Chapter Summaries

As Wang Ping’s battle with the True Lords coincided with a catastrophic outbreak of Outer Realm pollution, Demon Star and the Inner Ring Starfield’s Ecological Zones descended into chaos, and Rebels seized Outer Realm Star. After the battle, Wang Ping restored Di Wen to Saturn and watched Xuanqing approach the mad Lieyang as Bai Yan hinted at Dragon Lord’s intentions.

• Hundreds of sacrificial formations opened across Demon Star, unleashing polluted lifeforms and turning the planet into a living hell while the major factions were distracted by Wang Ping’s battle.
• Polluted unaffiliated cultivators sabotaged the Ecological Zones from within, but the Mystic Sect and Heaven Sect suppressed the uprisings with help from the True Lords’ divine kingdom envoys.
• The Outer Realm Rebels exploited the weakened defenses to capture Outer Realm Star, accelerating the spread of the Demonic Qi world toward the Inner Ring Starfield.
• The Five Elements Rules appeared and stopped the Demonic Qi world’s expansion; Zang Yi and the others withdrew while Bai Xin and Zhu Wu planned to approach Dragon Lord.
• Wang Ping returned Di Wen to Saturn and saw Lieyang consumed by chaos as Xuanqing arrived; Bai Yan asked whether Wang Ping understood Dragon Lord’s intention, then reactivated a formation linked to the dormant Fifth Realm True Yang consciousness within Mars.

Wang Ping chose to strip Lieyang of his primary consciousness and leave Rongyang in Xuanqing’s care, then returned to Nine Profound Mountain as spiritual turmoil erupted across the star region. With the other True Lords occupied stabilizing their spirit veins, Wang Ping and allied forces contained the pollution spreading from the Demonic Qi world, where a powerful energy began to stir.

• Xuanqing used the Fifth Realm True Yang consciousness within Huoxing to soothe Lieyang and lull his Golden Crow form into a restorative sleep.
• Wang Ping ordered Lieyang’s primary consciousness removed and Rongyang released from Huoxing’s core, leaving the True Sun Sect’s affairs to Xuanqing and Bai Yan.
• Wang Ping returned to Nine Profound Mountain and failed to identify an eerie point in his visions of the future before Inspiration World erupted into chaos.
• Countless beings across the star region suffered spiritual turmoil as sacrifices in the Ecological Zones turned ordinary people into sources of pollution.
• Wang Ping and the other True Lords entered meditation to stabilize their spirit veins, while Di Wen and another ally intervened in the asteroid belt.
• Wang Ping raised a Wood Spirit barrier at the Demonic Qi world, and Bai Xin, Hou Ji, Zhu Wu, Wang Xian, Yue Xi, and Zhi Xin helped suppress its pollution as energy stirred within.

Wunian used the altar in Twin Star City to drain the Demonic Qi world and Outer Realm Star, preparing to remake himself into a terrifying being. Wang Ping intervened with a golden divine palm, and the chapter ended as it collided with Wunian’s desperate counterattack.

• Wunian drove the altar to drain living beings and the Demonic Qi world while Gan Xi and twelve demonic cultivators fought the monsters around it.
• Gan Xi battled his way toward Wunian, but the altar’s giant hand and the crazed Wei Ling drove him back.
• Daoist Gray realized Wunian had made the rebels into resources and searched for a way to escape Twin Star City.
• Wang Ping’s bell and golden divine palm interrupted the altar, allowing Daoist Gray to flee toward the shattered dome.
• Wunian drew on the Demonic Qi world and unleashed a torrent of filth and chaotic energy against Wang Ping’s descending palm.

Wunian rebuilt his cultivation and forged a Devil Master body by draining the Demonic Qi world, then confronted Wang Ping at its outskirts. Wunian claimed the Heavenly Way had acknowledged him and revealed that he had begun planning his arrival a hundred thousand years earlier.

• The divine palm shattered, and its destructive aftermath devastated Gan Xi, the twelve demonic cultivators, and Wei Ling while leaving Wunian weakened.
• Wunian used the Demonic Qi world's deeper origins to erase the survivors' consciousness and turn them into vessels for his sacrificial ritual.
• Wunian condensed the Burial Dust Demonic Source, fused three demonic bodies into a humanoid form, and brought the Demonic Qi world's chaotic consciousnesses under his control.
• Wang Ping recovered from the backlash of interfering with the Demonic Qi world, then watched Wunian emerge as Yue Xi and Zhi Xin's attacks crumbled against his force field.
• Wunian told Wang Ping he had taken what he wanted and claimed the Heavenly Way had made him undying within the Demonic Qi world.
• Wunian said he had planned his entry a hundred thousand years earlier and that the starry sky's rule-will had already been consumed once.

Wang Ping investigated the warning from fate and learned that Daoist Yuanzheng had died attempting to advance to the Fourth Realm. After mourning the loss of an old friend, Wang Ping considered the precarious balance among the major powers and decided to speak with Xuanqing again.

• Wang Ping left Wunian, Tiangong, and Di Wen after refusing Wunian’s proposal, while the True Lords remained wary of one another.
• Wang Ping’s attempt to divine the source of a warning from fate yielded nothing, and Li Miaolin delivered Daoist Wu An’s notice that Daoist Yuanzheng had died.
• Wang Ping calculated that Yuan Zheng had failed to advance to the Fourth Realm amid Shangdan Sect’s internal strife, then visited the alchemy chamber where he had perished.
• Wang Ping remembered Yuan Zheng and their former companions, felt grief over their loss, and returned to Nine Profound Mountain to question Quan Xing about the Yuqing True Monarch and the demonic path.
• The spiritual chaos subsided after Di Wen and Tiangong destroyed most Ecological Zones in the Central Province Meteorite Belt, while the Star God Alliance’s internal strife further weakened the Dao Palace.
• After discussing the danger of the Dragon Lord joining forces with the Devil Master, Wang Ping decided to speak with Xuanqing again.

Wang Ping learned that Wunian had launched an invasion of the Demon Star and asked Xuanqing to investigate the Dragon Lord’s intentions. Unable to find a way to break the deadlock, he ordered Li Miaolin, Que Cai, and Miaoging to help defend the Demon Star and offered to exchange their Wood Spirit Origins for five thousand years of lifespan, intending to nurture Zi Luan.

• Wang Ping met Xuanqing and Bai Yan near the sun, where Xuanqing explained the plan to merge Rongyang’s consciousness with Lieyang’s and outlined Rongyang’s recovery timeline.
• Wunian’s army invaded the Demon Star, where Demon Race forces and demonic creatures clashed in a destructive battle whose shockwaves reached the sun.
• Wang Ping asked Xuanqing to learn the Dragon Lord’s intentions, and Xuanqing promised to oppose him if necessary before traveling toward Huoxing.
• Bai Yan said the Dragon Lord’s eldest son had advanced through a risky shortcut and was unlikely to act within a Hundred Years.
• Wang Ping returned to Nine Profound Mountain, summoned Li Miaolin, Que Cai, and Miaoging, and ordered them to help the Demon Star resist the invasion.
• Wang Ping offered each of the three five thousand years of lifespan in exchange for a Wood Spirit Origin, and they all agreed.

Wang Ping gave Zi Luan three Wood Spirit Origins to speed his cultivation and hinted that he could reach the Fifth Realm, leaving Zi Luan ecstatic and newly devoted. After meditating for an unknown time, Wang Ping was awakened by news of Qingjiang and Leng Kezhen fighting near the Taiyan Sect stronghold.

• Wang Ping restored his Wood Spirit, then traveled with Yulian to Zi Luan’s sealed cultivation hall.
• Wang Ping warned Zi Luan about Devil Masters impersonating him and gave him three Wood Spirit Origins to help him reach Fourth Realm completion.
• Zi Luan understood Wang Ping’s words as a promise of a path to the Fifth Realm, celebrated wildly, and swore not to disappoint him.
• Yulian told Wang Ping that Zi Luan’s faith had grown, while Wang Ping ordered her not to let him absorb the Divine Kingdom’s spiritual essence yet.
• Wang Ping meditated on the Wood Spirit rules and waited as war and sect struggles continued beyond Nine Profound Mountain.
• An energy fluctuation from the Taiyan Sect stronghold awakened Wang Ping, who sensed Qingjiang and Leng Kezhen fighting in its Ecological Zone.

Leng Kezhen fought Qingjiang before leaving to sever his emotions and desires in preparation for advancing to the Fourth Realm. Wang Ping received Yuanwu’s intelligence about Outer Realm threats and a secret art for cultivating the Nether Abyss Demonic Source, leaving him aware of the danger and the method he had sought.

• Leng Kezhen and Qingjiang fought with their formations and treasures until both were injured, and Leng Kezhen withdrew without striking again.
• Wang Ping deduced that Leng Kezhen intended to sever his emotions and desires to meet the consciousness requirements for the Fourth Realm.
• Zang Yi assured Wang Ping that the Star God Alliance’s internal troubles were resolved, and Wang Ping ordered the Alliance to relocate to the Jupiter Star Domain and continue spreading Yuanwu’s deeds.
• Wang Ping used a Puppet to read Yuanwu’s report, which warned that at least six Fifth Realm Devil Lords were plotting against the starry sky and that Wang Ping and the Dragon Lord might be targets.
• Yuanwu’s report said Sixth Realm Devil Lords were generally asleep or mad, and included a secret art for cultivating the Nether Abyss Demonic Source.
• Wang Ping memorized the secret art, and his Light Screen Panel displayed its steps, risks, and requirements.

Wang Ping spent the days before Spring Festival enjoying an ordinary evening with Yulian and greeting his disciples and grand-disciples. The gathering ended with Liu Shuang deciding to leave Central Continent Star and settle near Wang Ping, while her dwindling life remained an unspoken concern.

• Wang Ping checked the demonic-source experiments and listened as Yulian described the history and customs of the Demon Race communities.
• Wang Ping and Yulian visited a mortal city, where they enjoyed a storyteller, Five Elements Stones, and sweets while observing the flourishing Human Way civilization.
• Wang Ping and Yulian went fishing at Hu Qianqian's dojo before the Spring Festival arrived.
• Wang Ping's disciples and grand-disciples visited Nine Profound Mountain, where they shared tea, chess, music, and sparring.
• Liu Shuang told Wang Ping she planned to pass Central Continent Star's legacy to Lei'er and settle near him; Wang Ping agreed she could live anywhere on Jupiter.
• After the younger generation withdrew, Wang Ping invited Liu Shuang to play another game of chess.

Wang Ping and Liu Shuang played a dawn-long game of chess, and Liu Shuang declined his offer to restore her cultivation. Later, Xuanqing visited Wang Ping with news about the Dragon Lord and the First Seat conference, while Tiangong and Di Wen went to confront the Dragon Lord and received a warning through Ao Hong.

• Wang Ping guided Liu Shuang through their chess game, and she explained that she preferred her peaceful remaining years to cultivating anew.
• Liu Shuang told Wang Ping that Shen Xiaozhu’s research on flying vessels had gained influence across Central Province, then went to visit Yang Rong with Yulian.
• Xuanqing told Wang Ping that Tiangong and Di Wen would help suppress the Dragon Lord if he cooperated with Wunian, and said Ao Yi would represent Linshui Prefecture once his Fifth Realm advancement stabilized.
• Wang Ping agreed to provide supplies for the war and asked Xuanqing for more demonic sources for their experiments.
• Tiangong and Di Wen visited the Dragon Palace, where Ao Hong relayed the Dragon Lord’s warning that they should not repeat their discourtesy.

Ao Hong learned that the Dragon Lord considered Lieyang’s conflict trivial and expected Changqing to enter Wunian’s game, while Wang Ping carefully advanced his Heaven-Stealing Talisman and cultivated devil-origin energy through a Puppet. Sixty years later, Daoist Zhi Xin told Wang Ping that Daoist Gray had escaped Rebel-controlled space and wanted to seek refuge with him.

• Ao Hong visited the Dragon Lord’s underwater palace, where cultivators were stabilizing Ao Yi’s foundation, and joined their formation.
• The Dragon Lord said he expected to advance within a hundred years, hoped to seek a way beyond the starry sky, and believed Changqing must enter Wunian’s game.
• Over fifteen years, Wang Ping restored Li Miaolin, Que Cai, and Miaoqing’s lifespans, but struggled to resist the addictive influence of stealing Heavenly Dao life force.
• Wang Ping began cultivating Erosion Edge devil-origin energy through a Puppet, stopped when its consciousness showed signs of corruption, and arranged for another Puppet to guard it.
• Xuanqing sent Wang Ping six portions of Nether Abyss devil origin, and Wang Ping continued his cultivation and experiments.
• After the Heaven Stealing Talisman reached 83/100, Zhi Xin told Wang Ping that Daoist Gray had escaped Rebel-controlled space and wished to seek refuge with him.

Daoist Gray met Wang Ping and offered intelligence about Dragon Lord, Wunian, and an outer realm force. Wang Ping accepted his allegiance and asked him to travel to the outer realm as a spy, warning that he might not return for three thousand years.

• Wang Ping learned that Daoist Gray had converted to the Demonic Path but ordered Zhi Xin to bring him in while concealing his aura.
• Zhi Xin led Daoist Gray to Nine Profound Mountain, where Wang Ping dismissed Zhi Xin and heard Gray's offer of news and service.
• Daoist Gray reported that Dragon Lord had promised to delay the rules' descent and was using Wunian to restrain Wang Ping.
• Daoist Gray revealed that an outer realm force had recruited him to monitor Wunian and suggested that Wunian had become a pawn in a scheme against Wang Ping.
• Wang Ping asked Daoist Gray to gather intelligence in the outer realm, warning that he might lose the trust of this starry sky's Cultivators and be unable to return for three thousand years.
• Daoist Gray agreed to go.

Wang Ping decided to forge a starry sky fortress with Star Sea’s help, using the metal sphere as its core and a vessel for Star Sea’s consciousness. He left to begin construction opposite Jupiter, while Xia Weny’s attempt to find an opportunity for advancement failed.

• Wang Ping explained to Yulian that Daoist Gray’s apparent loyalty could help him infiltrate the demonic cultivators and gather intelligence.
• Wang Ping proposed forging a starry sky fortress, and Star Sea agreed to power it and serve him through the fortress as long as Wang Ping’s consciousness remained in the universe.
• Wang Ping decided to enter the Dragon Lord’s game, believing Star Sea’s help would leave him invincible and that the confrontation might benefit his cultivation.
• Xia Weny used the Fortune Array to seek an opportunity for advancement, but the brief surge of Wood Spirit Qi faded and he gave up.
• Wang Ping took Yulian across spacetime to the opposite side of Jupiter orbit to begin preparing a hidden passage and an artificial celestial body for the fortress.

Wang Ping completed a vast celestial fortress and connected it to Star Sea so Star Sea could experience the material universe through it. Their experiment briefly overwhelmed Wang Ping and disrupted his Heaven Stealing Talisman, but he recovered with a new glimpse of the universe’s rules and a subtle shift in his fate.

• Wang Ping established a spacetime passage near Jupiter and used his laws and Puppets to forge a celestial body into a living fortress.
• Wang Ping completed the fortress’s core formation and placed Star Sea’s naturally born metal sphere at its center to connect Star Sea to the artifact.
• Star Sea’s consciousness flooded into the fortress, causing its energy and form to fluctuate before Star Sea adapted and detached from the core.
• Wang Ping used the Heaven Stealing Talisman to define Star Sea’s consciousness, but the immense feedback sent its fusion progress from 392/100 to 0/100 before it recovered to 83/100.
• Wang Ping glimpsed a universe and its chaotic web of rules, then returned to awareness as Yulian checked on him and he sensed his fate had shifted.

Wang Ping refined the Fortress Star into his Wood Spirit World and set up a formation to stabilize Star Sea’s consciousness. After another surge of energy raised his Heaven Stealing Talisman progress, he fell into a deep slumber as the formation began channeling the universe’s feedback into his Huai Tree form.

• Wang Ping sensed his cultivation progress rise to 85/100 and told Yulian he needed to sleep.
• Wang Ping expanded his Wood Spirit World and refined the Fortress Star, making it part of the world while retaining the ability to summon it.
• Wang Ping concealed the fortress region, installed the metal sphere in its core, and arranged a formation to stabilize Star Sea’s consciousness.
• Wang Ping sent a clone to Nine Profound Mountain, transformed into his Huai Tree true form, and used a Heaven Stealing Talisman to affect Star Sea.
• Wang Ping fell asleep as the formation absorbed the universe’s feedback and channeled it into his Huai Tree, while Yulian guarded him.

Yulian oversaw events across the Taiyan Sect and the Demon Race before returning to Wang Ping’s side, and ten years later she intervened as Yang Rong underwent a dangerous breakthrough while Xia Weny advanced to the Fourth Realm. The chapter ended with Liu Shuang’s consciousness awakening during Yang Rong’s tribulation.

• Yulian sensed Zi Luan reach the consummation of the Fourth Realm and watched the Taiyan Sect celebrate his breakthrough.
• Yulian visited Return City, where Quan Xing welcomed her and agreed to build a temple for Wang Ping.
• Yulian returned with Hu Qianqian to Nine Profound Mountain, checked on Liu Shuang, and then went back to Wang Ping’s side.
• Ten years later, Yulian sensed Xia Weny advancing to the Fourth Realm while Yuanyuan shared his trial as his Spirit Pet.
• Yulian hurried to Yang Rong’s secluded cultivation site after Yang Rong condensed a Wood Spirit core and faced heavenly tribulation.
• Yang Rong used the Slowing Art and Gold cultivator Puppets to suppress the first tribulation, but Liu Shuang’s consciousness awakened as the second began.

Yang Rong survived her three tribulations and advanced to the Fourth Realm, while Xia Weny’s advancement also appeared safe, but Liu Shuang’s Primordial Spirit continued to deteriorate. Decades later, Zi Luan received permission to use stolen incomplete Taiyan secret-method scrolls as bait to recruit heterodox cultivators and purge the Taiyan Sect’s rivals, setting conflicts in motion that would eventually lead to the Demon Star’s fall.

• Yulian helped Liu Shuang regain control of her Primordial Spirit as Yang Rong resisted poison vines and temporal backlash, then received the Wood Spirit’s blessing and successfully advanced.
• Yulian confirmed that Xia Weny’s advancement was proceeding safely, then reported to the sleeping Wang Ping that Liu Shuang had at most three hundred years left and that Shen Xiaozhu’s Primordial Spirit was healthy.
• After sixty years passed without Wang Ping awakening, Yulian found Zi Luan seeking permission to pursue those holding incomplete scrolls of the Taiyan Fourth Realm secret method and recruit heterodox cultivators.
• Wang Ping’s avatar authorized Zi Luan’s plan, and Zi Luan dispatched ten Taiyan flagships while spreading pursuit orders and recruitment notices throughout the heterodox sects.
• Heterodox Third Realm cultivators began joining Taiyan’s campaign in exchange for secret-method guidance, and conflicts across the starry sky grew more frequent.

Zi Luan’s drive to consolidate Taiyan Sect weakened the front-line defenses, allowing the Devil Master to take Demon Star before the True Lords responded. Xuanqing and Tiangong then agreed to reinforce the front, while Wang Ping remained in secluded cultivation and Dragon Lord stayed silent.

• Zi Luan saw Taiyan Sect’s influence grow as its internal consolidation left the front increasingly vulnerable to sabotage and attack.
• The Devil Master’s forces exploited infiltrators and collapsed Demon Star’s defenses, taking the star after the defenders’ pleas for help went unanswered.
• Zi Luan sought a True Lord’s decree, while Xuanqing arrived and learned from Yulian that Wang Ping was in secluded cultivation.
• Xuanqing told Tiangong that Wang Ping could not be drawn into the crisis, and Tiangong agreed to send Wangqing to Daluo Star and defend against the Devil Master.
• Xuanqing and Tiangong’s decision prompted Mystic Sect and Heaven Sect forces to set aside internal conflict and prepare defenses around Daluo Star.
• Dragon Lord remained silent in Mercury as Wang Ping slept beneath the stars, listening to Yulian’s storybooks.

Over the decades Wang Ping remained asleep, war technology transformed the Daluo Star front and runic knowledge began reshaping mortal society. Ao Yi emerged as a Fifth Realm cultivator to take charge of Linshui Prefecture, while Star Sea told Yulian that Wang Ping would awaken within three hundred years and showed her a growing network linked to the lives of the starry expanse.

• The Mystic Sect, Heaven Sect, Demon Race, and other factions developed specialized war institutions and weapons as Daluo Star became a vast military fortress.
• Shen Xiaozhu's collected technical knowledge spread through the sects, and simplified runes and formations began changing mortal production, transport, medicine, and daily life.
• Yulian gathered Hu Qianqian, Liu Shuang, Shen Xiaozhu, and the Sanhua cat to plan a food-and-adventure story, but its first volume failed with readers.
• Ao Yi emerged above Mercury after advancing to the Fifth Realm and told Master Tiangong that he would handle Linshui Prefecture's affairs while the Dragon Lord continued cultivating.
• Star Sea told Yulian that Wang Ping would awaken within three hundred years and revealed an expanding emerald network in the Wood Spirit World connected to living beings' karmic lives.

Yulian learned that Wang Ping’s consciousness was merging with the Wood Spirit rules, and Star Sea warned her to help him preserve his humanity. Years later, Yang Rong emerged from seclusion and reunited with Liu Shuang, just as Leng’s failed advancement sent the Taiyan Sect into crisis.

• Star Sea explained to Yulian that Wang Ping’s consciousness had attached to the rule network and entered a cold, divine state, and he urged her to protect Wang Ping’s humanity.
• Yulian sensed Wang Ping’s unconscious Wood Spirit Qi slowly repairing Liu Shuang’s Primordial Spirit while Liu Shuang waited for Yang Rong to emerge and hoped to see her Master again.
• Xia Weny visited Liu Shuang after his advancement to the Fourth Realm, and she told him that she hoped Yang Rong would succeed and Wang Ping would awaken.
• Yang Rong emerged from seclusion, confirmed that she had stabilized her Fourth Realm cultivation, and reunited with Liu Shuang as Yulian and Hu Qianqian arrived.
• Yulian and Hu Qianqian recognized Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit Qi protecting Liu Shuang, then detected Leng’s berserk aura after his advancement failed and watched the Taiyan Sect’s monitoring formation activate.