Chapter Summaries

Qian Gu's team found a map pointing to the Naxi Tribe's sacred land, but their first approach ended in a fierce retreat after scouts discovered them. After regrouping in a cave, Qian Gu devised a new diversion plan and sent his team to create distractions while seeking another route toward the sacred land.

• Qian Gu discovered a map of the world in an underground chamber and identified a mark as the Naxi Tribe's sacred land.
• Qian Gu led his team toward the sacred land, but Naxi Tribe scouts spotted them and wounded a team member.
• Qian Gu, Iron Wing, Gu Yang, and the team fought through the blockade and escaped their pursuers by crossing a stream before hiding in a cave.
• Qian Gu learned that Naxi Tribe warriors were gathering nearby and planned to distract them while some of his team approached the sacred land.
• After the Naxi Tribe's forbidden-ground guards surrounded the area, Qian Gu split his team into groups to make diversions with noise, smoke, and false tracks.

The Naxi Tribe sent its elite squad to ambush Qian Gu and his team as they tried to escape through the forest. After Qian Gu’s group temporarily broke away, Gu Yang drew the elite squad’s attention until his teammates arrived to join the fight.

• A Naxi Tribe elder ordered the elite squad to hunt down Qian Gu and his companions before dawn.
• Qian Gu led his team through the forest, evaded trackers, and escaped an ambush by using smoke bombs to reach cover behind a hill.
• Gu Yang left the hiding place to scout, spotted the elite squad, and signaled his team for support.
• Gu Yang fought and evaded the pursuers while trying to hold them off until help arrived.
• Qian Gu’s teammates reached Gu Yang and joined the battle against the Naxi Tribe’s elite squad.

Gu Yang, Qian Gu, and the Nine Nether team fought off the Naxi Tribe’s elite squad and fled east through the forest to the coast. After repairing an abandoned ship, they set sail at dawn toward an unknown destination.

• Gu Yang and Qian Gu helped drive back the Naxi Tribe’s elite squad, then led the team east to a concealed cave for shelter.
• The Naxi Tribe’s elite squad found them at the cave, forcing Qian Gu to order a breakout while Gu Yang and Iron Wing covered the retreat.
• The Naxi Tribe captain blocked their escape, but Gu Yang and Qian Gu wounded him before rejoining the team as it fled through the mountain path.
• After several days of forced travel, the team reached the coast and found temporary relief from their pursuers.
• The team repaired an abandoned ship, and Qian Gu and his companions sailed away at dawn.

Gu Yang and his team sailed across the sea, fought off a sea serpent, and survived a violent thunderstorm before reaching an abandoned harbor. They disembarked and began exploring the unknown land, where a new adventure awaited them.

• Gu Yang, Qian Gu, Iron Wing, and the team sailed across the sea, adapting to life aboard the ship as they traveled toward distant shores.
• A sea serpent attacked the ship, and Gu Yang, Qian Gu, and the team fought together until it sank beneath the waves.
• Half a month later, a thunderstorm struck, and Gu Yang directed the crew while Qian Gu protected the ship with magic and Iron Wing steered it through the waves.
• The team endured the storm for two hours, then repaired the ship and continued sailing once the weather cleared.
• Gu Yang spotted land, and Iron Wing guided the ship into an abandoned harbor, where the team disembarked.
• Gu Yang led the team inland, and Qian Gu reminded him that their arrival marked only the beginning of their adventure.

Gu Yang led his team across the new continent, discovering ancient ruins, unfamiliar wildlife, useful plants, and a lake with unusual aquatic life. After observing a previously unknown shelled creature at the lakeshore, the team remained poised to continue its exploration.

• Qian Gu divided the explorers into smaller teams, and Gu Yang became captain of one team and led it southeast into the forest.
• Gu Yang’s team avoided a swamp inhabited by giant lizards and found an abandoned ruin, where they recorded ancient symbols carved into a stone slab.
• The team discovered nutritious fruits and medicinal herbs, then observed and documented a group of brightly feathered Feather Deer.
• When a storm struck, Gu Yang led the team into a natural cave for shelter, then set out again after the rain passed.
• Gu Yang’s team followed a hidden trail across a grassland to a large lake, where they collected glowing purple aquatic plants for study.
• A huge unknown shelled creature approached the lake to drink, and Gu Yang’s team watched it quietly until it returned to the grass.

Gu Yang led his team to track a shelled creature to its family’s nest, then defended their lakeside camp from a pack of mutated creatures. The next morning, Gu Yang followed the creatures’ tracks to a massacre site and continued deeper into the continent behind an injured creature, hoping to uncover what had happened.

• Gu Yang followed a shelled creature to its nest, discovered several entrances, and had his team record the family’s habitat without disturbing it.
• Mutated creatures attacked the lakeside camp at night, but Gu Yang’s team struck their fragile tumor-like weak points and drove them back.
• After hearing cries in the night, Gu Yang suspected the creatures had attacked to protect something and split the team to investigate them and the shelled creature family.
• Gu Yang’s squad tracked the mutated creatures through the forest and found fresh blood, destruction, and signs of fierce fighting.
• Gu Yang and his team followed an injured mutated creature to a site littered with corpses and severed limbs, then continued deeper into the continent.

Gu Yang and his team observed signs of a social structure among the mutated creatures, then discovered unknown grayish-white creatures attacking their territory. They captured an injured mutated creature, fought off its pursuers, and escaped with it to safety.

• Gu Yang followed an injured mutated creature to a pit and saw a larger creature comfort it, leading him to suspect the creatures had social rules and bonds.
• Gu Yang returned to camp with his team and led a distant observation mission, where they recorded routines and signs of hierarchy among the mutated creatures.
• Unknown grayish-white creatures attacked the mutated creatures, and Gu Yang learned that the attackers had a nearby camp.
• Gu Yang ordered his team to capture an injured mutated creature and carry it away for study.
• Several mutated creatures pursued Gu Yang's team, forcing them to set traps and fight before escaping with the captured creature.

Gu Yang led his team back toward the shore with an injured, intelligent mutated creature, fighting off a pack of monsters along the way. At camp, the creature began healing rapidly and appeared to communicate with Gu Yang and Qian Gu, who were left facing its questions.

• Gu Yang ordered the team to retreat toward shore with the captured mutated creature, but blue-black monsters ambushed them in a valley.
• Gu Yang and his team fought through the pack, killed its giant leader, and escaped after the remaining monsters scattered.
• Gu Yang reunited with Qian Gu at camp and explained that the captured creature belonged to an intelligent tribe, prompting Qian Gu to order its treatment and observation.
• The creature's wounds began healing beneath glowing patches on its skin, and Gu Yang and Qian Gu recorded the unusual change.
• The creature opened its eyes, seemed to understand Gu Yang, and asked, "What are you? Why did you capture me?"

Gu Yang left Qian Gu to study how to communicate with the mutated creature, then led an expedition into the jungle in search of ancient ruins. The team encountered a Sentient Being that revealed the continent’s history at a stone altar and pointed them toward further secrets.

• Gu Yang asked Qian Gu to find a way to communicate with the mutated creature, then departed with the team the next morning.
• Gu Yang’s team found ancient Stone Pillars and fought a massive armored beast that charged from the jungle.
• The team discovered unusual flowers, a carved stone slab depicting an ancient battle, and a stone-paved path deeper into the jungle.
• Gu Yang and the team followed a mysterious melody and met a pale-blue Sentient Being, which accepted their food and invited them to follow.
• The Sentient Being led the team to a stone altar and sang, causing images of the continent’s ancient history to appear.
• Gu Yang thanked the Sentient Being, which pointed toward the jungle’s depths, and he prepared the team to continue exploring.

Gu Yang and his team explored an ancient underground civilization and uncovered the Star Vow, a covenant in which humanoid warriors gained power from the stars at the cost of their lives. After splitting up to search the cavern, Gu Yang's group found a star-like divine artifact, but his brief attempt to contact it brought no lasting response.

• Gu Yang led the team to an underground cavern, where carved pillars revealed that humanoid creatures had made a Star Vow with the stars to fight giant beasts, sacrificing their lives for Star Power.
• Gu Yang and the team studied reliefs of a star-shaped altar and a ritual in which divine artifacts and life force were offered in exchange for power from the stars.
• Gu Yang divided the team among three passages and led one group through the middle passage to an underground lake.
• Gu Yang's group found a glittering divine artifact on a stone platform in the lake and sensed a powerful force radiating from it.
• Gu Yang reached toward the artifact with his consciousness and felt warmth for an instant, but it did not respond again.

Gu Yang and his teammates deciphered the Astral Artifact’s symbols and activated it by recreating a star-based ritual. Following its light to a vast underground chamber, they awakened a second artifact core, which sent a pillar of light skyward as Gu Yang recited an ancient incantation.

• Gu Yang and his teammates matched the artifact’s symbols to carvings on a cave wall and used the depicted ritual to make the symbols rotate.
• The team identified constellations in the symbols’ paths, arranged themselves according to the Netherglow Constellation, and fully activated the Astral Artifact.
• Gu Yang followed a bright point in the artifact’s halo through underground chambers to a massive stone door, which the team opened with their totems and the ritual incantation.
• Gu Yang and his teammates entered a vast chamber and found a mysterious artifact core atop a star-shaped altar.
• The team joined hands on the altar to activate the core, which projected a pillar of light as Gu Yang touched it and recited an ancient incantation.

Gu Yang and his team entered a strange world through the Light Gate and encountered the native people of the Nine Nether World. After Elder Karl tested their intentions, Gu Yang solved the Star Disc trial and earned the right to study the natives’ inheritance.

• Gu Yang and his team passed through the Light Gate and explored a starlit world filled with strange plants, crystalline stones, and star-shaped slabs.
• Gu Yang activated a glowing star pattern on one slab, then led the team to a plaza where they saw moving figures among the Star Trees.
• Gu Yang recognized the blue-skinned natives as an original race of the Nine Nether World and spoke with their leader, Karl, who led the team to his tribe’s stone building.
• Karl told Gu Yang that outsiders could study the tribe’s inheritance only after passing a trial, and presented the Star Disc.
• Gu Yang used a star chart from his memories to light the Star Disc’s points and complete its pattern, passing the trial as Karl welcomed the team to their world.

Gu Yang and half his team solved the Star Disc and entered the Star Trial, where Karl secretly sent them into an isolated Astral Secret Realm. Gu Yang defeated the wolf- and dragon-shaped star beasts and charged at the qilin-shaped beast as the next challenge began.

• Karl announced that only the team members who solved the Star Disc could undergo the Star Trial, and Gu Yang encouraged those who failed.
• Karl led the successful team members to a circular chamber, where they endured the cleansing of starlight before everyone vanished from the platform.
• Gu Yang awoke alone in the Astral Secret Realm and faced phantom wolf, dragon, and qilin star beasts.
• Gu Yang adapted to the beasts' attacks and shattered the wolf-shaped phantom, then defeated the dragon-shaped phantom with a Star Power-infused punch.
• The qilin-shaped star beast spread golden flames across the realm, and Gu Yang charged forward to meet its challenge.

Gu Yang defeated the Star Qilin-shaped star beast and passed the first stage of the Astral Secret Realm trial. He entered the Star Maze, defeated a star-chart-patterned beast, and continued deeper into the maze.

• Gu Yang exploited an opening to weaken the Star Qilin-shaped star beast, then destroyed its phantom with a sphere of condensed Star Power.
• After recovering, Gu Yang followed the Star Power to a passage leading to the Star Maze, the trial's second stage.
• Gu Yang entered a floating star and navigated its labyrinthine passages using his perception of Star Power.
• A powerful star beast emerged from the maze wall and attacked Gu Yang with blades of starlight.
• Gu Yang struck the beast's chest, then pierced its heart with a sword of starlight, reducing it to scattered specks.
• Gu Yang steadied his breathing and continued onward through the Star Maze.

Gu Yang crossed the Sea of Stars and fought the five shadows guarding the Star Maze’s final trial. After defeating all five, he reached the maze’s exit.

• Gu Yang navigated the Sea of Stars by guiding its rays into a passage and continued toward the maze’s core.
• Five shadows appeared, and Gu Yang fought them using Star Power and star techniques.
• Gu Yang destroyed the first shadow with Starburst and a Star-Piercing Cone, then pierced the fifth shadow with a spear of starlight.
• Gu Yang defeated the second shadow with a spear and a rain of starlight swords, then shattered the third shadow’s formation and body with his Star-Shattering Fist.
• Gu Yang split the fourth shadow with a massive sword of starlight, ending the final trial, and continued toward the Star Maze’s exit.

Gu Yang gained the Star Body Refinement Art from a Star Tablet and strengthened his Star Power, but the inheritance triggered a dangerous clash with his Nine Nether Power. After the Nine Nether Power transformed into Life Force, he survived and passed the third-stage trial, then faced an opening gate of light leading onward.

• Gu Yang left the Star Maze and discovered a Star Tablet that passed ancient knowledge and the first three sections of the Star Body Refinement Art to him.
• Gu Yang cultivated the Star Body Refinement Art for several hours, strengthening his body and increasing his Star Power.
• After leaving the tablet, Gu Yang's Star Power and Nine Nether Power clashed violently, but his Nine Nether Power transformed into Life Force and healed his injuries.
• Gu Yang followed a stone path to an arena and activated a Star Formation Disk, summoning armored warrior illusions to attack him.
• Gu Yang defeated the final warrior illusion, passed the third-stage trial, and watched a gate of light open before him.

Gu Yang received the next inheritance of the Star Body Refinement Art, transformed his body and Star Power, and entered the third stage of the Star Trial. He began challenging the Stellar Array and reached the center of its first ring.

• Gu Yang crossed the Light Gate, reached the enormous star at the center of a vortex, and received the next inheritance of the Star Body Refinement Art.
• Gu Yang endured a painful breakthrough that strengthened his body and transformed his Star Power into a purer, more powerful force.
• Gu Yang advanced deeper into the starry sky, resisted energy storms, and touched a dazzling star to begin the third stage of the Star Trial.
• Gu Yang entered the first ring of the Stellar Array and deciphered its fluctuations to overcome its repulsive force.
• Gu Yang passed increasingly severe array challenges and reached the center of the first ring of light.

Gu Yang broke through the Star Road’s successive astral halos and faced the final trial: a battle against stellar phantom beasts. As the beasts overwhelmed him with increasingly fierce attacks, he countered with a Starry Spear aimed at the core of a dragon-shaped phantom’s tornado.

• Gu Yang deciphered and broke through the first two halos, then advanced through increasingly complex formations until he reached the final halo.
• Gu Yang activated the final halo’s core, summoning a pack of stellar phantom beasts as guardians of the Star Road’s subsequent inheritance.
• A phoenix-shaped beast attacked first, and Gu Yang dodged its starlight arrows before leaping onto a charging rhinoceros and probing its controlling law.
• Gu Yang fought the beasts, destroyed the phoenix, wolf, and tiger, and kept searching for weaknesses as the remaining phantoms grew more savage.
• A dragon-shaped beast became a tornado and swept toward Gu Yang, who blocked it with a stellar shield and thrust a Starry Spear toward the tornado’s core.

Gu Yang defeated the Starry Light-Shadow Dragon and cleared the Astral Formation, earning the starry sky’s recognition as a Child of the Stars. After touching the formation’s core and gaining power, he vanished as the next journey began.

• Gu Yang fought through the Starry Light-Shadow beasts, whose strength grew as they absorbed the power of their fallen companions.
• Gu Yang faced the empowered Starry Light-Shadow Dragon and pierced its brow with his spear, destroying it with Star Power.
• Gu Yang realized he had cleared the Astral Formation and walked toward its dazzling core star.
• Gu Yang touched the core star, rapidly increased his Star Power, and gained the starry sky’s recognition as a Child of the Stars.
• A humming sound rang out, starlight bloomed, and Gu Yang vanished from the formation.

Gu Yang entered the Frost Star Trial, absorbed the blue star’s icy power, and defeated the Ice Crystal Giant Beasts that appeared on the frozen plain. The Ice Crystal Beast King then challenged him, and Gu Yang was injured while searching for a way to overcome its superior strength.

• Gu Yang resisted the Frost Star’s freezing power and gained control over its icy force.
• Gu Yang used a starlight spear to defeat the Ice Crystal Giant Beasts that attacked him.
• After Gu Yang defeated the herd, an Ice Crystal Giant Beast King appeared in a blizzard.
• Gu Yang charged the Beast King but was repeatedly blasted back by its powerful claws.
• Gu Yang changed tactics and circled the Beast King, but an ice claw grazed his shoulder and left him bleeding.