Chapter Summaries

Plot points and events

• After the Nascent Soul commanders receive their military rewards, Fang Xiu’s Group Chat friends gather around to find out what she got. She shows them a Void Mustard Seed containing an Immortal Artifact Embryo, a Spirit Pill, an escape talisman, and other treasures.
• Her friends joke about becoming Emperor Gu’s lovers to gain access to his riches. Ye Zhen even says he would use a transformation art to become a woman, prompting scorn from Liu Qing’er and Zhou Haiyan.
• Golden Core cultivators and those below receive rewards next. Gu Chen distributes storage devices filled with Spirit Artifacts, pills, materials, and spell arts, allocating them according to each recipient’s token.
• Gu Chen announces that rewards were determined by military merit and directs anyone with a complaint to the officials in the Royal City. The recipients stay silent, satisfied with what they received.
• Gu Chen then reveals the Investiture of the Gods. Its appearance triggers powerful auspicious phenomena, and he explains that placing a fragment of one’s True Spirit on the scroll can free a person from ordinary death and calamity.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Xiu defends her reward as earned through military service, not a lover’s gift, though she eventually shares it with her curious friends.
• Liu Qing’er envies Fang Xiu’s rewards; Ye Zhen’s greed makes him willing to change gender for a chance at similar benefits. Liu and Zhou rebuke him.
• Wang Xiaoai looks ahead to rewards for Golden Core cultivators, while Ye Zhen makes extravagant demands. Gu Chen recognizes his familiar cheekiness but dismisses the idea of granting him such high-level treasures.
• Gu Chen’s authority is reinforced by his Heavenly Immortal pressure and his orderly distribution of rewards.

Significant themes

• Merit and favoritism: Fang Xiu’s friends suspect personal favoritism, but the rewards are presented as based on military contribution.
• Greed and ambition: The Group Chat’s banter shows how power and treasure can tempt people to abandon dignity or make unrealistic demands.
• Immortality and its cost: The Investiture of the Gods offers escape from death, but at the price of freedom and any further growth in cultivation. Ambitious, capable cultivators reject it, while those with limited prospects are more tempted by it.

Key events

• Mortal Body Gu Chen begins the first Investiture of the Gods rite, intending to revive those who died fighting the extraterrestrial invaders and eventually staff a reestablished Heavenly Court.
• As the ancient scroll unfurls, its resonance with the Great Dao and the Blue Star Continent’s heavenly mandate alarms cultivators and draws wary attention from Starry Sky powers.
• Gu Chen reveals internally that his main body created the scroll using Refine Falsehood Into Truth, at a cost of twelve million Origin Points. It can preserve and restore those whose true-spirit fragments are placed on it, but they become bound to the scroll and their cultivation is fixed.
• Gu Chen and his main body have reserved sole control over who is listed and released, treating the scroll’s power as both a safeguard and a means of maintaining authority.
• Gu Chen invokes the scroll. True Spirit Marks of people killed in battles on the America Continent emerge and stream toward Chaoge Royal City.

Character developments and interactions

• Mortal Body Gu Chen remains composed despite the crowd’s awe and the outsiders’ suspicion. He carries out the ceremony with confidence, relying on the safeguards agreed upon with his main body.
• Main Body Gu Chen is not physically present in the rite, but his role in creating the scroll and setting its rules is central.
• Modern World Cultivators recognize the scroll’s power and debate its cost: it may offer lesser cultivators a route to longevity, while binding ambitious immortals.
• Starry Sky observers react defensively. Emperor-level Evil God Amens grows more cautious, while a Starfall Empire reconnaissance team compares the scroll to a dangerous artifact of fate and records the event.

Significant themes

• Immortality versus freedom: the scroll can restore the dead, but those listed surrender autonomy and advancement.
• Power and control: Gu Chen’s safeguards ensure that the Heavenly Court’s future members—and their release—remain under his and his main body’s authority.
• Preparation amid uncertainty: the scroll is framed as protection against interference from the vast, unpredictable Starry Sky.
• The return of the divine order: the rite signals the gradual reestablishment of the Heavenly Court and the wider consequences it may bring.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen activates the Investiture of the Gods, using his connection to the Dao and a portion of destiny’s power to summon the True Spirit Marks of those killed in the American battlefields.
• The ceremony assigns the fallen positions according to their former cultivation. Heavenly Immortals survived the battle, while Human Immortals and lower-ranked fighters suffered significant casualties.
• Gu Chen begins with ten deceased Human Immortals, naming their deeds and appointing them Heavenly Generals. Their True Spirit Marks enter the scroll, which reconstructs their bodies and restores them to life with their former strength and new Heavenly General armor.
• Modern World Cultivators explain that becoming a Heavenly Soldier or General grants freedom from aging and certain dangers, but binds the person to the Investiture and prevents further cultivation growth.
• Starry Sky aliens mistake the resurrection for advanced cloning and consciousness-transfer technology. The cultivators mock their scientific interpretation, while one voice argues that their confusion is understandable given their technological background.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen acts as judge and restorer, honoring the fallen according to their courage and service.
• The resurrected generals, including Chen Qi and Deng Jiugong, return with their identities and power intact, though now bound to the Heavenly Court.
• Modern World Cultivators admire the Investiture’s power but recognize its costs. Their exchanges with the aliens reveal both pride in cultivation and differing attitudes toward the limits of Heavenly service.
• The aliens respond with awe but interpret the miracle through technology, exposing the gap between their worldview and that of the cultivators. The cultivators’ condescension darkens the aliens’ expressions and sharpens the cultural tension.

Significant themes

• Death and restoration: True Spirit Marks allow the dead to return even after body and soul are destroyed.
• Power and sacrifice: Resurrection and protection from death’s ordinary limits come at the cost of freedom and the ability to advance in cultivation.
• Cultural misunderstanding: The same event is understood as divine cultivation power by one group and impossible technology by another.
• Honor and service: The ceremony rewards the fallen by recognizing their deeds and assigning them roles in the Heavenly Court.

Key events

• Gu Chen uses the Investiture of the Gods to resurrect fallen Human Immortals and appoint them to senior positions in the future Heavenly Court.
• He then restores nearly forty Nascent Soul Realm cultivators as commanders, followed by countless fallen Golden Core, Gangsha, and Foundation Establishment cultivators as Heavenly Soldiers.
• Wen Zhong explains that those inscribed in the Investiture are freed from ordinary death, lifespan limits, Heavenly Tribulation, and Earth Fire.
• The newly revived soldiers gradually realize they died and returned to life. Some reunite with old companions, while others react with disbelief, relief, or comic outrage over loved ones left behind.
• Starry Sky aliens and rival powers are stunned by the Investiture’s power; some fear Gu Chen, while others covet the artifact.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen remains composed and authoritative, using the Investiture to turn the battle’s casualties into the foundation of the Heavenly Court.
• The revived cultivators show gratitude and pledge loyalty, though many lower-ranked soldiers initially struggle to understand their resurrection.
• Wen Zhong acts as herald and guide, explaining their new status and reassuring them about the benefits of their appointments.
• Living cultivators greet revived friends and promise to care for their families; some revived soldiers respond by warning those friends not to overstep.
• The rival observers’ awe shifts toward heightened caution—and, for some, ambition to seize the Investiture.

Significant themes

• Death and restoration: The Investiture overturns the normal finality of death.
• Duty and reward: Those who sacrificed themselves defending the world are honored with renewed life and Heavenly Court appointments.
• Power and fear: Resurrection strengthens Gu Chen’s position and unsettles potential enemies.
• Community and loyalty: The reunions highlight bonds among comrades, families, and survivors.

Key plot points and events

• The Investiture of the Gods concludes, transforming the gathered True Spirit Marks into Heavenly Soldiers and Generals.
• Mortal Body Gu Chen congratulates the Blue Star cultivators who fought the invading visitors and urges them to use their rewards to improve their cultivation. His warning that heaven and earth may change again sparks speculation about a coming cultivation age and the possible restoration of the Heavenly Court.
• The reborn Heavenly Soldiers and Generals are told to settle their affairs within ten days, then return to Chaoge to be nurtured by the Investiture.
• Gu Chen and the assembled officials return to Chaoge, leaving the Investiture scroll hovering above the platform. Alien visitors notice the powerful treasure and consider stealing it, but hold back while the immortals are nearby.
• Gu Chen anticipates their interest and remains confident that the Main Body can deter any attempt.
• News and recordings of the ceremony spread across Blue Star. The generous rewards—and the chance for fallen fighters to be reborn—leave nonparticipants envious and fuel hopes of future opportunities in the Heavenly Court.
• The event generates nearly eight million Origin Points for Main Body Gu Chen, helping offset the cost of the rewards.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen shows satisfaction that the investiture is complete and offers the cultivators both encouragement and a deliberate hint about future upheaval. He also keeps watch over the alien visitors’ ambitions.
• Blue Star cultivators respond with excitement; more perceptive practitioners interpret Gu Chen’s words as a promise of a coming golden age and a chance to become immortals.
• The reborn Heavenly Soldiers and Generals accept their instructions and prepare to return to Chaoge.
• The alien visitors covet the Investiture but choose caution over immediate confrontation.
• Participants share stories and news after the ceremony, while online discussions connect cultivators across Blue Star.

Significant themes

• Renewal and opportunity: The possibility of a new cultivation era inspires hopes of advancement and immortality.
• Reward and sacrifice: Those who fought are rewarded, and even the dead receive a path to return.
• Power and temptation: The unattended Investiture attracts the aliens, testing whether they will risk provoking stronger forces.
• Public impact and reputation: The ceremony’s wide circulation magnifies its influence—and benefits Gu Chen through the Origin Points it generates.

Plot points and events

• After the Investiture of the Gods ceremony, Modern World cultivators begin leaving Chaoge Royal City with their rewards. A series of ambushes targets them: attackers in black steal their storage artifacts and kill many, especially cultivators below the Golden Core Realm.
• Survivors and the Central Continent Security Bureau warn cultivators through Smart Bracelets and online forums. Fear spreads; many weaker cultivators stay in the city, where the Shang Tang royal guard and its powerful commanders offer protection.
• Gu Chen notices the attacks and uses his Heavenly Immortal-level Spiritual Sense to investigate. He detects an unfamiliar Starry Sky Aura at the attack sites, suggesting extraterrestrial forces rather than Blue Star cultivators.
• Gu Chen decides to wait for the attackers to strike again, monitoring the area. When several confident Golden Core Realm cultivators leave the city, he secretly attaches a trace of his Spiritual Sense to each.
• The cultivators are ambushed less than a thousand li from Chaoge by black-clad figures using a device that conceals the battle within a hundred li. The chapter ends as the victims fight back.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen shifts from observing the reports to actively investigating and preparing to intervene, drawing a distinction between conflicts among Blue Star cultivators and an alien threat near his territory.
• The cultivators respond differently: weaker ones seek safety in Chaoge, while some Golden Core Realm cultivators publicly mock the attackers and leave despite the danger.
• The attackers remain unidentified, but their concealment device and unusual aura suggest they are organized outsiders. Their assault begins a direct confrontation with the cultivators Gu Chen is watching.

Significant themes

• Fear and security: The murders disrupt the celebrations and make travel dangerous, while Chaoge’s guards make the city a refuge.
• Power and vulnerability: The victims are targeted based on their relative weakness; even capable Golden Core cultivators can be caught by coordinated ambushes.
• Loyalty and responsibility: Gu Chen will not involve himself in Blue Star cultivators’ internal disputes, but considers alien interference on his territory intolerable.
• Courage and recklessness: The Golden Core cultivators’ defiance challenges the attackers, though it also exposes them to danger.

Key plot points

• Gu Chen observes a series of attacks on Blue Star cultivators and recognizes Ye Zhen among those investigating them. He also spots Fang Xiu and other Group Chat members approaching under cover.
• Fang Xiu briefly senses that someone powerful is watching, but the group presses on, hoping to find the attackers and earn the reward offered by Chaoge Royal City.
• Trapped inside a spatial barrier, Ye Zhen battles a black-clad assailant whose body splits open to reveal six glowing tentacles. They absorb and break down Spiritual Energy, neutralizing Ye Zhen’s sword attacks, spells, and Magic Treasures.
• Ye Zhen is gradually overwhelmed. Fang Xiu and the others tear open the barrier and arrive just as he calls for help.

Character developments

• Gu Chen chooses to observe rather than intervene, both to avoid the disruption his Heavenly Immortal power would cause and to avoid alerting the hidden mastermind.
• Fang Xiu demonstrates heightened perception, sensing Gu Chen’s distant attention despite not identifying it.
• Ye Zhen’s confidence gives way to urgency as he realizes his usual attacks cannot defeat the strange creature and he is running low on Spiritual Energy.

Character interactions

• Fang Xiu reassures her companions after they question her suspicion, then leads them onward to help Ye Zhen.
• Ye Zhen taunts the silent attacker, but the fight quickly turns against him.
• The group arrives in response to Ye Zhen’s distress call, setting up a confrontation with the creature.

Significant themes

• Uncertainty and concealed motives: Gu Chen and the group suspect a larger plan behind the attacks, but the mastermind remains unknown.
• Power and restraint: Gu Chen’s strength could end the fight, yet he deliberately holds back.
• Adaptation under pressure: Ye Zhen must confront an enemy whose ability renders his standard techniques ineffective.
• The unfamiliar threat: The creature’s energy-devouring power marks it as something alien to the Blue Star Continent.

Plot points and events

• Fang Xiu, Liu Qing’er, Zhou Haiyan, and the others enter the Spatial Concealment Device and find Ye Zhen badly injured after fighting a black-clad attacker.
• Fang Xiu launches a powerful Nascent Soul Realm attack, driving the attacker into a crater. The creature’s glowing tentacles absorb and dismantle the Spiritual Energy of her Spell.
• Fang Xiu strikes again with a volley of Golden Suns. The attack chars the assailant and appears to disable him, allowing the group to approach.
• As Fang Xiu attempts to bind him, the black shell bursts open, revealing a smaller Octopus Facehugger inside. It ambushes her, bypasses her defenses, and drains her Spiritual and Primordial Spirit Power.
• Gu Chen secretly uses his Spiritual Sense to stun the creature briefly. Fang Xiu seizes the opening, blasts it away, and binds it with her Spirit-Binding Rope.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Xiu displays confidence and formidable power, but her initial assumption that the creature is defeated leaves her vulnerable. She recovers quickly once Gu Chen creates an opening.
• Ye Zhen warns the group that the attacker’s tentacles can consume and break down Spell and Magic Treasure attacks.
• Liu Qing’er, Zhou Haiyan, and the other members move from alarm to tactical discussion, recognizing the tentacles’ limits and warning one another to avoid contact.
• Gu Chen watches from the Imperial Palace and intervenes discreetly, protecting Fang Xiu without revealing his role to the group.
• The Facehugger proves cunning: it absorbs an attack, imitates its aftermath well enough to feign death, then strikes when Fang Xiu lowers her guard.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and deception: The creature turns its opponents’ own power to its advantage and uses a false appearance of defeat to ambush them.
• Strength has limits: Fang Xiu’s overwhelming force can damage the creature, but raw power alone does not make it safe to approach.
• Teamwork and hidden support: The group shares warnings and observations, while Gu Chen’s unseen intervention helps turn the fight in their favor.

Plot and events

• Fang Xiu and the Group Chat members capture a facehugger after it nearly catches them by surprise. Fang senses that an unseen expert briefly slowed the creature, and thanks the hidden helper.
• In Chaoge Royal City, Gu Chen watches from the Imperial Palace and confirms that he secretly intervened with his powerful Spiritual Sense. The group cannot detect him.
• Fang stores the creature in a prison artifact and leads the others back to report their mission. On the way, she tells them about the hidden expert; Liu Qing’er scolds Ye Zhen for joking around and potentially offending him.
• Gu Chen discovers nearly ten more hidden battle zones nearby. There, facehugger-like aliens fight Golden Core cultivators, absorbing attacks through their Spiritual Light tentacles and growing stronger.
• Some cultivators escape by sacrificing artifacts and breaking out of the spatial prisons. Nearly half are caught and parasitized; the aliens then head toward Chaoge Royal City.
• Gu Chen observes the process but lets the parasitized cultivators proceed, hoping to learn more about the aliens behind them—and anticipating the excitement.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Xiu proves alert and capable, recognizing that her victory was aided by a powerful unseen figure. She responds with respectful caution.
• Gu Chen reveals both his immense ability and his detached curiosity: he protects Fang’s group, then chooses not to stop the wider invasion.
• Liu Qing’er remains protective of the group, silencing Ye Zhen before his teasing can cause trouble. Ye Zhen protests that he knows when to be serious, but the others dismiss him.
• The facehuggers are shown to be persistent, adaptable predators, capable of abandoning one target to seize another.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and perception: Fang senses an intervention that others cannot detect, underscoring the gap between Gu Chen’s power and the group’s.
• Invasion and loss of control: Parasitization turns cultivators into agents of an unknown force.
• Curiosity versus responsibility: Gu Chen observes a grave threat without intervening, treating it as a possible source of entertainment.
• Team caution and trust: The group relies on Fang’s judgment and Liu Qing’er’s practical protection, even while teasing and bickering.

Key plot points and events

• After several quiet days in Chaoge, cultivators and forum users assume the danger has passed. Mortal Body Gu Chen knows this calm is deceptive: parasitized Golden Core cultivators have secretly returned to the city.
• He examines an Octopus Facehugger and learns that it can resist spells and treasures, communicate only through scent signals, and readily parasitize anyone with a physical body. Nascent Soul cultivators may be safer because they can leave or replace their bodies.
• Gu Chen kills the creature’s consciousness and inhabits its body with a portion of his Spiritual Sense. Through it, he identifies a citywide scent network and discovers nearly a thousand parasitized cultivators, along with numerous other alien infiltrators.
• A signal from a superior “mother” creature summons the parasites to gather. Gu Chen’s controlled Facehugger resists the call, while he sends it through a spatial rift to follow the others and potentially locate their controller.
• Rather than confront the infiltrators immediately, Gu Chen secretly orders the imperial guard commander to prepare. He intends to let the enemy believe it has an opening, drawing the hidden forces out so they can be trapped.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen demonstrates careful scientific curiosity, using his Spiritual Sense to study and control the alien creature. His investigation shifts into a calculated counteroperation.
• The Facehuggers respond to a superior creature’s scent-based summons, revealing a hierarchy and a means of coordination. Gu Chen’s controlled specimen is immune to that influence.
• Gu Chen silently coordinates with the imperial guard commander, while keeping the infiltrators unaware that he has detected them.

Significant themes

• False security and hidden threats: The city’s apparent return to normal conceals a large-scale infiltration.
• Adaptation and control: Gu Chen turns an enemy organism’s abilities against its own network.
• Deception and strategy: Instead of relying on strength alone, he plans to exploit the invaders’ confidence and lure them into a trap.
• The limits of the known world: The possibility that the alien creatures could threaten even Immortals hints at a wider, more dangerous conflict.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen deliberately weakens Chaoge Royal City’s visible defenses and shifts its guards, making the Imperial Palace appear vulnerable. His true aim is to lure the Alien factions hiding in the city into attacking.
• Several factions take the bait. The Red Demon Star Pirates plan a raid, while the Tatu Civilization hopes to seize the Investiture Platform and use its power over fate and death to revive ancient leaders. Other Alien groups also consider joining forces.
• Two powerful potential attackers hesitate. A Starfall Empire viscount recalls the Golden Immortals and ominous signs he encountered, and chooses to continue gathering intelligence. Evil God Amens suspects the apparent opening is a trap and decides to observe rather than attack.
• Gu Chen smiles as the factions commit to their plans, then uses his Spiritual Sense to control the city’s restrictive Formations and issue orders to Blue Star cultivators serving in the military.
• Fang Xiu receives a new assignment through her commander’s token. Surprised but eager, she leaves her chamber to carry it out.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen reveals himself as a calculating strategist, using the appearance of weakness to draw his enemies into a planned counterattack.
• The Red Demon captain and Tatu elders are emboldened by the apparent security gap; the Tatu elder especially inspires his followers with the promise of restoring their civilization’s former glory.
• The Starfall viscount resists temptation, reminding his soldiers that their mission is intelligence-gathering, not war. His caution persuades them to stand down.
• Amens shows similar restraint, weighing the danger of the Golden Immortals and recognizing that the weakened defenses may be deliberate.
• Fang Xiu responds promptly to Gu Chen’s orders, signaling her readiness to act.

Significant themes

• Deception and strategic patience: Gu Chen turns apparent vulnerability into bait and waits for his opponents to expose themselves.
• Ambition versus caution: Many factions are driven by hopes of plunder, power, or revival, while the viscount and Amens survive by questioning the opportunity.
• Fear as a deterrent: The remembered power of the Golden Immortals restrains even major forces from attacking.
• Civilizational revival: The Tatu faction’s desire to reclaim past greatness gives its plans a deeper motive than simple conquest.

Plot and key events

• Acting on orders from Gu Chen’s Mortal Body, powerful cultivators quietly use their tokens, War Soldiers, and the city’s formations to surround the Alien forces hiding in Chaoge. The city’s formation controller masks their preparations, leaving the Aliens unaware.
• A hidden mastermind’s information pheromones trigger Octopus Facehuggers inside their hosts. The parasites burn through their hosts’ bodies and cores to unleash strength far beyond their usual level.
• Dozens of Golden Core hosts reach half-step or full Nascent Soul combat strength; many lower-realm hosts also gain temporary boosts. They rampage through the city, damaging buildings and formations and threatening bystanders.
• The parasites reveal their unusual ability to break down and consume incoming spells and Magic Treasure attacks, alarming the Blue Star cultivators.
• When Immortals intervene, the Golden Core hosts use advanced Space Teleportation Devices to escape beyond the city. Heavenly Immortals pursue them, drawing nearly ten Immortals away from Chaoge.
• With the city’s defenders reduced, the concealed Alien forces emerge and attack. Gu Chen judges that enough bait has been laid and prepares to spring his trap.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen’s Mortal Body is revealed as the architect of the apparent outbreak: he has used the parasitized hosts to lure Immortals away and flush out the hidden Aliens. His patience gives way to a confident decision to strike.
• The Octopus Facehuggers and their hosts become frenzied, sacrificing their hosts’ vitality for overwhelming power. They attack indiscriminately and devour the energy of opponents’ techniques.
• Blue Star cultivators move from confusion and alarm to recognizing that the attackers are controlled or parasitized; some attempt to fight back but discover their usual attacks can be neutralized.
• The Immortals rush to protect the city, then pursue the teleporting hosts—unwittingly helping Gu Chen’s plan. Meanwhile, the hidden Alien forces exploit their absence and reveal themselves.

Significant themes

• Deception and strategic sacrifice: The apparent disaster is a calculated lure.
• Parasitism and control: The Facehuggers override their hosts and consume their lives to gain power.
• Escalation and misdirection: The chaos draws defenders away while the true enemy prepares its attack.
• Power and vulnerability: Even formidable cultivators are exposed to unfamiliar abilities and carefully engineered traps.

Key plot points and events

• From the Imperial Palace, Gu Chen takes control of Chaoge Royal City’s Formations and secretly assigns waiting cultivators and War Soldiers to ambush the alien raiders.
• The Starry Sky factions, unaware the city’s defenses have been altered, attack shops with advanced weapons. Octopus Facehuggers hold most imperial guards back, making the city appear vulnerable.
• Seeing no Immortal-level defender, the factions prepare to plunder. A raiding force from the notorious Red Demon Star Pirate Group claims several shops and drives off rival factions by killing two leaders.
• The pirates then rampage through the city, attacking buildings and cultivators. At a Formation node, Fang Xiu and other Golden Core members of the Group Chat wait with War Soldiers.
• Fang Xiu’s group traps a hundred-strong Red Demon squad with the surrounding Formations. She offers the pirates a chance to surrender, but their leader mocks and threatens her. Fang Xiu activates the War Formation and orders her forces to attack.

Character developments

• Gu Chen shifts from observing the crisis to directing the city’s defenses, using his command of the Formations to turn the apparent chaos into an ambush.
• Fang Xiu demonstrates command and resolve: she confronts a much-feared pirate force without backing down and uses her Primordial Spirit Power to lead the counterattack.
• The Red Demon captain embodies the pirates’ arrogance and cruelty, relying on intimidation and violence to seize what he wants.

Significant themes

• Deception and hidden strength: The attackers mistake Chaoge for defenseless, while the city’s Formations have been secretly turned against them.
• Power and intimidation: The Red Demons dominate rival factions through violence, but Fang Xiu challenges their assumption that fear guarantees victory.
• Pillaging versus defense: The pirates’ indiscriminate greed contrasts with the coordinated resistance of Chaoge’s defenders.

Character interactions

• Gu Chen gives orders to the waiting defenders through their tokens.
• The Red Demon captain silences rival faction leaders who challenge his claim, forcing the others to retreat.
• Fang Xiu confronts the pirate squad leader, who responds with contempt and a degrading threat; she answers by activating the trap and rallying her forces.

Key plot points and events

• As Grand Tutor Wen Zhong and other Heavenly Immortal experts pursue the escaped Octopus Facehugger, major Starry Sky factions seize the opportunity to attack Chaoge Royal City. Cultivators use Formation tokens to control nodes and divide the city into temporary battlefields.
• Immortal-level commanders remaining in the city confront the invaders, while Fang Xiu leads Liu Qing’er, Zhou Haiyan, Ye Zhen, her other allies, and Royal City War Soldiers against a Red Demon Star Pirates unit.
• Their coordinated force quickly overwhelms most of the pirates. The captain, facing defeat, reveals and fires a devastating Three-Phase Annihilation Bomb. It shatters Fang Xiu’s War Halberd and damages the Formation barrier.
• The captain tries to escape through the resulting gap, but Fang Xiu reseals the battlefield and leads a second War Halberd strike, killing him and the remaining pirates.
• Meanwhile, other major Starry Sky factions ignore the city’s ordinary treasures and make for the Investiture Platform, seeking the Investiture of the Gods and its power to revive the dead.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Xiu demonstrates decisive command and strong coordination. She recognizes the bomb’s danger, protects her formation with the city’s defenses, and prevents the captain from escaping.
• Fang Xiu’s allies and the War Soldiers fight as a practiced, cohesive team, each taking opponents and combining their strength through the War Formation.
• The Red Demon captain responds to defeat with desperation, using a weapon of mass destruction before attempting to flee; Fang Xiu’s pursuit ends his resistance.
• The chapter also establishes the wider conflict: Immortal commanders engage powerful Starry Sky leaders in parallel battles across the city.

Significant themes

• Coordination and preparation: The allies’ battlefield experience and access to the Royal City’s Formation let them overcome formidable enemies.
• Danger and escalation: Advanced Starry Sky weapons can threaten even powerful Formation-backed forces.
• Competing values: The pirates pursue plunder, while the major factions seek the Investiture of the Gods for its apparent power over life and death.
• Life, death, and power: The Investiture’s ability to revive the dead makes it more valuable to the invaders than ordinary weapons or treasures.

Plot and events

• Chaos erupts across Chaoge Royal City. Cultivators from Blue Star’s Modern World see groups of Golden Core, Gangsha, and Foundation Establishment cultivators suddenly go berserk, attack people and buildings, then flee through teleportation devices.
• The city’s Immortal-level defenders pursue them, leaving the city exposed. Forces from across the Starry Sky then appear and take advantage of the distraction to loot and destroy.
• News and videos spread rapidly through the Ethernet cultivation forum. Commenters suspect the rampage was a deliberate diversion, intended to draw away Chaoge’s defenders.
• Gu Chen, remaining in the Imperial Palace, surveys the city with his Heavenly Immortal-level Spiritual Sense. He distinguishes ordinary opportunistic raiders from the stronger representatives of major Starry Sky forces, several of whom approach the Investiture Platform.
• The foreign experts intend to seize the Investiture of the Gods, which they believe can revive the dead. Their competing claims make them wary of one another.
• As they near the treasure, Gu Chen opens a rift above the platform and steps through, unleashing the aura of a top Heavenly Immortal.

Character developments

• Gu Chen stays composed throughout the crisis. He reveals that the situation is a trap he set to draw out powerful foreign forces, and prepares to assert Blue Star’s authority.
• The foreign leaders show both ambition and caution: they covet the treasure but distrust their rivals and fear the city’s defenders returning.
• Blue Star forum users move from shock to speculation, quickly recognizing the likely coordination behind the attacks.

Themes

• Deception and strategic planning: The apparent madness and ensuing raids serve as a diversion that exposes the real power players.
• Power and territorial authority: Gu Chen’s impending intervention signals that outsiders cannot treat Blue Star as unprotected territory.
• Greed and rivalry: The treasure unites the foreign forces in their goal but immediately sets them against one another.
• Information and public reaction: Online reports turn a local crisis into a widely debated event within minutes.

Character interactions

• Foreign forces exploit the defenders’ pursuit of the rampaging cultivators, then converge on the Investiture Platform.
• The rival leaders question how to divide the treasure and eye one another suspiciously.
• Gu Chen’s arrival interrupts their deliberations, confronting them with the power they had hoped to avoid.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen appears above Chaoge Royal City on the Investiture Platform, revealing a Heavenly Immortal–level presence that reaches aliens throughout the city.
• His arrival makes many raiding factions reconsider their attack. Smaller, cautious groups prepare to flee, fearing that Central Continent’s allies—including possible Golden Immortals—may return.
• Blue Star cultivators instead celebrate Gu Chen’s arrival and assume he has the city’s crisis under control, perhaps as part of a larger plan.
• At a formation node, Fang Xiu, Liu Qing’er, Zhou Haiyan, and Ye Zhen have just used the city’s formation to kill nearly a hundred raiders. They welcome Gu Chen’s intervention.
• The major factions—among them the Aorong Star Hall, Tatu Civilization, Mother Church of All Things, and Red Demon Star Pirate Group—decide to press on. They covet the Investiture of the Gods, a treasure said to revive the dead and blur the boundary between life and death.
• Their representatives make offers and threats, claiming strength in numbers. Gu Chen rejects them contemptuously and unleashes his immortal power, setting the stage for a confrontation.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen is presented as commanding and utterly self-assured. Rather than negotiate with the factions, he responds to their threats with open scorn and overwhelming force.
• The alien factions are divided between fear and greed: some want to escape, while the major powers’ investment in the expedition keeps them committed.
• Blue Star cultivators, including Fang Xiu and her companions, trust Gu Chen’s strength and reputation, and expect him to punish the invaders.
• Gu Chen’s exchange with the faction leaders turns their attempted bargaining into a direct challenge.

Significant themes

• Power and intimidation: Gu Chen’s presence alone shakes the invaders, while his final display makes clear that threats will not easily deter him.
• Greed versus caution: Some factions recognize the danger and would rather retreat; the major powers risk confrontation because they covet the treasure.
• Reputation and confidence: Gu Chen’s history of leading powerful forces shapes both the fear of his enemies and the faith of his allies.
• Unity versus numbers: The factions rely on their combined strength, but the scene questions whether numbers can overcome an exceptional individual.

Key events

• Mortal Body “Gu Chen” unleashes a massive strike of immortal light from the Investiture Platform, displaying power on a Heavenly Immortal level and terrifying the Starry Sky factions gathered below.
• Ten enemies from the Level-Seven Tatu Civilization, Aorong Star Hall, and the Mother Church of All Things combine their attacks to stop it.
• The Tatu experts’ psychic Spirit Phantom Beasts are shattered almost instantly, and the Aorong fighters’ starlight attacks burst apart.
• The Mother Church’s tentacles prove more effective: their devouring fields consume gaps in the immortal light and slow it. With the other factions’ renewed efforts, the group eventually halts the strike.
• Believing they have survived and can defeat Gu Chen together, the enemies discuss using their backup plans, seizing the treasures, and escaping through a Wormhole Teleporter. Gu Chen mocks their confidence and asks them to guess how much of his strength he used.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen remains calm and contemptuous, revealing no concern even when his opponents unite against him. He recognizes the Mother Church’s tentacled fighters as unusually powerful “Upper Mother Worms.”
• The three factions initially fight separately, each showcasing its own signature abilities, then coordinate under pressure. Their relief at stopping the strike quickly turns into overconfidence.
• Modern World Cultivators watch in awe, some recording the battle, while the Starry Sky experts face the danger directly.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: A collective victory over one attack may mean little when the attacker has barely exerted himself.
• Overconfidence: The enemies mistake survival for an advantage, setting up Gu Chen’s taunt.
• Distinct strengths and cooperation: The factions’ different powers—psychic beasts, starlight weapons, and devouring tentacles—combine to achieve what none could manage alone.

Plot points and events

• The experts from the Level-Seven Tatu Civilization, Aorong Star Hall, and the Mother Church of All Things hesitate after Gu Chen mocks them, suspecting his earlier attack used only a fraction of his strength. Urged on by their leaders, they prepare to attack together.
• Gu Chen’s aura intensifies dramatically, confirming their fears that he has been holding back. His display also alarms the other Starry Sky powers in Chaoge Royal City, especially those who have been looting and causing destruction.
• An Immortal-level expert in the Imperial Palace activates Chaoge’s Grand Formation. It seals the city and surrounding space, trapping the attackers and preventing escape—including by Wormhole devices.
• The Red Demon Star Pirate captain and other looters panic. By contrast, visitors and factions that obeyed the rules, including a Starfall Empire viscount, are relieved they avoided the trap. Evil God Amens also recognizes Gu Chen’s cunning and is glad he stayed cautious.
• Gu Chen tells the ten enemy experts that he will open the formation and let them leave if they can withstand a single supernatural ability.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen reveals himself as a calculating, overwhelming opponent: he uses the apparent weakness of the city’s defenses to lure hostile forces into a trap, then demonstrates far greater power than before.
• The three great powers’ experts shift from confidence to uncertainty and fear, but pressure from their comrades drives them to continue the fight.
• The looters and pirate captain go from acting boldly to realizing they are trapped and vulnerable.
• The rule-abiding visitors and Amens are shown as cautious observers whose restraint protects them from the consequences of the trap.
• Gu Chen’s final challenge turns the confrontation into a test of survival, leaving the ten experts to face his next attack.

Significant themes

• Strategy over appearances: The Royal City’s seeming lack of defenses was deliberate, and Gu Chen’s trap punishes those who misread the situation.
• Power and intimidation: Gu Chen’s aura alone unsettles enemies and shifts the balance of the confrontation.
• Consequences of greed and recklessness: Those who joined the plunder are trapped, while those who exercised restraint are safer.
• Control and containment: The activated formation transforms the city into an isolated battlefield, removing the invaders’ option to flee.

Key events

• Gu Chen promises that any invader who can withstand one of his Supernatural Abilities may leave Chaoge Royal City, despite having taken part in its destruction and plundering.
• The Red Demon Star Pirate captain and ten powerful fighters from the Tatu Civilization, Aorong Star Hall, and Mother Church of All Things join forces. Each faction sacrifices or expends major resources to strengthen its fighters.
• Gu Chen unleashes “Star Sea Fall,” sending a seemingly endless river of starlight and meteors crashing down on them.
• The Tatu fighters are rapidly overwhelmed. Aorong’s fighters endure only a few breaths before falling, while the Mother Church’s parasitic insects are exposed as their hosts and defenses collapse.
• The pirate captain uses his Three-Phase Annihilation Bombs to blunt the attack and moves behind the Tatu fighters, using their bodies as cover. The spell continues for nearly fifteen minutes, leaving the onlookers unsure whether anyone survived.

Character developments and interactions

• Gu Chen appears calm and confident, publicly staking his word on the challenge and displaying overwhelming power.
• The invaders cooperate out of desperation, each unleashing their strongest abilities, but their alliance is undermined by the pirate captain’s self-preserving tactics.
• The crowd divides between hopeful invaders and Blue Star cultivators who trust Gu Chen’s strength; both are left waiting for the attack’s outcome.

Significant themes

• Overwhelming power: The fight emphasizes the vast gulf between Gu Chen and even elite, coordinated opponents.
• Desperation and self-preservation: The factions sacrifice bodies, power, and artifacts to survive, while the pirate captain treats his allies as shields.
• Public honor and spectacle: Gu Chen makes his offer before a vast audience, turning the battle into a test watched by both enemies and supporters.

Key plot points and events

• Gu Chen’s Star Sea Fall ends, revealing the devastation it caused among the eleven fighters from four major alien groups. Most are dead or critically injured; only the Tatu warrior and the Red Demon Plundering Captain remain alive, both badly wounded.
• Onlookers are stunned by Gu Chen’s overwhelming power. Blue Star cultivators, already familiar with his extraordinary reputation, celebrate his victory and expect the alien factions to think twice before causing trouble.
• Gu Chen keeps his promise to the two survivors: because they endured his supernatural ability, he lets them leave and opens a route through Chaoge Royal City’s formation.
• As the surviving factions prepare to depart, some smaller groups pay for protection, while others try to flee through the opening without permission.
• Gu Chen declares that only those who survived his attack were allowed to leave. He unleashes another wave of Immortal Light against the fleeing factions, which activate their weapons and hidden defenses in panic.

Character developments

• Gu Chen remains composed and decisive. He honors his stated terms for the two survivors, but makes clear that his mercy is conditional—not a sign of weakness.
• The Tatu survivor and Red Demon Captain are shaken and grateful to escape. Their thoughts of possible revenge are postponed until they are safely away.
• The fleeing minor factions reveal their desperation and poor judgment by assuming they can escape despite Gu Chen’s warning.

Significant themes

• Power and authority: Gu Chen’s strength establishes who controls the situation and sets the rules in Chaoge Royal City.
• Promises and consequences: Gu Chen keeps his word to those who meet his condition, while punishing those who ignore it.
• Pride and miscalculation: The smaller factions mistake an open route for permission to flee, underestimating the danger they face.

Character interactions

• Gu Chen addresses the two surviving major-faction fighters directly, granting them safe passage after they survive his attack.
• Other alien factions respond to his rule in different ways: some seek protection and leave on negotiated terms; others try to escape and provoke his retaliation.
• Blue Star cultivators watch and comment on the events, expressing admiration for Gu Chen and scorn for the would-be fugitives.