Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuanchen secretly followed Nangong Qing and her companions to Xingyue Lake, where they sought a treasure beneath the water. Their search awakened a vast group of Cold Moon Star Crocodiles, and Nangong Qing faced the Crocodile King as her group debated how to respond.

• After collecting nearly a thousand small demonic beasts, Zhang Xuanchen learned from Xuanjing that five powerful cultivators were approaching and concealed his identity before following them.
• Nangong Qing led Mingmou, Zhao Defa, Zhang Jiaojiao, and another companion toward Xingyue Lake after Mingmou's Spirit Seeking Compass detected dense spiritual energy and profound Sword Intent beneath it.
• Nangong Qing tried to flush out a hidden follower, but Zhang Xuanchen stayed concealed, and she eventually decided her senses had been mistaken.
• Nangong Qing noticed the lake's unnatural stillness and struck its surface with her crimson sword, revealing hundreds of Cold Moon Star Crocodiles.
• The Crocodile King accused the humans of injuring its child and advanced on them, while Mingmou asked Nangong Qing what they should do.

Nangong Qing drew the Cold Moon Star Crocodiles away from Xingyue Lake while Zhang Xuanchen sneaked in to claim the opportunity hidden beneath it. He found a karst cave containing a skeleton, a heavy sword, and a Star Token.

• Nangong Qing ordered Mingmou and the others to retreat while she held off the two Crocodile Kings.
• Nangong Qing fought the Late Third-grade Crocodile King with her Flame Phoenix Armor and Flame Spirit Slash as the group drew the battle away from Xingyue Lake.
• Zhang Xuanchen concealed his aura with Xuanjing's help, killed the crocodiles guarding the lake, and collected their corpses.
• Xuanjing guided Zhang Xuanchen to a karst cave beneath the lake and identified its powerful Sword Intent as Falling Star Sword Intent.
• Zhang Xuanchen entered the cave and found a skeleton seated on a crystal throne, with a heavy sword before it and a Star Token in its hand.

Zhang Xuanchen claimed the Meteor Heavy Sword and saw a vision of its former master fighting Outer Realm Evil Demons in the Upper Realm. He escaped the karst cave before Nangong Qing arrived, leaving her furious and unable to find him.

• Xuanjing identified the skeleton as a fallen Integrated Body Dao Venerable and the sword as the seventh-tier top-grade Meteor Heavy Sword.
• Zhang Xuanchen touched the sword, saw a vision of a battle against Outer Realm Evil Demons, then returned to the karst cave and collected the skeleton, sword, throne, and Star Token.
• Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen that Nangong Qing and her group had defeated the Cold Moon Star Crocodile and were approaching, so he fled the cave.
• Mingmou realized the treasure had disappeared, and Nangong Qing rushed toward the karst cave in anger.
• Zhang Xuanchen concealed his aura and escaped while Nangong Qing failed to detect him and burned through the empty cave.
• Mingmou calmed Nangong Qing, who gave up searching for the thief and flew away to seek other opportunities.

Zhang Xuanchen decided to ignore a distant Ice Crystal Jade Pear opportunity and focused on his journey toward the Star Core and the Starry Holy Palace inheritance. While sharing grilled crocodile meat with Xuanjing and Xiao Mo, he reflected on the humans who had sacrificed themselves to fight the Blood Demons and wondered whether he would stand against a future demonic invasion.

• Zhang Xuanchen learned that the Ice Crystal Jade Pear would ripen in fifteen days, but chose not to travel far out of his way for the Lower-Grade B Immortal Fate.
• He entered the Myriad Spirit Ring and grilled Cold Moon Star Crocodile meat for Xuanjing and Xiao Mo.
• Xiao Mo reported that its four Jadeite Spirit Insect concubines could lay seventy or eighty eggs in three months, and Zhang Xuanchen rewarded it and its brood with grilled meat.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Xiao Mo to focus on eating and break through to the Third Stage as soon as possible, estimating it could do so in half a year with enough Star Ash Sand.
• Looking at the Meteor Heavy Sword and Star Token, Zhang Xuanchen questioned whether he would step forward if Evil Demons descended, then recalled his loved ones and became resolute.

Zhang Xuanchen bonded with the Meteor Heavy Sword and traveled through the Secret Realm toward the Star Core, avoiding dangers and collecting spiritual items. After two months, Xuanjing urged him to rescue two Wind Feather Elves and befriend them for access to their race’s spiritual items.

• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that blood recognition would work on the sleeping Artifact Spirit in the Meteor Heavy Sword, and Zhang Xuanchen bonded with it.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned that the sword could transform into a lighter Meteor Sword once its spirit awakened, then stored it in his sea of consciousness to recover.
• The next morning, Zhang Xuanchen left the Spirit Ring Space, found a Spirit Rabbit dead beside a tree stump, and stored it in the Myriad Spirit Ring.
• With Xuanjing guiding him, Zhang Xuanchen traveled quickly toward the Star Core, avoided dangers, and collected a Fourth-grade Low-tier Pattern Stele Spirit Moss.
• Two months later, Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that two Wind Feather Elves were being hunted 123 li to the northeast and advised him to save them and seek their friendship.

Zhang Xuanchen rushed to rescue two injured Wind Feather Elves pursued by an Ink Shadow Demon Leopard, hoping to obtain the Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid. Feng Xiao sacrificed himself to let Feng Linger escape with the Ink Shadow Ghost Orchid, but the demon leopard was interrupted by a sword strike from an unknown attacker.

• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that Feng Xiao and Feng Linger were being hunted by a powerful Ink Shadow Demon Leopard, and Zhang hurried to help them.
• Feng Xiao and Feng Linger fled through the forest with the Ink Shadow Ghost Orchid, which they had sought to save their High Priestess.
• As the siblings reached the grassland, Feng Xiao gave Feng Linger the orchid and urged her to escape while he held off the demon leopard.
• Feng Xiao burned his Origin of Wind and fought the demon leopard, but it shattered his body and prepared to kill him.
• A starlit longsword shot toward the demon leopard, forcing it to evade and angrily demand to know who had interfered.

Zhang Xuanchen saved Feng Xiao and Feng Linger from the Ink Shadow Demon Leopard, taking an opportunity Wei Wushuang had been racing to claim. After the leopard fled, Wei Wushuang arrived and lent Zhang Xuanchen resources to trade with the Elf Race.

• Zhang Xuanchen healed Feng Xiao with Thousand-year Stone Milk after stopping the Ink Shadow Demon Leopard from killing him.
• Feng Linger thanked Zhang Xuanchen, and Feng Xiao confirmed that his injuries were recovering.
• Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen that Wei Wushuang was approaching, so Zhang Xuanchen concealed his cultivation and asked the siblings to keep it secret.
• The Ink Shadow Demon Leopard sensed Wei Wushuang and fled rather than face Zhang Xuanchen's Meteor Heavy Sword.
• Wei Wushuang arrived, recognized Zhang Xuanchen, and offered to lend him resources for trading with the Elf Race.
• Zhang Xuanchen accepted Wei Wushuang's Storage Ring, intending to use its pills, magical artifacts, and Spirit Talismans.

Zhang Xuanchen refused to help Wei Wushuang trade with the Elf Race, choosing instead to use their resources to cultivate safely. After Wei Wushuang left, Feng Xiao and Feng Linger thanked Zhang Xuanchen for saving them and offered to repay him.

• Zhang Xuanchen accepted Wei Wushuang’s resources but said he would trade them with the Elf Race for his own cultivation, not for the Wei Family.
• Zhang Xuanchen confronted Wei Wushuang over using him to collect Spirit Stones and attract the other factions’ anger, then explained why he planned to avoid further danger.
• Wei Wushuang agreed that Zhang Xuanchen should seek a safe place to cultivate, but demanded repayment of the resources he had lent him.
• Wei Wushuang tried to trade with Feng Xiao and Feng Linger, but Feng Xiao refused because Wei Wushuang and Zhang Xuanchen were not truly friends.
• Wei Wushuang warned Zhang Xuanchen to be cautious around the Secret Realm’s native races, then flew away and declared that they were even.
• Feng Xiao and Feng Linger thanked Zhang Xuanchen for saving them and offered to fulfill a request in return.

Zhang Xuanchen demanded Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid in exchange for saving Feng Xiao and Feng Linger, and the siblings promised to secure it from their clan. After treating Feng Linger and preparing to travel, Zhang Xuanchen introduced himself as Xuan Chen as the group set out for the Wind Feather Elf Race.

• Zhang Xuanchen asked Feng Xiao and Feng Linger to obtain Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid as payment for saving them.
• Feng Xiao promised ten drops, while he and Feng Linger criticized their father and vowed to take charge of the Wind Feather Elf Race.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Feng Linger a drop of Thousand-year Stone Milk, cleaned the siblings' clothes, and supplied them with white robes.
• Xuanjing teased Zhang Xuanchen about Feng Linger and threatened to tell Ling Shuang before disappearing.
• Feng Xiao and Feng Linger returned in fresh robes, and Zhang Xuanchen told them to call him Xuan Chen as they prepared to leave.

Zhang Xuanchen escorted Feng Xiao and Feng Linger toward the Wind Feather Elf Race’s ancestral land, and Feng Linger quickly learned to fly on a sword after watching him. Along the way, Feng Xiao explained that the realm’s treasures were left for human cultivators, and outsiders who tried to take them or reveal their locations faced soul destruction.

• Feng Xiao urged Feng Linger to call Zhang Xuanchen Brother Chen, and she promised to reward him with Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid for saving her.
• Feng Xiao and Zhang Xuanchen flew toward the Wind Feather Elf Race’s ancestral land, while Feng Linger copied Zhang Xuanchen’s sword-flying technique within moments.
• Feng Xiao offered Zhang Xuanchen access to the first three floors of the clan’s Scripture Library as compensation for Feng Linger observing his spell.
• Feng Xiao told Zhang Xuanchen that the clan lived atop the Floating Mountain Range and that the journey northeast would take about a month.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked why the Meteor Heavy Sword and the Starry Holy Palace’s treasures had gone untouched, and Feng Xiao explained that ancient human sages had left the realm’s opportunities for humans alone.
• Feng Xiao said outsiders could neither take those opportunities nor reveal their locations without suffering complete soul destruction.

Zhang Xuanchen found the Golden Silk Blood Bodhi guarded by a Yin Yang Two-Headed Python and used his True Dragon bloodline pressure to confront it. The python, Ao Tun, instead submitted to him, and Xuanjing suggested he take it in as a future guardian spirit beast.

• Feng Xiao explained that the High Priestess could point Zhang Xuanchen toward the greatest opportunity, and Feng Linger said her master had expected humans to enter the Secret Realm someday.
• Zhang Xuanchen identified the Golden Silk Blood Bodhi in a deep valley and sensed that a Late Third Stage Yin Yang Two-Headed Python was guarding it.
• Zhang Xuanchen activated the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art and leaped into the valley while Feng Xiao and Feng Linger waited outside and discussed their wish to see the outside world.
• The Yin Yang Two-Headed Python sensed Zhang Xuanchen's True Dragon pressure, emerged from its cave, shrank down, and submitted to him as Ao Tun.
• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that Ao Tun wanted his blood and suggested he accept it as a follower and potential clan guardian spirit beast.

Zhang Xuanchen accepted the Yin Yang Two-Headed Python’s submission, named him Ao Tun, and discovered that the demon was a rare talent capable of becoming a flood dragon. After Ao Tun gifted him a Golden Silk Blood Bodhi, Zhang Xuanchen brought him into his Spiritual Artifact space and gave him essence blood to aid his transformation.

• Zhang Xuanchen marked the Yin Yang Two-Headed Python with the Earth Vein Profound Sun Fire and discovered its two Monster Cores made it a Heavenly Talent of the Demon Race.
• Zhang Xuanchen named the submissive python Ao Tun, who led him to a Golden Silk Blood Bodhi he had guarded for hundreds of years.
• Ao Tun agreed to follow Zhang Xuanchen into the outside world, and Zhang Xuanchen moved him and the Bodhi tree into his Spiritual Artifact space.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Ao Tun a drop of his essence blood and told him to guard the Bodhi and cultivate toward becoming a flood dragon.

Zhang Xuanchen returned from the Spirit Ring Space and continued traveling with Feng Xiao and Feng Linger, while considering whether he could bring the Wind Feather Elf Race into the outside world. Elsewhere, Wuxin attacked a group of cultivators after their leader tried to trade a low-grade pill for Luo Lingshuang’s Star Firefly Spirit Flower.

• Ao Tun restored the Cave Mansion and celebrated receiving Zhang Xuanchen’s blood essence, even wondering whether it should cut off its male parts to become a dragon maiden.
• Zhang Xuanchen rejoined Feng Xiao and Feng Linger, then dismissed an opportunity to visit a Golden Core Cave Mansion and set off with them.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Xuanjing concluded that the Wind Feather Elf Race would not submit to him while he remained too weak to control them.
• Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, and Wuxin encountered eight cultivators led by the Early Golden Core Purple-robed Youth, who offered a Second-grade Pill for Luo Lingshuang’s Fourth-Grade Mid-Rank Star Firefly Spirit Flower.
• Wuxin crushed the Pill Bottle, called the cultivators out for taking him for a fool, and slapped the Purple-robed Youth into a tree.

Luo Lingshuang, Wuxin, and the Great Sage fought Huang Zhantian and his companions after the outsiders tried to rob them. Huang Zhantian and Zhao Yuantong escaped, while the others were captured, and one trapped cultivator deduced that the trio had entered the Secret Realm using a spatial magic artifact.

• The Great Sage and Wuxin revealed their strength and attacked Huang Zhantian's group as Luo Lingshuang trapped them inside a Water Curtain Barrier and struck with Sword Rain.
• Zhao Yuantong summoned a Late Golden Core incarnation, which shattered the Sword Rain and attacked the trio with an Overlord Halberd while the others tried to break the barrier.
• The Great Sage absorbed the halberd's spiritual energy as Wuxin sent five golden rings to restrain Huang Zhantian and his companions.
• Huang Zhantian used talismans to escape through the shattered barrier, and Zhao Yuantong followed, leaving three companions trapped.
• Luo Lingshuang stopped Wuxin and the Great Sage from pursuing the escapees to avoid exposing their identities.
• A trapped cultivator deduced that the trio were outsiders who had entered with a spatial magic artifact, and Wuxin slapped him away.

Luo Lingshuang, Wuxin, and the Great Sage dealt with their enemies and continued searching for Star Tokens while Zhang Xuanchen traveled with Feng Xiao and Feng Linger to the Wind-Perch Forest Sea. The Wind Feather Elf Clan Leader sensed their arrival and ordered Feng Ye to bring the three travelers to the clan hall.

• Luo Lingshuang ordered Wuxin to kill the captured cultivators, and he beheaded them and handed her their Storage Rings.
• Luo Lingshuang found a Star Token among the spoils and gave it to Wuxin, explaining that they still needed tokens for the Great Sage and Zhang Xuanchen.
• Cultivators across the Starry Secret Realm began adapting to the realm, and many fought and died over Star Tokens.
• A month later, Zhang Xuanchen, Feng Xiao, and Feng Linger reached the Cloud Peak Wind-Perch Forest Sea and entered the dangerous astral winds toward the Wind Feather Elf Ancestral Land.
• The Wind Feather Elf Clan Leader sensed Feng Xiao and Feng Linger and ordered Feng Ye to bring them and Zhang Xuanchen to the clan hall.

Zhang Xuanchen discussed the need to grow stronger with Feng Xiao and Feng Linger while they traveled through the Wind Perch Forest Sea. Feng Ye overheard Feng Linger criticizing him, and she tried to escape the consequences by blaming Feng Xiao.

• Zhang Xuanchen explained that even after the Feathered Race and Storm Griffin race were defeated, new conflicts would arise, so the Wind Feather Elf Race had to keep growing stronger.
• Feng Linger praised Zhang Xuanchen’s understanding of clan responsibilities and mocked Feng Ye for being poor at clan affairs and frightening people with his sour expression.
• Feng Ye appeared behind Feng Linger, and Feng Xiao abruptly defended him, claiming he alone felt sorry for Uncle Ye.
• Feng Linger realized Feng Ye had heard her, then threw herself into his arms and claimed Feng Xiao bullied her whenever she talked back.
• Feng Xiao watched in disbelief as Feng Linger’s excuse seemed to work.

Zhang Xuanchen met the Wind Feather Elf Race’s High Priest and learned Feng Xiao and Feng Linger would be punished for leaving the clan without permission. He offered a medicinal pill to ask the High Priestess and Clan Leader Feng to lessen their sentence.

• Feng Ye beat Feng Xiao after Feng Linger pretended to cry, then learned Zhang Xuanchen had saved the siblings from a Third Stage Demon Leopard.
• Feng Ye brought Zhang Xuanchen, Feng Xiao, and Feng Linger to meet the High Priestess, Clan Leader Feng Yuan, and three elders.
• The High Priestess sentenced Feng Xiao and Feng Linger to one month in the Blazing Flame Cave for breaking the barrier and disobeying the clan’s orders.
• Feng Xiao accepted responsibility for their unauthorized trip and offered to endure two months in the cave so Feng Linger’s punishment could be reduced.
• Zhang Xuanchen offered a Third-grade Top-tier medicinal pill that could slow the High Priestess’s loss of life force, asking that Feng Xiao and Feng Linger receive lighter punishment.

Zhang Xuanchen helped Feng Xiao and Feng Linger avoid severe punishment, then offered the High Priestess a healing pill and received twenty drops of Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid. When she questioned him about the Evil Demon poison afflicting her, he explained his past encounter with an Evil Demon and presented the sword that had slain it.

• The High Priestess reduced Feng Xiao and Feng Linger's punishment to half a month each after Zhang Xuanchen pleaded for them.
• Feng Linger explained how they had found the Ink Shadow Ghost Orchid, and Feng Yuan thanked Zhang Xuanchen for saving the siblings and bringing it back.
• Feng Yuan arranged a banquet for Zhang Xuanchen and sent Feng Xiao and Feng Linger away with Feng Ye.
• Zhang Xuanchen offered the High Priestess a Third-grade Top-tier Mystic Spirit Healing Pill and asked to trade for Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid and other Wind Feather Elf treasures.
• The High Priestess granted Zhang Xuanchen twenty drops of Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid and asked whether he recognized the Evil Demon poison in her body.
• Zhang Xuanchen said the poison was related to the Evil Demon race, described his master's sacrifice and the Evil Demon he had slain, and presented his Fifth-Rank Spirit Tool sword as evidence.

Zhang Xuanchen learned from the High Priestess that Demon Seeds could possess living beings and evade detection, while she explained the poison that was killing her. He left with twenty drops of Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid and worried about finding Demon Seed hosts before they reached the outside world.

• Feng Yuan sensed an Evil Demon aura on Zhang Xuanchen's Dragon Abyss Sword, so the High Priestess apologized for suspecting him of being possessed by a Demon Seed.
• The High Priestess explained that Demon Seeds could possess living beings, consume their Spiritual Sense, and turn them into demons, and she revealed that poison was slowly killing her.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked how to detect Demon Seed hosts, and the High Priestess said they were difficult to identify until their behavior changed or they fought desperately.
• Zhang Xuanchen asked Xuanjing whether he could detect Demon Seed hosts, but Xuanjing said he would need to encounter a Demon Seed first.
• The High Priestess gave Zhang Xuanchen twenty drops of Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid and suggested they might meet again.

Zhang Xuanchen learned that the worlds were merging and offered to help the Wind Feather Elf Race prepare for life outside. The High Priestess refused to move the clan from Phoenix Perch Forest, but asked him to take Feng Xiao and Feng Linger to his Lineage, and Zhang Xuanchen requested a portion of the Ten-thousand-year Stone Milk in return.

• The High Priestess told Zhang Xuanchen that the origins of the two worlds were merging and that all living beings would eventually reach the outside world.
• The High Priestess revealed that the leaders of the eight great Nascent Soul clans knew of the coming change but were keeping it secret to prevent unrest.
• After the High Priestess and Feng Yuan swore not to harm him, Zhang Xuanchen offered to take the Wind Feather Elf Race outside early and help them settle through his Lineage.
• The High Priestess declined to move the clan, explaining that it would remain in Phoenix Perch Forest to protect its ancestral home.
• The High Priestess asked Zhang Xuanchen to take Feng Xiao and Feng Linger outside so they could learn about the Human Race and gather information for the clan.
• Zhang Xuanchen agreed to protect Feng Xiao and Feng Linger and asked for a portion of the Ten-thousand-year Stone Milk instead of a reward.