Chapter Summaries

Ye Jing persuaded Dao Quansha of the Heavenly Saber Sect to support the Profound Yellow Great World’s resistance, revealing that he could break the Heavenly Court’s spatial barrier. He then traveled with Qiuyue to recruit the Xuanyang Sect, where he demanded to see its Sect Master.

• Ye Jing told Dao Quansha that the Heavenly Court had begun harvesting worlds and asked him to join forces against it.
• Dao Quansha hesitated because the Heavenly Court was powerful and had sealed the Kumi Realm, preventing its inhabitants from escaping.
• Ye Jing revealed that he had already broken through the Heavenly Court’s barrier and planned to unite factions across the All Worlds.
• Dao Quansha agreed to lead the Heavenly Saber Sect in supporting the Profound Yellow Great World if Ye Jing could break the barrier.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue left to recruit the remaining factions, then arrived at the Xuanyang Sect and called for its Sect Master.

Ye Jing presented Sage Scholar’s Token to Kong Yangzi and asked Xuanyang Sect to support his plan against the Heavenly Court. Kong Yangzi and the Elders agreed to fight, and Ye Jing said he would visit Bishui Palace before taking them to the Profound Yellow Great World.

• Ye Jing showed Kong Yangzi Sage Scholar’s Token and explained the Heavenly Court’s ambitions and his request for Xuanyang Sect’s support.
• Kong Yangzi and the Elders debated whether to oppose the Heavenly Court and resolved to repay Sage Scholar’s kindness by supporting Ye Jing.
• An Elder raised the problem of getting through the Heavenly Court’s reinforced barrier, and the Elders inferred that Ye Jing had a way through.
• Kong Yangzi told Ye Jing that Xuanyang Sect would support his plan and fight the Heavenly Court.
• Ye Jing said he would visit Bishui Palace next and hoped to take Xuanyang Sect to the Profound Yellow Great World soon.

Ye Jing recruited Bishui Palace to join the effort to resist the Heavenly Court and travel to the Profound Yellow Great World, agreeing that Sage Scholar would keep Liu Qingluan company for three days. He then went with Qiuyue to seek out the reclusive Wind Walker, whose response remained unknown.

• Ye Jing told Kong Yangzi and the Elders that he could break through the world barrier, then set off with Qiuyue to seek Bishui Palace's alliance.
• Liu Qingluan agreed to join the alliance after Ye Jing promised that Sage Scholar would keep her company for three days.
• Ye Jing arranged for Bishui Palace to meet the Heavenly Saber Sect and Xuanyang Sect at Tianya Mountain the next day.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue traveled to Wind Walker's secluded mountain home to try to recruit the powerful Rogue Cultivator.
• Ye Jing and Qiuyue found an old, white-haired man resting outside a thatched hut.

Ye Jing persuaded Wind Walker to join the effort to protect the Profound Yellow Great World by promising that Sage Scholar would apologize to him. After Wind Walker demonstrated his Wind and Cloud Technique, Ye Jing comprehended it instantly, leaving Wind Walker expecting him to become a disciple.

• Ye Jing asked Wind Walker to help defend the Profound Yellow Great World, but Wind Walker refused unless Sage Scholar personally invited him.
• Ye Jing started to leave, so Wind Walker called after him and demanded an apology from Sage Scholar for doubting he would reach sainthood.
• Ye Jing agreed to arrange the apology, and Wind Walker offered to help and asked Ye Jing to become his disciple.
• Wind Walker demonstrated his Wind and Cloud Technique, and Ye Jing comprehended it at its peak.
• Wind Walker told Ye Jing to kneel and become his disciple, calling his talent mediocre but adequate.

Ye Jing impressed Wind Walker by mastering the Cloud Wind Technique after watching it once, then persuaded him to join the journey to the Profound Yellow Great World. The next day, Ye Jing gathered the sect's travelers at a teleportation formation and prepared to use an eerie law to break through the world barrier.

• Ye Jing recreated Wind Walker's Cloud Wind Technique and demonstrated its hidden lightning power, leaving Wind Walker stunned.
• Ye Jing asked Wind Walker to become his disciple, but Wind Walker declined and packed to leave with them for the Profound Yellow Great World.
• Wind Walker flew off with Ye Jing and Qiuyue following, and the next day Ye Jing gathered Dao Quansha, Kong Yangzi, Liu Qingluan, Wind Walker, and the other travelers in the wilderness.
• Ye Jing shaped the eerie law from the Three Poisons Realm into a hoe, while the gathered cultivators felt its unsettling presence.
• Dao Quansha, Wind Walker, and Kong Yangzi argued over whose strength could withstand the hoe's power, as Liu Qingluan watched them in exasperation.

Ye Jing broke the Heavenly Court's world barrier and led the others through a teleportation formation toward the Profound Yellow Great World. Nezha attacked him with the Cosmic Ring, but Ye Jing used the Chaos Green Lotus to escape, and the others arrived without him.

• Ye Jing explained that the world barrier contained the aura of an Evil God created by the Heavenly Court, then broke the barrier with his hoe.
• Old Freak Wind, Dao Quansha, Kong Yangzi, Liu Qingluan, and the others activated the formation and entered the spatial vortex.
• Nezha attacked Ye Jing with a strip of red cloth, but Ye Jing unleashed ripples from the Chaos Green Lotus and knocked the attack aside.
• Ye Jing passed out from the effort, and the Xuanyuan Sword and Qiuyue carried him into the vortex as Nezha was sent flying.
• Old Freak Wind and the others arrived in the Profound Yellow Great World, where their realms began to loosen, then noticed Ye Jing was missing.

Qiuyue and the others rescued the unconscious Ye Jing, who had exhausted his spiritual energy blocking Nezha’s attack. As Sage Scholar arrived, Old Freak Wind entered Sainthood, then challenged Sage Scholar to a fight.

• Qiuyue brought Ye Jing back after he used up his spiritual energy resisting Nezha, and Liu Qingluan gave him a Spirit Rhyme Pill.
• Sage Scholar arrived, confirmed Ye Jing was safe, and was confronted by Old Freak Wind.
• Old Freak Wind encountered Dao resonance and meditated on his love of freedom as the reason he sought Sainthood.
• Old Freak Wind successfully entered Sainthood, and the resulting wind helped some people break through their bottlenecks.
• Old Freak Wind challenged Sage Scholar, who agreed to let him test his new power while warning him that Saints differed in strength.

Ye Jing woke to find Old Freak Wind had entered sainthood and was sparring with Sage Scholar, who was helping him stabilize his new realm. After recovering his spiritual energy, Ye Jing gave Liu Qingluan flawless pills, and she asked to become his disciple upon learning he had refined them.

• Ye Jing woke and learned that Old Freak Wind had entered sainthood and was sparring with Sage Scholar.
• Ye Jing realized Sage Scholar was helping Old Freak Wind stabilize his realm and sat down to restore his spiritual energy.
• Ye Jing thanked Liu Qingluan for giving him a pill and gave her a bottle of Heavenly Origin Primordial Pills.
• Liu Qingluan asked to become the pills’ refiner’s disciple, then learned that Ye Jing had made them himself.
• Ye Jing explained to Liu Qingluan that flawless alchemy came from understanding ingredients, sensing heaven and earth, and mastering one’s state of mind.

Ye Jing advised Liu Qingluan on alchemy, then broke through to Divine Realm Layer Nine after Senior Sage Scholar defeated Old Freak Wind. At the army’s camp, Sage Scholar Qi Chun hosted a banquet to celebrate their reinforcements and Ye Jing’s new cultivation level.

• Liu Qingluan thanked Ye Jing for his alchemy advice and asked to watch him refine pills, and he agreed after recovering his spiritual energy.
• Senior Sage Scholar sent Old Freak Wind flying with one move, while Ye Jing sensed an imminent breakthrough.
• Ye Jing focused on his cultivation and advanced to Divine Realm Layer Nine as Qiuyue and Liu Qingluan watched.
• Sage Scholar Qi Chun led everyone to the temporary camp and arranged a banquet for the assembled army.
• At the banquet, Sage Scholar Qi Chun toasted Ye Jing for reaching Divine Realm Layer Nine, and Ye Jing returned the toast.

After the banquet, Sage Scholar Qi Chun sent Ye Jing and six other peak Divine Realm Layer Nine experts to the Sacred Spirit Ancient Land to seek breakthroughs before the war with the Heavenly Court. The group reached its entrance after several days, ready to face the ruins’ unknown dangers.

• At the banquet, Sage Scholar Qi Chun rallied the gathered forces and expressed confidence that they would defeat the Heavenly Court.
• The next morning, Sage Scholar Qi Chun told Ye Jing that seven peak Divine Realm Layer Nine experts would travel to the Sacred Spirit Ancient Land and try to enter the Saint Realm.
• Ye Jing agreed to go, instructed Qiuyue to stay at camp, and joined Sage Scholar Qi Chun and the other six experts.
• Sage Scholar Qi Chun led the group on foot through the Myriad Spirits Mountain Range, where teleportation was forbidden.
• After several days, the group reached the Sacred Spirit Ancient Land, and Liu Qingluan remarked that Sage Scholar Qi Chun had been silent when he was with her.

Sage Scholar opened the Sacred Spirit Ancient Land after Ye Jing and the others chose to enter despite noticing the realm seemed different from before. The group arrived in a pitch-black void, while Sage Scholar sealed the gate and left to prepare for the imminent battle.

• Liu Qingluan confronted Sage Scholar about their past and demanded the three days Ye Jing had promised her in exchange for her help.
• Sage Scholar agreed to spend three days with Liu Qingluan after the battle, then opened the stone gate to the Sacred Spirit Ancient Land.
• Sage Scholar warned the group that the realm seemed different from his previous visit, but Ye Jing, Liu Qingluan, Kong Yangzi, Dao Quansha, and the others decided to enter.
• Sage Scholar transported the group into the realm, closed the gate, set protective and concealment arrays, and left.
• Ye Jing and the others found themselves in a pitch-black void with faint starlight in the distance and readied their spiritual energy.

Ye Jing refused the Ancient Saints’ starlight and searched the strange realm for another opportunity. After discovering a bright ray at the center of the drifting stars, he entered it and found himself in a scene where an old man came to challenge a young cultivator.

• Ye Jing let Kong Yangzi, Liu Qingluan, and the others enter their assigned starlight, then declined his own and chose to investigate the realm.
• Ye Jing found that walking toward distant starlight brought him nowhere, but following his intuition with his eyes closed drew him closer.
• Ye Jing reached a cluster of thirty or forty rays and noticed that the others circled around one unusually bright ray.
• Ye Jing touched the central ray and merged with it, appearing on a mountaintop beneath a star-filled sky.
• An old man arrived on a Flying Sword to teach a young cultivator a lesson, and the two released their formidable auras.

Ye Jing witnessed scenes from the past: Mo Yi sparred with his grandfather, Elder Lin, before returning to find their sect destroyed and Elder Lin dead. Mo Yi buried his grandfather and resolved to avenge him.

• Elder Lin sparred with Mo Yi, praised his talent, and gave him a task to complete.
• Ye Jing watched a vision of black-clad attackers slaughtering the sect disciples and killing Elder Lin.
• Mo Yi returned to the ruined sect, found Elder Lin dead, and vowed to avenge him.
• Mo Yi buried Elder Lin alone among the ruins as Ye Jing watched.

After Mo Yi was killed before he could avenge his grandfather, his resentment transformed him into a Vengeful Ghost who slaughtered the men in black and descended into madness. As Ye Jing watched, the scene shifted to a silent village at night.

• Mo Yi was ambushed by men in black after burying his grandfather, and they killed him before he could begin his revenge.
• Mo Yi's corpse lay abandoned until his resentment transformed his soul and body into a Vengeful Ghost.
• Mo Yi's ghost infiltrated the men in black's valley and killed everyone in the camp.
• Mo Yi's ghost continued to burn with madness after taking revenge, and Ye Jing realized he had fallen into darkness and might be destroyed by the Righteous Sects.
• The scene before Ye Jing changed to a silent village at night.

Ye Jing witnessed the Rakshasa Ghost Mo Yi slaughter a village and defeat a group of cultivators, while an old Daoist saved a child named Tian Niu. The scene shifted to Tian Niu’s later life, as he began cultivating to avenge his parents.

• Mo Yi, evolved into a Rakshasa Ghost, attacked Ye Jing’s village and killed villagers in a frenzy.
• A young couple tried to protect their child, but the Rakshasa Ghost broke into their hut and overwhelmed them.
• A group of cultivators led by a white-haired elder fought the Rakshasa Ghost, but it grew stronger and killed them.
• The old Daoist secretly transported the child to safety before dying beneath the Rakshasa Ghost’s claws.
• Ye Jing wondered who the star’s Saint could be as the scene shifted to the rescued child, Tian Niu.
• An old Rogue Cultivator took Tian Niu as his disciple, and Tian Niu began cultivating to find the Rakshasa Ghost and avenge his parents.

Ye Jing challenged the Heartless Sage’s bleak story about revenge and fate, arguing that the world held both darkness and hope. The Sage revealed that he had been the Ghost King in the story and offered Ye Jing a gift after explaining his tragic past.

• Tian Niu fought the Ghost King for revenge but was defeated, and a mysterious figure appeared and sealed the Ghost King.
• The vision ended, and the figure introduced himself to Ye Jing as the Heartless Sage, a former Seventh Realm Saint and Quasi-Emperor.
• The Heartless Sage revealed that his story had actually ended with Tian Niu dead and the Ghost King victorious, then asked Ye Jing what he thought of it.
• Ye Jing called the story meaningless and argued that the world was a delicate shade of gray, with terrible events and hopeful good deeds alike.
• The Heartless Sage praised Ye Jing’s view and offered him a gift, explaining that he had created the dreamscape to temper his clan’s wills.
• The Heartless Sage revealed that he had once been the Ghost King, later became the Ghost Saint, struggled with the awakened soul of his former self, and was ultimately killed by several Saints.

Ye Jing learned to control the Starlight Crystal and discovered that it could store spiritual pasts, simulate events, and connect the consciousness of people who had entered its world. He entered Liu Qingluan’s Starlight and watched Cao Feng fight a demonic beast, then charge naked into the forest.

• The middle-aged man disappeared after entrusting Ye Jing with the mysterious space, and a Starlight Crystal linked itself to Ye Jing.
• Ye Jing contracted with the crystal and discovered he could explore spiritual pasts, alter events within them, simulate future events, and communicate with others connected to the space.
• Ye Jing opened one of the Starlights and entered Liu Qingluan’s spiritual past, where Cao Feng fought and defeated a demonic beast.
• Cao Feng tore off his clothes and headed deeper into the forest, while Ye Jing watched from the sidelines.

Liu Qingluan watched Cao Feng’s trial, in which he fought demonic beasts with his spiritual energy sealed, while Ye Jing recalled Cao Feng’s past. After Cao Feng defeated a Tiger Demon despite severe injuries, he charged into battle against a Giant Steel Bear and unleashed a final sword strike.

• Cao Feng taunted and fought the Tiger Demon, endured a deep wound, and killed it by targeting its abdomen.
• Cao Feng bandaged his injury and continued through the forest, baffling Liu Qingluan with his refusal to stop or release his spiritual energy seal.
• Cao Feng confronted a Giant Steel Bear despite his exhaustion and injuries, and Liu Qingluan urged him to flee.
• Cao Feng fought the Giant Steel Bear head-on, then gathered his Qi and Blood into a powerful sword strike aimed at its heart.

Cao Feng defeated the Giant Steel Bear but collapsed from his wounds, prompting Ye Jing to show Liu Qingluan the memories that explained his reckless resolve. Liu Qingluan learned that guilt over his father’s death and his failure to save his mother and sister drove Cao Feng to fight with everything he had.

• Cao Feng pierced the Giant Steel Bear’s head with Sword Qi, then collapsed as the seal inside him broke and spiritual energy began healing him.
• Liu Qingluan watched Cao Feng’s victory, while Ye Jing realized she had not yet understood his actions and added a memory from Cao Feng’s recollections to her spiritual recollection.
• In the memory, Cao Feng hesitated when his father called for his sword during a beast attack, and his father died; Cao Feng later resolved to train so he could protect his family.
• During another beast horde, Cao Feng was away training and returned too late to save his mother and sister, whose deaths filled him with regret.
• Cao Feng drove back the beast tide alone with his sword, and Liu Qingluan understood why he gave everything in every battle.

Ye Jing entered Dao Quansha’s starlight and watched him live as Shu Xinzai, a poor scholar whose romance with Li Wan'er advanced painfully slowly. As Shu Xinzai repeatedly worked up the courage to confess and then backed down, Dao Quansha grew desperate to escape the scholar’s body.

• Ye Jing saw that one of two Divine Realm Layer Nine gods from the Profound Yellow Great World had failed while the other had succeeded, then entered Dao Quansha’s troubled starlight.
• Dao Quansha, living as Shu Xinzai, rescued Li Wan'er from drowning in a lake in Qingyu Town.
• Li Wan'er and Shu Xinzai became friends, sharing poetry and studying together until they developed feelings for each other.
• Shu Xinzai repeatedly considered confessing to Li Wan'er but lost his nerve each time, leaving Dao Quansha furious at the slow courtship.