Chapter Summaries

Kong Zhongyun demanded a thirty-percent share of the Profound Yellow Fiend and asked the officials to find someone who could meet the quota. Chen Qingbei recommended Xu Yi, while Hong Tianming argued that recruiting him required addressing the Jianlan Hội’s role in Starry Sky Prefecture’s fall and reforming the appointment system.

• Duan Liuliu said he could not deliver thirty percent of the Profound Yellow Fiend, but Kong Zhongyun refused to lower the requirement and dismissed him and the other two officials.
• Kong Zhongyun revealed that he had practiced mind-reading and pressed Chen Qingbei to share his ideas.
• Chen Qingbei recommended Xu Yi, citing his record and the seven Tower Masters who had escaped Starry Sky Prefecture with him.
• Hong Tianming confirmed that he could contact Xu Yi but warned that Xu Yi would not return without an explanation for the Jianlan Hội’s attempt to kill him.
• Hong Tianming demanded an investigation into the Jianlan Hội’s influence and reform of the official appointment system, drawing objections from Song Yunhui.

Kong Zhongyun and the officials offered Xu Yi the acting Prefect Judge post in Starry Sky Prefecture, and Xu Yi accepted after securing a condition about the officials assigned there. The chapter ended with Xu Yi reaching the Inspector's Hall, where Hong Tianming was waiting.

• Hong Tianming argued that Peng Huizu was not solely responsible for Starry Sky Prefecture's collapse, and Kong Zhongyun contacted Xu Yi through his star talisman.
• Hong Tianming told Xu Yi the officials wanted him to serve as acting Prefect Judge and deliver the required Profound Yellow Fiend quota for three consecutive years.
• Xu Yi initially refused, citing the danger of returning, but then agreed to take the post and guaranteed he could deliver forty percent within the year.
• Xu Yi demanded that every official dispatched to Starry Sky Prefecture have risen through the selection-based system, and Kong Zhongyun accepted the condition.
• Xu Yi stored the Profound Yellow Tower in the Four-Colored Seal Space, traveled to the Great Desolate World, and arrived at the Inspector's Hall the next morning, where Hong Tianming waited.

Xu Yi met with Hong Tianming, secured a path to becoming acting Prefect Judge, and bargained for resources and the secret method for refining Profound Yellow Beads. After celebrating with Lu Zhongyi and He Beiyi, he returned to Empty Island and reunited with Yi Bingwei.

• Hong Tianming told Xu Yi he could serve as acting Prefect Judge and outlined how his rank might rise in the coming years.
• Xu Yi requested supplies, and Hong Tianming offered limited Dao Source and Profound Yellow Essence while refusing to provide Profound Yellow Beads.
• Xu Yi asked Hong Tianming to obtain the method for refining Profound Yellow Beads and promised to supply hundreds each year if he succeeded.
• Hong Tianming told Xu Yi that Lu Zhongyi and He Beiyi were waiting in the south city and that Yu Zixuan and Yi Bingwei were on Empty Island.
• After drinking with Lu Zhongyi and He Beiyi until dawn, Xu Yi returned to Empty Island, teased Yi Bingwei, and embraced and kissed her.

Xu Yi spent time with Little Fish and the two beauties before responding to Hong Tianming’s summons and taking charge of the restored Starry Sky Prefecture. He left the prefecture running smoothly, while the Evil Court and Northern Court urged stability after its destruction and reestablishment.

• Xu Yi took Little Fish to Sui Yang City for three days, then brought her and the two beauties to Empty Island when Hong Tianming summoned him.
• Xu Yi gave Qiu Wa a refined Five-Colored Bead that could attack and form a protective shield, and gave the two beauties Sumeru Rings filled with Profound Yellow Essence.
• Hong Tianming obtained the secret method for refining the Profound Yellow Bead and arranged for Xu Yi to receive officials, troops, resources, and equipment for the Starry Sky Prefecture.
• Xu Yi led the new personnel to the Starry Sky Ancient Path and used Xishan Road’s old hands to train others in operating the Profound Yellow Towers.
• After about a month, Xu Yi had the Starry Sky Prefecture running smoothly, while directives from the Evil Court and Northern Court called for stability and avoiding unrest.

Xu Yi discovered that the Triangular Forbidden Zone’s Vortex Fields could purify Profound Yellow Fiend Qi and collected the resulting energy to refine into beads. After mastering Hong Tianming’s secret method, he formed five pure Profound Yellow Beads and entered the Four-Colored Seal Space to test whether it could break them down.

• Xu Yi used his authority over the three borders to make the Triangular Forbidden Zone his private territory and found pure Profound Yellow Fiend Qi emerging from its Vortex Fields.
• Xu Yi tested the Vortex Fields by sending in Profound Yellow Fiend Qi and confirmed that they purified it, though the Four-Colored Seal could not break down the purified qi directly.
• Xu Yi collected the pure Profound Yellow Fiend Qi in a Profound Yellow Tower, then secluded himself in True Spirit Cave to study Hong Tianming’s method for condensing Profound Yellow Beads.
• Xu Yi mastered the method and used the collected qi to condense five unusually pure Profound Yellow Beads.
• Xu Yi entered the Four-Colored Seal Space to test whether the seal could break down the pure beads.

Xu Yi used the Four-Colored Seal to refine a Pure Profound Yellow Bead into powerful essence, then spent the year stockpiling and refining Profound Yellow Qi while expanding his private tower operation. After Ning Wuyou summoned him, Xu Yi arranged a secret meeting with her on Wuya Island.

• Xu Yi discovered that the Pure Profound Yellow Bead broke down in the Four-Colored Seal into essence far more potent than that from ordinary beads, giving him hope of reaching the Third Realm of Domain.
• Xu Yi gave Li Tieya a dozen Profound Yellow Towers to operate privately and spent the following year stockpiling and refining Profound Yellow Qi.
• The Southern Heavenly Court's central administration sent Xu Yi an imperial edict recognizing his meritorious service, while he continued cultivating and nurturing the Source Fire.
• Ning Wuyou summoned Xu Yi to the Big Dipper Palace, and he arranged to meet her secretly at Wuya Island that night.
• Xu Yi authorized Li Tieya to move private towers into Starry Sky Prefecture territory along Xishan Road, using an imperial edict to clear the area.
• Xu Yi reached Wuya Island, removed his cloak, and found Ning Wuyou waiting beneath an old pine.

Xu Yi reunited with Ning Wuyou and revealed that she was Xue Zihan, his beloved from a past life, then gave her a precious Pure Profound Yellow Bead. He returned to Reverse Star Palace to organize a new batch of Profound Yellow Towers and resumed seclusion to refine Profound Yellow Essence Qi.

• Xu Yi removed Ning Wuyou's veil and told her the story of Xue Zihan and Young Master Yiling, revealing their past relationship.
• Ning Wuyou recognized herself as Xue Zihan and shared a quiet night with Xu Yi before linking their Ruyi Pearls.
• Ning Wuyou gave Xu Yi thirteen Profound Yellow Beads and a secret purification method, while Xu Yi gave her a Pure Profound Yellow Bead.
• Xu Yi returned to Reverse Star Palace after Ren Cong reported that the selected personnel had completed their training.
• Xu Yi arranged to assign Profound Yellow Towers to trained recruits outside the factions' divided territories and ordered the factions to avoid conflict.
• Xu Yi entered seclusion to continue refining pure Profound Yellow Essence Qi.

After Desolate Ancestor awakened, he showed Xu Yi how to advance the Ruyi Curse, and Xu Yi spent more than a year cultivating in True Spirit Cave while managing the affairs of several factions. Once summoned to the Southern Heavenly Court’s central administration, Xu Yi arrived at Three Pure Ones Mountain and learned that his audience was scheduled for the next day.

• Desolate Ancestor awakened after nearly two years of sleep, and Xu Yi demanded that he share cultivation arts in exchange for the Jianlan Hội elders’ life wheels.
• Desolate Ancestor explained that Xu Yi needed an Immaculate Wonderful Tree to draw out the Ancestral Buddha’s True Intent and advance the Ruyi Curse, so Xu Yi hurried to True Spirit Cave.
• Xu Yi cultivated in True Spirit Cave for more than a year while arranging peaceful operations among Big Dipper Palace, Reverse Star Palace, and Starry Sky Prefecture.
• Xu Yi emerged from seclusion, handled official business, and distributed generous rewards to Ren Cong, Li Tieya, and their subordinates for gathering Profound Yellow Fiend.
• Wang Yang summoned Xu Yi to the Southern Heavenly Court’s central administration, and Xu Yi traveled with him and Desolate Ancestor to Three Pure Ones Mountain.
• An attendant received Xu Yi at Xunli Gate, led him to a guest room, and gave him a jade token recording the next day’s itinerary.

Xu Yi arrived at Three Pure Ones Mountain for his investiture ceremony and learned that Hong Tianming was in seclusion. At the ceremony, Song Zhendong unexpectedly announced Xu Yi’s promotion to Palace Lord of Starry Sky Palace, and He Beiyi warned him that accepting would make him a target.

• Xu Yi reunited with He Beiyi, who said Hong Tianming had been in seclusion for nearly half a year.
• Xu Yi entered Xunli Gate for the Yonghe Grand Ceremony and suspected his investiture had been arranged as a scheme.
• Song Zhendong presided over the ceremony as influential officials and He Beiyi gathered in Taihe Hall.
• Song Zhendong announced that Starry Sky Prefecture would become Starry Sky Palace and Xu Yi would be promoted to its Palace Lord, a Subordinate Third Rank official.
• He Beiyi sent Xu Yi a thought-message warning him not to accept the appointment because his cultivation and Dao Fruit did not qualify him and the court would target him.

Xu Yi accepted his appointment as a Third Rank Great Immortal and master of the Starry Sky Palace despite the uproar over his qualifications. Chen Taichong challenged his fitness for the post, but Xu Yi refused to accept the challenge and asked Song Zhendong to remove him.

• He Beiyi warned Xu Yi that the appointment ceremony was a trap, but Xu Yi accepted the Gold Register and kept the appointment.
• The officials in Taihe Hall protested Xu Yi's promotion and questioned his rank, cultivation, and achievements.
• Chen Taichong struck the Drum of Injustice and accused Xu Yi of being unfit to lead the Starry Sky Palace.
• Chen Taichong invoked a precedent in which a newly appointed official had to answer a public challenge to prove his worth.
• Xu Yi said the central authorities had chosen him and asked Song Zhendong to have Chen Taichong escorted out.

Xu Yi was forced into a fight with Chen Taichong after the Drum of Injustice stirred up opposition to his appointment as master of the Starry Sky Palace. He agreed to the duel’s terms and followed Chen Taichong to the North Plaza, where the gathered crowd set the stage for their confrontation.

• Xu Yi tried to leave after the ceremony, but Song Zhendong blocked him as the Drum of Injustice began sounding with repeated protests against his appointment.
• Xu Yi realized the authorities had cornered him and accepted that he would have to face Chen Taichong, despite He Beiyi warning him not to fight.
• Xu Yi accused the Chen family of causing the destruction of the Starry Sky Prefecture and challenged Chen Taichong to set the terms of their fight.
• Chen Taichong offered to withdraw if Xu Yi survived a hundred moves, and Xu Yi demanded that Chen Taichong cultivate in seclusion at the Sun Moon Cold Pond for a hundred years if he lost.
• Chen Taichong agreed to the penalty and proposed a fight to the death; Xu Yi accepted and went with him to the North Plaza as crowds gathered.

Xu Yi and Chen Taichong fought in a sealed arena, where Chen Taichong revealed the Chen family’s Zhengyi Dharma Hammer and Xu Yi answered with one of his own. As Xu Yi gained the upper hand, Chen Taichong unveiled the Su family’s long-lost Angry Immortal Bow, prompting an outraged Su family disciple to demand an explanation.

• Song Zhendong sealed off an arena and sent Xu Yi and Chen Taichong inside to settle their dispute.
• Chen Taichong tried to ambush Xu Yi, then attacked him with the Zhengyi Dharma Hammer and repeatedly shattered his spiritual power barrier.
• Xu Yi summoned his own Zhengyi Dharma Hammer, stunned the crowd, and struck back hard enough to force Chen Taichong onto the defensive.
• Chen Taichong accused Xu Yi of harming his family, while Xu Yi taunted him as he counted their exchanges.
• Chen Taichong produced the long-lost Angry Immortal Bow, which spectators recognized as the Su family’s secret art, and a Su family disciple demanded to know how he had obtained it.

Xu Yi defeated Chen Taichong after revealing that he had mastered the Angry Immortal Bow’s Unified Arrow, then confronted Song Zhendong over his conduct during the investiture ceremony. The chapter ended with Xu Yi rejecting Song Zhendong’s claim to be his superior.

• Chen Taichong attacked Xu Yi with the Angry Immortal Bow, but Xu Yi matched his techniques and held off his arrows.
• Xu Yi passed the hundred-move mark and declared Chen Taichong defeated, but Chen Taichong continued fighting to kill him.
• Xu Yi formed the five-element Unified Arrow and blasted through Chen Taichong’s defenses, leaving him unconscious.
• Song Zhendong had armored soldiers drag Chen Taichong away, and Xu Yi challenged Song Zhendong for allowing repeated challengers to disrupt the ceremony.
• Song Zhendong accused Xu Yi of slandering a superior, and Xu Yi pointed out that they held the same rank.

Xu Yi accepted Pudu Heavenly Monarch Wu Zhongchu’s challenge after mocking his interest in Ning Wuyou, and the two entered the formation for a battle. The crowd suspected Xu Yi’s appointment as Palace Master had been a trap and waited to see whether he could last ten moves.

• Xu Yi challenged the spectators and Song Zhendong to fight after defeating Chen Taichong, but no one answered.
• Wu Zhongchu, the Pudu Heavenly Monarch, entered the arena and declared Xu Yi unworthy of competing with Ning Wuyou.
• Xu Yi accepted Wu Zhongchu’s challenge and mocked him for sharing his grandson Wu Yaotian’s interest in Ning Wuyou.
• Wu Zhongchu vowed to defeat Xu Yi within ten moves and entered the formation, where Xu Yi joined him as the crowd gathered to watch.

Xu Yi fought Pudu Heavenly Monarch, resisting his superior domain with a formation of fiery serpents and defeating his Buddha-palm attack. Pudu Heavenly Monarch swallowed Pure Buddha Seeds to amplify his Dao Fruit, escalating the contest as the chapter ended.

• Xu Yi attacked Pudu Heavenly Monarch with the Jiang Clan's Void Rending Hand, while Pudu displayed Spirit Spreading Through the Air and enveloped him in his domain.
• Xu Yi formed a space with ten fiery serpents and knocked aside Pudu Heavenly Monarch's blade of light despite the domain's pressure.
• Wei Pengyuan offered Chen Qingbei fifteen Profound Yellow Beads infused with Baleful Intent, and Chen used a Ruyi Pearl to send out a series of commands.
• Pudu Heavenly Monarch brought out his Domain Root and struck with a colossal Buddha's palm, but Xu Yi added an eleventh fiery serpent and erased the attack with a Unified Arrow from the Angry Immortal Bow.
• Pudu Heavenly Monarch spat blood, then swallowed Pure Buddha Seeds to forcibly amplify his Dao Fruit, drawing alarm from the onlookers.

Xu Yi defeated Pudu Heavenly Monarch and silenced the officials who had challenged his appointment as master of Starry Sky Palace. As he prepared to leave, Wu Xiuxian arrived and threatened Yu Zixuan and Yi Bingwei, forcing Xu Yi to face his next choice.

• Pudu Heavenly Monarch swallowed several Pure Buddha Seeds, but Xu Yi broke his domain with twelve fire serpents and crippled his Dao Fruit.
• Xu Yi challenged Song Zhendong and the cultivators who had struck the Drum of Injustice, but they refused to fight or denied having complained.
• Song Zhendong let Xu Yi leave until Wu Xiuxian arrived and demanded a rematch.
• Wu Xiuxian privately told Xu Yi that Yu Zixuan and Yi Bingwei were in his hands and threatened them if Xu Yi refused to fight.
• Xu Yi contacted Yu Zixuan and Yi Bingwei with his Ruyi Pearl, but neither answered.

Xu Yi challenged Wu Xiuxian to protect the two women, but Wu Xiuxian’s tribulation qi countered his attacks and trapped him. Xu Yi broke free with a devastating fire technique, and Wu Xiuxian answered by unleashing the Myriad Manifestations of Tribulation Qi.

• Xu Yi confronted Wu Xiuxian and attacked with the Angry Immortal Bow, but Wu Xiuxian’s gray mirror devoured the Unified Arrow.
• Xu Yi’s arrows, Zhengyi Dharma Hammer, and Void Rending Hand failed against Wu Xiuxian’s tribulation qi, which formed a gray hand around him.
• Xu Yi detonated his Ultimate Fire Technique with Primordial Fire Technique, shattering the gray hand and hammers and blasting Wu Xiuxian backward.
• Xu Yi’s flames triggered the Cloud Screen restriction, shocking the spectators and leaving Chen Qingbei and Wei Pengyuan alarmed.
• Wu Xiuxian recovered, summoned tribulation qi into weapons and armor, and Chen Qingbei identified the display as Myriad Manifestations of Tribulation Qi.

Xu Yi fought Wu Xiuxian’s overwhelming tribulation Qi with golden and Buddhist formations, while the crowd learned that Wu Xiuxian had devoured his father, Xiongchu Heavenly Monarch. As Xu Yi recited the Ruyi Curse and drew on the Immaculate Wonderful Tree, its counterpart in the Ancestor Buddha Court began shaking uncontrollably.

• Xu Yi raised a golden wall and then summoned a heavenly river to freeze Wu Xiuxian’s Calamity Soldiers, but Wu Xiuxian’s tribulation Qi broke through both defenses.
• Wu Xiuxian transformed into a black hole of tribulation Qi, and Guangyun Heavenly Monarch revealed that he had devoured his father, Xiongchu Heavenly Monarch.
• At Huang Mei’s urging, Xu Yi invoked Ancestral Buddha’s True Intent and formed a Heaven-Enveloping Forbidden Net Great Formation to contain the Calamity Soldiers.
• Wu Xiuxian battered the formation with tribulation Qi cannonballs, Xu Yi was wounded, and He Beiyi protested that the Heavenly Court was letting a tribulation demon attack him.
• Xu Yi recited the Ruyi Curse, causing the Immaculate Wonderful Tree within his mist to release Ancestral Buddha’s True Intent and the main tree in the Ancestor Buddha Court to shake.
• The hundred thousand Buddhas and dozens of True Buddhas rushed to nourish the main Immaculate Wonderful Tree, but they could not stop its branches and trunk from trembling.

Xu Yi drew a torrent of Ancestral Buddha's True Intent from the Immaculate Wonderful Tree to withstand Wu Xiuxian's Killing Intent, while practicing the Ruyi Curse. The Shangyang Bell destroyed the black hole of mist and Wu Xiuxian, leaving Xu Yi to question Kuang Zhaohui about someone they were searching for as Wei Pengyuan intervened.

• Xu Yi recited the Heart Sutra, drawing Ancestral Buddha's True Intent through the Immaculate Wonderful Tree and forming a golden wall that withstood Wu Xiuxian's attacks.
• Xu Yi ignored Wu Xiuxian and refined the True Intent, but the resulting disturbance roused the Shangyang Bell atop Three Pure Ones Mountain.
• The Shangyang Bell broke free, struck the black hole of mist, and dispersed the Killing Intent, while its shockwaves injured Xu Yi and Wu Xiuxian died beneath the collapsing force.
• Spectators declared Wu Xiuxian's death deserved, and Xu Yi collected the resources released by his death.
• Xu Yi confronted Kuang Zhaohui about the person the Heavenly Court was searching for, and Kuang said they had no news yet and could not reach him because Xu Yi's forbidden technique had cut off communication.
• Wei Pengyuan rebuked Xu Yi for treating Kuang Zhaohui disrespectfully.

Xu Yi faced an attempt to revoke his appointment as Palace Master of the Starry Sky Palace, and publicly defied the Central Secretariat when Zhao Ruyi demanded his Gold Register. As officials and immortals protested the injustice, Xu Yi appeared to break through to the Third Realm.

• Qiu Wa contacted Xu Yi through the Ruyi Pearl and assured him that she and the others had driven away the attackers.
• Zhao Ruyi invoked the Political Affairs Department's review power to challenge Xu Yi's appointment, citing his lack of experience and insufficient cultivation.
• Xu Yi defended his appointment by pointing to his contributions and promised to step down if he failed to meet the requirements within ten years.
• When Song Zhendong demanded the Gold Register back, Xu Yi refused and accused the Central Secretariat of repeatedly trying to undermine him.
• Xu Yi swallowed several Profound Yellow Beads, prompting officials and immortals to denounce the Central Secretariat and cry out against its injustice.
• Xu Yi spat blood, then produced the sign of Three Flowers Gathering at the Peak as the chaotic light around him vanished.