Chapter Summaries

Xia Ye and the others encountered a Star Marrow Descended from Heaven who controlled the spacetime and revealed that they could not leave. He recreated the grand competition arena around them, and Xia Ye concluded they were trapped in a shared dream.

• A mysterious man appeared behind Xia Ye and the others, revealing that he had watched them since they entered his spacetime.
• The man identified himself as a Star Marrow Descended from Heaven and explained that he shared in the power of the entire spacetime.
• Xia Ye realized the man had made the Heavenly Dao his own, while Yun Heng and Di Gou pleaded to return to Star God Heaven.
• The man recreated the grand competition arena and filled it with convincing Star Masters who demanded that Xia Ye's group compete.
• Tian Zi recognized the arena from his own competition, and Xia Ye told the others they were inside a shared dream.

Xia Ye broke free of Ember Frost’s dream control, took control of his body, and revealed the truth to Yun Heng, Tian Zi, and Di Gou. The group learned that Ember Frost came from Star God Heaven and had been investigating Great Luotian, though his path to becoming Great Luotian remained uncertain.

• Xia Ye connected to his true body’s consciousness, erased the control over him, and seized Ember Frost’s body.
• Ember Frost attacked Yun Heng, but her Star Annihilation Art and the attacks from Tian Zi and Di Gou failed against his power.
• Xia Ye revealed himself and explained that he had been teasing the women, then recounted how he had swallowed Ember Frost’s consciousness.
• Xia Ye told the group that Ember Frost was a native of Star God Heaven whose parents had been erased by Great Luotian, prompting his investigation.
• Xia Ye explained that Ember Frost had the foundation to pursue Great Luotian, but that his success was far from assured.

Xia Ye explained that becoming a Great Luotian was nearly impossible for ordinary Star Controllers, then gave Jin Shuang’s Star Marrow to Tian Zi after she proved uniquely able to sense and control it. Tian Zi absorbed it and became a successor to Jin Shuang, while Yun Heng and Di Gou watched enviously.

• Di Gou asked whether Xia Ye’s example meant the others had little chance of becoming Great Luotians, and he said they would need an extraordinary opportunity.
• Xia Ye had Jin Shuang release his multicolored Star Marrow and explained that it was his opportunity to reach a higher level.
• Tian Zi sensed the Star Marrow’s connection to time and space, and Xia Ye said the Heaven Clan alone could refine it.
• Xia Ye gave the Star Marrow to Tian Zi and explained that Jin Shuang had obtained it through betrayal and wrongdoing.
• Tian Zi controlled the Star Marrow through a spiritual connection and absorbed it, becoming both a Heaven Clan member and a member of the Star Marrow Descent race.
• Tian Zi sensed temporal and spatial power surging toward her, while Yun Heng and Di Gou connected her transformation to the magic cube and watched enviously.

Xia Ye helped Tian Zi inherit Jin Shuang’s power by connecting her to the stars and activating Jin Shuang’s Star Casket. As Tian Zi prepared to open a star gate, a mysterious explosion revealed that they had triggered Great Luotian-level karma, and Xia Ye ordered everyone to flee.

• Xia Ye reassured Yun Heng and Di Gou that their own great opportunities would come, then led the group back toward Star God Heaven.
• Tian Zi used the Star Marrow to connect with the stars and reshape the spacetime of the Heavenly Grass Constellation.
• Xia Ye gave Tian Zi Jin Shuang’s star-art imprint, and she activated Jin Shuang’s Star Casket using her exceptional adaptability.
• A violent explosion shook heaven and earth as Tian Zi prepared to open a star gate.
• Xia Ye failed to calculate what had happened, recognized a Great Luotian-level karmic trigger, and urged Tian Zi to use the magic cube to escape while he rushed Yun Heng and Di Gou to her.

Xia Ye escaped Ming Tian’s shadow with Tian Zi, Yun Heng, and Di Gou, but discovered black flames ravaging Jadefall Gorge and decided to take the Rubik’s Cube to Jiao Bai. As a stellar formation trapped the group, Xia Ye contacted Jiao Bai and claimed he had found a route to Star God Heaven.

• Xia Ye shoved the three women through a spatial gate and escaped Ming Tian’s shadow into the Heavenly Grass Constellation.
• The group saw black flames consuming Jadefall Gorge, and Yun Heng identified the Gluttonous Star Dragon as the likely cause.
• Xia Ye refused to return the Rubik’s Cube and led the others toward the ancestral land, intending to deliver it to Jiao Bai.
• Tian Zi spotted a stellar formation surrounding the group, and Xia Ye asked her to use Jin Shuang’s Star Casket to escape.
• Xia Ye contacted Jiao Bai through the Life-Link Insect and claimed he had obtained a cube box containing a passage to Star God Heaven.

Xia Ye and Tian Zi raced toward the Children Spirits’ ancestral land with the formation disk while the Star-Glutton Dragon pursued them. Jiao Bai ordered Xia Ye to lure the dragon to the sea of stardew, leaving Xia Ye wary that he might be caught in Jiao Bai’s plan.

• Jiao Bai told Xia Ye to return to the ancestral land and keep the formation disk safe, even at the cost of his body.
• Xia Ye and his companions hurried toward the core ancestral land as the Star-Glutton Dragon tracked them through the darkness.
• Di Gou and Yun Heng struggled with the ancestral land’s oppressive aura, while Tian Zi chose to stay outside and guide the Little Vehicle Star Ferry up Fallen Gorge Peak.
• After they entered the ancestral land, Jiao Bai asked whether the Star-Glutton Dragon had followed them, and Xia Ye pretended to have just discovered it.
• Jiao Bai told Xia Ye to lead the dragon to the sea of stardew and claimed it would not escape, making Xia Ye fear that Jiao Bai’s scheme could endanger him too.

Xia Ye questioned Jiao Bai about the Star Formation Rubik’s Cube and the danger of provoking the Dragon Ancestor, then entered the Star Dew Sea with Tian Zi. Long Yi and Xue Chi intercepted them to take Xia Ye to Jiao Bai, while a terrifying force began spreading through the Heavenly Grass Constellation.

• Xia Ye warned Jiao Bai that killing the Greedy Star Dragon and taking the cube might draw the Dragon Ancestor’s wrath, and Jiao Bai admitted that the ancestral land’s upheaval could bring the Old Ancestor back early.
• Xia Ye and Tian Zi traveled through the Star Dew Sea, where Tian Zi sensed two approaching figures.
• Xue Chi demanded the cube, and Xia Ye handed it to Long Yi and Xue Chi, who ordered him to come see Jiao Bai.
• Tian Zi sensed the Greedy Star Dragon watching them as Long Yi and Xue Chi pressured Xia Ye to go with them.
• Xia Ye used Heaven-Earth Origin Suppression and sensed a terrifying force spreading through the Heavenly Grass Constellation, suggesting the First Spirit of Sky Grass had been resurrected.

Xia Ye and Tian Zi entered the Star Dew Sea with Xue Chi and Long Yi, where they encountered signs of a wider assault and learned that the Gluttonous Star Dragon was probing the area with black rain. Their journey was interrupted when Gou Huan appeared and attacked Long Yi, Xue Chi, and the others with Nine-Star Netherfall.

• Xia Ye brought Tian Zi into the Star Dew Sea after Xue Chi agreed to let her accompany them.
• Xia Ye, Tian Zi, Xue Chi, and Long Yi heard fighting across the region as mutated Child Spirits and other forces sought entry to the ancestral land.
• Long Yi warned Tian Zi that the Gluttonous Star Dragon's black rain could track anyone it touched, then tried to persuade her to leave Xia Ye and join his faction.
• Tian Zi refused Long Yi's offer and declared that her life belonged to Xia Ye.
• Gou Huan suddenly appeared, smashed Long Yi into the ground, and attacked the group with Nine-Star Netherfall.

Long Yi and Xue Chi fought Gou Huan while Tian Zi used the Heavenly Evolution Illusory Star to deceive him and help Xia Ye escape. Jiao Bai brought Xia Ye and Tian Zi before Da Chuling, where Tian Zi’s illusion made Jiao Bai’s Tarsal Bug disappear.

• Long Yi blasted Gou Huan’s shadow with Starblood Dragon Pearls, but Xue Chi warned that Gou Huan was still alive.
• Tian Zi revealed that they had been inside the Heavenly Evolution Illusory Star’s range, and Gou Huan fled after mistaking an illusion of Xia Ye for the real target.
• Tian Zi carried Xia Ye toward the depths of the Star Dew Sea while Gou Huan, Long Yi, and Xue Chi fought over the illusion.
• Jiao Bai crushed Xia Ye’s Life-Bound Bug from afar, then transported Xia Ye and Tian Zi to an underground palace where Da Chuling waited.
• Jiao Bai offered a Tarsal Bug to control Tian Zi, but she led it into an illusion and made it vanish, enraging him.

Da Chuling suppressed the Gluttonous Star Dragon and transformed it into Sky Grass, while Xia Ye and Tian Zi realized they were trapped and that the aliens intended to infiltrate Star God Heaven. The chapter ended with Da Chuling waiting after the battle as the situation suddenly changed.

• Da Chuling confirmed Xia Ye and Tian Zi were not under outside control, then took the star-array cube from Jiao Bai.
• A giant black dragon claw attacked the cube, but Da Chuling stopped it and dragged the Gluttonous Star Dragon down, flattening the surrounding mountains.
• Xia Ye and Tian Zi tried to escape but discovered Da Chuling had trapped them, and Jiao Bai explained that only she could send them back to Star God Heaven.
• Da Chuling transformed the Gluttonous Star Dragon into Sky Grass, and Xia Ye concluded she was hiding her continued presence in the Heavenly Grass Constellation while preparing to infiltrate Star God Heaven.
• Da Chuling waited with the cube as Xia Ye and Tian Zi stood nearby, and the situation suddenly changed.

Da Chuling used the Rubik’s Cube to bring the Sky Grass-controlled Star Controllers back to Star God Heaven, where Xia Ye and Tian Zi realized the effortless return was suspicious. Da Chuling then infected them and the others with Sky Grass, leaving the group trapped in a larger crisis.

• Da Chuling transported the transformed Star Controllers to the transit station and opened a vortex to Star God Heaven.
• Jiao Bai ordered the Star Controllers to return to their Cosmic Heaven Halls and await the True Spirit’s summons.
• Xia Ye and Tian Zi questioned why Dragon Ancestor had not tried to stop their return, but Jiao Bai ordered them to leave.
• Da Chuling sent green light into Xia Ye and Tian Zi, planting Sky Grass seeds in them before disappearing with the other Star Controllers.
• Jiao Bai warned Xia Ye through the Shared Fate Worm that everyone returning to Star God Heaven had been planted with a Sky Grass seed.
• Xia Ye released Yun Heng and Di Gou from the Star Casket and discovered they had also been transformed by Sky Grass.

Xia Ye and the others traveled to Central City, hoping to find a way to preserve Tian Zi’s Emberfrost Star Casket and discover opportunities for Di Gou and Yun Heng. After arriving, they visited the Star God Seats, where they unexpectedly encountered someone familiar.

• Xia Ye insisted they go to Central City to protect Tian Zi’s Emberfrost Star Casket, and Di Gou offered to help them find a solution there.
• Tian Zi unfolded the Lesser Vehicle Star Ferry, and the group traveled to Central City without consulting the Great Forbidden Treasury map again.
• The group arrived in Central City and admired its islands, rainbow bridges, and Star God Seats, which displayed rankings and information about the Cosmic Heaven Halls.
• Tian Zi explained that Star Caskets revealed different information at the Star God Seats depending on their level, and the group headed toward the shorter steles.
• Xia Ye and the others unexpectedly ran into someone familiar before reaching the Star God Seats.

Xia Ye reunited with Ying Li at the Star Position Stele and learned why Star Controllers needed allies in the competition grounds. Tian Zi discovered she ranked near the top of the Star Power Ranking, drawing unwanted attention as the group prepared to leave.

• Xia Ye pulled Ying Li away from a Star Controller who tried to shove him, then argued that he had rescued her rather than abducted her.
• Mo Xu urged Xia Ye and his companions to join forces, warning that visitors who obtained valuable goods could be targeted, but Xia Ye chose to rely on his own group.
• Xia Ye and his companions examined the Star Position Stele, where Tian Zi found herself ranked second on the Star Power Ranking.
• Di Gou explained that the ranking reflected racial potential and could attract the favor of powerful Cosmic Heavens or even the Great Luotian.
• Di Gou urged Xia Ye's group to leave before their discussion drew more attention.

Xia Ye and the others visited Central City’s auction house to browse treasures and prepare their own listings, discussing racial mutations and the value of their accumulated wealth. Back at the Star Rank Stele, Tian Zi checked her stats and realized they were far higher than she remembered.

• Yun Heng wondered whether any racial trait surpassed Tian Zi’s Star Marrow Descends from Heaven, and Xia Ye reassured her that the group could help her find opportunities.
• Yun Heng urged everyone to visit the auction house, and Xia Ye agreed after Di Gou suggested they exchange their collected treasures for spending points first.
• The group paid to access the auction system and learned how consignments, membership ranks, and transaction points worked.
• Xia Ye and the others discussed the Star Caskets and treasure they had exchanged for wealth, including Jin Shuang’s fortune, which made up most of Xia Ye’s assets.
• After handling their auction pages, the group returned to the Star Rank Stele, where Tian Zi said her stats looked much higher than before.

The group compared their essence-force values and browsed the Star Artifact Bureau auction house for ways to strengthen their racial talents. They learned that mutation-enhancing treasures likely came from the star marrow of dead mutated Star Controllers, leaving Tian Zi frightened by the attention her own rare traits attracted.

• Tian Zi revealed her essence-force exceeded three million points, while Yun Heng and Di Gou compared their much lower totals and worried about the grand competition.
• The narrator reassured Yun Heng and Di Gou that their Star Caskets, astral artifacts, and formations mattered in a fight, then opened the auction house so they could seek improvements.
• Di Gou spotted an auction for racial talent enhancement, but the group balked at its fifty-million-Starcoin price.
• The narrator explained that such treasures likely came from mutated Star Controllers, citing Imperial Star Heavenly Marrow and its suitability for races like Jin Shuang's.
• Yun Heng questioned what happened to the original Star Controllers, and Di Gou suggested their star marrow had been extracted after their deaths.
• Di Gou warned Tian Zi that her rare mutation could make her a target, and Tian Zi realized the surrounding gazes might have been directed at her.

Xia Ye bought a mysterious multicolored Star Marrow and revealed that it was a tangled Great Luotian inheritance that could transform its inheritor. After Yun Heng and Di Gou failed to unravel it, Yun Heng urged Xia Ye to possess someone and solve it, and Xia Ye warned that doing so would have serious side effects.

• Xia Ye bought the unknown multicolored Star Marrow for fifty million despite Tian Zi, Di Gou, and Yun Heng warning that it might be unusable.
• Xia Ye collected the Star Marrow and explained that its seventy-four million thread ends had to be restored and rearranged to suit its inheritor.
• Xia Ye asked Yun Heng to solve the tangled Star Marrow, but Yun Heng refused and Di Gou also struggled with it.
• After a day of failure, Yun Heng begged Xia Ye to use his special ability, but Xia Ye said the inheritance would attach to whoever unraveled it.
• Yun Heng suggested that Xia Ye possess her or someone else, and Xia Ye said it was possible but would cause serious side effects.

Xia Ye used Yun Heng's body to unravel and initialize the Star Marrow, then tried to make it accept Yun Heng's control. The Star Marrow revealed an aged consciousness attempting to take over the body, and Xia Ye's true self intervened to seize control.

• Yun Heng agreed to switch souls with Xia Ye and went with her behind a tree, while Tian Zi and Di Gou waited nearby.
• After the switch, Yun Heng laughed at Xia Ye's warning about being exposed, then ran off to prank the others using Xia Ye's body.
• Xia Ye cleared Yun Heng's meridian blockages, untangled her Star God Seat, and revised her Star Arts while Yun Heng's body was under her control.
• Xia Ye untangled and initialized the multicolored Star Marrow, then connected its pathways to Yun Heng's body.
• The Star Marrow's pathways surged forward and an aged voice announced it would come back to life and claim the body.
• Xia Ye connected her true self's consciousness and seized control before the Star Marrow's consciousness could take over.

After erasing Kindling’s consciousness, the narrator learned that Kindling had hidden the Heavenly Marrow in the great forbidden cache after being hunted by the Great Luotians. The narrator hurriedly fused Kindling’s Star Marrow into Yun Heng, leaving her transformed and poised to help retrieve the Heavenly Marrow.

• The narrator erased the consciousness trying to seize his body and extracted its memories, discovering that Kindling had been hunted over the Heavenly Marrow.
• The narrator learned that Kindling had hidden the Heavenly Marrow in the great forbidden cache while escaping the Great Luotians pursuing him.
• The narrator decided to retrieve the Heavenly Marrow and planned for Yun Heng to absorb Kindling’s Star Marrow while submitting to the Great Luotians’ inspections.
• The narrator hastened the fusion of Kindling’s Star Marrow with Yun Heng’s body, triggering an intense rejection reaction.
• Yun Heng completed the painful transformation, gaining purple-gold hair and eyes, faint star patterns, and the ability to communicate with stars and draw on their power.

Xia Ye gave Yun Heng the Fire-Seizing Star Marrow and rearranged her Star God formation, then warned her about the risks tied to it. Di Gou and Tian Zi chose to wait for better Star Marrow options while Xia Ye prepared to travel to the Great Forbidden Repository.

• Xia Ye replaced Yun Heng's racial trait with the Fire-Seizing Star Marrow and spent a day and night rearranging her Star Casket and formation positions.
• Xia Ye found Di Gou and Tian Zi teasing Yun Heng while she controlled Xia Ye's body, then reclaimed his body and questioned them.
• Yun Heng felt the new Star Marrow's power, and Xia Ye warned her that Fire-Seizing had tried to possess him and that she should not act alongside him.
• Di Gou and Tian Zi asked to wait for better Star Marrows instead of choosing from the current marketplace, and Xia Ye agreed while warning them not to wait too long.
• Xia Ye said he was leaving for the Great Forbidden Repository and told the three women to stay in Central City.

Xia Ye left Starshine Sea for Heavenly Radiant Sea and searched for a way into Shattered Star Constellation after discovering that the Great Forbidden Repository mission was locked. He learned of a rumored route through Phosphorescent Constellation and Soul-Shaking Sea, but the Star Wardens sent there had not returned.

• Xia Ye gave Tian Zi, Di Gou, and Yun Heng resources and left them to finish their business before returning to Cosmic Heaven Hall.
• Xia Ye used the Star-Shift Bureau to travel from Starshine Sea to Heavenly Radiant Sea and declined an offer to hire a guide.
• Xia Ye browsed the Heavenly Radiant Sea auction system, bought a few items, and found that the Great Forbidden Repository search mission was locked.
• Xia Ye bribed two Star Artifact Bureau employees, who suggested taking a mission in Phosphorescent Constellation and crossing through Soul-Shaking Sea to reach Shattered Star Constellation.
• The employees told Xia Ye that Star Wardens sent to Phosphorescent Constellation had not returned, while the bureau appeared to be ignoring their absence.