Chapter Summaries

After the Star Ghost emerged from the Star Sea Abyss, An Ying hid behind Chu Xinghe while Little Buddha and Chu Xinghe failed to get answers from their captive. An Ying revealed his confidence in interrogation, though he kept the source of his expertise to himself.

• An Ying hid behind Chu Xinghe when the Star Ghost appeared, true to his habit of avoiding risky fights.
• Little Buddha questioned the captured Star Ghost by stepping on him, but got no response.
• Chu Xinghe tried whipping the Star Ghost, then suggested needles, cutting off fingers, and chili water when the first attempt failed.
• An Ying mocked Little Buddha and Chu Xinghe for their crude interrogation methods and explained that a Star Ghost could dull the pain with cultivation.
• Little Buddha and Chu Xinghe wondered whether An Ying had interrogation experience, while An Ying privately recalled being interrogated often and considered himself a master of the trade.

An Ying broke the Star Ghost with a psychic ordeal, and the captive revealed that the Buddha Domain’s first Great Buddha Lord had inadvertently caused the Star Sea Abyss to awaken. The Star Ghost then began explaining another revelation that left An Ying and the others stunned.

• An Ying entered the Star Ghost’s consciousness and made him relive his prison experiences until he agreed to answer their questions.
• The Star Ghost explained that his clan had long sought a way out of the sealed Star Sea Abyss and had found the Ancient God’s Right Arm but could not harness its power.
• The Star Ghost said the world’s collapse brought the Star Sea Abyss beneath the Buddha Domain, where the Star Ghosts remained trapped.
• The Star Ghost revealed that the first Great Buddha Lord entered the Star Sea Abyss and opened a passage, allowing the Buddha Domain’s power to activate the Ancient God’s Right Arm.
• Chu Xinghe and Little Buddha realized that the first Great Buddha Lord had unintentionally caused the catastrophe blamed on the Star Ghosts.
• The Star Ghost continued speaking, and his next revelation stunned An Ying and the others.

Little Buddha explained that generations of Great Buddha Lords had unknowingly strengthened the Star Sea Abyss by sacrificing themselves to suppress it. Chu Xinghe and An Ying realized the Star Ghosts had been carried toward escape by their supposed Buddhist suppressors, while Little Buddha struggled to dispute the absurd account.

• Little Buddha described how the first Great Buddha Lord’s suppression of the Star Ghosts activated more of the Ancient God's Right Arm by pouring in power from the Ancient God's Left Arm.
• He explained that later Great Buddha Lords continued sacrificing themselves every thousand years, further empowering the Star Sea Abyss instead of preventing its escape.
• Chu Xinghe reasoned that the Star Gate had appeared around the time the previous Great Buddha Lord entered the Star Sea Abyss, and concluded that Little Buddha’s account was true.
• An Ying compared the Buddha Lords to opponents who kept feeding their enemy, and Little Buddha could not find a way to argue against the explanation.

Chu Xinghe questioned a Star Ghost and learned that generations of Great Buddha Lords had unknowingly helped the Star Sea Abyss recover by delivering power to it. After the Star Ghost revealed that its kind was gathering souls for an unknown scheme, Chu Xinghe handed him over to Little Buddha, whose response stunned Chu Xinghe and An Ying.

• Little Buddha angrily rejected the Star Ghost's claims, while Chu Xinghe concluded that the Buddha Domain's Great Buddha Lords had strengthened the Star Sea Abyss for generations.
• Chu Xinghe reasoned that the Star Ghosts had avoided attacking the Buddha Domain because its regular deliveries benefited them, and Little Buddha abandoned his thought of silencing Chu Xinghe and An Ying.
• Chu Xinghe asked why the Star Sea Abyss had begun sending Soulless Ghosts into the Buddha Domain to devour souls, but the Star Ghost said he did not know what the collected souls were for.
• Chu Xinghe learned that the Star Sea Abyss had regained considerable strength and was gathering souls for an unknown grand plan.
• Chu Xinghe handed the Star Ghost to Little Buddha, whose next action left Chu Xinghe and An Ying dumbstruck.

Chu Xinghe brought a Star Ghost to Little Buddha, who killed it despite claiming to offer it a choice, then explained why he understood the sacrifices of the first Great Buddha Lord. The three descended into the Star Sea Abyss, where a powerful Star Ghost appeared, mistook Chu Xinghe for the only intruder, and carried An Ying away.

• Chu Xinghe explained that Star Ghosts grew stronger by devouring souls and could not coexist peacefully with other races.
• Little Buddha offered a captured Star Ghost a knife and a spirit stone, killed it before it chose, and claimed every possible choice would have justified the killing.
• Little Buddha told Chu Xinghe that the first Great Buddha Lord had sacrificed himself to suppress the Star Sea Abyss, and Chu Xinghe considered how that sacrifice had protected the Buddha Domain.
• Chu Xinghe, Little Buddha, and An Ying entered the Star Sea Abyss and descended through its darkness using their perception to navigate.
• A powerful Star Ghost approached, and Little Buddha hid using Sumeru in a Mustard Seed while the Star Ghost seized An Ying and flew away.

A Star Ghost seized An Ying while overlooking Chu Xinghe, whose soulless state made him invisible to their soul-sensing perception. Chu Xinghe traveled deeper into the Star Sea Abyss with Little Buddha hidden away, discovered the sealed Ancient God's Right Arm, and learned Lao Ying had been taken into the abyss.

• A Star Ghost detected An Ying but ignored Chu Xinghe and carried An Ying away.
• Little Buddha explained that Star Ghosts sensed souls, so they mistook soulless Chu Xinghe for an inanimate object.
• Chu Xinghe decided to rescue An Ying and hid Little Buddha inside the World Seal of the Floating Immortal Island.
• Chu Xinghe walked undetected into the Star Sea Abyss and discovered the Ancient God's Right Arm sealed beneath it.
• Chu Xinghe realized the seal prevented the Ancient God's Head from calling to him unless he summoned it, and that absorbing the arm's power would likely destroy him.
• Lao Ying was taken to the depths of the Star Sea Abyss.

An Ying was captured by the Star Ghosts and interrogated about the outside world, but he could not answer their questions without endangering Chu Xinghe or because he genuinely did not know. The furious Star Lord ordered the Great Shaman to torture him after deciding An Ying had played him three times.

• A Star Ghost expert captured An Ying and brought him before a gathering of Star Ghosts in a dark area.
• The Star Lord asked why no one else had appeared outside, and An Ying refused to reveal that Chu Xinghe’s arrival had prompted the Vast Heaven Holy Land to seal the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• The Star Lord asked what had happened in the outside world over the past six months, but An Ying said he did not know because he had been inside the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• A Star Ghost accused An Ying of playing the Star Lord, who ordered the others to beat him and summon the Great Shaman.
• The Star Lord asked why An Ying had appeared somewhere different from the other people entering the Star Sea Abyss, and An Ying again could not answer.
• The Star Lord declared that An Ying had played him three times and demanded that the Great Shaman intensify the torture.

The Star Ghosts questioned An Ying about how he entered the Land of Bewildered Spirits and tried to force him to reveal what he knew about the outside world. The Great Shaman used the Art of Soul Seizing on him, but An Ying barely reacted after his first two souls were separated.

• The Star Lord ordered the Star Ghosts to beat An Ying after he could not explain why they had never detected him in the Land of Bewildered Spirits.
• The Great Shaman stopped the beating and explained that the Star Ghosts had previously been tricked by Lu Shu, then failed to learn about the outside world from people whose souls they had lured away.
• The Great Shaman questioned An Ying about his six months in the Land of Bewildered Spirits, and An Ying said he had entered through a teleportation array.
• The Great Shaman dismissed An Ying's account as a lie and began using the Art of Soul Seizing to separate his souls without removing them from his body.
• The Great Shaman separated An Ying's first and second souls, but An Ying only cried out twice, leaving the surrounding Star Ghosts stunned.

The Great Shaman tested An Ying with the Star Ghost Clan’s Art of Soul Seizing, but An Ying endured its first nine levels with astonishing ease. The tenth level forced An Ying to relive painful memories, leaving him begging to talk while the Star Lord discovered what those memories contained.

• The Great Shaman used the first nine levels of the Art of Soul Seizing on An Ying, who cried out exactly once per level and mocked the Great Shaman after his soul was split into ten pieces.
• The Star Lord and the other Star Ghosts tried to persuade the Great Shaman to stop, but the Great Shaman insisted the Art of Soul Seizing had a secret tenth level.
• The Great Shaman used his staff to send ten black spheres into An Ying’s three souls and seven spirits, making each piece relive a different painful memory.
• An Ying broke down and promised to tell them everything as the Star Lord glimpsed one of the memories with his perception.
• The Star Lord declared that the experience was wonderful and urged the other Star Ghosts to look too.

The Star Lord entered An Ying’s memories during the tenth level of the Art of Soul Seizing and was horrified by what he experienced. To keep the other Star Ghosts from learning his secret without sharing the experience, he sent them into An Ying’s other painful memories, leaving them frozen in shock.

• An Ying broke down as the tenth level forced him to relive his ten most painful memories, and the Star Lord sent his perception into An Ying’s soul to investigate.
• The Star Lord experienced An Ying’s memory of Shen Laowu and was so stunned that he forgot to withdraw his perception until the memory ended.
• Xing Hun told the curious Star Ghosts that An Ying’s memories were unusual and invited them to look for themselves.
• The Star Ghosts sent their perceptions into An Ying’s other memories and froze as they experienced the disturbing events.
• The Star Lord admired An Ying and wondered how colorful his life had been.

The Star Ghosts entered An Ying's memories during the Art of Soul Seizing, shared a horrifying secret, and then abandoned the interrogation after An Ying offered to talk. When An Ying claimed Chu Xinghe had been with him, Star Lord killed Brother Playing You and turned his fury back on An Ying.

• The Great Wizard and the other Star Ghosts experienced disturbing fragments of An Ying's memories, then each denied seeing anything frightening or useful.
• The Great Wizard withdrew the Art of Soul Seizing, restoring An Ying's shattered souls and spirits, and An Ying offered to tell them everything.
• An Ying said he had been with Chu Xinghe when Star Lord caught him, but Star Lord had failed to catch Chu Xinghe.
• Brother Playing You woke and accused An Ying of playing Star Lord, so Star Lord killed him, crushed his heart, and devoured his soul.
• Star Lord concluded that Chu Xinghe could not have escaped his senses and angrily accused An Ying of lying.

An Ying was imprisoned in the Star Sea Abyss, but escaped by disguising himself as the dead Brother Playing You and using his identity to move among the Star Ghosts. As he searched for Chu Xinghe and Little Buddha, Chu Xinghe mistook him for a suspicious Star Ghost and knocked him unconscious.

• The Star Lord dismissed An Ying's claims that Chu Xinghe and Little Buddha had entered unnoticed, then ordered An Ying locked away in the Star Sea Abyss.
• An Ying transformed into the dead Brother Playing You, hid the corpse, and left his cell without alerting the other Star Ghosts.
• An Ying used Brother Playing You's feared reputation to order the Star Ghosts away from his cell and gather information about the abyss.
• An Ying decided to search for Chu Xinghe and Little Buddha instead of trying to escape alone, and headed toward the abyss's central area.
• Chu Xinghe spotted An Ying, mistook him for a suspicious Star Ghost, and knocked him unconscious with one punch.

An Ying used Brother Playing You’s appearance to gather information in the Star Sea Abyss, but Chu Xinghe nearly killed him before recognizing him. After An Ying revealed that the prodigies’ souls were being gathered for a possible ritual to revive the Ancestor of Primal Souls, the group prepared to investigate the abyss’s lowest level.

• An Ying decided he could not escape and disguised himself as Brother Playing You to gather information while heading toward the Star Sea Abyss’s core.
• Chu Xinghe mistook An Ying for a Star Ghost and struck him, but An Ying shouted “Heaven bless Vast Heaven!” and stopped Chu Xinghe from killing him.
• An Ying told Chu Xinghe and Little Buddha that the prodigies’ souls had been transported to the Star Sea Abyss’s lowest level, accessible through a nearby black hole.
• An Ying theorized that the Star Sea Abyss was collecting souls for a sacrificial ritual to revive the Ancestor of Primal Souls, who might have survived from an earlier era.
• Chu Xinghe recognized the danger in An Ying’s sharp analysis and worried that he might become a formidable rival to Ma Liang in scheming against him.

An Ying deduced that the Star Sea Abyss was gathering souls to revive the Ancestor of Primal Souls, and Chu Xinghe agreed they had to descend before the ritual was complete. Before they set out, Chu Xinghe placed An Ying and Little Buddha in the World Seal so they could escape if he died, leaving An Ying moved by his willingness to protect his teammates.

• An Ying analyzed the Star Sea Abyss's strength and concluded that it was abducting people and sending Soulless Ghosts into the Buddha Domain to gather souls for the Ancestor of Primal Souls' revival.
• An Ying warned Chu Xinghe that the captured geniuses' souls were likely secured deep in the abyss, making them difficult to rescue.
• Little Buddha suggested taking time to plan, but Chu Xinghe argued that waiting a year could allow the Ancestor of Primal Souls to revive, so they had to descend now.
• Chu Xinghe told An Ying and Little Buddha to stay inside the World Seal so he could send them to safety if he died.
• An Ying realized Chu Xinghe protected his teammates out of responsibility, and Chu Xinghe reassured him that he would keep his junior brother safe.

Chu Xinghe descended to the true Star Sea Abyss and discovered the Ancient God's Right Arm, which powered the Star Ghosts’ Star Gate and a city of starlight. After the Ancient God's Head let him open the city’s barrier, his Shoe Art pointed straight up, warning him that what lay ahead was a battle he was bound to lose.

• Chu Xinghe entered the depths beneath the black hole and learned from Little Buddha that the Ancient God's Right Arm supported the Star Sea Abyss.
• Chu Xinghe found the Star Ghosts’ central barrier and learned that the Star Gate drew on the Ancient God's Right Arm, so destroying it would not prevent the Star Ghosts from rebuilding it.
• Chu Xinghe waved at the barrier, which opened for him; Little Buddha realized the Ancient God's Head let Chu Xinghe control barriers made from the Ancient God's body parts.
• Chu Xinghe entered the starlight city and recognized that the Star Ghosts had used the Ancient God's Right Arm to reproduce the Power of Starlight.
• Chu Xinghe used the Shoe Art to find the sealed souls, but the shoe stood upright, warning him that his fortune could not change the terrible outcome ahead.

Chu Xinghe followed his Shoe Art into the depths of the Star Sea Abyss, where he found more than a hundred dead Star Lords sacrificed to a giant tree bearing the sealed souls of heavenly prodigies. The Origin Ancestor revealed himself, trapped Chu Xinghe, and forcibly knocked his will out of his body.

• Chu Xinghe ignored nine warnings from his Shoe Art and followed its tenth direction, reaching a staircase that led beneath the dome of light.
• Chu Xinghe discovered a giant tree surrounded by the corpses of more than a hundred Star Lords, whose lives had been sacrificed to nourish it.
• An Ying spotted the sealed souls of the heavenly prodigies hanging from the tree, and Chu Xinghe flew up to rescue them.
• The Origin Ancestor appeared atop the tree, revealed that he wanted Chu Xinghe's body, and immobilized him with overwhelming power.
• The Origin Ancestor touched Chu Xinghe and forcibly knocked his will out of his body.

The Origin Ancestor expelled Chu Xinghe’s consciousness and began possessing his body, revealing that he had lured Chu Xinghe into the Star Sea Abyss to use him as a vessel for his revival. Suspended Shears interrupted the possession, and An Ying appeared in Chu Xinghe’s form, drawing the possession runes onto himself and allowing Chu Xinghe’s consciousness and body to reunite.

• The Origin Ancestor sealed Chu Xinghe’s consciousness in a sphere and began inscribing possession runes on his body.
• The Origin Ancestor revealed that he had planned to lure Chu Xinghe in and intended to use his powerful body to restore his former strength.
• The Origin Ancestor explained how the Star Ghosts had revived his soul and why the bodies of past Buddha Lords could not contain his full power.
• Suspended Shears activated to block the Origin Ancestor’s fatal possession attempt.
• An Ying emerged from the World Seal in Chu Xinghe’s form, drew the possession runes onto himself, and caused Chu Xinghe’s consciousness to reunite with his body.
• The Origin Ancestor began flying toward An Ying as An Ying uttered his last words to Chu Xinghe.

An Ying copied Chu Xinghe and drew the Origin Ancestor’s possession ritual onto himself, sacrificing his soul and briefly stunning the Origin Ancestor long enough for Chu Xinghe and Little Buddha to escape. They reached the Buddha Domain after the World Seal broke the Origin Ancestor’s attack, while the Great Buddha Lord defeated Star King Luojia at the passage; Chu Xinghe was left marveling at An Ying’s final sacrifice.

• An Ying used Suspended Shears’ absolute defense to leave the World Seal in Chu Xinghe’s form, causing the possession runes to target him instead.
• The Origin Ancestor shattered An Ying’s soul and absorbed it, then froze and retched as he experienced An Ying’s memories.
• Little Buddha urged Chu Xinghe to flee, and Chu Xinghe escaped with him inside the World Seal as it transformed into the Floating Immortal Island.
• The Origin Ancestor struck at the escaping World Seal with a black hand, but Chu Xinghe used the World Seal to shatter it and open a path into the Buddha Domain.
• Star King Luojia tried to breach the passage, but the Great Buddha Lord defeated him with the power of the Ancient God’s Left Arm and sealed the connection.
• Chu Xinghe brought Little Buddha out of the damaged World Seal and reflected in shock on An Ying’s last words and sacrifice.

Chu Xinghe escaped the Origin Ancestor’s possession when An Ying’s split-second intervention redirected the possession runes onto An Ying instead. The Origin Ancestor controlled An Ying’s body but could not quickly devour his unusually strong soul, leaving the Origin Ancestor trapped in the Star Sea Abyss.

• An Ying emerged as Chu Xinghe was hidden by the Suspended Shears, causing the possession runes to mistake him for Chu Xinghe and bind themselves to him.
• The Suspended Shears’ defense ended, and the Origin Ancestor was pulled toward An Ying while Chu Xinghe was thrown back into his own consciousness and body.
• Little Buddha believed An Ying had sacrificed himself to save Chu Xinghe and praised him as a hero who had also saved Little Buddha.
• The furious Origin Ancestor tried to devour An Ying’s soul but retched as he experienced An Ying’s memories and found the soul too strong to consume quickly.
• The Origin Ancestor remained unable to leave the Star Sea Abyss without completing his possession and considered the powerful figures in the Vast Heaven Holy Land who could defeat him.

Origin Ancestor was left trapped in An Ying’s body after failing to devour Chu Xinghe, while Luojia seized the chance to rally the Star Ghosts and prepare for war against the Buddha Domain. On Mount Sumeru, Little Buddha revealed the Star Sea Abyss’s hidden history to the Great Buddha Lord and the other Buddhas, leaving them stunned as Chu Xinghe remained focused on rescuing An Ying and the prodigies’ souls.

• Origin Ancestor cried in frustration because he could not control An Ying without gradually experiencing her memories, and he could not abandon the possession without being devoured by her.
• Luojia arrived, was blasted away by Origin Ancestor, then left the lair pleased that the old monster had suffered a setback and resolved to unleash a calamity on the Buddha Domain.
• Luojia touched the Ancient God's Right Arm, spread starlight across the Star Sea Abyss, and called on the Star Ghosts to prepare to break free once his cultivation recovered.
• On Mount Sumeru, Chu Xinghe stayed silent as the Buddhas questioned him, while he worried that Origin Ancestor would consume An Ying and the other prodigies.
• Little Buddha sent those below the Buddha level away and told the Great Buddha Lord and the remaining Buddhas everything that had happened in the Star Sea Abyss.
• The Buddhas learned that their first Great Buddha Lord had brought the power that awakened Origin Ancestor and that the Star Sea Abyss held both Luojia and the ancient Origin Ancestor, leaving them dumbstruck.