its leaders into Puppets.
• Jiang Shu appeared before Huang Xuesheng in the governor’s mansion, and Huang Xuesheng asked him about the Federation and other planets.
• Jiang Shu offered to support Cangyu Star with resources and technology, and Huang Xuesheng agreed to gather the planet’s leaders to discuss it.
• Huang Xuesheng told Jiang Shu that a mysterious fluctuation had disabled technology and shattered Cangyu Star’s star routes and Federation network eighty-seven years earlier.
• Huang Xuesheng explained that he had found no relics or clues in the void because the city’s failing equipment consumed his energy and limited his time away.

Jiang Shu arranged for the Human Race, Insectoid Clan, and Mech Clan to restore Cangyu Star, earning the gratitude of its people and accepting Huang Xuesheng’s offer to become Governor. With the planet’s crisis eased, Huang Xuesheng’s heart knot resolved and his cultivation advanced to the Mid-stage Venerable realm.

• Huang Xuesheng introduced Jiang Shu to Cangyu Star’s senior officials, and Jiang Shu promised to rebuild the planet and restore its human-friendly environment.
• Jiang Shu consulted the other Venerables, who agreed to provide energy and resources while the Mech Clan led the planet’s transformation.
• Jiang Shu told Huang Xuesheng that support had arrived, and a fleet carrying mechanical constructs and two Human Race Venerables came to Cangyu Star.
• The mechanical constructs began restoring the city and sending Energy-Sucking Worms toward the red dwarf, prompting the people to celebrate their salvation.
• Huang Xuesheng offered Jiang Shu the Governor position, and Jiang Shu accepted in order to obtain a legitimate identity on Cangyu Star.
• Huang Xuesheng’s cultivation surged to the Mid-stage Venerable realm, after which he invited Jiang Shu, Zhan Feng, and another War Alliance Venerable to discuss the Law.

Jiang Shu and the others encountered a Star Beast threatening Cangyu Star, and Zhan Feng demonstrated his strength while fighting it. Jiang Shu then overwhelmed and captured the beast, leaving the Human Race and its allies to consider how to tame or use it.

• Jiang Shu and Huang Xuesheng exchanged insights on the Devouring Great Dao before a Star Beast approached Cangyu Star.
• Zhan Feng battled the Star Beast and repeatedly shattered its body, but its rapid regeneration prevented him from defeating it.
• Jiang Shu used the Pangu Giant to inflict a devastating blow, reduced the Star Beast to a fraction of its size, and bound it with Laws.
• Jiang Shu asked Huang Xuesheng whether the Star Beast could be tamed, but Huang Xuesheng knew of no method.
• Zhan Jiuxiao, the Insectoid Clan Venerable, and a Mech Clan expert arrived, and the Insectoid Clan Venerable expressed interest in obtaining the Star Beast.

Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng explored beyond Cangyu Star and encountered a Human Federation starship displaced by a Spatial Storm. Jiang Shu discovered that the storm distorted time, explaining how the ship had lost eighty-seven years and suggesting that space-time in the Pseudo Universe was profoundly disordered.

• Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng left their concealed base to explore the starry sky beyond the range of Huang Xuesheng's Star Chart.
• Jiang Shu sensed a damaged Human Federation starship and learned its crew had entered a Spatial Storm while patrolling the Red Dragon Starfield.
• Jiang Shu entered the storm and discovered that it contained turbulent Time Law capable of making travelers experience wildly different passages of time.
• Zhan Feng learned the starship had departed in Federation Year 2358, eighty-seven years earlier, despite its crew believing they had spent only seventeen days in the storm.
• Jiang Shu explained the time distortion to the crew, helped steady their minds, and gave them coordinates for a safe place to settle.

Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng explored the Land of Disordered Space-Time, where they rescued a Human Race warship from an Insectoid Clan swarm and learned that its crew called the region subspace. The chapter left them guiding the warship out of subspace after discovering that the Human Federation had collapsed and isolated planetary empires were fighting the Insectoid Clan.

• Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng entered the chaotic region to investigate whether its distorted time and space could help them comprehend the Time Law.
• A Human Race warship, pursued by an insect swarm, faced the collapse of its defenses after its exhausted navigator could no longer guide it.
• Jiang Shu and Zhan Feng arrived, and Jiang Shu slew the Insectoid Clan Venerable attacking the ship, scattering the swarm.
• Jiang Shu introduced himself and Zhan Feng, obtained the ship's Star Chart, and questioned its navigator about her abilities and origins.
• The navigator explained that subspace had appeared eighty-seven years earlier, collapsed the Human Federation, and left nearby planetary empires at war with the Insectoid Clan.
• Jiang Shu used the Time Law to stabilize the warship's passage, and the crew sailed out of subspace in less than half a day.

Jiang Shu arrived at a planet overrun by the Insectoid Clan just as its three Human Race Venerables were about to fall. He effortlessly turned the battle around and began erasing the mid-stage Venerable Star Shattering King Worm with a single punch.

• Jiang Shu identified the nearby world as an Insectoid Clan battlefield and brought his ship down toward the besieged planet.
• The three Human Race Venerables struggled against the swarms while the Star Shattering King Worm watched and directed the assault.
• One crippled Venerable burned his life and powers to attack the Star Shattering King Worm, but the insect king overwhelmed and killed him.
• Jiang Shu emerged from subspace, nullified the insect king's lightning strike, and slaughtered the surrounding Insectoid Clan members with his killing intent.
• Jiang Shu shattered one of the Star Shattering King Worm's legs, immobilized it with the Law of Force, and erased its thunder attack with the Qi Swallowing Myriad Forms Fist.
• Jiang Shu's punch spread across the Star Shattering King Worm and began wiping away its body as the Human Race experts watched in shock.

Jiang Shu saved the Canglan Kingdom from the Insectoid Clan and learned about its Navigators and the six limited Saint seats in this world. He asked for the coordinates of an Insectoid Clan planet so he could investigate why the Human Race’s Saint had not reunited its scattered factions.

• Jiang Shu killed the Heartshatter Insect Demon and pursued the fleeing Insectoid Clan Venerables, destroying them with his lightning spear and fists.
• Jiang Shu stabilized the three wounded Canglan Kingdom Venerables, and Chen Huanran, Ming Haoxing, and Li Hanyi explained their kingdom’s history and losses.
• Jiang Shu studied the Canglan Kingdom’s records on Navigators and shared news that the Canglan Kingdom could connect with the Human Race faction on Cangyu Star.
• Ming Haoxing told Jiang Shu that only six Saint seats existed and named the known Saints, including the Human Race’s Cosmic Saint and the Insectoid Clan’s Great Devourer.
• Jiang Shu questioned why the Human Race factions remained isolated and asked Li Hanyi and Ming Haoxing for the coordinates of the Insectoid Clan planet.

Jiang Shu traveled to the Insectoid Clan’s planet to gather intelligence, captured an Insectoid navigator, and questioned a spider Venerable about the Great Devourer. After luring the other Insectoid Venerables to the nest, he prepared to fight them and feed on their strength.

• Jiang Shu left the injured Venerables with Zhan Feng and traveled through subspace toward the Insectoid Clan’s coordinates.
• Jiang Shu tested an Insectoid navigator’s ability to stabilize time and space, then sealed it and took it away.
• Jiang Shu reached a planetary system covered in insect nests and found a spider Venerable to interrogate.
• The spider Venerable said it could sense the Mother Queen but did not know her location, and Jiang Shu learned that the Insectoid Clan’s navigators had not found her.
• Jiang Shu revealed that Venerable Shattered Star was dead, drew two more Insectoid Venerables to the nest, and began attacking them with the Ba Snake behind him.