Chapter Summaries

Li Tianming became an Earth Origin disciple, chose a secluded pavilion beside Fang Xingying’s, and learned that Fang Xing Que was a powerful young enemy who still wanted him dead. As Li Tianming settled in and joked about making Lin Xiaoxiao his attendant, Xuanyuan Yuheng called him outside.

• Li Tianming explored the Earth Origin Sect and received his Earth Origin disciple token from Gou Yuqiu at the Origin Bright Hall.
• Li Tianming encountered Fang Xingying, learned that Fang Xing Que had ordered his assassination over a cricket-fighting grudge, and discovered Fang Xing Que’s powerful lineage and talent.
• Fang Xingying told Li Tianming about a vacant pavilion beside his, and Li Tianming agreed to become his neighbor.
• Li Tianming moved into the pavilion, named it The Number One Pavilion Under Heaven, and considered bringing Lin Xiaoxiao there as his attendant.
• Xuanyuan Yuheng called for Li Tianming from outside his pavilion.

Li Tianming received three powerful Heaven and Earth Tribulation Sources, including a dangerous level-four source, and decided which of his lifebound beasts would attempt to use them. As Miaomiao and Lanhuang began evolving inside the Companion Space, Li Tianming headed to the Tianyuan Cauldron.

• Xuanyuan Yuheng delivered Li Tianming the Heaven and Earth Tribulation Sources and seethed over the Exalted Deity's generosity toward him.
• Li Tianming examined the sources, assigning the Shadowless Myriad Extremes Lightning Soul to Miaomiao, the Boundless Star Dragon Diagram to Lanhuang, and the Heaven-Piercing Demon-Burning Feathers to Yinghuo, while warning Yinghuo not to risk its evolution if the others failed.
• Li Tianming opened the barriers, and Miaomiao and Lanhuang swallowed their sources as thunder and starlight stirred the sky.
• Fang Xingying witnessed the celestial phenomena and wondered whether Li Tianming could help him take revenge.
• Li Tianming sent Yinghuo into the Companion Space to protect Miaomiao and Lanhuang, then left for the Tianyuan Sect carrying a small colorful egg.

Li Tianming visited the Heaven Origin Cauldron to scout for the Primordial Evil Demon’s eye and help Little Four find a suitable spiritual disaster, but discovered he needed a powerful body-refining battle art before Little Four could be born. After leaving the Heaven Origin Sect, he was ambushed by Fang Xingque and his companions.

• Li Tianming entered the Heaven Origin Sect using the Alliance Leader Token and examined the Heaven Origin Cauldron’s barriers, deciding to postpone any attempt to steal the Primordial Evil Demon’s eye until he understood the defenses.
• Fang Xingque confronted Li Tianming and ordered his companions to mutilate him, but Ouyang Sword King stopped the attack with a strike of Sword Qi.
• Li Tianming mocked Fang Xingque with a poem, then met Ouyang Sword King atop the cauldron and entered its ocean of spiritual disasters.
• Li Tianming learned that he could not endure the tribulation-pattern flames needed for Little Four, so he decided to cultivate further and find a stronger body-refining battle art.
• Li Tianming left the Heaven Origin Sect and returned toward the Number One Pavilion Under Heaven, where Fang Xingque and several companions sprang from hiding to ambush him.

Li Tianming used Miaomiao’s newly evolved speed to escape Fang Xing Que and his Heaven-Origin disciples, humiliating Fang Xing Que as he chased them. Back at the First Pavilion Under Heaven, Li Tianming began planning his next evolutions, and Lanhuang evolved just as Yinghuo was about to start.

• Fang Xing Que attacked Li Tianming, but Miaomiao struck him with Hell-Chasing Soul Lightning and revealed its evolved form with 397 star points.
• Li Tianming rode Miaomiao away at incredible speed, taunting Fang Xing Que until the furious disciple fell behind and swore to kill him.
• After Li Tianming left, Fang Xing Que raged at his companions and told them not to inform his father about the incident.
• Li Tianming returned to the First Pavilion Under Heaven and planned to advance his cultivation, refine his body, and investigate the Primordial Evil Demon Eye.
• Li Tianming and Yinghuo agreed that Yinghuo would devour the Heaven-Piercing Demon-Burning Feather, but Lanhuang evolved just as Yinghuo began.

Lanhuang and Yinghuo completed their evolutions, strengthening their defenses and combat abilities, while Li Tianming cared for the unconscious Lin Xiaoxiao and brought her to the Number One Pavilion. Through symbiotic cultivation, Li Tianming also grew stronger and reached the second level of the Ancient Sacred Realm.

• Lanhuang emerged from its evolution at an enormous size, and Li Tianming tested its star-patterned scales before it accidentally wrecked the Number One Pavilion chasing its tail.
• Li Tianming found Lin Xiaoxiao unconscious after her breakthrough, carried her to the Number One Pavilion, and told her to stay there because he feared his enemies might target her.
• Li Tianming asked Miaomiao to watch Lin Xiaoxiao, but Miaomiao refused and escaped when Li Tianming threatened it.
• Yinghuo completed its evolution, gaining Demon-Burning Feathers and Heaven-Piercing Astral Energy, and Li Tianming tested its piercing power on his Dark Arm.
• Li Tianming cultivated with his three evolved companion beasts and broke through to the second level of the Ancient Sacred Realm.

Li Tianming sought a body-tempering art and learned that the Azure Star Ancient God Body could be cultivated in the Stellar Pool by winning one of two slots in the Stellar Battlefield. Though registration had closed and the contest favored Heavenly Origin disciples, he qualified by passing the age test and obtained a registration token, then prepared to enter with Fang Xingying.

• Li Tianming asked Fang Xingying where to find a powerful body-tempering battle art, and Fang Xingying told him about the Azure Star Ancient God Body and the Stellar Pool contest.
• Li Tianming learned registration had closed, but Fang Xingying suggested asking the Human Origin Sect Master to intervene; Li Tianming went to Origin Clarity Hall with the Human Origin Sacred Token.
• Gou Yuqiu had Li Tianming take a bone-age test, which showed he was twenty, and registered him for the Battle of the Stars.
• Gou Yuqiu gave Li Tianming a registration token and told him to go to the Abyssal Battlefield the day after tomorrow.
• Li Tianming showed Fang Xingying the token, and Fang Xingying agreed to go while warning that Earth Origin disciples would be outmatched.

Li Tianming learned the rules of the Battle of Stars and discovered he could leave the battlefield once a day to cultivate and see Jiang Feiling. Before leaving, he secretly passed her a note expressing how much he missed her, and she read it alone in her bedchamber.

• Fang Xingying explained that the Battle of Stars lasted a month, awarded points for defeating disciples, and ended with the two leaders being exposed and hunted.
• Li Tianming told Lin Xiaoxiao he would be away and asked her to guard the Earth Branch Barrier while he was gone.
• Fang Qingli told Li Tianming that participants could leave the battlefield once a day for up to four hours if no one was within three thousand meters.
• Li Tianming passed Jiang Feiling a note beneath the Supreme Unity Tower while pretending to ask about its tribulation patterns.
• Jiang Feiling read Li Tianming’s note in her bedchamber and cried over his words about missing her every day.

Li Tianming arrived at the Nine Divine Realms’ Abyssal Battlefield for the Battle of the Stars and learned how the Starry Barrier and its lethal rules worked. As the contestants entered, Fang Xingque singled him out for a grudge, while Li Tianming became interested in the Evil Demon Trial and its connection to the Primordial Evil Demon’s eye.

• Li Tianming surveyed the Abyssal Battlefield’s abundant spiritual disasters and the vast Starry Barrier, where twenty thousand contestants would hunt one another in a real battlefield.
• Fang Xingying explained the Primordial Divine Sect’s hierarchy and warned Li Tianming that Heavenly Origin disciples could break a wounded Earth Origin disciple’s Star Source Barrier and kill them.
• Fang Taiqing brought the Heavenly Origin disciples to the front of the line, and Xuanyuan Muxue entered the Starry Barrier after receiving her Star Source Barrier.
• Fang Xingying told Li Tianming that Xuanyuan Yuheng had earned access to the Starry Pool through the Evil Demon Trial, prompting Li Tianming to consider joining it to obtain the Primordial Evil Demon’s eye.
• Fang Xingque gathered nearly five hundred Taiqing Fang Clan disciples, slapped Fang Xingying for standing with Li Tianming, and then entered the Starry Barrier with his clan while glaring at Li Tianming.

Li Tianming entered the Battlefield of Stars and encountered Fang Jingjing, the thirteen-year-old daughter of a powerful marshal, who tried to capture him for her cousin. He defeated her with Miaomiao and Yinghuo, while the star points of his lifebound beasts caused an uproar outside the barrier.

• Yi Xing Que recognized Li Tianming, marked his registration token, and let him enter the Stars Barrier without inspecting his spatial ring.
• Li Tianming landed in the Ten Thousand Beasts Fiend Abyss and set out with Miaomiao and Yinghuo, relying on Miaomiao’s speed to avoid fights he could not win.
• Li Tianming found Fang Jingjing hiding in an abyss, and she identified herself as Fang Xing Que’s cousin and threatened to capture him.
• Fang Jingjing attacked Li Tianming with her Eight-Winged Azure Divine Phoenix, but Miaomiao overwhelmed the beast while Yinghuo wounded Fang Jingjing and triggered her star source barrier.
• Li Tianming left Fang Jingjing defeated, unaware that Yinghuo’s more than four hundred star points had stirred up a tremendous uproar outside the Stars Barrier.

As the Battle of the Myriad Stars began, Fang Taiqing and Fang Yuming discussed the threats facing the Divine Realm and the Revered God’s role in the growing turmoil. After Li Tianming defeated Fang Jingjing in the battlefield, Fang Taiqing took an interest in his strength and treasures, then resolved to secure a Myriad Stars Pool slot for Fang Xingque.

• Spectators watched the Battle of the Myriad Stars through the Star Master Barrier as Fang Taiqing and Fang Yuming discussed the Yin-Yang Demon Sect, the Six Paths Sword Sect, and other threats to their realm.
• Fang Yuming spoke bitterly about the Supreme Purity Fang Clan fighting for the Revered God and said he planned to visit his daughter, Fang Jingjing.
• The audience learned that Li Tianming had defeated Fang Jingjing and earned 418 star points, prompting Fang Taiqing to explain that the Revered God had brought him back and intended to make him her disciple.
• Fang Yuming left to see Fang Jingjing, while Fang Taiqing considered Li Tianming’s weapons and wondered whether the Revered God could protect him.
• Fang Taiqing watched Fang Xingque’s viewpoint and complained that, as Heaven Origin Sect Master, he could not secure his son a Myriad Stars Pool slot.

Li Tianming and his lifebound beasts hunted a powerful Three-Headed Firebird before Xuanyuan Cangcang ambushed them in the Abyssal Battlefield. They escaped, and Li Tianming realized the little colored egg was connected to plants, wood, or life.

• Li Tianming and Yinghuo found a young ninth-rank Ancient Saint Beast, the Three-Headed Firebird, nesting beneath a cliff.
• Li Tianming released Lanhuang, and Lanhuang and Yinghuo defeated the Three-Headed Firebird despite its Ultimate Life Fire attack.
• Li Tianming refined the Three-Headed Firebird’s beast soul and gave it to Yinghuo, then coaxed Lanhuang back into the Companion Space.
• Xuanyuan Cangcang ambushed Li Tianming with a blood-colored petal and pursued him with his wood-colored divine dragon, but Miaomiao carried Li Tianming to safety.
• The little colored egg found a tree seed hidden in Miaomiao’s fur, and Li Tianming realized it was connected to plants, wood attributes, or life.

Li Tianming returned from the Battle of the Stars to cultivate, checked on Lin Xiaoxiao, and learned from Jian Xueyi that her uncle had been murdered and a war between divine realms might be coming. He then asked Ouyang Sword King to recommend him for the Evil Demon Trial, and Ouyang agreed to submit an application.

• Yinghuo awakened the Purgatory Lifefire divine ability, and Li Tianming saw that Xuanyuan Muxue led the Battle of the Stars rankings while Fang Xingque ranked thirty-eighth.
• Li Tianming left the battlefield to cultivate on the Azure Star Ancient Road, visited his pavilion, and found Lin Xiaoxiao bathing in his hot spring.
• Li Tianming sold White Night back to Jian Xueyi, who told him that her uncle Jian Binghe had been killed and warned that the other eight divine realms might start a war to prevent the Revered Deity from becoming a god.
• Li Tianming vowed to protect Jiang Feiling, then shared Hibiscus Spirit Wine and a joking poetry contest with Ouyang Sword King.
• Li Tianming showed Ouyang Sword King the eye on his left hand and requested entry to the Evil Demon Trial; Ouyang agreed to recommend him to Tribulation Crossing Peak.

Li Tianming learned that the Eight Divine Realms would soon compete in the World's Number One Gathering, then returned to the Myriad Stars Battlefield and cultivated until he reached the third level of the Ancient Saint Realm. He set his sights on a group of Supreme Purity Fang Clan disciples, while their members began berating the lagging Fang Xingying.

• Ouyang Sword King told Li Tianming that the World's Number One Gathering would pit juniors from the Eight Divine Realms against one another, with the results affecting resources and territory.
• Li Tianming returned to the Myriad Stars Battlefield and spent his time cultivating Heavenly Will and tempering his swordsmanship.
• After ten days of cultivation, Li Tianming broke through to the third level of the Ancient Saint Realm and decided to start earning points.
• Li Tianming noticed Fang Xingque climbing the rankings and suspected he was gathering Supreme Purity Fang Clan disciples to hunt together.
• Li Tianming planned to lure a group of twenty Supreme Purity Fang Clan disciples into fighting him for points.
• Fang Chenhuan and Fang Shuyu insulted Fang Xingying for lagging behind their group.

Li Tianming was ambushed by nineteen Taiqing Fang Clan disciples, but he overwhelmed them despite their numerical advantage. He killed Fang Chenhuan with a sword strike and a Purgatory Lifefire blast, while Fang Shuyu escaped.

• Fang Xingying left Fang Chenhuan and Fang Shuyu’s group, then followed when they spotted Li Tianming.
• The Taiqing Fang Clan disciples surrounded Li Tianming, whose lifebound beasts’ enormous star points astonished them and the Binary Battlefield viewers.
• Li Tianming sent Lanhuang into a nearby river while Miaomiao fought beside him, and Yinghuo attacked Fang Chenhuan’s Vajra Dazzling Light Divine Phoenix.
• Li Tianming shattered Fang Chenhuan’s spear and defeated him with a sword strike, triggering his Star Source Barrier.
• Yinghuo’s Purgatory Lifefire detonated inside the Star Source Barrier, killing Fang Chenhuan and his lifebound beast.
• Li Tianming defeated the other disciples and left eighteen of them trapped in Star Source Barriers, while Fang Shuyu fled.

After Li Tianming defeated the Supreme Purity Fang Clan disciples, he appeared on the Myriad Stars Ranking in seventieth place. Fang Xingque learned that Li Tianming had killed Fang Chenhuan and used Fang Shuyu’s Mystic Jade Powder to plan an ambush.

• Li Tianming asked Fang Xingying about the Supreme Purity Fang Clan’s plan to gather around Fang Xingque, then left to return to cultivation.
• The Myriad Stars Ranking placed Li Tianming seventieth with seventy-three points.
• Fang Xingque and Fang Chenyu discussed their clan’s ambitions and resolved to surpass Xuanyuan Muxue before the final three days.
• Fang Shuyu told Fang Xingque that Li Tianming had eliminated her group of eighteen and killed Fang Chenhuan.
• Fang Shuyu revealed that Fenfen had marked Li Tianming’s lifebound beast with Mystic Jade Powder, and Fang Xingque led the group out to ambush him.

Fang Xingque’s pursuit of Li Tianming was interrupted when he diverted his forces to chase Xuanyuan Muxue, then sent Fang Chenyu and Fang Shuyu after Li Tianming. Meanwhile, Li Tianming and Lanhuang battled a powerful Earth-Piercing Realm Dragon, and Li Tianming descended to attack as it struck at Lanhuang.

• Fang Xingque led hundreds of Taiqing Fang Clan disciples after Li Tianming, but they changed course when they spotted Xuanyuan Muxue.
• Xuanyuan Muxue froze Fang Xingque and dozens of pursuers with a blizzard, then continued fleeing despite Fang Xingque’s insults.
• Fang Xingque assigned Fang Chenyu and Fang Shuyu to find and cripple Li Tianming while he pursued Xuanyuan Muxue.
• Li Tianming and Lanhuang fought the ninth-order Earth-Piercing Realm Dragon, with Lanhuang pinning it down and Li Tianming striking it with Nine Nether Gods and Devils Claw.
• The Earth-Piercing Realm Dragon formed a massive spinning Earthstone Grindstone and crashed toward Lanhuang, whose Infinity Starlight Dragon Diagram blocked the attack as Li Tianming plunged down with the Eastern Emperor Sword.

Li Tianming avoided Fang Chenyu, who repeatedly tracked and taunted him, while he investigated how the man was finding him. After learning Fang Chenyu’s powerful family connections, Li Tianming told Jian Xueyi to visit the Two-Origin Battlefield for the next three days, hinting that he was preparing to turn the tables.

• Li Tianming killed a Mountain-Piercing Realm Dragon and gave its beast soul to Lanhuang, then discovered someone was nearby when the Star Origin Barrier failed to respond.
• Fang Chenyu confronted Li Tianming and threatened to break his limbs, but Li Tianming fled on Miaomiao rather than fight him while Lanhuang was refining a beast soul.
• Fang Chenyu continued tracking and insulting Li Tianming even after he left the Starry Battlefield, and Li Tianming found fine stone powder on his clothes that could be marking him.
• Li Tianming visited Jian Xueyi and learned that the sect had mocked his retreats; she urged him to stay alive and avoid the Starry Battlefield.
• Li Tianming learned that Fang Chenyu was the son of Fang Shenyu, a powerful Taiping Fang Clan figure who led the Judgment Hall, then told Jian Xueyi to go to the Two-Origin Battlefield for three days.

While cultivating in the Battlefield of the Myriad Stars, Li Tianming saw Little Four’s true form in a dream: a World Tree whose roots devoured life across countless worlds. As his vision sank toward the tree’s spirit, he heard Jiang Feiling’s voice calling someone Xianxian.

• Li Tianming visited the Six Paths Sword Palace hoping to see Jiang Feiling, but she was absent, so he practiced the Human Path Multitudes Sword instead.
• On the nineteenth day of the Battle of the Myriad Stars, Li Tianming cultivated in a cave while holding Little Four’s multicolored egg and sensing its emotions.
• Li Tianming dreamed of Little Four as a vast World Tree with nine flowers, whose roots drained the life and spirits of beings across countless worlds.
• Li Tianming saw a little flower spirit at the tree’s nine branches and realized she was the World Tree’s spirit.
• Li Tianming heard Jiang Feiling’s voice call, “Xianxian, come back quickly,” and froze in shock.

Li Tianming saw a vision of Eternal World City being uprooted by a black arm with one hundred thousand Primordial Evil Demon Eyes, then reached the fourth level of the Ancient Saint Realm and tested his growing strength. When Xuanyuan Cangcang ambushed him, Li Tianming and his bonded beasts attacked, beginning their fight.

• Li Tianming witnessed Eternal World City collapse as a black arm tore its World Tree from the myriad worlds, and he wondered who controlled the arm and what connected Ling'er, Xuanyuan Xi, and the city.
• Li Tianming set aside his questions about the past, joked with Yinghuo about the colorful egg, and decided to wait for it to hatch.
• Li Tianming reached the fourth level of the Ancient Saint Realm, broke a Saint Beast Weapon with his bare hands, and saw Lanhuang's physical strength improve dramatically.
• Xuanyuan Cangcang ambushed Li Tianming, but Yinghuo blocked the concealed weapons, and Li Tianming prepared to fight him while waiting for Fang Chenyu.
• Li Tianming and his bonded beasts launched an attack as Xuanyuan Cangcang's Azure Wood Dragon summoned its Giant Wood Prison.

Li Tianming defeated Xuanyuan Cangcang and Fang Chenyu, while his lifebound beasts killed two of Fang Chenyu’s phoenixes and nearly killed the third. After warning Fang Chenyu and threatening Fang Xing Que, Li Tianming left the battlefield as Fang Taiqing and Fang Shenyu plotted to have Xing Que’s group kill Li Tianming’s lifebound beasts.

• Li Tianming’s beasts broke Xuanyuan Cangcang’s attacks, and Fang Chenyu arrived with three powerful phoenixes to join the fight.
• Yinghuo killed Fang Chenyu’s Sixteen-Winged Blazing Fire Phoenix, while Lanhuang killed his Deep Sea Nether Phoenix and Miaomiao nearly defeated his Eight-Clawed Heavenly Dipper Phoenix.
• Li Tianming defeated Fang Chenyu with the Six Paths Life and Death Sword, tore his tongue, and left him trapped behind his stellar source barrier.
• Li Tianming told Fang Shuyu to warn Fang Xing Que that he would never enter the Starry Pool while Li Tianming was there.
• Fang Taiqing and Fang Shenyu decided to have Fang Xing Que lead the Taiqing Fang Clan’s people in killing Li Tianming’s lifebound beasts.