Chapter Summaries

Wang Ping joined Xuanqing and Bai Yan in containing and refining the Chaos Storm, revealing that Jiutian Pavilion had brought it into the Star Sea through an Outer Realm Object. True Monarch Lieyang then visited the Dragon Lord to discuss the storm and the Rebels’ Demonic Qi world, but the Dragon Lord accused him of seeking to sacrifice Changqing’s Wood Spirit spirituality to invoke the Star Sea rules.

• Xuanqing and Bai Yan refined the Chaos Storm’s energy into the Star Sea’s rules, but warned that the formation required True Lords to sustain it.
• Wang Ping used his Wood Spirit World and a Heaven Stealing Talisman to refine part of the storm, then identified Jiutian Pavilion as responsible for bringing it into the Star Sea.
• Xuanqing proposed classifying groups like Jiutian Pavilion as heretical paths, while Bai Yan argued that suppressing them was unrealistic, and Wang Ping urged them to focus on containing the storm.
• True Monarch Lieyang traveled to Mercury and told the Dragon Lord that refining the storm and assimilating the Rebels’ Demonic Qi world would require action by several True Lords.
• The Dragon Lord said he would accept a consensus on invoking the Star Sea rules, then accused Lieyang of considering the same plan Tiangong had proposed: exhausting Changqing’s Wood Spirit spirituality.

Lieyang sought Dragon Lord’s support for Ao Hong’s advancement and for the First Seats’ plans, while Dragon Lord weighed the shifting balance among the True Lords. At an emergency First Seat conference, Wang Ping sensed that the decisions ahead would affect his fate as the True Lords debated the Demonic Qi world and the Chaos Storm.

• Lieyang asked Dragon Lord to intervene and promised to support Ao Hong’s advancement into the Fifth Realm, but Dragon Lord said he would consider it.
• After Lieyang left, Dragon Lord told Ao Hong that Changqing’s rise had pressured the other True Lords and warned that Changqing would face united opposition.
• Lieyang returned to the Outer Realm Star and met Tiangong and Di Wen, who debated the expanding Demonic Qi world and how to use energy from the Chaos Storm.
• Di Wen agreed to convene a First Seat conference after Tiangong proposed a three-hundred-year limit for stopping the Demonic Qi world’s expansion.
• While working with Xuanqing and Bai Yan to contain the Chaos Storm, Wang Ping sensed a change in his fate and tried to deduce what lay ahead.
• At the conference, Lieyang announced that Dragon Lord would support the group’s resolutions and opened discussion on the Outer Realm Rebels and the Chaos Storm’s energy.

At the First Seat conference, Wang Ping forced a vote on using the Star Sea rules to erase the Demonic Qi world and the Chaos Storm, but the proposal tied and Tiangong’s three-hundred-year plan was adopted instead. Afterward, Bai Yan warned Wang Ping that the other True Lords might seek to use Fifth Realm cultivators to activate the Star Sea rules, and Wang Ping contacted Ao Hong for answers.

• Tiangong questioned the Demon Race and Star God Alliance about containing the Rebels, and Zang Yi said the alliance had only two Fifth Realm cultivators ready to act.
• Lieyang proposed using the Star Sea rules against the Demonic Qi world and Chaos Storm, while Star Sea warned Wang Ping that Lieyang might be plotting something.
• Wang Ping called for a vote; the proposal received five votes for and five against, so Tiangong proposed using the Dao Palace Coalition against the Demonic Qi world for three hundred years while addressing the Chaos Storm.
• After the conference, Tiangong warned Lieyang against scheming against Wang Ping, while Di Wen questioned Tiangong’s trust in Lieyang and agreed to test Wang Ping again.
• Bai Yan told Wang Ping that the True Lords might use the spirituality of Fifth Realm cultivators to manifest the Star Sea rules, and advised him to seek out Dragon Lord.
• Wang Ping contacted Ao Hong with his Communication Token after Xuanqing affirmed his resolve to protect the world.

Wang Ping uncovered signs that Lieyang and Tiangong had been manipulating events, then watched the Dao Palace Coalition build a vast blockade against the Rebels. When Tiangong suddenly attacked and severed Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit World, Wang Ping retaliated with the Demonic Sword and summoned a massive force of Golden Armored Soldiers as Di Wen appeared.

• Bai Yan warned Wang Ping that the Dragon Lord might see him as a threat, while Xuanqing urged him not to act without evidence.
• Wang Ping reviewed events since reaching the Fifth Realm and concluded that Lieyang and Tiangong had been steering matters, including the Ecological Zone, for their own purposes.
• After Tiangong ordered the advance, the Dao Palace Coalition fought the Rebels and spent years building a defensive line around the Demonic Qi world.
• Quan Xing told Wang Ping that Zhi Xin had fled the border with seven Fifth Realm Star Gods and carried intelligence from the Rebels.
• Tiangong appeared at the Chaos Storm and severed Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit World with Gold Spirit Qi, prompting Wang Ping to send a Golden Armored Puppet wielding the Demonic Sword against him.
• Di Wen arrived as Tiangong defended himself, and Wang Ping summoned tens of thousands of Golden Armored Soldiers and gathered the Star Sea’s fortune around himself.

Di Wen repeatedly experienced Wang Ping killing him across fifty cycles of time before Xuanqing pulled him back, leaving him unwilling to fight. Wang Ping continued battling Tiangong, using the Divine Kingdom’s power and the Demonic Sword to suppress him after Tiangong severed his connection to the Wood Spirit World.

• Di Wen summoned the Mountain Suppressing Pagoda, but Wang Ping’s Jianmu roots overcame his defenses and devoured his Primordial Spirit.
• Di Wen relived his defeat across repeated cycles, tried different tactics, and discovered that Jianmu’s roots extended through every node of the river of time.
• Xuanqing pulled Di Wen from the river of time after fifty cycles, and Di Wen realized only one breath had passed in reality.
• Wang Ping told Star Sea to suppress Tiangong while using the Heaven Connecting Talisman and Heaven Stealing Talisman to disrupt Tiangong’s connection to the cosmic rules.
• Wang Ping summoned his Divine Kingdom Palace and struck Tiangong with its Power of Faith, while the Demonic Sword’s Killing Intent penetrated Tiangong’s Dharma Aspect.
• Tiangong deployed his own Divine Kingdom, and Wang Ping accused him of severing cause and effect from the Wood Spirit World before continuing his attack.

Wang Ping overwhelmed Tiangong with the faith power of his Divine Kingdom, then left him imprisoned by a rune that would last three hundred years. After resuming his work against the Chaos Storm, Wang Ping considered Zhi Xin’s allegiance and planned talks with Quan Xing and True Monarch Bai Yan.

• Wang Ping used the faith of hundreds of millions of believers to suppress Tiangong and inscribed an imprisonment rune that would release him after three hundred years.
• Di Wen took Tiangong to Venus, where Tiangong repeatedly failed to break Wang Ping’s rune, while Di Wen warned him against repeating Hui Shan’s mistake.
• Wang Ping sent Lieyang a sealing talisman to stabilize his consciousness, and Lieyang joined Xuanqing.
• Wang Ping decided to hear the intelligence Zhi Xin brought back before considering Zhi Xin and the others’ allegiance, and he scheduled a meeting with Quan Xing ten days later.
• Wang Ping spent the next ten days studying his fate and the balance of power, then decided to speak with True Monarch Bai Yan after meeting Quan Xing.

Wang Ping heard Zhi Xin’s account of escaping the Rebels’ confinement and arranged for him to receive a new identity, while Quan Xing revealed that the Demon Race had little room to advance under the True Lords’ control. Xuanqing then found the Nether Abyss Demonic Source in the Chaos Storm, and Wang Ping helped him approach it so they could try to extract it intact.

• Zhi Xin explained that Wei Ling and Gan Xi had imprisoned him and other holdouts, while impostors had used his memories to replace him and maintain his Ecological Zone.
• Wang Ping told Zhi Xin to obtain a new identity through Zang Yi and meet him near the Supreme Yin Star, then considered using the Heavenly Eye to check whether the defectors could be trusted.
• Quan Xing and Zhi Xin discussed the Demon Race’s limited prospects for advancement and Zhi Xin’s decision to return to the Star God Alliance, which was tied to Wang Ping.
• After three days of meditation, Wang Ping learned that Xuanqing had sensed a possible Demonic Source while refining the Chaos Storm with his Golden Core Rules.
• Wang Ping used the Heaven Stealing Talisman to stabilize Xuanqing’s consciousness as they entered the abnormal energy and identified the Nether Abyss Demonic Source, which corresponded to Water Spirit Qi.
• Wang Ping urged Xuanqing to focus on extracting the weak Demonic Source intact before considering whether it could serve as an experimental seed.

Xuanqing sealed the Nether Abyss Demonic Source, and Wang Ping tested its compatibility with Water Spirit Qi before bringing it to his experimental Ecological Zone. His first attempt to connect it to a Puppet failed when the source tried to seize its consciousness, so the backup Puppets destroyed the contaminated Puppet and extracted its demonic qi.

• Xuanqing stripped away the demonic source’s impurities, sealed its core in a Crystal Sphere, and handed it to Wang Ping.
• Wang Ping tested the source with Water Spirit Qi and found that the opposing energies formed a stable but dangerous balance.
• Wang Ping brought the Crystal Sphere to his Ecological Zone and prepared his Puppet and two backups for an experiment.
• Wang Ping’s Puppet cautiously connected its demonic qi to the source, but the source attacked and contaminated its consciousness.
• The two backup Puppets restrained and dismantled the contaminated Puppet, extracting the demonic qi from its spirit veins.

Wang Ping accepted Zhi Xin and five other Fifth Realm Star Gods into the Dao Palace after examining their memories, then spent years cultivating and watching the Rebel front. When the Rebels launched a massive assault, Di Wen ordered a disciplined retreat and detonated a trap, but the Demonic Qi world sent an even greater wave against the defenses.

• Wang Ping raised the Puppet's compatibility with the demonic source to 10/100 while the wider conflicts settled into a standoff.
• Zhi Xin and five Fifth Realm Star Gods arrived at the Wood Spirit World and pledged allegiance to True Monarch Changqing.
• Wang Ping examined the six Star Gods, found no problems with them, and ordered them to follow Zang Yi and Yue Xi against the Rebels while obeying Dao Palace laws.
• Over the following years, Wang Ping's Heaven Stealing Talisman progress reached 61/100 as the Dao Palace and Rebels remained locked in a tense stalemate.
• The Rebels launched a massive assault with demonized flying vessels, and Di Wen ordered the Dao Palace forces to hold their positions until the first defense line failed.
• Di Wen ordered a retreat and activated his spatial trap, destroying the advancing vessels, but countless more vessels surged out of the Demonic Qi world.

The Rebels launched a massive assault that overwhelmed the Dao Palace Coalition’s first defenses and forced True Monarch Diwen to abandon the second line. Diwen’s intervention stopped the attack, but the Demonic Qi world resisted his power, and he realized he might not be strong enough to eliminate the Rebels alone.

• Demonic Qi and corrupted flying boats broke through the Rebels’ first defensive line and battered the second, turning some Dao Palace cultivators into Demonic Beasts.
• Prefect Yuxing fought several powerful Demonic Cultivators while Daoist Miaoqing, Li Miaolin, Ke Yue, and Luo Feng battled elsewhere on the front lines.
• True Monarch Diwen ordered the second defensive line abandoned, and the eight bronze towers activated a formation under Snake Demon Bai Xin’s command.
• A bone altar raised a demonic formation that clashed with the towers’ golden net, destroying both formations and warping space across the battlefield.
• True Monarch Diwen struck the Demonic Qi world with a giant palm, but a black pillar and mystical radiance resisted his attack as Wang Ping sensed a power tied to Wood Spirit Qi.
• The attack ended with the Rebels’ advance stopped, but Diwen concluded that his strength alone might not be enough to eliminate them.

Wang Ping attended a First Seat conference where the True Lords debated purging evil cults, expanding Fourth Realm cultivation, supporting the Shangdan Sect, and opening more Fifth Realm slots. Thirty years later, Yulian showed signs of awakening as Wang Ping’s avatar supplied her with Water Spirit Qi.

• Wang Ping agreed to attend Lieyang’s First Seat conference, where Lieyang announced that the Dragon Lord would remain in secluded cultivation.
• Wang Ping opposed Lieyang’s proposed Dao Palace inspection team, and the True Lords approved a compromise in which the Dao Palace would supervise each sect’s own investigation into evil sacrifices.
• Wang Ping urged the True Lords to cultivate more Fourth Realm members of the Shangdan Sect and lift restrictions on Fifth Realm advancement, but the latter proposal failed.
• Tiangong decided to secretly cultivate Wangqing into the Fifth Realm, while Wang Ping used the Mirror Formation to supervise the cleansing of Jiutian Pavilion and Chongyuan Prefecture.
• After thirty years of cleansing and fighting at the front line, Wang Ping sensed Yulian nearing awakening and supplied her Primordial Spirit with Water Spirit Qi until it began to solidify and cry out.

Yulian emerged from secluded cultivation at Fourth Realm perfection and demonstrated her new ability to cast spells directly within the Inspiration World. After visiting Shen Xiaozhu, she accepted her decision not to pursue further advancement and returned to Wang Ping, who suggested she visit Nine Profound Mountain to see Rong'er.

• Yulian merged with her physical body in the river, reached Fourth Realm perfection, and used a Transfer Talisman to join Wang Ping.
• Yulian demonstrated that she could form spell formations in the Inspiration World and cast attacks directly upon Primordial Spirit Consciousness, while she and Wang Ping discussed whether the method could help unorthodox cultivators advance.
• Yulian tested her acid rain, ocean, ice, and temperature-based spells, then spent time with Wang Ping and the Divine Kingdom's believers.
• After a month, Yulian traveled to Thousand Wood Temple to see Shen Xiaozhu and found her absorbed in storybooks.
• Yulian asked Shen Xiaozhu about giving up advancement; Shen Xiaozhu explained that she was content with her life, and Yulian told her she could visit Jupiter if she changed her mind.
• Yulian returned to Wang Ping, who suggested she go back to Nine Profound Mountain to check on Rong'er, who was preparing for the Fourth Realm.

Yang Rong brought Wang Ping her proposed Fourth Realm Wood Gathering Art, and Wang Ping’s deductions revealed that its advancement method was unreliable and perilous. He told her to cultivate safely on Jupiter while he developed a better method and tested hers with Puppets, leaving Yang Rong to begin seeking the path to advancement.

• Yang Rong gave Wang Ping the secret art she had deduced and asked him to correct it before she attempted advancement.
• Wang Ping’s Light Screen Panel revealed the stages and severe dangers of Fourth Realm advancement, showing that Yang Rong’s proposed use of spirit-body creatures was unreliable.
• Wang Ping warned Yang Rong that her existing Spirit Vein consciousness could become dangerously agitated and advised her to let him deduce a safer path.
• Wang Ping told Yang Rong to try gathering a Wood Spirit core through ordinary Qi Refining on Jupiter, despite its extremely low chance of success.
• Yang Rong agreed to observe tests of her method using Puppets, and Wang Ping sent her to establish a temporary cultivation ground while he searched for an experimental site.

Wang Ping continued researching Fourth Realm cultivation, monitored the stalemated war and growing conflicts over faith, and learned of a rising Artifact Cultivator who had reached the Fourth Realm. The chapter ended as the cultivator destroyed an Ecological Zone and effortlessly killed a Fourth Realm Star God.

• Wang Ping’s seventeenth attempt to fuse a Wood Cultivator Puppet with a Fourth Realm True Spirit failed, so he decided to continue the experiments without True Spirits.
• Over the following decades, Wang Ping advanced his research and Heaven Stealing Talisman cultivation while the war with the Rebels remained at a stalemate and Lieyang cultivated around the sun.
• Wang Ping agreed to Yulian’s proposal to send Taiyan Sect preachers into Vajra Temple’s Ecological Zones, igniting a spreading war of faith between rival temples and divine arts.
• Wang Ping foresaw a Fourth Realm Artifact Cultivator, likely Dong Can’s successor, but his Puppets and divine kingdom envoys found no information about him.
• A sword scar destroyed an Ecological Zone near Central Continent Star, and the Artifact Cultivator killed a Fourth Realm Star God with a single strike.

An Artifact Cultivator with a newly achieved Fourth Realm secret art slaughtered Vajra Temple’s forces and destroyed five of its Ecological Zones, drawing the attention of Wang Ping and rival sects. When Vajra Temple finally moved to stop him at the sixth zone, Zen Master Lingzong and two Star Gods launched a coordinated attack.

• The Artifact Cultivator killed twelve Vajra Temple Gold cultivators and a Fourth Realm Star God, then destroyed the Ecological Zone and Wang Ping’s nearby Puppet.
• Wang Ping and Yulian discussed the Artifact Cultivator’s secret art and Vajra Temple’s likely response, and Yulian left to join the Taiyan Sect’s forces.
• The Artifact Cultivator destroyed another Vajra Temple Ecological Zone, while Wang Ping watched and considered how the new secret art might resolve the problems of Artifact Cultivators and unorthodox paths.
• The Artifact Cultivator went on to destroy five Vajra Temple Ecological Zones as Wang Ping and others monitored his progress.
• At the sixth Ecological Zone, Zen Master Lingzong and several Star Gods trapped the Artifact Cultivator in a Gold Spirit formation, but he broke through it and faced their coordinated assault.

The Artifact Cultivator fought Lingzong and the Star Gods, then escaped after destroying an Ecological Zone and resumed attacking sites under Vajra Temple’s jurisdiction. Wang Ping’s allies eventually cornered him, but his strength and the transfer network left the confrontation at a stalemate.

• The Artifact Cultivator broke through the Star Gods’ attacks and wounded them and Lingzong, while seven Dao Palace Star Gods arrived to suppress him.
• The Artifact Cultivator shattered their restraint, destroyed an Ecological Zone, and fled after Yulian’s intervention briefly restored his clarity.
• Over the next three months, the Artifact Cultivator repeatedly destroyed Ecological Zones under Vajra Temple’s jurisdiction, prompting Wang Ping to summon Xuan Ling, Que Cai, and other Fourth Realm cultivators.
• The Yuqing Sect’s Daoist Huai Mo trapped the Artifact Cultivator in a Golden Core Universe, but the Artifact Cultivator broke through it with one sword strike.
• The Artifact Cultivator found himself surrounded by a vast transfer network, and the Fourth Realm cultivators could not bring him down without fighting him directly.

Wang Ping captured Mo Huaiyuan, learned the secret of Fourth Realm Artifact Cultivators, and left his fate in Yulian's hands. Two years later, evil sacrificial rites overwhelmed the cultivation world as Tiangong tried to break free of Wang Ping's Divine Art confinement.

• Yulian explained that Mo Huaiyuan's artifact array disrupted spells below Fourth Realm Completion, and Wang Ping secured Xuanqing and Bai Yan's support before ordering the Divine Kingdom Envoys to capture him.
• The Divine Kingdom Envoys suppressed Mo Huaiyuan and drew him into the Divine Kingdom, while the surrounding factions withdrew as witnesses.
• Wang Ping learned that Mo Huaiyuan had been Dong Can's disciple and that his hatred had helped him resist the madness of his demonic weapon; he gave Yulian a revised secret art for Que Cai.
• Wang Ping and Yulian considered how to refine Mo Huaiyuan's artifact array, and Yulian struck him out of the Divine Kingdom to deal with his consciousness herself.
• Dao Palace sentenced Mo Huaiyuan to a thousand years of contemplation, and two years later evil sacrificial rites erupted near Central Province, leaving Dao Palace short-handed.
• The Divine Art Array over Venus Orbit flared as Tiangong attempted to break free of Wang Ping's confinement.

Wang Ping entered Tiangong’s Buddha Kingdom and learned that Tiangong planned to endure his confinement while preparing Wangqing to reach the Fifth Realm. After withdrawing, Wang Ping judged that the Star Sea’s conflicts offered no advantage and shifted his focus toward resolving problems within the Taiyan Sect and Star God Alliance while waiting for events to change.

• Wang Ping used the Divine Kingdom Palace’s faith spirituality to stabilize the rune suppressing Tiangong, then entered Tiangong’s sea of consciousness with Yulian.
• Wang Ping met Tiangong in his Buddha Kingdom, where Tiangong used believers’ faith to slowly weaken the confinement spell and warned that Dragon Lord would choose Wang Ping as the energy source for the rules’ descent.
• Tiangong revealed that he had arranged for Wangqing to advance to the Fifth Realm and urged Wang Ping to kill him, Di Wen, or Lieyang, while Yulian questioned whether the new Fifth Realm cultivators would obey him.
• Wang Ping withdrew from the Buddha Kingdom and learned from Yulian that the Artifact Cultivator was suppressed beneath Nine Profound Mountain and that Rong'er, Qianqian, and Wen Yi were well.
• Wang Ping concluded that the Star Sea was too small for open conflict to benefit him, then explored whether Wood Spirit’s time trait could help side paths generate Spirit Vein cores.
• Wang Ping told Yulian that confining Tiangong was no longer important and that they should resolve problems within the Taiyan Sect and Star God Alliance while waiting for circumstances to change.

After foreseeing the rise of Buddhist power and growing wary of the conflicts ahead, Wang Ping considered how to strengthen the Divine Kingdom and the Taiyan Sect. He accepted Yulian’s proposal to test enfeoffing damaged Fourth Realm Star Gods as Divine Generals, while turning to complete the Wood Gathering Art secret art.

• Yulian told Wang Ping she would provoke Tiangong into starting a war, and Wang Ping foresaw Buddhist sects uniting before a Golden Crow and white dragon crossed the sky.
• Wang Ping judged that Zi Luan would need thousands of years to cultivate a perfect Wood Spirit Physical Body, then considered awakening Xiao Shan beneath the Huai Tree.
• Yulian proposed enfeoffing Xiao Shan as a Divine Kingdom Divine General to suppress the Wood Spirit within him, and Wang Ping examined Xiao Shan’s damaged memories and Primordial Spirit.
• Wang Ping decided to contact Fourth Realm Star Gods with damaged Primordial Spirits and conduct trials before attempting Xiao Shan’s awakening.
• Wang Ping returned to his true body near the Chaos Storm and took out the Time characteristic to work on completing the Fourth Realm secret art of Wood Gathering Art.

Wang Ping completed a method for fusing a Wood Spirit trait and watched the conflict among several sects spread while he focused on refining the Chaos Storm. He then went to Hu Qianqian's dao field as she began advancing to the Fourth Realm, where her Yao Core absorbed moonlight and formed a galaxy-like energy field.

• Wang Ping's Puppet fused a Time trait and produced the Wood Gathering Art Fourth Realm secret method, which Wang Ping recorded for Yang Rong to use.
• Yulian planned a stronger faith war against the Vajra Temple, and the conflict between the Taiyan Sect, Vajra Temple, and Earth Cave Sect spread across Central Continent Star and the asteroid belt.
• The sect conflict disrupted the front lines against the Rebels, allowing the Demonic Qi world to expand into the outer starry sky while Wang Ping continued refining the Chaos Storm.
• Wang Ping sensed that Hu Qianqian was about to enter secluded cultivation and traveled with Yulian to her dao field on a painted asteroid.
• Hu Qianqian's Yao Core devoured the formation's stored moonlight, formed a crystalline structure, and spread an illusory galaxy across much of the dao field as Wang Ping strengthened the surrounding formation.