Chapter Summaries

Su Fan and Luo Bing escaped Kunsha City as the Sulong People launched a surprise invasion with their Mechanical Puppet legions. They reached Chishui City, where the teleport routes to the Yun Mang Star Domain's main base were closed and the city prepared for battle.

• Luo Bing confronted Su Fan about marrying Xiao Yao, but he insisted he would marry no one but her, leaving her conflicted about her feelings.
• The Communication Formation Disks of cultivators at the base began vibrating, and Luo Bing warned Su Fan that Sulong Mechanical Puppet legions had surrounded Kunsha City.
• Su Fan used Blood Escape to reach Kunsha City, where Luo Bing brought him through the gates and into the Teleportation Hall as the city came under attack.
• Su Fan carried Luo Bing onto the Teleportation Array just before Kunsha City's Teleportation Hall was shaken by attacks, and they escaped with her family members.
• At Chishui City, Su Fan learned that nearby Sulong Mechanical Puppet legions had appeared and that teleport routes to the main base in Nine Yang Heaven had been closed.

Su Fan was rejected by the Luo family, forcibly recruited to defend Chishui City, and assigned to pilot a War Puppet. After the Sulong People sabotaged the city’s Defensive Array, he prepared for battle while wondering how unfair it was that an undercover agent had been dragged into the war.

• Luo Bing tried to bring Su Fan into her family, but its members blocked him, so he left after accepting her Fourth-tier Immortal Talismans.
• Golden Core Cultivators forcibly recruited Su Fan and other cultivators to defend Chishui City, where he was assigned to pilot a War Puppet.
• Su Fan hid his assignment from Luo Bing and listened as the crowded dormitory’s cultivators worried that Chishui City would fall before reinforcements arrived.
• An explosion destroyed the city’s Defensive Array, and two Deity Transformation Celestial Venerables raised a replacement barrier over Chishui City.
• A Golden Core True Person ordered the cultivators back to their posts, and Su Fan climbed into his War Puppet as the battle approached.

Su Fan fought through the Sulong Star Domain’s overwhelming assault on Chishui City, using a War Puppet to destroy Mechanical Puppets and kill two Golden Core cultivators. When the Yun Mang Star Domain’s Spirit Transformation cultivators finally joined the battle, Su Fan used Mist Body to slip away from the battlefield.

• Sulong forces broke Chishui City’s fifth-grade immortal formation and surrounded the city with Mechanical Puppets, forcing the Yun Mang cultivators to fight outside its walls.
• Su Fan used his War Puppet’s agility and close-combat skill to defeat a Sulong War Puppet, then carved a vast path through the Mechanical Puppet army with powerful saber techniques and Mist Talismans.
• Two Sulong Golden Core cultivators blocked Su Fan with fourth-order War Puppets, but he escaped his own puppet’s destruction and killed both with his magic sword, which passed through their defensive barriers.
• The two Yun Mang Spirit Transformation cultivators began attacking in earnest, and Su Fan transformed into mist and drifted out of the battlefield while the Sulong cultivators searched for him.

Su Fan escaped the battlefield, then learned from Senior Sister Luo Bing that Chishui City had been abandoned and she was breaking out with the Luo Household. He raced to help her and rescued her from a Sulong People War Puppet, and they fled together toward the outskirts.

• Su Fan left the battlefield and learned from Senior Sister Luo Bing that Chishui City's Teleportation Array was sealed and the Luo Household planned to escape through the south gate.
• Su Fan headed for the south gate to help Senior Sister Luo Bing, while she and the Household members boarded flying vessels and began their breakout.
• Sulong People flying puppets attacked the Household's vessels, forcing Senior Sister Luo Bing and the others to abandon ship and flee on flying artifacts.
• A Sulong People War Puppet knocked Senior Sister Luo Bing from the sky and prepared to kill her, but Su Fan destroyed it and appeared before her.
• Senior Sister Luo Bing recovered her spirits and led Su Fan away on a flying artifact as the two star domains' forces continued fighting around them.

Su Fan unleashed Rage Slash to break the Sulong People's siege, then escaped their pursuit with Senior Sister Luo Bing and killed several Nascent Soul True Lords with help from a Witch God's clone. After reaching safety, he revealed that he had borrowed Li Bin's identity, leaving Luo Bing hurt but alive and in contact with her lineage.

• Luo Bing prepared to sacrifice herself to open a path through the Mechanical Puppets, but Su Fan used Rage Slash to destroy the puppet formation and help the Yun Mang cultivators escape.
• Su Fan fled with Luo Bing, but several Nascent Soul True Lords trapped them beneath a domain canopy and knocked Luo Bing unconscious.
• A Witch God's clone told Su Fan to approach the Nascent Soul True Lords, then blinded them long enough for Su Fan to poison and kill them before devouring their blood.
• Su Fan carried Luo Bing to a hidden camp, where she woke and learned that he was not a member of her sect and had borrowed Li Bin's identity.
• Luo Bing told Su Fan they were even and contacted her lineage, learning that most of its members had escaped the encirclement.

Su Fan escorted Luo Bing to a valley where Yun Mang Star Domain survivors had gathered, then followed their fleet toward its main base while keeping his distance. When a Sulong patrol discovered the fleet, two Yun Mang Nascent Soul True Lords annihilated the attacking Mechanical Puppets, leaving Su Fan determined to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

• Su Fan learned from Demon Venerable Dong Ming that the Azure Sky Star Domain and nearby allies planned to join the war against the Sulong Star Domain.
• Su Fan escorted Luo Bing by Ghost Crow to a hidden valley, where Yun Mang survivors had gathered, and she left to find her family.
• After learning the survivors faced a dangerous journey through Sulong-controlled territory, Su Fan decided to follow their fleet from afar.
• Su Fan trailed the fleet for a month with his Ghost Crow and Ghost Slaves until Yaksha warned him that a Sulong patrol had spotted it.
• A huge army of Sulong Flying Mechanical Puppets attacked the fleet, but two Yun Mang Nascent Soul True Lords destroyed them with powerful attacks.
• Su Fan watched the Nascent Soul True Lords' display and resolved to find a quiet place to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm.

Su Fan slipped into a Sulong base and killed its two Nascent Soul guards, then transformed and slaughtered the Golden Core forces inside. After ordering Ghost Crow, Sister Zhen, and Yaksha to clear out the survivors, he turned to confront the active Space Gate as another Sulong Star Domain Mother Ship prepared to emerge.

• Su Fan left the battlefield, rode Ghost Crow through the night, and sent Sister Zhen and Yaksha to scout a nearby Sulong base.
• Su Fan infiltrated the base and discovered a gigantic Space Gate that transported Star Domain Mother Ships.
• Su Fan set off explosions as a distraction, ambushed and killed the base's two Nascent Soul True Lords, and devoured their blood and vital energy.
• Su Fan transformed into a Demonic Transformation and destroyed the War Puppets and Golden Core Cultivators who gathered to stop him.
• Su Fan summoned Ghost Crow, Sister Zhen, and Yaksha to kill the remaining base personnel, then faced the Space Gate as another Mother Ship approached.

Su Fan destroyed the Sulong People's base, absorbed the blood essence of its inhabitants, and escaped before the Sulong elders arrived. After returning to the Portable Secret Realm, he found valuable intelligence about the Sulong Star Domain's Teleportation Arrays and Space Gates, sent it to the Azure Sky Star Domain, and received a message from Old Monster Dong Ming saying his return might have to wait.

• Su Fan used two powerful slashes to destroy the Space Gate and Star Domain Mother Ship, then killed the surviving Nascent Soul True Lords.
• Sister Zhen, Yaksha, and "Ghost Crow" slaughtered the Sulong People and plundered the base while Su Fan absorbed the blood essence of its inhabitants.
• Su Fan fled with "Ghost Crow" and returned to the Portable Secret Realm, where Luosha welcomed him and he rested, ate, and examined his spoils.
• Su Fan found Jade Slips containing information about the Sulong Star Domain's Teleportation Arrays and Space Gates, then transmitted their contents to the Azure Sky Star Domain.
• Old Monster Dong Ming replied that Su Fan had done them a great favor but might have to postpone his return.

Su Fan learned that opening a Space Gate back to the Dong Yuan Star Domain would take several more years, so he disguised himself as a Sulong cultivator and hid at a Sulong stronghold holding Yun Mang prisoners. He discovered that the prisoners were likely being kept as food for the Ghost Clan, which the Sulong People planned to ally with.

• Demon Venerable Dong Ming told Su Fan that the information he provided had delayed the Space Gate project by several years and offered to take Gu Man as his disciple.
• Su Fan used the Yaksha to choose a Sulong identity, disguised himself, and passed an inspection before traveling to Base Nine.
• Su Fan arrived at a guarded valley stronghold and saw Yun Mang prisoners being herded into a cavern.
• After spending several days guarding the stronghold, Su Fan overheard that the Sulong People intended to ally with the Ghost Bone Star Domain.
• A mysterious voice told Su Fan that the Ghost Clan ate fresh flesh and blood, leading him to realize the Sulong People had kept the Yun Mang prisoners as food.

Su Fan agreed to the Witch God Clone’s bargain and used its formation to kill Sulong cultivators, then rescued the imprisoned Yun Mang cultivators. He revealed his name as Su Fan of the Azure Sky Star Domain and reunited with Luo Bing aboard Ghost Crow.

• Su Fan agreed to perform three large blood sacrifices in exchange for the Witch God Clone’s help rescuing the Yun Mang prisoners.
• At the stronghold, the Witch God Clone used Su Fan’s blood and qi to form a trap, killed several Nascent Soul True Lords, and lured away the Deity Transformation Celestial Venerable.
• Su Fan expanded the blood formation and Bone Corroding Poison Mist across the valley, killing Sulong cultivators who entered and summoning Sister Zhen and Yaksha to free the prisoners.
• Luo Bing and her fellow prisoners escaped their cells with help from the Ghost Soldiers and saw Su Fan direct the Yun Mang cultivators toward the Sulong flying vessels.
• Su Fan announced his name and star domain, and a ghostly shadow carried Luo Bing onto Ghost Crow’s back, where Su Fan greeted her warmly.

Su Fan destroyed Base Nine, escaped among the Sulong survivors, and learned that the Sulong Star Domain planned to ally with the Ghost Clan. Sent to the front line, he saw the Ghost Clan arrive and display their terrifying power.

• Su Fan sent Sister Zhen and Yaksha to destroy Base Nine while he destroyed its Space Gate, then disguised himself as a Sulong cultivator fleeing the massacre.
• Su Fan told Demon Venerable Dong Ming that the Sulong Star Domain planned to ally with the Ghost Clan of the Ghost Bone Star Domain, and the Witch God Clone returned safely with Luosha.
• Su Fan learned that survivors would be sent to the front line and hoped the deployment would bring him closer to the Yun Mang Star Domain.
• Su Fan arrived at a front-line base and saw a grotesque Ghost Clan delegation disembark from a bone-spiked flying ship.
• A Ghost Clan cultivator roared at the watching Sulong crowd, hurling hundreds into the air before another Ghost Clan member rebuked him.

Su Fan witnessed the Ghost Clan overwhelm the Sulong People’s Mechanical Puppets, then was caught in the Yun Mang Star Domain’s devastating assault on a Sulong base. Badly injured but alive, he learned that the base had been destroyed and was urged to activate a blood sacrifice to recover.

• A Ghost Clan cultivator corroded and toppled several Sulong Mechanical Puppets with his saliva, leaving Su Fan wary of the clan’s strength.
• Su Fan and other Sulong cultivators were sent to defend the base as the Yun Mang People attacked, while Yun Mang Deity Transformation experts broke through the Sulong defenses and plunged the rear into chaos.
• The Witch God Clone warned Su Fan to stop, so he abandoned his War Puppet and tried to escape, but a powerful blast struck the base and injured him.
• Su Fan layered protective treasures and activated Demonic Transformation, yet a Deity Transformation attack hurled him away and left him near death.
• Su Fan used top-grade pills to stabilize his injuries, and the Witch God Clone helped heal him while demanding that he activate a blood sacrifice.
• Su Fan saw that the base had been flattened and hundreds of thousands of Sulong corpses filled the sky with blood qi.

Su Fan sacrificed the Sulong corpses to advance his cultivation and recover, then defeated a Ghost Clan cultivator that ambushed him in the mountains. After absorbing its blood and taking its Bone Ring, he learned that more of its kin would soon arrive and prepared to ambush them.

• Su Fan used Blood Demon Mist to consume the Sulong corpses’ blood essence, recovering from his injuries and advancing to late-stage Golden Core Great Perfection.
• Su Fan sent Sister Zhen and Yaksha to collect the base’s wandering souls, then left on Ghost Crow with the base stripped of blood energy.
• A Ghost Clan cultivator ambushed Su Fan with corrosive liquid, but Su Fan survived its attacks and fought back.
• Su Fan transformed into a giant and battered the Ghost Clan cultivator before twisting off its head and killing it.
• Su Fan used Blood Mist Transformation to absorb the Ghost Clan cultivator’s blood, took its Bone Ring, and hid nearby after learning that more Ghost Clan members were coming.

Su Fan killed more than a dozen Ghost Clan cultivators, escaped to his Portable Secret Realm, and discovered their deaths had drawn the attention of a Ghost Clan Nascent Soul Cultivator. After the Witch God Clone urged him to pursue another blood sacrifice amid the war, Su Fan negotiated ten days to prepare and reported what he learned about the Ghost Clan to Demon Venerable Dong Ming.

• Su Fan ambushed the arriving Ghost Clan cultivators and crushed them with his Demonic Transformation before draining their blood and collecting their Bone Rings and souls.
• A Ghost Clan Nascent Soul Cultivator traced the deaths to the Witch Gate after seeing blood-red Runes on a Human Race cultivator's arm.
• Su Fan rode the Ghost Crow for two days, then rested in his Portable Secret Realm with Luosha and examined the Bone Rings, finding Spirit Crystals and unusual bone artifacts.
• The Witch God Clone appeared through Luosha and reminded Su Fan that he still owed a blood sacrifice, promising to teach him about Witch Formations and help him avoid powerful cultivators.
• Su Fan agreed to complete the final blood sacrifice after ten days, then informed Demon Venerable Dong Ming about the Ghost Clan and its abilities.

Su Fan learned to activate the Witch Sect formations on his body, then was sent to the front line of the war between the Sulong and Yun Mang Star Domains. He feigned a divine soul injury to avoid fighting and remained in the rear recovering.

• Su Fan received the Witch Sect Orthodox Inheritance from the Witch God Clone and learned several ways to activate the ancient Runes covering his body.
• Su Fan left the Portable Secret Realm, disguised himself, and joined a group of surviving Sulong cultivators who were sent to the front line.
• The Yun Mang forces broke the Sulong defensive barrier, and their insectoid army exhausted many Mechanical Puppets before elite forces joined the attack.
• Su Fan fell back in his War Puppet and pretended a fifth-order demonic beast’s roar had knocked him unconscious.
• After the Sulong forces repelled the attack, Su Fan pretended his divine soul was injured and spent nearly half a month recovering in the rear.

Su Fan returned to the front line, survived a devastating clash between the Yun Mang Star Domain and the Ghost Bone Star Domain, and used the ensuing chaos to complete several blood sacrifices. He fled to a mountain refuge, discovered his body had improved and his cultivation had reached Late Golden Core Great Perfection, and considered the danger of attempting the Nascent Soul breakthrough.

• Su Fan fought giant demonic beasts from his War Puppet while pretending to struggle, then asked the Witch God Clone to conceal his aura so he could escape the battlefield.
• Ghost Bone Star Domain reinforcements arrived, but Yun Mang Star Domain cultivators launched a surprise attack that destroyed the Sulong defensive line and the Ghost Clan fleet.
• After the Yun Mang cultivators retreated, Su Fan summoned Sister Zhen and Yaksha to slaughter surviving Sulong cultivators and carried out several Witchcraft School Blood Sacrifices along the front line.
• Su Fan left on Ghost Crow and flew for more than ten days before finding a mountain cave, where he entered his Portable Secret Realm to examine his improved physical condition.
• Su Fan checked his Game Panel and found that he had reached Late Golden Core Great Perfection, though he remained wary of the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation required to reach the Nascent Soul Realm.

Su Fan returned to the Yun Mang Star Domain’s rear defensive base, where he was assigned to a puppet workshop and continued studying Sulong puppetry. After the Witch God Clone took Luosha away to develop her inheritance, Su Fan trained Sister Zhen and Yaksha to operate War Puppets, ending by demonstrating how Sister Zhen should fight.

• Su Fan returned with other stranded cultivators to a rear base and was assigned to a puppet workshop under his assumed identity.
• Su Fan settled into life behind the front line, studied the Sulong Star Domain’s puppetry, and waited for a chance to return to his sect and pursue a Nascent Soul breakthrough.
• Luosha emerged from seclusion, and the Witch God Clone announced that he would take her away to help her develop her Witch Sect inheritance.
• The Witch God Clone left the Portable Secret Realm with Luosha, while Su Fan continued his workshop duties and puppet studies.
• Sister Zhen complained that Yaksha had beaten her War Puppet, and Su Fan restarted it and demonstrated how to fight Yaksha.

Su Fan's quiet days were interrupted when a Witch God avatar took control of Luosha after her breakthrough celebration and forced an intimate encounter with him. The avatar later claimed the night had given both Su Fan and Luosha a cultivation opportunity, and Su Fan realized the voice belonged to a woman.

• Su Fan continued studying puppetry and witchcraft while training Ghost Slaves and Ghost Generals to control War Puppets.
• The Witch God avatar appeared in Su Fan's Portable Secret Realm, and Luosha happily told him she had reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
• Su Fan celebrated Luosha's breakthrough with a feast and wine, then carried her to bed after she became drunk.
• The avatar transformed Luosha's appearance, immobilized Su Fan, and compelled him into an intimate encounter.
• The next day, Su Fan learned Luosha was crying in her room and confronted the avatar about the promised cultivation opportunity.
• The avatar said the encounter benefited both of them, and Su Fan deduced from its androgynous voice that it was a female cultivator.

Su Fan learned that the Witch God Clone had arranged for him to take Luosha’s Red Pill and would take Luosha as her disciple, while the Sulong People’s renewed offensive threatened the Yun Mang Star Domain. After Old Monster Dong Ming summoned him to help establish a Space Gate for a counterattack, Su Fan reached the Yun Mang Star Domain, parted from Luosha, and was summoned by a Nascent Soul True Lord.

• The Witch God Clone told Su Fan she would take Luosha as her disciple, and Luosha asked Su Fan to leave her alone while she recovered from what had happened.
• The Sulong People launched a fierce attack, and Su Fan noticed that his physical strength, mental strength, and perception were gradually improving.
• Old Monster Dong Ming told Su Fan that the Yun Mang Star Domain planned a counterattack and needed him to set the coordinates for a Space Gate.
• Su Fan traveled to the Yun Mang Star Domain, where Luosha and the Witch God Clone left the Portable Secret Realm the next morning.
• Two Golden Core Cultivators escorted Su Fan to a teleportation hall, where a Nascent Soul True Lord entered and asked which person was Su Fan of the Azure Sky Star Domain.

Su Fan accompanied Yun Mang Star Domain cultivators to establish Star Domain coordinates and a communication device for the Azure Sky Star Domain’s Space Gate, learning about Yun Mang from Liang Xiao along the way. After the coordinates activated, Ghost Clan cultivators attacked, and Su Fan defended them with his Ghost Slaves and War Puppets.

• True Monarch Hong Ze took Su Fan and the Yun Mang Star Domain cultivators aboard a Space Flying Boat to establish coordinates in the Dong Yuan Star Domain.
• Liang Xiao visited Su Fan, explained that he recorded battlefield footage, and shared information about the Yun Mang Star Domain over tea during their journey.
• After more than half a month, the group landed near a miniature Spirit Vein, where Su Fan established and activated the Star Domain coordinates and cross-domain communication device.
• Demon Venerable Dong Ming confirmed that Su Fan had personally set up the coordinates and entrusted him with guarding them until the Space Gate opened.
• When the Ghost Clan appeared, Su Fan summoned Sister Zhen and Yaksha to protect the coordinates with War Puppets, then transformed and scattered the attacking Ghost Clan cultivators.