Chapter Summaries

After Li Tianming defeated Fang Chenyu, Fang Xingque learned of the loss and planned to cripple Li Tianming and kill his lifebound beasts. Li Tianming continued cultivating at the Heaven Origin Cauldron, determined to test how deep his Ancient Saint Golden Body could endure.

• Zhao Yijue admitted Li Tianming had shaken the sect, while Jian Xueyi discussed the Star Pool quota and the danger posed by Fang Xingque and Xuanyuan Muxue.
• Fang Shuyu told Fang Xingque that Li Tianming had defeated Fang Chenyu, killed two of his lifebound beasts, and sent a threat about the Star Pool quota.
• Fang Xingque struck Fang Shuyu, then vowed to cripple Li Tianming and later received his father's order to kill Li Tianming's lifebound beasts.
• Sister Yun gathered nine Heaven Origin disciples to help Fang Xingque deal with Li Tianming quickly and warned him not to underestimate Li Tianming's rapid improvement.
• Li Tianming reached the Heaven Origin Cauldron and began enduring its spirit calamities, preparing to descend into the Bone-Piercing Tribulation Fire.

Li Tianming endured the Tianyuan Cauldron’s tribulation fire and met Ouyang Sword King, who taught him the Heavenly Tribulation Sword Body. The chapter left Li Tianming and Yinghuo inside Ouyang Sword King’s Sword Qi pool, beginning their painful training.

• Li Tianming pushed through two-thirds of the Tianyuan Cauldron’s depth before deciding he needed a body-refining battle art to continue safely.
• Ouyang Sword King returned, traded poetry with Li Tianming, and offered to teach him after they found they shared a temperament.
• Ouyang Sword King demonstrated the Heavenly Tribulation Sword Body, which absorbed tribulation-pattern Sword Qi for explosive attacks, and gave Li Tianming its sword art.
• Ouyang Sword King led Li Tianming to his private Sword Qi pool, which held one hundred thousand strands of Heavenly Tribulation Sword Qi.
• Ouyang Sword King threw Li Tianming and Yinghuo into the pool to absorb a strand, and their screams quickly fell silent.

Li Tianming emerged from Heavenly Tribulation Sword cultivation with fifteen strands of sword qi, then heard Fang Xingying’s plea to help kill Fang Xing Que and refused to promise. Five days later, he met Jian Lingchen and four Taiyi Sword Clan disciples on the Starry Battlefield.

• Li Tianming emerged from the Sword Qi barrier with fifteen strands of Heavenly Tribulation Sword Qi, astounding Ouyang Sword King, who urged him to claim the Star Pool and keep cultivating.
• Fang Xingying asked Li Tianming to secretly kill Fang Xing Que, revealing that Fang Taiqing and Fang Qingli had taken his Colorful Phoenix Bloodline and driven his parents to their deaths.
• Li Tianming told Fang Xingying he needed time to consider and urged him to steady himself, but Fang Xingying called him a coward and left.
• Five days later, Li Tianming removed the Mystic Jade Powder and focused on cultivation as the final countdown approached.
• Jian Lingchen arrived with four Taiyi Sword Clan women, introduced himself as Jian Wufeng’s son, and revealed that his uncle Jian Wuyi had arranged for his father to protect Li Tianming.

With two days remaining before the War of the Stars’ final battle, Li Tianming allied with Jian Lingchen to challenge Fang Xingque and his large following. Jian Lingchen’s foster sisters reluctantly agreed to help, while Li Tianming continued cultivating alongside the group.

• Jian Lingchen asked Li Tianming to join forces against Fang Xingque, and Li Tianming agreed while insisting he would claim Fang Xingque’s points for himself if he got the chance.
• Jian Lingchen explained that he planned to lead a challenge on the final day, when Fang Xingque’s followers would try to intimidate other contenders.
• Li Tianming met Jian Lingchen’s four foster sisters: Jian Nishang, Jian Liuyang, Jian Wenjing, and Jian Yini.
• Jian Nishang, Jian Liuyang, Jian Wenjing, and Jian Yini questioned whether helping Li Tianming was worth provoking the Supreme Purity Fang Clan, but Jian Lingchen persuaded them to stand with him.
• Jian Lingchen held two of his foster sisters close as Li Tianming followed behind, prompting Yinghuo to tease him about watching their affection.

With three days remaining in the Battle of the Stars, Xuanyuan Mu Xue discussed Li Tianming and the Revered Deity’s political significance with Xuanyuan Yu Heng, while sect leaders assessed the realm’s unstable alliances. Fang Taiqing prepared his daughter Fang Yuewei to represent the Supreme Purity Fang Clan in the coming final battle.

• Xuanyuan Mu Xue left the Stellar Battlefield ranked second with 1,720 points, 300 behind Xing Que.
• Xuanyuan Yu Heng told Xuanyuan Mu Xue not to harm Li Tianming because the Clan King wanted to use him to gauge the Supreme Purity Fang Clan’s loyalty, and urged her to befriend him until an opportunity arose.
• Gou Yuqiu and Ouyang Sword King discussed Li Tianming’s promise, the threat of the Eight Divine Realms, and their uncertainty about Fang Taiqing’s loyalty.
• Fang Taiqing summoned Fang Yuewei and told her that the Supreme Purity Fang Clan’s honor depended on her performance at the Number One Gathering Under Heaven.
• Fang Yuewei promised to prove she would not fall behind, then clenched her fists inside her sleeves.

Li Tianming opened the Eastern Emperor Sword’s fourth gate, gained the Emperor’s Sword Prison, and broke through to the fifth level of the Ancient Sage Realm. As he and Jian Lingchen’s group began hunting for opponents, they encountered all seven of Dugu Jin’s disciples and were forced to retreat.

• The Star Ranking revealed the leading scores, while observers noted that all seven of Dugu Jin’s disciples had gathered together.
• Li Tianming opened the Eastern Emperor Sword’s fourth gate and awakened the Emperor’s Sword Prison, which sealed and destroyed an azure flood dragon.
• Li Tianming comprehended the new Heavenly Patterns, advanced his Imperial Intent, and broke through to the fifth level of the Ancient Sage Realm.
• Li Tianming joined Jian Lingchen and the four sworn elder sisters as their group followed their star-source barriers toward another team.
• Jian Lingchen warned Li Tianming to retreat after they discovered that all seven of Dugu Jin’s disciples were nearby.

Li Tianming and Jian Lingchen’s group were surrounded by Dugu Jin’s seven disciples, setting off a major battle on the Binary Battlefield. As the Taiyi Sword Clan’s sword-beast talents clashed, Xuanyuan Yutuo confronted Li Tianming and summoned his dragons.

• Jian Lingchen turned back to support Li Tianming, and his four sworn elder sisters returned with him as Dugu Jin’s seven disciples encircled their group.
• Xuanyuan Yutuo agreed to let Jian Chenzhong and Jian Mugu challenge Jian Lingchen while he took Li Tianming for himself.
• Jian Chenzhong and Jian Mugu’s three lifebound beasts each transformed into sword-beast spirit forms and merged into their swords.
• Jian Lingchen revealed his four-sword talent as his four qilin lifebound beasts merged into his sword, and fighting broke out across five battlefields.
• Xuanyuan Yutuo confronted Li Tianming, transformed into a crimson dragon-man, and summoned two Kui Fire Giant Demon Horned Dragons.

Li Tianming and his lifebound beasts overwhelmed Xuanyuan Yutuo, a Life and Death Tribulation Realm opponent, in the Stellar Battlefield. After Xuanyuan Yutuo refused to accept defeat, Li Tianming shattered his Stellar Source Barrier and left him sprawled in the dirt.

• Xuanyuan Yutuo transformed with the Fire-Fated Dragonman Art and charged Li Tianming while his two Kui Fire Giant Demon Horned Dragons attacked Lanhuang.
• Lanhuang struck both dragons with Primordial Millstone, then restrained one with Azure Sea Prison as Miaomiao blasted the other with lightning.
• Li Tianming and Yinghuo attacked Xuanyuan Yutuo, whose soul-burning ocular art failed against Li Tianming's Soul Tower.
• Li Tianming's sword strikes wounded Xuanyuan Yutuo and disarmed him, while Yinghuo pierced his hand and scorched him with a Six Paths Fire Lotus.
• Li Tianming stabbed Xuanyuan Yutuo until the Stellar Source Barrier declared him defeated, but Xuanyuan Yutuo protested that Li Tianming had ganged up on him.
• Li Tianming charged again and shattered Xuanyuan Yutuo's Stellar Source Barrier, sending him tumbling across the battlefield.

Li Tianming defeated Xuanyuan Yutuo, then pursued Jian Chenzhong and claimed his points as Dugu Jin's disciples fled. He rose to third place on the Star Ranking with 1,730 points, behind Xuanyuan Muxue.

• Xuanyuan Yutuo surrendered after Li Tianming shattered his star-source barrier, and elders from Azure Star Hall removed him from the battlefield.
• Li Tianming's ranking surged to fourth place, and he charged to help Jian Lingchen against Jian Chenzhong and Jian Mugu.
• Jian Chenzhong and Jian Mugu fled, while Dugu Jin's other four disciples scattered; Jian Lingchen and his sworn older sisters pursued Jian Mugu.
• Li Tianming chased down Jian Chenzhong on Miaomiao and defeated him with the Dawn Divine Sword Art, breaking the Golden Bell Tai'a Sword and claiming his points.
• Li Tianming checked the Star Ranking and saw that Jian Mugu had also been eliminated, bringing his score to 1,730 and placing him third behind Xuanyuan Muxue.

Li Tianming teamed up again with Jian Lingchen and his four sworn elder sisters as the battle of the stars entered its final stage. When the last day began, the exposed barriers of Fang Xingque and Xuanyuan Muxue moved toward each other, setting up a clash between the leaders.

• The rankings shifted as Fang Xingque surged into first place, Xuanyuan Muxue took second, and Li Tianming rose to third after defeating Xuanyuan Yutuo and Jian Chenzhong.
• Li Tianming forgave Jian Lingchen's four sworn elder sisters for abandoning their task to help Lingchen, and the group agreed to keep working together.
• Elder Dugu Jie questioned Xuanyuan Yuheng about Li Tianming's rapid progress, then watched Li Tianming from the Star Lord Barrier and wondered who hoped to curry favor with the Revered Deity through him.
• Li Tianming and Miaomiao killed a River-Churning Lightning Beast, and Li Tianming gave its beast soul to Miaomiao to refine.
• The final day began, revealing Fang Xingque's and Xuanyuan Muxue's positions to every contestant as their star-source beams moved toward each other.

Li Tianming reached Xing Que’s fortified gorge as disciples gathered for the final battle, but the cowards outside fought among themselves instead of challenging the Supreme Purity Fang Clan. When Li Tianming provoked Xing Que, Yi Yuxuan attacked him first, hoping to seize his points and climb the Star Ranking.

• Li Tianming and Jian Lingchen’s group hurried toward Xing Que’s position while Xuanyuan Muxue continued defeating her pursuers.
• Xing Que threatened the disciples surrounding his gorge, and none dared attack his five hundred Supreme Purity Fang Clan allies.
• The onlookers began fighting one another for points while Xing Que mocked them as cowards.
• Li Tianming arrived with Jian Lingchen’s group and taunted Xing Que by slashing his hand across his throat.
• Yi Yuxuan rushed at Li Tianming with her black-cat lifebound beast, aiming to take his points, while Jian Lingchen and his sworn sisters offered no support.

Li Tianming defeated Yi Yuxuan, rose to second place, and provoked Fang Xingque into a massive battlefield melee. As the Supreme Purity Fang Clan came under attack from multiple sides, Fang Xingque was left exposed before Li Tianming.

• Miaomiao trapped Yi Yuxuan and her black cat in the Myriad Pole Lightning Net, and Li Tianming defeated Yi Yuxuan with the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Li Tianming's score surpassed Xuanyuan Muxue's, placing him second, and he taunted Fang Xingque into charging at him.
• Li Tianming urged the Tianyuan disciples to attack, and Jian Lingchen and the Taiyi Sword Clan's four sworn elder sisters joined him.
• Xuanyuan Muxue arrived with pursuers and attacked the Supreme Purity Fang Clan, triggering a chaotic melee across the battlefield.
• Fang Xingque sent eight Tianyuan disciples and more than ten phoenix lifebound beasts after Li Tianming, while Jian Lingchen and Xuanyuan Muxue pressed in from the sides.
• With his allies occupied and his defenses strained, Fang Xingque was left exposed before Li Tianming.

Li Tianming fought Fang Xing Que in the center of the Binary Battlefield and overwhelmed him despite Fang Xing Que’s four phoenixes and Phoenix Eight Swords. After Li Tianming severed one of Fang Xing Que’s arms, Fang Xing Que fled and pulled out a forbidden Heavenly Pattern book, threatening Li Tianming’s lifebound beasts.

• Fang Xing Que charged Li Tianming, and Li Tianming wounded his fist before summoning Yinghuo, Miaomiao, and Lanhuang to fight him.
• Fang Xing Que revealed his four phoenix lifebound beasts and used the Phoenix Eight Swords and Sword-Calling Art against Li Tianming.
• Yinghuo, Miaomiao, Lanhuang, and the Supreme Unity Tower occupied Fang Xing Que’s phoenixes while Li Tianming confronted him.
• Miaomiao’s lightning disrupted Fang Xing Que, allowing Li Tianming to knock away the Phoenix Eight Swords and sever Fang Xing Que’s arm with the Eastern Emperor Sword.
• Fang Xing Que fled while threatening Li Tianming, then pulled out a Heavenly Pattern book forbidden in the Battle of the Stars and threatened to kill Li Tianming’s lifebound beasts.

Fang Xingque used a prohibited eight-star Heavenly Pattern Book to attack Li Tianming’s lifebound beast, badly injuring Lanhuang but failing to kill it. Li Tianming retaliated by killing three of Fang Xingque’s lifebound beasts, leaving only the Gui Water Cold Phoenix.

• Fang Xingque unleashed the Star-Gathering Annihilation Book at Lanhuang, and Li Tianming used the Supreme Unity Tower to blunt its force before Lanhuang was crushed and injured.
• Li Tianming sent Lanhuang back to recover, then charged Fang Xingque, who pleaded that they were even and tried to flee.
• Li Tianming pierced and killed Fang Xingque’s Sacred Heavenly Phoenix after it tried to block his path.
• Yinghuo killed the Infernal Dragonfire Phoenix, while Miaomiao killed the Heavenly Que Lightning Phoenix.
• Fang Xingque was left with only the Gui Water Cold Phoenix, and the crowd reacted in shock as his other three lifebound beasts died.

Li Tianming defeated Xing Que, crippled his strength with the Imperial Sword Prison, and took first place in the Star Ranking. As the remaining competitors turned on him and Xuanyuan Muxue, Li Tianming fled to divide their pursuers while planning to help Jian Lingchen; Xing Que returned to Fang Taiqing and begged for revenge.

• Li Tianming taunted Xing Que over the loss of three bonded beasts, revealed that he was the Revered God's disciple, and forced him to kneel before imprisoning his strength with the Imperial Sword Prison.
• An Azure Star Hall senior dragged the eliminated Xing Que away, and the Star Ranking placed Li Tianming first with 7,110 points.
• The remaining Grand-Orient disciples and Supreme Purity Fang Clan disciples joined forces to attack Li Tianming and Xuanyuan Muxue, while Jian Lingchen helped hold some of them back.
• Li Tianming mounted Miaomiao and fled to draw the attackers apart, intending to defeat them individually and help Jian Lingchen secure a Stellar Pool qualification.
• Fang Taiqing summoned Yi Xingyin, who brought back the devastated Xing Que, and Xing Que begged his father to avenge him.

After Li Tianming defeated Fang Xingque, he dominated the Battle of the Stars and faced Xuanyuan Muxue with Jian Lingchen’s Star Pool quota at stake. Meanwhile, Fang Xingying entered Fang Xingque’s room with a sword and threatened to kill him while he was sealed and vulnerable.

• Fang Taiqing dismissed Yi Xingyin’s request to punish Li Tianming and ordered him to let the matter go for now.
• Fang Yuewei told Fang Xingque his lifebound beast was being treated, slapped him for his outbursts, and warned him not to attack the seal on his body.
• Li Tianming defeated Taiqing Fang Clan disciples across the battlefield, climbed to first place with 11,800 points, and left Xuanyuan Muxue and Jian Lingchen competing for the remaining Star Pool quota.
• With half an hour left, Li Tianming challenged Xuanyuan Muxue to a group fight alongside Jian Lingchen, Jian Nishang, and Jian Yini.
• After Fang Yuewei left to find their grandmother, Fang Xingying entered Fang Xingque’s palace, drew a sword, and threatened to chop him into minced meat.

Li Tianming fought Xuanyuan Muxue in the Starry Battlefield while their lifebound beasts and Jian Lingchen’s group battled her two divine dragons. Xuanyuan Muxue revealed that she wanted to befriend Li Tianming, but refused to surrender her Starry Pool slot, leaving the fight to decide who would win it.

• Xuanyuan Muxue summoned the Ice Soul Heart Dragon and Sea Soul Life Dragon, transformed with the Ice Soul Dragonkin Art, and challenged Li Tianming’s side to attack together.
• Li Tianming assigned Jian Lingchen, Jian Nishang, and Jian Yini to fight the Sea Soul Life Dragon, sent Yinghuo and Miaomiao against the Ice Soul Heart Dragon, and faced Xuanyuan Muxue himself.
• Jian Lingchen’s group drove the Sea Soul Life Dragon away, while Yinghuo and Miaomiao used fire and lightning to hold off the Ice Soul Heart Dragon.
• Li Tianming and Xuanyuan Muxue exchanged fierce attacks as her Death Tribulation power and Ice Demon Dragon Staff Art pressed him in the freezing storm.
• Xuanyuan Muxue told Li Tianming she wanted to win his goodwill and welcomed the prospect of him joining the Primordial Xuanyuan Clan, but refused to give Jian Lingchen her Starry Pool slot without being defeated.

Li Tianming fought Xuanyuan Muxue for the Battle of the Stars’ second Star Pool slot while his status and reputation rose throughout the Divine Sect. After Jian Lingchen was eliminated, Li Tianming remained first in the Star Ranking, and he left the battle poised to cultivate in the Star Pool and help Little Four be born.

• Li Tianming decided to rely on the Primordial Xuanyuan Clan and build ties with the Taiyi Sword Clan as he fought Xuanyuan Muxue.
• Li Tianming and Xuanyuan Muxue battled fiercely, impressing spectators and drawing attention to Li Tianming’s mysterious identity and strength.
• The Sea Soul Fate Dragon eliminated Jian Lingchen, whose points went to Xuanyuan Muxue; Li Tianming remained first on the Star Ranking with over ten thousand points.
• Xuanyuan Muxue said the Primordial Xuanyuan Clan would protect Li Tianming, and she and Li Tianming agreed to meet at the Star Pool.
• Yi Xingyin announced that Li Tianming and Xuanyuan Muxue had won the two Star Pool slots, and Li Tianming planned to cultivate the Azure Star Ancient God Body and help Little Four be born.

Fang Xing Que died when Li Tianming’s seal crushed his body, and Fang Taiqing secretly used the tragedy to pressure Fang Qingli to side with the Grand Pure Fang Clan if disaster came. The chapter ended with Jian Wuyi agreeing to meet visitors from the Tai’a Sword Clan.

• Fang Qingli and Fang Yuewei found Fang Xing Que dead in his blood-soaked bed, and Fang Qingli collapsed after seeing him.
• Fang Yuewei told Fang Taiqing that Li Tianming’s seal had killed Xing Que, and Fang Taiqing led the family away to bury his son.
• Fang Qingli praised Li Tianming’s Star Ranking success to Jiang Feiling and Xuanyuan Dao, who agreed to support his growth.
• Fang Taiqing gave Fang Qingli Xing Que’s ashes and urged her not to obstruct the Grand Pure Fang Clan if calamity forced it to withdraw, but she refused to abandon the Divine Attendant Hall.
• Fang Taiqing later revealed to Fang Shenyu that he had used Xing Que’s death to plant doubt in Fang Qingli and influence her allegiance.
• A one-armed man told Jian Wuyi that people from the Tai’a Sword Clan wanted to see him, and Jian Wuyi agreed to meet them.

Li Tianming learned that Fang Xingque had died from the Imperial Sword Prison seal he left behind, though he could not tell whether the technique had killed him on its own. After testing the seal on a beast and continuing his sword training, Li Tianming was summoned by the Exalted Deity and found Jiang Feiling waiting in the Soulburning Palace.

• Yi Xingyin told Li Tianming that Fang Xingque had died after the Heavenly Pattern seal on him flared up, and advised him to watch the Supreme Purity Fang Clan.
• Li Tianming sealed the Imperial Sword Prison inside an Azure-Scaled Demon Wolf to test whether the technique would kill without his interference.
• Li Tianming learned Lin Xiaoxiao had reached the eighth level and left the wolf in her care before heading to the Six Paths Sword Palace.
• The Six Paths Sword God told Li Tianming he would teach him a second sword once he mastered the first, and Fang Qingli then summoned him to the Exalted Deity.
• Li Tianming followed Fang Qingli into the heavily guarded Soulburning Palace and saw Jiang Feiling watching the snow from the terrace.