Chapter Summaries

Li Yun killed Shan Nu after learning he was Hua Tiancong’s attendant and promised to handle Hua Tiancong himself. Ye Zhengxing feared the fallout but was told the matter would not implicate him, and he returned the Seven-Leaf Cloud Smoke.

• Ye Zhengxing returned to the courtyard and found Shan Nu beaten but still threatening Li Yun and the others.
• Ye Zhengxing revealed that Shan Nu was an attendant of Hua Tiancong, the seventh young master of the Tianxing Family, and urged the group to release him.
• Li Yun ordered Huang Shanjun to kill Shan Nu, then killed him himself with a finger-light that turned him to dust.
• Ye Zhengxing worried Hua Tiancong would retaliate against him, but Li Yun promised to shoulder the consequences and offered to help with the Stars Palace’s grievance for suitable value.
• Ye Zhengxing apologized for taking the Seven-Leaf Cloud Smoke and handed it back to Li Yun and the others.

Li Yun questioned Ye Zhengxing about the upheaval in Starry Night City and learned that Star Tokens had fallen from a crack in the starry curtain thirty years earlier. The group realized the tokens were likely scattered throughout the region, while Ye Zhengxing continued describing changes in the city.

• Li Yun stopped Ye Zhengxing from returning the Seven-Leaf Cloud Smoke and warned him not to shift his karma onto others.
• Li Yun told Ye Zhengxing that his Destiny Aperture might open within days and urged him to wait for a chance to take revenge himself.
• Li Yun asked Ye Zhengxing what he knew about the changes in Starry Night City.
• Ye Zhengxing explained that thirty years earlier, he had seen a crack appear in the starry curtain and a token fall from it onto him.
• Jiang Ye and Huang Shanjun recognized Ye Zhengxing's Star Token and revealed their own, confirming that all three had received the same message about entering Void Star Hall.
• Ye Zhengxing added that Star Power in Starry Night City had grown denser since the day the crack appeared.

Hua Tiancong learned from Gu Lanyousheng that Starry Night City was connected to the Stars Tokens and the hidden Void Stars Hall, an opportunity the Tianxing Family had missed. Gu Lanyousheng proposed that they seize the tokens together, leaving Hua Tiancong stunned and humiliated by his family’s ignorance.

• Hua Tiancong received Gu Lanyousheng and his thirty-six attendants at his residence in the Tianxing Family’s territory.
• Gu Lanyousheng accused Hua Tiancong of pretending not to know about Void Stars Hall and the Stars Tokens.
• Gu Lanyousheng proposed sealing off Starry Night City and joining forces to seize the Stars Tokens from anyone outside the Seven Great War God Families.
• Hua Tiancong realized the Tianxing Family had been kept unaware of the opportunity tied to Starry Night City and felt his family had lost face.

Hua Tiancong learned of the Stars Token and Void Stars Hall from Gu Lanyousheng, then grew suspicious that Ye Zhengxing and Stars Palace were hiding the secret. As Hua Tiancong and Gu Lanyousheng both headed for Starry Night City, Ye Zhengxing entertained Li Yun and the others, unaware they were coming.

• Hua Tiancong stalled Gu Lanyousheng's offer of cooperation for three days and then hurried to report it to Hua Shendu.
• Hua Shendu ordered Hua Tiancong to investigate the Stars Token and Void Stars Hall secretly.
• After hearing Shan Nu was dead and had last been seen at Stars Palace, Hua Tiancong suspected Ye Zhengxing and rushed toward Starry Night City.
• Gu Lanyousheng saw Hua Tiancong leave, abandoned the proposed partnership, and took his people toward Starry Night City to seek allies among the other War God Families.
• Ye Zhengxing warmly entertained Li Yun and the other two at Stars Palace and showed Li Yun the sect's inherited cultivation method.

Li Yun discovered that Ye Zhengxing’s Star Token secretly repaired his Stars Transformation technique and revealed the legendary Void Stars Hall’s Authority of the Star Dao. Yun Shuiyao regained memories of her past and explained why Jin Wushuang had betrayed her, leaving Li Yun asking about the damaged Jade Slip they found.

• Li Yun watched Ye Zhengxing circulate Stars Transformation and saw the Star Token inside him supplement the technique with star aura.
• The system recognized the Authority of the Stars Dao and granted Li Yun Human Immortal Level Cognition and the Immortal Art Great Stars Arts.
• Li Yun asked Yun Shuiyao about the Void Stars Hall, and she described it as a holy land opened by an Eternal Immortal Venerable.
• Yun Shuiyao revealed that Tiangu King Mountain’s Destiny Scouring had restored memories of her past with Jin Wushuang.
• Yun Shuiyao recalled that she and Jin Wushuang had been close before they found half of a damaged Jade Slip in Tiantai Mountain’s Forbidden Land, prompting him to ambush her.
• Yun Shuiyao said she had escaped with the Jade Slip and hidden it through reincarnation, and Li Yun asked what it contained.

Yun Shuiyao explained that a damaged Jade Slip described the ancient Great Void World and the rumored Void Star Hall, where entrants could gain the Star Dao’s Authority. Li Yun remained wary of the risks but decided he still wanted to visit the Hall, hoping to trigger powerful Immortal Arts through his system.

• Yun Shuiyao told Li Yun that the Jade Slip described the Myriad Worlds as remnants of a former Sacred Grade world called the Great Void World, where Immortal Venerables had existed.
• Yun Shuiyao explained that the rumored Void Star Hall contained minor Authorities left by an Immortal Venerable, and that only people with Star Tokens could enter.
• Yun Shuiyao said that a few people who obtained Authority had become powerful figures, including the palace master of Myriad Stars Limitless Palace, who offered to take successful entrants as his personal disciples.
• Yun Shuiyao said she would avoid the Void Star Hall because she valued cultivation earned through her own training over Authority.
• Li Yun decided that he would avoid seeking Authority but still wanted to enter the Void Star Hall in hopes that his system would trigger powerful Immortal Arts.

Li Yun admitted to killing Shan Nu and killed Yan Nu when Hua Tiancong's attendant attacked him. Hua Tiancong learned that Li Yun wielded a Quasi-Immortal Law, leaving him to reconsider challenging the stranger on Tianxing Family territory.

• Hua Tiancong confronted Ye Zhengxing over Shan Nu's death, and Li Yun openly admitted that he had killed him.
• Yan Nu attacked Li Yun, but Huang Shanjun crushed her Divine Ability with a mountain phantom.
• Yan Nu charged again, and Li Yun killed her with the Primordial Golden Lightning Art despite Hua Tiancong's attempt to intervene.
• Hua Tiancong's Star Power attack failed when Li Yun suppressed it with Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Hua Tiancong's two Integration Realm attendants warned him that Li Yun had used a Quasi-Immortal Law, and Hua Tiancong recognized its significance.

Li Yun drove Hua Tiancong away and received a visit from Gu Lanyousheng, who agreed to investigate a matter Li Yun had secretly shared with him. Two days later, Li Yun's Human Immortal Law of the Stars Dao finished loading.

• Li Yun challenged Hua Tiancong to summon a stronger Tianxing Family expert, but Hua Tiancong left with his subordinates rather than escalate the conflict.
• Gu Lanyousheng visited Stars Palace and asked Li Yun to cooperate in gathering Stars Tokens and sending people into the Void Stars Hall.
• Li Yun rejected Gu Lanyousheng's plan and asked him to investigate a matter in exchange for help if he encountered trouble in the Void Stars Hall.
• Gu Lanyousheng agreed to investigate and left Starry Night City in a hurry, promising to return in ten days with an answer.
• Li Yun stayed at Stars Palace, and two days later his Human Immortal Law of the Stars Dao finished loading.

Li Yun raised the Great Stars Arts to perfection and cultivated the Stars Dao until it opened a true miniature Stars World. He created a Stars Dao Avatar to rule it as the Stars Emperor, intending to use its growing Authority to reach the Authority of the Myriad Worlds.

• Li Yun spent 500 Human Immortal Level Cognition Points to raise the Great Stars Arts to the Perfection Realm, sending the Stars Dao soaring through its realms.
• Li Yun drew in Star Power, and the Stars Dao advanced to the Void Comprehension Realm, opening a miniature world within its starry portal.
• Li Yun explored the Stars World with his Immortal Sense and saw its stars gather starlight into a throne embodying Authority over the world's Star Power.
• Li Yun created a Stars Dao Avatar and seated it on the throne, naming it the Stars Emperor and ordering it to expand the Stars World and condense Authority.

Li Yun discovered that the Stars World had created a hidden authority and began devouring Starry Night City's dense Stars' power to strengthen it. As the Void Stars Hall appeared in the sky, a Star Clan heir vowed to claim its greatest opportunity.

• Li Yun realized his Stars World could develop its own authority, but decided to keep that power concealed from the Myriad Worlds.
• Li Yun connected with the Stars Emperor and resumed devouring Stars' power, causing a star river to pour over his courtyard again.
• A silver-robed young man complained that Li Yun was consuming most of Starry Night City's Stars' power, but Uncle Yuan warned him that Li Yun had defeated Hua Tiancong's servant with a Quasi-Immortal Law.
• Uncle Yuan told the young man that the Stars' power came from Void Stars Hall, and the young man agreed to wait for the opportunity inside.
• An illusory ancient palace appeared in the night sky, and the young man declared that his Star Clan bloodline would make him the final victor of Void Stars Hall.

Jin Wushuang arrived in Starry Night City after escaping the Liehuang Imperial Clan, and he planned to enter Void Star Hall to claim the Authority of Star Dao. Li Yun spotted him, and he and Yun Shuiyao decided to kill Jin before he could enter the Hall.

• Jin Wushuang escaped the Liehuang Imperial Clan’s Ancient Immortal Seal at the cost of twenty thousand years of lifespan and fell from peak Earth Immortal to the sixth level.
• Jin Wushuang obtained a Star Token and learned that Void Star Hall would soon open in Starry Night City.
• Jin Wushuang noticed someone in Star Palace was drawing away most of the city’s Star Power but chose not to provoke them while wounded.
• Jin Wushuang planned to enter Void Star Hall, obtain the Authority of Star Dao, and use it to strengthen himself.
• Li Yun sensed Jin Wushuang’s arrival and informed Yun Shuiyao, who urged him to kill Jin before he entered Void Star Hall.
• Li Yun agreed that they should kill Jin Wushuang.

Li Yun continued cultivating while Yun Shuiyao investigated Jin Wushuang, and his returning incarnations raised his cultivation to Dao Embryo 17th Layer. When Gu Lanyousheng reported that he could find no trace of the ancient faction Li Yun suspected was hidden in the Central Region, Li Yun grew wary that it might have been watching him.

• Yun Shuiyao left Tiangu King Mountain to probe Jin Wushuang's condition, while Li Yun stayed behind to cultivate.
• Li Yun's main Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo reached Dao Embryo 15th Layer, and his Way of Nothingness True Intent grew clearer.
• Zhishen, Calamity Qi Daoist, and Feng Wuxiang returned, raising Li Yun's main Dao Embryo to Dao Embryo 17th Layer; the karma and calamity qi incarnations had also opened Cave Void Miniature Worlds.
• Gu Lanyousheng told Li Yun that he had found no records or trace of the ancient faction Li Yun had asked him to investigate.
• Li Yun recalled that Martial God Divine Hall's apparent weakness and the leaked news of his battle with Divine Monk Yunlai suggested a hidden faction, and he wondered whether it had been secretly watching him.

Li Yun dismissed the chance of leaving the Ancient Celestial Continent early and discussed attacking the injured Jin Wushuang with Yun Shuiyao, but he rejected her risky plan and sent her to investigate who had wounded him. A sudden karmic reaction led Li Yun to trace a connection and hurry a hundred thousand li outside Starry Night City.

• Li Yun considered whether the Ancient Celestial Continent could support his cultivation further but kept his decision to explore the Myriad Worlds.
• Yun Shuiyao told Li Yun that Jin Wushuang was injured and his cultivation had fallen to around the sixth or seventh level of the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Yun Shuiyao proposed using a Forbidden Technique and Li Yun’s help to kill Jin Wushuang, but Li Yun rejected the plan as too risky.
• Li Yun questioned Yun Shuiyao about who had injured Jin Wushuang, and she admitted she had not investigated.
• Li Yun sensed a karmic reaction, traced its source, and left Yun Shuiyao to investigate Jin Wushuang’s attacker.
• Li Yun arrived a hundred thousand li outside Starry Night City.

Li Yun confronted the Colorful-Robed Daoist on Giant Deer Plain and discovered that he was an intelligent being born from a drop of the Myriad Phenomena Beast’s essence blood. Li Yun destroyed his beast phantom and killed him, leaving the multicolored essence blood before him.

• Li Yun tracked down the Colorful-Robed Daoist and learned that his true form was a drop of essence blood, possibly from the Myriad Phenomena Beast.
• The Colorful-Robed Daoist summoned a giant Myriad Phenomena Beast phantom and shattered Li Yun’s domain.
• Li Yun unleashed his strongest attack, and his Way of Nothingness True Intent destroyed a third of the phantom and injured the Colorful-Robed Daoist.
• The Colorful-Robed Daoist warned Li Yun that the Myriad Phenomena Beast might sense his death, but Li Yun dismissed the threat and continued attacking.
• Li Yun’s punches destroyed the phantom and killed the Colorful-Robed Daoist, revealing a huge sphere of multicolored essence blood.

Li Yun seized and devoured the Myriad Phenomena Beast Essence Blood, transforming his Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo into the Origin Dao Realm and greatly increasing his strength. A Flame Immortal who emerged from a fiery portal challenged him for the blood, and Li Yun prepared to beat him until he answered how he evaded the World Will.

• A crimson Flame Immortal reached through a portal to seize the essence blood, but Li Yun severed his hand and swallowed the blood into his Mysterious Gate Dao Embryo.
• The Forbidden Divine Charm refined the essence blood, empowering the Three Thousand Great Daos and transforming Li Yun's Dao Embryo into the Origin Dao Realm.
• The Flame Immortal attacked Li Yun with his Immortal Dao Domain and demanded the essence blood, while Li Yun questioned how he had escaped the World Will's suppression.
• Li Yun summoned the will of the Great Dao of Flame, but the Flame Immortal used his own Immortal Principle of Flame to force it back.
• As his cultivation rose to the second level of Origin Dao, Li Yun punched at the Flame Immortal and said he would beat him until he talked.

Li Yun fought the Flame Immortal to a standstill, shocking powerful observers across the Ancient Celestial Continent. As Hong Wantong suspected that a hidden force was about to emerge, he resolved to summon the patriarchs of the Seven Great War God Families.

• The Flame Immortal attacked Li Yun with Burning City of Ten Thousand Generations, but their clash shattered the Immortal Dao Domain and blasted them apart.
• Li Yun and the Flame Immortal resumed their fierce battle above the ruined Giant Deer Plain, neither able to overpower the other.
• Powerful Martial Artists from across the Seven Continents watched from afar and wondered who the Flame Immortal and Li Yun were.
• Gulan Changfeng suspected that a powerful hidden force existed in the Central Region and questioned whether the Martial God Divine Hall knew about it.
• Hong Wantong feared the Immortal of City Burning's appearance signaled that a hidden force was about to emerge, and he ordered the patriarchs of the Seven Great War God Families to come see him.

Jin Wushuang witnessed a Human Immortal fighting without the Ancient Celestial Continent’s World Will suppressing him and concluded that someone had secretly taken control of it. He resolved to enter the Void Stars Hall for the Stars Dao Authority, while dismissing the possibility that Li Yun had fought the Human Immortal and vowing to kill him later.

• Jin Wushuang watched the battle at Giant Deer Plain and suspected the World Will had been artificially controlled because it did not suppress the Human Immortal.
• Jin Wushuang considered the Wood Emperor Descendant, the Four Great Evil Spirits, and the Eight Great Sacred Lands, and suspected they knew a hidden secret about the Ancient Celestial Continent.
• Jin Wushuang decided he had to enter the Void Stars Hall and seize the Stars Dao Authority to compete for benefits amid the great forces’ schemes.
• A burst of fire shot into the sky from Giant Deer Plain, and the battle fell silent.
• Jin Wushuang dismissed the idea that Li Yun had fought the Human Immortal and vowed to kill Li Yun after obtaining the Stars Dao Authority.

The Immortal of City Burning reported that Li Yun’s fist intent had wounded him and could threaten Earth Immortals, but Lord Tiangang dismissed Li Yun as insignificant. Heavenly Dao Palace’s followers learned that Tiangang’s Heavenly Dao was nearing completion and received orders to spread his marks to neighboring worlds.

• The Immortal of City Burning escaped Li Yun’s attack and met Yun Cailing and Lan Benlai, explaining that Li Yun’s fist intent had injured him and resisted his immortal power.
• Yun Cailing crushed the fist mark in City Burning’s wound, but the mark struck back and left a faint imprint on her palm.
• Yun Cailing and Lan Benlai decided Li Yun could threaten Heavenly Dao Palace and brought City Burning to report to Lord Tiangang.
• Lord Tiangang dismissed Li Yun as an ant and said his Heavenly Dao was about to open.
• Lord Tiangang ordered his followers to send his marks into surrounding worlds while the Void Star Hall’s appearance had thrown heavenly secrets into chaos.

Three ancestors of the Liehuang Imperial Clan confronted each other over the Azure Sky Divine Tree before visitors arrived through a gateway from the Sacred Heaven Realm. The visitors, led by Mu Daoyuan, rejected the Liehuang Clan’s claim of kinship, and Li Tianhua challenged their contempt.

• Li Tianhua accused Li Qinghuo and Li Bishu of concealing the divine tree’s return and allowing Jin Wushuang to occupy the imperial palace.
• The Azure Sky Divine Tree opened a gateway and blasted the three Liehuang ancestors aside as five powerful visitors emerged.
• The visitors admired the tree and revealed they had come from the Sacred Heaven Realm by its power.
• Mu Daoyuan introduced himself as a direct-line descendant of the Wood Emperor’s seventh branch and called the Liehuang Clan unworthy of claiming kinship.
• Li Tianhua rose in anger and challenged Mu Daoyuan for humiliating the Liehuang Clan and disrespecting their Wood Emperor bloodline.

Mu Daoyuan beat Li Tianhua and forced Li Qinghuo and Li Bishu to accept his authority, then explained that he had come to establish a Destiny Dynasty for the Ancestor Emperor. He ordered the Liehuang Imperial Clan to gather every Wood Emperor Bloodline descendant, using the Blood Origin Tower to locate them.

• Mu Daoyuan whipped Li Tianhua until his immortal body was badly damaged, then threatened to exterminate the Liehuang Imperial Clan if they defied him again.
• Li Qinghuo and Li Bishu submitted to Mu Daoyuan and reflected on how their past oppression of collateral branches had mirrored their own humiliation.
• Mu Daoyuan explained that the Ancestor Emperor had left the Wood Emperor descendants on the Ancient Celestial Continent to establish a Destiny Dynasty and gather its fortune.
• Mu Daoyuan declared that he would rule the Destiny Dynasty, and Li Qinghuo agreed while Li Qiuxian feared his own branch would lose everything.
• Mu Daoyuan ordered the Liehuang Imperial Clan to find every Wood Emperor Bloodline descendant and revealed the Blood Origin Tower, which could sense their bloodline across the continent.