Chapter Summaries

Wang Ping met with two Outer Realm Border cultivators who sought an end to the blockade and a discussion about ownership of the Outer Realm Stars. After hearing their account of Outer Realm Lifeforms, he conditionally agreed to their proposal while keeping his plans to deal with Gan Xi and Wei Ling first.

• Cang Yue delivered a Communication Token and the meeting dates, and Wang Ping rewarded him and ordered him to monitor Jiutian Pavilion’s major sacrifices through Zi Luan.
• Wang Ping entered Cang Yue’s projection space and met Daoist Pei and Daoist Liang, who claimed past conflict with the True Lords had resulted from a misunderstanding.
• Daoist Liang and Daoist Pei offered to keep guarding the Outer Realm Border if the blockade ended and ownership of the Outer Realm Stars could be discussed.
• Daoist Pei and Daoist Liang described Outer Realm Lifeforms as conscious energy aggregates associated with destructive Outer Realm demonic qi, though they admitted they had never seen them.
• Wang Ping agreed that the blockade could end and that the Outer Realm Stars could be discussed if the border cultivators continued their duties, while intending to address Gan Xi and Wei Ling first.

Wang Ping learned that Daoist Gray planned to provoke a war between the Demon Race and the Outer Realm Border, while Daoist Pei and Daoist Liang prepared to capture Wei Ling. At the First Seat conference, Wang Ping proposed widening the conflict to draw in Zang Yi and Yue Xi's faction of Star Gods.

• Wang Ping and Yulian discussed why the ancient Human Way cultivators preferred to solve their own problems and whether they could be trusted to guard the Outer Realm Border.
• Daoist Pei and Daoist Liang chose Wei Ling as their target but delayed making a capture plan, while Daoist Gray learned of their intentions through Liang Qi.
• Daoist Gray told Daoist Lin Shuang he planned to provoke a feud between the Demon Race and Daoist Liang's group, and offered Outer Realm Star and nearby Ecological Zones to the True Lords in exchange for her cooperation.
• Half a month later, Bai Yan told Wang Ping, Xuanqing, Tiangong, and True Monarch Lieyang about Daoist Gray's plan to draw the war toward Outer Realm Star.
• Wang Ping called Daoist Gray's plan crude and suggested involving the Star God faction represented by Zang Yi and Yue Xi to make the conflict even more chaotic.

Wang Ping proposed using the Star God Alliance to push Zang Yi, Yue Xi, and the others into decisive action, and the First Seat approved his plan. After Wang Ping held back from contacting Zhi Xin and Quan Xing, Liang Qi led an attack on the Demon Race stronghold White City, where the defenders were trapped as the Ecological Zone was breached.

• Wang Ping suggested using Daoist Gray's methods to harden the Star Gods' resolve, and Lieyang approved his plan while warning him not to take it further.
• After the conference, Wang Ping considered provoking the Star God Alliance through You Han, but decided to wait until Daoist Gray had thrown the situation into chaos.
• Liang Qi and two Star Gods attacked White City, a Demon Race stronghold, and Bai Feng and Shi Yan went out to confront them.
• A Star God wielding Gravity Crush shattered White City's outer barrier, destroying the dock and killing many Lesser Demons.
• Bai Feng urged Shi Yan to escape while he held off their attackers, but the fighting continued and another crash sounded from the Ecological Zone.

Shi Yan and Liang Qi’s forces fought Bai Feng, whose self-destructive spell erased nearby spiritual energy before Bai Xin appeared and killed him. Bai Xin retaliated against the Star Gods and confronted Daoist Liang and Daoist Pei, but a Dream Realm attack wounded him before Zhu Wu arrived to challenge the unseen attacker.

• Shi Yan and the Star Gods clashed until Bai Feng used his Spirit Sealing Technique and a spell that consumed spiritual energy, forcing Liang Qi and the others to flee.
• A furious voice suppressed Bai Feng’s fading light, and Bai Xin appeared, stabilized Bai Feng’s Primordial Spirit briefly, then shattered it and crushed his inner core.
• Bai Xin restrained Liang Qi and the other Star Gods, but Daoist Liang freed them and let Liang Qi escape while Bai Xin killed the remaining three.
• Daoist Liang and Daoist Pei confronted Bai Xin, and their battle began as Liang used his Spokesperson decree and Pei attacked with three Gravity Shatter blades.
• A Dream Realm phantom struck Bai Xin with tentacles and drained his demon blood, prompting Zhu Wu to appear and accuse the attacker of interfering with reality.

Wang Ping ended the standoff between the Demon Race and the Star Gods by using the Heaven Stealing Talisman to drain Daoist Gray’s vitality, forcing both sides to retreat. Ten days later, the Demon Race attacked Outer Realm Border Ecological Zones, while Cang Yue was summoned to meet Li Miaolin at the Moon Outpost on Demon Star.

• Zhu Wu and Hou Ji confronted Daoist Gray as more Fifth Realm Star Gods and Demon Race True Lords arrived, while Bai Xin remained injured and furious at Daoist Liang and Daoist Pei.
• Wang Ping used the Heaven Stealing Talisman’s power to drain Daoist Gray’s vitality, prompting Daoist Jiao and the other Star Gods to withdraw and the Demon Race to stand down.
• Wang Ping endured the backlash from altering Daoist Gray’s state, and ten days later the Heaven Stealing Talisman’s cultivation progress rose to (9/100).
• The Demon Race sent thousands of cultivators and flying vessels to attack Ecological Zones at the Outer Realm Border, while Cang Yue learned that his efforts to reconcile the sides had failed.
• Zi Xuan summoned Cang Yue to the Moon Outpost on Demon Star, where Ming Xing delivered an invitation from Li Miaolin of the Taiyan Sect.

Cang Yue returned to the Demon Star Moon Ecological Zone outpost and joined Li Miaolin and the gathered cultivators as they prepared for a campaign against the Outer Realm Border’s Ecological Zones. After Yang Rong assigned Taiyan Sect its target and supplied equipment, Old Daoist Wu led the group to receive two new flying vessels.

• Cang Yue met Zi Xuan and Daoist Yu Heng, who discussed the strange attack on the Demon Race and the coming battle against the Outer Realm Border.
• Ming Yuan brought Cang Yue to the Taiyan Sect outpost, where cultivators recognized him and Li Miaolin received him with formal courtesy.
• Cang Yue joined Li Miaolin, Daoist Zhi Gong, Daoist Yunsong, Quan Wen, Wang Yan, and Luo Feng to discuss the front-line situation without choosing a target.
• Yang Rong assigned Taiyan Sect to clear No. 61 Large Ecological Zone and its dependent zones, and delivered supplies and Jade Tokens for the campaign.
• Two days later, Old Daoist Wu led Li Miaolin and the other Fourth Realm cultivators toward the dockyard to receive the two flying vessels from Thousand Wood Temple.

Li Miaolin and the others inspected two new flying vessels built by Thousand Wood Temple and received their control tokens and formation instructions. Their visit was interrupted by a Corrosion Energy blast at the Demon Star Moon Outpost, which True Lord Bai Xin neutralized, and Daoist Cang Yue explained that the attack came from a distant mobile formation.

• Old Daoist Wu led Li Miaolin and the others to meet Yu Dan beside the two new flying vessels.
• Yu Dan showed Li Miaolin that the vessels could withstand ordinary Fourth Realm attacks and perform short-range transfers, then handed him their star-map control hubs.
• Yu Dan explained the vessels’ Spirit Gathering Array and Jia Talismans, gave Li Miaolin the talismans and a jade slip on their combined offensive and defensive system, and prepared to leave.
• Li Miaolin and the others shielded Yu Dan when a Corrosion Energy blast streaked toward the Demon Star Moon Outpost.
• True Lord Bai Xin confined space around the outpost and canceled the blast, while Daoist Cang Yue explained that it came from a mobile formation that could have been fired from an Outer Realm Star.

The Demon Race and Dao Palace Coalition fought the Outer Realm Rebels while Wang Ping strengthened his Wood Spirit World and supported the campaign. After the coalition encircled the Outer Realm Stars, a spreading madness forced its armies to retreat, and Wang Ping brought one afflicted cultivator before him to investigate.

• Li Miaolin, Cang Yue, and Daoist Zhi Gong discussed the Outer Realm Rebels’ attacks, the dangers of cultivating Devil energy, and the conflict’s potential benefits as the Moon Outpost endured five hours of bombardment.
• Wang Ping sent Blessing Talismans to protect the sacrificial ceremony, resolved to strengthen his Wood Spirit World before defining higher-life laws, and chose to let Luo Feng decide his own fate.
• The Demon Race established a show of force near the Moon Outpost, while the Dao Palace Coalition’s front-line campaign bogged down against the Rebels’ defenses and Wang Ping, Tiangong, and Lieyang increased their support.
• By early spring of Dao Palace Calendar year 145, the coalition had cleared the Rebel Ecological Zones and encircled the Outer Realm Stars, but a strange madness spread among its cultivators and forced a retreat.
• Wang Ping found that the madness lay beyond the laws of his starry sky, then used a Transfer Talisman to bring a crazed cultivator before him.

Wang Ping discovered that Outer Realm lifeforms could be remnants of cultivators from other starry skies and that some starry skies had been assimilated after their great cultivators gave up. Half a year later, Luo Feng and Cang Yue led the vanguard against the Outer Realm Rebels, where Luo Feng encountered a Star God using a Jia Talisman infused with devil qi.

• Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to learn that an Outer Realm consciousness had destroyed an Artifact Cultivator's mind, then failed to deduce the origins of the four Star Gods who attacked him.
• Star Sea warned Wang Ping that other starry skies had been assimilated and that the people around him—and even he himself—could be dangers.
• After six months of preparation and renewed Rebel attacks on the rear, Zhu Wu, Zang Yi, and the other Fifth Realm cultivators sent Bai Xin and Yue Xi to lead a major offensive, with Luo Feng and Cang Yue commanding the vanguard.
• Luo Feng and Cang Yue discussed why they had joined the campaign as their fleet advanced through the frozen void, and Luo Feng disabled two Rebels by destroying their Qi Seas.
• A concealed Star God Formation split the vanguard fleet with an energy strike, and Cang Yue went to defend the other half while Luo Feng confronted a Fourth Realm Star God.
• Luo Feng broke his opponent's Barrier, but his sword was stopped by a Jia Talisman whose protective energy carried Outer Realm devil qi.

Luo Feng fought a Fourth Realm Star God named Great Sea, whose consciousness invaded his Spirit Sea and tried to make him submit. Wang Ping intervened, destroyed Great Sea's consciousness, and decided to seek more information about the Outer Realm from Zhi Xin and Quan Xing as the army reached the Outer Realm Star's Ecological Zone.

• Luo Feng broke through Great Sea's nebula and barriers, but Great Sea used a black pillar of light to enter Luo Feng's Spirit Sea and urge him to merge their consciousnesses.
• Great Sea claimed the Outer Realm offered countless paths of cultivation, while Luo Feng refused to submit and challenged him.
• The Nine-tailed Fox Divine Generals alerted Wang Ping to the invasion, and Wang Ping rebuilt the faith channel and imprisoned Great Sea's consciousness in the Wood Spirit World.
• Great Sea told Wang Ping and Yulian that Outer Realm lifeforms survived in violent black nebulae, periodically purged memories to avoid madness, and obeyed Great Lords whose locations and power he could not recall.
• Wang Ping destroyed Great Sea, then deduced that the conflict between the starry sky and the Outer Realm might be ancient and resolved not to use the Soul Devouring Art.
• With the army at the Outer Realm Star's Ecological Zone, Wang Ping sent Zhi Xin and Quan Xing messages requesting a meeting.

Wang Ping met with Zhi Xin and Quan Xing to discuss the Outer Realm Border, the Rebels, and the history of Outer Realm Lifeforms. Zhi Xin agreed to serve Wang Ping if his foundation and legacy were preserved, and Wang Ping ended by asking whether Zang Yi and Yue Xi still had ties to the Star Gods beyond the realm.

• Wang Ping failed to create a stable energy consciousness, and Yulian speculated that the Outer Realm consciousnesses had abandoned their Primordial Spirits to survive and seek new bodies.
• The Dao Palace Coalition fought the Rebels near the Outer Realm Star, then captured two Ecological Zones as strongholds despite renewed energy bombardments.
• Wang Ping met Zhi Xin and Quan Xing, warned them that neutrality would no longer protect them, and offered Zhi Xin a way to preserve his foundation by serving him.
• Zhi Xin told Wang Ping that Wei Ling had secured the Outer Realm Border and that Gan Xi was secretly communicating with Outer Realm Lifeforms and cultivating Outer Realm devil qi.
• Quan Xing recounted old records of Outer Realm Lifeforms, including Yuanwu's use of a Resonance Formation to locate infiltrators, and speculated that Yuanwu had once cooperated with them.
• Wang Ping asked whether Zang Yi and Yue Xi were still in contact with the Star Gods beyond the realm.

Zhi Xin and Quan Xing discussed the war against the Outer Realm Rebels and the True Lords’ hidden motives, while Zhi Xin watched his Ecological Zone’s resources and cultivators be drawn into the conflict. Summoned to Twin Star City, he arrived as Wei Ling took charge of a gathering of the Outer Realm’s Fifth Realm Star Gods.

• Wang Ping questioned Zhi Xin about the reliability of Zang Yi and Yue Xi, then left the gathering while Zhi Xin and Quan Xing continued their discussion.
• Quan Xing considered letting the Outer Realm Rebels test the True Lords, while he and Zhi Xin debated the war’s purpose and the dangers facing the Outer Realm.
• Zhi Xin surveyed his Ecological Zone as its supplies were requisitioned, its cultivators were ordered to convert to Outer Realm energy, and a military dock and dark formation expanded.
• After receiving a summons from the Head Leader, Zhi Xin traveled to Twin Star City and saw that the Star God Alliance’s founding mural had been scraped away.
• Wei Ling arrived at the gathering with Daoist Gray and Daoist Jiao, took the head chair, and began presiding over the assembled Fifth Realm Star Gods.

Wei Ling reorganized the Outer Realm Border’s war command, ordered temples built to support her Divine Art, and announced that Gan Xi had discovered a Sixth Realm cultivation secret art. After Wei Ling began secluded cultivation, Daoist Gray traveled with Daoist Jiao to seek Gan Xi’s guidance, where they discussed True Monarch Changqing and Gray’s pursuit of a higher realm as demonic aura spread across an Ecological Zone.

• Wei Ling appointed Daoist Gray supreme commander of the frontline armies, with Liang and Zi Bo as his assistants, and Gray outlined a plan to exhaust the Dao Palace Coalition within one sixty-year cycle.
• Wei Ling ordered every Ecological Zone to build temples for her Divine Art and announced that Gan Xi had deduced a secret art for Star God cultivation in the Sixth Realm.
• Wei Ling gave Daoist Gray a Jade Token, told him to consult Gan Xi, and warned him not to neglect Dao methods while pursuing the power of the Outer Realm.
• Daoist Gray chose to visit Gan Xi before inspecting the Outer Realm Stars, and Daoist Jiao used a star-map token to guide them through a concealed transmission passage.
• At Gan Xi’s starry sky, Daoist Jiao recalled True Monarch Changqing’s reflections on the Dao and urged Gray to calm his heart, but Gray insisted his pursuit had not changed as demonic aura engulfed an Ecological Zone.

Daoist Gray and Daoist Jiao visited Gan Xi to learn about the Sixth Realm secret art and its dangers. After returning to his Daoist grounds, Daoist Gray gave the art to Daoist Lin Shuang, who warned him that the Outer Realm Star resembled the crisis before True Monarch Lieyang’s Burning of Central Province.

• Daoist Jiao and Daoist Gray entered the abandoned Ecological Zone and reached Gan Xi’s palace through the Outer Realm devilish energy.
• Gan Xi explained that reaching the Sixth Realm required merging with the Outer Realm starry sky’s energy, then gave Daoist Gray a secret art while warning him not to become immersed in it.
• Daoist Gray left for his Ecological Zone after Wei Ling refused to receive him, and he encountered Zi Bo and Huai Feng seeking the same secret art.
• Daoist Lin Shuang met Daoist Gray at his Daoist grounds, received a copy of the secret art, and said his main task was investigating hidden Outer Realm Lifeforms.
• Daoist Lin Shuang warned that the Outer Realm Star recalled the events before True Monarch Lieyang’s Burning of Central Province and urged Daoist Gray not to underestimate True Monarch Changqing.

Wang Ping arranged for You Han to investigate Star God Alliance members colluding with the Rebels, while he and Yulian tested a new faith-based cultivation art. Two years later, the investigation sparked a scandal and a clash between Demon Race squads and an Alliance patrol, leaving Zang Yi and Yue Xi to decide how to respond.

• Quan Wen told You Han that True Monarch Changqing wanted him to investigate Star God Alliance Merchant Association members who were reselling supplies to the Rebels, and You Han agreed.
• Wang Ping told Yulian he would test whether Xuanqing and Lieyang supported his plans, while Yulian revealed that a devoted temple guardian had resonated with the Divine Kingdom's faith spirituality.
• Wang Ping named his modified spell the Immortal Suppressing Art and authorized the Qi practitioner to use Divine Arts to refine his Qi Sea.
• Over the next two years, You Han secretly investigated dozens of Merchant Association stewards and uncovered an undercover agent network, but news of his inquiry leaked before he found its warehouse.
• Zang Yi summoned You Han to his flagship, but Yue Xi reported that Demon Race squads had clashed with an Alliance patrol and urged Zang Yi to publicly commend You Han's investigation.

Zang Yi and Yue Xi settled the Star God Alliance’s internal crisis by sending its forces into the war against the Rebels, while Zhu Wu and the Demon Race maneuvered around the growing conflict. After more than a decade of escalating battles, Central Continent Star fell into disorder when Yuxiao’s Puppets attacked members of the Jimin Association, and Wang Ping watched without intervening.

• Zang Yi and Yue Xi received Zhu Wu’s calling card, negotiated with the Demon Race, and left Moon Outpost after agreeing to address the Star God Alliance’s smuggling and internal problems.
• Zhu Wu and the other Demon Race True Lords discussed the Star God Alliance, True Monarch Changqing, and the possibility of hidden forces shaping the war before receiving a summons from a True Lord.
• Zang Yi dealt with two Fourth Realm Star Gods involved in smuggling, and the Star God Alliance sent three combat battalions to the front as Quan Xing joined the campaign against the Rebels.
• The Dao Palace Coalition fought a devastating battle against the Rebels, and the Demon Race and Star God Alliance cleared one stretch of space after ten days of combat.
• Over the next ten years, more than a thousand Third Realm cultivators died while the coalition cleared only a handful of Ecological Zones, and the Jimin Association later disrupted West Continent.
• Wang Ping observed Yuxiao’s Puppets attacking Jimin Association members through his own Puppets and the divine kingdom, while Yulian asked whether the Patriarch was clearing out the association and Wang Ping chose not to intervene.

After Yuxiao’s upheaval destroyed much of the Jimin Association, Wang Ping waited through twenty years of escalating frontline conflict and slowly cultivated the Heaven Stealing Talisman. He then used Ke Yue’s advance to the Fourth Realm as a new spark in the war, while the chapter ended with Ke Yue emerging from secluded cultivation into a transformed, thriving starry sky and sensing Zi Luan approach.

• Quan Wen reported that Yuxiao’s upheaval had killed a third of the temporary gathering’s low-level cultivators, including Ji He, and Wang Ping searched for survivors of the Jimin Association.
• Wang Ping and Yulian discussed the missing auras of Liu Huaien and Guan Xi, while Wang Ping suspected Yuanwu might soon visit them.
• Over twenty years, the Dao Palace Coalition and the Rebels fought fiercely near the Ecological Zones, while Wang Ping’s Heaven Stealing Talisman progress reached (10/100).
• Ke Yue advanced to the Fourth Realm in Dao Palace Calendar year 181, creating the spark Wang Ping intended to use on the front lines.
• The Ecological Zones around Jupiter flourished under Zi Luan and the Taiyan Sect, with growing populations, cultivation, and flying-vessel industries.
• Ke Yue emerged from the Fire Spirit World to find the starry sky transformed, and Zi Luan’s familiar aura approached her.

Ke Yue became Taiyan Sect’s vice sect master and received the flagship Zhengyuan before taking command of the Left 12 frontline war zone. As her fleet traveled there, Wang Ping used the mark on her Primordial Spirit to study the laws of the Fire Spirit within her.

• Zi Luan appointed Ke Yue vice sect master, granted her an independent Daoist temple, and ordered her to serve at the front lines.
• Ke Yue received the Zhengyuan, a flagship equipped for battles against the Outer Realm Rebels.
• Luo Feng met Ke Yue at the Demon Star’s Moon Outpost and briefed her on the Left 12 war zone and its commanders.
• Ke Yue’s fleet departed for Left 12 after resupplying, while Luo Feng remained at the harbor.
• Wang Ping sent part of his consciousness through Ke Yue’s Primordial Spirit mark to study her embryonic Fire Spirit and seek laws for creating Fire Spirit spells.

Wang Ping studied how to use Wood Spirit rules to construct Fire Spirit spells, then received Lieyang’s thanks and observed Ke Yue take command of a war zone. The chapter ended with Ke Yue accepting Fourth Realm cultivation materials and magical artifacts from Gong Wu, while Wang Ping examined the gifts and read the secret art.

• Yulian watched as Wang Ping used Ke Yue’s vision and the talismans to study Fire Spirit rules, eventually casting a basic Fire Control Technique with repeated attempts.
• Wang Ping spent three days recording his attempts, then received Lieyang’s message thanking him for Ke Yue’s advancement and promising her secret arts and magical artifacts.
• Wang Ping checked on Xuan Ling and Que Cai, then reviewed his records instead of continuing to experiment with Fire Spirit rules.
• Ke Yue reached her assigned war zone, studied Hong Ze’s deployment report, and ordered the main forces on both flanks to gather under her command.
• Gong Wu delivered Lieyang’s Fourth Realm secret art, Heart Fire crystal, and Fire Spirit Formation Command Flags to Ke Yue, who accepted them respectfully.
• Wang Ping examined the Command Flags and read the secret art through Ke Yue’s Primordial Spirit Consciousness.

Wang Ping’s plans pushed the Left No. 12 war zone toward a decisive battle, and Ke Yue led an assault against the Rebels’ defenses. After breaking through the enemy formations, Ke Yue sensed a Fourth Realm Star God and charged into the dark void to confront it.

• Wang Ping judged that Ke Yue could begin cultivating True Sun Inheritance and used her as the medium for his plan to define a Fourth Realm Star God.
• Ke Yue consolidated the combat squads in the Left No. 12 war zone, prompting the Rebels to reinforce their positions and causing True Lord Bai Xin to gather forces for a possible decisive battle.
• True Monarch Bai Yan authorized war zones to attack without first reporting, and Ke Yue ordered her fleet to assault the Rebels with the Zhengyuan at the front.
• Ke Yue flew ahead of the fleet, using her Command Flags and Fire Spirit Formation to destroy the devil-energy barrier and the Rebels’ attacks.
• Quan Wen and Tian Qin’s fleets joined the battle as Ke Yue sensed a Fourth Realm Star God in the void and plunged toward it.