Chapter Summaries

Hua Qiang used the sealing runes to attack a Starry Sky Behemoth, drawing on the battle to deepen his control of runes and comprehend Starry Sky Power. After pushing the beast to the brink, he reached the final step before entering the Starry Sky Realm.

• Hua Qiang broke through to First-Grade Starry Sky Rune Master and gained control over the barrier's sealing runes.
• Hua Qiang attacked the Starry Sky Behemoth through the barrier, and it retaliated with lightning and a destructive beam that shook the earth's core.
• Hua Qiang infused the runes with the Law of Power and the Law of Annihilation, wounding the behemoth as it tore at the barrier.
• Hua Qiang launched Starfall through the behemoth's defenses and absorbed the Starry Sky Power released by their battle.
• Hua Qiang pierced the behemoth's brow with a rune spear, and his Starry Sky Mark solidified as he neared the Starry Sky Realm.

Hua Qiang absorbed the Starry Sky Behemoth’s power, entered the Starry Sky Realm, and gained three divine abilities. In the Exile Ruins, he found Yan Ruyu trapped inside a failing Bronze Bell and began to intervene as she begged him to save her and her mother.

• Hua Qiang absorbed the behemoth’s Blood Qi and time-space energy, awakening the Starfall Rift, Thunderous Starry Sky, and Time-Space Echo abilities.
• Hua Qiang tested Starfall Rift, then spread his divine sense across the Exile Ruins and sensed a devouring force in a northwestern valley.
• Hua Qiang found Yan Ruyu trapped in a cracked Bronze Bell, where black miasma was draining her life and Vengeful Spirits waited outside.
• Yan Ruyu pleaded with Hua Qiang to save her and her mother, offering to serve him, and Hua Qiang summoned a rune star map over the bell and spirits.

Hua Qiang used the Rune Star Map to defeat the Bronze Bell and purify the Vengeful Spirits, then revived Yan Ruyu with Life Divine Water. Yan Ruyu swore herself to Hua Qiang as his servant, and after taking a Boundary Breaking Pill, she advanced to the Starry Sky Realm.

• Hua Qiang fought off the Bronze Bell and the Vengeful Spirits with the Rune Star Map, destroying the spirits and dispelling the bell’s black mist.
• Hua Qiang gave the unconscious Yan Ruyu Life Divine Water, restoring her health and bringing her back to consciousness.
• Yan Ruyu discovered her realm had advanced close to the Starry Sky Realm and swore a Heavenly Dao oath to serve Hua Qiang as her master.
• Hua Qiang told Yan Ruyu to call him Young Master and gave her a Boundary Breaking Pill.
• Yan Ruyu refined the pill and advanced to the Starry Sky Realm.

Yan Ruyu thanked Hua Qiang, received another bottle of Life Divine Water, and learned how to claim the Exile Ruins by refining its Heart. After returning to the Yan Family, she used the Puppet Golden House and evidence of a conspiracy to punish her relatives and install Beauty Fang as family head, then went to serve Hua Qiang.

• Yan Ruyu asked to return home to save her mother before settling scores, and Hua Qiang gave her Life Divine Water and told her about the Heart of the Ruins.
• Yan Ruyu told Hua Qiang that refining the Heart of the Ruins would let him control the Exile Ruins, then left for home.
• Beauty Fang gave Yan Ruyu the Puppet Golden House and explained that Yan Zhentian, Yan Zhenhai, Yan Zhensan, Yan Jinxia, and their allies had attacked her to seize it.
• Yan Ruyu secretly gathered evidence, then defeated and crippled Yan Zhentian and Yan Hu, Yan Zhenhai's family, Yan Zhensan, and Yan Jinxia before handing them to the Enforcement Hall.
• Yan Ruyu exposed the relatives' crimes to the Yan Family, helped Beauty Fang become family head, and went to serve Hua Qiang.

Hua Qiang plundered the Exile Ruins and used Blood Crystals to strengthen his Starry Sky Realm foundation. After Rat King Xiao Hui discovered the Heart of the Ruins, Hua Qiang reached it and found three Demonic Flood Dragons guarding it.

• Hua Qiang ignored the wounded Xing Ming and watched Rat King Xiao Hui search for Blood Crystals.
• Hua Qiang gathered Blood Crystals, spirit herbs, and Spirit Fruits, destroying a guardian beast that attacked him.
• Hua Qiang absorbed the Blood Crystals and stabilized his Starry Sky Realm, bringing his strength close to a breakthrough.
• Rat King Xiao Hui showed Hua Qiang a route to the Heart of the Ruins, and Hua Qiang promised to reward him with ten-thousand-year Vermilion Fruits.
• Hua Qiang opened a passage into the abyss and found the Heart of the Ruins guarded by three Demonic Flood Dragons, which lunged at him.

Hua Qiang killed the three Demonic Flood Dragons guarding the underground abyss, then attacked the Heart of the Ruins as it unleashed a devastating Demonic Sound. He bound the heart with a Time Cage and continued carving into it with Space-time Blades.

• Hua Qiang used his starlight and spacetime abilities to expose a joint weakness and bring down the first Demonic Flood Dragon.
• Hua Qiang unleashed a Starfall Storm that destroyed the other two Demonic Flood Dragons, though the battle left him injured.
• Hua Qiang approached the Heart of the Ruins, but it contracted and released a Demonic Sound that struck at his Primordial Spirit.
• The Tree of Life in Hua Qiang's sea of consciousness absorbed and broke down the Demonic Sound, helping him withstand the attack.
• Hua Qiang reversed the sound with Spacetime Reversal, bound the heart with Time Cage, and attacked it with Space-time Blades as it struggled against him.

Hua Qiang defeated and absorbed the Heart of the Ruins, refined the Exile Ruins, and broke through to the Starry Sky Realm Second Layer. He escaped the ruins’ imprisonment and taunted Xing Ming, who was still trapped inside.

• Hua Qiang endured the Heart of the Ruins’ attacks while absorbing its blood and striking back with his Space-time Blade and Blood Qi.
• Hua Qiang split the weakened Heart of the Ruins in two and absorbed its remains, then merged his consciousness with the Exile Ruins’ origin laws.
• Hua Qiang shrank the Exile Ruins into a crystal, stored it in his Small World, and broke through to the Starry Sky Realm Second Layer.
• Hua Qiang gained control of the ruins, escaped their imprisonment, and found Xing Ming still trapped inside.
• Hua Qiang mocked Xing Ming through the ruins, and Xing Ming sprang up and shouted for him to show himself.

Hua Qiang entered a spatial rift and found Medicine King Valley devastated by a battle between the celestial soldiers and his summoned otherworldly army. As Yao Lenchen’s barrier shook under the fighting, Fei Wuji chose to stay and protect her, trusting that Hua Qiang would return victorious.

• Hua Qiang used a bronze compass to locate hidden spatial ripples, broke through the barrier, and entered a rift that opened above the battlefield.
• Hua Qiang saw the Immortal Emperor’s celestial soldiers fighting the Asura King, Hungry Ghost legion, and Divine Clan remnants across the ruined Medicine King Valley.
• The Immortal Emperor struck the Asura King with a lightning-charged Thunder Drum Hammer, and the Asura King took the blow head-on.
• Yao Lenchen watched the battle from inside the barrier as its tremors injured her and frightened the elders and disciples sheltering there.
• Fei Wuji told Yao Lenchen that Hua Qiang had once saved his life, then ordered his steward to bring out every life-saving talisman when the barrier shook.
• Fei Wuji refused to flee, saying he trusted Hua Qiang to win, and Yao Lenchen smiled faintly as his jade pendant glimmered.

Hua Qiang subdued the Heavenly Emperor’s forces and reunited with Fei Wuji, then gave him a Fortune Pill that awakened his hidden bloodline. Fei Wuji survived the transformation and reached the Immortal Emperor Realm Peak.

• Hua Qiang forced the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to surrender, crushing those who refused, and appointed Hongyu Immortal Emperor their Grand Marshal.
• Fei Wuji eagerly greeted Hua Qiang and insisted that he had stayed behind to share drinks with him.
• Hua Qiang drank with Fei Wuji, reminisced about their school days, and gave him a Fortune Pill to awaken his hidden bloodline.
• Fei Wuji endured half an hour of agonizing pain as the pill transformed his body, while the steward, guards, and Yao Lenchen watched.
• Fei Wuji’s wounds healed, his body slimmed, and his power surged until he reached the Immortal Emperor Realm Peak.

Fei Wuji awakened his ancient Immortal Clan bloodline and pledged himself to Hua Qiang before departing to bring his clan to join him. Hua Qiang returned to his Small World as several women gave birth, and four new children joined his family.

• Fei Wuji's bloodline activated after the Creation Pill unlocked the medicinal power stored in his body, making him an Immortal Sovereign.
• Fei Wuji swore loyalty to Hua Qiang and left to settle matters before bringing his clan to join him at Heavenly Que Palace.
• Hua Qiang moved Medicine King Valley and its disciples into his Small World, then hurried back after Xiao Ling warned him that the women were giving birth.
• Hua Qiang used his life energy to ease the labor pains as his family waited outside the delivery rooms.
• Four children were born: a son, Fu's daughter, Huo's daughter, and Long's qilin son.

Immortal Emperor Hong Mao led Hua Qiang’s forces in an attack on Heavenly Que Palace while Heavenly Emperor Xing Ming was absent. Hong Mao captured the palace’s commanders and secured its surrender, leaving the harem untouched for Hua Qiang.

• Commanders at Heavenly Que Palace worried over the weakened garrison and ordered stronger patrols after discussing the ten Immortal Emperors killed by a junior from the Lower Realm.
• Immortal Emperor Hong Mao arrived with roughly fifty thousand soldiers and a force of Immortal Emperors, Immortal Sovereigns, and Immortal Kings, but neither Heavenly Emperor Xing Ming nor the other missing generals were with them.
• Hong Mao ordered his troops to kill anyone who resisted and trapped the command tent’s defenders in Hua Qiang’s Space-time Cage.
• The palace’s soldiers surrendered under the attackers’ pressure, and Heavenly Que Palace’s defenses collapsed.
• Hong Mao secured the palace, ordered his subordinates to guard it, and left the harem concubines for Hua Qiang.

Hua Qiang learned that Heavenly Que Palace had fallen to his forces and prepared to take his family there, while Mi Yue and eighteen consorts rallied to defend Qihuang Palace. As Hongyu Immortal Emperor besieged the palace, ten titled Immortal Emperors arrived and devastated his army, leaving him desperately calling for his master.

• Hua Qiang learned that his Grand Marshal had captured Heavenly Que Palace and that Xing Ming's former subordinates had surrendered, then told Ye Bingxue and Mo Yanran to prepare to enter the palace as Empresses.
• Mi Yue learned that Hong Mao had surrounded Heavenly Que Palace and rallied eighteen consorts to fight back, leading them out of Qihuang Palace.
• Hong Mao commanded one hundred thousand soldiers and waited outside Heavenly Que Palace with eight Immortal Emperors and the Space-time Cage.
• Ten titled Immortal Emperors emerged from shattered space and time, using their powers to slaughter soldiers and tear apart the besieging army.
• Hongyu Immortal Emperor panicked at the ten newcomers' overwhelming power and called on the master of the Space-time Cage to save him.

Immortal Emperor Hong Mao trapped his forces inside Hua Qiang’s Space-time Cage to shield them from the Ten Great Titled Immortal Emperors, who attacked after seizing Xing Ming Heavenly Emperor’s Heavenly Palace. As the cage began to crack and Hua Qiang failed to answer the distress signal, Hong Mao’s troops feared they would be slaughtered before the New Heavenly Emperor arrived.

• Immortal Emperor Hong Mao activated the Space-time Cage, protecting his hundred thousand soldiers from the Ten Great Titled Immortal Emperors’ attacks.
• The soldiers taunted their attackers from behind the barrier, enraging Purple Firmament Empress and the other Immortal Emperors.
• Purple Firmament Empress, Flame Emperor, and the others unleashed a relentless barrage that dimmed the cage and spread cracks across it.
• Xuan Shuang speculated that the attackers might be seeking the Heavenly Emperor’s throne rather than avenging Xing Ming Heavenly Emperor.
• A gold-armored Immortal General demanded to know when the New Heavenly Emperor would arrive, while Hong Mao found that Hua Qiang had not answered his distress signal.
• The cage shook violently as blinding white light poured through its widening cracks, leaving Hong Mao’s forces fearing its imminent collapse.

Hua Qiang arrived on the battlefield and rescued Immortal Emperor Hong Mao and the heavenly soldiers from the collapsing Space-time Cage. He overwhelmed the ten Immortal Emperors, leaving them gravely wounded in the ruins.

• Hua Qiang appeared as the Space-time Cage shattered, protecting Immortal Emperor Hong Mao and the soldiers from the ten Emperors’ attacks.
• The rescued soldiers hailed Hua Qiang as the Heavenly Emperor, and he praised them for holding their ground.
• Battle Axe Immortal Emperor and the other Immortal Emperors challenged Hua Qiang and launched their attacks.
• Hua Qiang used a silver rune to reverse the ten Emperors’ attacks and multiply their force, badly injuring them.
• Hua Qiang summoned a giant palm of star power and slammed the ten Immortal Emperors into the earth, leaving them gravely wounded.

Hua Qiang effortlessly broke the Ten Great Titled Immortal Emperors’ Ten Absolute Array, leaving them severely injured and their forces ready to counterattack. The chapter ended as Hongyu Immortal Emperor rallied the others to kill.

• Zhan Wushuang asked Hua Qiang who he was after Hua Qiang defeated all ten Titled Immortal Emperors with one palm strike.
• Hua Qiang challenged the ten to use their strongest trump cards, and they summoned the Ten Absolute Array, Ghost God Slaughter.
• The Ten Absolute Array trapped Hua Qiang and attacked him with a ghost claw that twisted time and space.
• Hua Qiang shattered the array with one punch and purified its remains with his chaotic aura.
• Hongyu Immortal Emperor and the others celebrated Hua Qiang, then Hongyu urged them to attack the wounded Ten Great Titled Immortal Emperors.

Hongyu Immortal Emperor’s forces overwhelmed the already wounded Ten Great Titled Immortal Emperors, leaving them broken and near death. Ice Soul Immortal Emperor and the others surrendered to Hua Qiang, who conquered the Immortal Realm three months later.

• Hongyu Immortal Emperor sent his forces to encircle and attack the Ten Great Titled Immortal Emperors.
• The ten emperors fought back with their signature techniques, but their injuries and the enemy’s numbers steadily wore them down.
• Hongyu Immortal Emperor’s forces defeated the Ten Great Titled Immortal Emperors, leaving them with only their last breaths.
• Ice Soul Immortal Emperor surrendered to the New Heavenly Emperor, and the other nine Titled Immortal Emperors followed.
• Three months later, Hua Qiang swept through the Immortal Realm with his subordinates and became its Lord.

Xing Ming was reunited with Mi Yue and his concubines after Hua Qiang exiled them to the barrier, and he vowed to reclaim his throne. Meanwhile, Hua Qiang struggled with his new duties as Heavenly Emperor and looked for someone to manage the Heavenly Palace while he was away, just as Yan Ruyu returned.

• Mi Yue and Xing Ming's concubines fell through a rift into the barrier and told him Hua Qiang had conquered the Heavenly Palace and unified the Immortal Realm.
• Xing Ming vowed to recover his power, retake the Heavenly Palace, and punish Hua Qiang.
• Hua Qiang complained about the mountain of Heavenly Palace paperwork and asked Ye Bingxue and Mo Yanran to take over, but they refused.
• Hua Qiang asked Ye Wendao and Hua Xingchen to oversee the Heavenly Palace during his planned trip, but they also refused.
• Yan Ruyu announced her return, and Hua Qiang brightened with hope.

Yan Ruyu revealed that the Desolation Universe was a pasture whose inhabitants were enslaved by a powerful lord, and she told Hua Qiang that the Time-Space Administration Bureau offered a way to break free. Hua Qiang left the Heavenly Court in Ye Wendao’s care and departed with Yan Ruyu for the Bureau, while a distant observer watched their star system.

• Yan Ruyu explained to Hua Qiang that the Desolation Universe was controlled by a great lord who exploited its planets and people through a Fate Lock.
• Yan Ruyu said that registering with the Time-Space Administration Bureau could grant Cosmic Citizen status, while claiming a star system required completing S-rank missions or taking it from its owner.
• Hua Qiang rejected his title as Heavenly Emperor and ordered Yan Ruyu to prepare their departure, as a blood-red warning appeared on her Star-Pattern Jade Bracelet.
• Hua Qiang entrusted the Heavenly Court to Ye Wendao and left twenty half-step Starry Sky Realm puppets to protect his family and the Heavenly Gate Palace.
• Hua Qiang and Yan Ruyu activated the Teleportation Array and vanished into the heavens as a scarlet-eyed observer watched their star system.

Yan Ruyu attacked the Sealing Array that blocked her and Hua Qiang from reaching the Time-Space Administration Bureau, but the array repeatedly repaired itself. The Star Herding Dog intervened to stop her, and he realized both visitors had reached the Starry Sky Realm.

• Hua Qiang and Yan Ruyu reached the end of the starry sky, where Yan Ruyu identified the Sealing Array blocking their way to the Time-Space Administration Bureau.
• Yan Ruyu attacked the array wall with sword energies and formations, but its runes repeatedly repaired her damage and concealed its primary node.
• The Star Herding Dog sensed the attacks, transformed into a man, and entered the formation to stop Yan Ruyu’s full-strength strike.
• The Star Herding Dog confronted Yan Ruyu and threatened her for attacking the Primordial Array that protected the star region.
• The Star Herding Dog sensed Hua Qiang and Yan Ruyu’s auras and realized both had reached the Starry Sky Realm.

Hua Qiang stepped in after Yan Ruyu was badly wounded fighting the Star Herding Dog, then killed the beast from inside its stomach with the Blood Demon Spear. He and Yan Ruyu emerged from its corpse and prepared to roast its meat.

• Yan Ruyu attacked the Star Herding Dog, but the Guardian overpowered her and left her wounded and nearly out of spiritual energy.
• Hua Qiang gave Yan Ruyu Life Divine Water to heal her, then struck the Star Herding Dog across the face when it demanded they surrender.
• The Star Herding Dog unleashed a devouring attack, but Hua Qiang shattered its giant maw with a time-accelerated punch.
• The Star Herding Dog transformed into its enormous true form and swallowed Hua Qiang and Yan Ruyu whole.
• Hua Qiang summoned the Blood Demon Spear and tore apart the Star Herding Dog from inside its stomach, killing it.
• Hua Qiang and Yan Ruyu emerged from the dead beast, and Hua Qiang asked Yan Ruyu to start a fire so they could roast its meat.