Chapter Summaries

Gu Yang fought a massive, agile giant beast whose scales and bone spikes resisted his attacks. He found a weakness in its abdomen and repeatedly struck there until the beast collapsed.

• Gu Yang launched an attack, dodged the giant beast’s tail, and clashed with its bone spikes as he searched for an opening.
• Gu Yang noticed that the giant beast’s abdomen loosened when it swung its tail, but his first thrust missed as the beast twisted away.
• Gu Yang sensed the giant beast growing sluggish and drove his spear into its abdomen, injuring it.
• Gu Yang evaded the wounded beast’s attacks and struck its abdomen again, keeping his spear embedded as Star Power surged through the wound.
• The giant beast’s struggles weakened, its eyes dimmed, and it collapsed to the ground.

After defeating a giant beast, Gu Yang discovered crystals and patterns that led him to a cavern and a crystal revealing the vast, beast-filled Star Sand Land. The visions showed no people, leaving him to realize the world was entirely without human inhabitants.

• Gu Yang examined the giant beast's corpse and concluded that the Star Sand Monsters were puppets modeled after giant beasts.
• Gu Yang found blue crystals and patterned sand that resonated with his Star Power and pointed toward a hidden place.
• Gu Yang followed the patterns to a glowing underground cavern and touched a massive crystal that flooded his mind with information.
• The crystal showed Gu Yang the land's landscapes and many powerful giant beasts, including creatures stronger than the one he had defeated.
• Gu Yang realized that the enormous world contained no people.

Gu Yang explored the land and a twisting cave, searching for signs of sentient beings and clues to its mysteries. At an underground lake, he fought a giant serpent-like beast and drove his Star Spear into its eye.

• Gu Yang found no signs of humans in the crystal's visions and decided to explore the land for lost sentient beings and its secrets.
• Gu Yang followed strange symbols through a mountain valley into a hidden cave and discovered mysterious wall totems and an underground lake.
• A giant serpent-like beast burst from the lake and attacked Gu Yang.
• Gu Yang dodged the beast's strikes, pierced its tail, and clung to its back as it tried to crush him against the cave walls.
• Gu Yang unleashed Starfall and plunged his Star Spear into the beast's eye.

Gu Yang killed the giant beast in the underground lake and explored the mysterious island, uncovering ancient mechanisms, texts, and artifacts. After finding evidence that Sentient Beings existed in this world, he returned to the plaza with new discoveries and questions about the island’s secrets.

• Gu Yang evaded the giant beast’s attacks and pierced its heart with the Star Spear, killing it.
• Gu Yang reached the island, found a symbol-carved stone, and used it to activate a formation that opened a staircase underground.
• Gu Yang solved the gemstone mechanism on a stone door and explored a plaza with several patterned doors and a central statue.
• Gu Yang searched the sun-carved door’s room, taking a volume of ancient knowledge, a short sword, and a glowing ring.
• Gu Yang explored the tree-carved door, activated a bronze disc, and found wooden slips about Star Power and a golden key in a hidden chamber.
• Gu Yang returned to the plaza, certain that Sentient Beings existed within the world.

Gu Yang explored the island’s hidden chambers and uncovered a Star God Clan sanctuary, where he met Star Watcher and learned that the clan had vanished in his future. Star Watcher suspected a calamity from beyond the heavens and said Gu Yang’s arrival gave the clan a chance to prepare.

• Gu Yang found a bamboo scroll describing how to form contracts with and command Giant Beasts, along with a map of important locations, and packed both away.
• Gu Yang used the golden key to open a passage beneath a dragon statue, where he found a glowing badge and then entered an underground hall filled with star crystals.
• Gu Yang touched a sphere at the center of the hall, activating the crystals and revealing a star map before a star-shaped phantom appeared.
• The phantom introduced himself as Star Watcher of the Star God Clan and recognized that Gu Yang came from the future.
• Star Watcher said the Star God Clan might have been destroyed by a calamity from beyond the heavens and thanked Gu Yang because his arrival could help them prepare.

After learning of the Star God Clan and a possible calamity from beyond the heavens, Gu Yang searched the forest for clues and discovered a hidden cave covered in Star God Script. A dinosaur-like beast ambushed him there, and the chapter ended with Gu Yang killing it by tearing open its vulnerable abdomen.

• Gu Yang left the island and retraced his route through the cave labyrinth, emerging into a forest.
• Gu Yang found Star God Script carved into a moss-covered boulder and uncovered a concealed cave entrance.
• Gu Yang entered the cave and discovered a stone platform engraved with more Star God Script.
• A massive dinosaur-like beast attacked Gu Yang, who identified its abdomen as a weak point and fought back with his spear.
• Gu Yang used Starfall, Star Shattering, and Star Piercing to wound the beast, then split open its abdomen and killed it.

Gu Yang discovered a hidden underground palace and used its crystal ball to witness the Star God Clan’s origins, rise, and decline after battling a dark force he suspected was Nine Nether. Guided by the metal plaque, he found another Star God mechanism in the forest and descended a newly revealed staircase.

• Gu Yang found a metal plaque hidden in the cavern and used it to open a passage leading to an underground palace.
• Gu Yang touched the palace’s crystal ball and witnessed the Star God Clan’s origins, civilization, war against a dark force, and eventual decline.
• Gu Yang suspected Nine Nether had invaded and possibly destroyed the Star God Clan, then left the cavern to search for more clues.
• Gu Yang followed the plaque’s resonance into a forest and uncovered carved patterns beneath fallen leaves.
• Gu Yang activated a circular mark with the plaque, causing a staircase to rise from the ground, and cautiously descended it.

Gu Yang activated an ancient Star God altar and experienced a vision of the stars, which greatly enhanced his Star Power despite his inability to bind a Destiny Star without the right cultivation technique. Days later, while exploring and cultivating a giant-beast contract technique, he discovered a teleportation array and stepped onto it.

• Gu Yang placed his metal plaque in the underground platform, awakening its Star God totems and connecting his consciousness to the stars.
• Gu Yang sensed a bright star that resonated with him and strengthened his Star Power, though he lacked the technique needed to bind it as his Destiny Star.
• Gu Yang returned through the Stone Door by channeling his transformed Star Power, then left the underground palace to continue searching for a Destiny Star cultivation technique.
• Several days later, Gu Yang rested in a cave and studied a manual for circulating soul power and forming contracts with giant beasts.
• Gu Yang detected a hidden altar emitting power, activated its patterns with Star Power, recognized a teleportation array, and stepped onto it.

Gu Yang gained the Destiny Star Art by studying the star memories in the Starry Hall and completed a simulated binding with a Destiny Star. He left the hall resolved to find his true star and investigate the dark invasion and the Star God Clan’s destruction.

• Gu Yang followed the ancient passage through the star-filled platform and passed through the Star Gate into the Starry Hall.
• He touched the glowing Runes on the planet model, received star-language memories, and experienced an inheritance that strengthened and purified his Star Power.
• Gu Yang spent half a month in secluded cultivation, deciphering the memories and awakening the true Destiny Star Art.
• He used the planet model to simulate finding and binding with a bright star, confirming that he could bind with his own Destiny Star once he found it.
• Gu Yang left the Starry Hall and returned to the familiar star region, intending to seek his Destiny Star and learn about the dark invasion and the Star God Clan’s annihilation.

Gu Yang left the Starry Hall’s starfield and crossed a grassland toward a mountain forest, seeking the truth behind the darkness’s invasion. There he battled the forest’s giant beast, but the Starry Spear shattered during their final collision.

• Gu Yang emerged onto a vast grassland and watched a herd of horse-like Giant Beasts run across it.
• Gu Yang crossed the grassland, entered the mountain forest, and followed a narrow trail toward a faint wild aura.
• A massive, tusked Giant Beast ambushed Gu Yang, and he summoned the Starry Spear to fight it.
• Gu Yang evaded the beast’s attacks and wounded it with Star Power, then met its final charge with the move Star Shattering.
• The Giant Beast collided with Gu Yang’s spear, which snapped into fragments of starlight.

Gu Yang defeated the Giant Beast, then followed a strange birdcall to a hidden valley and discovered an ancient formation that revealed the source of the black qi. The chapter ended with him approaching a black hole that poured out the dark power.

• Gu Yang killed the wounded Giant Beast after severing its spine, then left its corpse for smaller beasts to consume.
• Gu Yang followed a stream deeper into the forest and found a hidden valley with an ancient formation covered in glowing Runes.
• Gu Yang touched a Stone Pillar and was transported into a radiant space, where a Rune marked his brow and sharpened his soul and perception.
• Gu Yang touched a Starstone and received information about the space, then followed its guidance toward the source of the black qi.
• Gu Yang reached a massive black hole that emitted writhing tendrils of black qi and approached it behind a Star Power barrier.

Gu Yang entered the black-mist hole after recognizing its power as Nine Nether Power and found himself in a dangerous Nine Nether space. He fought through its creatures and wounded a three-headed Giant Beast, but the beast began regenerating its destroyed head.

• Gu Yang recognized the black mist as Nine Nether Power and let the hole’s suction pull him into another space.
• Gu Yang explored the fog-filled realm and defeated the shadow that attacked him.
• Gu Yang fought off numerous Nine Nether Creatures, improving his control over Nine Nether Power despite being wounded.
• A three-headed Giant Beast appeared, and Gu Yang attacked it with a spear formed from Nine Nether Power.
• Gu Yang pierced the Giant Beast’s lion head, then leaped away as the remaining heads prepared to attack.
• Gu Yang saw black fog gathering near the destroyed head and forming a new lion head.

Gu Yang defeated a three-headed Giant Beast and waves of Nine Nether Lifeforms as he pressed deeper into the Nine Nether Land. After a new group of armored Nine Nether Creatures appeared, he began fighting them, only for another massive wave to form and make the battle look prolonged.

• Gu Yang killed the three-headed Giant Beast by destroying its snake, demon, and lion heads in turn.
• Gu Yang fought off swarming specters by drawing them in with Nine Nether Power and cutting them apart with his spear.
• Gu Yang continued deeper into the Nine Nether Land, where armored Nine Nether Creatures emerged from the ground.
• Gu Yang struck the creatures’ weak points and eliminated more than half of them.
• Another massive group of identical Nine Nether Lifeforms formed, and Gu Yang realized the battle would drag on.

Gu Yang fought through the Nine Nether Creatures, then challenged the Devil Master, the strongest being in the Nine Nether Space. He targeted its vulnerable right knee and wounded it, but the battle continued as the Devil Master fought back.

• Gu Yang slaughtered the Nine Nether Creatures that blocked his path and pressed deeper into the Nine Nether Space.
• Gu Yang encountered the Devil Master and stood his ground as the enormous creature prepared to attack.
• Gu Yang dodged the Devil Master's assaults and identified its eye and right knee as vulnerable targets.
• Gu Yang repeatedly struck the Devil Master's right knee until its scales cracked and its armor broke apart.
• Gu Yang pierced the knee joint with his spear, drawing black blood and provoking the Devil Master's desperate counterattack.
• Gu Yang evaded the Devil Master's tail and stabbed its battered knee again.

Gu Yang fought the Devil Master in the Nine Nether Space, steadily breaking through its defenses and interrupting its desperate attempts to unleash its power. He finally destroyed the Devil Master and stood ready to explore the now-quiet space.

• Gu Yang evaded the Devil Master's charge and drove his spear into its chest, piercing its shell and flooding it with Nine Nether Power.
• Gu Yang pierced the Devil Master's brow, then damaged its left wing and interrupted its attempt to burn its life force.
• Gu Yang repeatedly struck the Devil Master's weak abdomen, breaking through its defenses and thwarting its efforts to gather power.
• Gu Yang tore through the Devil Master's swollen body with a powerful spear thrust, then pierced its heart.
• The Devil Master exploded into black fragments, and Gu Yang confirmed its annihilation as the Nine Nether Space returned to calm.

Gu Yang learned from Nine Nether Space’s memories that ancient races had once sealed the Nine Nether using Star Power, and he set out to find a way to repeat their feat. He gathered Rune fragments across the wilderness and assembled an almost complete star map, leaving him with a clearer path toward sealing Nine Nether Space.

• Gu Yang touched the light within Nine Nether Space and witnessed how the Nine Nether invaded the world and how ancient races used Star Power to seal it.
• Gu Yang returned to a ruined city and decided to search for ancient ruins and clues about Star Power.
• Gu Yang found glowing totems on a cliff and obtained a fragment covered in strange Runes.
• Gu Yang discovered more Rune fragments in the wilderness, including among eroded rocks and beneath a dead tree.
• Gu Yang arranged his fragments by a bonfire and formed an incomplete star map that he believed could help seal Nine Nether Space.
• Gu Yang continued searching the desert and gathered more fragments as the star map neared completion.

Gu Yang gathered the thirteen Rune fragments and fused them into a complete Rune, discovering that it embodied the world's origin and could seal Nine Nether Space. Seven days later, he opened a Light Gate and entered Nine Nether Space again, determined to seal it and rewrite history.

• Gu Yang searched the wilderness and collected the seventh through twelfth Rune fragments from an oasis, dead woods, a stone forest, and other places.
• He found the final, thirteenth Rune fragment hidden in a Stone Tablet, and all the fragments joined together when he arranged them.
• Gu Yang poured Star Power into the fragments and was drawn into the world's origin space, where he learned they manifested that origin.
• The fragments fused into a complete Rune, and Gu Yang bonded with it, gaining its power and accepting the responsibility of sealing Nine Nether Space.
• Seven days later, Gu Yang used the Rune's incantation to create a Light Gate and entered Nine Nether Space, vowing to seal it and rewrite history.

Gu Yang battled the Nine Nether Space’s resistance and sealed its vortex, allowing the surviving Star God Clan members to hope for their homeland’s recovery. But in a distant dimension, a black star awakened and began breaking the newly reinforced seal.

• Gu Yang entered the Nine Nether Space’s core and used the Runes to attack its vortex.
• The Nine Nether Space unleashed storms and black lightning, but Gu Yang poured all his strength into the Runes and sealed the vortex.
• The surviving members of the Star God Clan witnessed the victory, performed a ritual where Gu Yang vanished, and began rebuilding their homeland.
• A black star in a distant dimension gathered Nine Nether Power into a vertical eye that dismissed the hope of rewriting the future.
• The vertical eye’s unseen force caused the newly reinforced seal in the Nine Nether Space to crack and begin shattering.

Gu Yang awoke on a deserted island in the Vast Desolation World and confirmed he had returned from the Nine Nether World. He left the island with his Nine Nether Power and Star Power converted into vastly increased Magic Power, bringing him close to a breakthrough.

• Gu Yang explored the deserted island, sensed that he could use Magic Power, and realized he had returned to the Vast Desolation World.
• A Longevity Realm sea beast attacked Gu Yang, but he killed it with the Great Five Elements Barrier and the Golden Blade Technique.
• The world's pressure caused Gu Yang's Nine Nether Power to dissipate and transform into Magic Power, rapidly strengthening his cultivation and senses.
• Gu Yang cultivated through the night as his Star Power converted into purer, more powerful Magic Power and the Stellar Body Tempering Technique marked his body with star-chart patterns.
• At dawn, Gu Yang sensed that his strength had undergone a qualitative leap and planned to return to Canglong Island to fuse his Divine Abilities and reach the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Gu Yang fought his way across the Sea of Death and reached land after half a month, determined to return to Canglong Island. Near Arid State, a hostile white giant eagle descended toward him, and Gu Yang prepared to fight.

• Gu Yang used the Great Five Elements Barrier, Tidal Gravity, and a thousandfold Golden Blade Technique to kill a colossal sea beast blocking his route.
• Gu Yang continued through the Sea of Death, fighting and killing several more massive sea beasts over the next half month.
• Gu Yang crossed the Sea of Death, landed on familiar grassland, and pressed onward toward Canglong Island.
• As Gu Yang neared Arid State, a white giant eagle spotted him and swooped down, prompting him to ready the Great Five Elements Barrier.