Chapter Summaries

Zi Ye defied Di Gun and activated the Star Orbit Instrument to comprehend star arts. After the stars resonated and the rank halos reached first level, they suddenly went out, leaving Zi Ye wondering whether the Star Casket had been damaged.

• Di Gun confronted Tian Zi and demanded that she take Yun Heng and Zi Ye away, while warning them against returning to comprehend star arts.
• Zi Ye ignored Di Gun, activated the Star Orbit Instrument, and taunted him until the Star Arts Bureau's formation forced him to leave.
• Tian Zi explained to Yun Heng that powerful Star Controllers often pressured newcomers into becoming their vassals, and that standing alone could leave someone vulnerable.
• Zi Ye calculated the connections among the star projections, causing hundreds of thousands of stars to resonate in unison.
• The rank halos went dark after reaching first level, and Zi Ye found the Star Casket buzzing and trembling as she wondered whether she had broken it.

Zi Ye awakened the Star Annihilation Art, which caused the Star Orbit Instrument to crash and restart after registering it as a level-nine art. Since his strength left him with few ways to gain more stars, Tian Zi suggested taking missions from other Great Origin Heavens, and Zi Ye became interested in the chance to find information about the World Walls.

• The Star Controller judged Zi Ye's star art to be level nine after the Star Orbit Instrument restarted, and Zi Ye said he had awakened the Star Annihilation Art.
• Tian Zi explained that Zi Ye's destructive art had overloaded the instrument, which had recorded its level but lost the art itself in the crash.
• Yun Heng and Tian Zi discussed how Zi Ye could improve his strength and gain stars, while Tian Zi noted that he was unlikely to win them by challenging other Star Controllers.
• Tian Zi suggested that Zi Ye take missions for other Great Origin Heavens through the Star Controller Bureau, and Zi Ye became interested in earning stars and searching for information about the World Walls.

Zi Ye and Yun Heng visited the Star Bureau to browse missions, but Zi Ye accepted a dangerous Cosmic Heaven-level mission before they had formed a team. Qu Guang warned that previous teams had died or been turned into lackeys, leaving Zi Ye facing doubts about whether he could complete it.

• Tian Zi brought Zi Ye and Yun Heng to meet Qu Guang and view the available missions.
• Tian Zi explained that the Star Casket limited mission access according to a Star Keeper’s strength and could combine a team’s strength for harder missions.
• Zi Ye revealed that he had already accepted a Cosmic Heaven-level mission, astonishing Yun Heng, Tian Zi, and Qu Guang.
• Qu Guang confirmed that the mission offered three thousand Cosmic Heaven-level stars and required hunting a former Great Cosmic Heaven and his companions in Fallen Star Valley.
• Qu Guang warned Zi Ye that more than ten Great Origin Heavens who entered Fallen Star Valley the previous month had died or become the enemy’s lackeys.

Zi Ye, Yun Heng, and Tian Zi formed a team and entered Fallen Star Valley to investigate the mission area. As they approached, Tian Zi sensed a group following behind them.

• Tian Zi explained that Zi Ye’s mission involved a former Great Cosmic Heaven whose Star Casket had been shattered, and that the mission should not include Great Cosmic Heaven-level enemies.
• Yun Heng insisted on accompanying Zi Ye, and Tian Zi decided to join them so they could form a Star God Seat with three Great Origin Heavens.
• Zi Ye linked Tian Zi and Yun Heng through their Star Caskets, enabling them to sense one another across the formation’s range.
• The three traveled through Fallen Star Valley’s stone forests and approached the mission area, with Zi Ye reminding them to move carefully.
• Tian Zi sensed someone behind them, and Zi Ye discovered that a group had entered their detection range.

Zi Ye stopped to confront Di Gun and five other Great Cosmic Heaven Star Seat Holders who were pursuing him, Yun Heng, and Tian Zi. He unleashed his Annihilation Star Art, which began destroying the opponents’ star manifestations and left them unable to use their Star Caskets effectively.

• Tian Zi urged Zi Ye to flee with her and Yun Heng, but he stayed behind to face the six pursuers.
• Di Gun demanded that Tian Zi leave the Star Casket and surrender Zi Ye and Yun Heng, while the other team argued over how to divide the spoils.
• Tian Zi offered to give up the Star Casket if the three of them could go free, but Zi Ye activated his own Star Casket and plunged the area into darkness.
• The Star Seat Holders released their star arts, but Zi Ye’s Annihilation Domain shrank their manifestations and devoured the stars in their domains.
• A burly Star Seat Holder attacked with the Divine-Refined Super Dragon, but the dragon rapidly lost its form inside Zi Ye’s domain.

Zi Ye defeated Di Gun and the other Star Controllers after they formed a Star Chain, then claimed their Star Caskets. The battle ended with Tian Zi accepting two of the captured Caskets, while Zi Ye's knowledge of Star Caskets left her suspicious.

• Zi Ye annihilated the burly man's divine dragon and killed him, then took his Star Casket.
• Di Gun united the Star Controllers' stars through a Star Chain and attacked Zi Ye's group with a starry earth dragon.
• Tian Zi linked her stars with Zi Ye's, and Zi Ye absorbed the burly man's ownerless stars to strengthen their defenses.
• Zi Ye used Star Annihilation to kill Di Gun and destroy the Star Chain, then killed the remaining four Star Controllers.
• Zi Ye collected the Star Caskets and offered three to Tian Zi, who accepted the two with the fewest stars.

After draining the Star Casket’s stars, Zi Ye shared his Star Annihilation Art rubbing with Tian Zi and Yun Heng. Both gained powerful insights from it, while Yun Heng looked forward to receiving a share of the mission reward.

• Tian Zi returned the Star Casket to Zi Ye after she extracted its stars, leaving its sphere of star clusters dark.
• Yun Heng felt insecure about contributing nothing, and Zi Ye promised to give her a third of the cosmic-heaven mission reward.
• Tian Zi gave Yun Heng a rubbing of her star-control art and explained how star-art rubbings could help improve matching arts.
• Zi Ye created a rubbing of his Star Annihilation Art and shared it with Tian Zi and Yun Heng despite their warnings about revealing his techniques.
• Tian Zi and Yun Heng comprehended Zi Ye’s rubbing and found that it greatly strengthened their understanding of star art.

After their Star Imprints opened new possibilities for stellar arts, Zi Ye, Tian Zi, and Yun Heng entered the Fallen Star Valley, where their enemies had linked their nests through Star Caskets. The group was surrounded by six Star Controllers, who challenged them about their presence.

• Tian Zi said the Star Imprints had helped her break through her long-standing bottleneck in Two-Element Stellar Arts.
• Tian Zi explained that the enemies' linked nests let them coordinate their techniques across the Fallen Star Valley and overwhelm smaller invading forces.
• Zi Ye urged the group to push deeper and uproot the enemy formation.
• The group spotted disguised star clusters overhead and realized they had been surrounded.
• Three Star Controllers ahead and three behind confronted the group, and one asked whether the three Great Primordial Heavens had entered by accident or come to apprehend them.

Zi Ye defeated six Great Origin Heaven Star Controllers with the Star Annihilation Art and shared their Star Caskets with Yun Heng and Tian Zi. The group ended with Yun Heng warning Zi Ye that his teasing of Tian Zi could anger the Heaven Clan.

• The Great Origin Heaven Star Controllers demanded the trio surrender their Star Caskets and prepared to attack.
• Zi Ye used the Star Annihilation Art to destroy the six Star Controllers and their stars, then collected their Star Caskets.
• Zi Ye gave Star Caskets to Yun Heng and Tian Zi, who accepted them and promised to support him.
• Zi Ye teased Tian Zi about providing emotional value, and Tian Zi blushed and asked if he liked her.
• Yun Heng warned Zi Ye that Tian Zi was a Heaven Clan prodigy and cautioned him about angering her brother, Tian Lin, and the clan.

Zi Ye, Yun Heng, and Tian Zi discussed clan restrictions, the strength of Heaven Clan and Earth Clan prodigies, and how time passed differently across planes. The chapter ended with Yun Heng fearing that countless years might have passed in the Free Star Sea and that her family and friends believed she had vanished.

• Yun Heng warned Zi Ye to be careful of formidable enemies, and Zi Ye teased her about being jealous.
• Tian Zi explained that she could marry outside her clan if she defeated her older brother, and that nonroyals faced fewer restrictions.
• Tian Zi described royal prodigies whose Star Caskets had grown close to the strength of a Great Cosmic Heaven through years of competition.
• Tian Zi revealed that journeys to Star God Heaven could span thousands of years for outside realms, though travelers did not experience that time themselves.
• Yun Heng worried that a war might already have ended and that her parents and friends had spent countless years thinking she had vanished.

Zi Ye, Tian Zi, and Yun Heng faced a Blood Dragon Clan star controller and his star beast in the Fallen Star Valley. Zi Ye’s Star-Annihilating Technique destroyed the beast’s attacking arm, but the enraged enemy still threatened to unleash his clan’s extraordinary power.

• Yun Heng worried that the Free Star Sea might have changed or perished, while Zi Ye said he might have a way to address it after they finished their mission.
• The rebellious star controllers gathered around Zi Ye, Tian Zi, and Yun Heng, and a Blood Dragon Clan star controller sent a star beast crashing down at them.
• Zi Ye tore through the beast’s first attack and used his Star-Annihilating Technique to erase the enemy’s Star God Seats.
• The red-haired star controller attacked again, but his star beast’s claw was annihilated before it could reach Zi Ye.
• Tian Zi warned that the Blood Dragon Clan became far stronger when enraged and explained that other races deliberately kept its ranking low to provoke conflict.
• As the red-haired man realized Zi Ye had trapped him, Tian Zi began explaining the Blood Dragon Clan’s history while Zi Ye faced the attack.

Zi Ye used causality to unravel the Blood Dragon Clan captain’s Star Casket connections, destroying his Star Dragon and leaving him exposed as other Star Controllers surrounded Tian Zi and Yun Heng. The captain unleashed Dragon’s Wrath, but Zi Ye’s counterattack made the crimson stars vanish and caused the captain to burst apart in a spray of golden blood.

• Tian Zi explained the Blood Dragon Clan’s reputation for breeding with other races, and the captain angrily rebuked the group.
• Zi Ye exploited the Star God Seat’s vulnerability to causality, tangling the captain’s Star Casket connections and shattering the Star Dragon.
• The captain used Anger Explosion to turn his remaining stars crimson, while Tian Zi and Yun Heng prepared to hold off the approaching Star Controllers.
• The surrounding Star Controllers threatened Zi Ye’s group and argued over claiming Tian Zi and Yun Heng as breeding partners.
• Zi Ye made the crimson stars disappear, and the captain clutched his head before his blood blasted through his body and shattered his armor.

Zi Ye used a karmic star art to turn the Blood Dragon Clan captain’s rage against him, then destroyed enemy Star Caskets and gathered the spoils. He left with Yun Heng and Tian Zi greatly advanced in star points, while Tian Zi responded to his teasing with an unexpectedly sincere confession of embarrassment.

• Tian Zi and Yun Heng asked Zi Ye to teach them the karmic star art, and he teased them that they would have to master him first.
• Zi Ye unleashed the Star Annihilation Art, destroying enemy stars and devouring or injuring Star Masters whose powers relied on star augmentation.
• Zi Ye collected the Star Caskets, kept three, and split the other four between Yun Heng and Tian Zi.
• Zi Ye, Yun Heng, and Tian Zi discussed their gains, with Yun Heng exceeding two hundred star points and Zi Ye surpassing four hundred.
• Tian Zi explained that although she knew Zi Ye treated her well, deciding to offer herself to him all at once was too embarrassing.

After the culprit fled Fallen Star Valley, Zi Ye used the Star Casket and causality to track him across Star God Heaven. He found the former Great Cosmic Heaven fighting a gigantic land octopus, but her Star God Seat was disabled.

• A blast erupted in Fallen Star Valley, and Zi Ye suspected the mission’s culprit had fled after his lackeys were defeated.
• Zi Ye used the Star Casket to pursue the culprit while Yun Heng and Tian Zi stayed behind to search the valley for treasures and follow by stellar-number sensing.
• Zi Ye crossed hundreds of miles and sensed traces of stellar interference, confirming he had found the fugitive’s path.
• Zi Ye spotted the former Great Cosmic Heaven battling a huge land octopus that had disrupted her Star God Seat.
• The woman glanced toward Zi Ye as he watched and joked, “Fair lady, why have you turned to banditry?”

The narrator cornered Shui Qian and fought her while investigating the curse that kept her alive. After defeating the land octopus and restraining Shui Qian, the narrator learned that a Great Luotian had imposed Survival Retribution on her, but refused her offer to trade her secret for freedom.

• The narrator confronted Shui Qian and accused her of killing Star Lords who had come to hunt her.
• The narrator’s Star God Seat triggered karma that badly wounded Shui Qian, but she survived and began healing with a medicinal pill.
• The narrator switched to the Star-Slaying Art and killed the land octopus that had been fighting Shui Qian.
• The narrator subdued Shui Qian and asked who had placed the Undying Curse on her.
• Shui Qian identified the curse as a Great Luotian’s Survival Retribution and offered her secret in exchange for being released, but the narrator refused.

Zi Ye confronted Xue Wei after killing Shui Qian, whose secret tied her to Great Luotian. Xue Wei searched Zi Ye’s memories, maimed him, and summoned his teammates Yun Heng and Tian Zi to threaten him.

• Zi Ye killed Shui Qian after learning her secret concerned Xue Wei, and golden-red blood rain appeared where she had vanished.
• Xue Wei confronted Zi Ye and searched the memories he allowed her to see, but his true body’s memories counterattacked her.
• Xue Wei accused Zi Ye of pursuing Shui Qian for his own gain and threatened to erase him and the Cosmic Heaven Hall.
• Zi Ye defended his mission and questioned Xue Wei’s attack, but she erased both his legs.
• Xue Wei brought Yun Heng and Tian Zi to Zi Ye and used his concern for them to threaten him.

After Xue Wei attacked the narrator and erased their body, they used a hidden fallback to grow a new vessel from Ming Chu’s fetal breath. Ming Chu announced that she had an heir, shocking Cosmic Heaven Hall and drawing visitors from neighboring halls.

• Xue Wei struck Yun Heng with astral radiance, and the narrator rushed to help her but lost both hands to Xue Wei’s attacks.
• Xue Wei erased the narrator’s body, but the narrator revealed they had left a fallback in Void Ancestor’s outpost and confirmed that Tian Zi and Yun Heng had escaped.
• The narrator used Ming Chu’s vitality and an accelerated-time space in the Star Casket to gestate a new vessel and return to Star God Heaven.
• Ming Chu continued handling Cosmic Heaven Hall’s affairs while Yun Heng and Tian Zi returned and reported Zi Ye’s fall.
• Ming Chu announced that she had an heir, shocking Cosmic Heaven Hall and prompting Great Cosmic Heavens from neighboring halls to arrange visits.

Xia Ye arrived at Star God Heaven in a disguised body, carrying Zi Ye’s Star Casket and revealing his ability to rearrange its Star God Seat himself. As he headed to the Star Arts Bureau, Tian Zi questioned his identity and defended Zi Ye, while the watching Star Bearers treated Xia Ye as a potential young hall master.

• Xia Ye met Tian Zi and Ming Chu after reaching the Great Luotian realm and took up Zi Ye’s Yuan Heaven-grade Star Casket.
• Ming Chu asked Tian Zi to show Xia Ye around, and Xia Ye reproduced and began rearranging the Star God Seat without using the Star Artifact Bureau.
• Tian Zi suspected Xia Ye was Zi Ye, but Xia Ye refused to confirm it and learned that Yun Heng was still in seclusion.
• Tian Lin and Earth Clan leaders watched Xia Ye as Star Bearers regarded him as a potential young hall master.
• Xia Ye entered the Star Arts Bureau, where Star Bearers gave way to him and female Star Bearers gossiped about Tian Zi’s feelings for him.
• Tian Zi angrily ordered the other female Star Bearers to be quiet.

The narrator returned to the Star Arts Bureau with Tian Zi and used its star-track instrument to expand and refine Star Annihilation Art. The narrator left the deduction with a stronger stellar arrangement but still needed more stars and greater power to reach Great Luotian and confront Xue Wei.

• Di Gou and the other Star Masters mocked Tian Zi, but the narrator calmed them by promising to socialize with them later.
• The narrator sat down at the familiar formation and used the Star Arts Bureau’s instrument to deduce a more complete arrangement for Star Annihilation Art.
• The expanded Star God Seats stunned the Star Masters, who called back their companions to witness the narrator’s progress.
• The narrator stopped before pushing the star-track instrument beyond its limits and concluded that further advances required many more stars.
• The narrator resolved to pursue Great Luotian-level power and investigate Xue Wei’s strength.

Xia Ye asked how to acquire stars quickly and learned that the Cosmic Heaven Halls would offer stars as rewards for battles before the grand contest. After drawing attention from female Star Controllers, he was confronted by Yun Heng, who challenged him over Zi Ye’s Star Casket.

• Xia Ye asked Tian Zi how to obtain stars quickly, and Di Gou explained that the halls would offer surplus stars as battle rewards.
• Di Ju rebuked Di Gou for speaking to Xia Ye, and Tian Zi questioned why Di Gou had acted so deferentially.
• Xia Ye teased Tian Zi about having children, making her angry, then left her behind.
• Female Star Controllers crowded around Xia Ye, praising him and inviting him to visit their estates.
• Yun Heng challenged Xia Ye to fight for Zi Ye’s Star Casket, and Tian Zi hurried to question her.