Chapter Summaries

Qin Hao steadied himself by resolving to grow strong enough to protect his family and the Myriad Phenomena Hall, then advanced his Vitality Laws while preparing for the Azure Flame Grand Tournament. His Time Doppelganger reached the Hundred Immortals Palace and asked Elder Shuixian to save them.

• Lingxiaozi urged Qin Hao to join the Azure Flame Sect as an Official Disciple, explaining that sufficient strength could let him destroy Ancestor Yanshi and the Shi family.
• Qin Hao set aside his worries and cultivated Destruction Laws and Vitality Laws while awaiting news from his Time Doppelganger at the Hundred Immortals Palace.
• After five days, Qin Hao's Vitality Laws reached Third-Order Perfection, and he vowed to make Shi Youbing, Ancestor Yanshi, and the Shi family regret opposing him.
• Qin Hao's Time Doppelganger arrived at the Hundred Immortals Palace and requested an audience with Elder Shuixian, who recognized his Third-Order Perfection Time Laws.
• Qin Hao bowed before Elder Shuixian and pleaded with her to save them.

Qin Hao persuaded Elder Shuixian to help break Ancestor Yanshi’s seal on the Myriad Phenomena Hall and Tianshui City, and she carried him to the Southern Reach. They arrived to find the hall still trapped beneath a Black Flame Grand Formation that even the Limitless Ancestor and Ancient Sword Venerable could not break.

• Qin Hao told Elder Shuixian that Ancestor Yanshi had sealed the Myriad Phenomena Hall and Tianshui City to threaten him.
• Elder Shuixian agreed to accompany Qin Hao to the Southern Reach, leaving Mu Ziqing undisturbed while she completed her breakthrough.
• Elder Shuixian carried Qin Hao across the distant domains and reached the Southern Reach in less than half a day.
• Qin Hao and Elder Shuixian headed for the Myriad Phenomena Hall, where the Limitless Ancestor, the Ancient Sword Venerable, and Era Fenglan were gathered outside its Black Flame Grand Formation.
• The Limitless Ancestor and the Ancient Sword Venerable explained that attacking the formation made it contract and risked the lives of those trapped inside.

Qin Hao arrived at the besieged Myriad Phenomena Hall with Elder Shuixian, where he learned that Ancestor Yanshi had sealed the hall and threatened Tianshui City. He blamed himself for the crisis and asked Elder Shuixian whether she could break the Black Flame Laws formation.

• Ji Fenglan and the Southern Reach’s experts failed to find a way to break the formation and worried that Ancestor Yanshi would attack Tianshui City and the Qin family.
• Ji Fenglan revealed that Qin Yuntian had been gravely wounded and had little time left, while the city descended into chaos.
• A powerful woman and a young man appeared, and the group recognized the young man as Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao greeted the gathered experts, apologized for the Myriad Phenomena Hall’s predicament, and asked Elder Shuixian if she could break the formation.

Elder Shuixian examined Ancestor Yanshi’s Black Flame Grand Formation but discovered that breaking it would unleash two Ninth-Order Origin Laws and kill everyone inside. With the Myriad Phenomena Hall still trapped and Qin Hao’s father near death, Qin Hao hurried to Tianshui City while Limitless Ancestor and Ancient Sword Venerable stayed to study the formation.

• Qin Hao introduced Elder Shuixian as a Half-Step Creation Great Expert and Mu Ziqing’s Teacher, raising everyone’s hopes that she could break the formation.
• Elder Shuixian explained that separating the Darkness Laws and Flame Laws would make both rain down on the Myriad Phenomena Hall, killing everyone within it.
• Ancestor Yanshi revealed that he had anticipated Elder Shuixian’s arrival and intended for the formation’s deadly trap to push Qin Hao into supporting You Bing’s entry into the Azure Flame Sect.
• Bai Ze told Qin Hao that his father had little time left, so Qin Hao and Elder Shuixian rushed toward Tianshui City.
• Limitless Ancestor and Ancient Sword Venerable stayed behind to study the formation while the others faced the danger of the Myriad Phenomena Hall’s destruction.

Qin Hao returned to Tianshui City amid a siege and learned that his father, Qin Yuntian, was near death from injuries inflicted by Ancestor Yanshi. When Qin Hao saw his father’s frail condition, his despair damaged his Dao Heart, leaving Lingxiaozi alarmed about the Inner Demon that could follow.

• Qin Hao arrived above Tianshui City, and his appearance quickly calmed the disorder surrounding the Qin family.
• The Third Elder and Fifth Elder told Qin Hao that Ancestor Yanshi had gravely injured Qin Yuntian three months earlier.
• Elder Shuixian stopped Qin Hao from entering the Black Flame Grand Formation and warned that only a Creation Great Expert could break it.
• Qi Yuelan met Qin Hao and told him to see his father one last time.
• The Fifth Elder brought Qin Yuntian out, and Qin Hao froze at his father's emaciated, nearly lifeless state.
• Elder Shuixian warned that Qin Hao's Dao Heart had been damaged, while Lingxiaozi feared he would develop an Inner Demon.

Qin Hao learned that Ancestor Yanshi had left Qin Yuntian dying under the torment of Black Flame Laws, and his grief sharpened into a powerful desire for revenge. Lingxiaozi revealed that Qin Hao could challenge the Myriad Formations Hall for a treasure that might break the Black Flame Grand Formation, leaving Qin Hao eager to begin.

• Lingxiaozi and the others saw that Qin Yuntian was near death, while Qin Hao recovered from his daze and suppressed his surging killing intent.
• Elder Shuixian realized that Qin Hao's strength and sword will were transforming, and Lingxiaozi confirmed the change from within the River of Time.
• Lingxiaozi told Qin Hao that treasures might let him break the Black Flame Grand Formation, and Qin Hao reassured Qin Yuntian before asking Elder Shuixian to wait for his help.
• Qin Hao went to a Mountain Peak, where Lingxiaozi explained that the Myriad Treasures Hall, the Myriad Swords Hall, and the Myriad Formations Hall each offered three challenge attempts.
• Qin Hao asked Lingxiaozi what treasure he could obtain and how to start the challenge.

Qin Hao learned that the Minor Anomaly Formation Flag could create Time Turbulence and suppress the Ninth-Order Origin Laws guarding Tianshui City and the Myriad Phenomena Hall. He entered the Myriad Formations Hall challenge, where he fought through the early waves and reached the difficult tests beginning at the fifty-first wave.

• Lingxiaozi explained that the Minor Anomaly Formation Flag could create Time Turbulence, allowing Elder Shuixian to suppress the two Grand Formations so they could be broken safely.
• Qin Hao learned that the flag was held at the Myriad Formations Hall’s sixtieth wave and agreed to challenge the hall despite Lingxiaozi’s warning that he had only one chance.
• Qin Hao sent his True Self into the River of Time to take the challenge, while Lingxiaozi created a Time Turbulence and transported him to the challenge grounds.
• Qin Hao fought through the first fifty waves of monsters and began facing opponents who could wield Time Laws at the fifty-first wave.
• Qin Hao spent half an hour defeating the fifty-first wave, struggling against the monsters’ numbers and their conflicting flows of time.

Qin Hao realized the Monster horde’s time effects were draining him and adjusted his fighting style to rely on the Time Laws. As the battle reached a stalemate, he found a possible path to breakthrough by narrowing his influence over time from a segment to a single moment.

• By the fifty-fourth wave, Qin Hao recognized that using the Destruction Laws and Vitality Laws increased the pressure of the Monsters’ Time Laws, so he withdrew both and fought with the Time Laws alone.
• Qin Hao endured the chaotic time effects of the Monsters, realizing they could affect the Present Form and that their steady supply of Time Laws would outlast his own.
• Qin Hao decided he needed to raise his understanding of the Time Laws to survive the coming waves and pass the trial.
• While countering the Monsters’ time effects, Qin Hao noticed space twist where their Time Laws canceled each other out.
• Qin Hao concluded that he might break through by narrowing his influence from a Time Segment to a single moment.

Qin Hao broke through to Fourth-Tier Time Laws by using a Time Instant to overcome monsters’ influence over a Time Period, then fought his way to the final trial for the Minor Anomaly Formation Flag. The sixtieth wave’s monsters disrupted his Time Instant with a dislocated influence over time, leaving him wounded and locked in a desperate battle.

• Qin Hao used his influence over a Time Instant to kill monsters and advanced his Time Laws from Third-Order Perfection to the Fourth Tier.
• Qin Hao passed the fifty-third through fifty-fifth waves and continued onward toward the final trial.
• Qin Hao faced hundreds of monsters in the sixtieth wave, but one monster overwhelmed his Time Instant and wounded his left shoulder.
• Qin Hao realized the monsters’ influence over time was dislocated from the present and fought on using his Destruction Laws, Vitality Laws, and Three Divine Abilities.
• Qin Hao traded wounds with the monsters as he tried to survive the overwhelming melee and pass the trial.

Qin Hao passed the sixtieth wave of the Myriad Formations Hall trial and obtained the Minor Anomaly Formation Flag. He gave the flag to Elder Shuixian so she could use it to break the Black Flame Grand Formations over Tianshui City and the Myriad Phenomena Hall, leaving Qin Hao intent on surprising Ancestor Yanshi at the Azure Flame Grand Tournament.

• Qin Hao defeated the sixtieth wave of Monsters, gaining a hazy insight into a higher level of the Time Laws.
• Lingxiaozi retrieved the Minor Anomaly Formation Flag, and Qin Hao took it from the River of Time to give to Elder Shuixian.
• Qin Hao returned to Tianshui City, where Elder Shuixian and his family were waiting, and assured them that he could break the Laws Formation.
• Qin Hao handed Elder Shuixian the flag and explained that she could use its Time Turbulence to break the formations.
• Elder Shuixian agreed to deploy the flag over Tianshui City and the Myriad Phenomena Hall, while Qin Hao planned to surprise Ancestor Yanshi at the Azure Flame Grand Tournament.

Qin Hao and Elder Shuixian broke Ancestor Yanshi’s Black Flame Grand Formation and saved Tianshui City and the Myriad Phenomena Hall. Elder Shuixian treated Qin Yuntian, whose cultivation recovered to the True Martial Seventh Layer.

• Elder Shuixian deployed Qin Hao’s Minor Anomaly Formation Flag between Tianshui City and the Myriad Phenomena Hall, using Time Turbulence to suppress the Ninth-Order Origin Laws.
• Elder Shuixian struck the weakened formation with her Ninth-Order Water and Golden Radiance Laws, breaking the Black Flame Grand Formation over Tianshui City.
• Tianshui City celebrated its freedom, while Qin disciples from the Martial Hall captured those who had sought to harm the Qin family.
• Elder Shuixian used her Water Laws to drive the Darkness and Flame Laws from Qin Yuntian’s body, then gave him Healing Pills.
• Qin Yuntian’s condition improved and his cultivation recovered to the True Martial Seventh Layer, relieving Qin Hao and Qi Yuelan.

Qin Hao and Elder Shuixian broke the Black Flame Grand Formation at Myriad Phenomena Hall with help from the Time Laws of Qin Hao’s Minor Anomaly Formation Flag, ending the crisis. Qin Hao returned to Tianshui City, supplied his family with treasures, and prepared to return to the Primordial Domain with Elder Shuixian while keeping the Shi family and Ancestor Yanshi in mind.

• Qin Hao went with Elder Shuixian to Myriad Phenomena Hall after his father recovered his cultivation.
• Elder Shuixian attacked the Black Flame Grand Formation, and Qin Hao’s Time Laws caused its power to scatter outward instead of striking those inside.
• Sea Ancestor and the others thanked Elder Shuixian and learned that Qin Hao’s time formation had helped break the formation.
• Qin Hao told Ancient Sword Venerable what he knew about Chen Jianqing and reassured Mu Changfeng about Mu Ziqing.
• Qin Hao returned to Tianshui City, gave his parents more than ten thousand treasures, and said he would return to the Primordial Domain with Elder Shuixian the next day.

Qin Hao left for the Myriad Phenomena Hall with Elder Shuixian, then traveled with her to the Hundred Immortals Palace. After learning Mu Ziqing had emerged from seclusion, he reunited with her and ended the chapter carrying her into Ziqing Pavilion despite her protest that it was broad daylight.

• Qin Hao told the Sea Ancestor he would not act rashly against the Shi Family and gave Elder Shuixian the Minor Anomaly Formation Flag to keep its formation running.
• Qin Hao and Elder Shuixian traveled to the Hundred Immortals Palace, where Mu Ziqing had emerged from seclusion after hearing that the Black Flame Grand Formation had been broken.
• Mu Ziqing asked Qin Hao why he had not told her about the danger to the Myriad Phenomena Hall and Tianshui City, and Elder Shuixian urged her to return to seclusion after resting.
• Mu Ziqing told Qin Hao she had reached Fourth-Tier Wind Laws and Fire Laws at Perfection and had almost finished refining the Undying Phoenix Remnant Soul.
• Mu Ziqing demanded that Qin Hao stop hiding things from her, and Qin Hao swept her into Ziqing Pavilion as she protested that it was broad daylight.

Qin Hao trained in the Destruction World while preparing for the Azure Flame Grand Tournament and learned that his study had revealed the fifth chapter of the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art, the Rules Chapter. As the tournament drew near, Fang Lang arrived in Holy City and tried to contact Qin Hao.

• Qin Hao reunited with his Time Doppelganger, continued studying the Time Laws, and told Zhuge Hong and Jian Changfeng that the Black Flame Grand Formation had been broken.
• Qin Hao vowed to deal with the Shi Family at the Azure Flame Grand Tournament and entered the Supreme Sword Tower to cultivate the Destruction Laws.
• Qin Hao sensed that a mysterious force kept the Destruction World in balance and believed understanding it could help him break through his bottleneck.
• With fifteen days left before the tournament, Saint Martial Grandmasters flocked to Holy City to register.
• Fang Lang arrived in Holy City after two years of Secluded Cultivation, reached the Ninth Layer of Saint Martial Realm, and tried to contact Qin Hao.
• Qin Hao discovered that studying the Destruction World had brought forth the fifth chapter of the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art, the Rules Chapter.

Qin Hao unlocked the Fifth Chapter of the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art, the Rules Chapter, while studying what kept the Destruction World from collapsing. Elder Ling explained how rules connected the Great Dao to the Origin Laws and revealed the hierarchy of Creation and Nirvana experts, leaving Qin Hao newly aware of the Star Sea’s most powerful figures.

• Qin Hao discovered that the Rules Chapter had appeared in the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art and asked Elder Ling about it.
• Elder Ling explained that the Great Dao used rules to govern how Origin Laws operated, and Qin Hao realized the chapter taught him how to control and use those laws.
• Qin Hao asked Elder Ling what Marquis-Rank and King-Sealing-Rank Creation Great Experts were, and Elder Ling described the ranks of Creation experts across the Star Sea.
• Elder Ling told Qin Hao that Sovereigns ruled domains and were divided into Ordinary Sovereigns, Heaven and Earth Sovereigns, and Great Dao Dominators.
• Qin Hao reflected that the Time Sword Lord must be a top-tier Great Dao Dominator.

Qin Hao studied the Rules Chapter to understand how the Laws Method differed from simply wielding Origin Laws. In the Western Wasteland, Jing Hong’s immensely powerful teacher sent him to win first place at the Azure Flame Grand Tournament.

• Lingxiaozi warned Qin Hao that reaching the highest ranks required far more than exceptional talent, and Qin Hao vowed to continue pursuing the Martial Way.
• After Lingxiaozi left, Qin Hao reread the Rules Chapter and tested how Destruction Laws could be applied, but concluded that ordinary attacks and techniques were not the true Laws Method.
• In the Western Wasteland, Jing Hong spoke with his burly teacher, whose presence and power far exceeded anything Jing Hong had encountered before.
• The teacher told Jing Hong to take first place at the Azure Flame Grand Tournament, and Jing Hong accepted the command.
• The teacher dispersed the Dragon Tornado with a wave, and Jing Hong departed in a single step; he was the secluded disciple who had once defeated Zhuge Hong in one move.

Shi Tingyan killed the mid-stage Level Five Illusionary Golden Flood Dragon after revealing his mastery of Fifth Tier Fire Laws and forcing the demon to turn back and fight. He headed northwest to join the Azure Flame Sect, while other Level Five Great Demons emerged and celebrated that he had left.

• Shi Tingyan stood among the corpses of thousands of monsters as the Illusionary Golden Flood Dragon arrived and vowed to kill him.
• The dragon attacked with Fourth Tier Gold and Water Laws, but Shi Tingyan revealed Fifth Tier Fire Laws and made it flee.
• Shi Tingyan used his power to compel the dragon to turn around and charge back at him, then killed it.
• Shi Tingyan reflected that he had come to this world fifteen years earlier and set off northwest to join the Azure Flame Sect.
• After Shi Tingyan left, other Level Five Great Demons emerged and discussed the dragon’s death and the tens of thousands of demons he had killed.

Qin Hao strengthened his Four Great Sword Moves while cultivating the Rules Chapter, then left seclusion to reunite with old acquaintances gathering in the Holy City. The group began assembling ahead of the Azure Flame Grand Tournament.

• Qin Hao deduced a Laws Method from the Rules Chapter, increasing the power of his Four Great Sword Moves by at least thirty percent.
• Lingxiaozi told Qin Hao that Zhuge Hong and Jian Changfeng had left seclusion, and Qin Hao stopped cultivating to meet them.
• Zhuge Hong told Qin Hao that Chen Jianqing had reached the Holy City and Mu Ziqing was coming, while Qin Hao discovered messages from many other old acquaintances.
• Qin Hao invited his contacts to meet together, and he, Zhuge Hong, and Jian Changfeng reunited with Chen Jianqing, who had reached the Ninth Layer of Saint Martial Realm.
• Fang Lang, Lin Zhang, and the others arrived, and Fang Lang greeted Qin Hao before questioning the people gathered there.

Qin Hao and his companions gathered in Holy City to discuss the fierce competition expected at the Azure Flame Grand Tournament. When Mu Mingxuan arrived with Qiao Chuyu, she spotted Mu Ziqing beside Qin Hao and left without joining them, prompting Mu Ziqing to question Qin Hao.

• Yang Yi, Lin Zhang's powerful eldest senior brother, joined Qin Hao and the others as they discussed the tournament and the many formidable entrants in Holy City.
• Mu Ziqing and Ji Yue arrived, and the group speculated that only a few of them had a chance to stand out in the tournament.
• Mu Mingxuan appeared on the street with Qiao Chuyu, and Zhuge Hong explained the Ancient Martial Gate's Holy Maiden veil tradition.
• Qiao Chuyu noticed Mu Ziqing beside Qin Hao, declined Mu Mingxuan's invitation to join the group, and quietly left.
• Mu Ziqing pinched Qin Hao's waist and asked what he had done to Qiao Chuyu, leaving him in pain.

Qin Hao and his companions watched top Potential Rankings geniuses Sikong Xuan and Pang Xuan meet and vow to defeat each other at the Azure Flame Grand Tournament. After the group traded jokes about who could reach the Top Ten, Fang Lang urged everyone to register before the deadline.

• Mu Mingxuan came upstairs, and the others noticed that his strength had grown until he matched Ji Yue.
• Sikong Xuan and Pang Xuan clashed through controlled pressure at a registration point, then each promised to defeat the other at the tournament.
• Fang Lang said Qin Hao was stronger than Sikong Xuan and Pang Xuan, while Lin Zhang backed Yang Yi and Ji Yue praised Mu Ziqing.
• Lin Zhang teased Qin Hao about Mu Ziqing and his former senior sisters, drawing an angry warning from Qi Mu.
• Fang Lang changed the subject and led the group toward registration, noting that only five days remained before it closed.