Chapter Summaries

Zi Ye led Zi Xiao and Zi Guang into the Phantom Space Clan’s base, where he attacked after discovering that the clan had served Purple-Eyed Clan members as food. The three fought Wu Tuo and the other leaders, and Zi Ye’s crystal attacks wiped out the Phantom Space Clan fighters inside the base.

• Zi Ye entered the crystal mine’s temporary base with Zi Xiao and Zi Guang, where Wu Tuo questioned what the Purple-Eyed Clan wanted.
• When Wu Tuo tried to seize him, Zi Ye killed him and confronted the leaders over the Purple-Eyed Clan blood and meat on their table.
• Zi Guang recognized Zi Huang’s elemental crown and the belongings of other clan members, and he and Zi Xiao joined Zi Ye in attacking the Phantom Space Clan.
• Wu Tuo taunted Zi Guang about Zi Huang and the other victims, provoking him into attacks that drew more Phantom Space Clan reinforcements.
• Zi Ye raised crystal pillars to deflect phantom light and impale several leaders, then used crystal spikes to wipe out the Phantom Space Clan fighters in the base.

After Wu Tuo killed Zi Huang and his partners, Zi Ye and the Purple-Eyed Clan fought back against the Illusory Space Clan at the crystal mine. Zi Ye stopped slaughtering the survivors at Zi Xiao’s request, and the chapter ended with the captives under guard and Zi Xiao asking what to do with them.

• Zi Guang called for the Purple-Eyed Clan’s main force while Zi Ye explained how Zi Xiao’s enhancement strengthened his attacks.
• As the Illusory Space Clan rushed toward them, Zi Ye’s Purple Pupils killed a prodigy and broke the attackers’ morale.
• Zi Ye pursued the fleeing Illusory Space Clan members, killing many as Zi Xiao followed him and Zi Guang went to join the main force.
• Zi Xiao urged Zi Ye to stop killing before other clans became prejudiced against the Purple-Eyed Clan, and Zi Ye halted his attacks.
• The Purple-Eyed Clan surrounded the crystal mine and guarded the surviving captives, while Zi Xiao asked Zi Ye how to deal with them.

Zi Ye forced the Illusory Space Clan to become the Purple-Eyed Clan’s vassals, then organized both it and the Great Dream Clan to mine crystal ore under a system of quotas and fair rewards. As the clans prepared to enter the descending cage, Lei Ying noticed Zi Ye staring at the sky.

• Zi Ye killed several defiant Illusory Space Clan members and threatened the captives until they agreed to become vassals.
• Zi Ye promised the Illusory Space Clan could keep mining and explained that their taxes would decrease as they worked toward a daily quota and eventual freedom.
• Zi Ye told Zi Guang and Zi Xiao that vassals would earn points for the Purple-Eyed Clan, and that he planned to recruit more once their spirit apertures stabilized.
• Zi Ye divided the Great Dream Clan and Illusory Space Clan into supervised work groups and made the crystal mine the Purple-Eyed Clan’s headquarters.
• Zi Ye distributed the day’s points according to fairness, and Lei Ying asked what was wrong when he stared at the sky as the cage descended.

Zi Ye and the Purple-Eyed Clan used the prison chains to temper their bodies and stabilize their elemental apertures while rising in the cages with their points. Zi Xiao warned Zi Ye that other clans might target their mining sites, and he promised to deal with anyone who came.

• Zi Xiao explained that roughly a million points could carry someone to a platform that led toward the Free Star Sea, and Lei Ying urged everyone to return to the cages and train.
• Zi Xiao gave away points to follow Zi Ye’s example, while Lei Ying teased her for pining after him.
• Zi Ye guided the chains’ elements into his body, reasoning that the cages were designed to temper strong candidates and might ultimately select prey for the mysterious power above.
• The Purple-Eyed Clan used Zi Ye’s method to stabilize their elemental apertures and agreed to follow his lead.
• Zi Xiao told Zi Ye that other clans seemed eager to seize their mining sites, and Zi Ye said he would not let them leave if they attacked.

Zi Xiao recalled her childhood encounter with Lei Ying and apologized for the punishment he suffered after saving her. She then learned that the Thunder-Banishing Spirit Substance she had sent through Qing Shan had been seized by the Third Young Master.

• Zi Xiao hinted that she wanted Lei Ying to remember an event from when he was seven, and Lei Ying recalled meeting her during elemental testing.
• Zi Xiao explained that Lei Ying had found her after she ran away and saved her from a wild monster, then was punished by her family for it.
• Lei Ying told Zi Xiao he did not blame her and would have saved her again.
• Zi Xiao asked whether the item she had sent through Qing Shan was still there, and Qing Shan admitted the Third Young Master had seized the Thunder-Banishing Spirit Substance and threatened him into silence.

Zi Ye learned that Forbidden Lightning Spiritual Essence could awaken mutated elements and began seeking other treasures to strengthen his elemental foundation. After the prodigies returned to the mines, rival groups approached the Purple-Eyed Clan with hostile intent.

• Zi Xiao explained that she had stolen Forbidden Lightning Spiritual Essence from her mother's treasury, while Zi Ye considered how mutated elements might help dismantle an opponent's Dao-attainment universe.
• Qing Shan said Zi Xiao's family head still possessed another piece, and Zi Xiao proposed asking the Great Dream Clan and Illusory Space Clan about treasures containing mutated elements.
• The prodigies returned to the ground at daybreak, and Zi Guang, Zi Xiao, Lei Ying, and Lei Wen reported that their spiritual apertures had stabilized.
• Zi Ye led the Purple-Eyed Clan toward the crystal mine as the Great Dream Clan and Illusory Space Clan fell in behind them as vassals.
• Several other groups of prodigies rushed ahead and cast hostile looks toward Zi Ye's group.

Zi Ye and the Purple-Eyed Clan encountered the Azure-Eyed Clan, who offered to travel with them while waiting for them to fall into trouble. A Wa God Clan force then demanded the Purple-Eyed Clan's dependents, leaving Zi Xiao worried that the Azure-Eyed Clan would exploit a fight.

• Qing Ci invited Zi Xiao and the Purple-Eyed Clan to join forces on the way to the Free Star Sea, but Zi Xiao refused.
• Qing Ci said the Azure-Eyed Clan had heard a major clan planned to ambush the Purple-Eyed Clan and that Qing Su wanted to help.
• Zi Xiao told Zi Ye that Qing Su was the Azure-Eyed Clan's Child of Light.
• The Wa God Clan appeared and demanded the Purple-Eyed Clan's dependents, including the Great Dream Clan and Space Clan.
• Zi Xiao asked Zi Ye what to do, fearing the Azure-Eyed Clan would take advantage if they fought the Wa God Clan.

Zi Ye maneuvered the Azure-Eyed and Wa God clans into a three-way standoff, then forced the Azure-Eyed Clan to submit as a dependent clan. The Wa God Clan was left facing Zi Ye’s larger coalition and bracing for a difficult fight.

• Zi Ye threatened the Azure-Eyed Clan with destruction and the abduction of Qing Su unless they became dependents or allies of the Purple-Eyed Clan.
• Zi Ye invited Wa Zhi and the Wa God Clan to join forces against the Azure-Eyed Clan, prompting Qing Ci to propose attacking Zi Ye’s coalition instead.
• Zi Ye stopped both sides from advancing and arranged the three clans into a standoff while he gave battle orders to Zi Xiao and Zi Guang.
• Zi Ye gave Qing Su a final choice between submission and annihilation, and Qing Su agreed to make the Azure-Eyed Clan a dependent clan.
• Wa Zhi prepared to attack, but realized his clan’s prodigies were outnumbered by the four-clan coalition.

Zi Ye led the Purple-Eyed Clan against the Wa God Clan, using the Illusory Space Clan and Great Dream Clan’s support to overwhelm them and kill Wa Zhi. Qing Su brought the Azure-Eyed Clan into the battle, but the Wa God Clan fought back fiercely and killed several Azure-Eyed prodigies, leaving Qing Ci stunned.

• Zi Ye rejected Wa Zhi’s demand and ordered the Purple-Eyed Clan to attack the Wa God Clan.
• Zi Ye coordinated the Purple-Eyed Clan’s ranged assault with support from the Illusory Space Clan and Great Dream Clan, routing the Wa God Clan’s fighters.
• Zi Ye fought Wa Zhi and killed him with a field of elemental thorns.
• Qing Su ordered the Azure-Eyed Clan to join the battle as the Wa God Clan’s morale collapsed.
• The Wa God Clan met the Azure-Eyed Clan’s attack with a ferocious counterassault and killed several prodigies, shocking Qing Ci.

Zi Ye defeated the Wa God Clan, recruited its fleeing prodigies as vassals, and forced the Azure-Eyed Clan to submit. As the group traveled to the Purple-Eyed Clan’s mining region, Zi Ye asked Zi Xiao, Lei Ying, and Lei Wen how they felt about him.

• The Wa God Clan’s prodigies fled as the Purple-Eyed Clan routed them, and Zi Ye took the surviving escapees into his vassal ranks.
• Zi Ye declared the Azure-Eyed Clan a subordinate ally, but Qing Su objected that her clan would not be forced to obey every command.
• Zi Ye seized Qing Ci by the neck and threatened her until Qing Su knelt and pledged obedience; the Azure-Eyed Clan’s prodigies followed suit.
• Zi Ye released Qing Ci, warned her not to show disrespect again, and ordered the vassals and Azure-Eyed Clan to travel to the Purple-Eyed Clan’s mining region.
• Zi Xiao praised Zi Ye’s decisiveness, and he asked her, Lei Ying, and Lei Wen whether they liked him; Zi Xiao and Lei Ying answered, while Lei Wen was left at a loss.

Zi Ye negotiated with Qing Su and Qing Ci over how the Azure-Eyed Clan would support the Purple-Eyed Clan’s control of the Starfall Land. He offered them a choice between safely mining two zones as allies or joining a dangerous campaign for nearby mines, and revealed a powerful reward for the riskier option.

• Zi Ye offered the Azure-Eyed Clan the vacant southeastern and northwestern mining zones, with no starstone tax in exchange for helping defend the land.
• Qing Su asked whether the Azure-Eyed Clan could retreat if it could not hold the territory, and Zi Ye agreed.
• Zi Ye explained that the second option was to conquer nearby mines together and recruit more dependents, though the campaign would cause casualties.
• Qing Su questioned why Zi Ye wanted more mines despite the existing deposits, but he refused to explain before the Azure-Eyed Clan chose an option.
• Zi Ye promised that if Qing Su and Qing Ci joined the campaign, he would help their master open an elemental spirit aperture and teach them cultivation using elemental punishment, shocking both of them.

Zi Ye offered to awaken new spirit apertures for prodigies who repaid him with points and helped the Purple-Eyed Clan conquer territory, while allowing noncombatants to stay protected. He then sought the origins of mutated elements from vassal-clan prodigies, but most refused, leaving him to question a hesitant member of the Wa God Clan.

• Zi Ye explained his spirit-aperture plan to Qing Su and Qing Ci, and Zi Xiao demonstrated a healing spell she had awakened.
• Qing Ci proposed paying points without joining the fighting, but Zi Ye said the privilege was reserved for prodigies who made major contributions.
• Qing Su agreed to fight alongside Zi Ye and asked him to protect clan members who did not want to battle; Zi Ye accepted.
• Zi Xiao brought in leading prodigies from the Great Dream Clan, Illusory Space Clan, and Wa God Clan, and Dream Eight Thousand and Sixty-Seven demonstrated his mutated Shattered Illusion element.
• Zi Ye asked the Great Dream Clan prodigy to sell him the origin of his mutated element, but he refused and warned that his clan would defend it; an Illusory Space Clan leader also declined and left.
• Zi Ye noticed that one Wa God Clan prodigy seemed hesitant to leave and asked what was troubling him.

Wa Lin offered divine-blood quality essence in exchange for help rescuing her sister, Wa Yue, from the Wind Followers. The leader also agreed to extract Wa Ruo’s dangerous mutated quantity element, leaving Wa Ruo poised to gain a new spirit aperture.

• Wa Lin explained that the Wind Followers had abducted Wa Yue to refine her mutated Wa blood, and offered divine-blood quality essence as payment for a rescue.
• The leader accepted the essence and said they would set out to save Wa Yue after learning about its unique properties.
• Wa Ruo revealed that her mutated quantity element made her body constantly dismantle and reassemble, and the leader offered to extract her origin in exchange for the element.
• Wa Lin realized Wa Ruo might gain the ability to manifest more limbs if she kept her quality essence and received a new spirit aperture.
• The leader prepared to extract Wa Ruo’s origin power and guide it into himself while preventing the process from killing her.

Zi Ye removed Wa Ruo’s mutated quantity element, replaced it with a pure quantity-element aperture, and absorbed the mutation into his own origin. After accepting Wa Ruo’s service and promising to open two more apertures for her, he gathered the prodigies to rescue captives from the Feng Cong Clan.

• Zi Ye used several elements to suppress and cancel Wa Ruo’s fissioning mutated quantity element, destroying her old spirit aperture in the process.
• Zi Ye drew the weakened mutation into his body and assimilated it into his origin quantity element using a pure quantity element as a trap.
• Wa Ruo thanked Zi Ye for giving her a pure quantity-element aperture and pledged to serve him, while Wa Lin explained her standing in the Wa God Clan.
• Zi Ye agreed to accept Wa Ruo’s service, promised to open two more spirit apertures for her, and told her to call him Zi Ye.
• Zi Ye called for volunteers to rescue captives from the Feng Cong Clan, and more than half of the gathered prodigies offered to follow him.

Zi Ye led several mighty clans toward the Windfrom Clan's Starfall site to reclaim their people, while Wa Ruo carried him as they traveled. The Windfrom Clan assembled its vassals to meet them, and the two forces stopped before battle began.

• Zi Ye accepted Wa Ruo's offer to carry him, and Zi Xiao explained that touching a Wa God Clan member's shoulder was an intimate gesture between partners.
• Zi Ye advised Wa Ruo to stabilize her new spiritual apertures and awaken wings as the group approached the Windfrom Clan's Starfall site.
• Wa Lin and Zi Guang marveled at the vast crystal-ore mountain, while the Great Dream Clan's new leader complained about the Space Clan's mining territory.
• The Windfrom Clan sounded an alarm and gathered its vassal clans, including familiar members of the Wa God, Great Dream, and Space Clans.
• Zi Ye's several hundred prodigies faced the Windfrom Clan's forces at a distance, and both sides held back from attacking to avoid losses.

Zi Ye challenged the Wind-Conquering Clan to become a dependent clan of the Pupil Clan, and battled its Wind Hunter with his Stars spell. The stars destroyed Wind Hunter’s Dragon March and surrounded him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The Wind-Conquering Clan mocked the Azure-Eyed Pupil Clan as the two clans faced off.
• Zi Ye empowered Wa Ruo with wind and lightning, and she spread her wings and flew before landing in the battlefield.
• Zi Ye challenged the Wind-Conquering Clan to become a dependent clan of the Pupil Clan, and Wind Hunter answered with his Dragon March spell.
• Zi Ye unleashed Stars, whose explosive particles annihilated Wind Hunter’s green flood dragons and surrounded him.

Zi Ye defeated Feng Shou and persuaded the Fengcong Clan to become a vassal of the Pupil Clan in exchange for fertile land and the chance to open additional spirit apertures. Feng Shou tested Zi Ye’s promise with five hundred thousand points’ worth of starstones, and the chapter ended with Zi Ye successfully opening a new spirit aperture for him.

• Zi Ye overwhelmed Feng Shou with a renewed cluster of stars and demanded that the Fengcong Clan become a vassal or face destruction.
• Feng Shou agreed to submit if the Fengcong Clan received satisfactory terms, and Zi Ye offered fertile starfall land in return for thirty percent of its daily starstone mining.
• Zi Ye promised to open an additional spirit aperture for anyone who contributed five hundred thousand points, prompting Feng Shou to accept vassal status and demand the reward for himself.
• Feng Shou gathered five hundred thousand points’ worth of starstones from his clansmen, and Zi Ye distributed them among prodigies with few points or unhealed injuries.
• Zi Ye used twenty-four-element light to open Feng Shou’s new spirit aperture, and Feng Shou confirmed that the promise had been fulfilled.

After expanding his territory and becoming a High Clan domain hegemon, Zi Ye received an ultimatum to gather 990,000 points and attend a meeting in the allied clans’ prison district. Despite his vassals’ concerns, he agreed to go and planned to learn what the other hegemons wanted.

• Zi Ye reclaimed Wa Lin’s younger sister and other clansmen, gained the Wa God Clan’s submission, and spent the next month conquering nearby Starfall Lands.
• A High Clan envoy delivered an invitation demanding that Zi Ye gather 990,000 points and attend a night discussion in the allied clans’ prison district.
• Zi Ye asked Bai Yan for her view, and she said he could go or stay based on what he wanted.
• The envoy warned that the clans would join forces to attack if Zi Ye refused, and Zi Ye agreed to attend the next day.
• Zi Guang, Qing Su, and Lei Ying urged Zi Ye to reconsider, but he said he would find out what the hegemons wanted before deciding what to do.

Zi Ye agreed to let Bai Yan use the ancient Shared Sight art to scout the platform, while preparing safeguards in case she did not return. Before she went, he formed a connection through her eyes and took a backup of her memories, leaving Bai Yan to wonder why he was determined to revive her.

• Zi Ye warned the prodigy leaders that the platform might conceal a threat and questioned why the Myriad Races were being allowed into the Free Star Sea, prompting arguments about ascending or going home.
• Bai Yan offered to use Shared Sight with Zi Ye and ascend as a pioneer, and the other leaders urged him to accept.
• Zi Ye agreed, asking Bai Yan to teach him Shared Sight and promising to teach her a method of self-preservation.
• Bai Yan explained the art and let Zi Ye inspect her meridians, and he established a shared connection through her eyes.
• Zi Ye extracted a backup of Bai Yan's consciousness and said he would return some memories if she came back or use them to reconstruct her if she died.
• Bai Yan asked why Zi Ye was so determined to revive her despite her being his subordinate or a recent friend.

Bai Yan reached the star platform through the Shared Gaze technique and discovered a vast star-magma pool where foreign races washed metal and Origin True Stones. She learned that workers who gathered enough Origin True Stones could be taken by an upper-level being to the Free Star Sea.

• The narrator and Bai Yan used the Shared Gaze technique as their cages rose toward the star platform, but the narrator's cage stopped short of the top.
• Bai Yan's cage entered the platform, and the narrator briefly lost the Shared Gaze connection before it returned.
• Bai Yan emerged above a pool of blue star-magma with her belongings destroyed, and nearby foreign races gave her specially made clothes.
• A female foreigner led Bai Yan through the fog to a stone embankment where many races washed metal and iron with star-fluid.
• A foreigner told Bai Yan to wash corroded Origin True Stones and explained that collecting enough could earn her passage to the Free Star Sea.