Chapter Summaries

After securing Brushmaking Pavilion’s support through Duan Shuyun, Lin Heng planned to begin the Crossing Strife Operation by sending a group to Heavenly Action Continent. Chen Changqin agreed to go, hoping to find Sun-Continuing Grass for Lian'er.

• Jing Yezhou, Shangtang Hui, and Ying Wenhao argued after leaving Prince Qi's Mansion, with Ying Wenhao criticizing Shangtang Hui for insulting the Dugu Clan and warning against seeking help from Nine Dust Hall.
• Hou Bozhong apologized to Duan Shuyun and gifted her Gong Panzi's Writing Diagram, a Literary Path secret that could help her cultivate.
• Lin Heng thanked Hou Bozhong on Duan Shuyun's behalf and asked him to bring the heads of the other four families to Prince Qi's Mansion the next day to sign with Tianxuan.
• Lin Heng privately instructed Duan Shuyun to carry out a plan, then summoned Bai Yi and Chen Changqin to discuss the Crossing Strife Operation.
• Lin Heng declared his ambition to unite the Immortal Realm and establish a Heavenly Court, while Chen Changqin agreed to travel to Heavenly Action Continent to seek Sun-Continuing Grass for Lian'er.

Lin Heng planned an expedition to the Heavenly Action Continent to find Sun-Continuing Grass, while Sun Hao joined to uncover his origins. Meanwhile, Dugu Yueli studied Lin Heng’s portrait aboard a hidden starship and looked forward to meeting her brother and rival.

• Chen Changqin explained that he was helping Lin Heng find Sun-Continuing Grass so he and Lian'er could reunite across the realms, and Bai Yi agreed to join the expedition.
• Lin Heng said he would bring members of the Star God Temple and Lin Jinren as a vanguard, then set the departure for two days later.
• Sun Hao told Lin Heng that Sun Daoya was not his biological father and that he wanted to investigate his origins on the Heavenly Action Continent; Lin Heng agreed to take him.
• Aboard a hidden starship, Qin Hongyi urged Dugu Yueli to interact with her family and stop fixating on Lin Heng’s portrait.
• Dugu Yueli defended her interest in Lin Heng, saying she believed he was more capable than her family claimed, and hoped he would arrive so they could exchange blows.

Lin Heng left Dingyang with a small group aboard a star boat to scout a landing site on the Heavenly Action Continent, while Duan Shuyun stayed behind to manage affairs. After Bai Zihe described a possible landing in the Southern Domain, Lin Heng returned to his room and opened the door to an unexpected visitor.

• Lin Heng reassured Yun Yao and Duan Shuyun that only a scouting party would travel ahead, then left Dingyang after entrusting its affairs to Duan Shuyun.
• Lin Heng joined Bai Yi, Chen Changqin, and the others, and their star boat crossed into the Star Sea within six hours.
• Lin Heng held a meeting aboard the star boat, where Su Yang, Su Chuxi, and Bai Zihe introduced themselves.
• Bai Zihe explained that his family had fled the Heavenly Action Continent and proposed landing at the Immortal Sea Summit, where they might ally with the Ten Wastelands Demon Domain.
• Lin Heng praised Bai Zihe's proposal and returned to his room, where an unexpected woman bumped her head against his chest when he opened the door.

Su Qiubai warned Lin Heng that Bai Zihe’s account of his origins and blindness did not add up, prompting Lin Heng to suspect he was a missing Child of Fortune connected to Medicine King Valley. Lin Heng considered changing course from Immortal Sea Summit, while Su Wanyue arrived and taunted Su Qiubai about dressing for Lin Heng.

• Su Qiubai told Lin Heng that Bai Zihe claimed to be from the Central Domain, but his knowledge of the Southern Domain and story about his clan’s deaths seemed suspicious.
• Su Qiubai explained that Bai Zihe’s eyes appeared to have been gouged out, and Lin Heng connected this to a Child of Fortune whose eyes had been taken by someone of the Medical Path.
• Lin Heng warned Su Qiubai to keep their conversation secret and said they might need to change course instead of heading to Immortal Sea Summit.
• Su Qiubai encountered Su Wanyue outside Lin Heng’s room, and the two exchanged insults.
• Su Wanyue said she had dressed up because a woman adorned herself for the one who pleased her, provoking Su Qiubai.

Su Wanyue proposed that Lin Heng lead an expedition to the Star-Suppressing Tower, warning that Immortal Sea Summit might be a trap. She also hinted that she was willing to pursue the marriage alliance with Lin Heng, leaving him bewildered.

• Su Moxie scolded Su Qiubai for arguing with Su Wanyue and told her to uphold the Su family's dignity.
• Su Wanyue told Lin Heng that her family wanted to use his fortune to explore the Star-Suppressing Tower during its rare ethereal period.
• Su Wanyue warned Lin Heng that Immortal Sea Summit was likely a trap and said Bai Zihe might be leading the team into danger.
• Lin Heng agreed to visit the Star-Suppressing Tower first and decided to split the forces, keeping that plan secret.
• Su Wanyue asked whether Lin Heng's engagement to Su Qiubai remained in place, then hinted she herself was willing to take Su Qiubai's place.

Jiang Jingyi turned Lin Heng’s false rumors about artifacts on Heavenly Action Continent into a real intelligence operation, while Lin Heng’s group split up during their journey. Su Qiubai’s suspicions about Bai Zihe grew, and Su Moxie urged her to pursue Lin Heng before Su Wanyue did.

• Lin Heng reacted with amusement to the rivalry between Su Wanyue and Su Qiubai.
• Duan Shuyun spread news that the Ink Rhino Box, Realm Map, and martial path Holy Artifact had appeared on Heavenly Action Continent.
• Jiang Jingyi recognized the rumors as Lin Heng’s ploy and ordered the Shadow Alliance to announce that the Beauty Record and Mountains and Rivers Map were in the Central Domain.
• The Shadow Alliance’s messages spread across Heavenly Profound Continent, prompting more people to seek passage to Heavenly Action Continent and bringing Meng Yutong a flood of customers.
• Lin Heng, Bai Yi, Su Wanyue, and Su Yang left the others to search for the Star-Suppressing Tower, while Su Qiubai and the rest continued toward the Eastern Approach Land.
• Su Moxie agreed with Su Qiubai that Bai Zihe’s reaction was suspicious, then encouraged her to act quickly before Su Wanyue won Lin Heng’s affection.

Lin Heng and the others found the wreckage of a group of cultivators near the Star-Suppressing Tower and suspected Demonic Path forces had attacked them. Lin Heng spotted a trail of blood and led the group southwest to search for a survivor who could explain what had happened.

• Lin Heng left his seclusion after Bai Yi reported a disturbance and found ruined Star Boats and the bodies of cultivators, including a dead Spirit Transformation cultivator.
• Su Wanyue found a waist token marked “Snow Region,” while Lin Heng and Su Yang concluded the victims had likely been attacked by powerful Demonic Path cultivators.
• Lin Heng decided to follow faint traces of blood he had detected with his Dao Eye, hoping to find a survivor and learn what had happened at the Star-Suppressing Tower.
• Su Yang questioned whether the blood trail belonged to an injured attacker, but Lin Heng argued that the wreckage's direction and the nearby forbidden zone pointed to the Star-Suppressing Tower.
• Bai Yi challenged Lin Heng's reasoning and asked why any survivors could have escaped, and Lin Heng mocked him for being impatient.

Lin Heng deduced that a surviving Six Paths Sect cultivator had stayed behind to help others escape, then found the sect’s survivors hiding on a star island. Young Mistress Pei Danxue revealed that the Heavenly Demon Hall had pursued them over both a Star Stone and news of a Gate to the Upper Realm.

• Lin Heng reasoned that a powerful Six Paths Sect cultivator had fought back to buy time for the younger disciples to flee, and Su Yang and Su Wanyue accepted his explanation.
• Su Yang detected a concealed formation on a drifting star island, where Pei Danxue and seven other Six Paths Sect members were hiding.
• Lin Heng broke the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, and Bai Yi caught the Star Stone that flew from Pei Danxue’s hand.
• Lin Heng subdued Pei Danxue’s group and questioned her about the Six Paths Sect’s losses and the Heavenly Demon Hall’s pursuit.
• Lin Heng pointed out that Pei Danxue had concealed part of the truth, so she admitted the Heavenly Demon Hall also wanted to suppress news that the Gate to the Upper Realm had opened at the Star-Suppressing Tower.

Lin Heng forced Pei Danxue to guide the group to the Star-Suppressing Tower after learning that people who found major opportunities there could be trapped. As the starship set out, Su Wanyue reflected on the responsibilities of a saintess while Su Yang considered pursuing Lin Heng as a match for their family.

• Lin Heng questioned Pei Danxue about the starstone and the Star-Suppressing Tower, then inferred that a change inside had forced the Six Paths Sect to withdraw.
• Lin Heng compelled Pei Danxue to lead the group to the tower, warning that her companions would have little chance of surviving without his help.
• The group boarded the starship and headed toward the Star-Suppressing Tower, with Bai Yi piloting and Lin Heng in command.
• Su Yang praised Lin Heng's sharp judgment and wondered why the Northern Continent's Star God Temple had not pursued its marriage contract with him.
• Su Wanyue explained that Saintess Qiu Bai might resist being treated as a tool for an alliance, then said a saintess had to shoulder responsibility for her family.
• Su Yang suggested that their family could pursue Lin Heng instead, but Su Wanyue teased him about secretly visiting a matchmaker, leaving him embarrassed.

Lin Heng and the Six Paths Sect survivors reached the Star-Suppressing Tower, where its gate-protecting envoys confronted them. Lin Heng defeated and absorbed the Heavenly Demon Hall envoy with the Human Emperor Banner, leaving Su Wanyue and the others convinced he looked like a demonic cultivator.

• Lin Heng and his companions approached the Star-Suppressing Tower, where three gate-protecting envoys blocked their way and recognized Pei Danxue's group as Six Paths Sect remnants.
• The Heavenly Demon Hall envoy demanded their starstone, and Lin Heng fought him while Su Yang watched the other two envoys.
• Lin Heng used the five elements and the Sword of Time to destroy the envoy's Heavenly Demon Soul-Devouring Banner, badly injuring him.
• Lin Heng summoned the Human Emperor Banner, suppressed the envoy, and absorbed his body and soul into it.
• Su Wanyue and Su Yang were shocked by Lin Heng's banner, and Su Wanyue agreed that he did look like a demonic cultivator.

Lin Heng and his companions passed the Star-Suppressing Tower’s guardians, then uncovered that Pei Danxue had deceived them to exploit the enmity between Six Paths Sect and Heavenly Demon Hall. Lin Heng killed Pei Danxue, Su Wanyue killed the remaining disciples, and the group entered the tower.

• Lin Heng’s Human Emperor Banner intimidated the gate guardians, and an Elder of Purple Dusk Sect let the group pass.
• Su Wanyue questioned why the guardians had appeared, prompting Lin Heng to realize Pei Danxue had used them to kill her enemy from Heavenly Demon Hall.
• Su Yang exposed Pei Danxue’s scheme, and Lin Heng lifted her with an invisible hand and snapped her neck.
• The remaining Six Paths Sect disciples attacked Lin Heng, and Su Wanyue beheaded all five.
• Lin Heng searched Pei Danxue’s soul, confirmed there was no three-force blockade, and explained he had initially hoped to recruit the Snow Region group.
• Lin Heng jumped through the vortex gate leading into the Star-Suppressing Tower.

Lin Heng followed the Creation Star Stone to a hidden scripture in the Star-Suppressing Tower, but reading it trapped his mind. The scripture triggered a Star Wheel phenomenon, leaving the tower’s veteran cultivators stunned that anyone had comprehended it.

• Lin Heng and his companions entered the Star-Suppressing Tower’s first level, where Su Yang warned them to avoid disturbing the ancient corpses and suggested they explore carefully.
• Lin Heng followed the warming star stone to a plaza, where its light revealed hidden inscriptions on a stone pillar.
• Lin Heng’s divine sense became trapped as he read the inscriptions, while two old cultivators on the third level recognized the scripture as a deadly trap and expected him to die.
• Bai Yi and the others found Lin Heng sitting unresponsive before the pillar, and Su Yang suspected the pillar had affected him.
• The pillar sank and illuminated the hidden inscriptions, producing a Star Wheel phenomenon that spread through the tower.
• The old cultivators recognized the phenomenon and realized that Lin Heng had comprehended the forbidden Star Wheel Ancient Scripture.

Lin Heng overcame the Star Wheel Ancient Scripture’s assault on his consciousness by using the Boundless Heavenly Stele, but his breakthrough left him in a dangerous state. Hua Qi sealed him inside her Heart-Linking Lotus and exhausted her Divine Source to protect the others, and the chapter ended with Lin Heng recovering her while Bai Yi and Su Yang asked what he had comprehended.

• Lin Heng used the Boundless Heavenly Stele and the Great Void Divine Image to resist the Star Wheel Ancient Scripture and make the stone pillar collapse.
• A divine light surged through the Star-Suppressing Tower as Lin Heng’s body transformed and a six-petaled lotus grew around him.
• Hua Qi appeared and used her Heart-Linking Lotus to seal Lin Heng, exhausting her remaining Divine Source as Bai Yi and Su Wanyue watched.
• The lotus shattered, and Lin Heng emerged bloodied before clearing himself with his Water Element Body.
• Lin Heng realized Hua Qi had intervened to suppress the Boundless Heavenly Stele, then drew profound qi from the Human Emperor Banner to help her recover.
• Bai Yi and Su Yang asked Lin Heng what had happened and whether he had comprehended something.

Lin Heng learned that the Star-Suppressing Tower was a trap designed to sacrifice cultivators, then consulted Saint Ye about the boundary stele’s hidden scripture. Saint Ye proposed using Lin Heng’s Mirror Person to claim the scripture, but Lin Heng devised a riskier plan involving the Human Emperor Banner.

• Lin Heng told Bai Yi and the others that the tower’s hidden scriptures trapped those who tried to comprehend them, then led the group toward the second floor.
• Lin Heng used the star stone to reveal the second floor’s boundary stele and brought Saint Ye and Little Black out of the System Space.
• Saint Ye identified the scripture as the Six Paths of Reincarnation Scripture and explained that the tower’s nine realms were a sacrifice array created by a Mortal World Immortal.
• Saint Ye suggested moving the boundary stele into Lin Heng’s Small World so his Mirror Person could comprehend the scripture and take the karmic backlash.
• Lin Heng proposed putting the stele in the Human Emperor Banner so he and his Mirror Person could comprehend it while any pursuer risked being trapped inside.

Lin Heng had Bai Yi, Su Yang, and Su Wanyue dig out the boundary stele, then stored it in the Human Emperor Banner. After the group reached the third floor of the Star-Suppressing Tower, powerful figures remained suspicious of Lin Heng's identity and the stolen stele.

• Lin Heng gave Bai Yi, Su Yang, and Su Wanyue pickaxes and told them to dig beneath the boundary stele.
• Observers on the third, fourth, and fifth floors watched the excavation, while a woman on the fourth floor sent a black-clothed figure to investigate Lin Heng's identity.
• The black-clothed figure reported that Lin Heng had killed an Elder of the Heavenly Demon Hall and the young master of the Six Paths Sect, but could not determine his identity.
• Lin Heng used the Human Emperor Banner to take away the boundary stele, leaving a deep pit and shocking his helpers and the tower's observers.
• Lin Heng and the others climbed to the third floor, a water realm where they eventually found several stone halls.

Saint Ye identified the three layers as paths of reincarnation, and Lin Heng explained the karmic principle before taking the ancient scripture's carrier, a great drum, with the Human Emperor Banner. When three True Lord elders confronted him, Lin Heng claimed ties to the Changlin Clan and offered to help them comprehend the scripture, leaving them unexpectedly willing to negotiate.

• Saint Ye explained that the layers represented star wheel rebirth, reverse-realm rebirth, and karmic rebirth, while Lin Heng elaborated on the connection between reflections and karma to Su Wanyue.
• Lin Heng used the Human Emperor Banner to remove the great drum bearing the ancient scripture from the ruined stone hall.
• Three True Lord elders emerged and demanded that Lin Heng hand over the Immortal Drum.
• Lin Heng gave his surname as Lin and claimed to be from the Central Domain, leading the elders to suspect he belonged to the Changlin Clan.
• Lin Heng offered to help the elders comprehend the scripture, and they set aside their anger to ask what cooperation would entail, surprising Bai Yi.

Lin Heng persuaded three True Lords to cooperate by claiming ties to the Changlin Clan and offering to free them from the ancient scriptures’ restrictions in exchange for help collecting the scriptures. As the group headed onward through the Star-Suppressing Tower, Su Wanyue asked Lin Heng to take her as his master.

• Lin Heng offered to remove the ancient scriptures’ spiritual-sense restrictions and asked the three True Lords to help him gather scriptures from every floor of the Star-Suppressing Tower.
• The white-robed old man objected that helping Lin Heng would make them enemies of numerous factions, including Dao Integration-level cultivators, but Lin Heng urged them to choose immortal destiny over harmony.
• Lin Heng moved on to search the stone halls for more Immortal Drums, while Bai Yi, Su Wanyue, and Su Yang followed him.
• Lin Heng explained that the tower’s factions could ally with him because he was an unaffiliated competitor seeking opportunities on every floor.
• Su Wanyue praised Lin Heng’s cleverness and asked him to take her as his master.

Su Wanyue asked Lin Heng to become her teacher so she could learn to lead her clan, and he agreed before teaching her about calculated risks. Lin Heng’s plan drew three True Lords into cooperation, and he realized Lu Yunxuan’s connection to Lu Yuanliang could help him surprise the Sacred Lord.

• Su Wanyue asked Lin Heng to teach her decision-making, and Lin Heng accepted her as his student.
• Lin Heng taught Su Wanyue that taking risks required judgment, then explained how rumors and cooperation could turn the Star-Suppressing Tower’s factions against one another.
• Mu Qiuhong, Liu Lan, and Lu Yunxuan followed Lin Heng to the fourth floor and agreed to cooperate with him.
• Lin Heng learned that Lu Yunxuan belonged to the Lu Clan and was related to Lu Yuanliang.
• Lu Yunxuan mocked Lu Yuanliang for losing to a young opponent, not realizing that Lin Heng was the person who had beaten him.

Lin Heng and Saint Ye concluded that the Star-Suppressing Tower’s inverted levels might be designed to help a Mortal World Immortal seize a body, possibly held back by a sword left by the Martial Emperor. When Lin Heng removed the fourth level’s mural, the nested city collapsed and his chaos origin power began to break out of his control.

• Mu Qiuhong explained that the fourth level held five factions, including a Fox Clan Demon Race faction, and that its cities and forests formed a nested spatial loop.
• Saint Ye warned Lin Heng that the tower’s six paths were inverted, with danger below and a death gate hidden above, suggesting the Mortal World Immortal sought to seize a body rather than reincarnate.
• Lin Heng proposed that the Martial Emperor’s sword might be suppressing the Mortal World Immortal and explained how the Supreme Bone Sword supported his theory.
• Lin Heng used the Human Emperor Banner to pull the mural-bearing stone wall from the ground, triggering the city and its nested forest to collapse.
• Lin Heng ordered the others to retreat as a crushing presence watched them, while his chaos origin power surged and he could no longer suppress it.

Lin Heng was trapped in the Star-Suppressing Tower as the Mortal World Immortal tried to seize his Hunyuan Immortal Body. Saint Ye disrupted the reincarnation laws, but the Mortal World Immortal confronted him as the chapter ended.

• Lin Heng discovered black speckles on his divine infant and heard a bell as Saint Ye warned that someone had awakened to seize a body.
• As the fourth floor began collapsing, Bai Yi carried Little Black out, and the spatial gate closed behind him.
• Su Wanyue and Su Yang left the tower with Bai Yi, while Saint Ye stayed behind and let the Human Lotus Root body wither.
• The Mortal World Immortal revealed his six paths of reincarnation and attacked Lin Heng's soul to take over his body.
• Saint Ye's voice severed the connection between Lin Heng and the six-path wheel, prompting the Mortal World Immortal to challenge Saint Ye's remnant thought.