Chapter Summaries

As several star-region fleets moved toward the Galaxy Warship, Zi Ye remained calm and spent the day playing in the water with Lei Ying, Zi Xiao, and Yu Yi. Yun Heng joined them after Yu Shu explained how to get answers from Zi Ye, and the chapter ended with Yun Heng accusing him of deliberately staring at her during their ball games.

• Yun Heng told Zi Ye that nearby star-region fleets had set out toward the Galaxy Warship and warned him that assassins might be inside Exalted Star Port.
• Zi Ye told Yu Shu to show the approaching forces what the Galaxy Warship could do, then invited Yun Heng to join him in the water.
• Yu Shu explained that Zi Ye answered private questions freely but treated official business as an exchange of benefits.
• Yun Heng changed into a swimsuit and joined Zi Ye, Lei Ying, Zi Xiao, and Yu Yi in their games.
• Yun Heng excelled at ball games, then asked Zi Ye whether he had deliberately been staring at her.

Zi Ye teased Yun Heng about her appearance and her people’s lack of sex distinctions, prompting her to storm away. He then warned his companions to prepare for the coming war and went to cultivate, but they all crowded into his room to watch for a private chat with Yun Heng.

• Zi Ye openly admired Yun Heng and asked why her people had no distinction between sexes or need for partners, embarrassing her until she fled.
• Zi Ye’s companions questioned him about the exchange, and Yu Yi teased Lei Ying and Bai Yan over what they wanted to know about how Yun Heng’s people had children.
• Zi Ye told everyone to prepare for the approaching war, avoid being alone, and make use of the resources he had provided.
• Zi Ye went to his bedroom to begin intensive cultivation, but his companions followed and gathered there, expecting him to chat privately with Yun Heng.

Zi Ye reviewed the escalating opposition to the Infinite Star Sea with Yun Heng and discussed the Prosperous District’s possible role with Yu Shu. The Prosperous District’s Venerable Elder Tribunal then requested talks through Yun Heng’s channel.

• Zi Ye asked Yun Heng for updates on the Free Star Domain while the Wu Family transported energy supplies to the Star-River warship.
• Yun Heng sent videos showing races mobilizing for war and star citizens condemning Zi Ye and the Star-River warships.
• Yu Shu warned Zi Ye that powerful recluses in the Prosperous District might intervene and said negotiations could require sharing profits.
• Yun Heng connected Zi Ye to the Prosperous District’s Venerable Elder Tribunal, which wanted to discuss the growing conflict.

Zi Ye accepted Yun Heng’s warning and boarded her rapid-response warship with the others, including members of the Wu Family, to flee Free Star Harbor. When enemy forces intercepted them in space, Yu Shu ordered the ship and its Yuanforce Adepts into battle against a force that vastly outnumbered them.

• Zi Ye invited Yun Heng to join him, and Yun Heng sent an encrypted warning that revealed her loyalty while urging him to leave immediately.
• Zi Ye led everyone to Yun Heng’s rapid-response warship, where Wu Ming and Wu Shuang joined them on behalf of the Wu Family.
• Yu Shu ordered the warship to take a suspected enemy-held route and prepared its crew and Yuanforce Adepts for combat.
• The warship emerged in a temporarily controlled star domain, where Yu Shu used merchant-ship clearance while readying a counterattack.
• Enemy beam cannons struck the warship’s reactive barrier, and the Yuanforce Adepts retaliated against the enemy’s cannons and forces.
• The group saw that the enemy outnumbered them by more than tenfold, and possibly dozens of times over.

The narrator led the surviving forces through a turbulent star sector, using ruins from a Celestial Origin Device strike to evade the enemy’s encirclement. When an enemy unit intercepted their route, the narrator left the warship to confront them while the others prepared to rendezvous with the main ship.

• The narrator ordered the warship to bombard a chosen area and direct the Yuan Force Warriors through the resulting field of ruins.
• Yu Shu and the others cleared a serpentine path through the debris while the enemy struggled to locate their warship.
• The enemy surrounded the group from six directions and an enemy unit killed the Yuan Force Warriors blocking their route.
• The narrator ordered the remaining Yuan Force Warriors to return and the warship to open a space-time jump wormhole once clear of the battlefield.
• The narrator summoned the Elemental Shuttle and raced toward the enemy unit that had intercepted them.

The narrator received battlefield reports showing that Dead Soul and the Brave Martial Tribe were slaughtering their forces, then recognized Yun Heng fighting alone against them. After enemy interference cut off communications, the narrator reached the battlefield and chose to rescue Yun Heng rather than rendezvous with the warship.

• The narrator saw that Dead Soul had an Origin Force value above eight thousand and was leading the Brave Martial Tribe's assault on the fleeing adepts.
• Yun Heng fought off the enemy adepts and helped some of the narrator's allies escape, drawing Dead Soul's attention and the violet-blue flames he controlled.
• Yun Heng revealed herself to Dead Soul, summoned her War Gear, and threatened to clear a path for the fast ship if he did not let it leave.
• The Brave Martial Tribe activated energy interference, cutting off the narrator's battlefield signal as the narrator sped toward the fight.
• The narrator reached the battlefield, ordered the warship to rendezvous with the Star River warship, and chose to pursue Yun Heng alone.

The narrator used a spacetime-transference formation to reach Yun Heng, who was trapped by Dead Soul’s Purple Flame Burning the Firmament. The narrator countered the flame with twelve backup Earth Origin Artifacts, leaving Dead Soul’s power suppressed and Yun Heng stunned.

• The narrator dismantled twelve elemental flying shuttles to create a spacetime-transference formation and arrive at Yun Heng’s battlefield.
• The narrator rescued Yun Heng from pursuing warriors and challenged Dead Soul, who controlled the purple-black flames through his Heavenly Origin Artifact.
• Yun Heng offered to repay the narrator but insisted on fighting Dead Soul herself because the narrator lacked a Heavenly Origin Artifact.
• The narrator cut the surrounding space to stop the enemies, while Dead Soul sent two subordinates who could repair spatial rifts to attack.
• The narrator combined the backup shuttles into a spell formation and used elemental annihilation to consume Dead Soul’s flames, preventing them from regenerating.

The narrator and Yun Heng fought Dead Soul and the Brave Martial Clan with multiple earth-origin artifacts, but Dead Soul found a way to counter them and forced them to retreat. As they fled aboard the top, Dead Soul pursued, and Yun Heng could not open a spatial wormhole through the debris.

• Dead Soul dismissed the narrator’s earth-origin artifacts, but the narrator deployed dozens of twelve-element flying shuttles that formed Annihilation Gates and devoured the Variant Flame.
• Dead Soul recognized the narrator as Zi Ye and ordered his forces to capture the Star River Battleship, but the narrator collapsed space to block their escape and demanded the heaven-origin artifact.
• Dead Soul attacked with fire dragons, and the narrator used the Annihilation Space to swallow some while Yun Heng bombarded others with beams from the top.
• Dead Soul destroyed several flying shuttles with exploding Variant Flame and enlarged his fire dragons, forcing the narrator and Yun Heng to retreat.
• Yun Heng could not open a spatial wormhole amid fragments and chaotic Yuan Force streams, so she followed the narrator’s directions as Dead Soul and his minions pursued them.

While Yun Heng fled the Dead Soul in her War Gear, the narrator rebuilt and upgraded the Tianyuan Weapon using salvaged armaments. The upgraded War Gear prepared a powerful attack as the Dead Soul halted its followers.

• The narrator directed Yun Heng through a warship wreck, but the Dead Soul's Purple Flame Burning the Firmament caught up and scorched the War Gear's shield.
• The narrator assembled salvaged armament components and told Yun Heng to use the War Gear's self-repair function to merge them and rebuild its control array.
• Yun Heng activated the self-repair process, and the War Gear absorbed the components and transformed into an upgraded weapon with wings, flying claws, and a spinning cone.
• Yun Heng activated the War Gear's preparations for its ultimate armament formation, and the Dead Soul halted its followers as the craft slowed and changed shape.

Yun Heng defeated Dead Soul but let him and the Brave Martial Clan retreat, then she and Zi Ye reached the abandoned Free Star Domain and found their battleship gone. As Zi Ye modified the gears of war for space-time travel, a Brave Martial Clan fleet arrived and Yun Heng prepared to hold it off.

• Dead Soul ordered the Brave Martial Clan to surround Yun Heng and Zi Ye, but Yun Heng unleashed the gears of war's vibrating chains and forced him to admit defeat.
• Yun Heng spared Dead Soul to avoid a war between the two star domains, while Zi Ye warned that the clan might retaliate after losing its foundation.
• Yun Heng and Zi Ye reached the Free Star Domain and discovered that their battleship and the destroyed base's relay station were gone.
• Zi Ye began modifying the gears of war for space-time travel and gave Yun Heng a crystal containing the schematics.
• Yun Heng spotted a Brave Martial Clan fleet approaching, and Zi Ye told her to hold them off while he continued working.

While modifying the Heavenly Origin Vessel, the narrator and Yun Heng were caught in a spatial rupture that dragged their fleet into a world with immense gravity and higher-dimensional life-forms. They fled into a forest amid the wreckage, with the creatures still pursuing them and the fleet’s fate unknown.

• The narrator continued modifying the Heavenly Origin Vessel as Yun Heng exhausted and broke through Earth Origin Vessels in a rapid succession of attacks.
• A spatial fissure opened near Yun Heng’s defensive sphere, and the ruptured space pulled the fleet into another cosmic domain.
• Gravity dragged the narrator, Yun Heng, and the fleet toward the ground, destroying the Heavenly Origin Vessel and crashing the warships into the landscape.
• The narrator adapted to the planet’s gravity and helped Yun Heng stand, then recognized that unseen higher-dimensional creatures were surrounding them.
• The creatures attacked, and the narrator carried Yun Heng through the forest until smoke from the fleet’s crashes obscured them and gave them a chance to escape.

Zi Ye and Yun Heng escaped the shock wave after the Boundary Wall split, then hid in a giant bird’s nest while powerful beings searched for the cause of the breach. The searchers failed to detect them, but they remained trapped and in danger.

• Zi Ye led Yun Heng away from the shock wave and landed with her on a flying cliff.
• Yun Heng spotted the gap in the sky, and Zi Ye realized that beings were repairing the Boundary Wall and would search for them.
• Zi Ye turned a giant bird’s nest upside down and hid inside it with Yun Heng.
• Zi Ye told Yun Heng to suppress her energy while repeated divine-sense probes swept the area.
• After the probes stopped, Zi Ye warned Yun Heng that the searchers would come in person.
• Several streaks of light searched the forest, but one passed over their concealed bodies without noticing them.

Yun Heng and the narrator were captured by a powerful being after accidentally drawing attention near the sky-rending rift. The woman who released them called them her assigned pets, leaving their fate in her hands.

• Yun Heng spoke too soon, and a twisted phantom appeared before the bird's nest as an explosion distracted it.
• The narrator teleported Yun Heng down the cliff, but an attack blasted the cliff apart and a spatial force captured them.
• The narrator adapted his body to the higher-dimensional aura, allowing himself and Yun Heng to move inside their confinement.
• After several days, a woman in a brightly colored skirt released them in an isolated room and asked whether they had opened the rift.
• The narrator denied responsibility and asked the woman to send them back, but she called them the pets assigned to her.

A blue-green alien woman used the Star Casket to pull Zi Ye’s soul out and probe his memories, but the Door of Memory unleashed a force that destroyed her soul and let Zi Ye learn about the realm. Zi Ye took control of her body, then discovered that the sealed realm had no apparent way out.

• The alien woman seized Yun Heng and used the Star Casket’s starlight to pull Zi Ye’s soul from his body.
• She copied a sliver of Zi Ye’s memories and sent a miniature version of him to open his Door of Memory.
• A giant hand emerged from the Door of Memory, scattered the woman’s soul, and let Zi Ye plunder her memories about the realm.
• Zi Ye returned to his body, then used the miniature figure to revive and take control of the woman’s body.
• Zi Ye told Yun Heng that the realm was sealed and began examining the Star Casket.

The narrator identified the Star Casket as a Star Controller’s artifact and explained the hierarchy and powers of the Star God Seat. He realized that he and Yun Heng had entered the Star God Seat directly from the Free Star Sea, then received a message that his students were fighting.

• The narrator activated the Star Casket, which projected the true stellar positions of the Upper Star Sea.
• The narrator explained that Star Controllers governed starfields and described the ranks from Great Celestial Minister down to Great Spirit Heaven.
• The narrator deduced that the Star God Seat was a separate plane reached by those selected from interstellar wars in the Upper Star Sea.
• A disciple contacted the narrator to report that students arguing over the Heavenly Dao’s cause and effect had started fighting.

Mingchu, controlling Zi Ye through a split consciousness, went with Yun Heng to break up a fight between her students Tian Lin and Earth Torch. She stopped the duel and confronted the strong racial hierarchy that shaped her memories and relationships, leaving the two prodigies before her.

• Mingchu recalled that she was a Great Cosmic Heaven named Mingchu who controlled a region containing more than five hundred billion stars.
• Mingchu and Yun Heng followed Tian Zi after she reported that Tian Lin and Earth Torch were fighting to settle their dispute through their Star Caskets.
• Tian Zi activated the Star Casket and transported the students to a giant arena, where Tian Lin and Earth Torch battled with star formations.
• Mingchu ordered the injured Heaven Clan and Earth Clan prodigies to stop fighting, and they obeyed and bowed to her.
• Mingchu recalled that she favored Tian Lin, regarded Zi Ye and Yun Heng as pets, and was herself a hybrid of the Heaven and Earth Clans.

The narrator reprimanded Heaven and Earth Clan students for fighting each other and explained the Star Battle, where Star Lords competed for stars to strengthen their Star Caskets. The narrator then introduced two chosen ones from the Heavenly Rift, Yun Heng and the narrator’s avatar, as new disciples under their care.

• The narrator explained the Heaven and Earth Clans’ abilities and their long-running rivalry, which caused frequent clashes in the Star God Seat interface.
• The narrator scolded Tian Lin, Di Ju, and the other students for fighting among themselves and warned them to treat competition as a way to improve rather than harm one another.
• The students recalled the annual Star Battle, where points earned contenders stars left vacant during the previous year.
• The narrator explained that Star Lords could also gain stars by taking another Star Casket, and that Great Cosmic Heavens protected their students while outside their domains Star Lords hunted or were hunted.
• The narrator announced that the Heavenly Rift had brought down two chosen ones and introduced the narrator’s avatar and Yun Heng to the students.

Ming Chu protected Yun Heng and the narrator while arranging for them to receive Origin Heaven-grade Star Caskets, despite objections from her disciples. As Tian Zi escorted them to the Star Casket Bureau, Yun Heng learned that the scarce Star Casket quotas were crucial combat assets, while the narrator reflected on the barriers facing lower-star-sea cultivators.

• Di Ju and the other students questioned whether the newcomers could adapt to Star God Heaven, and Ming Chu shut down their objections.
• Ming Chu gave Tian Zi two plaques and ordered her to take Yun Heng and the narrator to collect Origin Heaven-grade Star Caskets.
• Ming Chu warned the Great Origin Heavens not to attack the newcomers, then left the students to prepare for the Star Palm Battle.
• Ming Chu handed control of her body to her divided spirit and returned her main soul to Zi Ye's body.
• Tian Zi explained to Yun Heng that Origin Heaven-grade Star Casket quotas were scarce and could advance powerful cultivators into valuable combat assets.
• The narrator reflected that upper-star-sea races had far greater natural advantages and that leaving was impossible after the celestial rift crisis.

The narrator and Yun Heng received Primordial-Heaven-grade Star Caskets in Star God Heaven, where fragile boundary walls made the realm vulnerable to breaches. Tian Zi took them to the Star Arts Bureau to explain how students comprehended star arts, and Yun Heng prepared to try her luck.

• The narrator discovered from Ming Chu's memories that Dead Soul and most of his elites had survived capture and been assigned to other Cosmic Heaven Halls.
• Yun Heng received a Primordial-Heaven-grade Star Casket, and Tian Zi showed them how its stars compared with those in her own, more developed casket.
• Tian Zi reassured Yun Heng that talent, star compatibility, and experience could all affect the power of a star art.
• After leaving the Star Artifact Bureau, the narrator and Yun Heng noticed unfriendly watchers following them.
• Tian Zi brought Yun Heng to the Star Arts Bureau and explained how intersecting stellar orbits projected star-art points into those who comprehended them.

Yun Heng used the Star Orbit Instrument to comprehend a seventh-level star art, impressing Tian Zi. As Zi Ye prepared to take his turn, Earth Clan disciples arrived and ordered them to leave.

• Di Gou mocked Tian Zi and warned that she had comprehended the Two-Origin Spirit-Sense Sword Star Art before leaving.
• Tian Zi explained that Di Gou belonged to the Earth Clan, which had a long-standing feud with Tian Zi's clan.
• Yun Heng used her Star Casket and comprehended the Seven-Origin Xuanwei Star-Control Art, an impressive seventh-level art.
• Tian Zi praised Yun Heng's talent and speculated that her clan came from an upper star sea.
• As Zi Ye prepared to comprehend a star art, Earth Clan members arrived and told him to wait until the next day.