Chapter Summaries

After killing Old Monster Tangtou, the narrator destroyed the Child Spirit fragment and began collecting the Blood Lake’s treasures. When the returning Star Controllers challenged the narrator’s claim to the lake, the standoff escalated as Soul-Eating Beasts charged and the Star Casket sealed their Star God Seats.

• The narrator used the Magnetic Aurora to destroy the fragment containing the Child Spirit’s spiritual intelligence and annihilate it.
• The Great Cosmic Heavens returned and demanded a share of the Blood Lake’s treasures, but the narrator offered them only the scattered materials outside it.
• Yun Heng, Tian Zi, and Di Gou arrived, and the narrator ordered Tian Zi to collect the lake’s treasures while the others guarded against the Star Controllers.
• Some Great Cosmic Heavens backed down and gathered scraps, but six others chose to summon the Soul-Eating Beasts.
• The narrator struck down a Great Cosmic Heaven who tried to conceal himself, and the Soul-Eating Beasts tore him apart.
• The narrator unfolded the Star Casket and used the Star-Destroying Art to seal the remaining Great Cosmic Heavens’ Star God Seats.

Xia Ye destroyed the Great Origin Heavens who threatened him and led the spirit-eating beasts away so his allies could gather treasures. After returning to the blood lake, he fought off Tang Tou Mountain’s forces and reunited with Tian Zi and the others, but they still could not explain who had broken the Spirit-Eating Seat’s formation.

• Xia Ye canceled his Star God Seat projection to let the spirit-eating beasts annihilate the Great Origin Heavens, then drew the beasts away from the blood lake while Di Gou and the others gathered treasures.
• Xia Ye used the Void Heaven Star Seat to sweep away the pursuing spirit-eating beasts and returned to find Tian Zi, Di Gou, Yun Heng, and the Star Masters missing.
• A dozen unfamiliar Great Origin Heavens revealed they had killed Xia Ye’s allies and tried to surround him, but Xia Ye destroyed their Star God Seats and defeated them.
• Xia Ye sensed that Tian Zi and the others were still alive, waited for them to return, and heard Tian Zi praise him for uprooting Tang Tou Mountain’s forces.
• Yun Heng and Di Gou questioned how the Spirit-Eating Seat’s formation had been broken, and Xia Ye concluded that Old Monster Tang Tou might not have been the true culprit.

The narrator and Yun Heng, Tian Zi, and Di Gou decided to seek an escape through the Seat of Cosmic Death, then the narrator revealed that they were Zi Ye reborn in Ming Chu's body. Yun Heng recognized Zi Ye and Tian Zi was left stunned by the truth.

• The narrator explained that the group could travel between connected minor Forbidden Vaults, and they chose to head for the Seat of Cosmic Death despite its danger.
• The narrator shared rubbings of their star arts with Yun Heng, Tian Zi, and Di Gou, and Yun Heng noticed their resemblance to Zi Ye's.
• The narrator showed Yun Heng a memory of their time together, convincing her that the narrator was Zi Ye.
• The narrator explained that Ming Chu had helped reshape their body after Zi Ye was erased, and Yun Heng embraced them in relief.
• Tian Zi arrived and questioned the narrator's identity, and Yun Heng confirmed that the narrator was Zi Ye reborn.

Zi Ye revealed his identity to Tian Zi and Yun Heng, then promised to help Yun Heng reunite with her friends from the Free Star Sea. After Di Gou clashed with Yun Heng, Zi Ye transported the group to the Great Rift leading to the Cosmic Extinction Seat, leaving them exhausted at its entrance.

• Zi Ye told Tian Zi and Yun Heng about his encounter with Great Luotian, and they accepted that he was alive and had concealed his identity as Xia Ye.
• Yun Heng said she still hoped to reunite with her Free Star Sea friends, and Zi Ye and Tian Zi promised to help her reach them.
• Di Gou accused the others of excluding her and argued with Yun Heng over their different races, while Tian Zi tried to prevent a fight.
• Zi Ye unfolded the Star God Seat and transported the group across the Spirit-Eating Seat for about a day, exhausting the three women.
• Zi Ye pointed out the Great Rift leading to the Cosmic Extinction Seat after the group reached the passage marked on the map.

Xia Ye and Yun Heng, Di Gou, and Tian Zi discovered that the apparent Cosmic Destruction Seat entrance was the body of a colossal beast, whose lightning-linked water dissolved anything that entered it. Xia Ye used Old Monster Tangtou’s Star-Thunder Cloud Leaf to descend through the water, but the beast rolled over and flung them out of its body, leaving them farther from their destination.

• Xia Ye stopped Yun Heng from entering the water and showed the group how it dissolved a Spirit-Eating Beast corpse.
• Xia Ye identified the connected rivers and lightning-cloud veins as parts of a colossal living creature.
• After scouting for two days, Xia Ye concluded that the beast had blocked the spatial breach and that the route to the Cosmic Destruction Seat lay underwater.
• Xia Ye used Old Monster Tangtou’s Star-Thunder Cloud Leaf to descend through the water, replenishing its power with lightning from above.
• The giant beast rolled over, tossing Xia Ye and the three beauties around inside the vessel before flinging them out of its body.

After escaping the giant beast, the group entered an uncharted stone forest to wash and dry their clothes. The forest attacked them with hidden, fast-moving threats, and the chapter ended with Di Gou injured by a vine that began growing inside her body.

• The group landed safely after the flower bud burst, and I led them away from the giant beast to a concealed rocky area.
• I dried my clothes while the women searched for places to change, then cries rang out from different directions.
• I teleported to Di Gou and redirected beams of light, then found no sign of Tian Zi at the place where she had cried out.
• I and Yun Heng linked our Star God Seats and detected hidden attackers racing around the stone forest.
• The living vines attacked the group, and I severed Di Gou's arm after a vine pierced it and began growing inside her.

Xia Ye rescued Yun Heng and Di Gou from the wood spirits in the Heavenly Grass Constellation and followed Tian Zi’s causal line. He met a young Star Holder who claimed their companions were safe and warned that Child Spirits filled the sky.

• Xia Ye used Heaven-Earth Origin Suppression to escape the wood spirits’ attack, then found Di Gou, who had lost an arm, and told her to leave the Stone Forest.
• Xia Ye rescued Yun Heng from teleporting wood spirits, and she explained that she had cut off her foot to stop them from invading her body.
• Xia Ye erased the wood spirits’ borrowed Star God Seat powers, then brought Yun Heng to Di Gou and told them to shut down their Star God Seats and share his instead.
• Xia Ye followed Tian Zi’s causal line and said she had likely been rescued, though she had shut down her Star Casket after the wood spirits read her bodily information.
• A young Star Holder approached Xia Ye and the others; after they shut down their Star Caskets, he led them onward and identified the place as the Heavenly Grass Constellation.
• The young Star Holder warned Xia Ye, Yun Heng, and Di Gou that Child Spirits covered the sky and that they needed to band together.

Xia Ye rejected Jun Che’s group’s offer to travel together and reunited with Tian Zi, despite warnings that Sky Grass Seeds would turn outsiders into Wood Spirits. After failing to sense any chance of escape from the Heavenly Grass Constellation, he was left without a clear way out.

• A young man warned Yun Heng, Di Gou, and Xia Ye that Sky Grass Seeds could transform them into Child Spirits, but Xia Ye refused to seek help from the group’s Venerable.
• Yun Heng and Di Gou chose to follow Xia Ye, and he used a flash to bring them to Tian Zi and Jun Che’s group.
• Jun Che offered to take them in, but Di Gou refused, saying they had come only to retrieve Tian Zi and leave with Xia Ye.
• Jun Che let them go and ordered Jifeng to give Yun Heng a travel pass before her group departed.
• After Tian Zi questioned their refusal to join the group, Xia Ye searched for a way out with Heaven-Earth Origin Suppression but sensed no opportunity.

Xia Ye concluded that the group was trapped in the Heavenly Grass Constellation and devised a plan to provoke the Child Spirit into challenging the Heavenly Dao. He began investigating the Sky Grass seeds and left his companions wondering how he would spur the Child Spirit without letting the Sky Grass escape its restraints.

• Xia Ye explained that the route back through the Star-Sea Thunder Abyss had been cut off, leaving the group unable to return.
• Yun Heng suggested seeking help from the people at the Star-Sea Thunder Abyss, but Di Gou objected, and Xia Ye argued that the Heavenly Dao had sealed off outside interference to maintain balance.
• Xia Ye proposed provoking the Child Spirit into challenging the Heavenly Dao so the resulting disruption might create a way out.
• Xia Ye gathered Sky Grass seeds and tested how they absorbed energy, then suspected that a forbidden formation or other force was restraining them.
• Di Gou warned that releasing the Sky Grass could bring grave consequences, while Tian Zi urged Xia Ye not to let it escape.
• Xia Ye clarified that he only intended to make the Child Spirit challenge the Heavenly Dao from within the forbidden formation, and his companions asked how he would do it.

Xia Ye modified a hamster infected by Sky Grass, turning it into an independent new kind of Sky Grass that could absorb and weaken the original seeds. He predicted it would spread across the Heavenly Grass Constellation and bring about a change of dynasties.

• Xia Ye led Di Gou, Tian Zi, and Yun Heng to a forest where Sky Grass had infected the local ecosystem without killing its inhabitants.
• Xia Ye drew the infected hamster onto his hand and used time manipulation and other powers to alter its body and meridians.
• The modified hamster absorbed Sky Grass seeds and released energy that caused nearby Sky Grass to wither.
• Xia Ye explained that the hamster had become a new kind of Sky Grass, capable of spreading through the ecosystem and eventually across the Heavenly Grass Constellation.

Xia Ye spread a virus that severed Sky Grass’s control over infected creatures and used Star Caskets to trigger mutations across the Heavenly Grass Constellation. As the epidemic spread, Xia Ye revealed that the true Sky Grass Child Spirit was reacting with a violent surge of energy.

• Xia Ye used Heaven-Earth Origin Suppression to observe karma spreading as the virus passed among star beasts and birds.
• Xia Ye said the infected wood spirits and altered Sky Grass seeds could spread the virus without affecting creatures not parasitized by Sky Grass.
• Yun Heng opened her Star Casket, drawing out wood spirits that became independent or infected as the virus spread.
• Tian Zi and Di Gou realized the Star Caskets could accelerate mutations within the infected zone, and they offered to help spread the virus.
• Xia Ye warned that the group would anger the true Sky Grass Child Spirit, then showed them a confrontation between two Sky Grass plants amid a violent energy surge.

Xia Ye watched the virus spread through the Sky Grass, where red seeds consumed infected seeds before evolving into purple ones that devoured indiscriminately. After several days, Xia Ye and the others reached a ruined outpost and met infected Star Masters, including Jun Che, who had been waiting for them.

• Xia Ye explained how Child Spirits could be reborn and used the hamster to create a rival force of Sky Grass that clashed with the infected seeds.
• Red Sky Grass seeds absorbed and expelled infected seeds, then turned purple and began devouring diseased, normal, and red seeds alike.
• Tian Zi, Yun Heng, and Di Gou discussed the Heavenly Grass Constellation’s natural struggle for survival and the risks Star Masters faced by fusing with it.
• Xia Ye and the others found star beasts fighting in the distance, some armored and able to draw on the Heavenly Grass Constellation’s power.
• Several days later, Xia Ye and the others reached a ruined outpost, where infected Star Masters rose from the woods and Jun Che asked why they had arrived so late.

Xia Ye defeated Jun Che and six other Sky Grass-transformed Star Controllers, then fled with Tian Zi, Yun Heng, and Di Gou as a Great Cosmic Heaven pursued them. They reached the Heaven-Earth Origin Suppression marker, where the pursuer appeared and obliterated the surrounding landscape.

• Jun Che and six other Star Controllers surrounded Xia Ye and his companions, but Xia Ye destroyed them with the Void Heaven Star Position and the Star-Extinguishing Art.
• Xia Ye collected the fallen Star Caskets and sensed a Great Cosmic Heaven approaching, so he teleported away with Tian Zi, Yun Heng, and Di Gou.
• Xia Ye led the group toward the Heaven-Earth Origin Suppression marker, wagering that they might find help or another dangerous enemy there.
• After eleven transfers, Xia Ye and his companions found only mountains and vegetation, until a Great Cosmic Heaven in a Cosmic Heaven Star Robe appeared before them.
• The Great Cosmic Heaven mocked the group and swept away the surrounding vegetation, animals, and everything else in sight.

Xia Ye and the three women were trapped by Great Cosmic Heaven Zhi Chong, but Xia Ye used a hidden backdoor in the Sky Grass Seeds to escape his attack. Another Great Cosmic Heaven struck Zhi Chong down, then confronted Xia Ye, who invoked Star Ancestor Great Luotian’s name to protect himself.

• Great Cosmic Heaven overwhelmed Xia Ye’s Star God Seat and offered to make him and the three women vassals in place of Jun Che.
• Xia Ye activated the Void Heaven Star Seat and ignited the modified Sky Grass Seeds inside Zhi Chong, disrupting his star map and creating an opening to flee.
• Ten thousand streaks of cyan lightning struck Zhi Chong and erased him before Xia Ye could escape.
• A second Great Cosmic Heaven descended and asked how Xia Ye had detected him and ignited the Sky Grass Seeds.
• Xia Ye claimed Star Ancestor Great Luotian had guided the plan and presented his Star Casket as proof.
• The second Great Cosmic Heaven accepted Xia Ye’s claim and collected the items Zhi Chong had dropped.

Xia Ye confronted Ying Mu, who demanded the star-technique rubbing, the star artifact, and his three companions. Xia Ye used the Star Casket and a bluff about his connection to the Star Ancestor to secure their escape, then hinted that the rubbing might not be what Ying Mu expected.

• Ying Mu ordered Xia Ye to copy his star technique and surrender the Star Casket, other karmically connected items, and his three female companions.
• Xia Ye swept the three women into the Star Casket and warned Ying Mu that the Star Ancestor could summon him back if he did not return by the deadline.
• Xia Ye gave Ying Mu the star-technique rubbing but refused to hand over the star artifact, warning that taking karmically connected items could draw the Star Ancestor's attention.
• Ying Mu revealed his name, took the rubbing, and left; Xia Ye released Tian Zi and the others after concealing their karmic traces.
• Xia Ye told the women he had no karmic connection to the Star Ancestor and had deceived Ying Mu, then questioned whether the rubbing would truly benefit him.

Xia Ye teased Yun Heng, Di Gou, and Tian Zi about the effects of his star-arts rubbings and explained that Reflective Curtain Great Cosmic Heaven might face trouble if he copied one. As the Heavenly Grass Constellation descended into chaos, Xia Ye found a promising opportunity and gave Tian Zi a Little Ascension Star Ferry, making the other women jealous.

• Xia Ye revealed that his star-arts rubbings had affected the women’s emotional attachment to him, then hinted that Reflective Curtain Great Cosmic Heaven would be in danger if he copied his rubbing.
• Xia Ye planned to leave as the Heavenly Grass Constellation split into factions and explained that the sealed Great Child Spirit had reached the level of Da Chuling.
• Xia Ye searched for a crack in the Heavenly Dao and told the women to wait while other powers fought over the emerging opportunity.
• Xia Ye spotted an opportunity in the depths of the Sky Grass Seed Cloud Sea and summoned a Little Ascension Star Ferry to take them there.
• After Tian Zi recognized the ferry, Xia Ye gave it to her, and Di Gou and Yun Heng looked at her with jealousy.

Xia Ye and the three women traveled to Jadefall Gorge to seek treasures in its dangerous Shattered Jade Land while the two Sky Grass factions approached a cataclysmic transformation. Their concealed ship passed among enormous star beasts until a giant bird suddenly attacked.

• Xia Ye gave Yun Heng and Di Gou auxiliary star artifacts and assigned them to calculate opportunities and karma.
• The group reached Jadefall Gorge and discussed its star beasts, treasures, and the Shattered Jade Land.
• Xia Ye persuaded the women to enter the Shattered Jade Land before the Sky Grass factions’ transformation made the region even more dangerous.
• Tian Zi piloted the concealed Lesser Vehicle Star Ferry through the gorge as the group passed giant star beasts.
• A gigantic bird swooped down on the ship.

After the Lesser Vehicle Star Ferry escaped a giant bird, Xia Ye and the others admired the starry sky before reaching the eerie Land of Shattered Jade. They learned that dying star beasts transformed into Sky Grass and spotted a colossal beast covered in growing plants, whose changing fruit drew Di Gou toward it.

• Tian Zi used the Lesser Vehicle Star Ferry's teleportation to evade a giant bird, then explained that the vessel was Great Cosmic Heaven's Star Robe.
• Xia Ye admitted that he liked Tian Zi and Di Gou, while Yun Heng teased him and joined them in a playful tussle aboard the ship.
• The group saw the sea of stars above the green Sky Grass seeds, and Tian Zi briefly stopped piloting the ferry as she admired the view.
• After landing in the Land of Shattered Jade, Tian Zi explained that the crystalline tree mounds were star-beast corpses transformed by Sky Grass seeds.
• Xia Ye revealed a colossal star beast crawling through the mist with Sky Grass growing across its body, and Di Gou flew toward its brightly colored fruit.

Xia Ye and the others gathered mutated fruits from a dying Star Beast, but the concentrated energy caused dangerous side effects that Xia Ye had to counteract. After he treated the three women, several other Star Controllers arrived nearby, leaving the group on alert.

• Yun Heng, Di Gou, Tian Zi, and Xia Ye refined fruits growing from the Star Beast after it had transformed into Sky Grass.
• Xia Ye found strings of Blood Pulp Fruits parasitizing the Star Beast, and pulling out the plants caused the beast to collapse and die.
• The fruits’ energy made Yun Heng, Di Gou, and Tian Zi lose control, so Xia Ye restrained them and gave them a bitter antidote to neutralize the side effects.
• Hearing whistles, Xia Ye hid the group’s energy aura and warned the women that other Star Controllers were approaching.
• More than a dozen Star Controllers emerged from the darkness and gathered on a nearby stretch of ground.

The narrator and his companions hid from a search party of Star Controllers, but three Great Cosmic Heavens discovered them and blocked their escape. As the group pleaded that they were not Zhichong’s followers, the Great Cosmic Heavens smiled at them.

• The narrator concealed himself, Yun Heng, Di Gou, and Tian Zi beneath star beast hide as Star Controllers searched the area.
• A Star Controller spotted origin power in the dried fruit remnants and began searching for survivors from Zhichong’s stronghold.
• The searchers were distracted by a Star-Faced Armored Beast, which a Great Cosmic Heaven killed.
• The narrator sensed danger and teleported with the women, but a Great Cosmic Heaven blocked their escape and stopped another’s blood-thread attack.
• The narrator escaped a second attack with the Star-Dipper Divine Wind, only to find two Great Cosmic Heavens blocking the way.
• Tian Zi pleaded that they were not Zhichong’s followers, and the three Great Cosmic Heavens smiled at them.