Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Xiao Han refined the Netherworld Emperor Dragon Cursefire into the Netherworld Chaos Dragon Flame, broke through to the Martial Master Realm Ninth Level, and formed the Myriad Souls Battle Body Prototype. The Eternal Night King Martial Soul then led him through an ancient stone door into a primordial shadow passage, where he faced demonic figures attacking his soul.

• Xiao Han used the Soul-Nourishing Pearls and the altar to draw in the Ten Thousand Souls Pit’s resentful souls and evil energy while refining the Netherworld Emperor Dragon Cursefire.
• The World Tree and Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul helped Xiao Han withstand the Netherworld Emperor’s will and purify the cursefire.
• Xiao Han created the Netherworld Chaos Dragon Flame, advanced to the Martial Master Realm Ninth Level, and formed the Myriad Souls Battle Body Prototype.
• The altar’s ancient call resonated with Xiao Han’s Eternal Night King Martial Soul, and a hidden stone door opened behind the altar.
• Xiao Han entered the primordial shadow passage, where the Eternal Night King Martial Soul repelled mental attacks and primordial shadow demonic figures struck at his soul.
• Xiao Han unleashed the Netherworld Chaos Dragon Flame against the demonic figures.

Xiao Han reached the cavern containing the Primordial Shadow Heart and discovered that it held the Eternal Night Emperor’s inheritance and awakened remnant will. He chose to gamble on devouring everything, and the battle for his soul and the heart’s origin began.

• Xiao Han burned Primordial Shadow fiends in the passage, while his myriad souls battle body absorbed their soul energy and baleful aura.
• Xiao Han entered a vast cavern and recognized its pulsing black heart as the Primordial Shadow Heart, an origin fragment left by the fallen Eternal Night Emperor.
• The Primordial Shadow Heart poured inherited memories and cultivation secrets into Xiao Han, and the God-Level Choice System warned that the Emperor’s remnant will was awakening.
• The Eternal Night Emperor’s phantom appeared and tried to seize Xiao Han’s body and soul, demanding that he become the cornerstone of the Emperor’s return.
• Xiao Han chose to devour everything, opened his sea of consciousness, and sent the Eternal Night King Martial Soul against the Emperor’s will.
• Xiao Han and the Eternal Night Emperor’s remnant will began a brutal battle for control of Xiao Han’s soul and the Primordial Shadow Heart.

Xiao Han absorbed the Primordial Shadow Heart, defeated the Eternal Night Emperor’s remnant will, and evolved his Martial Soul while breaking through to the Martial Grandmaster Realm First Level Peak. As he prepared to leave the cavern, a skeletal figure awakened on a hidden altar and attacked him with chains of resentful souls.

• Xiao Han used his Martial Souls and treasures to withstand the Eternal Night Emperor’s inheritance memories and remnant will as he absorbed the Primordial Shadow origin.
• Xiao Han witnessed the Eternal Night Emperor’s ancient reign and his defeat by several beings of equal rank, which strengthened Xiao Han’s soul and understanding of shadow and space.
• Xiao Han’s Eternal Night King Martial Soul evolved into the [Primordial Eternal Night Overlord] (prototype), and his cultivation rose to Martial Grandmaster Realm First Level Peak as two divine ability prototypes formed.
• Xiao Han and the Chaos Green Lotus Martial Soul extinguished the Eternal Night Emperor’s remnant will after the Primordial Shadow Heart’s energy and inheritance were refined.
• A hidden fissure revealed an ancient altar and a skeletal figure that awakened, identified Xiao Han as a fresh overlord’s body, and sent chains of resentful souls sweeping toward him.

Xiao Han fought Darkfall Bone Venerable and discovered that the skeletal warrior's strength came from the Dark Night Throne. After the throne chose Xiao Han as its new master, he destroyed Darkfall Bone Venerable and began receiving a mysterious inheritance.

• Xiao Han used his shadow domain, Netherworld Chaos Dragon Flame, and battle techniques to resist Darkfall Bone Venerable's attacks while studying its power.
• Xiao Han realized that the Dark Night Throne replenished Darkfall Bone Venerable's strength and rushed toward it.
• Xiao Han endured Darkfall Bone Venerable's blow and touched the throne, which poured primordial shadow power into him and severed its bond with the skeletal warrior.
• Xiao Han's injuries healed and his power surged, allowing him to destroy Darkfall Bone Venerable with the Annihilation Divine Fist.
• The throne enveloped Xiao Han in shadow runes and began a deeper transformation and inheritance as he glimpsed a road to a wider world.

Xiao Han inherited the Eternal Night Emperor’s power and seal, then fought off the Divine Court’s knights with help from the Emperor’s remnant will. He escaped to a shadowy forest bearing a Divine Punishment Mark and sensed Su Linglong’s Extreme Ice Phoenix Martial Soul nearby.

• The Dark Night Throne empowered Xiao Han, advancing his cultivation to the Martial Grandmaster Realm Third Layer and granting him the [Dark Night Judgment] ability and the [Eternal Night Emperor Seal].
• The Divine Court’s knights found Xiao Han, and he killed three of them with [Dark Night Judgment].
• The Grand Knight’s holy attacks overwhelmed Xiao Han until the Eternal Night Emperor’s remnant will struck the Grand Knight and gave Xiao Han a [Shadow Teleportation Talisman].
• The Emperor warned Xiao Han that the Divine Court had a mole in the Imperial Capital Academy and told him to go to the Shadow Sanctuary.
• Xiao Han teleported away, but a holy light struck him with a [Divine Punishment Mark]; in the shadowy forest, he sensed Su Linglong’s Extreme Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.