Chapter Summaries

Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru raced to a massive spatial disturbance in the western mountains of the Hao Tian Divine Domain, while several major forces converged there as well. Lu Changsheng began examining the distortion as more powerful presences approached.

• Deng Qiu and the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders vowed to settle their score with Lu Changsheng’s group and prepared to follow the next spatial disturbance.
• A burly Half-Step Divine Lord tried to recruit Lu Changsheng and Huang Qian to search for disturbances, but they refused and recognized him as an outsider force’s agent.
• After Liu Ziru recovered, Lu Changsheng sensed a disturbance in the west and carried Huang Qian and Liu Ziru there at speed.
• The Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, Golden-Winged Peng Clan, Necromancer Palace, and Jade Lake Immortal Palace also headed toward the western mountains, while Divine Lord Hao Tian hoped the disturbance would draw someone out.
• Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru arrived first and found an immense area of distorted space as more than a dozen presences approached.

Lu Changsheng concealed his investigation into a spatial anomaly, but He Lian and Deng Qiu used its disappearance as an excuse to attack him and his companions. Huang Qian faced four Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders alone as their lightning strikes descended.

• Lu Changsheng drew a wisp of spatial presence from the anomaly, which disappeared as the four factions arrived.
• Deng Qiu accused Lu Changsheng of hiding clues, and Lu Changsheng challenged him to attack rather than make excuses.
• He Lian ordered an assault, and four elders from the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall surrounded Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru with Acala figures and lightning.
• Ji Qianyao tried to intervene, but an elder from the Jade Lake Immortal Palace held her back.
• Lu Changsheng sent Huang Qian to fight, and she declared that one person was enough.
• Deng Qiu ordered all four elders to attack together, and their lightning palms bore down on Huang Qian.

Huang Qian overwhelmed the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders with Divine Phoenix Fire, killing them after they unleashed Acala. Divine Lord Hao Tian took notice of Huang Qian and Lu Changsheng, whom he found especially difficult to see through, while Lu Changsheng said they would visit the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall anyway.

• Jin Wujin and the Golden-Winged Peng Clan elders felt their bloodlines submit to Huang Qian and wondered if she was a surviving descendant of the Phoenix Clan.
• Deng Qiu and the other three Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders joined forces to unleash Acala against Huang Qian, but her Divine Phoenix Fire overwhelmed their attack.
• Huang Qian used Desolation Breaking to engulf the four Acalas and the elders, scattering their souls and leaving no trace of their bodies.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian saw the distant eruption of Divine Phoenix Fire and told Ding Wei that he wanted to meet Huang Qian and Lu Changsheng, especially because Lu Changsheng was hard to see through.
• Huang Qian said the elders had been weaker than she expected, and Lu Changsheng replied that they would have to visit the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall anyway.

Huang Qian defeated the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall elders, and Lu Changsheng decided to investigate a coming spatial disturbance before confronting the hall. He discovered the disturbance seemed deliberately created and met a mysterious man beside a silver pool.

• Huang Qian killed the grand elder and three elders, and she and Lu Changsheng said they would visit the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall.
• He Lian challenged their confidence, but Liu Ziru swallowed him in darkness; Lu Changsheng scolded Liu Ziru for failing to interrogate him first.
• Lu Changsheng waited for the next spatial disturbance because he hoped it would provide clues to the Heart of Space and help Xiao Shitou grow stronger.
• Lu Changsheng secretly investigated the disturbance’s location and sensed that someone had triggered it deliberately using Space Dao Laws.
• Lu Changsheng noticed a man drinking by a silver pool, approached him, and heard him ask who he was.

Lu Changsheng discovered that Divine Lord Hao Tian had staged the spatial disturbance investigation to expose spies in his sect, then recognized the flaw blocking Hao Tian’s cultivation. Hao Tian offered the Hao Tian Divine Sect’s resources in exchange for guidance, and Lu Changsheng accepted the wine as he considered the offer.

• Lu Changsheng found no clues to the Heart of Space and realized Divine Lord Hao Tian had been waiting for him at the spatial disturbance.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian admitted he had used the investigation as bait to expose spies in the Hao Tian Divine Sect who might seek clues from Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng criticized Hao Tian for acting against his nature and dismissed his offer of a favor.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian was shocked when Lu Changsheng identified the heart cavity as the obstacle that had stalled his cultivation technique for ten thousand years.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian offered to make all the Hao Tian Divine Sect’s resources available to Lu Changsheng, provided it did not violate his Dao heart, and Lu Changsheng accepted the wine as he considered the deal.

Lu Changsheng explained that Divine Lord Hao Tian’s fear of risking his position had kept him from tempering his heart chamber, then guided him through a dangerous session using his power of unending life to protect him. Hao Tian thanked Lu Changsheng and offered his help, while Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to leave the Hao Tian Divine Domain and deal with anyone who stopped them.

• Lu Changsheng told Divine Lord Hao Tian that his responsibilities had made him too cautious to temper his heart chamber with full force.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian recalled his former fearless resolve, accepted the risk, and agreed to trust Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng pressed a finger to Hao Tian’s heart chamber as Hao Tian used his Gravity Magnetic Field technique to temper it.
• Over four hours, Lu Changsheng increased the intensity and used his power of unending life to repair Hao Tian’s cracked heart meridians when they neared their limit.
• After the session, Lu Changsheng said two more sessions would be needed, and Hao Tian thanked him and offered his future assistance.
• Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to leave the Hao Tian Divine Domain and deal thoroughly with anyone who tried to stop them.

Huang Qian revealed her peak God Lord Realm strength to eliminate the spies who had followed her and Liu Ziru. Back with Lu Changsheng, Divine Lord Hao Tian completed his heart tempering, and Lu Changsheng declared the process successful.

• Huang Qian and Liu Ziru realized the Hao Tian Divine Sect had used them to draw out spies from rival factions.
• Liu Ziru sealed the group inside an isolation formation, and the spies demanded information about the spatial disturbance.
• Huang Qian unleashed her peak God Lord Realm power and burned one spy away with Divine Phoenix Fire while the others were immobilized.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian began his second heart tempering and asked Lu Changsheng whether Huang Qian and Liu Ziru could handle the spies.
• Lu Changsheng told Hao Tian to keep their involvement secret, and Hao Tian swore a Heavenly Dao Oath.
• Huang Qian and Liu Ziru returned, and Lu Changsheng said Hao Tian's heart tempering had been completed successfully.

Lu Changsheng helped Divine Lord Hao Tian temper his heart chamber and reach the peak God Lord Realm, then set out with Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to destroy the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall. Divine Lord Hao Tian ordered his sect not to provoke Lu Changsheng and wondered whether he had reached the legendary God Emperor Realm.

• Lu Changsheng's cultivation caused world-shaking tremors as he tempered Divine Lord Hao Tian's heart chamber.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian broke through to the peak God Lord Realm and pledged the Hao Tian Divine Sect's aid to Lu Changsheng.
• Lu Changsheng asked where the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall was and said he intended to wipe it out before it could retaliate.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian gave Lu Changsheng the hall's location, and Lu Changsheng left with Huang Qian and Liu Ziru.
• After Lu Changsheng departed, Divine Lord Hao Tian ordered Ding Wei to warn the sect against provoking Lu Changsheng and his companions.

Huang Qian confronted He Lei at the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall and faced the hall’s Acala Formation, which reached the early God Lord Realm. The chapter ended as He Lei and Acala attacked her with a massive lightning-powered punch.

• He Lei learned that Deng Qiu, He Lian, and the others’ soul tablets had shattered, but his elders had found no trace of their deaths.
• Huang Qian arrived at the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, surrounding its sea of lightning with flames and admitting she had killed the hall’s people.
• He Lei ordered the hall’s combatants to gather and form the Acala Formation.
• The disciples, elders, and grand elders combined their strength with the lightning plasma to summon Acala, whose power reached the early God Lord Realm.
• He Lei struck at Huang Qian through Acala, and Huang Qian pointed a finger at the incoming attack.

Huang Qian destroyed the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall after He Lei failed to summon its ancestor. Beneath the lightning sea, Lu Changsheng killed the ancestor’s remnant soul, took the coffin, and discovered a jade box hidden beneath it.

• Huang Qian pierced Acala with divine phoenix fire, destroying the formation and killing the disciples and elders within it.
• He Lei summoned the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall’s ancestor, but the token produced no response, and Huang Qian burned the hall to the ground.
• Liu Ziru joined Huang Qian and wondered why Lu Changsheng had not returned from beneath the sea of lightning.
• Lu Changsheng explained to the ancestor that he had destroyed the hall to prevent future threats, then shredded the remnant soul and erased every trace of it.
• Lu Changsheng took the primordial lightning-struck wood coffin for Mu Fusheng and found a jade box beneath it.

Lu Changsheng found divine lightning primal essence beneath the founding ancestor’s coffin and decided to give it to Mu Fusheng. Meanwhile, Divine Lord Hao Tian confronted the other Divine Lords over their dead covert agents and revealed he had reached the peak God Lord Realm, forcing the meeting to end without a fight.

• Lu Changsheng opened the jade box with an external incarnation, found a stone filled with concentrated lightning power, and destroyed the burial ground as he left.
• Lu Changsheng showed the jade box to Huang Qian and Liu Ziru, who identified its contents as rare divine lightning primal essence.
• Lu Changsheng decided to give the essence to Mu Fusheng, then returned to Mortal Village with Huang Qian and Liu Ziru.
• The Divine Lords convened after discovering their covert agents in the Hao Tian Divine Domain had died, and Divine Lord Hao Tian refused to apologize for their deaths.
• Divine Lord Hao Tian revealed his peak God Lord Realm strength, dissuaded the other Divine Lords from starting a war, and kept his connection to Lu Changsheng secret.

After destroying the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, Lu Changsheng returned to Mortal Village, where the teacher warned him that a far greater calamity awaited. Meanwhile, Ji Qianyao chose to begin a trial at the Jade Lake Ancestral Land.

• Divine Lord Hao Tian and the other God Lord Realm experts investigated the source of Hao Tian's breakthrough as news spread that the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall had been destroyed.
• Jin Wujin feared for the Golden-Winged Peng Clan, while Ji Qianyao kept Lu Changsheng's involvement secret from the Jade Lake Immortal Palace elders.
• Ji Liuzhi dismissed the elders and agreed to take Ji Qianyao to the Jade Lake Ancestral Land after Ji Qianyao declared she was ready to begin.
• Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru returned to Mortal Village, where the teacher asked Lu Changsheng about destroying the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall.
• The teacher warned Lu Changsheng that the evil demon seal calamity was minor compared with what would come next, but refused to explain further.

Lu Changsheng planned to take his disciples to the Immortal Realm after they reached the Earth Immortal Realm, while the Cottage disciples rapidly strengthened in the Mid-Latitude Realm. The chapter ended with the disciples considering how to find the Kunlun Ruins and its soul fragment, though Mu Fusheng warned they were not strong enough to enter the Endless Sea.

• Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian he planned to head to the Immortal Realm soon, help his disciples convert their Qi, and investigate the seal on the passage there.
• The Mid-Latitude Realm's powerful forces warned their subordinates not to antagonize Ye Qiubai and the other Cottage disciples because of Lu Changsheng.
• Shi Sheng reached the Middle Earth Immortal Realm, Xiao Hei grew to the Late Earth Immortal Realm through brutal training, and the other Cottage disciples advanced their strength in their own ways.
• Mu Wan'er emerged from seclusion at the Early Earth Immortal Realm as the Cottage disciples gathered at the Cloud Phoenix Empire's new foothold.
• Xiao Hei said he wanted to find the Kunlun Ruins to obtain a soul fragment, and Shi Sheng suggested asking Zi Shan for information.
• Mu Fusheng warned that the Kunlun Ruins were likely deep in the Endless Sea and that the disciples were not yet strong enough to venture there.

Shi Sheng stayed behind with Zi Shan while Mu Fusheng and the others left, and High-Latitude factions investigated Divine Lord Hao Tian’s breakthrough and the Heart of Space. The Soul Lord ordered his followers to find Lu Changsheng and secure the Heart of Space, leaving the Departed Soul Spirit Palace committed to competing for it.

• Zi Shan told Shi Sheng that the Tianjin Chamber of Commerce had almost no information about the Kunlun Ruins or the depths of the Endless Sea, and offered to show him around after Mu Fusheng and the others departed.
• Divine Lord-level factions linked the Hao Tian Banquet and the destruction of the Primordial Divine Thunder Hall, then began suspecting Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru had concealed their strength.
• The Supervisory Sacred Hall chose to stay neutral in the contest for the Heart of Space and focused on sending people to investigate the Endless Sea.
• The Soul Lord questioned an old man about the Jade Lake Immortal Palace and threatened him until he promised to find Lu Changsheng’s whereabouts.
• The Soul Lord told the second elder that the Departed Soul Spirit Palace had to obtain the Heart of Space, even if Divine Lord-level factions contested it.

Liu Ziru reported that the Heart of Space had appeared in the barren Ancestral Emperor Domain, and Lu Changsheng prepared to set out with an enormous stockpile of supplies. Divine Lord factions mobilized to contest the Heart, while Ji Qianyao decided to go and help Lu Changsheng obtain it.

• Liu Ziru told Lu Changsheng that the Heart of Space had appeared in the Ancestral Emperor Domain, which the gentleman explained had once been the High-Latitude Realm’s strongest domain before a devastating war left it barren.
• Lu Changsheng tossed Liu Ziru and Huang Qian supplies he had prepared, including formation scrolls, talismans, and pills, then announced they would head to the Ancestral Emperor Domain.
• Divine Lord-level factions received the news and assembled teams, while Divine Lord Hao Tian ordered his sect’s elites to prevent rival factions from obtaining the Heart and to help Lu Changsheng if they encountered him.
• Ji Liuzhi praised Ji Qianyao for reaching the Peak Stage of the God King Realm and awakening her bloodline, then learned that Ji Qianyao planned to help Lu Changsheng obtain the Heart of Space.

Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru reached the Ancestral Emperor Domain to search for the Heart of Space, which had hidden its true presence across the domain. Lu Changsheng planted false spatial traces at eighteen locations to distract rival forces while he searched for the real one.

• Huang Qian spotted scouts from other Divine Lord-level forces, and Liu Ziru explained that the Dark Domain had traded its intelligence about the Heart of Space to them.
• Lu Changsheng and his companions flew through the barren Ancestral Emperor Domain to the place where the Dark Domain had detected the Heart of Space.
• Lu Changsheng discovered that the Heart of Space had scattered identical traces of its presence throughout the domain, making its true body difficult to locate.
• Lu Changsheng planted powerful spatial traces at eighteen distant locations to mislead the incoming forces and buy himself time.
• Lu Changsheng sat down to examine the domain’s spatial traces while Huang Qian and Liu Ziru watched over him using concealment formations and defensive talismans.

The seven Divine Lord-level forces entered the Ancestral Emperor Domain to compete for the Heart of Space, only to be misled by eighteen spatial-force decoys. Lu Changsheng found the real Heart of Space, but it shattered the sky and drew every force toward its location, leaving him to wait for an opening.

• Ding Wei, Fu Yun, Qiu Shenfu, Ji Runqiu, Xia Yuanpeng, Hu Sheng, and Si Genshen arrived with their forces and argued over how to claim the Heart of Space.
• The seven forces discovered eighteen locations radiating immense spatial power and sent their experts to investigate them.
• The forces searched the empty locations, realized someone had created spatial decoys, and wondered who could wield such mastery of the Space Dao Law.
• A huge spatial fluctuation shattered the sky above the Ancestral Emperor Domain, and the forces rushed toward its center, believing the real Heart of Space was there.
• Lu Changsheng told Liu Ziru that the Heart of Space had shattered the sky to summon others, then told Huang Qian they would wait for an opening as countless presences arrived.

The Heart of Space appeared in a void above the Ancestral Emperor Domain, drawing factions from across the High-Latitude Realm. As they tested the deadly spatial storms, Lu Changsheng watched from hiding, having prepared a plan of his own.

• The Demon King Domain’s Mo Ge met Qiu Shenpu, who promised the Yin Yang Divine Sect would help them deal with their enemies after they obtained the Heart of Space.
• Jin Wujin accused the Demon King Domain of colluding with the Yin Yang Divine Sect, while Lu Changsheng told Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to let Xiao Hei handle his grudge himself.
• The sky above the Ancestral Emperor Domain shattered, revealing a brilliant star that appeared to be the Heart of Space amid violent spatial storms.
• The Divine Lord-level factions ordered subordinate factions to enter the void, and two cultivators were killed when a spatial storm swallowed them.
• Lu Changsheng watched the factions probe the storms and reflected that he had prepared eighteen locations where spatial power would erupt.

The factions discovered a route through the spatial storms and rushed toward the void space, but a spatial barrier sealed it off. Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru appeared beyond the barrier, prompting several factions to support the man in white’s bid for the Heart of Space.

• The subordinate factions mapped the spatial storms and found a way through the void space.
• Qiu Shenpu and Ji Runqiu led the charge toward the void space, followed by experts from the great sects and the Departed Soul Spirit Palace.
• Spatial power erupted from eighteen locations and formed a barrier that sealed the void space above the Ancestral Emperor Domain.
• Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru appeared beyond the barrier wearing blank-faced masks.
• Ding Wei ordered the Hao Tian Divine Sect to help the man in white obtain the Heart of Space, while Jin Wujin urged the Golden-Winged Peng Clan to withdraw and Ji Qianyao gave the same order to the Jade Lake Immortal Palace.

Lu Changsheng, Huang Qian, and Liu Ziru tried to reach the Heart of Space behind a spatial barrier while experts from the Divine Lord-level forces attempted to break through. After even their combined attacks failed, the leaders suspected the barrier—and possibly the white-robed man—came from a God Lord Realm expert.

• Lu Changsheng dismissed the threats from the Divine Lord-level forces and told Huang Qian and Liu Ziru to watch for anyone who broke through the barrier.
• Hu Sheng struck the spatial barrier with his full strength, but it only rippled without cracking.
• Ji Runqiu hurled his spear at the barrier, which again remained intact.
• Fu Yun led five Half-Step Divine Lord Realm experts in a combined attack on one point, but the barrier still did not break.
• The leaders of the Divine Lord-level forces suspected a God Lord Realm expert had created the barrier and took out their voice-transmission items.