Chapter Summaries

Liu Shuang told Wang Ping she no longer wanted him to arrange her future, and he accepted her decision before assessing Yun Liang and welcoming Daoist Tongyu. Tongyu brought Wang Ping a bottle of primordial Asura Blood that could help Yulian, leaving Wang Ping to investigate its nature and contact her during Secluded Cultivation.

• Liu Shuang explained that she was content with her current station and asked Wang Ping to prioritize the safety of Rong'er, Lei'er, Yu Qin, and Dong Lin; Wang Ping accepted her choice and asked about Yang Rong's progress toward the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping examined Yun Liang and praised his aptitude, then granted the Blue Feather Night Owl a quota for the Third Realm.
• Shen Xiaozhu brought Daoist Tongyu to meet Wang Ping, who agreed to arrange a place for him in the Taiyan Sect.
• Daoist Tongyu gave Wang Ping a bottle of pure Asura Blood from True Monarch Bai Yan, explaining that it could help Yulian during her breakthrough to the completion of the Fourth Realm.
• After Daoist Tongyu departed, Wang Ping examined the Asura Blood and connected his consciousness to Yulian, whose true form appeared on an island in a vast ocean.

Wang Ping released the Asura Blood beside Yulian, completing her physical and Primordial Spirit transformation and speeding up her inherited memories. A month later, Zhu Wu and Zang Yi arrived at the Dao Palace headquarters to investigate destroyed Ecological Zones, but Zang Yi left to meet True Monarch Changqing while Zhu Wu confronted Hong Ze over Linshui Prefecture's involvement.

• Wang Ping placed the Asura Blood beside Yulian, and she absorbed it, transforming her body and Primordial Spirit as her inherited memories began to fuse faster.
• Wang Ping deduced that Yulian would be fine and that her transformation would take only half a year, then spent time observing his believers and cultivating.
• Zhu Wu and Zang Yi arrived at the Dao Palace headquarters, where Hong Ze welcomed them and presented case files about destroyed Ecological Zones.
• Zhu Wu and Zang Yi agreed that the True Lords' Disciples should investigate one another, and Zang Yi departed to visit True Monarch Changqing.
• Hong Ze asked Zhu Wu about Zang Yi's departure, and Zhu Wu rebuked him and suggested Zang Yi might investigate Linshui Prefecture's dealings.

Wang Ping directed Zang Yi to preserve stability amid the Ecological Zone investigations, but a staged clash in Central City reignited tensions between Linshui Prefecture and the Taiyan Sect. Zang Yi imposed a truce and began investigating, while Wang Ping anticipated further developments and learned that the three fighters were implicated in twelve destruction cases.

• Wang Ping asked Zang Yi for his view of the Ecological Zone dispute, then told him to prioritize stability and use decisive force if he chose suppression.
• Zang Yi and Zhu Wu curbed the escalating factional conflicts, which shifted toward contests of strength without further Ecological Zone destruction.
• Two Linshui Prefecture cultivators ambushed a Taiyan Sect cultivator in Central City, and Daoist Miaoging killed one attacker while rescuing him before the rival factions confronted each other.
• Zang Yi used his Fifth Realm pressure to order Daoist Miaoging, Daoist Ru Hui, Li Miaolin, and Daoist Yi Qiu to stand down, then warned Zhu Wu that the True Lords might know about his Sixth Realm secret art.
• Ao Hong and Zi Luan both waited for the other to explain the Central City incident, while Wang Ping began a lengthy deduction and received Zang Yi's report that the three fighters were implicated in twelve Ecological Zone destruction cases.

Wang Ping investigated the Ecological Zone destruction and watched tensions between Linshui Prefecture, Taiyan Sect, and rival sects worsen. When Earth Cave Sect forced Old Daoist Wu toward death, Wang Ping honored his choice, protected Wen Hai, and severed Taiyan Sect’s ties with Earth Cave Sect before traveling to meet Lieyang.

• Zang Yi told Wang Ping that Cultivators from several groups had planned to choose a scapegoat for the destroyed Ecological Zones, and that an unknown force that restrained Water Spirit energy had killed two Disciples of Linshui Prefecture.
• Wang Ping ordered Zang Yi to punish the involved Cultivators, continue investigating, and prevent further destruction of Ecological Zones.
• Wang Ping observed the growing conflict among Linshui Prefecture, Vajra Temple, and True Sun Sect, while Ao Hong entered Secluded Cultivation and Dao Palace Year 1100 arrived.
• Shen Xiaozhu told Wang Ping that Earth Cave Sect had demanded Old Daoist Wu return or be branded an Evil Cultivator, and Wang Ping visited the dying Old Daoist Wu, who refused help and chose to pass away in meditation.
• Wang Ping ordered Wen Hai to go to Taiyan Sect for safety and told Shen Xiaozhu to end all cooperation with Earth Cave Sect and expel any Taiyan Sect Disciple who contacted its Cultivators.
• Wang Ping traveled to Huoxing to meet Lieyang, who greeted him after manifesting as a vast Golden Crow.

Wang Ping sparred with Lieyang using only rule traits, then discussed True Monarch Diwen, Tiangong, and Hui Shan’s past plans with him over chess. Lieyang revealed that Hui Shan had reached an agreement with Outer Realm Lifeforms, leaving Wang Ping suspicious of the other True Lords.

• Lieyang challenged Wang Ping to a spar using only rule traits, and Wang Ping accepted.
• Wang Ping and Lieyang fought across the starry sky, balancing their opposing traits until they reached a draw.
• Lieyang admitted Di Wen’s cultivation matched his own and invited Wang Ping to his Daoist field to discuss the conflict.
• While playing chess, Wang Ping said he would not seek out Di Wen first, and Lieyang promised to side with him if Di Wen came to fight.
• Lieyang warned that Tiangong would likely support Di Wen and that his Gold Spirit trait could counter Wang Ping’s Heaven Stealing Talisman.
• Lieyang revealed that Hui Shan had agreed with Outer Realm Lifeforms before the Demon Race War, and Wang Ping wondered whether the other True Lords should be examined with the Heavenly Eye.

Wang Ping learned from Lieyang how the long lives and unchecked power of True Lords could distort their minds, then watched Wen Hai defeat an Earth Cave Sect cultivator. The Earth Cave Sect later sent Zhi Gong and Yun Song to the Taiyan Sect, where Zhi Gong asked Li Miaolin to return Wen Hai under True Monarch Diwen’s decree.

• Lieyang warned Wang Ping about the dangers of arrogance and the emotional burdens of long cultivation, and Wang Ping steadied himself after his Heaven Stealing Talisman’s progress fell to (56/100).
• Wang Ping returned to Nine Profound Mountain and watched Wen Hai kill an Earth Cave Sect Third Realm cultivator who had challenged him to a Life and Death duel.
• Wang Ping revealed that he had hoped to provoke Di Wen into a conflict, but the Earth Cave Sect’s next confrontation with the Taiyan Sect ended without casualties.
• Twenty years later, True Monarch Diwen sent Zhi Gong and Yun Song to the Taiyan Sect to demand Wen Hai’s return.
• Zhi Gong asked Li Miaolin not to make things difficult and said that bringing Wen Hai back was a Dharma decree personally issued by the True Lord.

Li Miaolin and Zhi Gong fought after the Taiyan Sect refused to hand over Wen Hai, then Zhi Gong and Yun Song returned to Saturn and reported to True Monarch Diwen. Diwen ordered them to focus on recruiting Fourth Realm disciples, expanding the Ecological Zone, and infiltrating beyond the realm to oppose Outer Realm Objects.

• Li Miaolin and Que Cai refused Zhi Gong's request to take Wen Hai, citing True Monarch Changqing's decree against dealings with the Earth Cave Sect.
• Zhi Gong challenged Li Miaolin, and they fought in the starry sky until they agreed to stop without a clear victor.
• Zhi Gong and Yun Song traveled to Saturn, where Saturn's Earth Spirit power stabilized Zhi Gong's body as they approached True Monarch Diwen's palace.
• Zhi Gong and Yun Song climbed the palace stairs, passed the devotion test, and entered the hall to report that they had returned empty-handed.
• True Monarch Diwen told them to focus on Fourth Realm disciples and Ecological Zone expansion, then ordered them to continue infiltrating beyond the realm and oppose Outer Realm Objects.

Wang Ping received Yuanwu’s report on the Outer Realm, including a glimpse of a world built within a colossal meteor and evidence that an Outer Realm force had long coveted his starry sky. He learned that seven Fifth Realm cultivators watched the Solar System, while Yuanwu promised to investigate further and sent him a method for entering the realm through Outer Realm Devil qi.

• Wang Ping learned that the conflict between the Taiyan Sect and the Earth Cave Sect had ended with their alliance severed, while fighting among Linshui Prefecture, the True Sun Sect, and Vajra Temple intensified.
• Xuan Ling brought Zang Yi to Wang Ping, who received a sealed jade slip that Yuanwu had sent through a Divine Art Secret Method.
• Wang Ping read Yuanwu’s account of Yuxiao slipping away in the Outer Realm and of Fourth Realm Outer Realm Lifeforms fighting frenzied energy consciousnesses near a colossal meteor.
• Wang Ping viewed Yuanwu’s memories of the meteor’s horrifying underground world and its city, where cultivators traded memories and competed for rooms formed from black liquid.
• Wang Ping learned that his starry sky was classified as Edge 07 and that an Outer Realm force, including seven Fifth Realm cultivators, had watched the Solar System and acted within the past three Hundred Years.
• Wang Ping read Yuanwu’s remaining intelligence about Outer Realm ruins, legendary Sixth Realm cultivators, and a secret method for entering the realm through Outer Realm Devil qi.

Wang Ping studied Yuanwu’s secret art for cultivating Outer Realm Devil energy, then prepared to discuss the growing threat beyond the starry sky. Di Wen arrived at Jupiter, challenged Wang Ping over the Earth Cave Sect, and their sparring match ended with both of them pausing after a contest of rule attributes.

• Wang Ping used his Heavenly Eye to inspect Yuanwu’s jade slip, memorized the secret art, and received instructions for cultivating an Erosion Edge Devil Source with a fixed thirty-percent chance of success.
• Wang Ping sealed a copy of the secret art and spent months meditating on whether his Puppets could cultivate devil qi and open the Outer Realm Expanse.
• Wang Ping sensed Di Wen’s Earth Spirit aura approaching Jupiter, blocked it with Wood Spirit energy, and greeted Di Wen when he appeared.
• Di Wen explained his grievances over the Earth Cave Sect and challenged Wang Ping, who agreed to meet him in the distant starry sky.
• Di Wen and Wang Ping exchanged attacks using Earth and Wood rules, and both paused after their contest of rule attributes.

Wang Ping fought True Monarch Diwen across the starfield, countering the powers of the Great Earth Scripture with his Wood Spirit World and talismans. Diwen escalated the duel with the Mountain Suppressing Pagoda and Wang Ping drew the Demonic Sword, but Lieyang and the other True Lords intervened before the starry sky was shattered.

• Di Wen questioned Wang Ping’s origins and called him an aberration, then attacked with his Earth Spirit World as Wang Ping countered with his Wood Spirit World.
• Di Wen used Reincarnation and the Samsara Seal, but Wang Ping interrupted the former with the Heaven Stealing Talisman and dispelled the seven-star formation with Wood Spirit power.
• Wang Ping’s Jianmu roots broke through Di Wen’s Earth Spirit World and suppressed him, prompting Di Wen to summon the Mountain Suppressing Pagoda.
• Di Wen used the pagoda’s first three levels to attack and suppress Wang Ping, who countered with the Demonic Sword.
• Lieyang, Tiangong, Xuanqing, and Bai Yan separated the fighters, and Wang Ping and Di Wen withdrew their powers.

Wang Ping rebuked the True Lords for neglecting the threat of the Outer Realm Rebels and left after clashing with Di Wen. At Nine Profound Mountain, he hosted Xuanqing and Lieyang while waiting to see who would become his ally or enemy.

• Wang Ping challenged the True Lords to take their responsibilities seriously and condemned them for failing the living beings who offered them incense.
• Wang Ping departed for Nine Profound Mountain, while the True Lords reacted to his rebuke and Lieyang asked Di Wen why he had come to provoke Changqing.
• Bai Yan criticized Di Wen for challenging Wang Ping after Changqing’s service against the Outer Realm Rebels, and Di Wen dismissed Bai Yan’s criticism.
• Di Wen demanded that Lieyang convene the First Seat conference to address the Outer Realm Rebels, then left; Tiangong and Bai Yan also departed.
• Wang Ping waited at the Ascension Platform, then welcomed Xuanqing and Lieyang to Nine Profound Mountain for wine and conversation.

Wang Ping, Xuanqing, and Lieyang agreed on a secret pact to test whether demonic cultivation could coexist with the Starry Sky rules, while preparing to hear the other First Seats’ plans. Later, Hu Qianqian told Wang Ping she intended to advance to the Fourth Realm, and Lieyang summoned him to a First Seat conference where Di Wen would attend.

• Xuanqing and Lieyang debated whether to destroy the Outer Realm Rebels or investigate a lasting solution to Outer Realm Devil energy, and Wang Ping proposed pursuing both approaches.
• Wang Ping, Xuanqing, and Lieyang negotiated and signed a secret pact with more than three hundred rules governing experiments in Ecological Zones near the Starry Sky Barrier.
• Wang Ping blessed Hu Qianqian as she prepared to enter Secluded Cultivation on Jupiter, and gave her a jade slip granting access to most of the Taiyan Sect’s resources.
• Hu Qianqian gave Wang Ping a handwritten book of Daoist insights for her clansmen, and he praised its purpose while warning that learning could lead them astray.
• Lieyang told Wang Ping that a First Seat conference would be held in three standard days and that Di Wen would participate.

Wang Ping attended a gathering of the True Lords, where Quan Xing revealed that an Outer Realm consciousness had once brought knowledge that nearly destroyed the starry sky. The True Lords approved Di Wen’s plan to lead an expedition against the Rebels, and Wang Ping sent Miaoging and Li Miaolin to join the campaign, promising them leadership of the Taiyan Sect after Zi Luan succeeded.

• Lieyang opened the meeting by raising the starry sky’s unrest and the Rebels, but Di Wen dismissed the unrest as a dispute among juniors.
• Zhu Wu reported that the Rebels had summoned a powerful Outer Realm consciousness, and Quan Xing recalled a similar event that had once triggered a catastrophe and threatened the material world.
• Tiangong proposed using the stone tablet’s rules to purge the Rebels, but Di Wen opposed the plan because it would exact a terrible cost and fail to solve the problem permanently.
• Di Wen offered to lead the Dao Palace Disciples against the Rebels, and the True Lords approved a united army with support from the Demon Race.
• Wang Ping summoned Li Miaolin, Xuan Ling, Que Cai, and Miaoging, then chose Miaoging and Li Miaolin for the expedition and promised they would lead the Taiyan Sect after Zi Luan succeeded.

Wang Ping studied how demonic qi interacted with the Five Elements Yin Yang Rules at the Starry Sky Barrier, then watched the Dao Palace Coalition assemble for war. The chapter ends as True Monarch Diwen began moving against the Outer Realm Star, with Earth Spirit aura surging toward it.

• Wang Ping sent demonic-qi Puppets to the rebels through channels arranged by Zhi Xin and Quan Xing, then observed his experiments at the Starry Sky Barrier.
• Wang Ping found that demonic qi and the Five Elements Yin Yang Rules could restrain and dissolve one another but could not fuse, and his Heaven Stealing Talisman’s fusion progress reached (57/100).
• Wang Ping considered cultivating a Devil Master with Yuanwu’s secret art, but suppressed the idea and returned to Self-Control before completing his planned experiment with Xuanqing and Lieyang.
• True Monarch Diwen arrived at Dao Palace headquarters, and his decree ended the dispute involving Linshui Prefecture, the True Sun Sect, and Vajra Temple.
• The Dao Palace Coalition gathered in enormous numbers near Outer Realm Star, where Wang Ping’s Puppets reported on the assembled forces and their prominent members.
• True Monarch Diwen ordered the coalition’s main force to advance, and Earth Spirit aura across the Starry Sky began converging on Outer Realm Star as he prepared to act at the war’s outset.

Wang Ping joined the Demon Race’s True Lords as True Monarch Diwen shattered the Rebels’ defenses and advanced toward their heartland. After Di Wen stopped the Destruction Rule and confronted Wei Ling, Wang Ping realized he could no longer sense the trait of time within her.

• Wang Ping arrived at the Ascension Platform on Demon Star, where Quan Xing greeted him and the other True Lords gathered to support True Monarch Diwen.
• True Monarch Diwen destroyed the Rebels’ grand defensive formation and defeated two demonic cultivators who challenged him.
• Di Wen advanced toward the Rebels’ heartland with Bai Xin and Hou Ji, while Tiangong, Lieyang, Xuanqing, Bai Yan, and Wang Ping helped secure the surrounding front lines.
• Bai Xin and Hou Ji fought five demonic cultivators, but the Destruction Rule disrupted their techniques until Di Wen stopped and reversed its attack.
• Wei Ling appeared, greeted Di Wen, and drew his warning that Outer Realm secret methods did not belong in this starry sky.
• Wang Ping noticed that he could no longer sense the trait of time within Wei Ling.

Wang Ping and the others learned that Wei Ling wielded Ember Extinguish Mo Source, a power that could burn the Star Sea’s rules, and watched her battle True Monarch Diwen. The arrival of two more Mo Source cultivators forced the True Lords to gather their forces as both sides faced off across the Star Sea.

• Xuanqing, Bai Yan, and Star Sea explained that Mo Sources arose from the destruction of the Great Universe, while Wei Ling revealed the rule-corroding power she had gained.
• Wei Ling attacked True Monarch Diwen with Ember Extinguish techniques, but he countered with Earth Spirit barriers, the Mountain Suppressing Pagoda, and Samsara power.
• True Monarch Diwen drove Wei Ling back and began to suppress her, then abruptly retreated with Bai Xin and Hou Ji as Wei Ling unleashed the World Burning Crow.
• A cultivator wielding Bewitching Heart Mo Source and another wielding Corroding Edge Mo Source appeared, dividing the Star Sea into three hostile domains.
• Master Tiangong joined True Monarch Diwen, and Bai Xin and Hou Ji revealed their true forms as the True Lords and Mo Source cultivators assembled on opposite sides of a charged battlefield.

Wang Ping investigated Wei Ling’s transformation and joined the battle against the Rebels, where he discovered that their fifteen Fifth Realm Star Gods could be bound by the rules of the starry sky. He arrived at the front line, destroyed several of them, and ordered the Demon Race True Lords to attack Wei Ling’s group as Tiangong and Di Wen reinforced the battlefield.

• Wang Ping observed the cosmic rules and concluded that Wei Ling had become a Demonic source with memories of her former self, while Xuanqing and Bai Yan warned of the danger posed by the Rebels and the Outer Realm consciousness.
• Wang Ping, Lieyang, and Xuanqing agreed to confront the Outer Realm threat, and Xuanqing sent Zhu Wu, Niu Pan, Wang Xian, and Quan Xing toward the front line.
• The six Demon Race True Lords and the Star God Alliance’s Zang Yi and Yue Xi attacked Wei Ling’s group, but a negating torrent and fifteen Fifth Realm Star Gods’ formations stopped their advance.
• Wang Ping used his talismans to disrupt the fifteen Star Gods’ abilities, causing their formation to collapse and several of them to die before darkness concealed the rest.
• Wang Ping appeared at the front line, commanded the Demon Race True Lords to attack Wei Ling’s group, and spread Wood Spirit rules across the battlefield as Di Wen and Tiangong prepared their own rule networks.
• Zhu Wu charged Wei Ling with a massive punch as Tiangong called on her group to abandon their resistance.

Wang Ping used the Heaven Stealing Talisman to alter Wei Ling and the Bewitching Heart demonic cultivator’s memories, disrupting the Demonic Qi world as Di Wen and Tiangong restrained the Mo Source beings. Gan Xi and an extraterritorial consciousness then appeared, and the consciousness greeted Wang Ping, Di Wen, and Tiangong.

• Wei Ling and the other demonic cultivators fought the Demon Race True Lords, injuring Zhu Wu, Niu Pan, Bai Xin, and Hou Ji before Wang Ping healed them with Jianmu’s power.
• The Bewitching Heart demonic cultivator and the Erosion Edge demonic cultivator transformed into a Three-Headed Nightmare Beast and a Star-Eroding Ancient Beast, while Wang Ping tracked their traces through the rules.
• Wang Ping captured the Erosion Edge Mo Source’s aura when it wounded Hou Ji, then prepared a Heaven Stealing Talisman as the battle continued.
• Di Wen and Tiangong restrained Wei Ling and the Nightmare Beast, allowing Wang Ping to use the Five Elements Yin Yang Rules to force chaotic memories into Wei Ling and the Bewitching Heart demonic cultivator.
• The memories spread through the Demonic Qi world, and Gan Xi appeared beside an extraterritorial consciousness that suppressed the contaminated demonic cultivators and greeted the True Lords.

Di Wen, Wang Ping, and the other True Lords formed a vast web of Star Sea rules to contain Wunian and the Demonic Qi, but Wunian escaped into the corruption. When a destructive Chaos Storm erupted in the Inner Ring Starfield, Wang Ping went with Bai Yan and Xuanqing to investigate and found it consuming the Star Sea and its spirit creatures.

• Di Wen repeatedly used the Mountain Suppressing Pagoda to destroy Wunian’s phantom, but Wunian re-formed deep within the Demonic Qi.
• Wang Ping, Di Wen, Tiangong, Lieyang, Xuanqing, and Bai Yan joined their powers to weave a visible web of rules across the Star Sea and confront Wunian.
• Wunian offered to guard the Outer Realm, then vanished into the Demonic Qi after Di Wen rejected his proposal.
• Wang Ping detected a chaotic force disrupting the five-element rules, and Star Sea identified it as an Outer Realm Chaos Storm summoned through sacrifice.
• Lieyang assigned Wang Ping, Bai Yan, and Xuanqing to investigate while he, Di Wen, and Tiangong remained to guard the battlefield.
• Wang Ping traveled through the Star Sea with Bai Yan and Xuanqing and found a million-mile vortex devouring matter and spirit creatures in the Inspiration World.

Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to trace the Chaos Storm’s origin and discovered that Zi Xuan, Yu Heng, and Cang Yue had summoned it through a sacrificial altar while seeking a Saint. He returned to Bai Yan and Xuanqing knowing the storm could be refined for great power, but that doing so might divide the True Lords and serve the Outer Realm’s plans.

• Wang Ping asked Xuanqing and Bai Yan to contact Lieyang while he investigated the Chaos Storm with the Heavenly Eye.
• Wang Ping saw that the storm had formed from a stellar system destroyed by the Great Universe’s collapse and had grown by consuming matter and spiritual energy.
• Wang Ping traced the storm to five unidentified figures who had sent it through a rift toward his star region.
• Wang Ping saw that Jiutian Pavilion’s altar had transformed into the Chaos Storm after consuming captives, souls, and energy crystals, and recognized the auras of Zi Xuan, Yu Heng, and Cang Yue.
• The Star Sea suggested Wang Ping refine the storm with the Heaven Stealing Talisman, but Wang Ping realized that doing so could prompt other True Lords to compete for its power and delay their fight against Demonic Qi.
• Wang Ping returned to Bai Yan and Xuanqing through a transfer formation.