Chapter Summaries

Chu Mu witnessed the Great Yin and Great Yang positions emerge as the highest powers in the Stars All Over the Sky and learned that the Heavenly Emperor and Saint Emperor were behind the formation. As his consciousness entered the Gouchen Star’s evolution, its fate began to change, but an unseen barrier blocked its path toward those supreme powers.

• Chu Mu recognized the figures in the chaotic halo as the Heavenly Emperor and Saint Emperor, who held the Great Yang and Great Yin positions.
• The Gouchen Position’s final transformation reached Chu Mu’s true body, prompting the Heavenly Emperor and Saint Emperor to sense an anomaly in the stars.
• The Heavenly Emperor and Saint Emperor discussed whether a star had changed and agreed to deal with the trapped Rule Great Experts after replenishing the Spirit Realm’s origin.
• Chu Mu’s consciousness descended into the Gouchen Star’s cycle of destruction and rebirth, awakening spirituality in a star whose fate had been fixed.
• The Gouchen Star absorbed chaos and the power of the Stars All Over the Sky, but an invisible obstruction kept it from reaching the powers of Great Yin and Great Yang.

Chu Mu’s Spirit Radiance Blessing redirected the Great Void and Spirit Realm origins toward Gouchen Star, prompting Taiyin Taiyang to manifest and suppress the cultivators in the formation. After the Rule Great Experts were sacrificed to strengthen the stars and accelerate the Celestial Boundary’s birth, Taiyin Taiyang discovered Chu Mu’s dead, anomalous star and appeared there to investigate.

• Chu Mu’s Divine Sense drew the Spirit Realm and Great Void foundational might away from Taiyin Taiyang and toward Gouchen Star.
• Taiyin Taiyang manifested, but the Rule Great Experts’ combined attack left the figures unharmed as the two world origins continued to protect them.
• Taiyin Taiyang used the Two World Origins to suppress and seal every cultivator within the formation.
• The sealed Rule Great Experts were converted into rule energy that strengthened their corresponding stars and stabilized the formation.
• Taiyin Taiyang noticed Chu Mu’s dim, lifeless star and appeared on the planet to examine it.

Chu Mu’s Gouchen Star completed its transformation, attaining authority comparable to Taiyin Taiyang while remaining beyond the Heavenly Emperor and Saint Emperor’s control. As the new Gouchen Star Lord, Chu Mu revealed himself openly, yet the two rulers could not perceive him.

• The Heavenly Emperor and Saint Emperor found that Chu Mu left no trace in their deductions and used the Saint Emperor’s power to examine the Stars All Over the Sky.
• They discovered that the Gouchen Star had become an anomaly drawing on the origins of the Great Void and Spirit Realm, but they could not interfere with its transformation.
• Chu Mu remained absorbed in the Gouchen Star’s elevation as it merged with the newly born Celestial Boundary and became its true Star Lord.
• Chu Mu sensed that the Gouchen throne held authority comparable to Taiyin Taiyang without their duties, making it an uncontrolled variable in the Celestial Boundary.
• Chu Mu dispelled his concealment on the Gouchen Star, but the Heavenly Emperor and Saint Emperor failed to notice him or the star’s completed transformation.

Chu Mu merged with the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation and discovered its mysteries, then met Heaven's Evolution and learned how the Saint Emperor had trapped and exploited him. Chu Mu asked what influence Heaven's Evolution could still exert over the formation and the forming Celestial Boundary, seeking an advantage against the Saint Emperor and Heavenly Emperor.

• Chu Mu made the Dark Red Giant Star vanish, merged Gouchen Star into the formation, and became able to move through its stars and worlds.
• Chu Mu entered a chaotic stretch of void and met Heaven's Evolution, who asked him to help escape.
• Chu Mu asked how Heaven's Evolution had been trapped and how much influence he still held over the formation and Celestial Boundary.
• Heaven's Evolution explained that the Holy Imperial Palace discovered him possessing a Heavenly Mechanism spirit body and sealed him, then used his power to create the stellar formation and Celestial Boundary.
• Heaven's Evolution described Chu Mu as an exalted anomaly who had disrupted his planned fate, and Chu Mu considered how the elder's remaining influence could help him gain authority and oppose the Saint Emperor and Heavenly Emperor.

Chu Mu and Heavenly Evolution signed a Source Contract: Heavenly Evolution would help Chu Mu take control of the Celestial Boundary, and Chu Mu would help him escape and conceal him until he regained Ninth Order Tribulation Transcendence. Heavenly Evolution then explained how the Illusory Realm of Grand Void reflected the Myriad Realms and left Chu Mu with its vast mysteries to explore.

• Heavenly Evolution told Chu Mu that helping him take control of the Celestial Boundary would burn his source and leave him with only a remnant soul.
• Heavenly Evolution required Chu Mu to sign a Source Contract and help him escape the Celestial Boundary's restraints until he returned to Ninth Order Tribulation Transcendence, and Chu Mu agreed.
• Heavenly Evolution and Chu Mu left their imprints on two contract halos, binding them through the source of the Grand Void.
• Chu Mu said his special fate would conceal his traces and that he expected to advance toward Great Ascension and Tribulation Transcendence.
• Heavenly Evolution explained that the Illusory Realm of Grand Void evolved reflections of things that had contacted it, and that its domains accumulated and changed over time.
• Heavenly Evolution described how Innate Sacred beings left traces that could become domains and forbidden lands, while admitting that even he had explored only a tiny portion of the illusory realm.

Heavenly Evolution explained how its exploration of Grand Void led it to suspect that some illusory realms reflected worlds from Different Time-Space. It confirmed the existence of those worlds only after encountering Chu Mu, leaving the reason for his crossing unresolved.

• Chu Mu asked Heavenly Evolution how it had recognized him as a visitor from another world.
• Heavenly Evolution said Different Time-Space had first been a conjecture, which it confirmed after meeting Chu Mu.
• Heavenly Evolution recounted entering an ancient Deep Illusory Realm while seeking a breakthrough at the Great Ascension bottleneck.
• After exploring the real Myriad Realms, Heavenly Evolution found no trace of that world's cultivation system, realm, or inhabitants.
• Heavenly Evolution observed that such fleeting illusory realms appeared where time and space were unstable, and suspected they projected the evolution of Different Worlds.
• Heavenly Evolution said Chu Mu's traits matched those worlds and confirmed their existence.

Chu Mu observed the Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation beginning to merge with the newborn Celestial Boundary, while considering how the Illusory Realm of Grand Void might connect to Different Time-Space. He left a false body within the transforming formation and returned to the Illusory Realm, where he ultimately set aside his attempt to find a path to his previous life.

• Heavenly Evolution faded after the Source Contract drew his fate closer to Chu Mu, and Chu Mu returned to the now-stable Stars All Over the Sky Grand Formation.
• Chu Mu concluded that the formation was inevitably merging with the Celestial Boundary, an Upper Realm created from the origins of the Spirit Realm and Grand Void.
• Chu Mu split into two bodies, concealed the false body in the formation to merge with the Celestial Boundary, and left with his true body.
• Chu Mu theorized that the Illusory Realm of Grand Void might be an enormous Phantom Domain reflecting this time-space and could contain traces of Different Time-Space.
• Chu Mu considered using the Illusory Realm to reach his previous life and uncover the mystery of his transmigration, but gave up because he had no reliable way to find the relevant traces.

After the Illusory Realm of Grand Void concealed itself, Chu Mu assessed the backlash the Human Race would face over its Celestial Boundary scheme and considered the Loose Immortal Alliance’s possible split with the other Human Race powers. He abandoned the True Understanding Pavilion, returned to the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven, and began secluded cultivation.

• Chu Mu left the Illusory Realm of Grand Void and found the Spirit Realm wilderness largely occupied by Barbarian Race members and other Foreign Races.
• Chu Mu realized the Illusory Realm’s descent had ended and foresaw a storm against the Human Race because its Celestial Boundary scheme had sacrificed experts from many races.
• Chu Mu recalled that Loose Immortal Alliance experts had also been sacrificed and suspected the Alliance was estranged from the Heavenly Court and the Holy Imperial Palace.
• Chu Mu decided to abandon the True Understanding Pavilion and traveled back to the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven after several months.
• Chu Mu exchanged greetings with Yun Qingyi, found a secluded place, and began cultivation.

After emerging from millennia of seclusion, Chu Mu learned that the Human Race had been nearly wiped out and that the Myriad Clans Alliance was still waging war against the Celestial Boundary. He left Yun Qingyi to decide the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s course and connected with his avatar in the Celestial Boundary, where he discovered he was undying and indestructible unless faced with power beyond the boundary’s limits.

• Chu Mu completed his cultivation in the Body Integration Realm and found the Qingqiu Fox Clan had grown to more than ten million under Yun Qingyi’s leadership.
• Yun Qingyi told Chu Mu that the Myriad Clans Alliance had conquered the Nine Provinces and the four continents of the Heavenly Domain, nearly erasing the Human Race, and had opened a passage to the Celestial Boundary with a Heaven Severing Formation.
• Yun Qingyi said she planned to lead the Qingqiu Fox Clan into the Myriad Clans Alliance, and Chu Mu told her to decide the clan’s fate without worrying about him.
• Chu Mu left the Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven and saw that foreign races had replaced human civilization throughout the lands he could perceive.
• Chu Mu connected with his avatar in the Celestial Boundary and realized that its power made him undying and indestructible there unless an enemy wielded power beyond the boundary’s limits.

Chu Mu sensed the Celestial Boundary’s growing power after gaining the Heaven and Earth Supreme Throne, then discovered that the Myriad Clans Alliance’s War of Heaven Subjugation had left a wound obstructing its transformation. The Human Race remained protected inside the Celestial Boundary while the Alliance’s forces gathered beyond the fissure.

• Chu Mu found that the Heaven and Earth Supreme Throne let him perceive almost everything in the Celestial Boundary, except Taiyin and Taiyang.
• Chu Mu sensed that the Celestial Boundary was still growing toward its limit, though its ultimate power remained unclear and its current limit was Ninth Order Tribulation Transcendence.
• Chu Mu used the power of the Gouchen Position to reach a fissure in the Celestial Boundary and saw that the wound was hindering the world’s transformation.
• Chu Mu recognized the fissure as a result of the Myriad Clans Alliance’s War of Heaven Subjugation and saw its million-li-wide Giant City at the fissure’s end.
• The Myriad Clans Alliance avoided invading the Celestial Boundary, while Human Race cultivators stayed inside and could not repair the wound.

Chu Mu used the Gouchen Star Throne to uncover how an ancient spear had ruptured the Celestial Boundary and enabled the Myriad Clans Alliance to erode it for thousands of years. He suspected the spear was tied to an Immortal, but concluded the Star Realm would eventually prevail and left the burden of resisting the erosion to others.

• Chu Mu rewound the Celestial Boundary's history and saw an Ancient Spear pierce the newborn realm, breach the Stars All Over the Sky's celestial net, and leave a fissured scar.
• Chu Mu traced the scar's Brown-Red Aura and realized power from beyond the Celestial Boundary was flowing through it to erode the realm and obstruct its transformation.
• Chu Mu inferred that the spear's power exceeded the Spirit Realm's limits and considered an Immortal the likely source.
• Chu Mu judged that the Celestial Boundary would still reach perfection, allowing the Star Realm Human Clan to surpass the Myriad Clans Alliance once it broke through the Ninth Order limit.
• Chu Mu decided that the other Star Realm Thrones, not he, should bear responsibility for maintaining the world's order.

Chu Mu learned from Heavenly Evolution that the Myriad Clans Alliance’s assault could weaken Taiyin Taiyang and the Stars All Over the Sky, creating a chance for them to act. He returned to the Gouchen Star and fused with his incarnation, strengthening his heavenly blessing as Gouchen briefly completed the star realm’s order before vanishing from detection again.

• Heavenly Evolution told Chu Mu that the ongoing battle and damage to the Celestial Boundary could weaken Taiyin Taiyang and leave Chu Mu untouched by the star realm’s backlash.
• Heavenly Evolution showed Chu Mu how the Brownish-Red Power spread through the Stars All Over the Sky and could usurp star thrones, undermining Taiyin Taiyang’s authority.
• Heavenly Evolution advised Chu Mu to reach Great Ascension before they tried to exploit the conflict, and Chu Mu departed to cultivate.
• Chu Mu returned to the Dark Red Giant Star and merged with his incarnation, greatly strengthening his blessing from Heaven.
• Taiyin Taiyang and the Stars All Over the Sky trembled as Gouchen briefly restored their harmony, but the star vanished again before they could find it.

As the Myriad Clans Alliance’s Brown-Red Power invaded the Celestial Boundary, the Star Realm consciousness punished Taiyin Taiyang and weakened the order of Stars All Over the Sky. Chu Mu awakened to the crisis and received a revelation urging his anomalous Gouchen Star Throne to restore order.

• Chu Mu absorbed the insights of the Gouchen Star Throne’s Heaven’s Favor, gradually advancing beyond Integrated Body Perfection.
• The Giant City’s formation drained hundreds of millions of Foreign Race cultivators and sent its gathered power into the Celestial Boundary.
• The Brown-Red Power surged through the laws of Stars All Over the Sky, capturing dozens of star thrones before Taiyin Taiyang rallied the star order against it.
• The Star Realm consciousness unleashed heavenly backlash against Taiyin Taiyang and Stars All Over the Sky, tipping the battle toward the Myriad Clans Alliance.
• Chu Mu awakened, understood more about the Brown-Red Power, and received a revelation from the Star Realm Heaven and Earth to restore its disorderly order.

Chu Mu ignored the Celestial Boundary’s plea for help and advanced from Integrated Body Perfection to Great Ascension as he joined the Heaven Smiting War. He secretly usurped four Star Thrones and settled on unifying the stars through the Gouchen Star, relying on Heavenly Evolution to conceal his actions and avoid karmic backlash.

• Chu Mu rejected the Celestial Boundary’s plea, unwilling to become a supreme being bound by the Star Realm’s order.
• Chu Mu entered the Heaven Smiting War and broke through to Great Ascension, using the Gouchen Star’s power to secretly usurp several Star Thrones.
• Chu Mu hid his usurpation behind illusions and determined that the Gouchen Star’s path was to unite and refine the stars.
• Chu Mu planned to rely on Heavenly Evolution to disguise his usurpation from the Star Realm’s consciousness and limit karmic consequences.
• Chu Mu focused on the four usurped thrones of North Pole, Heavenly Mechanism, Yu Xuan, and Tian Lang, each tied to its own authority and order.

Chu Mu used the Gouchen Star Throne to devour other Star Thrones, strengthening both it and his cultivation while he studied the slowly transforming Celestial Boundary. He realized that his and Heavenly Evolution’s Grand Void origins might change the Celestial Boundary’s allegiance, leaving its place between the Spirit Realm and the Illusory Realm of Grand Void uncertain.

• Chu Mu refined the Star Thrones he had seized, and the Heaven and Earth Furnace fed power back to him, advancing his cultivation and the Gouchen Star.
• As conflict among the Stars All Over the Sky intensified, Chu Mu quietly usurped more Star Thrones and focused on the Celestial Boundary’s transformation.
• Chu Mu sensed that the Celestial Boundary was linked to both the Spirit Realm and the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, whose origin had helped bring it into being.
• Chu Mu realized that Heavenly Evolution’s Grand Void nature and his own power might alter the Celestial Boundary’s nature and determine whether it remained under the Spirit Realm or became attached to Grand Void.

Chu Mu realized Heavenly Evolution was helping him seize the Celestial Boundary so it could return to the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, potentially turning Chu Mu’s victory into a chance for Heavenly Evolution to redeem itself. He continued secretly usurping star thrones while focusing on cultivation, leaving their weakened shells in place to conceal his actions.

• Chu Mu reasoned that Heavenly Evolution sought to use his seizure of the Celestial Boundary to make amends for helping the Spirit Realm steal Grand Void’s origin.
• Chu Mu considered how the Celestial Boundary might become part of Grand Void and resolved to prevent Heavenly Evolution from benefiting at his expense.
• Chu Mu shifted his focus from expanding his seizure of the stars to raising his cultivation for the coming conflicts.
• The Gouchen Position devoured and refined the star thrones Chu Mu had usurped, steadily advancing his Great Ascension cultivation.
• Chu Mu retained some origin power in each refined star throne so its shell remained in the celestial order and hid his usurpation from both sides of the battle.

As the Myriad Clans Alliance pushed the Star Realm Human Clan back, Chu Mu continued secretly usurping and refining Star Thrones with Heavenly Evolution and Grand Void concealing his traces. His growing power shifted the conflict from a two-sided struggle toward an unnoticed three-way imbalance.

• Chu Mu observed that the Myriad Clans Alliance had eroded one tenth of the Stars All Over the Sky and was steadily driving back the Star Realm Human Clan.
• Chu Mu realized the Star Realm's transformation could leave the human clan and the Spirit Realm's myriad clans controlling opposing portions of its laws.
• As Chu Mu's traces neared discovery, a mysterious force concealed his Star Thrones, and he recognized Heavenly Evolution and Grand Void's involvement.
• Chu Mu resumed refining Star Thrones with Gouchen's Star Furnace Power while Heavenly Evolution concealed the empty shells from both sides.
• Chu Mu's secret expansion turned the conflict into a three-sided struggle and pushed the Star Realm toward an imbalance neither side noticed.

As the War of Heaven Subjugation pushed the Star Realm Human Clan toward decline, Chu Mu assessed Gouchen Star’s immense growth and the two world origins that bound the Star Realm to the Great Void and Spirit Realm. He considered erasing their influence or introducing a third power to restrain it, leaving his next move unresolved.

• The Myriad Clans Alliance’s war and the Celestial Order’s law phenomena devastated the Star Realm, leaving most human territories uninhabitable and stifling the race’s growth.
• Chu Mu appeared on Gouchen Star and noted that it had expanded enormously and secretly absorbed a tenth of Stars All Over the Sky.
• Chu Mu reflected that Gouchen Star’s concentrated power could overwhelm the separate Star Thrones held by the human race and the Myriad Clans Alliance, but the time to act had not yet come.
• Chu Mu manifested the Great Void and Spirit Realm origins and recognized their influence as the means by which Heavenly Evolution could interfere with and scheme to claim the Star Realm.
• Chu Mu considered severing the Two World Origins’ influence over the Star Realm or bringing in a third power to restrain them.

Chu Mu considered how a third-party world might restrain the Two World Origins, then entered the Illusory Realm of Grand Void to explore the unknown traces within himself. As his Furnace Heaven and Earth continued to transform, he sensed an anomaly beyond the reach of its rules.

• Chu Mu concluded that severing the Two World Origins' connection to the Celestial Boundary would require its destruction and rebirth, while a third-party world would need sufficient power and his influence.
• Chu Mu thought of the Immortal Path World but dismissed it because he had no connection to it and could not influence it.
• Chu Mu left the Celestial Boundary and entered the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, seeking a world that could balance the Spirit Realm and the Grand Void without disrupting his control over the star realm.
• Chu Mu examined his cultivation and recognized that his Great Ascension path had been transformed by the Gouchen Star and the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
• Chu Mu used Spirit Radiance Blessing to investigate the unknown traces within himself, including the Spirit Radiance, his previous life, and his transmigration.
• Chu Mu sensed that an anomaly within the Furnace Heaven and Earth lay beyond the Furnace Rules, which otherwise refined all foreign power into nourishment.

Within the Illusory Realm of Grand Void, Chu Mu discovered a River of Time-Space filled with complete projections of countless worlds. Following the anchor linking him to his past life, he reached the river’s end, where an immeasurable darkness lay ahead.

• Chu Mu sensed an anchor connecting his true spirit to his past life in a Different Time-Space.
• He entered a dazzling river of light and found that touching its information fragments carried him into complete worlds.
• Chu Mu recognized that the river might be the legendary River of Time-Space and emptied his mind to follow the trace of his past life.
• After traversing the river step by step, Chu Mu reached its end and faced a boundless darkness.