Chapter Summaries

Wang Ping learned that Bai Yan had extracted valuable rule traits from the Chaos Storm and accepted his offer to examine the rare space trait. By studying it in the Wood Spirit World, Wang Ping identified the space trait’s ultimate form and captured the key particles needed to generate a Space Singularity.

• Wang Ping guarded Hu Qianqian while she advanced, then returned most of his consciousness to the Wood Spirit World to cultivate.
• Bai Yan showed Wang Ping crystals containing weakened Yin-Yang and Five Elements rule traits and offered to show him a space trait.
• Wang Ping examined the chaotic space with his talismans and transported it to the Wood Spirit World for study.
• Wang Ping used a river of time to slow the spatial turbulence and observed its structure, discovering a self-adjusting spatial anchor point as the space trait’s ultimate form.
• Wang Ping failed to gather the spatial particles directly but captured the key particles needed to generate a Space Singularity, and the Light Screen Panel appeared.

Wang Ping observed the Puppet’s perilous advancement to the Fourth Realm as it formed and tamed a Wood Spirit core, then endured three tribulations with help from the Slowing Art and Gold Spirit magic array. The starry sky’s Wood Spirit Qi ultimately acknowledged the Puppet, which fell into a forest-like sleep to complete its Primordial Spirit.

• Wang Ping noted that his Space refinement progress had reached 60/100 and descended into his avatar to observe the Puppet preparing to form a Wood Spirit core.
• Yulian brought Yang Rong to watch the Puppet’s breakthrough, and Wang Ping told Yang Rong to study its Qi Sea and consciousness.
• The Puppet formed a Wood Spirit core and used the Slowing Art to resist its first tribulation, then suppressed and tamed the core before the spell expired.
• Thick vines attacked the Puppet during its second tribulation, but it shattered them with its Wood Spirit core; a backlash from the Time characteristic then trapped it in a turbulent river of time.
• After five days, a pillar of Wood Spirit Qi purified the remaining backlash and acknowledged the Puppet’s advancement, allowing it to enter a deep sleep for its Primordial Spirit to mature.
• Wang Ping reassured Yang Rong that he would arrange protection and improve her Slowing Art, then sent a Blessing Talisman into the forest formed by the sleeping Puppet.

Wang Ping refined Space Particles and mastered spatial techniques, then fused time and space to reshape a small region of the starry sky. The Wood Spirit Rules fed back their power, advancing his Heaven Stealing Talisman cultivation to the third stage.

• Wang Ping constructed a Space Singularity, using it to create a Mirror Formation and demonstrate spatial rifts, loops, distortions, and displacement.
• Wang Ping sensed the rules beneath the Heavenly Dao through his Primordial Spirit and Heaven Stealing Talisman, bringing his cultivation progress to (79/100).
• Wang Ping fused time and space into Spacetime Fold, splitting his Primordial Spirit into countless phantoms across temporal and spatial branches.
• Wang Ping used the technique to restore a hundred-mile stretch of chaotic starry sky, but the effort consumed a fifth of his Wood Spirit Qi.
• Wang Ping formed a spacetime singularity and saw time and space weave together beneath the Wood Spirit Rules.
• The Wood Spirit Rules nourished Wang Ping's Physical Body and Primordial Spirit, raising his Heaven Stealing Talisman's progress to (80/100) and advancing him to the third stage.

Wang Ping awakened the Heaven Stealing Talisman's power to define Wood Spirit rules, then used it to purify part of a Chaos Storm and discovered the Heavenly Way's backlash. He tested stealing a century of vitality from a dying Puppet, learned the process caused horrific mutation and karmic burden, and considered trying the method on his believers in smaller amounts.

• Wang Ping received ancient memories through the Heaven Stealing Talisman and gained near-total control over Wood Spirit Qi and its rules.
• Wang Ping used his new power to purify a section of the Chaos Storm, but the Heavenly Way retaliated with Five Elements Yin Yang rule backlash.
• Yulian suggested that the Mystic Sect and Heaven Sect cultivation methods might lead toward the Profound Tree Form, but Wang Ping told her to focus on escaping the starry sky first.
• Wang Ping stole a hundred years of vitality for a dying Second Realm Gold Puppet, causing the Puppet to mutate into a monster that Wang Ping destroyed.
• Wang Ping sensed karmic burden from stealing vitality and spent one percent of his spiritual veins' energy to cleanse it, then considered testing smaller vitality transfers on his believers.

Wang Ping watched Hu Qianqian complete the transformation of her Yao Core, bringing her close to advancing to the Fourth Realm, while he waited for the conflict involving Tiangong and Di Wen. Two years later, the sun’s power surged and Xuanqing entered the magic array around it as True Monarch Lieyang’s plans unfolded.

• After nearly seventy years of meditation, Wang Ping saw his Heaven Stealing Talisman’s cultivation advance slightly and prepared for the coming confrontation with Tiangong and Di Wen.
• Wang Ping and Yulian visited Hu Qianqian as she cultivated, and Wang Ping predicted that her Yao Core would finish transforming within a month or two.
• Hu Qianqian’s Yao Core completed its transformation, and she absorbed it as her body and Primordial Spirit began evolving toward the Fourth Realm.
• Wang Ping left Xuanqing and Bai Yan to refine the remaining Chaos Storm while he and Yulian waited by Hu Qianqian’s Daoist grounds.
• In the spring of Dao Palace Year 1349, the sun’s violent activity intensified and activated arrays around Central Continent Star and Huoxing.
• Xuanqing arrived near the sun and entered the core of the magic array arranged around it.

Wang Ping observed Lieyang’s solar storm and deduced that he might eventually fight Lieyang, then tested whether he could confer Divine Kingdom titles on damaged Fourth Realm Star Gods. Xiao Min successfully became a Divine General while Xiao Qing’s Primordial Spirit collapsed, leaving Wang Ping to seek more memories before attempting the process on Xiao Shan.

• Wang Ping sensed Rongyang’s aura amid Lieyang’s flames and deduced that Lieyang might be preparing Rongyang to become a Fifth Realm True Yang cultivator.
• Wang Ping foresaw himself fighting Lieyang in many possible futures, while Yulian managed the Divine Kingdom during two years of continued solar and Chaos Storm activity.
• Yulian brought Xiao Qing and Xiao Min to the Divine Kingdom Palace, where Wang Ping conferred the titles of Demon-Subduing General and Heaven-Patrolling General upon them.
• Xiao Qing’s Primordial Spirit rejected the Divine Arts and was destroyed, while Xiao Min successfully completed his transformation into a Divine General.
• Wang Ping read Xiao Min’s subconscious for memories to use in a future attempt on Xiao Shan, but concluded he needed more references to influence a Fifth Realm cultivator safely.

Wang Ping oversaw the advancement of his Puppet, arranged for Mo Huaiyuan to continue Dong Can's inheritance, and watched the True Lords' situation shift as war spread through the Star Sea. When two Demonic Qi assaults shattered the coalition's flanks, Wang Ping intervened with his spacetime power, halting their advance and drawing Wunian's aura into view.

• Wang Ping's Puppet advanced to the Fourth Realm, and he sent it to guide Yang Rong's advancement while another Puppet began its own attempt.
• Wang Ping learned that Liu Shuang and Shen Xiaozhu remained unwilling to advance, named his new Cultivator Wang Yan, and heard that Mo Huaiyuan's consciousness had stabilized.
• Mo Huaiyuan met Wang Ping, agreed to establish a sect continuing Dong Can's inheritance, and received a Waist Token directing him to Que Cai at the Taiyan Sect stronghold.
• By Dao Palace Calendar year 1365, Demonic Qi forces attacked both flanks of the Dao Palace Coalition's defensive line, overwhelming the defenders and breaking through the Star Gods' and Demons' resistance.
• Di Wen raised a barrier with Earth Vein power, but Demonic Qi continued penetrating along the flanks until Wang Ping raised a river of time to distort and weaken the corruption.
• Wang Ping's consciousness appeared at the edge of the Demonic Qi world beside a Jianmu phantom, where Wunian's aura briefly emerged before the Demonic Qi tide calmed; Tiangong sensed Wang Ping's displayed cultivation and opened his eyes.

Tiangong used his believers’ faith to break Wang Ping’s seal, refine his Gold Spirit laws, and awaken the power of Order. Wang Ping tested that power with his space-time characteristic, and the clash ended when Tiangong called out to him and Wang Ping withdrew.

• Tiangong gathered the faith of his believers and used it to remove the seal on his spirit veins.
• The released Gold Spirit Qi surged through Tiangong, and he tempered it with faith until his power became more refined.
• Tiangong declared Order and imposed its rigid laws on the surrounding starfield.
• Wang Ping brought Yulian to Jupiter orbit and sent his space-time characteristic against Tiangong’s Order.
• Wang Ping’s stronger Wood Spirit power pushed Order back toward Venus until Tiangong asked what he meant by the attack.
• Wang Ping dispersed the space-time torrent and told Tiangong he had only wanted to test his skills.

Wang Ping and Tiangong fought a month-long Divine Art contest on a vast chessboard, using their believers' faith to struggle for control of the surrounding starfields. As their clash spilled into reality, the other True Lords gathered beneath the starry sky, and Wang Ping fixed his gaze on Mercury.

• Tiangong challenged Wang Ping to a Divine Art contest on a star-spanning chessboard and revealed that he was helping Master Wangqing advance into the Fifth Realm.
• Tiangong's Buddha light began converting Taiyan Sect believers, and Wang Ping countered by rallying his Divine Kingdom's faith against the invasion.
• Wang Ping and Tiangong battled through their chess pieces for a month, with Wang Ping gaining a subtle advantage.
• Tiangong invoked the Pure Land to impose an absolute Buddha Kingdom domain, but Wang Ping used Taiyan faith to spread through and challenge it.
• The clash drew out the Divine Kingdoms of the other True Lords, including Di Wen, True Monarch Lieyang, the Supreme Yin Divine Kingdom, True Lord Xuanqing, and True Monarch Bai Yan.
• With the True Lords gathered, Wang Ping kept his attention fixed on Mercury.

Wang Ping halted Tiangong’s attempt to renew their clash with help from Bai Yan and Xuanqing, then questioned Xuanqing about Lieyang and Rongyang. Xuanqing later visited Lieyang, whose remarks about the Dragon Lord left him asking what would happen if the Dragon Lord allied with Changqing.

• Shen Xiaozhu and cultivators across the starry sky sensed the True Lords’ power as Wang Ping confronted Tiangong.
• Bai Yan blocked Tiangong’s attack, and Xuanqing dissolved its force and warned that the conflict was no longer a discussion of the Dao.
• Tiangong withdrew his aura after Wang Ping’s killing intent reached him, and Wang Ping asked Xuanqing when Lieyang would emerge and whether Rongyang was advancing to the Fifth Realm.
• Wang Ping accused the True Lords of secretly plotting to advance disciples, then left with Bai Yan while Xuanqing returned to the Sun Garrison.
• Xuanqing visited Lieyang in secluded cultivation, and Lieyang discussed his ties to Linshui Prefecture and the Dragon Lord before Xuanqing asked what would happen if the Dragon Lord allied with Changqing.

Wang Ping and Bai Yan discussed the Dragon Lord, the growing conflict among the True Lords, and Bai Yan’s effort to bring this starry sky’s rules into the Outer Realm before parting on friendly terms. Afterward, Xuanqing visited Wang Ping with two Mo Sources and tried to mediate his conflict with Tiangong and Di Wen, but Wang Ping told him to persuade them first.

• During a Go game, Bai Yan explained that the Dragon Lord distrusted Human Way Cultivators and might be preparing his sons to reach the Fifth Realm.
• Bai Yan and Wang Ping agreed to stand together if conflict broke out, and Bai Yan revealed his plan to contact Outer Realm Demonic Cultivators and extend this starry sky’s rules into the Outer Realm.
• Bai Yan left after the game, and Yulian proposed helping the Sanhua cat advance by arranging a Spirit Gathering Array; Wang Ping instead offered to grant the cat extra lifespan.
• Xuanqing brought Wang Ping two Mo Sources he had cultivated and asked him to delay his conflict with Tiangong and Di Wen until the Rebels’ problem was resolved.
• Wang Ping told Xuanqing to persuade Tiangong and Di Wen to step back before expecting him to agree to mediation.

Wang Ping tested the Erosion Edge demonic source, prepared Xia Weny for a dangerous advancement, and received Quan Xing’s offer of allegiance. Quan Xing revealed how Yao Xi had helped the Dragon Lord and others convert to Mystic Sect cultivation, while Wang Ping considered but set aside the possibility of repeating the process.

• Wang Ping tested the Erosion Edge demonic source in a Puppet and found that its fusion progress advanced slowly but steadily.
• Wang Ping watched Xia Weny regain his resolve and instructed him to seek Xuan Ling’s help with his advancement to the Fourth Realm.
• Liu Shuang and Shen Xiaozhu visited Wang Ping with their disciples and descendants, and Quan Xing later summoned Wang Ping to a temporary gathering.
• Quan Xing bowed to Wang Ping and asked for his protection, explaining that he wanted to pursue further cultivation and understand the coming cosmic calamity.
• Quan Xing described how Yao Xi led the Demon Race into the Misty Sea, obtained Mystic Sect cores, and protected the Dragon Lord, Tiangong, Lieyang, Di Wen, and Hui Shan as they converted.
• Wang Ping concluded that Yao Xi’s methods could not readily be repeated under the Mystic Sect’s present rule and abandoned the idea of studying the conversion process.

Wang Ping agreed to take Quan Xing and Niu Pan into the Taiyan Sect, using their allegiance to expand his influence amid the worsening front-line war. He personally presided over their initiation, leaving both demons bound by the sect’s rules and the Taiyan Sect with a new share of authority in the Star Sea.

• Quan Xing explained that the Saint Emperor had purged the Outer Realm consciousnesses and may have implanted subconscious hatred of Outer Realm Lifeforms in Dragon Lord, Tiangong, Di Wen, Lieyang, and Hui Shan.
• Quan Xing described the five stages of his Fifth Realm cultivation and warned that the worsening front-line war could not be stopped by Di Wen alone; Wang Ping told him to withdraw and offered him an Ecological Zone near Jupiter.
• Quan Xing brought Niu Pan to Nine Profound Mountain, and both demons agreed to join the Taiyan Sect; Wang Ping scheduled their initiation for half a month later.
• Wang Ping informed Xuanqing that other Star God Alliance members would fill the demons’ former positions and that Niu Pan would return to the front line as a Taiyan Sect disciple.
• Wang Ping led a public initiation ceremony where Quan Xing and Niu Pan performed three bows and nine kowtows, then accepted the sect’s rules to expand the Dao of Heaven and protect the Star Sea.

Quan Xing and Niu Pan joined the Taiyan Sect, with Quan Xing tasked with building an Ecological Zone and Niu Pan returning to the front lines. Niu Pan defended his choice to Zhu Wu and Wang Xian, while the two considered aligning with Dragon Lord as conflict among the Demon Race loomed.

• Wang Ping bestowed the titles True Person Tongming and True Person Jiurang on Quan Xing and Niu Pan, who declined undeveloped asteroids for their Daoist grounds.
• Quan Xing took charge of constructing the Ecological Zone, while Niu Pan returned to the front lines and arranged a meeting with Zhu Wu and Wang Xian.
• Niu Pan told Zhu Wu and Wang Xian that True Lord Changqing had promised him continued cultivation, and he explained that he had chosen his path after long consideration.
• After Niu Pan ended the call, Wang Xian warned that defections could trigger a Demon Race civil war, while Zhu Wu argued that Quan Xing and Niu Pan had acted courageously.
• Zhu Wu proposed that he and Wang Xian align with Dragon Lord to secure their cultivation, and Wang Xian worried that this would bring civil war before the Rebels were defeated.

Hu Qianqian advanced to the Fourth Realm and took human form, but celebrations were overshadowed by escalating war and unrest among the Demon Race. Years later, Quan Xing completed his Ecological Zone and endured a spiritual energy heavenly tribulation, after which Wang Ping and Yulian arrived to meet him.

• Over ten years, Wang Ping built a mirror defensive formation around Jupiter, and Hu Qianqian successfully advanced to the Fourth Realm and took human form.
• Hu Qianqian visited Wang Ping, received his congratulations, and later celebrated with Liu Shuang, but news arrived that Vajra Temple, the True Sun Sect, and Linshui Prefecture were withdrawing senior disciples from the front lines.
• Wang Ping and Bai Xin withdrew their own core Fourth Realm and Third Realm disciples and replaced them with young Demon Race members, prompting unrest that Bai Xin and Hou Ji violently suppressed.
• Wang Ping's Puppet fused with the Erosion Edge demonic source, but its first attempt to cultivate with demonic qi damaged its spiritual veins, so Wang Ping delayed further progress.
• Quan Xing completed his Ecological Zone, then endured a spiritual energy heavenly tribulation that altered the surrounding star domain before his Yao Core absorbed the remaining energy.
• Wang Ping and Yulian appeared above Quan Xing's Daoist field after the tribulation, just as the violent Lieyang energy in the starry sky was suddenly suppressed.

Wang Ping tested Quan Xing’s newly advanced cultivation before attending Lieyang’s First Seat conference, where the True Lords demanded a sacrifice Wang Ping refused to accept. He cut off the meeting and prepared to make his position clear, while Star Sea warned him to understand the consequences.

• Lieyang emerged from seclusion with a stronger aura and called a First Seat conference for ten days later; Quan Xing warned Wang Ping that the Demon Race’s powerful True Lords could become dangerous.
• Wang Ping sparred with Quan Xing in the outer Star Sea and saw him use spiritual lightning, a spiritual-energy vacuum, and a spiritual tide to attack the Wood Spirit World.
• Wang Ping concluded that the True Lords had been right to suppress the Demon Race’s cultivation, then wondered whether Yaoxi had been manipulated by those who wanted to see the future.
• At the conference, Di Wen conceded defeat in their wager and agreed to use the Star Sea rules, while Xuanqing asked Wang Ping to respond to Lieyang’s proposal.
• Lieyang said the disagreement over the Rebels would have to be settled with a fight, and Wang Ping cut the projection signal before the conference could continue.
• Wang Ping gathered his awareness of Taiyan Sect cultivators and the Fifth Realm fighters on the front lines, then told Star Sea he could compromise but would make the True Lords understand the consequences.

Wang Ping launched a giant temporal sword at Huoxing and fought True Monarch Lieyang, whose Golden Crow power shattered the attack. As they moved toward the sun to continue their battle, Quan Xing blocked Tiangong from aiding Lieyang, and Bai Yan arrived as Tiangong nearly suppressed him.

• Wang Ping used his consciousness to foresee the chaos that would follow open conflict and opened a river of time and space across the Star Sea.
• Wang Ping forged a giant emerald sword with Wood Spirit and temporal power and sent it crashing toward Huoxing.
• True Monarch Lieyang countered with a Golden Crow pillar of flame, shattering Wang Ping's sword, then challenged him to fight near the sun.
• Wang Ping confirmed that a Fifth Realm consciousness stabilized Huoxing and followed Lieyang toward the sun while Yulian warned him of the danger.
• Quan Xing blocked Tiangong's route to Lieyang and distorted the surrounding spiritual energy, but Tiangong severed his connection to it and nearly suppressed him.
• Bai Yan arrived to support Quan Xing as a torrent from the Outer Realm Star signaled the ongoing battle between the Fifth Realm combatants.

Wang Ping fought Lieyang near the sun while protecting Jupiter and the surrounding star systems from their clashing power. He overcame Lieyang’s solar defenses and sealed him inside a cocoon of emerald vines, while Dragon Lord still did not appear.

• Li Miaolin’s group received word that a Fourth Realm energy fluctuation had been detected near Demon Star, and they activated the Mirror Formations to shield Jupiter from the battle’s shockwaves.
• A rebellion erupted on Demon Star as Lieyang’s battle with Wang Ping unleashed destructive solar energy, which Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit rules neutralized before it could destroy Central Continent Star.
• Yulian reported that most of the Star God Alliance had joined Dragon Lord, while several Star Gods remained on Wang Ping’s side and battles spread across the starry sky.
• Wang Ping used the Heaven Stealing Talisman to weaken Lieyang’s connection to the sun and seize control of the Fire Spirit energy in his Golden Crow form.
• Wang Ping pierced Lieyang’s defenses with an emerald beam and bound him in a cocoon of rune-covered vines, but Lieyang’s body then became pure flame as his consciousness erupted from within.

Lieyang repeatedly escaped Wang Ping’s spacetime attacks by using nirvana and the sun’s Fire Spirit Formations, while Wang Ping urged him, Di Wen, and Tiangong to spend their cultivation manifesting the Star Sea rules and deal with the Rebels. The chapter ended with Tiangong asking Wang Ping how Yaoxi had died.

• Lieyang turned into a Flame True Body and collapsed himself into a miniature black hole, forcing Wang Ping to divert his attack to erase it.
• Lieyang used nirvana to revive through the sun’s Fire Spirit Formations, then attacked Wang Ping with solar beams and the Great Sun Glazed Purifying Flame.
• Wang Ping repelled Lieyang’s attack and used Jianmu’s roots and spacetime control to isolate him and steer his attempted escape back toward the Wood Spirit World.
• Lieyang escaped the spatial confinement with the Huaya Technique and revived again at a distant Fire Spirit Formation, though the repeated nirvana weakened his cultivation.
• Tiangong and Di Wen arrived near Lieyang as Wang Ping urged them to manifest the Star Sea rules, while Bai Yan and Quan Xing were trapped by a Starfall Formation near Jupiter and Venus.
• Tiangong asked Wang Ping how Yaoxi had died.

Wang Ping fought Tiangong, Di Wen, and Lieyang in a contest of Five Elements rules, then used Star Sea and the Demonic Sword to drive Lieyang mad, trap Di Wen in time, and force Tiangong to flee. As Wang Ping faced the aftermath, the Rebels captured the Outer Realm Star and threatened the Ecological Zone while the cultivation world descended into chaos.

• Wang Ping disrupted the three opponents’ combined attack, but Tiangong countered his spellcasting by severing its causal connections while Di Wen and Lieyang combined Earth and Fire power against him.
• Wang Ping condensed his Wood Spirit World into a defensive barrier and met the three opponents’ manifested rule networks with his own Wood Spirit rules.
• Wang Ping summoned the Golden Armored Soldier with Star Sea’s consciousness, and it used the Demonic Sword to plunge Lieyang into uncontrollable madness.
• Lieyang’s rampaging Fire Spirit rules struck Di Wen and Tiangong, while Wang Ping trapped Di Wen in a cycle in the river of time and Tiangong escaped through a spatial rift.
• The Rebels captured the Outer Realm Star and threatened the Ecological Zone, while several factions remained divided and refused to reinforce the front lines.