Chapter Summaries

After Lu Jun stabilized his late Taiyi realm and survived the Chaos Demon God’s resurrection, the Saints rewarded him with four Zixiao Palace cushions before returning to Mount Sumeru. Di Jun left to pursue the Saint realm, while Bai Ze and the others remained with Lu Jun in the expanding Star Domain.

• Nuwa and the other Saints congratulated Lu Jun on stabilizing his breakthrough and praised his victory over the Chaos Demon God.
• Tongtian, Laozi, Nuwa, and Primeval Lord of Heaven gave Lu Jun four cushions, which he accepted to protect the stars in his Star Domain with a Four Symbols Great Array.
• The seventeen Saints returned to Mount Sumeru to continue evolving the Pillar supporting the sky, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches hurried to help repair it.
• Di Jun told Lu Jun he would unite his Three Bodies and pursue the Saint realm, then asked Bai Ze to warn Lu Jun if danger arose.
• Di Jun returned to the Sun Star, while Lu Jun thanked Bai Ze, Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiāo, and the others for helping with his Artifact Forging.

After stabilizing his breakthrough, Lu Jun realized his expanding Star Domain was running short of Chaos Qi and sought approval to use the Star Demon God’s remnant spirit to replenish it. Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao approved, and Lu Jun summoned the god and beat it into submission with the God-Beating Whip.

• Lu Jun declined to expand the Star Domain further until he had understood and stabilized the changes from his breakthrough.
• Lu Jun discovered that the expanding Star Domain was draining its nearby Chaos Qi and could eventually run short of resources.
• Lu Jun checked his matured Spiritual Treasures and realized he had enough to begin enlightening more Star Eggs.
• Lu Jun asked Hongjun to permit the Star Demon God’s True Spirit to be Sealed as Deity early so it could gather Chaos Qi, and Hongjun granted his request.
• The Investiture of the Gods manifested the Star Demon God, and Lu Jun used the God-Beating Whip to punish it until it begged him to stop.

Lu Jun forced the Star Demon God to replenish the Prehistoric Star Domain with Chaos Qi, while Tongtian eyed the absent Jieyin and Zhunti's hidden cave for useful treasures. The Star Demon God began his coerced labor, and Tongtian prepared to take the Saints' unused possessions.

• Bai Ze, Immortal Weng of the South Pole, Zhao Gongming, and the Three Xiāo feared the Investiture of the Gods after witnessing its control over the Chaos Demon God.
• Lu Jun ordered the Star Demon God to enter Chaos and bring more Chaos Qi to the Star Domain, and the Star Demon God eagerly agreed, hoping to escape.
• The Star Demon God restored his power to the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal level but found an invisible barrier preventing further advancement.
• The Star Demon God tried to flee, but Lu Jun used the God-Beating Whip to punish him until he agreed to move Chaos Qi back to the Star Domain.
• The Star Demon God began laboriously guiding Chaos Qi toward the Star Domain while enduring the whip's lingering pain.
• At Mount Sumeru, Tongtian pointed out that Jieyin and Zhunti's treasures were idle in their hidden cave and reached out toward them.

Tongtian took Jieyin and Zhunti’s meditation poufs from Mount Sumeru and sent them to Lu Jun to complete a set of six for his grand array. Lu Jun and the others discussed expanding their Star Domain formations to secure enough Chaos Qi, and Bai Ze began to propose another solution.

• Tongtian ignored the restriction at Mount Sumeru, took Jieyin and Zhunti’s poufs, and sent them to Lu Jun as additional array materials.
• Zhao Gongming questioned why the Western Sages’ poufs had arrived, but Yun Xiao and Nanji persuaded everyone to accept the claim that they had been found during Mount Sumeru’s repair.
• Lu Jun stopped whipping the Star Demon God and explained that his growing number of incarnations would need more space and Chaos Qi.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiāo suggested spreading out twelve Myriad Immortals Arrays, with Yun Xiao agreeing that this would address the resource shortage.
• Bai Ze stepped forward and told Lu Jun that he believed there was an even better approach.

After Bai Ze pointed Lu Jun toward Di Jun’s knowledge of the stars, Lu Jun went to the Sun Star and consulted Tai Yi about arranging his 129,600 Stellar Incarnations. Tai Yi outlined two possible paths, leaving Lu Jun to weigh independence against borrowing the Prehistoric World’s starry sky.

• Bai Ze advised Lu Jun to seek Di Jun’s guidance on the Great Array of the Stars of Heaven, and Zhao Gongming and Bi Xiao agreed that the array could help his Stellar Incarnations.
• Lu Jun returned to the Sun Star, where Tai Yi told him Di Jun was in seclusion and offered to explain the array.
• Lu Jun described his 129,600 Stellar Incarnations and the Chaos Qi shortage in the Myriad Immortals Array Star Domain, then asked how to arrange his stars.
• Tai Yi explained that Lu Jun could build an independent star array with his own core stars or integrate his avatars into the Prehistoric World’s existing stars.
• Lu Jun considered the advantages and drawbacks of the two approaches.

Lu Jun chose to spread his avatars among the Prehistoric World’s stars rather than form a separate stellar array, and Tai Yi guided him to create orbiting Star Eggs around a sub-star. Seven new stars formed a Big Dipper pattern and revitalized the sub-star, leaving Lu Jun sensing the changes.

• Lu Jun decided to scatter his avatars throughout the Heavens and integrate his cultivation with the Great Desolation Starry Sky.
• Tai Yi sent his Good Corpse with Lu Jun to a sub-star and explained how Lu Jun could place Star Eggs in the star’s hostile dead zones.
• Lu Jun used his system and a Houtian Spiritual Treasure to nurture a Star Egg that stabilized in orbit around the sub-star.
• With Tai Yi’s guidance, Lu Jun created six more orbiting Star Eggs around the sub-star.
• The seven Star Eggs formed a miniature Big Dipper formation, increasing the sub-star’s radiance and ability to absorb Chaos Qi.
• Tai Yi asked Lu Jun how the changes felt as Lu Jun sensed the revitalized star domain.

Lu Jun’s seven Star Eggs revived a declining Sub-star, and Tai Yi taught him to use this symbiotic method on other stars. The Saints interpreted Lu Jun’s choice as an effort to strengthen the entire Great Desolation Starry Sky and set an example for contributing to the Prehistoric World.

• Lu Jun sensed that the Sub-star had awakened and was nourishing his seven Star Eggs, which might become Sub-stars if it advanced into a Main Star.
• Tai Yi told Lu Jun to repeat the method beside other stars that needed help, then left to search for suitable stars.
• While rebuilding Mount Sumeru, the Saints sensed a ripple of Star Law and questioned why Lu Jun was tending a dim Sub-star instead of expanding his established Star Domain.
• Laozi realized that Lu Jun’s Star Eggs were giving life back to the Sub-star and explained that his method could revitalize the Great Desolation Starry Sky.
• Nuwa and Zhen Yuanzi praised Lu Jun for strengthening the Prehistoric World and setting an example for Innate Divine Beings to contribute their Spiritual Treasures.

Zhao Gongming prepared to slay his Second Corpse with the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls, but Lu Jun pointed out that the pearls’ greater purpose was to evolve the Heavens. Zhao Gongming took this as a warning that using them only to strengthen himself would violate the Spiritual Treasure Calamity, so he abandoned his breakthrough plan and agreed to evolve the Heavens instead.

• Zhao Gongming announced that he had fully comprehended how to slay his Two Corpses and went to inform Lu Jun before entering seclusion.
• Lu Jun congratulated Zhao Gongming, then asked whether he planned to use the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls to sever his Second Corpse.
• Zhao Gongming said he would use the pearls to slay the corpse, while Lu Jun explained that their greatest use was evolving the Heavens.
• Zhao Gongming interpreted Lu Jun’s words as a warning that the Spiritual Treasure Calamity would punish him for using the pearls only for personal advancement.
• Zhao Gongming gave up his planned breakthrough and told Lu Jun that he would use the Sea-Calming Pearls to evolve the Heavens.

Zhao Gongming interpreted Lu Jun’s warning as a prohibition against using the Sea-Calming Pearls to sever a corpse, and the Three Xiāo and nearby Chan Sect figures feared the Spiritual Treasure Calamity. Yun Xiao then realized the pearls might let Zhao Gongming advance by stabilizing Guixu, and Zhao Gongming eagerly asked whether that was what she meant.

• Zhao Gongming returned to the Myriad Immortals Array and told Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao that Lu Jun had warned him to use the Sea-Calming Pearls to evolve the Heavens rather than sever a corpse.
• The Three Xiāo concluded that the Spiritual Treasure Calamity required spiritual treasures to benefit the Prehistoric World, while Bai Ze, Immortal Weng of the South Pole, and True Lord Yu Ding heard their exchange and worried about its implications.
• True Lord Yu Ding left to warn the Chan Sect, and Bi Xiao departed to alert the Severing Sect as Zhao Gongming resolved to reconsider his cultivation path.
• Yun Xiao suggested that Lu Jun’s words might not prevent Zhao Gongming from Slaying the Two Corpses and prompted him to consider the Sea-Calming Pearls’ power to calm the seas.
• Zhao Gongming realized Yun Xiao might mean using the Sea-Calming Pearls to stabilize Guixu and asked her if that was her proposal.

Yun Xiao showed Zhao Gongming how to use the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls to sever his corpses and have their incarnations open heavens that would suppress Guixu. Zhao embraced the plan and set out for the Four Seas, while Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Bai Ze realized that the Spiritual Treasure Calamity offered a path to benefit both cultivators and the Prehistoric World.

• Yun Xiao urged Zhao Gongming to use the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls to sever his corpses and send the incarnations to Guixu to open twenty-four heavens and suppress the Netherworld Sea Eye.
• Zhao Gongming realized the plan could strengthen his true body, earn merit for his incarnations, and make the Sea-Calming Pearls vital to the Prehistoric World's water order.
• Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Bai Ze praised Lu Jun's intentions and concluded that Spiritual Treasures could serve the world through their wielders' incarnations.
• Immortal Weng of the South Pole and Bai Ze lost their fear of the Spiritual Treasure Calamity and began considering how their own treasures could benefit the Prehistoric World.
• Zhao Gongming resolved to go to the Four Seas, find Guixu, and suppress it.

Zhao Gongming decided to use his Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls to evolve the Heavens and suppress Guixu, after Yun Xiao advised him to seek help in the West Sea rather than risk conflict in the East Sea. Tongtian approved the plan and sent him to West Sea Dragon King Ao Run with a decree ordering cooperation.

• Yun Xiao warned Zhao Gongming that opening the Heavens in the East Sea could disrupt the Dragon Race and provoke Old Ancestor Azure Dragon, then advised him to seek Tongtian’s support in the West Sea.
• Zhao Gongming traveled to Mount Sumeru and told Tongtian and the other Saints that Lu Jun had guided him to use the Sea-Calming Pearls to evolve the Twenty-Four Heavens, suppress Guixu, and stabilize the Water Element.
• The Saints praised Lu Jun’s guidance and Zhao Gongming’s plan as beneficial to the Prehistoric World.
• Tongtian approved Zhao Gongming’s plan and gave him a talisman decree ordering West Sea Dragon King Ao Run to cooperate or come answer to him.

Zhao Gongming went to the West Sea Dragon Palace to use Guixu and his Sea-Calming Pearls to evolve the Heavens and suppress the Sea Eye. He used Tongtian’s edict to compel the Dragon Race to cooperate, then began severing his second corpse while the Four Sea Dragon Kings arrived and feared the consequences.

• Tongtian gave Zhao Gongming a Saint’s Edict and promised to watch over his attempt to evolve the Heavens.
• Zhao Gongming arrived at the West Sea Dragon Palace and asked Ao Run to let him use Guixu to evolve twenty-four Heavens and suppress the Sea Eye.
• Ao Run refused and planned to consult the other Dragon Kings, but Zhao Gongming showed Tongtian’s edict and began severing his second corpse in the main hall.
• Ao Run withdrew his subordinates, set up restrictions, and acted as Zhao Gongming’s Dharma Protector under the Saint’s decree.
• Ao Guang, Ao Qin, and Ao Shun arrived, and Ao Run explained what had happened while Ao Qin warned that interfering with Guixu could bring the Dragon Race devastating karmic consequences.

The Four Sea Dragon Kings feared Zhao Gongming’s attempt to suppress Guixu was a pretext by Sixth Prince Lu Jun to seize the Dragon Race’s treasure during the Spiritual Treasure Calamity. Ao Guang concluded they had no choice but to support Zhao Gongming to protect the Four Seas and preserve the Dragon Race.

• Ao Run, Ao Qin, and Ao Shun argued that Zhao Gongming should not be allowed to interfere with Guixu, but admitted they could neither drive him away nor defeat him.
• Ao Guang reminded the other Dragon Kings that the Spiritual Treasure Calamity required Spiritual Treasures to be put to use and warned that the Dragon Race’s vast hoard made it vulnerable.
• Ao Qin and Ao Shun feared Sixth Prince Lu Jun was using Zhao Gongming’s visit to target the Dragon Race and its treasury.
• The Dragon Kings considered offering treasures or resisting with the Ancient Grand Array, but both plans seemed too dangerous.
• Ao Guang decided the Dragon Race had to support Zhao Gongming to keep the Four Seas stable and ensure the Dragon Race’s survival.

The Four Sea Dragon Kings agreed to let Zhao Gongming use West Sea Guixu to evolve the Heavens, hoping his success would ease the Dragon Race’s burdens. As Zhao Gongming began severing his Second Corpse under their protection, Ao Guang went to meet Lu Jun with a treasure from the Dragon Clan Secret Treasury.

• Ao Guang persuaded Ao Qin, Ao Shun, and Ao Run that supporting Zhao Gongming could stabilize the West Sea and free Dragon Race forces for other duties.
• Zhao Gongming asked the Four Sea Dragon Kings for their decision, and they agreed to support his plan to evolve the Heavens at West Sea Guixu.
• Zhao Gongming promised the plan would guard the Sea Eye and help the Dragon Race erase its old karmic force through merit.
• Ao Guang ordered the West Sea Dragon Race to set up the Myriad Dragon Profound Water Great Formation while Zhao Gongming began severing his Second Corpse.
• Ao Guang left his brothers to protect Zhao Gongming, retrieved a Purple Gold Vast Sea Box from the Dragon Clan Secret Treasury, and traveled to meet Lu Jun in the Outer Starry Sky.

Ao Guang offered Lu Jun the Dragon Race’s spiritual treasures to secure their safety during the Spiritual Treasure Calamity, and Lu Jun accepted them while reassuring him about the Dragon Race’s future role. Ao Guang returned to Azure Dragon Abyss believing he had secured the Sixth Prince’s favor, and the Azure Dragon Ancestor agreed the gift had been worthwhile.

• Ao Guang presented Lu Jun with the Purple Gold Vast Sea Box, claiming the Dragon Race wanted to support his expansion of the Prehistoric Star Domain.
• Lu Jun recognized the Dragon Race’s fear of the Spiritual Treasure Calamity, accepted the treasures, and said the Dao Ancestor would approve of their contribution.
• Lu Jun asked whether Zhao Gongming had entered the Four Seas, and Ao Guang reported that he was in the West Sea preparing to evolve the Twenty-Four Heavens and suppress Guixu.
• Lu Jun said Zhao Gongming’s success could ease the Dragon Race’s karmic burden and that the Four Seas and Myriad Rivers would need the Dragon Race to manage them.
• Ao Guang returned to Azure Dragon Abyss and told the Azure Dragon Ancestor that Lu Jun had acknowledged the Dragon Race’s value and implied they could retain their role managing the waters.
• The Azure Dragon Ancestor concluded that Lu Jun would not destroy the Dragon Race as long as they continued contributing treasures.

Ao Guang persuaded Old Ancestor Azure Dragon to approve a marriage alliance between Zhao Gongming and the Dragon Race, with the final Twelve Sea-Calming Pearls as dowry. He then summoned the other three Dragon Kings, who agreed after hearing how the alliance could bind Zhao Gongming to the Dragon Race.

• Ao Guang told Old Ancestor Azure Dragon that Zhao Gongming would eventually need the Dragon Race's final Twelve Sea-Calming Pearls to sever his third corpse.
• Old Ancestor Azure Dragon objected that giving away the pearls would endanger the East Sea, but Ao Guang proposed waiting until Zhao Gongming needed them and offering them as aid.
• Ao Guang proposed a marriage alliance with Zhao Gongming and making the pearls his dowry, and Old Ancestor Azure Dragon approved the plan.
• Ao Guang summoned Ao Run, Ao Qin, and Ao Shun to the East Sea Dragon Palace and explained his plan to bind Zhao Gongming to the Dragon Race.
• Ao Run initially opposed giving Zhao Gongming the pearls, but the three Dragon Kings changed their minds after Ao Guang explained the marriage alliance.

The Four Sea Dragon Kings arranged a large selection of Dragon Maidens to form a marriage alliance with Zhao Gongming, hoping to secure his support and share in the merit of suppressing Guixu. Zhao Gongming then severed his second corpse and, after the Dragon Kings congratulated him, asked why Ao Guang had visited the Sixth Prince.

• Ao Guang and the other Dragon Kings agreed to recruit Dragon Maidens from across the Four Seas to win Zhao Gongming as a son-in-law.
• The Dragon Palaces held strict selections and assembled a delegation of Dragon Maidens from numerous clans and bloodlines.
• Zhao Gongming severed his Evil Corpse, greatly increasing his strength and advancing his Dao practice.
• The Four Sea Dragon Kings visited Zhao Gongming with a flock of Dragon Maidens and congratulated him on his breakthrough.
• Ao Guang mentioned that he had met the Sixth Prince, and Zhao Gongming asked what business had brought him there.

Zhao Gongming accepted the Dragon Race's treasure gifts and promised to contact his master about rescuing the elders suppressing Guixu before he evolved the Twenty-Four Heavens. After the Four Sea Dragon Kings left, the Dragon Maidens tried to win him over with music, wine, and attentive service, but his Evil Corpse avatar jolted him out of the temptation.

• Ao Guang explained that the Dragon Race had gifted Lu Jun Spiritual Treasures to support his work evolving the heavens, and Zhao Gongming accepted their additional offerings.
• Ao Guang asked Zhao Gongming to help save the Dragon Race elders suppressing Guixu before his plans to evolve the Twenty-Four Heavens endangered them.
• Zhao Gongming acknowledged he had overlooked the elders and promised to contact his master, while asking the Four Sea Dragon Kings to consult with them in Guixu.
• The Four Sea Dragon Kings entered Guixu, leaving Zhao Gongming with the Dragon Maidens, who served him music, wine, tea, and attentive protection.
• Zhao Gongming began to enjoy the Dragon Maidens' hospitality, but his Evil Corpse avatar awakened and snapped him out of the temptation.

Zhao Gongming received the Saints’ assurance that they would stabilize Guixu, then brought the Dragon Race’s gifts to Lu Jun to support his work evolving the stars. As Lu Jun arranged for the materials to be forged, True Lord Yu Ding revealed that True Lord Huang Long had long sought to join the Chan Sect and had offered secret intelligence to gain entry.

• Zhao Gongming told Tongtian and the other Saints that the Four Sea Dragon Kings feared Guixu would endanger their people, and they promised to protect the Dragon Race while he evolved the Twenty-Four Heavens.
• Zhao Gongming brought the Dragon Race’s treasures and materials to Lu Jun, who accepted them before Zhao Gongming departed to continue his work.
• Lu Jun asked Bai Ze, Immortal Weng of the South Pole, and Yun Xiao to forge Spiritual Treasures from the Dragon Race’s materials.
• True Lord Yu Ding explained that True Lord Huang Long was a dragon who had repeatedly tried to join the Chan Sect and had revealed secret Dragon Race intelligence as a gift to gain admission.

Lu Jun learned why the Dragon Race had pursued a place in the Chan Sect instead of joining the Severing Sect, and why True Lord Huang Long had become known as a “Three-None True Person.” True Lord Yu Ding then revealed that the Dragon Race planned to arrange a marriage alliance for Zhao Gongming.

• Immortal Weng of the South Pole explained that the Dragon Race sought Chan Sect membership partly because its leaders valued their status and wanted closer attention from a Saint.
• Yun Xiao explained that the Dragon Race faced no urgent threat of extinction and hoped Yuanshi would eventually accept one of its members.
• Lu Jun understood why the Dragon Race had waited for the Chan Sect to accept True Lord Huang Long, and asked what news Huang Long had shared about Zhao Gongming.
• True Lord Yu Ding revealed that the Dragon Race planned to select one or more beautiful, pure-blooded Dragon Maidens to marry Zhao Gongming and bind their fortunes through an alliance.