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Starting with Twin SSS-Rank Martial Souls, I Turn Around and Force a Kiss on the Aloof Campus Belle
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Arc 7The Starfire and Imperial Curse

Xiao Han escaped Steel Jaw, endured the fusion of demonic and stellar powers, and entered the Heaven-Piercing Tower, where he fought Void Whisperers and saved the Starfire Altar. After the altar fell and the Netherworld Emperor cursed him, Xiao Han reached the Ancient Gods' Battlefield and sought a way to refine the cursefire.

  • Xiao Han helped Tie Lan Squad escape Steel Jaw checkpoint, destroyed its main cannon, and fled after the demonic baleful qi overwhelmed him and the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Token teleported him away.
  • Xiao Han fused the demonic forces inside him, gained the embryonic Demon Fiend Battle Body, and fought through the Starpath Guards' maze, absorbing the Star-Core Formation Spirit and gaining a pseudo-incomplete Star-Magic Battle Body.
  • Xiao Han entered the Heaven-Piercing Tower, exposed and killed a Void Whisperer disguised as Sun Baicao, then learned that the first-floor trial was to protect the Starfire.
  • Xiao Han joined Qin Yueyao at the Starfire Altar, fought the Void Polluter, and reached for the Star Core Ancient Key as a Demon General Soul Fragment invaded his consciousness.
  • Xiao Han devoured the Starfire's origin and the ancient key's power, destroyed the Void Polluter's Pollution Source Core, and watched Qin Yueyao vanish after she burned her life to protect him.
  • The Netherworld Emperor attacked the altar, so Xiao Han sacrificed part of his star-magic origin and threw the Star Core Ancient Key at the Netherworld dragon claw before escaping with a cursefire mark.
  • Xiao Han awoke in the Ancient Gods' Battlefield, found a route to the Divine Blood Altar, and refined resentful souls to strengthen his body and suppress the cursefire.
  • Xiao Han defeated the Black Wind Twin Fiends in the Ten Thousand Souls Pit and found the Remnant Trace of Imperial Blood at the bone altar's center.
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Ch. 151Wreckage Lord?

Xiao Han joined Tie Lan Squad as they fought through the Shattered Star Road, where he learned about the Wreckage Lord and the Steel Jaw lord. He guided the group through a dangerous mechanical maze while demonic baleful energy tried to corrupt his senses and expose their position.

  • Xiao Han showed Tie Lan a Heaven-Piercing Ancient Token, and Tie Lan identified it as a Skywalker relic before explaining the Shattered Star Road and the Wreckage Lord.
  • Rotbone Iguanas attacked Tie Lan Squad, and Xiao Han killed one with a single strike before agreeing to help the group break out.
  • A Steel Jaw war puppet called the Crusher pursued Tie Lan Squad, so Xiao Han led them into a maze of mechanical wreckage.
  • Xiao Han used his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes to spot traps and patrol beams, guiding Tie Lan Squad through the maze as the demonic baleful energy distorted his senses and signaled through the darkness.
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Ch. 152Cover Me for a Moment!

Xiao Han used the violent energy torrent to seal the demonic baleful energy near his heart, then led Tie Lan’s group through the mechanical maze to Steel Jaw. He sabotaged the checkpoint’s main cannon, leaving it engulfed in explosions and chaos as his companions waited to advance.

  • Xiao Han chose to seal the demonic baleful energy with chaotic energy and used Star Vortex Reverse Flow to form a fragile seal around it.
  • Tie Lan and the others protected Xiao Han while he endured the energy torrent, and the jade pendant helped suppress the baleful energy.
  • Xiao Han’s improved control helped the group cross much of the mechanical maze and reach Steel Jaw checkpoint.
  • Xiao Han proposed sneaking in alone to disable the Destroyer main cannon, and Tie Lan agreed to wait for his signal.
  • Xiao Han saw a tall, thin man attempt to secretly alert Steel Jaw and knocked him unconscious with a thread of dark light.
  • Xiao Han detonated a Dark Energy Explosive Talisman on the cannon’s energy hub, triggering a chain of explosions that wrecked the main cannon and threw the checkpoint into chaos.
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Ch. 153Who Dared Touch My Cannon?!

Xiao Han helped the Tie Lan Squad break through the checkpoint, but Lord Steel Jaw pursued them and attacked, targeting Xiao Han and the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Token. Xiao Han disrupted Steel Jaw’s targeting, but the Star Radiance Seal was close to breaking and the demonic baleful qi threatened to overwhelm him.

  • Xiao Han used the Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul and Green Lotus Sword Song to kill the recovering checkpoint guards amid the explosions.
  • Xiao Han escaped through the chaos and joined the Tie Lan Squad, who had broken through the checkpoint’s defenses.
  • Lord Steel Jaw pursued the squad on a spider-shaped war machine and threatened Xiao Han, demanding the Skywalker Relic and his head.
  • Steel Jaw fired his shoulder cannon, but Xiao Han used a Shadow Avatar and A Step to the Ends of the Earth to evade the blast.
  • Steel Jaw attacked the Tie Lan Squad with his chainsaw battle-axe, injuring two members and forcing Xiao Han to reveal himself.
  • Xiao Han used Chaos Control to disrupt Steel Jaw’s targeting, while the Star Radiance Seal cracked further and the system warned that the demonic baleful qi could take control of him.
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Ch. 154At the Critical Moment!

As Steel Jaw drove Xiao Han to the brink, Tie Lan briefly disabled the machine with an interference disc, but Xiao Han’s Star Radiance Seal shattered and unleashed the demonic aura within him. Partly overtaken by the aura, Xiao Han evaded Steel Jaw’s attack and struck him with a corrosive punch.

  • Steel Jaw saw Xiao Han weakening and brought his chainsaw battle-axe down toward him.
  • Tie Lan threw a cracked metal disc that briefly disrupted Steel Jaw’s systems and halted his axe above Xiao Han.
  • Xiao Han used the Soul Origin Treasure Jade to try to suppress the demonic aura, but the Star Radiance Seal shattered.
  • The released demonic aura transformed Xiao Han’s eyes and flooded him with savage bloodlust, while Steel Jaw resolved to capture and study him.
  • Xiao Han moved with newly heightened speed, dodged Steel Jaw’s axe, and punched his metal chest hard enough to make him stagger.
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Ch. 155The Battle Raged On

Xiao Han fought off the Primordial Demon Finger’s attempt to control him by awakening the mutated Chaos Nether Lotus, but suppressing the demonic qi left him nearly helpless. As Steel Jaw’s attack closed in, the Heaven-Connecting Ancient Token formed a shield of stars in front of him.

  • The Chaos Nether Lotus mutated and began absorbing the Primordial Demon Fiend Qi, giving Xiao Han’s will a chance to resist the Primordial Demon Finger.
  • Xiao Han regained control of his body and used the Chaos Nether Lotus to drag the demonic qi back into himself and suppress it.
  • Steel Jaw seized Xiao Han’s weakness and fired a powerful energy-cannon beam at him while Tie Lan and her companions were pinned in place.
  • The incomplete Heaven-Connecting Ancient Token burst with starlight and formed a solid shield before Xiao Han as Steel Jaw’s beam was about to hit.
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Ch. 156What Was That Thing?

Xiao Han used the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Token to open a dangerous spatial rift and escape Steel Jaw, leaving Tie Lan and the surviving scavengers behind. As he was battered by spatial turbulence, he glimpsed a colossal tower before losing consciousness.

  • The Heaven-Piercing Ancient Token absorbed energy from Steel Jaw’s attack and activated a short-distance random teleportation function.
  • Tie Lan and the scavengers charged Steel Jaw to protect Xiao Han, but several were struck down.
  • Xiao Han poured his remaining strength and suppressed Primordial Demon Fiend Qi into the token, opening a distorted spatial rift.
  • Before the rift swallowed him, Xiao Han sent Tie Lan a lotus seed and promised to repay her kindness.
  • Steel Jaw failed to catch Xiao Han and vowed to hunt him down and take apart the ancient token.
  • Xiao Han endured violent spatial turbulence as the token’s starlight pointed toward an unknown place, and he glimpsed a colossal tower.
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Ch. 157The Crisis Was Far from Over

Xiao Han crashed into a poisonous swamp, where the Primordial Demon Fiend Qi and the Primordial Demon Finger Soul-Splitting Curse Seal resonated and threatened to kill or demonize him. He chose to guide them into fusion, and the World Tree Heart Fragment and Heaven-Connecting Ancient Token helped create a precarious balance before he let out a monstrous roar.

  • Xiao Han crashed into a deathly silent swamp as the two demonic forces inside him erupted and began to converge.
  • The system warned Xiao Han that he risked demonization or death and offered three dangerous options.
  • Xiao Han chose to fuse the demonic forces and began guiding them with the Creation-Heaven-Penetrating Art.
  • As the forces tore through his body, the World Tree Heart Fragment released life energy and the Heaven-Connecting Ancient Token answered with starlight, helping to stabilize the conflict.
  • Xiao Han endured the ordeal until a nonhuman roar burst from his throat.
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Ch. 158Fuller Than Ever Before

After surviving the fusion of the demonic contaminations, Xiao Han gained the embryonic Demon Fiend Battle Body and fled toward the Heaven-Piercing Tower as powerful enemies pursued him. He fought through the Rotten Marsh Lurkers, but the Swamp Lord emerged and invited him to join the Black Marsh Abyss in service of the Great Sleeping Lord.

  • Xiao Han recovered from the ordeal, broke through to the peak of the early stage of the Eighth Level of the Martial Master Realm, and received the embryonic beginner Demon Fiend Battle Body.
  • Xiao Han sensed the contaminations still threatened to erupt and powerful Martial Emperor auras closing in, so he fled toward the Heaven-Piercing Tower using A Step to the Ends of the Earth.
  • Xiao Han discovered his new power heightened his affinity with shadows and negative energy, then killed the Rotten Marsh Lurkers that attacked him.
  • The Swamp Lord rose from the mire, displaying an aura similar to the Primordial Demon Finger Soul-Splitting Curse Seal and speaking to Xiao Han.
  • The Swamp Lord called Xiao Han one of its kind and offered to help control his power if he joined the Black Marsh Abyss to serve the Great Sleeping Lord.
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Ch. 159Clearly a Heavy Cost

Xiao Han refused the Swamp Lord’s offer and fought it, winning with a desperate strike fueled by the filthy energy that also worsened the demonic forces inside him. He continued toward the Heaven-Piercing Tower and reached the Starry Sky Ancient Road, where he learned he needed a Star Guide and had to pass through the Purification Corridor.

  • Xiao Han rejected the Swamp Lord’s demand to serve it, and the Swamp Lord attacked him with corrosive black rain and swamp tentacles.
  • The Primordial Demon Finger Soul-Splitting Curse Seal and Primordial Demon Fiend Qi devoured the rain’s evil energy, causing Xiao Han intense pain and threatening to consume his consciousness.
  • Xiao Han unleashed the Demon-Star-Annihilation Strike and blasted a hole through the Swamp Lord’s head, forcing the wounded creature to retreat into the mire.
  • Xiao Han took a healing pill and hurried toward the Heaven-Piercing Tower, sensing that the demonic forces within him had grown more active and hungry.
  • Xiao Han reached the Starry Sky Ancient Road, read that entrants needed a Star Guide and had to pass through the Purification Corridor, and stepped onto the road to view its ancient murals.
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Ch. 160Choice Three: [Outwit and Slip Through]

Xiao Han faced the Starpath Guards blocking the Heaven-Piercing Tower’s Purification Corridor and chose to try to bypass them. His stealth attempts failed, and his demonic contamination surged out of control just as the guards began a lethal attack, leaving him trapped between threats within and without.

  • The Starpath Guards detected Xiao Han’s demonic contamination and demanded that he undergo purification or be eliminated.
  • Xiao Han rejected purification and attempted to evade the guards using shadows and Space Laws, but their star energy attacks tracked him and blocked every route.
  • Xiao Han concluded the guards were tireless energy constructs and prepared to fight his way through.
  • The Primordial Demon Finger Soul-Splitting Curse Seal and Primordial Demon Fiend Qi resonated violently, forcing Xiao Han to defend his consciousness with the Soul Origin Treasure Jade and Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul.
  • The guard captain declared that Xiao Han’s contamination was spiraling out of control and initiated the Final Elimination Protocol as dozens of guards aimed their spears at him.
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Ch. 161The Balance Talisman Saves Its Master, the Starlight Maze-Locking Formation!

Xiao Han used the One-Time Absolute Balance Talisman to survive the Starpath Guards’ attack and escaped deeper into the Starry Sky Ancient Road. He became trapped in the Starlight Maze-Locking Formation as the talisman’s effect neared its end and the guards closed in.

  • Xiao Han summoned the system’s unknown mysterious item and used the One-Time Absolute Balance Talisman to suppress the conflicting powers in his body.
  • Xiao Han dodged the star-energy lances, but the Heaven-Connecting Ancient Token and World Tree Heart Fragment formed a shield that let him survive several impacts.
  • The Starpath Guards captain briefly faltered at Xiao Han’s balanced energies, giving Xiao Han time to flee with A Step to the Ends of the Earth and Shadow Stealth.
  • The guards activated the Starlight Maze-Locking Formation, which folded the space ahead into a shifting star palace and trapped Xiao Han inside.
  • As the talisman’s effect faded and the guards pursued him, Xiao Han opened his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes and searched through the formation’s illusions for the true path.
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Ch. 162A Sudden Upheaval!

Xiao Han followed the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Token’s starlight through the maze and reached the Star-Core Formation Spirit, which he began to devour. When the Absolute Balance Talisman expired and the Starpath Guard Squad captain attacked, demonic thoughts overwhelmed Xiao Han as he seized the captain’s stellar-energy dragon.

  • Xiao Han imitated ancient hand seals, and the Heaven-Connecting Ancient Token revealed a path through the maze.
  • Xiao Han fed demonic fiend energy into the token, strengthening its guidance and helping him reach the altar at the maze’s heart.
  • Xiao Han used the token to suppress and devour the Star-Core Formation Spirit.
  • The Starpath Guard Squad captain arrived and sent a stellar-energy dragon toward Xiao Han as the Absolute Balance Talisman’s effect ended.
  • Demonic thoughts overwhelmed Xiao Han, who grabbed the dragon’s head while continuing to drain the Star-Core Formation Spirit.
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Ch. 163Completely Devoured!

Xiao Han devoured the Star-Core Formation Spirit and endured a violent clash of star, demonic, and martial-soul powers as his body began transforming into a pseudo-incomplete Star-Magic Battle Body. After the Starlight Maze-Locking Formation collapsed and Xiao Han rapidly healed, the star road guard captain launched one final attack.

  • Xiao Han seized the Star Dragon Spear and held it fast while the Heaven-Piercing Ancient Token swallowed the Star-Core Formation Spirit.
  • The formation’s collapse unleashed a torrent of star energy that clashed with Xiao Han’s demonic power, curse seal, and twin Martial Souls, pushing him to the brink of destruction.
  • The Heaven-Piercing Ancient Token, Soul Origin Treasure Jade, and Star Iron Mother helped stabilize the energies, and the system announced Xiao Han’s transformation into a pseudo-incomplete Star-Magic Battle Body.
  • The Chaos Green Lotus’s World Tree phantom absorbed the heroic spirits’ lingering thoughts, while the Eternal Night Void Emperor Martial Soul gained deeper insight into the laws of the void.
  • The Starlight Maze-Locking Formation collapsed, Xiao Han healed and surged toward the middle stage of the Eighth Level of the Martial Master Realm, and the wounded star road guard captain hurled a final starlight spear at him.
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Ch. 164The Entrance to the True Heaven-Piercing Tower!

Xiao Han defeated the guard captain and learned that the Heaven-Piercing Tower had changed and the Void Whisperers had infiltrated it. He chose to prepare before entering, healed and began learning to control the Star-Magic Battle Body (pseudo), leaving the tower’s entrance still before him.

  • Xiao Han regained control of himself and shattered the guard captain, who warned him that the tower had changed and the Void Whisperers had infiltrated it.
  • A gate to the Heaven-Piercing Tower appeared, and the God-Level Choice System offered Xiao Han a choice between entering immediately and preparing first.
  • Xiao Han chose to prepare, receiving Marrow Jade Liquid, Star Demon Battle Body Tempering Insights (Incomplete), and an Illusion-Breaking Talisman.
  • Xiao Han drank the Marrow Jade Liquid, which rapidly healed his injuries and helped stabilize the markings of his battle body.
  • Xiao Han studied the beast-hide scroll and used its method to convert a wisp of star power into pure demonic malevolence.
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Ch. 165Warning! Void Whisperers Are Masters of Disguise

Xiao Han completed his cultivation, learned that Void Whisperers could infiltrate minds and disguise themselves, and entered the Starlight Plains of the Heaven-Piercing Tower. There, he witnessed a martial artist fall under their corruption and be killed by his own companion.

  • Xiao Han transformed demonic baleful power into star power while cultivating, and the system warned him that Void Whisperers could corrupt souls, alter memories, and conceal their identities.
  • After check-in completed, Xiao Han stabilized his cultivation at the middle stage of the Eighth Level of the Martial Master Realm and strengthened his command of the Star-Magic Battle Body.
  • Xiao Han entered the Starlight Plains, sensed a hostile presence watching him, and hid behind ruined walls to observe the other martial artists.
  • A bloodied Martial Grandmaster emerged from a nearby hall, raving and attacking his companions after a Void Whisper's black energy wrapped around his soul.
  • When the companions failed to subdue the maddened martial artist, one of them stabbed him through the chest, leaving the witnesses shocked and fearful.
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Ch. 166Such Bizarre Methods

Xiao Han uncovered the Void Whisperer’s disguise as Sun Baicao and fought the creature’s tentacles and mental assault. Unable to damage it with his usual attacks, he used Star-Magic Conversion to prepare a powerful Annihilation Divine Fist strike.

  • Xiao Han approached a teleportation array and met Sun Baicao, who offered to share a Star Core Fragment with him.
  • Xiao Han sensed something wrong and used an Illusion-Breaking Talisman, exposing the Void Whisperer possessing Sun Baicao.
  • Xiao Han attacked with his Eternal Night Domain, Shadow Binding, and Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul as the Void Whisperer revealed its tentacles and unleashed a soul-piercing shriek.
  • Xiao Han fought through the creature’s tentacles with his Star-Magic Battle Body and Green Lotus Sword Song, but its wounds healed and its mental assault left him dizzy.
  • Xiao Han activated Star-Magic Conversion, turned stellar power into destructive demonic fiend energy, and launched Annihilation Divine Fist—Demon Fiend Piercing the Sky.
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Ch. 167It worked!

Xiao Han discovered that his demonic baleful power could destroy the Void Whisperers’ tentacles and fought to protect the Martial Artists on the plain. After spotting the monster’s hidden connection to the teleportation array, he tricked it with his Shadow Avatar and launched a concentrated strike at the connection point.

  • Xiao Han’s Annihilation Divine Fist melted the Void Whisperers’ tentacles, revealing a power that countered them.
  • The Void Whisperers shed Sun Baicao’s skin, unleashed a mind-corrupting screech, and attacked the Martial Artists, causing widespread casualties.
  • Xiao Han warned the Martial Artists to guard their minds and fought the monster while noticing that it fiercely protected the teleportation array.
  • Using his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes, Xiao Han spotted a thin stream of black energy linking the monster to a node on the array.
  • Xiao Han feigned being struck and sent his Shadow Avatar toward the array to draw the monster’s tentacles away.
  • Xiao Han surged toward the Void Whisperers’ main body and gathered his powers into the embryonic Chaos Annihilation Green Lotus Eternal Night Strike, aiming at the energy connection.
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Ch. 168Strike While You're Down, Take Your Life!

Xiao Han destroyed the Void Whisperer and learned that the first floor’s true trial was protecting the Starfire. He heard that Qin Yueyao’s squad was in danger at the Starfire Altar, where a powerful Void Polluter was close to extinguishing the core, and a God-Level Choice activated.

  • Xiao Han severed the Void Whisperer’s link to the teleportation array, bound it with [Myriad Trees Spring Forth], and destroyed it before it could self-destruct.
  • Xiao Han collected the Void Remnant Crystal, and the surviving martial artists thanked him for saving them.
  • Xiao Han learned that the first floor’s trial was to protect the Starfire, the source of its energy, and that the teleportation array led toward its core region.
  • The teleportation array flickered with a stronger evil presence, and a survivor recognized the cries for help as Qin Yueyao’s.
  • The system announced that a peak late-Martial-Emperor Void Polluter was attacking the Starfire Altar and that the Starfire was about to go out.
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Ch. 169Fellow... Brother, Think Carefully!

Xiao Han chose to enter the Starfire Altar despite the danger and rescued Qin Yueyao and her family from corrupted Star Puppets. As he prepared to reach the altar’s control platform and use the Star Core Ancient Key, one of his followers attacked him from behind.

  • Xiao Han chose the risky route into the Starfire Altar, and three martial artists followed him while two vanished in the teleportation passage.
  • Xiao Han arrived to find Qin Yueyao and three Qin Family members fighting the Void Polluter as the Starfire dwindled to a small flame.
  • Xiao Han destroyed the corrupted Star Puppets with his domains and attacks, freeing Qin Yueyao and the others from immediate danger.
  • The Void Polluter’s corruption weakened Xiao Han’s star power, while Qin Yueyao told him the Star Core Ancient Key could activate the altar and cleanse the Starfire.
  • As Xiao Han prepared to approach the altar’s central platform, a taciturn follower secretly drew his sword and thrust it at Xiao Han’s back.
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Ch. 170Xiao Han Did Not Hesitate

Xiao Han survived a coordinated sneak attack and the Void Polluter’s assault, then risked a plan to reach the Star Core Ancient Key and disrupt the corruption linked to its unstable core. As he reached for the key, a far more powerful evil will surged from it and struck at his consciousness.

  • A hidden attacker stabbed Xiao Han from behind while the Void Polluter fired Obliteration Demon Light at him, and Xiao Han bound the attacker before taking the blast.
  • Qin Yueyao used a jade pendant to shield Xiao Han, who spotted the Void Polluter’s weakening Pollution Source Core and sensed a message from the altar’s Starfire.
  • Xiao Han told Qin Yueyao his plan to reach the Star Core Ancient Key, and she gave him a Star-Escape Jade Talisman while she and the remaining Qin Family members held off the Void Polluter.
  • Xiao Han activated Pseudo-Starfire Link and advanced through the tentacles as Qin Yueyao and the others fought to open a path.
  • Xiao Han used void energy from a Void Remnant Crystal to make the black corruption on the ancient key contract, then reached for the exposed gap.
  • An intensely evil will burst from the gap and attacked Xiao Han’s sea of consciousness just before he touched the key.
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Ch. 171Welcome, Master, Upon Your Awakening!

Xiao Han faced possession by a Demon General Soul Fragment and a deadly attack from the Void Polluter, so he chose to devour the Starfire and Star Core Ancient Key despite the risk of becoming a void puppet. Qin Yueyao sacrificed her life to buy him time, and the World Tree phantom suppressed the demonic forces stirring inside him as the battle remained unresolved.

  • The Void Polluter drained three captives to feed the Star Core Ancient Key, awakening a Demon General Soul Fragment that invaded Xiao Han's sea of consciousness.
  • The Starfire sent its origin flame to Xiao Han, and the God-Level Choice System offered him a choice between mutual destruction and devouring the Starfire and ancient key.
  • Xiao Han chose to devour the Starfire's origin and the ancient key's power with the nascent Chaos Nether Lotus, while the Demon General Soul Fragment fought back and wounded him.
  • Qin Yueyao burned her phoenix bloodline and life to strike the Void Polluter, buying Xiao Han a few breaths before she vanished.
  • The Void Polluter resumed its attack as demonic forces stirred within Xiao Han, but the World Tree phantom shone and suppressed the Primordial Demon Finger Soul-Splitting Curse Seal.
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Ch. 172Crumbing Inch by Inch

Xiao Han formed the Chaos Starflame Seed, destroyed the Void Polluter, and broke through to the late stage of the Eighth Level of the Martial Master Realm. A terrifying nether dragon claw then descended, and with death closing in, Xiao Han gambled on sacrificing the Star Core Ancient Key and thirty percent of his star-magic origin to create a chance to survive.

  • Xiao Han's Martial Souls slowed the demon general's split soul while the Chaos Nether Lotus formed the Chaos Starflame Seed, stabilizing his energies and advancing him to the late stage of the Eighth Level of the Martial Master Realm.
  • Xiao Han struck the Void Polluter's Pollution Source Core with Chaos Starflame and destroyed it, grievously damaging the demon general's split soul inside the Star Core Ancient Key.
  • The Star Core Ancient Key warned Xiao Han that the sovereign was watching and that the Heaven-Piercing Tower's end was near, as a higher-level will turned its killing intent toward the altar.
  • Xiao Han gathered Qin Yueyao's storage ring and shattered jade pendant, but a nether dragon claw emerged through a spatial rift and shattered the Starfire Altar while an emperor-sovereign-level will attacked his soul.
  • Xiao Han accepted the system's near-death choice, sacrificed thirty percent of his star-magic origin, and hurled the Star Core Ancient Key at the nether dragon claw.
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Ch. 173Life Hanging by a Thread

Xiao Han escaped the Netherworld Emperor by plunging through a spatial rift as the Heaven-Piercing Tower Spirit attacked, but the Emperor’s cursefire struck him before he vanished. He awakened in the Ancient Gods' Battlefield (Remnant Domain), weakened and surrounded by Bone War Wolves, while a fragment in the Chaos Starflame Seed pointed him toward a Divine Blood Altar that could refine the curse.

  • The [Star Core Ancient Key] briefly resonated with the Netherworld dragon claw, awakening the Heaven-Piercing Tower Spirit, which attacked the Netherworld Emperor with a Divine Chain of Order.
  • Xiao Han used the battle’s spatial rifts to escape, but the Netherworld Emperor’s cursefire marked his back as the ancient key shattered and its Void Coordinate Fragment merged into the [Chaos Starflame Seed].
  • Xiao Han awoke at the bottom of a cliff in the Ancient Gods' Battlefield (Remnant Domain), where the cursefire rapidly drained his vitality and suppressed his strength.
  • Bone War Wolves surrounded Xiao Han, drawn to the cursefire mark on his back.
  • The Void Coordinate Fragment told Xiao Han that a Divine Blood Altar to the northwest could refine the emperor curse.
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Ch. 174Into the Temple Ruins

Wounded and pursued by Bone War Wolves, Xiao Han took shelter in an ancient temple and found a demonic cultivation technique that could help him control the Netherworld Emperor Dragon Cursefire. He chose to cultivate it by refining resentful souls, and after a night of near-fatal struggle, he succeeded.

  • Xiao Han used his Void-Piercing Divine Eyes to evade the Bone War Wolves and fled into ancient temple ruins, where the sacred aura stopped the pack from following.
  • Xiao Han uncovered a hidden chamber and found the Myriad Souls Blood Refining Illustrated Record, three sacred healing pills, a Small Life Source Crystal, and a damaged map marking the Divine Blood Altar.
  • Xiao Han rejected the safer path to the Divine Blood Altar and chose to cultivate the incomplete demonic technique, then swallowed a healing pill to prepare.
  • Xiao Han formed a Soul-Gathering Formation outside the temple and began refining resentful souls, but the Netherworld Emperor Dragon Cursefire retaliated and an Emperor's will attacked his soul.
  • Xiao Han used the Soul Origin Treasure Jade and his Martial Souls to resist the Emperor's will, then crushed the Small Life Source Crystal to stabilize his failing body and soul.
  • After an entire night of dangerous refinement, Xiao Han successfully refined the resentful soul power.
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Ch. 175The Ten Thousand Souls Pit

Xiao Han reached the Ten Thousand Souls Pit to seek the Remnant Trace of Imperial Blood and refine his cursefire. After killing the Black Wind Twin Fiends, he arrived at the ancient altar and found the imperial-rank blood trace in its dried pool.

  • Xiao Han fused resentful soul power into his Star-Magic Battle Body, improving his suppression of the Netherworld Emperor Dragon Cursefire and raising his cultivation.
  • Xiao Han used the newly clarified battlefield map to locate the Ten Thousand Souls Pit and disguised his aura to pass among its resentful souls.
  • The Black Wind Twin Fiends confronted Xiao Han and tried to seize his treasures and cursefire mark.
  • Xiao Han unleashed a fragment of the cursefire’s emperor’s will to stun the Black Wind Twin Fiends, then killed them and took their Soul-Nourishing Pearls and Essentials of Soul Gathering and Evil Refining.
  • Xiao Han followed the map to the pit’s deepest point and found the Remnant Trace of Imperial Blood in the dried pool at the center of a bone altar.
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