Chapter Summaries

Daoist Tongyu and the others contained the disasters caused by Leng Kezhen’s failed breakthrough, while Quan Xing stopped other Artifact Cultivators from going berserk. Three years later, Rongyang broke free from his confinement on Mars, but Bai Yan warned that he remained polluted and must avoid wielding great power.

• Daoist Tongyu destroyed the monstrous energy formed by Leng Kezhen’s failed breakthrough, and Qingjiang recovered the bronze hilt of Leng Kezhen’s saber from the ruins.
• Quan Xing extinguished several Artifact Cultivators’ chaotic auras with Spirituality Heavenly Tribulations, and Zi Luan ordered new breakthrough rules and assessments for Artifact Cultivators.
• Yulian predicted that Rongyang’s consciousness would soon awaken while Wang Ping remained asleep.
• Rongyang’s Golden Crow body escaped its confinement on Mars, but True Monarch Bai Yan subdued him and explained that he needed to cleanse the pollution within him.
• Bai Yan instructed Rongyang to stabilize the starry sky’s True Yang spiritual energy, avoid the struggles among the True Lords, and listen at the First Seat conference.

After a century of relative stability, the Dragon Lord emerged from secluded cultivation on Mercury with unprecedented mastery over the Water Spirit rules and tested three formidable techniques. His breakthrough shifted the balance of power across the starry sky, and Yulian decided to awaken Wang Ping early despite the cost to his future cultivation.

• The Dragon Lord emerged from the Mystic Ice Palace transformed and forged the Sea Calming Pearl, an artifact connected to the Water Spirit rules.
• The Dragon Lord tested the Ice Silence Technique and Mirror Flower Water Moon Technique, demonstrating their power to destroy distant targets and trap hostile beings in an erasing illusory domain.
• The Dragon Lord used the Myriad Streams Return to Origin Technique to draw Water Spirit Qi toward Mercury and influence the cosmic circulation of spiritual energy.
• True Lords and Fifth Realm cultivators across the starry sky sensed the Dragon Lord's breakthrough, while Daoist Xuanqing realized it had shattered the Mystic Sect's balance.
• Yulian consulted Star Sea about awakening Wang Ping before his cultivation was complete, then decided to wake him rather than risk losing the present.

Wang Ping awakened after Yulian warned him of the Dragon Lord’s breakthrough and used the Heaven Stealing Talisman’s fourth-stage power to perceive and strike the Five Elements rule network. After declaring his presence to the True Lords, he returned to Nine Profound Mountain and summoned Quan Xing and other cultivators to Jupiter.

• Yulian entered Wang Ping’s Spirit Sea, woke him, and told him about the Star Sea upheaval caused by the Dragon Lord’s breakthrough.
• Wang Ping emerged from seclusion, learned what had happened during his sleep, and raised the Heaven Stealing Talisman’s fusion with his Primordial Spirit to 96/100.
• Wang Ping perceived the true Five Elements rules, borrowed Yulian’s perception of Water Spirit Qi to cast an Ice Spike formation, and identified the origins associated with the True Lords.
• Wang Ping struck the Water Spirit rule network with his will, shaking the True Lords across the Star Sea and demonstrating that he could touch the rules’ essence.
• Wang Ping returned with Yulian to Nine Profound Mountain and told her he had simply reminded the others that he was still present.
• Wang Ping summoned Quan Xing to Jupiter, while Niu Pan, Zang Yi, Yue Xi, Zhi Xin, Daoist Pei, Daoist Gray, Zi Luan, and other cultivators headed toward Jupiter or saluted in its direction.

Wang Ping neutralized the Dragon Lord’s attempt to influence Jupiter through the Water Spirit rules, then gathered the starry sky’s powerful cultivators to prepare for the outer realm. He announced that he intended to lead them beyond the starry sky, restore order in the Great Universe, and clear Yaoxi’s name, while warning them to prepare for the Dragon Lord’s plans.

• The Dragon Lord sent a force of Water Spirit rules from Mercury toward Wang Ping, but Wang Ping dissolved its influence, and the Dragon Lord’s will retreated after their clash lasted around ten breaths.
• Wang Ping had two Puppets bring Quan Xing and the other Fifth Realm cultivators to Nine Profound Mountain, where they and the arriving Fourth Realm cultivators paid their respects.
• Wang Ping told the gathered cultivators that the starry sky faced danger from outer realm lifeforms, and Daoist Gray described their threat and the Dragon Lord’s connections to them.
• Wang Ping declared that he would lead the cultivators beyond the starry sky and restore civilization in the Great Universe; the assembled powers pledged to follow him.
• Wang Ping ordered Quan Xing to correct the people’s misunderstandings about Yaoxi and reveal the truth about the Dragon Lord’s past betrayal, then urged everyone to prepare for the Dragon Lord’s next move.

Wang Ping gave Liu Shuang a talisman to suppress the dangerous consciousness in her spirit veins, then accepted Bai Yan’s offer to spar and reveal the extent of his strength. Their battle ended with Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit World resisting Bai Yan’s hidden Taiyin corrosion, leaving both cultivators’ abilities tested but neither declaring a victor.

• Wang Ping gave Yulian a talisman that could suppress the consciousness in Liu Shuang’s spirit veins and preserve her lifespan for a thousand years.
• Bai Yan warned Wang Ping about Dragon Lord and gave him a Command Flag containing the remnant consciousness of Dragon Lord’s first Dao companion, Suxin, as a possible means of distracting Dragon Lord.
• Wang Ping and Bai Yan transported themselves to a secured starry sky to spar, where Bai Yan tested Wang Ping with Taiyin techniques and his Life Devouring Ring.
• Wang Ping dissolved Bai Yan’s Formless Fire with Wood Spirit Qi and used an Imprisonment Talisman to hinder Bai Yan’s movement and control of his spells.
• Bai Yan broke through the confinement, but Wang Ping drew him into the Wood Spirit World, where its rules suppressed Bai Yan’s Taiyin powers and weakened his attacks.
• Bai Yan activated concealed Taiyin runes beyond the Wood Spirit World to corrode it, but Wang Ping’s world absorbed and dispersed the corrosion, after which Bai Yan withdrew the runes.

After Bai Yan visited Wang Ping on Nine Profound Mountain, they discussed the Dragon Lord, Wunian, and the starry sky’s future before Wang Ping chose to prepare to suppress Wunian. Wang Ping then examined a Puppet cultivating demonic source and witnessed order and destruction reach balance, just as a streak of multicolored immortal qi arrived at Jupiter orbit.

• Wang Ping and Bai Yan shared a quiet game of chess and discussed the Great Universe, Wunian, and the Dragon Lord’s plans.
• Wang Ping decided to suppress Wunian and let the Dragon Lord make the first move, while Bai Yan said Xuanqing could act as an envoy between them.
• Yulian gave Liu Shuang a suppression talisman, and Wang Ping encouraged Yang Rong to establish her own sect gate.
• Wang Ping sent his disciples away as the atmosphere shifted, then inspected an experimental Puppet that had entered the realm through demonic source.
• Wang Ping observed spiritual energy and demonic qi forming a dynamically stable balance, and Yulian suggested order and destruction might coexist.
• A streak of multicolored immortal qi flashed across Jupiter orbit, and Wang Ping recognized that someone had arrived.

Wang Ping agreed to meet the Dragon Lord at a First Seat conference in one month, then sent Daoist Gray and several puppets beyond the Starry Sky Barrier to explore the lands beyond the realm. Through the Mirror Formation, Wang Ping observed the chaotic region and repelled a hostile consciousness that tried to invade his Primordial Spirit.

• Xuanqing told Wang Ping that the Dragon Lord wanted to reconvene a First Seat conference, and Wang Ping agreed to meet him in one month.
• Wang Ping summoned Daoist Gray from the Star God Alliance’s Ecological Zone and reminded him of his promise to travel beyond the realm.
• Wang Ping opened a temporary passage through the Starry Sky Barrier and sent Daoist Gray and several puppets into the chaotic lands beyond it.
• Wang Ping used his connection to the puppets to observe the darkness and chaotic demonic energy beyond the Barrier before the connection briefly vanished.
• Wang Ping restored the puppets in the Ecological Zone and used the Mirror Formation to reconnect with those beyond the realm.
• A hostile chaotic consciousness invaded Wang Ping’s Primordial Spirit, but Wang Ping filtered and erased it while Yulian watched over him.

Wang Ping attended the First Seat conference alongside the Dragon Lord, where they clashed over how to confront the outer realm Demonic Cultivators and whether Wang Ping should surrender part of his cultivation. Xuanqing mediated a joint campaign against the demons, and the conference ended with the Dragon Lord accepting Wang Ping as his equal.

• The Star Sea’s factions prepared for conflict as the Dragon Lord and Wang Ping’s confrontation approached, while the First Seat conference convened in Nine Profound Mountain’s Lower Court.
• The Dragon Lord and Wang Ping arrived at the conference and argued over whether to use the Star Sea rules or their own power to eliminate the outer realm Demonic Cultivators.
• The Dragon Lord demanded that Wang Ping relinquish part of his cultivation, and Wang Ping denounced the demand as coercive and a threat to the Star Sea’s people.
• Xuanqing proposed that the Dragon Lord and Wang Ping jointly send forces against the Demonic Cultivators and personally suppress Wunian to avoid letting him profit from their conflict.
• The Dragon Lord agreed and departed, while the other attendees recognized that Wang Ping had risen to stand on equal footing with him.

The Dragon Lord and his allies recognized Wang Ping’s rapid growth as a threat and ruled out harming his Disciples, choosing to rely on open schemes instead. They prepared to attack Demon Star in three days while the Dragon Lord secretly readied a mirror for his eventual battle with Wang Ping.

• The Dragon Lord warned that Wang Ping’s talent and rapid cultivation made him a danger, and ordered the attack on Wunian to proceed swiftly.
• Bai Xin proposed sabotaging Wang Ping’s Disciples, but Tiangong and Di Wen warned that provoking Wang Ping could bring devastating retaliation, and the Dragon Lord forbade the plan.
• The Dragon Lord ordered the forces to reclaim Demon Star in three days and assigned Tiangong and Di Wen to command the attack.
• The Dragon Lord asked Zhu Wu and Bai Xin to visit his Dragon Palace to advance toward the Fifth Realm, then told them to join him in an opportunity to eliminate Changqing during the final battle with Wunian.
• The Dragon Lord used an ancient bronze mirror to study the laws governing the starry sky and prepare for Wang Ping’s spells.
• Tiangong and Di Wen mobilized their allies, while other sects and alliances gathered Cultivators and flying vessels for the coming upheaval.

The allied forces launched their assault on the Demon Star after receiving blessings from the Dragon Lord and another ancient power, with True Monarch Diwen leading the western advance. As the battle grew deadlier and the demonic army drew the alliance deeper into its defenses, a devastating Vajra Temple strike opened a vast breach, prompting Taiyan Sect leaders to consider slowing their advance to reduce casualties.

• True Monarch Diwen brought the Earth Cave Sect fleet to Daluo Star, where the allied sects and demon armies assembled beneath a blessing and cleansing from two powerful wills.
• Tiangong, Bai Yan, and Quan Xing assigned the allied forces their attack routes, and Diwen led the Earth Cave Sect toward the western flank.
• The alliance attacked the Demon Star, but the demonic forces retreated behind their fortifications as Diwen broke through the western defenses and sensed the army was being drawn deeper into the battlefield.
• Ke Yue fought in her Golden Crow form with reckless force while Luo Feng protected her and aided endangered Taiyan Sect cultivators amid heavy casualties.
• A golden strike from Vajra Temple split the demonic defenses and opened a vast breach, after which Daoist Miaoging chose to slow Taiyan Sect's advance to limit losses.

The Alliance breached Demon Star after Sun Shulin ascended to the Fourth Realm through slaughter and went berserk, creating chaos among both allies and demonic cultivators. With Demon Star reclaimed, Zi Luan reported the victory to Wang Ping, who left Sun Shulin’s fate to him.

• After years of fighting, the Alliance fleet reached Demon Star’s defenses and prepared to break through.
• Sun Shulin of Nine Tripod Sect ascended to the Fourth Realm but lost control and attacked Star God Alliance cultivators until Li Miaolin and Que Cai trapped him.
• Li Miaolin and Que Cai transferred Sun Shulin into the demonic cultivators’ camp, where his indiscriminate attacks shattered defenses and eased the allied army’s advance.
• The Alliance forces stormed Demon Star as Tiangong, Di Wen, Xuanqing, Bai Yan, and others restrained the Fifth Realm Demonic Beasts, and the demonic cultivators’ resistance collapsed.
• Taiyan Sect sealed Sun Shulin while the other sects showed interest in him, and Zi Luan traveled to Jupiter to report the victory to Wang Ping.
• Wang Ping recalled Sun Shulin’s earlier promise and told Zi Luan to handle the matter as he saw fit.

Wang Ping invested two of five Primordial Spirits as Divine Generals, then chose to let Xiao Shan awaken naturally and advised Yulian to allow differences among the Divine Kingdom's believers. He and Yulian visited a thriving Ecological Zone and a secret Academy of Natural Philosophy, where students explored rune technology through modern knowledge.

• Wang Ping invested five Primordial Spirits, but three failed the process and only two became Divine Generals.
• Wang Ping decided not to invest Xiao Shan, and Yulian told him that believers had divided into factions over faith, Divine Arts, and power.
• Wang Ping told Yulian to accept disagreement and reduce control over believers, trusting that faith would develop naturally.
• Wang Ping and Yulian visited a prosperous Ecological Zone, where they observed rune-powered streets, shops, and everyday life.
• Wang Ping and Yulian entered a secret Academy of Natural Philosophy, where students studied ways to combine modern knowledge with rune energy.

After the Outer Realm Star was reclaimed, Wang Ping slowed the allied advance to limit casualties, prompting Dragon Lord to escalate the war into a brutal battle of attrition. As Zhi Gong and Daoist Yunsong struggled to hold their line against Wunian’s Demonic Beasts, Wunian contacted Zhi Xin with a message for Wang Ping, while Dragon Lord’s consciousness entered the Demonic Qi world.

• The allied Ecological Zones celebrated the reclamation of the Outer Realm Star, while Wang Ping recognized that Wunian and the starry sky’s powerful figures were pursuing deeper calculations.
• Wang Ping decided to slow the offensive because of mounting casualties and conveyed his intentions to Bai Yan, Quan Xing, and Zang Yi.
• Dragon Lord noticed the Taiyan Sect’s reduced advance and ordered Tiangong and Di Wen to accelerate the offensive, turning the war into a brutal clash.
• Twisted Demonic Beasts attacked Zhi Gong and Daoist Yunsong’s battle line, injuring Daoist Yunsong and tearing apart a Vajra Temple starship.
• Daoist Yunsong revealed his Mystic Tortoise Dharma Body, and he and Zhi Gong used their full strength to stabilize the collapsing line.
• Wunian contacted Zhi Xin to deliver a message to Wang Ping, while Dragon Lord’s consciousness descended into the Demonic Qi world.

Wang Ping learned that Dragon Lord planned to use Wunian to draw him into a final confrontation, while Wunian secretly reported Dragon Lord’s scheme to him. After discussing restraint and human nature with Star Sea, Wang Ping moved the concealed Wood Spirit World near the front line.

• Zhi Xin told Wang Ping that Dragon Lord intended to join forces with Wunian against him, and Wang Ping suspected Wunian was trying to turn them against each other.
• Dragon Lord offered Wunian safe passage in exchange for drawing Wang Ping’s attention so Dragon Lord could strike, and Wunian agreed while secretly sending Dragon Lord’s plan to Zhi Xin.
• Wang Ping received Wunian’s message and laughed at the competing schemes between Dragon Lord and Wunian.
• Wang Ping met Star Sea and explained that personal principles could serve as an anchor against desire and reckless action.
• Star Sea accepted Wang Ping’s principles as a guide for restraining his new human consciousness, and Wang Ping moved the hidden Wood Spirit World near the front line.

Xia Weny and the Taiyan Sect fleet faced a Fifth Realm Demonic Beast assault as Quan Xing, Niu Pan, Zang Yi, and their allies fought to hold the line while the fleets retreated. As Wunian emerged from the Demonic Qi, Wang Ping decided to strike first and focused his full power on Wunian.

• Xia Weny ordered reinforcements and energy reserves deployed, then detected three Fifth Realm Demonic Beasts charging the Taiyan Sect front line.
• Quan Xing and Niu Pan engaged two of the beasts while Zang Yi, Yue Xi, Zhi Xin, and Daoist Pei restrained the third; Xia Weny and other cultivators led the Taiyan Sect retreat.
• The Vajra Temple, Earth Cave Sect, and Demon Race forces fled the battlefield, while Bai Yan helped stabilize the Taiyan Sect's retreat route.
• Three more Demonic Beasts attacked, and True Monarch Diwen used the Samsara Seal to suppress them.
• Wang Ping searched for Dragon Lord while Yulian warned that Dragon Lord was trying to provoke him; Xuanqing remained neutral at the Outer Realm Star's outskirts.
• Wunian emerged from the Demonic Qi, and Wang Ping chose to strike first, directing his full power at Wunian's consciousness.

Wang Ping destroyed Wunian repeatedly by manipulating the rules, then faced Dragon Lord’s ambush while attempting to seal Wunian’s Primordial Spirit. He used the fortress artifact’s seemingly limitless energy to withstand Dragon Lord’s Water Spirit suppression and flood the starry sky with regenerating giant swords.

• Wang Ping disrupted Wunian’s connection to the Destruction Rule and erased his body, repeatedly destroying him whenever the Demonic Qi world tried to reconstruct him.
• Bai Yan, Di Wen, Tiangong, and other Fifth Realm cultivators witnessed Wang Ping’s overwhelming power, and Tiangong’s bronze treasure mirror cracked.
• Wang Ping sealed the starry sky and captured Wunian’s Primordial Spirit, but Dragon Lord attacked with a Water Spirit claw and the Mirror Flower Water Moon technique.
• Dragon Lord’s Water Spirit rules suppressed Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit World until Wang Ping drew on the fortress artifact to stabilize it and form a giant sword from universal source energy.
• Dragon Lord purified Wang Ping’s giant sword, but the fortress artifact restored it; Wang Ping then created more swords, multiplying them until hundreds or thousands filled the starry sky.
• Dragon Lord watched his Water Spirit energy being spent against Wang Ping’s continually regenerating swords and felt an ominous disturbance.

Wang Ping broke through Dragon Lord’s suppression with energy supplied by the Fortress Artifact, then sealed Wunian and faced Dragon Lord as their forces gathered. Dragon Lord demanded that Wang Ping leave the Star Sea, but Wang Ping refused, and their opposing auras erupted into a clash.

• Dragon Lord’s Water Spirit power disrupted the Star Sea’s rules, causing disasters across inhabited worlds and suppressing the Cultivators’ powers.
• Wang Ping used the Fortress Artifact’s accumulated energy to crack Dragon Lord’s domain and restore his Wood Spirit World.
• Wang Ping bombarded Dragon Lord with energy beams to buy time, then stabilized Star Sea’s Human Consciousness and sealed Wunian’s Primordial Spirit in a pearl.
• Bai Yan, Quan Xing, Niu Pan, Zang Yi, Yue Xi, Zhi Xin, and Daoist Pei joined Wang Ping as Dragon Lord’s allies gathered around him.
• Dragon Lord offered to let Wang Ping leave the Star Sea, but Wang Ping refused because it was his home and Dao Lineage’s root.
• Dragon Lord declared that Wang Ping would stay, and their vast auras collided.

Wang Ping fought the Dragon Lord while the other True Monarchs kept their allies from interfering, but the Dragon Lord drew Water Spirit Qi from the entire stellar system to overwhelm him. Wang Ping used the Heaven Stealing Talisman to graft Suxin’s madness onto the Dragon Lord, escaped to Jupiter orbit, and entered meditation as the Dragon Lord’s rampage devastated the system.

• Bai Yan and the other True Monarchs paired off against their opponents, clearing the central starfield for Wang Ping and the Dragon Lord to fight.
• The Dragon Lord overlaid Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit World with Water Spirit rules and then gathered most of the stellar system’s Water Spirit Qi into a freezing attack that threatened its planets and inhabitants.
• Wang Ping endured the ice seal while using the Heaven Stealing Talisman to find the rule pathway leading to the Dragon Lord’s consciousness.
• Wang Ping sent the Command Flag’s Suxin consciousness through that pathway, disrupting the Dragon Lord’s control and breaking the ice seal.
• The Dragon Lord went mad and unleashed a destructive Water Spirit storm, while Wang Ping suffered karmic backlash, fled to Jupiter orbit with Yulian, and entered meditation.
• The Dragon Lord eventually suppressed his madness but suffered damage to his Human Consciousness and also needed secluded cultivation.

After the Dragon Lord and Wang Ping’s battle temporarily ended, Shen Xiaozhu and the Taiyan Sect’s allies assessed the devastation across the star system and worked to stabilize their territory. Tiangong submitted himself to the Dragon Lord’s protection on Mercury, where the Dragon Lord secluded himself behind a barrier that isolated the planet.

• Shen Xiaozhu used her Puppets to survey the frozen, ruined continents, then told Yun Liang to gather fasting pills while she prepared to visit Jupiter.
• Hu Qianqian arrived at Thousand Wood Temple and told Shen Xiaozhu that the front-line battle had paused and that they needed to preserve the Ecological Zones’ rune technology.
• The True Lords withdrew from the devastated battlefield, while Li Miaolin received word that fighting had temporarily stopped and the Taiyan Sect’s leaders began arranging their return to Jupiter.
• Tiangong admitted to Wangqing that taking Yaoxi’s authority had been driven by selfish desire, then left for Mercury; Wangqing told Kai Yun that only the Dragon Lord and Changqing could now issue decrees in the starry sky.
• Tiangong settled on an island near the Dragon Lord’s Mystic Ice Palace, while the Dragon Lord meditated to contain his madness and activated seventy-two Mystic Ice pedestals that isolated Mercury from the starry sky.

After a century of slumber, Wang Ping awakened and completed his cultivation of the Heaven Stealing Talisman, gaining greatly increased control over Wood Spirit energy and the Five Elements rules. He uncovered Wunian’s origins as a consciousness born from a Mo Source and concluded that the Taiyin Sect might be able to turn Wunian’s sealed Primordial Spirit into a Puppet.

• Wang Ping awoke after a century of digesting the Heavenly Way’s feedback from using the Heaven Stealing Talisman against Dragon Lord.
• Wang Ping, Yulian, and Star Sea discussed whether Yaoxi or Yuxiao had locked in the fate of Wang Ping’s battle with Dragon Lord.
• Wang Ping completed his Heaven Stealing Talisman cultivation and gained near-instant perception and control over Wood Spirit energy throughout the starry sky.
• Wang Ping used his Heavenly Eye to examine Wunian’s Primordial Spirit and discovered that Wunian had originated as a consciousness born from a Bewitching Heart Mo Source in the Outer Realm.
• Wang Ping explained to Yulian and Star Sea that Wunian had recruited and converted consciousnesses from their starry sky, then decided the Taiyin Sect might be able to turn Wunian’s Primordial Spirit into a Puppet.