Chapter Summaries

Jiang Shu used his orc avatar, Black Claw, to exploit the Faith Law and rapidly build strength and followers within the Black Mountain Tribe. After Blood Fang challenged his growing influence, Black Claw fought him while Jiang Shu watched to test an idea.

• Black Claw defeated the orc leader and gained Faith Power that strengthened his body, while Jiang Shu noticed the Faith Law could affect his emotions and suppressed them with restrictions.
• Blood Fang claimed Black Claw and his followers, named the avatar Black Claw, and introduced him to the Black Mountain Tribe’s worship and combat customs.
• Black Claw secretly infused his own power into his body, then defeated Stone Axe and several other leaders to gather more followers and Faith Power.
• After several days of growth, Black Claw drew Blood Fang into a battle between their factions, and Jiang Shu watched as they fought to see whether his idea would work.

Jiang Shu tested how beastmen’s faith strengthened Black Claw, who rose through the Black Mountain Tribe while the power slowly eroded Jiang Shu’s seal. As Black Claw prepared to challenge Chief Black Mountain, the Big Blade Tribe attacked, and its chief clashed with Black Mountain.

• Black Claw used the beastmen’s cheers and Faith Power to recover and defeat Blood Fang, then joined Chief Black Mountain’s ranks as a lesser chief.
• Black Claw challenged and defeated other chiefs, growing stronger as Jiang Shu and Electric Current studied the Law of Faith and discovered that its power eroded Jiang Shu’s seal.
• Electric Current concluded that beastmen were naturally suited to the Law of Faith, while Jiang Shu wondered who had created or altered them for that purpose.
• Black Claw gained titles and followers, drawing much of the tribe’s faith and growing to more than three meters tall.
• The Big Blade Tribe attacked the Black Mountain Tribe, and Black Claw roused the sleeping beastmen to prepare for the invasion.
• Big Blade slaughtered Black Mountain Tribe warriors with an iron weapon, then struck Chief Black Mountain, whose metallic body rang with sparks.

Jiang Shu empowered his avatar Black Claw with Faith Power, allowing him to defeat the leaders of the Black Mountain and Greatsword Tribes and unite their Orc Clan members under the Black Claw Tribe. After lifting Black Claw’s emotional seal, Jiang Shu and Mech Venerable Electric Current watched as the avatar struggled to control his violent emotions.

• Jiang Shu sent new techniques and condensed power to Black Claw, who slaughtered Orc Clan members and drew their Faith Power.
• Black Claw entered the leaders’ battle, seized Big Blade’s weapon, and sent Black Mountain flying, winning the Orc Clan members’ support.
• Black Claw used Black Mountain as a weapon to defeat Big Blade, then killed both tribal leaders and claimed command of the gathered Orc Clan.
• Black Claw named the united group the Black Claw Tribe, and nearly a day later brought the surviving Greatsword Tribe members under his command, raising his following to more than two thousand.
• Jiang Shu and Electric Current observed that Faith Power was eroding Jiang Shu’s emotional seal, and Jiang Shu lifted it after the tribe had settled.
• Black Claw nearly lost control and attacked those around him, then suppressed his emotions; Jiang Shu and Electric Current decided to let the experiment continue and observe what happened.

Jiang Shu investigated the violent impulses affecting Black Claw and discovered that an unseen force was pulling at his avatar’s soul. He was dragged into a ruined scene from the past, where he saw the Orc Clan Saint Eternal Slayer fighting a black tide, then returned with unanswered questions about the vision.

• Black Claw’s rage erupted during cultivation, and Jiang Shu examined his memories before investigating why his avatar suffered abnormal emotional impulses.
• Jiang Shu and Mech Venerable Electric Current tested orc souls and other beings, but could not explain the rage, so Electric Current left to report their findings about the Faith Dao.
• Jiang Shu moved Black Claw away from the tribe’s Faith Power, but the avatar’s rage worsened until an invisible force began dragging its soul away.
• A colossal green figure appeared amid a surge of Faith Power, vanished with nearly half the star system’s Faith Power, and Jiang Shu awoke in a devastated land filled with monsters wreathed in Destruction.
• Jiang Shu fought off the monsters and spotted the Orc Clan Saint Eternal Slayer battling an endless black tide before time froze and a distant gaze sent him back to his original location.
• Jiang Shu concluded that he had been drawn into a memory from the past and wondered whether Eternal Slayer had noticed him.

Jiang Shu discovered that his Orc Clan avatar had unlocked an inheritance of the Law of Faith, then altered the avatar’s identity and sent him to conquer a different tribe. Outside the planet, Jiang Shu confronted Mech Venerable Electric Current and three destruction monsters, whose strength rose to the mid-stage Venerable realm as their ambush began.

• Jiang Shu found that the Orc Clan avatar’s bloodline contained a path for cultivating the Law of Faith, though its benefits to him were limited.
• Jiang Shu changed Black Claw’s appearance and erased the Faith Power and other traces on himself and his avatar, then sent the avatar to conquer another Orc Clan tribe.
• Jiang Shu confronted Mech Venerable Electric Current outside the planet and learned that the three figures with him were destruction monsters born from the Cosmos’s end times.
• Jiang Shu attacked Electric Current, but the three monsters joined the battle and revealed unusual destructive power.
• After Jiang Shu dodged their joint attack, Electric Current offered to spare him if he handed over what he had obtained from the Orc Clan.
• The destruction monsters surged from early-stage to mid-stage Venerables, and Jiang Shu prepared to fight after realizing his precautions had hidden his traces.

Jiang Shu fought three Annihilation Void Puppets deployed by Mech Venerable Electric Current, discovering that they could only be permanently stopped through Law-level contamination. As the Orc Venerable joined the battle and Electric Current began constructing another trap, Jiang Shu approached one puppet, preparing to test a new method.

• Jiang Shu’s attacks destroyed one Annihilation Void Puppet, but its destructive aura spread and began rebuilding it while weakening his spatial teleportation.
• Jiang Shu summoned phantom Ba Snake and Golden Dragon to fight the puppets as he searched for a way to escape.
• The Orc Venerable charged into the battlefield, but the puppets’ destruction began corroding his Faith Power.
• Jiang Shu found the Orc Saint’s record explaining that Annihilation Void Puppets could only be dispersed through contamination at the level of Laws, and he used the Law of Creation to form a barrier.
• Jiang Shu isolated one puppet with a spatial barrier while the Orc Venerable repeatedly smashed another, spreading more destruction as Electric Current watched.
• Electric Current began constructing a mechanism to strangle Jiang Shu, who moved directly before a puppet as it lunged at him.

Jiang Shu defeated Mech Venerable Electric Current and temporarily disabled the three Annihilation Void Puppets, then left to report what he had learned. On a beastman planet, Black Claw founded his own tribe and rapidly expanded his power through conquest and faith.

• Jiang Shu used Forbidden Law Dao Resonance and the Law of Creation to disrupt one Annihilation Void Puppet, then evaded Mech Venerable Electric Current's Annihilation Death Ray and shattered Electric Current's mechanical body.
• Jiang Shu disabled the other two Annihilation Void Puppets, and the wounded Beastman Venerable withdrew rather than continue fighting.
• Jiang Shu slowed time around the wreckage, concealed it under layers of seals, and entered subspace to return to the Mingkuang Star Sector with his intelligence.
• Black Claw killed the beastman chieftain and founded the Black Claw Tribe, gathering more than a thousand followers.
• Black Claw conquered another beastman tribe, expanded his followers to nearly two thousand, and grew stronger as Faith Power flowed into him.

Jiang Shu returned to the Mingkuang Star Sector and told the other Venerables about the Orc starfield, the Black Tide, and Electric Current’s attempt to kill him. After two Creation Law practitioners cleared the destructive residue, reports of Annihilation Void Puppets led Jiang Shu to prepare an expedition to Morningstar Starfield, where they had been fighting for decades.

• Jiang Shu told Elder Lei, Blood Sickle, Resistor, and the others how an Orc Saint pulled him into a fragment of cosmic light and how Electric Current later tried to kill him with Annihilation Void Puppets.
• The factions confronted Resistor over Electric Current’s betrayal, and Resistor promised a core-level investigation of the Mech Clan.
• Jiang Shu led Lin Tianran and an Insectoid Venerable to the Orc starfield, where they used the Law of Creation to destroy the remaining black mud and clear the Aura of Destruction.
• Jiang Shu shared his findings with Elder Lei and Blood Sickle, and the factions publicized reports of Annihilation Void Puppets in exchange for reduced taxes.
• Zhan Feng brought word that Morningstar Starfield had battled Annihilation Void Puppets for decades, and Jiang Shu agreed to investigate.
• Jiang Shu met Navigator Su Mingyu, who reported that Morningstar’s cargo was nearly ready to depart.

Jiang Shu and Yan Kuan investigated the sealed planet overrun by Annihilation Void Puppets, where Jiang Shu discovered that the monsters were disappearing underground. In a vast cavern beneath the planet, they found the remains of thousands of puppets, suggesting an intelligent force was refining its troops.

• Jiang Shu arrived at the Morningstar Starfield, met Yan Kuan, and reviewed the history of the Annihilation Void Puppets and the measures used to contain them.
• Jiang Shu entered the sealed planet with Yan Kuan and used a sphere of black energy to stop the puppets surging toward the opening.
• Jiang Shu noticed weak puppets leaving the group and burying themselves, then found that one had vanished beneath the ground.
• Jiang Shu and Yan Kuan descended into a vast underground cavern, where they found thousands of dried puppet remains drained of their power.
• Jiang Shu concluded that intelligent puppets were refining their forces after failing to overwhelm the defenders.

Jiang Shu and Yan Kuan discovered a Flesh Lotus growing from millions of drained Annihilation Void Puppets beneath the battlefield. The lotus awakened and emerged onto the surface, where orbital weapons failed to harm it; Jiang Shu stepped forward to confront it as it unleashed the Law of Destruction.

• Jiang Shu and Yan Kuan followed the growing heartbeat underground and found a flesh flower feeding on the remains of millions of Annihilation Void Puppets.
• Yan Kuan realized the monsters had hidden their growth from the planet’s monitoring and asked whether an Extinction Order could stop the threat, but Jiang Shu judged the flower too powerful.
• The Flesh Lotus began to bloom and release Aura of Destruction, so Jiang Shu seized Yan Kuan and punched through the planet’s crust to escape.
• Jiang Shu and Yan Kuan fought their way through the Annihilation Void Puppets on the surface, then returned to the starship and reported the danger.
• Jiang Shu ordered a Navigator to report the crisis to his allies in the Mingkuang Star Sector as the Flesh Lotus emerged and began eroding its surroundings.
• Yan Kuan ordered the orbital weapons to fire, but the Flesh Lotus remained unharmed, so Jiang Shu approached it and faced its sweeping Law of Destruction.

Jiang Shu confronted the flesh-and-blood lotus, which identified itself as the Great Destruction Venerable and insisted that destroying the planet was its destiny. When it attacked, Jiang Shu fought back and used Space Cracks to drain away the Aura of Destruction, gaining an advantage over the lotus.

• Jiang Shu struck the flesh-and-blood lotus with a lightning spear, but it healed by devouring the surrounding Aura of Destruction.
• The lotus introduced itself as the Great Destruction Venerable, a being born to destroy certain Laws, and asked Jiang Shu about his origins and purpose.
• Jiang Shu learned that the lotus meant to destroy the planet and promised to protect its inhabitants, refusing the lotus's demand that he leave.
• The lotus attacked Jiang Shu with its roots, and he countered with the Vermilion Bird Divine Flame, a Mimetic Black Hole, lightning, and the Desolate Star Halberd.
• Jiang Shu opened Space Cracks with the Heaven-Connecting Jianmu and drained the destructive aura into the void, frustrating the lotus's attempts to control space.

Jiang Shu fought the Flesh Lotus on an abandoned planet, discovered that its bud was nurturing a being, and pursued the newly emerged woman after she escaped. He struck at her with the Desolate Star Halberd, but the outcome of the attack was left unresolved.

• Jiang Shu used Spatial Lockdown and Space Contraction to test the Flesh Lotus and learned that it collapsed illusion realms to hinder his spatial attacks.
• Jiang Shu charged into the destructive tide and struck the lotus bud with the Desolate Star Halberd, but the Flesh Lotus healed by drawing nourishment through its roots.
• Jiang Shu battered the Flesh Lotus with his Laws and weapon, then pierced its bud and sealed it with space and time as Yan Kuan and the other Human Race cultivators watched.
• Golden blood poured from the bud as it bloomed, revealing a woman in a blood-red dress who used the lotus to block Jiang Shu and then escaped as a phantom.
• Jiang Shu inferred that the woman had been gestating inside the Flesh Lotus and tracked her to the edge of a star system, where he attacked with a thousand-zhang Desolate Star Halberd.

Jiang Shu captured and suppressed a newly born Great Destruction Venerable, who claimed she had been created to target the Insectoid Clan, while he studied her Law of Destruction. After Zhan Jiuxiao and Blood Sickle arrived, Blood Sickle sensed that she could sever the Insectoid Clan’s connection to its Mother Queen.

• Jiang Shu used the Laws of Force, time, and space to defeat the woman's dispersed forms and capture another clone at the edge of subspace.
• The woman offered to help Jiang Shu survive the great calamity and destroy the Insectoid Clan, explaining that she was a Great Destruction Venerable born to target them.
• Jiang Shu kept the woman alive as research material, while Yan Kuan gathered practitioners to suppress her and search the star sector for her remaining clones.
• Jiang Shu and the search teams captured dozens of clones, and Jiang Shu comprehended a trace of the Law of Destruction as he weakened the woman.
• On the eleventh day, Zhan Jiuxiao and Blood Sickle arrived, and Blood Sickle sensed that the woman could sever the Insectoid Clan’s connection to the Mother Queen.

Jiang Shu and Zhan Jiuxiao imprisoned Insect Hunter and arranged for her to be guarded in the Mingkuang Star Sector while they studied her threat. In the Demon Domain, Jiang Shu’s incarnation Gold Horn endured Immortal Volcano’s Nirvana True Fire and emerged reborn and stronger.

• Blood Sickle confirmed that Insect Hunter could sever the connection between the Insectoid Clan and its offspring, and Jiang Shu and Zhan Jiuxiao tested her abilities with war insects.
• Insect Hunter named herself and revealed that the Great Destruction Venerable had given her the name; Jiang Shu and Zhan Jiuxiao decided to keep her imprisoned for study.
• Jiang Shu and Zhan Jiuxiao took Insect Hunter to the Mingkuang Star Sector, where Zhan Jiuxiao assumed responsibility for guarding her, and Jiang Shu entered seclusion.
• Months later, Gold Horn endured Immortal Volcano’s Nirvana True Fire as a five-colored figure watched him.
• Gold Horn’s body and spirit burned to their limits, then renewed themselves, leaving him stronger.

Gold Horn completed his second Nirvana in Immortal Volcano and joined Feng Yao as they searched for another fire vein. After news spread of Xuanhai Venerable’s death and a battle over his failed Nirvana, Gold Horn faced Kong Xuan’s challenge and overwhelmed his attacks, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Gold Horn completed his second Nirvana, accepted Feng Yao’s medicinal pill, and recovered while discussing why the Phoenix Lord had opened Immortal Volcano to other Demon Races.
• Gold Horn explained that the Dragon and Phoenix Races had weakened after the Myriad Gods Cave battle, then left with Feng Yao to seek another fire vein and complete his third Nirvana.
• After Gold Horn returned, news spread that White Tiger Demon Venerable had completed Nirvana, Xuanhai Venerable had died in Nirvana True Fire, and a Venerable of the Profound Horse Clan had seized a fire vein.
• A Demon Spider Clan Venerable faced a group of experts who blamed him for causing Xuanhai Venerable’s Nirvana to fail, while Gold Horn and Feng Yao arrived and watched.
• Kong Xuan challenged Gold Horn to a duel, and Gold Horn shattered his Five-Colored Divine Light and sent him flying with a single exchange.
• Kong Xuan insisted he had not been defeated and launched another attack, but Gold Horn punched through his Five-Colored Divine Light, leaving Kong Xuan shocked by Gold Horn’s strength.

Gold Horn defeated Kong Xuan’s Five Elements Renewal with his Black Sun, then agreed to protect Zhu Luo in exchange for information about a fire vein. He left with Zhu Luo to seek Nirvana True Fire, while the battered Golden Peng watched them go in fury.

• Gold Horn prepared to leave, but Kong Xuan challenged him again as the White Tiger Demon Venerable arrived to watch.
• Kong Xuan unleashed Five Elements Renewal, forming a Five Elements Small World, while Gold Horn answered with his Black Sun and Time Entwining the Body.
• Gold Horn’s Black Sun swallowed Kong Xuan’s Five-Colored Halo and sent him crashing to the ground, though Gold Horn stopped short of killing him.
• Zhu Luo offered Gold Horn information about a fire vein in exchange for protection, and Gold Horn agreed.
• Gold Horn struck down the protesting Golden Peng and asked Zhu Luo where the Nirvana True Fire was; Zhu Luo led him away as the Golden Peng glared after them.

Gold Horn and Feng Yao completed their third Nirvana and entered the Phoenix Nest after Immortal Volcano opened. The Five Virtues Phoenix Lord let the other Demon Race experts enter as well, secretly altering their karmic connections while Gold Horn and Feng Yao pursued the nest’s true treasures.

• Kong Xuan stopped Golden Peng from targeting Gold Horn, warning that Gold Horn was favored by the Dragon Race and was the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord’s son-in-law.
• Gold Horn and Feng Yao found a large reserve of Nirvana True Fire and used it to complete their third Nirvana, gaining the Law of Nirvana and greatly strengthening their bodies.
• Gold Horn tested the Law of Nirvana’s healing power, then followed Feng Yao into the depths of Immortal Volcano toward the Phoenix Nest.
• The Phoenix Nest opened, and Gold Horn and Feng Yao entered while other Demons discovered they could enter too and began streaming inside.
• The Five Virtues Phoenix Lord watched the Demons enter and secretly changed their karmic connections, allowing them to take lesser treasures while Gold Horn and Feng Yao pursued the most important ones.

The Demon Race powerhouses entered the Phoenix Nest and fought over its treasures while Feng Yao and Gold Horn advanced deeper inside. The White Tiger Demon Venerable discovered a hidden banquet space containing the White Tiger Demon Lord’s power, as other ancestral figures appeared from the remaining seats.

• The Five Virtues Phoenix Lord allowed the intruders to take treasures, expecting them to incur karma, while the demons seized Nirvana liquid, Blood Phoenix Essence, and Phoenix Blood Divine Metal.
• The White Tiger Demon Venerable and Kong Xuan found Gold Horn beneath the crimson sea, then studied the Primordial Phoenix True Spirit Diagram as other powerhouses rushed onward.
• Feng Yao appeared wearing the Primordial Phoenix Crown and invited the demons to take any treasures they were fated to obtain, prompting a fierce battle over the Phoenix Nest’s treasures.
• Gold Horn and Feng Yao continued deeper into the nest, suspecting the Five Virtues Phoenix Lord had a hidden purpose for opening it.
• The White Tiger Demon Venerable sensed his ancestor’s aura in the banquet hall, awakened a hidden space with his own aura, and saw the White Tiger Demon Lord’s shadow among figures emerging from the seats.

Gold Horn explored the Phoenix Nest, claimed the Ba Snake Demon Lord’s phantom, and avoided treasures that might involve the Phoenix Race’s fortune and karma. He reached an ancient hall that opened at his approach, where a lifelike Phoenix appeared and stared at him.

• The Demon Race experts fought over Demon Lord phantoms, while Gold Horn defeated challengers and absorbed the Ba Snake Demon Lord’s phantom.
• Gold Horn passed over a Phoenix-shaped ganoderma and other treasures as Venerables battled for them.
• At the Quenching Pool, Gold Horn freed frozen Demon Venerables and warned the experts about a Frost Marrow Spirit lurking below.
• Gold Horn reached an ancient hall whose doors opened as he approached.
• A lifelike Phoenix appeared inside the hall and fixed its gaze on Gold Horn.

The demon experts followed a Phoenix plume to an ancient altar where Nirvana True Fire tested those who climbed it. As Gold Horn pressed toward the summit, a nine-leaf Blood Phoenix Flower sparked a struggle between the White Tiger Demon Venerable and Kong Xuan, while Feng Yao climbed calmly in human form.

• A Demon Lord's Phoenix plume rejected the demons' attempts to seize it, then flew through the doors, leading Gold Horn and the others to an ancient altar that he identified as a tomb.
• Feng Yao invited the demons to climb the altar, and Gold Horn explained that its Nirvana True Fire tested them; demons who had already undergone Nirvana endured the flames better than the rest.
• The demons discovered a nine-leaf Blood Phoenix Flower, but Gold Horn ignored it and continued toward the summit.
• Golden Peng lunged for the flower, but the White Tiger Demon Venerable struck him off the altar and claimed the medicine for himself.
• Kong Xuan challenged the White Tiger Demon Venerable for the Blood Phoenix Flower, and Feng Yao leisurely climbed the altar in human form.