Chapter Summaries

Bai Xiao agreed to bind his soul to the being that controlled Rules in exchange for part of the Rules' power. The binding sent his consciousness backward through the stages of life, and he learned that he had survived and gained a slight understanding of the Life Rule.

• The being offered Bai Xiao part of the power of Rules if he bound their souls together, and Bai Xiao asked what the binding meant.
• The being explained that if Bai Xiao died, it would perish too, and assured him the Contract Rule would protect their agreement.
• Bai Xiao agreed to the soul binding, then watched his consciousness regress through the stages of life until it vanished.
• Bai Xiao found himself floating above his still-living body and heard the being say he had gained a slight understanding of the Life Rule.

Bai Xiao adapted to his new existence and learned that powerful beings could grasp only fragments of the Cosmic Rules by understanding them. He asked whether famous physicists and mathematicians from his homeland had wielded such powers, and the being told him to get lost.

• Bai Xiao gradually adapted to his new form and learned he could bear only one rule fragment.
• The being explained that even powerful existences could grasp only fragments of the Cosmic Rules, while complete rules would destroy them.
• Bai Xiao mocked the being for exploiting the greater universe as it accused humans of exploiting Douluo Star.
• Bai Xiao asked how to grasp rules, and the being said it came through understanding them.
• Bai Xiao asked whether Newton, Albert Einstein, and Zu Chongzhi had controlled rules, and the being finally told him to get lost.

Bai Xiao learned that his desire to control his own life was his Dao Heart, then discovered that his body had developed a consciousness capable of taking over the Life Rule. After the mysterious being stopped it, Bai Xiao learned about the Four Great Life Rules and confirmed that he wielded the Creation Rule.

• The being explained that mastering Rules required a strong body and spirit, talent, and aptitude, then identified Bai Xiao’s determination to choose his own life as his Dao Heart.
• Bai Xiao celebrated his power, but the being exposed part of its face and suppressed him with a glance to show the gap between their levels.
• After Bai Xiao returned to his body, his flesh mutated and tried to act on its own; the being used a decree to stop the transformation and restore his body.
• Bai Xiao discovered soul fragments throughout his cells and realized his body had developed a consciousness that might have seized the Life Divine Authority and replaced him.
• The being explained that it had withheld the Life Divine Authority Crystal because it could see the threat, and told Bai Xiao that contracts could establish trust between lifeforms.
• The being named the Four Great Life Rules as Longevity, Soul, Creation, and Contract, and revealed that Bai Xiao wielded the Creation Rule.

Bai Xiao learned that the Creation Rule would take at least a hundred million years to master, while the Plane Consciousness could use time traversal to repeat his training at a terrible cost. After revealing its defeat by the Divine Realm, it said their chance lay in developing a new cultivation system through the Life Rule and began by creating a world.

• The Plane Consciousness explained the Time and Space rules and warned Bai Xiao that he could only master one rule, urging him to focus on Creation.
• It told Bai Xiao that mastering Creation would take at least a hundred million years and proposed using time traversal to repeat his training, though each use consumed immense reserves.
• The Plane Consciousness described how it had lost the God Realm War and warned Bai Xiao that breaking their contract would erase him.
• It argued that they could defeat the Divine Realm by finding a new cultivation system based on the Life Rule.
• The Plane Consciousness transformed their space into a world and declared that their first step was to create life.

Tang San learned from the Douluo Daily that the ancient Tang Sect had been destroyed after he violated its rules and jumped from a cliff, and that its techniques were now being shared freely. The chapter ended with the continent branding him the Tang Sect demon child and calling for his execution, while he left Shrek Academy’s cafeteria in despair.

• Tang San enjoyed his privileges as a Shrek Inner Court elite student before reading a Douluo Daily report about Tang Sect ruins discovered by the Xinghe Group.
• The report described the Tang Sect’s six techniques, its destruction by Demonic Beasts, and the supreme elder’s wish to share the techniques and have the reincarnated disciple hunted.
• Tang San recognized himself as the disciple responsible for the Tang Sect’s destruction and accepted that the report was true.
• Students praised the Tang Sect supreme elder and chanted that the demon child was a target for universal execution.
• Tang San quietly left the cafeteria, realizing that the Tang Sect techniques no longer gave him an advantage and that everyone now cursed his identity.

A woman who was originally a planet’s consciousness created a miniature Earth for Bai Xiao and accelerated time so it could develop. She left to confront someone from the Divine Realm, while Bai Xiao stayed behind with a remote to control the planet’s time.

• The woman shaped a lava planet with lightning and rain, cooling its surface and creating an atmosphere filled with chemical elements.
• She accelerated time around the planet and told Bai Xiao that she had finished creating the miniature Earth he had requested.
• Bai Xiao said he had driven a pawn on Douluo Continent into a dead end and spread Tang San’s stolen cultivation technique across the continent.
• The woman explained that she had taken human form because she was originally a female planetary consciousness, then told Bai Xiao to use his Life Rule to restore Earth’s civilization.
• The woman left to stop someone from the Divine Realm, and a hand passed Bai Xiao a remote with buttons to accelerate, decelerate, or pause time.

A lost hunter named Guo encountered a powerful wild-haired man who fed him and gave him a magical book called the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The man asked Guo to spread the book, whose pages contained the souls and powers of strange beasts.

• Guo became lost in the mountains and came face to face with an enormous beast and the wild-haired man riding it.
• The man reassured Guo, roasted a piece of beast meat with golden flames, and used summoned water to help him after he ate too quickly.
• The man gave Guo the Classic of Mountains and Seas and asked him to spread it among people.
• Guo read about Xiangliu, whose illustration came alive and frightened him into throwing the book aside.
• The man explained that he had sealed strange beasts' souls into the book and demonstrated the powers of Xiangliu, Zhulong, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and Qiongqi.

A hunter preserved the Classic of Mountains and Seas after meeting a mysterious man, while the First Emperor Ying Zheng prepared to seal the world’s Spirit Veins. Ying Zheng sacrificed himself to replace them with dragon veins, ending the Mythological Age and leaving the Great Wilderness hidden away.

• A mysterious man gave the hunter the indestructible Classic of Mountains and Seas, foretold the First Emperor’s plan, and sent him to sleep after feeding him Ferocious Beast meat.
• The hunter returned home and secretly carved his knowledge onto bamboo slips, helping the Classic of Mountains and Seas emerge among the people.
• Ying Zheng unified the realm, ordered the Spirit Veins sealed, and punished Confucians who protested his decree.
• At the sealing ceremony, Donghuang Taiyi and other Transcendents opposed Ying Zheng, but Ying Zheng fought them and revealed that he would replace the Spirit Veins with his own dragon body.
• Ying Zheng used the Tai'a Sword to sever the world’s Dao inscriptions, then transformed into dragon veins and merged with the Dao as the Flame Emperor held back the Ferocious Beasts and Yu the Great fought the Flood Dragons.
• The Great Wilderness Mountains vanished into folded space, the Flood Dragons fled to the deep sea, and thinning spiritual energy ended the Mythological Age.

A vast, instinct-driven celestial creature absorbed a silver USB drive and began forming a humanoid figure. After taking the drive into himself again, the figure recovered his identity as Bai Hexun and remembered that he came from Blue Star.

• A high-energy creature found a silver USB drive floating in space and embedded it in its body.
• The creature convulsed as the drive transformed it, then became still before forming a humanoid figure from its tentacles.
• The figure opened his eyes and repeatedly questioned who he was, eventually saying his name was Bai Hexun.
• Bai Hexun put the USB drive back into his body and endured a torrent of information.
• Bai Hexun recognized himself and remembered that he came from Blue Star.

Bai Hexun discovered that he had survived in a star-sized body made of energy and matter, and began exploring the strange universe around him. He set off toward a brilliant region of stars, intent on studying the universe’s laws and learning to control his new form.

• Bai Hexun examined his enormous energy-and-matter body and realized that Doctor Dugu’s explanation had been true.
• Bai Hexun marveled at the high-energy particles and colorful energy currents his unusual senses let him perceive.
• Bai Hexun tested his body’s strength and concluded that he needed to be cautious about the powerful civilizations that might exist.
• Bai Hexun swam toward the brightest region of the star-filled expanse to explore its laws and learn to use high-energy particles.
• Bai Hexun reflected that he was accustomed to being alone and distrusted other people because of humanity’s ugliness.

Bai Hexun used his Mental Power to build a detailed inner world and manipulate his perception of time as he approached a blue planet. Near the planet, he spotted two humans in ancient garb riding flying swords and clashing in space.

• Bai Hexun experimented with Mental Power, giving the objects in his Mental World physical properties through mental commands.
• Bai Hexun estimated that he could alter time in his Mental World by nearly a hundred million times, though his crude use of conjured computers wasted much of his computing power.
• Bai Hexun slowed time in his Mental World to make his approach toward the blue planet seem like a Hypergalactic Jump.
• Bai Hexun reflected on his isolation and created an artificial intelligence butler using some of his own soul's original code.
• Bai Hexun noticed two streaks of blue light near the planet and pushed his computing power and eyesight to their limits.
• Bai Hexun saw that the lights came from two humans in ancient garb riding flying swords and clashing weapons in the void.

Bai Hexun disguised himself as a meteorite cluster and manipulated Li Cunzhen and Yue Hongchen into a dead end, where the two cultivators fought over the Heaven and Earth Seal and Bloodthirsty Heavenly Mark. He watched their battle but could not understand their language, leaving him baffled by the alien conversation.

• Bai Hexun covered his body with meteorites and suppressed his energy to hide from the approaching cultivators.
• Bai Hexun steered Li Cunzhen and Yue Hongchen through the meteorite field and blocked their route into a cavern.
• Yue Hongchen taunted Li Cunzhen, claiming his subordinates had captured Li Cunzhen's pregnant companion, Ningning.
• Li Cunzhen attacked Yue Hongchen, who blocked the strike with a turtle-shell shield, and they began fighting.
• Bai Hexun watched the battle and wondered why the universe did not speak Chinese.

Bai Hexun killed the wounded Cultivator B after he defeated Yue Hongchen, then examined the bodies of Cultivator B and Cultivator A. His investigation revealed that Cultivator A’s body stored energy in a crystalline brain and an abdominal energy space, including a subspace structure.

• Cultivator B defeated Cultivator A in a savage hand-to-hand fight, leaving Cultivator A unconscious.
• Bai Hexun attacked Cultivator B with a meteor and pierced through his chest while he was weakened.
• Bai Hexun used a meteor-fragment double to behead Cultivator B after failing to understand his speech.
• Bai Hexun sent tentacles into Cultivator B’s corpse and absorbed unconscious Cultivator A to study their bodies.
• Bai Hexun discovered that Cultivator A had separate material and energy nutritional systems, with energy stored in his brain and abdomen.
• Bai Hexun detected a subspace structure in Cultivator A’s brain that could store energy particles.

Bai Hexun studied Cultivator B’s memories and learned the language of this world, watching Li Cunzhen’s life unfold. After recounting Li Cunzhen’s rise and his attempt to draw danger away from his family, Bai Hexun revealed that he had ended Li Cunzhen’s life.

• Bai Hexun extracted data from Cultivator B’s skull while reflecting that his own identity was a new life-form carrying the memories of the original Bai Hexun.
• Bai Hexun combined Cultivator B’s language system with Chinese and understood a recording of Li Cunzhen’s mother explaining why his father had left.
• Bai Hexun watched Li Cunzhen’s life story at accelerated time in his Mental World while keeping Cultivator A imprisoned and unconscious outside.
• Li Cunzhen survived betrayal and hardship, inherited a Void Crossing Realm senior’s legacy, became an Unfettered Realm expert, and later advanced into the Void Crossing Realm.
• Li Cunzhen drew Yue Hongchen into the void to protect his wife and child, and Bai Hexun ended his life.

Bai Hexun learned the cultivation system from Li Cunzhen’s memories and realized that only cultivators of the Star Sea Realm could challenge him for long. He examined the six known realms and the harsh cost of building a foundation, while higher realms remained unknown to him.

• Bai Hexun felt no remorse for killing Li Cunzhen and judged that the fighters he had feared could barely injure him.
• Bai Hexun learned that the world’s six known cultivation realms ranged from the Coolie Realm to the Star Sea Realm.
• Bai Hexun understood that the Coolie Realm built the muscles needed to nourish the meridians during the Butterfly Transformation Realm.
• Bai Hexun learned that wealthy families could buy resources for their children’s foundations, while poor children often labored to earn food and cultivation supplies.
• Bai Hexun learned that uneven training, breaking through too young, or attempting a breakthrough in old age could cripple or kill cultivators.

Bai Hexun explained how the Butterfly Transformation and Bone-Breaking realms worked, including how Bone-Breakers awakened Spiritual Sense by opening channels in the Dragon Bone. He concluded that a strong foundation in the Coolie Realm was essential, since people who rushed ahead often could not advance beyond the first layers of Bone-Breaking.

• Bai Hexun described how Butterfly Transformation cultivators used spiritual power and expanded their abdominal Grotto-Heavens and meridians.
• Bai Hexun explained that Bone-Breaking cultivators opened channels in the Dragon Bone to develop their brains and awaken Spiritual Sense.
• Bai Hexun recalled the immense information stored by the brain and how Bone-Breakers reduced energy use by keeping part of their minds dormant.
• Bai Hexun explained that Bone-Breaking cultivators could think and fight as if time moved ten times slower, but needed a large spiritual-power reserve to break through.
• Bai Hexun said that people who rushed through the Coolie Realm often developed weak foundations and became trapped at the first or second layer of the Dragon Bone.

The chapter explained how cultivators advanced from the Bone-Breaking Realm into the Unfettered Realm by developing Divine Blood, opening their limbs, and balancing spiritual power until they could fly and sustain themselves mainly on energy. It described the realm’s Qi Sea and combat strength, then noted that talented cultivators such as Li Cunzhen advanced faster in the resource-rich Central Province than in the Northern Wasteland.

• Celestial Star described the Unfettered Realm as the stage where cultivators could fly, fast from ordinary food, and forge spiritual power into weapons.
• Cultivators used Spiritual Sense to nourish their spinal marrow, create Divine Blood, and open the Divine Lock as the first step toward the Unfettered Realm.
• Cultivators transformed the marrow in their limbs and balanced their spiritual power to stabilize its circulation and support flight.
• Cultivators stored dense spiritual energy in the Grotto-Heaven in their abdomens, where it condensed into droplets and mist, forming a Qi Sea.
• The chapter stated that Unfettered Realm cultivators dominated the Northern Wasteland unless Void Crossing Realm experts appeared, while many gifted cultivators sought the Central Province’s richer resources.
• Li Cunzhen reached the Void Crossing Realm in less than twenty years after moving to the Central Province.

Bai Hexun reflected on the dangers and exploitative customs of Void Crossing Realm cultivators who explored the universe. The chapter explained how cultivators broke through to that realm by growing new flesh and inscribing Divine Runes, while Bai Hexun understood those abilities as forms of quantum manipulation.

• Bai Hexun decided not to invade Celestial Star in his true body because he feared the dangers of confronting an advanced civilization.
• Bai Hexun described how Void Crossing Realm cultivators contacted civilizations on suitable planets before returning with reinforcements to seize their resources, or used a missing-person claim to justify cleansing weaker worlds.
• Bai Hexun noted that human Void Crossing Realm cultivators feared one another and often fled when they encountered someone whose aura seemed exceptionally weak.
• Bai Hexun explained that breaking through to the Void Crossing Realm required replacing the body's flesh and blood, then controlling skin growth to inscribe Divine Runes.
• Bai Hexun explained that Divine Runes granted supernatural abilities through quantum manipulation, and that Divine Rune Masters created and customized rune patterns.

Bai Hexun organized Celestial Star’s cultivation system, reflecting on how Void Crossing Realm experts gained immense power but could still be stopped by stronger opponents. He recalled how Yue Hongchen’s pursuit of Li Cunzhen ended with Yue Hongchen captured, then continued collecting data from Yue Hongchen despite his pain.

• Bai Hexun reviewed how cultivation transformed the body, making Void Crossing Realm cultivators exceptionally strong and resilient.
• Bai Hexun described how the Void Transformation Pellet formed and gave cultivators formidable endurance and explosive power.
• Bai Hexun recalled that Yue Hongchen had chased Li Cunzhen from the Central Province into outer space to protect the Yue Clan’s prestige.
• Bai Hexun remembered that Li Cunzhen had humiliated Yue Hongchen before Yue Hongchen was captured.
• Bai Hexun collected data from Yue Hongchen’s body with his tentacles while Yue Hongchen convulsed in pain.

The chapter explained how Star Sea Realm cultivators formed Dharma Bodies and Golden Cores, describing the physical and mental changes that enabled the breakthrough. It also explained why powerful cultivators ate vast quantities of food and how a Nascent Soul formed from brain activity and mental particles.

• The chapter described how Star Sea Realm cultivators held liquid spiritual power in their meridians and a solid Golden Core in their Grotto-Heavens.
• Void Crossing Realm cultivators expanded their meridians under pressure, consumed high-energy food to nourish them, and enlarged their bodies to accommodate the changes.
• The chapter explained that powerful cultivators continued eating for enjoyment, recovery, and breakthroughs, while human civilization developed millions of dishes.
• Humans discovered that Spiritual Sense and Mental Power could regulate the body and that, during a Star Sea Realm breakthrough, neural activity could extend beyond the body.
• The chapter explained how mental particles formed a quantum-entangled phantom brain called a Nascent Soul, which helped condense and control the Golden Core.