Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi, disguised as Suijie, defeated Luo Jia by swallowing his attacks with a Fire Cavern, securing Meng Gui’s support for him as Reverse Star Palace Master. Cao Mengqi then challenged Suijie, but Kuang Wuji stepped forward to fight him instead.

• Xu Yi shattered Luo Jia’s golden mountain and invited him to use another technique.
• Luo Jia summoned the Follow-My-Heart Brush and attacked Xu Yi with waves of spirit arrows, but Xu Yi swallowed them with a fiery hole.
• Luo Jia trapped Xu Yi in a domain and fired a Spirit Cannon, but Xu Yi’s flames broke the domain and swallowed the blast.
• Luo Jia collapsed unconscious, and Xu Yi told Cao Mengqi to take him away.
• Meng Gui praised Xu Yi, and the Heavenly Kings acknowledged his strength and his likely future as Palace Master.
• Cao Mengqi challenged Xu Yi to withstand three moves, and Kuang Wuji offered to fight him, prompting Cao Mengqi to propose a life-or-death duel.

Xu Yi accepted Cao Mengqi’s challenge to defend his claim to the Reverse Star Palace leadership and endured Cao’s powerful field and Buddhist techniques. The fight remained unresolved as Cao unleashed Ten Directions of Wailing and Xu Yi prepared to face its ghostly assault.

• Cao Mengqi challenged Xu Yi to survive three moves, and Xu Yi entered the arena after Meng Gui questioned whether he could win.
• Cao Mengqi deployed a restrictive field and summoned an Ancestor Buddha deity, but Xu Yi held them back with nine pillars of fire.
• Xu Yi released Sui Kuohai’s fire dragon to deepen his understanding of the Ultimate Fire Technique while keeping Cao’s field at bay.
• Xu Yi taunted Cao after surviving two moves, impressing the crowd and alarming the Eight Heavenly Kings with his strength.
• Cao Mengqi unleashed Ten Directions of Wailing, sending hundreds of evil spirits toward Xu Yi, who cast out a stone, a blade of grass, and a tree branch that became armored soldiers.

Xu Yi endured Cao Mengqi’s Ten Directions Weeping Ghosts and defeated his domain with an explosive fire technique, drawing the attention of Xie Xiaofo and the Eight Heavenly Kings. After the gathering, Xu Yi visited Xia Bingzhong, who praised him and gave him a painting of the plains.

• Cao Mengqi’s Ten Directions Weeping Ghosts failed to break through Xu Yi’s three armored soldiers, while Xu Yi remained seated and studied his divine art.
• Cao Mengqi used the Spirit Splitting Technique to summon a golden Buddha, but Xu Yi collected the fire dragon and shattered the domain with an explosion of flames.
• Xie Xiaofo rescued Cao Mengqi, praised Xu Yi’s technique, and left with Cao Mengqi and Luo Jia.
• Meng Gui and the Eight Heavenly Kings congratulated Xu Yi, who became the center of attention at the Primal Plains Gathering.
• Xu Yi visited Xia Bingzhong at White Horse Residence, where Xia gave him a painting and told him he was proud of him.

Xu Yi secured support for Wang Rongrong to succeed Suijie as Master of Wuji Hall and declined to force Su Bingjun to join his retinue. Meng Gui then told Xu Yi that his appointment as Palace Master of Reverse Star Palace would take place the next day, along with permission to observe the Immaculate Wonderful Tree's reflection.

• Xu Yi and Xia Bingzhong agreed that Wang Rongrong was the right choice to become Master of Wuji Hall.
• Xu Yi asked Xia Bingzhong to let Su Bingjun join his retinue, but Su Bingjun begged to stay; Xu Yi let the matter go.
• Xu Yi decided to return from Green Hill Plains, but Meng Gui arrived and told him his installation ceremony would be held at Funing Palace the next day.
• Meng Gui arranged for Xu Yi to observe the Immaculate Wonderful Tree's reflection after the ceremony.
• Xu Yi visited Chen Tingjun, who explained the Imperial Court's ties to Ancestor Buddha Court and the growing power of the tree's reflection.

After taking up his post as Palace Master, Xu Yi used the Sky-Illuminating Mirror to observe the Immaculate Wonderful Tree but found no suitable art before his hour ended. He then used his own Immaculate Wonderful Tree to reveal its full image, including the sealed upper half, and left the true nature of his tree fragments uncertain.

• Chen Tingjun explained that observing the Immaculate Wonderful Tree could reveal secret arts, then hosted Xu Yi for dinner.
• The Chief Director of the Eastern Imperial Office installed Xu Yi as Palace Master and awarded him a seal, a token, Dao Source, Profound Yellow Essence, and Profound Yellow Beads.
• Xu Yi entered the side hall, used the Sky-Illuminating Mirror to observe the tree images, and spent more than ten thousand Profound Yellow Essence powering the mirror.
• Xu Yi searched the leaves for an hour but found no art that suited him before the images vanished.
• Xu Yi used the Spirit Calming Technique to control the Sky-Illuminating Mirror and summoned his own Immaculate Wonderful Tree.
• Xu Yi illuminated his tree and saw its full image, including the otherwise inaccessible upper half.

Xu Yi used the Sky-Illuminating Mirror to copy a divine ability from a golden leaf, then hurried to Starry Sky Prefecture after celebrating his appointment. Meanwhile, Chen Bingying learned that Xu Yi had appeared alive and joined his relatives in suspecting that someone had sent an impostor.

• Xu Yi spent ten thousand Profound Yellow Essence to reveal the fifth golden leaf and used the Ruyi Pearl to record the Spirit Official Three Lives Aspect before the Sky-Illuminating Mirror vanished.
• Xu Yi rewarded the Golden Clothed Attendant, returned to Reverse Star Palace, hosted a two-day banquet, and left for Starry Sky Prefecture with Huang Mei.
• Chen Bingying indulged in pleasure aboard a boat on Fairy Lake until his Third Uncle seized him and brought him before the Chen Lineage elders.
• Chen Zhaojiang showed Chen Bingying footage of Xu Yi entering Starry Sky Prefecture, contradicting the report that Xu Yi had been killed.
• Chen Bingying blamed Hong Tianming for sending an impostor, and Chen Zhaohai agreed that this explanation was necessary for the time being.

After the Chen family seized control of the Starry Sky Prefecture, Xu Yi was lured there and trapped by the new Prefect Judge, Peng Huizu. Xu Yi refused to resist arrest, while Chen Zhaojiang believed Peng’s scheme had succeeded.

• Third Ancestor Chen and Sixth Ancestor Chen decided to use Chen Bingying’s story to calm the other families while planning a swift, ruthless response.
• Xu Yi returned to Xishan Road and spent three days clearing his official backlog before receiving an urgent summons to the Starry Sky Prefecture.
• Xu Yi entered Starry Sky Island, realized the barrier was under someone else’s control, and found Chen Zhaohai, Chen Zhaojiang, Peng Huizu, and their allies waiting for him.
• Peng Huizu accused Xu Yi of corruption and offered him a chance to resist arrest, but Xu Yi recognized the trap and surrendered without a fight.
• Chen Zhaojiang told Chen Zhaohai that Peng Huizu had forced Xu Yi into a position where resisting would make him appear guilty.

Peng Huizu’s trap against Xu Yi failed when Xu Yi revealed overwhelming strength and escaped Starry Sky Island, though Chen Bingjun was killed. Peng Huizu expected Xu Yi to remain on the Starry Sky Ancient Path and fight the charges through the Central Court.

• Chen Zhaohai and Chen Zhaojiang discussed Peng Huizu’s careful plan as Red-Eyed Old Demon and Sea-Suppressing Dragon King tried to bind Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi broke through their blockade, knocked Chen Zhaohai away, and seized Chen Bingjun before escaping Starry Sky Island.
• Peng Huizu’s Heaven-Enveloping Net caught Xu Yi and Chen Bingjun, but Xu Yi used a sea of flame to destroy the nets, killing Chen Bingjun and escaping after resisting two cloaked figures’ attacks.
• Chen Zhaohai and Chen Zhaojiang confronted Peng Huizu over Chen Bingjun’s death, and Peng Huizu insisted that Third Uncle had ordered results at any cost.
• Peng Huizu told the Chen brothers that Xu Yi would not abandon his official title and could challenge their case through his allies in the Central Court, including Hong Tianming.

Peng Huizu and the Chen family realized Suijie might aid Xu Yi, while Xu refused to abandon his Southern Heavenly Court post or his vendetta against the Jianlan Hội. Disguised as Xue Xiang, Xu Yi helped Ning Wuyou plan an attack on the Starry Sky Prefecture and arranged to bring in the Reverse Star Palace, as Chen Zhaojiang arrived to offer compensation.

• Peng Huizu explained that Suijie could support Xu Yi, prompting the Chen family to reconsider the danger facing them.
• Xu Yi rejected Huang Mei's suggestion to let matters go and hurried to the Big Dipper Palace after Ning Wuyou summoned him.
• Ning Wuyou decided to attack the Starry Sky Prefecture, and Xu Yi proposed persuading Suijie and the Reverse Star Palace to join the operation.
• Ning Wuyou put Xue Xiang in charge of the operation, while Xu Yi hid when Chen Zhaojiang arrived as Peng Huizu's envoy.
• Chen Zhaojiang offered twenty towers of Profound Yellow Fiend as compensation for the attack on Kongming Island, with five towers to be paid upfront.

Xu Yi stirred Reverse Star Palace into preparing an attack on Starry Sky Prefecture after claiming the central court might replace him as Palace Master. The chapter left him welcoming Li Tieya, the newly appointed Prefect of Big Dipper Palace, as a close friend.

• Chen Zhaojiang returned to Starry Sky Island, where Peng Huizu warned that Reverse Star Palace might attack and began reorganizing personnel and moving troops toward Xishan Road.
• Xu Yi told Reverse Star Palace’s generals and saints that the central court might replace him because the organization had accomplished little, prompting them to pledge their support.
• Xu Yi said Starry Sky Prefecture was vulnerable during its reorganization and urged Reverse Star Palace to seize Profound Yellow Towers, leading the generals to compete to lead the attack.
• Li Tieya arrived from Big Dipper Palace, and Xu Yi welcomed him and introduced him as his longtime friend and the newly appointed prefect.

Xu Yi, posing as Palace Master Suijie, agreed to join Big Dipper Palace in an immediate attack on Starry Sky Prefecture. He left to coordinate with them while Reverse Star Palace prepared to march that night.

• Li Tieya arrived on Deputy Palace Master Xue's orders and explained that Palace Master Ning wanted to exploit the turmoil in Starry Sky Prefecture, offering twenty towers' worth of Profound Yellow Fiend if Reverse Star Palace helped.
• Xu Yi consulted Reverse Star Palace's leaders, who eagerly supported joining Big Dipper Palace in a campaign against Starry Sky Prefecture.
• Xu Yi agreed to send the strongest forces and told Li Tieya they would attack in three days, but Li Tieya urged an immediate strike to prevent leaks and complications.
• Chen Tuanfeng and the other leaders backed Li Tieya's call to attack that night, and Xu Yi confirmed Reverse Star Palace would join the operation.
• When Li Tieya asked who would coordinate with Big Dipper Palace, Xu Yi volunteered to go himself, leaving the Three Saints to oversee the army.

Xu Yi united the Big Dipper Palace and Reverse Star Palace under Ning Wuyou’s command, and their armies attacked the Starry Sky Prefecture from both sides. Peng Huizu faced the siege at Starry Sky Island as Xue Xiang rejected his attempt to negotiate and ordered the assault to intensify.

• Xu Yi left Li Tieya at the Reverse Star Palace as a liaison while he returned to the Big Dipper Palace to report his agreement with Suijie to Ning Wuyou.
• Ning Wuyou summoned the Route Prefects and ordered them to join the campaign, launching a major war across the Starry Sky Ancient Path.
• Chen Zhaojiang and Chen Zhaohai panicked as reports of attacks and collapsing defenses flooded the Starry Sky Hall, while Peng Huizu stayed composed.
• Third Ancestor Chen arrived, rebuked the Chen family elders, and joined Peng Huizu as the Big Dipper Palace and Reverse Star Palace armies converged on Starry Sky Island.
• Peng Huizu called for Ning Wuyou and Suijie to negotiate, but Xue Xiang went out in Ning Wuyou’s place and demanded Profound Yellow Fiend before withdrawing.
• Peng Huizu accused Ning Wuyou of risking her future for Xu Yi, but Xue Xiang exposed Peng Huizu’s alleged scheme with Hong Tianming and ordered the armies to intensify their attack.

Peng Huizu revealed his plan to use the Jianlan Hội and newly arrived Heavenly Court Imperial Guards to crush the Big Dipper Palace and Reverse Star Palace. As battle threatened to turn against them, Huangmei received Suijie's promise of reinforcements and urged the Reverse Star Palace troops to hold their ground.

• Third Ancestor Chen knocked Chen Zhaohai unconscious, then agreed with Peng Huizu that it was time to reveal their hidden trump card.
• Third Ancestor Chen opened four Cosmic Sea Teleportation Arrays, which brought more than ten thousand Heavenly Court Imperial Guards onto the battlefield.
• Peng Huizu declared that his Starry Sky Prefecture would replace the Big Dipper Palace and Reverse Star Palace as the dominant power on the Starry Sky Ancient Path.
• Ning Wuyou ordered the Big Dipper Palace troops to fight on, while Huangmei tried to steady the increasingly unsettled Reverse Star Palace ranks.
• Huangmei received a message from Suijie promising reinforcements within half an incense stick, then challenged the troops to keep fighting.

Jianlan Hội's army completed its encirclement of Starry Sky Prefecture and attacked Reverse Star Palace and Big Dipper Palace. As the defenders struggled to hold the formation, Peng Huizu detected the approaching Wuyuan Witch clan and led the Jianlan Hội's Old Ancestors to intercept them.

• The leaders of the eight great families joined Third Ancestor Chen and Peng Huizu, and Third Ancestor Chen confirmed their agreement to settle in Starry Sky Prefecture after defeating Big Dipper Palace and Reverse Star Palace.
• Peng Huizu took command of the assembled army of over a hundred thousand, and the battle began, splitting Youtan Star apart in the aftermath.
• Xu Yi disguised himself as Suijie and told the defenders to hold their formation while they waited for Saintess Ning's plan and reinforcements.
• Peng Huizu predicted that Xu Yi had called on the Wuyuan Witch clan, identified their approach from the southeast, and led the Jianlan Hội's Old Ancestors and their guards to meet them.
• Peng Huizu and more than ten thousand personal guards engaged the approaching force of over a thousand Wuyuan Witch clan members.

Xu Yi let the battle reach its breaking point before revealing that Xue Xiang’s intelligent Titan Dragon Python could control the beast tide on the Starry Sky Ancient Path. With the Jianlan Hội’s encirclement shattered and the armies fleeing the approaching beasts, Xu Yi’s allies recognized that Peng Huizu had fought on Xu Yi’s home turf.

• The Wuyuan Witch clan arrived to rescue Suijie, broke through the encirclement, and boosted the morale of the Big Dipper Palace and Reverse Star Palace.
• Peng Huizu rallied the Jianlan Hội and pressed the allied forces, while Xu Yi pretended to sleep before heading toward the Big Dipper Palace.
• Xu Yi crossed the battlefield disguised as Xue Xiang, then caused a commotion as a beast tide swept in and threw the armies into chaos.
• Suijie reorganized the troops and led them east, but another stretch of dark fog and the approaching beast tide blocked their path.
• A gigantic Titan Dragon Python burst from the tide, and Suijie recognized it as Xue Xiang’s Marshal-class beast; Huangmei realized Xu Yi had controlled the beast tide with his Heavenly Card.

Xu Yi’s forces took advantage of a beast tide to rout Peng Huizu’s group, while Xu Yi rode Big Yellow away from the battlefield to pursue one of his enemies. Peng Huizu escaped with two iron guards and resigned himself to abandoning the Southern Heavenly Court, though he did not know that Xu Yi was chasing him.

• Big Yellow’s Titan Dragon Pythons trapped Peng Huizu’s forces in a beast tide, and Peng Huizu’s attempts to keep his followers organized failed.
• A cultivator detonated more than a thousand life wheels, opening gaps that allowed many of Peng Huizu’s people to escape.
• Venerable Moyun and the Divine Fire Demon King led Xu Yi’s troops into an attack, and Ning Wuyou ordered the Big Dipper Palace to join them.
• Xu Yi changed into Xue Xiang, instructed Big Yellow to control the beast tide, then rode him away to pursue a great enemy.
• Peng Huizu fled with his two iron guards, reflected on his defeat, and said he would seek a future outside the Southern Heavenly Court.

Xu Yi defeated Peng Huizu, reactivated the Starry Sky Ancient Path’s restriction, and secured Starry Sky Island to claim its Profound Yellow Towers. After the Jianlan Hội army was nearly destroyed, he arranged for the allied forces to withdraw, while Ning Wuyou asked him to give her an answer when he had figured things out.

• The Titan Dragon Python wrecked Peng Huizu’s Starry Sky Boat, and Xu Yi killed the two cloaked men before absorbing Peng Huizu’s life wheel into the Soul Locking Bottle.
• Xu Yi returned to Starry Sky Island, confirmed the Starry Sky Ancient Path was empty, and reactivated its restriction.
• The Jianlan Hội army broke apart under the beast tide and was nearly wiped out as Reverse Star Palace and Big Dipper Palace finished off its remaining forces.
• Xu Yi stationed Ren Cong and Li Xin on opposite sides of Starry Sky Island to keep others away from the Profound Yellow Towers.
• Ning Wuyou told Xue Xiang to warn Xu Yi that his time was running out and that he should come give her an answer once he had figured things out.
• Xu Yi ordered the allied forces to finish clearing the battlefield and return to their respective homes.

Xu Yi gathered nearly two hundred Profound Yellow Towers and collected Domain Realm Life Wheels from Reverse Star Palace and Big Dipper Palace after their victory over Starry Sky Prefecture. In seclusion, he sent the Sui clan's Origin Fire back into its Origin Token to strengthen it and turned his attention to mastering the Ruyi Curse.

• Xu Yi used Huang Mei's guidance to find nearly two hundred Profound Yellow Towers on Starry Sky Island and stored them in the Four-Colored Seal Space.
• Xu Yi and Reverse Star Palace's leaders gave the central authorities' envoy an account of their victory, and the envoy praised Palace Master Sui and promised rewards.
• After Ning Wuyou told him that the Northern Court would send an envoy, Xu Yi collected Domain Realm Life Wheels from Reverse Star Palace's commanders and Big Dipper Palace's members.
• Huang Mei began refining the gathered Life Wheels in seclusion while Xu Yi returned to True Spirit Cave to cultivate.
• Xu Yi realized he could strengthen the Sui clan's Origin Fire by sealing it in its Origin Token, then decided to pursue the Ruyi Curse while the fire was being nurtured.

Xu Yi failed to cultivate the Ruyi Curse and ended his seclusion, while the Southern Heavenly Court convened over the disaster on the Starry Sky Ancient Path. Hong Tianming accused Peng Huizu and his backers of causing the upheaval through their political maneuvering.

• Xu Yi tried to cultivate the first level of the Ruyi Curse for two days, failed to make progress, and ended his seclusion.
• Xu Yi considered returning to the Triangular Forbidden Zone to investigate the "Five Stars Emerge from the East."
• The Shangyang Bell summoned Southern Heavenly Court officials to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, where True Lord Yu Miao reported the crisis and departed with the other great lords and Saint Elders.
• Kong Zhongyun demanded a fuller account from Chen Qingbei, while Chen urged retaliation against the Big Dipper Palace and the Reverse Star Palace.
• Hong Tianming challenged Chen Qingbei's account and argued that Lu Zhongyi's transfer and Peng Huizu's purge had exposed the Starry Sky Prefecture to attack.
• Wei Pengyuan defended the central government's role in Lu Zhongyi's transfer, while Hong blamed Peng Huizu and his backers for the upheaval.

After reviewing evidence of the disaster on the Starry Sky Ancient Path, officials discussed restoring Starry Sky Prefecture and finding a new prefectural judge. Kuang Zhaohui and Xue Baimei declined the post, while Duan Liuliu accepted it but asked for more time to meet the Profound Yellow Fiend quota.

• Hong Tianming presented testimony and footage showing Peng Huizu's attempt to capture Xu Yi and the battle amid a beast tide.
• Kong Zhongyun pressed the officials to agree on a response, and Zhao Ruyi identified diplomacy and restoring Starry Sky Prefecture as urgent priorities.
• The officials selected Kuang Zhaohui, Xue Baimei, and Duan Liuliu as candidates for prefectural judge and summoned them.
• Kong Zhongyun required the new judge to deliver thirty percent of last year's Profound Yellow Fiend quota by year-end, seventy percent the next year, and the full amount the year after.
• Kuang Zhaohui and Xue Baimei refused the appointment because they lacked the resources and expertise to meet the quota.
• Duan Liuliu accepted the post, asking for no quota by year-end and promising the full quota next year and one hundred and twenty percent the year after.