Chapter Summaries

Shiheng effortlessly stopped two attacks from the demon deputy captains, exposing power far beyond that of a Lowgod and confronting them over their abuse of authority. As the two demons realized they had provoked a hidden powerhouse, the peak five-star Highgod Guiding Army captain arrived to investigate the commotion.

• Shiheng questioned the two demon deputy captains for bullying and threatening Yuan Su while abusing their authority.
• The right deputy captain launched a full-strength attack with countless demonic blades, but Shiheng froze and dissolved them using his Four Supreme Laws.
• The deputy captains recognized that Shiheng could not be an ordinary Lowgod, and Shiheng asked whether they now understood who the real insects were.
• The peak five-star Highgod Guiding Army captain arrived and demanded to know what was happening.

Shiheng unleashed four transcendent divine battle blades after the Hell garrison captain attacked him, annihilating seventeen garrison soldiers and subduing three fiend officers. He spared the officers to learn who controlled the region and where the surviving human tribes in Hell’s outskirts gathered.

• The peak Five-Star Fiend captain arrived, accepted his deputies’ accusations against Shiheng, and unleashed a Death Domain that killed dozens of newly arrived nonhuman cultivators.
• Shiheng’s anger hardened as he recognized the danger to himself, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su, and he released his full power through four transcendent divine battle blades.
• Shiheng’s Blade Domain crushed the captain’s power, restrained the three fiend officers, and annihilated the other seventeen Hell garrison soldiers.
• Shiheng questioned the three surviving officers about who controlled the region and where the human tribes in Hell’s outskirts gathered, threatening to destroy their Divine Souls if they lied.

Shiheng learned that the Ancient Wilderness Border Region held seven scattered, oppressed human tribes and vowed to unite and protect them. After extracting information about Hell and its forces from the garrison, he killed all twenty soldiers and set out to establish the Human Race in Hell.

• The Five-Star Fiend captain told Shiheng that they were in Hell’s Ancient Wilderness Border Region, governed from afar by the Demon City of Reception.
• The captain revealed that seven small human tribes survived in the region, isolated, impoverished, and threatened by fiend tribes.
• Shiheng vowed to unite and protect the frontier’s humans, while the fiends warned that the tribes were weak and divided.
• When the captain threatened him with the power of the Demon City of Reception, Shiheng soul-searched the three surviving officers and learned about Heaven-Breaking Prefecture and its forces.
• Shiheng annihilated the captain and his two deputies, completing the destruction of all twenty garrison soldiers aboard the carriage.
• Shiheng declared that he would gather the surviving human tribes, protect them, and establish the Human Race in Hell.

After learning that Shi Hao’s rise as Human Emperor had helped two humans become Seven-Star Fiends in Hell’s central territories, Shiheng vowed to protect humanity in the Ancient Border Region. As the damaged war chariot descended, he ordered Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su to help unite the seven scattered human tribes and establish a foothold.

• Shiheng revealed that Shi Hao’s Human Emperor fortune had helped two human powerhouses break through to Seven-Star Fiend strength in Hell’s central continents.
• Yuan Su and Yuan Xiao explained how those figures had changed the major races’ treatment of humans, while the Ancient Border Region remained neglected and dangerous.
• Shiheng vowed to become the guardian of the frontier humans and protect the seven surviving tribes.
• The damaged war chariot began falling toward the Ancient Border Region, and Shiheng ordered Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su to unite their group of one hundred and twenty with the scattered humans.
• Shiheng planned to secure humanity’s foothold in the frontier before visiting the two Seven-Star Fiends on Hell’s central continent.

After destroying the Hell garrison, Shiheng led the surviving Human Race cultivators toward the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe in a Laws Shuttle. Bandits blocked their route and targeted Yuan Su, leaving Shiheng and his companions facing a new confrontation.

• Shiheng collected the garrison soldiers’ Storage Rings, unlocking nineteen and setting aside the captain’s still-sealed ring.
• Shiheng restored the Purple Blood Fiend's Metal Lifeform core into a Laws Shuttle and carried the survivors toward the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe.
• Shiheng and the other Divine Clones cultivated during the journey, which continued for half a month across the Ancient Wilderness Border Region.
• Thirty bandits blocked the shuttle and demanded that its passengers surrender their Storage Rings.
• Shiheng, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su stepped outside while two of Shiheng’s Divine Clones stayed behind to protect the Human Race cultivators.
• The bandits mistook the three for weak Lowgods, then laughed and leered at Yuan Su.

Shiheng effortlessly defeated thirty Hell bandits who had ambushed him, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su, then collected their resources and gave them to his companions. As the group prepared to continue toward the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe, a Seven-Star Fiend who blamed Shiheng for his child’s death appeared, bringing a deadly confrontation to the brink.

• Thirty Hell bandits surrounded Shiheng, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su and demanded their Storage Rings and Yuan Su.
• Shiheng shattered the peak Midgod Fiend’s attack with one finger, broke the bandits’ God Domains, and killed all thirty with his Annihilation Law Net.
• Shiheng checked the bandits’ Storage Rings, found resources and regional intelligence, and gave everything to Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su while warning them not to refine divine sparks.
• As Shiheng prepared to leave for the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe, an unseen pursuer identified him as the Human Race junior who had killed his child.
• Shiheng united his four divine clones as a Seven-Star Fiend emerged from the demonic mist, and their battle loomed.

Shiheng faced Yuanjin Jincang, a Seven-Star Fiend seeking revenge for his son and clan, in a desolate wasteland. After Shiheng survived Jincang’s opening strike, both revealed their names and prepared to fight in earnest.

• Yuanjin Jincang arrived and declared that Shiheng would die for killing his son's strongest clone and slaughtering the Yuanjin Clan.
• Shiheng ordered Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su to take the remaining Saints to the Withered Wood human tribe, and they fled by Metal Lifeform.
• Jincang unleashed a crushing Earth Law palm, but Shiheng met it with his four Divine Artifacts and four Supreme Laws and stood his ground.
• Impressed by Shiheng's strength, Jincang asked his identity; Shiheng named himself, and Jincang revealed he was a Seven-Star Fiend and the Demon City of Reception City Lord.
• Shiheng welcomed the chance to test his peak strength against Jincang in the empty wasteland and ignited his fighting spirit.

Shiheng unveiled the Four Extremes Absolute-Kill Formation and battled Yuanjin Jincang, a Seven-Star Fiend, in a prolonged fight that neither could win. After three days and nights of combat, Shiheng had grown stronger, while Yuanjin Jincang abandoned his contempt and vowed revenge.

• Shiheng summoned four Supreme Divine Battle Blades and activated his Four Extremes Absolute-Kill Formation, sealing Yuanjin Jincang inside.
• Yuanjin Jincang unleashed his fused laws of earth and fought back as Shiheng's blades and laws pressed him with relentless attacks.
• Shiheng and Yuanjin Jincang battled for three days and nights, with neither able to defeat the other.
• The intense battle strengthened Shiheng's body, divine soul, and command of his four variant laws, while Yuanjin Jincang grew increasingly shocked and fearful.
• After their final clash, Shiheng and Yuanjin Jincang faced each other with victory undecided, and Yuanjin Jincang declared that Shiheng had enraged him.

After Yuanjin Jincang unleashed the ultimate form of his Earth Demon God True Body and nearly broke Shiheng’s formation, Shiheng revealed the Human Race’s Heavenly Manifestation and merged his four battle blades into one. His single slash shattered Jincang’s Yuanhuang Earth Halberd and broke the Fiend’s defenses, leaving Jincang terrified and the battle decisively turned in Shiheng’s favor.

• After three days and nights of stalemate, Yuanjin Jincang activated the ultimate form of his Earth Demon God True Body, drawing on the wilderness’s earth energy and increasing his combat strength fivefold.
• Jincang summoned the Yuanhuang Earth Halberd and struck Shiheng’s Four Extremes Absolute-Kill Formation, driving it to the brink of collapse.
• Shiheng unleashed the Human Race’s Heavenly Manifestation, growing into a towering golden figure wreathed in the four supreme laws.
• Shiheng called the four Supreme Divine Battle Blades together and fused them into a single blade whose power surpassed the limits of ordinary Divine Artifacts.
• Shiheng’s unified blade shattered Jincang’s Yuanhuang Earth Halberd and cracked his demonic body, overturning the battle’s stalemate.
• Jincang stared in disbelief and fear as Shiheng’s attack broke his ancient racial trump card and left victory in Shiheng’s hands.

Shiheng killed Yuanjin Jincang after a three-day battle, then discovered evidence of a hidden force beyond Hell’s seven-star powers. As the True Demon Lord ordered a Peak Asura to avenge Jincang, Shiheng planned to protect the surviving humans and help them establish a foothold in Hell.

• Shiheng used his fused Four Laws saber to break Jincang’s final defenses and cleave the Seven-Star Fiend in two.
• Shiheng collected Jincang’s treasures and detected a trace of ancient laws from beyond Hell, which made him wary of a hidden power.
• The True Demon Lord learned that Jincang had died and ordered a Peak Asura to deal with the human who killed him.
• Shiheng reflected on Hell’s dangers and planned to rest before going to the Withered Wood Tribe to protect the surviving humans.
• Shiheng recognized that Jincang’s death had left a power vacuum that could give humanity a chance to recover and establish itself.

After defeating the demons, Shiheng reunited with Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su and brought their group safely across Hell’s wilderness to the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe. The tribe’s chief welcomed them as fellow humans but warned them about the dangers of traveling openly through the frontier.

• Shiheng gathered the battlefield spoils, checked for surviving demons and traps, and headed to the agreed meeting point.
• Shiheng found Yuan Xiao’s group unharmed and used his Divine Power to speed their metal shuttle across the wilderness.
• After three days, the shuttle reached the Withered Wood Tribe, where the chief and its three thousand remaining people prepared for an attack.
• The chief recognized the arrivals as humans and relaxed when he saw that they were three Lowgods and more than a hundred Saint cultivators.
• Shiheng confirmed that they had come from other Planes and asked whether they had reached the Withered Wood Tribe.
• The chief welcomed the group, then warned them that traveling openly through Hell’s frontier was reckless and urged them to conceal their movements in the future.

Shiheng and his companions arrived at the Withered Wood Tribe, where the chief explained how Hell’s human tribes had been devastated by a million years of oppression. Shiheng vowed to settle in Hell, protect humanity, and reclaim territory, awakening a faint hope in the exhausted chief.

• Shiheng, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su accepted the Withered Wood chief’s cautious advice and landed with the other human cultivators in the tribe’s square.
• The newcomers saw the tribe’s poverty and the fear and wariness of its three thousand surviving members.
• The Withered Wood chief described how the seven human tribes had fallen and warned that humans in Hell could survive only by keeping their heads down.
• Shiheng and his companions declared that they understood the difficulty of returning home and intended to put down roots in Hell.
• Shiheng swore to protect humanity, repay its suffering, and open territory for humans, stirring the chief’s long-dormant hope.

After ten peaceful years of growth and cultivation, the Withered Wood Human Race had transformed under Shiheng’s protection. Their Golden Decade ended when the Dwarf Cherry Blossom Tribe sent an army to conquer them, leaving the humans facing an imminent invasion.

• After Seven-Star Fiend Jincang’s death plunged the ancient frontier into war, the Withered Wood Human Race remained untouched for ten years and named the peaceful period the Human Race Golden Decade.
• Shiheng supplied the tribe with cultivation treasures, including Soul Gold Beads, and protected it with four transcendent battle sabers.
• Twenty human experts broke through from the Saint Limit to Lowgod, while Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su advanced to Midgod and became the tribe’s second- and third-strongest fighters.
• Shiheng advanced his Four Supreme Laws and approached a breakthrough to Midgod while continuing to meditate above the settlement.
• A foreign army’s approach alerted the tribe, and the Withered Wood Clan Leader identified it as the Dwarf Cherry Blossom Tribe’s force, which had pacified the surrounding lands and turned toward the humans.
• Thirty thousand elite dwarven soldiers advanced on the Withered Wood Tribe, bringing the Human Race’s ten years of peace to an end.

The Sakura Dwarf Race invaded the Withered Wood Human Race Tribe with thirty thousand troops and two Highgods, intending to destroy the humans and enslave the survivors. Shiheng and the tribe’s strengthened fighters took to the sky to resist, and Shiheng declared that the Human Race would answer invasion with war.

• Thirty thousand Sakura Dwarf soldiers, led by two Highgods, approached the Withered Wood Tribe to seize its resources and exterminate or enslave its people.
• The terrified humans watched as their clan leader stood alone before the invaders and demanded to know why they were being attacked.
• The dwarf Highgods declared that the humans would be wiped out, stripped of their wealth, and made into hereditary slaves.
• Shiheng appeared from the rear mountain and announced that the Human Race would no longer endure slaughter in silence.
• Yuan Xiao and Yuan Su joined Shiheng, and eighteen more Human Midgods assembled into a battle formation.
• Shiheng confronted the startled dwarf Highgods and vowed that anyone who threatened the Human Race would pay with their life and the destruction of their own race.

The Sakura Dwarf Race attacked the Withered Wood Human Race with an overwhelming army, and the humans prepared to die rather than surrender. Shiheng stepped forward and used four divine blades and his fused Edicts to stop the entire extermination strike, leaving the dwarves’ assault neutralized.

• A human Midgod recorded the Human Race’s history on a jade slip and sent it into Spatial Turbulence before the battle began.
• The Sakura Dwarf Race’s two Highgods mocked the humans and ordered their thirty thousand troops to launch a combined physical and soul attack.
• The Withered Wood Human Race prepared to burn through their Divine Power and fight to the death as the attack descended.
• Shiheng stepped out alone and summoned four Human Dao Transcendent Divine Artifact battle blades to form a Heaven-Sealing Blade Formation.
• Shiheng fused his Four Laws Clones and blocked both the soul-devouring assault and the dwarves’ physical attack, leaving the thirty thousand troops’ strike completely neutralized.

Shiheng stopped the Dwarf Race Iron Army’s Race-Annihilating Strike and revealed himself as a Highgod, saving the Withered Wood Human Race from destruction. Inspired by his power, the Withered Wood Clan Leader broke through to the highgod realm, leaving the humans with renewed hope.

• Shiheng single-handedly halted the combined assault of the Dwarf Race’s thirty thousand troops, leaving the dwarves in shock.
• The human cultivators realized Shiheng had protected them from the attack, and the Withered Wood Clan Leader recognized him as a Highgod.
• The Withered Wood Clan Leader recalled the persecution of human Highgods and resolved to protect Shiheng, then felt his long-held burdens lift.
• The Withered Wood Clan Leader broke through the Midgod barrier and ascended to the highgod realm.
• The surviving human cultivators regained hope, while the Midgod who recorded human history laughed in relief.

Shiheng’s four Life-bound Divine Blades autonomously protected him and annihilated the two Dwarf Race Highgods with a single strike. The Withered Wood Human Race witnessed the victory as the Dwarf army stood frozen in terror and the humans’ million-year shadow of humiliation finally broke.

• The Withered Wood Clan Leader broke through to the Highgod realm, drawing cheers from the human cultivators and disbelief from the Dwarf army.
• The two Dwarf Race Highgods attacked Shiheng with their full strength, while the newly ascended Withered Wood Clan Leader prepared to help him.
• Shiheng remained motionless as his four Life-bound Divine Blades appeared and unleashed their power to protect him.
• The Four Blades instantly annihilated both Dwarf Highgods, leaving the battlefield silent.
• The Dwarf soldiers froze in terror, while the human cultivators wept as they realized their people could finally hold their heads high.

Shiheng annihilated the Dwarf Race’s thirty thousand soldiers after killing their two Highgod commanders, ending the threat to the Withered Wood humans. The humans celebrated their liberation as Shiheng’s destruction laws reached the Lowgod limit.

• After the two dwarf Highgods died, the thirty thousand dwarf soldiers broke formation and fled in terror.
• Shiheng ordered the Withered Wood Clan Leader, Yuan Xiao, and Yuan Su to defend the human positions while he pursued the dwarves.
• Shiheng’s four life-bound divine blades slaughtered the fleeing soldiers, annihilating the entire expeditionary army without survivors.
• As the battle ended, Shiheng’s destruction laws rose to the peak of nineteen point nine layers, matching the Lowgod limit of his fate laws.
• The Withered Wood humans cheered and wept as the million-year threat of foreign armies ended.

The six great human tribes learned that the long-neglected Withered Wood Tribe had annihilated a 30,000-strong Dwarf army and killed two Highgod lords. Recognizing Withered Wood’s new strength as a chance to survive the coming frontier wars, the six tribes agreed to send envoys and seek an alliance.

• Reports reached the six great tribes that the Dwarf army and two Highgod lords had been annihilated in Withered Wood territory.
• The leaders were stunned that the weakest human tribe had defeated the Dwarves and revealed a newly ascended Highgod and an expert capable of killing stronger Highgods.
• The leaders considered the growing chaos after Demon City’s collapse and the Dwarf Race’s expansion across the eastern territory.
• The six great tribes agreed to send envoys to Withered Wood, build an alliance, and plan how the human tribes could face the coming wars.

Shiheng attended a council of the Human Race’s six tribes and discovered how much hidden strength the humans had accumulated, though their lack of racial abilities left them vulnerable. As the chiefs prepared for renewed attacks, he resolved that his methods could help the Human Race break through its limitations.

• Shiheng arrived at the Ten Thousand Races Deliberation Platform as the Withered Wood Tribe’s representative for a council about the threats facing the Human Race.
• The Human Race revealed twelve Highgod experts, including three veteran Five-Star Fiend-level fighters and the Bedrock Tribe’s chief, whose strength approached the Six-Star Fiend level.
• Shiheng recognized that the Bedrock Tribe’s chief and the Human Race as a whole lacked the innate abilities needed to compete with powerful races on equal terms.
• The Bedrock Tribe’s chief warned that the surrounding Different Races would invade again and called on the tribes to find a way for the Human Race to survive.
• Shiheng concluded that his Four Laws, Divine Core fusion, Divine Artifact nirvana, and Faith Weapon Forging could help the Human Race transform and rise.