Chapter Summaries

Chen Zhaosheng and the Great Demons of Ziwei Mountain feared One Wonder True Lord after learning she had appeared in Jinghang City near Heavenly Saint Palace. Chen Zhixing’s demon-suppressing thought agreed to discuss the threat once his true body left seclusion, while the demons urged the Chen Clan to seal the mountain.

• Sword Demon Dugu told Chen Zhaosheng that One Wonder True Lord had appeared in Jinghang City, and Chen Zhaosheng recalled her role in the Western Region’s catastrophe and the creation of Black Bodhi.
• Chen Zhaosheng worried that One Wonder True Lord might draw Ziwei’s Chen Clan into a conflict with Heavenly Saint Palace and ordered Dugu to summon Chen Zhixing.
• Chen Zhixing’s demon-suppressing thought told Dugu that he would discuss the matter with Chen Zhaosheng after his true body emerged from seclusion.
• The wooden carving, the old turtle, and the Great Demons urged the Chen Clan to seal the mountain, fearing One Wonder True Lord would exploit or sacrifice them as she had other demons.

One Wonder True Lord visited Heavenly Saint Palace, ended the Hundred Veins experiment, and announced she intended to bring the Chaos Body Chen Zhixing under Sacred Land supervision. As her warship headed for Jiang Province, Mo Qingyue rushed to warn Chen Zhixing, who remained unconcerned despite the Summit cultivators gathered behind him.

• One Wonder True Lord questioned Clarified Butter True Lord about the Hundred Veins Academy and judged its experiment a failure after learning that only three cultivators had obtained Gold Nature.
• Clarified Butter True Lord proposed moving the remaining cultivators into the Universal Realm, and One Wonder True Lord agreed on the condition that they use the Eastern Continent spacetime Split.
• One Wonder True Lord said Heavenly Saint Palace needed to supervise Chen Zhixing because he had a Chaos Body, then departed aboard the Dark Bird Great Ferry for Jiang Province.
• Mo Qingyue arrived at Ziwei Mountain ahead of the Great Ferry and urged Chen Zhixing to evacuate his family and clan members before One Wonder True Lord came for him.
• Chen Zhixing dismissed Mo Qingyue's alarm and pointed out that the Summit-level nonhuman cultivators behind him had already gathered.

Chen Zhixing refused to hide from One Wonder True Lord and, after recalling five hundred thoughts that pushed his cultivation to the fourth level of the Summit, raised Ziwei Eternity to protect the Chen Clan. The star chart summoned aristocratic cultivators toward Jiang Province as One Wonder watched from the approaching Dark Bird Great Ferry.

• Mo Qingyue urged Chen Zhixing to avoid battle, but he thanked her for the warning and said the Chen Clan had its own plans.
• Chen Zhixing recalled five hundred thoughts, advanced from the second level of the Summit to the fourth, and suppressed the Azure Pheasant Sword's Gold Nature.
• Chen Zhaosheng rejected Chen Zhixing's offer of the Gold Nature and told him to raise Ziwei Eternity.
• Chen Zhixing and Chen Zhaosheng activated Ziwei Eternity, spreading starlight across Jiang Province and drawing Longevity Weapon bearers toward the Chen Clan.
• One Wonder saw Ziwei Eternity from the Dark Bird Great Ferry and laughed that the Chen Clan had raised its defensive formation before she arrived.

Chen Zhixing completed Ziwei Eternity Palace’s star formation and merged with its formation spirit to manifest the Middle Sky Ziwei Great Emperor. One Wonder True Lord attacked for amusement, but after she plucked stars from the formation, Chen Zhixing struck back with a devastating beam that erased her from view.

• Chen Zhixing drew on Ziwei Eternity Palace’s starshine as the formation spirit appeared, called itself Middle Sky Ziwei, and merged with him.
• One Wonder True Lord arrived aboard the Dark Bird Great Ferry and ordered the Heavenly Saint Palace disciples to fire at Chen Zhixing’s manifested Dharma body.
• The disciples’ weak attacks failed to pierce the starlight, and One Wonder True Lord plucked a star from the formation with her bare hand.
• Chen Zhixing fought back with the Azure Pheasant Immortal Sword as One Wonder True Lord grabbed more stars to deflect his strikes.
• Chen Zhixing activated the Profound Heaven Mirror and fired the Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Primordial Magnetism Extinction Divine Light, silently erasing One Wonder True Lord before the beam swept across the earth.

Chen Zhixing used Ziwei Eternity, the Profound Heaven Mirror, and the Six Domains All-Heavens Starry Middle Sky Ziwei Emperor to fight One Wonder True Lord until she withdrew from Jiang Province. After the battle, he returned the formation to Ziwei Eternity and learned that its immense strain had nearly exhausted his divine sense.

• Chen Zhixing wielded the Six Domains All-Heavens Starry Middle Sky Ziwei Emperor against One Wonder True Lord, who survived his attacks and struck back with a powerful sword.
• Chen Zhixing used the Profound Heaven Mirror to blast One Wonder True Lord into a void fissure and damaged her with Dao wounds.
• One Wonder True Lord recognized that the formation depended on Ziwei Mountain's terrain and judged that breaking it would risk destroying the surrounding land, so she ended the fight and left on the Dark Bird Great Ferry.
• The gathered Summit observers and Holy Masters dispersed after One Wonder True Lord withdrew, maintaining the tacit understanding between the aristocratic clans and holy lands.
• Chen Zhixing returned the formation's imperial crown to the small world inside Ziwei Eternity and told Chen Zhaosheng to clear residual starlight and restore the formation.
• Chen Zhaosheng gave Chen Zhixing an Elixir and explained that activating the formation had severely drained his divine sense.

Chen Zhixing reflected on the power and long gestation of the Great Emperor Middle Sky Ziwei of the Six Realms' All-Heaven Star Array before entering seclusion, while Wang Lin noticed his Little Green Bottle absorbing its scattered starlight and laws. After Chen Zhixing emerged, Wang Lin and Shi Hao visited Ziwei Eternity Palace, where they encountered a giant rat among the quiet Great Demons.

• Chen Zhixing explained how the array could let someone merge with Ziwei Eternity, but said it still needed more than six thousand years to gestate and entered seclusion to recover.
• Wang Lin discovered that his Little Green Bottle had absorbed starlight and scattered laws, forming an illusory figure resembling the array, but Sword Demon told him Chen Zhixing was unavailable.
• Shi Hao chased down and sniffed a black demonic tiger, then returned to Xu Qingqing, who told him Chen Zhixing had emerged from seclusion and wanted to see him.
• Wang Lin and Shi Hao entered Ziwei Eternity together, where Wang Lin spotted a giant rat among the Great Demons after their greeting seemed to echo.

Wang Lin brought Chen Zhixing the Little Green Bottle, which had absorbed starlight and formed a nurturable copy of Chen Zhixing’s Ziwei Great Emperor Dharma Manifestation. Chen Zhixing kept the bottle to develop its inner world and offered Wang Lin guidance, while the White Flood Dragon hid from her tribulation at Ziwei Eternity Palace.

• Wang Lin entered Ziwei Eternity Palace with Shi Hao and found the newly transformed White Flood Dragon hiding there because she feared undergoing Tribulation Transcendence.
• Wang Lin presented Chen Zhixing with the Little Green Bottle, which had absorbed starlight and created a small Ziwei Great Emperor Dharma Manifestation inside it.
• Chen Zhixing investigated the bottle and realized its Dharma Manifestation might grow within the bottle’s accelerated time, though it would require substantial imported resources.
• Chen Zhixing decided to keep the Little Green Bottle and build a small Blessed Land Grotto Heaven inside it for the Dharma Manifestation and Wang Lin’s cultivation.
• Wang Lin objected that creating a Grotto Heaven would cost the clan too much, but Chen Zhixing explained that the bottle’s tiny inner world would need only modest resources.
• Chen Zhixing told Wang Lin to ask about cultivation while he remained available, intending to guide his disciple before returning to seclusion.

Wang Lin struggled to understand Chen Zhixing’s warning about Blood Drop Rebirth, while Shi Hao explained that using it might bring future dangers. Chen Zhixing then rejected a Gold Nature’s invitation to follow the Longevity path and revealed that Gold Natures were immortal Dao holders who could preserve their positions through inheritance, subordinate paths, or fusion.

• After leaving Ziwei Eternity Palace, Wang Lin wondered what Shi Hao had understood from Chen Zhixing’s warning about Blood Drop Rebirth.
• Shi Hao told Wang Lin that Chen Zhixing suspected frequent use of Blood Drop Rebirth could lead to trouble, though they might have no choice in a desperate fight.
• The Gold Nature within Azure Pheasant urged Chen Zhixing to follow the path of the Longevity Realm, but he refused to risk being consumed and mocked the idea of its Dao fruit.
• After the Gold Nature vanished, Chen Zhixing told the White Flood Dragon that she was one part of Gold Nature.
• Chen Zhixing explained that Gold Natures were immortal holders of Dao positions, and that later cultivators could replace, branch from, or fuse with them to obtain longevity.

Chen Zhixing rejected the Chaos Dao and chose to develop the Star Lord Path, publishing a constellation catalogue to make clear that the Chen Clan would not monopolize it. The Heavenly Saint Palace agreed to support new Star Lords for a thousand years and establish Star Palace jointly with the Chen Clan.

• Chen Zhixing judged that pursuing the Chaos Dao would repeat the Undying Emperor Court’s doomed attempt to gather Gold Natures, and considered the Star Lord Path a safer route for his clan.
• Chen Zhixing asked White Flood Dragon which constellation position she wanted, while recognizing that the Chen Clan’s demon foundation could help establish the Star Lord Path.
• Chen Zhixing released the Ziwei Eternity Star Chart Dharma Idol Chart, prompting Eastern Continent powers to seek cultivation methods the Chen Clan did not yet possess.
• Mo Qingyue explained to Chen Zhaosheng that Patriarch Tihu had urged the catalogue’s release to prevent the Chen Clan from monopolizing the Star Lord Path and becoming another Undying Emperor Court.
• Mo Qingyue announced that Heavenly Saint Palace would support new Star Lords for a thousand years and jointly establish Star Palace with the Chen Clan, recruiting 1,200 disciples every ten years.

Chen Zhixing revealed the Star Lord positions Heavenly Saint Palace had promised and began selling Longevity cultivation methods, drawing the anger of Eastern Continent’s aristocratic families. He met Chen Daoyan in the Broken Temple and confronted him about the Chen Family’s schemes, just as One Wonder True Lord appeared beside their campfire.

• Chen Zhixing told Chen Zhaosheng that Heavenly Saint Palace had identified 1,689 star positions and promised him access to 344, then gave him the Four Seasons Star Imagery Cultivation Method.
• Chen Zhixing began selling Star Lord cultivation books in Linjiang City for ten Spirit Stones each, provoking powerful aristocratic families to demand answers.
• Chen Zhixing met Chen Daoyan in the Broken Temple, where Chen Daoyan described the overseas Chen Clan and its Suspended Island and Zhou Tian Star Array.
• Chen Zhixing pressed Chen Daoyan about the plans involving Chen Zhaosheng, Old Ancestor Tian Yuan, Gold Nature, and a deal with Great Luo Dao Land, then explained how he believed the scheme worked.
• Chen Zhixing criticized Chen Daoyan for trusting One Wonder True Lord, and she appeared beside the fire as he spoke.

One Wonder True Lord explained to Chen Zhixing and Chen Daoyan how cultivators were consumed by forces in the Spirit Realm, revealing the grim costs behind longevity and the Star Lord Path. She warned that the Five Elements Dao Lord would target Chen Zhixing if the Chen Clan abandoned the Five Elements Dao to follow his new path.

• Chen Zhixing offered One Wonder True Lord roasted rabbit, and she discussed his plan to become the Dao Lord of the Star Lord Path.
• One Wonder True Lord explained that cultivators relied on their accumulated foundation to survive after death and that Chen Changfeng had been consumed for centuries before dying.
• Chen Daoyan recalled Chen Changfeng's late-life madness and realized it stemmed from his struggle against the force consuming him.
• One Wonder True Lord said aristocratic families, itinerant cultivators, and Holy Land disciples faced different degrees of consumption in the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Daoyan asked whether opening a new Dao would protect the Chen Clan, and One Wonder True Lord warned that the Five Elements Dao Lord would seek revenge if the clan switched paths.

Chen Zhixing rejected One Wonder True Lord’s offer to serve under her and resolved to develop the Star Palace as an independent path beyond the limits of Longevity. Back at Ziwei Mountain, he celebrated by hanging Chen Zhaosheng upside down, while the first list of Star Palace candidates awaited his review.

• One Wonder True Lord warned Chen Zhixing that the Chen Clan’s plan would pit him against the Five Elements and Five Daos, then offered to recruit him, but Chen Zhixing declined and thanked her for her goodwill.
• One Wonder True Lord sent Chen Zhixing from the Broken Temple to Ziwei Mountain with her spatial dao, and he reflected that he would rather lead the Star Lord Path than become another Dao Lord’s subordinate.
• Chen Zhixing concluded that he could use the Star Palace’s nine hundred yearly candidate slots to build power and pursue a realm beyond Longevity.
• In high spirits, Chen Zhixing found Chen Zhaosheng and hung him upside down, while Chen Chou'er arrived with the first list of the Chen Clan’s Star Palace candidates.
• Chen Zhixing told Chen Zhaosheng that One Wonder Dao Lord had asked him to become her pet, then refused to let him down and review the candidate list.

Chen Zhixing outlined Star Palace’s rigid hierarchy and exploitative recruitment system, leaving Chen Zhaosheng to arrange its construction and charge eager candidates for cultivation infrastructure. The chapter ended with Chen Zhixing revealing that he also planned to profit by selling land within his territory.

• Chen Zhaosheng reported sixteen murders connected to the competition for Star Palace disciples, and Chen Zhixing proposed letting candidates fight until nine hundred remained.
• Chen Zhixing gave Chen Zhaosheng plans modeled on Heavenly Saint Palace, detailing Star Palace’s palaces, ranks, disciple limits, and permanent Star Official positions.
• Chen Zhixing explained that Star Palace disciples would receive few benefits and would have to buy resources or earn them through work, while its Longevity positions would attract recruits regardless.
• Chen Zhaosheng posted the Star Radiance Guiding Method and its costly Gravity Platform and Stellar Hall requirements, and candidates eagerly asked how to build and purchase them.
• Chen Zhaosheng asked how much to charge the candidates, and Chen Zhixing said the clan should recoup its investments before revealing he would also sell land for the Star Observation Halls.

Chen Zhixing organized Star Official positions and planned Star Residences, while Ziwei’s Chen Clan gathered immense wealth from advance payments and prepared to build a Star Palace. The clan’s fortunes rose amid widespread support from powerful cultivators, even as the Ocean-Overturning Demon Ape rampaged elsewhere in the Eastern Region.

• Chen Zhixing told the imprisoned Great Demons that first- and second-grade Star Residences would be Grotto Heavens and third- and fourth-grade ones Blessed Lands, leaving the long-imprisoned demons to earn resources as teachers.
• Chen Zhixing tried to persuade the White Flood Dragon to accept a Star Official position, then learned she had no personal name and asked him to give her one.
• Chen Tianchen escorted the Chen Clan’s collected resources back to Ziwei Mountain and learned that powerful cultivators were secretly guarding the routes so the Star Palace project would proceed without trouble.
• Chen Tianchen saw that the clan’s treasury had become extraordinarily wealthy and that its income could easily cover extensive alchemy and construction expenses.
• Chen Tianchen recalled that the Ocean-Overturning Demon Ape was wreaking havoc in the Eastern Region, but believed powerful cultivators would prevent it from threatening the Chen Clan.

Chen Zhixing used abundant Elixirs to raise the Chen Clan’s strength and advanced to the seventh level of the Summit Realm while planning to seize Shi Hao’s future opportunity in the Universal Realm. As a World Descent breach opened, Incense Burning Valley’s defenders attacked a Heavenly Fox entering their territory.

• Chen Tianchen took a True Self Realm Elixir and entered seclusion, while Chen Zhixing arranged ample cultivation pills for the Chen Clan.
• Chen Zhixing broke through to the seventh level of the Summit Realm and considered how to strengthen the Star Lord Path before reaching Longevity.
• Chen Zhixing resolved to take Shi Hao and Wang Lin to the Universal Realm during World Descent to claim Shi Hao’s extraordinary opportunity.
• A breach opened above Incense Burning Valley, and its sect master recognized a Heavenly Fox crossing into the Universal Realm.
• An Incense Burning Valley cultivator attacked the Heavenly Fox with a spear, and the sect master charged after him with fire dragons and a pill-furnace artifact.

Chen Zhixing confronted the Heavenly Fox, a Dao Sin that attacked Chen Zhaosheng in the spirit realm, and kept him from leaving for Heavenly Saint Palace. The chapter revealed the monster’s origins and repeated returns to the Heavenly Xuan Realm, while it waited outside Jiang Province for Chen Zhixing.

• Chen Zhaosheng read a golden-arrow message reporting that Incense Burning Valley had lost contact after a Heavenly Fox descended, but a soul prohibition prevented him from explaining the monster.
• Chen Zhaosheng sensed an invisible presence, prepared tea for it, and tried to protect Chen Zhixing as the Heavenly Fox attacked and devoured part of his spirit-realm existence.
• Chen Zhixing sent out his Ziwei Emperor Lord, struck the Heavenly Fox, and stayed with the injured Chen Zhaosheng until morning, when the monster had not returned.
• Chen Zhixing identified the Heavenly Fox as a Dao Sin and told Chen Zhaosheng that it was waiting outside Jiang Province for him.
• Chen Zhixing recounted how the Heavenly Fox evolved from a native fox demon into a hard-to-kill Dao Sin and had returned to the Heavenly Xuan Realm four times before its current, fifth return.

Chen Zhixing met White Feather True Lord, an Ascension Immortal Sect elder whose reincarnated self had been his former acquaintance Mo Yuemei, and the two traded teasing remarks before fighting. Clarified Butter True Lord proposed using Ziwei's Chen Clan to gather cultivators and trap the Heavenly Fox, but Chen Zhixing refused to put his clan's reputation at risk.

• Clarified Butter True Lord and another Ascension Immortal Sect True Lord arrived after the Heavenly Fox entered the Southern Domain, and White Feather True Lord warned Chen Zhixing about using the Profound Heaven Mirror to inspect her.
• White Feather revealed that she had created reincarnated selves, prompting Chen Zhixing to suspect that Mo Yuemei had been one of them.
• White Feather teased Chen Zhixing about their past connection, and he answered with a suggestive jab about her Dao title.
• Chen Zhixing and White Feather fought for three hours, after which Clarified Butter redirected their attention to the Heavenly Fox and learned that One Wonder was in the Southern Domain.
• Clarified Butter proposed gathering Southern Islet cultivators in a formation to lure and suppress the Heavenly Fox, but Chen Zhixing refused to let Ziwei's Chen Clan take responsibility.

Chen Zhixing and White Feather True Lord waited on Ziwei Mountain while the Heavenly Fox devoured hundreds of Southern Domain cultivators, forcing Clarified Butter True Lord to organize a defense. As Clarified Butter began building a formation with the Southern Xuan Alliance, Chen Zhixing and White Feather discussed the costs of the Star Lord Path and his plans to develop it.

• Clarified Butter True Lord realized Chen Zhixing and White Feather were willing to wait for the Heavenly Fox’s attacks to drive Southern Domain cultivators toward Heavenly Saint Palace, and the three settled on Ziwei Mountain.
• Over eight days, the Heavenly Fox devoured 389 cultivators above the True Self Realm, and survivors from four provinces fled to Jiang Province.
• Chen Zhixing asked whether Heavenly Saint Palace could help build the Star Palace, and Clarified Butter True Lord took the Southern Xuan Alliance to establish a formation near the border between Si Province and Jiang Province.
• White Feather True Lord explained that Clarified Butter risked his foundation for Heavenly Saint Palace, while other Longevity True Lords generally avoided fighting to preserve themselves.
• White Feather warned Chen Zhixing that few cultivators followed the Star Lord Path and that opening a new path could cost him his Dao Lord position, but Chen Zhixing said Heavenly Saint Palace would support its development.

Clarified Butter True Lord struggled to build the Star Palace’s Zhou Tian Star Array while the Heavenly Fox terrorized the Eastern Continent and kept powerful cultivators confined to Jiang Province. One Wonder True Lord revealed the formation was unnecessary for driving the fox away and went to Ziwei Mountain to confront Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu.

• Tens of thousands of Southern Xuan Alliance cultivators rapidly transformed You Marsh into the foundation of the Star Palace, though many resented being made to build for the Chen Clan.
• Clarified Butter True Lord found that high-level cultivators refused to help with construction because they feared the Heavenly Fox, while Qin Yi warned that Heavenly Saint Palace might dissolve the alliance if the fox was not driven away soon.
• Clarified Butter told Qin Yi that sealing the Heavenly Fox would take at least three months and advised her to hide in Jiang Province; she hurried back in fear.
• One Wonder True Lord pointed out that earlier incursions had ended without the Star Palace formation, then said she would go to Ziwei Mountain and find Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu.
• One Wonder arrived at Longevity Hall and found Chen Zhixing and Bai Yu leisurely eating fruit and brewing tea while Clarified Butter worked outside.

Chen Zhixing rejected One Wonder True Lord’s demands, sealed Ziwei Mountain, and retaliated against Great Luo Dao Land across Central Continent. He faced One Wonder True Lord after she captured Chen Daoyan, while the conflict between them escalated into open war.

• One Wonder True Lord demanded that Chen Zhixing use himself as bait to lure the Heavenly Fox and threatened the Chen Family when he refused.
• Chen Zhixing told One Wonder True Lord to use Great Luo Holy Land’s disciples as bait, then expelled her and White Feather from Ziwei Mountain and declared he would meet her at Emperor Trampling Mountain.
• Chen Zhixing sealed Ziwei Mountain and explained that he had prepared for a break with the Three Great Holy Lands rather than trust One Wonder True Lord’s promises.
• Chen Zhixing’s attacks and disasters spread across Central Continent, killing Great Luo Dao Land’s people and devastating several regions.
• One Wonder True Lord brought the gravely injured Chen Daoyan before Chen Zhixing, but Chen Daoyan died before she could use him to threaten his grandson.
• Chen Zhixing taunted One Wonder True Lord, saying he had arranged for Ziwei Mountain and would keep tormenting Great Luo Dao Land, then his thought-incarnation exploded.