Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiwen survived Nie Han’s Destruction Saint Spear and escaped with his life, while Nie Han fled after being struck by a True Martial School expert. Rumors of Ye Xiwen’s feats spread through the school, and the chapter ended with him entering seclusion as everyone sought confirmation.

• Nie Han tried to flee the True Martial School, but a powerful expert struck him and forced him to escape using a blood-burning secret technique.
• Ye Xiwen recovered from the brink of death through the Phoenix Rebirth Art and told Ye Mo that he had survived the Destruction Saint Spear’s attack.
• Three people from Hidden Star Peak brought Ye Xiwen back after hearing of his return.
• News spread through the True Martial School that Ye Xiwen had escaped Nie Han, the Demon Worship Sect’s Soul Destruction Hall Master.
• Reports from Wind Dragon City revealed that Ye Xiwen had killed several Half-step Great Saints and Venerable Grand Saint.
• As people prepared to question him about the reports, Ye Xiwen entered seclusion.

Ye Xiwen secluded himself on Hidden Star Peak to heal and break through to the Middle Stage Half-step Great Saint realm while the Feather Transformation Church pressured True Martial School over his killing of Lao Yi. After a year of rising tensions outside, Ye Xiwen finally achieved his breakthrough, unaware of the dispute surrounding him.

• Ye Xiwen entered seclusion on Hidden Star Peak, relying on the Phoenix Rebirth Art to heal his injuries and prepare to advance.
• After ten days, Ye Xiwen healed his hidden injuries and vowed to make Nie Han and the Demon Worship Sect pay for the lifespan he had lost.
• The Feather Transformation Church sent experts to True Martial School and demanded that Ye Xiwen be handed over for killing Lao Yi.
• True Martial School's disciples and factions argued over whether to surrender Ye Xiwen or resist what they feared was an excuse for invasion.
• A year later, Ye Xiwen broke through the barrier and reached the Middle Stage Half-step Great Saint realm.

Ye Xiwen broke through to the Middle Stage Half-step Great Saint and assessed how the breakthrough had strengthened his martial arts and combat power. With most of his Spirit Origin Pills spent, he decided to refine pills from his plundered materials and sell them for profit.

• Ye Xiwen broke through to the Middle Stage Half-step Great Saint, causing the martial arts he had mastered to resonate and grow stronger.
• Ye Xiwen reviewed his techniques, considered the power of Transcendent Realm experts, and concluded that Coiling Dragon Palm had reached the limit of its current form.
• Ye Xiwen estimated that his strength could contend with a Great Saint Middle Stage expert, though his Star Colossus Avatar had made little progress.
• Ye Xiwen realized that only one hundred million Spirit Origin Pills remained after spending eight hundred million on cultivation and martial arts deduction.
• Ye Mo suggested that Ye Xiwen refine his medicinal herbs into pills to sell, and Ye Xiwen agreed to make Taihuang Breaking Saint Pills.

Ye Xiwen realized he could make a fortune by refining Taihuang Breaking Saint Pills, then learned the True Martial School had refused to surrender him to the Feather Transformation Church. He dismissed the faction urging the school to sacrifice him and asked whether Senior Brother Bai was present.

• Ye Mo reminded Ye Xiwen that he could refine Taihuang Breaking Saint Pills and sell them for enormous profits.
• Ye Xiwen decided the pills could provide a steady source of wealth and left his secluded cultivation chamber.
• Yang Wenjun and Deng Shuixin told Ye Xiwen that the Feather Transformation Church had demanded his surrender, but the True Martial School had refused.
• Yang Wenjun reported that a faction within the school blamed Ye Xiwen for the threat of war and wanted him handed over.
• Ye Xiwen brushed off the faction as petty clowns and asked Yang Wenjun whether Senior Brother Bai was there.

Ye Xiwen exchanged his vast stores of God Materials through Hidden Star Peak for ingredients to refine the Taihuang Breaking Saint Pill as the True Martial Realm braced for upheaval. After entering seclusion, he made a Saint Artifact alchemy furnace and began refining the pills.

• Yang Wenjun told Ye Xiwen that Bai Jiansong was entering seclusion because a great upheaval might soon come, and Ye Xiwen urged Yang Wenjun and Deng Shuixin to prepare as well.
• Ye Xiwen asked Bai Jiansong to exchange his God Materials for Taihuang Breaking Saint Pill ingredients, and Bai Jiansong arranged fifty sets immediately while promising to gather the rest.
• Ye Xiwen entered seclusion with the ingredients and used the Mysterious Space to deduce the Taihuang Breaking Saint Pill formula.
• Ye Xiwen refined a Saint Artifact alchemy furnace, then placed a set of ingredients inside and started the pill-refining process.

Ye Xiwen refined Taihuang Breaking Saint Pills with perfect success and decided to sell them to raise funds for his cultivation. He left Hidden Star Peak disguised as Beidou Kangjinlong, wary of the many enemies who would target him if they learned he was alive.

• Ye Xiwen successfully refined one batch of Taihuang Breaking Saint Pills, then used stronger Dan Fire to refine ten batches at once.
• Ye Xiwen began producing pills in bulk, hoping to turn the ingredients into wealth for his cultivation.
• After three days, Ye Xiwen had refined all fifty batches without a single defective pill.
• Ye Xiwen found Hidden Star Peak deserted while Bai Jiansong, Yang Wenjun, and Deng Shuixin were in seclusion, and decided to sell his fifty pills rather than wait for more ingredients.
• Ye Xiwen donned the Beidou uniform and Kangjinlong mask before leaving, concealing his identity from the clans, Demon Worship Sect, and Feather Transformation Church.

Ye Xiwen disguised himself as Kangjinlong to leave True Martial School without attracting the factions hunting him. He reached the Myriad Treasure Pavilion in the Great Ming Empire’s Imperial Capital and began negotiating a major medicinal pill deal.

• Ye Xiwen decided that leaving openly would expose him to powerful pursuers, so he changed into Kangjinlong’s attire and slipped out of True Martial School.
• Ye Xiwen traveled to the Southern Region branch of the Myriad Treasure Pavilion in the Great Ming Empire’s Imperial Capital.
• Ye Xiwen surveyed the capital and discovered its powerful cultivators, including Saint Realm former emperors, as well as the Great Saint Artifact protecting the pavilion.
• A Legendary attendant greeted Ye Xiwen when he entered the pavilion and went upstairs to report his request to discuss a major medicinal pill deal.
• A Late Stage Half-step Great Saint steward came down and asked Ye Xiwen what deal he wished to discuss.

Ye Xiwen offered the Myriad Treasure Pavilion fifty Taihuang Breaking Saint Pills and implied that more would follow, leading the steward to believe a powerful alchemist faction stood behind him. After verifying a pill, the Pavilion agreed to buy the entire batch and all future deliveries at market price.

• Ye Xiwen told the steward that he had brought fifty pills capable of helping someone enter the Saint Realm.
• Ye Xiwen said the fifty pills were the first batch and that more would follow, astonishing the steward with the scale and value of the business.
• The steward assumed a powerful organization backed Ye Xiwen, and Ye Xiwen used the alias Long before they went to a private chamber.
• Ye Xiwen gave the steward a Taihuang Breaking Saint Pill to test, and the Myriad Treasure Pavilion confirmed its authenticity two hours later.
• The Myriad Treasure Pavilion agreed to buy the entire batch and all future pills at market price, and Ye Xiwen accepted.

Ye Xiwen sold five hundred Taihuang Breaking Saint Pills to the Myriad Treasure Pavilion for six billion Spirit Origin Pills and returned to the True Martial School as rumors of an impending Feather Transformation Church attack spread. Jiaomujiao met him near the school and announced that Beidou planned to promote him to Yao Guang Star.

• The Myriad Treasure Pavilion bought Ye Xiwen's first fifty Taihuang Breaking Saint Pills for five hundred million Spirit Origin Pills and kept them to build its faction's strength.
• Over six months, Ye Xiwen completed ten transactions totaling five hundred pills, earned Profound-level customer status, and accumulated six billion Spirit Origin Pills.
• Rumors spread that the Feather Transformation Church was scouting the True Martial Realm before attacking the True Martial School.
• Ye Xiwen returned to the True Martial School, reflecting on the opportunities the sect had given him and preparing for the approaching crisis.
• Jiaomujiao found Ye Xiwen near the school, congratulated him on killing a Great Saint, and told him Beidou intended to promote him to Yao Guang Star.

Jiaomujiao told Ye Xiwen that the Star Lord had chosen him to become the Yao Guang Star Lord, but Ye Xiwen hesitated over the obligations. Jiaomujiao also revealed that Beidou wanted Ye Xiwen to infiltrate the Alchemist Association, and Ye Xiwen agreed to try without promising to gain a high position.

• Jiaomujiao explained Beidou's hierarchy and told Ye Xiwen that the Star Lord had personally selected him as the new Yao Guang Star Lord.
• Jiaomujiao praised Ye Xiwen's record and described the benefits and duties of becoming a Star Lord, while Ye Xiwen said he needed time to consider.
• Jiaomujiao reminded Ye Xiwen of the Alchemist Association invitation he had received decades earlier and said the invitation had reached Beidou.
• Jiaomujiao relayed the Star Lord's request for Ye Xiwen to infiltrate the Alchemist Association, and Ye Xiwen agreed while warning he might not attain a high position there.

Ye Xiwen agreed to join the Big Dipper’s gathering of alchemists, where they would attempt to refine a pill that could break through to the Great Saint Realm. He planned to attend for the pill and spend the time before the gathering advancing his cultivation.

• Ye Xiwen accepted Jiaomujiao’s invitation to the Big Dipper gathering, scheduled for a month later.
• Ye Xiwen learned that the alchemists would work on a rare pill that could help someone enter the Great Saint Realm, and decided he had to attend.
• Ye Mo urged Ye Xiwen to seize the pill, while Ye Xiwen considered the immense cost of gathering its ingredients even though Ye Mo knew ancient formulas.
• Ye Xiwen planned to travel to Medicine King Valley near the Flying Star World and use the remaining time to raise his cultivation.
• Ye Xiwen intended to spend twenty days using his Spirit Origin Pills to reach the peak of the Middle Stage Half-step Great Saint before entering seclusion after the gathering.

Ye Xiwen arrived at Medicine King Valley for its Dao Discussion Assembly and joined independent cultivator Yang Tingyu on the way in. Their journey ended with a group of sect disciples insulting the independent cultivators, who fell silent when they saw the group’s emblem.

• Ye Xiwen reached the peak of the Middle Stage Half-step Great Saint after secluded cultivation and traveled to Medicine King Valley in disguise as Long.
• Ye Xiwen admired Medicine King Valley’s vast medicinal fields and discussed their limits with Nie Ying.
• Ye Xiwen met Yang Tingyu, an independent cultivator, and accompanied him toward the Dao Discussion Assembly.
• A group of young sect disciples mocked the independent cultivators as dogs, and the crowd fell silent after noticing the emblem on the fat man’s sleeve.

At Medicine King Valley, Yang Tingyu challenged a fat disciple for insulting the independent cultivators, and the disciple attacked the group in a murderous rage. As his giant hand descended on them, a golden light appeared and a slender finger struck toward it.

• The fat disciple mocked the independent cultivators, while Wang Hongchang apologized and tried to defend Medicine King Valley’s sincerity.
• Yang Tingyu confronted the fat disciple and declared that he would leave the Dao Discussion Assembly rather than endure humiliation.
• The fat disciple flew into a rage over Yang Tingyu’s insult and formed a giant hand to crush him and the other Half-Saints.
• A golden light erupted, and a slender finger thrust toward the fat disciple’s giant hand.

Ye Xiwen crippled a powerful disciple who had bullied independent cultivators and dismissed warnings about the Thousand Plant Sect and its ties to the Flying Star Gate. After the sect disciples fled, Yang Tingyu thanked Ye Xiwen and warned him of the danger, but Ye Xiwen invited the independent cultivators to enter the gathering with him.

• Ye Xiwen shattered the fat man's energy palm, crippled his arm, and rebuked him for bullying the independent cultivators.
• The fat man threatened Ye Xiwen, but Ye Xiwen slapped him down and destroyed his dantian despite Wang Hongchang's plea for mercy.
• The sect disciples fled, while Wang Hongchang returned to Medicine King Valley to report what had happened.
• Yang Tingyu thanked Ye Xiwen and warned him that the fat man belonged to the Thousand Plant Sect, which had ties to the Flying Star Gate.
• Ye Xiwen brushed off the warning and asked the independent cultivators who wanted to enter the gathering with him.

Ye Xiwen entered Medicine King Valley with Yang Tingyu, the only independent cultivator willing to accompany him after he crippled a Thousand Plant Sect disciple. As the gathered cultivators arrived and admired Flying Swan Manor’s powerful guests, a Medicine King Valley disciple recognized Ye Xiwen as the man who had crippled Senior Brother Zhou and called for vengeance.

• The independent cultivators refused to enter with Ye Xiwen, but Yang Tingyu stepped forward and went with him into Medicine King Valley.
• Ye Xiwen and Yang Tingyu entered the valley, where Saint Realm disciples guarded the paths and more independent cultivators gathered for the Dao discussion.
• Flying Swan Manor arrived led by Tian Butong, a Great Saint, with Guan Rui, a prominent Saint Realm Paragon, among the group.
• The visitors entered the valley’s vast plaza, where independent cultivators eagerly absorbed its spiritual energy while Medicine King Valley disciples mocked them.
• A Medicine King Valley disciple spotted Ye Xiwen and urged his master to avenge Senior Brother Zhou, whose martial arts Ye Xiwen had crippled.

Ye Xiwen faced Gongyang Yongfeng of the Thousand Plant Sect after Gongyang’s disciple accused him of crippling Zhou’s martial arts. Gongyang unleashed his Great Saint aura, but Ye Xiwen remained unaffected, leaving Yang Tingyu wondering whether Senior Long was a Great Saint too.

• A Thousand Plant Sect disciple led Gongyang Yongfeng and several dozen sect members to Ye Xiwen, accusing him of crippling Senior Brother Zhou’s martial arts.
• Onlookers identified Gongyang as the sect’s supreme elder, noted that he was nearing the end of his life, and explained how deeply he depended on his Closed-Door Disciple.
• Gongyang confronted Ye Xiwen, who calmly admitted that he had crippled the disciple’s martial arts.
• Gongyang erupted with Great Saint pressure, forcing the surrounding martial artists and even his own disciples to their knees.
• Yang Tingyu braced himself for battle beside Ye Xiwen, but Ye Xiwen remained calm as the Great Saint’s aura vanished before him.

Ye Xiwen fought Gongyang Yongfeng after crippling his disciple, while Gongyang’s Five Signs of Decay weakened him despite his former Great Saint Late Stage strength. They moved the battle into space, where Gongyang unleashed his full power and drove a life-filled wooden spear toward Ye Xiwen.

• Ye Xiwen mocked Gongyang Yongfeng for indulging his disciple, and Gongyang attacked him with a wooden spear erupting from the ground.
• Ye Xiwen’s golden divine waves shattered Gongyang’s first spear, and Ye Xiwen flew beyond the atmosphere to avoid damaging Medicine King Valley.
• Gongyang pursued Ye Xiwen with a storm of wooden spears, but Ye Xiwen broke them apart with a punch that manifested a great star.
• Gongyang unleashed his Great Saint pressure and burned his vital energy and blood to strike quickly despite the cost of fighting during the Five Signs of Decay.
• Gongyang formed an ocean of wood qi and thrust his ancient-tree-like spear toward Ye Xiwen.

Ye Xiwen fought Gongyang Yongfeng, a Great Saint weakened by the Five Signs of Decay, and gained the upper hand despite being only a Half-step Great Saint. The crowd marveled at his strength while Ye Xiwen remained absorbed in battle.

• Ye Xiwen clashed with Gongyang Yongfeng and used his Overlord Body to attack without holding back.
• The watching martial artists realized Ye Xiwen was suppressing Gongyang Yongfeng, while Thousand Plant Sect disciples blamed his weakened state.
• Yang Tingyu defended Ye Xiwen, pointing out that he was only a Half-step Great Saint yet could contend with a Great Saint.
• The battle tore through the cosmos, shattering meteors and filling the void with dangerous spear qi and Sword Qi.
• Yang Tingyu realized that following Ye Xiwen into Medicine King Valley had brought him a powerful protector and a fortuitous opportunity.
• Ye Xiwen continued fighting with growing exhilaration as the Guanren Scripture poured true essence into his body.

Ye Xiwen battled Gongyang Yongfeng, using the Great Saint as a whetstone while approaching a breakthrough. Gongyang Yongfeng restored himself to his peak Great Saint Late Stage at the cost of his life, and his next attack finally injured Ye Xiwen.

• Ye Xiwen overwhelmed Gongyang Yongfeng in their prolonged battle, while Gongyang Yongfeng's aging body and dwindling vital energy left him increasingly desperate.
• Gongyang Yongfeng realized Ye Xiwen was using the fight to pursue an epiphany and feared the strength he would gain from a breakthrough.
• Gongyang Yongfeng unleashed the wood energy stored in his gourd to restore his body and power to their prime, returning to the Great Saint Late Stage despite knowing he would die after the battle.
• Ye Xiwen welcomed Gongyang Yongfeng's restored strength as a better test, while Ye Mo warned that Gongyang Yongfeng intended for them both to perish.
• Gongyang Yongfeng attacked at more than twice his previous speed, pierced Ye Xiwen's palm, and drew the first blood of the battle.

Ye Xiwen fought Gongyang Yongfeng, using the dying Great Saint’s overwhelming strength to temper himself and approach a breakthrough. Ye Xiwen killed Gongyang Yongfeng at the final moment, but the interruption left him unable to cross into the next realm.

• Gongyang Yongfeng pierced Ye Xiwen’s palm and surged toward the peak of the Great Saint realm as he staked his remaining life on the battle.
• Ye Xiwen transformed into golden light, counterattacked Gongyang Yongfeng’s wooden armor, and healed his wounds with the Phoenix Rebirth Art.
• Yang Tingyu told the onlookers that Ye Xiwen was deliberately using Gongyang Yongfeng to temper himself and break through.
• Ye Xiwen and Gongyang Yongfeng fought deep among the stars, each reaching the threshold of a breakthrough as an unseen voice urged them to stop.
• Ye Xiwen struck Gongyang Yongfeng down, extinguishing his life force, but Ye Xiwen failed to take the final step into the next realm.