Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xuanchen returned to the Starry Holy Palace area and gave his four Star Tokens to Wei Wushuang, who protected him from Yan Jin’s attack. Zhang Xuanchen then fled toward the Star Core while the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Zhang Xuanchen told Wei Wushuang he would withdraw from the inheritance fight and sell him his four Star Tokens.
• Yan Jin arrived with four others and demanded three of Zhang Xuanchen’s Tokens for the Southern Bright Flame Palace.
• Zhang Xuanchen insulted Yan Jin, who attacked him with a Flame Spear.
• Wei Wushuang blocked Yan Jin’s attack with his Blood Sword Shield and defended Zhang Xuanchen’s right to keep the Tokens.
• Zhang Xuanchen gave Wei Wushuang all four Tokens as a gift in exchange for a favor, then hurried toward the Star Core.

Zhang Xuanchen killed thirteen Southern Bright Flame Palace cultivators who ambushed him, then resumed his meal while Yan Jin dismissed concern over the group’s disappearance. Luo Lingshuang arrived with the final Golden Star Token, and the ten token holders prepared to open the Sacred Hall.

• Yan Jin sent a Foundation Establishment Peak cultivator and more than a dozen others after Zhang Xuanchen, while Zhang moved cautiously toward the Star Core.
• Zhang Xuanchen roasted Spirit Fish by a stream, then crushed the thirteen Southern Bright Flame Palace cultivators with the Starry Tower after their leader smashed his fish.
• Zhang Xuanchen took the group’s Storage Rings and Storage Bags, burned their bodies, and continued eating with Xuanjing and Shuoxing.
• A Southern Bright Flame Palace disciple warned Yan Jin that Hui Jian and the others had not returned, but Yan Jin refused to send a search party.
• Luo Lingshuang and Wuxin arrived at Senluo Hall, where Si Wuya recognized Luo Lingshuang and saw her Golden Star Token.
• The ten Golden Star Token holders flew up and pressed their tokens into the grooves to open the Sacred Hall.

The Starry Emperor Sovereign opened the Starry Holy Palace, triggering a scramble for Star Tokens and its inheritance. While Luo Lingshuang and her companions entered the palace, Zhang Xuanchen headed into the Abyss Rift to pursue the Star Core, a treasure he believed surpassed the palace’s inheritance.

• The Starry Emperor Sovereign announced that Star Token holders could enter the Starry Holy Palace and undergo trials for his inheritance, and the palace doors opened with a surge of spiritual energy.
• Cultivators fought one another for Star Tokens as they rushed into the palace; Wuxin killed a man who threatened Si Wuya, and Luo Lingshuang led her companions inside.
• Zhang Xuanchen left the stream and asked Shuoxing whether the Starry Emperor Sovereign had left any treasures outside the palace; Shuoxing said he had not.
• Zhang Xuanchen concluded that the Star Core was not the Starry Emperor Sovereign’s legacy and hurried toward its location with Xuanjing and Shuoxing.
• Zhang Xuanchen descended into the Abyss Rift, where the confusing mist had once forced even the Starry Emperor Sovereign to turn back.

Zhang Xuanchen entered a star-filled realm and absorbed a purple-gold Star Core that reforged his body and strengthened his cultivation. After a year and a half of refinement, his aura settled, leaving him at Late Golden Core with his physique at the late stage of Three Transformations.

• Zhang Xuanchen broke through a crystal wall and found a purple-gold Star Core surrounded by a sea of stars.
• Shuoxing recognized the Star Core as an immortal-grade treasure and described the heights Zhang Xuanchen might reach by refining it.
• The Star Core entered Zhang Xuanchen's heart and shattered and reforged his body, while Xuanjing and Shuoxing were pushed away by the released power.
• Zhang Xuanchen's cultivation art and abilities circulated automatically as the Star Core drew starlight into him, and Xuanjing chose to wait rather than refine his Original Body Fragment.
• After half a year, Zhang Xuanchen reached Golden Core Mid Stage and the middle stage of Three Transformations, while his Spiritual Sense reached Late Golden Core.
• Another year later, Zhang Xuanchen reached Late Golden Core and the late stage of Three Transformations, and the aura around him settled.

Zhang Xuanchen entered a purple crystal cocoon as his aura settled, while Luo Lingshuang reached the Starry Emperor Sovereign’s inheritance and learned that her Water Great Dao might conflict with his Starry Great Dao. The Starry Emperor Sovereign advised her to choose her path when she was ready and asked her to find him a successor if she ultimately followed the Water Great Dao.

• Zhang Xuanchen’s Star Core surrounded him in purple-gold light that solidified into a crystal, and Shuoxing said he could awaken within one to three months.
• Luo Lingshuang entered the Great Emperor Heart Mausoleum with Great Sage and Wuxin, while the rest of their group had died along the way.
• Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, and Wuxin each entered separate doors to pursue the Starry Emperor Sovereign’s inheritance and other opportunities.
• Luo Lingshuang met the Starry Emperor Sovereign, who recognized her Great Dao Golden Core and explained that cultivating the Starry Great Dao alongside her Water Great Dao would compromise both their purity.
• The Starry Emperor Sovereign advised Luo Lingshuang not to decide prematurely and asked her to find a suitable successor if she chose the pure Water Great Dao.

Luo Lingshuang received Starry Emperor Sovereign’s inheritance and began breaking through to Late Golden Core as his remnant soul faded away. Seven days later, Ye Xingyun encountered six Golden Core cultivators in the Great Emperor Heart Palace and tried to avoid a fight.

• Luo Lingshuang promised to find a qualified inheritor for Starry Emperor Sovereign’s Heavenly Cycle Starry Art, and he gave her the Water Cloud Immortal Dew Stone.
• Starry Emperor Sovereign explained how Heavenly One True Water or a Water Spiritual Peach could help Luo Lingshuang form an acquired treasure body.
• Starry Emperor Sovereign gave Luo Lingshuang the Inheritance Crystal, then asked her to preserve sparks for humanity when she could.
• Luo Lingshuang’s Late Golden Core bottleneck loosened, and she began her breakthrough while Starry Emperor Sovereign’s remnant soul dissipated.
• Seven days later, Ye Xingyun met Yan Jin, Nangong Qing, Wei Wushuang, Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, and Xiang Yu in the Great Emperor Heart Palace and tried to leave without competing for the inheritance.

Ye Xingyun blocked Yan Jin’s attack and fled, while the six Golden Cores fought over five inheritance doors. Wei Wushuang and Nangong Qing entered separate doors, leaving Yan Jin furious and unable to claim the middle door.

• Ye Xingyun used the Yellow Stone Shield Formation to block Yan Jin’s attack, revealed himself as a Third Stage formation master, and ran away.
• Yan Jin attacked the other five Golden Cores and rushed toward the middle door, while Wei Wushuang chose the far-right door and entered it.
• Yan Jin used a Fourth-tier Low-grade Spirit Talisman to blast Nangong Qing, Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, and Xiang Yu away, then reached the middle door.
• Yan Jin could not open the middle door and realized someone had already entered it; the other four split up to pursue the remaining doors.
• Nangong Qing used a Fourth-tier Low-grade Spirit Talisman to enter the right-side door, while Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, and Xiang Yu failed to enter.
• Yan Jin raged at the doors, learned that Nangong Qing had obtained an inheritance, and showed signs of cultivation deviation.

After the inheritance doors closed, Yan Jin killed a cultivator who speculated about the powerful inheritances and clashed with Si Wuya before leaving in a strange, hostile state. Ye Xingyun emerged from hiding with the Dark Night Cloak and planned to use it to escape the Wei Family and steal a spiritual herb from a Fourth Stage Demon Ancestor.

• An ancient bell rang, the inheritance site collapsed, and Yan Jin, Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, Xiang Yu, and the surviving cultivators were teleported outside the Starry Holy Palace.
• After Si Wuya described what had happened inside, a cultivator suggested the inheritances came from beings above Spirit Transformation, and Yan Jin crushed the cultivator's head for saying so.
• Yan Jin threatened Si Wuya, but Si Wuya refused to back down and challenged Yan Jin's claim to speak for the Southern Bright Flame Palace.
• Yan Jin laughed, left while surrounded by black qi, and vowed to gain supreme power and trample everyone underfoot.
• Si Wuya, Xue Wanche, and Xiang Yu flew away to seek more opportunities, while Ye Xingyun revealed himself from beneath a boulder wearing the Dark Night Cloak.
• Ye Xingyun planned to use the cloak to evade the Wei Family and set off toward the mountains to target a spiritual herb guarded by a Fourth Stage Demon Ancestor.

Zhang Xuanchen spent a year and a half in seclusion refining the Star Core, awakening the Starry Body and reaching Late Golden Core. After learning that the Myriad Manifestations Returning Origin Peach Tree was already at his family’s Flower Fruit Mountain, he left with his companions to check on the Starry Holy Palace.

• After seven days, the amethyst casing around Zhang Xuanchen cracked open, and he rose into the air amid a vast display of starlight.
• Shuoxing sensed Zhang Xuanchen’s new physique and said its power surpassed the Starry Emperor Sovereign’s Innate Star Battle Body.
• Three days later, Zhang Xuanchen opened his eyes with the Starry Body fully condensed, having reached Late Golden Core and advanced the Divine Dragon Hegemony Body Art to the late stage of Three Transformations.
• Zhang Xuanchen told Shuoxing and Xuanjing that the Star Core had awakened his Starry Body and that the Myriad Manifestations Returning Origin Peach Tree was at his Zhang Family’s Flower Fruit Mountain.
• Shuoxing learned the tree had contracted with Zhang Xuanchen and said he had been in seclusion for a year and a half.
• Zhang Xuanchen set out with Shuoxing and Xuanjing for the Starry Holy Palace to see what had happened.

Zhang Xuanchen learned that Luo Lingshuang and the others were safe inside the secret realm and waited near Starry Holy Palace to protect them when they emerged. In the Bihan Secret Realm, Zhang Xuanbing confronted Luo Yichen, who intended to humiliate his younger brother.

• Zhang Xuanchen interrogated a Wu Sect cultivator and learned what had happened near Starry Holy Palace during the past year and a half.
• Zhang Xuanchen concluded that Luo Lingshuang and the others had entered the three giant doors and decided to wait near the sacred hall to take them into the Myriad Spirit Ring when they emerged.
• The narration described the Bihan Secret Realm, where human forces and demons had joined the exploration and fifty thousand entrants faced no cultivation restrictions.
• Luo Yichen recognized Zhang Xuanbing as Zhang Xuanchen's elder brother and inferred that he had a mutated ice Spiritual Root.
• Zhang Xuanbing declared he would not allow Luo Yichen to humiliate his younger brother, drew his ice-crystal longsword, and summoned an Ice Flood Dragon.

Zhang Xuanbing and Luo Yichen fought over a mysterious treasure, and Luo Yichen won while recognizing Zhang Xuanbing’s talent. Zhang Xuanbing insisted that his younger brother Zhang Xuanchen was even more talented, then returned to the summit where the silver-blue ice crystal remained untouched.

• Luo Yichen and Zhang Xuanbing fought fiercely, with Luo Yichen gaining the upper hand through his cultivation and techniques.
• Luo Yichen defeated Zhang Xuanbing but praised his talent and explained that he opposed Zhang Xuanchen marrying Luo Lingshuang because he believed Zhang Xuanchen lacked ability.
• Zhang Xuanbing told Luo Yichen that Zhang Xuanchen’s talent far surpassed his own, but Luo Yichen laughed and doubted him.
• Zhang Xuanbing said Zhang Xuanchen had reached Golden Core before him three years earlier, then returned to the summit.
• Zhang Xuanbing found the silver-blue ice crystal, a powerful treasure with ice-source and spatial energy, still hovering untouched at the summit.

Luo Yichen and Zhang Xuanbing negotiated over a mysterious crystal, with Zhang agreeing to help Luo obtain a Water Attribute treasure in return. Two months later, Zhang Xuanchen had advanced his movement technique and learned that Great Sage had emerged from the Holy Temple.

• Luo Yichen offered Zhang Xuanbing the mysterious crystal in exchange for Zhang accepting conditions concerning Luo Lingshuang and owing Luo a future favor.
• Zhang Xuanbing agreed, asking Luo Yichen to keep his talent secret, and the two became friends.
• Luo Yichen told Zhang Xuanbing about a guarded Fourth-grade Low-tier Water Attribute treasure, and Zhang agreed to help him claim it.
• Two months later, Zhang Xuanchen reached minor mastery in Soaring Dragon Treading the Heavens Step after using Nine Heavens Wind Dew Liquid.
• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that Great Sage had left the Holy Temple and was in a stone crevice seven li behind it.

Great Sage emerged from seclusion with his Fighting God Monkey Bloodline fully awakened, and reunited with Zhang Xuanchen, Luo Lingshuang, and Wuxin. Zhang Xuanchen revealed his own breakthrough and the Star Core inheritance, leaving Wuxin envious of the treasures he had obtained.

• Great Sage awakened his Divine Monkey Bloodline, reached third-order peak, and scared away cultivators who approached him.
• Zhang Xuanchen revealed himself to Great Sage, and they reunited outside the Holy Palace.
• Luo Lingshuang emerged from her inheritance at Late Golden Core and reunited affectionately with Zhang Xuanchen.
• Zhang Xuanchen met Wuxin, who had also reached Late Golden Core, and showed the others his own Late Golden Core cultivation and dense star power.
• Zhang Xuanchen explained how he obtained the Star Core and Starry Tower, and Wuxin lamented that his Eighth Order Inheritance seemed less impressive by comparison.

After the Starry Secret Realm’s inheritance ended, Zhang Xuanchen prepared to lead the Zhang Family toward greater power and concealed his true gains before the survivors were transported outside. There, the major factions sealed off the area, setting the stage for a confrontation over the inheritances.

• Wuxin gave Zhang Xuanchen his inheritance, and Luo Lingshuang handed him the Starry Ring and described the Heavenly Cycle Starry Art; Zhang Xuanchen accepted the ring but told her to keep it and share copies of its contents with the clan.
• Zhang Xuanchen declared the secret-realm journey complete and resolved to make the Zhang Family compete for dominance, while Xuanjing explained that Zhang’s Void Crystal Stone could not turn the Starry Ring into a world that sustained life.
• Half a month later, Wei Wushuang and Nangong Qing left seclusion as the Starry Holy Palace and its inheritances sank underground, signaling the end of the inheritance trials.
• More than a thousand pillars of starlight transported Zhang Xuanchen and the surviving cultivators outside the Secret Realm, where the major factions immediately surrounded the area.
• Zhang Xuanchen kept his valuable gains hidden in the Myriad Spirit Ring and carried only lesser goods openly, avoiding suspicion from the powerful factions and the Wei Family.

After the Starry Secret Realm survivors emerged, Zhang Xuanchen learned that Yan Jin carried a Demon Seed and secretly marked him to track his movements. Wei Wushuang and Nangong Qing concealed the true rank of their inheritances from True Lord Yanlong, who then demanded that the other inheritance holders step forward.

• Xuanjing told Zhang Xuanchen that Yan Jin bore the aura of a Demon Seed, and Shuoxing secretly placed a Starry Mark on Yan Jin so Zhang Xuanchen could track him within a hundred thousand li.
• True Lord Yanlong summoned the Southern Bright Flame Palace disciples and asked Yan Jin and Nangong Qing whether they had obtained inheritances; Nangong Qing said she had obtained one of five.
• True Lord Yanlong demanded that the holders of the other inheritances identify themselves, and Wei Wushuang stepped forward and claimed his inheritance came from a Spirit Transformation expert.
• Wei Wushuang privately urged Nangong Qing to confirm his account, and she agreed, saying her inheritance was also from a Spirit Transformation powerhouse and its medicines had withered away.
• True Lord Yanlong accepted their explanation and turned to demand that the remaining inheritance holders, especially the one with the Ascension Realm inheritance, step forward.

True Lord Yanlong began using the Southern Bright Li Fire Mirror to inspect the Storage Rings of those who left the Secret Realm, searching for the holder of an Ascension Realm inheritance. As the inspection continued, Lin Yang left after True Person Ruifeng took his spell, while Ye Xingyun anxiously tried to hide his fear of being suspected.

• True Lord Yanlong proposed inspecting everyone’s Storage Rings with the Southern Bright Li Fire Mirror, exempting Nangong Qing and Wei Wushuang after the other leaders agreed.
• The major forces confiscated spiritual items from the people being inspected, and True Person Ruifeng struck Lin Yang after he demanded to keep a low-grade Fifth Stage spell.
• Lin Yang left without retrieving his Storage Ring, and True Lord Yanlong ordered the inspection to continue.
• Zhang Xuanchen remained calm because Xuanjing concealed what he carried, while Ye Xingyun worried that fleeing would make the major forces suspect him of holding the inheritance.
• When another cultivator asked why he was sweating, Ye Xingyun claimed he had overworked himself in the Secret Realm, and the cultivator offered him folk remedies.

Ye Xingyun used a Shift-Shadow Talisman to escape the powerful experts who were searching for the inheritance, leaving them to suspect he had entered the Great Emperor's Heart Mausoleum. True Lord Yanlong declared him a murderer and ordered a region-wide search, while Zhang Xuanchen hid nearby and watched events unfold.

• Zhang Xuanchen handed over his Storage Ring, received praise from Wei Wudao, and left before hiding under rubble to observe Ye Xingyun.
• As only two people remained ahead of him, Ye Xingyun triggered a Shift-Shadow Talisman and vanished despite True Lord Yanlong and the others trying to stop him.
• Ye Xingyun insisted that he had no inheritance and said he fled to protect the treasures he had earned in the Secret Realm.
• Nangong Qing confirmed that Ye Xingyun had left the Great Emperor's Heart Mausoleum with the others, but Yan Jin suggested he could have been a clone and that Ye Xingyun's true body had entered beyond the giant gate.
• True Lord Yanlong ordered the Southern Bright Flame Palace to seize Ye Xingyun and asked Wei Wudao and the other local forces to help search for him.

After the search for Ye Xingyun began, Zhang Xuanchen left the area and reunited with Luo Lingshuang and the others before traveling to Tiangong Immortal City. He and Luo Lingshuang spent the night together, then prepared to visit the Heavenly Craft Pavilion the next day.

• The Wei Family and the other great powers agreed to search for Ye Xingyun, while Zhang Xuanchen learned Xuanjing could no longer track him and decided to leave for Tiangong Immortal City.
• Zhang Xuanchen released Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, Wuxin, and Little Star, and told Luo Lingshuang he would support Feng Xiao and Feng Linger's choices.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions concealed their cultivation and traveled to Tiangong Immortal City, where they took rooms at Horizon Restaurant.
• Zhang Xuanchen and Luo Lingshuang spent the night together after being apart for a year and a half.
• The next day, Luo Lingshuang got dressed and urged Zhang Xuanchen to hurry to the Heavenly Craft Pavilion for their business.

Zhang Xuanchen and his companions collected the artifacts commissioned from Heavenly Craft Pavilion, including Great Sage’s Golden Cudgel, while learning that Grand Elder Li had entered death seclusion. After paying for the refinements, Zhang Xuanchen prepared to return to his clan and later pursue a rare Golden Ginseng.

• Zhang Xuanchen, Luo Lingshuang, Great Sage, and Wuxin ate at Horizon Restaurant, where Zhang paid 5,200 Low-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Xuanchen learned through Immortal Fate Information that a Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng would mature in the Feiyuan Island mountain range in nineteen days.
• Mei Zhi escorted Zhang Xuanchen and his companions to meet Pavilion Master Xue at Heavenly Craft Pavilion.
• Xue Li told Zhang Xuanchen that Grand Elder Li had entered death seclusion and presented the commissioned Sword Pellet, Great Peng Wings, and two Magic Swords.
• Great Sage received his Golden Cudgel, excitedly tested it in the hall, and declared himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven of this world.
• Zhang Xuanchen thanked Xue Li and agreed to pay 17,000 Mid-grade Spirit Stones for the artifact refinements.

Zhang Xuanchen bought the Azure Cloud flying boat and led his companions toward Feiyuan Island to retrieve the Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng. After learning that a powerful Abyssal Snapping Turtle guarded it, he planned to capture the sleeping beast in his Myriad Spirit Ring rather than kill it.

• Zhang Xuanchen bought the Azure Cloud from Xue Li for twenty thousand Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
• Zhang Xuanchen and his companions boarded the Azure Cloud and flew toward the Nine Splendor Sword Sect.
• Seventeen days later, Zhang Xuanchen's group reached Feiyuan Island and entered its mountain range without visiting the Yuanhua Sect's immortal city.
• Xuanjing warned Zhang Xuanchen that a third order peak Abyssal Snapping Turtle guarded the Nine-Orifice Golden Ginseng and would awaken when the ginseng matured.
• Zhang Xuanchen proposed taking the sleeping turtle into his Myriad Spirit Ring, and Xuanjing praised his idea.