Chapter Summaries

After returning to Nine Profound Mountain, Wang Ping learned about the Outer Realm from Yulian and extended his consciousness beyond the Starry Sky Barrier. He discovered that the Outer Realm was ruled by complex forces and brutal cultivation systems, while a mysterious black figure began watching his starry sky.

• Wang Ping read his disciples’ messages and observed their gatherings without interrupting them.
• Yulian told Wang Ping that twelve forces surrounded their starry sky, including three seeking to seize it, and that Wunian had cooperated with the force called Nine.
• Wang Ping concluded that they would need to deal with the remaining fifteen Fifth Realm Demonic Cultivators before leaving the starry sky.
• Wang Ping followed the Wood Spirit Rule through the Starry Sky Barrier and used his consciousness to inspect a Puppet in the Outer Realm, where he spotted a fortress drawing on the power of Order Rules and sensed a Fifth Realm presence.
• Wang Ping explored another Puppet’s surroundings and saw countless Demonic Cultivators forced through a relentless cultivation process in a vast hatchery.
• A black figure gathered beneath the pitch-black sky as a pair of scarlet eyes watched Wang Ping’s starry sky.

Wang Ping met Daoist Nine, an Outer Realm Devil Master, and rejected his proposal to maintain a balance by restraining the starry sky’s Cultivators. He then resonated with the Wood Spirit rules across the universe, drawing the Dragon Lord’s attention.

• Wang Ping faced Daoist Nine, who identified him as Changqing of the Taiyan Sect and explained that he cultivated the Light Erosion devil source.
• Daoist Nine offered to cooperate, proposing that Wang Ping restrain the starry sky’s Cultivators while the alliance suppressed destructive Outer Realm Devils.
• Wang Ping refused, saying he would not restrain other Cultivators and that his path was to advance rather than merely delay annihilation.
• After Daoist Nine withdrew, Wang Ping rested at Nine Profound Mountain with Yulian and the Sanhua cat, then decided to disturb the Dragon Lord in return for the earlier interruption to his cultivation.
• Wang Ping resonated with the Wood Spirit rules, sending a wave across the starry sky that reached the Dragon Lord on Mercury.
• The Dragon Lord opened his eyes, transformed into human form, and began rapidly calculating in response to the wave.

Wang Ping confronted the Dragon Lord and Tiangong after tearing open Mercury’s orbital barrier, overpowering the Dragon Lord’s weakened defenses but stopping short of a decisive battle. He refused the Dragon Lord’s proposal to join forces at the Holy Palace for now, then created a formation to monitor disturbances across the star region.

• Tiangong admitted he had lost his fighting spirit, and the Dragon Lord urged him to recover it before Wang Ping’s Wood Spirit Qi tore open Mercury’s orbital barrier.
• The Dragon Lord used his extreme-cold domain to resist Wang Ping’s emerald vines, but contamination in his consciousness left an opening that Wang Ping exploited with a spear of Wood Spirit Qi.
• The Dragon Lord’s Divine Kingdom Palace shattered Wang Ping’s spear, and Wang Ping repelled Ao Yi before the Dragon Lord proposed they cooperate to open the passage to the Holy Palace.
• Wang Ping rejected the proposal until the Dragon Lord could stabilize himself, pierced his ice shield with a Wood Spirit attack, and departed without pressing the fight.
• Wang Ping told Yulian he feared the Dragon Lord might flee the starry sky, then formed a vast array that would detect powerful energy disturbances, including the Dragon Lord’s aura.

After defeating Dragon Lord again, Wang Ping emerged from seclusion and announced that he would establish the Heavenly Court to unite the starry sky against the Outer Realm Devil Lords. The gathered cultivators began accepting his authority, with Quan Xing volunteering to serve as his vanguard.

• True Monarch Xuanqing, True Monarch Diwen, Master Wangqing, and the other True Lords sensed the clash on Mercury and considered its consequences.
• On Daluo Star, Bai Xin and Hou Ji set out to seek Diwen, while Zhu Wu decided to go to Mercury and asked Wang Xian to contact Niu Pan.
• Rongyang chose to avoid the conflict, while Bai Yan traveled from Supreme Yin Star to Jupiter after concluding that Dragon Lord's era had ended.
• Bai Yan arrived at Nine Profound Mountain, where Wang Ping welcomed him before the gathered Taiyan Sect cultivators, Demon Race True Lords, and Star God Alliance members.
• Wang Ping announced his plan to establish the Heavenly Court, appoint himself Emperor Lord, and unite the cultivators against the Outer Realm Devil Lords.
• Quan Xing praised Wang Ping's decision and pledged to serve as his vanguard.

Wang Ping established the Heavenly Court’s hierarchy and laws, then awakened Xiao Shan so he could serve as Taiyan True Lord. Xiao Shan learned what had happened during his long sleep and hurried to visit the Taiyan Sect.

• Wang Ping appointed Bai Yan and Quan Xing as True Lords, assigned the Star God Alliance to the Patrolling Sky Department, and ordered Zi Luan and the others to build the Heavenly Palace.
• Wang Ping sent several disciples to assist with Taiyan Sect affairs and shared a quiet farewell with Liu Shuang before she left.
• Wang Ping used the Wood Spirit rules and the Heaven Stealing Talisman to awaken Xiao Shan, sacrificing the chance for him to gain power by fully fusing with Hui Shan’s memories.
• Xiao Shan awoke at the beginning of the Fifth Realm, received Wang Ping’s account of the past two thousand years, and agreed to support the Heavenly Court as Taiyan True Lord.
• Xiao Shan hurried to the Taiyan Sect to see Zi Luan.

Xiao Shan returned as a Fifth Realm True Lord and assigned Zi Luan a role in establishing the Taiyan prefectures, while Wang Ping prepared his own Heavenly Court and expanded his information network. The chapter ended with Wang Ping naming its central hall the Taichu Treasure Hall and declaring his confidence in the Saint’s blessing.

• Xiao Shan appeared before Zi Luan, learned that Xiu Yu had withdrawn from cultivation, and tasked Zi Luan with helping establish the Taiyan prefectures and selecting worthy leaders.
• Xiao Shan departed, and a Fifth Realm aura rose over the Taiyan Sect stronghold, drawing the attention of Fourth Realm cultivators and other True Monarchs.
• Wang Ping designated the region around Nine Profound Mountain as Yulian’s territory and stored the Dao Palace’s collected records in the Wood Spirit World.
• Wang Ping dispatched Ke Yue to Huoxing and spent half a month arranging Puppets across the starry sky to build an information network.
• Wang Ping discussed the Misty Sea, the Black Stone Stele, and Yulian’s slow progress toward the Fifth Realm.
• Wang Ping brought Yulian to the completed Heavenly Palace and inscribed Taichu Treasure Hall on the central hall’s plaque.

Wang Ping established the Heavenly Court in the Taichu Treasure Hall, appointed its first officials, and summoned the Star God Alliance’s True Lords. The Star Sea’s Heavenly Way recognized him as its ruler, perfecting his Divine Art and anchoring his consciousness across the Star Sea.

• Wang Ping opened the Taichu Treasure Hall, declared himself Lord of the Heavenly Court, and used Bing Talismans to summon Golden Armored Soldiers throughout the palace.
• Wang Ping refined the Heavenly Palace through the Wood Spirit rules, while Zi Luan presented plans for its departments and received credit for his work.
• Wang Ping appointed Zang Yi, Yue Xi, Zhi Xin, and Daoist Pei to lead the Patrolling Sky Department, Hall of Ten Thousand Laws, Merit and Reward Department, and Bureau of Creation.
• Wang Ping summoned the eight assembled True Lords and received their salutations as the Heavenly Court began its rule.
• The Heavenly Way empowered Wang Ping, bringing his Divine Art cultivation to perfection and granting him the authority to confer divine offices and an enduring anchor for his consciousness.

Wang Ping gathered the True Lords to establish the Heavenly Court’s authority, end unauthorized sacrifices, and organize preparations against the outer realms. After assigning reforms and defenses across the Star Sea, he met with Bai Yan, who revealed that Yaoxi had made arrangements concerning the outer realms.

• Wang Ping declined to invest the eight True Lords with titles and ordered them to recognize the Heavenly Court’s authority and unify religious offerings.
• Wangqing pledged to end Vajra Temple’s sacrifices to Tiangong, and Ao Yi agreed to abolish sacrifices to the Dragon Lord across the dragon race’s territories.
• Wang Ping ordered sects to open their gates and contribute cultivation techniques to the Dao Treasury, while the Bureau of Creation was tasked with producing vessels and warships.
• Wang Ping assigned the True Lords to build the Demon-Suppressing Star Ring within three hundred years and gave them Communication Tokens.
• After the True Lords left, Wang Ping examined their pasts but could not see clearly into their Fifth Realm histories.
• Bai Yan returned to Taichu Treasure Hall and told Wang Ping that Yaoxi had made arrangements concerning the outer realms.

Bai Yan revealed Yaoxi’s plans to escape the Star Sea and shared what he knew about the Holy Palace in the Misty Sea and the origins of Mystic Sect cultivation. Wang Ping postponed contacting Yaoxi’s Outer Realm Devil Master, then strengthened the Divine Kingdom and appointed Caiyan and Chimei as Sky-Patrolling Divine Envoys as he began organizing a wider force to patrol the Star Sea.

• Bai Yan explained that Yaoxi had arranged contact with an Outer Realm Devil Master, but his escape plan stopped when the True Lords besieged him; Wang Ping said he would consider meeting the Devil Master after the Star Ring was completed and faith was unified.
• Bai Yan told Wang Ping and Yulian that Mystic Sect’s five cultivation methods came from the memories of mature Five Elements spiritual bodies, and that the Star Sea had preserved Five Elements spiritual energy from the Great Universe Era.
• Bai Yan described the Holy Palace in the Misty Sea as inaccessible to him, and agreed to accompany Wang Ping there after Wang Ping finished arrangements for the Star Ring.
• Wang Ping used the Divine Kingdom to appoint Caiyan and Chimei as Sky-Patrolling Divine Envoys, granting them authority to wield Fifth Realm Divine Arts through the Divine Kingdom.
• Wang Ping expanded the Divine Kingdom Palace and ordered Yulian to appoint as many Third Realm envoys as possible to cultivate in its new palaces and patrol the Star Sea with the Patrolling Sky Department.

Wang Ping completed the Heavenly Palace’s integration into his Wood Spirit World, surveyed the starry sky under his rule, and returned to the Misty Sea with Bai Yan. At the Misty Sea’s Heavenly Palace, he found the Five Elements spiritual bodies gone and failed to approach the Holy Palace, though he discovered the repulsive force weakened when Bai Yan withdrew.

• Wang Ping granted Yulian authority to appoint Divine Technique Envoys and absorbed the Heavenly Palace into his Wood Spirit World.
• Wang Ping and Yulian inspected several Ecological Zones before he met Bai Yan on the Supreme Yin Star and traveled with him to the Misty Sea.
• Wang Ping and Bai Yan found the Earth Palace’s Gold and Fire Main Halls empty, then entered the ruined Heavenly Palace and saw the five empty platforms where the Five Elements spiritual bodies had been stored.
• Wang Ping and Bai Yan tried to reach the Holy Palace but were driven back by immense repulsive and corrosive forces.
• Wang Ping noticed the repulsive force on him weakened by more than half when Bai Yan retreated.

Wang Ping reached the Holy Palace’s innermost void and found Yaoxi, whose broken peacock phantom suppressed him and fused his five talismans into a new one. Yaoxi offered him a memory while Wang Ping kept an escape route open and summoned Yulian.

• Wang Ping climbed the gray stairway after sending Yulian away, resisting its pulling force and the Corrosion energy until he reached the high platform.
• Wang Ping entered a void and discovered a living being sealed within a complex Five Elements array, along with Yaoxi’s broken peacock phantom.
• Wang Ping resisted the urge to devour Yaoxi and tried to leave, but Yaoxi confined him and accelerated time while his five talismans fused into a new talisman over two years.
• Yaoxi explained that the fused talisman was needed for the Fifth Realm of the Taiyan Talisman and offered Wang Ping a memory, saying his broken Primordial Spirit would disappear within ten years.
• Wang Ping blocked the stairway to keep others away, summoned Yulian through the spacetime passage, and faced Yaoxi as she eyed the phantom warily.

Wang Ping read Qingchen’s memories and learned how the ancient Yuqing True Monarch saved the Star Sea, created the Eye of Delusion, and fused his legacy with an unknown consciousness to form Yaoxi. He then discovered that Yaoxi had found the Misty Sea while searching for a way to restore the Star Sea’s missing Five Elements origin energy.

• Wang Ping used a Golden Armored Soldier to read the memories held in the golden light and learned how Qingchen rose to power, unified the Star Sea, and fought invasions by Demonic Cultivators.
• Qingchen purified the Star Sea’s contaminated life origins with Heavenly Way lightning, then sacrificed his remaining power in an attempt to reach the Saint and gained the Eye of Delusion.
• As Qingchen’s consciousness faded, he formed the Black Stone Stele and fused his memories and obsessions with an independent consciousness, creating the being who would become Yaoxi.
• Wang Ping learned that Yaoxi had spent tens of thousands of years observing the Star Sea and searching beyond the realm for the Five Elements energy it lacked.
• Yaoxi discovered a starfield where Five Elements energy circulated in a closed system, which Wang Ping recognized as the predecessor of the Misty Sea.

Wang Ping learned that Yaoxi had split his consciousness across time and arranged the events that led to Wang Ping’s cultivation. After Yaoxi’s phantom vanished, Wang Ping resolved to remain himself and prepared to leave the Misty Sea with Bai Yan.

• Wang Ping read Yaoxi’s memories and learned how Yaoxi had become a peacock, shaped Yuxiao’s memories, unified the Demon Race, and arranged the Mystic Sect’s secret arts.
• Wang Ping learned that Yaoxi had split his consciousness before his death, leaving one part in the Black Stone Stele, another in the Misty Sea, and the last within his body.
• Yaoxi warned Wang Ping that he would need to reach the Sixth Realm before order and destruction balanced, and Wang Ping promised to keep advancing.
• Wang Ping assimilated Yaoxi’s remaining phantom, shared the memories with Yulian, and sealed them away while affirming that his life belonged to him alone.
• Wang Ping withdrew the spacetime passage, met Bai Yan, and decided to leave the Misty Sea intact as a training ground for the sects.
• Wang Ping told Bai Yan that he had obtained the Mystic Sect’s secret art for Sixth Realm cultivation.

Wang Ping left the Misty Sea and discovered that Dragon Lord had sealed Tiangong before escaping beyond the realm, then learned Dragon Lord had also betrayed Yuanwu’s group. He prepared to pursue Dragon Lord while directing the Heavenly Court to strengthen the starry sky and continue building the Star Ring.

• Wang Ping, Bai Yan, and Yulian left the Misty Sea, and Wang Ping found Dragon Lord and Tiangong missing from Mercury.
• Using the Heavenly Eye, Wang Ping saw Dragon Lord seal Tiangong, destroy the confinement arrays, and flee through a temporary passage beyond the realm.
• Wang Ping told Bai Yan to contact Yaoxi’s people beyond the realm, then returned to the Heavenly Court and began planning a Wood Spirit stabilization array and a faith experiment.
• Zang Yi reported that Outer Realm Devil Lords had ambushed Yuanwu’s group, Xing Meng had escaped, and Dragon Lord’s aura had been sensed during the attack.
• Wang Ping ordered the Heavenly Court to continue enforcing its laws and gave the Sixth Volume opening scrolls to the True Lords of the Five Sects of Mystic Gate.
• Wang Ping urged every lineage to accelerate construction of the Star Ring and avoid mistakes.

Wang Ping met with Bai Yan, Yuxiao, Youhai, and Jintong through a projection space and secured an alliance with the two demonic cultivators while learning that Xuanzhuo sheltered the Dragon Lord. He then launched an army into Xuanzhuo’s starfield to capture the Dragon Lord, awakening powerful beings across the demonic domain.

• Bai Yan showed Wang Ping the projection formation Yaoxi had made to communicate with cultivators beyond the realm.
• Youhai and Jintong agreed to ally with Wang Ping, while Yuxiao revealed that Xuanzhuo sheltered the Dragon Lord and that Yuanwu had fallen.
• Wang Ping declared that he would deal with the Dragon Lord, then returned to the Heavenly Court with Yulian and identified Xuanzhuo’s starfield as their target.
• Wang Ping sent a vast army of Golden Armored Soldiers into the starfield, where they crushed demonic cultivators and disrupted the balance of the domain.
• The army’s advance awakened powerful demonic beings, who watched the golden torrent enter their starfield.

Wang Ping battled the Devil Lords beyond the domain to expose the Dragon Lord’s hidden aura, then pulled the Dragon Lord into his reach and subdued him after a desperate series of escapes. The Dragon Lord ended sealed in an emerald cocoon, while Wang Ping claimed the artifact that severed cause and effect.

• Xuanzhuo, Ninety Thousand Demon Lords, and Illusion Spirit True Monarch resisted Wang Ping’s golden palm, but its divine light exposed the Dragon Lord’s concealed aura.
• Wang Ping appeared with Yulian between Saturn and Jupiter and dragged the Dragon Lord across space into the starry sky he controlled.
• The Dragon Lord tried to bargain with Wang Ping, then attacked and fled using the artifact forged from killing Tiangong; Wang Ping pursued him across the starry sky.
• Wang Ping repeatedly attacked the Dragon Lord through the rules network, drained his Water Spirit origin, and drove him into madness with illusions.
• Yulian restrained the Dragon Lord in an emerald cocoon, and Wang Ping took the artifact that severed cause and effect.

After capturing Dragon Lord, Wang Ping publicly executed him under Heavenly Court law and stripped away his Water Spirit origin. He then began refining the Water Spirit into a bracelet in the Wood Spirit World, while Yulian absorbed its energy.

• The three Devil Lords abandoned their plan to challenge Wang Ping directly and decided to let the destruction-minded Devil Lords invade the starry sky instead.
• Wang Ping examined the Gold Spirit disk, sealed Dragon Lord’s consciousness, and reviewed his past, but mist concealed the events surrounding Yaoxi and everything afterward.
• Wang Ping built a Dragon Slaying Platform, announced Dragon Lord’s crimes, and executed him before the starry sky’s inhabitants, stripping and collecting his Water Spirit origin.
• Wang Ping ordered that Dragon Lord’s achievements be remembered alongside his crimes and allowed Linshui Prefecture to keep a golden-body statue of him.
• In the Wood Spirit World, Wang Ping used Gold Spirit rules to craft a bracelet and carefully transferred the adult Water Spirit into it, then began stabilizing it with his Wood Spirit Qi as Yulian absorbed its escaping energy.

After a century, Xiao Shan and Ao Yi completed the Star Ring, and Wang Ping used it to purge the invading Demonic Beasts and manifest the starry sky’s rule networks. As the Black Stone Stele appeared at the rules’ core, Wang Ping recognized a familiar echo but knew he could only refine it.

• Xiao Shan and Ao Yi joined their Star Ring segments, and the other construction teams completed the ring around the star system.
• Wang Ping imprinted Wood Spirit runes across the Star Ring, destroying the Demonic Beasts invading the buffer region.
• Wang Ping drew on Di Wen, Rongyang, Bai Yan, and Xuanqing to manifest the Five Elements and Yin Yang rule networks across the Star Ring.
• Wang Ping used the Star Ring to illuminate the Demon Race and Spirit Beast rule networks, and Yulian sensed she could enter the Inspiration World.
• Wang Ping saw a Black Stone Stele emerge at the center of the completed rule networks and felt an echo connected to Qingchen or Yaoxi, which he resolved to refine rather than answer.

Wang Ping studied the Black Stone Stele and learned how it had protected the starry sky from the Great Universe’s destruction. He prepared to send allies into the outer realm and planned to wait a thousand years for Yulian to reach the Fifth Realm before pursuing his own advancement.

• Wang Ping entered the Black Stone Stele’s strange space, summoned the Fifth Realm cultivators, and examined the starry sky’s rules.
• Wang Ping used the Heavenly Eye to witness the Black Stone Stele’s creation, the Great Universe’s collapse, and the stele’s role in shielding this starry sky.
• Wang Ping ordered Ao Yi, Wangqing, and Xiao Shan to prepare for an expedition against the outer realm demons, giving them ten days to gather their Disciples.
• Wang Ping sent Bai Yan and the Fortress Artifact through a spacetime passage to the outer realm, where Bai Yan met Youhai and Jintong.
• Wang Ping planned to strengthen the Star Ring’s spiritual energy stability and urged Yulian to advance to the Fifth Realm; Yulian said she expected to find her opportunity within a thousand years.